for insurance commissioner, democrat ricardo lara holds a 1 1/2 percentage point leaf over steve poizner. to two bay area races, in district 7, san jose city council, look at this, a mere 13 votes separate the leader, incumbent tam nguyen and mire au esparza. in the alameda mayor's race, the challenger leads the incumbent, trish-hererra spencer by 1 1/2 percentage points. although we are starting to see congratulatory messages, there are still hundreds of thousands of mail-in and provisional ballots to be counted in these counties and each have 30 days to certify the results. >> thank you so much. >>> the doc the larry beil sat political science professor on the "abc 7 news" at 4:00. he said that could bring the trump administration under scrutiny. >> they have investigative powers and subpoena power, and as a result they are going to carefully, as speaker pelosi said today, they're going to carefully go after or look at some of the claims and some of the activities of the trump administration. this will be the first time in this two years that he's been exposed to checks and balances. >