>> we're introducing the fox news proud american star of and trucker hat next week. >> if you information, go to show foxnews.com. [shouting] >> sandra: chaos in philadelphia overnight. protestors confronting authorities after philadelphia police shot and killed a man who was holding a knife. 30 officers were injured in the violent unrest including one police sergeant hit by a pickup truck seen in the following video. a warning, some of this may be disturbing. >> oh my god, he hit a cop. >> sandra: the officer was taken to the hospital with a broken leg and listed in stable condition. the protests and looting began after a tense confrontation

between philadelphia police and a man who approached them while wielding a knife. >> move, move, move. >> sandra: the man was identified as 27-year-old walter wallace junior. the d.a.'s office investing the shooter. full report at the bottom of the hour. on to the race for the white house now. it is exactly one week out until election day. more than 62 million people have already cast their ballots. the candidates crisscrossing the country today making their final pitch to voters. good morning, i'm sandra smith. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. president trump and joe biden back on the campaign trail today. biden will hit georgia where polls show a virtual tie. meantime president trump barn storms the country with stops in michigan, wisconsin and

nebraska after both men hit each other hard in the key state of pennsylvania yesterday. >> president trump: sleepy joe is down there and i said you have to get out of this basement. he doesn't do these kind of rallies because of covid? he doesn't do them because nobody shows up. covid, covid, covid. >> the bottom line is donald trump is the worst possible president and worst possible person to try to lead us through this pandemic. we get the doctors were inflating the numbers, catch this. doctors get more money. what in the hell is the matter with this man? >> sandra: fox team coverage dan henninger joining us in moments. we begin with kristin fisher at the white house this morning. what is on the president's mind this morning? >> it was a big night.

the celebration of the confirmation of amy coney barrett to the supreme court. that is what president trump would prefer the country to be focused on. instead he is rallying today in michigan and wisconsin, two big battleground states where the virus is surging at the worst time. that is especially true in wisconsin where the number of new cases is up 53% over the last two weeks. so president trump really hasn't spent a ton of time talking about that at rallies and he is now telling the media he wishes that they would stop talking about it, too. in a tweet this morning the president said quote all the fake news media wants to do is talk about covid, covid, covid. november 4th you won't hear so much about it anymore. we are rounding the turn. almost every single data point indicates that the u.s. right now is not rounding the curve when it comes to fighting the covid-19 pandemic. last night at the white house

we saw a lot more masks and there was a lot more social distancing than the event in the rose garden a month ago announcing amy coney barrett as president trump's third nominee to the supreme court. >> president trump: highly fitting that justice barrett fills the seat of a true pioneer for women it's just as ruth bader ginsburg. tonight justice barrett becomes not only the fifth woman to serve on the nation's highest court but the first mother of school age children to become a supreme court justice. >> president trump will be able to hit the campaign trail today saying he has kept his promise to get a conservative onto the supreme court not once, not twice, but three times and so the question now, though, is, is that what voters want to hear about even though it does resonate with so many voters?

is that what voters want to hear about right now? or does the pandemic rule the day? >> sandra: great questions. kristin fisher live at the white house. thank you. >> trace: joe biden making an unannounced campaign stop in eastern pennsylvania saying the reason it looks like he isn't traveling is because he is not holding super spreader events. today the former v.p. is in the swing state of georgia. the real clear politics average has trump leading biden in georgia by a half point. >> biden is trying to pitch himself in a healer in a time of crisis in a small town where fdr came to use the 88* warm springs to heal his polio. the biden campaign the message of bringing people together is resonating in red and blue

battlegrounds that trump won last time. >> you know me. i have not overconfident about anything. i just want to make sure we can earn every vote possible and that's why we're here. you know that blue wall will be -- has to be reestablished. with the grace of god -- >> he met with a group of democratic officials yesterday how to best use the precious little time they have left before election day. georgia and iowa made the cut for in-person visits. the democratic nominee is defensive about his travel schedule even though he hasn't hosted an event that voters can actually attend since saturday claiming every day is a 12-hour day anyway. he doesn't seemed concerned his events are smraler than the president. it is most responsible to have everyone in masked and socially distanced. he has a drive-in rally later where people can listen to him from the comfort of their cars.

the first event is not one that the campaign setting up for curious people from georgia to drop into, just in case you want to check out biden and see if they want to support them. it is at a remote locations designed for cameras and a small group of reporters, trace. >> trace: peter doocy live on the campaign trail. >> sandra: let's bring in dan henninger deputy editor for the "wall street journal." i will put up the screen the number of joe biden stops that we have seen since august 20th. 26 in total including 10 in pennsylvania, florida, michigan, -- i focus on pennsylvania. we saw the president make three stops there yesterday throughout the day. joe biden clearly has spending a lot of time there. what does it say about the biden campaign and where they see opportunities this time around?

>> well, obviously they thought pennsylvania was crucial. it is 20 electoral votes and historically it has been and they were loading up a lot on running out of pennsylvania. i think what we're seeing now is that joe biden has created some rift for himself at peter doocy described running a small campaign. i think one of his problems is that -- it was evident to me at the end of the debate last week. joe biden has no momentum in the final week of the campaign. no physical momentum. no political momentum. the big mistake at the end of that debate was to suggest that the democrats and he and the united states would quote transition out of oil. and that was just a dagger into the heart of the all in on pennsylvania strategy. and donald trump obviously has pounced with three events there yesterday. this is probably a shock to oil workers, gas workers in eastern

pennsylvania. so joe biden went right out there yesterday to try to reassure them that he is not as he has been trying to do the entire campaign, not associate with the left wing of his party. not associate with the green new deal. but he let the cat out of the box with that remark. now i think he is on the defensive. >> sandra: really interesting analysis, dan. in contrast, president trump if you put up the map, 23 trips in 14 states he has made in just the last two weeks. those include arizona, california, florida, georgia, iowa, maine, michigan, minnesota nevada, north carolina, ohio, tennessee and wisconsin. he will head to michigan, wisconsin and nebraska today, dan. 62 million ballots have already been cast. how much does this help or can this help the president with just one week to go? >> there is the theory of the

trump campaign that he is trying to attract what are known as shy or silent trump voters. i find this theory perhaps not definitive but very plausible. it is the idea that there are blue collar workers out there who didn't know trump in 2016, know him well now, and are ready to vote for him. i would go so far as to say they are not merely white voters but some black and hispanic male voters as well that would be attracted to the president. and that if he can pull enough of them across the line in those states and there are voters of that sort in all of these battleground states that he will eke out a win as he did in 2016. i don't think he is doing much to try to attract suburban women right now. look at those rallies. they're really kind of base red meat and they ain't aimed at suburban women. >> sandra: your colleague has a piece in the paper this

morning, an opinion piece labeled media watchdogs aren't supposed to guard biden. he really takes on the media and the covering of the biden campaign in the final days. if the democrats win he asks will america's free press become an instrument of state propaganda? the construction of a media an tech wall to protect joe biden in the final days of the campaign has taken to a brazen new level the democratic problem of a society whose information flow is skewed heavily to one ideological poll and raises profound questions about the future. if biden and his democrats take control after next week's election, will the communications apparatus that controls well over half of the public media channels in this country become a vehicle for state propaganda? i put that question to you. you see the media treating the campaign. how will they cover a potential biden presidency, dan?

>> well, i think he has raised a legitimate alarm for sure. we're watching an historical event. much of the mainl or media and press outlets align themselves with one of the major u.s. political parties. this is unprecedented. but, you know, we saw it happen virtually the week of donald trump's inauguration in 2016, 2017 when they began the russian collusion narrative, ran through the mueller investigation and the impeachment. the press has been all in on trying to thwart and oppose this presidency for nearly four years now and in the final week of the campaign, they are up to ramming speed. the idea that should biden win that come inauguration day next january they'll go back to being objective reporters i think is a pipe dream. something has changed with this young generation of reporters. the goal used to be objectivity.

the goal for many of them now is social justice and that suggests there will be reporting -- supporting the goals of the democratic party's left wing next year. >> sandra: that's a big statement. finally the confirmation vote happened last night. some senators decided to put on a dramatic display of their no vote. here is mazie hirono. >> >> sandra: that was just one of the displays we saw. justice amy coney barrett we saw tweets like this. aoc on court expansion, expand the court, she and others put the word out after what we saw last night. what does it tell us we might see in the future when it comes to some of these democrats and the supreme court. final thoughts. >> keep your eye on one person, chuck schumer. if he becomes the majority

leader next year, as he said yesterday during the confirmation vote, the republicans should not be surprised if he simply sets them aside. chuck schumer it is well-known is under pressure for his reelection campaign two years from now by alexandria ocasio-cortez. i think he will move the senate definitively left. >> sandra: always great to talk to you. fox news is your channel for election night coverage. bret baier and martha maccallum will start special election coverage at 6:00 p.m. next tuesday and they'll break down the results from around the nation seven days out. here we go. >> trace: building messages on the economy as president trump warns joe biden will ban fracking in pennsylvania after biden against walks back his comments on fossil fuels plus the president also slamming media coverage of covid-19 amid questions about the white house

response as cases spike across the country. moments away kayleigh mcenany joins us to react to this and more next. is dr. harold katz.

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comments about ending federal subsidies. let's bring in trump 2020 senior advisor and white house press second their kayleigh mcenany. as far as the messaging is concerned. a lot of speculation about how this may have hurt joe biden in the final days. 62 million votes have already been cast but is that message from joe biden in that moment on the debate stage? is it hurting him in these final days? >> no doubt about it. that moment on the debate stage. he looked at the cameras and the american public in the eye and said i will wreck your economy for generations. that is what he was saying when he vowed to ban oil, when he vowed to ban fracking. i just looked at the numbers and if you are in pennsylvania, if you are sitting there right now his vow to end fracking which 25% of fracking is done in pennsylvania would cost

609,000 jobs, raise the cost of living for everyone by $5,000. that's just on the issue of fracking. he lost pennsylvania. joe biden is 10 points behind where hillary was in 2016. >> sandra: what will happen in that state? the president very confident at one point saying to his supporters we will win pennsylvania. as we just talked to dan henninger at the "wall street journal" joe biden has made 10 stops in that state since august 20th. he has focused a lot of his campaign time, energy and money on the ground in that state. they clearly see opportunity. can you secure a victory in pennsylvania? >> no doubt about it. look, at each of our rallies yesterday. i was with the president. we made three stops in lancaster and across the state. in each of those stops we played a video for the public. joe biden said roll the tape, president trump. when did i say ban fracking?

we rolled it for tens of thousands of voters who came to president trump's rally to hear the message. audible boos through the crowd at one of the stops when he was saying these words. joe biden in his own words wins us the state of pennsylvania and we're bringing the case to voters while he is locked down in the basement. insult to the american people. he won't fight for your vote he won't fight for you as president. >> sandra: he didn't have any scheduled campaign stops yesterday he emerged and went a few miles, crossed over the border and said some words in pennsylvania and it did appear that he wanted to clarify his stance on fracking. here is joe biden. >> i'm not shutting down oil fields. i'm not eliminating fracking. i'm investing in clean energy and we'll make sure that we don't continue to subsidize the oil companies. there are two estimates. they get somewhere between $25 billion and $40 billion in subsidies. >> sandra: that's where he says he stands.

meanwhile, last night after three stops in pennsylvania the president had this confirmation ceremony for justice amy coney barrett at the white house. in the hours that followed we saw tweets like this coming from the so-called squad. omar echoing ocasio-cortez's call to expand the court. here is omar. the same three words. what does this tell you about their plans should they take control, their party take control after election day? >> yeah, look, joe biden has become an empty vessel for the radical left as he has withered away. you heard from his puppeteers last night. he will pack the court. it would make headlines sharing his stance. when fdr tried to do this they said the senators at the time said this would destroy the american republic. they said this has never been tried before in the history of

our country. but leave it to joe biden to try it today. you heard from aoc, from ilhan omar as reporters were screaming questions his handlers pushed the press away. 60% of independent voters are against that according to the "new york times" poll. >> sandra: the president will travel to three different states today. ahead of those visits he is dismissing covid in a way obviously that his critics have ceased on. he said all the fake news media wants to talk about is covid, covid, covid. you won't hear so much about it anymore november 4th. we're rounding the term. we had our brain room dig up the latest positivity states including wisconsin. their positive cases are up 53% over two weeks at a 28% positivity rate. more than one in four tests is coming back positive. nebraska where the president will also visit today a 21 1/2%

positivity rate. so does it help the president to continue to dismiss this virus and say we're rounding a corner? isn't there an opportunity to lay out a clear plan if he is reelected how we'll get rid of this thing? >> yes, he has shown us that plan with therapeutics. his plan is working. the american public probably doesn't know this, if you look at hospital beds across the country the percentage of hospital beds that are taken up by covid patients right now are 6%. it's a testament to the president's they are poout ickx. if you're younger than 70 your chances of surviving the disease are 99%. cases like mine when i was asymptomatic and got through it. president trump in his brilliant debate performance offered a choice to the american people. you can open safely with president donald trump or you can do joe biden and modeling his covid strategy, locked in the basement. the american people want freedom, they want to make

choices for themselves. get out, open their businesses and schools and churches. that's what the president has done. joe biden will lock this country down, devastate the economy and that's the alternative. >> sandra: before i let you go. there is an idea floated around the "wall street journal" has the front page story about other countries that are considering shorter covid-19 quaur an teens and contact tracing is such an important part of mitigating the disease. can you tell us if the president is considering any specific changes to how we are handling this virus as a promise to the american people that we're thinking this through and finally get rid of this once and for all even if a vaccine doesn't come the next couple of months? is that a consideration. >> what the president is pushing for is regeneron to be out and available to the american public. that's what helped him so much through covid-19. his other therapeutics are

available. we still feel we're on track for a vaccine by the end of the year. that vaccine is already being manufactured compared to obama-biden bungled the swine flu. we can't let biden back in the white house. we need actions and plans and a businessman and a brilliant president like donald trump. >> sandra: thank you for being here. >> trace: with millions of americans voting by mail in the 2020 election, how are election officials securing all those ballots? our investigative unit put the postal service to the test. riots in philadelphia overnight after a deadly shooting involving police. the response from police is next. this week on "the upper hands"... special guest flo challenges the hand models to show off the ease of comparing rates with progressive's home quote explorer. international hand model jon-jon gets personal.

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>> sandra: president trump and joe biden both on the campaign trail one week to go until election day. joe biden traveling to georgia while president trump is making stops in michigan, wisconsin and nebraska. >> trace: nearly 100,000 residents in southern california now under evacuation orders after two wildfires spread through the region. the silverado fire near irvine quadruple in size since monday and the blue ridge fire in orange county. >> sandra: boston police arrested a man that set a ballot box on fire.

voters will get replacements to resubmit ballots by election day. >> trace: violent protests in philadelphia after police shot and killed a man coming at them with a knife. 30 officers injured and businesses looted and destroyed. laura engel is live on long island. what do you know? >> well, those violent protests raged in philadelphia after the police confrontation caught on video, widely circulated on social media and left several officers in the hospital. now this all went down around 3:00 yesterday afternoon in a west philadelphia neighborhood when police were responding to reports of a person with a weapon in the street. police say they ordered the man to drop the weapon. cell phone video that captured much of the incident is screaming and showing a chaotic scene. police spokesperson said the man identified as 27-year-old walter wallace continued to advance toward the police.

unclear if he ever dropped his weapon. the spokesperson says both officers then fired several times hitting him in the shoulder and the chest. then took him to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. that incident sparking massive demonstrations as hundreds of people took to the streets asking why police used lethal force instead of a taser. one female officer was run over by a truck and taken to the hospital with a broken leg as police cars and dumpsters were set on fire. local businesses looted and some officers were reportedly hit with bricks. as the father of the suspect told the philadelphia inquirer his son has struggled with mental health issues and was on medication and is asking why less lethal force wasn't used? the mayor of philadelphia is telling reporters the shooting raises difficult questions that must be answered and ordered a full investigation. police were wearing body cam

cameras. >> sandra: more than 60 million americans cast their ballots about concerns whether the postal service can handle the surge. fox news investigative unit did its own test. eric shawn has that story. tell us what you found. >> good morning. for months americans as you know have been worried about the reliability of mail-in ballots. we put a stamp on 500 replicas to see what happens. >> can you mail these for me? >> starting september 14th fox news mailed 500 replica ballot envelopes from and within chicago, dallas, los angeles, miami, and new york. we mailed 100 envelopes. this is the first envelope that i'll mail. as you can see we replicated the size and weight of a typical ballot. we're not only going to see how

long it takes for these ballots to get to the post office box in manhattan but see if some cities are slower. our new york team and i mailed our simulated ballots from more than a dozen mailboxes within 67 miles of our manhattan p.o. box. new york and los angeles batted 100%. every envelope from those cities arrived. the longest took eight days. but a chunk from miami is still missing and one envelope mailed from chicago never showed up. as of today, out of the 500 envelopes we mailed, 11 did not reach their destination. of those, 9 are m.i.a. two were returned mailed from dallas. in all, a little more than 2% of the total mailing never made it. by law the postal service does prioritize and expedites official election mail. ours aren't official election

mail. the post office said it's the secure and timely delivery of election mail. it can't substantiate that our test represents a reasonable approximation of election mail. that 39 states let voters track mail-in ballots. we should all be able to do that to see where our mail-in ballots are at any one time and when those missing 11 envelopes still show up, we'll certainly let you know. we checked the box, still empty. back to you, sandra. >> sandra: thank you for your reporting eric shawn. >> trace: an experimental vaccine producing very good results. how this impacts the covid battle with cases surging across the country. plus president trump's non-stop campaigning may be helping him in the polls. we'll break down the numbers for you next. >> president trump: i can't lock myself in the basement of the white house. i can't. i can't lock myself in a

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>> trace: president trump keeping up his campaign blitz today hitting battleground states in the midwest while joe biden heads south to georgia. the president's barn storm swing is helping him in the polls. usa today has trump cutting into biden's lead gaining more than a point over the past week.

let's bring in charlie hurt and washington times opinion editor and juan williams political analyst and co-host of "the five". the president picked up a point nationally over the past week and in the battleground states in 9 of the 12 swing states he also picked up about a point. what do you make of that, charlie? >> well, i think the clear -- there is a very clear choice between the two candidates. if there is a fault for donald trump it's that he is too blazingly out there. he is out on the campaign trail. he doesn't have any secrets. he lays it all out there. he talks and does three things a day. he really truly leaves it all out on the field. then you have joe biden who is not campaigning, who is not telling people what his plans for exploding the supreme court are. he won't be straight with people about whether he wants to ban fracking or not. he has been on all sides of that issue. and you really do have these

two diametrically opposite campaigns that i think reflect two diametrically opposite candidates. we always knew the polls would close at the end. not surprising. it is a payoff for trump's hard work on the campaign trail. >> trace: as charlie was talking you ran through the polls here. we have an idea what these 12 swing states. what they're experiencing here and you look across north carolina, wisconsin, the president picked up a point. in arizona more than a point. almost a point in florida, georgia, ohio. the theme here, juan, the race is tightening. >> no, i disagree, trace. i think the theme here is the race is incredibly stable. there hasn't been much change. remember, we've seen the president go hard on hunter biden. we've seen all the talk about socialism and oil and, you know, none of that seems to

have made any huge difference in these polling numbers and we're now seven days out from the election. if you look at the polling averages, you know, they're slight. the fact is that in the key battleground states we're talking wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan, biden maintains a substantial lead. in fact, at some of those polls the most recent one coming out of the university of wisconsin up in that area, biden is over 50% in all three. that's pretty good. now if you look at the travel schedule, that can be revealing. what i see there is that you have biden and harris on the offense. biden and harris are in places like georgia and texas. trump trying to really on the defense play in places like wisconsin, nebraska and michigan. so to my mind the key here is you look at those swing states. you look at the national average and we really haven't seen much movement away from joe biden. >> trace: i would dispute the

whole swing state thing. he makes up a good point, charlie. i want to put up the pennsylvania thing. a week now the president has gone hard on joe biden saying he would try to phase out fossil fuels and yet over the -- the president has picked up 1/10 of a point in pennsylvania. what do you make of that? >> well, i think that without a doubt joe biden's strategy from the beginning has been to burn the clock out. everybody was convinced there was no way he wouldn't win this race and so he is just trying to burn out the clock and get to election day without any major mishaps. the problem is he does come out in public and says things that the campaign has to clean up or it completely contradicts himself. obviously that is a real problem for him. but i think the important thing to remember is you know what else the polls were similar to this? in 2016. it's remarkable how similar the polling is and the trends are

this time compared to 2016. of course, we know who won that time. >> trace: we should note for clarity hillary clinton was up by 5.6 and this time joe biden is up by about 7. i have to leave it there. juan and charlie, good to see you. thank you. >> sandra: great to see all of you. election day one week away. how twitter is planning to get ahead of voting misinformation with a new feature in its news feed. amy coney barrett now confirmed to the supreme court. and the fight over court packing begins to heat up. andy mccarthy has a lot to say on that and will join us live next.

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>> sandra: fox news alert on a federal judge ruling that has just come in on the d.o.j.

the federal judges ruled it cannot intervene in the long "time" magazine columnist who said president trump raped her even if he were an employee. the exact wording. the president of the united states is not an employee of the government within the meaning of the relevant statutes. even if he were such an employee president trump's alleged statements concerning carroll would not have been within the scope of his employment. accordingly the motion to substitute the united states in place of president trump is denied. that was judge lewis kaplan. it just came in. we asked the d.o.j. for comment and haven't gotten word back yet. we'll bring that to you when we do. >> trace: amy coney barrett confirmed to the supreme court last night. members of the squad are already calling for expanding the high court as joe biden floats the idea of changing the federal judiciary if he is elected. former assistant u.s. attorney and fox news contributor andy

mccarthy joins us now. the squad is already calling for packing the court. chuck schumer said that they will retaliate. how ugly does this get, andy? >> i think, trace, after the election it may calm down a bit. i expect it will be very heated for the next week because almost anything you throw into this caldron gets very heated very quickly. but you know, i think we have a court that is going to decide cases in accordance with the rule of law and what's being under appreciated is that a conservative court does not mean conservative policy results. what it means is that the balance of power shifts where it belongs to the legislature and they can have progressive policies if they want them, they need to convince the public to support them in congress. >> trace: i want to play this sound bite by former vice president biden.

not talking about packing the court. he is not a fan of this. he floated this idea. watch this. >> there is some literature among constitutional scholars about the possibility of going from one court to another court. not always staying the whole time in the supreme court. that's what we'll be doing. give them 180 days, god willing, if i'm elected from the time i'm sworn in to be able to make such a recommendation. >> trace: if you missed it he has there is some literature amongst constitutional scholars rotating justices in and out of various courts. >> i think we might call this court slicing instead of court packing, trace. you know, look, the problem is the same problem whether you will do it by addition or subtract shun. if the poll situations are telling the judges how to resolve cases you don't have a judicial institution anymore but a super legislature being directed to have its results come out in a certain political orientation. whether you want to add judges

or subtract judge on the fiction of rotating them to lower courts it's the same problem. that's probably why i hope this 28th amendment proposal gets some momentum. we have had nine judges on the supreme court for 150 years. that would put it in the constitution. i think that would be a good thing. >> trace: it seems bizarre to me the concept of saying we'll rotate some of the conservative justices out and rotate liberal justices in. justice thomas you go to the 9th circuit court. how would that work or is it even constitutionally possible? >> well, you know, the constitution makes congress the master of how the federal courts are structured. theoretically could congress do something like that? yes. i don't think the president could. but congress could. i don't think there is any -- there will be sufficient support for something that radical, trace. i think it's the kind of thing you talk about the week before election when you are trying to

make a pitch to voters what trump just did in putting barrett on the court is illegitimate. i don't think that's getting traction, either. i imagine things will calm down in about a week. >> trace: should be fascinating to find out. andy mccarthy, always good to see you. thank you. >> sandra: both candidates hitting the campaign trail today one week to election day. a look at where each of them are headed and how each state could impact the outcome next tuesday. you can be certain of. the men and woman of the united states postal service. we are here to deliver your cards, packages and prescriptions. and also deliver the peace of mind knowing that what's important to you-like your ballot-is on its way. every day, all across america, we deliver for you. and we always will.

>> sandra: brand-new hour. here is what's happening inside "america's newsroom." >> we're just one week from election day. president trump campaigning in three states today after rallying pennsylvania voters. >> joe biden defends his light travel schedule in a surprise appearance on the trail. >> biden will come to warm springs and also make a stop in atlanta. they believe they can flip the state blue. >> i, amy coney barrett -- >> amy coney barrett officially becoming a supreme court justice today taking the first of two oaths at the white house last night. but her confirmation not without controversy. all 45 senate democrats and republican susan collins voted against it. >> chaos in philadelphia. 30 officers hurt. more than 30 people arrested after riots overnight. >> sandra: more on those stories throughout the hour. first back to our top story

this morning. president trump and former vice president joe biden setting their sites that could make the difference on the race to the white house. just days to go until election day. coming down to the wire. both candidates appeal to undecided voters in key battleground states. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," good morning. i'm sandra smith. >> good morning to you. good morning, everyone. trace gallagher. election day is one week away. candidates are focusing on crucial swing states. joe biden making an appearance in georgia. his running mate holding events in nerve. president trump is hitting three states. michigan, wisconsin and nebraska. vice president pence hits north carolina and south carolina. both candidates yesterday discussing the pandemic. >> president trump: we're rounding the turn. we understand the disease. we closed it up. the greatest economy in history we closed it up and saved 2

million lives. >> donald trump is the worst possible president, the worst possible person to try to lead us through this pandemic. i don't think he just doesn't study or doesn't have an idea what to do or just doesn't care. >> sandra: bryan ennis is in pennsylvania. the deadline to apply for mail-in ballots. we begin in warm springs, georgia, where the former president is heading today. can joe biden pull off a victory in that state? >> that question, sandra, wow, who would have thought that the peach state would be such a battleground. biden will be here in the shadow of fdr's little white house. the latest real clear politics average is separated by less than .5%. trump just ahead by .4%. now the last time a democrat won georgia was 1992, bill

clinton the last time a democratic presidential candidate stumbled in the final week before the election, 92, bill clinton. we talked to some folks in warm springs, sandra, whether or not they think biden can turn georgia blue. here is a little bit of what they said. >> no, sir, i don't think so. i think georgia will stay red. down in georgia we're a little different. we're country people and he is way left for us. >> he has a lot going on that i like. >> meanwhile georgia may be headed for a record voting turnout. 2 1/2 million have already voted. georgia's secretary of state says if you're coming to vote, come with patience. >> now as we head into the final week of early voting we expect even more higher turnout than we've seen so far. with that, there may be lines. long lines.

>> georgia has 16 electoral votes. president trump won in 2016 by five points. we'll see what happens this time. >> sandra: president trump is holding rallies in three states today, griff. here we go. seven days out. busy day. >> it is going to be a busy day. he will keep that frenetic pace with rallies. we'll show you where he will be. in lansing, michigan, west salem, wisconsin and omaha, nebraska. if yesterday was an indication he will keep hitting biden as he did yesterday in pennsylvania over the oil and gas mistake in the last debate which prompted biden to make an unscheduled appearance in chester, pennsylvania to walk back his position on fracking. watch. >> president trump: joe biden confirmed his plan to abolish the entire u.s. oil industry. that means no fracking, no jobs, in energy for pennsylvania families. >> i'm not shutting down oil

fields. i'm not eliminating fracking. >> we know president trump will head tomorrow to hit arizona pretty hard while on thursday joe biden will travel to the sunshine state and hit florida. sandra. >> sandra: griff jenkins. thank you. >> trace: today is the last day for voters in pennsylvania to apply for a mail-in or absentee ballots. president trump won there by a razor thin margin four years ago. republicans are reigniting a court battle against the keystone state's mail-in voting process. bryan ennis is live for us in state college, pennsylvania, good morning. >> good morning. today is not only the last today people from pennsylvania can apply for mail-in ballots but the last day they can do their version of early voting in pennsylvania. over the counter mail-in voting. essentially you apply and cast your mail-in ballot at the same time in the same place. you take it, you come in, do

your vote. you even put it in the mail-in envelopes like you would back at home. the only difference is you immediately come over and cast your ballot in the same place. the first time the pennsylvania has done mail-in ballots without the need for an excuse. without need to be absentee. many more have asked for mail-in ballot. 1.7 million have returned their mail-in ballots. 60%. one big thing elections officials are trying to stress. this election is secure. no way for there would be widespread voter fraud. why? you have to apply before you get a mail-in ballot. you actually have to get a voter registration application and then you have the pennsylvania application for mail-in ballot. you must apply first and they cross check that with your

voter registration information before they even send you a mail-in ballot. >> that initial application process is asking a voter for their name, date of birth, social security number and license number and in addition the bar code is a really good component to make sure no duplicates ballots being sent out or turned in as well. >> in pennsylvania mail-in ballots can received and counted up to three days after election day as long as they are sent before the polls close on election day. republicans have challenged this in the u.s. supreme court. it was a 4-4 split. now republicans are calling on the u.s. supreme court to pick up that case again with justice amy coney barrett potentially being the deciding vote. the bottom line is that there has been nearly a dozen lawsuits so far in and around the election process in

pennsylvania and we're being told we could expect the election results here to be challenged in court. >> i think unfortunately regardless of who wins either side, i think the other one likely will challenge it again in courts. i think that's unfortunate. that's what's keeping me up. >> once you bring in your mail-in ballot here at the satellite election office. they put it in the machine. the machine will be brought to where it will be counted. we're not going to get election results on election night in a big part of that reason because under pennsylvania law, they cannot begin counting mail-in ballots until election day morning at 7:00 a.m. that's 3 million ballots they will have to tear apart and count. it will be a few days before we know who wins pennsylvania. >> trace: a lot of lawyers standing by. bryan ennis. >> sandra: hunter biden receiving support from an unlikely source. russian president vladimir putin said he did not see

anything criminal in the former vice president's son business dealings in ukraine in light of the president debate when president trump used a series of media reports to accuse joe biden of making money off his son's trading on his name overseas. joe biden says the allegations are false and discredited. >> trace: ohio police are investigating an alleged plot to kidnap mike dewine and stage a mock trial for tyranny. a miami county man said he was contacted by renee turner. an outspoken critic of dewine's lockdown policies. she was hatching a plan to make a citizen arrest and sentence him for crimes. turner reportedly claims no such plot was ever discussed. >> i, amy coney barrett, do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states.

>> sandra: that was late last night. amy coney barrett at the white house being sworn in as an associate justice of the u.s. supreme court. her senate confirmation earlier in the evening solid filing a 6-3 conservative majority. >> the oath that i have solemnly taken tonight means at its core that i will do my job without any fear or favor, and that i will do so independently of both the political branches and of my own preferences. >> sandra: congressional correspondent chad pergram is live on capitol hill this morning. what's the reaction there now that she has been sworn into the high court? >> good morning, sandra. republicans view this as a boon. keep in mind they believe that they have reshaped the federal judiciary for a generation and also the high court and they are going to take that to the voters. here is the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> we had a supreme court fight

before the election and we gained seats. i think this nominee will be a political asset for our candidates around the country. not a liability, but an asset. >> some republicans concede that the barrett vote could be the gop's last stand for a while. look at the polls coupled with the risk of losing the senate. democrats worry how barrett could vote on obamacare case california versus texas slated for arguments november 10th. the senate minority leader chuck schumer is taking that message to voters as well. >> barrett has argued that justice roberts got it wrong when he upheld the affordable care act. if justice roberts read the statute properly the supreme court would have had to invalidate, her words, the law. >> also cases that might come up before the supreme court anything regarding the election and mail-in voting. >> sandra: what about the

so-called squad calling for packing the court? we've seen a few tweets. >> this is something that they're pushing for. this is emblematic. this is the type of pressure joe biden will have to address. if you are going to pack the court, keep in mind this is done by statute. changing the size of the court there are nine justices on the court since 1869. the first thing you have to do is get rid of the legislative filibuster in the senate. it implies the democrats have to have control of the senate. joe manchin a democrat from west virginia is skeptical of trying to get rid of the filibuster. that's the first thing you have to do. then you would have to do it by legislation. that's probably pretty unlikely. >> sandra: chad pergram live on the hill. thank you. >> trace: police officer run

over by a pickup truck in philadelphia as protestors stormed into the streets in response to another deadly shooting of a black man. the video might be disturbing for some viewers, a warning. >> oh, he hit a cop. oh my god, he hit a cop. >> trace: the officer was hospitalized in stable condition with a broken leg and other injuries, 29 other officers were also hurt by rocks and bricks. crowds also setting police cars an dumpsters on fire. the violent protests going on for hours. [crowd chanting] >> trace: at all began after police officers shot and killed 27-year-old walter wallace. he was shot yesterday afternoon. police say he was carrying a knife and refused to put it down. video of the encounter was posted on social media. the names of the officers involved have not been released.

>> sandra: twitter actively injecting itself into the election campaign sengd out messages aimed at debunking false information before it even happens. how does that work? plus a 2020 campaign for battleground states where the candidates are gaining ground and the key issues just days from election day for voters. >> president trump: i saw that years ago in michigan. they gave me this award. why are you allowing them to move your car companies to canada and mexico? now the trade is really good. it was so crazy. i've got some terrific news for veteran homeowners

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>> sandra: all right, we're seven days out from election day and the candidates will be hitting some key battleground states today including the president hitting the campaign trail hard. three states michigan, wisconsin, and nebraska on the schedule today. joe biden meanwhile will be in georgia. let's bring in the political editor for the national journal. we'll take the big picture on what we're seeing as far as the real clear politics average of polling in these key states. president heading to michigan today where joe biden still has a nine-point advantage over president trump there. you take a look what's

happening in wisconsin, 5 1/2 point lead for joe biden. he maintains as president trump visits that state today. and then it is on to georgia where almost 2 1/2 million votes -- sorry, 2 1/2 million votes were cast. you look at georgia now greatly in play for joe biden who will be spending time there today. i'll get into all that for you. if you could give us the state of the race as we jump into some of these key counties that president trump will be visiting today, josh. >> let's start with the first two states in the midwest. the maps were 270 for president trump. to win any of those three states, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania and president trump was able to pick off in 2016. that's why he is spending time in the midwest today. west salem, wisconsin, where he will be this afternoon is a big battleground. it is rural western wisconsin. it is an area that was very

democratic until 2016 when it became much more competitive. president trump is looking at running up the score in rural wisconsin and making inroads in some of the more democratic parts of small town wisconsin. that's how he views the map of winning wisconsin. he has to win one of those three midwestern states to get a chance to get to 270. >> sandra: lacrosse county, wisconsin, where you are talking now. a key county the president will be visiting today with the stop in west salem. hillary clinton back in 2016, 55% of the vote there while donald trump got 45% of the vote. are you saying that president trump sees an opportunity in that state in that county? >> that's right. any area that is not a big city or suburb that's where trump is spending a whole lot of time across the country in the final couple weeks. that's the county that voted for hillary clinton but the margin that clinton won by was much smaller than democrats usually get. so for president trump if he

can hold down the democratic margins in lacrosse and then win big time in a lot of the rural parts of the rest of wisconsin especially the western part of the state, it is a really good sign for him. democrats are looking to run up the score in the cities, in madison, wisconsin, and milwaukee, and hoping to improve on how badly they got wiped up. cut down their own margins in the rural small town areas of wisconsin. >> sandra: i pulled up michigan. you mentioned president trump's first stop is in lansing, michigan today. you look at michigan back in 2016. just how close it was. here is that county that did go blue in 2016. hillary clinton 65% of the vote there. this is the president's first stop today. obviously this is a state that's largely focusing on coronavirus, the economy has been huge in the state of michigan. what will the president's focus be there to sway undecided voters, josh? >> the economy, the auto

industry is always a big issue in michigan. i think it's interesting that the president is spending time in michigan. as you noted, sandra, he is down in the rcp average of the state by nine points. this is a state that a lot of republicans i've talked to think might be out of reach for the president. so the fact that he is spending time here in a sort of swing area of the state, the lansing media market. that is a big investment for the president and it suggests that he still thinks he has a chance to win michigan. which is an important state on political map. >> sandra: he will finish in omaha, nebraska, douglas county. the blue county on the eastern border of nebraska. it went by a very narrow margin to hillary clinton back in 2016. josh, as i talk about covid being important issue for voters in these counties when you look at nebraska, the positivity rate is up 22%. they're at 22% positivity rate in the entire state. almost 1 out of every 4 tests

is coming back positive. still very much a real issue for that state. >> that's right, sandra. omaha isn't just a swing area, but it allocates biden or trump. trump is trying to make a play for the electoral vote in omaha. that's a suburban area that has gone toward the democratic party. it is looking favorable to joe biden. it is also in the western iowa media market. iowa is also a competitive battleground this year and whenever trump visits omaha and that part of nebraska, you get media coverage in iowa as well. so i think there is sort of a two-fer in what the president is looking to do by being in omaha today. >> sandra: the if -- few seconds. as biden heads to georgia and two stops there. home of atlanta. a big focus on the race down

there. solidly went to clinton back in 2016. how much is georgia in play in 2020? >> it's very much in play. we've seen the long lines around atlanta for a lot of democratic voters looking to cast ballots. it's close. keep in mind if biden wins georgia, florida, arizona, north carolina, that's pretty much the election. it's very hard for trump to win without sweeping those sun belt states. georgia could put the game away. it is a thing democrats haven't visited in decades. 1992 where a democratic candidate visits ga. a sign biden is feeling confident. >> sandra: both candidates on the trail. great to do this with you, thank you. >> trace: violence erupting on the streets of philadelphia. [crowd chanting] >> trace: dozens of officers

hurt and one run over by a pickup truck after police kill a black man armed with a knife. we're on the ground in philly. people along the u.s. gulf coast bracing for yet another test. zeta expected to make landfall as a hurricane. details on that next.

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>> sandra: it is the bottom of the hour. time for top stories. joe biden say he might be open to rotating u.s. judges in elected president. he made the comment hours before the senate confirmed judge amy coney barrett. >> trace: red flag warnings in place in california as the state braces for growing wildfires. a weather system with strong winds and low humidity is expected to return today. >> sandra: hurricane zeta is moving toward the u.s. gulf coast after making landfall on mexico's yucatan peninsula late

yesterday. it weakened to a tropical storm but expected to become a hurricane again before reaching the u.s. coast tomorrow. >> violent protests tearing through philadelphia after police killing of a black man who was reportedly waving a knife. an officer was run over by a pickup truck in the rioting. she was one of 30 officers injured. we're live in philadelphia. how are the officers doing first, and what is the current situation on the ground now? >> yeah, trace, good morning to you. it is quiet right now in philadelphia. those officers, none of them thankfully suffered any life threatening injuries but what is happening outside of police headquarters. bicycle racks barricading the front entrance of the police headquarters. they're fearful protestors might show up later today or tonight. look at the chaos that erupted overnight here. violent protests really as hundreds of people took to the streets over the death of 27-year-old walter wallace.

police cars and dumpsters set on fire. local businesses looted. some of those officers reportedly hit with bricks. the anger was sparked by this video taken yesterday in a west philadelphia neighborhood. it shows police responding to reports of a person with a weapon in the streets. police say they ordered that man, wallace, to drop the weapon but he continued to advance towards the officers. that's what police are saying. and that's when both officers fired several times hitting him in the shoulder and in the chest. that's when he dropped to the ground. wallace was taken to a local hospital and was pronounced dead there. wallace's father told the philadelphia inquirer his son was really been struggling with mental health issues and on medication at the time. like all those protestors you saw in the video, he is asking why less lethal force like perhaps a taser or a warning shot wasn't used instead of lethal force? right now the philadelphia

mayor has promised a full and thorough investigation. the officers were wearing body cam ras but that footage has not been released yet. we have the video to paint the picture now. a lot more details to come hopefully later today. >> trace: we're live in philadelphia. >> sandra: a potentially promising update in the development of a coronavirus vaccine astrazeneca says its experimental vaccine is showing to produce an immune response to both young and older adults. the british pharmaceutical giants say elderly patients have low adverse reactions to the drug. jonathan serrie is live in atlanta for us. home of the cdc. what's the most significant part of this research that we're learning? >> really that focus on the elderly volunteers is what's most significant because elderly patients the end to be the ones who are at most risk

for complications, severe complications from covid. the fact that older adults, not only tolerate this vaccine well with few side effects but that they develop a similar immune response to that which you see in younger volunteers is a very good sign that this vaccine may be able to protect the most vulnerable populations. as the u.s. hits a new seven-day high for coronavirus cases, many communities are reimposing restrictions on businesses and public gatherings. starting tonight newark, new jersey is requiring non-essential restaurants to close by 8:00 p.m. nightly. hair salons is by appointment only and gyms cleaning every hour. >> it's a desperate moment. we got through this before so we'll get through it again. >> in louisiana republican legislators are nullifying the statewide mandate and business restrictions. john bel edwards is still

enforcing his emergency order. >> that petition is reckless, it's dangerous, irresponsible and i'll also say unconstitutional. >> let's look at the state of kansas. they have a statewide mask mandate but state law allows individual counties to opt out. the university of kansas conducted a study comparing these different counties and found the ones that were enforcing mask mandates had half the cases of those counties that decided to opt out. sandra, back to you. >> sandra: jonathan, thank you. >> trace: twitter is trying to get ahead of voting misinformation by launching messages at the top of user feeds that aim to preemptively debunk false information by voting by mail and election results. the company is calling them a prebunk. i want to put one of the prebunks on the screen.

following election expert confirmed that voting by mail is safe and secure with an increase in mail-in ballots. you might get unconfirmed claims that it leads to election fraud ahead of the u.s. election. twitter has proclaimed itself the arbiter of truth now, brett. your thoughts. >> i wouldn't go so far as saying twitter is trying to become the arbiter of truth. twitter is trying to do well by journalism and fact check things that are said in the public space by going to multiple sources and finding a way to answer questions in a fact-based manner. i mean, we can all agree the sky is blue and man landed on the moon. those are the simple ones that we won't have to deal with with twitter. trace, the social media companies are really struggling this time around because they don't want their platforms to be misused the same way they were in 2016 where they were

basically am mri filing a lot of misinformation. >> trace: if you took a poll the sky was blue 80% would say yes and 20% would say no. that's the way things are. the whole idea you have critics saying that twitter and facebook and others aren't trying to weed out misinformation. they are trying to weed out their definitions of misinformation. >> that is a frequent criticism that we see for social media companies. they are so-called conservative censorship, shadow banings. but we have to remember they're in the business of making money. just like tv networks want to put the best content in front of the potentially largest audience, twitter and facebook want to do the same thing and make sure the things they're saying are in line with the more popular opinions. and you can look at this on both sides of the ticket here because i know a lot of the

concern comes from both sides. but this could also be used in a way to prevent misinformation being spread about potential candidates. they are going to do the same sorts of things like that. we saw a bit of that a couple of weeks ago with the hunter biden allegations and the "new york post" where twitter admittedly was a little aggressive in their approach to it in that they flat out blocked any retweets of that. and facebook was a little more knowledgeable about it. they took a slower approach we'll investigate some of the claims made in that. >> trace: they were going to fact checked the claim and we've been waiting for two weeks. that's the problem we get into. they were going to fact check. we haven't heard any of those fact checks yet and these things are still blocked. >> we've heard plenty of speculation. maybe it is muddying the waters of fact checking. we'll see how it goes. these companies have an obligation. they have a lot of users who rely on them for information. it is best that they're insuring that it is as best as

they can be. >> trace: brett larson, good to see you. thank you. >> sandra: is joe biden flip-flopping when it comes to his stance on fossil fuels and fracking? our panel will take thaup. a big debate coming up next. >> let me make it clear i'm not shutting down oil fields. i'm not eliminating fracking. i'm investing in clean energy. using their va benefits, veterans who refi at newday can now save $3000 dollars a year with the va streamline refi. at newday there's no income verification, no appraisal, and not a single dollar out of pocket. one call can save you $3000 a year.

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♪ [ engines revving ] ♪ it's amazing to see them in the wild like th-- shhh. [ engine revs ] for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. >> let me make it clear, i'm not shutting down oil fields. i'm not eliminating fracking. i'm investing in clean energy and we'll make sure that we don't continue to subsidize the oil companies. two estimates. they get somewhere between $25 billion and $40 billion in

subsidies. >> sandra: biden pushing back. he said he would lead a gradual transition away from fossil fuels to clean energy. douglas heakin is president of the american action forum. and we also have a chief economic advisor at allianz. did it appear joe biden was trying to walk back his come ?ents there was a big moment on the debate stage about the transition away from oil and you had a president trump saying wait a second, you said what? and now he is really railing on that message in pennsylvania. >> certainly in the debate former vice president biden was very emphatic trying to soften those remarks afterwards. if you want to know what he has promised. go to his website.

zero carbon by 2035 and zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. he vaguely asked congress to pass an enforcement mechanism or how fast you do that. do you go aggressively up front or hope it happens in 2040 or will it actually affect global greenhouse gas emissions. what is the global enforcement mechanism? not much detail. he talks about innovation and investing. that's supposed to be the key. >> sandra: an interesting way the look at it. mohammed. goldman sachs wrote a report last week. if there is a joe biden presidency it could lead to a boom and the green new deal only he uses the framework of that deal in his proposal saying it will initially create jobs, initially stimulate the economy but the cost of all of it years down the road would then outweigh any of the initial near-term benefits.

is that fair? >> it is fair but it is also important to put it in context and put what doug said into context. companies from the private sector are doing the same thing. they are setting up objectives saying i'm not quite sure what every step is to get there but i know what the first three or four steps are. there will be greater emphasis on green technology no matter who wins. and that's the right thing to do. in the short term you can have it both. i have think that's what we must not lose sight of. you can have it both. you can continue with traditional sources which we need to do because our economy is fragile but we should also continue to invest in greater sustainability. whoever wins the election will get them toward that. the balance will be somewhat different. >> sandra: doug, the "washington post" takes this on with a headline. biden's energy gaffe is the

truth, it writes. oil is history. in it it says this, biden's underlying claim that fossil fuels will need to be supplanted by renewables is only radical if you still work off decades-old facts. is that a reality we have to all come to, that we will transition from oil, or is this just a political point? >> if you take those goals at face value, zero carbon emissions from electricity grid by 2035, that means the natural gas boom is gone. if you have zero net carbon emissions by 2050, the oil industry has to be transitioned away if that's the phrase as well. there is no way to hit those targets using oil and natural gas. so it's an issue of timing in the biden vision of the universe and not a question of if. >> sandra: doug, you have dug into that what would it mean for jobs under a biden presidency? >> everyone can be fully

employed. the u.s. economy is the largest, most flexible successful economy the globe has ever seen. we can reconfigure our energy sources and be successful but not overnight and it is not costless. the great fiction is somehow we'll create green jobs. if you create a green job you are getting rid of a non-green job. it is difficult to recover from a recession and get people into new jobs to begin with. to then add on top of that moving everyone out of the oil and gas and coal industries and into the kinds of things make it possible to have a clean energy grid. i think that's a big undertaking. >> sandra: it's a great point. mohammed the president making very clear to voters where he stands in drawing that stark contrast to joe biden's proposals. listen. >> president trump: he will ban fracking and deliver an economic death sentence for pennsylvania and for many other places in our country. frankly, it affects not just places that frack and oil

territory. you know who it affects? everybody having to do with paying an energy bill. >> sandra: final thoughts. doug brings up the point of timing and you look at the incredibly difficult time for our country we're coming out of due to covid and the drop in gdp and the loss of jobs, millions of jobs in this country and another round of stimulus. here we are days from election day. doesn't look like anything is going to happen. what does happen to this economy if we don't get a deal done and don't get more help out to the american people? >> this economy will continue to slow. we will have more damage done not just to people's current situation, but to opportunities. we see an decrease in opportunities. back to where we started. the best policies right now are those that promote short-term growth and also promote higher productivity over the long term. whether it's infrastructure or other things we should focus on

what delivers both. the good news is once we get through this election, there is a whole host of policies that need those objectives. >> i think there is a real risk a segment of low wage workers gets left behind. we have half of those who lost their jobs unemployed. largely low-skilled workers. they won't go back to the restaurants and casinos the way they were before. that becomes the target. if you are going to do something do it in a targeted way for those who really need the help. >> sandra: great and important discussion and debate. appreciate your time to both of you. >> trace: vice president pence traveling to north carolina today for three campaign stops. where the tar heel state is rising in importance ahead of election day next. ♪

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>> trace: vice president pence hitting the campaign trail today hitting three spots in north carolina. one of the top battlegrounds for the 2020 election. mark meredith live with more. >> both presidential campaigns putting a lot of time and energy into north carolina. vice president mike pence is the headliner making multiple stops in the tar heel state today getting started in greensboro. he flies in and out. then heading to greenville, south carolina and wrapping up his day in wilmington for another rally this evening. take a look at where the polls stand here in north carolina. a state the trump/pence ticket won four years ago by 173,000 votes. a much closer race this time around with joe biden ahead here but less than 2 percentage points. we've seen the race tighten in the last couple of weeks or so. interesting to see the final numbers. things have tightened. democrats aren't leaving the state alone.

we've seen kamala harris make multiple stops in north carolina. she was here last week. her husband had a chance to campaign yesterday. north carolina a state that has been focused on early voting. we've already seen millions of people cast their votes early in this state. >> trace: mark meredith live in greensboro. thank you. >> sandra: seven days until election day. both candidates hitting the campaign trail in force and so are we. live fox team coverage from michigan, north carolina, wisconsin, georgia and texas next. s by refinancing at today's record low mortgage rates. with newday's va streamline refi, there's no appraisal, no income verification and no out of pocket costs. let newday help you use your va benefits to save $250 a month, that's $3000 a year. one call is all it takes.

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learn more at cosentyx.com. >> sandra: you know it by now. election day is one week away. president trump and joe biden working hard to win over the undecided voters with early turnout smashing records across the country. welcome back to "america's newsroom." our three. i'm sandra smith. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. president trump with another battleground blitz hitting michigan, wisconsin and nebraska and joe biden heading to georgia hoping to turn that once reliably red state blue as both candidates go after each other. >> president trump: i am running against the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics. >> bottom line is donald trump is the worst possible president, the worst possible person to try to lead us

through this pandemic. >> president trump: the only candidate in history whose primary platform is i will raise your taxes. can you believe this? >> he is not doing what needs to be done. and look, folks, i promise you this, i'm never going to give up. >> sandra: moments from now tim murtaugh the trump campaign communications director will join us live. peter doocy live in warm springs, georgia. and john roberts kicks things off live in lansing, michigan for us this morning. john, to you first. what are we going to see today? good morning. >> we're not going to see the weather you'll see in warm springs, georgia. we would love it to be warm lansing but it is officially cold here in michigan. the president had three stops in the keystone state of pennsylvania. today one stop in each of three states here in michigan where joe biden leads in real clear politics average by nine. he goes to wisconsin where

biden has a 5.5% lead and then going to nebraska to campaign for the second congressional district seat there. the president lost this county where we are now back in 2016 to hillary clinton by 27 points. but he won big in the surrounding rural areas. the president is hoping that he can catch fire again here in 2020 with that same sort of ballot count. the president taking aim at coronavirus lockdowns and certainly michigan has seen more than its fair share. the president has been locked into a feud with the michigan democratic governor gretchen whitmer over that. the president says the country doesn't need more lockdowns but to reopen. >> president trump: covid, covid, covid. that's all they talk about, the fake news, covid, covid, covid. that's all they talk about. what progress we've made on it, too. we understand it, we know we have to protect our seniors. we will deliver record

prosperity, epic job growth, and a safe vaccine that quickly ends the pandemic and we're rounding the turn. the biden lockdown would crush america and my plan will crush the virus. >> the president came back to the white house where he presided over the swearing in ceremony of his new associate justice to the supreme court amy coney barrett and again on the campaign trail taking aim at joe biden and the president's belief that should biden win the presidency, he will move to pack the supreme court. here is the president yesterday. >> president trump: he has to not only agree to not pack the court. it would be terrible for our nation. even justice ginsburg said you can't have -- nine is the right number. >> big crowd standing outside the airplane hanger we're in for the tarmac rally. the president won michigan by just 11,000 votes four years ago. enthusiasm will count for a lot.

the crowd of people we saw outside this morning certainly brimming with a lot of enthusiasm. >> sandra: stay warm, john, thank you. >> trace: joe biden making two stops in georgia today. the former vice president saying he is not doing big campaign events to avoid spreading the virus. peter doocy is live in warm springs, georgia. peter, what can we expect from the former vice president today? >> trace, as you can see there are not a ton of people here in contrast to the trump rally waiting for joe biden to show up. the former vp himself says that's good. >> we will be traveling -- continue to travel but the big difference between us and the reason why it looks like we aren't traveling, we're not putting on super spreaders. we are doing what we're doing here. everybody is wearing a mask and be socially distanced. >> biden says he has to

reestablish the blue wall of pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin but that he huddled with a group of democratic officials where to spend the precious little time in the campaign. iowa and georgia made the cut. kamala harris was just in georgia as well. almost 3 million people have already voted here and while it hasn't gone democrat for president since clinton in 1992, the demographics are changing and in addition to trying to take 16 electoral votes off the board for trump. democrats are hoping to flip two republican senate seats as well held by purdue and leffler. biden wouldn't be here if the campaign didn't think he had a chance. the campaign says he plans to pitch himself today as someone who can bring people together in a time of crisis and that message of healing comes in the same place where fdr used to sneak away to try to heal himself from polio in the 88* local warm springs. >> sandra: key numbers.

real clear politics average of polls has him trailing biden in michigan and wisconsin by 9 points and 5 points respectively as you can see on the screen. biden ahead in nebraska's congressional district 2 by seven points. it is considered a toss-up and it is where the president is heading today. let's bring in tim murtaugh, trump 2020 communications director. great to have you here this morning. we have a lot of questions but first what is the mood of the campaign seven days out especially after i just read through the polls there? >> well, the mood is fantastic. we're definitely upbeat and very cautiously optimistic the president is headed for reelection. we know what's going on in these battleground states from our own internal data and know in the states that will make the difference states like florida and pennsylvania and michigan and wisconsin, the president remains strong and is headed quite clearly to reelection. if you look at these public polls and he have ten average it is a bunch of averages of

flawed polls. the national news media has spent four years trying to destroy and defeat president trump and so i don't know why anyone would put any stock at all in polls paid for by those media organizations. of course they'll produce numbers which confirm their own worldview. you take the average. it is an average of all those bad polls. so we know what's real. >> sandra: i get you are dismissing the polls as we have often heard from the campaign. there are real numbers that we can look at including some of the positivity rates in the state the president is visiting today where coronavirus is still a very real concern and joe biden is still strongly polling above the president when it comes to who would handle the pandemic better in michigan, ohio, pennsylvania and wisconsin. tim, wisconsin's positivity rate seven day moving average 28%. nebraska 22%, in wisconsin it's up 53% over the last two weeks

positive cases. the morning the a.p. is writing worst place, trump faces virus -- why talk about lock downs when battling the virus itself when he addresses voters? >> the president is battling the virus itself. this is another area where there is a clear contrast between the two, trump and biden. president trump wants people to be safe and take precautions but knows we cannot let the virus lock us down again. he has been in a nine-month battle against the virus and has posted a whole bunch of victories and a lot of good news. the production of ppe, masks, now the development of the therapeutics, remdesivir being approved by the fda. we're this close from getting a vaccine approved or distribution and first going to the most vulnerable populations. joe biden the candidate of lockdowns. how we're facing a dark winter. that is not an optimistic

message. if you talk about locking people down again, for how long? six months, a year, 18 months? remember, in china they welded people into their homes. does he recommend a similar style approach? i don't know. if you head the country towards another lock down. lock the economy down it would be devastating to people. maybe if you are on a salary or if you can work from home you can get by with that. but you cannot survive if you are in the service industries, if you work with your hands. you can't stay locked up in your house for another prolonged period. joe biden is offering exactly that. that's the contrast. >> sandra: that message resonates with some voters who are restricted by the shutdowns. joe biden sees a serious opportunity here. here was joe biden yesterday really taking on the president and his covid response. listen. >> saturday donald trump said the covid-19 count wasn't going up. it was leveling out. he suggested that doctors were

inflating the numbers, catch this, because doctors get more money. what in the hell is the matter with this man? >> sandra: is this message working for joe biden? >> , no and it shouldn't because this is the same joe biden that we know would not have restricted travel from china like president trump did because he called it xenophobe and fear mongering. we know we'd be in a far worse position today as a country if joe biden had been president at that time. joe biden, look, throughout all of this joe biden has been completely unburdened by the responsibility of leadership. every minute of this crisis he has taken the coronavirus and turned it into a political weapon. even to the point of trying to scare people away from taking the life-saving vaccine when it is ready and approved and on the market for people to get. which by the way people will be receiving for free under the trump administration. he spends all of his time trying to frighten people away

from taking the vaccine. that is reckless, it is taking something that is so important to saving lives, making people afraid ofist. that is endangering people's lives simply to score political points. it is reckless and irresponsible. >> sandra: i want to head to immigration. here was the president yesterday talking about the border. >> president trump: we're going to defend our borders. they want open borders. we just hit 400 miles. that's a lot. this is a wall that is exactly what border patrol and all of the law enforcement people wanted. >> sandra: where is the messaging when it comes to immigration, the border, the wall. it dominated the 2016 trump campaign, tim. here is a headline in the "wall street journal." front page this morning. trump campaign tones down immigration messages that dominated 2016 election. it said the issue barely makes the top 10 list of topics

highlighted in political tv ads. it was a "wall street journal" review that found it was the fourth most mentioned issue in his 2016 campaign but has barely cracked the top 10 this cycle around. was that a concerted effort to transition away from that topic that did so well for the president in 2016, tim? >> no, and as a matter of fact the sound bite from the president you just played proves that's not the case. the president still talks about this issue at every single rally just about. it sets up a very clear contrast yet again. no one can mistake that president trump is the candidate who will enforce our borders, enforce our immigration laws, protect american workers and keep our communities safe by opposing sanctuary cities as well. joe biden on the other hand promises an open borders policy. he said for the first 100 days if he is elected he won't deport anybody. anybody. after 100 days he would deport only those illegal aliens who had committed felonies. he would grant amnesty to 11

million illegal aliens. give them all taxpayer funded healthcare and provide them work permits so they can compete with americans for jobs that they need coming out of the coronavirus crisis. on top of that joe biden will support sanctuary cities, a slap in the face of those communities who want safe streets. it's a big issue and no wonder some parts of the media is saying it's taken away are as an issue. the president is talking about that all the time. >> sandra: when it comes to the economy axios ran a headline this week that president trump does not have a plan on the economy. he talks about a big, beautiful tax cut but haven't gotten real details from the campaign. will we hear more in the coming days? will he get more specific about those tax cuts and what his plan is to do to get us out of this rut that we're in due to the pandemic? >> voters know that the president built the world's

best cone me once and is already done it a second time. his approach has always been to keep taxes low, allow people to make more decisions for themselves how to spend their own money they've earned. keep regulations go. get government out of the way of entrepreneurs, get government out of the way of farmers so farmers can thrive. what do you have on the other side? joe biden the president said at the top of this segment. joe biden's main plan. look, i will let --s you know the campaign doesn't write legislation. the president's goal is to keep taxes low. he has talked about further cutting taxes for the middle class. often talked about allowing people to keep more of what they earn. making it cheaper for businesses to hire people and look at what joe biden is offering, raising the corporate tax rate. that will make it more expensive to do business in the united states than it is in china. another case of joe biden looking out for china ahead of american workers, plus raising taxes by $4 trillion. if your question is who is

better on the economy, we welcome and we're dying for that argument. because it is quite clearly president trump and it is not even close. even the bad public polls show that. president trump is the leader on the economy. he built the world's best economy once and doing it a second time. joe biden is a disaster. voting for nafta, caring more about china. >> sandra: we are running out of time. thank you. the biden campaign is invited. we invite them daily. send somebody our way. they haven't recently. fox news is your channel for election night. bret baier and martha maccallum will have coverage next tuesday breaking down results as they start to come in from around the nation. here we go seven days out. >> trace: congresswoman ocasio-cortez calling on democrats to pack the supreme court after the confirmation of justice amy coney barrett. will joe biden give in to progressives' demands if he is elected? former wisconsin congressman sean duffy joins us next.

violent protests leaving several police officers injured in philadelphia after the fatal shooting of a black man. we'll speak to a former philadelphia police officer about the violence overnight next. >> they knew they was going to shoot. they knew they was going to shoot. >> all those markers in the streets. >> excessive force. mortgage paymentscan cut yos by $3000 a year. the va streamline refi is a benefit your spouse earned. it shortens the refi process so veteran families can save money by refinancing. there is no income verification. no appraisal. no out of pocket costs. all time low mortgage rates have now dropped even lower.

>> the oath that i have solemnly taken tonight means at its core that i will do my job without any fear or favor. i love the constitution and the democratic republic that it establishes and i will devote myself to preserving it. >> trace: amy coney barrett at the white house ceremony last night. she was officially sworn in as an associate justice moments ago in a private ceremony at the supreme court. her confirmation a week before the election has some progressives calling for putting more justices on the bench. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeted three words, expand the court. former wisconsin congressman sean duffy is a fox news contributor. always good to see you. the so-called squad said they want to expand the court. talib expounded on it.

we're going to take back the white house and the senate next week with a resounding mandate from the people to fight back against trump's illegitimately stacked judiciary. we must expand the court if we're -- seems like they're bound and determined to put more justices on the court. >> i think we should take that very seriously. if aoc and the squad say we should expand the court. aoc pushing nancy pelosi into the impeachment of donald trump. her movement. the last year she raised millions of dollars to take out more moderate democrats and elect more liberal democrats. she has taken out caucus members, lacey clay she helped take out. the power she holds is pretty significant. to say it is illegitimate. trump and mcconnell have followed the constitution. the president nominated amy coney barrett and the senate confirmed her. what the democrats want to see

here is they want to see the election take place so they have an opportunity to nominate and confirm a radical liberal. so they want the -- republicans have the authority to do it and thank goodness they did. >> trace: the president is in office and senate in power. yes, this is legitimate for all intents and purposes. what the minority leader chuck schumer is saying. watch this? >> this is what leader mcconnell said after justice scalia died. the american people should have a voice in the selection of their next supreme court justice. i want you to use my words against me, he said. the chairman of the judiciary committee. rather than accept the consequences of its own words and deeds the republican majority is lighting its credibility on fire. >> trace: he is calling for retaliation here. the bottom line is even if you decide to pack the court that means ending the filibuster. even if the democrats win the senate, there doesn't seem to be a great deal of appetite to end the filibuster among some

democratic senators and congressmen. >> again, i think that liberal pressure to end the filibuster is real. i think they will actually do it. but as we're talking about the packing of the courts. you have 150 years of precedent where we have nine justices on the court and to see the democrats would actually flip that over when you look back to two years ago when republicans had the senate and the president had -- democrats had the white house, of course we'll wait for the election. republicans have the senate and the white house of course we're going to push through our nominee. this rule applies for both republicans and democrats. as we have joe biden who really hasn't answered this question, trace, media hasn't pushed him. he have will say he will bring america together. this is one of the most divisive things democrats could do, pack the court. so democrats would have the white house, the congress and they would have the courts stacked with four or six

justices to push through a radical agenda that most americans don't want. if joe is really talking about people together i won't pack the court. i'll push back against aoc and the squad and i won't listen to kamala. i will do what's right for america. he is unwilling to answer the question. it leads me to believe he sides with aoc and will actually move to pack the court. and again i think the american people will be outraged and their hair on fire. >> trace: former congressman sean duffy. good to see you, sir. thank you. [crowd chanting] >> sandra: chaos in the streets of philadelphia overnight after police officers shoot and kill a black man armed with a knife. the incident sparking violent protests leading to dozens of arrests. at least 30 officers were injured including one officer hit by a pickup truck.

seen in the following video and a warning. you will find this disturbing. >> oh, he hit a cop, oh my god, he hit a cop. >> sandra: trace, difficult video to watch. all this happening overnight. 30 officers injured in this and one hit by that truck. difficult to take in the scene of what we saw overnight. >> trace: really what is key here is the body cams were working. the body cam video that was part of this will go public. all of it eventually does. that is going to tell a great deal of the story as it always does in these types of cases and that's why they are mandated. the whole concept here is you have people on one side saying why didn't they use non-lethal force? why didn't they tase him? why didn't they do something else besides shoot the man even though he had a knife, even

though he was threatening. the question becomes why not use non-lethal force? if you talk to police officers around the country case in point they aren't trained for that. they aren't trained. if somebody has a lethal weapon anthem they're trained to use lethal force. >> sandra: mainstream media getting new criticism for how they're covering the biden campaign. are they guilty of trying to protect the former vice president? heavy turnout for early voting. states across the country setting brand-new records. how will it impact the race for the white house? we're live in texas next. ♪ as president, the first step i will take

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>> trace: stories making headlines now. candidates making the final sprint with one week to go before the election. president trump hitting michigan, wisconsin and nebraska today. meantime joe biden plans to stump in georgia.

>> sandra: tropical storm zeta picking up steam setting its sights on the gulf coast. louisiana under a hurricane warning. >> trace: case numbers are still going up. 74,000 people in the u.s. were diagnosed as positive yesterday of coronavirus. that pushes the seven-day average to the highest level we've seen so far. >> how much you'll be traveling in the next few days, where you might be going? >> by the way, i traveled the last few days, too. >> president trump is planning an event -- >> the words and actions of the president matter. >> sandra: joe biden taking questions by reporters at a surprise stop in eastern pennsylvania. he is not holding many in-person events because of the pandemic. critics say the media is treating the former v.p. with kid gloves. look at this column in the

"wall street journal." saving private biden. the press standard for 2020. no tough questions for the former vice president. bring in joe concha, the media reporter at the the hill. is that the case? is that all we'll see? joe, good morning. >> sandra, good morning. it's all we have seen quite frankly. the theme i've seen over and over again joe biden and questions. he is not asked very much about his policy positions or his perspective on things like trade or education or gun policy or foreign policy or law enforcement or automation. that's a pretty big deal. robots taking millions of low-wage working jobs. i haven't seen that broached once with either candidate. overall, joe biden a good chunk of the questions towards him, sandra, seem to focus on president trump and if you teach a class and you want to define a softball question when asking a political candidate a question and you ask him or her about their political opponent and you ask to define that particular person, what do you

think of president trump? bad guy or really bad guy? that's the easiest question to handle. microcosm of sloppiness in terms of biden and questions we've seen recently. 60 minutes on sunday. 17 million people watched. one of the most-watched programs of the year. for whatever reason, cbs decided to take the biden interview six days in advance. as a result of interviewer nora o'donnell asked him at one point do you think the hunter biden story is a product of russian disinformation? the problem with that question was a couple days later "the new york times" concluded that russian disinformation had nothing to do with the hunter biden story. the director of national intelligence john ratcliffe said there isn't russian disinformation involved here. joe biden is asked that and answers the question in front of 17 million people based on antiquated information. bias and sloppiness and laziness. i don't think 60 minutes of years past would have allowed that question to stand. they would have done a follow

up with biden or corrected the record. >> sandra: bill mcgurn says the best standard of coverage was given by real clear investigations after a fawning news conference he relayed the assessment of a friend. watching the press handle joe biden with the press makes sure a kid wins candy land. if we what we see as far as kid gloves with the campaign by the press now, how do they handle a joe biden presidency? jerry baker in the "wall street journal." media watchdogs aren't supposed to guard biden. if the democrats win, will america's free press become an instrument of state propaganda? to you on that, joe. >> well, as a father of a 4-year-old who just recently let his win candy land i can relate to that analogy.

joe biden presidency will be a lot like a barack obama presidency in terms of all the hostile press conferences that we have been accustomed to over the last four years. those all go away. look at a recent study from the conservative media research center from the evening newscasts supposed to be objective and down the middle. president trump's coverage 92% negative in the last couple of weeks. joe biden 66% positive. that's a 158 point difference. yeah, obviously the gas is on the pedal in terms of pushing joe biden over the finish line. i guess the only good news if are you a trump supporter if you want to hang your hat on something the hill four years ago did a compilation of endorsements by major newspaper for each candidate. donald trump got two. hillary clinton got 57. steak knives and a concession speech. perhaps the influence of media isn't what it used to be and maybe that's why this race at least in the battleground states is still very, very close, sandra. >> sandra: joe concha. appreciate that. thank you.

>> trace: everything is bigger in texas, right, including early voting. the lone star state needs the nation in early ballots cast with california and florida close behind. casey stiegel live for us in dallas. what do the numbers look like exactly, casey? >> trace, it's another dreary and cold day across much of the lone star state. parts of texas woke up to snow this morning. mid 30s, windchill and drizzle in dallas. all records have been set in the larger metro areas of this state. like in dallas and houston and austin, for example, the early voting numbers easily shattering the 2016 early voting numbers, the period ends here on friday. so far an estimated 7.3 million ballots cast. more than 7 million over in california where some voters have seen increased wait times and more than 6 million early votes have already been cast

down in florida. >> it's really important this election. a lot is at stake. and i feel if you have the privilege to vote you should definitely go out and exercise your opinion. >> look at this line, so long reported in marion county, indiana. over eight hours this past weekend in the indianapolis area. back here in texas there are whispers, reports that kamala harris will be here campaigning in texas on friday. at this point the real clear politics average as of today does show president trump winning texas by 3.2 points. >> trace: casey stiegel live in dallas. >> sandra: joe biden making two stops in georgia today rallying supporters in the new swing state. one week before election day. polls show him neck-and-neck with president trump seven days

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>> the whole state of georgia is so important. it's important in terms of the people of georgia deserve to have a president who cares about them. georgia has been so hard hit by the pandemic. >> trace: kamala harris in georgia over the weekend as joe biden hits the peach state today. real clear politics shows biden in a virtual tie with president trump in this usually reliable red state. let's bring in a former bernie sanders surrogate and public advocate candidate. great to see you. tough getting joe biden out of the house and on the road. it appears he is going to georgia. he looks -- his team must think he has a pretty good shot to win there. >> first after it has been a

pandemic so i think it's great that biden campaign has been cognizant of the fact they need to keep all the candidates at the top of the ticket strong as surrogates strong and campaign however they can. people from their communities are campaigning. georgia is a perfect example of that. georgia was hit extremely hard by this pandemic and there are changing demographics in georgia. you look at the demographics from four years ago. trump barely took georgia. not only is this an investment in a possible win but shows how strong this ticket is and what we'll see on tuesday hopefully. but it also shows that the democrats are thinking long-term. they want to win the south back. last time we won georgia was with bill clinton, the democrat. i think there is an opportunity to think long game by investing there. >> trace: why this weekend and not last weekend? usa today poll up there. over the past week president trump has gained almost a point in georgia. and so that's a big deal.

a week later, why wouldn't joe biden and his team go last week instead of this week? >> well, trump had a rally there so sometimes that happens. also you have to look at the polls and the cross tabs. he wants to compete in every state he can. the democrats are not taking anything for granted especially with mail-in voting. especially with voter suppression laws with voter intimidation that's out there. they aren't going to take anything for granted. they are investing as much money in these key states that may deliver them the presidency this year. states that were never on the map. and also the future. i mean, if we could win a senate seat from georgia. the governorship was very close in georgia. so i think it's a real opportunity in georgia in the long run. the money comes in at the end. it's how campaigns work. >> trace: you talked about mail-in ballots and in-person voting. 960,153 mail-in ballots. in person voting 2 million. the numbers are staggering.

total early votes 2.7 million total early votes. what do you take away from that? >> i mean, that's what democracy should look like. every election, if it was like that, we might have a very different lineup of leadership. it would be more reflective of our country rather than a bunch of billionaires and millionaires in congress. if people stay this motivated after the presidential election i can see the country turning around and becoming much more representative of the people rather than the special interests in washington >> trace: amy coney barrett want to switch topics was sworn in last night. here is chuck schumer and what he had to say. >> the next time the american people give democrats the majority in this chamber, you will have forfeited the right to tell us how to run that majority. my colleagues may regret this for a lot longer than they think. >> trace: chuck schumer

threatening retaliation. the squad threatening to pack the court. joe biden threatening to rotate judges in and out. your thoughts on that? >> listen, republicans play with whatever game they have, whatever pieces they have. i'm glad that senator schumer is starting to speak up. i just wish he had done it maybe, i don't know, six weeks ago when the squad was pushing him to do so. to delay the process. because listen, this wasn't fair, let's just -- i think american people have shown in the polls. >> trace: why wasn't it fair? they have the senate for six years, the white house, is the president for four years. they made a decision when the republicans had power and when the republicans had the white house what is not fair about that? >> by their own statements in the past it is not. listen, senator lindsey graham went on long monologues, it's unfair and unjust to choose the court in an election cycle.

rbg herself said the same thing. moving forward i would like to see senator schumer like he was today and the last few days act like the majority leader. >> trace: great to see you. thank you. >> thanks, trace. >> sandra: tens of thousands in california under evacuation orders as two wildfires burn out of control with high winds making it harder to fight them. a live report from the fire zone straight ahead. >> this fire will continue to cross and encroach upon the homes in multiple areas. our priority now is getting people evacuated and out of the path of the fire.

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>> ♪ >> two fast moving fires burning out of control in southern california forcing evacuations of more than 100,000 people. a fire year irvine quadrupled in size. and north the blue ridge fire scorched about 8,000 acre there is. jonathan hunt is in live in foothill ranch, california. what a scene. how are conditions where you are? >> yes, good morning. we are in the heart of the one from the neighborhoods that has been so hit badly.

there is good news today. within the last couple of hours the ackerman has been able to get back in the air. fixed winning and helicopters. they are performing water drops. you can see where the white smoke is rising. those are the areas where they are dropping the water that turns the black smoke to white. that's a good sign because it means they are getting a handle on these flames from the ackerman. -- air. these flames earlier today were running up these hillsides. a lot of these areas are surrounded by homes under extreme threat. extraordinary work from firefighters on the ground.

they are getting are more of a handle than yesterday when the gusts of winds were 96 miles per hour. the blue ridge fire, not far away. that's burned around 8,000 acres right now. hundreds of firefighters battling that one. and a tragic incidence yesterday two firefighters were badly burned. they are still in the hospital as of this morning. we have not had any update in the last hour or so. the last we heard they were in critical condition and both were intubated. the dangers these firefighters go through every day is extraordinary. you see the work they do. they are real heroes.

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person. >> sandra: 3 stops for the president and 2 for joe biden. it's going to be a day, 7 days out. trace, great to be with you. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> ♪ >> exactly one week from today, election day. president trump and joe biden are hitting the campaign trail in key battleground states today. the president in michigan, wisconsin, and nebraska. we could hear from him this hour has he leaves the white house. joe biden is holding 2 events in georgia. yesterday in pennsylvania, biden defended his campaign schedule. >> there are a lot of things we could be doing having massive crowds, but the fact is it's just not appropriate now. people should be tested first before they even show up