Considerably and here is where things stand right now as we. Bring you out to the big board obviously the magic number 2. 70 and the 2 people that are vying for that office are stuck really to 64 for biden hes obviously much closer to 2. 70 donald trump there at 2. 14 the big states where watching tonight. Our georgia and pennsylvania, both of which see joe biden surging donald trump still has the lead this map from our broadcast partners with the Associated Press has a light red for pennsylvania meeting trump is still leading a light red for georgia meaning trump is still leading however a click on georgia where there is now a razor thin lead for donald trump we zoom in we scroll over and with 16 electoral votes at stake, you can see donald trump here still has the lead. But it is fewer than 2000 votes. And that is with 99 of the vote counted. So still votes out there still looking through all those mail in ballots because of the pandemic so many of them to sort through, but this is a
Contra costa county. The news at 10 00 starts right now. Thank you for joining us for this special election 2020 newscast. Its not jut about the vote count. Many high profile republicans are joining the president in claiming Election Fraud without presenting any real evidence. Lets start with the numbers. The Electoral College vote unchanged. Youll notice in the last 24 hours because the races in five states are still too close to call. And four of those states could go to recounts. Joe biden with 253 electoral votes. 214 for President Trump. 270 is the magic number. The country is hanging on the results from nevada, arizona, pennsylvania, and georgia. In all four states, both candidates are within 2 Percentage Points of each other. And two are practically in a dead heat. In georgia, President Trump has led, has the lead with less than 2,000 votes. It is 11 00 in the evening in maricopa county, arizona, where the count continues at this hour. The county intends to announce new results
Things got heated in brentwood after a man hung a dummy with an antibiden slogan on it off of a noose. In san jose the citys primary inspector for massage parlors is under arrest accused of extortion and Sexual Assault on the job. The first cold storm of the season brings significant changes tomorrow. The president ial election keeping people on edge. Mental Health Experts and cannabis dispensaries seeing a surge in business. Abc 7 news starts right now. Tonight the agonizing wait goes on for a handful of states to determine the president ial election. North carolina, nevada, georgia, pennsylvania, arizona. Joe biden is leading with 253. President trump has 214. 270 are needed to win the electoral college. Developing right now though Philadelphia Police are investigating what they say was a planned attack at the place where the ballots are being counted. Police received a tip about a Group Driving from virginia to pennsylvania to target the center. Officers arrested one person but have
Georgia has not been called yet. The count continues to arizona, North Carolina and pennsylvania. Liz kreutz has been following the election closely and joins us with a look of the intensifying race for the white house. As you show there, we did just hear from President Trump minutes ago. I think hes still speaking now and hes been tweeting quite a lot over the past 24 hours but this is the first time we seen him publicly since his remarks the night of the election. Once again, hes claiming hes being cheated out of a win. If you count the legal votes, i easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. If you count the votes that came in late, were looking to them very strongly but a lot of votes came in late. Again, we have to say no evidence for this right now. Patience is really the word of the week. Were anxiously awaiting results in those Battle Ground states including pennsylvania. There was hope we would know the outcome tonight. As the day
52 look at the north bay though weve got some 30s back in fairfield Petaluma Santa Rosa and san anselmo cs another cool start and extra layers, youre stepping outside after these Cool Conditions this morning 70s and 80s later today under all that sunshine talking more about that. Still ahead robin. Thank you john were checking in on a caltrain because we have delays up to 20 minutes are having issues in the south bay, so train one 23 has stopped in morgan hill theyre having some mechanical issues this morning so thats causing a 20 minute delay right now. They are holding that rain pretty much until further notice so as soon as they release it or solve the let you know and pass it on meanwhile plan ahead or consider an alternate source of transportation they want to check in on the bay bridge which is unusually light into San Francisco and has a really backed up much and never reach the 80 the overcrossing or even the maze so easygoing at 13 minutes for 80 west from the bottom of the ma