Arizona, georgia, michigan, and pennsylvania. Rnc says the purpose is to make sure there is no malfeasance. In the press release they did suggest democrats were engaged in some sort of manipulation of the vote count. Were going to keep an eye on that as we keep an eye on the ongoing vote count. A closer look at the numbers, starting in georgia which is just razor thin, a statistical dead heat, democrats have not carried this state in a president ial election since 92. Each candidate has 49. 4 of the vote. Theyre continuing to count absentee ballots but biden is ahead by 1100 votes. A live look in arizona, this is maricopa county. 90 of the vote in there right now, looking a little sleepy in the vote counting room. Biden is up about 47,000 points and maricopa has more than 200,000 ballots outstanding. So we are keeping an eye on that as well as pennsylvania this morning. It looks like we are going to have potentially some solid results by the end of the day. We will keep you posted. Bac
Welcome back. Taking a look at the races in congress now. Abc news is showing republicans hanging onto a threeseat advantage with a number of contests still up for grabs as democrats look to take control of the chamber. One seat not changing hands is maine republican susan collins, who survived a major challenge from democrat sara gideon. Collins holds on for a fifth term, winning by seven percentage points. In the house, republicans have a net gain of five seats so far. Democrats are trying to maintain their advantage in that chamber. More than a dozen races are considered tossups. This election brought a number of firsts for the lgbtq plus community. Delawares Sarah Mcbride is the first openly transgender state senator in the country. Tennessee now has its first openly lgbtq lawmakers with tori harris and eddie manus winning their races. Taylor small is vermonts first openly transgender legislator. One race that was a landslide victory took place in the Northern Kentucky hamlet of ra
Piseth chhay has been missing since mothers day. Ten Days Later Police announced they considered him a victim of foul play. Thats when they named 48 yearold bob tang of San Francisco as the main person of interest as he skipped a meeting with detectives. Police say the warehouse where the human remains were found is connected to mr. Tang. Rob malcolm has been following this developing story. Rob, what can you tell us . Reporter good evening frank and alyana, investigators with the San Francisco Police Department and the k9 teams from the Alameda County Sheriffs Office responded to the warehouse about 10 00 a. M. Saturday morning. Workers reported smelling a strong odor and what they found appeared to be human remains. This warehouse is connected to and controlled by bob tang, also known as bob tom. Tang had known piseth chhay for about six years. They had met through a family friend. Chhay was last seen on may 14, out driving for uber that day. Tang is considered a person of interest b
Gunned down on her first day. A tragic shooting in virginia. I just want to be clear, do we have officers involved in a shooting . We have three officers that have been shot. An officer shot and killed her first day on the job, two other cops injured. What police are saying this morning about the suspect. World cup crash, olympic skier lindsey vonn with a horrific fall in the middle of a race on saturday. Today, despite that fall, and a fracture, shes back in action. And ready for oscar. Glitz and glamour will be on full display tonight at the 88th academy awards. Will leo finally take home his first oscar and how will host chris rock address the controversy sur rounding the lack of diversity. Were counting down to it all, sunday, february 28th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. Im jeff rossen alongside the ladies as we love, dylan dreyer and sheinelle jones. Are you rootin
Fracture, shes back in action. And ready for oscar. Glitz and glamour on full display tonight at the 88th academy awards. Will leo finally take home his first oscar . We have it all, today, february 28th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today, im erika hill. You guys rooting for leo tonight . I havent thought about it. Its really impressive. The film, everything that went into it, and for what he put into that role, its an impressive performance. Up for best picture, best well see how that goes. Well start with our other top story, the battle for the white house. Hillary clintons huge victory over Bernie Sanders in South Carolina on saturday, winning 74 of the vote. Bernie sanders, just 26 . This morning mrs. Clinton says she is not taking anything for granted as sanders vows he is far from out of this race. Plenty of activity on the republican side as well. We have full coverage and analysis for you. We begin with Nbcs