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For democrats than we knew on november 6th. in the house, democrats are reclaiming control by a bigger margin than first thought. they now have a majority of 225 seats. republicans have 200. and were still awaiting the final outcome of ten house races. democrats are leading in seven of those contests. we saw one house race in california flip in their favor before our eyes earlier tonight. the democrats potentially picking up close to 40 seats, which would be their best midterm performance in dec...

Undecided tonight. democrats are leading in six of those races. if they win all six, theyll have a pickup of 36 seats, widening what would be their biggest midterm gain since the watergate era. in the senate this is the current balance of power. democrats have won 47 seats. republicans right now have a majority of 51 seats. two senate contests still up in the air in florida and mississippi. jake, democrats have some final chances to build on their momentum. >> and wolf, theyve already scored a s...

Youre thinking, okay, these voters who two years ago stunned us, broke the blue wall in the midwest, if you will, and elected donald trump president, if you want to go back and look at that, you can see it here. this was the shock of election night 2016. did something happen in 2018 that definitely changes 2020? no. but if youre the democrats, you like those states blue. youre thinking, thank you. can we carry this over to 2020? that will be the big challenge. no question those three will be big...

Will soon decide the fate of number will keep rising as fires keep burning and as crews search through charred neighborhoods homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen, she was and acres and acres of scorched receiving a briefing from earth. cnns nick valencia is in the military commanders. >> we are seeing it evolving ravaged town of paradise. quickly. >> reporter: the president made nick, youre following the search and recovery operations. what are you seeing, what are little secret of his d...

Undecided. jake, were watching some important cliff-hanger races. >> wolf, once again, right now its all about florida with two marquee contests on the line as a statewide recount is unfolding this evening. democratic senator bill nelson looking to close the gap in his tight contest with republican rick scott. and andrew gillum taking back his concession as votes are recounted in his battle with republican ron desantis. lets go back to john king there at the magic wall. >> lets take a closer loo...

The town of paradise in northern california. what are you seeing over there, nick? >> reporter: wolf, here in northern california, more than 10,000 acres have burned in the last two days. here in paradise, it is so bad, in fact, the mayor tells me it will take weeks before residents are allowed back in. >> its okay, its okay. please drive. just please drive. >> reporter: tonight, the most destructive fire in california raging on. >> oh, god! >> reporter: most people in paradise already in troubl...

>> outrageous. >> is that the way the president should talk to an african american? >> its no laughing matter. >> talk to your people for me. >> dont do that. >> you know myself and my father before me are very hesitant to use a word that is overly use td. which is racist or bigoted. we read the story, boy who cried wolf. and the problem comes you keep using it over and over again. >> i hear you. >> what happens when the real wolf comes. >> the behavior. we dont need labels necessarily. he said ...

>> i hear you. >> what happens when the real wolf comes. >> the behavior. we dont need labels necessarily. he said to april ryan. >> ill label him. >> set up the meeting with the black caucus. >> your friends. with your friends. >> if we were advising anybody in a petition of power and heres what im going to say when the african american reporter asks me. set up a meeting with your people. like he was talking to a tribe. you would never say that. >> if he said that to abby or to yamiche. i would...

Recusal. you think whitaker is going to recuse himself after he was put in charge over rod rosenstein, who is still there, who was in charge until 48 hours ago? not a chance. >> thats why hes there. hes there because he wont recuse himself. >> exactly. >> but wolf -- >> and as they say on the television commercials, but wait, theres more! it may not even be constitutional that he does this job. i mean, thats the argument made by neil cattial and george conway in the op-ed piece. the idea that yo...

Dropping and rick scotts lead keeps dropping, thats not really a surprise. thats in fact what should have been expected to happen. its not some conspiracy theory. >> couple of things, david. are we heading for a legal battle of 2000 hanging chad dimensions? >> i think its possible. look, i think mark laid it out pretty well. you have on the one side, you have a democratic-leaning county, broward, with an elections official whos known to be slow, perhaps even incompetent. that then draws that scr...