To call there right now, but those are the states in which hes leading the most strongly in joe biden however leading in the state of arizona at first of nevada right now and again that continues to grow in his favor as more and more counts come in hes also leading in the state of wisconsin another state where his lead continues to grow as the count continues, michigan a different story at the moment President Trump is leading there, however his great his lead is shrinking with each new ballot that comes in a lot of these ballots are being counted right now are those early mail in ballots which are skewing heavily towards the democrats will see if joe biden can make up that lead in the final analysis there only a couple paths to victory for either candidate. Joe biden if he does claim arizona which at this point it looks like nevada should say which looks like hes about to do in the next 12 hours or so. Although we have to say the cabbie out is theyre not going release any new numbers until tomorrow, well see if they jump significantly or not and we can make the call. If not then we have to wait to potentially saturday because in nevada. Theyre going to go ahead and let these male and both continue to come in through the mail up until saturday. I was just going to say do you think that theyre saying that they dont want to say anything until tomorrow for sure just because they dont want us following. Every single you know dip in turn i wouldnt be surprised because everybody is waiting on pins and needles. For the for the vote count to come in like in places like pennsylvania where they are continuously updating right. I mean poll watchers people are on there like hawks waiting for every single update. So maybe theyre taking the pressure off just a little bit. The secretary of state sort of announcing were not going to get any new updates till tomorrow, everybody go to bed relax and well have more numbers for you come to that, but if you can count the states you know that are up for grabs on the fingers say 6. Do they all do we have to wait for all of them to get in for when to before we know a path to victory not necessarily so for the case of joe biden if he wins nevada. And he goes on to win. Lets say. Wisconsin and michigan all look michigan just turned light blue. It was light red before can explain the coloring to so the light blue or the light red indicates whos currently leading in the vote count at the moment, we have joe biden now taking the lead in michigan now that was the state i mentioned at the top of the hour. I said as the votes come in it looks like President Trumps lead appears to be shrinking as these mail in votes are being counted which again are in the favor of democrats because more democrats took advantage of that by extension hopefully benefiting joe biden from the democrats point of view and turned the light shade of just turned light blue so heres the situation if joe biden wins, nevada which right now hes leading if he wins wisconsin which hes leading in right now, and he wins michigan that if you add up those and add them to to 38 that equals 2. 70 thats a victory but we have away or donald trump has a way to stop these states from turning light blue for example and that is to stop the counting. Yes, which is what he said im gonna go to the Supreme Court stopped the counting. Yes so we have to be careful with his phrasing because he threat, you cant its not truthful to say the other side in this case, the democrats are finding votes out of thin air and putting them into the mix to try and pump up the numbers for democrats thats not the case these are all votes that legally cast on or before election day either in person in person early voting or by mail in and depending on the state they have different ways of handling those early mail in votes, some say that they have to arrive at the Election Office by election day to be counted. Fine in other states though they say as long as youre postmarket by election day then well let the u. S. Postal service. Get it in transit will wait a few days for it to arrive because in those states of the u. S. Post office is a designated dropoff location right so you have technically dropped off your ballot in time now they just have to wait for the postal carriers to bring it to the Election Office and theyll count. And thats why some states are going take a little bit longer so we dont so have to wait for all the states report before we know winter but with margins is razor thin as they are. We may have to the good thing is that the predictions about you know were regularity is in trouble and of problems keeping up with a vote none of this delay is due to any problems with vote counting. Its just getting through the mass right and the fact that its taking this long is actually a sign that the system is working because Election Officials the volunteers, the poll takers they have to take the time to verify signatures and its a methodical process that moves them through and then ultimately theyre counted so this is a process thats been happening every election cycle since we began elections way back the Founding Fathers day which is why the election happens at one point in the year and the president is inaugurated 2 months later because traditionally it took sometimes that long for an official count to be done and that official president to be an out so as donald trump was saying he is his version of you quit while youre ahead, you cant do that no you cant count doesnt stop at you know at the end election day it just its never worked that way and again theres good reason why it takes time to count these votes because every vote needs to be counted. This thats what a democracy is right and lets go live to wilmington delaware, which is where work he has been posted this morning with joe bidens message from his campaign which was very different from President Trumps last night. Where he was appealing to everybody to be patient. Good morning thats absolutely right and the mood here this morning the Biden Campaign is feeling very cautiously optimistic when we heard from the former Vice President just a few hours ago, he said that he was comfortable with the that were as of right now. But obviously election day didnt go as he had hoped, it wasnt the sweep that he had hoped for he didnt win florida and now is a big upset for for the biden but he was very confident that he would win pennsylvania and he was confident in this blue wave that would flip some of these historically red states that. Have yet to be tallied that they would flip from red to blue so the feeling right now here in wilmington at bad in wilmington is cautiously optimistic. And the campaign at all is even entertaining a response to President Trumps. Threat or insistence that hes going to go and stop the vote counting at the with the Supreme Court. Well what the president said earlier was not a surprise to the Biden Campaign the Biden Campaign said they were prepared for any legal battle that the president might present and of course we heard that from the president just a few hours ago when he threatened go to the Supreme Court to further prevent some of these votes from being a tally but we actually did hear directly the Biden Campaign in a statement from the Campaign Manager that said if the president makes good on his threat to go to court to try to prevent this proper tabulation of votes. We have legal Team Standing by ready to deploy to resist that effort and they will prevail so thats what were hearing in regards to that here in wilmington and i wonder if his campaign in hindsight bidens campaign is thinking maybe we should have gotten out the vote more and done more campaigning, especially at the last minute or not underestimated the power of trump. I think that the Biden Campaign is really were going to rely on these malan both that have yet to be counted and these early thats where biden supporters tend to theyre really hoping that once those are counted that it will push them to a victory. But the Biden Campaign at the end of the day they believe that they have a clear path to and they believe that they have a better path to 2. 70 and then President Trump i think if anything they found there pretty surprised though that its not much of a landslide, either way that they thought it would be thanks a lot to cant count on anything until theyre all counted, weve got a long way to go games. Well besides the president ial race of course democrats managed to keep hold of the majority of the house of representatives that was completely expected the senate still in the hands of republicans, heres House Speaker nancy pelosi as she took time last night to praise her partys job in keeping the house and promising to use that power to protect Peoples Health care but she stressed that they still need the presidency to protect the Affordable Care act. Here just to sing the praises about half democrats and that candidates. Its not over until every vote is counted. And there plenty more votes to county again we look forward to coming together an hour. Democratic majority in the congress of the united states. While democrats did keep control of the house as i said the majority is likely to diminish just a little bit but again. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will remain House Speaker. 6 09 is the time right now on the ballots are still being counted not just nationwide, but here in the bay area have the votes could impact the outcome of local races in state propositions as well kron fours reyna harvey is live for us. In Santa Clara County at the Registrars Office with a look at how things are shaping up there brianna. Good morning daryn james and yes volunteers were here late into the evening counting thousands of ballots. Election officials tell me they had a record turnout, especially at the polls which was very surprising since everyone got one of those mail in ballots. But they closed doors here at about 11 oclock at night they were counting ballots. They can resume again at 08 00am so they have not had much rest but again you can see the scene here last night was very busy as you can see that was being dropped off here this is when they first arrived and that count begin on Election Officials tell me they had around 691,000 mail in ballots that came here and again and people still showed up at the polls in large numbers 59,000 people voted in person to the last 4 days of voting here throughout the county now again Election Officials working diligently around the clock and they tell me that they had about over 1500 volunteers at the various Voting Centers and 500 volunteers here at the Elections Department now they still have to do a lot in terms of going to those ballots checking signatures and they talk about how theyre going to count and the process thats going to take a listen. I think we will have a majority of the vote by mail ballots. Done within about a week or so because typically i have received over a 150,000 on election day long so well have to see if thats going to change for the selection because weve had such high early voting turnout. But it will take us the next several weeks to count vote by mail ballots. Then were going to count. Our provisional ballot and then conditional Voter Registration about and we do see many audits and one percent manual recount so we do all our checks and balances and we do all that within the 30 days to certify on december 13. Right Election Officials tell me every day theyre going to be posting new results as they continue to feel to do all the ballots oh 09 00am every morning and then 5 oclock every business day going posting online. Those updated results to bring you at home. They also are going to do a process if there are any ballots that were rejected for any reason may be the signature the information was incorrect. Now going to make several attempts to try to contact those people and then theyre going to make sure that they try to get those ballots in if they are able to be corrected. So thats another process that they have to do here as well but will be here soon as the doors open will take you a look inside and get a look at the cal as it continues, its going to be a long process and this is just the beginning for now reporting here in san jose reyna harvey kron 4 news okay. Thank its easier to keep track of on our must say if you go to kron 4 dot com. We have the very latest not only on the president ial race and all of the numbers there but the race is on the local ballot measures in the statewide measures. So go there its a little bit easier to digest onestop shopping hour. Lets take a breather because us find our moment of from all the election coverage and lets talk about something nice. The is it going to is weather is giving us the at this temporary moment of zen just one minute of it though, and then its back to you know the election staff what we are seeing out there this morning is a bit of sunlight making its way through the clouds now looking across the bay at San Francisco. You have some brightness making its way through the low gray in fact were starting this morning off a whole lot like we did yesterday. Visibility is just fine because that marine layer sitting right above us and its breaking apart a little less quickly than it did yesterday. Its a little bit denser so you are going to see that cloud cover for just a touch longer than we did 4 election day yesterday now as far as temperatures go were in the 40s and 50s a pretty mild start as we often see when we have a dense or marine layer kind of keeps those temperatures a bit more during overnight hours. That is certainly the case this morning nowhere in the 30s to kick off your wednesday. Temperatures from the 40s and 50s were at right now eventually did mostly the 70s later on a few 60s right along the coastline, but then 70s and near 80 degree highs for are for this to inland areas back to you guys. Thanks a lot 6. 13 is a time in as we go to the break you can take a peek at some of the local measures. Back time now 6 16 here at the big wall taking a look at the electoral map and there are some new developments to report to you that we saw play out live when were taking a look at this in our last segment and thats the state of michigan all morning long it had been in this light pink shade indicating the President Trump was in the lead, but were also talking about the fact that the votes will be counted right now, were predominantly male in votes which had been leaning heavily towards democrats and were seeing the president s lead shrink over time as more and more of those votes were votes were counted and now its turned a light shade of blue, lets take a zoom in and see exactly what that means in terms of the numbers themselves and you can see here joe biden out in the lead with 2. 5 million votes to Donald Trumps 2. 4 9 million votes when you do the math youre looking at about a 10,000 point difference now vote difference with joe biden now taking the lead with 49. 3 to 41 point but theres lot more votes count rachel lot more what stuck right now were at 94 of precincts reporting as you can see on the bottom right and where were seeing most of these counts come in now are down in the area of wayne county thats down in detroit again a heavy democratic stronghold, and you can see there that that is where the president has enjoyed a nice little pop only 67 of votes there have been counted so as more and more of those counts again in a heavily democratic area are added into the mix. We expect to see joe bidens numbers increase and then the overall statewide numbers again continue to lean in his favor. So thats kind of what were seeing right now so live on the air this morning because at first they were counting. The day of votes right where republican and now theyre counting more of the mail in votes and thats kind of what we talked about yesterday right this concept of a red mirage where early on we would see a lot of those day of votes lean heavily towards President Trump. But then fade as these mail in votes that are heavily democratic begin to be factored into the calculus so question is what we also see that play out in the state of pennsylvania at the moment, the president was enjoying about a 600,000 a vote lead which sounds insurmountable into you understand that there are about a million votes still out there. In areas that are heavily democratic and again like what weve seen play out in michigan could the same thing play out in pennsylvania, where we see the democratic votes begin to close the gap and overtake thats why we havent called the race yet for any of these places because the margin is that close and the votes that are still out there could still make the different we also cant call whats happening with the balance of power in the senate, although it looks like an uphill battle, the democrats thought that they were going to be able to take over. And it seems that thats not the case, no yeah in fact here we have democrats with 47 senate seat security we have republicans with 47 senate seat secured we were looking the polls before election day at. Probably about 5 to 6 different races that look really compelling for democrats and they thought they had a real strong chance of flipping weve seen new mexico and colorado go democratic and the state of arizona to fact well zoom in and take a look at that state thats the state where former astronaut mark kelly was running he of course the husband of former congresswoman Gabby Giffords i may remember made headlines. She was shot in a terrorist attack and survive