correspondent fred pleitgen joins us live from berlin. it is a new day there, and germans facing a new future, for sure. >> reporter: yes, certainly at least in part it's going to be a different future. many of them had envisioned, it is indeed daybreak here in berlin. it's a gloomy day here, certainly the way many politicians and angela merkel will be feeling as they wake up. i have dominic thomas from ucla with me today. so angela merkel presumably will have had breakfast by now. how do you think she's feeling this morning? she must have a political hangover after last night. >> absolutely. i'm not sure whether the outcome wasn't predictable. the polls were right. support for the cdu, and the sbu coalition had been dropping over the past few weeks. and the outcome was there. six parties will now be entering