Supporters protest the vote count as his campaign mounts legal challenges in several crucial swing states. Alone terry martin good to have you with us theres still no winner in the u. S. Election but there are some encouraging signs for democratic challenger joe biden the former Vice President has picked up wins in some closely fought states President Trumping while is facing an increasingly difficult path to win reelection hes launched legal challenges now aimed its stopping the vote counting in several tight races a call echoed by his supporters. In arizona a group of Trump Supporters have been gathering to protest the ongoing vote count there that race is neck and neck and several news outlets have reported joe biden has flipped the battleground state has made its own founded allegations of voter fraud and on wednesday accused democrats of trying to steal the election. So heres a look at the results with one significant change in the last hour our figures show biden currently on 264. 00 and President Trump on 214. 00 electoral votes that puts joe biden just 6 Electoral College votes away from the 270 needed to win the presidency. Counting is complete in michigan now and biden has won that state which has 16 votes the vote there as in much of the country was close joe biden has also won the state of wisconsin and the 10 electoral votes that go with that well that brings us to nevada which has exactly the 6 votes on offer that biden needs for the white house he currently has a slim edge in that state in georgia 16 electoral votes are on the table with trump leading the way but his margin has narrowed in the state the Trump Campaign has filed a lawsuit alleging that ineligible late absentee ballots may have been added to the count well the Wire Services a. P. And fox news have both show biden taking arizona a. P. Is our main election source so those are the figures youre seeing other major News Agencies have not yet called that state so theres still a bit of a question mark there an important outcome for biden if it is indeed at the end called for him so the bottom d the bottom line now for now is that vote cutting is still underway but the path to victory appears to have narrowed for President Trump lets get a live update from washington our chief Political Editor mckenna cook is standing by there mckayla votes are still being counted all things any clearer now than they were 24 hours ago. They are somewhat clearer because clearly the joe biden who looks like hes lost the obvious path to potentially beating president looks like the man who has plenty of options were pretty much has to win across to the poor and he is really treading a very very narrow line now a path that could still lead him to victory so yes this was an interesting dynamic initially. A kind of shell shocked nation or certainly the polls predicted something completely different and this felt a bit like 2016 in that regard and then slowly but surely particularly with those mail. Being counted in several States Joe Biden managed to pick up pace but notably his campaign is remaining. Silent he did come out and speak today that he expects to become the leader but he certainly is trying to avoid some kind of standoff or some kind of exchange of bold claims as donald trump was very early to claim victory and to cry foul something that is already behind closed door was being criticized by his own republican party. Loyalists have been looking very closely midwestern battleground states over the past 24 hours but the tension though is also shifting to some degree to georgia whats the situation there. His george is very close with some 95 percent of the ballots counted. Biden is behind donald trump at this moment in time but theres only some 33000 ballots between them and the biden count as they would do actually is rather hopeful that they would manage to secure georgia now that would be 16 votes in the Electoral College and that would have very much be pretty much enough depending on the pollsters actually you depending on those calling individual states to either get through the finishing line of 270 or just one vote short of that but that would make it all but certain that joe biden would become the next president. We can a what are we to make of the Troll Campaign claiming voter for all or crawled in the counting process is the is the Voting System in the u. S. Not considered reliable. Well depends on who you ask i was speaking to international next election observers from the o. E. C. D. The organization for security and cooperation in europe who are here theyve been observing elections pretty much since that you 2000 and this is what they say in their statement about Donald Trumps claims they say baseless allegations and i quote here of systematic deficiencies notably by the incumbent president including on Election Night public trust in Democratic Institutions so essentially what theyre saying is that he is harming democracy here in the United States it actually is a system that enjoys a lot of confidence across the board from people there bipartisan groups in every state who actually help conduct these elections and if you speak to individual poll workers as i have done in the past not just during these elections but i have been and observer of the elections here in the past there is a sense of pride to deliver a sound process no matter which side of that very deep divide between republicans and democrats who are on so so far the Expert Opinion is that the system is holding but clearly donald trump has managed to get his supporters out although not in force i say yes depending lets see what happens if and when joe biden can declare victory here but also on bidens count we know from pre election polling that there are quite quite a Significant Group who simply wouldnt accept defeat so certainly the trust in the system has been harmed but the system is holding up thats certainly what experts are saying across the board here because the thank you very much those. In washington. So americans coping with this uncertainty reporters went to the streets of washington d. C. To gauge the mood for the day is a very tense day for mary Many Americans i believe personally as a republican that struck one in l. A. On flight but because of colbert and the ballots that 300000 ballots overnight were found in every city in the swing states for biden. Just another reminder about how divided the country is right now its remarkable that you know almost half of americans think that donald trump is the single worst person to be president. President im just overwhelmed im so stressed yesterday like you know. This morning i broke down and cried because of the possibility that might be an office again my mom saying earlier she feels really misled by the polls. Im not really up to feeling angry at anyone im just feeling sad. A sad and divided us voters there commenting on the unclear outcome of tuesdays. People has been following this election from the very beginning peter many had predicted unrest if there was no clear result coming out of this if the election were to be contestants looking that way more and more and he saw that unrest what we saw a lot of cities really essentially boarded up all their shops hotels really really bracing for the worst. Based on what we saw yesterday in the media wake of the election that didnt really appear to be the case but we are seeing as the race is really begun to tighten more than most people expected elections result could come down to just a few 1000 votes that things have begun to heat up on the streets of some of these critical battleground states in michigan for instance we saw pro trump protesters crowded Election Center and in arizona one of the states that all eyes are on right now tension has really been building over the last hours this is the situation in the Election Center and medical the county in arizona where were expecting results any minute now and you know this was a state that was called early maybe a bit premature for biden and we weve seen the race are tight dramatically. As the last votes are going to come in were still looking at about 15 percent of the total vote that still remains to be counted. By and is up by about 80000 votes and that could change so a lot at stake not just for. The 2 candidates but also obviously for these voters. So things are i do think we can expect things to get heated ass this tightens. Lawyers are preparing legal challenges in several states particularly states where trump is not doing so well. This could still get very messy couldnt it and actually could i mean that arizona is one of the states that the trunk campaign is currently considering to take legal action in michigan nevada pennsylvania where there was a decision allowing ballots to be counted after the election so we can expect. The counting there to drag on for a couple more days in wisconsin also another state where biden is up by less than one percent which gives trump the right under those state laws to demand a recount so were looking at a process right now the really does appear that it could be dragging on and it also means that even if biden backs nevada if you win georgia if you want pennsylvania which would take him to 3 106. 00 electoral votes which is the same amount of electoral votes that trump won by and also with a clear lead in the in the popular vote you know that would be a decisive victory and it would still take weeks probably before we have an official winner. Ok what should we be looking out for them youre saying this could drag out for days could be weeks we could things mean things could go really quickly though 2 could know what which wed be looking for right i mean theres so much going on right there theres so many unknowns right now that we simply you know we were expecting what were waiting for century right now is the mail and votes still to be counted in a lot of states those mail in vote have tended to favor biting a lot of the votes of where waiting for are coming from more urban centers which have also tended to favor bitin. The question i think is if biden and some winning well how decisively is it going away and we know that trump is planning on challenging a lot of these results. And that he will try to take this to the court will the Supreme Court agree to these challenges we know that trump has appointed just. About a month ago a new Supreme Court. Yes there are still in a lot of things up in the open and what we do know if anything as whoever is going to lead this country going ahead is going to hurt a deeply divided country and that is going to be a mammoth task for any president peter thank you very much for your insights peter little it does. Well the pandemic is the other big story this hour lets take a look at some of the developments there the u. S. Has registered almost 100000 coronavirus cases over 24 hours thats a new high during the pandemic the midwest is currently hardest hit based on the number of infections relative to population size over 230000 people have now died in the u. S. After catching the virus. The number of cases recorded here in germany has set a new one day record of almost 20000 the country started a new partial lockdown on monday to slow the coronavirus surge chance for the measures. To prevent the Hospital System being overwhelmed in the coming weeks. This is d w news coming to you live from berlin and just a reminder of our top story this hour as voting but counting continues in a nail biting us election democratic candidate joe biden says he is confident of taking the white House News Agency has given arizona to putting him just 6 Electoral College votes away from the all important 270 needed to win all the other agencies yet to call it. Youre watching the news coming up next weve got Business News for you with monica. Thanks watch. This for me. Is for you. Right over