stay right there, more news on the way. we are one week away from decision day. kamala harris set to deliver her closing message at a pivotal spot in d.c. while donald trump plays defense after a comedian's racist remarks at his new york rally spurs a flurry of endorsements for the vice president. how the former president is responding this morning. the fbi's on the hunt for

the suspect who destroyed hundreds of ballots after lighting two dropboxes on fire in the ballistilistip pacific n. police arrest a man accused of shooting his neighbor. remembering a remarkable life and struggle with addiction. our exclusive interview with the family of matthew perry, one year after his death. and show autumn's true colors to the colorblind. the incredible tech bringing fall for all at state parks. it's tuesday, october 29th. "early today" starts right now. good morning, glad to be with you. i'm frances rivera. we are down to just one week in the countdown to election day. vice president harris is preparing what her campaign is calling her closing arguments,

which she will deliver today at the ellipse near the white house. that is where donald trump rallied his supporters before the january 6 riot. she is expected to speak about the importance of turning the page. later this morning, donald trump is expected to speak to the press at his mar-a-lago estate before holding another rally in pennsylvania tonight. brie jackson has more from the campaign trail. >> reporter: it's a sprint to the finish. former president trump in battleground georgia, speaking at a gathering of faith leaders. >> i think this is a country that needs religion. it's like the glue that holds it together. >> reporter: taking on a different tone after the dark rhetoric from speakers at his massive rally at madison square garden sunday. that included comedians making offensive remarks about latinos and puerto rico. >> there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. yeah. i think it's called puerto rico? >> reporter: while the trump

campaign is distancing themselves from those remarks, vice president harris is seizing on them. and repeating her warnings. >> donald trump spent full time trying to have americans pointt their finger at each other. en >> reporter: harris looked to energize her supporters in michigan saturday by appearing with former first lady michelle obama for the first time on the campaign trail. the star surrogate calling out double standards harris faces while expressing her fear of a second trump term. >> fear for what is coming our way if we forget the stakes in this election. >> reporter: the stakes are high. and so is voter enthusiasm. president biden casting his ballot. when mr. biden won in 2020, a record 158 million people voted. so far this year, more than 44 million have weighed in ahead of election day, according to our

nbc news tracker. a tight race on pace to be a record breaker. in washington, brie jackson, nbc news. the fbi is investigating two arson attacks on ballot dropboxes in the pacific northwest that appear to be connected. a dropbox in portland, oregon and one in neighboring vancouver, washington were set on fire. police say an identical volvo was seen at both sites, and the fires were similar in nature. only three ballots were damaged in portland, but potentially hundreds were affected in vancouver, officials said. the countys encouraging people who auditpla encouraging people who blplaced ballots to check the status of their ballots. authorities have said nothing about a potential motive and no arrests have been maid. the district attorney of philadelphia is suing elon musk and his super pac, seeking to stop the billionaire's million dollar giveaways to swing voters. the musk america pac has been giving away $1 million daily to

registered voters in swing states if they sign a petition supporting the first and second amendment. pennsylvania voters also get an additional hundred dollars for signing. the d.a. says it is an unlawful, unregulated lottery. an attorney representing the pac did not respond to request for comment. a hearing has been scheduled for friday. israel has passed a law banning the main humanitarian aid agency from operating in gaza. the parliament voted against the united nations relief and works agency after alleging their employees are involved in terrorist activity. they mapped out a 28-day cease-fire and hostage deal over the weekend. let's go live to matt bodner, good morning. bring us up to date with the latest. >> reporter: frances, good morning. the israeli government's dislike of unrwa has been a feature of this conflict since the start of the operation in gaza a year

ago, with officials from netanyahu on down alleging that unrwa employees took part in the october 7th attacks. yesterday's vote is a logical conclusion of that sentiment with the israeli parliament voting 92-10 in favor of banning the agency's work in israel. and it would have implications for east jerusalem, gaza and the west bank as well. unrwa is one of the main conduits by which humanitarian aid is delivered. and the state department said there is no agent significant that can replace the agency in gaza at this time. the government is willing to work with the international community. the united states for its part has been signaling to israel that military aid will flow if more humanitarian aid is not allowed to flow into gaza, and all of this comes as senior u.s. officials continue to push for a cease-fire in gaza.

over the weekend, cia director bill burns discussed one possible revelation, that would be a 28-day cease-fire that would see hamas release eight israeli hostages and israel release dozens of palestinian prisoners. however there is no indication yet whether this proposal will stick. and with u.s. elections one week away, it's likely that both sides are waiting to see the outcome before deciding their next moves. frances? the minneapolis man accused of shooting his neighbor is in custody after a five-hour-long standoff. but questions remain about why it took police so long to make the arrest. antonia hylton has the details. >> reporter: it took five hours. >> you're under arrest. >> reporter: s.w.a.t. teams, drones and a crane. >> follow the commands of officers. >> reporter: for police to take 54-year-old john herbert sawchak into custody after he allegedly surrendered outside his minneapolis home.

he he was wanted for the attempted murder o neighbor, davif his matoroturi. surveillance video neighbor, davis matoroturi. surveillance video shows the moment moturi fell to the ground. >> i woke up with tubes in my body. holes in my body. >> reporter: according to court documents, moturi had called police on sawchak 19 times in the last year, alleging his neighbor had threatened to kill him and his wife, brandished a knife at them and hurled racial slurs. >> stay away from me. >> you don't know what you're doing. >> stay away. >> try it again, then, tough guy. >> reporter: police say they began surveilling sawchak after reports of harassment. but even after the shooting, they did not move to arrest sawchak for several days, citing his mental illness, possession of a firearm and knowledge of explosives. >> we are not going to bust the door down, guns blazing and get into a deadly force situation. but we will ensure the community will be safe.

>> reporter: as pressure to act ramped up, police say they contacted sawchak's family to gather information about his mental health issues, consulted with a psychiatrist and had crisis negotiators attempt to contact him. >> hopefully it will end peacefully. >> reporter: moturi, who was hospitalized with a fractured spine, ribs and concussion struggling to come to terms with that explanation. >> you're saying you're scared. what does that do to me, you know? like, you have body armor, you have special training. you have, hundreds of people you can call for assistance at any time and they'll be there within moments. when i call for assistance, when i called for having knives pointed at me, i had to wait hours and hours and hours. >> reporter: but the mayor of minneapolis thanking police for taking sawchak into custody without anyone else getting hurt. >> and all this happened in a residential area. that is a cocktail that could erupt at any moment. and requires both the kind of

tenacity but also the willingness to do this right. >> and our thanks to antonia hylton for that report. there's a new look at the recovery in north carolina after hurricane helene. drone footage shows mountains in buncombe county ripped apart by winds and mudslides from the devastating storm while blooming with fall colors on the other. it's been almost a month since the uhurricane pummeled the region. in the mountain town of asheville, students returned to sc school. it might feel like whether or not for some. angie lassman is tracking the cold front. >> this cold front has prompted some of these winter alerts up for parts of the rockies. you can see stretching across colorado, into wyoming. we've got this storm system we're going to watch work its way to the east. it's going to bring the potential for additional snowfall across the rockies. we'll see heavy snow in some of those spots. and, as we head into tomorrow,

notice how that ramp s up acros the midwest. we'll see the chance for stronger storms. we'll be watching that for your day tomorrow. when it comes to rainfall amounts, one to two inches, it's going to be on higher amounts. we'll see up to another foot of snow across the rockies. meanwhile, the temperatures, boy, they are so different on the front side of that cold front versus the backside. we've got potential records from chicago to kansas city, amarillo. 80s across the board, not just for today but tomorrow, too. notice ft. wayne, st. louis into the low 80s. we'll finally start to see things trending cooler as we get to the end of the workweek. you shreveport. mostly sunny conditions in

dallas today. we head to the mid-70s with full sunshine in phoenix. and that's a look at your forecast, frances, back to you. >> we're kind of in a christmas mode here as we're getting our first look at the 2024 rockefeller christmas tree. the towering norway spruce comes from west stockbridge, massachusetts. it's the first tree from the state since 1959. the 70-year-old giant stands at 74 feet tall, 43 feet wide and weighs 11 tons. crews will cut it down on november 7th. and it will arrive here at 30 rock a few days later. coming up, why a subway customer is saying "where's the meat." meat." and matthew perry' with rapid relief at 4 weeks. tremfya blocks a key source of inflammation. opening up a year after his opening up a year after his tragic death.

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how they're helping others with addiction. here's anne thompson. >> when i dance, i look like this. >> reporter: matthew perry, tv's quintessential friend. >> welcome home, man. >> reporter: was their family. >> it was always like a jubilant thing when he would come over. >> reporter: little sisters caitlin, madeline and emily morrison, mom suzanne and step dad, "dateline's" keith morrison speaking to savannah guthrie a year after matthew's death from an overdose. >> we have an extremely remarkable, famous family member who went through it. it's a hurting world, and they need some help. >> reporter: to help, the family has launched the matthew perry foundation of canada to fund research and post-treatment support for those grappling with addiction. >> if it doesn't stop, we're going to lose so many millions

everypeople. >> reporter: five people have been charged in perry's death. three pleaded guilty, two pleaded not guilty and will stand trial next year. >> reporter: what do you think about the fact that there has been some accountability there? >> i'm thrilled. >> what i'm hoping, and i think the agencies that got involved in this are hoping, that people who have put themselves in the business of supplying people with the drugs that will kill them, that they are now on notice. >> reporter: a business that creates perpetual grief. >> what do i miss? i mean, my brother. he was, he would do anything for you. really, all he ever wanted was to love and be loved. >> reporter: now they want to do something for those like him. anne thompson, nbc news. still to come, a big announcement for the former mrs. greatest of all time. we've got the first details on a

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ranger, ethan howes has dedicated his career to protecting and sharing these iconic views. what's your favorite part of your job? >> seeing people's reactions to things for the first time. >> reporter: but that seasonal rainbow drawing tourists to parks across the country was something howes hadn't actually seen for himself until recently. >> looking out, it's just kind of mundane, i guess, kind of bland. >> reporter: howes is colorblind, making the varied reds, oranges, greens and yellows appear all one color. colorblindness can occur in some cases when cones, the nerve cells in our eyes that perceive color are missing or not working. the most common is red-green colorblindness, makingy difficu extremely difficult to dis distinguish between those hues. he found special lenses that allow people like him to experience the full spectrum of

color. his park became the first to have these adaptive viewfinders. >> everybody sees that normally? >> yeah. >> that's cool. >> a lot of different colors that i didn't even recognize. >> reporter: for howes, those meaningful moments for visitors, a reminder of the first time he tried the viewfinder himself and called his mother to describe what he'd seen. what was her reaction hearing that you were able to see some of these colors now? >> wheth >> when i first told her i looked through it, she started crying, she probably wept for three or four minutes. i'm tearing up myself thinking about it. it was really cool experience, getting that reaction from them. excuse me. >> reporter: tony dykes, a co-founder of the company that

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