This special edition of nightline, your voice, your vote, will be right back. H air. So, you can have open window freshness. Even with all the windows up. Enjoy fresh, any time, with febreze. beeping sound how can i, when you wont take it from me you can go your own way xfinity mobiles fast nationwide 5g network meets the first iphone with 5g. Get the new iphone 12 on xfinity mobile. And right now get 250 off. Learn more at an xfinity store today. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. It was a recordsetting election. More than 140 million americans voted. But tonight the two president ial candidates defining the day with completely different messages. One urging calm, one alleging conspiracy, as more than 500,000 ballots still must be counted to determine a winner. Battleground pennsylvania. A big prize. 20 electoral votes hanging in the balance. Counting continues here for the third day. Blue voters like lauren swann hoping the keystone state will deliver joe biden the white house.
On that picture that you showed, that was the cold front, the clouds, they are moving south right now. They dropped some rain in isolated areas near the coast, the peninsula and there was a report of light rain in napa earlier. The big story is this afternoon and this evening when the chance of showers and thunderstorms, lightning and hail rolls in. Locally heavy rain and gusty winds out there. The cloud cover is moving rapidly to the south. Behind it, 20mileperhour to 30mileperhour winds. We had gusts up to 54 Miles Per Hour on tamalpais. So the blustery conditions are, in fact, developing. As you head into the afternoon hours, temperatures wont change much. Upper 50s to low 60s. Notice the yellows and oranges in the north bay, those are the showers and thunderstorms. Ill put a timeframe on it coming up. You can track those showers today at any time on your abc7 news app. Im sure you will also be checking out the Election Results as we inch closer to knowing who the next president wil
Breakneck sprint to election day just hours from now. President trump and former Vice President biden are battling those states. And lastminute votes they think theyll need to win. President Trump Holding five rallies in four states while joe biden is going all in for pennsylvania making three stops there. And a surprise visit to ohio. While election day isnt until tomorrow as we come on the air this election is already making history. More than 97 million americans have already voted early. Now thats record shattering and its more than two thirds of all the votes cast just four years ago. But it also means with so many ballots to count and some of the biggest battleground states not starting that process until tomorrow night, we may not know who won on wednesday morning. President trump is threatening to go to court to challenge that idea, falsely claiming that ballots that havent been counted tomorrow night shouldnt count at all. Now across the u. S. Tensions are running high and bui
So, well call that partly cloudy right now. Temperatures today still a few 80s in our east bay valleys and most of us in the 70s and coast in the San Francisco in the 50s. Five to ten degrees cooler than yesterday. Still too warm for this time of year. Kumasi. Ill take it from there, thanks, mike. Happening now the polls are officially open and voting is under way in most of the continental u. S. Ill take it from here. Lets take a live look right now at voters. They are lining up as you can see. This is in anderson county, south carolina. Another very crucial state. Voters in swing states will likely be deciding this election and because many of these states are several time zones ahead of us, well start to see the Election Results this afternoon. So, heres a look at some of the big ones that we will be tracking. The following times are pacific times. Polls in georgia and parts of florida close at 4 00 p. M. Our time and the Florida Panhandle and parts of michigan and pennsylvania it w
We made history together four years ago and tomorrow were going to make history once again. Biden hammering the president on his handling of the crisis. Were going to beat this virus. Were going to get it under control and the first step, the first step to beating this virus is beating donald trump. And overnight, that blistering new warning about covid19 from Task Force Coordinator dr. Deborah birx. Just ahead of election day. [ crowd chanting ] as the final polls open anxiety elevating across the country over fears of postelection unrest and a potential battle over the ballots. This morning, how to make sure your vote counts. What it will take for each candidate to win. Our Powerhouse Political Team is spread out all across the country on this critical day for the united states. And good morning, america. We hope you are doing well on this decisive day for the future of our democracy. The final day of voting and the most consequential election of our lives. And one thing we know you