Ill be listening with both ears. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Im not here to declare that weve won, but i am here to report when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners. Joe biden within striking distance of the presidency. The Trump Campaign gears up for legal challenges. We are going to file suit in pennsylvania. Its a shame that we have to do that. Lawsuit schmasuits. We havent seen evidence theres something wrong. Control of the u. S. Senate still hanging in the balance. Democrats would have to win two of the three remaining tossups to take control. It wont be easy. Violence erupted across portland. The Oregon National guard has been deployed to the city. All that if you need a break from the election, rick is here to make you smile. Never gonna around and desert you and all that matters. Theres one thing we did learn last night is that pollsters dont know [ bleep ]. The polling was even worse than in 2016 . How do the polls just keep getting worse . What are they, the New York Knicks . Bottom line, dont trust any industry that calls you on your landline, okay . On cbs this morning. Some courageous souls are pushing for common ground, specifically the gap which debuted a new blue and red hooded sweatshirt using the tag line, the one thing we know is that together we can move forward. Gap got backlash for this tweet. Nothing good happens when you try to force together two opposing sides. We here at the late show learned that when our laboratory tried to combine the two parties mascots. Kill me. Hes fine. This mornings eye opener is presented by progressive. Making it easy to bundle insurance. Is he fine, steve . That was creepy looking. That was creepy. As you see, we are still here at our election center. We want you to know the process is working. We have to remind you again, please, please be patient. They are counting the votes. Thats where well begin. Welcome to cbs this morning from the cbs news election headquarters in times square in new york once again. We can come together in laughter, if nothing else. Im feeling good. Were going to plow through. Were going to get through this together, honestly. More than 24 hours after election day, we still have no clear winner in this president ial race, but joe biden is ahead in electoral votes. Leading President Trump 253 to 213. We are paying special attention today to nevada, arizona and georgia. If he wins any two of those, he will get to 270. Thats the number required for victory. Biden is also way ahead in the popular vote with more than, listen to this number. 71 million people. Thats the most any of president ial candidate in history. Were also tracking different reactions from the candidates. President trump is suggesting there has been fraud without any evidence and hes also making legal challenges. By contrast, joe biden is calling for patience. Ed okeefe is following all of this. Good morning to you. What do the numbers tell you this morning . Right now both arizona and nevada are leaning towards former Vice President biden. And with those electoral votes hed be right at the 270 needed to win. He wouldnt even need pennsylvania. The Biden Harris Campaign is feeling so confident its already launched its president ial transition website. Im not here to declare that weve won. But i am here to report when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners. Speaking in wilmington, delaware, former Vice President joe biden said he believes hes on the verge of history. Im very proud of our campaign. Only three president ial campaigns in the past have defeated an incumbent president. When its finished, god willing, well be the fourth. Bidens chances of reaching 270 electoral votes dramatically improved with projected wins in wisconsin and michigan on wednesday. And he delivered the same message hes been running on since he announced his candidacy. Once this election is finalized and behind us, it will be time for us to do what weve always done as americans. To put the harsh rhetoric of the campaign behind us. To lower the temperature. To see each other again. To listen to one another. Reporter but President Trump isnt backing down. While he had no Public Events on wednesday, he took to twitter to make multiple misleading and false statements. He claimed victories in pennsylvania, georgia, North Carolina and michigan. This despite evidence to the contrary in michigan and no official race calls yet in the other states. The president s campaign is also launching legal challenges in georgia, pennsylvania and michigan and is demanding a recount in wisconsin. The Trump Campaign strategy has been contradictory. On the one hand in states the president is trailing in, like arizona, they say the number of votes yet to be counted will put the president ahead of biden. But in states where the president is ahead, like pennsylvania, the campaign wants the votes to stop being counted. Mr. Trump dispatched his son and members of his legal team to the keystone state on wednesday where more than 760,000 cast ballots have not yet been counted. Its not fair. This isnt democracy. Reporter ultimately, they want the u. S. Supreme court to stop pennsylvania from counting mailin ballots received by friday, even if they were postmarked on election day. The high Court Previously refused to do so. The dueling strategy by the Trump Campaign is trickling down to the president s supporters. In detroit, protesters chanted outside of ballot Processing Centers as the Trump Campaign sued to stop the count of ballots in michigan until they say election observers are given better access. But Election Officials say the challengers from both parties were already inside the room. In georgia, the Trump Campaign is suing to ensure votes by mail received after 7 00 p. M. On election day are not counted. The lawsuit alleges a republican poll watcher witnessed a poll worker bring a stack of ballots from a back room and mix them with ballots tock counted. As with the rest of the legal challenges, however, theres been no evidence provided by the Trump Campaign. Typically ballots are kept in other rooms before they are processed depending on state law. Its not unusual. Theres accusations here that counseled like something that they are not. Sounds like its nefarious. It is not. Its all going to be sorted out. And there are poll watchers from both parties observing. Most of these secretary of state offices have bipartisanship built into them. This is a process we dont typically see because races arent typically this close. But counting does go on after election day. Quite normally. Thats right. Ed, thank you. Now to arizona where protrump demonstrators gathered outside the building where votes are being counted in Maricopa County. At this hour, joe biden maintains a slight lead in that state, although the race has narrowed. Jamie yuccas spoke to arizonas waiting for results. Reporter supporters of President Donald Trump voiced their frustration Late Wednesday with the ballot counting process outside the Maricopa CountyElections Department. The protests were largely peaceful, but police dressed in full Tactical Gear blocked entries to ensure the safety of those counting votes inside. They escorted employees to their cars once their shift was over. About onethird of the crowd appeared to be armed, including erin. Are you hoping to get inside . Oh, no, maam. No, just to voice our opinions. Reporter and many expressed fears that their votes were not being counted. They literally are trying to steal this from us. Reporter Maricopa County is the second largest voting jurisdiction in the country. And they say they are making sure each and every vote is counted correctly. Earlier this week, we spoke to officials who explained some of the security measures in place. The Elections Department has 24 7 webcams monitoring ballot counting and can be accessed publicly on their website. If there are any questions about a ballot, two people, one republican and a democrat, will try to sort out the voters intent before it can be tabulated. And the machines that count the ballots are never connected to the internet so they cannot be hacked. Were doing Everything Possible to make sure that we have a safe, a secure and accessible election. Reporter protesters are also concerned over a viral facebook video where a voter claimed ballots werent being counted because they were filled out with a sharpie. The republican state attorney general is investigating, but Election Officials call this misinformation saying sharpies are not a reason to invalidate a ballot. Jamie, thank you. For a fuller understanding of where things stand and where they might go, we have chief washington correspondent major garrett, guru of the big board today. Gurus specialize in meditation or contemplation. I cant guarantee any meditation. Lets start at the top. 68 electoral votes have yet to be allocated or projected. Keep that number in mind. Im also going to walk you through what joe biden needs, the former Vice President , to win. Hes 253 with 17 hed get to 270. Donald trump is with allocated electoral votes at 213 with 57 hed get to 270. Im going to walk you through gradually each state that hasnt been declared and what the vote margins are and what remains to be counted. Nevada, biden has an 8,000vote lead. 202,000 ballots remain to be counted. We have that in lean biden because we believe most of that count will come from net biden parts of nevada. Lets go to arizona. The former Vice President has a l lead of 70,000 votes. We also have that lean biden because of the places where those votes will come from. If, lets just stop right there. This is six electoral votes in nevada. 11 in arizona. Thats 17. If joe biden holds these two states, thats 270 right there. Lets go to the remaining part of the map. Georgia. Donald trump is in the lead by 20,000 with 223,000 votes to go to be counted. In North Carolina, the president has an 80,000vote lead. 292,000 votes remain to be counted. In pennsylvania, the president has a 200,000vote lead with 801,000 votes remaining. Heres the tricky part for the president. He still has a path to reelection. But he has to claw back nevada, claw back arizona, win georgia, win North Carolina and pennsylvania. Without pennsylvania, tony, even if he wins all of this, he is still just short of the 270. Hes got to run the table. Hes got to run the table. All the former Vice President needs is nevada and arizona. Everything else is icing on the cake. The reason we have not projected a winner in these five states is because we still see a viable path for either candidate to take it. Theres a viable path for both candidates. Its more complicated and complex for the president than it is for the former Vice President but there are votes to count, and the margins are close. What do we want to do . Count the votes accurately. Make sure they are verifiable so that well know what this path is and who was able to win it. We got word from the secretary of state in georgia that they expect their count to be done by midday. So we might be able to fill in some of the gaps there. Otherwise its a waiting game at this point. Its a waiting game for those watching and for the verified results to be presented. The margins are so close and the outstanding vote so large, thats why theres the possibility for change across the board. Exactly. For the president of the United States, pennsylvania, which he has already declared he has won, which no one has projected and no one in pennsylvania has said, but you look at that 200,000, 800,000. He might be on way to winning pennsylvania but hes got to get everything else. Yeah. The candidates do not declare the victory that states certify. I want to linger on pennsylvania. Weve got Jericka Duncan in philadelphia. Jericka, what everybody wants to know is, how is the counting going and when might the numbers be final . Good morning to you. Good morning. I wish i had a crystal ball to give you a clear answer. Election officials are not giving a specific timeline. This is whats making all of this very hard. But we do know that there are roughly 763,000 mailin ballots that have not been counted yet. And as weve been reporting here, in front of the Pennsylvania Convention center, inside you have over 100 election workers that are hard at work counting those mailin ballots. About 166,000 of those mailin ballots still needed to be counted. When you combined philadelphia and pittsburgh, two very big cities here in the state of pennsylvania. While there have not been any irregularities or major problems reported, the Trump Campaign is demanding better access to locations where ballots are being processed and counted. The president saying that he would challenge the results if he loses here in pennsylvania. But the Pennsylvania Attorney general saying that there is transparency. Observers from both parties are already monitoring the process. When you think about pennsylvania, why this is such an interesting state to watch, not just because its a potential pathway for the president , but from 1988 to 2016, it was blue until the president turned it red again in 2016. And interesting to note, gayle, this morning i woke up watching the local news coverage. Its not the campaign ads were seeing but literally ads telling people to let the election workers count. Yeah, jericka, anthony and i were just saying that. Look how hard these people are working to know that everybody wants to get this right. Everybody does. Thank you, jericka. In our next half hour, well be talking with pennsylvanias attorney general, josh shapiro. President trump is demanding a recount in wisconsin. Democratic candidate joe biden leads by just over 20,000 votes there. And cbs news projects biden as the presumptive winner. Adriana diaz is in milwaukee tracking the results and has that part of the story. Good morning to you. The Trump Administration says they have requested a recount, but the rules in wisconsin laid out in these pages say recount requests cant be officially filed until after the counties here reverify their results. And that may not happen for about two weeks. In wisconsin, the law does allow a candidate to request a recount if the margin of victory is less than 1 . Biden does have less than 1 more votes, but just as a reminder, so did President Trump when he won this state in 2016. His campaign is calling for a recount now citing voting irregularities but so far hasnt provided evidence. The states top election official said any claims that this election was anything less than a success is an insult to election workers. Officials here in Milwaukee County tell us they plan to meet next week to figure out how a recount in the time of covid would even happen. What would it look like . How could they do it, how quickly, while keeping people safe. The county is moving on to the next step in the election process. And that is double checking their results. Thats normal operating procedure. That starts today in the building behind me. Anthony . Adriana, thank you. Were tracking other news, including a new u. S. Record for coronavirus cases. More than 100,000 in a single day. Public Health Officials have reported nearly 9. 5 million covid infections in the u. S. Since the pandemic began. The virus has killed more than 233,000 americans. More than 1,000 deaths were reported just yesterday for the second straight day. That has not happened since early september. Experts say we should expect even more infections as we head into the winter. Ahead the anxiety over the election uncertainty. Well hear from voters and check on the protests from both sides over the effort to count the votes. First, it is there is much more news ahead for you. The race to control the senate is still not resolved. Well look at the key races that could determine which party comes out on top. Plus the rich American History of close president ial races. John dickerson remembers some of the most controversial results from the past 60 years. Have we been here before . Well talk about that. Youre watching cbs this morning. We thank you for that. 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