Wisconsin, the house is coming in. Thank you so much. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. January 16, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious and merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The house prepares to recess for a week of constituent visitation and in home districts. As the nation anticipates the Martin Luther king long weekend. As we remember the heroic struggle of the civil rights movement, the badges and incidents of slavery from continued through policies still operative today, though recently being addressed through efforts at criminal Justice Reform and sentencing reform. The pains of racism,
The senate. Kelly loeffler and david perdue facing off against Raphael Warnock and jon ossoff. Last pitches today, in person voting today, runoff record which is amazing, 3 million early votes already cast and people lined up today to vote in person. Todays voting is only part of the unprecedented moment in the country. Not only the balance of power up for grabs in the senate, but by this time tomorrow, republicans in washington will challenge the Democratic Foundation of this country. More than half House Republicans and 13 senators are expected to contest bidens win when congress meets to tally electoral votes. This is President Trumps last ditch effort to try to overturn the election and he is now applying maximum pressure to Vice President mike pence to go along with the charade tomorrow. It is incredible theater. We know the outcome. We have so much to get to in the next three hours in georgia where we have no idea what the outcome will be. Ryan young is in smyrna. What are you se
It is midnight on the east coast. Polls have been closed in georgia for five hours and heres where we stand. In the Georgia Senate runoff between incumbent republican senator dave uld perdue and democratic challenger jon ossoff, its 5050. This race is officially too close to call per nbc news. There are very few votes between those two candidates again 50. 0 to 50. 0. This is too close to call although warnock leads. Hes at 50. 4 to loefflers 49. 6 . There are a difference of just over 30,000 votes between those two candidates. Again, the numbers here are astonishing in terms of their closeness. There are remaining votes still due to be reported. Were at 98 in. Were watching closely the counties that remain that remain on our board with votes outstanding. Joy reid, watching what we have seen over these past 5. 5 hours since weve been here, the 5 hours since the polls closed, its been a nailbiter. I have no nails left. I didnt start with very many, but i have no nails left. Obviously Ra
Real votes. And Steve Kornacki at the big board. Will be waiting for those to either trickle in or crash into the computer. In georgia the warning has been coming up to tonight. Early vote drops first. To the viewers, we need to temper and tamp down some emotions that may be coming when they see the pile of early votes from some of the 159 counties across georgia. I think theres you like a good mystery novel. We have a lot of mystery and suspense. Not just in the results but the sequence. We can look back at november and we can disearn a couple things. Theres the possibility talking to the county officials i keep peering over. Any second we could see results pop late this map. I have the sense that some soft counties maybe changing their sequence from the thnovember election. Some might be faster reporting it out. It will vary. Fulton county ill click on it. Its the biggest in the state. Where atlanta is. Suburbs here as well. 10 of the state. All the votes that will come out of georgi
Wind has been picking up those embers and those embers have been skipping from house to house. And the other problem were hearing about, Water Pressure, firefighters telling me that they had to let some homes burn because they didnt have enough Water Pressure in some of those hydrants perhaps because of the power outage. Just moments ago, we got the view from above the fire from our affiliate kabc. Real concern because of zero containment on these fires so far. From our station in los angeles hes joining us as hes flying over the creek fire, an incredibly busy day, thank you for being with us tonight. Youre over a very active scene right now, the creek fire. How large is this and what are youre seeing . Well, this fires 11,000 acres right now, david. Well take you outside and show you picture of the creek fire. 11,000 acres. And were using our technology to show you where the fire is burning. And as you can see, theres a lot of smoke obscuring the fire and this is because of the santa