Greg. Reporter heather, good afternoon. Day four of the tense count, as the nation waits to find out who will win the election. The margens are slim and bottom line is the closer it is, the longer this could take as you said. We know former Vice President joe biden, california senator Kamala Harris give a prime time address exactly what they will say, thats to be determined. And thousands of votes are still being counted as we speak. Lets go straight to the numbers in critical battleground state pennsylvania. 20 Electoral College votes. A state the president flipped in 2016. Bideen took lead the lead and we are i want waiting from counts in Allegheny County biden ahead by 14,000 votes. In georgia it bears repeating a state that has not selected a democrat i go president since 1972 but the margin is thin. There will likely and recount. Official say whats left are provisional ballots. Right now, biden ahead by about 4,000 votes. Lets go to nevadan 6 Electoral College votes. Official also
Votes officials have said. They will are counting votesle into the weekend. Clark county is home to 70 of the states population. Thats where las vegas is. 88 reporting. Biden holding his 50 to 48 lead. Fox news and the Associated Press already called arizona for joe biden, but here is a quick look at those numbers. Biden holding tune that lead 50 to 49 with 90 reporting. Fulton held a News Conference in the last hour. Here in full torn county, the fat lady has almost sung. All article votes have been counted. All day of votes have been counted. All absentee ballots have been counted. Now were concluding the process of counting the provisional ballots. Mind you, thats just one county in georgia. Were still waiting on counts in others. And we need to give credit near california and to these other states where many of the folks counting these votes are volunteers and all of this amidst a pandemic. Alex . Absolutely. They are absolutely the unsung heros in this whole process. Yeah, we owe
For the last eight months. The mayor and Public Health officials blame an increase in covered coved cases and hospitalizations. Indoor pools, locker rooms and Family Entertainment wont reopen tuesday. Restaurants set to expand their capacity to 50 will stay at 25. Live coverage, Business Owners found the news sudden and surprising. Reporter they said to me, the ones we talked to they understand the reasons why, they were preparing to reopen next week. Now think have to put on the brakes. Reporter hope of reopening fell to the gutter. We were prepping to reopen. Social media posts. When the owner heard the because of grand reopening, his heart sank. We feel terrible. Its heartbreaking. Weve all been on this ride for the last eight months. For months they moved furniture, sanitizing stations and added partitions. The is an added layer of protection. The mayor said a sudden increase prompted the change. What we will have to do is put a pause on some of our reopening efforts we had planned
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Now nearly 3 months it was sealed off from the wild has now opened its doors again tens of thousands of people have been allowed to leave the city at the epicenter of the corona Virus Outbreak but it remains under close watch with tight Health Restrictions in place to avoid a 2nd wave of infections sarah clarke begins our coverage. Packed and ready for departure tens of thousands of people from the city of woo han are on the move after 76 days holed up in their homes when i wasnt here when i planned to go home during the Chinese New Year but because of the epidemic i didnt get to do so my family asks me every day when i come home the lockdown has been gradually lifted over the last 10 days with inbound travel allowed but no departures on wednesday all major highways were reopened so too was the citys airport at least 55000 people trying to kits to travel to other parts of china. I havent been out since january 21st this is the 1st time ive left the house now im going back home to meet