spike among kids in tennessee, and more importantly, how sick are they? reporter: steph, i m in the highlands, a region where i ve spent a lot of time over the last year. a lot of time engaging with the hospital system here, and their staff is telling me what they re seeing among kids right now the unprecedented. yesterday, among the cases in their system, 29% of positive cases were among those under the age of 18. stephanie, in washington county, the school system here only a week into reopening, they already have 50 students and staff testing positive, and 194 in quarantine. but, stephanie, despite that, there is no mask mandate in this district or the vast majority of districts in this area. there is no social distancing requirement. and while they re notifying parents if their child was exposed to covid-19, they are not requiring that parent
it. [cheers and applause] tonight we celebrate regaining our voice and our vote in the great business of governing this country. you know we are still fighting the fight. it s not over yet. don t give up and we will keep it up. we re going to win it. harris: mollie line in p.a. outside of pittsburgh, mollie? harris, as you mentioned, state rep rick saccone vowing to fight on. the national party has his back. the communications director for the national republican congressional committee matt gore monday saying we are absolutely not conceding, the nrcc is waiting for provisional ballots to be counted by friday. and a recount has not been ruled out. did i speak with one attorney on the ground here he said he was asked by the saccone camp to watch the overnight count of absentee ballots going on in washington county. ultimately it was the democrat conor lamb who picked up the votes that evening. the process was far from perfect. more broadly he is hearing of multiple irregularities
is pretty quick. one is a hand count of the ballots. the other one is a scan. it s a very close race, they want to be very thorough. what we re told is there are 40 precincts that are left in washington county for them to do the scan. that the hand counts are completed. that they re now doing the scan, the ballot scan in those 40 remaining precincts. when that is done, if this holds, we will then know who won those 1,200 votes, 1195 to be exact, in washington county. those absent tee votes. remember, it needs to be saccone needs a big number, he s trying to cut into a 579-vote lead for conor lamb. that s where they stood, we got that update within the last two minutes. any update i m going to share with you, i promise you, whatever happens in our programming tonight, i m staying up and i want you staying up with me because i want us to all find out together what happens in this county. we cannot invest this much time, this much jerry, kill ourselves
washington county for them to do the scan. that the hand counts are completed. that they re now doing the scan, the ballot scan in those 40 remaining precincts, when that is done, if this holds we will then know who won those 1200 votes, 1195 to be exact, in washington county, those absentee votes. and remember, it needs to be, saccone needs a big number here. he s trying to cut into a 579-vote lead for conor lamb. that s where they stood. we got that update in the last two minutes. any update i get i am going to share with you. i promise you, whatever happens to our programming tonight, i am staying up, and i want you to stay up with me, because i want us to all find out together in this county. we cannot invest this much time, this much energy and be killing ourself with a lack of sleep tomorrow without at least finding out how the county voted. please stay up with me, and i promise to stay up with you. we are going to bring in jason
completed. that they re now doing the scan, the ballot scan in those 40 remaining precincts, when that is done, if this holds we will then know who won those 1200 votes, 1195 to be exact, in washington county, those absentee votes. and remember, it needs to be, saccone needs a big number here. he s trying to cut into a 579-vote lead for conor lamb. that s where they stood. we got that update in the last two minutes. any update i get i am going to share with you. i promise you, whatever happens to our programming tonight, i am staying up, and i want you to stay up with me, because i want us to all find out together in this county. we cannot invest this much time, this much energy and be killing ourself with a lack of sleep tomorrow without at least finding out how the county voted. please stay up with me, and i promise to stay up with you. we are going to bring in jason johnson at the root.com. jonathan alter, caitlin huey