Counting votes and the potential path for victory for both candidates as we wait to see what happens next, today, wednesday, november 4th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everyone. Good morning. Welcome to this special edition of today. We are glad youre with us on wednesday morning. We really never left. Weve been on the air all night. Lots of news to cover. I do think a lot of folks at home were up all night. Today comes with something were not exactly used to in the wake of a president ial election. And still a lot of uncertainty. And a lots of votes uncounted, millions of them. Were going to walk you through all of it, do it slowly and take it one step at a time. Heres the count at this hour. According to nbc news, the electoral count is 224 for biden, 213 for the president. Theyre trying to reach 270. Thats the magic number. Now nine states are this morning either t
Vega all standing by live tonight. The coronavirus spreading at an alarming rate. The country now averaging more than 73,000 new cases a day. The highest oneweek average of new cases since this pandemic began. And tonight, dr. Deborah birx calling out a specific state where shes seeing the least use of masks. And news coming in tonight about immunity. If youve had the virus, what theyre now seeing when it comes to antibodies and how quickly they begin to fade. Protests erupting over a Deadly Police shooting in philadelphia. A young black man allegedly armed with a knife shot and killed. At least 30 officers injured. An officer struck by a pickup truck. The wildfires. Massive flames closing in on neighborhoods. More than 90,000 homes evacuated. The gulf tonight bracing for yet another possible hurricane. Land. As early as tomorrow. Rob standing by with the timing. Breaking news in a case thats made national headlines. The next yum cult leader sentenced to 120 years in prison. And theres
Does make a difference. I want everybody to vote, everybody to count, everybody to save what they need to stay. Reporter Young Malcolm helped his mom put her ballot in the box. She said i could do it because she knew i was responsible to do it. Reporter the Company Secretary of States Office lists each and every one of the 334 early voting sites in the nine bay area counties by town, address, such as a school or library, and the directions to get there. If voting in person, you must vote either at your designated polling place, or at a county voting center, if they are available. Also listed, the dates and hours of voting operations which are not generally saturday october 31st two monday november 2nd, as shown in the master list we have linked to on the ktvu website. Of course, you can vote on election day. Even though the registration deadline has passed, all counties offer sameday registration and in some cases, at your polling place to allow for provisional ballot to be cast. We wa
Scheduled to increase capacity up to 50 . Well instead remain at 25 capacity. Kron fours dan kerman is live at San Francisco city hall tonight with more dan i guess of your business owner. Think in your profits were going to double this is like a gut punch. It is at the same time some of them are looking at this like whats next could have been that they could have closed Indoor Dining altogether or they could have shut down altogether weve seen that other places across the country they are trying so that doesnt happen here in San Francisco and thats why it is a pause it is not a step backwards. The virus gets too far ahead. You cant catch up. San francisco Public Health director doctor grant colfax as San Francisco isnt there yet but covid numbers are moving in the wrong direction the last 2 weeks are key street has gone. From 3 about 3 per 100,000. Population to 4. Thats a 25 spittal of stations have also jumped from 23 to 37 in just a week. Which is why San Francisco is putting a pau
Could not afford. 4 more years of donald trump. Biden will hit michigan on saturday where he will hold a joint rally with former president barack obama all told the president is scheduled to make at least 14 stops between saturday and monday and because of covid roles. Hes now running out of some where he can host his campaign on tuesday as all the results are coming in. Trump told reporters today that he may just stay at the white house can back to you all right justine thank you the early vote has been staggering with more democrats than republicans requesting ballots but. Republicans insist they will be at the polls in huge numbers on election day. And they argue that Trump Supporters have been undercounted in the polls. Catherine heenan our host of inside bay area politics talk to professor David Mckeown of Sonoma State University about his thoughts on the state of the race. But things are positions for democrats to do well can they follow through and close the loop here thats impo