Way of delaware elected president elect of these United States. Right now our map having called nevada in the last few hours, our map has him at 279 electoral votes to the incumbent president s 214 electoral votes. If you have been watching a live followon coverage following the big news of this morning and today you know that americans are flooding into the streets. They are flooding into the area near lafayette park, black lives matter plaza in washington, d. C. Lets stop there first. Our correspondent garrett haake, this is different i imagine than your last visit which featured pepper spray in the air. Reporter yeah. Brian, this is the polar opinion sit of that experience here. As my photographer putt it i havent seen this many happy people all in one place in a very long time and that certainly wasnt the case five months ago. These are all students from johns hop conditions in baltimore. They saw the news, got on a train and came down here. Why did you want to be here so badly for this . If i look back on this moment ten years from now i wouldnt be able to live with myself. You have your Kamala Harris shirt on. Whoo reporter what does her ascension as Vice President elect mean to you . Everything it means literally everything. She is the first woman of color Vice President. She literally is going to change the future of our country whoo reporter brian, this speaks to it. It is unfiltered joy out here. We are in the middle of a concert here. We have been cheering here. Very little mention of the current occupant of the building far behind me. This is a forward looking, joyous event and a street thats seen so much history already this year, brian. Garrett, how far back does the crowd go . I think for all the wrong reasons my audience had a lesson in the confines of the white house and the border around the white house has really been almost militarized and quietly so over the last couple of months. Reporter yeah. Oddly enough, the structure looks the same with the nonscale fence here. Long time viewers may recognize the building in that direction, the building we talked about one night when it was on fire during the protests here in d. C. But, tony, if you can swing back the other way, her looking down h street past 16th street down to 17th street in the far distance is absolutely packed. And where i can see but the camera cannot i can tell you there are there is quite the crowd. Really going in several directions here. Every direction north, west and east of the white house for several blocks is packed. Frankly, even driving down here hours ago, its like theyre taking attendance. Everyone in d. C. Wants to pass through this, to be part of this moment at least for a moment. All right. Ga garrett haake, keep coming back to us. The president loves a discussion of crowd size and that certainly is a crowd the likes of which he can hear from the residence after coming back from golf at his nearby golf resort in virginia. Aly vitali is standing by for us outside biden headquarters in w wilmington. Tell me about the mood, tell me about the campaign and now transition, staffers you have spoken to and today kind of proves their adage of slow and steady wins the race. Reporter yeah. That was their adage the few days between Election Night and today. When we heard this race called there was sort of a collective exhale from the biden staffers here in delaware who had been waiting to see the Networks Call it. They knew they had it using words like imminent but the timing on this was so up in the air that finally seeing the Networks Call it all of the irritability to wait was replaced with jubilation and the mood is outside of this packing lot right now in delaware. I was just out there talking with supporters, also spontaneously showing up to be part of this moment and so joe biden and Kamala Harris set to speak in the parking lot that we have basically been living in for a few days and nights, theyll finally take the stage here once the sun sets, see a light show, potentially fireworks but this is an event thats had some stop and then start to it as the campaign has seen some moments when they thought they might clinch this race and then finally having it happen today. As you get into the transition, because thats where we are right now, the biden team is going to hit the ground running on big issues like the coronavirus. I know that we are focused on the election, people are out celebrating in the streets right now but cases are still spiking. This is an issue that biden himself ran on for several weeks and putting together the transition were reporting that they will have a 12member coronavirus team. They will have it led by dr. Murthic and where they begin this process because this was the key issue. You get out on the road, talk to anyone, the reminders are everyone, everyone is Wearing Masks. This crisis is hitting home. Joe biden now going to be in a position he knows well from being on the campaign trail, a nation dealing with hundreds of thousands of deaths from this virus and who better than the man who showed his empathy at every turn on the campaign trail to lead this nation just through this pandemic as he promised he would throughout this campaign. Thank you for raising that because its the unmentioned part of the pictures we keep showing from cities across the country and that is we are at the height of an uncontrolled pandemic in our country. Most of the s we have seen come out have been Wearing Masks and sharpeared viewers heard the train whistle behind her symbolic of the way joe biden commuted for so many years from wil mng on the, delaware, which is now temporarily the center of power. We have seen it from los angeles to little rock to chicago to trump tower no new york. Right now its delaware. Soochb the road show will go to washington and the white house. Rehema ellis is in philadelphia. Rehema, i have got to say because of philadelphias ability to put joe biden over the top, they have showed donald trump the same courtesy that eagles fans show us giants fans and flyers show us ranger fans. But democrats will forever thank philadelphia for the role they played in this. Reporter without question, brian. This city is particularly proud that this place, the birthplace of democracy, where they talked about the liberty and the constitution and they have got this eagle back here. It looks grounded for a minute but they say this baby is about to take flight in celebration of the fact that biden is now president elect. And that the keystone state and philadelphia were key in making all of that happen. Spontaneous celebration. People dancing in the street. This family is part of that. Family came out with your children. Yes. Reporter what does it moon to you that what has happened here and that a black woman is headed to the white house . Im actually still trying to take it all in. Im ecstatic. As a fellow hbscu grad i could not be more proud. It was black people who made america live up to the ideals of a democracy and it is black people in philly who came and staged this one right here. I am completely ecstatic. Reporter what do you think about it . You have a daughter, 6 years old. For your daughter as well as for your son whos 13. It is important for them to see this, to see how a democracy works and how everyone has a voice and are able to exercise their voice through a vote and witness it firsthand as an educator and a person that sits on the board of we rain, an organization for brooding, aspiring black girls, this is exactly what we need so put on a spotlight. Good things do happen in philadelphia. Reporter good things happen in philadelphia. Thank you, family, very much. This family over here, dad you brought your family out because you wanted them to see democracy in action. Yes. Its actually history happening that we have biden and we have harris going into office. The firstever black woman from outside the country that we have incoming. Daughter of an immigrant and so proud. And it gives my daughter an opportunity to see other things that are greater out there. Reporter absolutely. 16 years old. You said that you couldnt be happier about whats getting ready to happen in terms of whats going to happen in washington. Yeah. Its definitely em pempowering have somebody thats a female in such a high power, especially when that woman is of color ab like my dad said considered out of america, not yeah. An immigrant. I think thats really like empowering for women and just like little girls around the world because you can see that we are not going to be putt down and we are coming closer to the equality and united place we need to be. Reporter thank you very much. Thank you, family. One of the things that people are commenting on here, the history of it, the fact that its about unity of one woman said she was so overwhelmed because this is a sign of the country being uniteded rather than divided. They are united here in looking forward as we go from this point on. Brian . Thank you, rehema. I know where you are and i have to say we are blessed here in the east with an unseasonably warm day. Temperatures in the 70s. In most of the big cities up and down the east coast, even warmer down in washington. You see people in tshirts and very light summer type clothing. My colleague yasmin is in times square in new york. In knowing we would talk with you im remembering the last you and i did this, you were marching along with one of the black lives matter protesters and entirely different mood, an entirely different time in just our recent history. Reporter it was an entirely different time and that was i think four or five months ago and now here we are after this prolonged election period it seems, a lot of folks in this crowd right now in new york city streets breathing a sig of relief it seems, folks celebrating. Lets give you a sense of what were seeing. Heres a big dance circle here. People are having a lot of fun in times square celebratinging joe biden being the 46th president of the United States. Some of the people i have been hearing from, a nurse saying to me this pandemic needs to be dealt with and joe biden is the man to do it. A black mother that spoke to me saying it was the immigration policies of donald trump that got to me and a change needed to happen in this country. Hi, you guys. Hello. Reporter thank you for speaking me today. Absolutely. Reporter how do you feel about the campaign . We feel really great about it. Reporter what about you . Same thing. Glad to be here celebrating everybody right now. Reporter what matters to you most . You talked about your religion. Yes, absolutely. Character is number one thing for me. People dismiss that like its a situation of personality and thats the point to make is it is about a character for me and if the person in the highest office in the land cannot reflect at least a basic amount of moral character they have lost me. Reporter you told me youre an evangelical christian. I came out of that tradition. Reporter how do you reconcile your views with some of what the democrats belief with the social beliefs . When you have so many christians voting for donald trump. I think thats an absolute sham and baffles me that that is such a common thing and had comments with family and friends about this and i feel like its wrong to allow any one party to dominate the conversation on what morality is and particularly coming to the life of an embryo. If you care about life then we should care about life in all forms and i dont see enough care and concern from the Republican Party of the life of human beings once it leaves the womb so compassion, integrity and a real fight for justice in this world matters to me. Reporter thank you. Appreciate it. One more family to speak to. How are you . Is this okay . Good. Youre here with your three boys . Yes. Reporter celebrating the election of joe biden. Who do you feel today . Perfect. We come from a small town and a lot of my family are Trump Supporters so were here with the new new york city family celebrating the big win. Reporter how does the conversation go with the family that are Trump Supporters . We love our families. Extremely close to us. And its challenging at times. We just hope the guys can make whatever decision they want when they grow up and have freedom to do that and can think about all ways but this election for us was we were pretty clear with them who we were voting for and pretty emotional. Three boys, we want them to be upstanding citizens unlike the other. Reporter your son, do you know why youre out here . Yes. Because we are celebrating the election of joe biden. Reporter there you go. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. One more. Brian, i know im taking a long ti time. You are an indian american. Yes. Reporter how do you feel about Kamala Harris being the next Vice President of the United States as a black and indian woman . Im so proud that she is the Vice President and he is also a woman. So im extra extra proud and she is from india. So happy that people chose biden and Kamala Harris as our next president and Vice President. Reporter you know whats interesting, brian . Earlier on in your career you had been out on the streets and you understand how difficult to talk to people about politics in the streets of this country. People are very enthusiastic. Thank you for talking to me. Thank you. Reporter people are very enthusiastic about talking about this election and feel relieved after watching the news and expeerpsed this for 18 months and the Trump Presidency for 4 years and it speaks for itself whats happening in the streets of new york right now is how new yorkers feel who have taken the Trump Presidency personally, brian. Two things here. First of all, no fair. Youre there on a day when Everyone Wants to talk to you. I was a street reporter for so long i used to be able to anticipate ten feet away which folks wanted to talk and which folks didnt but we were just bragging on you in the control room. Not only did you select such fascinating people but interviews well conducted. Enjoy the scene there on what we keep saying is an unseasonably warm day for november. Reporter certainly is. Lets bring in the first two guests, you know them both. Clair mccaskill, democrat, great state of missouri. Eddie claude who chairs the africanamerican studies department at princeton university. Eddie, i would like you to go first. I want to hear you react to the news today. We should also remember theres not going to be any living with any of the Howard University bison or any member of aka after this. You understand that, dont you . Oh, absolutely. As a morehouseman itch i have to endure that. We have been enduring donald trump and the minion for four years and some ways contributed to the erosion of our democracy and democratic norms but we have made History Today and i think we need to enjoy it, celebrate that. I think as Kamala Harris in particular ascends to the vice presidency as the first black woman to hold that position, im thinking about the atlanta washer women strike of 1881. Im thinking about Matilda Crawford and the Womens Council in montgomery so central to the busboy cot. Im thinking about ida b. Wells and ella baker and she has an enormous wind at her back. Politicians are only as good as our demands and expectations. We should not assume that joe biden is the savior Kamala Harris is a savior but we can celebrate this moment and prepare ourselves for the difficult and challenging work that will begin tomorrow and the next day. But im going to enjoy this and youre right. I have to deal with those howard bisons. Oh my goodness. What a day. I know. Its not even started yet. We have to gird for that. And its a all kidding aside, it is a big time for hsbcus and something we heard people volunteering in interviews. Claire, indeed, hasnt it been pleasantly surprising to hear so many of the folks in interviews talk about Kamala Harris, talk about sounds like she was a huge part of their voting motivation . First, i think its really mean to make me go after eddie today. He brought tears to my eyes. Sorry. Yeah. It is just not fair. Eddie is so good at wrapping up history and the emotion of a moment and thats what this is and it is kamala is amazing. I am so lucky to call her a friend and the country is so lucky to have her be the first woman who is going to have the bright klieg lights of power and frankly press that will be examining her every move, every statement. Theyll go after her outfits, her hair. Theyll figure out a way to go after her husband. They will do all of that. And shes the right person to stand up to that kind of pressure. This was a wise choice which reflects on the president elect. There were many people he could have chosen and by the way they were all amazing. But he knew that kamala particularly was ready for the pressure that this job would bring and let me say this. Kamala is fortunate, too, because joe biden was a Vice President. He knows what it feels like. I believe that he was probably disappointed that he wasnt given a chance to speak in grant park in 2008. He was probably disappointed that he didnt get a chance to speak when the election was claimed in 2012. Dollar bet you a dime that kamala will be at the podium and a partner to make him proud and do america well. Of course, claire, no pressure. They have 74 whole days to figure this out and i quoted my friend stevie last night saying that what we can take away from the raw vote is that 70 million americans wanted donald trump to prevail and as he put it loosely every other person you pass on the street disagrees with your politics. Thats a heck of a setup even for a politician as much into unification and the language of unification as joe biden. Yeah. Today is a good example. The hangover of trump is very obvious today. There is not one single republican elected official on capitol hill that did not celebrate and expect a concession speech when ap called their race and ap called all their races and by the way ap called their races while the votes were still being counted and none of them then said, oh no, oh no, this