she is not a political newcomber in this race. she's -- well, this race, yes, but not a political newcomber. she's lost two other key races in the state and he is a political newcomber. it's already set up a big fight here we'll see the results. i think we're going to go past, may go late into the night. that's what a lot of observers were saying. a lot of people got into the act when they voted earlier. 134,000 people voted earlier. here is what people did say when they went to the polls this morning. >> i've been watching it very closely and was looking forward to today. i think it's important because this is a chance for us to be heard because you have someone that's not necessarily a career politics, but someone that is looking out for everyone. i think a lot of people are con fused about who the voters are, what we want and this is so important to kind of sway things in one way or another to make things happen in our area and to take things nationwide. it's pretty quut and dry here. i think it's hard to flip people's position

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reporter: you're one the newcombers at the administration here. i believe maybe this is the first time we've heard from you on camera. can you give us more of a broad reading of how you see the labor market currently, the unemployment rate, the 4.3%, the u-6. what is your read on the bright spots and challenges? mr. acosta: the bright spots are obvious. we've had almost 600,000 new jobs so far this calendar year. the 4.3% unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in 16 years, since 2001. the number of job vacancies in a sense points to the skills gap. t it's really a phenomenal number that's quite positive. six million job cray cansies means six million job vacancies meets that we can fill that compared to 6.9 million individuals that are unemployed and, wow. you know, i think one of the -- to fully answer your question, one of the challenges that we need to look at is the labor force participation. there are a number of americans that are forgotten, that have been ignored and that have dropped out of the work force. labor force participation is l

sense of the level of the class that they're going to deliver and yeah, i've been hearing a lot of newcombers. time and time again we've heard many blame their stress on politics. more than half of americans reportedly say the current political climate is a very or someone what significant source of stress. bars across the district are filled with people who have plenty to say about it all on both sides. more tension especially in this area. >> no, i don't feel more stressed out, i feel more relax ed. i feel like the climate around her, everyone is arguing, but everyone is talking stressful city which we live right now, particularly with the political times, but i i think people are a little stressed out and i think they love to come here to the cigar how long and just relax. the beautiful thing about cigar is it takes time to sit down and smoke cigars so the stress rolls off your body. stress is good for business for you. >> stress is good for business. >> teisha lewis, fox5 local news >> there was no reason for stress today because it was just gorgeous out there. it makes you happy to be ou

and yes, and i have been hearing a lot of newcomb ers. >> time and time again, we've heard many blameess on politics. more than half of americans reportedly say the current political climate is a very or somewhat significant source of stress. bars across the district are filled with people that have plenty to say about it all, on both sides. >> as a little more tension, especially in this area. >> no, i don't feel more stressed out. i feel more relaxed. i feel like the climate around here, everyone is arguing, but everyone is talking finally, so it is good. >> it is a stressful city which we live right now, with the political times, but i think people are a little stressed out. i think they love to come here to at the cigar lounge, relax, and the beautiful thing, it takes time to sit down, smoke a cigar, so that stress just rolls off your body. >> so stress is good for business, for you? >> stress is good for business. >> there you have t the american psychological association recently reported the first significant increase in the overall average stress levels among americans. since

with the dozen or so republican senators who said they couldn't support the bill to introduce a newcombemmed bill. a new version could come up for a vote as early as july 10 pght. the initial bill was unpopular because it would have kicked people off medicare. 22million are estimated -- would have lost insurance over the next decade. >> we are thrilled to see that the organizing around the country is working and that several senators seeing that this would destroy their communities, that this would hurt the people who vote for them and are saying we can't vote for this. we know that the delay is just more time for us to keep up the resistance. >> reporter: no democratic senators supported the republican health care plan. in fact california senators spoke out strongly against it in the media conference call yesterday. still the groups here in this rally said it's important for them to make their voices heard on this issue even if california's senators already agree with them when it comes to opposing the senate republican health care plan. again at 7th and mission for this group in front