will the women of the suburbs please vote for president trump? so ridiculous. >> i believe the message is going to be clear, it's time for donald trump to pack his bag and go home. >> one day away. the race for the white house with election day upon us. the candidates will hit the road one last time to try to seal the deal. coronavirus spreading like wildfire as positive daily cases set record after record. could the u.s. be headed for a

lockdown we are watching where the 28th named storm is on the move. we'll tell you where it's headed. plus, an exciting weekend in the nfl filled with twists and turns. the first monday of the month in november "early today" starts right now glad to have you with us i'm frances rivera. >> i'm phillip mena. on the eve of the election, both candidates are launching one last blitz joe biden is holding events in ohio and pennsylvania. a tremendous amount of americans have already voted casting a record breaking 93 million ballots and it could cross the 100 million mark once this weekend's numbers are tallied up the president is trailing his democratic rival by 10 points according to the latest nbc news wall street journal national

poll nbc's tracie potts is joining us from biden's hometown of wilmington, delaware busy day for both candidates >> reporter: a really busy day, phillip. good morning, everyone biden is staying close by. president trump, all over the place today. he will be in michigan, in wisconsin and north carolina, pennsylvania not far from here, but last night he started out with a rally in must-win florida. the latest "new york times" sienna poll shows president trump behind 3 percentage points in florida, within the margin of error, making that a tight race. he held a midnight rally sparking controversy after suggesting he might fire the nation's top covid expert. >> fire fauci. fire fauci fire fauci fire fauci fire fauci fire fauci

>> don't tell anybody, but let me wait till a little bit after the election i appreciate the advice. i appreciate that. he's been wrong a lot. he's a nice man. he's been wrong on a lot >> reporter: meantime, joe biden going all in on pennsylvania he has rallies all over the state today. the latest "new york times" sienna point shows him up 6 points in the state he was born. biden talked about the importance of pennsylvania on the trail. >> every day is a new reminder of how high the stakes are, of how far the other side will go to suppress a turnout especially here in philadelphia president trump is terrified of what will happen in pennsylvania he knows the people in pennsylvania get to have their say. if you have your say, he doesn't stand a chance

>> reporter: now tonight biden is tapping off the day with a star studded rally in pittsburgh, pennsylvania featuring lady gaga, john legend, his top supporters president obama will be in atlanta and miami today. and back here in wilmington, they're building a stage phillip, we don't know when we'll see biden on that stage and what he might say when he's there. depends on how and how quickly those results come in. >> so much uncertainty all going to be unfolding in the next 24, 48 hours. tracie, thank you so much. over the weekend, both campaigns blitzed key battleground states fighting for the final undecided votes. biden making a pit stop in pennsylvania a state trump won in 2016. can he turn that state blue this time around? ali vitali is in philadelphia. >> reporter: good morning, frances. joe biden beginning day two of his pennsylvania blitz

he and kamala harris are effectively dividing up the state. they have spent more time than any other battleground state during the general election. it's clear now that this is the place that they are going all in on joe biden going to be campaigning in cleveland, ohio, as well as then moving closer to pittsburgh, pennsylvania, taking over the western part of this keystone state while his running mate, senator kamala harris and her husband take the eastern part of the state around the philadelphia area and the suburbs around that area as well key places for them not to just run up big turnout but also potentially flip some counties that went for donald trump in 2016 if we're talking for places they're looking to flip, look no further than where kamala harris spent the day yesterday. that's georgia democrats have been salivating over the chance to flip it they think 2020 just might be the year to do it. >> ali, thank you. a former republican strong

hold is showing shades of blue in 2020. in our latest arizona polling average, joe biden is leading president trump by about 4 points nbc's vaughn hilliard is joining us good morning >> reporter: phillip, there are 40 hours left until polls close in the state of arizona. when folks are looking at the political map, arizona could be the state that clinches it florida, north carolina, pennsylvania, georgia but later in the evening when the polls close in arizona, we may know up to 90% of the results there on election night the biden campaign is looking at this state with optimism they have seen consistent results in arizona donald trump won here four years

ago. in 2016 he won the state by 3.5 percentage points. those numbers have only declined over the last several years putting the trump campaign in a tough position there are no more campaign stops so it's up to the organizers to get folks to turn in their ballots. in maricopa county, already the number of returned early ballots exceeds all of the ballots sent in in the county in 2016 combined phillip. >> sounds like a similar story throughout the country vaughn, thank you. in north carolina the stakes are at an all-time high with the senate a senate race up for grabs morgan radford has more. >> reporter: good morning. north carolina is the state to watch because of not one but two important races. of course you have the presidential race. this is a state that president trump won back in 2016 by less than 200,000 votes but he's

losing some support right now among suburban voters. women voters and voters with a college education. those are exactly the voters joe biden is trying to pursue. on the other hand, you have a critical senate race this is one of those states democrats are hoping to flip to regain power it's also on track to become the most expensive u.s. senate race in history surpassing the race in 2018 in florida all eyes right now are on the tar heel state >> our election night coverage begins tomorrow at 7 p.m. eastern here on nbc. the u.s. continues to shatter coronavirus records as experts say the pandemic has reached the third peak so far more than 9 million cases have been confirmed in the u.s. and deaths have climbed to over 232,000. on friday the nation reported over 99,000 new covid-19 cases

beating its previous record of more than 88,000 set only a day prior. this as "usa today" reports that the country set a record for new coronavirus cases over a seven-day period with more than 500,000 infections also new data from johns hopkins has found an american is testing positive every 1.2 seconds daily covid deaths are also climbing one person dying every 107 seconds. meanwhile, the nation's top experts say a surge is tied to close gatherings police in new york say they shut down massive illegal halloween parties over the week end. a nearly 400 person affair in brooklyn was shut down on friday along with a bronx bash on saturday 550 people were in violation of emergency stay at home orders. at least nine people whom officials say were the organizers were charged. set to sale. after eight months after being

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welcome back florida is critical for winning the presidency remember that happening chad fiasco back in 2000. nbc reports that election officials there have made a lot of changes since then. >> reporter: 20 years ago broward county was the center of the political universe >> counts, recounts and re-recounts. >> unprecedented vote recount still has not answered the question who will be the president. >> this is the answer. >> the broward supervisor of elections says -- >> we're ready for t. we're

ready for it. >> they've invested nearly $2 million on new cyber security software and high speed counter machines and hired extra staff to process ballots 16 hours a day. >> if you want turnout, if you want people to participate, they have to have confidence that what they're doing is going to matter >> reporter: further south in miami-dade county they've learned their lesson florida is one of a handful of battleground states that processes early votes before election day north carolina, texas, arizona also allow for some early vote counting meaning if those races aren't tight, the networks could call them early in the night. in florida, about 1.5% of mail in or absentee ballots are thrown out on the election that means thousands of votes are not counted. >> how many of you voted by mail this last primary? all of you did

and vote -- raise your hand if you had an issue when you were voting by mail none of you. >> reporter: but by accessing public voter data we were able to determine the status of their ballots. >> it turns out that all of your votes were rejected for this last primary. >> what? >> well, that's kind of crazy. >> i'm kind of surprised honestly. >> i hope it didn't happen this time. >> most are discarded for missing or invalid signatures, but many because they don't meet a strict deadline. if it's not received by election day at 7 p.m., it doesn't count, regardless of when it was mailed. >> did anyone reach out to you, let you know there was a problem? >> not that i recall, no. >> reporter: a new florida law does require election officials to reach voters who are rejected. >> what are you doing to ensure it >> we have a reconciliation procedures to make sure they are

matched. we want them to know their ballot has counted accurately and securely. >> eye opening you can track your mail-in ballot online to know whether it was received and counted giving you time to vote in person if there is a problem with us. you so much for being

i am anxious in the sense in light of the new vote by mail we won't know what's going to happen until much later than tuesday. >> right now at 4:30, the clock is ticking with just one day to go until election day. the preparations being made across the bay area as emotions remain high. and falling behind, the all new report shows just how big an impact distance learning is having on local students. plus, big changes coming to yosemite national park and the help to area businesses still struggling to survive among the pandemic. "today in the bay" starts right now.