You through so lets get into it louisiana 8 Electoral College votes to dont drop again a lot of these are going to be fairly predictable ones ones like north dakota which is going to go the way of donald trump only a small state there with 3 Electoral College votes we look at nebraska next to rick. It is nebraska now just going to polls on this for a 2nd 3 Electoral College votes for donald trump there are 5 on offer in nebraska i think you may remember early i mention that nebraska and maine split their Electoral College votes so if this point we can say there are 3 for donald trump he is the projected winner in those 3 districts 2 other ones which could be picked up by have a candidate. Lets move on again in vienna or wyoming no its wyoming 1st of all with its 3 Electoral College votes in indiana as well excuse me indiana is the next one with 11 Electoral College votes and the state of nevada as well now this is when we start looking at some blue states the state of too early to coal with 6 Electoral College votes but that will be one which would likely go into the blue column a little bit later on we know one that will new york was a projected winner of joe biden there were 29 Electoral College votes the same number is in play in florida as well new mexico is another one well look at to put in the column of joe biden with 5 Electoral College votes. And colorado as well which has just been no sorry too early to call in colorado with 9 Electoral College votes and also kansas at this stage too early to call d officially but again another one we would expect to drop into the republican column a little later on as we would with south dakota in fact its already dropped in with 3 Electoral College votes for donald trump there lets check wisconsin lets go through some of our swing states now a battleground areas 10 to coal in wisconsin. As it is in wyoming and i feel we did wyoming already actually at arizona star is a lot of information coming into my ear all at once arizona 11 Electoral College votes to coal as well so lets actually have a little look at the state profile for you then you saw the virtual graphic which i was doing a little bit earlier explaining arizona in there as well donald trump with 49 percent against Hillary Clintons 45 but you see how that gap had been narrowed previously mitt romney with 54 so a 10 percent gap and 2012 it was narrowed to 4 percent by Hillary Clinton which is why weve got arizona in our swing states out battleground states this year lets check up in michigan as well which is still too early to call this will be an important one the blue wall which youve heard so much about again checking the history there actually checking the popular vote with 7 percent reporting and donald trump comfortably ahead of them but at 7 percent we cant really take too much into that it is too early to call with what is that 700800000 votes counted now as fully wanted to talk about texas with 38 Electoral College votes is too early to call lets check the popular vote. Now that is very interesting 37 percent of precincts reporting at the moment and joe biden is just ahead now how hes doing that in such a red state what hes doing it in and you saw this before again and that virtual graphic i was doing early a show in u. The urban areas the places like Harris County which is houston. Also Dallas County which is dallas and backside county which is san Antonio Donald trump im sorry joe biden is either doing as well as Hillary Clinton there or in the case of south san antonio is doing a lot better than Hillary Clinton did there and he is also cutting into some of the republican margins in places like Harris County in houston as well so. At this stage you would say not enough to flip the state but it makes it very very interesting that number on its own says its interesting as well when you look back in the history have a closer look at these Hillary Clinton and donald trump 10 percent between them. 4 years ago thats a small gap when you compare to previously when barack obama only had 41 percent against mitt romneys 57. 00 so Hillary Clinton had already been now were going to get 4 years ago the democrats have been making their inroads and clearly joe biden is building on that in and around the suburban areas would it be enough to flip texas that would be a political earthquake territory and would change the whole map completely we are not obviously at that stage we are at 38 percent of precincts reporting there so the state of the race as it is right now donald trump has 50 percent of the popular vote joe biden has 48 but then this is what happens in you know talked about it earlier with the Electoral College vote the way that it can change donald trump ahead he has more people voting for him at this stage but it is joe biden who has picked up more of the Electoral College votes thats the way the system works it can ebb and flow like that in the end the only one that matters will be those Electoral College votes there. So i think thats premature well leave it there ok because i need to take a break i think in this case that was when i was a big news on texas but that is big news it is big news but as you say. Its too early to for and to flip it would be but that would be the savior for night if an earthquake thank you come on for the moment well lets check in with Kimberly White house correspondent. Kimberly a number of states coming in this hour no not big surprises of course but i imagine the Campaign Still watching whats going on in florida very very closely. Watching whats happening in florida but already were seeing the trunk campaign sending out messages that they believe theyve secured florida. But what i can tell you yet again weve been talking about this party thats happening behind we had dont know if you can hear it this is a bit of a street party on black lives matter plaza theyre not trying to supporters they are counting out a joe Biden Victory and prepared to celebrate i dont think thats the same thing going on inside the white house right now in the east wing where we know the president is watching these returns coming in with his family and friends there couple of worrying signs for the president and for a president that were so accustomed to being very very vocal on twitter he is noticeably silent a couple of the problem states that are looking troublesome for him right now North Carolina as well as ohio he really needs to win North Carolina to win the white house and he doesnt he would need the midwestern states to really have a solid victory and again showing some worrying signs so its notable the fact that we have not heard much from the president can believe thank you check in with mike now in done away the home state of joe biden can really say some worrying signs for trump in a number of states is a concern in the biden camp about any particular state at this stage. Rather like in the trump camp the silence out of the biden camp at the moment or last simply. Watching the results of the ongoing analysts and malice of what is happening but nobody breaking cover at the moment the situation is soul close so absolutely tense in a number of states that nobody wants to come out and make any calls at this particular point in time joe biden said it very clearly early on in the afternoon that when hes got something to say he will come out and hell say or 10 very clearly this instruction has gone down to his staff weve heard very little from the Biden Campaign headquarters behind me here we understand that joe biden himself is still at his home here in washington delaware in a few hours time hell come to the Convention Center with his Vice President nominee a comma there harris but at the moment the campaign being very quiet but there are some encouraging signs that have been seen throughout the evening however florida once again remains a major major issue the trumps likely widening his lead there which would be a concern for the Biden Campaign they really banking on florida as something that will flip and actually give them a surge with as the other results come in but that is still far too close to call at this particular point they are happy that their projections indicate a virginia win for biden that would be important for him but the key issues here still remain florida at this particular point texas is looking very very interesting for the Biden Campaign thats a state that hasnt been properly contested by a democratic candidate for a long period of time so the closeness of that particular struggle there a point off encouraged meant for those sitting in the Convention Center behind me but as i said just like in the truck Campaign Headquarters theres a silence out of here certainly theyre never regular tweets from the from the Biden Campaign as are from the trump one but. Just like President Trump and his followers is a wits wait lets watch lets see and we are waiting mike hanna in dunaway thank you mike talking about florida there of course a big focus tonight florida lets check in with florida and gallagher in miami and the florida is proving typically dramatic. You know i mean how unusual that we are here in the state of florida talking about yet another tight race it up back in 2016 and im 20 years ago when this state decided between bush and gore and who was going to be the president so it is extremely important though for donald trump to win this state because there are other ways that joe biden can stop trump getting to the white house as kimberly was just saying a team trumpery saying florida is in the bike that is not a certainty at the moment although if you look at those polls trump does seem to be edging ahead in a margin that would be more than how much he beat Hillary Clinton by which was only about 112000. 00 votes so for team trump for the president this is a vital state 29. 00 Electoral College votes the biggest battleground state and this entire president ial election so they are calling it early themselves a team from as kimberly was saying the president himself is very quiet we have to watch wait and see what happens in this vital state for the Trump Presidency and he in miami thank you for the moment florida and now we are going to look at ohio where nearly 2 thirds of the votes have been counted and theyre showing that joe biden is in the lead has come a santa maria on why ohio has been an important swing states in all elections taken. Just what is it about the state of ohio you might have heard it called the bellwether state a kind of trend setter when it comes to u. S. Elections this is because since 944 higher and its 18 votes have chosen the losing candidate just the one time that was Richard Nixon back in 1980 its quite a record to uphold but thats not to say that these have been easy victories most winning candidates have won the state with tight margins if you look at 2004 in fact it was critical in deciding george bushs reelection against john kerry but by 2016 donald trump managed to win very comfortably and 8 percent when it was over Hillary Clinton and this is why high it was older and wiser than the National Average more than 80 percent of eligible voters in ohio a white africanamericans make up only a little more than 12 percent now joe biden would like to win here of course he would but dont trump probably has to win after all no republican has won the presidency without the Buckeye State they say as ohio goes so goes the nation and that is why a massive. Well for more on whats going on in ohio that speaks to john hendren 2 thirds of the votes counted there john whats the latest. Well trump won ohio in 2016 by 8 Percentage Points it was an easy win for him and what were seeing tonight is that joe biden is significantly outperforming Hillary Clinton all across the state were not seeing trump outperform his own 2016 performance now one of the problems here is that early votes come in and daily votes come in at different times we know that the of the day voting tends to favor trump early voting pretty heavily favors biden but what were seeing here is that biden seems to be holding on to that advantage that hes got hes run up the vote. In urban areas like cleveland and columbus mit or importantly in lake county right next to cleveland he is also captured a county that Hillary Clinton why is that important because its in the suburbs and it was in the suburbs that donald trump one the 2016 election this time around what were seeing is that biden is improving in the suburbs not just in ohio but in other states as well and so that is a sign if it remains we still got a 3rd of the vote to count in ohio thats a big sign for biden right now in michigan we see trump leading i wouldnt read too much into that thats because they count mostly the of the day votes of those favor trump were going to see early voting counted later and it might not be tonight it might not be tomorrow before we get those cleveland votes wisconsin is another vote another state that we need to watch that is one that trump one very narrowly breaking up the blue wall all of those states were states that barack obama won they called it his democratic blue wall this year its looking very different but if trump loses ohio his path to victory narrow dramatically he won by 36. 00 electoral votes last time this would be 18 of those votes and biden appears to be outperforming Hillary Clinton in several places across the nation. Thank you for the acts lets not go to christian salumi crucial battleground states of pennsylvania ohio michigan all of those up for grabs today christine you are in philadelphia looking at pennsylvania and 2016 of course now only one and sylvania with less than one percentage point how of things going to look in 2020. Yes well democrats are hoping that they were able to rally suburban women minority voters particularly black and latino voters and also some disaffected republicans to avoid a repeat of 2016 when Hillary Clinton was leading in the polls much like joe biden has been but president was able to pull off an upset victory winning by less than a percentage point and. It may take a while however for all the votes be counted here in this crucial battleground state and thats because theyve only just begun processing some 2 and a half 1000000 mail of mail in ballots because state law required them to wait until today to begin that process they say theyre going to do it as quickly as possible the governors just been speaking about that but they say it could take as long as friday. That of course. Could favor. Democrats in the end if theres a lot of votes outstanding it could look good for President Trump by the end of the day because its expected that the early votes would favor president whereas the mail in votes would favor joe bidens nearly 3 times as many mail in ballots were requested by democrats and received from democrats than they were from republicans and right now only about 15 percent of the vote is in and joe biden is actually doing very well here but its way too early for those percentages to mean too much given all of that but clearly the candidates have been very focused on pennsylvania theyve been here more than any other state President Trump was here 13 times joe biden was here 16 times as recently as a few hours ago he showed up here in penn philadelphia pennsylvania the states largest city and he was making an appeal to philadelphia he really needs voters in urban areas that favor him strongly to to come out he needed them to come out and certainly we saw a lot of engagement from voters here but again maybe a while for we know for sure how it turned out christine thank you christine tsunami in philadelphia pennsylvania now so far you know the polls have closed in a number of states. What theyre expected to be so far but we could be in for a surprise in texas. How do you castro is in houston for us heidi whats the latest from there. If only it is still too close to call here in texas which in itself is surprising typically by this time of the night on Election Night the u. S. Network would have said that texas is solidly red in favor of the republican president ial candidate but what were seeing here is that this very close results thus far with some 60 percent of votes be reported and trump is edging ahead by a mere some 1300. 00 votes at last check of course is still early in the night so were still expecting some of the border counties and El Paso County to repeat reporting their results later they are the last polls to have close and they are democratic leaning so certainly theres sti