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This week. sorting through ballots a head of a recount in two major mid-term races. senate battle there and governor's race there in florida. will broward county make the next deadline? griff jenkins is watching it from lauderdale, florida. good morning. >> good morning, bill. they haven't started the actual recount yet but getting close and confident they will. let me take you into the tabulation room and tell you what has happened. they're separating that first page and they finished the election day ballots, yesterday they finished the early vote ballots, one more group to go, the mail-in b...

Elections where we find griff. griff, last night they didn't even count they just pulled apart staple stamsz,s. >> they haven't started the recount and tabulation. look in the window, they say they are going to get it done. a little bit of breaking news here. where they are in this separation they are at the letter y. the end of the alphabet on the electoral day votes. they have one more group to do. that's the vote by mail. they say there is 189,000 of those. and that separation will take until tonight before they begin the actual recount. the director of planning and development here joe del...

Reporter: good morning. let me take you right into the tabulation room here at broward county elections headquarters. they finished vote by mail group, separating the first page. they have to do that it will take 189,000 ballots. probably this afternoon or this evening. actual recount begins sometime late tonight or tomorrow. officials say that takes 15 hours. but they will get it done by thursday's deadline. on top of the news yesterday the election supervisor here brenda snipes defending she made several errors. take a listen. >> the lawsuits as written aspersions on my character. i worked h...

First page of the five-page ballot. of course you have the mail-in ballots so there's 189,000 mail-in ballots. five pages. so they have to separate all of those. we can report that 8 of florida's 67 counties have completed their recount. the deadline of course is thursday, 3:00 p.m. which initially had wondered whether they would make that deadline. now saying indeed will make that deadline. our math, according to the board, suggest these machines, once they finally get loaded with the ballots, will do about 170 votes a minute. the big question, we just heard

North america sales grew dramatically. sales internationally went down. it was about the u.s. general motors, and the usa. incredible story. general motors was the proxy for america and today it is as well. >> bill: what about the reports on friday? >> 227,000, street was looking for 189,000. jobs where you want them. i talk about dirty fingernail jobs and good producerings. 4,000 in mining which is beyond mind-boggling. 1700 construction. 17,000 manufacturing. a great number going into friday. we'll see. the last number from the government was really what they call noisy. when you get hurrica...