Greg. Reporter heather, good afternoon. Day four of the tense count, as the nation waits to find out who will win the election. The margens are slim and bottom line is the closer it is, the longer this could take as you said. We know former Vice President joe biden, california senator Kamala Harris give a prime time address exactly what they will say, thats to be determined. And thousands of votes are still being counted as we speak. Lets go straight to the numbers in critical battleground state pennsylvania. 20 Electoral College votes. A state the president flipped in 2016. Bideen took lead the lead and we are i want waiting from counts in Allegheny County biden ahead by 14,000 votes. In georgia it bears repeating a state that has not selected a democrat i go president since 1972 but the margin is thin. There will likely and recount. Official say whats left are provisional ballots. Right now, biden ahead by about 4,000 votes. Lets go to nevadan 6 Electoral College votes. Official also
Votes officials have said. They will are counting votesle into the weekend. Clark county is home to 70 of the states population. Thats where las vegas is. 88 reporting. Biden holding his 50 to 48 lead. Fox news and the Associated Press already called arizona for joe biden, but here is a quick look at those numbers. Biden holding tune that lead 50 to 49 with 90 reporting. Fulton held a News Conference in the last hour. Here in full torn county, the fat lady has almost sung. All article votes have been counted. All day of votes have been counted. All absentee ballots have been counted. Now were concluding the process of counting the provisional ballots. Mind you, thats just one county in georgia. Were still waiting on counts in others. And we need to give credit near california and to these other states where many of the folks counting these votes are volunteers and all of this amidst a pandemic. Alex . Absolutely. They are absolutely the unsung heros in this whole process. Yeah, we owe
Hey, mike. Hey, reggie. Good morning to you. Jobina, and also frances joining us this morning. Well get back to them in a second. Lets show you whats going on. A calm and cool night out there. There are a few clouds developing near the coast. Well keep an eye on those. For the most part as you can see from our exploratorium camera, its a clear and quiet morning. That will lead to a tranquil afternoon with warmer than average temperatures from 67 in Half Moon Bay with low to mid 70s around the bay. Even a 77 in fremont. Some 80s showing up around morgan hill, livermore, concord, fairfield, santa rosa, lake port and ukiah. Well look at your weekend forecast, nothing too scary there coming up and the latest on zeta as well. We know one of the biggest questions for parents right now is when can your kids go back to class . Alameda county says middle and high schools can reopen as soon as november 9th if they have a plan. Education is one key area were focusing on in our effort to building
These high schools and how crowded the hallways can get as they change classes. Does that really allow for social distancing . One question of many that they have. Alameda county has Just Announced that middle schools and high schools can reopen if they have a safety plan. They can reopen in about a week, november 9th. Not this monday, but the next. Oakland and Dublin Schools, theyve already kicked that can down the road saying they wont open until january and it will be the Elementary Schools that open first. The older kids will then still be at home. One parent in fremont is on board with that idea. She has doubts about High Schoolers staying six feet apart. I definitely would want to know what type of safety matters theyll take before kids touch the campus. The hallways are so jam packed, i dont see how yet even if its a modified amount of students, how they can keep them six feet apart, not crowded, you know, not clustered and stuff. Alameda county says one public school, one chart
Positive in recent years. Horizon before sunrise 4 00 it morning, the covid testing began at the parking lot of the hospital. All employees are being tested for the virus for today because over the past month a total of 14 Staff Members have come down with it. We have periodically had employees come up positive. But never this many in the span of four weeks. The ceo says the hospital has one long term covid patient theyre treating there. They dont know if the Staff Members have been sick from this patient. They dont know if patients have gotten sick from Staff Members. Our experience were having right now, is showing just how dangerous this virus is and how very, very easy it is for anyone in our community to pick it up and become infected. Once the hospital workers are at thed for covid today theyll be fitted for n95 masksment only the staff working with the patients had to wear n95. Now, everyone must wear one. They hope to get the results back from todays test to share them with cou