let's bring in our political analyst larry gerston. you've been doing this for a little while. >> a little while. >> i've been doing this for a little while. have we ever seen anything like this? i mean, this is a high profile big money congressional race, a tie. >> it's a political analyst's joy, let me tell you. >> you're friends with the math professors in san jose state i'm sure. we have to find out the statistical probability of this. >> very, very small. >> what happens now? we know sam liccardo is going. we're saying instead of everybody low or joe simitian advancing, they'll both advance making this a three-way race in november. >> according to state law it's going to be this way. there is no doubt about it. instead of a majority to win, it will be a plurality. whoever gets more than the other two wins. so if you got four, i got three and somebody else got three, you would win. >> so does this favor sam liccardo? does this favor evan low? does it favor joe simitian? a lot of other people got votes in the race. i think there was

larry gerston will join us. we'll discuss the three major foreign aid bills in congress, how much money is allocated to each country and the likelihood the bill also pass the senate. >>> some b.a.r.t. train cars reached the end of the line. the final legacy fleet trains made their final trips. some people came out for the run along the original b.a.r.t. tracks connecting oakland and fremont. here's a video that gives you an idea of how many people were there. our producer sent in this time lapse video just a few seconds of a three-minute long clip showing people lining up around the block for a chance to take one last ride on a legacy b.a.r.t. car. history. >>> another long line to show you in the south bay this time. a big turnout for a chance to get folks' hands on some rare vinyls. this was the line outside of street light records on national record store day. each year, hundreds of rare records are offered for sale in hopes of drawing people to small businesses. they say it worked, and record store day attra

nbc bay area political analyst larry gerston is here with the latest. great to see you as always. stand? time will tell. but how much time? right, exactly how much time? you know, this is absolutely incredible. 185,000 votes, probably close to a dozen candidates, and two of them tied for the second spot. tied. what are the odds of that kind of thing now? here's here's what we have. we got three pots left and they're small. we got about 17 votes that are being challenged in san mateo county, 14 votes. can you small numbers, 14 votes. that are being challenged in santa clara county and about a dozen precincts that have that have not been combed for that recount. okay. and that's in santa clara county. you're talking about maybe when it's all said and done, three, four dozen. and we don't know how many of those are actually going to count, which is proof that every vote counts, really, for people who say, like, my vote doesn't matter kind of thing. so why has this taken so long? because they were they were tied. now now there's a split. you know, the registrars are using the normal p

turning to our political analyst, larry gerston, the president faces several legal battles in several states. how significant is this one in new york? >> it interesting to me, sets to send lee, really not. conspiracy, the washington case deals with obstruction, and the case in miami, interference. this is not that big of a deal that way. but symbolically that is a different issue. symbolically. now you're talking about character. character counts for a lot of people. take about how this may hit evangelicals. the hush money payment went to an adult actress, right? so it's a payoff. how will it fit with them? how does it fit with women who are already pretty upset because of the right to choose issue? so we don't know. to add to that, a couple of other things for the former president, how about that $455 million payment he has to make because of bank fraud? okay, and also how that e.g. carol, $88 million for sexual abuse and defamation of character? put all of these things together, there's an awful lot going not too favorably for the president right now. >> what are you hearing about t

our political analyst, larry gerston is here laying out next steps. plus, the deadline is approaching to get your student loans canceled. everything you need to know before tomorrow. the news at 530 starts right now. thanks so much for joining us. i'm janelle wang and i'm raj mathai. big questions. and frustrations about an ongoing power problem at a major courthouse, the family justice center in san jose had to close today for at least the third time in the past few months because of an outage. so what's the fix here? here's nbc's damian trujillo. it's a growing frustration for people who need

our political analyst, larry gerston is here laying out next steps. plus, the deadline is approaching to get your student loans canceled. everything you need to know before tomorrow. the news at 530 starts right now. thanks so much for joining us. i'm janelle wang and i'm raj mathai. big questions. and frustrations about an ongoing power problem at a major courthouse, the family justice center in san jose had to close today for at least the third time in the past few months because of an outage. so what's the fix here? here's nbc's damian trujillo. it's a growing frustration for people who need the services of family court, like filing restraining orders or seeking child custody. so today we went out looking for answers. miriam avalos runs a company that files legal paperwork for clients, and she found these signs on the front entrance on the santa clara county family justice center. again, the courthouse is closed. it's extremely frustrating. it's not the first time that's happened. spot the fourth time, actually, that i've been here and it's closed