Plus the vote margin in georgia so slim, the state could be headed for a recount. For the third day in a row, the u. S. Is on track to report more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases as at least 24 states set nsw infections records. Why dr. Anthony fauci says the nation has struggled to contain the virus. Dramatic rescues as families struggle to escape the floods from hurricane eta. Tonight, that storm is headed toward florida. The forecast on where and when it will hit. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting tonight from cbs news election headquarters in times square. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin tonight with the country on edge and the election still undecided. It has been 20 years since america waited this long to know who its next president would be. Then, it came down to one state florida. Tonight, it comes down to four, where they are still counting ballots. As we come on the air, joe biden now leads in those states, moving him closer to winning the white house. But his lead still isnt decisive enough to get him to the 270 electoral votes he needs. At the same time, President Trumps path to reelection has narrowed, even as his legal team is mounting challenges, and even though he is vowing not to concede. In philadelphia today, supporters of joe biden celebrated outside of the center where votes are being counted as his lead there grew. While in phoenix, a very different scene has emerged, as crowds who support the president , protest the counting as workers keep adding up the votes. Now, it has been a day of fast moving developments from the campaigns and meticulous counting by poll workers. Theres a lot of new reporting or get to and our team of correspondents is standing by to cover it all. Cbs Major Garrett will lead it off from right here in our election headquarters. Good evening, major. Reporter good evening, norah. Norah, good evening, everyone. Were going to walk through this process step by step and state by state. Starting in pennsylvania, 20 electoral votes, two parts of the screen. Heres the amount of vote in, here are the percentages and the raw vote totals. This morning the former Vice President went ahead of President Trump and his lead has increased, though gradually throughout the day, votes coming in fromle allegheny county. North carolina, 15 electoral votes. Neither campaign expects that to change. Eventually President Trump will have North Carolina in its column. To georgia now. 16 electoral votes, amount of vote in, these are the percentage. Again this morning the former Vice President went ahead of the president with the narrow margin. In georgia a candidate can request a recount if the margin is within. 5 of 1 . We expect a recount in georgia. Georgia will have two weeks to carry it out. Arizona, 11 whrektorial voters, these are the amount of vote in, percentage. The president s lead has been relatively constant. Nevada, 6 electoral votes. This is the amount of vote in. The Vice President s lead has increased. Las vegas is where the ray re maining vote is coming from. 20 electoral votes would push joe biden over the top. The president needs pennsylvania. Without it he cannot find a path to reelection. Norah, back to you. Odonnell waiting for more votes to come in. Major garrett, thank you. Major garrett, thank you. And even though biden cannot yet claim victory at this hour, he is trying to at least appear president ial. Hes already making plans, should he be projected as the winner. Cbs ed okeefe is following the Biden Campaign and joins us now. Good evening, ed. Reporter good evening, norah. As you and major just discussed it comes down to five key states. So, for now, joe biden, like the rest of us, is left to watch and wait. Joe biden is on the cusp of history and planning to address the nation tonight in delaware if the race is called. With counting still underway in five key states, his lead is expanding, most notably in pennsylvania, where he pulled away from the president this morning as votes came in from democraticheavy philadelphia. Democratic senator bob casey when the official vote is done hell win pennsylvania by somewhere north or south of 100,000 votes. Hes going to win pennsylvania, get the 20 electoral votes. I think thats the reality. Reporter since election day, biden has sought to strike a unifying tone, appealing for calm. Democracy is sometimes messy. It sometimes requires a little patience as well. Reporter but with President Trump not expected to concede, the Biden Campaign today said that voters will decide, and that the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the white house. Biden eked ahead of the president in georgia, thanks to new totals from a Metro Atlanta county once represented by the late congressman john lewis, a longtime Voting Rights advocate, who frequently clashed with President Trump. A biden win in the g. O. P. Stronghold would be the first by a democrat in 28 years. But state officials today said the tight margin could make a recount all but certain. The final tally in georgia at this point has huge implications for the entire country. Well get it right. And well defend the integrity of our elections. Odonnell and ed joins us. So, ed, how is joe biden preparing for whats ahead . Reporter if he wins in the coming days hes expected to turn his attention to Top White House appointments and cabinet positions but, all of that will be complicated by the unresolved balance of power in the senate which wont be resolved until the two special elections in georgia. Odonnell ed, thank you. With his path to a second term growing more and more narrow, President Trump spent today out of public view, working the phones and urging allies to rally to his side. Cbs paula reid joins us now from the white house. So, paula, what is the president s plan from here . Reporter good evening, norah. Cbs news has learned that tonight, the president is angry, and hes disappointed that more of those allies are not coming to his defense, even as he admits to some people close to him that the math may not be on his side. Several of his top advisers met at Campaign Headquarters today as they launched this last minute legal battle. President trump tonight vowing to fight, despite joe bidens increasing lead, with no plans to concede. As soon as biden pulled ahead in pennsylvania this morning, the Trump Campaign blasting out a statement, this election is not over, saying they continue to pursue lawsuits and recounts in the states still undecided. This is a case where theyre trying to steal an election. Theyre trying to rig an election. Reporter the mood is somber inside the white house, with one aide telling cbs news the end feels near, and a Top Republican official saying the president s fraud claims are harmful to democracy. There is simply no evidence that anybody has shown me or anyone else im aware of, of any kind of widespread corruption or fraud. Reporter even staunch ally senator Lindsey Graham said the president needs to present evidence o wrongdoing. I think we need to point to instances that are specific. Reporter but the president , who has yet to do that, is pushing for an allout legal assault to slow bidens momentum. There is tremendous litigation going on. Reporter with multiple lawsuits in pennsylvania alone and plans to pursue recounts in both wisconsin and georgia. The fight is not over. Reporter trump adviser david bossie will now coordinate the campaigns legal strategy, but its already suffered setbacks with multiple cases tossed out. Amid concerns the president wont go quietly, top economic adviser larry kudlow said there will be a peaceful transfer of power. We abide by the rule of law, ynd so will this president. Reporter advisers say this legal battle should have been mapped out months ago, but nobody wanted to discuss the possibility of losing with the president. Now they are focused on challenging the outcome in pennsylvania. But if biden wins by a large enough margin in that state, even the Supreme Court wont be able to help. Norah. Odonnell paula reid at the white house, thank you. Joining us now is 60 minutes correspondent and cbs news political analyst john dickerson. So, john, if joe biden wins, how does he unify the country . Reporter well, if he wins, unity is going to be very difficult because President Trump will say he won by cheating, and that means his supporters will be inflamed, and joe bidens supporters are then not going to want to extend ataciousness to those people. But what weve seen from joe biden already, since election day, is this attempt to show unity that ed was talking about. He wants to be president of all the people, he says, not just his political base. Okay, but what does that mean in practice . Its really hard in practice. You have to show empathy. What is that . Its not just being a nice guy. You need to hear what your opposition is saying, what the people outside of your base are saying. And then the sticky part is you have to implement that in what you do. What happens when you do that, your own supporters say, wait a minute, why are you wasting your time dealing with their concerns . Pay attention to our concerns. Odonnell well, he may be forced to do that if theres a republican senate. Reporter thats right. Odonnell so, everybody wants to know when are we going to know . Eris is taking perhaps a little longer than many expected, but at the same time, does it suggest that the system is working . Reporter people are jumpy. But as you know from talking to officials, Election Officials, as i have, they have always said if it takes a long time, thats good. It means were being methodical were checking facts. Its like in carpentry you measure twice and you cut once. We have seen this pay off when officials have been able to bat back crazy claims with facts. The reason they have facts is because they were methodical ecth the count but beforehand. If youre going to build a platform for democracy you have to be stable and thats what ationre doing, building a foundation for the democracy. Odonnell they say that same thing in interior design, measure twice cut once, especially when its expensive fabric. Thank you, john. Tonight, the math and the momentum in pennsylvania appear to be with joe biden. Votes from heavily democratic areas like philadelphia are giving him a widening lead, and the keystone states 20 electoral votes are in his sight. Cbs Jericka Duncan is in philadelphia tonight. And good evening, jericka. All eyes on where you are. Reporter thats right, norah. It is an important state, and these candidates knew that. When you just look at how many times they visited the keystone state leading up to this very important election. But what continues to happen as we continue to talk about this is the counting. The way that it works is almost like an Assembly Line of sorts, when you think about it. They have to sort the ballots, then they open up them up and they go through a scanning system of sorts to go through all of those ballots, and many of them still here remaining in philadelphia. But right now, former Vice President joe biden is leading leading President Trump by his biggest margin yet. Now, outside the Convention Center where those votes with being counted in philadelphia, it was another day of music and chants from a crowd calling for every vote to be counted. , ose sounds drowned out, really, the voices of Trump Supporters who told me personally, theres no way, they say, trump could have lost that lead. At a News Conference today, the mayor of philadelphia, jim kenny, was asked what he thinks President Trump should do next. You know, i think what the president needs to do is, frankly, put his big boy pants on. He needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost, and he needs to congratulate the winner. Reporter Election Officials here in philadelphia say theyre now preparing for about 40,000 more ballots. Those coming in three categories reviews, provisional, and military ballots. Norah. Odonnell all right, we are waiting and watching. Jericka duncan, thank you. Next, we head to arizona. Bidens ahead, as he tries to become the first democratic president ial candidate to win the state in 24 years. Trump supporters have been staging rallies outside centers where votes are being tallied, and there have been some tense moments. Cbs jamie yuccas is in phoenix tonight. Good evening, jamie. Reporter good evening, norah. Ilu can see inside, they are still counting thousands of ballots near Maricopa County. And that will go into the weekend. While outside, theres still a crowd determined to wait it out for final results. Today, the crowd got bigger, the chanting louder. Four more years reporter more of President Trumps ardent supporters, many armed with guns, turned up for rallies outside the building where tens of thousands of ballots are still being counted. These two women drove here from california. If we dont protect the vote and we dont have legal votes and those votes dont count, were nothing. Reporter during the last three days of demonstrations, weve seen this with President Trump supporters people praying. They tell me what theyre praying for is an accurate count of ballots inside the Maricopa County elections office. Those backing the president also calling on their faith outside the Clark County Election Office in nevada. Tens of thousands of ballots from the Las Vegas Metro area are still being counted. Today, the county registrar responded to g. O. P. Claims of invalid voting by people who dont currently live in the state. This is a military town. We also have several students that travel outside of the state to go to school. Those folks are eligible to vote. Reporter they started counting early ballots here in arizona two weeks before election day. It may seem like its taking a long time, but officials say, they are on track to complete their quickest count with the most votes theyve ever seen. Norah. Odonnell all right, jamie yuccas, thank you so much. This morning, much of the nation woke up to the news that joe biden is now leading in georgia. The race there is still ostremely close and the outcome could hinge on provisional and military ballots that still havent been counted. We get more now from cbs mark strassmann. Reporter in gwinnett county, an atlanta suburb leaning democrat, Election Officials counted their last 7,000 absentee ballots, a possibly critical moment in a razorclose race. With a margin that small, there will be a recount in georgia. Reporter in 36 hours here, President Trump lost a lead of more than 100,000 votes. Latasha brown is a biden supporter. She cofounded the group black voters matter. Do you feel good . I feel really confident that what were going to see is were going to have a new president and Vice President of the United States. Reporter but in north georgia, trump supporter keith falk is suspicious about the president s lead that evaporated. It almost seemed like they were waiting to see how many votes trump had, and then they would count the rest to make sure biden had just enough to pull it out. Reporter today, the president tweeted, where are the missing military ballots in georgia . Theyre actually in the state about to be counted, up to 8,400 of them. They could be the president s best, last hope here. I want to underscore a point that ed okeefe made earlier tonight about georgias ballot, which includes two u. S. Senate seats now held by republicans. This state is about to become ihe hub of the political universe because both those seats seem headed for the super bowl of runoffs in january. Potentially at stake, norah control of the u. S. Senate itself. Odonnell youre going to be opening up a new bureau there for us, mark strassmann, thank you. Now to the coronavirus pandemic. The u. S. Has now recorded more than 100,000 new covid cases for the Third Straight day. Thursday saw a record 121,000 cases. Today, dr. 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