Needs to close the deal. Lets go to a key race alert. Lets start off in the key battleground state of pennsylvania, which were watching closely right now. 20 electoral votes, joe biden is ahead by 28,833 votes. He has 49. 6 to 49. 1 for donald trump. 96 of the estimated vote is in. Were also watching georgia, where 99 of the estimated vote is in. Bidens lead has jumped up to 7,248. He has 49. 4 , jump was 49. 3 . In arizona, which has 11 electoral votes, bidens lead is close to 30,000, 29,861, 49. 6 to 48. 6 in nevada. Six electoral votes. Biden maintains a steady lead, 22,675, 49. 8 to 48 , 93 of the estimated vote in nevada is in. Lets walk over to john king, who is watching this as closely as anyone on earth right now. Its getting closer and closer. Good morning. How are you doing . Day five, so you say, why is it taking so long . Day five could very well be the decisive day. Why is that . Heres the national map. Joe biden building an impressive lead in the popular vote. Thats a moral victory, an important victory for the Democratic Party. What joe biden needs, as you noted, is just to get over the top. 253 electoral votes. We have not changed that in two days. But today we do know pennsylvania, wolf noted 28,833. When you see both candidates above 3. 1 million votes, it does not seem like a big lead but we have fewer ballots left to count. Were waiting to see if we get another installment out of philadelphia. Philadelphia and the suburbs still have a modest amount of ballots, but theyre counting them. Heres the question. We know in the mailin ballots, joe biden has been running up impressive ballots. There are also provisional ballots, but will it watch up or will President Trump make up ground . Not likely. We expect votes any time later this morning. Another big important allocation of votes, theyve been counting votes in Allegheny County. Late last night before we left we got votes from here and, again, joe biden overwhelmingly winning these late ballots. We want to watch a few more installments. Its a giant state, more than 6. 6 million votes when you added them all up. You see 28,000 and you want a little more evidence that the trajectory is solid. We could get that within minutes, but certainly within hours. I just want to bring this up. Georgia, the secretary of state said yesterday, most likely to head into a recount. 7,248 votes in a state that is 49. 4 to 49. 3. Thats actually quite significant. The biden lead grew by nearly 3,000 votes overnight and a recount lawyer will tell you, in a recount, every now and then 100 votes or so change, but if youre at 7,200 now, its significant and it makes it much less likely there would be any change. Sometimes theres human error writing something down, its not about anything nefarious. But that lead is pretty solid. Theres a lot of impatience in the country. We get that, we share it. But theyre trying to count votes. You move out to arizona, theyre still counting votes, 29,861 vote lead. This is the one state in pennsylvania when they count votes, joe biden expands his lead. In georgia, joe biden expands his lead. Out in the west the president has made some gains. Sometimes biden does, sometimes the president does. The president has made gains here. Hes cut into a lead that was larger. And then nevada, we expect in a couple of hours more results. You see how close it is, 22,657 statewide. We expect more. This is the decisive county. More than 70 of the vote, as much as 75 of the vote in nevada will come from clark county. If youve been with us the last five days, we are potentially at that decisive moment. If we get votes out of pennsylvania that confirm bidens lead continues to grow, thats enough right there. 273 would make joe biden not the democratic nominee anymore, that would make him president e elect. And then he has the potential, well count for the rest of the day but we may well know by the end of the day. That would match the president s total from four years ago. This one here is the one that matters most right here. 20 electoral votes. Its the largest prize on the board. If you come over here and you just zoom in, thats what were waiting for. Every vote matters in every state across the country. This is the state that any moment could put joe biden over the top. Lets check in with todd brian. I understand votes are about to come in where you are . Reporter wolf, we expect another batch to come within the next couple of hours. Theyre not really giving us a timeline. They just started counting a little over an hour ago here. Ill move to the side and well take you into where the ballot counters are working. Theyre working on those 29,000 misprinted ballots that came in that they had to correct and mail out back again to voters with the correct information on them. So those came in a little late. So theyre working on those. We are told by rich fitzgerald, the executive of Allegheny County, theyve got about 20,000 more of those to go through of the 29,000. Thats what were doing right now. Theyve been at this pretty much all morning. The observers are here in the foreground. These, according to rich fitzgerald, these ballots will take longer to get through because they have to open the envelopes and check to see if the ballot in question is maybe a duplicate or not. They have to go through other things on the ballot to make sure its the correct ballots. The initial ballots that were mailed out had Bad Information on them. They had some candidates that were mailed to voters, some candidates that were not really running for office in those districts, so they couldnt vote for those people. But they could vote legitimately for the president. So some of those ballots, they have to check to make sure the votes they cast were for the president and not for the incorrect candidates downballot. Thats one of the issues theyre checking to see, if the vote coming in is kelk filled out. Well get additional votes in the next few hours. How many outstanding ballots are there in Allegheny County where you are around pittsburgh, and are they all mailin ballots . Reporter yes, just about all of them are mailin ballots. There are at least 20,000 outstanding ballots in Allegheny County that they have left to count. They said it might take into the weekend. But we hope to get a significant amount of them back within the next couple of hours. Maybe not all of them, because theyve been giving them to us in just small batches of a few thousand here or there. So we expect that will probably happen today. By the end of the day we hope to get a pretty significant amount of those vote counts in. Well get back to you. Thank you. 20,000 ballots in Allegheny County, you can see its a pretty blue county around pittsburgh. Were going to get those inspects i suspect fairly soon. Almost all of them mailin ballots and we know that biden does really well, trump does not do as well with mailin ballots. You see the overall percentage, 59 to 39. Thats Allegheny County, pittsburgh and the suburbs around it. The president does pretty well in western pennsylvania, the city of pittsburgh itself, blue color, labor unions backed biden. What we have seen consistently is in this county and statewide, you see the president at 39 here in Allegheny County, you see him at 49 when you go statewide. Look, you see all the red. The president has strong support in pennsylvania. What we have seen consistently over now, the past three days, when they count the mailin ballots, joe biden routinely disproportionately, his total statewide is 50. Hell get 60 , 70 , sometimes 80 . Last night when they were bringing us votes, joe biden was consistently above 60 and 70 . Why . Democrats voted by mail in this unprecedented pandemic election. And republicans tended to turn out much more on election day. So what is left to count tells you we know it favors biden because thats how democrats voted. Not just in pennsylvania, but across america. When you have more than 6. 6 million cast, what were looking for is just proof that this trajectory, slow build continues. Because it will be a nary victory. For anyone out there saying wow, the president carried the state by 40,000 votes. The president got more votes this time than he did last time. The democrats have done a better job and theyre inching up to the finish line. Brian says those could come any minute. We also know, as i said, right here, if you look at the size of pennsylvania, you think this is the tiny southeast corner, this is the Population Center. Democrats to run it up here. If you go through the counties, you start first in the city of sorry about that, i went across the line. You start in the city of pennsylvania, look at that, 81 . In the mailin ballots its been higher than that. Bucks counties is the more competitive of the counties, but in the mailin ballots, joe biden has been well ahead. Well have a couple hundred here, a couple thousand there. Theyre going to start to come in this morning. Joe biden inching closer to a decisive moment. This would be fitting for joe biden, it would be poetic in some ways. He was born in the state, number one, and number two, when he announced his candidacy, he said his mission, he believed he was the strongest democrat to take pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin back. And retain minnesota as well. Kate bolduan is in philadelphia for us watching all of this unfold. What are you hearing about philadelphia . Thats the largest batch of votes potentially out there. Reporter thats exactly right and we have just received an update on timing. We just got an update on timing and amount. We are told by sources that we should expect between 2,000 and 3,000 votes to be counted and updated to the system soon. One source telling us by noon, another source saying it could be more like early afternoon. As we have seen throughout this process, the timing of uploading and finalizing getting these votes into the system and counted, the timing can slip. There are a lot of factors that go into getting it from the beginning to the end, and so the timing can slip. But importantly, especially on this day with 20,000 mailin votes left outstanding here in philadelphia, at least the first update of the day will be coming soon. 2,000 to 3,000 is what were told by sources. One source saying by noon eastern, another saying it could be early afternoon. And this very possibly is not the final update from the day. We know theyre getting through these ballots, theyre beginning that review process that is a slower, more laborintensive process. But theyre definitely up and running now. Thanks very much, kate. Lets talk about that in philadelphia right now. In philadelphia you see how biden has 80. 8 , trump was 18. 3 . Potentially if these mailin ballots come in in philadelphia, he might wind up, biden, getting 70 , 80 , maybe 85 of those ballots. Youre exactly right because he has consistently exceeded the numbers in any county, even in the red counties where President Trump is winning. You look at joe bidens number and they count the mailin ballots. With one or two exceptions, as weve gone through this dozens of times, joe biden exceeds that number or matches it. We have had reports, installments of votes come in where hes getting 87 and higher. Thats the key point. Kate bolduan just mentioned 20,000 outstanding here in the city of philadelphia. Number one Population Center in the state. Theres 20,000 now. You get 2,000 to 3,000 of those, so its 10 or more, maybe, of what they have left. Democrats are asking why havent you called this case . Its 3. 3 million votes. You think about a universe of roughly 100,000 left. If joe biden gets above 30,000, then you feel more comfortable because youve seen in the western part of the state and an installment in the eastern part of the state, joe biden getting 80 of those votes. At some point the trajectory gets you past any probability that the president of the United States is going to come back. For those who say youre already at that point, the president is attacking this process. We have our own rules, our own process, but especially when the process is under attack, sticking to the rules, using your Building Blocks, methodically getting to the finish line and being cautious is a great way to do it. If they start bringing in more votes, we will know the outcome in pennsylvania perhaps sometime today. We completely get the frustration and anticipation out there. Its just important to have rules and not bend them, especially at a time, the integrity of the system is being unfairly attacked by the candidate, who, if he loses this state is a oneterm president. Were bracing for more numbers coming in fairly soon. Lets check in with jake to see what else is going on. Hello, world. Were back again, day five of Election Night in america and we do think that there will be some resolution today. We do think that there will be some indication of what the future will bring for the United States. As you note there, you see on the side of the screen there are four states, the margins in georgia are Getting Better for biden, the margin in nevada is Getting Better for biden, the margin in pennsylvania is Getting Better for biden. And in arizona, actually, its gotten a little bit worse for biden, a little bit better for President Trump. Lets check in with the campaigns. Jeff zeleny is covering the Biden Campaign. Hes in wilmington, delaware. A lot of impatient democrats, understandably so. How is former Vice President joe biden doing . Reporter im told that joe biden is actually very patient. Hes very calm, much more so than some of his supporters and donors and others who are growing impatient about this. But i am told that the former Vice President is looking forward, he believes that victory is at hand and he believes and his advisers believe it will happen at some point during the coming hours or sometime today. But he is looking forward, specifically focusing on the challenges ahead of coronavirus. He is going to move forward through his transition, im told hes not going to be deciding on any members of the cabinet for a few weeks, but he will be focusing on coronavirus. Look for some type of announcement on that to come in the very soon hours or days after he declares victory, which he expects to do at some point. And it is because of these rising challenges, the rising numbers. Weve been talking about election numbers and hes been getting briefings every day, sometimes a few times a day on the rising cases of coronavirus. Im told hes going to put in place some type of the biden covid19 task force like the one weve seen in the white house, which we have not seen for days and weeks. That is what his focus is on, even as democrats around him are waiting for the victory speech. The stage, you can see its still set up behind me here. It is the anticipation that they would still use it for some type of a victory speech, but as this goes on further the reality and the challenges here are the important moments. So do these fireworks still seem appropriate, given the deaths and coronavirus cases . That is something that the biden team is talking about, that the transition, even though its not being talked about, is well under way behindthescenes. If, in fact, he wins, he will have a lot of work to do, especially when it comes to rebuilding the economy and trying to contain the coronavirus. Thank you for the update. Lets go to the white house, where we find jim acosta who has been covering the Trump White House and Trump Campaign. There has been this mad scramble by trump and his supporters to try to find evidence, try to find any reason why the ballots and the vote counting should be questioned. I have not seen anything. Have they found anything, even remotely credible, yet . O reporter not yet and i just spoke with a trump adviser just a short while ago. As the president is tweeting unfounded rumors and accusations, a pretty stunning admission who is saying we have found nothing concrete in terms of allegations of voter fraud. I think that is significant, because as the president is saying these things publicly, there are people inside the campaign, inside trump world, republicans up on capitol hill, republican operatives that i speak with, they are all telling me the same thing, that the president is making baseless allegations about voter fraud that at this point simply dont exist. So even though the president is flailing at this point and wanting this thing to be dragged out, it doesnt sound like they have anything in terms of hard evidence that would hold up in any kind of courtroom or anywhere, for that matter. And so this is just the president , i think, at the end of the game trying to cry foul and complain about the refs and officials as long as possible. We should point out just a short while ago he did leave in his mote moteer cade from the white house. We expect theyre heading to the golf course and i suspect there will be officials who can be relieved if they can separate him from his smartphone for a brief period of time. Obviously, there are people inside the campaign who feel like hes making matters worse. On top of all of that, we should point out this white house is once again looking like a hot zone for the coronavirus. More cases of the coronavirus were discovered overnight, including the chief of staff, mark meadows. Thats Something Else that were tracking over here in addition to, you know, what is going to happen with the resolution of this election, is whether or not its even safe to work inside the white house, which is sort of an incredible commentary on where they are right now. This would be Something Like the third or fourth outbreak in the white house of the coronavirus. Theyre not exactly sticklers when it comes to Wearing Masks. I think its fair to say. Jim acosta, thank you very much. Were going to come back to you as matters develop. Its sad to see the president tweeting these lies, one after the other after the other, but at this point, frankly, its almost irrelevant. Were at the point now where one of these states, data is going to come in and were going to be able to call it and theres not one of those states trending red right now. Right, i agree. The only thing that is relevan