in ashburn tonight we have more on the showdown between barbara comstock and john faust. barbarahere at comstock's headquarters for the night here in ashburn. this is a very hotly contested , a memberen comstock of the virginia house of delegates, and a former staffer and john faust, who is on the fairfax board of supervisors. this is the battle that was held by frank wolf, who is not seeking reelection. he made that determination and announcement in december. he has held that seasons 1980, 1981. there are three other candidates in the race, but it will come down tonight to faust and comstock. both parties want to see very badly. they have toured a lot of money into the race. if you have watched television at all over the last couple of months you have seen the ads for both candidates. it is shown to be of diverse case. this should be a very, very interesting night. reporting live from ashburn, abc seven news. >> abc 7 will be with you folks all night. >> still ahead in the next half-hour here, a look at some key national races that could swing the balance of power on cap

republican barbara comstock won convincingly over her democratic challenger, john faust. both candidates were vying to replace congressman frank wolf, who is retiring after 17 terms in the house. comstock's victory keeps the area's congressional seat in republican hands. >>> turning to the campaign results in the district of columbia, murial bowser will hold her first press conference this afternoon as dc mayor- elect, over two independent challengers to become the district's eighth mayor since the beginning of home rule and only the second woman to hold the office. bruce johnson has more on bowser's convincing win. >> reporter: this is bruce johnson inside the historic howard theater, and the victory party for mayor-elect murial bowser ended at midnight tonight. you've probably already seen the victory speech, but you haven't seen the embrace she gave her parents, her mother, her father, long-time community activist in ward 5 of the city, political activist. it was very touching. and you should have seen the interview she gave us, the first one-on-one interview after dec

faust defended it but says it can be improved. >> got to fix it.usly have to make sure it's not hurting us in terms of job creation and growth. but we can't let the republicans hand it back over to the insurance companies. >> reporter: comstock wants obamacare gone. >> i do think we need to repeal and replace it. i emphasize very much replace. >> reporter: the candidates make a very different pitch about which one is the best fit for a district that stretches from the bustling clinton area to wind chester. come stack says he'll keep the economy humming. >> we need to bring our tax code into the 21st century. we're driving businesses out of e country. >> repor fouft says he's the only candidate that understands the continuing need for investment in transportation. >> transportation impacts everyone in the district. barbara comstock voted against bipartisan transportation bill. >> reporter: turnout could be the deciding factor in what's become ag swing district. voters here supported president obama in 2008 and mitt romney by just a point in 2012. in

. >> that was just faust, the edit of "the space review." i am richelle carey. "fault lines" is next. check out our website fror news around the world. aljazeera.com. thank you. ♪ >> as us forces prepare to pull out of afghanistan after twelve long years, al jazeera's fault lines travelled there. >> the taliban fighters, they're running towards the base now. they're trying to raid the base. >> over several days, we gained extraordinary access to a group of self-proclaimed taliban fighters. >> and the mortars are landing in the areas where we are. >> it was an insight, in part at least, into what the war in afghanistan looks like - from the other side. >> the fighter jet is still in the air circling looking for a target. >> kabul, afghanistan afghan president hamid karzai is currently refusing to sign a treaty that would leave a small nato force in the country. if nothing changes, all foreign soldiers will leave by the end of this year. in secret, karzai has been negotiating with the taliban, in order to avoid a full-blown civil war. since 2005, the taliban has c

opposite in the 10th district in virginia, barbara comstock celebrating a blowout win defeating john faust by 17%. >> to the district now, democrat muriel bowser is celebrating a sweeping win in the mayoral race, defeating david catania and carol schwartz. mayor vincent gray did not did issuewser, but he a statement congratulating her and he said is it ministration will work closely with her on the transition. also, a resounding victory in the district for marijuana legislation advocates -- voters easily approved measure -- initiative 71. it is subject to review, but d.c. delegate eleanor holmes overton says -- norton says anyone who tries to fight the measure will get the fight of their lives. >> the republican sweep signals a rising wave of voter discontent with democrats and especially president obama. we have more on the change of power on capitol hill. >> the massive republican wave tuesday night has left democrats licking their williams. exit was a crushing defeat for the democrats -- they lost -- >> licking their williams. >> it was a crushing defeat for democrats, using in red stat

right now in virginia, northern virginia, between barbara comstock and john faust -- you have a in maryland you have a fantastic race setting up between larry hogan, a businessman republican, tried to take the governor posse. only a handful of republicans have ever gotten that seat in maryland. all across the country, we are going to see great races. in middle america, pat roberts trying to hold onto the seat he has had for decades. andew england, scott brown lost in massachusetts. he is trying to win in new hampshire. 2 potential runoffs could set the stage for december or january votes in louisiana and georgia. it should be a really exciting night. we hope you can join us. >> thanks very much. some voters elected to avoid the long lines on election day. they took part in early voting. the latest numbers from the associated press indicate 16.4 million ballots were cast in person or by mail in 31 states. 2010 inting is up from 10 states, and that includes maryland. couldmaine, some voters take it as a challenge, because some polling places could be in the dark after a winter storm knocked o

until the wheels fell off the faust campaign.t's basically what happened. >> that would be surprising, if we saw him in two years, that's interesting. >>> in d.c. not a surprise but perhaps again the margin a surprise. almost 20 percentage points between muriel bowser who wins and david catania. >> i think what happens here is bowser is able to get the votes that vincent gray had east of the anacostia. she didn't get those votes in the primary. when it came to the general election, she was able to grab those. then she lost some of the wards she had won in the primary. i think that's a very interesting dynamic. now, she says what this is a referendum on that the voters don't want the status quo any longer where gray says, well, we're hoping the mayor elect sees that what voters want is to keep moving in a direction we're moving in right now. what's going to be interesting is how does she govern? she doesn't give a whole lot of specifics during the campaign, right? she didn't give a lot on the day after. i think she's holding her c

off against ed gillespie and libertarian robert sar advice and come stock is running against john faust for the seat in the house. we have team coverage of election day. let's get started with northern virginia bureau chief julie carey in mclean. >> reporter: i'm at the polling place. you can see republicans and democrats doing a last bit of pitching. this precinct is in mclean and that is in the tenth congressional district where we will closely be watching that race tonight between republican barbara comstock and democrat john faust. the first time in more than 30 years a new member of congress will be elected out of this district. we started our day out in another part of the tenth congressional district out in ashburn. we were at belmont ridge middle school. there are two precincts there, so it's usually a busy polling place. i talked to a member of the assembly started at the polls just before 6:00 this morning and said there were 40 people lined up ready to go in as soon as the doors opened. i talked to registrars both in loudoun and fairfax county and they described turnout as st

earlier, i spoke to geoff faust, an analyst and editor of the "space review" and asked him what makesique achievement? >> this is the first time we have landed on a comet. we have thrown projectiles at comets in the past. this is the first time we have attempted a soft landing on a comet to better understand the truck tour. >> despite the fact there seems to be a bit of a set back, could you tack a little bit more about what you mentioned, what we hope to learn from this? >> yeah. the spacecraft returned data back. we hoped for more but it did achieve its primary purposes. sign listed spendse years analyzing the data coming back from the spacecraft to better understand what this comet is made of, what its structure is like and what that can tell us about the originaliges of or solar system. >> there are other missions going on right now, many more planned. what really is the future of exploration? >> there is a diverse range of missions out there as you mentioned. spacecraft right now orbiting mercury and en route to pluto, a former planet, a dwarf planet. some would consider it to be

al jazeera's terry faust et sent this update from donetsk. >> reporter: people here are getting used to the new reality brought about by petro porashenko's decree, among the immediate, was banking services denied to the breakaway parts of the country. we are getting reports of people going shopping with credit cards, and not being successful. that they are not accepted by banks in the west of ukraine. as well as that, people tried to top up mobile phones, and not able to do that at the terminal. there are immediate results of this decree. in some ways it's cementing what has been the case. there's not been a means of providing state united nations and services in the areas of ukraine for some months now. the donetsk people's rub like, the self-proclaimed leadership of this part of ukraine is promising to pick up the slack, promising to provide pensions. that is still very much a work in progress. some questions as to whether russia will step in and help to pick up the slack. vladimir putin promised to assist the whole of ukraine, rise from its knees, he said. he heavily criticized pe

. >> i cut my sister's hair, gave her the far a faust he will haircut back in the day.est of it o. she looked like a chip among. >> oh, no. >> did she cut your hair? >> she was the littler one. >> oh,. >> so it will grow back. >> just saying. that is a good thing there. >> cute. >> so we've been talking about this, something old or something new? you know, diamonds aren't forever. but ladies, would you except some pre-owned bling? the engagement ring debate next. i mean, does it have to be brand new? i mean, does it have to be brand new? >> with a about ♪ let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together ♪ ♪ i've got some real estate here in my bag ♪ ♪ it took me four days to hitch-hike from saginaw ♪ ♪ "i've come to look for america" ♪ (speaking of skiing, look at this, skiers already working it out. so the first thing that hurts, the lower back. and -- >> look at you. >> and the quad. right? you don't typically use. >> look at you, the crotchety old man stuff. >> just looks complicate in the general. >> all the kids do it now, a loft people skiing, but all boarding

the big ones affecting our area, barbarcomstock and john faust.a number of local races that includes approval of a $100 million road work project in fairfax county and a contentious race for the mayor of leesburg. the polls tomorrow will open for you at 6:00 a.m. they'll be closing at 7:00 tomorrow night. to find your nearest polling place, head to our website, nbcwashington. you have any issues voting tomorrow, we want to hear about them. call news 4 at 202-885-4444 or you can e-mail the news4 iteam at tips at news4 iteam.com. >>> we're tracking the election day forecast. >> how is it looking for us and the key battleground states? >> luckily the storms across the country will not be impacting our area. we've been tracking them an storm team 4 radar. that's coming through the southern plains around texas and oklahoma. this is one area that's going to through portions of texas. the pacific northwest. washington and oregon. you've got sunshine in between. again, for us, this system that we're looking at, even rain for chicago, showers there will no

. >>> here in our area we have very contentious race between comstock and faust. >> democrats pulled some money out a couple of weeks ago to save machine. very expensive media market. they were watching incumbents starting to have problems up and down the ballot. this feels as if it's barbara comstock's to lose. i think romney narrowly carried it even though obama carried the state and virginia. it's razor thin. very close. i have to give the edge to comstock, but we'll see. >> in maryland's governor race, squeaker at this point. >> i have to tell you, what's interesting here, what we're seeing in maryland is happening in governors races across the country. an anti-status quo or incumbent fever out there. so incumbent administrations, even if they aren't the incumbent candidate. so anthony brown has been running. larry hogan has been running against the omalley, brown administration. whe the candidate of the party in power is struggling. these races are -- it's fascinating. there's no discernible pattern. if you were the party in charge, automatically a slice of voters going, i want

the once and future governor of kansas, faust who worked on issues like poverty in the future. governor, thank you very much. congratulations on your re-election victory tonight, governor sam brownback in the sunflower state. andrea mitchell here in the studio. your thoughts on what we have seen transpire tonight. >> what the voters are telling us, they don't like government. government is doing too much. they want the business community, private sector to do mo more. the job approval is very, very low. lower than when he was elected. and they're angry and upset about the economy. and i think that that has been so underplayed by the democrats, the democrats never found their voice on the economic issues that they should have been able to manage. income inequality and a lack of earning power that many americans, in the states, the rule of states that were in play, it's so important. and they never found a message that is a base economic message for democrats. >> the newly elected senator elect from the state of colorado gave what i think is going to be a very -- excuse me, well-

republican barbara comstock won over her challenger john faust replacing frank wolf retiring. >>> governor elect larry hogue an admitted told -- hogan admitted today pulling off an upset has been a rather surreal experience. scott broom covered hogan's first meeting the day after his win. >> reporter: on an hour of sleep republican elect larry hogan still seems unned today. >> it was kind of a shock. when state troopers showed up at our hotel room and said we're here to protect you, governor. >> reporter: national republicans so excited that hogan said new jersey governor chris christie was prepared to helicopter in at midnight to join the victory party. he didn't. >> he was pretty excited about our victory. >> reporter: hogan's first meeting with the media the morning after he said his campaign focused on high taxes and job growth cut across party lines. >> we set vote goals that were nearly impossible to attain in every single county in the state and we blew past of one of them. >> reporter: republican andy harris. >> people got upset. every month they'd turn on the tv and there would be

. >> fantastic stuff, geoff faust, thank you so much. >>> it would be an understatement to say authore r martin's "game of thrones has become a pop culture statement. it shocks fans and he talked to david shuster and said reaction to the surprises makes him feel he has done his job as an author. >> i want to engage my readers' emotions or my viewers' emotions. you don't want, you know -- death is a big thing, you know, when we experience death in real life, it affects us when your parents die, or god forbid one of your children dies, it affects you smoemings. if we are creating characters that we really care about, we should react in a similar way when they die in fiction or on television. it shouldn't be just, okay. that character is dead. let me go out and get a sandwich during a commercial. then you are not doing your job. i want to -- i want to grab hold of my readers and make them cry and make them grief and make them laugh as well and experience joy, experience the world on the page as if they were living them. >> that's the dream of me at least, and i think of most writers. >>

you see you wrote a letter to a faust at lci , cw 540. my executive officer saw your eautiful and neat handwriting, smelled the sweet perfume on the letterhead, and said, anyone who must be more ters wonderful than lana turner, together.rgman all put we then said why not write her a letter. so now we are now. this is it. before i begin, let me explain e're two very lonely lads and our morale is very low. we have hearts of gold, but bother -- but girls never seem to bother looking ut after once at our comical faces. my executive officer's name is bill. from georgia tech in february. as for looks, well, he doesn't really have any. the first impression is gargantua arrived in england. protuberances that look like cauliflowers. born that way s but i don't believe god could make a man with ears like that. has eyes.lieve he i can't find them. he says he can see. that settles that. eyes. his nose looks like a very large red apple. it's his best feature. at least you know he has a nose. we're at a loss to explain why no lips.as i should stop here

she's projected to win the race for the district against democrat jon faust. doreen gentzler. >>> i'm jim vance. in the virginia senate race, we have more at the gillespie camp. >> there's a lot of positive energy from here in virginia. they're getting more hopeful now you that their candidate, gillespie will come out on top and take warner's seat in the commonwealth. we're watching it. we can tell you, gillespie is in the building. >>> in the maryland governor's race, larry hogan, the republican, is leading anthony brown, the lieutenant governor. a lot of votes sti >>> they're hungry for new leadership. they want a reason to be hopeful. above all, they want some reassurance that people who run the government are actually on their side. >> that is mitch mcconnell, who tonight has been returned to the u.s. senate by the people of kentucky. unclear, of course, the republicans what percentage of the senate they will occupy. will he be re-elected as their leader. we are happy to be joined by the other senator from kentucky, the other republican senator, and that

we talk about jeff faust's therts as part of commercial space companies summit. >> monday night on the communicators, professor at the university of serving a law school and director of its center for technology, innovation, and competition. >> the people who propose looktization should take a at the magic that makes the internet work. classes, pipe, service high-bandwidth services, low latency services. people think that is an old artifact. internet,designed the they not only kept that field, they included a label field. if you look at the engineering design they suggest that this was never intended. i think a little engineering knowledge goes a long way. it is a design feature of the network from the beginning. they're using it today to deliver voice services. true, complete vips to based services called lte. a lot of video in other things. >> monday night at eight eastern on the communicators on c-span2. gave ay, president obama weeklong trip that includes stops in asia and australia. the president was scheduled to arrive in beijing tomorrow. over the next three days, he will take p

. >> colin faust, i was a sergeant in the united states marine corps. >> i was in the united states marinehey come home. and what home to me is a place where i feel my most secure at my most vulnerable moment and i can't think of anything, you know, more vulnerable than missing limbs or having such a traumatic life changing experience. my american dream starts with a functional hom myse forf and my family. so i got together with some buddies and we wanted to give the american dream to people who deserve it most. >> you can see more how he's helping our veterans on a special thanksgiving edition of "the nfl today." it starts at noon eastern, 9:00 pacific ahead of the detroit/bears game. that's coming up here on krps. >>> coming up this morning, you don't often see carlos santana sick on stage. that doesn't mean you can't hear his work. how the legendary guita >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" sponsored by benefiber. the clearly healthy fiber. how one in a million manners will be taking part in the biggest workout day of the year. that's next on "cbs this morning." did you know that

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faust sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. there's a price. there's a price you have to pay. and that is you sell your soul to the devil. it anyway let's move on to other questions you may have. let's go to the next person. yes, next. >> i just wanted to thank you for coming by kansas city. and i wanted to ask, you have been such an inspiration on the fact you started at such a young age wanting to be a scientist, and of all the people you've met in a different field, do you find that been the standard about everyone starting very, very young, or do you see someone that maybe came in like an older age want to switch over into the field of science. >> is it advantageous to start whenever young? you can be interested in sites at any age but it does help to be young. i interviewed about 500 scientists in my time for bbc television, for the science channel. i have my own radio show which goes up to 130 radio stations across the u.s. every weekend and i always ask them the question, when did it start? when did you get interested in science? they al