Morning. Biden leading the vote talley in both pennsylvania and georgia. And as carl mention ad new arizona count will be coming out of Maricopa County shortly heres where things stand in pennsylvania biden now with nearly 7,000 vote edge a winning for biden in pennsylvania which carries 20 Electoral College votes along with arizona should he hold that would secure him the election. In georgia, biden now holds a more than 1500 vote edge Georgia Election officials announcing in the last half hour that there will be a runoff in senate election. Well see about a recount. Well see where the vote talley ends as we await the latest the from arizona, its worth noting that President Trump has been closing the gap with each round of new vote counts. The question is by what proportion is it enough to catch up to biden. In terms of the Electoral College the race stands at 753 sorry, 253 for biden and 214 for President Trump. That according to nbc. Frank holland is in philadelphia with the latest
Good morning, everybody. I think we have senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct . Mr. Chairman. Is it okay, senator blumenthal, if we move forward . Absolutely. Thanks very much. Okay, ill make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorship, suppression and the 2020 election, sort of a deep dive, when it comes to twitter and facebook, about the platforms and the decisions they make, how they make them. Can we do better . Do we need to do better . So the first thing i want to talk about here is Health Risks Associated with social media. A 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 750 13 to 17yearolds found that 45 are online almost constantly. A 97 use social media platforms such as youtube, facebook, instagram or snapchat. So why are we having this hearing . The products that these two Companies Offer people like and they use. So the bottom line is, theyve probably been more successful than their wildest dreams. And theyre having to make decisions that offend people on the le
Material on digital platforms be entered into the record. B thank you both for being here today. Without objection. Senator cornyn. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Dorsey, in recent hearings beforee the Senate Commerce thi committee, you said, i think, that twitter has a policy olicy against this information relating to civic integrity. Gri. President trump and his allies have tweeted hundreds of false al claims about the 2020 election. Trump has falsely claimed victory and alleged widespread voter fraud. So, heres the question. Does misinformation about the results of an election and voter fraud relate to civic integrityr why or why not . Yes, it does. And we label those tweets. When the election has not been t called yet or multiple sources have called it differently. Calld im sorry. I didnt understand that. I di did you say you have been able y to tweet . No. Tweet . We have labeled the tweets that would indicate a different result in the election, called e by multiple sources. In the
On that picture that you showed, that was the cold front, the clouds, they are moving south right now. They dropped some rain in isolated areas near the coast, the peninsula and there was a report of light rain in napa earlier. The big story is this afternoon and this evening when the chance of showers and thunderstorms, lightning and hail rolls in. Locally heavy rain and gusty winds out there. The cloud cover is moving rapidly to the south. Behind it, 20mileperhour to 30mileperhour winds. We had gusts up to 54 Miles Per Hour on tamalpais. So the blustery conditions are, in fact, developing. As you head into the afternoon hours, temperatures wont change much. Upper 50s to low 60s. Notice the yellows and oranges in the north bay, those are the showers and thunderstorms. Ill put a timeframe on it coming up. You can track those showers today at any time on your abc7 news app. Im sure you will also be checking out the Election Results as we inch closer to knowing who the next president wil
And im marcus washington. Mike is keeping an eye on the commute. Lets get that election day forecast. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking that. What does today look like for us . Starting out nice and quiet for the bay area. Cooler for this afternoon as we are going to see our highs that will reach into the mostly mid70s around the bay area. 75 degrees in san jose. 77 in martinez. Santa rosa expect a high of 75 and 65 degrees in San Francisco. Its going to be a really comfortable day as we head out there to the polls. Well talk more about that and also much cooler temperatures in the forecast. Mike, how is it looking for the Early Morning commute . Kari the big view of the bay shows you green sensors. Ill take you out into contra costa county. Youll hear it on the radio, the intersection to the south of town. Were looking at a traffic crash right there in the middle of the intersection. Traffic is light. Thats why im concerned, its dark out there. The only slowing is out of the a