So every ten years to get people in the media to come because those who say the been down here and talk about it so spread out overwhelmingly white and poor persons and will bear a child or socially and economically tos communities. So dispersed its not concentrated or visible or a way of life with newspapers and Media Companies so it tends to fly under the radar a bit. To get in and get out . Or how you connect with people. Yes. We do have those similar things that i get in the car and i talk to people. Is a magical process called journalism and harass people questions and you write down what they say. So that particular story came from a long trip from dallas to southern virginia and back was places along the way that we would about and tennessee and West Virginia and tennessee and West Virginia and to be very good at crossing the bridge not just writing the story or recording it but with the storytelling to talk to these people in these communities how much storytelling for them is
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With hit or miss showers. Mike, how is it looking now getting out the door for work . Very different than ten minutes ago. The camera shows you all lanes now backing up toward the toll plaza itself. We have the backup that just formed again as folks flooded in towards that area. We also have slowing for highway 4 through concord which has been there early morning. I thought it would clear as the construction cleared but that is cleared from the roadway. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. There are razor thin margins in several battleground states as the final outcome of the election still unknown this morning. Just confirmed within the last few minutes joe biden ahead by a very slight margin in pennsylvania. Hes ahead by just more than 5,000 votes. Battleground states are still to close to call. Today in the bays tracie potts is live for us in wilmington with reaction from both campaigns. Tracie . Reporter theres a lot of anxiety building, a lot of excitement building, particularly on
To call or too early to call, meaning theres still a significant amount of vote needed to be counted to make a prediction. Seven of those states are the battle grounds that youve heard so much about, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, north carolina, georgia, nevada and arizona. Kind of let everyone know it wasnt going to be election day, it may be election days or election week. Thats exactly where we are right now. Lets begin with tom costello. Hes keeping his eye on that vote count. Tom, good morning. Good morning. I think its worth repeating and weve been saying it for weeks on the today show, on nbc night live ne nightly news, the vote will take days to count. We are looking at the highest voter turnout we believe in a century, about 157 votes and no state declares a winner on le Election Night. They all have their own processes and deadlines to do this. Pennsylvania right now, the governor says they still have about a million mailed in ballots to count. They paused overnight. Abs
That is whats creating the false atmosphere of legitimacy to his claim. Let me go to Kristen Welker right now who has a little more insight into the counting in pennsylvania. Kristen . Just to pick up on the point chuck was making im hearing from an election official in pennsylvania who says this. Erie has 47 more to count and philadelphia has 300,000 mailins. Mailins were 70 up in the democratic favor. This person says this is far from over. The need to respond in real time. To make that point and to drill down on some of the broad numbers that chuck just laid out. And, again, i would just underscore the fact that this is part of why joe biden came out first. This is why he gave the message that he gave. He of course gave this rallying cry to his supporters saying he believes they are still on track to win the white house. But he concluded his remarks by saying, this race is not over, and its not up to President Trump to declare victory. Its not up to me to determine whos won this rac