Initially conceded the race. Well, let me say clearly, i am replacing my words of concession with uncompromised and unapologetic call that we count every single vote. We count every vote and i say this recognizing that my fate in this may or may not change. Eric they will begin county, doug, outside of elections, they have seen a lot of action both inside and outside, whats going on this afternoon . Its been that way all day long, eric as well, if it is now official we are heading for a recount of 3 important florida statewide races, the first one people most people outside of florida dont care about agricultural, the other monumental importance across the country, senate race rick scott and bill nelson and also the governors race between democrat Andrew Gillum and the republican ron desantis, the first recount is going to be by machine, it has to be completed by this coming thursday, now, if the margin of difference between any two of the candidates in that machine recount is less than 1 quarter of 1 , then it goes to a hand count, now, while all of that is going on, the board of the supervisor of elections here is defending itself against all kinds of allegations of corruption and criminal activity, listen up. Allegations of fraud, those are serious charges to throw out there, theres no basis for it. To give a claim of fraud without any evidence, i think is unacceptable. But an attorney for governor rick scott with 18 Years Experience of examining close elections in Broward County says it is incompetence but worst than that intentional incompetence. Its like the clowns in the volkswagen and they keep coming out and they keep coming out and you think how many more can they possibly have in there, keep coming out. They have more today. Are they overwhelmingly democratic voters . Of course, this is thats why they are here. I mean, thats where the money is, democrats come here because thats where the votes are. Well, the president of the United States pretty much agrees with that, hes weighing in by tweet by europe saying, quote, trying to steal two big elections in florida, we are watching closely, senator nelson also reacting very statement he says, we have every expectation that the recount will be full and fair and will continue taking action to ensure every vote is counted without interference and efforts to undermine the democratic process and spokesman for governor rick scott taking a hard hit at nelson saying, quote, his time its time for senator nelson to accept reality and spare the state of florida the time, expense and discord of a recount. All to be continued, if this comes down to head count, the completion is november 18th, we have another 8 days of this, a lot of floridans, waiting, watching and worrying about the outcome of these elections back to you eric. Eric meanwhile the overseas ballots they still get counted until wednesday so it aint over until its over. Doug, thank you. Arthel. Arthel all right, eric, bring in our panel, we had a panel for you planned and in fact, we will have one guest right now, guest john thomas, hes the former president of thomas partners strategies, also republican pollster, we were to have joining you is jose munoz but he could not make it, so i will talk to you, jon, lets look at numbers, first of all in Broward County, one of the counties in question there in florida n2014 in Broward County 774,000 people voted, in 2,018,682,453 voted. And now as you know the recount is on, so with such an increase in voter turnout are you surprised the humans are work to go organize getting vote counted couldnt finish original count before the deadline . No, im not surprised. Lets take a step back to get the full landscape of brenda snipes, the county election arthel supervisor. Its not the first time she had problems, in 2016 she was accused of destroying ballots by a judge. Arthel first of all, john bear with me because jose is not here, i will have to play side for a second, did you tell me jose is here, fantastic, jose, youre here, let me see a shot of jose munoz. How are you . My apologizes arthel im glad that youre here, i do not want to play you, not my place. He went out the gate saying brenda snipes had problems from back in the day, what does that have to do with current day and whose fault is it that shes still in place . Let me just say about this recount about to happen in florida, they Just Announced it. Every single vote in florida must count, this is priority, this is not about this is about democracy, our democracy is at stake here, we have to make sure i dont think if its republican or democrat, whoever wins every single in vote florida must be counted. Arthel john, what do you say to that . Jose, im glad to hear, we both agree on it. What we should agree on that votes should be legal, we already know from snipes just recently that illegal invalid arthel let me move on, you know that the secretary of state knows theres no illegal criminalities happening right now. Well arthel here is, hang on for me. Here is brenda snipes, okay again Broward County election supervisor on thursday denying claims of incompetence by senator marco rubio on twitter, listen. We ran 22 fights, we ran 14 days, we ran 12 hours, we had a big vote by mail, so dont try to turn it around to make it seem like im making comedy out of. Arthel before you guys jump in, i want to show you something from the newspaper ft. Lauderdale on brenda snipes, quote, snipes is not something that would manufacture boxes of boxes of ballots to throw an election, shes simply incompetent, track record of mistakes and fallen to own up to them, shes long been willing to settle to come in last and reporting in Election Results and before you jowmp jump in, her office adhered to early voting and mailin ballots to be posted within 30 minutes of polls closing on election day adding that the requirements does not mean all of those votes have to be posted in that time in that, quote, youre not expected to have a complete result for 700,000 people 30 minutes after polls close, you say to that, john . Invalid provisionals mixed in with valid provisionals, now we are trying to undo they admitted to it. We are trying to undo and figure which ballots were arthel i understand, but just think here i understand, i get your point, in your opinion theres some sort of history here on the part of ms. Snipes but i want to say focus, you two bickering doesnt move the needle forward and the bottom line is what joee said was that both need to be counted, do you feel that and sticking with you, john, secretary of state in florida says that they are, quote, they had no indications of fraud, so does that count for anything . Yeah, well, look, at best this is an incompetence, at worst its fraud. I hope its not fraud. I completely agree with jose, every valid legal vote should be counted and here is the kicker, is that transparency in some is needed in every stage to have process not just the final results, thats the key here. Arthel thats a good point that john is making, jose, is that where ms. Snipes went wrong, this is whats happening, this is why its happening, you have to give a real lifetimeline, real world timeline and therefore no one looks at you sideways going why are you telling me this now . Its one thing i can say for sure we must all learn from this is that we have to do something about some of the ballots, look at the ballots in Broward County, a lot of folks that voted democrat, they voted in the governors race and didnt vote in senate race, they didnt see it, bottomleft of the ballot. If its a learning lesson for all of us, we have to do something, design, voter friendly and the fact of the matter that rick scott and marco rubio politicizing this trying to make this about we are stealing the election, you look at some of the tweets, they are trying to make this about steeling elections, i think President Trump maybe said something about it, i wouldnt be surprised arthel he did Say Something about it, on the same lines. Finish your point, jose so i can get john to jump in. My point is this, no democrat is for vehicle voter fraud, r wins wins, we have to make sure every single vote counts. Thats the most important thing, sacred thing we hold democracy, our vote, lets make sure that the people of the state of florida do their job, count every single vote, make sure theres transparency and we get to the bottom of it. Arthel jose, really this is such a wonderful, wonderful freedom that we have here in america and you want every vote to be counted fairly fair and square so im going let you wrap up with this, john, you know does it help and does it, you know, or hinder voter confidence when you have someone like the president and like the governor of florida who is running to be the senate in this race that is, you know, being debated here now. You know, does that help, folks at home were thinking where the heck are we . Are we in america or somewhere else, why are we bickering about who votes should count or not . Well, its not about whether votes should count its about the transparency of the counting process and i think marco senator rubio, last person to be rashed and jump to conclusion but even he is calling foul but arthel that ms. Snipes is incompetent. If you take into consideration history we cannot give this woman the benefit of the doubt arthel why wasnt she removed by Governor Scott . Well, because shes an elected official. So arthel why wasnt she put on the ballot, how does that work, however shes supposed to get out of be removed legally if theres such problems with her after having served many years there, why if theres such lack of confidence in ms. Snipes ability to do her job which she completely denies, why is she still there . You are making the argument for why here in la county where im broadcasting from where appointed registrars office, she absolutely should have been removed but the voters perhaps just didnt dial in and thought well, she agrees with us politically and so we will keep her in office, anybody who messed up as many times as she had would have been normally removed from her job. Arthel listen, we will keep shot up here, what we are looking at here live pictures there in florida, brenda snipes is on the lefthand side of your screen there and they are working, the workers are prepping the machines to be recalibrated for, you know, machine recount, so here we are again. I just dont understand why we are here again and, you know, at this point and i keep repeating this because this is what im hoping for, quote, they had no indications of fraud, i really hope that our elections are clean and as according to secretary of state they are and lets hope that these votes can be counted properly, fairly and squarely and then may the best person win, how is that, guys . I like that. Yeah. Im with you 10 . Arthel jose, do not be late next time, i do not want to take your side. [laughter] arthel traffic is bad everywhere. Thank you, guys. Eric major developments on 3 major wild fires that are causing a lot of destruction and damage and devastation in california, Officials Say the campfire, well, thats burning north of sacramento so far horribly thats killed 9 people. The quickmoving flames have destroyed thousands, yes, thousands of homes and left the count of paradise tragically in ruins. The fire started moving quickly and we were able to save tens of thousands of people and get them notified, despite our best warnings often times, despite efforts to get people to be prepared and moved often times people dont avail themselves of that advice or dont follow directions and as a result we see the situation that we have here today. We are we are we have Fox News Team coverage for you jeff paul covering two major wild fires in Southern California. Lets begin with claudia, up north, surveying reporting the devastation there, hi, claudia. Hi, eric, well, now pretty much wiped out the city of paradise the campfire continues to burn south and east and now threatening the city of oraville, evacuations have been ordered for communities between here and there. Tens of thousands of people right now are staying with friends and hotels and shelters with no idea when theyll be able to return to the burn zone, it could be many, many weeks, meantime a grim recovery effort is underway in neighborhood that were here thursday morning, Police Officers are going to the homes of those listed as missing later today we will find out if the death toll has gone up and now stands at 9, most of the victims found in or near their cars, Law Enforcement also protecting property from looters arresting two men who may have been trying to impersonate Forest Service personnel because they were wearing similartype jackets, this fire has burned more than 100,000 acres and 20 contained, reports today that a down power line may have sparked this fire, thats part of ongoing investigation. But President Trump hes blaming the states Forest Management policies and is threatening to withhold federal funds tweeting this morning, quote, theres no reason for these massive deadly and costly fires in california, billions of dollars are given each year with so many lives lost all because of growth mismanagement of the forest. Remedy now or no more fed payments. Federal funds have already been secured to help with the Recovery Efforts meantime lull in winds providing massive air in front lines and crews are hoping they can get the upper hand on this fire before the strong winds return tonight, eric, could be strong as the winds that blew through here on thursday morning the difference this time, some 3,000 firefighters are here ready to respond back to you. Whef whef that devastation just really incomprehensible, claudia, thank you. Arthel really is eric, deaths from the woolsey fire, has been burning out of control for third day, live pictures in west hills, northwest of los angeles, so the fire doubled, doubled in size overnight and has forced more than 200,000 people to evacuate. Jeff paul is live in agoura hills where many homes have been destroyed, whats it looking like jeff . We have since moved over to Thousand Oaks california, very close to the area as well where the fire, the woosley fire continues to grow in size and intensity, i want to show you whats going on behind over here, thats where the fire is kicking up right now, the Santa Monica Mountains and a lot of helicopters coming to nearby lake and dumping off water. As you mentioned the fires growing in size, doubled in size, now about the size of salt lake, utah, a quarter Million People have been evacuated and, yes, we are hearing about unfortunate deaths of 2 people within the fire zone, while thats being investigated, they are trying to figure out if those two people died from this fire or other causes, thats under investigation, weve also been talking to people who have had to evacuate. We spoke with one woman earlier today in malibu who had to not only get herself to safety but also a lot of her horses, take a listen. I just want to get out of here. Id like to be any place else. This is hell. Weve got a little bit of food out, some food for the horses but its a war zone up there. Horses burned everywhere, power lines are down, the roads are blocked by trees that have fallen over, its really bad. One bit of good news today compare today yesterday is that the winds have really started to die down, you can see as you take a look off to the side there, the smoke kind going mostly straight up and over here this is what i was talking about before, the helicopters that are going over to sheer wood lake and picking up water and heading to canyons. This would be a bright saturday day but all of that smoke blanketing over sun and gives haze. This is what we are seeing over here for the last couple of hours as they just try to get some sort of control on this fire right now it is only at about 0 containment and they are working to get some sort of grip on it because they know the winds are expected to return tomorrow. Back to you. Arthel yes, indeed, as reported by adam klotz. Eric. Eric new developments to tell you about in the case of the murdered columnist jamal khashoggi, the evidence turkey is turning over to the United States, we will take a look at that. 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