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Patrick Unseats Healey for Mass. Governorship

Melissa Block talks with the new governor-elect of Massachusetts, Democrat Deval Patrick, who defeated Republican interim Gov. Kerry Healey.

Patrick will be the state's first African-American governor, and only the second African-American governor in the country since Reconstruction.

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