The president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on he needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner. And on resolved election the nation on edge 3 days after one of americas most divisive and knife edge president ial votes it appears that the democratic challenger joe biden is moving further ahead of President Donald Trump and battleground states which will decide the final outcome biden leads in pennsylvania nevada and in georgia so far is projected to have 164. 00 Electoral College votes trump has 214. 00 and of course the number required is 270 the needs to win in only one of those undecided states to get across that finish line. His magic White House Correspondent can you help it who is in washington for us. In wilmington delaware joe bidens home state we have passed culhane standing by for us in philadelphia and then theres Andy Gallagher who bring us the latest on the state of georgia and heidi castro is among protest as the House W
From the bay areas local news stations. Watching kron 4 news. With this race, the clear majority, a nation behind us. Weve gotten over 74 million votes. I repeat that 74 million votes thats more than any president ial ticket has ever gotten in the history of United States of america. Confident of winning thats the tone tonight from former Vice President joe biden is ballot. Counting continues into the wee hours. Thank you for joining 10 everybody on the key will cuts and im grant lotus former Vice President biden spoke briefly this evening from his Campaign Headquarters in wilmington, delaware, and that is where kelli meyer joins us life she will join us live soon im being told were working on that connection. And when we get it squared away, we will go to kelly in wilmington all right meantime we do have a developing story out of the white house President Trumps chief of staff mark meadows has tested. Positive for covid19 2 Senior Administration officials confirmed that meadows is amo
Went on you know as you said we werent sure if it was going to be this he wanted to do which was hoping that he would have a race be called today and then give that victory sponges they were saying an address to the nation happening this evening prime time as there was no other race called he came out here saying that he wanted people to remain calm. He wanted them to be patient and he said let the process work out he also expressed a lot of confidence maybe even more confidence and he has throughout the entire week talking about the states reading and talking about the accomplishments of leading in those states of reading in the state like arizona at a state like georgia. Both that have been reliably red for he also mentioned how he knows people or frustrated with the process moving so slowly. But he said its going to be worth the he also says that hes already begun work not only really the transition but just the work of addressing the pandemic which they did which is true they were
Looking as carefully as is humanly and scientifically possible, we have put the state of mississippi into the Carter Carter column, and that is that. The electoral vote, by our calculations, 272 electoral votes to 153 so far for gerald ford, the opponent. Election 1976, day of decision. This is Richard Scanlon in washington. With me here today in our studios is professor Howard Penniman of georgetown university, mr. Stephen hess of the brookings institution. Today, we are going to try to discuss tuesdays bicentennial president ial election here in the United States. Not every last vote has even been counted now, though the provisional final totals are posted behind me, both in electoral and in popular votes for mr. Carter and for president ford. As you know, in this bicentennial president ial election, as in all of our elections in the long history of the republic, the actual winner is determined not by the millions of people who vote for but ratheror ford, by the 51 elections held in
Restrictions coming to bay area businesses as coronavirus cases continue to surge this comes as state Health Officials announced. A new grim milestone today, more than 18,000 californians have died due to complications from covid good evening, im ken wayne and im pam moore, 3 of californias largest counties are among 10 statewide which are rolling back on reopening businesses and on other activities. An increase in cases and hospitalizations has forced Contra Costa County to move from rinsed year to the more restrictive read to year San Francisco county remains in the yellow tear but Health Officials say the county is more is imposing more coronavirus restrictions so that it can remain in that tier today, San Francisco mayor london breed said 2 weeks ago officials anticipated a covid19 surge and now the city is seeing a 250 increase in cases since early october. The fact is. The virus is spreading. And we have to make the hard decisions. Citing a consistent uptick in cases since last m