Im Claire Richard sennett welcome to the show democratic candidate joe biden has won at the u. S. President ial election after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania of the 99 percent of votes counted in pennsylvania biden has won 49. 7 percent at his up against trump 49. 2 percent now the 20 electoral votes of biden won in this state allowed him to surpass the 270 needed to win the election according to projections by the Associated Press who was also picked up 6 in nevada giving him a total of 290 electoral votes to republican president Donald Trumps 214. Well democratic supporters across the country have been reacting to the news of president elect bidens a success from fill it. Black lives matters plaza in washington to new yorks times square people showed signs of relief and excitement here are some of those reactions now. To me that everything my mother is a disabled woman before security and medicaid and medicare and so you know. How to you can no longer mess
Showing the homes damaged or destroyed in the czu lightning complex fire. The color coded map focuses on santa cruz county. So if you look here, what red means is that that home has been destroyed. Orange, yellow and blue means damage. Green shows undamaged homes. The black circle means the address is confirmed but if there is a white circle around the home, that means that that address has to be verified. You can find a link to this map on our website on abc7news. Com. The largest fire in the region is the scu lightning complex fire and it spans seven counties including alameda, contra costa and santa clara counties. It is 20 contained. And firefighters are making Good Progress though against it with major help from aerial water drops. This was the scene we saw during our 4 00 newscast as helicopters loaded up on water before taking off to do a drop near neighbors had to evacuate several times. That was all on fire, mission peak was all on fire. So you were basically surrounded by fla
The day trying to determine if homes are still standing. She joins us now from davenprt. Stephanie . Its been an emotional week for people trying to see if their home is still there. We visited the Civic Auditorium just east of us that has been at full capacity for seven days in a row. Its one of the dozen shelters taking evacuees in. Its just south of here where we met many families. You notice that haze that stretches through the mountain significantly better than 48 hours ago. Their homes are in the middle of the fire zone, and all they can do now is wait. These are like tears of joy, tears of sorrow, because its very bittersweet. Its very sweet that my family is okay. Reporter Kathy Azevedo is living through the pain of simply not knowing. All you can do is take one day at a time and just be thankful for what is, you know, instead of what was. You really cant look back. Reporter mourning the thought of losing everything, she sat in her car praying for her family, her parents and he
Computerized system. The overall view is increasing relative humidity and very strong gusts, 9 to 11 miles per hour. Then moving down to the Santa Cruz Mountains, we have wind gusting to about 13 miles per hour. Relative humidity there is 74 . Again, thats encouraging and the temperatures only 68 degrees. Weather is improving for fire containment, but once again, the air quality is very poor across most of the bay area. We have a spare the air alert in effect for the next three days through friday. Dan and ama. Spencer, thanks very much. Well get to that News Conference as soon as it happens. Well bring it to you. Right now, we want to tell you about the scu lightning complex, the second largest wildfire in the state. Its scorched 363,000 acres, destroyed 20 structures and is threatening another 20,000. This is truly a massive fire burning in the east and south bay. Even beyond. Parts of alameda, contra costa and santa clara counties are all affected. Cal fire put this effort into pers
With phase two of the reopening plan the top new york state Real Estate Broker will tell us what she is seeing on the ground and 30 or 40 stories up. Power lunch starts right now. We are about even on the advance decline line but its Technology Stocks to keep powering those names, particularly in the top 25 let me show you sectors here thats essentially at a historic high. Quibble about it. Also having a great time that smh the second one there but Everything Else is kind of lagging so even cyclicals like industrials and banks, even defensive sectors Like Health Care and Consumer Staples they are lagging the big cap Technology Stocks. We have new highs as you heard there at the top but a lot of it is basically mega cap stuff at new highs. Apple is at a high new microsoft, adobe nvidia these are all of the top 25 in terms of market cap. All of them well over 200 billion in market cap at new highs. The big market cap they drag the rest of the indexes along with them they are saying walma