Theyre getting robbed right now. The push to get kids back in the classroom tonight. The bay area parents who say home schooling isnt helping. And the cold continues but for how long. Were tracking the chilly temperatures. And a not so smooth transition of power. I think it will not help the president s legacy. President elect joe biden breaks his silence about President Trump refusing to concede. We have a lot to get to tonight. We begin with Health Officials sou sounding the alarm. In the first ten days of this month alone more than a Million People tested positive for covid19 in the united states. In california cases are also spiking here. The state pushed two of our local counties into the most restrictive tiers. Contra costa county and santa cruz moved back to red. What does this mean and what counties are next . Reporter california covid cases are rising. The state announcing 11 counties will be forced to add more restrictions including contra costa and santa cruz. And more other
Thank you to the federal society for hosting this debate at. Im delighted to be here for the question, should the Electoral College be abrogated . Electoral college choosing a president. In their respective states electors choose wedding for president and Vice President. Electoral college would provide Vice President Alexander Hamilton wrote in federalist 68 that the Electoral College would provide a practicable obstacle to cabal intrigue and corruption. He said that it would interpose capable men of discernment for deliberation over the selection of the president. Moreover, hamilton thought the system best designed to prevent tumult and disorder. Debates about the Electoral College once again emerged over the desirability of our constitutions method for selecting the president. So this debate is an important one about our republic. And about our constitutional form of government. It raises questions of principle. What are the values to be promoted in a democratic republic . In a feder
You at this hour. Lets show you first where the president ial race stands right now. With 80 lets show you that right now. We have joe biden with 220 electoral votes and President Trump with 213. A candidate needs 270 to win. So far tonight no state has flipped parties from how it voted in 2016. The country is still waiting on key battleground states to finalize their results. Election officials in wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania say it could be days until we know the final results due to the large number of mailin ballots. Heres where the popular vote stands. Biden at 49 , donald trump at 48 . Here in california now were going to target here not surprisingly joe biden winning the popular vote by more than 30 points. All 55 of californias electoral votes will go to joe biden. By the way, the last time california voted for a republican back in 1988, george h. W. Bush. Now, the roller coaster of emotions through the night, they are running high. An entire block of San Francisco was
Can make the big prize of the night as always is california with 55 Electoral College votes joe biden has got those further north the state of washington with 12 goes to the blue column as well and oregon as well all of these west coast blue states another 7 which we can add to joe bidens tally there and well put in idaho as well which is also closing the south thats a red state that goes to dont trump with 4 so as i said this gives us some shape now because weve now managing to fill in the states which we knew so 209112 right now that looks very strong in favor of joe biden but lets think about this texas 38 florida 29 pennsylvania which we havent talked about for a while will do that in maybe will 10 or 15 minutes well have a little talk about pennsylvania. Not even in the too close to call of the moment but this 20. Heigho a chain North Carolina 16 there are a lot of states and its all the ones which we thought it would come down to of course so whilst that number all just pop out t
The most controversial topics in this election on t. V. Hosts got into a heated debate on the issue. Theres a long history in this country of suppressing the black vote and i dont think that they should be negated by anything theres only a video can all be taken care of my number of pennsylvania working with great actors we all do battle court case with all the really tracking of that were talking about it right and were now on history in america of suppressing the black vote. Thank you for joining us here on c. N. N. To national im nikki arran and were bringing you all the latest throughout the day and whats so far proving to be a nail biting election as america decides on its future. All eyes are on america as ballot counting is in full swing in the 2020 race for the white house preliminary results indicate a tight race though Democrat Joe Biden spoke just minutes ago insisting he thinks hell win. Our nurture united we believe are on track to win this election. We knew because of the