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Razor thin lead over catherine cortez masto by 862 votes out of nearly a million votes counted so far. if cortez masto does win, democrats could keep control of the u.s. senate with at least 50 seats. it's now deadlocked with republicans and democrats have 49 each as of right now. let's begin our coverage with cnn's rosa flores on the scene in nevada right outside the clark county election center in north las vegas. rosa, four days after the elections, we are now approaching the crucial moments. update our viewers on the latest. >> reporter: according to clark county officials, they say they f...

Provisional ballots. the deadline for that is wednesday. now, clark county officials say they plan to continue working today through the afternoon, through the evening until they finish processing those 22,000 ballots to make sure that those post today. that's the nail biting situation that we are in right now because of the balance of power of the u.s. senate could be coming down to nevada. here is the latest where that race stands. we have watched as the margin, the advantage that adam laxalt had dwindle from 22,000 to 10,000. right now it's at 862. wolf, that is a .1% margin. it doesn't get...

23,000. they are going to confirm that shortly for us. we will also confirm that they think they can get it done today. the state statute says they have to you. they have been confident all week that they can do this. yesterday, they counted 27,000 mail-in ballots. they released those numbers late last night. it does not seem like it should be any issue here. that should be able to get done today. we will have a very good idea of what this race looks like. there are two other outstanding types of ballots. the ballots that we are talking about today are the mail dane usps ballots, the ballots t...

Bring in byron york particle correspondent for the washington examiner and fox news contributor. man oh man, byron we are sitting here this weekend it is like this 50/50 more or less. how do you think this starts to play out? >> if you are a republican, things are not looking very good for you right now. first of all you underperformed all of these expectations of the red wave or some big, big victory just did not happen. republicans hope of winning arizona has gone away in the senate. and now in nevada if you have been watching the counting of their race between laxalt and cortez at. >> so it...

Where las vegas is, the biggest city in nevada. those 22,000 votes potentially could put her over the top. >> and what is important to understand, when we saw the clark county votes that came in last night, they split much more advantageously for the democrat than her current spread in the county. now she's winning clark county 52% to 45%. last night they split 63-32. it is a dramatic improvement for cortez masto. if she can keep up that kind of percentage of victory of the votes as they come in, that is going to help her overtake laxalt and potentially pad a lead. >> right now he's only winni...