. >> reporter: as of this afternoon, boucher told us she was still waiting on word from sacramento. late today, the secretary of state's office e-mailed me a letter they sent boucher reminding her of a conversation earlier this week in which they told her the ball is in her court. a race that hangs in the balance, the district seven seat for san jose city council. political newcomer holds a slim lead over esparza. nguyen wants to assure every vote is counted. >> nothing we can even hint or detect of irregularity. >> reporter: esparza is just as curious about what happens next. >> i'm not sure what the future holds. just trying to keep an open mind and make sure everybody's vote counts. >> reporter: as of this morning, there were 4400 provisional ballots left to be counted. santa clara county hopes to have final numbers by sunday. the election will be certified on december 2nd and any possible recount would happen after that date. chris winn, abc 7 news. >>> travel headaches. coming up next, will passengers be inconvenienced now that asiana is told to stop flying to sfo? >>> a lot of

. >> reporter: when she receives a letter from the secretary of state, shannon boucher says she wille workers recount roughly 40,000 votes in the mayor's race. these are votes cast in precincts on election day, not the mail-in ballot. why the move?

. >> reporter: when she receives a letter from the secretary of state, shannon boucher says she will have workers recount roughly 40,000 votes in the mayor's race. these are votes cast in precincts on election day, not the mail-in ballot. why the move? for transparency reasons. especially since the i.t. at the registrar quit on the eve of election day, and the perceived slowness of the vote count. >> we've always been transparent, and we will continue to be. >> reporter: the mayoral candidates found out about the plan from nbc bay area. >> we've heard people say many, many saying i want to make sure my vote counts. and i think right now just because there is rumors or some suspicion or some kind of a cloud around what has happened here, it's important to people on an individual basis to know that their vote counted. >> reporter: the registrar says it will invite the public to witness the recount. dave cortese told me he does not believe the recount will change the outcome of this race. i heard back from sam liccardo about 15 minutes ago. he told me he supports anything that will incr

we are working from the top down myself in admiral boucher newly but also from the bottom up as we set up our folks to get together and kind of at the midgrade and senior officer level. to start from the top i've met with the admiral five times in last year and we are working on counterpart visits in 2015. we will put our input, i will provide my input to the folks in the office of the secretary of defense and i will talk a little bit more on the jr. interactions in just a minute. the fact is with this rising navy with china we have in my view opportunity. the challenges to get rid of needless unfounded unprofessional cases in this interaction that we ultimately inevitably are going to have it see. talking about unsafe operations. you are familiar with one and many of them at the end recently and are sensitive or cognizant operation. we have had no unsafe or on toward incident since august when we have this last intercept that we viewed as unsafe and we talk about that. admiral wu and i talked about this at length and where we might go ahead when we met back six weeks ago in newport. s

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news be processed counted and that could be days if not weeks for final results joining me now sham bouchernitely will say yes to close for someone in the public to call this election and with over hundred thousand boat but those recounted process >> : as watter ballots the boats out there >> : to give us a ballpark on when we could no to go half with three dots. to the become clear to you before you even finished >> : trip to be the new mayor >> : the also a provisional balas need be counted after the counting of the vote >> : it will depend on the process will vote totals are >> : also the option of the canada is asking that lend a certified results recall could come in five days after the >> : the at the top to the voters out there and look at this camera would you wont tell them about senna was a new mayor >> : will as the voters and the public to be patient. as you can see the piles and piles of ballots and process counts. we want to process them all pursuant correct legal process >> : if you're curious what the candidates have to say today and day pretty much ready a silent and not ma