what we can tell you is that as the
results have been coming in across the
united states
this election in america is too close to
call
but what we can also say is that donald
trump
seems to be doing better than his
critics
the pundits or the media in the united
states or indeed in europe seem to think
he would
and that the battle for the white house
has proved rather
tougher for joe biden then it looked
when america started to go to the polls
there is a live picture
of the white house my colleague in
washington d.c
is cathy k katty yeah we're being
reminded during the course of this
program and this night that this really
is a 50-50 country
democrats went into it hoping that they
could have a knockout blow against
donald trump that they might take a
state like
florida a state like georgia or north
carolina and shut donald trump
out of the race to 270 electoral college
votes
in order to win the white house that
hasn't happened but there are several
big states that are still
not called and that's because of the
covet pandemic and the number of
americans who voted
early who voted by post and those
ballots haven't yet been
counted yet and so that is why joe biden
has come out within the last half hour
and said to all his supporters
you have to be patient donald trump has
tweeted within the last few moments that
he thinks that any votes that are
counted after the polls closed
are votes that are being stolen and that
he is going to win so
we are in a febrile atmosphere andrew
and this is probably the result that the
country didn't necessarily need because
we are facing now the prospect
of days of not knowing who the next
president is going to be
and days of our vacuum lets room for
mischief lawyers
contests even potentially violence so
let's hope none of that happens but
right now we are in a position where we
don't know who the next president of the
united states is going to be and we may
not know it even
by the end of today or even by the end
of the week there is huge uncertainty
in engulfing america now
we have no idea how it is going to be
resolved we've heard from joe biden
we're still waiting to hear from donald
trump
though he has already implied that
people are trying to steal the election
and that he has won to bring you up to
date on the latest picture with the
results declared let's go to christian
fraser
at the bbc touchscreen christian well if
you are just waking up and joining us
you've timed it perfectly we are getting
into the nitty-gritty of the race this
is how the map stands at the moment let
me remind you
we are talking about the electoral
college this is the figure that one of
these men has to get
to 270 or more will deliver the white
house to them joe biden currently in
blue
is in 205 and donald trump in red
on 171. what are the big states that
have gone
so far well ohio and florida in the last
couple of hours
ohio here has gone to donald trump
right in the sweet stop for donald trump
it is an older white estate you can see
eight points ahead with 91 of the vote
counted
pretty much where he was in fact in
2016. florida it's always close isn't it
not so close this evening actually
donald trump eking out a bit more for
the republicans
in florida three-point lead there
that was called about an hour ago now
there are some states here on the east
coast which is
yet too close to call let's talk about
north carolina
which was close in the polls before the
election donald trump here has a 76
000 vote lead there are 220 000
votes to count there must be some
uncertainty in north carolina for them
not to call that at the moment
this was the absentee vote it skewed
heavily
towards joe biden we don't know what
those votes are that they still have to
count but they haven't called it
georgia i'm going to urge some caution
on a lot of people saying that he's
leaning to
donald trump tonight that it's going
towards donald trump they've had
a few problems with the count in georgia
but they're now counting this absentee
ballot
an excuse again towards joe biden
one million votes still to count it's a
lead that donald trump has there of 236
000 votes let me tell you that the new
york times is actually projecting
georgia for biden by 67 i don't know
what they base that on but i know that
some of those votes
are going to be in atlanta it's a 67
probability the new york times is saying
but some of those votes
are in atlanta and some of it will be
that absentee vote so that one
very much still in the balance arizona
out in the west better news for joe
biden not yet called
but you'll see it's a healthy lead for
joe biden
by seven points 80 percent
of the vote counted fox news had already
called it
for joe biden white house didn't like
that not quite sure what the republicans
are seeing here
but it looks to me as if that is going
towards
joe biden i'm looking at the rest of the
map it's suddenly
all about the midwest as we said it
would be at the beginning of the night
so let's get to our safe map here okay
so these are the states that i think
will be
in red and blue by the end of play by
perhaps nine o'clock and what i'm going
to do is i'm going to key in those
that a little later today may have been
colored in for us so
texas we think we'll go for donald trump
we're gonna leave north carolina in
georgia for the minute
i'm gonna put arizona in the blue column
we're just shown you that nevada
looks pretty good in terms of the
absentee ballot
okay so that's what the score would look
like two three three
two one six so what might we get well ap
have already called minnesota
for joe biden that takes him to 243 he's
now
27 short okay
we've got pennsylvania is 20 votes so he
could take pennsylvania
some of the exit polling looks quite
good for joe biden
combination of two of those three would
deliver the white house to joe biden
i'm gonna put here pennsylvania in red
i'm gonna put georgia in red and north
carolina just to show you that if it
goes
to donald trump and those go to joe
biden as we think they will
looking at the absentee ballot suddenly
main two and nebraska two two
congressional districts look very
important nate silva who knows a little
bit about polling
has said that where goes new hampshire
could go main too it's a very similar
electorate
that would be enough for joe biden but
it's not there yet
so we're going to put it in grey and
that's just one example it's a scenario
but there's an awful lot in the balance
it is on a knife edge