First, this morning,
control of Congress still undecided and
Georgia Senate race too close to call.
See where the vote stand as the
candidates get ready for a runoff.
Plus, Governor Brian Kim slides to
victory in his rematch over Stacey Abrams.
We're looking at what was
different this time around.
You're watching 11 alive Morning News.
11 minutes of nonstop news starts now. We
are following breaking news from overnight
and well into the morning, a tight Senate
race state officials saying Senator
Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker.
Will head to a runoff.
They are counting the final vote as we speak.
Let's take a look at the numbers right now.
Senator Warnock is leading
by a razor thin margin,
a difference of about 35,000 votes.
Arianna Muniz is live with a closer look
as candidates once again are going to
try to convince you to go to the polls.
Although this race is too close to be called,
Georgia election officials are
predicting the contest between
incumbent tender Raphael Warnock
and Republican Herschel Walker will
be determined in a runoff election.
As you mentioned Warnock.
He is leading the race with 30,000 votes,
but still not that 50% threshold plus one
vote needed to outright win this race.
After nearly counting all the
votes Secretary of State Chief
Operating Officer gave Sterling,
he did signal on Twitter that the winner will
be determined in a runoff election, we heard.
From both Warnock and Walker,
after supporters waited all
night to hear their results,
both candidates are telling their
supporters to hang in there,
which means we will see these
campaigns back on the trail,
crisscrossing Georgia to win supporters over
again and get them back to the ballot box.
Now, Libertarian candidate Chase
Oliver did secure 2% of the vote,
but once this election is certified,
it's likely we'll only see Warnock and
Walker on the ballot come December 6.
Back to you.
All right, Ariana, we know that's
going to come fast. Hopefully.
Have some rest tonight cause
it's right back to it today.
Thank you. Let's send it over to Savannah
Levins now with a closer look at the
numbers. Good morning, Savannah.
Good morning. Yes indeed.
Still too close to call and
we still are counting a couple
thousand votes in about 5 counties,
particularly in red leaning
Paulding County and Fayette County.
But to be honest,
not really enough votes to really
sway this election either way.
So it does seem like we're going
to be going to a runoff if we turn
this map into this mode here you
can see kind of how the counties.
Cleaned the darker the color the
more people voted for their party.
In DeKalb County, for example,
we're not getting 84% of the vote when
we compare to the 2020 presidential election.
Warnock and Biden pretty on par as
far as the votes and and Walker
trailing a bit behind Trump,
which was to be expected.
But certainly Walker did get enough votes
in the state to looks like go to a runoff,
which by the way when we're looking at
balance of power hanging in the balance,
no pun intended,
it looks like we're going to
have a big turnout for that.
Run off.
So we'll certainly keep you
guys updated. All right?
A lot of money will be on the
line because of that. Turning
to the governor's race this morning,
Republican Brian Kemp slid to
victory 53% over Stacey Abrams. 46%.
We remember how tight 2018 was.
This wasn't that.
Jerry Carnes has a look at
Kim's reaction and his promise
for the next four years.
During his fiery victory speech,
reelected Governor Brian Kemp said,
quote, we stopped Stacy, we saved Georgia.
Kemp said that his opponent, Stacey Abrams,
attacked him when they were tough
decisions for him to make as governor,
particularly during the
height of the pandemic.
He said reopening Georgia schools and
businesses was the right thing to do.
Kemp said now it's time
to move Georgia forward,
something he has promised to do during
his next four years as governor.
Abrams also spoke of the future.
Saying she may not have crossed
the finish line first this time,
but she says she will never stop
running for a better Georgia.
Georgia House seats also up
for grabs in this election,
as well as some top offices in our state.
Liza Lucas joining us now
with more high Liza hi
yes, we've been following some of
these hot races and we now know
Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger
will return for a second term.
Raffensberger beating challenger
Democrat be win and libertarian Ted Metz
overnight win also officially conceded.
Now some other incumbents winning include
Republican Marjorie Taylor Green,
who will return to represent
Georgia's 14th district.
She won nearly 66.
Percent of the vote now this would be a
second two year term for the congresswoman.
Moving on to the 7th district.
This race has been called for
Congresswoman Lucy Mcbath.
She posted a victory picture on Facebook
last night dedicating her win to her
son who was murdered nearly a decade ago.
Now that is just a look at some of
the clear winners of top races for
Georgia and really across the country.
Stay tuned this morning for
more key updates
to come. Liza, thank you 11 live
has been your one stop shop for all
things elections as we continue.
Getting results around the clock,
you can check them out online at 11 live.com.
Good morning, Cheryl.
Good morning, everyone.
We are tracking
Nicole. It is a tropical storm right now,
very close to becoming a hurricane,
about a good four mile per hour wind
strength away from that and it's likely
to become a hurricane as it moves
across the northern ends of the Bahama
Islands and heads right toward Florida.
Then it will link further off to the North,
attach stuff to a cold front is going
to move through our area and move to
our the southeast of North Georgia,
just to the South.
These, but we'll spread rain our way.
First we'll spread the clouds,
then rain and the winds will
start to pick up as well.
Even though we're clear right now
will be a bit breezy out there this
afternoon looking at winds out of
the east at about 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts will be a little bit
higher than at times.
Notice the forecast shows temperatures only
around 65 degrees for the afternoon high,
maybe your call yesterday
we hit 80 for the high,
so we'll be doing a little
bit cooler this afternoon.
So make sure you grab the jacket.
You're going to need that now.
Our temperature,
our rain chances will start to increase.
Starting tomorrow,
and I think it will be mainly during the
evening that we'll see that 40% chance,
100% chance for the rain on Friday.
On the latest track of this
particular storm that we're watching,
we will be looking at the storm again
making landfall possibly tonight,
I'll say in the wee hours of the morning.
Here we are by 3:00 o'clock in the
morning making landfall just north of
the West Palm area will still continue
to push a little bit further to the West,
which is why I think our impacts
will be a little bit higher.
Notice the rain doesn't get in here until
we get toward the evening on Thursday,
right around 6:15.
We can see some steady light showers around,
few moderate pockets here and there,
but that rain intensifies
through the overnight.
By the time you waking up on Friday
or getting ready to head out to work,
we'll have this heavy rain around and
the winds will begin to pick up as
well as the storm will be just to the
South of US center of circulation.
Then either way,
as it continues to lift to the north,
when I look for that rain to end until
about 2:00 or 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon,
we'll be left with the clouds.
With those clouds will continue to
break down and behind that front some
colder air will begin to work in.
Now as far as the impacts here
you're looking at anywhere between
one to three inches of rainfall.
The wind gusts could be up to about
40 mph at times, especially on Friday.
Excuse me,
Friday morning and we're looking
at any severe weather.
It should be down to the South and
east of us as the storm will be
down to the South
and east and center of
circulation ship passed to our S
and Eastern S continuing
your 11 minutes of nonstop news with a look
at election results around the country.
Control of the House and Senate remains up
in the air this morning in Pennsylvania,
a win for Democrats as John Fetterman
is elected to fill the seat
of a retiring Republican.
In Ohio, Trump backed Republican JD
Vance won a highly competitive race,
although this midterm.
Did not bring the red
wave that many predicted.
Also in the House, Virginia's
Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat,
held on to her seat in a swing district.
But with votes left to Count,
Republicans say they still
have a chance to flip Congress.
We're following other big election
headlines from across the country and
Maryland voters electing Westmoore
as the state's first black governor.
Kathy Hokel is the first woman
elected as Governor of New York,
another first happening in Arkansas.
That Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
the first woman elected governor.
I want you to know.
I'll be a governor
for everyone. Maura Healey is the
first openly lesbian governor
elected in the US she's from
Massachusetts down in Florida.
It's Maxwell frost.
He is going to be the first member
of Gen Z elected to Congress.
Well, we're looking at
temperatures by noon in the 60s,
right around 61 degrees and
that's all we'll get up to today.
We'll stay in the 60s.
Yesterday we hit the 80s.
Not gonna be the case today,
despite the fact we have
mostly sunny skies out there.
We'll be cooler.
65 degrees will be the high look
forward to be a bit breezy as well.
Those E winds anywhere between 10 and
15 mph gusts will be a little bit
higher than that by 6:00 o'clock.
Of course it will be dark by then,
which the few clouds moving
into our forecast area.
We're going to leave you now with
a live look at the US Capitol as
we send it over to the Today show.
More live coverage of the
midterms. Straight ahead.