in fact, brad raffensberger the secretary of state has been saying for days now, look.t that this hand recount is only going to affirm the overall results, the original results of the election. but as you mentioned, the margin has changed slightly so joe biden's lead in georgia is now at 12,284 votes. if you do the math there trump gained about 1700 votes during this audit process state election officials say and stress this was expected because it is now within the human margin of error. these votes, though, that trump has gained obviously not enough to overcome joe biden's lead in georgia so he again has been confirmed that he has won this state. the margin has shrunk because there were some uncounted ballots that were found and also some discrepancies in the various counties, 159 here in georgia. overall election officials are saying this audit was clearly a success. what is next is on friday the secretary of state brad raffensberger is expected to certify the final results and on tuesday that is the day that the trump campaign must request a recount by and the state

but that was before brad raffensberger got tough on his job. brad is now part of the liberal conspiracy, i guess. and people believe this. your uncle believes this. [ laughter ] the bad news for trump is, the legal part of his legal strategy is not working. even worse news is, rudy giuliani is running his legal team. rudy guiliani gave another doozy of a press conference today. it was a success in that it did not take place in a parking lot next to a dildo shop. [ laughter ] but otherwise, it was not a success. it was a desperate, vomitus attack on every american who bothered to vote. here's rudy using the movie "my cousin vinny" to explain why trump was swindled out of the vote in pennsylvania. >> we could do like -- did you all watch "my cousin vinny"? you know the movie? it's one of my favorite law movies because he comes from brooklyn. when the nice lady who said she saw, and then he says to her, how many fingers do i -- how many fingers do i got up? and she says, three. well, she was too far away. to see that it was only two. these people w

the secretary of state there brad raffensberger said at a news conference earlier today that his office once the process to start by the end of this week. he hopes to be finished with the recount by november 20th. to regain hurricane strength off the florida coast before it weakened slightly this is the white street here in key west where the powerful waves. >>flooded the pier nearby streets were also under water 8 is expected to make landfall along the west coast of florida some time tomorrow morning a hurricane watch is in effect. there are concerns of a life threatening storm surge as well as tornadoes as a to moves on shore and we're tracking. it is move it here kron 4 chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us now with the latest on this powerful storm will for large work mid november and still going with these yeah and maybe not done we may have more after this we'll have to wait and see still very very warm and active in the tropics. but here comes a to now making its way on shore right now and is bringing with it some very heavy rainfall of course because he may be 15 maybe 20

donald trump loses if he does lose, but our republican elected official, the secretary of state, brad raffensbergerocess and that's something that you will find in these coming days, it's that the process will be trusted even if the outcome is not what people desired. live at very test. in scotland, there have been a further 1,072 positive tests for covid—19 recorded in the past 24 hours. that takes the total number of positive cases to 70,732. first minister nicola sturgeon revealed the figures at a press briefing earlier and said while there were signs for cautious optimism, she warned against complacency. we are seeing signs for cautious optimism in our data in scotland, but we cannot be complacent if we are to continue that progress, and we must accelerate that progress, then it takes all of us doing all of the right things. the good news is we know when we do those things, difficult though they are, they do make a difference, but this should also remind us that none of us are powerless in the face of this virus. so if you are living in one of the areas at level 3, which is most of the central

. >> reporter: georgia's gop secretary of state brad raffensberger and his top aides are all but pleading with trump supporters to stop believing false allegations of fraud coming from the president and his legal team. >> i can't, however many words i can use to say how crazy some of these things are, nothing was shipped overseas. no votes were switched. we did a hand audit that proved no votes were switched. >> reporter: the president is trying to go over their heads putting pressure on georgia's republican governor, tweeting, why won't brian kem p the hapless governor of georgia use his emergency powers which could be easily done to overrule his obstinate secretary of state but kemp's office said no saying georgia's law prohibits the governor from interfering in elections. the secretary has oversight over elections that cannot be overridden by executive order. another blow to mr. trump's quest the hotly contested state of arizona certified its results for president-elect joe biden with that state's gop governor looking on. >> the election was conducted with transparency, accuracy, and f

took a random sampling of voting machines and he has said, brad raffensberger, no evidence of tampering or hacking on these voting machines. obviously talking about this because president trump and his allies peddling false claims millions of votes have been deleted or voted through dominion voting machines. big picture, hand count going at scheduled and election officials saying that they expect the machines to show that they are act krit on the other side of this and do not expect the overall outcome of results to change and they will meet the friday deadline to certify results. >> thank you so much for that information about this very important recount in georgia. >>> president trump is still refusing to accept that he lost the election, and he is pinning his dreams on a second term on two things. pennsylvania and rudy guiliani. that is right. giuliani telling a federal court in pennsylvania he is legally representing the trump campaign in their bid to block the commonwealth from certifying votes, doing it because pennsylvania went for joe biden. the case argued this afternoon and gi

coming from a republican election official but he denies what the georgia secretary of state brad raffensberger yesterday, wolf. he said he was simply asking questions about how the state's mail-in voting system works and how they verify signatures on these mail-in ballots just as this hand recount is taking place. he also told me he spoke not just with the georgia election official but also nevada and arizona officials. those states also were carried by joe biden. three states that joe biden carried president trump's close ally raising questions with these election officials about exactly what is happening in their states. now, graham is saying this is all part of an effort to understand what happened and determine whether or not additional actions need to be taken to safeguard the elections. >> very concerned about it. if you're going to continue to vote by mail that we need to know what systems work and what don't. it's up to the people of georgia and i think i have every right in the world to reach out and say how does it work? >> reporter: he's gotten some blowback because he is the senate

reporter: gabe sterling runs elections for georgia secretary of state brad raffensberge both are diedcrimson wool republicans fending off an elephant's helng of wrath from president trump and several other party comrades, all ofth questioning the integrity of the contest that made joe biden a whisker in winner here. >> there's a lot of stuff flying around on twitter and facebook that touches fact, but doesn't necessarily have all the facts or the evidence. and that's what we're trying to got to. reporter: it's an arduous path that began with a pre-election plan to conduct a scientificomly randheck of the state's new 106 million dollar voting system. it's called a risk limiting or rla. >> an rla is designed to determine whether the winner won without any chce of a machine oblem happening. reporter: monica childers this with a nonprofit called voting works hired by the state. we first met her in september in brunswick, georgia as she how to run these audits.s on if there is ample cushion in the margin between candidates, rla's can validate the outcome of an election with great confidenc

out of georgia more questions over comments senator lindsey graham made to secretary of state brad raffensberger he was on the call between the two confirming that graham asked whether the secretary of state had the power to toss out certain absentee ballots. graham, denying he made those comments. as all of this plays out joe biden is moving forward with his transition with new staffing announcement expected by end of week. mike memoli joins us and peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the "new york times." peter what do you make of this situation that played out in mish last night? are we likely to see this in other counties? >> obviously a surprise to a lot of people who weren't paying attention what was happening in wayne county and the idea an election won by 150,000 votes in michigan suddenly could be up in the air. it did raise a lot of questions. i think the fact they quickly reversed themselves showed that there's a lot of pressure on, to not give in to the, you know, these false theories that the president is spreading out there that somehow there was enough widespread fraud

. >> reporter: gabe sterling runs elections for georgia secretary of state brad raffensberger.h are died in crimson wool republicans fending off an elephant's helping of wrath from president trump and several other party comrades, all of them questioning the integrity of the contest that made joe biden a whisker thin winner >> there's a lot of stuff flying around on twitter and facebook that touches fact, but doesn't necessarily have all the facts or the evidence. and that's what we're trying.o get >> reporter: it's an arduous path that began th a pre- election plan to conduct a scientifically random check of the ate's new 106 million dollar voting system. it's callea risk limiting audit, or r.l.a. >> an r.l.a. is signed to determine whether the nner won without any chance of a machine problem happening. and it just takes the machines completely out of the equation to do that, which is what we'v done here. >> reporter: monica childers is with a non-profit called voting works hired by the state. we first met h in september in brunswick georgia as she schooled election officials

but secretary of state brad raffensberger again rejected claims that president trump lost the state because of fraud. exploiting the emoof manye trump supporters with fantastic claims, half-truths, misinformation and, frankly, they're misleading the president as well, apparently. >> woodruff: georgia has biden won the state by aboutct 12,700 votes. today, arizona certified a biden win by a little over,0 votes. and, wisconsin finished a partial recount, confirming another biden victory. in iran, funeral services were held for the founder of the country's mitary nuclear program. he died last week in ash that iran blames on israel. state tv showed mourners paying their respects to mohsen official said the is usedty remote-controlled weapons in the attack. israel has not commented. the rebel leader in ethiopia's tigray region insisting that fighting goes on, even after losing his capital. ethiopia's army seized the city of mekelle over the weekend, after nearly a month ofighting that killed and displaced thousands. today, the nation's prime minister denied rebel claimsf atrocities by the army.

that was georgia secretary of state brad raffensberger announcing this morning that georgia is goingfull hand recount, recanvass and audit of the presidential race. and he promised that all of it would be completed by november 20th, the certification deadline. giving the state nine days to go through nearly 5 million votes by hand, mind you. this announcement comes after big pressure from the trump team led by former senate candidate doug collins saying that they would go to court if the state did not agree to a hand recount so a bit of a playcation of the trump team. i guess, priscilla, a couple of questions. who pays for this hand recount. some states, if you want the recount, you have to pay for it. is this a case where the state is paying for it or is the trump campaign going to get billed? >> reporter: so in this case the state is going to pay for it. and that's because technically the way this process works, the trump campaign would not have been able to formally request a recount until after the state certifies the results. but what we're hearing today is the secretary of stat