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Way are the ways others think, and you start to look at counties like greene county and you realize, hey, that's a little different. even close to pittsburgh. it's nothing like what you think of when you think of the pittsburgh pirates. >> steve kornacki has that look in his eye. >> i think we've got it answered as clearly as we can be. we just heard it's going to take a few hours to get the absentee ballots here in washington county counted. we're looking at 1195 that were requested. the question here is how many of these are going to be for saccone? is it going to help him eat into this lead...

What should be an easy republican win district. >> hold that thought. i want to talk about nancy pelosi when we next get the chance. steve kornacki, we have a note from washington county. >> yes. just filling in the blanks here on the absentees. here's two things we can tell you. remember, the lion's share of the vote that has now left two counties absentee vote -- we're looking at washington doi count there is 1195 sitting in absentees. in westmoreland county, we're looking at 1800 absentee. remember what saccone has to be dealing with. we talked about the challenge, that we're getting two-th...

Ballots. trying to eat into the lead that conor lamb has, rick saccone. melanie, thanks for joining us. i know you're in middle of lot. do you have sense of when this count will be complete? >> we're anticipating 2:30, 3:00. >> so 1 1/2 hours or so from now. 1,195 absentees? >> yes, sir. >> that was the number of ballots received, not sent out right? >> correct. that -- >> great. do you have any indication right now how they're going? >> i have not, separate room from the counting. my process is doing. so i haven't been there to check the totals yet. >> i'm sorry? >> and we won't be releasing ...

Washington county for them to do the scan. that the hand counts are completed. that they're now doing the scan, the ballot scan in those 40 remaining precincts, when that is done, if this holds we will then know who won those 1200 votes, 1195 to be exact, in washington county, those absentee votes. and remember, it needs to be, saccone needs a big number here. he's trying to cut into a 579-vote lead for conor lamb. that's where they stood. we got that update in the last two minutes. any update i get i am going to share with you. i promise you, whatever happens to our programming tonight, i am ...

Result? >> i wish i knew the time line because i signed off the air a couple hours ago in this same studio, and we believed at that moment that these outstanding numbers would be in momentarily, we had been led to believe that. we are still waiting. let me take you through what exactly it is we're waiting on. again, the margin right now for lamb in this thing, it is 579 votes. that is his lead. the big chunk of outstanding votes are absentee ballots that were cast here in washington county. so the question you see, it is red, you see saccone won it, it is traditionally republican. so saccone i...