Several crucial swing states also coming up a Record Number of fresh coronavirus cases reported in the u. S. Almost 100000 new infections are registered in a single day though some states warn theyre running out of intensive care of. Hello im terry barton good to have you with us boats are still being counted in several key states but in a tense u. S. Election at this hour democratic challenger joe biden is leading the questions secure 270 Electoral College votes that would take him to the white house the social to press agency says biden has taken arizona and that puts him at 264 votes although other News Agencies have not. Cold it still trumps potential path back to the white house narrows hes claiming fraud and has launched legal action in 3 states to the boat. That. Frustration spilling out onto the streets in new york and to trump protesters demanding every vote be counted. In other cities like here in seattle a similar story. In portland a sign that many here have had enough of us politics all together. But in phoenix arizona pro Trump Supporters making their voices heard outside an Election Center. This is a country divided. I believe personally as a republican that trump won in a landslide but because of culbut and the ballots that 300000 ballots overnight were found in every city in the swing states for biden im just overwhelmed im so stressed out yesterday it was like you know inside the but day this morning i broke down and cried because of the possibility that trent might be in office again. Across several states votes are still being counted the majority of them have been sent in by post and in this election costing a vote by mail has been favored by Many Democrats every vote must be counted i know its going to take our democracy away from us not now not ever. Americans come too far and there is far too many battles americans endure too much to let that happen. But republicans 7 claim these parties to votes amount to electoral fraud with donald trump accusing democrats of trying to steal the election. Trumps top lawyer is promising legal action with the push to be where. Does the democrats do you think is do they do think if. You can call deplorable. Dont want to stick with this were going to win this election with actually one just a matter of counting the votes where. It may come down to the courts to decide who wins this election the closest for battle for the white house in 20 years. Earlier we spoke to our correspondent in washington make it across who gave us this analysis of the current state of the race but clearly seeing a tendency that joe biden is actually at least narrowing them odds and where donald trump is ahead in several contested states although it still does remain a nail biter and for Many Networks not having called arizona yet the focus is on georgia and arizona as the potential ticket to reach 270 for joe biden that also explains why biden came out earlier today and said he was confident that he would win on the other hand were seeing at trumps camp basically file several lawsuits which a republican legal expert on National Television here has referred to as hail mary lawsuits meaning that when a candidate realizes that its getting very tight this could be attacked. Ik not just to win a suit over individual but to potentially delay. Results being declared which could then change the whole process unless the lawsuit can be resolved by the time the Electoral College gathers on the 14th of december so theres still a couple of the eagle potentially Donald Trumps leave but behind closed doors you can already hear from republicans that theyre not for it this is clearly something that donald trump wants to push ahead with and hes clearly on the defensive here. Well did have his bit of a has been following this election from the beginning and joins us now so we know that donald trump has already filed some legal action in a number of u. S. States where hes not doing so well this could get quite messy couldnt it right and it looks like it could be about to become even messier. You know we just got new batches of ballots results from various states take pennsylvania for instance a state that is currently in by some 165000 votes now that may sound like a lot but Allegheny County that is the home of the city is pittsburgh just finished county more than 300000 mail in voting we dont know the official results of that but we know kind of theres appears to be it appears to confirm a trend that weve been seeing across the state of pennsylvania where in person voting tenets of vote to favor trump whereas mail in ballots have tended to go for biden about 70 percent so far of mail in ballots in pennsylvania have gone to buy in and this means that you know essentially if we stick with this math that will be 230000 extra votes for a bite and putting him over the top meaning that he would then take the lead by some 65000 votes i know a lot of numbers a lot of math what im trying to say is that you know pennsylvania could very likely end up in bidens basket the way things are going right now were seeing the opposite in arizona of the state you referenced before where you know that happened call for biden but it now seems like the dynamic is shifting somewhat got some 60000 votes out of Maricopa County that went predominantly for trump and that means that that reason also is very much tight and we still have in both states you know a lot of votes still or some votes still pending but really just a complicated way of saying this is an incredibly tight race and a lot can still happen. Very tight legal challenges already shaping up there what about trial supporters how are they dealing with his claim of what he calls major fraud well to some extent weve seen them act in ways that leaves the most kind of fervent supporters away that trump essentially has been building up to even before the election he started basic calling into question the legitimacy and fairness of the election so we saw in michigan for instance was all protesters crowding an Election Center in arizona Maricopa County that i just talked about we also saw a huge crowd of protesters some of them armed turning out so you know ask the race tightens and some of these states i would expect to see more of these types of protest quickly peter maybe one or 2 things we should be watching out for on the horizon yeah i think one of the Big Questions is if biden wins how decisively when does he win will it be enough for trying to sustain his legal challenge or will he had some point have to capitulate and also what will republicans do will they you know back him or will they back away from him i think ultimately the big question is you know this is not just about who becomes president its also about the legitimacy. An incredibly divided country and whoever takes the lead of this divided country will need to be a legitimate president so patients and trust the process is what i would say peter thank you very much that was paid a little thank you. So youll have some other news stories around the world right now the United Nations has expressed lorem over reports of armed clashes in ethiopia on wednesday ethiopias Prime Minister ordered the army to confront the Regional Government of 2 great province which has its own militia code sides are well armed and observers are warning of a possible civil war in the horn about. Hurricane rita is losing some steam across Central America people in low lying areas upon tourists are being evacuated as the storm brings heavy rains it devastated parts of nicaraguas coast on tuesday now residents of cuba and the u. S. State of florida are on alert as the storm heads north towards the weekend. And the number of covert cases reported 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 while i go back will said the measures were essential to prevent the Hospital System from becoming overwhelmed in the coming weeks its. Well the u. S. Has registered almost 100000 cases in a 24 hour period a new record in the pandemic their infections have been surging across the country but as a percentage of the population the midwest is currently hardest hit and in addition to rising cations hospitalizations are also soaring north dakota says it has only 6 intensive care beds in the entire state more than 230000 people have now died in the u. S. After catching the virus. Well for more lets bring in Peter Chin Hong from the university of San Francisco hes a medical educator who specializes in treating Infectious Diseases thanks for being with us could going to the ballot boxes in other words voting in person do you think that could have accelerated infections in the u. S. It certainly could have terry mosse wouldnt mind they did in voting facilities in the United States during the season in fact even if your state has a mosque mandate the federal law didnt form it or didnt mind they enforce the mosque going at the sites im also considering that the activities around election time the buses of supporters particularly from President Trump not Wearing Masks theyre in an enclosed space theyre writing up and on these all promote potential super spreading events taurima events economists from Stanford University of calculated that tens of thousands of people may have in fact been infected with the coronavirus during Donald Trumps big election rally hes so were just saul some footage from there is that plausible its sydney plausible the exact numbers little bit hard to states in the Stanford University projections they didnt look at actual Contact Trace and numbers but use projections like states with similar have to be all genes and very similar communities where these rallies didnt occur compare those sites and then thats how you get to the 10s of thousands of excess cases its definitely plausible people are not writing mass in these rallies theyre huddled close together as shouting theyre streaming theres a lot of emotions and these are the states where theres a lot of coronavirus happening right now c o pretest probability of getting an infection in these communities is actually higher now no winner has been declared yet in this election but if biden does become president what if anything do you think will change in how the federal government in the us deals with the penned up like. Well i think im afraid terry that the cat is already out of the bag into most of the rapid rise and acceleration infections right now in the wintertime if biden wins he wont be in office until january and again by then who knows how many more hundreds of thousands of infections weve had in the United States i think the 1st thing that biden would probably do however is hes talked about having a National Mask mandate and definitely well wait for a National Strategy those 2 very simple things for a country havent really been what weve seen in the last few months the United States every state was fending for itself except that states wouldnt able to close themselves off the borders are porous and you know virus can go from one area to the other depending on you know regardless of what was in force in one state. Home thank you very much for talking with us i was peter chin home and medical educator from the University Center for cisco. Its this is g. W. News coming to life just reminder of our top story as vote counting continues in the u. S. Election democratic candidate joe biden says he is confident of taking the white house some projections show biden just 6 Electoral College votes away from the 270 needed to win. Youre watching the news coming up next we got a documentary film looking at the all slow peace accord im terry moore thanks for watching. Can you hear me now heres were going to do to you and how it all stands gemstones now bringing you im going to back off as youve never time to have been surprised himself with what is possible called really what moves that i want. To talk to people on the way maurice and critics join us from apples lock stock