270 is needed to win the presidency. Our political reporter greg lee here now with where things stand as of tonight. Good evening. The outcome of this election hinging on just a few remaining states that are steadily counting thousands of ballots. Nevada could give joe biden the votes he needs to win, but it is very close and we wont have any new numbers until tomorrow morning. But another state were watching closely and maybe surprisingly so is georgia. A democrat hasnt carried this state since 92. Election officials said they had about 200,000 votes left to count this afternoon. Heres where we stand. Just the narrowest of margins between President Trump and joe biden. President Trump Holding that very small lead. That state and its 16 Electoral College votes, just too close to call. Pennsylvania is often at the center of the election universe. 20 electoral votes at stake. Election officials said it could be days before we had a final count. This is a mustwin for President Trump and r
Covid vaccine continues but Health Experts say do not expect to receive a shot anytime soon thank you for joining us on kron 4 news at 6 everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis after earlier suggesting that a covid19 vaccine could be ready by election day the president is now telling followers. At his rallies is just around the corner now some doctors and scientists are weighing in our dan kerman is live at Ucsf Medical Center with a vaccine reality check dan, getting back to normal is. So dependent on this vaccine. Absolutely and it looks like that back to normal is going to be sometime late next year doctor fauci saying today the earliest iris populations might get a vaccine could be december or january specialists here ucsf say that High Risk Group probably not mass distribution until spring. Many of our greatest companies and labs that coming out very quickly with the vaccines are doing great very shortly the president s initial suggestion that a covid19 vaccine could be re
Thought to be controlled by the Peoples Liberation army. And policymakers seem less likely to go down that route decide besides providing support for a long time. Shery lets take a look at how we are setting up an asian markets. Looks like trending a bit lower in sydney. U. S. Stocks really doing pretty taking overrallies adding to concerns about tougher lockdown measures with the existence of an effective vaccine. Downside about a quarter of 1 and that market along with new zealand looking pretty overheated after the recent run of gains. Continuing to push back expectations for negative rates. Chicago futures moderately positive at the moment. The yen seeing a little bit of a gain but we have seen a new daily record for Coronavirus Infections in japan this week. Authorities hinting they could need to take stronger measures to halt the increase in the spread. S p acted futures up by. 2 sessione active cash sank as much as 1. 5 overnight. Shery lets turn to our top story President Trump
Restaurants. All kinds of places they just got people inside and now theyre shutting down this must be a shock wave. A shock wave, vicki and katherine also stunning and devastating for the Restaurant Industry were here in San Francisco and restaurants were hoping that they can just keep going, but this is really going to make them roll back and the effects are going to be stunning they are telling us lets take a look at some video of the restaurants here in San Francisco. They were offering 50 of their indoor space to guess and now theyre told to pull back services mayor london breed that you heard and director of Health Doctor grant colfax announcing tuesday that the city is turning back on reopening. Now theyre pointing to the significant a rapid increase in covid19 cases plus hospitalization rates climb. For the Restaurant Industry that means Indoor Dining will halt affective friday night at midnight kron 4 spoke with the president of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and owner
Same thing people have to wear masks as these did your shots or do a thing you have to maintain socialdistancing distancing any happy really careful about going indoors. And you know for thanksgiving i went on people to have it outdoors. So its you know, its just more of same frankly. Yeah. And barbecue doctor theres still a lot were learning and theres a lot we do not know have there been for you any surprises along the way. Well the vaccine advice that the vaccine news from yesterday i thought was really quite the to have a vaccine. That with no side effects. Is just remarkable and to have it in this period of time. And i would imagine were going to be able to start seeing back seen available for so people who are either highly exposed like an intensive care units or who highly highly likely to develop complications like nursing home patients. By mid or or you know late december. And you know the general public by the spring. So doctor very quickly because were running out of time fo