i could not be more grateful to a whole host of people, certainly the people who have worked in my administration for the last four years, and they have burned the midnight oil. they have done much, much to serve this great state. i want to think this one woman. thank this one woman. i am proud to stand with her, and i cannot wait to watch her when she gets on that senate floor. it will be a joy. i must say, there are a whole bunch of people here that worked so hard in this campaign. maggie, joe, all of the people at the democratic state committee, rob, all of those folks, my heart goes out to you. thank you so much for what you have done. i cannot name everybody. if i did, i would get in trouble. but you should know that through your work, god bless you. it is worth every minute of what you are doing. [applause] and if i might, i also want to say thank you to mr. daggett, who i think added to this campaign and who helped to make it a more focused debate, and his civility w
is doing a big family dinner. my sister cooks for both families one night and then i do the same. we make a lot of lasagna. that way, everyone has leftovers to take home and they have dinner or lunch for the next night. i m always looking for deals and specials. i m always keeping my eye out to save a little extra money. we understand saving money is important to you. that s why at giant, we ve created thousands of new deals storewide. we save money, and we have extra time to spend with the family, and that works for us. this is 9 news now. eight months ago, i applied for the job of governor of virginia. tonight, you have hired me. thank you [cheering and applause] reporter: for the first time in 12 years virginia voters have elected a republican to hold the governor s seat. one hour after the polls closed tonight the associated press and cbs news projected bob mcdonnell as the winner. here in the 9 news now election center we are looking at the latest numbers coming
[captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org sean: welcome to a special edition of hannity. the results have started coming in. we will keep you updated all night on the developments for the next hour. the polls have just closed here in new york and the race that we are watching all closely tonight is the special election in the 23rd congressional district conservative doug hoffman against democrat bill owens has become a local race with national flavor. now the polls have just closed. we are waiting for those numbers to start coming in. doug hoffman will be joining us in just a few minutes. in new jersey, the the polls have been closed for a little over an hour. we are watching the polls there in what might be the closest race of the tonight. jon corzine is facing a stiff challen from republican chris christie. there is the x factor that s independent chris daggettt. will his supporters stick with him? we are
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions lehrer: good evening. i m jim lehrer. on the newshour this wednesday: the lead story: off-year politics as republicans win the governors races in new jersey and virginia. gwen ifill has the results, and judy woodruff does the analysis. then, after the other news of the day: two takes on afghanistan; a report on the shootings of five british soldiers; and a margaret warner interview with president karzai s rival, abdullah abdullah who talks about karzai and fraud. then, jeffrey brown explores provocative talk on t.v. and radio, and its impact on today s politics. yelling, screaming insulting, not always checking his facts, and i say what else is new. the rhetoric becomes more shrill, more strident. it bye-byes hysterical and hyperbolic. lehrer: and ray suarez looks at the guilty verdicts in italy for 23 americans in the c.i.a. renditions case. major funding for the newshour with jim lehrer is provided by: what the
a halloween party that turned deadly. the reason the howard county executive is getting involved in the case. happy, jolly, playful little boy. the death of a toddler. why police are calling it murder. and a firefighter s protest. threason they hit the streets tonight. live in high definition, from wbff tv in baltimore, this is fox 45 news late edition . hello, i am jennifer gilbert. and i am jeff barnd. tonight police zero in on the owners of a howard county house where gun fire erupted at a halloween party last weekend. two arrests made in connection with the shooting that left one man dead and another paralyzed. tonight kathleen cairns talks with the mother of the young man that is paralyzed. this is a photo of nathaniel quick and his mom in better days before, nathaniel was shot at the halloween party in columbia. we know he is paralyzed. from above the waist down. his mom doesn t want to show her face on camera. but tells us the bullet is still lod