>> 2 NEWS, OKLAHOMA STARTS RIGHT NOW. >> WE BEGIN THIS ELECTION NIGHT WAS WHAT'S BECOME EDGE OF YOUR SEAT RACE FOR TULSA. MAYOR, GLAD TO HAVE YOU WITH ME. I'M KAREN LARSEN. LET'S GET RIGHT TO THOSE RESULTS WITH EVERY UPDATE. NEWCOMER BRET VAN NORMAN KEPT DRAWING CLOSER TO KAREN KEITH AND MORROW NICHOLS WHEN THE LAST VOTE WAS IN. WE WANT TO SHOW YOU THE RESULTS RIGHT NOW. PUT HIM ON THE SCREEN FOR YOU RIGHT NOW. I CAN TELL YOU THEY WERE BASICALLY HUNDREDS OF A PERCENT IF A DIFFERENCE. JUST A FEW 100 VOTES BETWEEN KAREN KEITH MONROE NICHOLS AND BRENDA VAN NORMAN. YOU CAN SEE IT THERE. 18,729 TO CARRY KEYS 18,457. THAT MAKES IT A TRUE NAIL-BITER. THAT MEANS THAT NICHOLS AND KEITH WILL BE MOVING ON TO A RUNOFF THAT IT HAS BEEN AND NAIL BITER, ESPECIALLY THIS PAST. OUR 2 NEWS ANCHOR NAOMI KEITT IS A CARING HE'S WATCH PARTY FOR US AND NAOMI AND KEEP CAME INTO THE RACE WITH TOP NAME RECOGNITION. WHAT ARE THEY SAYING AFTER TONIGHT? THE MESSAGE AFTER TONIGHT IS IT'S TIME TO SET THEIR EYES ON NOVEMBER AS THEY LOOK AT THE RUNOFF BETWEEN THE KAREN KEITH. >> AND MONROE NICHOLS, I'M IN THE SOUTH EVENT CENTER. YOU CAN SEE IT STARTED TO CLEAR OUT. BUT AT ITS HEIGHT, THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE, HUNDREDS OF SUPPORTERS HERE AND ALL EYES WERE GLUED TO THESE RESULTS ALL NIGHT LONG HERE. AND AS YOU JUST MENTIONED, THOSE RESULTS VERY, VERY CLOSE BETWEEN THESE 3 CANDIDATES. I ASKED KERRY TO KEEP ABOUT THAT WITH TOP. THE RECOGNITION COMING INTO THIS RACE, KNOWING THAT THOSE RACES THAT THE RACES TONIGHT 60'S, WE WERE SO CLOSE NECK-AND-NECK. I ASKED HER ABOUT WHAT SHE WAS EXPECTING COMING INTO TODAY. SHE SAID SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT. IT IS A PRIMARY RACE AND NOW ALL OF THEIR FOCUSING THEIR ATTENTION WILL BE ON NOVEMBER. I WANT YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE VIDEO. MY PHOTOGRAPHER AND I WERE ABLE TO GET AS KAREN WAS MEETING WITH HER SUPPORTERS HERE AT THE STOKELY EVENT CENTER TODAY. SHE JUST TALKED WITH HER SUPPORTERS WITHIN THE LAST 20 MINUTES, REITERATING FOR ENDORSEMENTS FROM THE FOP AND FROM FIREFIGHTERS. SHE SAID IT IS NOT A PARTISAN EFFORT TO GET THE JOB OF MAYOR BUT IT'S THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE TO COME TOGETHER. THAT REALLY IS GOING TO SET HER APART WITHIN JUST THE LAST 10 MINUTES. GOT A CHANCE TO TALK WITH HER ABOUT WHAT HER FOCUS IS HEADING INTO NOVEMBER AND WHAT WHATEVER, APART FROM THE OTHER CANDIDATES WANT YOU TO TAKE A LISTEN. I THINK THAT I'VE SHOWN THIS COMMUNITY THAT I KNOW HOW TO GET THINGS DONE. AND I THINK WHEN YOU LOOK AT OTHER CANDIDATE AND YOU TRULY LOOK TO SEE WHAT HAVE THEY ACTUALLY DONE, I THINK THERE'S A DEEP DIVIDE. >> I ALSO SPENT THE NIGHT LISTENING TO SUPPORTERS AT THE WATCH PARTY HERE. THE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE I WANTED TO KNOW WHY THEY WANTED KERRY TO LEAD THE CITY. ONE WOMAN TOLD ME HER TRACK RECORD SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. >> SHE HAS PROVEN TO BE A LEADER FOR ALL PEOPLE. AND THAT'S WHY HERE. AND AS THE STOKELY EVENT CENTER CLEARS OUT THIS EVENING WITH JUST A FEW SUPPORTERS STANDING BY. >> THEY TELL ME ALL EYES AGAIN ARE ON NOVEMBER AS THEY WORK RENEW THEIR CAMPAIGN HEADING INTO THAT RUNOFF WITH MONROE NICHOLS REPORTING LIVE IN TULSA. I'M NAOMI KEITT. 2 NEWS, OKLAHOMA. >> ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, NAOMI. NOW A STATE REPRESENTATIVE IN ROAD ECCLES AND HIS TEAM WILL ALSO BE PLANNING STRATEGY FOR THAT RUNOFF. >> LET'S HEAD NOW NEWS CHRIS, SHE IS AND HEARING. >> WELL, KAREN, YOU SAID IT MANY TIMES. WHAT A NIGHT. WHAT AN EXCITING NIGHT FOR ALL OF THE CANDIDATES HERE THERE WAS SO MUCH EXCITEMENT. IT WAS DIFFICULT TO HEAR. AT SOME POINT. PEOPLE ARE REFRESHING, THEIR PHONE SO OFTEN ASKING OTHER PEOPLE TO REFRESH THEIR PHONES. IN CASE THEY HAVE UPDATE QUICKER THAN THE OTHER. AND IT TOOK A LONG TIME FOR REPRESENTATIVE NICHOLS TO SHOW UP. YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND TAKE THE VIDEO OF WHEN HE SHOWED UP, WHICH IS ABOUT 8.45, HE WAS OFFSIDE WATCHING THOSE INCREASING NUMBERS COME IN. AND AS YOU SAID, IT WAS SO CLOSE. HE STARTED IMMEDIATELY WHEN HE WALKED IN BY READING HIS SON GAVIN AND THEN THANKED HIS SUPPORTERS, VERY ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORTERS. I MIGHT ADD AND TOLD THEM, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUGHT KARIN CAIFA WAS A SHOE HE WAS OUT FUNDRAISE MULTIPLE TIMES. BUT HE THANKED HIS SUPPORTERS NOT STOPPING AND KEEPING PLUGGING AWAY. >> I HOPE PROUD AS I AM. AND I HOPE THAT YOU'RE READY TO GET UP TOMORROW. WE'RE READY TO FIGHT. YEAH. BECAUSE NOVEMBER BE HERE BEFORE YOU KNOW IT. AND WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT NOVEMBER? WE WENT NOVEMBER IS ALL ABOUT MAKING HISTORY. >> IT WAS A LOT OF SCHOOL REPRESENTATION HERE TONIGHT, ADMINISTRATORS BOARD MEMBERS, FORMER MAYOR KATHY TAYLOR WHO ENDORSED HIM AND SHE IS NOW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA. BUT MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE SUPPORTIVE OF HIM THAT WERE HERE AS WELL. AND WE SPOKE TO OLIVIA MARTIN WHO SAYS THAT SHE VOTED FOR HIM BECAUSE OF HIS DEDICATION TO EDUCATION PARTNERING AND WORKING OUR FAMILY. OR >> IT'S FINALLY STARTING TO QUIET DOWN. NOW HERE AT FULTON STREET LOOKS THAT'S A GOOD THING IF YOUR REPRESENTATIVE NICHOLS BECAUSE HE WAS URGING EVERYONE. >> TO HIT THE GROUND RUNNING WITH THOSE DOOR KNOCKS AND A SUPPORT FOR HIM STARTING IN THE MORNING. BACK TO YOU HERE. >> ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, AARON. NOW REPUBLICANS THROUGH A LOT OF SUPPORT AT BRAN VAN ORMAN, A BUSINESSMAN AND LAWYER WHO MOVED HERE IN 2021. HE CLEARLY IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS REPUBLICAN IN THE NON-PARTISAN RACE. NOW 2 NEWS OKLAHOMA'S BRADY MYERS IS AT HIS WATCH PARTY AND BRODY. HE MISSED THE RUNOFF BY LESS THAN 450 VOTES. >> THERE WAS A LOT OF EXCITEMENT IN THE ROOM TONIGHT THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT AS THEY KEPT ON SAYING THOSE NUMBERS CAME AND KEPT ON DRAWING CLOSER AND CLOSER AND CLOSER JUST COULD NOT GET. IT TOLD ONE SUPPORTER CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR BREGMAN NORMAN'S CAMPAIGN LASTED JUST 90 DAYS, BUT IT CAUGHT SOME STEAM QUICKLY. SIGNS STARTED POPPING UP ALL ACROSS TULSA IN SUPPORT OF HIM. JUST ABOUT 100 VOTERS PACKED INTO THIS MIDTOWN HOUSE TONIGHT. BUT I'M STANDING RIGHT OUTSIDE AND THE SENTIMENT FROM VAN NORMAN IS AN OUTSIDER WITH A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE DURING TONIGHT'S WATCH PARTY. I LISTENED TO PAMELA HIGH 6 THOUGHTS. >> HE HAS A REAL HEART FOR OUR CITY. SO WAS VERY INTERESTED IN SOMEONE WHO COULD ACTUALLY TAKE THE REINS AND DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR OUR CITY. THEY LATER TOLD ME. >> CONSIDERING HE'S CONSIDERING RECOUNT. THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE RESULTS OVERNIGHT AND SEE WHAT THEY CAN DO FROM BUT AFTER THAT, IT FEELS LIKE THEY DO WITH WHAT THE RESULTS OF COME IN AND IT WILL MOVE ON TO RECAP OF MONROE NICHOLS AND KAREN, KATE. HE SAID HE WANTS TO THANK ALL OF HIS SUPPORTERS. >> WANTED IT'S INCREDIBLE HOW CLOSE IT WAS WITH A 7.90, DAYS WE SPENT ABOUT A QUARTER OF WHAT THE OTHER SIDE DID. >> ALL OF HIS SUPPORTERS. AGAIN, RIGHT THERE IN JUST A 90 DAY CAMPAIGN. AS FOR WHAT'S NEXT, HE SAYS HE'S GONNA FOCUS ON GETTING OTHER REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES AROUND GREEN COUNTRY. ELECTED IS GOING TO TAKE A COUPLE DAYS OFF OVER THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND AND MOVE FORWARD FROM THERE. HE SAYS HE DOES NOT KNOW WHO IS GOING TO SUPPORT AND THE RUN-OFF BETWEEN NICHOLS AND KEITH REPORTING IN MIDTOWN, TULSA ON BRADY MYERS, 2 NEWS, OKLAHOMA. >> NOW, ALL 9 OF THE TULSA CITY COUNCIL POSITIONS WERE ON THE BALLOT. 3 LONGTIME COUNSELORS CHOSE NOT TO RUN AGAIN. AND HERE'S WHAT VOTERS DECIDED TONIGHT IN DISTRICT ONE LONGTIME COUNSELOR VANESSA HULL, HARPER EASILY HELD OFF A CHALLENGE FROM DR ANGELA CHAMBERS. SHE EARNED BETTER THAN 66% OF THE VOTE. NOW IN DISTRICT 2. THERE YOU GO. THAT'S DISTRICT ONE THAT WE WANTED TO START TO. JEANNE. QUE DECIDED NOT TO RUN AGAIN, SETTING UP A BIG FIELD OF CANDIDATES THERE. AND TONIGHT THAT RACE IS HEADING TO A RUNOFF. ANTHONY ARCHING TO THE MOST VOTES WITH 41%. STEPHANIE RESTORE WAS NEXT WITH 19.6. AS YOU CAN SEE, THE REMAINING CANDIDATES, RITTER NO. AND REFEREE KC DRIVE DOUBLE-DIGIT SUPPORT BUT NOT ENOUGH TO LAND THEM IN THE RUNOFF. >> AND IN DISTRICT 3, THE CITY COUNCIL JACKIE DOESN'T IN-SEASON FREDRIC BRANDT AFFIL KRISTA PATRICK'S POST WHEN SHE DECIDED NOT TO RUN AGAIN GOTTEN CAME OUT. THE VICTOR WITH 54% INCUMBENT LAURA BELLA'S EASILY FENDING OFF A CHALLENGER IN ERIN GRIFFITH. HERE ARE THE NUMBERS IN DISTRICT 4 IN THE FINAL TALLY BELL BRINGING IN 3 TIMES THE NUMBER OF VOTES AND DISTRICT 5 IS ANOTHER OPEN SEAT. THAT'S GOING TO BRING BACK A FORMER CITY COUNCILOR KAREN GILBERT LANDED 64% OF THE SUPPORT OVER ALICIA ANDREWS COUNCILOR BRENT MILLER DID NOT RUN FOR RE-ELECTION. MEANTIME, IN DISTRICT 6 URIAH DAVIS WENT UP AGAINST INCUMBENT CHRIS BENGEL FOR THIS COUNCIL SEAT. BUT IN THE END BANGLE HELD ON TO HIS POSITION WITH 70% OF THE VOTERS SAYING YES TO ANOTHER TERM FOR THE INCUMBENT AND DISTRICT 7 INCUMBENT LORI DECKED ARE RIGHT. SHE FAILED TO LAND A MAJORITY VOTE SHE NEEDED FOR ANOTHER TERM. SHE'S GOING TO HEAD INTO A RUNOFF WITH EDDIE HALF WHO LANDED ALMOST 44% OF VOTE. MEANTIME, IN DISTRICT 8 LONGTIME COUNSELOR FILET CAN EASILY FENDED OFF BRISCOE RETURN TO OFFICE FOR ANOTHER TWO-YEAR TERM WITH 69%. SUPPORT CONE, HOWEVER, DID MANAGE NEARLY 31%. AND THERE'S ALSO GOING TO BE A RUNOFF IN THE DISTRICT. 9 CITY COUNCIL RACE. FORMER STATE REPRESENTATIVE CAROL BUSH, A LEADING THE PACK FALL INCUMBENT JAMIE FOWLER, WHO BRIEFLY CONSIDERED A RUN FOR MAYOR, STRUGGLED IN HIS BID TO RETURN TO THE COUNCIL. CITY COUNCILORS WILL BE GETTING MORE MONEY TO DO THE JOB. VOTERS WERE ALL FOR GIVING PAY RAISES TO THEM. THEIR SALARIES WILL GO FROM 24,000 TO 32,000 A YEAR WHEN THEY'RE SWORN INTO OFFICE DECEMBER 2ND. >> EVERYONE, I'M METEOROLOGIST BRANDON WOOLEY. A CLEAR IN QUIET NIGHT TO WE'RE LOOKING AT CLEAR CONDITIONS, AS YOU CAN SEE RIGHT NOW ON OUR WADE'S RV WEATHER CAMERA NETWORK. THOSE SOME INCREASING CLOUDS ON THE WAY ONCE AGAIN FOR TOMORROW ON YOUR WEDNESDAY. TEMPERATURES RIGHT NOW INTO THE 70'S AND 80'S, INCLUDING 85 DEGREES IN TULSA. SO CLEAR SKIES DOWN TO 81 AT ONE DOWN INTO THE UPPER 70'S AT 2 WITH LIGHT WINDS ALL LESS THAN 10 HOT THROUGH THURSDAY. COLD FRONT STILL SCHEDULED TO COME IN BY FRIDAY. WE'LL TALK ABOUT THOSE CHANGES ON YOUR 10 DAY IN A FEW MINUTES. >> BACK TO THE ELECTION RESULTS NOW. OKLAHOMA VOTERS DECIDED THE FATE OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SCHOOL BONDS TONIGHT, TOO. IN GROVE SCHOOL LEADERS LOBBIED HARD FOR NEARLY 10 MILLION DOLLAR BOND TO BUILD A QUIP REPAIR REMODEL SCHOOL BUILDINGS THAT WAS ON THE BALLOT. NEARLY 67% OF VOTERS APPROVED IT. GORE VOTERS AGREED TO THE LARGEST INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION IN TOWN HISTORY. NEARLY 12 MILLION DOLLAR BOND PASSING 2 TO ONE. ONE. MOM SAYS SHE'S EXCITED TO GET A NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND SHE SAYS IT'S ABOUT TIME. >> CAFETERIA. IT'S JUST A ONE BAND-AID AFTER THE OTHER. THE ROOF COMPLETELY NEED TO REPLACE HVAC GONE. THE BATHROOMS ARE NOT A PLACE YOU WANT TO SEND YOUR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS TO GO BATHROOM. >> THE DISTRICT HOPES TO HAVE THE NEW ELEMENTARY READY FOR STUDENTS BY THE FALL OF 2027 COLLINSVILLE. PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAD HIGH HOPES THAT VOTERS WOULD SAY YES TO 2 PROPOSITIONS. PROP ONE, A 93 MILLION DOLLAR BOND TO BUILD REPAIR AND REMODEL SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND EQUIP THEM. VAST MAJORITY OF COLLINSVILLE VOTERS. 75% SAID YES. >> A PORTABLE CLASSROOMS. WE BROUGHT THOSE LAST SCHOOL YEAR WILL BRING IN SEVERAL MORE THIS SCHOOL YEAR JUST TO DEAL WITH THE GROWTH AND TRY TO KEEP OUR CLASS SIZES MANAGEABLE FOR OUR STAFF. AND SO WE'RE AT THE POINT THAT WE CAN'T CONTINUE TO PORTABLE CLASSROOMS. >> VOTERS ALSO AGREED TO A 2 MILLION DOLLAR BOND FOR BUSES AND TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT. ONLY 23% SAID NO PROPOSITION TWO'S OF 2 MILLION DOLLAR BOND FOR SCHOOL. BUSES AND TRANSPORTATION NEEDS DON'T GO ANYWHERE. OUR ELECTION COVERAGE CONTINUES AFTER THE BREAK. WITH ONE GREEN COUNTRY, SHERIFF BREATHING A SIGH OF RELIEF TONIGHT. WINNING BY LESS THAN 3 DOZEN VOTES. >> AND WHEN WE COULD SEE HIGH TEMPERATURES INTO THE 70'S ON YOUR EXTENDED FORECAST. UP NEXT. >> YOUR FIRST FORECAST SPONSORED BY BURGER AF >> 2 NEWS, OKLAHOMA, BRING YOU EVEN MORE ELECTION RESULTS NOW IN OKLAHOMA HOUSE DISTRICT 98, WHICH COVERS BROKEN ARROW AND TULSA AND WAGONER COUNTIES. ANOTHER VERY CLOSE RACE. INCUMBENT DEAN DAVIS LOSING HIS SEAT TO GABE ALI BY JUST 28 VOTES. DAVIS MADE HEADLINES. YOU REMEMBER LAST YEAR WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED IN OKLAHOMA CITY FOR PUBLIC INTOXICATION. KRISTEN GILLESPIE WILL SOON BE A VOICE FOR BROKEN ARROW IN THE STATE SENATE. THIS WAS NATHAN DOM'S FORMER SEAT TERM LIMITS PREVENTING HIM FROM RUNNING AGAIN. THE UNOFFICIAL RESULTS SHOWING SHELLEY WARD ME WITH 44%. AND NOW THERE WAS AN UPSET IN THE STATE SENATE DISTRICT 3 COVERING WAGONER CHEROKEE IN MAY'S COUNTIES. DOCTOR JULIE MACINTOSH, EASILY DEFEATING LONGTIME SENATOR BLAKE COWBOY STEVENS WINNING 61% SUPPORT. NOW THE WAGONER COUNTY SHERIFF'S RACE IS PROOF THAT EVERY VOTE COUNTS ONLY 35 VOTES SEPARATING LONGTIME WAGONER COUNTY SHERIFF CHRIS ELLIOTT FROM THE FORMER DEPUTY, ONE OF THE TOP JOB,