This pandemic right now. Playing offense against covid19, where we stand against therapeutics, a vaccine and hospital care. Are we Getting Better at treating success patients . Plus around 80 million ballots already cast how will this massive vote, impact fierce and weather impact turnout on election day. Live from cnbc global headquarter, the fact, the truth, the news with shepard smith. Good evening with five days until the election, a fight for mustwin florida. President donald trump and joe biden holding rallies in tampa just hours apart nbc news marist poll out today show as tight race in florida, biden with a slight edge, 5147, but thats inside the margin of error and last months poll had them tied at 48. A live look at tampa here where biden is set to take the stage at any minute. Biden told supporters there today if florida goes blue, its over were covering both campaigns. And Kayla Tausche is following the story. Reporter President Donald Trump had people in blazing heat that
Joe biden spoke earlier today. He is projecting confidence but also just asking for calm, asking for patience while the final votes are counted. As the battlegrounds finalize their vote counts, Democrat Joe Biden is gaining ground in a game of inches. We have no doubt that when the count is finished, senator harris and i will be declared the winners. So i ask everyone to stay calm, all the people to stay calm. The process is working. Reporter tonight President Trump refusing to acknowledge that his path to victory appears to be narrowing and claiming with no evidence whatsoever that the election is being rigged. If you count the legal votes, i easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. Reporter earlier, his campaign challenged vote counting and made baseless claims of fraud in georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, and nevada. Give us access reporter on both sides today, very serious concerns. Protesters gathering outside a philadelphia counting c
Contra costa county. The news at 10 00 starts right now. Thank you for joining us for this special election 2020 newscast. Its not jut about the vote count. Many high profile republicans are joining the president in claiming Election Fraud without presenting any real evidence. Lets start with the numbers. The Electoral College vote unchanged. Youll notice in the last 24 hours because the races in five states are still too close to call. And four of those states could go to recounts. Joe biden with 253 electoral votes. 214 for President Trump. 270 is the magic number. The country is hanging on the results from nevada, arizona, pennsylvania, and georgia. In all four states, both candidates are within 2 Percentage Points of each other. And two are practically in a dead heat. In georgia, President Trump has led, has the lead with less than 2,000 votes. It is 11 00 in the evening in maricopa county, arizona, where the count continues at this hour. The county intends to announce new results
Or weeks. And concerns over Election Results uncertainty and rising coronavirus cases worldwide caused stocks to tank today. All three were down 3 . The dow closed at a low not seen since july. Good evening. Im dan ashley. And im ama daetz. With less than a week to go, many Bay Area Community groups big and small are mobilizing their communities to get out the vote. Abc News Reporter kris reyes has what is driving them to make sure as many ballots are cast as possible. Its a critical thing for our community to enable people to safely vote in a pandemic and to ensure the democracy has today. Reporter the oakland as are not just talking the talk but lending the coliseum. 10,000 Parking Spaces to be used as an accessible voting site from saturday to election day. Gestures big and small are happening. Grass Roots Organization bay rising action is reaching out to under served community, especially new immigrants. Everybody has face masks on, gloves, sanitizing their hands. There is texting,
Georgia, and the fight for control of the u. S. Senate live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. And good evening. As america faces whats expected to be the worst wave of covid yet, there is a groundbreaking development in the race for a vaccine. The drug maker pfizer announcing early data shows its experimental vaccine is more than 90 effective in preventing covid19 that would make it about as effective as the polio vaccine pfizers ceo telling cnbc we could have up to 50 million doses of it by the end of this year it is a great day for science. It is a great day for humanity when you realize that your vaccine has a 90 effectively. Thats overwhelming. The good news comes as the virus spreads across the country at a rate weve never before seen cases on the rise in 49 states over the past week 31 of them having their biggest spike since the pandemic began in the past eight days, weve had more than 830,000 new confirmed cases. Total hospitaliza