breaking overnight. jubilation in the streets of los angeles as the dodgers bring home their eighth world series

title. how the boys in blue surged back from a five-run deficit against the yankees to take game five. it's the final five-day sprint in the race for the white house. donald trump wearing an orange vest to trash president biden's garbage remarks. while kamala harris courts student voters in a critical swing state. we're live with the latest from the campaign trail. elon musk ordered to appear in court in just hours. inside the philadelphia d.a.'s case against the world's richest man and his million dollar election give away. and, with the economy at the top of mind for voters, we're watching a key reading on inflation this morning. we'll go to cnbc for a preview. it's a monster mash. stars are getting the halloween party started early. your look at some epic costumes on this thursday, october 31st. "early today" starts right now. good morning. i'm frances rivera.

we begin on this halloween morning with a decisive matchup that saw the west coast emerge as the best coast for baseball. >> start the party, los angeles! your dodgers have won the world series! >> the los angeles dodgers took home their eighth world series title and second in five seasons in that epic game five comeback versus the new york yankees. after getting out to a 5-0 lead, the yanks suffered a massive collapse in the fifth inning with three errors leading to l.a. scoring five of their own to tie it up. they added on two in the eighth to take the lead before walker buehler ended the yankees' season for good. and then there's freddie freeman who didn't continue his historic home run streak, and he was unsurprisingly, though, named world series mvp thanks to his four homers, including game one's walk-off grand slam. and the celebrations began

immediately in l.a. the dodgers faithful also get the parade they missed out on with their 2021 win, due to the pandemic. president biden is facing more backlash after appearing to call trump supporters garbage. he said he was referring to the rhetoric of a specific supporter. but donald trump is using the rhetoric to ramp up the base. he climbed into a garbage truck where he tried to tie comments to vice president harris, but she's pushing back. >> crooked joe biden finally said what he and kamala really think of our supporters. he called them garbage. no way. no way. you can't lead america if you don't love americans. that's true. >> i strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for. i incontinued totend to be presl

americans, including those who may not vote for me in this election. >> alice barr joins me. the harris campaign was quickto attack what mr. trump said about women. >> reporter: yes, at that rally last night, former president trump brought up a phrase he used in late september when he described himself as a protector of women. he said his advisors suggested that he not say that, but that he did not agree with their advice. >> they said, sir, i just think it's inappropriatee appropriate for inappropriate to say. i said i'm going to protect them from migrants coming in, from foreign countries that want to hit us with missiles and lots of other things. >> reporter: members of the harris campaign quickly blasted that phrase, whether women like it or not. one spokesperson saying, donald trump thinks he knows better than the women of america. when reached for comment a trump

campaign spokesperson said vice president harris has implemented policies that have left women far less safe. the haven't vice president was also in wisconsin. she met with the volleyball team ahead of a rally that largely targeted young voters. >> you who now know fewer rights than your mothers and grandmothers are standing up for freedom, and what i know about you is these issues are not theoretical. this is not political for you. this is your lived experience. and i see you. and i see your power. i see your power, and i am so proud of you. >> reporter: vice president harris also picked up another republican endorsement. former california governor arnold schwarzenegger saying he will vote for harris and walz, writing that he wants to move forward as a country, and he thinks this is the only way to

do that. tonight, jennifer lopez will bring her star power to a harris rally in las vegas, while former president trump is set to attend a hurricane relief benefit in arizona, hosted by tucker carlson. frances? >> alice, thank you. donald trump's wealthiest supporter is expected to spend his halloween in a courtroom. elon musk has been ordered to attend an emergency hearing in philadelphia this morning. the city's pop prosecutor is trying to stop the tesla ceo from handing out million dollar prizes to registered voters. he is accused of operating an illegal lottery to influence voters. musk and his attorney did not respond to request for comment. there are warnings of widespread efforts against the election. >> cyber security. >> cyber security and physical security of critical infrastructure. >> reporter: it's in this room that america's director of cyber

and infrastructure security, cisa says the nation's shields are up. >> what we are seeing are russia, iran, china conducting influence operations, disinformation operations focussed on two goals, to undermine american confidence and the legitimacy of our elections, and to stoke partisan discord. >> reporter: last week, pennsylvania election officials quickly labeled this video a fake, which depicted somebody allegedly ripping up ballots for donald trump. >> fbi, the intelligence community and cisa came out affirming that it was a fake russian video. look, we are going to see more of this. >> reporter: ahead of the elections, cisa has now role played 200 response scenarios with all 50 states, from ransomware attacks to deep fake videos to bombings. there's a lot to keep track of. nationwide, 132,000 polling places, 775,000 poll workers. it's here that they watch for

any signs of cyber or physical interference. do you see any sign of a successful foreign attempt to hack into any bit of the election mechanics in the country? >> no, and in my view, that would not be possible. >> reporter: not possible, because every state runs their own elections. there is no single point of vulnerability. voting machines are not connected to the internet. 97% use paper ballots, and every say t state has added layers of security since 2020. >> i think the greatest threat is this fire hose of disinformation. it's closeorrosive to our democ, and by the way, it's creating very real physical threats to election workers and election officials and their families. >> reporter: foreign and domestic disinformation turning americans against each other. tom costello, nbc news, washington. in spain, flash flooding has killed at least 95 people in the

country's worst national disaster in decades. dozens more are missing. it happened in the country's east, mostly in the valencia region which saw a year's worth of rain in just it's hours. for the latest, let's turn to matt bodner. what do we know about the search and rescue efforts? >> reporter: frances, good morning. search and rescue efforts are ongoing, and the spanish government has deployed more than 1,000 soldiers to help scores of people who are still stranded in inaccessible areas. many homes are in ruin, and it is still unclear just how many people are missing. one spanish official has called this the storm of the century. the spanish king is speaking of quote, enormous destruction. and that is clear from the videos out of valencia hitting social media. piles of cars are being thrown around the city streets. one dramatic video of a rescue showed a helicopter airlifting a woman and her pets from this home amid high winds and raging floods below them. another showed the rescue of a child. valencia has been devastated, but it's not the only area hit by the floods.

the nearby town of chiva saw an incredible 19 inches of rain in those eight hours and regional officials have declared a red-level emergency. though the rains have subsided later wednesday morning, more storms are forecast to hit today. and to put this in perspective, this is the worst natural disaster to hit europe in decades. if we look at just spain, nothing like this has happened since 1996, when 87 people were killed by floods. weather events like this, stastadly are becoming more common. the scientific community says they are most likely a product of the climate crisis. back to you, frances. >> that is a dread it will happen again. thank you, matt. on wednesday, rain helped crews, fire crews, battling two bru brush fires in massachusetts. it improved air quality in the area. officials are hopeful today's halloween festivities will go

off without a hitch. we could see record heat for halloween. nbc meteorologist angie lassman is tracking it all for us. a lot of people are going to have to adjust their costumes because of this, angie. >> you're exactly right. i think a lot of folks will be happy they don't have to put that jacket on and interrupt whatever plans they have for their costume. temperatures once again today are going to be way warm across the northeast. 78 in scranton and new york. low 80w 80s for hartford. beyond that, we'll see those more typical kind of fall temperatures settling in across this region from the great lakes to the northeast. we've got 50s and 60s on tap. chicago gets back into the workweek with temperatures into the upper 60s, as another warmup comes around. big picture look for your trick or treating forecast. unfortunately, a little chilly for folks in mummy pass, colorado. 21 degrees but clear skies overhead. then it's the stormy night that

we'll see from scurry, texas stretching through bone gap, illinois and up through erie to. we've got low 60s from joplin to wichita and 60 degrees with rain in green bay today. and that's a look at your forecast, frances. back to you. >> thanks so much, angie. "early today" is back in a minute with a preview of today's key inflation report. and the new legal trouble brewing for monlds. legal troubl brewing for monlds. don't let symptoms define you... emerge as you, with clearer skin. with tremfya®, most people saw 100% clear skin... ...that stayed clear, even at 5 years. tremfya® is proven to significantly reduce

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the fed meets next week. they are predicting that it grew 2.8% mg grew. now this comes after third quarter u.s. gdp came in on wednesday showing the economy grew at 2.8% on the year. that's slightly below expectations of 3.1%. and this would all feed into how americans are feeling about the state of the economy. one of the key issues as we march towards voting day for the u.s. presidential election next week. but maybe some positive news for coffee drinkers. starbucks has said it will no longer charge extra for non-dairy milk all terternative.

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hard-to-believe fall products first hand to see how they work. >> reporter: what if there was a way to pick them up without the rake and trash bags? enter gardena's lawn and leaf collector. can you see people using them to clean their lawns in seconds. for about $180, the company promises a quick cleanup. and unlike a leaf blower, no noise. a few different parts here. it does needto be assembled here. i think we did it! we're ready to try it out in new york's famed central park. home to 18,000 trees. it's definitely picking up a good bit of the leaves. not all of them are making it into the basket, but, it is filling up, which is a good sign. all right, we're going to empty this thing out. all right, so this leaf

collector was a little tricky to put together. the directions were slightly confusing, but, when i did get the hang of it, it was pretty easy to maneuver. falling leaves not the only sign of the change of season, it also comes with a drop in temperatures. this is an electric hand warmer that says it keep your hands warm for a few hours at a time. it is portable,rechargeable and marketed to last up to eight hours. we're going to turn it on here. three different heat settings. i do feel it getting a little bit warm. let's see. nice. and i fell like it would fit in a pocket. the heat lasting five hours when we used it, starting with a full charge. i would say this is real, but it would be real nice to have two of them in one package. and it wouldn't be fall without the iconic jack-o'-lantern. the pumpkin glove scraper going viral and even featured on an episode of shark tank as a fix to that dreaded task of cleaning out seeds and pumpkin guts.

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