CBS NEWS Delivers Seven Hours of Election Night Coverage Today

CBS EVENING NEWS Anchor and Managing Editor Scott Pelley will lead CBS NEWS' seven hours of division-wide, multi-platform original reporting on Election Night 2012 today, Nov. 6 (7:00 PM-2:00 AM, ET) from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City.

CBS NEWS will deliver up-to-the-minute original reporting on television, radio, online and mobile devices using the full force of the division's journalists and the latest, easy-to-understand integrated graphics and virtual storytelling tools. Election night projections will be made by the CBS News Election Desk.

The CBS NEWS team will use eight studios and three state-of-the-art control rooms at the CBS Broadcast Center for the coverage. Pelley will be joined in Studio 47 by the most experienced team of political reporters in broadcast journalism, including Chief Washington Correspondent and FACE THE NATION Anchor Bob Schieffer, CBS THIS MORNING Co-Host Norah O'Donnell and CBS News Political Director John Dickerson. In addition, CBS News correspondents will report live from around the country, including the key battleground states.

Byron Pitts will report from 60 MINUTES' Studio 33 and use virtual reality models of the House and Senate to explain the impact key races.

Anthony Mason will report from CBS THIS MORNING's Studio 57, where he'll deliver exit polling data on the race using fully augmented reality on-screen graphics. Mason will provide context for exit poll data in an effort to explain how and why people voted the way they
did.

In the field, CBS News will have correspondents and video journalists delivering breaking news from around the country.