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 presidential 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. that s 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. we re in new york for as long as it takes to get
and here to help us with that throughout the morning is john. good morning, pedro, viewers should know we re going to be using the associated press numbers for calls and results. so viewers may hear about different numbers being reported but we re always going to be coming back to the associated press numbers. so let s start off with where the presidential contest stands this morning. the key state of wisconsin there on your screen, a state that s being watched closely this morning, it s 49.4% for joe biden, president trump, 49.1%. that number has been flipping back and forth throughout the day. that is just one of six key states we re watching this morning. the other one, michigan this morning in the wolverine state. the numbers in michigan, president trump 49.8%, joe iden, 48.6%. and then the third state in the northern industrial midwest area , once known as the blue wall for democrats. that blue wall that president donald trump broke through, pennsylvania, the other key
bobby jindal, congressman brian babin. here is the state of play right now. we re going to break it down with them. again we ll break down what the presidented needs to win the white house. we have for you tonight the really bad calls in the media. we re bringing you more on what we have been reporting about the polls. how they were off. we ve got tonight how it was worse than realized is what was going on with the polls. we debate, are the media and the pollsters really that cut off from the country they re supposed to cover? we ll show you the worst calls of this election wacky. the media is cranking up the fear machine. should you believe it? a reports growing mutiny of democrats against nancy pelosi in order to remove her as house speaker. we ll name for you what media critics say is the biggest loser of the night. it is something that the media has been hammering away at more than a year. thanks for joining us. i m elizabeth macdonald. the evening edit starts right now
winner in massachusetts as well. also in delaware, biden wins. biden also the projected winner in d.c. all right. and oklahoma will go for the president in illinois. we are calling it too early, but biden is leading in illinois. he s led in the polls. connecticut, same thing, too early, but biden is leading. here s what s happening in alabama right now, too early to call. too early in maine as well. same story in mississippi, missouri. biden leading in rhode island, but that one s too early to call. trump leading in tennessee. all right. so, where does that put us? we ve just made some calls. here we go. let s get to the map of 270. that s how you get elected president in this country, as we show tennessee, but i think we can roll the map. and now we ve got a few more numbers to report. joe biden, not surprisingly, carrying those big cities in the east and we see donald trump in some of his strong red territory. chuck, this is unfolding as expected. nobody s won a roa
directer ray gina haspel on the hook. they may be the first to go after the election. hear what i asked house chief of staff and how mark meadows answered the question. decline at start of trading. dow industrialing down 273 points. nasdaq down 100 rand s&p lower by 33. this all 3 majors, this after 3 major indices posted losses last week over stimulus cases and rise in covid cases. as you can see market town this morning. plan nor arizona and discussion over fracking, all coming up. special day, join us from 8:00 a.m. hour where we will go with fox & friends on sister network and i will preview my books which will be heading bookstores tomorrow. hope you will join us. don t miss a moment of it. mornings with maria is live right now. maria: your intent markets this morning are lower, take a look, italy and france among the countries imposing new lockdown orders over surge of coronavirus cases. cac quarante down 32 and dax index in germany lower by 282 points, better tha