All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. It was a big day for the future of american democracy. We will get to that significant action in a moment, but before we do, just give me a second to go back to the context of what happened in the last election. I think it has been obscured by the sabotage and disinformation and violent insurrection unlike anything weve seen in the history of the country stoked by the former president. Remember this, last november, right, once in a cent ray pandemic, we got a glimpse of what a full or fuller participation version of our democracy would look like because due to the pandemic, state after state, jurisdiction after jurisdiction, and i should note this is both democratic and republican there were fights over this. But across the board, more or less on the whole in the aggregate, all these places did something praise worthy and novel. They took steps to make it easier to vote. They did this by expanding eligibility for mail
Aggregate, all these places did something praiseworthy and novel. They took steps to make it easier to vote. They did this by expanding eligibility for mailin voting and early voting and adding drop boxes for ballots right . Theres Public Health concern. You dont want everyone crowding in on election day so people found ways to just make it easier to vote so you wouldnt have that. And the results are clear. It worked. Turnout was the highest it had been in 120 years. Nearly 67 of eligible voters cast a ballot. And also there was no uniform drubbing of one party by the other. It was not a blowout. It was a competitive election. Yes, joe biden won by a healthy margin. 7 million votes. 70 plus Electoral College votes. But remember republicans gained seats in the house. They want some key senate rates right . Now rather than looking at that outcome and thinking wow, we can be a Competitive Party even in high turnout elections which would have been a totally rational conclusion. Republican
Made a huge change which could spell the end of theaters. Its friday, december 4th. Its early today and im frances rivera. And im phillip mena. We find ourselves in some of the darkest days of the pandemic a record 2,800 americans have died in just 24 hours. Hospitals in at least a dozen states are delaying elective surgeries. In california a new lockdown could be triggered in some of the biggest cities as beds become scarce. Meanwhile the first batch of Pfizer Vaccines have arrived in the uk over 800,000 doses will be made available next week. Our jay gray is following the latest for us here in the states. Reporter doctors identified the first Coronavirus Infection january 20th now almost a year and almost 14 million cases later we as a country are in a very, very difficult if not crisis situation when it comes to the explosion of cases. Reporter more than 200,000 new positive tests in a single day, more than 2,700 deaths in a single day, both tragic pandemic records. Well, what were
Your microclimate forecast. Youre dressed perfectly for the weather, bundled up in the warm sweater. Thanks. Yeah, kira, you know, it was time to break out all of my sweaters even if im indoors. You know, we have storm ranger up and scanning. We had a couple of showers, areas of gilroy, san jose, southeast side. So well look at what the storm ranger is actively scanning. We are the only ones with a mobile Doppler Radar in the bay area. You can see its light and scattered. Now well see the chances of more rain headed into tomorrow but i want to show you how cold it is. Santa rosa 44 degrees. Oakland in the 50s. Heres a closer look at the 24 hour temperature change. Santa rosa is colder today than yesterday. Headed into tonight, another cold night but an increase in the winds this evening with the arrival of a Second System expected to bring more chances of rain to some parts of the bay area. So ill have a closer look at what were expecting. Sierra snow. We have plenty of it, especially
The numbers are still down compared to this time last year. Heres a live look at sfo where 60,000 people departed over the weekend. The airport usually sees about 30, about 85,000 passengers departing each day over the Holiday Weekend. As for oakland, tsa numbers were down 61 compared to last year. Only run 6700 people went through the airport on sunday. In san joses airport was even quieter, the minetta airport only saw about 25 of the typical Holiday Weekend traffic that usually does. Numbers are down in the bay area, numbers are up across the country and we have not even seen the busiest travel days yet. Which are always the day before thanksgiving, and the days after. From packed gates at phoenix, sky harbor airport, to long lines at lax and the traffic at Chicagos Ohare International airport, americans are on the move. Covid or not. There is a lot more people here than i thought. Just over 3 million were screened that tsa checkpoints this weekend despite the cdc urging americans n