Growing numberoflawsuits from the trump administrations. Well start with the new lawsuits today, greg. Reporter gasia, good afternoon. We saw new vote counts released from states to determine who wins the president ial elect and the lawsuits you mentioned. Were starting to see rulings on those. The margins are razor thin when it comes to the vote counts and thousands of ballots remain to be counted. Lets go to the numbers. In georgia, a state that has not gone for a democrat since 1992, remains incredibly close. The secretary of state said despite the graphic there, that approximately 50,000 ballots remain to be counted, mostly from areas around atlanta and savannah. President Trump Holding a small lead over joe biden, 50 to 49 , less than 15,000 votes. Lets take to you nevada. Its six electoral votes could get biden to 270 and remains incredibly close. A big focus on clark county, home to las vegas and 70 of the population. 77 reporting. Biden holding a small 49 to 48 lead. In critica
System is as secure as its ever before. The Registration System as secure as its ever before. Four years ago the obama administration, a little later than this, said there is a big problem and were going to declare the election structure a structure of National Significance and were going 0 it play a different role than we ever played before. No anticipation this was going to happen. Not much discussion. Election officials all over the country immediately said, oh, no youre not. Youre not going to just decide in october of Election Year that youre going to take over the election system and declare it a national a system of National Significance, a system of critical significance to the future of the nation. Of course it is. But it didnt become that in october of 2016. But the message was clear that we needed to build those stronger ties with local and state election authorities. We needed to do everything we could as we saw the efforts by some foreign actors and some people in their ba
Well, you have to know who the altamont passes are not you are with, right . The bubble, literally. Changing, and from 54 to 680 yeah. You are in my bubble, you from aldrade has slowed, and the have to have fresh air and fresh breath. We are going to have hot temperatures, too, as we take a live look outside from mount work should be cleared there, but not yet. Tam, and we can see the view it is unusual slowing from over San Francisco, and we have not had the cool refreshing freemont to sunol and back to breezes that we are used to you. Thank you, mike. Staying on the breaking news, here, swraez been dealing with the fires are ripping through the extremely hot temperatures near the coastline. Parched brush across the bay and we are going hour by hour area, and in some cases coming with few clouds moving by and dangerously close to homes, and smoke and then by noon time, if prompting evacuations, and all you are thinking of lunch of this in the extreme bay area. Outside, let me show you
The driver who appeared to be asleep in the car. Officers say that driver woke up, hit the gas almost hitting one of those officers. One officer fired once. The car got away and its not clear if the driver was hit. Now, were going to bring you that update as soon as we get it. Well, from the governor on down, the push to wear masks is getting ever so serious but the new normal has not been easy for californians to face even with a big spike in covid cases. Kris sanchez joins us live in san jose to explain how masked mandates even make economic sense. Morning, kris. Well, hi, laura. First, i want to start with saying that i am not wearing a mask because im not within six feet of any human being and even alan the cameraman is farther back. The importance of wearing a mask everywhere. Billboards like this one or the flashing chp and cal trans signs on the highway. Youll see signs as you enter any private business like your local grocery store. The centers for Disease Control found that hu
Well get back to the impeachment hearing coverage but first a look at yourheres a livh our cameras all over the bay area. As you could see there, not raining in some spots but it has been around a lot. Meteorologist kari hall is tracking the storm for us. And kari that is all i can say. Weve been in and out of the rain so some areas are taking a break but we are seeing a heavy amount of rain still moving through parts of Contra Costa County and much of the north bay. And then as we get a closer look at storm ranger, our mobile Doppler Radar it has been picking up on some of the rain as it continues to move through. We are seeing some of the heavy waves of rain moving through spots like antioch and brentwood as well as over toward the east bay and then for the south bay as of right now we are not seeing any of those showers moving through. We could see on storm ranger where we see the yellow and red shows whe the antioch and brentwood were seeing heavy rain on storm ranger. In the south