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Kevin liptak, thank you so much. to georgia now. nadia romero is at a polling location out of atlanta. record turnout. we have seen some big crowds, too. what does it look like this morning? >> reporter: yeah, boris, it's still a sleepy saturday for many people who are at home probably watching you on tv, getting ready for their day. we see those numbers usually pick up during the afternoon hours and then that's what you start to see the lines, and especially right before those polls close at 7:00 p.m. is when people are dashing in to either drop off their absentee ballots or trying to make th...

Campaign headquarters here in such you can county. bringing in the big names, hoping to drum up support. he has been focusing on the issue of public safety. governor kathy hochul has been spending her morning in buffalo. that's her hometown. she got out there this morning and cast her ballot. the very first day of early voting here in new york, which begins today. we are standing in front of a polling location which opened up just a couple of minutes ago and we have been watching a very, very slow stream of poll workers and people coming to set up the operation. as you said at the beginning, s...

>> reporter: record turnout here in georgia for this midterm election. we're outside a polling location here in dekalb county, and at this location alone the poll workers told me may in the first two hours of voting, they saw 200 people come in. that just speaks to the excitement of people wanting to get out and make sure that they cast their ballot. let's look at those statewide numbers. across the state of georgia already more than 740,000 people have voted. and we saw a dip when you look at saturday compared to friday. saturday only about 80,000 people voted compared to more than 140,000 on...

Georgia for the midterm elections. take a look at this polling location in atlanta, long lines here. one voter took 27 minutes to get from the back of the line to the front. by the time she handed her ballot i.d. to poll workers, it took 10 minutes to vote. that's what it takes at some of these polling locations. 4,000 workers told us have been here early voting since monday. take a look at those numbers. look at early voting all throughout georgia from monday through friday. more than 660,000 georgians have already participated in the voting process. you compare that to our last midterm elect...

So let's bring in cnn's nadia ramirez. she has spent the day at a polling place in atlanta. nadia, what are you seeing today? >> pamela, polls just closed here in the state of georgia, wrapping up the first weekend of early voting. take a look behind me.this is o dekalb county, georgia, and you can see people are walking out. the rules here state that if you are in line, if you are getting ready to vote, when the polling location closes, you can still continue that process. you can still cast your ballot. now, the workers here told me in the first two hours of the day, they saw more than 200 p...