wisconsin. now he has two 53 electoral votes. president trump has 214. there are five key battleground states, they are pennsylvania, georgia, north carolina, nerve a carolina, nevada and arizona. the president leads by slightly more than 23,000 votes in georgia. alaska has yet to be called but it heavily favors president trump. faith abubey joins us from washington, d.c. good morning. yes. this race is still way too close to call. in a key battleground states, but this morning the trump campaign and the joe biden campaign both projecting confidence. this morning the counting continuing with former vice president joe biden saying he sees victory ahead. i m not here to declare what we won, but when the voting is f done we believe we ll be the winners. reporter: projections show he s likely to win in michigan and wisconsin and just 17 electoral votes shy of the presidency. his campaign setting the record for most votes of any presidential candidate. we ve won with t
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ballots directly to the registrar s office. in santa clara county, more than 437,000 people have cast their ballots. about half, about 220,000, have put their ballots not in the mail but directly into drop boxes. nbc bay area s marianne favro is live at the santa clara county registrar of voters in san jose with more on that. and marianne, people want to make sure they get in and their votes count. reporter: they are very concerned about that, janelle. if you look here, this is where people drop off their ballots at the registrar of voters office. many people we talked with today felt that their vote would be secure if they dropped it off at this specific location. 13 miles, that s how far ted and carol bautista drove today to turn in their ballots at the drop box at the registrar voters office in san jose. i feel like it is safer to drop it on a place where you will be counted. reporter: but evelyn mendez with the santa clara county registrar of voters office says th
and the czu august lightning complex fires on the peninsula to percent contained. thanks for joining us on this friday night. i m vicki liviakis that i m grant lotus we continue of course to track the 3 lightning complex fire still burning in the bay at this hour. we ll start with that czu august lightning complex fire system that s burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. fires that were burning separately in those 2 counties merged overnight in total. the flames have now burned about 57,000 acres and forced more than 60,000 people to leave their homes at this hour. the fire is just 2% contained at least 97 structures have been destroyed nearly 25,000 others are threatened this evening. 2 people have suffered minor injuries said there are more than 1100 personnel working those fires right now. and we have team coverage on the czu or this lightning complex fires are kron four s gayle ong dan thorn they are alive. in santa cruz county with the latest on the fires and th
you are taking a look at santa cruz beach. temperatures soar into the triple digits in some cities. let s find out how long the heat will last. drew tuma. our dangerous heat wave rolls on. let s get a check how hot it is where you live. we are scorching. 109 in fairfield, 93 in hayward. it is 82 in the city right now. 97 in san jose. it s another hot day across the region. we still have our heat advisories and excessive heat warnings in effect for much of the bay area and again, with these hot temperatures is a high risk of heat-related illness, unfortunately as the sun goes down, by 9:00, we will still be sweat sweating with temperatures in the 70s and 80s. overnight, a red flag warning will go into effect for the threat of thunderstorms moving into the region. we will detail that new threat coming up in a few minutes. all right. drew. we ll see you then. thank you. the heat is putting a serious drain on our state s power grid. abc 7 news in the north bay, joining us