in congress there is only the one seat that is still under contest, and that was congressman jim costa. if you think about the so-called blue dogs across the country, a bunch of those were swept away in the wave. >> what about mcnierny. supervisor mar: you are right. on the ballot measures, there are several i could talk about, but the two prominent ones that affect transportation are 22-and 26. i will note that the passage of 25 will have and's yet undetermined positive impact on agencies buildingings. 26 is the measure that allowed the legislature to adopt a budget. i subscribe to this argument, but i'm not trying to push people into adopting my perspective, with the comment penant numbers we are seeing in both caucuses, by the time we get to a budget vote in june and july, if we hold to that schedule, it will be much easier for them to put a budget together with this governor on time. what that means for the transportation agency, for the last several years the late budget has gone so late that it has threatened to interrupt the payment of ongoing contracts for work underway, and ha

it looks like jim costa will be safe in the long term. turn then to illinois' eighth congressional scrict. start to get bad news for democrats. melissa bean, sort of off-the-radar campaign. not a lot of people expected her to be challenged this coming year or in the 2010 mid terms. now she trails our opponent, joe walsh, by a couple hundred votes. if melissa bean does not take the lead, the republican ballots will come in later this month from other more republican parts of that district. that's going to be real bad news for her if she can't take the lead today, she's probably not coming back to washington, d.c. over on long island, new york's first congressional district, congressman tim bishop, after a little bit of a snaffue by local voting officials, they inversed some numbers. he went from leading by 4,000 votes by trailing by about 400 votes. they're probably going to go to a hand count there. 392 votes is the margin that randy, a businessman, leads congressman tim bishop on the eastern end of long island. in new york's 25th distric

congressman jim costa is still fighting for his political life. congressman melissa bean still trails her seat. gary peters, rick larson in washington state, gabby giffords and even ben chandler in kentucky all have uncalled races. some members are actually trailing, solomon ortiz is actually trail anything this texas. you've got to feel bad, his son is a state representative in the state of texas. he lost last night too. it was a big day for republicans in the state of texas. jerry connolly, right across the river, also running in this an uncalled -- in an uncalled race. the scope of this loss is truly tremendous for the democratic party. take a look at the chairmen who lost their seats last night. congressman john spratt of south carolina, congressman ike skelton of missouri, and the one that shocked me and i think shocked a lot of people, congressman jim overstar in the iron range, the very traditionally democratic iron range of minnesota lost his seat after a very late surge from a democratic challenger. on the armed services committee alone,

i guess that is jim costa's seat there.they might go the other way so it might be fewer republicans so now you look at less than 40 seats out of 435 are essentially out of place. less than 40 seats where republican leaning seats and democrats hold republican leaning seats. more polarization. finally they illustrate this point even further. let's look at-- these are seats before tuesday night's election. george bush had won those districts by 60% or more, so very republican seats. and democrats held quite a few of them in the south. some in texas and the plains states. what happened? where did the republican wave hit especially and what happened after the tuesday night results? one seat left. jim matheson of utah survive survived that. the other 12 seats all went to republicans. if you go back a couple of seats that are pretty republican and colin peterson's and ann born district surviving in kentucky but those are not quite as republican as the ones i saw. but this wave washed over republican seats and washed over some swin

. >>> fire officials in contra costa county are investigating a fire that destroyed a clayton business. they responded to hair by jim salon on main street yesterday evening at 5:00. a fire marshall for the protection district says the investigation points to the fire being deliberately set. it is unclear if it is the work of an arsonist. >>> chp is out in force looking for drunk drivers. their efforts are paying off. through their latest reporting period at 6 a.m. today chp says dui related deaths across the state are down. since wednesday night, seven people have been killed in dui crashes. that is down from 12 this time last year. in the bay area, chp officers have arrested 99 drivers on suspicion of dui. that is up from 87 last year. >>> a fire in san francisco this morning sent one person scrambling for safety. it started about 10:30 in an apartment on turner in the hill neighborhood. investigators say one person was inside when the fire broke out but managed to escape the smoke and flames. firefighters took about an hour to control the flames. there were no reports of any injuries. but the apartment appeared to

. >>> fire officials in contra costa county are investigating a fire that destroyed a clayton business. they responded to hair by jim salon on main street yesterday evening at 5:00. a fire marshall for the protection district says the investigation points to the fire being deliberately set. it is unclear if it is the work of an arsonist. >>> chp is out in force looking for drunk drivers. their efforts are paying off. through their latest reporting period at 6 a.m. today chp says dui related deaths across the state are down. since wednesday night, seven people have been killed in dui crashes. that is down from 12 this time last year. in the bay area, chp officers have arrested 99 drivers on suspicion of dui. that is up from 87 last year. >>> a fire in san francisco this morning sent one person scrambling for safety. it started about 10:30 in an apartment on turner in the hill neighborhood. investigators say one person was inside when the fire broke out but managed to escape the smoke and flames. firefighters took about an hour to control the flames. there were no reports of any injuries. but the apartment appeared to

jim jones at a compound he developed in guyana. today's memorial begins at 11:00 a.m. at evergreen cemetery. >>> and the california republican party plans to sue contra costa county overnal district, that's where democratic incumbent jerry mcnerney has a narrow lead over david harmer. the state gop says observers should have the right to challenge the signatures on specific mail-in ballots. >>> traffic and weather around the bay area coming right up. stay with us. ,,,,,,,,,, >>> good morning. it's a pretty nasty ride right now on westbound highway 4 through antioch and into pittsburg. a crash approaching railroad. one lane is blocked. drive time more than 40 minutes through that stretch towards concord. got a new accident westbound 80 approaching university avenue. traffic is stop and go from highway 4 out in hercules. once you reach the bay bridge toll plaza, it is backed up to the maze. but they did clear that earlier accident coming off of the bridge at 9th street. so things are improving on the upper deck. that's your traffic. here's tracy with your forecast. >>> hey, thanks, elizabeth. forecast for this morning, it's cooling down again. plenty of sunshine is expe