Things got heated in brentwood after a man hung a dummy with an antibiden slogan on it off of a noose. In san jose the citys primary inspector for massage parlors is under arrest accused of extortion and Sexual Assault on the job. The first cold storm of the season brings significant changes tomorrow. The president ial election keeping people on edge. Mental Health Experts and cannabis dispensaries seeing a surge in business. Abc 7 news starts right now. Tonight the agonizing wait goes on for a handful of states to determine the president ial election. North carolina, nevada, georgia, pennsylvania, arizona. Joe biden is leading with 253. President trump has 214. 270 are needed to win the electoral college. Developing right now though Philadelphia Police are investigating what they say was a planned attack at the place where the ballots are being counted. Police received a tip about a Group Driving from virginia to pennsylvania to target the center. Officers arrested one person but have
They can try to steal the election from us. The vote counting continues tonight. We heard from both president ial candidates this afternoon. Former Vice President joe biden is confident of a win, while President Trump claims fraud, though no votes have yet found to be illegal. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Thank you for joining us. There are six states abc news has not called. Alaska, arizona, georgia, nevada, north carolina, and pennsylvania. Former Vice President joe biden has 253 electoral votes. President trump has 214. Remember, it takes 270 electoral votes to win. Lets zero in on whats happening in some of those key states, battleground states that have yet to be called. In georgia, President Trumps lead continues to slip. Its now just under 35,000 votes i should say, 3,500 votes. In nevada, the candidates are split by about 11,000 votes with a current tally favoring biden by less than 1 percentage point. Clark county which includes las vegas is expected to release results from 51
Over the last a couple of days and its going to pushing a cold front through the entire bay area so chilly temperatures rainy conditions were going to see a lot of cloud cover around the bay area. And were also going to see a very high winds ill talk more about that in time the storm system out and just a couple of minutes for now, lets head over to the Traffic Center and say good morning robin good morning to you as well and im reminding folks to not forget to slow it down and the rain why do i say that because people drive way too fast when its raining i want to keep nagging you throughouu the commute. Were checking in on the traffic here on a team to San Francisco looking good so far nice and smooth at the pay gates, no problems on the upper deck so come on and were at 8 minutes to fremont street. Taking you out to brentwood. We do have a major accident working here on highway 4 near balfour its actually closed in both directions. Its an accident involving an suv and a big rig, so t
Sleeping. Joe i say joe biden took the lead over from President Trump in the Early Morning hours. Georgia his lead is only by about a 1000 votes in pennsylvania about 5500 votes, but theres still a few more left to count. So the conventional wisdom is that joe biden leads will continue to grow. But well have to wait and see how were not calling anything in the a p is not calling anything until the votes are actually counted. Like joe biden was saying, lets just wait and see these votes come in its monumental with the number of people who voted even the popular vote is huge where you can joe biden with almost 4 million votes over President Trump and the counting continues. We can to take a live look right now to get matter fact because yeah like the president said in that sound bite at the top of the hour about how the vote was being conducted. In secret. Well thats not necessarily case happened you can go to any basically any secretary of states website many of them have live stream. C
And several other businesses come to an end. Just weeks before the holidays, some businesses are doing what they can to survive. Some even getting creative and expanding their services in ways never seen before. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Im dion lim. We begin with a look at those surging cases. California officially topped 1 million diagnosed coronavirus cases today. The state reported more than 9,800 new cases, one of the largest single day case counts weve seen since august. A 14day Positivity Rate is at 4. 2 . It was 4 yesterday. That is an indicator of the transmission of the virus. And since the beginning of the pandemic, the bay area has now seen a total of 133,456 confirmed cases. Now, because of this growth in cases, much of the bay area is pivoting once again tonight, when it comes to eating out. But health and the economy are key to our efforts to build a better bay area. Indoor dining has shut down in San Francisco, and more city also follow suit next week. Rep