Brian Williams is hosting 'Election Night Live,' Prime Video's first crack at live coverage of a breaking-news event. Watch the cold open.

Amazon has invested billions of dollars to buy expensive sports media rights and build out extensive cloud computing infrastructure required to stream NFL games and other live sports action for Prime members around the globe. The Seattle tech giant is now expanding its live streaming ambitions by venturing into news.

Amazon is launching an election night special hosted by Brian Williams. BI interviewed the show's executive producer.

Former NBC News anchor Brian Williams is asking people interested in election night news to take a leap of faith with him.

The former NBC anchor noted the streamer did not have a decision desk and would be reporting when other news outlets made calls.

Brian Williams' election special "Election Night Live with Brian Williams" is live, but given that this is Amazon Prime Video's first-ever election night special there may be some questions as to how to watch it.