To call or too early to call, meaning theres still a significant amount of vote needed to be counted to make a prediction. Seven of those states are the battle grounds that youve heard so much about, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, north carolina, georgia, nevada and arizona. Kind of let everyone know it wasnt going to be election day, it may be election days or election week. Thats exactly where we are right now. Lets begin with tom costello. Hes keeping his eye on that vote count. Tom, good morning. Good morning. I think its worth repeating and weve been saying it for weeks on the today show, on nbc night live ne nightly news, the vote will take days to count. We are looking at the highest voter turnout we believe in a century, about 157 votes and no state declares a winner on le Election Night. They all have their own processes and deadlines to do this. Pennsylvania right now, the governor says they still have about a million mailed in ballots to count. They paused overnight. Abs
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Streaming on cbsn bay area a live look outside as we start the day together. You are looking live at the bay bridge. Good morning. Its wednesday. Shots fired overnight in the east bay. We have the latest from the live news desk. First we are waking up awaiting the results of the election. So far its too close to call. Taking a live at the white house right now. Counting continued throughout the night as the race for the president hinges on battleground states this morning. Here is a look at the current map. The president and former Vice President still well short of the necessary 270 votes needed to secure a victory. Several key voting places will not announce until today or tomorrow. Joe biden was expected to cruise to a an easy win in california. That victory was easy. 65 to 33 with 94 of precincts reporting. And despite key states still counting votes the president expressed confidence that he has won overnight. Cbs news hasnt projected a winner. We have more on where the two camps
Update. Heres where we stand joe biden with 238 electoral votes. Where President Trump with 213 the magic number 270 and there are still enough votes out there still enough electoral votes for either candidate to claim victory before all is said and done so we have off to the far right there of nevada that is on hold right now because the secretary of state said that theyre not going to issue a release any more new numbers until tomorrow. So as it stands we have joe biden with a slight lead there all indications are that his lead will continue to grow because a lot of votes to lift count or in heavily democratic populated james so hold on soda for example when people say oh no that is not going to be decided tomorrow does that mean we wont know till tomorrow, not necessarily lets take a look at the other states in play we have the rust belt, this is the iron wall the democrats need to secure if they want to claim victory youve got wisconsin michigan pennsylvania at this point weve got