presumably the results they reported saturday will be the final results. harris: breaking news right now, bill nelson has called on rick scott to recuse himself from any role in florida s recount process as the supervisors of elections across the state began a mandatory machine recount with more than 8.2 million ballots cast in the u.s. senate race last week, what s your reaction? that s going to be up to the governor, the governor is a constitutional officer, our laws call for him to be a part of the state canvassing board, certainly i m sure the governor will look at the particulars of that carefully but he is entitled to be a member of the canvassing board based on our laws. harris: if mr. nelson is watching, he heard you say that. what do you see about this process that you say wait, didn t they learn from what
whether republican claims of widespread voter fraud hold up. and also house dems are supposedly loading the subpoena cannon. new numbers on what they are digging in on and whether the white house is really ready for all of it or some of it or even less. plus i was able to call my husband and i m crying historically and i said nick, i m going to die. i can t get out of my car, it is on fire. i m going to die. and he says don t die, run. that emotional story of a nurse evacuating patients as a wildfire burned the edges of her california hospital only to face a life or death situation of her own. 31 people dead, more than 200 people missing with fires whipping both ends of the state. experts now being brought into search for victims. we re live on the ground. our team is set up and ready to go and we start with the deadline in florida, where more than 8.2 million ballots are
it s been going exceedingly well. we have a team of people during the daytime and a team of people overnight thanks to palm beach county iss department. they have been working really hard. we are fairly confident we will make the machine recount by thursday. reporter: of course, it s that thursday deadline that will give the vote recount. all the numbers go to the secretary of state in tallahassee. it will be determined who the winner is unless, the difference is a quarter of a percent. if the difference between number up with and number two is a quarter percent then they go into the next stage which is a hand recount. it will not be every vote. we have 8.2 million votes that would have to be hand recount. the machines over my shoulders will be spitting out, they are running about 150 pages a minute. they spit out the ones that have no vote at all in maybe the senate race, the governor race. those will be set to the side and what is known as the
about 30,000 votes. the associated press is retracting its call in that race. the a.p. had previously declared desantis as the winner over democrat andrew gillum. now gillum has withdrawn his concession. i am replacing my words of concession with an uncompromised and unapologetic call that we count every single vote. we count every vote. i say this recognizing that my fate in this may or may not change. now, florida s 67 election departments have until thursday to recount more than 8.2 million ballots. broward was supposed to begin its recount yesterday at 7:00 a.m. glitches with the machines delayed the start for several hours. in order to make thursday s deadline, broward has to count about 6900 ballots per hour. yesterday s delay puts the county about 25,000 ballots
florida outrage, where the situation stands after the start of a statewide recount. plus, historic wildfires in california take another deadly turn. we are following two major stories today, both with big political implications. first up, florida, the nation s largest swing state, is having its first-ever statewide recount. all 67 florida counties have until 3:00 p.m. thursday to machine count more than 8.2 million ballots. now in the line, two of the country s most closely watched races. then yesterday the republican leads shrunk even more. razor-thin margins in the battle for florida s governor. democrat andrew gillum has retracted his election night concession. the marquee race for the florida senate could be headed to a recount by hand. we have more on this major recount in just a few minutes but also developing right now, five days since democrats won control of the house. they are now strategizing on how to use their new powers.