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hot on the trail. vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump are setting their sights on the southwest, how both campaigns are focusing on battleground states like arizona and nevada with just five days left until election day. new evidence. major development in the case against sean "diddy" combs, the new testimony coming from a witness and what it could mean for the music mogul. the exclusive reporting from nbc news. california dreamin', the los angeles dodgers are world series champions, how they came back to take home the trophy and how l.a. is planning a massive victory parade. and scary expensive. from the candy to the costumes americans are shelling out a lot of money to celebrate halloween the hottest costumes and candy trends across the nation. we'll get into all of that. >> i like candy. >> i do, too. >> especially on halloween.

>> yes, happy halloween. we did our best with the black and orange. but we'll begin with the race to the white house running through the west with five days left until election day. >> they're both campaigning in arizona and nevada later today, earlier the former president also held a rally in new mexico, yen for lopez is expected to speak at harris' rally in las vegas, she's one of the celebrities who showed support for the vice president earlier this week after a comedian called puerto rico a floating island of garbage at a trump rally at msg. >> the former president is facing criticism for comments he made about women during his rally in green bay, wisconsin, here's what he said last night. followed by vice president harris' remarks. >> want to protect the women of this country. sir, it's inappropriate for you to say. i said, well, i'm going to do it whether the women like it or

not. >> it's actually very offensive to women in terms of not understanding their agency, their authority, their right, their ability to make decisions about their own lives including their own bodies. >> joining us now is mike memoli in phoenix following the harris campaign and vaughn hillyard in glendale, arizona, covering the trump campaign, mike, let's start with you, phoenix is the first stop for vice president harris today, this is her last scheduled event in arizona before the election so what is her campaign hoping for with today's rally? >> reporter: it's incredible that we're this late in campaign we're talking about the final pitches to these battleground states, we'll see vice president harris here bringing that closing argument that we saw unveiled tuesday night in washington this critical western state, we're also already hearing from the range of speakers that we've heard from on stage about those comments you referred to donald trump

supp supporters referring to puerto rico floating island of garbage. important pitch to latino voters. an important coalition here out west. the vice president harris seized on those comments last night about women, whether or not being protected, there's a r referendum on the state-wide to codified it in the state constitution. the vice president talked about another major issue health care, referring to comments from speaker johnson with an opening for republicans to repea repeal affordable care act. this is a busy day for the vice president. making two stops in nevada before closing her campaign back east, her final stop on election eve will be in critical

philadelphia, pennsylvania. >> let me turn to vaughn, trump will wrap up his day in glendale, he started off, though, he started off in new mexico, not a battleground state, what's the strategy five days left until the election? >> reporter: he'll wrap up his day here in glendale, six miles from where mike is right now, so the vice president and the f former president are going to miss each other by a couple of hours here in the desert. you mentioned new mexico, the land of enchantment, political enchantment if you may for donald trump, he lost in 2020 to joe biden by 11 percentage points. but his campaign contend they'll build a coalition and they'll be able to pull off places not only

new mexico but virginia, most political experts who are watching this race, including republicans will tell you, it's unlikely he'll win the state of new mexico, i want to be clear, donald trump at the beginning of his remarks, one of the first signs that were delivered by the political nominee to nose new mexico voters that there's election is rigged he'll win in 2024. we've seen donald trump here over the last days and weeks laying down the foundation to claim that this election is fraudulent and rigged. telling new mexico voters where he lost by 11 percentage points and polling suggesting he'll likely lose again, that his election is rigged so close to the election laying that foundation. >> vaughn hillyard and mike memoli thank you both. there are two big questions that americans and the world have heading into next tuesday. >> who will win and when will we

know it. let's try to answer the when question with chuck todd. chuck, good to see you. you just wrote a really extensive and thoughtful piece for nbcnews.com and it was about where we are in these final days of the race. what you're thinking about as we head into next week. where do you see the state of the race right now? do you think we'll know the winner by election night. >> all the data points to obviously that it's a tie and i think there's no new data that will tell me anything because i think the final undecided voters is an unpollable voter, i do think especially when you have two candidates who are not popular, you'll have a slice of voters who don't either, who won't decide until election day, it's an unpollable piece of that electorate, if this is a decisive margin for either one of them we have to accept the

premise polls can be right they can't poll that late deciding voter who shows up and decides, okay, i'm going in this direction, so it's just a reminder that there's different ways this could break out. different ways the polls can be right and wrong at the same time. or they could have been wrong from the get-go. as far as election night itself, lot of folks are wondering, last time it took a week, it still might take a week, if we're waiting, if arizona and nevada are going to be the decisive states to see who gets to 270 that will take a week because of how they count their ballots. if you want to pull one-nighter with us, stick around with us until sunrise, i think we'll know who won pennsylvania and north carolina. the same candidate wins, check mate. if they split it, okay, go get

some sleep and wake up eight hours later. >> by the way, we'll be together, right, chuck, we're in it together. >> we're calling pennsylvania during our time, kate. i'm pretty convinced of that. >> 11:00 p.m. pacific. >> one more question, our top polling guy, our director of elections has written about polls. the polls could be inaccurate? >> what's he saying is that when you look at the polling results, as a statistician, that there's no way they all could be coming -- we have had so many polls that only show one to three-point gap. that even in a tied race, the randomness of the way polling works should produce a six-point lead for one, a seven-point lead

for the other. it's just the way statistics work, what's a very important piece, and again you may have to go back to college math, but it's just statistically almost impossible to get all of these polls to conform within a three-point margin, and so what they're speculating, and it's possible pollsters are afraid of looking like they're off so instead they're quote hurting and they weigh things, i can give you -- i have noticed weird cross-tabs. you'll see a poll that's 50/50, but somehow harris will only be leading younger voters by four but leading seniors by like 15. you're like something's wrong there. >> all right, chuck, we'll be there together with the coffee. good to see you. >> i won't need coffee. come on, we got all that data

coming in. it's election day. >> chuck todd, thank you. join us for the coverage on ection night, next tuesday, special coverage begins 5:00 peern, 2:00 pacific on nbc news now and then it picks up at 7:00 eastern on your local nbc station. today's cnbc money minute. chrysler is recalling 30 million trucks. >> courtney regan joins us now. chrysler is calling more than 33,000 ram 1500 trucks over issues with the electronics stability control. the national highway safety board said it might have be a

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their eighth world series championship. fans took to the streets last night, fireworks lit up the sky coming after that thrilling come from behind win against the new york yankees. morgan chesky is with me in los angeles, morgan, they continue to celebrate, right, there's a parade, what do we know about the plans? >> reporter: the celebration hasn't died down, kate, it's kind of evolved from fireworks last night to people still shouting go dodgers today. the dodgers will have their big parade tomorrow, it's been slated for 11:00 a.m., everyone's supposed to meet in front of los angeles city hall. the players will go down a parade route about 1.2 miles long, they expect the whole ordeal to be about 45 minutes long. judging by fireworks we saw last night, there are sure to be tens

of thousands of people con converging on that event tomorrow. immediately following that event tomorrow, people can soak up and basic in this world series, on the other side of the country, lot of people were hoping they'd close it out at home. lot of people will be turning out to the parade to celebrate the entire time but one guy in particular, mvp of the series, freddie freeman, really hitting a home run in four games of the series, kate, which is already borderline unheard of, but everyone thinks back to that game one, such a tight neck and neck matchup, people were anticipating an exciting series. but that walk-off grand slam in the tenth inning, lot of people forget that he came into the world series kind of a little

bit of an ankle injury clearly not a problem on the sport's biggest stage. unbelievable. morgan chesky, thank you so much. significant new developments in the federal criminal case against music mogul sean "diddy" combs, nbc news has learned a new. >> reporter: new york grand jury is going to be hearing evidence this afternoon as part of their ongoing federal investigation into sean "diddy" combs, we know it's a man who's going to be testifying before the grand jury, we don't know his name on what he'll be saying. earlier this month at a hearing for combs i was actually in that courtroom in manhattan where we heard a u.s. attorney and one of the prosecutor said there might

be a superseceding indictment, that means combs could face more criminal charges, he's set to face this trial on may 5th, the trial could last a little bit longer or gets moved back, currently he's behind bars awaiting trial at the metropolitan detention center in brooklyn. the civil cases against him, he's facing over a dozen different civil cases, and some of those lawsuits have been filed by an attorney out of texas, he just filed two more cases on monday and all of the accusers in his civil suits are anonymous and we've seen that with other civil suits that have been filed over the last several months. combs has denied the accusations against him, both criminal and civilly. what's interesting last night a u.s. district court judge ruled that one of the accusers in one of buzby's civil suits who's

anonymous, has to reveal her identity or the judge is going to dismiss that suit. we reached out to buzby and we haven't heard back. this is significant, the judge states that just because this individual might be embarrassed to put their name out there or maybe is concerned that combs would threaten violence or hurt them in any way, the judge said i understand you might be embarrassed but not enough of a reason to be anonymous, also because combs is behind the bars. it will be interesting to see how that could potentially affect any of these civil cases, mbis set to face this criminal trial on may 5th. >> chloe, thanks. we'll be right back. that you'll definitely want to hear. depending on the plans available in your area, you may be eligible to get extra benefits with a humana medicare advantage dual-eligible special

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today. simply walking in your neighborhood shouldn't be one of them. here's nbc bay area's kris sanchez with some reminders. i'm in downtown willow glen, which will be packed later on today, as it's a tradition for businesses here to hand candy out to the kids. this is a known spot. another known spot is santana row in san jose, and these are areas where people expect to see a lot of foot traffic. but of course, kids of all ages are expected to be out in neighborhoods all around the bay area, and some of them might be in costumes that make it hard for drivers to see them, especially when they're not

using crosswalks. children are 3.5 times more likely to be hit and killed by a car on halloween than any other day throughout the year, so it's really important that we're hyper vigilant, not only as drivers, but as we're taking our kids out into the community just to make sure we're extra aware. kids get excited, they may dart out, and we just want to make sure we're keeping everybody safe. san jose police and other agencies remind us to watch for tripping hazards, especially the bottom of those costumes. use flashlights and reflective tape to make your trick or treater more visible, and use the crosswalks. make sure also that you make eye contact with drivers so that you know that they see you. and for the grown ups, it goes without saying don't drink and drive. as for the candy folks at poison control say to inspect your child's candy before they eat it. throw away any candy without wrappers, labeling or which you don't recognize, and avoid the homemade treats unless you know for sure who made them. check for choking hazards for the little ones and put medicine out of reach, because some of it can

look like candy to a kid. and when in doubt, you can always call poison control 24/7. sunset is tonight at 610, so luckily, by the time you get the kids fed, get them back in the costume and get them out for trick or treating. it is going to be dark, so be careful as you're out there. and if you are not trick or treating, but you're driving, please be careful in san jose. kris sanchez, nbc, bay area news. thank you for the reminders, kris. meantime, san jose firefighters are shining the light on halloween. safety. literally. they handed out thousands of glow necklaces for students at santee elementary school this morning. it's part of a wider distribution. they also share tips on playing it safe when trick or treating gets underway. tonight, they remind everyone to bring a good flashlight. the chillier weather will be here to stay. here's meteorologist kari hall with our forecast as we take a look at what's happening and what's ahead. we had a storm system move through the bay area very early this morning, but now we're in with some dry conditions, at least through tomorrow night until this next

storm system arrives. right now, that's still well out over the pacific and moving its way closer to the bay area. we're going to see highs in the mid to upper 60s for today. pretty nice for trick or treating, but it will be cooling down quickly for tonight. and we're heading down to the mid 40s. so we are expecting more of the same weather for tomorrow with highs in the upper 60s for parts of the east bay 68 and hayward as well as concord, and will also see mid to upper 60s for the south bay and more of the same on saturday. we'll talk about changes ahead coming up in the next 30 minutes. thanks, kari. the mayor of san jose is supporting the recall of embattled city councilman omar torres. mayor matt mahan made the revelation last night during our newscast at seven with raj mathai. torres is being investigated for committing sexual misconduct involving a minor. councilman torres vigorously denies those claims, and in a one on one interview with raj, mayor mehan says he wants to kris resign and he supports people petitioning to recall councilman torres. i want

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potential prosecution. the republican-led committee is accusing cuomo of making false statements to them during closed-door testimony earlier this year, his administration came under scrutiny for a policy that originally required nursing homes to readmit recovering covid-19 patients. more than a billion people around the world are celebrating diwali today, the hindu holiday is known as festival of lights and is recognized in multiple other religions including buddhism. the most popular way to celebrate is by putting up rows of lights to symbolize the triumph of good over evil. president biden hosted a celebration for the holiday earlier this week at the white house. this year a city in india set a world record by lighting more than 2.5 million lights. it's also halloween which means today's annual halloween party on the plaza. the tradition dates back to

1994, and this year the theme was iconic movie characters, savannah guthrie was elle wood from legally blonde. hoda and jenna teamed up to go as jack and rose from the titanic. al roker. mrs. doubtfire, peter alexander really pulled that off. now to the legal fight over elon musk's million dollar giveaway in swing state. >> today a philadelphia judge paused the city's civil lawsuit against the billionaire after musk's attorneys petitioned to move the case to federal court. >> earlier this week the philadelphia district attorney sued musk and his political action committee alleging that the giveaway is illegal under the pennsylvania law. >> elon musk is a supporter of former president trump. so far 13 people have won that giveaway the latest just this afternoon. nbc news correspondent dasha burns joins us now to break it down. dasha, a lot of legal back and forth over the case this morning, where do things stand

and we just said he's still giving the money away. >> there's a hearing this morning, last night the musk team filed some paperwork to move the case to a federal court instead saying, look, we're a political action committee, now that means the case is essentially on hold right now, it cannot move forward. there was a hearing earlier today that musk was ordered to attend. he doesn't show up. they called that cowardly. the musk team doesn't care right now because they were successful effectively moving it to federal court and given that delay. there won't be a resolution until after the election. they're still giving it away. we asked for a response from the team, from counsel, they're not responding they're pointing to those posts on x.

as we get closer to election day, conspiracy theories, misinformation and disinformation are rapidly spreading online surrounding our vote. >> one example that's gone viral is in battleground pennsylvania. video posted to x claims to show an illegal harvesting of ballots in reality the local county executive shows a 25-year veteran of the postal service lawfully dropping off ballots at the election office. we're tracking stories like this. jane, you're doing such important work. part of confusion and misinformation being spread online lot of people aren't familiar with the process of collecting and tabulating ballots, bottom line, have we seen any proof yet of irregularities. >> no, nothing that's going to task outcome of the election, we've seen some bad voter

registration applications that were fraudulently done, they were caught by routine processes in the election that look, when people register to vote they are who they say they are. >> we told viewers yesterday, jane x about how law enforcement officials are concerned about the role of foreign actors in spreading false information, what are local officials doing to combat that this cycle. >> election workers are trying to get ahead of everything and pre-bunk, talking about putting things on, you know, official websites, getting out ahead if there's confusion or misunderstanding about a process. election officials are doing a lot to make sure there isn't

room for con sspiracy theories. explain them to themselves as they watch. >> we heard from chuck at start of the show, chances we won't get a projected winner on election night. what information should people prepare for. >> knowing that it might take a little while to count the results. close elections tend to be harder to call and it takes time to count those ballots. election officials say they're in the business of getting correct answers not jumping the gun. >> all right, jane, thanks so much. the menendez brothers could be even closer to a potential release from prison after the los angeles county district attorney said yesterday he backs

the bid for the brothers' clecl cle clemency. on monday, attorneys for the brothers submitted requests for clemency to california's governor. a week ago the d.a. recommended that the pair be resentenced. there's been renewed thanks to multiple documentaries and a scripted netflix tv show. joining me now is dana griffin who's been following this, explain what clemency would mean for the menendez brothers and what the d.a. is now saying about the case. >> reporter: absolutely, so clemency is essentially reducing a person's sentence who was serving time in prison and in this case think of it a -- they tried different avenues to get out of prison, one petition that was long shot, the d.a. absolutelied a resentencing still on the table and clemency is another way by asking the governor to reduce their sentencing.

this is why they're asking for this, because we got an election coming up, the current d.a. is already down double-digit points we could have a new d.a. sworn in on december 2nd, he's vowed to take another look and review the evidence and if he tries to revoke that recommendation it kind of leaves the brothers hanging, this option would give the governor a chance to grant them clemency. the d.a. wrote a statement, i strongly support clemency for erik and lyle menendez who are currently serving sentences of life without the possibility of pa parole. they've worked to current new programs to support the rehabilitation of fellow inmates. the governor isn't required to consider the application and no deadline for a review. kate. >> dana, separately, there's resentencing hearing scheduled for december, what could happen on that track in.

>> reporter: if everything goes according to plan it will be a status hearing, lawyers will give arguments but the judge will likely set another hearing date to hear from some of those prosecutors in the d.a.'s office who are against this resentencing recommendation, if the judge agrees it goes to parole board and that is a lengthy months-long process where the parole board will decide if they're eligible. it's up to the governor to put his stamp of approval, we haven't heard from his office. they're not commenting. now to today's daily health the cdc have identified 15 new cases of e. coli linked to onions in mcdonald's quarter pounders. so, how can you keep yourself safe? joining us is dr. john torres.

what should people know about the symptoms of e. coli and how does an infection typically happen. >> this is important. the symptoms of e. coli start three, four days after someone has eaten the contaminated food. the source of sliver onions, have been taken off the market, the instances are low, but the risk is still there. the symptoms are you start getting food poisoning, but it's bloody diarrhea, you start vomiting, you can't hold fluids down. the indicators you might need some help. >> e. coli can have serious health implications. what does treatment and recovery look like.

>> it can affect the kidneys and can be fatal and that's the concerning one, vast majority of people who get this kind of e. coli end up recovering over a five-day period. some will need hydration, again if you're seeing those symptoms, particularly bloody diarrhea, high temperature, or getting dehydrated, you need to go to the emergency room. >> dr. john, i wanted to ask about some other big medical news we're following, the first time the bird flu has been detected in a big here in united states, what do we need to know and how concerned should people be. >> the bird flu in birds. human cases as well. now the potential here it could

give rise to mutations. that's when it becomes concerning. >> thank you so much. cue the haunting animation. today is halloween. >> ghosts and goblins will likely be on your doorsteps in just a matter of hours. brian cheung is here to break down the monster math behind the holiday. brian, happy halloween. the costumes, we're all wondering who will be knocking on our front doors tonight? >> some numbers for you, the numbers are a little spooky, $3.8 billion, how much americans are expected to spend just on costumes this year, 49% of americans are dressing up by the way in terms of the most popular categories in things to dress up, over 4 million superheroes. the most searched costume from

beetlejuice, beetlejuice, that's shrunken head bob in the waiting room. your head is actually below the shrunken head. pretty cool costume this year. >> we stock up on lots of candy tonight, what are we dishing out? >> expenditure a lot of money going into candy as well, $3.5 billion in candy just for sweets. 41 million people expected to trick-or-treat, and then lastly, watch out for price hikes on halloween candy because of supply chain issues. i want to point out here, let's take a look at electoral map of the most popular candys the battleground states, michigan and wisconsin, this is m&m's

country. same with arizona and nevada. on the east coast, north carolina and georgia, those are nerds country. >> where do you land here? >> lot of support of m&m's. >> brian, thank you. we'll take a turn because protesters on college campuses have been calling for their schools to divest from israel, i'll simply explain coming up on "nbc news daily".

over the last year protesters across the country have been chanting demands for universities to disclose and divest. >> the demands are coming from students condemning what they say is their schools' financial support for israel during the israel/hamas war. demonstrations gained popularity across campuses and social media. what are divestments and how do they work. here are divestments simply explained. >> reporter: for decades students have called on their schools to divest. put simply -- >> colleges and universities have invested funds that are called endowments. divestment means taking out a piece or a part of the endowment. >> reporter: quick history lesson, the first calls began in the 1970s.

for higher divestments. students called for divestment from companies with ties to south africa over the country's apartheid laws. >> in 2011 the call there was to divest from carbon-generating companies and businesses associate with that. in 2022, there were calls to divest from russia after its attack on ukraine. and then more recently we've seen the calls from pro-palestinian protesters. to divest from companies associated with israel. >> a week-long demonstration against south africa turned violent today. demonstrators are demanding that the university gets rid of its investments. >> reporter: he was a graduate student at uc, berkeley, during apartheid and now a university dean. >> once we understood the investments we could appeal to the board of regents. >> reporter: years later the board of regents at uc berkeley voted to support divestment.

along with several universities in the united states. but divesting is a complicated exercise. >> colleges and universities aren't invested in countries per se, they are invested in companies that do business or some of their business in particular countries. >> reporter: a professor at ohio state university and a vocal opponent of divestment. >> protesters and others may think of divestment of just stopping investment in one particular company, they involve many long-term strategies. >> if one school leaves it can impact return for those remaining. translation, potentially less money to fund money and less political impact. investors like schools would need to hold at least 80% of total investment pool to make a

mark. but beyond a fiscal bottom line, advocates point to schools' obligations to student will. >> students are a key stakeholders at any university. it's their tuition that keeps universities afloat financially. universities are institutions that have a moral bearing as well. >> reporter: calls for schools to divest only a handful of institutions agreed to disclose their investments. the division over divestment continuing into this new school year and that's divestment "simply explained." we want to hear from you, what do you want simply explained. let me know on your favorite social media ptfm. tnkou for that. there's much more news ahead. >> you're watching "nbc news daily". thout me. then i found a chance to let in the lyte.” discover caplyta. unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar i, caplyta is proven to deliver significant symptom relief

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