Weeks. Tracking eta. The newest Tropical Storm strengths as it marches toward the United States. See the damage already left behind by this storm thats already killed over 100 people. And getting off the ground. Flying cars have been promised for nearly 100 years. Well take you inside the race to create a real viable option to drive into the sky. But first, we begin with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Its pretty apparent to everybody who is watching right now and counting the numbers and looking at the universe of outstanding votes that joe biden is on the brink. The time for tallying votes is winding down. The nation awaiting who will be in the white house for the next four years. If it takes a long time, thats good. It means were being methodical. Were checking the facts. Its like in carpentry. You measure twice and cut once. Comes down to five key states. For now, joe biden, like the rest of us is left to watch and wait. As slow as it goes, it can be numbing. But never forget the tallies arent just numbers. They represent votes and voters. The president is angry and he is disappointed as he admitted to some people close to him that the math may not be on his side. There is no future for the Republican Party if we do not stand and fight in this critical moment. President trumps chief of staff mark meadows tested positive for covid19. We dont know exactly when mark meadows tested positive, but he was at the white house on Election Night. The u. S. Army has been conducting rescues in honduras which remains devastated from hurricane eta. All that you are a world famous beat boxer, and i dont know what that means. Well, beat boxing is the art of drumming with your mouth. All right. Way to go. And all that matters. Like you, we are all asking, what is taking so long . My neighbor in 36b said, gayle, this is agonizing. This is longer than the wait between seasons of game of thrones. On cbs this Morning Saturday. Do we know what happens to the screens when the election is done . Because id love one. I dont even like it in the house with the guys. Gather in. This room. This room and this room havent been cleaned. And if you look if you look here, you this is coming into me now. Max, you left your dinner out which means your pocket money goes down to its coming now. There. 38 . So thats what this mornings eye opener is presented by progressive. Making it easy to bundle insurance. Wow. Right on target. Its a good idea. Its also a far cry. Remember tim russert and the white board. Ed still uses the white board. Welcome to the weekend. Im Dana Jacobson with jeff glor and michelle miller. Were joining you from cbs news election headquarters in times square. We also want to assure you that later on were going to have a bunch of the stories you come to expect from us. Technology, books, food, music, all of it. Thats a bit later in the show. First, we have a ton of news to get to this morning. We do indeed. Lets get to the still undecided president ial election. The race between President Trump and biden has slowed to a call. Nevada, arizona, pennsylvania are still being counted. Joe biden sitting 17 votes shy of the 270 electoral votes needed to win. Is leading in all four of those states. On friday, biden jumped ahead of President Trump in pennsylvania thanks to a strong showing in philadelphia. Supporters there filled the streets in hopes of a victory that would put biden over 270 electoral votes. Meanwhile, supporters of President Trump rallied outside a vote location in arizona. The president needs victories in arizona and all but one of those other tossup states to win another four years in the white house. Late last night, biden addressed the nation from wilmington, delaware. Nikole killion is covering the Biden Campaign. Good morning. Good morning, jeff. Former Vice President joe biden hopes to be able to address the American People again today, but last night, he made clear he believes hes well on his way to victory and has a mandate to get to work. Were going to win this race. Former Vice President joe biden addressing the nation last night just a few votes shy of reaching the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. Were on track to over 300 electoral votes. Electoral college votes. And look at the national numbers. Were going to win this race with a clear majority with the nation behind us. Weve gotten over 74 million votes. Let me repeat that. 74 million votes. Reporter biden did not claim victory, but his remarks came at the end of a day that began with him taking over the lead in pennsylvania and georgia. Flanked by his running mate, senator kamala harris, biden gave a preview of what his administrations priorities would be. We have Serious Problems to deal with from covid to the economy to Racial Justice to climate change. We dont have any more time to waste. Reporter and he called for an end to what he called partisan warfare. The purpose of our politics, the work of the nation isnt to fan the flames of conflict but to solve problems. Reporter before those remarks, aides had planned for biden to deliver a primetime speech, but that was only if the race had been called. Delaware senator chris coons told reporters he thinks pennsylvania could be called as early as today which would be enough to put the former Vice President over the top. Dana . We are all anxiously waiting. The Trump Campaign says the election is not over, and is vowing to fight on with legal challenges to the vote counts. In a tweet last night, mr. Trump wondered if bidens leads would reverse as the president s lawsuits move forward. Ben tracy is at the white house with the latest. Good morning. Good morning. Cbs news learned the president is angry and disappointed that some of his republican allies are not defending him more. But here at the white house, he continues to tell his top aides that hes going to fight on and not concede. President trump out of sight friday, inside the white house where the mood is somber. One aide telling cbs news the end is near. Last night the president fired a warning shot on twitter saying joe biden should not wrongfully claim the office of president. I could make that claim also. Legal proceedings are just now beginning. While his supporters are gathering outside ballot counting centers, the president s team scrambles to foo find a coherent legal strategy. Lawsuits filed in michigan, georgia and nevada have already been dismissed and the recounts the campaign plans to request in wisconsin and georgia are unlikely to change the result. So team trump is focused on pennsylvania trying to get ballots received within a threeday window after election day tossed out. Philadelphias mayor is fed up with the legal assault. What the president needs to do is, frankly, put his big boy pants on. He needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and congratulate the winner. But the president has told his aides he has no plans to concede to joe biden. Theres tremendous corruption and fraud going on. Reporter instead, without evidence, he continues to allege fraud. Some of his fellow republicans are not convinced. There is simply no evidence that anybody has shown me or anyone else im aware of any kind of widespread corruption or fraud. Reporter republican senator ben sasse of nebraska said in a pointed statement voter fraud is poisoned to selfgovernment so these are major allegations. If the president s legal team has real evidence, they need to present it immediately. Reporter an outside adviser to President Trump says despite the campaigns legal fight, the president is resigned to the fact that he may lose. They say he understands the math simply may not be there for him. Michelle . And the count continues. Ben, thank you. With 20 electoral votes at stake, pennsylvania is key to both candidates chances of winning. President trump cannot be reelected without winning it, and joe biden can win the election with a victory in the keystone state. This morning, the former Vice President holds a nearly 29,000vote edge over President Trump, but with tens of thousands of ballots still to be counted, we are awaiting more of the count later today. Jericka duncan is in philadelphia. Good morning. Good morning to you, michelle. Right now we just checked here in the state. About 89,000 votes that still need to be counted. All of that important work, at least for the philadelphia area, is happening right here behind me inside the Pennsylvania Convention center. Now last night, we noticed there were a number of demonstrations going into their second day of people outside. There were Trump Supporters calling for a recount already while a larger crowd just feet away calling for every vote to be counted. A very heavy Police Presence there. But again the big story is these election workers still doing that important work as we speak. In fact, here in philadelphia, they have been working around the clock. After counting the remaining ballots, there are still provisional ballots. And overseas military ballots to consider. Last night Justice Samuel alito issued an order reminding the secretary of state here that those votes that received between november 3rd and 6th still need to be segregated. This is important because we know the Trump Campaign has presented some issues and concerns about those ballots. They have been approved by the Supreme Court, though, upholding a lower decision to count those ballots as part of the final result. But again, right now here in the state of pennsylvania, over 89,000 ballots that still need to be counted based on the states website which was updated late last night. Jeff . Jericka, thank you. Other states still counting this morning is georgia. Where 16 electoral votes are up for grabs. The former Vice President leads President Trump by about 7,000 votes in georgia right now. With the margins razor thin and with neither candidate hitting the necessary 50 of the vote there will likely be a recount. Georgia voters will also be casting ballots in january as both of the States Senate race goes to a runoff. That outcome will likely determine which Party Controls the senate. The vote count continues in two southwestern states where a combined 17 electoral votes are up for grabs. Joe biden is leading President Trump by about 22,000 votes or nearly 2 Percentage Points in nevada. He is also holding a slight edge in arizona. It could be the First Time Since 1996 that the grand canyon state is won by a democrat. A win for biden in both states would give him exactly 270 electoral votes, enough to win the presidency. Jamie yuccas is in phoenix with more. Good morning. Good morning, dana. In the next four hours, we should have a clearer picture of how the president ial race will stand in arizona. Thats when the first of two ballot dumps is expected to come in today. About 92,000 total ballots are left to be counted here in Maricopa County and 172,000 throughout the state. President trump needs to get more than about 57 of those votes to catch up to the former Vice President. So its tight here. Election workers are hoping to finish up counting today, and its been a long election for those staffers. Let me tell you. They began processing early ballots october 20th. Tensions are running high outside the Maricopa CountyElections Office as well. For several days, President Trump supporters, many of them armed, have been holding rallies outside the Election Center here chanting stop the steal. And we only want legal votes counted. And while it may seem like its taking a really long time to count these votes, officials tell me they are on track to complete their fastest count ever with the most votes theyve ever received. Jeff . Thank you. For more on the president s legal pathways forward, were joined by election law expert david becker, founder of the center for election innovation and cbs news contributor. He joins us from washington. Good morning. Lets talk big picture here. As far as youre concerned, do any of the legal challenges youve seen have merit . I havent seen anything that has any merit. Theres not many facts that to back up these baseless claims of fraud or other things. One thing to be clear about. What were seeing in states like pennsylvania, georgia, arizona is just the normal, very transparent process of counting valid ballots. And in all of those cases, the only votes were seeing so far that have been reported are ballots that were received on or before election day. So even the ballots in pennsylvania that the president has made some issue of that might be received in the three days after election day, those have been segregated. They havent been counted yet. All of the counts everyone is seeing are valid ballots collected at by election day in those states. David, you said valid ballots. Weve heard a lot of people say legal votes versus the illegal votes. What is a legal vote . A legal vote is the same as a valid ballot. Its a ballot cast by an eligible voter. And all of these ballots are legal votes. Im not quite sure where the semantic word games are coming from. But every ballot being counted in pennsylvania, georgia, arizona and by the way, ballot counting is going on all over the country still. Theres only one state that i know that has actually certified official results. So there are theres counting going on. The most ballots left to be counted in the country are in the state of california but were not paying as much attention to it because california has been called in the presidency. Weve heard a lot from various secretaries of states throughout the country. What is their role going to be in this process . Well, their role is going to be what its always been. They are faithful enforcers of state law with regard to elections. And it doesnt matter whether they are democrats like in pennsylvania and arizona or republicans like in georgia and nevada. They are doing an amazing job working with all of their local and county Election Officials to make sure that the ballots that have been validly cast, legally cast are being counted appropriately. And to be perfectly honest, lets think about this. Weve got almost 150 million ballots being cast right now. To be able to count all of those ballots, it seems like its taking a long time. When we have a million volunteers working around the clock. Were doing an amazing job of counting all these ballots as quickly as we can in such a close election. David, a lot of people are seeing a repeat here of 2000 when the Supreme Court intervened, made the decision on the 500vote count and decided in favor of george w. Bush. How likely is the Supreme Court to stepping into this one . In 2000 what we had is one state that was deciding the presidency. And the margin in that state was just a few hundred votes. And the legal teams from both candidates went down and akimulated facts over weeks and worked that out in court. We have a very different situation this year. We have multiple states that are relatively close but not as close as 2000. Theyre all in the thousands of votes. We never see recounts overturn statewide elections of multiple thousands of vote margins. That just doesnt happen in american history. You might find a few hundred votes. Its very unlukely the courts will find a way to interfere in this leks or make a ruling that would change the outcome. I dont believe they are looking to. The courts want this democratic process to work its way out and for the voters to have their voice. How long do you think that might take . That depends. I am cautiously optimistic well have a call on this race some time this weekend. I think then, of course, the states officially certify results. There may be recounts in states like georgia, maybe wisconsin, although i dont think theyll overturn the results were seeing now. And then the Electoral College meets in middecember and well have a final decision. David becker, thank you. Breaking overnight, a key member of President Trumps team has tested positive for the coronavirus. Its not clear when white house chief of staff mark meadows became infected. He has appeared in close contact with mr. Trump in recent days and was last seen wednesday not wearing a mask when the president visited his campaign headquarters. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is stepping up National Guard presence at his states airports. The guard will be enforcing a requirement for travelers to new york to get a coronavirus test before and after they arrive, if they want to avoid a 14day quarantine. It comes as the u. S. Sets a record for new covid19 infections for a Third Straight day. Friday saw more than 126,000 new cases reported. 9. 7 Million People have been infected. More than 236,000 have died. Tom hanson reports on the growing concerns of this surge in cases. Reporter a massive wave of covid19 continues to wash over america with hot spots now stretching from the heartland into the west. Im not going to mince any words here when it comes to the spread of the coronavirus. Were on a very dangerous path. Reporter denver mayor Michael Hancock says hospitalizations in his city have jumped 40 i