Hello there just gone 6 oclock here in moscow youre watching r. T. International might be the morning after the Election Night before but the race for the white house is still on a knife edge and results hanging in the balance in a few key states that are yet to declare now within the last hour joe biden has taken the lead in michigan although the votes are still being counted we have to say in fact kind thing is not finished in several key states they are in great on this big map up here and a sea of red you might look at and think that trump has actually may have won this election that just indicates hes actually won more states but biden is actually more electoral votes at this stage which is of course what counts big. Population states like california for example did actually give him 55 votes and so far biden is 238 to trumps 213 with 270 the magic number needed for victory so lets bring in our u. S. Correspondent Maccallum Orkin who joins us from new york areas a good evening kel