looking at iowa's fourth congressional district -- incumbent steve king won re- election easily over democratic challenger kim weaver. democrats... but in iowa's second congressional district -- democratic incumbent dave loebsack won his race and earned a trip back to washington. a big night for the incumbents in iowa. longtime iowa senator chuck grassley winning easily over demcratic challenger patty judge -- receiving 60 percent of the vote. this is the first time grassley's received less than 65 percent. he's heading back to d-c for a seventh term... national security threat not like some law enforcement problem. we need to keep rural america thriving." grassley did not mention the supreme court during his victory speech. his challenger -- patty judge -- made grasssley's refusal to hold a hearing for president obama's supreme court justice nominee a key point in her campaign.... our current system has failed the working families in our senator grassley won over men and women and led in all age categories over judge. a big change in the iowa legislature. republicans now have control

he won enough electoral votes overnight to secure his victory. iowa senator chuck grassley has won reelection for his 7th term. he beat his challenger patty judge with a large republican incumbent congressman rod blum has beat his democratic challenger. blum won the most votes against monica vernon by about 10%. the balance of power in the iowa legislature has shifted. now republicans control both the senate and the house of representatives. republicans also now control both of the houses of the u-s congress. they have 51 seats in the senate, and 230 in the house. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, from your 24 hour news

trump handily won six electoral votes here in iowa. he won by about 150 thousand votes, 52 p last night, trump won the election with several key states still undecided. this midday, the state of michigan is still too close to call with only 15 thousand votes separating trump and clinton. today on good morning america, abc news analyst jonathan karl said it was other unexpected votes in the rust belt that gave him the win. "the reason donald trump is the president-elect of the united states is what happened in the industrial midwest. look at this. he won in the tate of won in the state of wisconsin, a state that hasn't gone republican since 1984. " global financial markets are rebounding after an overnight panic following election results. share prices started falling as soon as trump gained the lead in the electoral vote count. this is what the major stock indexes look like right now. the dow, nasdaq and s and p 500 are . at one point, dow futures plunged more than 4% and japan's major index fell largest drop in years. the mexican peso

carolina.the billionaire businessman also won iowa with nearly 52-percent of the vote. trump's campaign was able to turn many of iowa's ?democrat- leaning counties red.he will president on janurary 20th. according to the secretary of state's office--of the two point one million iowa voters - about one-and-a-half million voted in this election.that's about the same number of iowans who voted in the 2008 election. for the third time since the last election, north liberty will be looking for new leadership - after mayor amy nielsen won her bid for the iowa house. house.cbs 2 news reporter mellaney moore spoke with nielsen about her move and what the city can do now. joins us live in north liberty. the auditor tells cbs 2 news johnson county had record voter turn out yesterday.here in north liberty, residents now have more decisions to make about their leadership. leadership. amy nielsen has served as north liberty's mayor for almost two years.amy nielsen, nl mayor19:08:21 it's been exciting and exhausting and challenging and rewarding and everything that you would be. i've

he won enough electoral votes overnight to secure his victory. iowa senator chuck grassley has won reelection for his 7th term. he beat his challenger patty judge with a large republican incumbent congressman rod blum has beat his democratic challenger. blum won the most votes against monica vernon by about 10%. the balance of power in the iowa legislature has shifted. now republicans control both the senate and the house of representatives. republicans also now control both of the houses of the u-s congress. they have 51 seats in the senate, and 230 in the house. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, from your 24 hour news first, meteorologis t kaj o'mara has your first alert forecast, kaj... our quiet weather continues across eastern iowa. plan on sunshine with highs well into the 50s. a few 60s may also pop up again later today. for tonight, plan on clear sky and light west the middle 30s in many areas. tomorrow, a southwest wind develops allowing for temperatures to kick up well into the 60s. on veteran's day, a cold front arrives in the afternoon hours

looking at how iowa voted last night in the presidential race -- it became apparent why donald trump won the state by a wide margin. - this is a major difference between 2016 and 2012... while mitt romney carried all of western iowa, and many of the barack obama won most of the counties in the tv-9 viewing area - not just linn, johnson and dubuque counties. he won northeast iowa... cedar, jackson, jones and other rural counties... kcrg-tv9 talked with university of iowa political science professor cary covington about this election. he says iowa was an ideal state for donald trump to be successful last night. "iowa is really in trump's demographic sweet spot. we have a lot of people with high school e are a very white state. not as many people with college degrees.and those white high school educated voters were the people who turned out for trump. iowa was a good state for him. " we'll have more from dr. covington in our next half hour about how trump helped elect other republicans downballot in iowa. our quiet weather continues across e the 50s. a few 60s may also pop up again later to

donald trump won iowa with 53-percent of the vote to clinton's 43-percent. percent.here's a breakdown of how each state voted.trump won with about 288 electoral votes - compared to clinton's 215. president-elect trump needed big wins in many swing states - and won in states like florida - ohio - pennsylvania and north carolina.trump will be inagurated as the 45th president on friday, january 20-th. president obama offered an olive branch to trump today.obama invited trump to a meeting at the white house tomorrow. the two are expected to talk about plans for a smooth transition of power. power.the president called trump early wednesday morning to congratulate him.he also called secretary clinton and expressed admiration for the strong campaign she waged the president called trump early wednesday morning to congratulate him and he also called secretary clinton and expressed admiration for the president obama reminded everyone that we are all americans that we must work transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. and over the next few months w

cruz won iowa's caucus back in february. many young voters say the 20-16 presidential race has been more like a reality t-v show -- discussing the other candidate's personality fw kwwl's macleod hageman joins us live on u-n-i's campus. mac? by this time next week -- the next leader of the free world will be named -- but younger voters seem less than excited about the political race. (nat pop...trump, "she is the candidate of yesterday." clinton, "we have come too far too far to let donald trump take -- young voters say people seem disgusted -- voting for the candidate they dislike less -- instead of the one who will carry out their "i've felt that a little bit with the presidential election itself. personally, i care more about the down-ballot races. those are the ones that are going to affect me a lot more on a day- to-day level." u-n-i public policy student cam draude voted on his 18th birthday in the last presidential election -- saying the election process changed dramatically. "it's been really frustrating to hear them

i won iowa, not because the demographics dictated i would win iowa, but because i spent 87 days going to every small town, fair, fish fry, and dfw hall, and there were some counties where i might have lost, but maybe i lost by 20 points instead of 50 points. there are some counties maybe i won that people did not expect because people had a chance to see and listen to you, and get a sense of who you stood for and who you were fighting for. >> that was a brutal assessment of what he did right, and what hillary clinton did not do. >> this is what i mean about the clutch being gone. >> every time they would go to iowa, they would have a john deer tractor lit up and hey and pumpkins strategically placed. it was the most calculated campaign anybody has seen. >> and an isolated campaign, too, in retrospect. easy to look at it in the rear view mirror and it was a well-run campaign, and there's real anger about inequity, and class was the issue and income was the issue. >> we will see what the democratic party learns from this, and the point you made about culture it looks in the short run, a

donald trump won wisconsin for the first time since 1984, won pennsylvania, won florida, won iowa. >> both romney and corker will meet with trump tomorrow night. romney, in fact, is having dinner with trump. >>> the vp elect promises some very important announcements tomorrow. steve cortez, republican strategist. steve, let me ask you more on romney. kellyanne conway makes it clear that she is making attacks for those who don't want him. mike huckabee, the former governor of arkansas. what is it that really bugs people about romney? >> chris, i'll tell you, those of us who are in politics, no matter where you fall in partisan terms, we love palace intrigue, don't we? it's fascinating. i would say regarding palaces, the european royal families intermarried a heck of a lot. i'm not sure it was about love, it was often for political convenience. that might be part of what's going on here with this dance for mitt romney. but i will tell you and i will echo to some extent what kellyanne conway said. when i look at my social media world and i talk to people, there is almost a visceral revol

i won iowa not because the demographics dictated that i would 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry. >> reporter: other democrats agree, tonight a scramble to take over as dnc chair. an early favorite announcing this afternoon, keith ellison, the first muslim congressman. >> how are we all going to pitch in and fix this party to make working america know that the democratic party is absolutely on their side. >> as the president leefss tonight for his last foreign trip, he said he will european leaders donald trump told him he will not pull out of nato. one campaign idea that mr. obama says his successor will not fulfill. lester? >> andrea mitchell, thank you. >>> anti-trump protests continue to swell. today high school students from washington, d.c. to los angeles organized large-scale walkouts. tens of thousands took to the streets this weekend, some demonstrations have turned violent with hundreds arrested from coast to coast. stones of the trump campaign was a vow to bring jobs back to america, and now fulfilling that promise is job one for the incoming administratio

i won iowa not because the demographics dictated that i win iowa, it's because i spent 87 days going to >> reporter: other democrats agreed. tonight a scramble to take over as dnc chair. an early favorite announcing this afternoon, keith ellison, the first muslim congressman. >> how we all going to pitch in to fix this party to make working america know that the democratic party is absolutely on their side. >> reporter: as the president leaves tonight for his last foreign trip, he said he will reassure european leaders donald trump told him he will not pull out mr. obama says his successor will not fulfill. lester? >> andrea, thank you. >>> with part of the country dissatisfied with last tuesday's outcome, anti-trump protests continue to swell. today high school students from washington, d.c. to los angeles organized large-scale walkouts. tens of thousands took to the streets this weekend. some demonstrations have turned violent with hundreds of arrested from coast to coast. >>> one of the vow to bring jobs back to america and now fulfilling that promise is job one for the incoming a

. >> i won iowa not because the demographics dictated that i would win iowa, it was because i spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry and and vfw hall and there were some instead of 50 points. >> new hampshire added four electoral votes to her tally. now michigan is the only state undecided. >>> now to the wildfires raging in the southeast. dozens burning in seven states, georgia, alabama, mississippi, tennessee, kentucky, north and south carolina. you see the map right there and ranging from 15 to 75% contained. it's believed most are the result of arson. all being fueled by the drought conditions at least 80,000 acres have burned without acres affected. it's making the air unhealthy in atlanta and the rest of north georgia. western north carolina is hit hard with 40,000 acres there alone. officials are describing the blazes there as california-style wildfires. the governor warns the largest may not be put out until march. >>> and the u.s. navy has now joined the effort to rescue people trapped by the powerful as are several buildings in the capital. some streets

donald trump campaigns in five states today -- starting in iowa, which george w-bush won in 2004, but mitt romney and john mccain lost. later, trump was scheduled to visit minnesota, michigan, pennsylvania, and virginia. he told supporters earlier today, he's "the outsider." >> if she ever got into the oval office, hillary and her special interests would rob our country blind-- that's what she's been doing. >> stewart: we're going to check in on both campaigns, and we begin in cleveland, ohio, where" the newshour's" john yang is following the clinton campaign. >> that's right, as they flew here from philadelphia, the communications director for the campaign spoke to reporters. she said we have seen director comey's latest letter to the we're glad to see that as we-- glad to see that he has found, as we were confident that he would, that he has confirmed that the conclusions that he reached in july, and we're glad that this mat certificate resolved. we're told that the fbi went through the emails that they found on anthony weiner's lap dop found that most of the emails were duplicate o

carolina.this is a look at how the state of iowa voted in the presidential election.donald trump won the state with 53- percent of the vote to clinton's 43-percent.trump will be inagurated as the 45th president on friday, january 20-th. we're now joined by cbs 2 news anchor and host of iowa in focus kevin barry.he's here to talk more about a really first congressional district here in iowa.republican incumbent rod blum was up for his first re-election bid and defeated democratic challenger monica vernon. he won 54- percent to vernon's 46-percent. congressmen blum gave a firey victory speech following the calling of the race. "hillary clinton decided to get involved in one house race in the entire country - this one. nats of cheers." cheers." said this win was espeically important to him - since his challenger targeted him since he was first elected into the house.monica vernon says she needs to take time off to figure out what she'll do next. monica 02:24:55 "i'm going to continue to work on respecting all of us, i want to see all opportunity for everybody and there are lots of ways t

carolina.the billionaire businessman also won iowa with nearly 52-percent of the vote. trump's campaign was able to turn many of iowa's ?democrat- leaning counties red.he will

you know, i won iowa not because the demographics dictateed that i would win iowa. it was because i spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry and vfw hall. and there were some counties where i might have lost, but maybe i lost by instead of 50 points. there's some counties maybe i won that people didn't expect because people had a chance to see you and listen to you and get a sense of who you stood for and who you were fighting for. and the challenge for a national party is how do you dig in there and create those kinds of structures so that people have a and that increasingly is difficult to do just through a national press strategy. it's increasingly difficult to do because of the spiraling of the press. and so i think the discussions that have been taking place about how do you build more grassroots organizing, how do you build up state parties and local parties and school board elections you are paying and city council races, that all i think will contribute to stronger outcomes in the future. i'm optimist thaik will happen. for democrats who

you know, i won iowa not because the demographics dictated that i would win iowa. it was because i spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry. >> other democrats are also agreeing with president obama, there's a mad scramble to take over the democratic national committee coming into full swing with keith ellison, the first muslim congressman formally announcing his bid. here's what he told chris hayes about his run. >> i believe you got to return that focus right back to the working man and woman in this country, affirm the idea of better wages, affirm the idea of the right to bargain affirm the idea of having a clean environment. these are the things that our core values and that's where i want to take the democratic party. >> this morning, we are getting new reaction from bernie sanders. he says democrats need to change. >> the democrats cannot continue to be run -- the democratic party, by what i call a liberal elite. the party has got to transform itself to be a party, which first of all, opens the pain of working class people. of the middle

. >> i won iowa not because the demographics dictated that i would win iowa. it was because i spent 87 days and there were some counties where i might have lost but maybe i lost by 20 points instead of 50 points. >> reporter: in the end, she lost three key rust belt states. her path to the white house derailed there by a combined 107,000 votes. her old rival bernie sanders today. >> i like hillary clinton. but i think it is fair to say that the working class of this country did was prepared to stand up and fight for them. >> reporter: and in concession, clinton herself acknowledging the nation's deep divisions. >> we have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought. but i still believe in america, and i always will. >> reporter: and emotional kate mckinnon playing clint to be one last time -- >> reporter: "snl" saying good-bye with this musical tribute. ? hallelujah ? >> i'm not giving up, and neither should you. and live from new york, it's saturday night. >> millions, of course, watching "snl" over the weekend. cecilia vega live us with tonig

cruz won iowa's caucus back in february. he focused on keeping republican control of the senate and defeating hillary clinton. today -- former presidential in eastern iowa campaigning for hillary clinton. he's holding a rally in iowa city at 1:45 this afternoon at college green park. it starts at 2:45 -- doors open at 1:45. after that -- he'll hold a rally at the university of northern iowa's maucker union. that starts at 4:45 -- with doors opening at 3:45. the state department has released its latest batch of e-mails from the f-b-i's investigation into hillary clinton's private e-mail server. thursday's release was part of a court order. nearly 13-hundred pages of expected to be released today. and so far, polling locations are reporting low voter turnout while some states allow voters to change their vote...iowa is not one of them. the hawkeye state doesn't allow a replacement of a voted absentee ballot. young voters express concern about the 20-16 presidential campaign race. on u-n-i's campus -- public policy students focu

republican republican rod blum won in iowa's first district. and democrat dave loebsack won in the second district. today, the university of iowa took time to mark the 25th anniversary of a campus shooting that killed six people. on november 1st, 1991, gang lu , a graduate student from china, shot and killed five people. that included three physics and astronomy professors and another chinese student in van allen hall. he later shot and killed himself. authorities believe he prize for his physics dissertation. today, the u-i remembered the victims with a ceremony on the north side of the old capitol. as part of the ceremony, bagpipes played "amazing grace." physics professor wayne polyzou says those who died were an important part of many people's lives. "02:30:59;06you know we've had to rebuild. there's a number of people whose lives were completely changed because of this i mean the families obviously they were devastated but there were a lot of people who worked for these people worked with employment depended on it " the university will plac

barack obama won iowa twice. hillary clinton got clobbered in rural iowa. it wasn't that she lost the counties i but by such a wide margin. it couldn't have been race because these upper midwest states supported obama twice and turned away from clinton in droves. >> i have to leave it there. we have about 17 more questions for you. i have a feeling that hopefully you will be a familiar face to our viewers. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you for having me. >> you guys are stuck. >> anyway. >> donald trump's transition team is in transition. a big name is out and a new big name is back in. stay with us. ♪ see ya next year. this season, start a new tradition. experience the power of infiniti now, with leases starting at $319 a month. infiniti. empower the drive. >> we will have a lot more after this including transition news, but it's time for the market wrap. >> stocks ended mixed, but for the week they notched significant gains. the dow climbed 39, ending up more than 5%. the s&p rose nearly 4% this week and nasdaq is up also nearly 4% for the week. co

as president obama takes a veiled swipe as where he thinks the clinton campaign went wrong. >> i won iowa not because the demographics dictated that i would win iowa. it was because i spent 87 days going to every small town, fair, fish fry and vfw hall. >>> plus hollywood honors, natalie takes us inside gla mower's women of the year awards and catches up with some of the night's biggest stars. >> you say this is the year 2016 where you were woken up. >> i was. i was kind of feeling like, wow. i knew it was dark, it was dark and i was like, god, i didn't know i was going to bust out and be a butterfly. ? >>> and rolling with the stones. >> what have you learned from being part of a b >> longevity is important and but, you know, having fun is more important possibly. >> matt gets a tour of the rolling stones new exhibit from the music legends themselves as they take a trip down memory lane. >> how close -- >> this is exact. >> how do you convince a young lady to come back to this? >> today tuesday, november 15th, >> shout out to all my friends and family down in oklahoma city. >> good morni

spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry and vfw. >> so he says i, i, i, i won iowabout the iowa caucuses way back 2007, 2008, but who did not win iowa this time? hillary clinton barely won it against bernie sanders by less than one point. in the general election, it was donald trump. >> should have gone to more fish fries. >> you got to roll up the sleeves. >> no one ever thought that he was -- he work really hard. he came out of nowhere to get that nomination. it's one of the great untold stories. he never brings that up. if you read his book, he was walking through the tundra of the back streets of chicago. if keith ellison is the new face of the dnc and he's talking about hillary clinton out and bernie sanders in, where is that party heading? >> i think it shows that there are very senior people like harry reid who has gotten behind keith ellison, he's retiring. bottom line, they are saying we should have gone with a progressive. that they could have won. >> you are going back here friday. >> i will be. >>> straight ahead, that was ed henry playing ed henry on th