With hit or miss showers. Mike, how is it looking now getting out the door for work . Very different than ten minutes ago. The camera shows you all lanes now backing up toward the toll plaza itself. We have the backup that just formed again as folks flooded in towards that area. We also have slowing for highway 4 through concord which has been there early morning. I thought it would clear as the construction cleared but that is cleared from the roadway. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. There are razor thin margins in several battleground states as the final outcome of the election still unknown this morning. Just confirmed within the last few minutes joe biden ahead by a very slight margin in pennsylvania. Hes ahead by just more than 5,000 votes. Battleground states are still to close to call. Today in the bays tracie potts is live for us in wilmington with reaction from both campaigns. Tracie . Reporter theres a lot of anxiety building, a lot of excitement building, particularly on
Tracie potts live for us this morning and, tracie, the president is now suing to stop the count in three states. Exactly. In fact, there were existing Court Actions in nevada and also in pennsylvania and now theyve added to that in michigan and more court action in pennsylvania to try to get the observers in and to try and stop the vote counts. This by the Trump Campaign, the Biden Campaign say they have lawyers ready to try to stop this. They think its unwarranted. Meantime, President Trumps Team Including his family says they believe that the votes that are being counted, some of them, arent legitimate. They are trying to cheat us out of it because they know its their only path to victory. Not a single republican has been able to look at any one of these mail ballots. They could be from mars as far as were concerned. Every vote is going to count. Im going to fight like hell to protect the vote of every pennsylvanian. Pennsylvanias Governor Tom Wolf promising theyre going to count eve
Take it to the Supreme Court. Reporter this morning still counting votes and the potential path for victory for both candidates as we wait to see what happens next, today, wednesday, november 4th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everyone. Good morning. Welcome to this special edition of today. We are glad youre with us on wednesday morning. We really never left. Weve been on the air all night. Lots of news to cover. We still dont know who the president is going to be and filled with uncertainty and a lot of questions. We will try to guide you through the best we know one step at a time and we will get it started. This is where it stands at this hour on the electoral map. You will see 224 electoral votes for joe biden and 213 for the president. The goal is 270 and that is what it takes to win the presidency. Keep your eye on the states in gray which are too close to call
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