With us on election day weve got the white house behind us and in front of us. The decision on this election day when millions of americans have already made up their minds. Yeah, weve got lots to talk about this morning lot of questions too about whats going to happen as the ballots. Our county tonight and into the days that follows and joining us to discuss more about that is Washington Post political reporter philip above phillip. Thank you so much for joining us today. So i read your article counting votes isnt cheating. It was a really nice breakdown of the entire process, what motivated you to write this in the first place. One of these were hearing particular from President Trump and his allies is this that by allowing both county and go on past today and wednesday, potentially isnt for week or so that theyre somehow something nefarious or or or or wrong about that when in fact it simply is the case that votes always take allow Council Members were able predict whos going to win
So, well call that partly cloudy right now. Temperatures today still a few 80s in our east bay valleys and most of us in the 70s and coast in the San Francisco in the 50s. Five to ten degrees cooler than yesterday. Still too warm for this time of year. Kumasi. Ill take it from there, thanks, mike. Happening now the polls are officially open and voting is under way in most of the continental u. S. Ill take it from here. Lets take a live look right now at voters. They are lining up as you can see. This is in anderson county, south carolina. Another very crucial state. Voters in swing states will likely be deciding this election and because many of these states are several time zones ahead of us, well start to see the Election Results this afternoon. So, heres a look at some of the big ones that we will be tracking. The following times are pacific times. Polls in georgia and parts of florida close at 4 00 p. M. Our time and the Florida Panhandle and parts of michigan and pennsylvania it w
Schools open and businesses running and amid this latest wave some european nations are looking good imposing new restrictions to slow the infection rate so with this in mind lets take another look at the trends and spread of the virus globally with r. T. Correspondent side savages where are we monday so brand the number of people diagnosed with covert 1000 is growing every single day across much of the world so globally were almost at 45000000. 00 current firm cases while death stand at 1160000. 00 and growing now the u. S. Has more tases and deaths than any other country and right now with more than 8900000 confirmed cases while over 230000 thats now even with these numbers now theyre all still likely far lower than the actual number of cases thats being reported now breaking down the actual numbers just for the u. S. Now overall case number in the country has. Reach frightening new records across recent days in branches like you mentioned just on sunday at least 339 new deaths and a
Announced. Ray bothan has more on how theyre spending their elect day. Reporter two New Hampshire towns counted their ballots after election day at midnight. It could be what could be a dayslong battle for the presidency. For president , joe biden. Reporter after midnight, the towns of Dixville Notch and millsville, New Hampshire, tallied votes in an e election day tradition. The democratic nominee joe biden won dibsville notch and President Trump won mill feel, 16 votes to five. The former Vice President began his day with a visit to church and then a trip to his childhood home in scranton. Hes spending the day making his final pitch to voters. I want to that would be melodramatic. I want to restore basic decency and honor to the white house. Reporter President Trump spent election eve in grand rapids, michigan. He will spend part of today at the white house after holding 14 rallies over three days. The president said he is confident he will bring home a win. I did this once before an
Ill track that until a crew gets on scene there. A great drive and an easy start, marcus. Back over to you. Thanks, mike. Now to the race to the white house unlike any election ever held, the finish line now in site. The first ballots were cast in dixville notch, new hampshire, and it was a clean sweep for joe biden. The democratic candidate picked up all five votes. So far nearly 100 million americans have voted early and President Trump will hold an Election Night event at the white house. Joe biden will continue campaigning in pennsylvania. Today in the bays tracie potts is live in wilmington, delaware, where biden will watch the results come in tonight. Tracie . Reporter laura and marcus, he does have events happening in pennsylvania today making lastminute stops. First in his birthplace of scranton and then were told at least two local stops in philadelphia. No big rallies as we start to see people line up as the polls open in philadelphia. They are putting in security for Preside