With hit or miss showers. Mike, how is it looking now getting out the door for work . Very different than ten minutes ago. The camera shows you all lanes now backing up toward the toll plaza itself. We have the backup that just formed again as folks flooded in towards that area. We also have slowing for highway 4 through concord which has been there early morning. I thought it would clear as the construction cleared but that is cleared from the roadway. Back to you. Thanks so much, mike. There are razor thin margins in several battleground states as the final outcome of the election still unknown this morning. Just confirmed within the last few minutes joe biden ahead by a very slight margin in pennsylvania. Hes ahead by just more than 5,000 votes. Battleground states are still to close to call. Today in the bays tracie potts is live for us in wilmington with reaction from both campaigns. Tracie . Reporter theres a lot of anxiety building, a lot of excitement building, particularly on
Take it to the Supreme Court. Reporter this morning still counting votes and the potential path for victory for both candidates as we wait to see what happens next, today, wednesday, november 4th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everyone. Good morning. Welcome to this special edition of today. We are glad youre with us on wednesday morning. We really never left. Weve been on the air all night. Lots of news to cover. We still dont know who the president is going to be and filled with uncertainty and a lot of questions. We will try to guide you through the best we know one step at a time and we will get it started. This is where it stands at this hour on the electoral map. You will see 224 electoral votes for joe biden and 213 for the president. The goal is 270 and that is what it takes to win the presidency. Keep your eye on the states in gray which are too close to call
Thats going to do it for us tonight and but ill see you in a weird time at a weird place, sunday night 8 00 eastern, sunday night, me, brian williams, nicolle wallace, joy reid, a special election preview in our new supersized studios. Ill see you then. Be there. Sunday night, 8 00. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. You are just in time for another night of context, clarity and conversation with three days until election day. Its almost over. But honestly, that date is moot for nearly 90 million americans whove already cast their ballots. Perhaps you too. This time four years ago we were talking about many of the same issues. Donald trumps business dealings. Competitive swing states. Early voting. And more. Check out the New York Times front pages from 2016 and from today. They tell a similar story of two campaigns rushing to the finish line. Today both major candidates were in key battleground states. President trump is holding his fourth p
Line. Today both major candidates were in key battleground states. President trump is holding his fourth pennsylvania rally of the day. He won pennsylvania by a razorthin margin, less than 50,000 votes. A new morning call poll shows mr. Trump trailing joe biden by five points in pennsylvania but mr. Bidens lead falls right within the polls margin of error. So statistically they could be tied. Today in michigan joe biden reunited on the campaign trail with president obama. It was the first time theyve taken the stage together this election cycle. And what a cycle it has been. A spin cycle. And frankly, if youre like me, youre probably a little dizzy. Its been 555 days since joe biden announced his candidacy, back in april of 2019. Take a look at some of whats happened from then till now. It is just 659 more days. 477 days. 285 days. 100 days. Just three days till election day 2020. After months of speculation and frontrunner status in the early polls, joe biden announces his run for pre
Western states where the reality theyre walking into is getting harder to ignore. Rounding the turn. Hes doing nothing. I had it. Did you know that. Shes spreading more virus around the country. If i can get better, anybody can get better. The virus is spreading faster than this spring. 1,000 people a day dying. The u. S. Breaking another record. Reporting 90,000 new cases any single day for the first time ever. On average, thats somebody infected every second. And to put that in perspective since we came in the air less than a minute ago, it means about 40 more people tested positive in the time i introduceed this show. Our team is spread out with live reports on the biggest stories of the day and we start where the two major stories converge. The president is walking into this today as we makes his first stop in michigan set in an hour. A statewide emergency order. Thats the story making the biggest papers this morning. Stricter rules on bars, restaurants, get togethers now back in p