we can't forget that virginia is a purple state. it is not a safe blue state. >> that's true. >> another state that's not very safe, and we're looking at some interesting exit polls michael from wisconsin, which tells us what we've within watching all night everywhere else. >> exactly. it look like the percentages of men compared the women in that race are exact mirrors of one another. so these are just estimates, but 57-42 walker winning men. 57-42 burke winning women. it's like the boys versus the girls. >> but women make up a slightly bigger percentage. >> that would seem to be, but it just indicates that this enduring divide in american politics. >> woodruff: what is it about the way men and women see politics? stu and amy, we've been talking about gender, but what else are you seeing here in terms of income and in terms of race or any other issue or any other demographic i should say that helps us understand what's going on? >> democrats showing good jobs in terms of getting out the african american vote. most of the demographi

virginia, too close to call and that's notable. mark warner, the democrat, trying to go back to the u.s. senate. this is republicans up two. this donut graphic we'll be referring to all night, showing the balance of power. again, the gop needs to flip six. they're up two. but it's early yet. and earlier tonight, we projected republicans will retain control of the house of representatives. right away to the board we go, to chuck todd. what are you looking at at this hour? >> it's still the east coast senate races. obviously the question is going to be, how important are the iowas and the colorados going to be to the republicans march to find their sixth seat. the early warnings have been new hampshire, north carolina, and a surprise in virginia. let me show you here, north carolina, this one is an incredibly close race, as you can see at this point. hagan is maintaining a lead here. all of our models indicate she's slightly up, but it's still a too close to call race. up in new hampshire, another democratic incumbent, jeanne shaheen

virginia, similar. virginia is tougher, because there were a fair number of late calls. -- late polls. this gets back to more systematic issues about the polling. there is a situation where it should not have been a surprise to anybody, and was not to me, that gillespie was going to finish closer in the end than most of the polling had him. hasek incumbent challenger situation, where an incumbent with a whole lot of money who can dominate the election, and a challenger, particularly in northern virginia, which has always been crucial, was not going to be able to spend money until toward the end, with voters who engage at the end, who would consolidate republicans. i think it surprised everyone just how close it got. for me, the surprise was how well warner seemed to be doing in the polling in weeks three, two, and one. i was expecting to see it closed down to three or four points. it was surprising it did not. and even more surprising when we ended up with the nailbiter that we did. >> we are going to c

virginia. go to c-span.org for more of these results. the: greta mentioned michigan senate race. the detroit free press leads with the fact that rick snyder got reelected as governor of that state. she also mentioned the kansas race. we covered a lot of speeches and we want to show you a portion of pat roberts and greg gorman. [video clip] >> this election was so important because so much is at stake. our values, our prosperity, our future and our faith in government. thanks to you, your vote, your , our conservative republican solutions will see the light of day and be put before the american people and we will do great things. [applause] tonight, as is always with a night, it will be the start of a new day. the tide has turned in the era of the obama gridlock is over. [applause] with your help, with your help, each and every one of you, with your help and with god's good grace, we were not dragged across the finish line, we crossed the finish line, we took the hill. roberts wonator tonight, w

so is there a change at the university of virginia?'9;xlsv >> they have been making some changes lately.b. they have implemented a bystander intervention campaign they unveiled in september, they changed some policies to create more mandatory reporters. but the idea that they didn't know some of the details of jackie's case, that sounds a little disingenuous to me only because when i approached jackie about this article, she was very forthcoming about all the details and confided her allegations in a dean a year ago and has been in very close contact with her for the last year, so it makes me think that, if this dean didn't know the details, it's because jackie was just never asked. >> reporter: among other things, you write in the article that the college officials gave her options of what to do. one of those options was to do nothing. >> that the very common now at colleges. a new approach to dealing with victims is to present them with a variety of options and leave the choice up to them how they want to pursue the case. in theory,

everybody,u, appreciate it. >> in the virginia u.s. senate race, republican ed tbil espy conceded to democratic incumbent mark warner. mr. gillespie says he will not recount, even though state law inteeltses -- entitles him to one. this is about 15 minutes. >> thank you. thank you all. thank you all so much. thank you all. a great crowd on such short see so manyreat to friends and volunteers and supporters. you're nice to make time on a weekday. kathy and i are happy to be with you here today and we just wanted to give you a little update on where things stand. and it stands this way. know, the canvassing is completed. and the official tally is now a votes.more than 16,700 larger than it was on election night. theously it did not move in direction that we had hoped it would. and so i've called mark warner this morning to congratulate him himis re-election, to thank for his public service to our himonwealth, and to wish and his family well. it was a nice conversation, and hope that he does well, obviously, in his continued commonwealth

it is hard to tell what happened in virginia. i am not sure what science they are applying to these polls or who is doing them. i'm not sure why the public polling was there. >> we were not shocked that it was close. >> a follow-up question, do you think that mr. gillespie should ask for a recount? >> i don't know it's up to him. i don't know where the numbers would be right now. i don't know what the latest is there. we are prepared for whatever we can do to help him and he knows that. he will probably make a decision today. you said before that the republican party needs to be as close to perfect as possible. you said that candidate recruitment was an important factor of the rnc. keep the republican -- y perfect >> you are guaranteed to have a divisive primary with ideologically diverse factions. how do you plan to keep it civil? and do you plan to tip the scales a little bit? to keep them out of debates if they are low in the polls. trite to make it a more perfect process. the first part of that question, i will tell you that

. >> woodruff: and, a west virginia teenager campaigning out of her dorm room hopes to become the youngest person ever to serve in a state legislature. >> one of the biggest problems is people my age get their high school and college education here and then they leave because they can't get a good paying job and so i want to be a part of making sure that my generation stays in west virginia. >> ifill: those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: american hopes of having moderate rebels in syria prevail against the islamic state group have suffered new setbacks. the rebels lost a series of towns over the weekend

but virginia -- exactly. but virginia after all is the state that kicked outhouse majority leader eric cantor earlier this year because he was not conservative enough. >> pelley: we have this program note. cbs news will bring you election updates throughout the evening and one hour special with our election team at 10:00, 9:00 central. latest results online at cbsnews.com on twitter twitter our handle is @cbspolitics. anthony mason and gayle king will be in studio 47 bringing us the result of our exit polling. i want to ask what you is the most important issue to americans that they have told us about in our exit polls? >> you've already >> you've already started talking about it. shows the economy was the number one issue for 45% of the voters today. people we talked to 78% said they're concerned about the direction of the economy, only 22% said they're not worried. >> here is where that concern comes from, gail, we asked voters about their family finances, nearly 3/4 said they are either treading water or g

west virginia sent its first ever woman to the senate. iowa sent its first woman to either house of congress last night. seriously, iowa? in san francisco they voted to raise the local minimum wage to $15 an hour and the sky did not fall. in nebraska, the aforementioned deep, deep red state of nebraska, a republican incumbent congressman there ran an ad that blamed his democratic opponent for the murders committed by this tattooed face guy. it was the willie horton ad but worse. that republican congressman who ran that ad in nebraska, he lost his seat last might in nebraska. republican lee terry lost his seat. he'll be replaced by a nebraska democrat named brad ashford. here is my favorite what does that mean development from last night. if rand paul wants to run for president in 2016, rand paul better be sure he's going to win because apparently he's going to have to give up his seat in the united states senate if he wants to do that. republicans in the last few years have taken over basically all of the state legislative chambers in the

go through. >> it was an emotional meeting at the university of virginia on tuesday. uva's board members confronted allegations the university has a campus rape problem. a problem that the board decided now requires zero tolerance. >> this type of conduct will not be tolerated at the university of virginia. the status quo is no longer acceptable. like all of you gathered here today, i am appalled. simply appalled.at the information that has come forward. >> the allegations of gang rape inside a frat house first appeared in a rolling stone article last week. the writer told al jazeera the victim was discouraged from reporting the attack to police by the university, and even by her friends. >> in jackie's case she was told she would be black bald from all the frats. as the girl who called rape. but what she was told in a sense was you will be a pariah on campus for the next four years. >> the individual who is being accused as well as the complainant, sometimes that's very difficult. >> in september months before the allegations were published a uva questioned dean of s

virginia governor says he's deeply upset about the allegations. he's calling for a review. >> reporter: it's a shocking allegation of rape at the university of virginia. a report in the current rolling stone magazine alleging a culture of rape and sexual assault there, including a story about a first year student said to be considering suicide after she went to party in 2012 and was gang raped. quote from the article, grabbed its leg she heard a voice say and that's when jackie knew she was going to be raped. she remembered every moment of next three hours during seven men took turns raping her. annie is a friend of the accuser. >> she was just doing what a normal girl on date would do and he led her upstairs where she was taken into a room and pretty much ambushed by these men. >> reporter: since the article another student has come forward, similar story, same fraterni fraternity. >> i had to walk on campus with my rapist for the next two and a half years. >> reporter: the issue is not just one fraternity house or even one school. >> i was told

it is the virginia way. majority be replacing leader eric cantor and at end of delegation will lose two of its more senior jimers, frank wolf and moran. with the departure the wane a bitcloud may but will be reinvigorated by new workingcommitted to together for the commonwealth. dave comes to congress after a career as an economics professor. he has been appointed to state severalnd commissionspy virginia governors including the joint advisory board of economists. know he will put these experiences to good use. toelcome dave and his family congress and look forward to working with him on issues the richmond region and the entire commonwealth of virginia. i yield the balance of our time newest colleague the gentleman from virginia, mr. brat. [applause] >> mr. speaker, thank you very much. thank you to my new colleagues of thank you to the people virginia's 7th district who entrusted me with the honor of with their representative and p of them are with us tonight in the gallery. coming.u for we are proud that

it was all about obama, in virginia. the second thing i'd really like to challenge your assertion on independent voters. i really think it's closer to 20%. and there's a lot of reasons we can't go into here, but look at colorado. look at the difference in the governor and senate race in colorado. pick six, ten, twelve races this year. those were swing voters. >> okay. who wants to take one question? henry? >> talking about the low turnout, i dispute this was a low turnout election, that when you take a look at the states where there were actually competitive races as opposed to states like mississippi or alabama where there were no competitive races, turnout was running between 70% and 75% of the 2012 level. the turnout differences between democratic urban areas and republican rural areas were not significant. in states where both parties were committing lots of resources, you saw voters turnout at rates that were pretty high for a midterm election and you saw partisans on both sides turn out. democrats did not lose colo

go through. >> it was an emotional meeting at the university of virginia on tuesday. uva's board members confronted allegations the university has a campus rape problem. a problem that the board decided now requires zero tolerance. >> this type of conduct will not be tolerated at the university of virginia. the status quo is no longer acceptable. like all of you gathered here today, i am appalled. simply appalled. at the information that has come forward. >> the allegations of gang rape inside a frat house first appeared in a rolling stone article last week. the writer told al jazeera the victim was discouraged from reporting the attack to police by the university, and even by her friends. >> in jackie's case she was told she would be black bald from all the frats. as the girl who called rape. but what she was told in a sense was you will be a pariah on campus for the next four years. >> the individual who is being accused as well as the complainant, sometimes that's very difficult. >> in september months before the allegations were published a uva questioned dean of

georgia, north carolina, virginia, west virginia, and new hampshire. if the republicans only win one of those and they're pretty well assured to win west virginia, then they can still take control of the senate but it's going to be a long night. if republicans win three or four of those five, it's going to be a great night for the gop. >> okay. now, i know you know georgia very well and that's one of the races which is held by a republican now who is retiring saxby chambliss, so you have david purdue the republican businessman running against michelle nunn the daughter of sam nunn the former democratic senator there. you know that state well. how do you see that going? because democrats have been pounding david purdue about his comments about outsourcing jobs? >> it's a very close race right now. michelle nunn was ahead a couple of weeks ago but it's part of republican candidates starting to do better. david purdue has started to pull ahead. the critical question is whether either candidate get over the 50% mark. if not, they go into a runoff that does

host: william is in virginia. caller: i would like to ask the guys as they have any opinion on insurance companies. and they doinesses it by actuarial analysis. is there any way, any better way than what we have going on now where you could bend a business with a systemnce like they have in canada or something where everything is supposedly free? some thoughts on that. thank you. the caller is right. part of the insurance business is actuarial analysis. another big part of the insurance business is regulation. the regulations are not new. they are increasing over time. that hurts the value that customers get out of their insurance. of those employees have to be devoted to understanding regulation, leveraging regulation to their advantage, lobbying. i would like to see a lot less regulated insurance industry, at least the part of the insurance industry that would be unregulated and people could deal with. that would save a lot of resources. something like 35% of insurance is overhead. costs thate types of every ins

ohio, north carolina, and west virginia. republicans could pick up senate seats in the last two and are hoping to take control of the senate. they have an early win, the associated press called the kentucky for mitch mcconnell. let's go to stephanie sy at the returns desk for more. >> this will be a sigh of relief for the republican senator mitch mcconnell, the minority leader, the most powerful republican senator has beaten his challenger

he signed the paperwork that will clear the way for virginia authorities to come and get him. they'll pick him up at some point from maryland where he's in custody, take him to virginia where he will face charges there in state court. at some point, the federal authorities will file the kidnapping charges from the virginia case. but because the case in maryland is -- i'm sorry, from the philadelphia case, but because the case in virginia is considered more serious, that will take priority first. and that will be a long court process. he may or may not ever face a courtroom on the philadelphia kidnapping charges, although they could add those to the charges they file against him in virginia. those are the more serious charges. that's where he's now headed. >> all right. thanks for breaking that down for us. nbc's pete williams. and now we turn to the white house where nbc's kristen welker has been reporting on the preparations for the president's meeting with congressional leaders tomorrow. how are you, kristen? >> hey, ari, good to see you, thanks for having me. >> let me base

virginia, the m democrat line. just want to remind the republicans who keep saying how the -- when the democrats had both houses, how they didn't do anything. there re forgetting that has never been a filibuster-proof majority for democrats in the senate. and, consequently, whatever house -- if the out of g important comes the house -- harry reid is that it to the floor because mitch mcconnell just threatens filibuster. big waste of a time. i think you can only look at that republican majority we have had and this filibuster senate as a -- that party, they are not the loyal opposition that we used to have in this country. they are just completely see ructionist and i cannot any other way of looking at the republican party. at least, right now. i wish they would just go back being the conservative and statesmen who want to accomplish something before the country -- >> in the front page of the denver post, there is a photograph that is provided by lindsay pierce. shows connie rolen, 96, election judge -- she's visiti

, obama/romney in virginia. the exact same this polarizatis accelerated, he would run and win in south virginia. you look at the counties last night ed gillespie is performing exactly the same as mitt romney did. this is something for democrats to be thinking about as they go forward. you of the state. democrats have to think about a way to get those voters back who were willing to vote for them not that long ago. >> in terms of the polling, bottom line, people are lying to pollster they say they're going to do what they don't end up doing. >> i don't know if it's lying as much as it's they think again. if you're in the voting booth, you say you know what, i like orman in kansas but i don't want harry reid running the senate. >> right, partisan lizard brain. got it. thank you. steve kornacki, the single best thing about msnbc right now. i teeming you. we'll be right back. ♪ [ woman ] i will embrace change... everything life throws my way. except for frown lines. those i'm throwing back. [ female announcer ] ol

in virginia. from the research i've done, you have to wait five years from when you're -- from when your time ended to start the process of a pardon, but as far as being able to vote, voting for a particular candidate or anything along those lines, there's a lot of things as far as being a voter and having the right to vote that do not necessarily entail voting for a particular candidate. there's voter initiatives, there's different laws to be voted on by, you know, eligible voters that do not necessarily mean you have to vote for somebody that you do not back, necessarily. i do not really agree with know, theking, you lesser of two evils, which happens far too often in this two-candidateth situations. the libertarian party or green party or third or fourth parties do not really get their chance to have a say in a lot of the .ituations i also plan on tuesday coming up to work in d.c. at the voting 71, whiche working on involves legalization of marijuana in d.c. , basically, even though i am a felo

virginia, similar. there were a number of polls and i think that this gets into the more systematic issue. involving polling that we make it to later. -- may get to later. but there is a situation where it shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody and that isn't to mean that he would finish closer in the end when they had a classic income than -- incumbent challenger situation where an incumbent with a whole lot of money would dominate the election in northern virginia which is always crucial wasn't going to be able to start spending money towards the end with the voters that engage at the end would see him and he would consolidate republicans but for me the surprise was how well warner seemed to be doing in the in weeks two, three and one. i was expecting to see it closed down to three or four points . and it was surprising that it didn't. and even more surprising when winds up with the nailbiter that we did. i want to give give an opportunity -- >> those are the biggest surprises and we will come back

of virginia are really horrifying. what i was told is that what happens at uva is probably fairly normal at a college campus. >> reporter: according to rolling stone, the accuser did not report the incident at the time to police but did speak to a university official. >> when she left the fraternity house that night and called some of her friends they actually recommended that she not go to the police. >> reporter: at the university, damage control is in hyperdrive and police are investigating. the fraternity chapter is suspending all activity the and says it will cooperate fully with the investigation. uva's president said that the report includes many details that were not previously disclosed to university officials. the university takes seriously the issue of sexual misconduct. we have adopted several new initiatives and policies. it's a national problem. 88 colleges and universitys are under investigation for how they handle sex assault cases. a dean is dedicated to ending sexual assaults on campus. >> it has neve

virginia, similar. there were a number of polls and i think that this gets into the more systematic issue. involving polling that we may get to later. but there is a situation where it shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody and that isn't to mean that he would finish closer in the end when they had a classic income than -- incumbent challenger situation where an incumbent with a whole lot of money would dominate the election in northern virginia which is always crucial wasn't going to be able to start spending money towards the end with the voters that engage at the end would see him and he would consolidate republicans but for me the surprise was how well warner seemed to be doing in the in weeks two, three and one. i was expecting to see it closed down to three or four points. and it was surprising that it didn't. and even more surprising when winds up with the nailbiter that we did. >> those are the biggest surprises and we will come back to the polling was. it is almost to the point why do we cov

host: stewart, in virginia. independent line. what's your view? caller: good morning, my view is this, this is a prime example of why, here's the problem, the

west virginia changed quickly. alaska, louisiana, arkansas have done it quickly, but were slow to realign. there is a tendency for analysts to try to be ahead of every curve and point at georgia or texas to have realigned. david purdue would be six points ahead if he had run a bad campaign and screwed up on outsourcing. texas could realign, but not in the next six years. population trends are slow. people moving from state to state, it takes a while. those states will come, but not now. >> since we're talking about the future, i wanted to ask you guys about 2016 -- you mentioned earlier the way the senate has been run, leaving a lot of these folks with not much of a chance to distance themselves. harry reid, what are his prospects for 2016? >> that is a good one. >> he is running. we assume he is going to run. >> harry reid? >> for re-election. >> thank you. [laughter] >> i was like, yeah, you know. >> let's assume he does run for reelection, what he has done in the past is cut everyone at the ass. no strong candid

these are illegals. >> old university. >> old dominion in virginia. north carolina recently compared its vorlt rolls against the federal immigration data base. of the 10,000 that they looked at, there were more than 141400 they believe that are likely noncitizen voters. >> so there is two things. there is virginia beach thing and that's important because the senatorial race is so close. >> certain. >> i virginia beach kind of a conservative area big nirnt component some investigate the illegal gal ail yenel. one legislature is calling for investigation. maryland did a similar look. married went to republicans. >> maryland took a similar look at this. with people who were -- people who were tried to get out the vote. >> states have to do it because holder is never going to do it on federal level. >> third letter comes from john bonnie, media outlets including fox news calling races too early. how is that possible? exit polling, right? >> each one that we called was called accurately. we haven't had to reverse. >> made no mistakes. >> we haven't had to

she is going to be west virginia's first female senator. >> and well, west virginia is the first tonight, and west virginia has done it right. i want to be the first to share with you how optimistic i am about the future. this election marks a true turning point in our state's history. it is the first time that you have heard it a couple of times tonight, in nearly 60 years that we have sent a republican to the united states senate. >> as we said a lot of congressional firsts, and dana bash with the e details a. big night for women no doubt in congress. >> and yes, a big night for women in that they have gone on the other side of the 100 mark, and still some outside races, and outstanding races, i should say, but at least 101 women across congress in the house and the senate. the senate, it is possible though that there might go down, because there are 20 e female senator, and mary landrieu in louisiana f she loses in a runoff, it will go down to 19, but some perspective. about 100 women in congress, women make up more than 50% of the population, so to get to equity, it would be 267.5 wo

police say he fled virginia last week but it is this virginia kidnapping that helped find carlisha alive. the sheriff's office studied surveillance of the kidnapping. they saw atm and convenience store photos, that is when captain jayson crowley maded an important call. >> one of his officers noticed a decal on the car from a local car agency. >> they put gps on the vehicle to make sure that if the person defaults on payment, they can locate the vehicle and repossess the vehicle and that was very vital. >> reporter: that gps locator broke the case when authorities called atf and told them where the car was in maryland. but they didn't know if carlisha freeland gaither was dead or alive. but then the news. >> carlisha freeland has been rescued. >> i was ecstatic that she was found alive. >> reporter: and criminal charges have not been filed against delvin barnes, the abduction of carlisha gaither. at the same time he's waiving his extradition to come back here to virginia where he lived to face attempted capital murder charges. and it is this local case that you just saw that may have bro

here's swroe johns. >> it's a shocking allegation of rape at the university of virginia. there's a story about a first year student said to be considering suicide after she went to a party in 2012 at the phi kappa si fraternity. gran its leg, and that's when jackie knew she was going to be raped. she remembers every moment of the next three hours of agony during which she says seven men took turns raping her. ann where i forest is a friend of the accuser. >> she was just doing what a normal girl on a date would do, and then he led her upstairs, and where she was taken into a room and pretty much ambushed by these men. >> since the article, mother student has come forward. similar story. same fraternity. >> i had to walk on campus with my rapists for the next two and a half years. >> and the issue is not just one fraternity house or even one school. >> i was told that university of virginia is actually quite typical. even though the things that i discovered at university of virginia are really horrifying, what i was told is that really what happens at uva is probably fairl

. >> in a stunning move the university of virginia is suspending all fraternities and parties associated with them until january 9 after rolling stone published an article about a student who said she was sexual assaulted at a frat party. now her story has brought a federal investigation of the prestigious school uva and exposing an alleged cultural issue at college campuses around the nation. >> it's a shocking allegation of rape at the university of virginia. a report in the current rolling stone magazine alleging a culture of rape and sexual assault including a story about a first year student said to be considering suicide after attending a party and was allegedly gang raped. a quote from the article. grab its leg. that's when jackie knew she was going to be raped. she remembers every moment of the next three hours of agony during which seven men took turns raping her. >> she was doing what a normal girl on a date would do and then he led her upstairs where she was taken into a room and pretty much ambushed by these men. >> another student has come forward, similar story, same from t

conventional wisdom, west virginia -- oops, hang on. west virginia, you got that, that will turn red there is one pickup. then of course we have south dakota. we have montana. those interest easy picks. now oui got 52-48. this is where it gets a little more difficult. my prediction is joni ernst will win in the state of iowa, and we'll find that out tomorrow night. cory gardner will win in the state of colorado. i predict that dan sullivan will win in the state of alaska. there we go. these two, arkansas, i believe you have a pickup there with tom cotton. mary landrieu will be out eventually. that will happen in december. now we're at 53-47. this state of kansas, i'm going to stick with it staying red, but it is going to be a very, very close race. i believe georgia will stay red. the two states that i cannot make a prediction on that i say are too close to call interest states of north carolina and new hampshire. basically, you can pick 'em. at a minimum, i predict 53-47. now we want the hear from you. "the wall street journal" has a v

he's headed to virginia because he's wanted for a separate kidnapping there. it's just as disturbing. a 16-year-old girl from virginia taken the first of october found naked, severely burned but she escaped from barnes according to police there. as for the case in philadelphia, police had this to say about his motives. >> don't know other than the fact that he's a thug and this is what he does apparently. the people like this don't necessarily -- there's nothing that makes sense. don't even try to find it. he's a vicious predator. he's off the streets and hopefully he'll be in jail for the rest of his life. >> let's go live to philadelphia. i know virginia law enforcement just released new details about that 16 year old who was taken. what have you since learned? >> reporter: these are hideous details. they are investigators in virginia who are telling us more about the abduction of this 16-year-old girl. she was hit on the head with a shovel, stuffed into the trunk of a car, brought home to the suspect's house where she was allegedly sexually abused, covered

even though the things that i discovered at university of virginia are really horrifying. what i was told is that really what happens at uva is probably fairly normal at a college campus. >> reporter: according to "rolling stone" the accuser did not report the incident at the time to police but did speak to a university official. >> when she left the fraternity house that night and called some of her friends, they actually recommended that she not go to the police. >> reporter: at the university, damage control is in hyperdrive, and piece are investigating. the fraternity chapter is suspending all activities and said it will cooperate fully with the investigation. uva's president said in a statement that the report includes quote many details that were not previously disclosed to university officials. the university takes seriously the issue of sexual misconduct. we have recently adopted several new initiatives and policies aimed at fostering a culture of reporting and raising awareness. it's a national problem. 88 colleges and universities are under investigation for how

down on the campus of yesterday of virginia. this is one of the universities in this country. the graphic article detailing the gang rape of a first year student in 2012 by seven men while her date and another man watched on, encouraging them. it outraged so many people and nationwide. the statistics are staggering. in five young women is said to be assaulted in their time in college. the university is trying to crack down and they suspended all fraternities and sororities through january 9th, but many say it's insufficient saying most people will be away from samp campus. the house said the acts depict said are beyond unacceptable. they are vile and intolerable. the board of visitors as it is described will be holding a meeting. it will be open. students and media will be invited. part of the meeting will take place behind closed doors. they will address the underlying issue and it's the insufficient assault cases on campus. there is a title nine investigation into 88 universities. among them, the university of virginia for the

it is hard to tell what happened in virginia. why the public polling was there. >> a follow-up question, do you think that mr. gillespie should ask for a recount? >> it's up to him. i don't know where the numbers would be right now. are prepared for whatever we can do to help him and he knows that. >> [indiscernible] against hillary clinton in 2016. [indiscernible] how do you keep the republican party perfect? when you will have a divisive with ideologically diverse factions. how do you plan to keep it civil? and do you plan to tip the scales a little bit? they sort of when the field to make it a more perfect concept. >> people that invest in the rnc are buying what we are doing and what we are selling. we have been able to out raise .he dnc what we are doing on the ground matters. people that have been funding the rnc will double down on our program because they know that thesting in mechanics is way that we are going to be able to win in 2016. controlcan't always everybody, we can influence how long we fight each other. we are

candidates in virginia's seventh district. then a discussion about international health and security issues including the ebola virus and chemical warfare. >> this is the only joint appearance between senator lindsey graham and brad huto. they list the race as solid republican. this is just under an hour. >> scott, thank you for hosting us. and also thank you -- yeah. [applause] thank you. and also thank you for the, you know, the words of wisdom of whist erring in the back that might not be appropriate because that will happen. so i'm going to introduce these two gentlemen that really don't need an introduction that have done -- that have been exceptional public servants but prior to that i want to read something that teddy roosevelt said. and it happens during election season so much. and certainly is acute as some of the attack ads have been maybe in south carolina, maybe nationally, maybe in other states but it's important to remember this. and i'm going to quote this. it's a little bit long. but i'd like you to remember t

host: william is in virginia. caller: i would like to ask the guys as they have any opinion on insurance companies. and they doinesses it by actuarial analysis. is there any way, any better way than what we have going on now where you could bend a business with a systemnce like they have in canada or something where everything is supposedly free? some thoughts on that. thank you. the caller is right. part of the insurance business is actuarial analysis. another big part of the insurance business is regulation. the regulations are not new. they are increasing over time. that hurts the value that customers get out of their insurance. of those employees have to be devoted to understanding regulation, leveraging regulation to their advantage, lobbying. i would like to see a lot less regulated insurance industry, at least the part of the insurance industry that would be unregulated and people could deal with. that would save a lot of resources. something like 35% of insurance is overhead. costs thate types of every ins

campaign is virginia. to not have invested in that, if somebody is no doubt kicking themselves this morning. >> you know what, robert, i think last night, you always have to be really careful with taking anything that happens in off year elections and projecting them on to an election. in. have a, though, it is a were whating sign for democrats. if 2008 the media jumped up and down. oh, virginia has changed to a purple to a blue state. the next year, they win by 21 points. they fell for the same crap in 2012 because barak obama, you guys, what you guys did to get out the votes, mainly african-american voters, targeting them, that was not transferable to mark warner. >> that is not transferrable to hillary clinton. if democrats think it is, they're making the same mistake we republicans made thinking that ronald reagan's success in '80 and '84 will be transferrable to us years later. >> the only thing interesting to us, obviously, you don't think of it as much, vamt for 25 years was the most republican sout

in virginia state officials say the race for senate is too close to call. fewer than 17,000 votes separate mark warner and ed gillespie. gillespie wants a recount. in alaska republican dan sullivan leads democrat mark begich in their senate race. it could take several days to finish counting all of those ballots. the economy was the number one issue or the those voters and they are waiting to see what the senate and new majority leader plan to do about it. a hint at the conflict ahead. >> our businesses aren't creating the our economy is outpacing most of the world. but we just got to keep at it. >> bureaucratic strangulation of our economy is a real, is a ohuge factor in the slow growth that we have experienced after the derecession of 2008. >> so let's go to our reporters in the field for a lk he at the economic battles ahead for next year. >> reporter: i'm randall pinkston. louisiana, drilling offshore an in the gulf of mexico. the state's refining capacity is second only to texas. it means jobs and money. energy bills that have been bottled up in the se

obama, in about virginia. likeecond thing i'd really to challenge your assertion on independent voters. i really think it's closer to 20%. and there's a lot of reasons we can't go into here, but look at colorado. look at the difference in the governor and senate race in colorado. pick six, ten, twelve races this year. those were swing voters. >> okay. wants to take one question? henry? >> talking about the low arnout, i dispute this was low turnout election, that when you take a look at the states were actually competitive races as opposed to states like mississippi or were nowhere there competitive races, turnout was running between 70% and 75% of 2012 level. the turnout differences between democratic urban areas and republican rural areas were not significant. both partiesre were committing lots of resources, you saw voters that were rates pretty high for a midterm election and you saw partisans turn out.des democrats did not lose colorado because democrats didn't show up. the turnout national figures obscur

republicans also got control of the state house in west virginia on tuesday night for the first time in 83 years. by this decision, he made west virginia the 30th state in the country where republicans now control both houses of the legislature. complete republican legislative control in 30 states. and we've only got 50 states. elections, consequences. democrats, do you guys have a catch-up plan for the states here or what? because the trend here is obliterating. >>> a doctor mat iblg attack by a hospital patient that injured several nurses in minnesota. the whole thing was captured on a hospital security camera.

you are in the process of filing a major lawsuit in west virginia to deal with a chemical spill that our viewers will want to hear an update on. first i would love to get your reaction to this big climate deal. is this significant? is this enough? what does it reveal? >> well, from my perspective, obviously, there are two huge issues, air and water. china clearly has a problem and it is alarming to look at, you know, we are the second largest, you know, polluter. i think there's always room to move forward. i think that we've made some great strides. i don't think it's a little too late. and i think it's encouraging for -- especially in china. the air pollution is so significant. >> you do see this kind of hugely expansive capitalism that's often not accompanied by regulation or oversight. are you concerned about the practices of chinese businesses in terms of environmental condition t-- contamination? >> we need to move forward. one thing that does concern me is we do have a lot of regulations in play and we're adding more regulations and it doesn't always get things done. and i wou