Despite. President trump prematurely claimed victory of the great lakes state on twitter the other key state biden flipped to earn a lector ul votes, wisconsin. The president s campaign has requested a recount there and that leaves nevada and pennsylvania looming large tonight grant thats right want to take a look at the results and where things stand here on our trusty electoral map. Again the Associated Press, calling the states in dark blue and dark red, its the race to 2. 70 right joe biden much closer hes up to 2. 64 President Trump currently standing at 2. 14. And when you do the math. What do you need to get to 2. 70 if youre at to 64 6 and nevada here happens to have 6 electoral votes at stake and where do things stand right now joe biden currently leading President Trump. By about 8,000 votes to see. Biden there with 588,000 in change donald trump with just over 580,000. So that is close to 75 of the vote here has been counted so still a quarter of the votes yet to be counted
All right kron fours always tracking local stories here in the bay area. Theres whats happening. Lets going to start in the east bay. Dramatic spike in gun violence in the city of alameda. Its a disturbing trend of the Police Department is working to control kron fours phillipe djegal spoke with city leaders who believe the pandemic is playing a role. The alameda City Attorneys Office says it has made prosecutions of any violent or gun related crimes, a priority. This as the city is in the midst of a rapid rise in criminal activity interim police chief randy fenn says property crimes are down significantly compared to last year, especially burglaries assaults are also down nearly 19 . But robberies have increased more than 5 and a half percent and the use of firearms is escalating i think this is a societal issue why we write why have we come to this point where so many of our grievances are shuttled. With gunfire for 2 years from 2018 to 2019 there were 10 reported shootings in the ci
Forcefully to go spoke with city leaders who say they believe the pandemic has played a role. It alarming since june first 14 shootings have been reported in the city of alameda criminals shouldnt the better armed and our police what troubles interim police chief randy fan is that number accounts for the total number of shootings all year long there were 9 for the first 5 months of the year we had 3 shootings in 2019 just 7 in 2018. Here we are again towards end of october weve got this many arrests have been made in 5 of the 14 shootings investigations. Though these cases have resulted in increased workload for a department that is also trying to adapt to the pandemic watching whats happening with more folks not being in jail when theyre arrested because of covid people being released because of covid criminal Justice Reform theres just so many factors were taking a look at mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft understands residents and Business Owners are concerned about the violent trend Dome
Now 5 days away from the november 3rd election and kron 4 is your local election headquarters this election season. With a Record Number of people voting early this election season, there are already concerns tonight about missing ballots in the east bay, dozens of voters reported not receiving confirmation that their ballot was received by the Contra Costa County elections division. Kron fours justine waltman here now with details and whether or not foul play is believed to be involved justine. Well Contra Costa County has 37 drop off ballot boxes. But theres one question tonight, and thats the box thats right outside of Richmond City hall, dozens of voters say they dropped off their ballots there on october 12 and the county has not been able to confirm receipt of those ballots so theyre lost and the county doesnt know where they are tonight. The county is telling us this according to the Contra Costa County Elections Office the ballot box and Richmond City all has been inspected by
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