He was also asked about a recorded phone call between President Trump and georgias secretary of state regarding the results of the 2020 president ial election. Good afternoon, everybody. Its good to see you all again. Happy new year. We are preparing for a major election tomorrow. Over,things we want to go that we will go into other items, im sure. Of right now, we have 962,886 mail in absentee ballots received. 281,376 are still outstanding. I am hoping to get the military received the outstanding before the end of the press conference. We smashedin person, a record for turnout. We are at 2,074,857. Right now we are looking at over 3 million votes that have been cast across georgia. The previous record for runoff 2004 race thate was 2. 1 million votes that were cast. That is the previous record and the election in 2018 Runoff Election we saw just over 1. 5 million. Obviously a lot of interest, im of tveorgians are tired ads, text messages, voicemails and mail. It will all end very soo
Good afternoon, everybody. Its good to see you all again. Happy new year. We are preparing for a major election tomorrow. Over,things we want to go that we will go into other items, im sure. Of right now, we have 962,886 mail in absentee ballots received. 281,376 are still outstanding. I am hoping to get the military received the outstanding before the end of the press conference. We smashedin person, a record for turnout. We are at 2,074,857. Right now we are looking at over 3 million votes that have been cast across georgia. The previous record for runoff 2004 race thate was 2. 1 million votes that were cast. That is the previous record and the election in 2018 Runoff Election we saw just over 1. 5 million. Obviously a lot of interest, im of tveorgians are tired ads, text messages, voicemails and mail. It will all end very soon, hopefully. In preparation for the election tomorrow on election day voting, we have 6000 pulltabs that finished the final loading of their data today before
Corner as far as getting some much needed rain now we did see some brief showers last night those have since left the region now youve got some slick roadways out there so do like that as you make your way into work. But a quiet view from berkeley right now looking outside at radar. Theres a couple of spots out there where you may find a misty spot or 2. But really overall rainfall as i mentioned is all said and done now just a brief line of showers pushing through as we were sleeping last night. 40s and 50s for current temperatures, dublin and livermore egypt 47 along with berkeley well billy how at 46 weve got some 50s and Oakland Alameda in concord and quite the warmup from the same point yesterday oakland up 13 degrees livermore of 14 degrees while fairfield in nevado even more of a difference than that. So we are off to a mild start this morning get the light jacket ready to go and prepare for what will be increasingly clear and dry conditions through the course of your last day o
The issue of mail in voting. Now the coronavirus outbreak to have amplify that order clash kron fours dan thor is hearing from both sides tonight, hes live in San Francisco with more and dan were hearing this debate played out all levels of government but a governor newson just up the ante here in california. Thats right grant will this executive order has bay area republicans worried about voter fraud and voting errors only increasing in the state and those are ideas that President Trump has also expressed but bay area democrats say that mail in voting will only maintain voter turnout here in california and also keep voters safe as the coronavirus pandemic continues. Fears of covid19 have pushed governor Gavin Newsome to send mail in ballots to all registered voters before the november election, the friday is reinvigorating the voting debate between the left and the right political crisis go to waste as the democrat. Always happy to say a San Francisco Republican Party chair john denn
Unemployment numbers show 3 million more americans filed for unemployment claims pushing the number of jobless claims in america to more than 33 million during the coronavirus pandemic. Today Neiman Marcus became the latest Big Name Company to feel the impact financially from this pandemic the retail giant announced that it has now filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. More than 4 million californians have filed for unemployment during the 7 week crisis. Perry leaders say weve still got to hit rock bottom. We see Companies Making really tough decisions to lay off workers left and everybody and neiman making really tough decisions to keep their companies afloat any that that represents is that we are not at the bottom yet you cannot people need to prepare for this to get worse. The chamber of commerce also says restarting Construction Projects was a critical step in getting people back to work in helping the economy and now theyre encouraging city leaders to do more for Small Businesses incl