i'm jim lehrer. republicans pledged to cut spending and seek a smaller, more accountable government a day after their historic takeover of the house. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight: president obama took responsibility for voters' frustrations and called for compromise. we wrap up yesterday's victories, defeats and races still not called. >> lehrer: newshour political editor david chalian fills us in on the hows and whys of republican wins and democratic losses. >> ifill: we hear what party leaders had to say today, starting with the republican likely to be the next speaker of the house, john boehner. >> republicans have made a

i'm jim lehrer. >> lehrer: voters finally had their say this election day with control of the congress at stake. >> ifill: i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we'll have the latest results and reporting from our entire newshour team including mark shields and david brooks, david chalian and stewart rothenberg, updates from republican headquarters and the white house, plus field reports from our pbs colleagues in key states. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's election night newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. polls have just closed in the first half dozen states in the east. they're being closely watched for signs of a republican wave. now with details on what's happened so far, here's harry veen veen in our news room. >> sreenivasan: good evening, jim. just a few first results to tell you about right now. the associated pre

i'm jim lehrer in washington. weomeou to election night 2010. our entire web newshour team will be here for the next hour. reporting and analyzing this big night for the republicans. as many of you know, they've been updating this developing story online all evening. the republicans needed 39 seats to capture the house. network and cable projections say they've done at least that well. the associated press will has yet to make that call. our overview shows in the house the rublins' gains 26 although the projections are by the networks and others that more than 50 have actually now gone to the republican side. in the senate republicans have picked up four so far in wisconsin, north dakota, arkansas-indiana. they of course needed 10 in order to regain control of the senate. the governor's races, there have been seven republican pick-ups of democratic governorships. for the details thus far, here is hari sreenivasan in our news room. >> sreenivasan: good evening, jim. let's ju try to geteople up to speed on someof the latest results. let's start ou

i'm jim lehrer. the world economic summit ended today without resolving key currency and trade disputes. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, sewell chan of "the new york times" reports from the site in seoul, south korea. >> lehrer: and judy woodruff gets an assessment of the summit's successes and failures. >> brown: then, margaret warner updates congressional efforts to end the military's ban on gays serving openly. >> lehrer: mark shields and david brooks provide their weekly analysis. >> brown: and ray suarez has the story of russia's hunt for a spy who defected to the u.s. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the summit of the world's 20 leading economies ended today in sou

r>> lehrer: i'm jim leer. we'll see you online for a special web cast starting in a few minutes at 10:00 p.m. eastern time. and again here later tonight for a pbs newshour election special at 11:00 p.m. eastern. and of course on the newshour tomorrow night. for now, thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. rer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

i'm jim lehrer. control of the congress is at stake this election day, as voters go to the polls across the country. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we'll have the latest results and reporting from our entire newshour team, including mark shields and david brooks; david chalian and stuart rothenberg; updates from republican headquarters and the white house; plus, field reports from around the country. >> lehrer: that's all ahead, along with a look at today's supreme court arguments in a case about violent video games, on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: this was a day of reckoning for republicans, democrats, and president obama in this midterm election of 2010. newshour correspondent kwame holman begins

i'm jim lehrer. president obama said today his administration has improved relations with the muslim world. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight: the comments came as mr. obama visited indonesia. margaret warner chronicles the president's stop in the world's most populous muslim nation. >> lehrer: then, some perspective on george w. bush's and other presidential memoirs from historians julian zelizer and michael beschloss. >> ifill: from flood-ravaged pakistan, special correspondent saima mohsin follows a team from doctors without borders still working to save lives. >> we have mostly skin diseases. we have upper respiratory tract infek shuns and we have about 6 to 8 malaria cases. >> lehrer: we look at the power shift in state capitals after the midterm elections with reporters from minnesota, ohio, wisconsin and maine. >> ifill: plus, ray suarez has the story of neighbors and classmates who remember barack obama's childhood days in indonesia. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight'

i'm jim lehrer. riots in haiti have disrupted efforts to fight the growing cholera epidemic. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the latest on the protests and the spread of the disease on the ground from jacqueline charles of the "miami herald." >> lehrer: then, margaret warner runs a debate between two former negotiators about the u.s. russia arms control treaty now stalled in the senate. >> ifill: special correspondent david brancaccio goes to maine to find people who have figured out creative ways to survive the recession. >> it involves a bank but not the kind with money. it's a time bank known as hour exchange portland, where people swap services and build community. >> lehrer: judy woodruff talks about how to cut the deficit with budget veterans alice rivlin and pete domenici. >> ifill: and jeffrey brown talks to photographer tim hetherington about his new book capturing life on the battlefield in afghanistan. >> i just wanted to show the texture of it. and that mea

i'm jim lehrer. the military's ban on gays serving openly can be repealed without a risk to readiness, said a pentagon study released today. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, we get the details from the report's authors, and look at how the military can prepare for an end to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. >> lehrer: then, kwame holman reports on president obama's meeting with congressional leaders. >> a stated aim of today's white house meeting was to resolve major issues in the lame duck congress. it was an early barometer of how the president and the opposition will get along in the next congress. >> woodruff: we have a newsmaker interview with white house senior advisor david axelrod. >> lehrer: margaret warner examines the decrease in schools known as "dropout factories" and the rise in high school graduation rates. >> woodruff: and gwen ifill talks to marcia coyle about today's supreme court arguments over moving inmates out of california's crowded prisons. >> leh

i'm jim lehrer. the chairmen of a bipartisan presidential commission took aim at the federal deficit today calling for an array of tax and spending changes. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the details of the long anticipated proposal from lori montgomery of the "washington post." >> lehrer: then, judy woodruff previews the coming confrontation over currency and trade at the world economic summit. >> ifill: from haiti, jonathan snow of "independent television news" reports on the ground, ten months after the earthquake. >> for the vast majority there is aid, not development. their emergency, more permanent by the day. >> lehrer: jeffrey brown explores political involvement rules for journalists. >> ifill: and we examine reform efforts in the nation's largest public school system, as new york city school chancellor joel klein steps down. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> opportunity is a power

i'm jim lehrer. lines of travelers moved smoothly through airport security checkpoints on this thanksgiving eve. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: tom bearden reports on the internet push to get passengers to opt-out of new image scanning machines. >> lehrer: then, we get the latest on the compensation program for gulf oil spill victims from jefferson parish president john young and fund administrator kenneth feinberg. >> brown: ray suarez wraps up his series of stories from africa with a look at the suspected link between illness and intelligence. >> does being sicker as a child make it harder to learn for the rest of your life? we're asking that question in heavily disease burdened and very low-income mozambique. >> lehrer: we examine the options for u.s. policy after north korea's artillery attack on a south korean island yesterday. >> brown: and judy woodruff looks at the future of space exploration with science correspondent miles o'brien. >> 500 people have flown to sp

i'm jim lehrer. we have two major stories tonight: an update on the investigation of the cargo bomb plot, and the latest on the final day of campaigning. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the elections, we talk to democratic national committee chair tim kaine and republican governor haley barbour of mississippi. we look at some of the season's campaign ads and get an overview from political editor david chalian and susan page of "u.s.a. today." >> lehrer: and on the bomb story, jeffrey brown interviews terrorism expert richard clarke and air security analyst rafi ron. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: a new scare involving mail bombs erupted today in greece. it happened just three days after bombs were

i'm jim lehrer. republicans pledged to cut spending and seek a smaller, more accountable government a day after their historic takeover of the house. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight: president obama took responsibility for voters' frustrations and called for compromise. we wrap up yesterday's victories, defeats and races still not called. >> lehrer: newshour political editor david chalian fills us in on the hows and whys of republican wins and democratic losses. >> ifill: we hear what party leaders had to say today, starting with the republican likely to be the next speaker of the house, john boehner. >> republicans have made a pledge to america, and our plenty is to listen to the american people. and the focus on their priorities, and that's exactly what we're going to do. >> lehrer: and we'll have excerpts from president obama's news conference at the white house. that there's no doubt as i reflect on the results of the election, it underscores for me that i've got to do a bet

i'm jim lehrer. there was a deadly exchange of fire between north and south korea today. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on thnewshour tonight, we have the latest on the incident and assess the risks of escalating tensions on the peninsula. >> lehrer: then we update how banks and regulators are dealing with the new financial reform law. >> woodruff: ray suarez continues his reports about an african country coping with contemporary health problems. >> suarez: here in mozambique in southern africa, shortages of lifesaving retroviral drugs have created a challenge for aids sufferers, the government here, and donors worldwide. >> lehrer: and jeffrey brown talks to outgoing new york city schools chancellor joel klein. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station

i'm jim lehrer. president obama called for a better working relationship with the new congress. republican leader mitch mcconnell said democrats have to move toward the g.o.p. agenda first. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: we get an update on races still undecided including the one for alaska's senate seat. >> lehrer: then, we look at the future for the new health care law, after the republican takeover in the house. >> brown: and historians michael beschloss, richard norton smith, and beverly gage weigh this week's vote against mid-term elections past. >> lehrer: plus on other news, ray suarez talks to jason beaubien of npr about haiti's latest crisis-- tropical storm tomas. >> brown: and margaret warner has the remarkable story of ingrid betancourt-- held hostage in the jungle in colombia for six years. for me, my rob session was to give back to my children, and it was also i my responsibility. my right was to be free. i was a free woman. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ç

i'm jim lehrer. in today's jobless report, private sector hiring increased by the most in six months, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, economists paul krugman and douglas holtz-eakin break down the latest numbers and look ahead to what the new congress can do to jumpstart the economy. >> lehrer: then, margaret warner gets a preview of president obama's ten-day asia trip. >> woodruff: from kashmir, john sparks of independent television news reports on the flare-up of deadly tensions in a land claimed by both india and pakistan. >> once famed for its beauty the kashmir valley is a joyless place of angry streets and automatic rifles. and parents who grieveç for their children >> woodruff: ray suarez talks to national cancer instituteç director harold varmus about a screening test for the nation's biggest cancer killer. >> by going through this process we can prevent 20% of lung cancer deaths. >> woodruff: and mark shields and

i'm jim lehrer. the iraqi parliament agreed to form a new government today after an eight-month deadlock. but a walkout by one faction underscored how fragile the deal may be. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: margaret warner explores the challenges the new coalition will face amid rising sectarian violence. >> lehrer: then, paul solman explains the u.s. effort to get china to stop holding down the value of its currency. >> because china is lending us the noun run our big deficits. >> one interstation is china is basically lending us the money to buy stuff from t >> brown: we get reaction to the wide-ranging proposals to cut the federal deficit made yesterday by the leaders of a presidential commission. >> lehrer: judy woodruff talks to senator-elect chris coons of delaware. >> brown: and on this veterans day, ray suarez updates the investigations into mismarked graves and other problems at arlington national cemetery. >> one grave site was empty. one grave site had the wron