Dueling demonstrations i did and Trump Supporters trade calls to count every ballot to take vote. Scenes of devastation across Central America where storm 8 is left dozens dead and thousands more homeless. Joe biden is getting ever closer to securing the magic number of 270 that is required to clinch the u. S. Presidency with Donald Trumps lead shrinking in 2 key states georgia and pennsylvania thats over georgia 1st that is where joe biden is now joe biden is now fewer than 2000 votes behind donald trump what was a solid republican state for decades as emerged as a surprising battleground this time the bulk of the remaining mail in ballots are from the biggest democratic stronghold in atlanta were also still waiting on pennsylvania a very important state the state where joe biden was boy. Trumps leader has been consistently shrinking about 24000 votes now separate the 2 candidates and the remaining mail in ballots are mostly from the democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh and their suburbs giving biden a good chance to catch up lets look at the overall picture the democratic candidate now has a projected total of 264 Electoral College votes while trump is projected to in 214 remember a candidate needs to 70 to win here in the yellow you can see the states that are still being decided nevada in the west and georgia of course North Carolina in the south and up north pennsylvania has lashed out at the time its taking for remaining votes to be tallied in those key states came without evidence that the election was being rigged in stolen saying further legal action is imminent shortly will get the latest with team of correspondents on the ground but 1st his role in jordan. Counting the ballots one by one in georgia one of several states that could yet determine who will be the u. S. President on january 20th 2021 the incumbent donald trump demanded again on thursday that the counting is a legal and must be stopped if you count the illegal votes by easily when if you count the illegal votes they can try to steal. The election from us if you count the votes that came in late by looking at them very strongly but a lot of votes came in late trump has repeatedly and incorrectly said the process could be sabotaged but its actually common for states to need several days to count every vote but trump isnt just complaining hes suing in nevada the Trump Campaign is hoping this womans story of alleged voter fraud will shut down the count there are going to vote in the cold ira vote i personally can matter and you and yours are her it started in person this current been mailed out the ballot and somebody took my ballot officials denied stuckeys charges saying they did Everything Possible to help her vote and in michigan a judge rejected trumps request to halt vote counting in that state around the clock Trump Supporters have been protesting the vote count even demanding to be let into the rooms where the ballots are being counted after meeting with his Campaign Staff in delaware democratic candidate joe biden said he trusts the process senator i would continue to feel very good about where things stand we have no doubt that when the count is fully Shannon Harrison i will be declared the winners so i ask everyone to stay calm all the people to stay calm the process is working the count is being completed and dad will know very soon. So no declaration of victory just yet given the 2 big unknowns the status of the vote counting and the status of the Trump Campaigns legal challenges roslyn jordan aljazeera. Our White House Correspondent kimberly hellcat is watching all of the action unfold from washington kimberly with donald trump claiming electoral fraud talk of the election being stolen and with these razor thin margins in these key states that was still waiting on how is this going to play out. Well what it is doing is its continuing to. So discontent and to undermine the faith in the electoral system now it is interesting to point out that donald trump continues to be accused of not providing evidence that there is vote rigging or voter fraud because he does continue to provide evidence and the latest has come from his one of his campaign attorneys pam bondi who talks about a case that the Trump Campaign filed in pennsylvania where they have and it is required by law that both democrats and republicans can monitor the vote counting however when the trunk campaign attempted to do so they were forced to be very far back about 5 or 10 meters roughly and then with a one of the court case the ability to go 2 meters away its that that point that then the Election Officials move the ballot counting even further back kind of defying the order so what the Trump Campaign maintains is that its asking for transparency which even though theyve won a victory in pennsylvania is still being denied but yet it is continuing to be labeled by many Media Outlets as providing no evidence of concerns of voter fraud well there certainly has been a ballot that has been shown to be marked in the wrong way or put in the wrong column there are regularities that continue to be cited but dismissed not only by some members of the media but also by the Democratic Party is as well that of course says that this is the system working as it should now what other inconsistency that donald trump is offering is that hes saying that there are legal versus illegal ballots to just put a fine point on this what hes arguing is that any vote that comes after election day is a legal thats not entirely true what is true is that that used to be the case until in some states there were extensions granted in North Carolina for example in pennsylvania and now that is the legal process. They have given new deadlines for it to be received a ballot to be received and still be included in the count so the problem here in all of this is that there is no uniform system there are 50 different systems of vote counting and thats why were seeing multiple legal challenges by the trumpet ministration we should also quickly point out they made an attempt in georgia to try and to have some votes counted as and what many are arguing is that this was it was a day was thrown out because it was in consequential this was a lawsuit involving 53 votes that is not going to change the outcome of the count in georgia especially now that we know that Donald Trumps lead has narrowed to less than 1500. 00 votes so this is a problem for donald trump the campaign is aware of it particularly if they lose georgia many argue that the campaign is over any hope of winning is over and i think that was expressed by donald trump when he was at his press conference he certainly said he was still fighting but his body language seemed to indicate something entirely different that he was in fact feeling defeated ok thank you for that live from washington lets go now to mike hanna who is in bidens home state of Delaware Joining us from wilmington mike so joe biden wants everyone to be patient and it appears he and his team are feeling very confident. Well indeed there are in the course of the day his Campaign Team briefed reporters saying that the numbers that they were crunching indicate that joe biden was doing very well indeed in a number of these absolutely tense fraught states in the course of the day to have joe biden having a meeting with his Campaign Staff and then coming out to making that statement that basically hes feeling good that the campaigns looking good however he continued to call for calm and above all to call for patience but what hes also calling for as well is an appeal for a sense of unity joe biden very clearly attempting to lay some Building Blocks for what may come next should he be declared victory in this particular election and knowing that he may well have to be dealing with a Republican Senate knowing that hes also going to have to deal with the consequences of 4 years of the division in particular and hes at this stage attempting to create some sense of unity asking for all to come together at this particular time but very interesting the as well is that biden has created the selection in a much wider context he has been saying that this is just another election in a process thats been going on for centuries its a process called democracy and the over rocking thing in which it is taking place is of course the u. S. Constitution so biden being very calm calling for patience but also sending up that sense of stability which many observers believe is something thats been completely lacking and many observers point to President Trumps reaction over the past 48 hours as indicating the real difference between the character of these 2 competing for the post of president of the United States ok that is our correspondent mike hanna there live for us in wilmington delaware. Ok we are talking about pennsylvania very important 20 Electoral College votes up for grabs there lets go to pedicle haint who is in philadelphia for us patty so the numbers keep getting smaller that margin keeps getting smaller what is that point 3 of a percentage point it now where are we at. Its infuriating because theres no rhyme or reason to how we were getting the numbers how much theyre changing just in the last hour weve seen lose 3000 votes of his lead but before that were seeing like 20000 so theyre continuing to count through the evening theyre sending in the results theyre trying to update these websites so right now it looks like donald trump still leads in the state by 23000 but theres a whole lot more ballots to come in and those ballots overwhelmingly 80 percent are breaking for joe biden so its very clear that but joe biden could he could take this state of pennsylvania and then give him enough electoral votes to be the presumptive president ial president elect but again we dont know theyre continuing to count its now about 12 10 in the morning and theyre going to continue through the night but they had hoped they would have it by today thats obviously not going to happen but probably in the Early Morning hours on friday we should know it but the Biden Campaign is feeling very optimistic about this because they feel like that lead is going to stay consistent and then donald trump without the state really has very almost no hope of getting a 2nd term and the more youre going out. There. To extend the deadline for people to bring in their ballots those are not the ballots were talking about those arent necessarily be counted right now these are ballots that were either malkin are dropped off in drop boxes by the or much of night when they were supposed to be hit so thats what were talking about and thats why a lot of legal observers say when it comes to pennsylvania President Trump doesnt necessarily have ways of overturning that many votes that he talks a lot about the election observers and there that is true that they were pushed back and they were also being able to watch it on closed circuit television. And the people that the president i think its important to point out are saying that theyre stealing the votes these are election workers this is their job they do this every 2 years every 4 years a lot of them are nonpartisan here in pennsylvania so there are observers in the room they didnt like how far they were they are closer now but again all of many of these counties are keeping that vote videotape so they have it so were just looking to see how the numbers move and break now in the last hour i dont know if everyones tired needs coffee so we see the 3000 vote difference of the last hour to give you a sense of perspective on this about 7 hours ago when we started trump had a 90000 vote lead now its down 223000 so thats in the course of a day now again theyre getting fewer if youre a ballots left but if they continue to break the way they have all day for joe biden that it looks very likely that joe biden will take the state of pennsylvania this is the thing is an hour by hour its changing we appreciate your update static line now across the situation in pennsylvania. 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All of the religion louise assume the worst truth or lies fact or fiction most of the documents are faulty people 5 years ago still under wraps aljazeera well tells the story of a man and many secrets might one day elicit the spy on aljazeera. The the i. Know what your just are a reminder of our top stories this hour Us Democratic president ial candidate joe biden is closing the gap with donald trump and 2 key states trying now leads by fewer than 2000 votes in georgia the remaining vote to tally tuesdays election and theres less than half a percent between them pennsylvania. Trump is claiming without evidence that if legal votes were counted hed win the election at a white house News Conference he said legal challenges his campaign has filed may end up in the Supreme Court. Biden is urging people to be patient he says hes confident of becoming the next president is 264 Electoral College votes to 70 needed to victory. Required wilcox is professor of government in Georgetown University he joins us on skype from islet virginia thank you for your time sir weve talked a lot about litigation in the past few hours but i want to move with huge talk about the senate lets say biden wins despite grand Democratic Party hopes it looks like there will be a Republican Controlled Senate how difficult would that make it to get anything done. Well 1st let me say that it looks like it was the georgia count the votes that the georgia seats may go to one of us so we would be theoretically possible the democrats win both those write offs but it would be a 5050 senate which case the Vice President breaks the tar but lets assume that doesnt happen but what we know from the Republican Controlled Senate. Rock obama is that really it will let him do anything they refused to consider many of his Court Appointments and who he worked with the Supreme Court didnt want to move well of really of the bills that he wanted to get passed it already Mitch Mcconnell was certainly notice that but they are unwilling to confirm any cabinet appointments that they consider to be too liberal which is a person who moves in american politics and so i think we were served up. The margins of razor thin in the president ial race in in some of these key states that were looking at georgia pennsylvania and their vada how do you think that both candidates would fare and trying to unite a country which by the numbers appears this is a divide its what weve already seen donald trump for 4 years and uniting is not on his the air hes a divider and he loves to hear his rallies and while of his forces and attacking other people. By its nature is it later but it will be pretty difficult given the division well these states that youve been talking about i guess in program before were really close the general election biden is already by 4000000 votes and buckle your spirits that far so its a bigger margin than actually quite a few of the more recent president ial elections but. Yes it still will be deeply divided nation and many of crop supporters are going to think that hes been robbed because thats what hes going. If joe biden does when then he wins thats thats all well and good but but this is still not been the blue wave that democrats were hoping for will there be some soul searching within the party going on well i thought you were the real hippie soul searching is of the pollsters because the polls were showing 6 and 7 point by only nationally it was like you will have a 33 they have now they surely have implored or they showed in florida in pennsylvania and so the polls appear to be really far off this would have been a very good year for the democrats to take back the senate and i think theyre going to have to he think some other strategies in 2020 to also be a good here basically the senate has sort of a random set of