it means that enrique peÑa neito's p.r.i. retains its simple majority but. been a campaign mired in violence with candidates killed and political offices attacked. adam raney is in the state of guerrero. >> reporter: ballots were burned and thousands think polling stations remained closed for part of the day. but it wasn't enough to derail the vote in mexico's midterm elections. anger over corruption raging drug violence and an education reform they say threatens their jobs spark the teacher protests calling for boycott of the vote. the boycott was first launched by families of the 43 students who were enlargedly massacred by a drug gang after being abducted by corrupt police, the parents take how can an election be held in the state where criminals run ram canned and disappearances happen on nearly a dily basis. >> 1414 men are missing here, you i think you should understand the pain of your neighbors neighbors and broker thises here, we request you give usual bat under the circumstances. responsibilities would not be yours but ours as i movement. >> report

year old ago here in mexico and this was their way to try to exert pressure on the president enrique peÑa neitopassed that reform as a signature mesh you have his presidency. we don't know if they backed down through some sort of backroom negotiation which is the old styled politics of the ruling p.r.i. party. we dough know did he haven't the impact some expected leading in to this election. regardless the ruling party cannot be happy with the result perhaps of this independent candidate winning the governorship at the same time that you still have these leftist groups, extremely frustrated and angry with the president. >>> still to come in the bulletin. trapped in the mid. how saudi-led air strikes are compounding the misery for millions of yemenis. >>> and spiritual inspiration we need one of the many devotees a sustaining a religious festival in southern pakistan. >> from going pro, >> i never know that was really a possibility. >> to becoming president of the us tennis association. >> we're about getting rackets in children's hands... >> building the game... >> ...sky's the limit for growin