riches then attorneys for the republican incumbent david yancey presented a letter by a g.o.p.-appointed recall official who says he signed off on a ballot not counted and he was "confused" at the time. the republicans argue it should go to yancey because it had bubbles for both candidates names filled in and the slash through the simonds name. he had chosen republican candidate in every other race in the ballot. in the end the election officials approved the ballot in favor of yancey which means right now there is no winner. >> in this case is not making a difference in one district. flipping it democrat or republican. but making a difference with who controls legislative chamber and the flow of legislation which will have a huge impact on public policy >> house democrats are seething. after conceding this and the majority the republicans are now desperately trying to claw both back like a snarling dog that won't let go of a bone. the state board of elections will make the coin toss or whatever, no date set yet. it's possible we may see a second recount. from the "live desk,"

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>> look at the time tal lafinal 11,608 votes, the republican incumbent had 11,607. she knew the race would be a rollercoaster ride, now she's focussed on getting to work. >> i'm thrilled. i'm thrilled. i'm just thinking about all the possibilities. all the things that we can get done in richmond. >> so here's also why this is really important. her win changed the balance of power in virginia's lower chamber. it is now split 50/50. >> wow. >> after 17 years of republican rule. that one vote. >> a three-judge panel is expected to certify those results today, but if you are a close friend, a spouse, a relative of david yancy, you better hope that you voted, otherwise, coal in your stocking >> and then some. >> one vote. that's why it's important to get out there. >>> coming up, the last thing one mom did before giving birth. >> delivering her final exam. yeah. the picture making us all feel like slackers this morning. later in the mix. >>> but first, the new interview out overnight of harvey weinstein's former assistant breaking her non-disclosure agreement and speaking

after a recount democrat was found to have received 11,608 to the republican incumbent's 11,607 votes exactly one deciding vote there that was the race that the state was waiting for. virginia senator tim kaine posting simply every vote matters. >>> bill karins joining us with a look at our wednesday forecast. >> let's talk travel. a lot of snow for northern portions of portions of the rockies. let's pinpoint where the travel concerns are over the next couple days. differ klt in the mountain passes. salt lake city could get a wintry mix. rain showers on the west coast and by thursday a little bit of snow nebraska, iowa, maybe southern portions of wisconsin and chicago for any potential issues. from detroit to tennessee and finally saturday see ya. -take care. ♪ so probably take it at night. and if you have any questions, the instructions are here in spanish as you requested. gracias. ♪ at walgreens, how we care will change over time, but why we care remains the same treating everyone with the care and attention they deserve. walgreens. trusted since 1901. ...studying to be a dentist a

after a recount democrat was found to have received 11,608 to the republican incumbent's 11,607 votes exactly one deciding vote there that was the race that the state was waiting for. virginia senator tim kaine posting simply every vote matters. >>> bill karins joining us with a look at our wednesday forecast. >> let's talk travel. a lot of snow for northern portions of portions of the rockies. let's pinpoint where the travel concerns are over the next couple days. differ klt in the mountain passes. salt lake city could get a wintry mix. rain showers on the west coast and by thursday a little bit of snow nebraska, iowa, maybe southern portions of wisconsin and chicago for any potential issues. from detroit to tennessee and finally saturday the heavier rains from tennessee and the northern half of south carolina. northern new england with snow showers. have you heard this story? texas rangers star coal hamilton and his wife, heidi, they're not just donating. they're donating $9.4 million to charity. they're gifting the 32,square foot home to camp barnbus. the hamels said in a statement

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you see in the middle shelly's name just above the republican incumbent. , that person put a mark next to your name, and then what? they decided to cross it out and put a mark next to david's name? >> we think it is a classic case of an over vote, where there are so many marks and so many votes that you throw the ballot out and you don't count it. in fact, the republican representative and the democrat representative agreed it was an over vote on tuesday during the recount. those election officials were calibrated. they had been looking at dozens of votes like that all day long. i believe it was an over vote and it should not have gone before those judges. we do not have the same opportunity to bring a vote before the judges. we may have had one that we could have disputed as well. jane: shelly simonds, democratic candidate currently tied for the virginia house of delegates seat. when a photographer and an artist both of african descent met for the first time, they immediately bonded over their shared passion for photography. they also felt that some of their favorite female photograph

i'm ready to do that battle with the establishment, the outright takedown of the republican incumbents. the outright takedown of the philosophy in the party, and to reshape it into some nationalist paradigm, is a real battle for the heart and soul of the party. the question to all my fellow republicans is, where do you stand. what kind of party do you want? and what kind of party do you think the american people are willing to accept. not one that capitulates, not one that gives in, but one thatten sads up on principles and ideals like reagan and eisenhower and bush. even abe lincoln, remember him? that was the party that did? great things, now we're just condensed, brian, to this match over -- as you put it, the drama inside the west wing. >> not happy stuff, but boy was that well put. two gentlemen that really bring it on the thursday before christmas, no less. >> friends of our broadcast both. thank you both very much. >>> coming up, after a break, mitch mcconnell looking forward to cooperation in 2018. he said it, is it too good to be true, though? months that's going to have to be

refuse to comment but they did not say what they plan to do next although the attorney for the republican, the incumbent himself says he's glad election officials are being careful about this vote. >> grateful for the justices for the time that they took to deliberate and i'm really grateful that every vote has been counted. >> simons had a mark through the little bubble and mr. -- delegate yancy's had the bubble filled in. >> reporter: now fox5 reached out to the simons campaign tonight but we have not heard back. yancy was declared the winner back in november by only 10 votes but this recount proved otherwise. even after the random draw though as this turns out shawn and tony, whoever winds up losing can then ask for another recount so we could be right back to where we started. >> by the way i should mention david yancy no relation. >> reporter: but i will tell you that i did write both of these names on these >> who won. >> reporter: our little mock election. sorry, tony, shawn. >> yes. all right. >> i want a recount. >> no, that is in that election not this election. >> fascinating stuff. >> thank

we told you about this yesterday, the democrat is one vote ahead of the republican incumbent in the 94th district in newport news. republican davidian si successfully argued one single uncounted ballot should have been included in his total. now yancy and shelley simons are tied again. it has to be resolved by the equivalent of a coin toss. we are working to learn when that's going to happen. >>> we want to know what you think about all this. do you think it's fair to determine the balance of power in the virginia house by pulling a name out of a bowl? so far most of you say you don't like that ideas. find the poll on our facebook page and tell us what you think. >> here in the district the family of an elected official have become victims of a holiday grinch. neighbors and relatives staying with the councilmember for the holiday weekend got hit hard overnight by thieves. news4's mark segraves has this story in northwest. >> reporter: the thieves came under the cover of this shepherd park neighborhood just off of 16th street, hitting car after car. this one belonging to a family visiting

the attorneys for the republican incumbent explained exactly what election officials saw on that ballotings he is glad election officials are being careful. >> grateful for the justices for the time that they took to deliberate and i'm really grateful that every vote has been counted. >> simons had a mark through the little bubble and mr. -- delegate yancy's had the bubble filled in. >> reporter: you can't get more of a nail-biter than this. we did reach campaign today for comment. we did not hear back. incidentally under virginia rules whoever loses that random draw next wednesday can request yet another recount so this might not be over yet. for now we're live tonight tom fitzgerald fox5 local news. >> a stinging rebuke today by a majority of the world's nations. today the u.s. general assembly approved a resolution condemning america's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capitol of israel. member states voted 128 to nine with 35 abstentions to declare president trump's declaration of jerusalem as israel's capitol null and void. the vote happened shortly after a stern warning by u.s.

the senate jumped into campaigns against an incumbent in this body, hoping to fight for a vision of government of, by, and for the people. al franken was one of those individuals taking on an incumbent republican, norm coleman, and as i heard him on the campaign trail, i heard what we heard today in his speech -- a willingness to fight for that vision so embodied in our constitution of government that would provide a foundation for families to thrive, that would lift everyone up, not a government of, by, and for the privileged. not a government of, by, and for the powerful. it takes a lot of guts to throw yourself into the political world, but because he did and

anyway, the republican incumbent challenged yesterday's recount in saying that one of the ballots wasperly counted. remember that from florida a number of years ago? since the race is now tied, state law says the winner will be chosen -- this sounds like the middle ages -- by lot. essentially a coin toss or another game of chance. and that process is expected to take place within the next week. that should be interesting. and the outcome of that tiny kosz will decide control of the virginia house of delegates. that is democracy. either republicans will maintain their control in the house or it will be split 50/50 between both houses and i think that the governor will have something to say about that. the democratic governor. and we'll be right back. ♪ give ancestrydna, the only dna test that can trace your origins to over 150 ethnic regions... ♪ ...and open up a world of possibilities. ♪ save 20% for the holidays at ancestrydna.com. i love you, droolius caesar, but sometimes you stink. febreze car vent clip cleans away odors for up to 30 days. because the things you love can stink. i

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all of the senate republican incumbents up for re-election in 2018 because they are not supporting president now you have a victory lap supporting not just the tax reform piece, but also anwar and the repeal of the individual mandate. does steve bannon still have a point to make that republicans aren't supporting president trump? >> he's got no point at all. this under scores the entire project. it is a vanity project to promote steve bannon. if you want to look at who's supporting president trump's agenda. it's the republican congress. mitch mcconnell. speaker ryan. president trump working with rank and file republicans to get big ticket items done. this is a big day for the republican party and a big day for america with these results. >> dana: juan, do you think it's better if republicans look like they are more divided? if you're a democrat, do you want the republicans to look like they're having problems? or is it better to say, look at them as a whole, as a group, so you can't take anybody away? >> from the democrats perspective, dana, this is -- for the democrat, they're going to asso

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the primary. the incumbent republican senator.econdly, the president has made clear that the people of alabama should decide who is their senator. people have talked about a number of different issues. this president made clear something very important here. he does not want a liberal democrat in that seat. he wants somebody that is going to be a reliable vote for their shared agenda on tax cuts, on securing the boarder. with respect to senator flake, i want to tell your viewers that senator flake sat next to the president today at a lunch here. i just ran into him literally in his tuxedo, on his way to the congressional ball as i came out to do this interview. so he's here tonight as a guest of the president, the first lady at the congressional ball for the holidays. we're glad he is. we're glad that he's a vote for tax cuts as well. >> martha: have fun. congressional ball underway shortly. kellyanne conway, thanks a lot. >> my pleasure. >> martha: see you soon. a fox news alert unfolding as we speak on the west coast. wild fires

the wrong candidate in the alabama race, the steve bannon insurgency to attack some of the place republican incumbents when he feels like i might be on the wrong side of that if they are successful. >> the roy moore contest going for bannon's candidate, not his. >> in this case dating back from the campaign, advisers have tried to reach him through the media. they thought the best way to get him is to place an interview with "fox & friends" to give an interview to a publication that he reads. that's a way to break through and he'll respond better to that than in a meeting where his attention span is known to be short. and also here, let's remember, this is a president that no matter how inaccurate his statement might be, or how insensitive a statement might be, he does not apologize. he has told people around him, that is one of his cardinal rules do. not apologize. yesterday he felt the questions about why haven't you called the families of these soldiers, that these worry criticism. he had known he was golfing all weekend. he golfed both days in his golf course in virginia last weekend and he did no

we told you how a recount of the democrat one vote ahead of the incumbent republican in the 94th district from newport news. but republican delegate successfully challenged an uncounted ballot should have been included in his total. now they're tied again. may have to get settled the old-fashioned way, with a coin toss. >>> virginia law says the tie must be resolved by at least the equivalent of a coin toss. what other way could they do it at this point? there's no word on if and when that will take place. >> if you toss the coin, who gets to call heads or tails first. >> so many questions. let's be fair. 6:07 now. president trump is celebrating a >> congress approved his sweeping $1.5 trillion tax bill on wednesday. it's the president's first significant legislative accomplishment. >> the largest tax cut in the history of our country and reform. but tax cut. >> the bill still has to be signed by the president. it's not expected to be a problem. >> what are you getting out of this? lower taxes for 8 in 10 americans including most middle and working class families will see lower taxes. the

the weight that is giving advice. >> they said earlier, i don't know if he holds to it, but he will fight against seven of the incumbent republicans up for reelection and support ted cruz, but that's about it. this is the reporter speaking with mcconnell asking him about steve bannon. listen to this. >> do you blame steve bannon for doug jones being elected in alabama? >> let me say this. the political genius on display throwing away a seat in the reddest state in america is hard to ignore. >> yeah. he's not mincing words. he knows. >> he is definitely saying it clearly. in a way this is a question of how they stick to their guns. i saw people saying roy moore is not a good scannedidate and all the teenagers came out and said we will let of alabama decide. there will be many epicodes where there will be reason to be spook and they click to what they think they know. they don't think that is good genius or good political direction or advice. or do we see them staying to kind of a true plan for how to go through the selection or do they waiver? there is so many different things happening, there will be episodes for them to waiver if

the maps are drawn to the advantage of the house republican incumbents. having said that, i think democrats still have a good chance, but they need to do a lot more work on meg issaging a in for a big fight in november. not a gimme. >> shaking your head. >> a lot of plans. jonathan is right. no one should get ahead of themselves, but even democrats when they came out on the tax plan said it's going to be an initial sugar high. i agree. very good. what else is in there is repealing the mandate for health care, which guess what you get in october, a month before the election? your rate increase, from the health insurance. and very little doubt that will cause a big increase. will their gains of $20 a week be washed out when they see what their premiums are, voters see premiums next year? and assuming all things are stable, and we can't do that, when we look at donald trump as president. who is he going to endorse? he endorsed roy moore, an accused child molester last year. republicans also in states, the very blue states, s.a.l.t., went through. will hurt i

and they are worried roy moore will trail all of their republican incumbents and the republicans theyre putting out to take down vulnerable democrats. and could cost them control of the senate? in november. arthel: real clear politics has roy moore up 3.8% over democratic candidate dug jones. cory booker and duval patrick in alabama this week stumping for jones. what issue is jones promoting to galvanize his supporters? >> he's trying not to alienate voters. he says i may be a democrat, but independent republicans, if you are uncomfortable with roy moore, you can switch sides and vote for me and i will protect your interests, too. like the commentator said, earlier, doug jones believes in the second amendment. he's reiterating things that appeal to conservative voters. but the real push in the final days for doug jones is to get out democratic voters, particularly african-american voters who could help win this race for him. arthel: there has to be a specific message to those voters. president trump is all in for roy moore. the political up side for the president is he helps the senat

a court refused ruled the race a tie between democrat shelley simmons and republican incumbent david ncy. the court ruled there was no election winner. according to virginia state law in the event of a tie the winner is chosen by a lot. the board of elections said the winner will likely be claimed by picking a name out of a glass bowl. >> members avenue local family are among the dozen people killed in a tour bus crash. anna behar of lorton virginia along with her 11-year-old son mayan ruins when it flipped over. friends of the family are devastated the about the tragic deaths and they remember anna as a strong adventurous woman and her son as a sweet boy who loved learning about space and playing soccer. >> anna had a bigger than life personality. >> daniel is 11 years old and i watched the kid grow up his entire life. very energetic, very happy, always quick with joke and makes everyone laugh at times. very sincere kid. always tries to find the best i people. >> another teenaged son were hurt in this accident. 31 people were on board the bus monday and officials say driver negligenc

republican on the flip side, only 33% of democrats. let's look at the recent elections as you say right there. let's take a quick look at the most recent one between luther strange, the incumbent republican right now, and roy moore. this was a primary back in september. look, roy moore won by 10 percentage points. where luther strange did better than roy moore, was in cities such as birmingham, huntsville and mobile, which is home to more traditional voters and for doug jones to do well today to win today, he's going to have to try to get some of the republican voters who supported luther strange in september to vote for him now. let's move on and look at the last election right now. when you look at richard shelby, who is the incumbent senator in 2016, he defeated ron crump by 28 points, the democrat. what doug jones needs to do overperform where ron crumpton did well. you see the blue line across the middle of the state, that is called the black belt. no surprise that we saw barack obama do a robo call yesterday to try to get out the votes, specifically african-american votes, and in addition to that we saw vice president joe biden do a robo call and that call was directed t

they will randomly pick either the republican incumbent or the democratic challenger in the race thats tied for the 94th house district. that is this morning from the washington post metro section. back to your calls. good friday morning. thank you for being with us. caller: this is the first time i ever got on. i have a question out there. does anybody know if this tax bill that went through removed the requirement to buy health insurance or get a fine? i haven't heard anything. c.ould give them a rate of a i really need to know that answer. host: thank you. let's go to fred in huntsville, alabama. independent line. caller: good morning. happy holidays. it is hard to grade right now. i just want to say to everybody, hold on to your dreams and everything. it is going to be all right. we might have to go through tough times here, but everything is going to be ok. democrats, sorry. the republicans are sorry. that is how trump got in. it will just have to hope somebody comes along that can get us out of this. everybody have a happy holidays, and stay out of trouble. host: let's go to mar

republicans have to worry certainly about nevada. senator heller there, that's a shaky seat because nevada is kind of leaning blue. arizona is probably going to be a competitive state now that senator flake, the incumbentublican has stepped down. you can have several other seats potentially becoming competitive. some people mentioned tennessee which is a stretch, but it's possible. strange things happen in politics. there are ten seats within a critic senators coming up that president trump carries. you have to look at both sides of it. >> martha: thank you very much. we'll be talking to a lot as we had forward. thanks, larry, good to see you. joining me now is mark's peace matt bennett. good to have you both with us. mark, let's pick up the women's approval rating for president trump because this is one of the areas that is losing some traction. his overall approval members -- what do you think about those numbers? >> i think it depends on what happens in some of these senate races. the reality is he doesn't have to have approval ratings. what matters is these republicans in the senate have a major advantage because there are ten democrats running. five earning and states that he will met by double di

we told the democrats one vote ahead of the incumbent. but republican delegate david yancy successfully argued that an uncounted ballot should have been included in his total. now yancy and democrat shelly s simonds are tied again but no word when that will take place. >> the bus turned over on tuesday, now we know the family was among some that lost their lives, son were killed along with her ground mother. injured along with 15-year-old son daniel. >> he was always the life. party when we get together. very energetic and happy. quick with a joke and makes everyone laugh. >> he was energetic and loved the world. >> recent findings show excessive speed and drivers negligence is what caused the crash. driver now faces vehicular man lawsuiter charges. >>> we are also following developments in another frightening incident in australia, two men arrested after a sufficient plowed into p pedestrians in a busy melbourne street. more than a dozen people injured. they don't believe it was connected to terrorism but they do believe >> reporter: this was no accide

races seriously then the republicans should be able to hold on to the house but if we've got a lot of retirement among those vulnerable seats, with a lot of open seats or a lot of incumbents not taking the race seriously then the republican majority is in doubt. maria: you'd think this tax plan would be helpful in terms of impacting the american people and the president said that people are going to feel it come february. once this goes through next week , and it gets to the president's desk for signage before christmas, do you think that's going to have an impact? >> i think it will. first of all, it will start showing up in february in lower withholdings under the new tables of everybody who gets a paycheck and i think people are going to see more money in their pockets. small business people are going to be able to take a look at what their tax accountant or their controller is going to be able to say boss this is what it means for our business. i've talked to some corporate cfo's just like i suspect you have. they will know within minutes of the passage of the final bill exactly what this will do to their bottom line for the coming year and they can adjust their capit

southernmost part of florida, miami-dade and the florida keys, there was a really ugly democratic primary fight to see who would take on the incumbent republican in that seat. one was joe garcia, the other was annette teddio. the democratic committee had taken sides. it was the kind of primary fight that drives rifts. so it was always going to be tough. suddenly in august, it got much, much worse. a whole slew of hacked documents relating to the race were posted online. strategy memos, opposition research e-mails, including a 76-page dossier of dirt that one of the candidates had compiled about the other, as well as all the dirt the democratic party had dug up on their own potential candidates in order to know their weakness. it included one of the democrats being caught on a c-span feed picks his ear wax and appearing to eat it. okay, that's disgusting. but all this stuff was supposed to be behind the scenes background research, and it magically appears online. you can imagine how nasty the primary became then. accusations and counteraccusations flew. the candidates used the documents against each other. when garcia won, the republicans turne

in the house i think things are going to be much tougher for republicans. in the senate there is only one state that a republican incumbentg in that hillary clinton won. that's the state of nevada. five he won by double digits. >> katie: address the point nancy pelosi because republicans feel like they are going to lose power and holding onto the last grips of it wasn't it the president who set a christmas deadline not republicans? >> david: yeah. by the way, the fact is, it was there it was signed. it wept through. passed it he kept his promise. nancy pelosi talking about russia and everyone should laugh and walk away. here are some of the realities in the voting and the changes in the last several years between 2010, 1 and now. the change in electorate. this is what matters. we have seen the change in state legislatures. we have seen the change in congressional districts. we do have to be concerned about the jerry man terring and rigging that both sides conduct when it comes to redistricting. however, republicans are not in any danger in the house for a simple reason. they have success coming. and the lagging indicator

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candidate shelly simonds stood poised to break the 51-49 republican majority in the virginia house of delegates when she apparently defeated republican incumbent bill yancey by just one single vote. but her victory was short-lived. a court has now ruled that the race was actually a tie, and now the victor will be determined by drawing names from a bowl. seriously, that is what's happening. joining us now to break this down is rima amin, a reporter at "the daily press" in virginia, who's been closely covering this race. first off, the big drawing is scheduled for wednesday. why exactly does this happen? why does it come down to this? >> so, i guess we can backtrack to the statewide elections on november 7th. the 94th district is a decently competitive race, but i don't think anybody predicted that it would come down to ten votes. delegate david yancey has had that seat for three terms, and on election day, after everything was certified, he beat shelly simonds, his democratic opponent, by ten votes. shelly simonds requested a recount, and so that recount was this tuesday. so, typically, what recount officials do, they go through irregular ballo

donald trump won 62% of the vote, it is easy to forget that senator-elect doug jones jumped in that long shot race back in may. now think about it. that was before the incumbent republicanor lost his primary. which slightly upped the democrats' chances. it was also before the allegations against roy moore were meticulously detailed in "the washington post" and other papers. if democrats had been running a symbolic candidate or waited for that race to tighten, they probably would not have won. "the new york times" reports the lesson from alabama run everywhere you can now appears to be spreading. democratic candidates have filed in all but 20 house districts held by republicans. dems not just in districts where president clinton ran well, but for seats uncontested in 2016 where republicans do remain heavy favorites like texas, arkansas, nebraska. the times notes that by comparison, democrats in 80 districts do not have a republican opponent for their seat. and if you follow internal party debates you, may recall that fielding candidates across all 50 states was a core theme of howard dean's run for party chair back in 2004. now all of this could pay off next year. look a

candidate shelly sigh mondz khechinged the vote counseled after previously discarded ballot was counted leaving race in a tie. she believes she beat republican incumbent david yancy by one vote. the outcome controls what determines the house of delegates. if simon wins the house is split 50/50 and if republicans win it's 50-49 5d advantage. just that one vote. >> up next the mad rush charities are seeing this weekend. >> also ahead new york city getting ready for the biggest new year's eve part in the country and look at extremely tight security around time's square. >> and stick around for the best of the final five. the highs and lows of the caidzy year in politics. tonight at 11:230. don't miss your last chance of the year to save at havertys furniture. get up to $1000 in bonus discounts now through new year's day. plus, you can finance with no interest for 36 months. ring in the new year with stylish upgrades. with havertys, your home can be perfect. even when life isn't. hurry, this sale ends new year's day at