More than 100 Million People early inperson or absentee, shattering old records. Thats nearly three quarters of the total vote in the 2016 election. Today we look at how latinx voters could play a key role in the battleground states of florida, texas, arizona, and pennsylvania. We will speak to former Bernie Sanders advisor chuck rocha and the Award Winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. Than Racial Justice, reproductive rights, immigrant rights, rank Choice Voting just some of the issues on this years ballot thrgh citizen being voted on today. Measures and in candidate races. Americans will decide how we will risk on to this moment of racial reckoning. Amy we will speak to Ronald Newman of the American Civil Liberties union. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Today is election day. Over 100 Million People have already voted a recordshattering number that is more than two thirds of the total votes cast in 2016s
The president s Team Planning legal challenges, all of this as the president s chief of staff tests positive for coronavirus and the u. S. Is hit with the most cases ever. Who will be the next president to handle the pandemic . And will today be the day a president ial winner is declared . America is watching and waiting, today, saturday, november 7th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with peter alexander, kristen welker, and dylan dreyer. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today and thank you so much for joining us on this saturday morning. Peter and i are so happy to be joining you from new york. Typically of course we would be in d. C. , but here we are in our election headquarters as we watch and wait for results today. Thats right. We had election day that turned into election week. We welcome you to election weekend. You were in wilmington, i was at the white house. Were in new york for as long as it takes to get you results. It
A lot for starting your day with the kron 00 00am morning news on Marty Gonzales. It is saturday november 7th and this morning we still dont know whos going to be the next president of the United States. But the number of ballots that still need to be counted is quickly winding down and well have the latest for you on that coming up in just seconds but first want to start the hour with a quick check of the forecast from days bar we getting some rain little clouds cooler temperatures right a real feeling of fall coming our way marty got that right thats going to be around all into next week as well. Now the picture that we have going on right now still dealing with some cloud cover kind of left over for some rain that played with us from yesterday and thats going to be a possibility through the weekend to women quickly retired that shot of rain but a lot of dry air still to negotiate through 2 compared to be speaking with the system like this again live shot coming in from u c berkeley
Tonight, even though we dont have totals he is expected to speak he tweeted out earlier tonight basically saying that he won. And he accused the well he didnt name anybody in particular, but said that they were trying to steal the election. I think he said they are trying to steal the election. But we just saw a moment ago the crowd, this in front of the podium there kind of waving their hands. Waving their hands in the air they had yellow wristbands on which is part of the apparently the covid procedures so that at one point they were trying to get a crowd of about 400 i think they pared it down to maybe to 50 years to get inside they may of course we saw during the joe bidens several crews coming up before he came out to just wipe down the podium and make sure everything has been cleared. In this pandemic election is grant called were now waiting for President Trump to come out. Grant youve been following the numbers all night to listen to something just seeing where we talked about
Meteorologist mary lee. Good friday morning, so grad we made it to the end of the work week and the weekend is almost here. We are looking at cooler conditions for today, on shore flow kicking in with a bit of fog along the coast and around the bay this morning. Temperatures are still chilly in the 30s, 40s, 50s. San to rosa is down to 37, 46 concord and livermore, 54 in oakland, low 50s in San Francisco and down to 49 in san jose with clear skies. As we head through our day, mid to upper 70s inland to low 80s, mid to upper 60s about to 70 right around the bay and low 60s for the coast. Well talk about the all important weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. Lets check with gianna, tracking delays on 880. Weve got brake lights north 880 around 23rd, 29th where on going construction is we typically see overnight. They were hoping to have lanes open by 6 00. However it is running a little bit late. Cal trans is on scene with the two lanes blocked. As we see more cars on the road wa