You know, and the nasdaq, of course, moving ahead here. But right now the dow and the s p are the ones poised for a gain on the week. And we got that hand count underway right now in the peach state as Networks Finally do what fox has done and call that race in arizona, indeed, for joe biden. So that is not going down well with team trump. Well take a look at whats happening on the count, where he might place his bets right now in this increasingly unlikely bid to secure another four years of the white house. Lets go to Jackie Deangelis first i off on those spikes in cases right now that just get bigger and bigger and more worrisome literally by the day. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. Well, presumably, the president will be briefed on that. Its supposed to happen i any moment now regarding operation warp speed. But, of course, its a closed briefing, and many are questioning why joe biden, president elect, wont be involved. Thats a separate conversation that we could have
A michael ok welcome to the program joe biden is edging closer to the white house says the final votes are still being counted 3 days after the u. S. Election most tallies in the remaining undeclared states have swung in favor of president Donald Trumps democratic challenger. The latest figures show biden with 264 Electoral College votes ahead of President Trump with 214 in georgia where 16 electoral votes are up for grabs its an extremely tight tight tight race biden has pulled ahead of trump by just over a 1000 votes with 99 percent of votes counted at this point pennsylvania is the biggest prize yet to be decided with 20 electoral votes at stake here joe biden has just overtaken trump and is leading by a tiny margin 98 percent of votes there have now been counted in arizona votes are still being counted as we speak the a. P. News agency has called for the state for biden but most other Media Outlets have not called it yet 11 Electoral College votes are at stake there which were incl
Our live coverage continues on america this morning. Good friday morning, everyone. At this hour former Vice President joe biden is making gains in two crucial states. Heres where we stand right now. Biden is still at 253 electoral votes. President trump at 214. They need 270. In pennsylvania President Trumps lead has been shrinking. It was fewer than 20,000 votes overnight, and its not just mailin votes from philadelphia where biden has been making huge gains. Last night erie county in the northwest corner of the state turned blue. President trump needs pennsylvania to win the white house. A major update. Biden has taken the lead in the state of georgia where he had been trailing since election day as the vote count has been coming in overnight. And were expecting more votes today from the atlanta suburbs and from savannah. Both are blue areas. Looking at arizona, a bright spot for the president. Bidens lead is shrinking to about 47,000 votes overnight. All eyes there on Maricopa Coun
Day and as you can see here let me fill you in quickly where are in right in front of the Pennsylvania Convention center here in philadelphia and trucks are common in our people are filling in the 3 in the same as we had yesterday here there will be music playing this is the count all votes crowd here on the other side through new not to see because youre right theres the banner right and wrong of it is is police and its the center and they will be probably we expect them to show up at some point some supporters showing up and then a shouting match will ensure hopefully thats all which will ensue as we saw yesterday 7 everybody is hopelessly looking for clues to figure out where this election is going to go as far as you know our election workers currently counting those from counties that favor either candidate. Yes so candy surrounding counties and districts of philadelphia for example bucks county Allegheny County and other counties in pennsylvania they stopped counting for the nigh
A recount here right but as daryn mentioned that number isnt going to stay static. We do expect it to grow and the reason why is all slide over the map here so we see pennsylvania. The majority of the ballots that are still uncounted that are out there again we woke up this morning to about a 160,000 or so that still need to be tabulated theyre primarily concentrated in the high population areas of Philadelphia County where the city of philadelphia is an Allegheny County where pittsburgh is there are still several and of those that still need to be counted. Theyre broken up into 3 major groups obviously still have the absentee mail in ballots that theyre Getting Started right, you also have the provisional ballots that have also been held to account after the mail in ballots and those are the ballots that they give you lets say if you go to a precinct, cant remember if this was my polling place or not they get a provisional ballot they take on your information they say will counted aft