Pennsylvania and georgia is he maintained his lead in arizona and nevada bidens a razor thin margin grew is millions of mail in ballots were tallied securing him more than enough Electoral College votes to become the 46th president of the United States well the announcement has sparked celebrations across the country large crowds have gathered in washington d. C. As well as new york city and philadelphia well lets go live now to alan fischer in washington d. C. Allan you obviously have been following every twist and turn of this election it took a couple of days but joe biden is now the president elect. Exactly i came to trump in 4 years ago and it looks as if a year when were counting him but the Republican Party are seeing quite yet we are just above the white house you can see Lafayette Park behind me which has been sealed off since around the time of the george lloyd protest. In the summer behind that is the white house the oval office is just over to the right and in front of Lafayette Park and for some considerable distance into washington d. C. Itself for several city blocks thousands of people have gathered here to mark the occasion of donald trump losing the presidency the church in front of me there with that school dorm thats important as well because thats the church youll remember where donald trump came to use the chemical additives to clear Peaceful Protesters and stand during the george boyd protest with a bible in this hand and talk about the law and order of the thousands here most i can see are Wearing Masks given the the rising covert over the last few days thats probably a good idea but lets get back to what donald trump and the Republican Party are saying donald trump earlier on this morning tweeted out that i won the selection by a lot and then he went off to play golf and while on the golf course he found out from the American Media that joe biden probably had enough Electoral College votes to be declared the president elect immediately his team put out a statement saying that they would challenge that in court on monday and that it wasnt the media that decided elections in the United States it was the people that has been backed up by a rule not mcdaniel who is the chairwoman of the Republican National committee she has tweeted just in the last few moments the media dont decide who wins elections voters do in multiple states the margins are razor thin with counting on going several of which are heading for a recount in order for americans to have confidence in elections we need time to let the canvassing and set of the kitchen process take place along with investigations of irregularities or fraud. Just a reminder in the build up to the election donald trump said that if you lost the election it would because it would be because of fraud and he would take it as far as the Supreme Court to try and over to. That decision thats exactly how this is playing out in space session speech from the president it seems that he is going to continue fighting this for several days we had a similar thing back in 2002 remember florida and the infamous hanging chads that went on for more than 30 days this process could still take a while but as far as the people on the street here in washington and in many other cities across the United States joe biden is the president elect and will be the 46. 00 president of the United States and alan of course who will be focusing on the legal challenges by the trump team to this result but tell us briefly when it comes to locations in specifics briefly what is the trunk Team Fighting against and what challenges will they bring. Well theyre alleging that in arizona for example that there were dead people who were allowed to vote in pennsylvania that they were allowed to observe the ballots as they were being counted which they say gives the opportunity for corruption and ballot stuffing they are saying in georgia some of the standards for electro law were not met all of these things they will take to the various regional courts of course they have not presented any evidence of this they were in a court case in pennsylvania just a couple of days ago arguing that observers were not in the room the judge said hold on a 2nd wasnt there someone from the Trump Campaign a load in the room and they admitted there was so in the judges words i dont see what your problem is they have a high bar to pass to prove that there is a problem in another case a judge said what youre bringing me is hearsay evidence youre telling me that someone told someone and they told someone that the parent something that is Never Acceptable in a court what the Term Campaign warhawk is that they can appeal this all the way up to the Supreme Court no you dont automatically get to take your case to the Supreme Court theyve got to decide whether or not they want to hear that donald trump believes with 9 justices on the court a 63 conservative majority 3 of whom he installed during his 4 years in the white house that the will rule for him that is by no means guaranteed but what is guaranteed is that donald trump in the next couple of days isnt planning to make a concession speech and the republicans are going to take this to the courts so as far as theyre concerned this election is not over yet alan fischer with the latest there from washington d. C. For the moment allan thank you. Well joe biden is expected to address the nation in the coming hours but before that he has tweeted that he is all nerds that america has chosen him to lead he says the work ahead will be hard but he promised to be a president for all americans whether they voted for him or not and hes promised to keep the faith that americans have placed in him well jim lets say ill joins us live now from outside biden said quarters in wilmington delaware we can really see people gathering behind you there jamal obviously getting ready to celebrate because we are waiting to hear from biden himself in the coming hours are only. Indeed barbara we expect that the president elect will take to the stage behind me here in roughly about just over maybe 5 hours from now 8 pm local time more and more of his supporters have been converging onto this parking lot area just outside the chase center where his Campaign Headquarters has been set up for several days some of these people have been coming and going the past few days in anticipation of waiting finally for them the wait is over as has been announced that he is indeed to the winner of this much contested election interesting enough its not just congratulations that have come from the democrats there have been a couple from the republican losing mitt romney and the congressman from michigan as well who have come out to congratulate joe biden told mitchell they are making that statement just in the past hour or so so the people here extremely happy weve spoken to many of them theyve been expressing the Different Reasons why they are happy but there is a constant here that there is a hope that the divisions that have really arisen over the past 4 years may possibly be healed their reason relief that they believe donald trump who calls the real threat to many of the core values that they hold is now no longer or keys will no longer be in the white house and theyve been speaking about thats to us over the past few hours and about tell me a little bit about the crowd there is young people old people and makes how does it reflect would you say the base the support base that joe biden has. It reflects a quite well youd think it is based on diversity both in terms of age gender and background that he was able to garner so much support remember he is he now holds the record for the most amount of votes that any candidates in u. S. President ial history has been able to garner and you get people from different backgrounds like i say who have decided to come here to show their support this is juxtaposed to maybe the more kind of lets say. Singular face of many of the trump rallies in fact im going to put over a couple of people here who have come to celebrate this occasion tell me how you guys feel about this this announcement yeah were very happy that biden wine so yeah were very happy and elated so. Did it for president michel you guys on the doug vultures that been speaking about you actually voted for by the early voted by me and then we are both that are called the last one being any voted by you to mail ballots so were very one of the latest ones that get counted on what is the most important thing you feel that biden needs to do once he takes up office. I think he eats a quality game back to quality of everyone so. About immigration in about everything hes stopped all those threats to make that. Equal you know for everyone yeah well now you have also the 1st ever female Vice President in u. S. History what message does that send to you oh that the same message for me for women Vice President this is the 1st time that she was the one who won and i feel very glad that the women are already empowering the women as a Vice President thank you very much so they will barbara there is not diversity as you mention and it is something that really is bringing hope because one of the things that many people felt insecure about under a Trump Presidency was his rhetoric towards minorities was his rhetoric towards women was his rhetoric on Race Relations and we saw thats something that really did scare a lot of people but the reality is whats very important to note here is that there are still millions of people who voted for donald trump knowing what his views are there is still systematic racism in many institutions within the United States which both joe biden himself has acknowledged when he was speaking late on friday as well as members of the Democratic Party who are seem to be on the more cornhole Progressive Side of things very much see it as something that really needs to be dealt with will be interesting to see what joe biden says about that when he speaks he is due to speak in a couple of hours im sure the crowds behind you keep on getting bigger and bigger for the moment in wilmington delaware john thank you. Well lets go to kristen salumi shes covering events in pennsylvania joins us now from philadelphia kristen of course pennsylvania was crucial in all of this tell us whats happening there now and how it unfolded there. Well barbara this is the state that put joe biden over the top he is in the lead here by a mere 31000 votes but that was enough to take him up to a half percentage point lead over president and for major Media Outlets in this country to declare joe biden a victory and you can hear the celebration going on behind me im outside of city hall in philadelphia where people have been gathering with american flags and biden harris posters to take pictures to share and to celebrate a lot of tension built up around this event but the president of course is not conceding defeat just yet and pennsylvania remains the focus of his ire and his legal activities not too long after the race was called his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani held a press conference here where he discussed plans to submit another lawsuit alleging that monitors in the state were not given access to observe the ballot counting now an earlier claim was dismissed by a local judge this is a federal claim our rights to squirm a nation claim the attorney said that he had statements from 25. 00 poll workers around the state alleging misconduct and suspicious behavior he had a couple of them with him at this event including a woman who said they werent allowed to take pictures they saw some boxes that looked specific suspicious but the allegations of a bit vague but the attorney promising to take this to the court saying that this is a sign that the voters were being surprised here of course officials here in philadelphia have been denying that all along they point out that theres a 24 hour camera here in philadelphia in particular in the place where the ballots were being counted as well as having monitors the whole. All time in there in the room from the republican and the Democratic Party so the battle continues but if you listen to the celebrations around me people here obviously consider this a done deal i should point out however that the ballots are not completely counted they are still going through what appears to be less than 100000 ballots these are some of the most difficult ones to tabulate because they may have to be verified because of issues with the ballot the official state count does not come out until the 20th of november and if for some reason that count brings the total within the last and a half a percentage point that is either candidate is ahead by less than a half a percentage point that would trigger an automatic recount so while there is a lot of celebration going on here there is still some time for those results to be finalized and of course these legal issues also to be taken out by president jacques. Christen salumi with the latest in philadelphia pennsylvania kristin for now thank you. Well it is a historic election because Vice President elect obama harris will be the 1st woman 1st south asian and 1st black person to hold that office she learned the news while out jogging and was one of the 1st to congratulate her running mate the week we did it joe. Here giving the next president of the United States the. So very happy camel harris they will get we live on the joins us now on the phone from new yorks times square paint us a picture of what its looking like there. Well thousands of people in the heart of times square theres some that are standing. Street signs there are people dancing in the middle of the street every so often the most are playing music cheers will break out People Holding fight in paris signed. Last hour tonight stepped away about a half a block away just so you could hear me but its a its a real mix of people a lot of young people teenagers in their twentys thirtys some older people as well and they just sort of taken over the heart of times square and theyre cheering and just sort of. Taking in this moment if you will this is not an organized a philip aeration in any way there are several other organized celebrations that are going to be happening here in new york city but this was just where people come to whenever theres big news but just this and thats whats happening right now we did see senator Chuck Schumer hes the senator from new york in the minority leader in the senate he actually came here on a plan he got up was holding up i didnt harris sign up 20 minutes ago and people were mobbing him taking photographs i actually asked him if he was kind of being mobbed by the crowd i asked him what is your message to President Donald Trump at this moment and he told me and these are his words my message is the president. Its time to go back to florida your home thats the message that senator schumer told me just a few minutes ago his message to President Donald Trump so clearly its a nice day here in new york city the temperatures are very good and theres a lot of people that are out just soaking in this moment. Everyone is on the with the latest from new york thank you. For new york lets go to atlanta now georgia and we can join aljazeera is the tasha good name there and georgia has turned out. Georgia has turned out to be a very key state there really a way for same difference tell us whats going on. Yeah georgia has been a republican stronghold and right now biden is leading by about 7200 votes which is considered pretty monumental when you consider that the states 16 Electoral College votes have not gone to a democratic president ial candidate since 1992 you also have 2 very tight senate races that are so close theyre going to be going to a runoff in january and the outcome of those races could affect the knowledge of power in government if the democrats people consider it unlikely but if they do happen to pick up these 2 seats democrats would have complete control of the government freedom park in midtown atlanta where there is a big celebration going on and with me is abby ed line she is 18 years old we spotted deer in the crowd because of this sign this is the 1st time she has voted in a president ial election and she was in gauged abbi tell me about some things that you did leading up to the election to ensure that other young people such as yourself would get out and vote so i knew that that youth vote was going to be the thing that would decide this election especially in georgia alternately so along with a lot of my peers at my school we went around and registered every eligible voter we could find in our entire School District and we teamed up with all the other schools and a. P. s which is our system and we registered over. I think 500 students in order to vote this year what are some of the issues that made you throw your support behind biden particularly as a young person just starting out in life so the biggest thing for me is ending the gun violence epidemic in our country and i know biden is working towards that as well another one of my big things was his stance on science especially the Climate Crisis which we all know trying to not fully believe in and so that really caused me to support biden because i know he sees the issues with the world and is going to admit that theyre