coming to you live, san francisco city hall, the indians have all arrived. how about a big round of applause for our native american dancers in the house? rocking san francisco. singing loud, dance hard, all right. all right, one more time, let's give it up for our singers, our dancers, kicking it live here in san francisco city hall, all right. good to be here tonight. seeing all these shining indian faces once again. could i have all the native americans please remain standing? all native americans, stand up. how about a big round of applause for our native americans here for native american heritage month in november. all you non-indians, just look around. this is what custer saw at the little bighorn, and you know what he said to his men? where did all these indians come from? once again, welcome to the sixth annual nida american heritage month celebration here at city hall. -- annual native american heritage month cicelebration. i would like to thank our host for this month, native american aids project, the mayor's office, the san francisco native amer

hall and our city hall, and the arab community is the dynamic community that has been here for generations and has contributed significantly to the vitality of this city. like michael said, giving the award to the arab film festival -- it is the premier arab film festival in the nation. for over 15 years, they have been portraying films that do not only represent our rich heritage but kind of dispel myths and stereotypes of the arab people, who they are, and giving these films an audience that would not usually see them. even though it is through the art and fun, it is a powerful and strong message, and i urge you all to support the arab film festival because they do so much work for our community, and we do not really realize that. we have a fun program for you guys tonight. first of all, like i said, asserting our narrative as arab- americans is very important. through our historic legacy, we have had poetry being a crucial and historic part of our culture. old tradition is a very important part of arab culture, so we will be starting with two pieces from two arab-american women that are

we have preparations at city hall under way. there as they're putting the final touches on the festivities the dome is all lit up in orange. it will be great. we have election coverage, abc nitpicker cross across the bottom of all of your latest election coverage will come across this screen if you want to the no latest zero you're talking about the giants just put there. we will be right back. and we're back, midterm elections were yesterday and we have some changes, that will affect politics across the country the democrats lost a good bit of the seats in the house of representatives giving up a majority of control. the gop has the has come of the senate is still under control but not by much. that was the most dramatic christine in 70 years. breaking down the numbers coming out. oakland has chosen a new mayor but the final results may not be out for a least a couple of days. rain now don kerr of t do peratea has 35%. but the mayor is will not be officially signed into the friday afternoon at the earliest that's because batts

that's oakland city hall. oakland police chief anthony bass says there will be a significant number of uniformed and plain-clothed police officers to watch for any acts of vandalism or any acts of violence tonight and we will certainly keep you posted as the evening goes on. >> of course, we've got our crews covering this story and we'll have more at 6:00 tonight. right now, "nbc nightly news" is coming up next. >> thanks for being with us. lt ["knock on wood" playing] lt

people gathered around city hall plaza to support oscar grant. the crowd is on the move and in the streets. >> we're not seeing -- well, the shot is very narrow but we're not seeing any police vehicles in the general vicinity. there is no violence, they are just on the move. we are keeping an eye on them. we don't know if they have come from the rally or if they just started to congregate here in this location. >> but obviously they have traffic within that intersection stopped. a couple of buses at the very top of the screen there. we can get an idea how big that crowd is if the chopper moves out. they are moving across the intersection to the other side of the street. >> it just may that be they are going to another location to have a rally. we are going to keep an eye on it and, uhm, as you can see, there's really nothing going on other than people on the move. but we'll be watching it. >>> and it is -- we'll be right back. yeah. you got time for that? you got time to earn more on your savings, online at capitalone.com. that's new school banki

you're looking at the rally at sat at city hall. these are all supporters, people that are upset about the sentencing and he is getting a two-year prison sentencing. stay with us. and you are looking at live pictures from downtown oakland out side, and oakland city hall where the rally continues to honor oscar grant's and to protest today's sentencing for johannes the former bart police officer who is convicted in his death, he was sentenced to two years in prison and you concede the overhead shot or between 250 to 300 people have gathered so far and luckily they showed the people, it is not as large as crowds have been in the past and it may go on beyond that, the sentencing is the latest act in a tragedy that started in the early hours of your state in 2009. >> he was arrested january 14, 2009 after cellphone video was released of him shooting and killing oscar grant's on the bart train out platform. there is and days and nights of increasingly violent demonstrations. he pleaded not guilty to murder and was set three on $3 million

she joins us from outside oakland city hall. it's still not clear who will occupy the mayor seat. >> reporter: good morning. that county outlet has been extreme busy. we're live in front of city hall this morning. who will be the next mayor of oakland. we may soon find out. city council woman gene quan leads don perata 51% to 59%. alameda county expects latest numbers to be released by 4:00. oakland voters rack their top three choices at the ballot box. that has created an interesting shift in votes. perata's lead was by 10% until oakland city council member votes were distributed. quan stepped ahead by a little bit more than a point. election workers have been sorting and counting furiously. the ranked voting is supposed to eliminate the runoff process which could be costly. what do oakland voters think? >> i like the ranked voting. it gave me a lot more options. it wasn't a mat over simply trying to pick one person that was absolutely perfect. >> i think it should be one or two not split them up and give a little more here and

then it goes to city hall. that is where the mayor will have a grand affair present station of the key to the city. we have seen them getting the platform set up. we have seen their kids going up. another notable participants willie mays will take part as will willie. john miller will be in the great so will the mayor at the very end. some of the best spots. market and montgomery street. montgomery and a killer because they have the tall buildings they will have the confetti cannons it will rain come faddy. that is probably where will be the slowest it will move slowly towards market. a good long view of each player as a good buy. anywhere along market is going to be a good view for you. the ceremony and presentations will be happening at city hall. 100,000 people expected to come out. >> maybe even more. estimates are very wild right now. there will be a lot of police. >> it will be and alcohol free event. zero tolerance in the parade we don't want children subject to public drunkenness. we have a job to do. i