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right now 48 seats belong to the democrats, 49 to the republicans. three days after election day, control of the house is also still not known, but we are getting some more clarity. we do have a new cnn projection to bring you. in maryland, the democrat defeated the republican there. it is a democratic hold. let's get right to cnn political director david chalian. this is in maryland, david. what more can you tell us? >> the most important thing before we dive into the district is this number here for the democrats, it just went from 198 to 199. these are called races. republicans have 211. now democrats with this maryland projection have 199. we still have several seats, more than 20 seats uncalled here, but i want to go into the sixth congressional district here in maryland. it's up here in the northwest corner of the state. you see troen with a 93% of the

vote in. why are we able to make this projection? frederick, maryland, a republican area of this district gave their votes and the republican, parrott was able to narrow the gap, but not enough. this is a district that joe biden won by ten percentage points two years ago. we're able to project trone, returning to the united states congress again. that gets democrats now to 199. >> bring us up to speed on the senate side. we got that update. a lot of votes still to be tallied. >> yeah. so let's just go into these two uncalled races out here in the west. in nevada first, you see adam laxalt hanging onto that lead. 49% to 48%, catherine cortez masto, the democratic incumbent is running about 8,900 votes and change behind adam laxalt and you noted we are basically

waiting for a bunch of vote up here in the reno area and washington county, and the most populous county, clark county, las vegas. they have some 50,000 votes to report, and we're going to wait to see what they're able to deliver today if indeed cortez masto can narrow this at all. in arizona, mark kelly has 114,177-vote lead over masters. 51.7% to 46.1%. we got a little update in arizona down here in the southeast corner of the state. the royal county. what happened here is that blake masters basically netted 60 votes. they uploaded about 400 votes, and the way they split, blake masters netted about 60 votes. it doesn't really change the

overall tenner of the race which is why we are waiting for maricopa county. this is where mark kelly the democrat is ahead of blake masters, 53%. let's round up to 45%. this is where the majority of the vote is out. this is where the majority of the people live, and most specifically what maricopa county officials have said, they have 290,000 dropoff votes on election day, sameday dropoff where people went with their mail ballot and dropped it off. we haven't seen any of those. we need to see if we're going to see some of those votes tonight to perhaps understand what the nature of this race will be going forward, guys. >> it is such a complex picture with so many dynamics at play. david chalian, we appreciate you boiling it down for us. thank you. >> sure. joining us now is bill gates, the chair of the board of supervisors. thank you for joining us. we are expecting to receive an updated count tonight. when exactly can we expect to see those numbers reported?

>> not sure exactly on the time at this point, but we'll be doing a press conference at 4:00 p.m., and we'll get people a better idea, but it'll be this evening. >> and to just follow up on david chalian's question, how many of those 290,000 ballots received tuesday will be part of that count tonight? >> well, let me answer that maybe in a slightly different way. so this evening we'll be releasing a similar amount. we have been releasing around 60,000 to 70,000 votes an evening. we should be reporting on a similar amount this evening and of that amount, a little bit more than a majority of it will be mail-in ballots, early ballots that were dropped off on election day. in addition to that, we anticipate that we may also be reporting some of those box three votes from election day. those were people who came on election day to vote in-person

and the tabulator wouldn't read their ballot, so we put it into secure box three, and then the remainder, a few thousand votes will be mail-in ballots that we received before election day. >> got it. can you help explain to our viewers again, and we have been doing it throughout our broadcast, why this process is taking so long? >> so this process is set in place by arizona statute. so this is a process established by the state legislature, and it is very much related to the fact that we do mail-in ballots, very popular in this state, and 290,000 people dropped off their mail-in ballot on election day, broke the previous record for election day by 70%. so when you have these 290,000 ballots, they come in here to count, arrived on wednesday. they didn't even arrive until

the day after election day, and then we have to go after with each and every one of those and signature verify them, or in other words, confirm that the signature on the outside of the ballot envelope is the same as the signature that that voter has on record on their voter registration record. so that takes time, and we got to get that right because we want to make sure that the people who say they're voting are actually the ones who voted. it's very important to the integrity of the process. >> speaking to the integrity of the process, and you've already addressed this, but just to bring our viewers up to speed, republican gubernatorial candidate kari lake claimed that maricopa county unfounded without any backing at all, she has claimed that officials there are slow rolling the process to help democrats. you have walked that back and you pushed that back aggressively, and you said, if their team had been paying attention before the election, they would have heard us talking about this over and over again that we are not going to have results on election night, and

that it would take days. at this point, do you think that she is deliberately trying to dupe americans and voters there in arizona? >> well, i'm not sure what her intent is, but it's particularly difficult to digest those sort of statements today on veterans day. today is a holiday in maricopa county, and we have many people here today working 14 and 18 hours keeping this count going forward, and, in fact, we had a moment of recognition of our veterans who are here today, just earlier today. these are people who saved democracy, and now they're serving democracy today. they're working so hard, and they're complying with the laws. so to have those sorts of comments made, accusing these good people of slow rolling or dragging their feet, that's hard for me to swallow. i think it is for the people here too, but the good thing is, they're focused on getting the

count done, and they're doing a great job, and i certainly am grateful for that. >> yeah, and we're grateful for all of those poll workers and you're right, to acknowledge the veterans today, but on the question of when will all the ballot counting be complete, when do you expect that to be? >> so we anticipate that will be early next week, based upon the clip at which we're going, again maintaining that focus on acc accuracy. i would anticipate very early next week. >> monday, tuesday? >> that seems fair. >> okay. well, let me -- there's quick pushback. obviously last question for you. there's obviously pushback from people like kari lake about how long this is taking, but there is legitimate questioning about whether or not there is a different model you should take, and some are pointing to the florida model. we knew the result there, the ap called it in the early hours wednesday morning. do you think it's time to

reconsider your process? >> well, first of all, i think probably one of the -- because we don't get into the business of networks, you know, calling races, but i think probably one of the reasons the ap could call that early on wednesday was because they don't have the close races that we have here in arizona, but setting that aside, our job here in maricopa county is to follow the laws and to administer this in a safe and secure way. if the state legislature wants to change the rules and say that people shouldn't be able to drop off their mail-in ballot on election day, they can do that. we will respect that. i just really don't have a strong feeling one way or the other on it. just set the rules, and we're going to follow them, and we're going to continue to educate the people of maricopa county on what laws we're working under, and to push back on all this misinformation. >> all right, bill gates. thank you so much for the time. we appreciate it. >> thank you. so as we mentioned at the top of the hour, we are getting

new election data out of nevada. >> yeah. let's go to cnn's rosa flores who is there. an hour ago, you told us there is an estimated, like, 95,000 ballots that still need to be counted. election officials just spoke. >> reporter: i'm in clark county from the registrar's office, and they believe that of those ballots that you mentioned, of the 95,000, there's a portion of them here in clark county. they are expecting to finish counting most of those ballots by tomorrow, by saturday. now that kpexcludes the ballots that have to be cured or the provisional ballots. they believe that they can finish counting about 50,000 ballots tomorrow. now these include drop box ballots from election day and m mail-in ballots. there's another tronch of ballots that need to be cured. the deadline for that is monday.

there's another 5,555 provisional ballots that need to be processed and those would be counted on wednesday. now to the question of why is this taking so long? here's what the registrar had to say. take a listen. >> we're not purposely holding this process back. we're doing everything in our power to move ballots forward just as quickly as we can, but the statutory deadlines that we have in place, i can't do -- finish all the mail until it all comes in. that's a very small number, but still. i can't finish until saturday, even if i wanted to. monday, we have the cure deadline. i've got to wait for those voters to give them an opportunity to get their ballot cured. >> reporter: now about that deadline for tomorrow, saturday, when they're expecting all the mail-in ballots that are postmarked election day, the registrar said they have been going to the mail every day, once every day. tomorrow they're going to go twice to make sure that they get all of those ballots.

as to when the next tallies are going to go up, tonight we're expecting a tally, and then of course tomorrow, when according to the registrar, they are expecting to process the majority of those 50,000 ballots. guys, back to you. >> all right, rosa flores, thank you. there is cheering in the streets of ukraine, in the key city of kherson after russian troops retreated. a cnn team went inside of the newly liberated towns in that region. we're going to take you there next. and a fresh look at the coastal damage hurricane nicole left behind in florida. where the storm is moving next. we'll tell you straight ahead.

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ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says it's a historic day as they have taken back criminal of kherson. residents flooded the city central square cheering and waving flags, welcoming the arrival of ukrainian troops. [ cheers ] >> cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson is live in ukraine. nic, a major blow, a black eye and embarrassment for vladimir putin just weeks after illegally annexing one of these four territories including kherson. >> reporter: yeah, and the narrative that the russian minister of defense is putting out that they were able to get out 30,000 troops in good order safely, and they were able to get out all of their military equipment, 5,000 pieces of

military equipment, they said without loss. just an utter fabrication. we were there. we were in territories that were liberated over the last day or so. we were in a town where we were speaking to residents still in that euphoric moment of having had their town liberated. outside of the town, there was plenty of evidence of russian military equipment not making it back east of the dnipro river safely as the russian military has said, and i think this gives us an understanding of what president putin is trying to do in misleading his population, and trying to say this is a smart move as a retreat. this is a success in other words, and saved so many troops. for the people we've talked to today, this is the end of the horrors of russian occupation, and some of the stories we heard today from those people just liberated were quite chilling. a young girl, 15-year-old girl told us she'd been taken away by russian troops. in the past few days, had a hood

put over her head, taken to the basement of a building, threatened with having her fingers cut off if she didn't tell them where ukrainian troops. she thought she was going to be raped, and she was terrified. another woman said russian troops threatened to kill her, and said they would smash her brains out. there's a euphoria, but on the other hand people are really reliving now in this moment of freedom, reliving the horrors that they've just been forced to go through. >> yeah, really traumatic for the people there, and obviously if past is prologue, we can expect to see more attacks on civilian infrastructure from russia in the days and weeks to come. nonetheless, this is a good day for ukraine and a great day for those residents of kherson. nic robertson, thank you. back to the united states now, we want to get you an update on hurricane nicole because that category 1 hurricane has been linked to at

least five fatalities in florida ever since it made landfall early on thursday. we're learning more about the victims too, one of them was a tow truck driver who was assisting a stranded driver. >> just awful. nicole has since weakened to a tropical depression, and is now bringing heavy rainfall in its wake. cnn meteorologist britlee ritz joins us now. what are you expecting next from this rare november storm? >> reporter: well, the problem now, bianna, is the fact we're dealing with a threat with the damaging winds, tornadoes, and even localized flooding and some of this already occurring with now tropical depression nicole. the center of the low located still parts of the southeast, but a lot of that moisture working its way up through the ohio valley, mid-atlantic, and into new england. see these pink dots? those are tornado warnings that have been issued and numerous warnings have been issued earlier today. this is going to continue on through the rest this evening,

until 6:00 eastern time. parts of north carolina as well as virginia dealing with a tornado watch, highlighted in this red box. we've got a lot of sunshine out there still. some of that heating helping to fuel some of these storms which is why we're dealing with that threat of tornadoes. not only that, but of course, stronger winds, so the areas highlighted in green all the way up into the mid atlantic, washington, philly, still dealing with the threat of wind gusts over 60 miles per hour. that on top of the heavy rain which we've picked up over the coastline, 2 to 4 inches of rain with additional rainfall expected. we still have flash flood warnings. >> thank you so much for that update. dave chappelle's representative denies that there is a boycott on "saturday night live" over him hosting tomorrow night. details ahead. and twitter showing no signs of stopping after elon musk said

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representatives are disputing claims that "saturday night live" writers plan to boycott his guest hosting gig this weekend. >> the "new york post" reported that some of the writing staff were opposed to his hosting because of his past remarks about the transgender community. cnn national correspondent jason carroll has more. >> reporter: anticipation building at 30 rock, home of nbc and "saturday night live" where comedian dave chappelle is set to host "snl's" post-election day episode. >> this is dave. he tells joke for a living. he's also about to host "saturday night live" for the third time. >> reporter: but this time, questions about possible problems behind the scenes. chappelle's representatives pushing back on unconfirmed reports that "snl" writers were staging a boycott related to the comedian's previous comments about the trans community, telling cnn, we've seen nothing to support media reports of a writer's boycott. in fact, the writers delivered

over 40 sketches for dave's consideration and collaboration. chappelle has come under fire for comments about the transgender community in his standup routines. most recently in his netflix special "the closer." >> this is fine. this is fine. every human being in this room, every human being on earth had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth. that is a fact. >> reporter: a reddit user captured this instagram story from is the "snl" writer celeste yim. they said, transphobia is murder. it should be condemned. it was not clear if this was aimed at chappelle. there was no response to request about him hosting. news was met with backlash on social media as some pointed out the show announced in september, it was adding its first nonbinary cast member, molly

kearney. following the election of donald trump. >> all my black friends, we have money and say the same thing when trump got elected. that's it, bro. i'm out. i'm leaving the country. are you coming with us? no. i'm good, dog. i'm going to stay here and get this tax break and see how it works out. >> reporter: he continued in 2020 when biden won. >> i thought we were having a comedy show. >> reporter: now he'll have another go in front of the studio audience as both his critics and fans wait to hear what he will say next. >> our thanks to jason carroll for that report. let's discuss this with cnn media analyst bill carter. bill, thanks for joining us this afternoon. what do you make of this apparent disagreement, even though it's not exactly public, between some of the staff o on "snl" and dave chappelle?

>> well, it's not surprising that the people in the trans community are now uncomfortable having dave chappelle as host because he's been in the middle of this controversy. i would find it really pretty surprising or shocking if there was an actual boycott of him by the staff. that does not make sense to me, and i've known lauren michaels a long, long time, and he's the executive producer and created the show, and i don't see how that would be acceptable to him. i do think chappelle is a controversial figure. they have had controversial figures before. the show is supposed to be an out there show, so all that is probably within the frame work of what you expect from "saturday night live". >> yeah, and as we noted in that piece, this would be his third appearance. he is a known quantity. he is not somebody who i would imagine can be told to act a certain way or stick within certain perimeters. so is this a situation where any publicity is good publicity, and

the fact we're talking about it now will hopefully for "saturday night live" and lorne michaels help them or will there be more chaos unfolding? >> i see the former and not the latter. you're onto something because every time the show has had a controversial host, it drives tune-in. people want to see what he's going to say, and dave chappelle is a comedian who is -- he breaks norms. i'm always pro-comedy and i'm absolutely for people who break norms in comedy and are original. he fits the bill, but obviously you can have -- you can't go too far. you're not going to have kanye west hosting and doing anti-semitic jokes. i don't expect him to be doing things that are outrageous about the transgender community. he has said some pretty edgy things i have to say in his netflix special, and of course, he was even attacked on stage once in the past year. so he's been in the middle of

this, and he kind of welcomes it. you're right about his style. his style is to take on anything that's, you know, challenging. he's going to take it on. >> yeah, you're right. "snl" i remember had donald trump on to host in the leadup to the 2016 election and that was controversial. got them very big ratings. i'm wondering, though, bill -- >> exactly. >> when you say that for lorne michaels, any boycott would be unacceptable, how do you think he would handle it? do you think people would get fired? >> well, that's what i don't expect to happen because lorne besides being a masterful producer has always been masterful at the psychology of handling talented people. obviously this cast of that show has always had a lot of out there kind of people among the writers and performers, and he has had to wrangle them over all these years, 40-plus years. so i would imagine behind the scenes there's been discussion. he may have said to some of the writers, if you don't want to

write a sketch, then you can write a commercial or a sketch that he's not in. the host is not in every sketch. there are ways to manage this, and i would be surprised if he wasn't managing in, and everyone who's on that show knows it's kind of a gigantic career boost and privilege to be on the show, so to push that too far would be pretty risky for their careers, i think. >> no doubt there will be a lot of people tuning in to watch that opening monologue. who knows? i may even stay up until 11:30 now on a saturday night. i can't remember the last time i did that, just to tune in. bill carter, thank you. great to see you. have a great weekend. we've got an update for you coming up on a major crypto crash and burn. ftx, the exchange backed by everyone from tom brady to steph curry, it just filed for bankruptcy. we'll bring you the details in just a few moments.

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more turmoil at twitter. the company's new owner elon musk is now warning staff that he could potentially declare bankruptcy for the company he just bought. >> cnn's oliver darcy joins us now with the latest. oliver, so now bankruptcy. listen. this is like an evergreen segment time of day to have you on for, like, what crazy thing did elon musk do now? it's as if there's a thought experiment happening in his head that he doesn't actually realize is playing out in real life. the ftc is watching this. what's going on? >> they're worried twitter is

not in compliance with federal regulation. they're saying, we're actively looking and deeply worried about what's happening at twitter, but the broader picture here i think is can twitter survive elon musk? i mean, the ftc is one problem that he has. he has multiple fires now burning at twitter. advertisers have fled, executives he ousted, right? and then other executives are leaving the company. morale is low. i was talking to someone who told me that internally, company -- employees are viewing this as the titanic, looking for life lifeboats, hoping to get out. his verification twitter blue subscription model has imploded. they had to suspend that today, and so you look at all of these factors happening at twitter, and you wonder how they're going to succeed as a company, and then elon musk comes out himself basically and tells them, well, we might not actually survive. we might have to declare bankruptcy, and so it is just a huge mess, and this could have really significant ramifications

for us all because it's a very important communications platform. government officials use this. countries use this to communicate, and it's now been thrown into complete chaos. >> so when he tweets, users are up, sort of, like, nothing to see here, what does he -- does he not understand what's happening? is -- are people actually using the platform more now? >> it doesn't matter now how many people are using the platform or not if he can't have advertisers. if he can't actually monetize the users on the platform, that's his biggest problem. he's admitted it and he said a couple of weeks ago there's a massive revenue drop at twitter and he told his employees in his first note if we don't increase revenue, we might not survive this economic downturn and his problem is he has scared advertisers away, and one of the only people, the key figures at twitter who was the head of trust and safety that was really making them have some confidence in the platform, he departed twitter yesterday, and so i don't -- i don't know how they're going to get themselves

out of this one. it just seems like one thing after the next, and the last 24 hours, he was seeing this company really get into a quickening death spiral. i'm not sure they can navigate out of this one. >> carve out your schedule, 3:40 every day, we'll have you in this seat with another update. oliver darcy, thank you. >> thank you. so far this month, consumer confidence is worse than expected. that is according to a closely watched consumer report released today by the university of michigan. there are fears over inflation and a possible recession that continue to weigh on consumers. cnn's matt egan joins us now with more, and matt, for the last few months, consumer confidence had been slowly improving. what happened? >> reporter: well, boris and bianna, the consume reverse feeling this painful one-two punch. they're feeling inflation at the gas station and grocery store, when they go shopping for the holidays and they're also getting squeezed by this borrowing cost. the feds warn inflation has

driven up mortgage rates, and credit card rates have never been higher. we've seen consumer settlement expectedly take a hitthis hit th getting close to record lows. we know what people say and do is not always the same thing. if they say they don't like the economy, but they keep spending, then this economy can keep going. on the other hand, if they stop spending, all bets are off. >> matt, this comes as we're saying the cryptocurrency market really devolved into chaos with one of its biggest companies announcing they're filing for bankruptcy. what is happening there in that sector? >> reporter: yeah, the collapse of ftx is really one of the most stunning implosions that we've seen. it's amazing first of all, because of how quickly it happened. it wasn't something that happened in weeks or months. it's really been in just the past few days and also because of who ftx is. they're one of the leading crypto exchanges. sam bankman-fried, he was a hero

of crypto, and he bailed out others, and he's become so toxic he couldn't get a bailout of his own. he's lost $14 billion. he resigned as ceo. it's just been an incredible series of developments, and ftx itself, it's backed by top investors and had endorsement deals with steph curry, gisele, tom brady. its logo was flashed on the nba's miami heat. now it's bankrupt. that means that its investors may get wiped out. employees could lose their jobs. some people -- some of the customers, they could lose money as well through no fault of their own. i want to read you what sam bankman-fried said today on twitter. he said, i'm very sorry we ended up here. hopefully we can find a way to recover, and this can bring an amount of transparency, trust and governance to them, and ultimately get better for customers. all of this has shaken confidence in the crypto

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