and scott mcfarland. scott. >> which raises big questions about the questions of nancy pelosi as house democratic leader. let's talk about the land of the senate, 53 and 43 edged for democrats. even republicans believe it is a real long shot now that they will regain control of the senate even though the phone banks are operating and trying to swing the voters on the west coast. in the house republicans have an edge and democrats believe they can pull a close couple of gop suspects. the situation about nancy pelosi will begin by morning and what is next for the long time congresswoman from san francisco. >> the democrats of nancy pelosi was expecting a little bit after larger gain in their minority and i think they may decide it may be time for a change. >> giving you a live look at chicago where obama headquarters, coming back to tell you that nancy pelosi spoke down the road from us a few minutes ago. in her speech to the crowd she referenced four more years of president obama. didn't have much to say ab

live tonight, scott mcfarland. in. >> poms have now closed in five key battleground states, virginia, ohio, north carolina, new hampshire and florida. we are in the newsroom with a look at the states and how people are handling the pressure. >> the states are close with enough electoral college votes to matter. earlier we talked with voters in ohio who love or hate the national spotlight. >> we have been in this battleground high state situation where all eyes are on cuyahoga county. >> it has been a headache. the social media network and everything. >>> cleveland polls showing less than 3 points between the presidential candidates, 8 electoral votes. virginia with a virtual dead heat and 13 electoral votes, another purple state, neither red or blue and florida, the biggest of the swing states, 29 electoral college votes where governor romney has held a steady lead in late polling. heavy turnout and long lines. one we haven't talked about is wisconsin where president obama held a narrow four point polling lead, ten

as scott mcfarland reports, the agency apologized. some lawmakers aren't ready to forgive and forget. >>> perhaps the most outrageous expense, using tax money to produce the comedy spoof, employees who attended the shin dig outside disney world. the u.s. department of veterans affairs has been taking heat for months for spending millions on a pair of florida conferences, even providing free shuttle service for workers who want to go to disney world. in front of the u.s. house veterans affairs, agency executive said he was sorry. >> those failures were unacceptable. and i apologize to veterans and to the committee. >> documents we obtain show employees accepted pricey gifts, including limo ride and massages. >> veterans comes first. >> and also during the questioning, agency was unable to see how much it was spending. perhaps as much as $85 million a year. when an agency executive, damaging the reputation of da workers, this is the response. >> don't you ever accuse a democrat or a republican on this committee of slapping any of the ha

scott mcfarland. ktvu channel 2news. >> from the balance of power to the election we continue to keep a close eye on the swing states that are important to the outcome of the election. >> let's go back to ken wayne and heather hoppings. >> reporter: we have arizona declared. romney wins it 57% to 43%. no surprise there. then if you look at the big picture the president has 148 votes, romney has 168 votes, 270 are needed to win the white house. these numbers are going to change. we can predict no surprises on this map. washington, oregon, california the polls still open. they haven't closed. these will be blue states, california the bingest prize of all with 55 votes, idaho and montana expected to go red. nevada a toss upstate. we aren't hour what will happen. colorado a toss upstate and the president is leading romney 52% to 48%. new mexico expected to go blue and the president has a significant lead there, 56% to 44% over romney. we have a look at the in some of the other states. >> we just had the s

scott mcfarland reports from our washington d.c. bureau that our story generated a tidal wave of responses. >> this story has created so much outrage. we also discovered congress was fired up about these pat-downs long before one of their colleagues had relative humiliated. tsa documents say she was a student traveling with a youth group from southwest christian school in texas wearing a loose fitting sundress when is the was pull aid side for a pat down. we're told the dress slipped, revealing her breast. our review found a complaint issue bade member of congress wasn't the first with cutdowns three other representatives have done the same within the last few months. one complained about three-year- olds bag patted down. another cited a man who had just undergone hip surgery who reported painful touching of his incision. and a public hearing will be held here thursday to review aviation security, pat-downs included. our investigation in the polite of a 17-year-old girl have become talk radioed toker this week. >> we've heard horror

live in dc tonight, scott mcfarland. >> back to the bay area. voters across the area cast votes in a dozen congressional races. >> we have been following those races, two of which gained national attention. >> yes. one of those is a democrat versus democrat class right here in district 15. let's go live now and look the at the long-time congressman stark. look at the latest numbers we have. a fellow democrat is leading stark, 54 to 46%, too close to call. let's go to district 14, and that has been -- jacky will be in office for another term. we're going to go to 17, another incumbent will remain in office. going on to district 18, we have a winner here which is the incumbent, ann, and she will get another two years in congress. district 19, another incumbent has been reelected, and one more district for us to get to, and that is 20, and sam has won the election here in district 20. >> one of the other things to pay attention to is lynn who has been a member of congress for 20 years has retired in district two, so let's see how this race is shapi

stuart: second issue, look at the tweet from scott mcfarland and he says, u.s.mile, handing out candy to reporters, loves the jobs numbers. handing out candy to reporters, brent. will the reporters lap it up and their response to the jobs report is going to be oh, it's a wonderful report? what do you think? >> what should be their response to the secretary of labor for doing that? i always ask myself the question, what if it were george bush? what would george bush do? what if this were george bush and his secretary of labor, elaine chao doing that, they would crucify her, they were crucify him for trying to do this and curry favor with the media and spin it to the media, but this is a love fest so they are one and the same thing, stuart. we have to understand that. the national press corps and the obama reelection campaign are one and the same thing. stuart: in my opinion, this is the last-- only about 30 seconds, but in my opinion i've never seen the establishment media bend over so far for one specific candidate in 40 years in america. >> nothing. and it's no