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make their closing pitches to voters as they make their final six-day stretch. wildfires rip through the west coast firefighters try to fight off fire. kim kardashian why she's facing backlash over her 40th birthday bash "early today" starts right now good to be with you. i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm phillip mena. it was the dodgers who won over the rays. randy continued his hot streak, homering in the first inning to give tampa the early 1-0 lead. the rays' blake snell, he had nine strikeouts, but the manager pulled him out in the sixth

issuing. that's just what the dodgers wanted to see. that's a decision that will haunt tampa for years. corey seager would bring in mookie betts on this rbi single and the dodgers have the lead. mookie betts would gesh himive room on this to close out the race. >> dodgers have won it all in 2020. >> l.a. wins the series in six games. it's the dodgers' seventh championship and their first since 1988 the lakers also won the nba title that year. we're less than one week from election day, and voter enthusiasm is sky-high new data shows that over 61 million americans have already cast their ballot. that's about half the number of votes cast for the entire 2016

election president trump and joe biden are back on the campaign trail today trying to shore up support. our tracie potts joins us. the president is heading to arizona today. >> well, we're going to see both campaigns out west today both the president and senator kamela harris hitting arizona. joe biden back on the east coast, again, drilling down on coronavirus with a briefing and a speech on that topic, but when it comes to driving out the vote, interestingly the president is focusing on the battleground states especially the midwestern states he picked up from democrats four years ago. we're seeing joe biden make an interesting pitch for states like texas where our records show it's a tossup and georgia where he told voters if we win georgia, we win everything but the president is predicting

big republican wins on election day. >> you're going to see a red wave like they've never seen before, and they saw a very big one. this is going to be bigger and they know it this is going to be beautiful. it doesn't have to start on tuesday. it can start early early voting. >> time and again throughout our history, we've seen sharl shar le tons, the pop man who played on our fears, appealed to our worst appetites and picked at the oldest scabs we have for our own political gain we can restore our soul and save our country, and i know we can unite and heal this nation. >> stay empowered, stay optimistic, stay united, because you, too, have a sacred duty the duty to vote. >> both sides have their surrogates out campaigning for them we saw president trump in florida. first lady melania trump in her first solo appearance in

pennsylvania their decision as of this morning, more than 71 million americans have already voted we're seeing early voting in record numbers. >> oh, yeah. we're hearing so many stories of hours upon hours and blocks upon blocks of wait there, tracie. the covid in the u.s. is showing no signs of letting up as of today there have been 8.8 million infections and over 227,000 americans have died according to an nbc news tally "the new york times" says the u.s. has reported a record of more than 500,000 new cases over the past week. the surge of cases have led to a 46% spike in hospitalizations according to data by the covid tracking project this is pushing the country's medical system to the brink. meanwhile many americans are still out of work due to the pandemic and house speaker nancy

pelosi is blasting the white house in a new letter to house democrats after president trump told reporters that a coronavirus economic relief deal would likely come after the november 3rd election. in that letter pelosi wrote in part, the white house has failed miserably, not by accident but by decision, this as a new nbc news surveymonkey poll found that 68% of adults know someone who has had covid-19 that's compared to 31% who don't. let's turn to the wildfire emergency still raging in california firefighters have been injured and nearly 100,000 people were forced to abon dandon their hom. >> reporter: whipped by catastrophic winds for a second day, the wildfires in southern california sound like a jet engine as they explode across orange county. as massive walls of fire threaten homes, nearly 90,000

people were forced to suddenly flee flames. >> this is a mandatory evacuation zone. >> i thought the world was ending. >> reporter: authorities are investigating if electrical equipment may have sparked the fire it's not the power and size of these wildfires but the wind that's causing so much damage and destruction. >> reporter: two young firefighters were critically injured. across the state, 23 million are facing red flag warnings. >> the winds were -- i mean they were whipping. i can only imagine what it was doing to fan the fire. >> reporter: there is some good news those erratic and powerful santa ana winds here in southern california are finally starting to ease up. >> all right thanks to miguel almaguer for that report. the gulf coast is in the path of another hurricane this morning. meteorologist janessa webb joining us with the latest on

zeta good morning. >> reporter: zeta has intensified rapidly. we're seeing the center of circulation come together. that means the storm system will continue to gain strength and right now the national hurricane center keeps this storm as a cat 1, but i do think there's that potential of a cat 2 storm it's 365 miles southwest of the mississippi river with sustained winds of 75 miles per hour now, there is that swift movement and that's why we're thinking the wind damage is going to be very big across southeast louisiana, mississippi, alabama as well it's going to race onshore and then make its way across portions of the mid-atlantic to the northeast. first let's talk about landfall. the timing goes like this. 5:00 p.m. to that 7:00 p.m. hour, right now i'm forecasting a landfall for dulac, louisiana. and then the center of that storm will go through nooechblts

it will race t the lower 50s. still a very cold air mass in the upper midwest and chicago today. more sunshine, 55. a quick-moving system makes its quay to the northeast. then we start to track snow. i'll have that forecast coming up. >> wow that system's going to be a shock to our system once we start feeling those temperatures all right, janessa, thank you. still to come, amazon with a jaw-dropping hiring spree. and a surge of coronavirus case in wisconsin is clouding the election looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes

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we're adding an astounding 71,000 new covid cases per day wisconsin already in the glare of the national political spotlight is suffering some of the worst of the pandemic. breaking daily covid cases, 5,262 with 64 deaths it's now weighing heavily as they go to the polls here's nbc's lester holt. >> reporter: these are the critical milwaukee suburbs that could determine if president trump wins wisconsin again or if joe biden flips it back to blue. our journey brings us to wisconsin not only because it's a swing state and an important part of the path to victory for both men, but also it's a state that has been rocked by two of the major issues of this campaign the protests for social justice and the violence, plus a frightening surge in covid cases and hospitalizations.

>> my symptoms were lcough, fever, body ache. >> reporter: melissa armor had covid last spring but her breathing problems lingered for weeks, so she went back to the hospital and the doctors made another discovery. >> i'm lucky i survived it and went into the hospital when i did because i never would have known i have leukemia. >> thankfully it was caught early, undergoing treatment now telling us experience is one reason she's voting for president trump. >> do you think the president has done a good job with covid >> i think so. i think he's done what he knew he could do for us. >> reporter: but leah baltimore bank of america sees it much differently. she, too, battled covid, spending several days on a ventilator. >> what has it been like to watch what's transpired over the last two months?

>> frustrating for sure. i don't understand people's aversions to wearing masks. >> reporter: she told me she voted early for joe biden. >> do you think that he can turn this around? >> i would hope so with stricter restrictions on wearing masks. >> you think bide listen push for mandatory mask wear snieg would hope so. altogether, i think he can do a much better job than trump. >> reporter: next door in battleground michigan, their darkest days have passed the covid days, but it's impacting the election this doctor spent weeks treating covid patients despite the president's heavily criticized pandemic response. he told us he's giving president trump the benefit of the doubt and his vote. >> i don't think he did everything perfectly, and neither would have anyone else, but i think and i truly believe he did things as best as he could, given what he knew at the

time. >> reporter: mindy priske is also voting for the president. >> we're in the way of recovering from the economy and a lot of people will say a lot quicker than was expected, and i think we need to stay the course with that. >> reporter: she owns an ice skating company and said her business was devastated by covid restrictions imposed by michigan's governor that mindy thought were unfair. >> you can go to the casino. so if they can be opened at 15%, why couldn't we? >> i'm just looking at everything that i worked for for 17 years, and then looked a a business that had to shut down. >> reporter: patricia wilder was forced to close her studio for weeks saying she's voting for biden saying she can't trust president trump. >> i'm a woman, a black woman, a small business those thee things alone does not seem look it's on his radar. >> reporter: then there's the flashpoint over race and justice, which is also situation

americans' votes back in wisconsin we met antonio godfrey sr. >> i have never protested a day in my lives but after watching george floyd's murder happen, i felt the need. i was angered. >> reporter: there's antonio at a protest. his son noaa wah was right there with him. >> it was very emotional, it was. but it was a good emotion. it made me feel warm the community has started the process of wanting challenge. >> reporter: he said he won't vote for president trump. >> he does not have my best interest in mind he doesn't have the people of color's interest in mind. >> reporter: arleta allen, the first black city council woman in fond du lac takes a different view. >> i'm going to vote for him because i'm a republican, not

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off-duty police officer in virginia saved a man from a burning car. the officer as well as a good samaritan ran in to help the 51-year-old after his car struck another car. he's now facing dui charges. the postal service's on-time delivery time has dropped. the rate of on-time first class mail was roughly 10% than the usps goal of nearly 5%. amazon has announced plans to bring on 100,000 seasonal employees to work in the warehouses they would help to deal with the demand over the holiday season. a wave of coronavirus cases isn't the only thing sweeping through europe right now in italy protests have erupted after covid, a fresh round, hit a dozen cities the curfews as well as closures

of restaurants, bars, and others led to it. >> reporter: police fired tear gas as crowds protested tough new rules, curfews, bars and restaurants closing early, to try to stop the explosive rise of covid record cases in hospitals falling fast. >> the next few weeks will be terrible, i imagine. >> reporter: in bergamo, thousands wear masks 6,000 died with covid in just over a month in the spring, the worst death rate in the world. today as the virus sweeps in again, people here are terrified. >> we're scared to go outside of the home, we're scared to meet other people. >> reporter: nearly everyone here have lost family. >> two parents in early march. >> reporter: they fear another terrible toll, history repeating

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shared theirlove and support gabrielle union said thank you for this ellen wrote, i wouldn't want anyone to go through this, but if they do, i'm glad they have this. >> in that moment you're thinking of handing your camera to somebody to take photos >> so raw. i can't think of anything more personal than losing a child like that and to share it with the world. >> you see both sides. >> a lot of people are going through that a lot of people said it was oversharing and some say it was just opening up. kim kardashian, she's in trouble for oversharing in a different way. she's getting dragged online for her island birthday bash she surprised her inner circle with a trip. she surprised her guests with a trip to tahiti and flew them

there in a jet they called her tone-deaf and cruel during the pandemic. for her part car dash yab acknowledged her privilege and said she feels so humbled and blessed. at this time, there's so much more to worry about than where kim kardashian is with her friends. >> you have to wonder, are they really reading the post? blake shelton and gwen stefani are engaged. they've been together for five years. he wrote, thanks for saving my 2020 and the rest of my life i love you i heard a yes. i heard gwen stefani in the same caption, yes, please it's a long time coming. >> the year 2020, the year of a breakup or getting together. up next, an outlook on borat.

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right now at 4:30 getting the green light to move forward, restaurants, gyms, places of worship. we'll see those changes coming up. and the countdown to election day, with six days to go what's being done at the ballot box. >> working to restore power. pg&e expects to have things fully up and running for thousands who have been in the dark for days. "today in the bay" starts right now. good wednesday