The president s Team Planning legal challenges, all of this as the president s chief of staff tests positive for coronavirus and the u. S. Is hit with the most cases ever. Who will be the next president to handle the pandemic . And will today be the day a president ial winner is declared . America is watching and waiting, today, saturday, november 7th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with peter alexander, kristen welker, and dylan dreyer. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today and thank you so much for joining us on this saturday morning. Peter and i are so happy to be joining you from new york. Typically of course we would be in d. C. , but here we are in our election headquarters as we watch and wait for results today. Thats right. We had election day that turned into election week. We welcome you to election weekend. You were in wilmington, i was at the white house. Were in new york for as long as it takes to get you results. It
The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Welcome to outside source. E the race for ite house is still very much on and the votes are still being counted. The resuins on arizona, nevada, penorylvania, and a. We are expecting an update from georgia in the next few minutes to read when that happens, we will listen in. The Trump Campaign has launched a number olegal challenges and they wt votes to be hrown protesters are claiming the process is uanair. The bide pain is urgingat very vote is counted. We have won. Am not here to say i am here to report that when bee count is fished, we believe we will he winners. Host itno iser day for americas democracy. The president ak isg baseless accusations of electoral fraud and attempting to steal the election. His son, eric, is tweeting this information about ballot burning when there is no evidence tha
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The president s own voters. He is calling the game at the end on end of the First Quarter and its extraordinary. We have never had a situation like this, in the country. The president is a steward of the american electoral system, as a member of it, he is a steward of the american system and he is trying to under mine it while the count is still going on. And the last time that we had a dispute that went to the court force Supreme Court as the president said, he thinks will go. You had two candidates who ultimately accepted the outcome of the courts. Ultimately accepted and said, we have to carry the weight of the office that john just described. To have the president jump that gun and make calls and frankly, norah, as gail was saying, there were a lot of things that were untrue. We can look at the map over your head and see the state of texas was called in his favor, he said it was not. Georgia and North Carolina remain toss ups on our map because of all the details you just laid out.
Of our spots in the low 60s right now. Later today expect 70s 80s for most of the bay, to still to come. Back to you robin. All right, thank you john now, lets check in on traffic. Its definitely busier out there check out the line now at the bay bridge plaza. It was not like this just 15 minutes ago now we have a big backup spilling 80s slowly stretching out to west grand. So make sure you get out there early since we have more folks rolling in 14 minutes and growing from the bottom of the maze off to the fremont street exit, heres a little trouble spot on the peninsula. If you travel from the south bay heading to the peninsular towards San Francisco heads up for this overturn northbound one oh one at hillsdale still blocking one lane. So you see the traffic stacking up theyre approaching the scene and checking your drive on 5. 80 that looks good no problems for 6 ad the name its a tad bit slow 23 minutes from to 38 to 37. All right now to one of our big stories this morning. The styl