Court to try to overturn election results. Thats where we begin tonight on kron 4 news at 5 oclock im ken wayne and im pam moore right now the election is still too close to call according to the Associated Press democratic candidate joe biden has 264 electoral votes President Trump has to 14 the number to secure the white house is 2 7000s of thousands of votes still have to be counted in as they come in were keeping an eye on the. Ever changing electoral map we share or kron fours grant lotus has been tracking the numbers since election day on tuesday, he joins us now with latest grant pam ken, the colors are changing much but the numbers are and you know incrementally ever so slowly. Youre seeing trends develop into night, everyones eyes or on georgia traditionally a reliable republican stronghold, but this year with this election style so many absentee ballots georgia is in the cross hairs right now it light red the associated broadcast partners have not called and that is why it is not a dark shade of red, but ill click on georgia and well zoom and and here is where things stand it really couldnt be closer 16 electoral votes at stake, obviously if biden were to win georgia. He would win the presidency he would be president elect right now you see donald trump is clinging to an ever shrinking lead. Joe biden right on his heels down to about 3,000 votes separating the 2, heres another key number. 99 of the vote has been counted so theyre almost there theyre almost at the finish line. But theyre still counting votes and biden has just been calling back calling back if you go back to election night. At midnight, 372,000 votes. That was trump sleet. Last night at about this time. It was down to the 23,025 1000 range. So the trend is clear biden is gaining ground on trump can trump hold on. In georgia, we may know tonight they may finish counting georgia tonight, another big state that everyone is looking at pennsylvania. Same trend as in georgia will click on pennsylvania, a key battleground state one of the states that won it for trump in 2016. Both candidates focus time and money relentlessly on this key state donald trump. Still has a lead, but it is getting smaller. Now down to 64,000 and change. And this is whats key here. Theyre not even close to being done 89 of the vote counted. In pennsylvania. And biden has flip some counties erie county which trump won in 2016 areas, north up heres pittsburgh, heres erie. Its now blue trump won that trump went to erie within the past week and a half told the crowd at a rally. I didnt think id have to come back to erie. But here i am trump knew how type pennsylvania would be and he really focus on pa. We dont know can he hold out. Thats the big question we dont know when the final votes will be counted in pennsylvania. There have been rumblings that might be tomorrow could be saturday could be tonight. Thats the grand question in all of this nevada 6 Electoral College votes that would propelled by dunn from to 64. To 2. 70 that little that little bit he needs but nevada i mean they kill things for a living in nevada, but for whatever reason they cant count votes that and i look back on it biden still has a lead in nevada. And his lead actually has increased from last night it was at 8,000 votes last night and you see here its up to about 12,000. So we dont know whats going to happen with nevada and the intel. Theyre suggests with 84 of the vote counted. They were not going to know maybe until saturday, maybe longer if you get your ballot in the mail postmarked by election day. They have to count it up to a certain point so well see how that trends in nevada worth noting here arizona is dark blue are partners with the Associated Press called that for biden as did fox news which when it comes to calling president ial races, fox news has a pretty stellar reputation political also has gone on record calling arizona for biden but the other networks have not saying its too close to call. So while arizona is blue. On this map and ill zoom in there show you whats going on in nevada, theyre still counting in arizona and there were protests last night outside the Elections Office in Maricopa County which is where phoenix is it was a a scene that got pretty unruly at one point biden here is Still Holding on. But heres where the margin is somewhere around 57,000 votes that biden leads trump by and 90 of the vote has been counted. In nevada. So thats where things stand i wish i had more concrete news. But the whole country wants a winner, but everyone is preaching patience. I dont theres any other state you guys want me investigate why were the bottom line though is if any of these states come through for joe biden he pretty much winds. It. Provided he holds on to arizona right. If he if he gets nevada thats the 60 needs to get to 70 hold arizona, you dont have to worry about that if you get georgia where hes only 3,000 votes behind and in georgia. They have 18,000 votes left to count. Thats not a big number. But the trend has been overwhelmingly in bidens favors theyve counted these absentee ballots and the flip side is President Trump needs pennsylvania and more than that for sure and this is north carolina. We should mention another pink state trump looks to be in good position their team biden is not really focused on that team biden would love to just take georgia tonight not have to worry about nevada and all of their ballot counting regular all rules and isnt this thing this evening assuming. Arizona state is theres a yeah all right well keep checking here all right. Thank you grant and all eyes as grant said mainly on 4 states where the final tallies will decide the fate of the white house or washington dc reporter Raquel Martin has been following the historic battle raqusl. Are we any closer we just looked at the map here from the perspective in washington any closer to having the same decided. But certainly we are hearing from state Election Officials who slowly but surely getting those mail ballots counted now some of them are saying we could hear from them tonight, but its likely this could stretch out till tomorrow or until the end of the week now in the meantime we are hearing 2 different messages from these campaigns. Well joe biden is telling the nation to be patient. He is saying that he believes he has a road to victory now President Trump also is saying the same thing but right now hes lashing out and hes not going down without a fight. Each ballot must be counted and thats how it should be joe biden again this afternoon stopped short of claiming victory and urged americans to remain calm. We have no doubt and when the count is surely senator harris and i will be declared the winners but in a hastily called press conference this evening, the president sounded increasingly impatient has been a lot of shenanigans and we cant stand for that in our country lawyers for the president s campaign have been filing lawsuits to stop the vote count in battleground states as the counting of the remaining mostly male in absentee ballots chip away at the president s lead in pennsylvania and georgia if you count the legal votes. I easily win. If you count the illegal votes. They can try to steal. The election from us the president s campaign claims state Election Officials are not being transparent about their cows and counting ballots that should be disqualified there is nothing nefarious going on all the states are doing is counting. Legally cast vote caution. Berman, a law professor at George WashingtonUniversity Says the president s lawsuits are unlikely to succeed already judges in georgia and michigan have dismissed some of the trump campaigns legal challenges. Now we heard from the president moments ago and hes definitely doubling down on these claims now its important to note that while the president did make accusations that democrats were somehow trying to steal the election in these last 2 states he did not provide much evidence nonetheless this could stretch out in the court which could delay a projected winner in a concession from the president for some time. For now in washington Raquel Martin back to you. If youre a kale. Battleground states arent the only ones still counting ballots ballots rather still happening right here in the bay area in the south bay, the numbers are expected to add up to a new record for voter turnout and rob fladeboe up from here one of our reporters here kron 4 has that story live now from san jose rob. Thats right. Pam and ken officials here at the Registrars Office in san jose expect the current voter turnout record of 86 to be broken. But they first have to count all the ballots and theyre still coming in a whole lot of them. Lets take a closer look. Ballots are still pouring into the Santa Clara CountyRegistrars Office in san jose. Just under a 1 million 20 thousand ballots were mailed out to voters roughly 786,000 were received on election night. Since then however, thousands more ballots have arrived from last minute absentee unconditional voters definitely counting its we had over 786,000 ballots that have already come to our office. And theres a process to check the signatures to separated by precinct to open in flattened. We have a lot of people here today helping us with that process voters on tuesday broke the record for the number of ballots cast in 2016 president ial election. When 724,596 people voted. But as the opening folding flattening in defending getting of the still arriving ballots continues. The next record almost sure to fall is overall voter turnout the Current Record for that is 86 set in 2008 and the record voter turnout is the number of ballots that we receive counted. Divided by the registration. That was received by the close of registration which was on october 19th that was a 1 million 19 thousand voters though a 1 million 19 thousand divided by however many ballots we get in here that determines or turn out right now were at about 78 fortunately there are no key races hanging in the balance, but every late arriving ballot, including those lacking a signature or proper postmark or other flaws must be evaluated and either rejected or counted. The register has 17 days to finish the count and certify the record setting election. I think a lot of people just want to involved in the process or lot of new voters. There are a lot of Different Things at different factors people could they register they can register vote centers. They can register here even past the deadline just to make sure they got their voice they have their voice heard i think it was important to a lot of indeed it the Registrars Office says that when all of the votes are they expect that the voter turnout here could be as high as 90 live in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 does rob, thank you our election coverage continues on our website kron 4 dot com there you can find updates in real time on the president ial race. As well as all of the local and state measures just look for your election headquarters section. Under the news tab. Coming up on kron 4 news at 5 potentially a major step in the race for a covid19 vaccine. What were learning about possible results by the end of the year plus the election may almost be over but the pandemic is still sticking around at 5. 30 what experts say the next president needs to do to take control of coronavirus and with covid19 on the rise around the country, some travelers may be asked to quarantine once they arrive in the bay area. Those details next. And now to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic according to Johns Hopkins university, the United States recorded nearly 103,000 new cases yesterday has the largest number of single day cases in any country since the pandemic began 16 states also set new records for hospitalizations and the increase in numbers is not just because of more testing. The researchers at Johns Hopkins say that while new cases have increased 21 over the past week testing has increased only by less than 5 local Health Officers are said to be considering asking bay area residents who travel to covid hot spots over the holidays. To quarantine or get tested upon their return. The idea is to try to make sure covid cases dont spike here in the bay area on firstand kerman live for us in the city for. An update on all of this stand. Ill get up and basically the idea is San Francisco and the rest of the bay area doing so well compared to so many other places not only in the state. But in the nation these places want to maintain those low numbers of covid19 how to do it. Well, this is one idea thats being floated. Bay Area Health Authorities are discussing whether to require or recommend. That those who travel to covid hot spots over the holidays quarantine or get tested when they returned to the bay area. The former in county is something that we are looking at very closely again because we have achieved these great gains in that year framework weve been able to further reopen our economy we dont want to lose that progress especially as we go into december and january in San Francisco residents seem to support the idea. I think its a great idea i mean they are in the middle of a pandemic and we have to do everything we can to try to control or the spread within their communities, everybody should do their part to try and keep cases low as much as possible i think its actually a good thing since. We done so well in San Francisco, lets lets keep it going Health Experts say theres a very real concerns surrounding Holiday Travel. You can imagine. Yet 2 kids coming home from college and bringing grandma home from the graham over for a long weekend to you know for thanksgiving, how just how tough bad that could go so quick click. Ucsf or allah g professor doctor George Rutherford says mandating quarantines and testing would be difficult especially for a handful of counties. But he thinks those coming to the bay area from covid hot spots should consider voluntarily quarantining in testing. He says the bay area has a lot riding on it. Relative to other parts of the state were doing well. Certainly relative other parts of the country were doing really well. And Health Experts say the bottom line is the best advice about Holiday Travel is dont do it. Live in San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news. Thank you dan. People who live in areas with heavy air pollution are more likely to die after contracting the coronavirus and thats what a new harvard study is finding. Researchers say that small increases of pollution in just one miligram increases mortality rates by 11 . The study also collected data in the u. S. But Scientists Say the findings could help other countries determine how to handle the virus in hotspot areas of potential major step in the development of a covid19 vaccine. The chief of the oxford vaccine trial says. He is optimistic the late stage trial results could be ready as early as next month. During a Government Committee hearing today chief investigator Andrew Pollard said it is a small chance and stressed the data will still need to be reviewed by regulators before the vaccine can be distributed. The oxford vaccine is expected to be one of the first to be submitted for regulatory approval. Denmark, the Worlds Largest provider of make firs plans to use denies all makes in the country to help stop the spread of coronavirus the countrys Prime Minister says the decision had been made with a quote heavy heart but its necessary. Officials say the virus has mutated in makes and the mutated virus is spread to humans. So far 5 cases of the virus have been found in mink farms and 12 cases in humans. There are between 50 million and 17 million makes in denmark. But thats a tough story. All right were going to shift gears a little bit check on our local weather kron 4 meteorologist rebecca strong joins us now with a look ahead rebecca. Ken and pam well, big changes in the Weather Center that were going to be seeing over the next couple of days, but right now outside looks a pretty nice or live camera overlooking a San FranciscoInternational Airport were seeing mostly clear conditions. A lot of sunshine and our temperatures today well above average. What weve seen over the last couple of weeks as a matter of fact so as we take a look at temperatures outside were going to see a mainly in the 70s as we get to around the bay 71 degrees in hayward looking at 73 in fremont right now 66 in palo alto but still a pretty toasty inland as we move into conquered at 80 degrees so well above seasonal averages right now of course of being at the beginning of november of course but were going to see big changes though as we get into tomorrow. Satellite and radar shows see a dry conditions around the bay area but that is set to change all the activity for now is to the far north of in oregon and in washington. But we are monitoring a system coming out of the gulf of alaska thats going to be bringing a really heavy a cold front to us and were going to see temperatures drop anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees. So definitely chilly and we might be seeing some showers over the next couple of days in we could see some scattered showers as early as tomorrow afternoon as we get closer towards the north bay and then finally spreading into the south bay. So definitely want to get your umbrellas handy because we can definitely some rainfall in the forecast and also the temperatures tomorrow were going to see thi