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World. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by judy there are two major stories tonight, the postelection transition as President Trump refuses to concede or even allow for the traditional preparations that would normally have begun and the surging burden of covid cases in most areas of the country. The u. S. Hit a new daily record of covid19 infections with more than 144,000 reported yesterday. Hospitalizations top 65,000 for the first time, 22 states are reporting more hospitalizations than at any time says the pandemic began. Deaths are up by 22 from a week you. Ago. Lets look at how this is hitting a number of states especially hard no matter which region. In el paso, texas, makeshift clinics outside hospitals are opening up. Mobile morgues are moving in and a lockdown of nonessential businesses has been extended, testing lines are growing in wisconsin. Cases there have jumped from 700 a day to more than 6000 in two months
And william glucose welcome to the program 2 days after the u. S. President ial election and theres still no winner votes are being counted in several key u. S. States democratic challenger joe biden is closest to the 270. 00 Electoral College votes needed to secure the presidency any remaining state will get him over the line the Associated Press has called arizona for biden but other networks are saying its too close to call with arizona biden has 200 64. 00 Electoral College votes that puts him just 6 votes shy of the 270. 00 he needs but the counting goes on the result could tip back towards trump meanwhile the Trump Campaign has launched legal action claiming fraud trying to stop the count in 3 states. But there is 0 evidence of any wrongdoing to the contrary counting is proceeding smoothly across the country. Frustration spilling out onto the streets in new york and trump protesters demanding every vote be counted. In other cities like here in seattle a similar story. In portland
Welcome to the program. Its been 24 hours since voting ended in the u. S. President ial election and there remains no clear winner democratic challenger joe biden and President Trump along with america and the rest of the world are waiting for results as ballot counting continues in a few key battleground states this election is demanding patience and call from everyone but the president has already claimed victory and hes alleging voter fraud without presenting any evidence joe biden has called for patience but his supporters are confident that hes on track to win so lets look at the results that are significant at this last hour our figures are showing that Vice President ial democratic candidate joe biden with 248 electoral votes to incumbent president Donald Trumps 214 electoral votes that puts joe biden just 22 Electoral College votes away from the 270 that one of these men needs to win to claim the presidency now counting is done in michigan and biden is has won that state which
Have to be counted some of them are only or a lot of them actually starting to be counted today and thats an awful lot of ballots to be counted so an official result of that is actually quite usual for the United States here we didnt have and other elections also you official results its the t. V. Networks and the pollsters who called the winner early about official results likely not to be happening tomorrow at this time will there be a network or Many Networks and polls this calling a winner by tomorrow this time. I dont know maybe thats the best you can get out of me and maybe a solid maybe its really not clear theres a lot of voting count valid to count the vote count going on and it has to be done to really really firmly call a state or. An overall result for the elections ok and what should we expect from these these old important to swing states that a so important for these counted is. Yeah there as you said they are really important it is those states where actually the math i