. >>> all right, some breaking news for you, the public vote tally in the fight to unionize an ammon bessamer, alabama. lydia hu is here to tell us what's next as the votes are being counted as we speak. >> reporter: hi, ashley. yeah, the votes started to be count canned around 3:40. and like so much of what's happening these days, it's being made public through a zoom link. unfortunately, we can't show you that process, but i can tell you able to see it, and it's a room where you see agents from the national labor relations board that are going through hand counting each vote one by one, calling out whether it's a yes or no vote and placing them in the respect i boxes. and there's also an agent or a representative, i should say, from both amazon and the union there to watch along with many people that are tuning in to watch this as it unfolds. now, it's unclear exactly how long this process is going to take, but it is taking longer than usual because the voting happened through mail and not in person as usually that happens. now, the vote was actually ended a week ago, and since the