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biden reshaped the race by ending his bid for the white house. we have one debate, dozens of stump speeches and what feels like hundreds of polls telling us the same thing. former president trump and vice president kamala harris are locked in a dead heat. as if to drive it home, the six residents of dixville notch, new hampshire kicked off the election with a 50-50 split. we have the candidates' final message to voters as we head into election day. and what to watch as the results come in. a judge rejects the request to block elon musk's million dollar give away, but it might not be the end of this legal battle. and breaking overnight, boeing's union lands a new contract, ending a costly strike that brought plane production to a halt. we'll go to cnbc for details on the deal. and the overtime showdown between the bucs and chiefs as we kick off this tuesday,

november 5th. "early today" starts right now. good morning, glad you're up early with me. i'm frances rivera. election day has arrived. voters will make their voices heard in this historic election. as the returns come in, former president trump will be at a watch party in florida, while vice president harris will hold an event at her alma mater, howard university. the tiny town of dixville notch carried on their tradition of voting at midnight. the results were tied, 3-3. in their final messages to voters, the candidates stressed how choice t how close this race could be. >> the race ain't over yet, and we must finish strong. and this could be, this could be one of the closest races in history. >> i can't tell you yet, but i mean, we're certainly on the two or three yard line.

and the only way we can blow it is if ofyou blow it. i've given you the ball. you've got to go and vote. >> former president trump spent the eve of the election crisscrossing several battleground states. garrett haake kicks off our coverage. >> reporter: former president trump on his final battleground blitz of his last presidential campaign. from pennsylvania, which both campaigns see as the pivotal tipping state. >> kamala broke it, and i will fix it and fast. >> reporter: to north carolina, a state he won twice that's now a battleground. >> i'd like to begin by asking a very simple question. are you better off now than you were four years ago? >> reporter: hammering home his message that he'll bring change at the border and on the economy. >> four years of kamala have delivered nothing but economic hell for american workers. you know that. her inflation disaster has made life unaffordable. >> reporter: trump's path back to the white house likely

depends on holding north carolina and winning at least one of the democrats' so-called blue wall states, plus flipping georgia, which president biden won by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020. trump's campaign confident about its early vote performance in many swing states. in the past, republicans usually trailed in early voting and had to make it up with election day turnout. >> we have record-setting early voting. numbers that nobody's ever seen before. can you believe that? >> reporter: trump's team parsing early vote numbers in the battlegrounds which they say shows rural turnout up and urban numbers down, and harris underperforming biden with key demographics, projecting confidence in their strategy of turning out young men who rarely vote, like scott netherlands. >> i think kamala's all talk, and it's an all fake. and they've been in office. so i just, like what's going to change if we vote them back in? >> reporter: but trump also making headlines for off-message comments. after surviving an assassination

attempt in july he now has bulletproof glass on stage. saying anyone who would want to shoot him we have to fire through the reporters covering him. >> i have this piece of glass here. but all we have really over here is the fake news, right? and to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. and i don't mind that so much. because. >> reporter: his campaign saying his comment had quote, nothing to do with the media being harmed and that trump was, quote, actually looking out for their welfare. >> our thanks to garrett for that report. vice president harris spent the final day of campaigning focussed squarely on pennsylvania. nbc's brie jackson is following the harris campaign. >> reporter: preparations are under way here on the campus of howard university, and this is where vice president harris will spend election night. now this is where she went to school as an undergraduate. and she has said that this is

where she found her love of politics. winding down her campaigning, harris made several stops in pennsylvania, with star-studded events. now after three and a half months on the road, she's making her final pitch to voters. >> one more day left in one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime, and momentum is on our side. momentum is on our side. can you feel it? we have momentum. right? >> reporter: and, as you can imagine, security here on the campus of howard university is tight. the secret service says it's working with federal and local authorities to ensure that howard university's campus is safe and secure. thousands are expected to be here on tuesday night to watch the election results pour in. on the campus of howard university, brie jackson, nbc

news. security is ramping up today in washington, d.c. for the election. the secret service telling us fencing and other security measures were installed around the white house, the vice president's home and the palm beach convention center where trump will host his watch party today. even businesses in downtown d.c. have boarded up their windows ahead of today. >> i do feel a little bit of unease, just in general. i think everybody's just a little bit on edge regardless of where you fall politically. and i think people are just gogo are in a wait and see kind of mode. >> the police chief says this is a full activation week, meaning all workers will be working 12 hours. a pennsylvania judge has ruled in favor of elon musk's $1 million a day voter sweepstakes saying it can continue until today's election. a democratingc d.a. had asked f the sweepstakes to be shut down, calling it a scam. the judge made the ruling after

musk's lawyers said the winners are paid spokes people and not selected by chance. he had earlier said the winners were chosen randomly. western intelligence agency the believe russia is behind two recent attempts to smuggle explosives onto cargo planes and may be targeting planes bound for the u.s. according to a western security official, in july, russia sent two incendiary devices to dhl logistics hubs in germany and the uk in a sabotage plan to possibly start fires aboard planes headed to north mercury. polish authorities have arrested four people and are searching for two more in connection with the case. all with ties to russia. russia has rejected allegations that it is orchestrating any sabotage campaign in europe. federal agents have arrested a tennessee man with ties to white nationalist groups who they say had plans to attack a national power grid.

24-year-old schuyler fill phillipi was charged with attempting to destroy an energy facility, according to a doj court document. phillipi told agents about his plan to fly a drone into an electric sub station. he is due in court november 13th. time now to get a check on your election day forecast with nbc meteorologist angie lassman. all important today, angie, good morning. >> definitely important. you got that right. let's talk about some of the trouble spots we've got across the great lakes and the greacoa. mild temperatures, dry skies for the most part. and we have snow for the rockies. let's go to some of these battleground states and take a look at more specifics for the forecast. nevada looks great. mostly sunny, mild conditions, temperatures in the 50s and 40s across that region. arizona with lots of sunshine. phoenix specifically expected to

hit mid-70s. as we go to the great lakes in parts of northeast, pennsylvania will keep things dry, not feeling like early november, but 80s for pittsburgh. michigan has to contend with showers and windy conditions for the first half of the day. mild temperatures across that region with mid-70s for detroit. milwaukee heads to the mid-60s, grow green bay into the mid-60s. we do have rain on tap for o hea. rain for st. louis, green bay and omaha. low 50s for denver this afternoon. that's a look at your election day forecast, frances, back to you. >> thanks so much, angie. the chiefs made the most of a

soggy night in kansas city. facing the buccaneers, the defending champs took the lead thanks to two catches from de'andre hopkins. the bucs' qb capped off a 71-yard drive with a game-tying touchdown to ryan miller. but baker wouldn't get a chance to serve up an overtime upset with patrick mahomes and the chiefs doing what they do best. >> caliendo comes in. he's eligible. here is hunt! for the touchdown! >> kareem hunt ran in the game winner to keep kc a perfect 8-0 at the mid season mark. 30-24. coming up, nbc's richard lui is here breaking down what states to watch as the election results come in tonight. and the clouds clear for boeing. the new deal overnight to end the nearly two-month strike. end the nearly two-month strike. my . my active psoriatic arthritis joint symptoms held me back. don't let symptoms define you...

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32,000 boeing machinists are get back to work. their union signed off on a new contract late last night, ending their seven-week strike. for details on the agreement, let's get straight to cnbc's karen gilchrist. good morning, karen. >> good morning, frances. you asked yesterday whether we could expect to see a conclusion to this long, drawn-out strike, the costliest in the u.s. for 25 years. and now we have it. unionized boeing workers voted in favor on monday of a new contract. and this brings to a close more than seven weeks of strikes. so members voted 59% in favor of this new deal, which will grant them a 38% pay raise over the next four years as well as a $12,000 bonus and new pension benefits. now it is the third deal that they've voted on after rejecting the first two. and it's slightly shy of the 40% pay raise that unions have

wanted, but certainly an increase on the 35% that was orig originally offered. and the rippinepresenting u.nio endorsed the deal. it's certainly welcome news now for the embattled plane maker which has gone from crisis to crisis and will certainly be ready to get production back up and running, but it's also positive news for the workers, many of whom have suffered great financial hardship as the result of the strike. they'll be happy to get back to work, frances. still to come, polls open in just a few hours, and all eyes will be on the results as they roll in. nbc's richard lui is here to break down the key brountd states to watch tonight. brount states to watch tonight. e had a. i didn't know it then, but it can progress to ga, an advanced form of the disease. his struggle with vision loss from amd made me want to help you see warning signs of ga, like:

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trickle in. our richard lui is here in the studio with us. good morning. what states should we be watching here on election night? >> nerves is the word. but hopefully with this plan in front of us, it will be a little less nervous on this. that's the way we want to present that to you. watch these seven core battleground states. these are the ones, where they go, so goes the election. our political unit is saying. first up to watch is georgia. georgia closes its polls at 7:00 p.m. eastern. networks might have some early data from there. and five other states. next, watch 7:30 p.m. that's when north carolina closes its polls. we could get some early indications here of how the south is leaning that may come from that state and georgia as well. up next for you, 8:00 p.m. eastern, pennsylvania closes. we've been talking about pennsylvania for months. that is the first state to give us a hint of the midwestern wave, if there is going to be

one. and georgia expects to have, at that time, 8:00 p.m., 75% of its vote counted at that time. so they say. okay. we're halfway there. let's take you to 9:00 p.m. polls close in arizona. as well as wisconsin and michigan. what we expect here at this time, we'll see a good number of votes coming from what is the midwest wall. and which way it's leaning. finally for you, we'll look at nevada. it closes at 10:00 p.m. eastern time. it could take days, though, here, before that state is called, because mail-in ballots are, that are postmarked by election day are also included in the count. almost half of the ballots in the last election were mail-in so all in all, this year could be on the faster side. many states, by the way, upgrading their voting processes and technology for early and election day voting, so many people are hoping on that. that is what steve kornacki was actually telling us, that

technology is better, and by the way, yes, how do you watch it other than this map? you watch him, who will be across all the different network platforms. steve kornacki, which will be fantastic. >> can't have an election without kornacki there on the big board. so question for you, richard. is this year going to be an outlier when it comes to these results? >> when you look at this, frances, that's a tough call. i'll only say since 2000, if you include that year, the average time a decision took was seven days. and you can remove 2000, which is certainly an outlier, frances, the average time to a decision was, was within one day. which do you prefer? >> i think people are so anxious after this election season and the campaign season, they want to know, right? so get your popcorn, get your takeout. get your caffeine and/or cocktail. >> i'll take the late average, which is within one day. >> all right, richard, thank you. when we come back, the new lawsuit over alleged side

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at his home. his death marks the end of an era in american music. nbc's joe friar takes a look back at his incredible life. >> reporter: known to so many simply as q. for more than 60 years, quincy jones shaped music history as a producer, arranger, musician and legendary collaborator. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: born in 1933, quincy delight jones jr. discovered an early love for music, ripping on the trumpet with the seattle jazz the seat. scene. before long, he discovered his true passion, arranging and producing. ♪ it's my party ♪ >> reporter: breaking barriers and working with music legends. >> i would like to have you meet a gentleman who's been doing these marvelous orchestrations for me, mr. quincy jones.

♪ fly me to the moon ♪ >> reporter: composing music for hollywood films and iconic tv shows, including the theme for "roots", perhaps his biggest collaboration changed the scrape landscap lan landscape of music, producing the best-selling album of all time. ♪ because this is thriller ♪ >> reporter: another highlight of that decade? >> one, two -- ♪ we are the world ♪ >> reporter: jones was the driving force behind the legendary collaboration, the top artists of the time releasing "we are the world" to raise money for famine relief. ♪ we are the children ♪ >> reporter: it was captured in a recent netflix documentary, jones, spanning decades of music evolution. >> i feel blessed to have been born in that era to come up with swing all the way up through to rap today. blessed, absolutely blessed. >> reporter: quincy jones, a

musical visionary who filled the world with so much rhythm, simply by following his own beats. even into his ninth decade, he told al roker the music was still in him. >> i feel like i'm just getting started. >> you're just getting started? >> yeah, man, i really do. >> a thanks to joe friar for that that look back. coming up on election day, our correspondents are fanned out across the battleground states. >> this morning on the third hour of "today", we are breaking down election day by the numbers. plus music star adam lambert is live in studio 1a, and we are making a fantastic seafood dish. that's all this morning on the third .

the countdown is over. election day is here