jeff pollin the front lines. thanks. >> the battle for florida region on a sour. the broader county board is back in session now. they started recounting votes as part of a statewide effort in three key florida braces. phil keating as they are in water hill, florida. what can you tell us? >> we are inside the broward county of elections ballot tabulation center. this is where the recounting has begun about 90 minutes ago. statewide all 67 counties in florida now have the job. a long job in a burdensome job. excuse me, counting all the ballots. the tabulation machines and these are separating page one from the ballot. excuse me one second. it was a multipage ballot. so the contested races, the ones that are made in the threshold for the automatic recount are all on page one. these election workers are separating those that would about 800. and then after they are done sorting, they will insert all of the page one machines and then begin the actual process of recounting the ballots in those races in those votes. 8 million total ballots cast statewide in the senate r