Vote vote vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . Hearing none, the yeas are 64, the nays are 24. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Thune madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune madam president , i have four requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have a approval of the majority and minority leaders. The presiding officer duly noted. Mr. Thune madam president , before i begin, i want to acknowledge the tremendous news released yesterday that early
President ial race. Thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis boy tight is son under lets go and get. Right to it the results in georgia the state of North Carolina pennsylvania and nevada will determine whether Democrat Joe Biden or President Donald Trump wins the waiting game will be over soon grant is at the big wall to break it all down for us, heres where things stand right now the 2 states have you had to pick 2 that everybodys focus on right now over on the east coast pennsylvania, and georgia. Both states have poll workers diligently counting votes as we speak well start with georgia click in their zoom in here and slide over 16 electoral votes are at stake and donald trump right now is clinging to a lead that is now fewer than 2000 votes. You see the numbers right here, 99 of the vote has been counted so his trend hes been chipping away chipping away at trumps lead there that if he wins georgia. That ends it. He gets it to 71st eclipse
The tarmac there skies are generally going to clear as we work our way through this morning and as that happens more and more favorable weather for waiting in lines at the polls even this morning, although it is cool and gray for some areas still not at all about morning to get out there were in the 40s and 50s for most of us oakland, the warm spot right now at 57 degrees while the cooler side in areas like santa rosa starting off this morning at 45 degrees later today, its 70s and ill give you more details about what to expect. Later on still to come robin all right, thank you john a little busy out there traffic still jammed up crossing the bay, especially heading into San Francisco, heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza approach and yes, its still pretty crowded from the bottom of the maze. Its been like that for the last 2 hours or so its not a terrible commute, but its definitely crowded and still under 15 minutes to make it and so thats considered pretty good. Were check
It says traffic break heading southbound 880 to alvarado heading down through union city into fremont. That break, chp says just cleared. No major problems there. We do have the backup at the toll plaza. No surprises but its waiting for you, marcus. Laura . Thanks so much. Its 6 01. Those polls already open in other u. S. Time zones and were waiting at the top of the hour. Lets bring in tracie potts in delaware. I think its safe to say finally arrived, all eyes on the president ial race. Reporter absolutely. Its going to be a busy day, marcus and laura. We are tracking the polls as they open here on the east coast and tracking the votes including the millions of early votes and today we are tracking the candidates. Lets take a look at the president who has been out talking this morning. Last night he was wrapping things up at a final rally in michigan, a state he narrowly won four years ago. The president claiming that he will easily win michigan this time around. It was one of five st
Numbers. More than 8 million votes have already been cast here in california and across the u. S. More than a 3rd of americas registered voters have already cast their ballot and the south bay in fact the sorting verifying and counting of ballots has begun. And almost half of the ballots that were mailed out to voters have already been returned. Offers rob fladeboe joins us now live from the register voters in san jose with the latest numbers, rob thats right vicki and grant else and again 5 days to go in election is already into record territory as you say a Million People registered to vote here in Santa Clara County almost half of those ballots have already been returned im here outside the Registrars Office in san jose been watching and talking with people as they come by to drop off their ballots and so has the registrar of voters here who says its all systems go for this record breaking historic voter turnout. Heres a closer look. Again no youre good 3 can i just make sure you sh