>> no actual teeth? >> they just s good morning, america. breaking news. down to the wire. the race for president so close this morning in those all-important states with the white house within reach for joe biden. >> when the count is finished we believe we will be the winners. >> the former vice president now just 17 electoral votes away from the top job after picking up michigan and wisconsin and breaking the record for the most votes casts for a u.s. presidential candidate ever with more than 70 million and counting. president trump now launching an all-out legal blitz trying to freeze the ballot count in the crucial battleground of pennsylvania, and in michigan, chaos breaking out. [ crowd chanting ] >> his supporters storming one of the counting locations. but in arizona -- [ crowd chanting ]

>> the president's supporters demanding the count go on. we're breaking down all the challenges and the potential for a supreme court showdown. all eyes on the final six states. the path to victory narrowing with every second. our powerhouse political team is live across the country as every last vote is counted and a nation on edge awaits this historic decision. and we do say good morning, america. good to be with you on this thursday morning. just a handful of states where we know the votes are still being counted and want to take a look at this video. this video was live streamed for the nation to watch the ballot count in arizona. and now we want to take a live look right now at the ongoing count in two of the most critical states left, pennsylvania and in georgia. being so transparent. we're going to take a look at those remaining battleground

states in just a few minutes. >> a lot of good citizens doing their jobs right there. as for trickle in we are edging closer to a decision. joe biden increasingly confident of victory. right now, he has 253 electoral votes, he's leading in enough states to give him the 270 electoral votes he needs. president trump has 214 electoral votes. he will need a sweep of the open battlegrounds to win and the president's team is mounting legal challenges in those key states. >> joe biden breaking the record for the most votes ever received by a presidential candidate, a record 70 million so far. the former vice president speaking yesterday calling for unity. >> promising to be a president for all americans in this deeply divided country. mary bruce is with the biden campaign in wilmington, delaware. good morning, mary. >> reporter: george, good morning. while joe biden right now is confident he is on the cusp of victory while president trump is not ready to throw in the towel is digging in. he is trying to put a stop to vote counting in some states while calling for every ballot to be tallied in other places where he is behind, demanding

that officials take another look. this morning, the white house is within reach for joe biden. >> i'm not here to declare that we've won, but i am here to report when the count is finished we believe we will be the winners. >> reporter: eking out an apparent victory in wisconsin, and now projected to take michigan, biden now just 17 electoral votes shy of the presidency. he says he's confident he's flipped arizona and is feeling good about pennsylvania telling the country he believes once every vote is counted the results will be clear. >> of special significance to me is that we've won with the majority of the american people and every indication is that the majority will grow. >> reporter: but president trump even though he's behind has falsely declared victory. >> frankly, we did win this election. we did win this election. >> reporter: now after making unfounded claims of fraud he's launching out an all-out legal

blitz across multiple states, trying to freeze vote counting in pennsylvania. >> it's very clear to us that we've declared victory in pennsylvania. >> reporter: the president currently leads in the keystone state but there are more than 800,000 ballots yet to be tallied. the majority from democratic-leaning areas. pennsylvania's governor promising they will keep going no matter what. >> every vote is going to count. i'm going to fight like hell to protect the vote of every pennsylvanian. >> reporter: in michigan, the president now suing pushing for more republican observers to be allowed into counting locations. chaos breaking out at one of those centers in detroit. dozens chanting, stop the count. but in arizona trump supporters chanting, count these votes. [ crowd chanting ] >> reporter: swarming the building in maricopa county where officials are trying to do just that. in wisconsin, the trump campaign calling for a recount, but biden appears to have won the state by less than a percentage point,

virtually the same margin trump won there in 2016, confident he's on the brink of winning it all he is looking ahead ready to start uniting the country after this bitter election. >> we have to stop treating our opponents as enemies. we are not enemies. what brings us together as americans is so much stronger than anything that can tear us apart. >> reporter: now even some republicans are throwing cold water on the president's calls for a recount. former wisconsin governor scott walker noting that trump trails by about 20,000 votes, he says that is an uphill climb for him to try to overcome and the biden team is quick to note that the president took the state by a similar margin in 2016 and at that time he bragged that it was a landslide. george? >> and mary, over the course of the day yesterday, you could feel the biden team's confidence rising by the hour. >> reporter: yeah, george, this morning they are feeling extremely confident but also really prepared. they say they are ready to tackle whatever president trump and his legal team may try to

throw at them. they have a massive legal team of their own assembled and they say any attempts to try and undermine our electoral process will certainly fail. the biden camp is increasingly looking ahead. another sign of how confident they are, george, their official transition website is now up and running. >> mary bruce, thanks very much. >> thank you, george. the path for president trump to victory appears to be narrowing at this hour and cecilia vega has the latest. on what's going on behind the scenes at the white house this morning. good morning. >> reporter: hey, michael. good morning to you. yeah, mary just hinted at it. the president's legal team has been working around the clock, they're filing one motion after the next. this is really becoming this hail mary strategy so they filed these two suits in pennsylvania. they've got one in michigan and they've got this recount request in wisconsin and just to give you a little bit of an idea of what it looks like, the suit they have in georgia alleges a poll worker may have witnessed 53 late ballots added to a stack

of on time ballots so they're fighting over 53 ballots there. i'd say this is a fight that could go all the way to the supreme court. as for president trump we didn't see him yesterday. he was here inside the white house. we're told he's working the phones and talking to allies, particularly republican governors. he's had multiple conversations with arizona's governor who has convinced the trump team that arizona, that the votes there are so narrow that margin they really could pull off a victory in that state. this is not going to come as a surprise. as for president trump sources close to him say that he's in a down mood. privately he's conceding that they are seeing this lead start to slip away and we're hearing him on twitter anyway continue to push these conspiracy theories that election is being stolen from him but what we're seeing is the way democracy is supposed to work. every ballot being counted and, george, listen to this now, this is something we don't often hear in this country. international elections observers saying what they're seeing here in our country, they're very concerned about it. they say president trump is undermining the democratic system and public confidence in that. >> boy, that is a sign of the times. okay, cecilia vega, thank you

very much. want to go back to tom llamas at the map to give you an idea how each side can get to 270 and why joe biden is increasingly confident right now. tom, let's begin with that first clear path for joe biden. >> right. so the easiest way to explain this to our viewers at home, joe biden needs two right now. president trump needs four so let's skip arizona and nevada. joe biden currently has a lead right now. you can see right here he's well on his way to the white house. there's one more path for him. if he's able to flip pennsylvania, he gets to 273. same scenario. on his way to the white house. >> but for trump it's a much higher wall. >> it's different. he has to win pennsylvania, north carolina, georgia and look at that number -- 265. he's still not there. he has to come out west and win arizona. we'll give alaska to him as well, that's how he win, 279. >> and tom, there's that tiny little blue box in the middle of red nebraska. explain why that could be consequential. >> there are scenarios where it could be 269 for president trump and 269 for biden.

let's go to nebraska right now and show you why that's so important. so there's a district here, i'll blow this up. this is the omaha region, right? so this is north carolina -- excuse me, nebraska too. it's tiny, it's one electoral vote. but if it ever gets tied to 269, george, these are the most important americans on the planet because their vote is that one electoral vote. >> that's already gone to joe biden. meantime, let's look at the key states, give people a sense of what's left to be counted as well. >> let's talk about pennsylvania. right now there are about 763,000 votes outstanding statewide but president trump's lead in that state is only 164,000. the mail-in vote, the early vote has been trending for joe biden. that's why democrats and really americans all across the country want those votes counted. in georgia, it's gotten tighter and tighter overnight. there's about 91,000 votes outstanding statewide but president trump's lead in georgia is just 18,000, george.

>> but meantime, arizona got a little better for president trump overnight. >> things are looking better for president trump right now. there are about 275,000 votes outstanding in maricopa county. about 100,000 to 200,000 more around the rest of the state and it's gotten narrow and narrow, we're talking about 68,000 is the spread. joe biden's lead is 68,000. but you can see there are hundreds of thousands of votes still outstanding. that's why president trump thinks he still has a path in georgia. if he wins arizona it's going to be a long week. >> tom llamas, thanks very much. >> okay, george. we know those states still up for grabs, we'll start in arizona where the race as you know is very tight at this hour. whit johnson is in phoenix and has the latest on the count. good morning, whit. >> reporter: robin, good morning to you. we're live here in the wrest, where the race in arizona has just gotten tighter. new results from overnight showing joe biden leading donald trump just over 68,000. all united states are on maricopa county and those

275,000 outstanding ballots, most of those absentee ballots that voters dropped off at the on election day. democrats are increasingly confident that joe biden will be able to turn this red state blue. protesters gathering outside the county recorder, some of them armed, some tried to get inside to monitor the vote count, before they were turned away by authorities. we do expect more results later tonight. michael. thank you so much. next we go to nevada which was quiet on wednesday and now joe biden with a slight lead there this morning. our chief national correspondent matt gutman is in las vegas with more. good morning, matt. >> reporter: hey, good morning, michael. it's quiet no more. the margin is paper thin, 7500

votes at this point, one of the reasons that the trump campaign is flying in major top operatives, they said they have a major announcement coming up this morning. i just got off the phone with one of them, there will be a lawsuit here in nevada, complaining about a lack of transparency, now that press conference is due to happen a half-hour the state releases its unofficial results and mail-in ballots. now, the trump campaign is very hopeful about that, they believe about 70,000 of those mail-in ballots are coming from clark county, reno and las vegas the only democratic strongholds in the states, room for a possible recount, no minimum threshold here in nevada, the trump campaign could press for that at that point, but that means joe biden could be a little bit cloerg to that magical 270.

now to pennsylvania with the count that didn't start until the election was over. as we said the president has filed a lawsuit to stop the votes from being counted there. eva pilgrim is in philadelphia with the latest where they are making progress. good morning, eva. >> reporter: good morning, robin. they're making serious progress on that ballot counting. we're live in pennsylvania. about 80% of those ballots. trump's lead is very narrowing. they're about 750,000 votes left to be counted. now some trump advisers are expected to hold a press conference here in philly in just minutes, meanwhile, biden's camp thinks a win is still within reach, the votes still outstanding are mostly mail-in ballots, registered democrats returned to 3 to 1 margin compared to registered republicans. george. >> thanks very much.

the gap is closing in georgia as well. steve osunsami is there as well and closing in on the final count, steve. >> reporter: good morning to you, george. 7:00, of course, on tuesday the polls closed. by midnight, the president was up about 372,000 votes. this morning that lead has shrunk to about 18,000 votes and the secretary of state now says that there are about 25,000 absentee votes still to be counted. about 7,000 of those votes we hear are here in fulton county which is breaking heavily for joe biden. they are going to continue to count the votes in counties across this state. these are all absentee votes that we're talking about. this is going to be super close. all of a sudden those provisional ballots are going to count. military, overseas ballots are going to count. the democratic party's encouraging residents here who voted by absentee to make sure that their vote was counted and if there are issues, if their votes are one of those cure

ballots they have only a couple of days to fix it, george. >> thanks very much. let's bring in rahm emanuel and chris christie for more. rahm, let me begin with you. you've been a part of two presidential transitions, right now as we said the biden campaign is increasingly confident though by no means sure but talk about how they're thinking in these final hours and how they have to think about the job ahead. >> well, you got to keep your eyes kind of split screen. one set of eyes is all about the legal and ballot counting process, making sure arizona, nevada, pennsylvania, georgia which are all -- and north carolina -- are all counted differently when the ballots can be focused then your legal strategies like in those states if there is a legal fight from the trump campaign i'd make sure obviously that your legal team has a -- reflects your political strategy which is both democrat/republican lawyers on there and then there's a transition focus. you don't want to be presumptuous but you want to assert which is exactly how the vice president did that and i suppose on top of it put a bow

of the voters who vote, this is their country and we have to respect their will. so the transition, you begin to think about the white house, you begin to think about departments and cabinets, you lean in without going over your ski tips but you never get too far ahead in that process of the foundation, which is you got to win and knock down the next 17 electoral votes. they have two different paths. they're focused on all -- or actually three to do them all in that place so you're kind of operating in a dual track strategy. >> flip side for you, chris christie. take us inside the white house. what's the best hope for president trump to get to the 270 he needs? how does he have to think about confronting falling short? >> well, it starts with arizona, george, and they made progress overnight and the principle remains the same for the president that it does for vice president biden. all votes should be counted and fairly. so in arizona, i know some news organizations have called the state. we have not. i think that's appropriate.

there's still a lot of votes to be counted. the governor, doug ducey, of arizona believes that there's enough votes out there to make a difference given where they're coming from. second he has to keep his eye on the ball in pennsylvania because that's a must-win state for him now and again, he still has 180,000-vote margin so still a large margin. a lot of votes to count, but they're making progress in that. we may know by this evening whether that lead stands up or doesn't. so, for the president his focus is not on transition, but is on trying to get to a place where he can get to 270. this one is not over yet and no one should act as if it is because that's respecting the american people's will as well and that's what the president and his team should be focused on and i believe they are. >> chris christie, thanks very much. talked about arizona. it is tight. we'll talk to the secretary of state of arizona coming up in our next half hour. all right, george, and those razor-thin margins are raising big questions about all those

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also right now, tropical storm eta wreaking havoc on central america. catastrophic flooding and new threat for the u.s. florida could see some impact from the storm by the weekend. ginger is going to be tracking the latest for us. okay, all right, all right. stop what you're doing. take a look. it looks like those kayakers in that video appears two women were swallowed by a giant whale. it appears that way, but fortunately they just ended up under water. they were unharmed and the very, very close encounter. wow. but they're fine. >> thank goodness they are, okay. we're going to take a closer look now at the tight state of arizona. the secretary of state, katie hobbs, joins us now. thanks for joining us. i know you were working through the night. we saw some new votes come in from arizona quite early this morning. why don't you just give everybody an update on where things stand in your state right

now. >> so it looks like there are just under 300,000 votes left to count in maricopa county which is, you know, two-thirds of the voting population so where the bulk of the votes are and statewide under 450,000 votes left to count so we're getting there. we have said from the beginning this takes time and we're going to focus on making sure every valid vote counts. >> and you expect to have the final counts sometime tonight, i know not the official counts, but the final votes out there tallied? >> you know what, i haven't gotten an estimate from maricopa county about how long it's going to take them to get through the rest of those ballots so hope to have a more solid number in terms of how long it's going to take later today but i don't think -- it's not looking like today, probably closer to tomorrow that we'll be close -- closer to getting through all of those ballots. >> that's good to know. we did see protests at the

arizona -- have they had an impact? >> absolutely not. i don't understand what protesters are interested in. obviously we'll keep counting ballots. that is what we're required to do by law. in arizona they should -- if they're supporting the president, they should want us continue counting to make sure -- i just don't understand what their goal is. after they left the capitol they mobbed outside the maricopa tabulation center. i'm not sure what their objective is but they absolutely are not disrupting what we're doing to do our jobs. >> do you see any chance we've seen legal challenges in other states. do you see that happening in arizona and what would your response be? >> you know, i don't -- i don't know what legal path they have to bring a challenge. we are required by law to count the ballots. there's nothing wrong with continuing to count ballots after election day. we've never finished counting

ballots on election day. i'm really not sure what they would challenge legally so we're just going to keep doing our jobs and get these votes counted. >> and your sense of a possible recount? >> our recount margins are very narrow. it's 200 votes or 0.1% of the total votes cast for that race so i don't think we'll get to that territory. >> secretary hobbs, thanks very much for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> we don't know what the legal situation may be there, but we do know there is a legal battle in several battleground states, so let's bring in our legal team, abc news chief legal analyst dan abrams and supreme court contributor kate shaw. thank you both for being here this morning. i know you're following this. the number of lawsuits that have been -- i won't say -- that they're thinking about. they're allegedly going to make these lawsuits become a reality.

let me ask you first, kate, is there any validity to anything that they're talking about when it comes to the lawsuits? >> well, you're right, robin. some of these lawsuits have been filed but some have just been talked about and we're not sure if they'll materialize. you know, when the president came out very late on election night and said we'll take this to the supreme court. you know, you can, of course, challenge various aspects of the election possess but you do need a legal argument and in order for it to matter in terms of the outcome of the election it needs to be in a state that might tip the balance of the electoral colleges one way or another and the vote needs to be close enough where the argument you're making might in theory change the outcome of a number of votes such that the election could turn on it and the kinds of lawsuits that we have seen so far don't seem to check those boxes. i'm not sure what the legal theories are in some of them are, and in any event even if it were possible to bring a winning legal challenge to some aspect

of the curing of provisional or of absentee ballots that have some issue where the access of monitors to the counting it's hard for me to see that happening in a state that could tip the balance. as you've been saying, we're going to get critical information today and tomorrow from those states that remain in the counting process. >> dan. >> you know, robin, this is where politics intersects with the law, right? you have to first look at the politics of this. and first look at what are the numbers? is it really close? i mean we've got two very close race, for example, in arizona, in georgia for right now, but are those states going to determine the outcome? and is it going to be that close where you're talking about, you know, hundreds of votes or a couple of thousand of votes that will literally determine the outcome was was the case in 2000 in bush v. gore. we're not there. because right now joe biden has so many avenues with regard to pennsylvania and arizona, georgia, et cetera, there are

simply too many places right now and too many votes for this to matter. but if it did get down to that point, then, yes, then the specifics of how ballots were counted will become a critical question but that's not really what a lot of lawsuits are about. a lot of them are about broader process and it seems more like an effort to try to delay the process and prevent some states from certifying the vote so the trump team can continue the ongoing fight. >> but two of these lawsuits in michigan and pennsylvania, they are about access to ballot counts. republicans are saying that they have been blocked from observing but would that be enough to stop vote counts, dan? let's start with you. >> no, it's not going to stop the vote count. the question becomes, what do you do now, and when the remedy for this sort of situation would be give them the access and potentially challenge ballots later but you don't stop the vote count to allow something like this to change.

>> kate, what do you think? >> yeah, i think that suit and the others, it's looking increasely unlikely that this election is going to be determined by the courts or by the supreme court and for the sake of our democracy that's a good thing, the people and not the courts should identify the winner of our presidential election. >> can't argue with that. thank you both, dan and kate. >> i know. we have seen -- you can actually log on in some places and see the voting taking place -- >> one of the remarkable things has just been how orderly and how peaceful and how well that process has gone in just about every state. >> and, again, we said this yesterday, thank goodness for these poll workers. many of them are volunteers and they are taking their time and they want to get it right and they will get it right. >> great citizens. >> great citizens. >> coming up, the -- well, the polling, okay, for the second presidential election in a row raising big questions, fivethirtyeight's nate silver will join us to break it down when we come back. eight's nate silver will join us to break it down

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we want to get straight to what frank luntz said, that the polling profession is done. do you agree with that sentiment? >> so i'm not a pollster, but i think frank is kind of exaggerating a little bit for a couple of reasons. one being we know that in a lot of states the result is changing from what it was initially on election night, so if you went election night, you thought, oh, my gosh, biden is going to lose wisconsin by ten points. turns out, he is ahead in wisconsin, and wisconsin has been called or projected for him, so when you compare the final results, it will take a couple of weeks. they probably wind up 48, 49 out of 50 states right. and come a little low on biden's popular vote. so i think in the light of date it's going to be a mediocre year for the polls but where they correctly pointed towards biden's wins in key states.

>> how is polling conducted? did mail-in early and or absentee ballots affect the polling? >> that's a big question. i don't think the polls were perfect. they clearly underestimated in some key states president trump. one big change here is that you have so many more ways to vote, people voting by mail, so maybe votes can be spoiled meaning, you fill out the ballot incorrectly when you send it in. maybe some votes were lost. i don't think that's enough to explain all of it, but a new factor that pollsters are dealing with and something we have to look into and account for. >> nate, you have always been careful with your forecast. you caution people, you know, at 10% probability of something if something is not nothing, and i take your point about the polling not being perfect but not way out of whack, but we've had two and perhaps two elections in a row where the error was in the same direction twice in a row underestimating the support of president trump. do you have any theories about what that is about?

>> i mean, i would potentialize a bit where it's pretty typical to have a polling error of this magnitude. people were spoiled by 2008 or 2012 where it's spot on. different science now where views are correlated across a demographic with how they might vote, but one idea is that people who have so-called low social trust, people who may not trust the government may also not, for example, answer polls quite as often, it's pretty hard to use that to weight your way out of. not that trump supporters deceive a pollster or lie about who they're supporting but they just won't pick up the phone and that can be a problem. again, we don't know. pollsters thought they'd fix it by doing education weighting but if you miss, you want to miss not in the same direction twice in a row so i think there will be a lot of questions that need to be asked, but i think if you use probability you understand hey, look, the reason biden hung on in states like michigan and

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good morning, america. it's 8:00 a.m. breaking news, down to six states. the race for president so close this morning. in those all-important battlegrounds. the white house within reach for joe biden. >> when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners. >> the former vice president now just 17 electoral votes away from the top job after picking up michigan and wisconsin overnight. biden breaking the record for the most votes cast for a u.s. presidential candidate ever. more than 70 million and counting. the president launching an all-out legal blitz trying to freeze the ballot count in the crucial state of pennsylvania, protests in michigan overnight. [ crowd chanting ] >> his supporters storming one of the vote counting locations in arizona. [ crowd chanting ] >> the president's supporters demanding the count go on.

the focus on the final six states as the path to victory narrows. the votes being counted at this hour. we are live from the battleground states. the nation on edge waiting for this historic decision as we say good morning, america. good morning, america. thanks for being with us on this thursday morning as we edge closer to a decision. you are looking live at philadelphia, pennsylvania, one of a handful of states where the votes are still being counted. >> and our team spread over those key states and we'll talk to senator amy klobuchar live just ahead and let's take a look at where things stand. joe biden has 253 electoral votes leading in enough states to give him the 270 electoral votes that could guarantee him a victory and president trump has 214 electoral votes. he will need a sweep of the open battlegrounds to win.

>> and something that we do know, joe biden and kamala harris breaking the record for the most votes ever e received be a presidential ticket. a record 70 million so far. we go back to mary bruce in wilmington, delaware, with the latest. good morning, again, mary. >> reporter: good morning, again, robin. this morning, joe biden is confident he is on the cusp of victory but president trump is not giving up just yet, in fact, this morning he's digging in. this morning, the white house is within reach for joe biden. >> i'm not here to declare that we've won. but i am here to report that when the count is finished we believe we will be the winners. >> reporter: eking out an apparent victory in wisconsin and now projected to take michigan, biden now just 17 electoral votes shy of the presidency. confident he's on the brink of winning it all, biden is now looking ahead saying he's ready to start uniting the country after this bitter election. >> we have to stop treating our opponents as enemies. we are not enemies. what brings us together as

americans is so much stronger than anything that can tear us apart. >> reporter: but president trump even though he's behind has falsely declared victory. >> frankly, we did win this election. we did win this election. >> reporter: now, after making unfounded claims of fraud the president launching an all-out legal blitz across multiple states trying to freeze vote counting in pennsylvania. >> it's clear to us that we've declared victory in pennsylvania. >> reporter: the president currently leads in the keystone state, but there are more than 800,000 ballots yet to be tallied. the majority from democratic leaning areas. in michigan, the president now suing pushing for more republican observers to be allowed into counting locations. chaos breaking out at one of those centers in detroit. dozens chanting "stop the count." but in arizona, trump supporters chanting "count these votes". swarming the building in maricopa county where officials

are working to do just that. now, biden's team is feeling extremely confident but they also feel really prepared. they have a massive legal team assembled, they say they're ready to tackle whatever president trump may try to throw at them. in another sign of how confident they are, their official transition website is now up and running. >> all right, thank you, mary. thank you for that. for president trump the path of victory does appear to be narrowing at this hour. let's go back to cecilia vega with the very latest on what's going on behind the scenes at the white house and, cecilia, do we expect the president, do we expect to see him? >> reporter: interesting one. yesterday we didn't see him in front of the cameras except for the big speech late in the night but today he's got nothing on his public schedule again. same for the vice president so we'll be following and keep you posted. we know he's been here at the white house for the last day or so hunkered down working the phones talking to his allies and republican governors across the

country, especially focused on arizona, the governor there has basically convinced the trump team the margin is so close they will come out on top so confident on that one that they could pull off a big victory. publicly, aides say they are still confident about this outcome. you got those lawyers who are working around the clock filing lawsuits in multiple states. his team, members of his team say they could take it all the way to the supreme court if they have to but, george, here's the shift. privately, when you talk to aides they're starting to concede that they are beginning to see the writing on the wall here. >> let's take a look at that writing. thanks, cecilia. tom is at the board. show the two paths to victory. first for joe biden. >> for the purpose of this segment we give alaska to president trump, it's likely break that way but let's go back to joe biden. if biden wins arizona and nevada look at his total, george. 270. he is on his way to the white house. if we take those two states back, but joe biden wins pennsylvania, it's the same story, george, 273 on his way. >> but for president trump, he needs a clean sweep. >> yeah, for president trump it

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one. he said we have claimed for electoral vote purposes the commonwealth of pennsylvania, the state of georgia and the state of north carolina and we hereby claim the state of michigan. there were a large number of secretly dubbed ballots. i don't even know what to make of that. do you? >> no. i can only say that i'm not surprised. this is the kind of behavior we've seen from this president. but we must let the votes be counted. i think one of the things that your viewers should know, george, is that these states that are late counting, we expected this. pennsylvania and wisconsin, they don't start counting until the day of the election. but also states like georgia, arizona, they have republican governors and what you see right now in a bipartisan, nonpartisan way, is election officials in these states diligently counting the votes, transparently, the tv cameras are in a lot of the rooms, they're counting the votes regardless of the party of the governor, and doing their jobs and the president can tweet

out whatever he wants. we have to allow democracy to work. >> that is what has been happening in an incredibly orderly way throughout the process. even if vice president does prevail in the electoral college republicans, it looks like will hold on to the senate and holding on to many statehouses and from what we've seen in the results so far, it does reveal this deep divide still so persistent in america. what do you make of that and how does vice president biden, if, indeed, he wins move to heal that divide? >> i don't think we should be surprised. we know there's a big divide in this country right now and that's why it's so important to me as a citizen to see how vice president biden has handled these last few days. he's got to bring people together. he is someone that has the well-earned reputation of being able to work across the aisle. i've already reached out to a number of republican senators myself yesterday and there's already talk about can we get pandemic relief package done

immediately when we go back? i think those are the kinds of things we should be working on to give americans faith that people can work together. and i think the other thing about it, major economic focus, coming our way. yes, we get through the pandemic but we also have to think about the fact that people still are having trouble paying off their student loans. we've got minimum wage that hasn't been increased for over a decade. people can't get child care. there's all kinds of really fundamental things we should be working on for america and i'm just excited to get back to work. let's talk about that pandemic relief bill because we have not seen one now for several weeks. the money has run out for so many millions of americans and all the economists say and know we need some sort of massive package to meet the needs and saw the negotiations before the election's founder largely because senate republicans were not willing to go along with

funds that president trump was willing to go along with. where is the hope for getting that relief package quickly? >> well, the hope is that americans have been crying out for it and you've got the head of the federal reserve appointed by president trump, jerome powell, who said it would be trancic if we didn't get something done and i'm talking here about help to our local governments, more money for testing, i've had major companies in my state that want to put people back to work that have been having trouble accessing quick testing and then finally you have small restaurants, music venues, the like who have been particularly hit hard by the pandemic. so what i'm looking at this as something to get us through the winter basically, out the other end when at some point in the near future that vaccine starts coming out but we still need americans to be able to make it through this time period. to me this is as joe biden said should not be a partisan moment but an american moment. get our act together. get this done and then when joe biden comes in, as i believe is going to happen, we can start

working on those long-term fundamental issues and he has a plan to get us through this pandemic. we need to implement it. so it wasn't an easy election for anyone but the fact that a record number of americans have voted, it just shows you that to me it shows people want change, people are focused and they expect a government that works for them as hard as they work every day. >> senator klobuchar, thanks for your time this morning. >> thanks, george. >> robin. we keep in mind the record during a pandemic. a record. >> that is something. as we are well aware several key states are still up for grabs in this very tight race for the white house so let's check in starting with arizona, whit johnson, as you know he is in phoenix with the latest on the count. good morning again, whit. >> reporter: robin, good morning again to you. president trump, he is gaining ground on joe biden. making this a very close race and the latest results from overnight cutting joe biden's lead down to just 68,000 votes.

and the all the focus is on maricopa county where about 275,000 ballots are still outstanding, most of those are absentee ballots that voters dropped off in person either on election day or the weekend prior. the trump campaign cysts he has a path to victory. but democrats have confidence that joe biden will get the win we also saw some protests overnight, dozens of trump supporters gathering outside the county recorder's office, some of them armed trying to get inside and they were complaining about the use of sharpies on ballots. and whether they would be counted. they reassured that those ballots would be just fine. all of this goes to show how much is at stake in this crucial batt battleground state of arizona. we expect to get more results from maricopa county tonight.

>> close race there in arizona. thank you so much, whit. now let's go to nevada where matt gutman is there in las vegas with what we know right now. good morning, again, matt. >> reporter: hey, again, morning. joe biden leads here by a paper-thin margin. the reason trump operatives are flying in, they say they have a major announcement this morning coming up in about a half-hour. i'm told by one of them it's going to be a lawsuit, complaining about a lack of transparency here. that press conference is set to happen when the state releases the unofficial results here, including mail-in ballots, and now the biden campaign is very hopeful about that, they believe 70,000 of those mail-in ballots are coming in from democratic strong holds, and they hope that

could tip the balance toward biden. the president and his team could still demand one at any point. >> thank you again, matt. now to michigan where abc news projected joe biden will win and the president's team is taking legal action and adrienne bankert is there in detroit. good morning, adrienne. >> reporter: good morning to you, michael. joe biden leading here by 130,000 votes according to the latest numbers. now, you remember trump won here in 2016 by just about 11,000 votes but his campaign saying it is not over yet filing that lawsuit saying that they were not enough election watchers or poll watchers here who had meaningful access to the vote count. now, when we arrived on the ground in detroit on wednesday we saw a peaceful group outside the center here. some were demonstrators, some were actually election challengers, poll watchers from both parties, the aclu had members here saying that they

were not told why they couldn't go in. they were blocked from entry. earlier in the day there was a group of people, we have video of that shouting, "stop the count." that was inside, just outside the vote counting room. they were also barred by police. now, election officials here say that there were bipartisan groups of people here observers watching the vote count. other reports cite that they had reached their maximum number of poll watchers here and so other officials saying that because of covid restrictions they weren't allowing any more people in. michael. >> all right, thank you so much, adrienne. george. thanks, michael. we are joined now by the michigan secretary of state jocelyn benson. secretary benson, thank you for joining us again. give us a sense of how the count is going. how the finalizing the count is going and whether protests have interfered in any way. >> the second question, no. i mean it's very clear that any attempt to try to intimidate or stop the count in detroit just simply indicated that they don't know detroit. work will continue as it did.

the count continued. it is now finished and so right now, we're in a position where the unofficial tabulation in michigan is complete. the final touches are being made before everything is uploaded and put on our website. and at this point now, the boards at both state and county level are comprised of both parties to review the procedures and counts of the entire election as the results go on to be certified as official. >> you're facing this lawsuit from the trump campaign. the suit alleges, quote, secretary benson's actions and her failure to act have undermined the constitutional right of all michigan voters to participate in fair and lawful elections. they say they didn't have the kind of access to video of the ballot boxes they needed. your response? >> well, i see this as a meritless, frivolous lawsuit that's just an attempt to sow seeds of doubt in our election process which is quite secure, quite accessible and as an election law attorney for the better part of two decades and as a former dean of a law school

i'm very familiar with how to ensure our procedures comply with the law so comfortable with the security and the integrity of our processes here in michigan and we've worked hard to make sure every single vote counts and only valid votes count so we'll see that play out in the days ahead but confident in the voters and the election workers in our state. >> joe biden's lead has been increasing over the last several hours and day. you see anything that could change that? >> well, not in michigan, of course, because the tabulation is really complete. there's again just a few additional totals that are coming in as some adjudication of ballots go through. it's a reflection of our very secure multistep process that it took as many steps as it did as we get the results online so i think, you know, the results that you're seeing out of michigan now are quite near complete if not fully complete and now we begin the process of canvassing, double-checking everything but we shouldn't anticipate any major changes or, you know, i certainly don't expect any major changes in any of the totals. >> secretary benson, thanks for your time this morning. >> thank you.

>> now to ginger. >> george, thank you. eta is still squeezing out moisture. feet of rain over central america which has been devastating there but it looks like it will try to go over cuba through the weekend and then by early week anticipate that it will start to add to the moisture in south florida. we're talking up to 20 inches which i'll show new a moment. most of the models do bring it into the caribbean. what happens after it crosses cuba gets a little messier. many try to take it as a low up toward the panhandle but looks like it gets absorbed. either way, stationary front plus eta, 10 to 20 inches in florida, a problem for miami. good morning. i'm abc 7 news meteorologist mike nicco. watch out for fog in the south bay and north bay in the commute and then last chance for record warmth this afternoon. blustery showers and thunderstorms possible tomorrow and all the way through the weekend to a lesser extent. today 60s at the coast. 70s around the bay. 80s inland. 50s tonight but look at the

green. that's the beginning of the chances of wet weather that and, robin, i know you can appreciate a good florida beach. they've got one more dry day for siesta key until those showers get back in the forecast. that's our surf line camera. >> siesta key. thank you for that. ah, yeah, mm is right. >> thank you, ginger. going to turn to rebecca jarvis who has the latest on how the markets are reacting to the election. still being very much up in the air. good morning, rebecca. >> reporter: good morning, robin. that's right. while the election is still up in the air the feeling on wall street is that we're getting closer to an answer and that certainty, that clarity is helping lift the spirits on wall street and lift stocks higher across the board. we know that this market has been responsive to a handful of factors recently. you have this election hanging over things but you also have a

worldwide pandemic and an economy here in the united states still on very fragile footing, and as you just heard from george's interview with senator amy klobuchar, that stimulus package, we've been in an economy now without additional stimulus but still a pandemic for many months and the hope on wall street is that with this election close to being determined, you'll get additional stimulus soon, robin. >> people would appreciate that and we have to keep in mind, rebecca, the market is -- there's a lot going on in the world right now and this country that the market has to deal with. >> reporter: absolutely. you, of course, you have the election but as i mentioned there is the pandemic and there's the underlying economy. we have a jobs report tomorrow that will look at the health of the u.s. economy, right now the unemployment rate in this country is elevated still, 7.9%. there are still layoffs happening and there are still a lot of people, robin, wondering when can i return to work? robin. >> that's true. all right, rebecca, thank you, as always. appreciate it.

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♪ ♪ back like this. >> yeah. my legs up. we have long legs. it's a little awkward but, welcome back, everybody. great to have you with us on this thursday morning and right now it's time for our series "the influencers." >> love this series that we're doing, michael. we are spotlighting the people behind some of the most popular accounts on social media. this morning we're joined by alex elle, an author, wellness consultant and instagram influencer who guides her followers to live a more enriching life. we'll meet her, but first, here's her story. from author to self-care speaker, to social media savant, alex elle has a rapidly growing network with nearly a million followers. >> i am carrying this community

in love and abundance and joy. >> reporter: on instagram, her followers find strength through daily affirmations and writing practice at a time when they may need it the most. >> this might be a challenge but it's going to be a good one. >> reporter: using her own personal journey as a way to guide her following. >> if you're showing up feeling a little uncertain or defeated, welcome. if you're showing up feeling joyful and filled with heightened emotion and excitement, welcome. we're going to be talking a lot about who we are today and who we were before. >> reporter: her practice rooted in the concept of community brings people together. something we all need right now. i don't know about you but just hearing her voice soothes me, alex elle is author of the new book "after the rain." gentle reminders for healing, courage and self-love.

her motto "practice creates a ritual in my life," and michael and i say good morning to you, alex. >> yes, good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning, alex. one of the things you talk about is self-care as community care. what do you mean by that and how can we achieve it? >> so for me self-care as community care means taking care of ourselves first so that we can show up in our roles and in our communities in a way that's mindful, intentional and not drained. i think so many of us think that taking care of other people first is the answer when really we have to take care of home first, home is us and we deserve that. >> yeah, and in a perfect world, there's not a perfect world but you could do that, maybe a little bit better than you can when you're so stressed out. there's so many people, alex, that we're hearing from, the election, people are just exhausted. they're stressed out so how can you go about self-care in a time like this? >> i think just taking it day by day, checking in with our

bodies, our shoulders, focusing on what we can control, contacting someone that we love and also logging off. that has been a big one for me. no email, little news and logging off from social media, just so i can keep my emotional well-being as safe as possible especially during this high emotional time. >> logging off a little news as long as it's "gma" you're all right. but -- >> as long as it's "gma," you're fine. >> but speaking of logging off, josefina from tampa, florida, has a question to you about that. good morning. what's your question for alex? >> good morning, alex. so as a student, mother, wife and entrepreneur, i find it really hard to log off and stay off at night. so what should i do?

>> oh, my goodness, so i think we've all had those issues before and for me it is setting boundaries and really getting clear about what's important and what's important these days is really resting. setting boundaries with our technology. being present with our families and making sure that we are active in that and not constantly on instagram, constantly on these different social channels and not always working, which can be really challenging as well, especially if we have demanding jobs. >> mm. i hope that answered your question. thank you for being here and doing that. and let me just ask you also, alex, you know, some people feel like, oh, but it can cost money. what if i want to do some things that, you know, manicure or whatever and that's not really what we're talking about here for self-care, is it? >> right. right. no, i mean a manicure is great but self-care for me is doing the things that are accessible and free. so connecting with my breath is a major one.

making sure that i feel safe in my body is also another one. there's some amazing free apps like ritual that has guided practices, insight timer as well with guided medations that are free so it doesn't have to be this expensive luxurious thing but it really can be easy and accessible. >> bless your heart, thank you very, very much. i know the one about her shoulder -- your shoulders are tense -- maybe not this high but you do sense that. >> shoulder pads on. >> thank you. even that one and just breathe. we appreciate it so much. we'll have to check back with you again and our influencers series will be, well, it's going to be back next week. and coming up next, thriver thursday, we're spotlighting how one woman's liberating journey to embrace her

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♪ what you want to say ♪ say what you want to say yes, it is thankful thursday and it is also thriver thursday and also national epilepsy awareness month and this morning we, along with my production company robin robin productions, are spotlighting a businesswoman with over 50 million followers across her social media platforms and she shares how she's working to break the stigma of epilepsy by embracing her own story. >> building a career out of social media, that is what brought me to where i am today.

>> stay beautiful! >> keeping the epilepsy journey part out always bugged me. that was the only thing basically i have never shared with my following. i have a voice. i have so many people who follow me and i have never shared this with them. what inspired me the most to share my story was to know that i could help others who not only live with epilepsy but those who struggle with accepting themselves and loving themselves and that's when i decided to finally share. >> today's video is going to be very personal. but i'm ready. yes, i have epilepsy. i was diagnosed at age 9. >> the most liberating thing. >> to see the reactions, thousands of messages i got from people who struggle with so many things in their lives, epilepsy, epileptic people saying thank you for sharing this. i feel like i can share it too.

>> you have support and i know that i couldn't be here if this wasn't for you guys so thank you so much for always supporting me and giving me love and for giving me a voice. i'll always be grateful. >> i am so honored to say that i am an epilepsy foundation member and ambassador and today my goal with the foundation is to use my voice and my platform to help others who are living with epilepsy and to bring awareness and to end stigma. >> i'm telling you, she is a beautiful soul and you can watch her full episode on my facebook page and also be sure to check out this week's episode of beyond thriving. my producer sat down with epilepsy thrivers and activists including the parents of disney star cameron boyce who had epilepsy and passed away in 2019. we certainly haven't forgotten

that. let's go back now to ginger. >> thank you, robin. i have to tell you international falls, minnesota, right up by the canadian border had their warmest november temperature on record. 74 degrees and it's going to do it again today. many people hanging out in the mid-70s, look at phoenix even close to 100. chicago in the low 70s and that jet stream is going to push this to the east. if you live in the northeast, philadelphia, new york city, connecticut, you'll end up with some warm temps closing in on good morning. i'm abc 7 news meteorologist mike nicco. watch out for some fog in the north and south bay this morning and near record warmth this sunshine this afternoon. everything changes tomorrow. now, our series, "open for business." the small shops in baltimore have been hit very hard by both the pandemic and drastic

flooding. after visiting them a few months ago, our rachel scott checked in on some entrepreneurs after getting business advice from "shark tank's" barbara corcoran. hey, rachel, good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning. this advice really could not have come at a better time. when the pandemic hit, these small business owners had no online presence and they were really struggling to figure out how to survive but now thanks to the sharks they're bouncing back. ♪ this picturesque main street is in the heart of ellicott city, maryland. and it's had its struggles after weathering devastating floods in 2016 and 2018. >> first those deadly floods. maryland's governor has declared a state of emergency. >> reporter: the pandemic hit. forcing these small business owners to close their doors for the third time in four years. >> i was so in shock by the whole thing. i think that the trauma of thinking that you're losing your business forever is devastating.

>> reporter: tammy, owner of sweet elizabeth jane boutique felt overwhelmed and stressed about how to restructure. >> we didn't have any way of doing business and we had a very full store of merchandise. >> reporter: to give business tips with a big bite, we brought in "shark tank" titan barbara corcoran. >> i'm going to come to the rescue and ge you everything in my brain to help you along. good-looking people. >> reporter: providing expert advice via video conferencing. >> what i do my whole life made a list of what i was good at and what i wasn't good at. >> reporter: build your team with talent you may lack. >> that's where you are right now. don't wait for a minute. >> reporter: your mind-set could make or break your business. >> confidence in entreprene entrepreneurship comes from trying, not succeeding. you have to stay focused on the positive. >> be the face of your business on social media. >> you bought people's

confidence, they love you. you just have to get comfortable sitting in front of a camera and looking good and being yourself and people will respond to it. >> reporter: weeks later we checked in with tammy. tammy, it's so good to see you. she embraced her role as a leader, changed her approach and is beefing up her staff. >> this experience has been a bright spot feeling empowered to do that, you know, versus kind of scared. it's been rewarding. >> reporter: now with her online shop up and running business is booming and tammy is prepping for the holidays. their busiest time of the year. >> here is where we have it currently but we'll moving them upstairs. this will become our new fulfillment center and fulfill all the orders from our e-commerce platform. >> you're going from not doing any online orders to having an entire fulfillment center. >> i can't believe it. we are grateful and happy for it. >> and this is a community that is really always looking on the bright side. tammy says that every single one

of those challenges, the flooding, the pandemic has given her an opportunity to start over and try new things, michael, she says she's better because of it. >> thank you for bringing that to us. great job and barbara corcoran joins us now and -- >> whoo-hoo! >> we love it when barbara is on the show. we love when you're here, barbara. you know, tammy took your advice. her company not only weathered the storm but it's thriving now but going forward, do you have any tips for her? >> yeah, tammy's got to keep an eye on cost of goods. wholesale prices are going up and she has to remember to pass that forward on to her customer for sure. >> and we have a question from a viewer, who's also a small business owner. sam is a photographer and in brooklyn. let's hear her question. >> i think hesitation as a small business owner is just how to tactfully ask people to spend money on a product or an experience that isn't necessarily considered essential. >> well, so first of all, sam,

you've got to switch your mind-set. if you are thinking that your product is incredibly nonessential or however you posed it your customer will believe it. get that out of your mind. you have to widen your lens and and everyone needs social media content. you can visit 100 small businesses, offer them packages of how you'll handle their social content and they will be buying and then you won't be thinking of your business anymore as nonessential because they really need it every day and every week. >> great advice, barbara. all small business owners, they need to be prepared in case the pandemic causes more widespread shutdowns. what should they do now? >> well, no one can sit around and wait. that's the worst posture in the world. the most important thing for every small business person to do is, get their team together. get their team together immediately and have a heart-to-heart. because the closer you keep your

team, the better chances you have of making it to the other side. i would say secondly, as importantly is make sure your customers know you're still in business. entrepreneurs assume customers know and they don't. if you have to close your shop temporarily you need great signage up front in front of your store saying we're still here doing business and stay in touch with the customer on social media and directly through email, and the last is you've got to renegotiate your lease with your landlord. if you think, if we have another pandemic you'll have a hard time pick up the phone and talk to your landlord now. they don't like last-minute surprises, and even if you did that on your last go-around, you got to talk to them again. so that you have a game plan in place to make it through the next bad round and you know, michael, the one thing that every great entrepreneur does is they get through obstacles. so you'll see the great ones will have bigger businesses simply because they realized their job was to get around and write through obstacles. >> i tell you what, barbara,

you said you'll give us everything in your brain. i know there is a lot more but gave us enough we always learn something. >> i'm glad. thank you so much. coming up, sam smith. going to join us live. ♪

michael. >> like it's hot. >> drop it like it's hot. >> we're back now with sam smith out with a third studio album, "love goes." sam will perform a new single in a moment but let first let's catch up. >> sam. good morning. good morning. >> how are you? >> we are doing wonderful. always good to see you. the new music. can you tell folks, you were able to during the pandemic rework some of the songs. what can your fans expect with the new sound? >> well, i wrote a lot of the album before covid and i stayed

with it and i'm going to put it out there and i'm really happy i did. it's super fun and it's light and i just made it during a really experimental time. but it's a weird time to release music. very weird. >> it may seem weird to you, but it's great for us. we appreciate it. your sound, sam. we'll listen to you perform right now. here's sam smith performing "diamonds." ♪ have it all rip our memories off the wall ♪ ♪ all the special things i bought they mean nothing to me anymore but to you ♪ ♪ they were everything we were they meant more than every word now i know just what you love me for ♪ ♪ take all the money you want from me, hope you become what you want to be ♪ ♪ show me how little you care how little you care, how little you care ♪ ♪ you dream of glitter and gold my heart's already been sold ♪

♪ show you how little i care how little i care how little i care ♪ ♪ my diamonds leave with you ♪ you're never gonna hear my heart break ♪ ♪ never gonna move in dark ways ♪ ♪ baby, you're so cruel, my diamonds leave with you ♪ ♪ material love won't fool me, when you're not here, i can breathe ♪ ♪ think i always knew my diamonds leave with you ♪ ♪ diamonds, diamonds, diamonds, diamonds ♪ ♪ shake it off, shake the fear of feeling lost ♪ ♪ always me that pays the cost i should never trust so easily ♪ ♪ you lied to me, lied to me, then left with my heart around your chest ♪ ♪ take all the money you want from me hope you become what you want to be ♪ ♪ show me how little you care how little you care how little you care ♪ ♪ you dream of glitter and gold my heart's already been sold ♪

♪ show you how little i care how little i care how little i care ♪ ♪ my diamonds leave with you ♪ you're never gonna hear my heart break ♪ ♪ never gonna move in dark ways ♪ ♪ baby, you're so cruel, my diamonds leave with you ♪ ♪ material love won't fool me ♪ when you're not here, i can't breathe ♪ ♪ think i always knew my diamonds leave with you, diamonds, diamonds, diamonds, diamonds ♪ ♪ whoa-oh, diamonds, diamonds, diamonds, diamonds ♪ ♪ always knew my diamonds leave with you ♪ ♪ whoa-oh, diamond, diamonds, diamond diamonds ♪ ♪ always knew my diamonds leave with you ♪ ♪

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>> announcer: this is an abc news election update. now reporting chief anchor george stephanopoulos. >> we're back with our special coverage of the 2020 election. thursday, november 5th, two days after the polls have closed. joe biden has 253 electoral votes. he's won 22 states. president trump 214 electoral votes, 23 states. still five big states out there now. we want to run through them and tell you where things stand as we head into this thursday. let's start with the state of nevada right now. there you see 49-49 right now. we're expecting new votes to be coming in. joe biden has about