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good morning, i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm phillip mena. breaking overnight congress and the white house missed a midnight deadline to provide much-needed federal relief funding to the struggling airline industry talks are expected to continue, today. but late last night, american airlines said it will furlough 19,000 employees while united is laying off 13,000 both airlines say they will reverse that decision, if a deal is reached nbc's tom costello is at reagan national airport with more >> reporter: pilots, flight attendants, ticket counter, and ramp workers, united flight attendant amanda has already received a furlough notice. >> how are you going to make it if you are furloughed and presumably without a paycheck? >> i'm going to be in unemployment line like so many other people. >> the airlines promised to preserve jobs through september, in exchange for $25 billion in taxpayer help. but airline travel is still down

a staggering 70% delta and southwest say they can avoid job cuts, for now. but united and americans are among the carriers who say they'll be forced to cut jobs, without another 25 billion as house speaker pelosi and treasury secretary mnuchin negotiate a much bigger economic aid package, american's ceo says he will put furloughs on hold if a deal looks close. >> look. the last thing we want to do is furlough employees that's why we've been fighting so hard there to come to an agreement. >> reporter: the covid pandemic, also, has dealt a body blow to disney now, laying off 28,000 park employees, including restaurant worker, claire mcvee. >> there is immense anxiety, not knowing if i have a job to go back to. >> meanwhile, a new poll finds 61% of households with children report serious financial problems, caused by the pandemic with many reporting at least one adult in the family has, either, lost a job or had their wages cut. phillip. >> everyone knows someone who is

feeling this tom, thank you. >> families in california fear for their safety as wildfires rage out of control. tens of thousands of homes are now threatened in wine country where the glass fire has scorched more than 50,000 acres and is only 2% contained nbc's miguel almaguer reports from napa county >> reporter: before sunrise, the hills surrounding napa valley became a blowtorch, again. racing in multiple directions. two fires in northern california's wine country are now threatening twice as many structures more than 24,000 hundreds of homes are lost. >> you don't believe it until you see it and it's still surreal >> reporter: with roughly a dozen wineries damaged or destroyed, evacuation orders, include entire cities. when mike christian returns home, there will be nothing left to say. >> it's a very sobering thing. what we thought was important is, now, ashes >> reporter: as extreme wind and heat challenge exhausted crews,

thick smoke is now grounding the air attack when flames tore through this area, little could be done to stop it. multimillion dollar homes and smaller properties are a total loss a few hours later, this home is still a threat capable of sparking a new fire with its hot embers. a region known for its beauty, now marred by its destruction. >> it's just hard to see it this way. you know, it's beautiful here but that's being stripped, one fire at a time. >> for now, officials only have a rough estimate of the damage hundreds of homes have been lost, including structures but that true scope of destruction will likely grow, in the days to come frances, back to you. >> that is the fear. miguel, thank you. the fallout from the first presidential debate is far from over the commission on presidential debates is considering format changes for the remaining matchups so that we don't see a round two of the chaos in

cleveland. nbc's tracie potts joining us, now, with the latest so, tracie, what kind of changes could we see to these upcoming debates? >> so, we don't know, exactly, phillip, what the commission is going to do. they haven't said. they said they are going to look at some changes before the next debate in two weeks. a source close to the commission is suggesting that they may look at changing their format, so that the microphones can be cut off if a candidate does not obey the rules. now, we know not as many people were watching this debate as they were four years ago the viewership numbers down by 11 million, over 2016. and president trump and democratic nominee joe biden, also, are, both, really taking a look at their own performance. >> the verdict is in, and they say that we, we, all of us, won big, last night. held joe biden accountable for

his 47 years of lies 47 years of betrayals. and 47 years of failure. >> he thinks that if he just yells louder and louder, throws out lie after lie after lie, he'll get his way. he thinks we'll forget well, he picked the wrong guy. i don't forget. >> now, we know that joe biden has been on a whistle-stop train tour from ohio to pennsylvania the president was in minnesota last night talking about this. today, he is going to be in new jersey and new york. phillip. >> all right tracie potts with the very latest from washington tracie, thank you. with voting already underway in 30 states, president trump tried to sow doubt about the election especially, the wide use of mail-in voting, despite little evidence that it leads to fraud. nbc's geoff bennett has the story. >> reporter: president trump sowing doubt about the legitimacy of the election during tuesday night's debate.

>> this is going to be a fraud like you've never seen >> reporter: with more false attacks on voting by mail. >> as far as the ballots are concerned, it's a disaster >> reporter: that's despite study, after study, showing voter fraud is exceedingly rare. and recent testimony from fbi director, christopher wray. >> we have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated, national voter fraud effort, in a major election >> reporter: still, the president unleashed a flood of misinformation and mistruths about mail-in voting >> a solicited ballot. okay solicited is okay. you're soliciting. you're asking. they send it back. you send it back i did that if you have an unsolicited -- they're sending millions of ballots, all over the country. >> reporter: a handful of states with a mix of democratic and republican governors routinely send ballots to all registered voters election officials say by registering to vote, people are effectively requesting a ballot. and that, there's no such thing

as an unsolicited ballot. >> there's fraud they found 'em in creeks they found some with the name trump. just happened to have the name trump, just the other day, in a waste paper basket. >> reporter: in pennsylvania, a temporary elections worker accidentally threw out nine military ballots the election official said the isolated incident amounts to a mistake and not intentional fraud. the worker has since been fired. and there is no evidence of ballots being dumped in creeks during the debate, president trump, also, sparked fears of voter intimidation. >> i am urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully. >> reporter: joe biden delivering his election message, directly to voters. >> this is all about trying to dissuade people from voting because he 's trying to scare people into thinking that it's not going to be legitimate show up and vote you will determine the outcome of this election >> president trump, also, said that mail voting could delay the election outcome for months, although experts say it's more

likely a matter of days or weeks, not months. frances. >> just a little over a month. geoff, thank you. >> covid has touched down in the nfl and now the league has suspended in-person activities for two teams and this sunday's pittsburgh steelers/tennessee titans game. here is nbc's sam brock. >> reporter: the nfl's highly anticipated return just collided with its first covid-related reality check. >> nobody's to blame you know, we're in a pandemic. >> reporter: the tennessee titans reacting to news their sunday showdown with the pittsburgh steelers will be postponed until monday or tuesday. >> obviously, we didn't choose to be in this situation. but it's -- it's the hand we're dealt. >> the move coming after a fourth titans player tested positive for the virus this week, bringing the organization's total to nine the nfl tweeting the delay will

allow additional time for further daily covid-19 testing and to ensure the health and safety of players, coaches, and game day personnel. >> how significant is any stoppage to the nfl? >> well, it's huge because you want to try, as best you can, to get 16 games played for each team so there's a fair number. but you want to make sure that it's done, in the healthiest manner possible. >> reporter: other leagues not playing in bubbles have hit stumbling blocks, too. the miami marlins reached 20 positive tests and nearly crashed major league baseball season now, the nfl is taking major precautions and hoping for a bounceback of its own. >> our thanks to sam brock for that report. let's get a check now of your october 1st weather with nbc meteorology, janessa webb. janessa, good morning. >> good morning, everyone. it's a chilly start to october and it's only going to get worse for the great lakes to the upper midwest. we have this strong cold front that's going to be lingering across the area. it's a series of fronts, even

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