ian watson. >> they've been planning for this referendum for months because we've been accepting that high turnout for quite some time now. 97% of the electorate registered to vote. it did take ten hours to complete the count. crunching the numbers for us is jeremy. >> yes on 45%, no on 55%. a clear margin for the nos. a dramatic day and night of voting and counting. let me show you the map of scotland after this result. we colored in areas where the o nos won. you can see the full areas where the yes votes were ahead. but largely the map has been covered red. if i take you back to our councils here, these are the 32 council areas in which the voting was counted. you can see a wash with red here. so many red councils. looking for the four green ones, i'll find them. 53% in glasgow. the other huge councils going no and the first results we had came in on the small councils. all coming in early in the evening. all going no. and it was quite sometime before we had our first yes. i can show you here a spread of these council areas with nos on this side and the yess on this side. it wouldn

and watching with them was the bbc's ian watson. >> reporter: they are shouting yes but spent most of this campaign saying no. supporters of better together celebrated scotland's rejecting independence. their mood in stark contrast to the leader of the yes campaign, alex salmond, about to concede defeat. by the time he arrived in be edinburgh, the brave face was back. >> thank you to scotland for 1.6 million votes for scottish independence. >> reporter: he called on his supporters to accept defeat. >> i accept and i call on all of scotland to follow suit in accepting the democratic fair vote of the people of scotland. >> reporter: the leader of the better together campaign declared that the no vote didn't mean no change. >> more than 85% of the scottish population has voted. people disengaged from politics have turned out in large numbers. >> the prime minister said the question of independence had been decisively answered. >> now the debate has been settled for a generation. or as alex salmond has said, perhaps for a lifetime. so there can be no dispute, no reruns. we have heard the

ian poulter, you might pick him. lee westwood who is just always stolid and steven gallagher. they will join the nine automatic qualifiers, including rory mcilroy. u.s. captain tom watsond to announce the american wild cards later today. the matches against the u.s. will take place at gleneagles scotland starting september 26th. >> -- supposed to -- >> this year for us? i don't know. not tiger. >> i don't know who will pick. it will be interesting to see who watson picks, and that tournament is actually the week before at dunhill links. >> talk more about that. >> we do have to talk more about that. serena williams reached her first grand slam quarterfinal of the year with a 6-3 victory over kaia kanepi. at the u.s. open yesterday. keeping her head in the running for a third straight flushing meadows crown. >> does this guy have two names? >> no. b.g. brad gilbert joining us now to talk winners and losers is brad gilbert. >> two-name guy. >> the two-name guy. >> former professional player and coach, and met up with you, brad, thanks for coming down yesterday, it was great to see you. family loved seeing you. and he was -- he's amazing. gives us analysis live. while we