Despite. President trump prematurely claimed victory of the great lakes state on twitter the other key state biden flipped to earn a lector ul votes, wisconsin. The president s campaign has requested a recount there and that leaves nevada and pennsylvania looming large tonight grant thats right want to take a look at the results and where things stand here on our trusty electoral map. Again the Associated Press, calling the states in dark blue and dark red, its the race to 2. 70 right joe biden much closer hes up to 2. 64 President Trump currently standing at 2. 14. And when you do the math. What do you need to get to 2. 70 if youre at to 64 6 and nevada here happens to have 6 electoral votes at stake and where do things stand right now joe biden currently leading President Trump. By about 8,000 votes to see. Biden there with 588,000 in change donald trump with just over 580,000. So that is close to 75 of the vote here has been counted so still a quarter of the votes yet to be counted
Numbers. More than 8 million votes have already been cast here in california and across the u. S. More than a 3rd of americas registered voters have already cast their ballot and the south bay in fact the sorting verifying and counting of ballots has begun. And almost half of the ballots that were mailed out to voters have already been returned. Offers rob fladeboe joins us now live from the register voters in san jose with the latest numbers, rob thats right vicki and grant else and again 5 days to go in election is already into record territory as you say a Million People registered to vote here in Santa Clara County almost half of those ballots have already been returned im here outside the Registrars Office in san jose been watching and talking with people as they come by to drop off their ballots and so has the registrar of voters here who says its all systems go for this record breaking historic voter turnout. Heres a closer look. Again no youre good 3 can i just make sure you sh
Milestone, california is close to the 1 million mark of covid19 cases over 991,000 cases have been reported in the state as of today. The men number keeps going up. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im justine waltman the u. S. Has surpassed 10 million infections and now california will be the second state right behind texas to eclipse a million known cases which is now forcing the state to roll back reopening plans and also new today Alameda County becomes the latest bay area county to pause its reopening plans. Currently alameda is in the states orange tier which allows some indoor businesses to operate with modified Health Orders but Health Officials say theyre expected to move backwards into the red tier really soon so if the county does not curb its infection rate. There is a chance in may have to go back even further into the purple tier which would force many non essential indoor businesses to close kron fours terisa stasio is following the stories. Well
Now 5 days away from the november 3rd election and kron 4 is your local election headquarters this election season. With a Record Number of people voting early this election season, there are already concerns tonight about missing ballots in the east bay, dozens of voters reported not receiving confirmation that their ballot was received by the Contra Costa County elections division. Kron fours justine waltman here now with details and whether or not foul play is believed to be involved justine. Well Contra Costa County has 37 drop off ballot boxes. But theres one question tonight, and thats the box thats right outside of Richmond City hall, dozens of voters say they dropped off their ballots there on october 12 and the county has not been able to confirm receipt of those ballots so theyre lost and the county doesnt know where they are tonight. The county is telling us this according to the Contra Costa County Elections Office the ballot box and Richmond City all has been inspected by
Fog this morning that is streamed into the bay. So if you are going to be voting this morning do plan on wearing a jacket then just a cool start as is typical this time of year. You can see your view the north bay looking down at San Francisco, some low cloud cover hovering right above the bay itself, your bridges of actually been fined visibility wise. But if you are heading up into some hillsides and right along the coastline. Thats where youre running into those lower visibility areas you do see spots in San Francisco oakland and happen bay area visibilities a bit lower. Were in the 40s and 50s right now, but this afternoon were in for a treat sunshine returning and nice warm temperatures. Rob all right. Thank you morning commute is picking up out there we dont have any major trouble spots right now. But we do have some slowing heading into San Francisco. Were checking out this line here at the bay bridge toll plaza already stacking up beyond the 80 over crossing so quite busy were