foggy. where it's typically foggy, it's clear. golden gate bridge. a beautiful drive in. in fact this time i get to show the effect of the sunrise. >> look at you. nice way to end it. that is going to do it for us. >> "today" show is next. have a great thursday. good morning. watching and waiting. a nation on edge as the vote could want rolls on and tensions rise in some cities. >> where are the votes? where are the votes? >> overnight, protests in still undecided battlegrounds. the race tightening in arizona and georgia. but joe biden voicing cautious optimism. >> when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners. >> while the president and his team faced with a narrowing path to victory launch a legal blitz. >> we're going to bring a federal lawsuit, and we're going to take a very good look at whether we bring this nationally.

>> we'll have the very latest with the fate of the presidency and the direction of america hanging in the balance. today, thursday, november 5th, 2020. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> hey, guys. welcome to "today." it is a thursday morning. 7:00 a.m. on the west coast and it is the 5th of november. welcome in. >> yes, a lot to be decided in the presidential race and we have had a number of significant developments overnight and this morning to get you caught up. >> we will tell you where things stand at this hour. starting with the electoral college votes needed to win.

>> right now, we have joe biden with 253 ek lek torl votes and the president with 214. but looking at the electoral map with the gray states and awaiting pennsylvania, north carolina, georgia, nevada, arizona and alaska. >> and check this out. this is by the way, happens to be a live look inside of the facility where they are counting the ballots in pennsylvania, in philadelphia. the votes are coming in all around from atlanta as well. >> yes, as well. and we are starting to see this all coming in, and we will keep an eye on it, and we have new numbers this morning and the legal challenges are mounting as well. the trump campaign has filed lawsuits yesterday in pennsylvania, michigan and georgia and the campaign is pursuing a recount in wisconsin. >> yes, we have a complete coverage and as always, chuck todd and kasie hunt is going to be by our side to break it down. we want to start with nbc's peter alexander at the white house. hey, peter. >> hey, hoda. the president has no events on

the schedule, but we are hearing from him in the last hour tweeting three words in all caps, stop the count. it comes with the lead in pennsylvania and georgia is shrinking while they count legal mail-in ballots that are skewing the numbers and the president is fueling unfounded conspiracy theories of cheating and fraud. >> reporter: with the path to re-election appearing to be narrowing, president trump is counting on relief from the courts that may not come filing suits in michigan and pennsylvania to stop vote counting until the trump campaign can access voting locations. >> it is fair, because we believe we will prevail. >> reporter: and the voting locations say it is transparent. pennsylvania's secretary of state is weighing in. >> there is plenty of opportunities for people to

observe the process. philadelphia also has livestreaming to the public. anybody from around the world can watch it. >> reporter: the trump campaign saying it is requesting a recount in wisconsin where joe biden is the apparent winner, but the state's 2016 recount only changed 131 votes, and biden's lead right now sits above 20,000 which the state's former republican governor scott walker calls a high hurdle. the president after election day is out of sight, but far from quiet ignoring the ongoing vote count taking longer in some states due to the mail-in ball lots and declaring himself the winner some crucial battlegrounds and writing on twitter, we hereby declare the state of michigan, but it is not the candidate's claim to make, and it followed this claim from the president prematurely claiming victory. >> frankly, we did win this election. >> reporter: and then speaker mcconnell talking about the

president's word. >> it is claiming victory prior to the counting. >> reporter: and then insisting that the lead started to magically disappear as the magic ballot dumps were counting, and then twitter slapping a warning on that as disputed and misleading. and then marco rubio is warning the president that taking days to count votes is not fraud. >> reporter: and the campaign is saying that they will be making an announcement in nevada as they plan to file another lawsuit, but the bottom line is that the president's argument is seeming to boil down to this and it sounds inconsistent to stop the count as he says in the places where he has a lead, and keep counting in the places where he is trailing in places like arizona where the campaign says that once the votes are counted, he may eke out a win. savannah and hoda.

>> and the former vice president biden says he is on track to win the white house, and kristen welker is live at the biden campaign headquarters and what are you hearing this morning? >> the biden campaign is feeling increasingly bullish in the key states, but biden, himself, is stressing that the race is not over until every single vote is counted. >> reporter: overnight, joe biden inching closer to winning the white house and biden is sounding increasingly confident about winning the white house. >> we are inching closer to 270 votes to win the presidency. i am not here to declare that we won, but am here to report that when the count is finished, we believe that we will be the winners. >> reporter: that optimism is coming as biden started to build back the democrats' so-called blue wall, and amid the key states that the president

carried in 2016, and he declared the winner wisconsin and the same narrow margin that the president won the badger state in 2016, and the trump campaign demanding a recount, and biden is looking to to crucial count of pennsylvania which may not complete the count until tomorrow at the earliest. >> virtually all of the remaining ballots to be counted were cast by mail, and we have been winning 78% of the votes by mail in pennsylvania. >> reporter: even if biden loses pennsylvania, he has potential paths to the white house including arizona and nevada which are both too close to call. biden commending the more than 150 million americans who voted despite the pandemic. >> if we had any doubts, we shouldn't have any longer. but a government of, by and for the people. and it is very much alive. very much alive in america.

>> reporter: for democrats the soul searching has also begun and the tight race is far from the blowout they were hoping for. biden vowing if elected to work to unify a sharply divided nation. >> i know how deep and hard the opposing views are in our country on so many things. but i also know that this as well, to make progress we have to stop treating our opponents as enemies. we are not enemies. >> reporter: now the biden campaign is striking a note of defiance this morning, calling the legal challenges by the trump campaign pathetic and charades. one campaign official tells me that we will likely hear from biden again today. savannah >> thank you, kristen. we will take you live to the states of nevada and arizona, and what do you see, chuck todd?

>> the most significant place is pennsylvania, the president has 135-vote margin and we are waiting for a ton of vote in philadelphia, and up in the philadelphia suburbs and let me show you in philadelphia, we are talking about this and we saw a chunk of vote coming in, and the margin has increased a little bit, but the question is how much vote is in philadelphia. this is one estimate 142,000, and it may be lower than that. the biden campaign thinks that they will get a margin out of philadelphia closer to what barack obama got. and right now, it has netted 360,000 votes. our estimation is closer to what hillary clinton got 480,000, and the bottom line is that we think that he is going to net about 100 to 110,000 votes out of philadelphia alone, and what does that mean? it is going to cut the president's lead, but it would not overtake it, and that is going to put it in about down to

15 to 20,000 depending upon what the actual count is. now the good news for biden, there is the philadelphia suburbs and we have more vote to get, and more vote coming in out of delaware county and 61/40 and these are the mail-in ballots and they have skewed more biden, but assuming that is the floor out of what he is going to get in those, and chester county which is kasie's home county and a little bit but not a lot, and 3,000 ball lots thert l ballotss 50% clip, and montgomery county and 2,500 there, and then bucks, a lot closer, but then again with what is left, he should net a little bit greater than that 49.9%. >> the bottom line, enough votes potential for biden to overcome the deficit? >> yes, and we are looking at a situation where we will never call pennsylvania and wait for

all of the vote to be counted which is going to bring me to another state that we will do that with which is georgia. down to 18,000 and we are told that there are 62,000 ballots left to go into the count. and joe biden has to win at about a 70% or 65 to 75% clip. that is what he is getting and then some so far, and lot of them are coming out of the atlanta suburbs, and it is sporadic and so i can show you that the margins that he won by here, and the ballots coming in. >> huge. >> it is a 70% clip in fulton and 80% clip in dekalb and it is 76% there, and mail-in, closer to 60, and the bottom line is that you would rather be joe biden right now in georgia. he is likely to get the lead at some point, and possibly today. >> you go west, young man? we are waiting for -- >> yes. >> we are waiting for nevada and arizona to give results.

>> nevada is one that i think that we will get to have more definitive 8,000 more votes here today and we are expected to get a chunk out of clark county, and las vegas and reno respectively, and the assumption is that these are the mail ballots to favor joe biden and in clark county, and the assumption is higher than 53%, and the same math as pennsylvania and georgia, but it is not definitely definitive and as soon as we see this batch. if he is winning at a greater clip, and essentially expands the lead, then we are likely to call that race, and nevada is done. now to arizona, because this is where i am less certain. we are waiting for another chunk of vote. last night we got that chunk of vote, and the president needed to win at a 57 to 58% clip with all of the vote that remains in order to overtake this lead. well, he got exactly 57.5% of

the votes that were counted last night. so, until we see a batch come in that is lower than that, we are not ready to award arizona to joe biden. >> all right. let's bring in kasie and what are you thinking? >> well, the arizona numbers and the democrats are a little bit more nervous today about how is it going to shake out, though they are comfortable. i think that the story here of the suburbs of phoenix, and the suburbs of atlanta, and the suburbs of philadelphia, and those philadelphia suburbs, what i am watching for here is where joe biden's margin in those places is better than hillary clinton's was in 2016, because that is really going to tell us, because of what chuck said, philadelphia may not make up that difference for biden and it is the suburbs and that margin could help us to tell the story there, and this is the realignment trend across the map is going to tell us what could happen in the suburban areas of the cities. >> and don't go anywhere and we are going to continue to count

those votes and back with you chuck and kasie a little later. >> overnight, a vocal crowd gathered outside of the maricopa county center where inside the votes were counted. inside we had our gadi schwartz there. good morning. >> yes, we are also following the latest numbers there, and the lead that we are talking about is about 69,000 votes that biden has right now, but as you have just heard from chuck, every time so far that we have seen a new batch released from maricopa county, it seems like the president is catching up just slightly at this point. it is still too early to call obviously, but it is becoming a nail-biter and tensions are running extreme high. >> reporter: in arizona overnight, hundreds of trump supporters and some armed gathered outside of the phoenix center say that the election is being stolen from the president.

inside nearly 400,000 mail-in and in-person ballots were being counted, and protesters wanted to keep the votes counted. >> where are the votes? >> reporter: while in michigan a different chant. >> count all the votes. >> reporter: and this comes overnight in new york city, and chicago and minneapolis, and they were frustrated where biden and trump protesters hit the streets where they were frustrated with ballots still counted in several streets and tempers flaring from coast to coast. >> and you have been stealing the election, biden. >> reporter: and inside of this election center along the counting line, a different story. those are the workers and one is a republican and a democrat, and we have been here and we have been seeing them get along and trying to figure out the intent of the voters and trying to make sure that those votes are counted.

>> reporter: and after we shot the two ladies getting along for the entire night they had to walk outside and accompanied by armed sheriff's deputies and walked past that crowd that were chanting and screaming and they went home. they will be back today and we understand that there is going to be more protests a f s s at maricopa county election center, and maricopa is absolutely huge and the votes still up in the air are the mail-in votes that people walked in, and at this point, we don't know from the urban or the suburban areas and at this point, it is anybody's guess. >> we want to read the tealeys, b -- tea leaves, but we have to wait for them to count the votes. and also another close area is nevada and we are expected

totals in two hours, and jacob soboroff is joining us there. >> and now with this situation now on the ground, the trump campaigns is planning to file a lawsuit there as well. and so add that to the locations. any vote coming in after election day is not going to be counted, but that is not any further from the rules and regulationings here on the ground, because they have until the 10th of the month to count the votes postmarked by election day, and so while we don't know the details of the lawsuit they are filing on the ground, the margin is extraordinarily thin. chuck was talking about it with 8,000 votes and it could prove to be extraordinarily consequential. >> thank you, jacob. and we want to switch geer gea see what is happening with the weather. >> thank you, savannah. out west, a series of storms coming into the pacific northwest making its way down the coast, and looking at the front pushing in to oregon and

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there's more for you. good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. we are going to see some nice weather for today. we're starting out with some fog clearing over the south bay and the sunshine right above that. we're going to have some nice temperatures for this afternoon as we reach into the upper 70s. and some low 80s in a few spots in the inland valleys. as we go through the forecast, we are going to see a major cool down heading into the weekend. starting tomorrow, we'll see those highs dropping into the upper 50s, clouds and a few spotty showers throughout the weekend. >> if i seem a little happier this morning, chuck if i seem a little bit happier this morning it is because chuck and i had a sleepover. >> did you share the pocket watch? >> i let him shine it. >> okay. that is going viral. aye-yi-yi. >> and much more on the votes being counted and many of them,

it is happening as we speak. and much more surrounding the process. >> how long is it going to take? how is that going to be impacted by the president's legal challenges we will check in with our team [ whispering ] what's this?

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i'm cierra johnson in san francisco. some changes to how your family celebrates the holidays. according to the examiner, local health officials are looking into endorsing a 14-day quarantine period for those that travel outside of the area. right now, the state of new york just implemented their 14-day quarantine that doesn't inshrewd fo inshrewdclude folks coming from neighboring states. those folks have to do a three-day period. let's get a look at the forecast this morning. foggy in some spots and then, again, clear by the golden gate bridge. beautiful morning out there, kari. >> yeah. we are seeing that and there is going to be a lot more changes in our weather over the next couple days. we're seeing the fog in the south bay as well as the peninsula. but looking at our highs, we're still looking at a comfortable day reaching into the mid to upper 70s for the inland areas while san francisco will see the highs in the upper 60s and, once again, all clear there. as we go through the seven-day

forecast. upper 70s today and then upper 50s tomorrow. be prepared for a big drop tomorrow, laura. >> that's a californian for you. another local news update in half an hour. see you then. ♪

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we are going to begin in pennsylvania, where 20 electoral votes are at stake stephanie gosk is there in philly steph, good morning. >> reporter: hoda, good morning. you know, the trump campaign filed a lawsuit, demanding that the counting stop all together, but it just keeps on going you saw those live pictures of the convention center here they've counted through the night. there was also a small protest here in the center of this city. a small but vocal group of demonstrators marched through the city with a "count every vote" banner now, the trump campaign is alleging they've not been allowed in to witness this process, but the secretary of state insists that official representatives from both sides have been there all along. now, there are hundreds of thousands of votes that are still outstanding, but the state has made significant progress, including in allegheny county. that's home to pittsburgh. the pittsburgh steelers gave the vote counters a boost, buying them dinner to be able to go on. they're very nearly done the secretary of state says by the end of the day, the vast

majority of the hundreds of thousands of votes will be counted. what we have seen is that this race has tightened significantly. 24 hours ago, president trump was up by about 700,000 votes. that lead has dwindled to less than 200,000 we expect it to tighten even further. the vast majority of the votes that are left are centered in places that hillary clinton won in 2016. the 20 electoral votes still crucial and very much on the line back to you guys. >> steph, just another reason to love the pittsburgh steelers, for giving food to the poll workers. >> lasagna is love let's go to georgia, new developments in the race for president. also, there's a couple senate races going on that are tight, too. blayne alexander is in atlanta with more. good morning >> reporter: savannah, good morning to you you're right, here in georgia,

the numbers are still very much up in the air. the counting is really coming down to the wire here in the state's most populous county, a lot of that is happening at that arena there behind me, state farm arena. in fact, as of this morning, fulton county has fewer than 5,000 votes left to scan we know they've been working through the night, quite literally, scanning non-stop to get this done sometime today keep in mind, guys, this is one county here in georgia there are still tens of thousands of votes that are still outstanding. that's according to the secretary of state's office, who says it's all hands on deck to make sure this is wrapped up by today. here's why this is crucial when it comes to georgia, the margin between president trump and joe biden is razor thin. in fact, when you look at the fact it comes down to right now, a difference of fewer than 20,000 votes that's 0.4%. any number of these ballots still left to be counted could make a tremendous difference of course, when we talk about a close race, that is very new for georgia. remember, president trump won this state by five points back in 2016, but democrats are benefitting from the shifting demographics in the state.

over the past decade or so, the population has grown by a million. a lot of those are african-american voters. exit polls show that they overwhelmingly backed biden. guys >> thank you we'll keep an eye in georgia. nbc news is calling joe biden the apparent winner in wisconsin, flipping the state won by the president in 2016 but that margin is really slim the trump campaign already requested a recount. that's where we find gabe gutierrez. he's there in madison. hey, gabe. >> reporter: hoda, good morning. the fight for wisconsin's ten electoral votes is not over. as you mentioned, the trump campaign says it will request a recount in this state. pointing to what it calls voting irregularities and ridiculous public polling used as voter suppression, according to the trump campaign that's a reference to several public polls that showed donald trump trailing significantly ahead of election day. the margin in wisconsin is less than 1%, meaning the trump campaign can pay for a recount

they have to wait for the counties to certify results. then it can take 13 days for officials to do the recount. this could drag on until late november realistically, it'd be difficult for the trump campaign to make up the deficit, 20,000 votes at this point four years ago, green party candidate jill stein paid for a recount here in wisconsin. it got hillary clinton an extra 700 votes or so. it got donald trump 800 votes or so his campaign right now is down about 20,000 votes here in wisconsin. hoda and savannah? >> gabe gutierrez for us in wisconsin. gabe, thank you. we'll get back to the maps and the counting in a minute, but we have to get the weather from al. we're seeing a warmup. >> yes, we are, who is wanting warmer weather about everybody will get it. we have unseasonably strong dual high pressure systems, meaning 235 million of us will see above normal high temperatures

in fact, more than 150 warm temperature records broken through monday possible. autumn warmth. reno going to be 77, breaking a record rapid city most likely will break a record same with denver, el paso. chicago, 20 degrees above average. new york city, 71 degrees. oklahoma city, 73. next week, warm temperatures continue for chicago, atlanta, raleigh. tulsa, temperatures into the mid 70s into next week that's what's going on around the country. good morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall. we're going to enjoy one more day of some nice, above average temper whicheratur temperatures. we'll reach into the mid and low 80s and also to the far north bay and as we go into tomorrow, a big cool down headed our way. we're going from 70 s to the 50

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guys, we're guys, we're back it is 7:41 the process of counting the votes continues to play out at this hour. more than a day after election day. >> we had so many mail-in votes,

100 million. it shattered every record. it takes time to count the votes. pretty standard, you know, that voting takes a few days, but it's something the president and his campaign are challenging as they face a narrowing path to victory. where do they have an argument and where don't they tom costello is covering the ongoing vote count good morning. >> reporter: ladies, good morning to you counting each and every legally cast vote is a rallying cry for people across the country. thousands of them taking to the streets. but in michigan, some of president trump's supporters are calling on them to stop the count. on the streets of america, a united call to count every vote. from durham, north carolina, to philadelphia, to new york city. >> unless the people stand up and make it clear that every vote has to count, election will be stolen. >> reporter: and from election officials across the country, a

pledge to do their duty. >> in pennsylvania, every vote is going to count. >> we're trying to make sure that every ballot is counted >> my entire office is ready to do what it needs to do to defend the right to vote and ensure every vote is counted. >> reporter: but in detroit, a crush of protesters, some claiming to be poll examiners chanting, "stop the vote," having guards turn them back. >> if they thought they'd intimidate or stop anyone from doing their job, they don't know detroit. >> reporter: matt sanderson, a republican legal analyst says that counting all of the votes always takes time. >> the american people have made an important decision, and it is important the officials take their time and go according to the rules. >> reporter: the president's apparent strategy, a legal battleground blitz his campaign filing lawsuits in georgia, nevada, and michigan. in pennsylvania, it's a full-court press >> we are going to continue the lawsuit here we're going to bring a second

one. then we're going to bring a federal lawsuit. >> reporter: the campaign filing multiple lawsuits focusing on everything from stopping the vote count to demanding better access to the counting process for republican observers that was quickly rejected by a state court. the president making it clear, he is in a legal fight also this morning, an update on the 300,000 mailed in ballots that the postal service was looking for and they allegedly lost you may recall a federal judge ordered a hearing on the topic now, the postal service says they weren't lost. because they were expediting every ballot to the local election office, they bypassed the scanning procedure they just went literally around the scanning procedure and directly to the election office. so the postal service is saying the 300,000 ballots were, in fact, delivered to the election offices on time in the key battleground states. guys, back to you. >> relief. >> interesting, yeah tom, thanks. let's bring our political analysts into this conversation. former democratic senator claire mccaskill. rich lowry, editor of the "national review." and jeremy bash, who was involved in the recount in 2000.

jeremy, you go first this morning. let's talk about recounts. in wisconsin, it looks like it is going to be on. the trump campaign said, "we will request a recount." we're in that neighborhood and many other states. what can be hoped from a recount for either side? >> what a recount does, savannah, it allows people to manually inspect ballots if someone didn't fill in the circle properly or the ballot was otherwise spoiled and the machine didn't pick up that vote, an election worker can inspect the ballot that usually nets candidates ise maybe a couple hundred ballots, and it could benefit biden as it

could benefit trump. i don't see trump swinging the election in wisconsin 20,000 votes via recount. >> jeremy, we hear about all of these lawsuits, and i was just curious, do you see these as hail mary passes by the trump campaign, or is there real hope this could change the trajectory of where the election is headed? >> i do, hoda. right now, i see no overarching legal theory for the trump campaign's approach. in michigan and, obviously, arizona, biden is ahead, so stopping the vote count isn't going to help trump. in pennsylvania and georgia, we haven't counted all the votes, so there is no basis for a recount. this looks like trump is trying to throw anything against the wall to see what would stick. >> let me get rich lowry in on this what do you think of the legal strategy, the maneuvering going on so far? >> i don't think it amounts to much a couple of these suits have to do with having election observers at the counting sites. if they're not there, they should be there. observers are good transparency is good recounts are totally valid process, unlikely to flip a result that's in the thousands

somewhere. there's a case in pennsylvania i was reading about this morning that involves 93 ballots the litigation strategy is unlikely to sway things, unless you get extremely narrow result in some states where electoral commission or the state courts change the election rules in the last couple of months and it affected how the ballots were counted and affected the result. now, that could happen in pennsylvania it's not the most likely outcome, but it could happen in that case, you could go up to the supreme court, and the supreme court, their indications would look dimly on the courts changing the rules at the last minute we're not at that place yet. >> claire, we got some numbers overnight or early this morning in arizona, and it shows the gap narrowing between the two candidates are you concerned about that >> well, it appears the quickest way to 270 for joe biden right now may be pennsylvania. we originally thought it would be nevada and arizona. it may be pennsylvania you know, one thing i think is really important to point out here is that there are democrat and republican observers in every counting site. there are -- there's transparency cameras are allowed in in fact, the picture you keep showing is a live stream from

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it's 8:00 on joe biden optimistic. >> we're winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes. >> as president trump takes legal action. >> quite possibly we'll do a national lawsuit and really expose the corruption of the democrat party. >> protests breaking out overnight while america waits for the final votes to be counted. >> every vote counts. >> we are live with the latest on the race to the white house today, thursday, november 5th,

2020. hey, everybody. welcome back to "today." it is a thursday morning. we are so happy you are starting your day with us. as we speak, there is vote counting happening. >> yes, we are all waiting with bated breath to see what a handful of states produces today in terms of vote count. haven't been huge changes but important ones to tell you about. let's get to it. the overall picture becoming a bit clearer. joe biden, according to nbc's latest count, is 17 electoral votes from winning the white house. but six states remain undecided. pennsylvania, north carolina, georgia, nevada, arizona, and alaska. they are hugely consequential. >> they are. we have in-depth coverage. we'll start with our experts on the numbers and the path to victory. we have chuck todd and kasie hunt. chuck, let's start with you. you know, every hour or so, new numbers come in. what are we learning at this hour? >> well, i think we're learning that the path, it looks like, potentially, the paths for the president are narrowing, but i

do want to -- i think a lot of people are asking. we spend a lot of time, and it looks like you'd rather be joe biden than the president right now. i want to remind people, let's show you what the map would look like if all leads held, just to put things here. that would mean arizona, nevada, blue. it'd put alaska red. it'd still put pennsylvania red. north carolina red, and georgia red. this is the baseline, sort of what could be. 270-268. of course, pete williams introduced the whole idea of faithful electorates. >> we don't want to go down that road. >> i know we don't want to go down that road. but for instance if joe biden pulls into the lead here then what does president trump need to do? well, he certainly needs to hold those two. you know, if he could get good luck here in arizona and come there.

but here's the president's problem, even if pennsylvania ends up flipping and it's biden's, the president has no more places to go. even if he somehow got lucky in nevada, got lucky in arizona, then it'd make the wisconsin recount, if it was possible, all the more important, except we just don't think 20,000 votes could get there. so this is the president's real problem here, is sometime today, we expect that pennsylvania vote to flip. now, look -- >> how much pennsylvania vote is left? can you just zoom in and show us, because people are going to wonder how you can make that statement then. >> it is still a couple hundred thousand, we think. let me show you what we have, as far as estimated here at this point. we think there is still 800,000 or so ballots. even if it's -- let's say we overestimated in some places by as much as 100,000 ballots in wisconsin. let's say it is even 700,000. again, you know, i'll go back to where we keep going back. hey, philadelphia, have you given us any more vote? of course, the answer is no.

the point is, i could just show you, again, and i was talking, both andrea mitchell and i had different sources who claim the same thing, that they believe they're going to get somewhere from a 400,000 to 450,000 vote pad out of philadelphia. well, right now, they have a 340,000. there is another netet 100,000 votes that biden is going to get. >> let's get kasie in here. by the way, mail-in votes they're counting last in pennsylvania, right? they already counted the day of vote, so a lot of this is the mail-in votes. >> that's why, thinking about this, as chuck laid out the map with all of the states, if the lead were to hold, why pennsylvania is still the most likely state left on the map to have the lead switch. because we were talking so much before the election about this possible red mirage for president trump. that was because the election day votes, which broke heavily for republicans, were going to be counted first. as you say, the mail-in ballots counted second. so former vice president biden was potentially going to come from behind here. philadelphia county, obviously,

a big story. that's what people expect when they think of a major urban center. those counties around philadelphia also still have some vote out, not as much as they did before. that's also been breaking heavily for joe biden because the suburbs have been changing around philadelphia. >> you're a hometown girl, philadelphia area. meanwhile, as the nation waits for more pieces of the election puzzle to be filled in, the president is escalating his attacks on the vote counting process. let's get to white house correspondent peter alexander, who joins us with the very latest. peter, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. we have not seen president trump since the wee hours of the morning after election day, but we are certainly hearing plenty from him and from his lawyers, filing lawsuits in three states already. michigan, pennsylvania, in georgia. in wisconsin, they're requesting a recount. the last recount for some context was in 2016. it earned then candidate trump 131 additional votes. he is down by 20,000 in the state right now, so that appears to be a high hurdle for the president.

as for biden, the campaign official describes these legal challenges they're seeing as charades and, quote, pathetic. the biden team is bullish. they feel confident they're heading in the right direction in the critical battleground states, stressing it's not over until all votes are counted. here's the former vice president. >> we're winning enough states to reach 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. 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. >> on twitter, president trump has been casting more doubt on the integrity of the election, fueling unfounded conspiracy theories about cheating and fraud. again, there is no evidence of that. after the president falsely claimed he'd already won the election, we did hear some interesting pushback. it came from the senate's top republican, mitch mcconnell, who said, quote, claiming to win the election is different than finishing the counting. a lot of counting left to do there.

savannah and hoda, back to you. >> thank you. there are a lot of eyes on nevada this morning, one of the states remaining too close to call for us. let's bring in nbc's jacob soboroff. he's in vegas. jacob, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, hoda. exciting time. it is not an exaggeration that the six electoral votes will be coming out of the center behind me where for the last six days they have been diligently counting the votes and they went home overnight, and that is the way they do things here. they are on the way back here. you can see the doors opening and closing here, and this is the election vote counters there. and so we expect with two sources familiar with the trump campaign plans here, that they will be filing a election-related lawsuit here. the campaign will be out here with a news conference out here

and within the next hour as a matter of fact, and once those details of the lawsuit are announced, we will know further what they intend to do here on the ground. nevada, of course, incredibly consequential when it comes to the six electoral votes, and we will have an answer very soon. back to you. >> jacob soboroff, thank you. >> another key state out west, arizona, the race tightened there overnight after a new batch of votes came in. and gadi sthe latest in a live report, and then to the secretary of state katy hobbs just ahead right after this.

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coming up on 8:12 with more decision 2020 coverage. >> we want a big picture of what we're seeing with the election results we have, what to expect, and what votes are still out there. there is one guy all over that. john lipinski, director of elections for nbc news. if you wondered where the nbc news boiler room is and who mans it, it's john lipinski. here he is in the flesh. john, where are you watching this morning? where are we expecting more vote? >> yeah, i think probably the first place where there's potential for real significant vote is in nevada. it's going to -- at noon, they've actually told us they will give us some vote. there's 150,000 votes out in clark county, all mail, so it should be good for biden. the lead there is razor thin. we want to see what the votes look like, because there's only 200,000 votes out, 150,000

there. >> 7,000, 8,000 margin right now. >> super tight. a lot of people are waking up this morning, looking on news feeds, and seeing that arizona went to biden. i mean, i've had friends who are asking me, how come you guys don't have that yet? tell us what's going on with arizona. >> yeah, we're just waiting to sort of look what comes out of maricopa. there's 400,000 votes out. we know a couple people have actually called that, but they called that, like, on election night. we knew that race was going to go razor tight. it still looks like biden definitely has an advantage there. we got some votes in last night. they did trend trump, but they didn't trump enough. he needs to win 57% of the remaining vote. that's an uphill climb for him. >> okay. that's arizona. by the way, we'll talk to arizona secretary of state in just a few minutes. lipinski, you want to listen to that one, too. listen to how many votes she says they have outstanding. let's march through the map. pennsylvania, chuck tells me you're a pennsylvania native.

that philadelphia county has been sitting there at approximately 70% counted for a long time, it seems. are they not counting? what's going on? when do you expect to see something? >> yeah, they're counting. we expect to see vote today, and that 70% might be -- that's an estimate. that's dependent upon what they're telling us. right now, i actually think turnout might be a little light in philadelphia. i mean, i know we've been hearing from a lot of politicians that it might be high. i think it is going to be a little light. i think it is actually going to be really, really close in pennsylvania. it's really too hard to know right now who will win that. the votes are trending biden, but we'll see. >> all right. >> wow, that's interesting. what do we have left, georgia. can you give us a georgia update? >> yeah, georgia is one of those races, like sometimes you use statistical models to call races, and sometimes you count all the vote. georgia is a count all the vote. it's all mail vote that's out. biden is doing really well in it, and we have to make sure we

can find it all. it is going to be really, really close. >> all right. there's a cot behind you. >> yeah. >> he's way past cot. >> i wish there was a cot. i wish there was a cot behind me. >> john, you're doing great work for us. we appreciate your integrity. thank you so much. let's focus on arizona because john just mentioned, we are awaiting vote there. it's playing a pivotal role. could really be consequential in who ultimately prevails here. >> more votes are counted, the race, again, tightening. we'll speak with arizona's secretary of state in a moment. first, nbc's gadi schwartz in phoenix for us. gadi, morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning, guys. unfortunately on the second day after the election, the race is still too early to call. while last night, we saw hundreds of furious protesters, some of them carrying tactical rifles, gathered outside the maricopa county election center, chanting, "count that vote" and "we love trump," claiming the state was being stolen from president trump before the final batches of mail-in votes could

be counted. we saw election workers coming off of long shifts having to be escorted to their cars by sheriff's deputies. the emotions running extremely high after we saw a strong biden lead early on in the returns. as of this morning, there are too many outstanding votes to call that race. biden is still in the lead, but trump is slightly closing that gap. it looks like the president needs about six out of every ten of the ballots to come back in his favor for him to catch up. we are hoping to have more returns today and here in maricopa county, we are talking about 275,000 more ballots to be count and this is home of phoenix, and about 60% of arizona's population. guys, back to you. >> gadi schwartz, thank you. >> that sets the table nicely for katie hobbs, secretary of state in arizona. secretary hobbs up early with us. thank you so much. let's get to it.

we talked 12 hours ago. how many votes do you have outstanding in arizona? when are we going to see the results of the counting that's going on? >> so we are -- it looks like we're about just under 450,000 ballots left in the state. maricopa county, which obviously is the large part of the puzzle, they're at just under 300,000 left to co left to count. hopefully, we will have a good idea later today what their estimate is, in terms of how long it is going to take them to finish counting those ballots. >> do you have any idea about the nature of those ballots? are these day of vote, provisional ballots? are they walk-in votes can you shed any light there >> the bulk of the remaining ballots to be counted are early ballots that voters dropped off on election day at polling places so they still have to -- they're in the process of being signature verified before they can be tabulated. >> we're seeing images of people outside. some armed outside of these

places where your guys are counting ballots do you have concerns about what's going on? >> well, maricopa county elections folks worked with the sheriff's office everybody was safe you know, i don't understand the objective of these protesters. of course, we're going to count all the votes. we are legally obligated to do that the folks at maricopa county have been working around the clock to get these ballots counted. they are doing their jobs. and they're going to do their jobs whether or not there's protesters outside urging them to do that. >> can you address -- you know, you almost hate to give credence to any rumors, but there were some social media rumors about funny business in arizona. or if i used a sharpie, my vote isn't going to count, that kind of pen has there been any issue in that regard can you reassure arizona voters that if they filled out their ballots, they're being counted >> look, i understand that

people are rightfully concerned about their vote being counted and wanting to make sure that happens. we are counting every single ballot vote, and there really is no merit to this it's a conspiracy theory, that people were given pens to deliberately invalidate their ballot that is absolutely not happening. every ballot that is cast by an eligible voter is going to be counted. it doesn't matter what pen you used i've spent way more time yesterday talking about markers than i hoped to ever talk about. >> sharpiegate, it doesn't really have a ring last question for you, secretary hobbs, because we talked about what kind of ballots are outstanding, do you know where they're coming from? >> what areas of the state >> yes, exactly. >> yeah, it's hard to say because early ballots are -- you know, if you vote on election day, you're in a precinct polling place, so we know kind of where the votes are coming from these are from all over. so we just -- we don't have that

information. i know that the county folks are working on counting them, and the more we ask them to crunch data about all this other stuff, the more it takes away from them doing that job. >> we can take that. bottom line for us, because i think everyone here at this table is cruising on, like, two hours' sleep do you expect to have the vast majority of the outstanding 400,000 votes tabulated today, or could we be going into another day or late into the night? >> well, yesterday, maricopa had close to 600,000 -- i'm sorry. that was the state i'm also on little sleep they had close to 400,000, so they were able to do more than 100,000 yesterday. if that's an indication of the pace that they're going at, then we should -- i just -- we're asking them for estimates of how long it is going to take, and i hope to have that estimate a little later this morning. i'm very sorry that -- i know

everyone is watching arizona and counting on us, and i just wish i had a little bit better of an estimate for you. >> just imagine you're our mom we're in the back of the car saying, "are we there yet? arizona secretary of state katie hobbs, thank you for being with us appreciate it. >> thank you, secretary hobbs. all right. it is 8:20 what do we say we check in with al for a check of the weather. >> nice to see katie hobbs smiling. it gives you a little optimism we're very optimistic about our weather. wet weather in the pacific northwest, clouds from chicago to houston east, gorgeous weather temperatures are going in the 50s and 60s. mid-atlantic, 80s through the gulf coast and 90s through the southwest. we're expecting above average temperatures through the central plains record highs through the southwest, which will start moving east as the weekend moves through. turning milder in the northeast, as well, with plenty of sunshine from the mid-atlantic states all the way >> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall.

we can see the fog clearing from the south bay. we're in for sunshine and really nice weather going into the afternoon. as you get out this morning, feels a little cool but we're heading into the upper 70s for highs today, and a few spots for the inland valleys will reach into the low 80s. 81 in antioch. 78 degrees today in santa rosa. then as we go through the forecast, we're going to have a major chill coming our way for the weekend as highs drop back to the upper 50s. >> and that is your latest weather. guys? >> al, thank you. >> and that is your latest weather. guys >> al, thank you we focused on arizona a few moments ago. let's get you caught up on where things stand in other key states this morning. >> garrett haake is in detroit, michigan, one of the states where the president's team has actually filed a legal challenge to contest the vote there. garrett, good morning. >> reporter: hey, hoda, good morning. with more than 5 million votes cast, democrats put a big piece of their blue wall back in place with this projected victory here in michigan. it's quiet outside the tcf

center in downtown detroit now, but let me tell you, it was not the case last night. you had a large crowd of people, poll challengers, protesters essentially, wanting to be let in the trump campaign filed a lawsuit for a time to try to stop the count here. what we saw in michigan is a lot of what we saw in other parts of the country. the president appearing to jump out to an early lead as votes were counted, then the mail ballots coming in from the city of detroit, the suburbs coming in strongly for joe biden. the biden campaign flipping grand rapids, western michigan, a place a democrat won one other time in the last 50 years. about the lawsuit to stop the count, obviously, the count is finished here in detroit the secretary of state here in michigan is dismissing that lawsuit as frivolous hoda >> garrett haake for us, thank you. now to the too close to call state of north carolina. election officials have said everybody should just sit tight. it is going to be a while. nbc's morgan radford is in charlotte. morgan, good morning this is a nice town to be sitting out, waiting for a vote.

>> reporter: that's right, savannah because the tar heel state is in a fight to the finish, and it still hangs in the balance this morning. state officials tell us voters here were incredibly excited to vote this year they shattered records in terms of early voting and total turnout. it is also why the people we've spoken to here on the ground say they're incredibly anxious to find out who will be top of their ticket what's the hold of up? essentially two things one, public state data shows donald trump is leading north carolina by about 76,000 votes number two, that same public state data also shows that there are approximately 116,000 mail-in ballots that were requested but still have not yet been returned. so what does this all mean what is next it means that november 12th, that's next thursday, is really the date to watch. state officials say they don't think they're going to have updated voter totals until then, because of those county boards of elections will likely meet on

that thursday to count all of those mail-in ballots that were postmarked by election day so, basically, savannah, if they're not counting them until thursday, the state says we won't have updated final voter totals until then. savannah >> morgan, thank you so much we'll have a lot more on the election and new numbers coming in just ahead. including a message i think everybody could use right now during tense moments. >> we need this one. bishop michael curry on how americans can come together, can find some common ground, even in these times of division. he's just what the doctor ordered for us first, a look at your local news and weather.

good morning to you. 8:26. i'm marcus washington. san francisco leaders may be ready to trade police budget cuts. they are reporting supervisors today debate a proposal that would save the city millions in the short term but this is during the budget covid crisis. but the same deal would provide 6% raises once the economy improves. it would also limit negotiation power and police commission reform policies. critics are asking the board to reject the plan. let's get a look at that forecast for you. kari, a day, something we could all be happy about?

>> yeah, it's going to be a very nice day. feeling comfortable as our highs reach into the upper 70s. but we're also at the same time preparing for some cool weather to blast in for the weekend. we'll only see highs in the upper 50s in the valleys and more clouds, off and on showers along with breezy winds. and we're going to see that winter-like weather continuing into early next week for san francisco. expect more of the same, maybe even a little more in the midst and drizzle that will continue with the low clouds throughout the weekend. but we do have today to enjoy that sunshine, marcus. >> we will enjoy it. thanks, kari. we'll have another local news update coming up in 30 minutes. i'll see you back here then.

welcome back to "today." it is 8:30 it is thursday morning it's the 5th of november, 2020 the vote goes on real important update right now, we've been following pennsylvania very closely. in particular, philadelphia, where there's a lot of outstanding vote that has yet to be counted well, elections officials in philadelphia have just announced that they will be posting new results in this half hour. so we will break in and let you know what's going on in pennsylvania as soon as we get

it. all right. first, while a lot of the attention right now is on the election, the coronavirus pandemic is definitely not loosened its grip. in fact, it's getting a lot worse, setting stunning, new records here in the united states nbc national correspondent miguel almaguer has more on that miguel, good morning >> reporter: hi, guys, good morning. experts say it was just a matter of time before the u.s. shattered a daunting milestone, more than 100,000 infections in a single day it comes as many are focused on the election, but the virus has taken no break for politics. this morning, as the focus on battleground states intensifies, one of the election's essential issues is tightening its grip. a deadly coronavirus surge being met with dire warnings >> for us, this is the highest volumes that we've seen throughout this pandemic. >> reporter: for the first time, the u.s. surpassing 100,000 new covid cases in a single day. according to the "washington post," 17 states reporting record numbers of hospitalizations among them, swing states like

iowa, ohio, and minnesota, where millions turned out to vote in person but the spread of the virus at polling places was not a major concern, say experts on wednesday in el paso, texas, a record 3,100 new infections. hospitals there now at or near capacity doctors and nurses working around the clock to stop the spread >> we cannot afford to lose any more lives >> reporter: in indiana, 20-year-old college student bethany nezbit died in her dorm room of a pulmonary embolism after testing positive for the virus. physician citing covid-19 playing a part in her death. in a statement, her family writing in part, this loss is forever. we plead for you have to take this virus seriously. >> it is a pain that i can't even begin to describe >> reporter: jennifer padana lost her parents to the virus in april. they were married 50 years and

died within days of each other. >> i never thought that, you know, these holidays that are coming up, that i would be spending them without my parents. >> reporter: that statement shared by many around the world as a second wave of infections sweeps through europe. italy, greece, and england are among countries issuing partial or total lockdowns again this london hair salon busy ahead of today's shutdown. restaurants, gyms, and non-essential shops in england are now closed for four weeks. measures that experts hope will help the region grapple with the latest outbreak. the head of the cdc, dr. robert redfield, tweeted that it is time to develop a testing strategy to help identify asymptomatic covid-19 infections, something he has referred to as the silent epidemic savannah, hoda, back to you guys. >> miguel, thank you. all right. let's get a check of the weather now. mr. roker is at his post oh, the weekend outlook. glad to hear about the weekend. >> we're ready.

>> ready for the weekend tomorrow, we're going to start off sunny, mild, much of the country looking great tomorrow with the exception of the west coast. pacific storm bringing mountain snows and some rain. saturday, the mountain snow moves further to the east, but the eastern two-thirds of the country going to be spectacular. feeling more like spring sunday, sunday, abundant sunshine up and down the east coast. heavy rain as we expect eta or theta make its way closer to the florida coast. look for some mountain snows through the southwest, up into the northern and western plains. along the west coast, we are looking for a few scattered showers clos >> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. we are going to have one last really nice day with sunshine and warm weather. we're reaching into the low 80s for antioch. san jose, high of 77 and 79 today in napa. but then tomorrow, we're looking forward to a big cooldown.

and also some spotty showers. we'll see our temperatures reaching into the upper 50s. saturday may be mainly dry but a few spotty showers in the forecast especially on sunday. >> and that is your latest weather. guys? guys >> al, thank you now, we want to turn to one of the biggest revelations of the election, the impact and influence of latino voters nbc's sam brock is in miami with that part of the story latino voters really made the difference with trump becoming victorious in florida, sam >> reporter: savannah, good morning. that's absolutely right. i mean, little havana right now, where people are talking politics if you chat for five minutes, savannah, with cuban americans, venezuelan americans, puerto rican americans, you learn this is not a monolithic voting block. you will learn how their families came to this country

and you will learn how their influence is not important not only in this florida, but across the country. that being said, it is clear that the latino vote is influential, not just in florida but across the country the u.s. electoral map doesn't look that different from 2016, but states like florida, texas, arizona, and north carolina are experiencing a sea change driven by a new wave of latino voters. >> what we are seeing a lot of latino voters coming out and voting. >> reporter: the progressive leaning group, latino decisions, polled a slice of voters and found, nationally, about 70% supported joe biden, but just 27% favored donald trump except in florida, where support for biden dipped dramatically. ♪ >> reporter: in miami-dade county, where there's a large cuban american population, a 30-point democratic edge in 2016 for hillary clinton evaporated to less than 8 points in 2020 for biden. the question is why. >> we went through communism not that it can happen the same way here, but that's what it looks like. >> i'm going to be good to go

down as one of the most progressive presidents in american history. >> reporter: republicans portraying biden as a socialist candidate, appealing to cuban americans. grassroots organizer says it is misinformation, saying democrats faced an obstacle in getting communities of color to vote, the coronavirus. >> because of covid, we can't knock on doors most of our work shifted to virtual or phone banking, which is not the same as engaging people face-to-face. >> latinos show up >> reporter: but the pandemic did not slow a surge of left-leaning latino voters in arizona, where nbc news exit polls show 63% of the block broke for biden, compared to 33% for trump. arizona has seen its population grow, and economic opportunities widen, attracting young latinos to the state. >> what is happening in arizona is very similar to the demographic shift that we are also seeing in georgia >> reporter: speaking of the peach state, exit polling shows biden with a 16-point edge among latinos there, down from 40

points under clinton 19-point biden edge in texas, down from 27 points under clinton. but both of these states suddenly in play for the first time in decades. >> there has been a lot of engagement in texas, and it's also a process i mean, we're talking about places like arizona that are now solidly purple. >> reporter: with states slowly changing colors, miami-dade's republican chair says one formula has kept florida reliably red, regular outreach to latinos. >> truly care about the hispanics in miami-dade and florida, and that paid off for him. >> reporter: even in the campaign's waning days, president trump was here in florida a half dozen times, compared to a couple for vice president biden. that being said, he sent surrogates like president obama during the last days, as well. experts, guys, on both sides of the aisle do agree, if you want to gain inroads in this critical

voting bloc, you have to put in the work savannah and hoda, back to you. >> thank you, sam. one of the most interesting story lines to develop from the election we're going to be talking about. ahead, bishop michael curry joins us, and, boy, do we need him today. valuable lessons on ways to find common ground and ity in our today's ways of working, may work differently tomorrow. but you can work out anything with comcast business. get fast, reliable, and secure internet on the nation's largest gig speed network. flexible tools - like wi-fi you control. voice solutions that connect you from anywhere. and expert advice here, here, or even here. be fast. be flexible. bounce forward with comcast business. get started with a powerful internet and voice solution for just $64.90 a month. plus, for a limited time, ask how to get a $300 prepaid card. call or go online today.

it's rising. the pain is coming. welcome back regardless of how this election plays out, and we're watching that, we do know there are votes coming in momentarily, but one thing is clear right now, we've got a really divided nation. >> and to move forward, we're going to need to find common ground we have the guy who can help us with that, with some much-needed perspective. the most reverend michael curry, presiding bishop of the episcopal church. good morning, bishop curry. so good to see you. i feel we've had tough elections. like, we have neighbors who aren't speaking to each other, family members who can't even begin to have a discussion it seems like a tall order, but how do you even start to heal

this thing >> first of all, it starts with a decision that we are going to do this together if you look on the great seal of the united states, the one with the eagle and the, you know, it has the arrows in one claw, then the palm branch is in the other, and above that eagle, are written the words, e pluribus unum, from many, one that's the motto of the united states in t from many diverse peoples, like in the pledge of allegiance, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. in older writings, it said, quote, when each person loves the other as much as he loves himself, then one out of many becomes possible i want to suggest that we can find common ground when we make a decision that i care about yo

find common ground when we make a decision that i care about you as much as i care about myself. as much as i care about myself when we do that, we can disagree without being disagreeable we can find common ground, and we can heal this country. >> that's the key. you know, i think it's the -- maybe it's the baptist in me, bishop curry, but i always feel like we have to look inward. we can all look around and see the problem with the other, the problems with the world, but if you really want to make change, you have to look inward and ask yourself hard questions. what do you think, if folks are willing to do that, what should we be asking of ourselves in this moment, to start to kind of be a healer and be the change that we wish we would see out there? we only can control ourselves. >> you know what we have to do, ask ourselves, what am i willing to do to make e pluribus unum real, from many one, and then

decide what can i do each day to make that real you can't change everything, but you can change one thing. you can do one thing. what am i going to do today that is going to bring this nation together bring us together as a human community? look, we are all americans and shirley chisolm said ait a long time ago, we all got here on different boats, but we are all in the same one now. that's really true so how are we going to figure out how can we live together the question is, what can i do today, not every day, today to help to make from many to one real >> it's funny, when you look around on the streets, you look in front of some of the polling places and you see people chanting, screaming, you get scared it's scary i wonder if there's any lesson from history that you can draw from, that could kind of give us some comfort >> well, you know, ironically, back in march of 2016, at one of the rallies for president trump,

during the campaign, you remember there were protesters at rallies for both sides for president trump and secretary clinton. at this particular rally, a white guy, who was like 79 years old, who was a trump supporter, punched a black guy, who was a young guy who was one of the protesters anyway, the guy who did the punching got charged with assault, and eventually he was sentenced with, i think, probation and community service. at the sentencing, he apologized he apologized to the man he punched. he said to him, "you know, we are in a political mess, both of us, and we've got to heal our country. and the guy who got punched said to him, "let's go out to lunch." let's go out to lunch. america, take each other to lunch. somebody is different than you are, somebody who is from a different political party, political orientation, different religion, different race, somebody who is different,

somebody from, i'm going to say it this way, from msnbc, take somebody from fox. back and forth in other words, cross the aisles let's go to lunch. that will help heal our land >> i like that i like how that sounds, bishop curry. >> who doesn't love lunch, right, bishop curry? >> you got it. >> i was thinking this morning, democracy, we're supposed to disagree it's not a sign that something is wrong, if we have disagreements, but we're not supposed to hate each other. >> no. >> we're supposed to love each other and see each other as fellow americans, all god's children i think that's the spirit which hopefully we can proceed in these next few difficult days. >> you preaching now. >> yes, she is she does it during commercial break, too >> we love you thank you so much. >> thank you so much >> god bless y'all. >> thank you. >> you, too. just ahead, somebody else who excels at giving perspective and comfort in trying times, harry smith. he is going to share his take on what's going on and give a look at history, too. california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones,

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guys, it is estimated nearly 160 million americans voted in this election that, by the way, the highest voter turnout rate in 120 years. >> yeah, it's incredible it comes at a time which our nation, as mentioned, deeply divided. harry smith joins us now with the bigger picture to all of this we're looking for perspective, harry, can you deliver >> reporter: let's see what we can do i'm not sure we can beat top bishop curry that's for sure. listen, you know, an old friend used to say, what do you know for sure on a morning like this, we don't know a lot i'd observe, especially from the secretary of states of state and election officials you've been speaking to, the process is transparent. people can feel confident this morning that your vote counts. nail-biter, too close to call, too early to call.

this race has been as tight as a tick, an old friend would say. an election this close with this big a turnout tells us something. the electorate is engaged. americans again believe their vote counts for something. old-timers used to say, "you can't complain if you don't vote." it's been a breathless four years, rancorous, divisive we get the idea sometimes that americans flat out don't like each other egged on by our media of choice, we've grown accustomed to taking sides and adopting a feeling like the opposition be damned. communities cracked, families divided. hurtful, angry words strewn about, followed by seething silence. it's lost its usefulness we're wondering now if anyone in america still knows how to build a bridge, some kind of span that

can help us see our common good. because no matter the winner, it sure would be nice if we felt like we live in the united states of america. so my thought on top of bishop curry's thoughts this morning, this notion that what we need more than anything these days is some ability to restore public trust. so for my two cents, that's what i've got this morning. >> harry, you do it every single time, you make us feel better. i think that piece was two minutes long, and i feel, yeah, just incredibly better thank you, harry >> thank you, harry. >> thank you, harry. we will be b

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to take this long, given people were voting during a pandemic. can we just say hats off to the poll workers again >> yes. >> they have been working around the clock tirelessly we can see them. there are live cameras on them, so we're actually able to witness all the hard work they're putting in, trying to make sure every single vote gets counted. >> i love that the pittsburgh steelers sent food to the pole workers in allegheny county. over to you, every other football team, in you're in a battleground state send food to the folks working so hard. on the third hour, we'll have the latest on where things stand in the presidential race and the new vote counts we expect today. plus on "hoda and jenna," we'll put this moment in history into perspective we have doris kearns goodwin, historian, we like her take. first, your local news and weather.

good morning. it's 8:56. i'm marcus washington. the 49ers head into the second half of the season with what's likely more uncertainty than any niners team in history. for now, the game at levis against green bay packers is still a go but the niners are dealing with a covid crisis.

wide receiver kendrick borne tested positive for the virus. the team announced three other players were placed on the covid list, including receiver samuel. adding to the problem, three stars are now down with injuries. kittle, jimmy g and rehee reheem moser. we'll also post any updates immediately on our twitter feed. and the race for the presidency still in limbo at this hour. there are a lot of developments going on. two days following the election. at midday we'll have team coverage for you. kris sanchez is monitoring the vote count here in the bay area. scott mcgrew is digging deeper into the legal development surrounding the vote count in the battleground states. and you can go to our home page for more election coverage. that's where we're posting the latest results in the presidential race. we'll have another local news update coming up for you in an hour. [ whispering ]

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. >> the gang is all here today. how are you good doing today? >> we are here for you this morning. the election drama is dragging to another day.