she voted to raise your taxes, is that what we want in missouri? >> there's no early voting in missouri, so it's difficult to gauge enthusiasm. so both campaigns are doing what you see behind me now, jeff, contacting voters and making sure they get to the polls. >> fascinating race to watch there in missouri. as is the one in nevada. we have more on that race now, the key factor there is the youth vote. >> reporter: are you voting tomorrow? >> we already voted. >> i have already voted. >> reporter: millennials now out number voters in america, with the potential to be the biggest voting block. the question is, will they go to the polls? >> have you voted yet? >> i have. >> reporter: the next gen group started the get out the vote effort. the effort is working. compared with the 2014 mid terms

18-29-year-olds are really showing up for early voting in several hotly contested races. includely arizona, florida, georgia and nevada. >> reporter: have you been surprised by kind of how many people, how many young people have come out to vote? >> um, yeah, honestly i waited in line about 45 minutes and it was early voting. >> reporter: the senate races are tight, with obama campaigning for democrat jackie rosen and the trump family shoring up the base for dean hallor. >> are you guys sick of winning yet? >> no. >> reporter: young voters have been considered unreliable in the past, but this states like nevada who have early voting they are showing up. the top issues for young people on both sides are college costs, immigration, equalitity, healthcare and gun jamie in las vegas, thank you very much. joining us now is our cbs chief long night tomorrow.

anthony, more than 35 million people have voted already. what does it tell you? >> it tells you turn out, will be up, if that trend continues and it tells you that, new voters are coming in to the process when we look at the voter files in big states like texas and florida, 4 in 10 of the folks did not vote in the last mid terms and in fact, early voting has soared past the last mid term over all in the state. if that continues that is a key thing to watch for a big turn out. >> nancy, let's break down the numbers, what does it take for control of congress to flip on either side potentially? >> well, in the senate there's 35 seats and democrats need a net gain of two to take control. 26 of the seats are already controlled by democrats. so they have to protect all of the seats and then, pick up two of the only nine seats that are currently controlled by republicans. it's just how the math shakes out this year. now, in the house, where everyone is up for re-election. democrats have a lot of avenues,

they believe, to pick up the 23 seats that they need. and that is because, they are about 66 seats that we believe are in play tomorrow. and all but six of them are controlled by republicans right now. >> and 218 for the majority in the house. anthony, early signs, what are the early signs you are looking for tomorrow? >> all the action is in the suburbs. we will start with the early states on the east coast, new jersey, virginia, florida, districts that usually vote republican that democrats are trying to pick up. if they are going democrat, it's a good sign for them, republicans hold them, could be a better night for them. >> can't wait to chat more with both of you tomorrow night. we will see you for the special cbs election news coverage. it will start at 5:00 and continue with a prime time special at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. the trump administration reimposed all economic sanctions on iran that were lifted under

the 2015 nuclear deal. they protested the decision. elizabeth palmer is in tehran. >> day one of the new sanctions saw iranians resigned to a hard life getting harder. a official reaction was beligerent. state broadcasts showed images of military exercises and there were anti-american signs. >> your president is a maniac. >> this demonstration is meant as a show of force and the next is clear, iranians are not afraid and iran is going to shrugg off the sankctions. that may be the party line, but even at the conservative rally, not everyone looks convinced. iran's leaders along with the hard-line revolutionary guards are under pressure.

they have to earn enough money from oil sales to keep the economy ticking or face their worse nightmare, a uprising. >> prius in wisconsin said that the driver of a pickup that killed three girl scouts and one of the mothers, had been sniffing chemicals before the accident. he sped off, and later turned himself in, he faces multiple charges. the scouts had been picking up trash on a highway, part of a service project when they were hit. coming up next, cameras captured u.s. troops on

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there's reports that the deployment could cost upwards of $200 million. the president sent the troops to the border as part of faithful patriot. to combat the migrant immigrants. >> that is an invasion. >> reporter: the bulk of the caravan is in a stadium in mexico city more than 650 miles away. we have gotten a lot of mixed reactions from the people that live in the valley, some calling it a mid term election stunt. but this is a dangerous area. often exploited by human and drug smugglers and border patrol agents and local law enforcement say they welcome the help. >> giving us a look tonight, maria, thank you very much. still ahad head here, am -- still ahead here, amazon is on a quest for a second headquarters. are you taking the tissue test?

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at the end of a bitter election campaign, americans would do well to consider a fallen hero's final message. here is john blackstone. >> reporter: in north ogden

utah, the flags are tribute to a fallen mayor. >> there's no words to express the loss we feel. >> reporter: major brent taylor was a public servant committed to military service. four times he was deployed to iraq and afghanistan. awarded a bronze star and a purple heart. he was one of 15,000 u.s. troops still serving in afghanistan. a war that has raged for 17 years. he posted this on facebook before his latest deployment. >> ours is a small sacrifice compared to what so many throughout our nation's history has done and given. >> reporter: but last week, major taylor made the ultimate sacrifice. shot by an afghan soldier. a member of the military, he was helping to train. an act of betrayal that brought the loss of a husband, the loss of a father to seven children. >> he was an awesome role model. he was active in the guard, active in politics.

his family, churches, his city. we have lost a hero. >> reporter: a week before his death, he made what would be his last post. we have far more as americans that unites us than divides us, he wrote, adding, i hope everyone back home exercises their precious right to vote. >> loved america and serving, that was his greatest honor. his last words were god bless america. >> reporter: brent taylor was a major and a mayor. a politician and a patriot and above all, a husband and a father. john blackstone, cbs news, north ogden, utah. >> that is the overnight news for this tuesday. cbs will have special election coverage throughout the day, starting with cbs this morning and running late in to the night as all the votes come in. from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, goodnight.

this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to "overnight news." if you are not one of the 35 million americans who have already cast an early ballot, you have until the polls close this evening to get out and vote: it's a mid term election that means every seat in the house of representatives is on the ballot. along with more than a third of the seats in the senate. the cbs news battleground tracker poll estimates that democrats are in a position to win a narrow majority in the house, and republicans are expected to keep control of the senate. president trump, is not on the ballot, but he continues to tell supporters that the election is a referendum on him. we begin the election day coverage. >> the energy that this whole party has now is really incredib incredible. >> a confident president trump left washington for a three-rally sprint to closes his

campaign blitz. first up, cleveland, ohio. >> everything that we have created, and achieved, is at stake on election day. >> reporter: the president surrogates are part of the full-court press. >> that blue wave is going to hit a red wall. >> reporter: the final push follows an intense weekend of stumping in four states. >> hello, montana, thank you, very much, georgia. pensacola, florida, we love it. >> reporter: and intensifying the rhetoric on immigration, which tops his list of key issues. >> democrats are inviting caravan after caravan, isn't that nice, of illegal aliens to flood in to our country. >> reporter: the trump campaign issued similar warnings in this controversial tv ad that linked immigrants seeking a sigh lum-- asylum to an illegal migrant and worker. the nbc aired it during sunday night football and pulled the ad today, citing the insensitive

nature. fox news and facebook stopped running it too and president trump stood by it. >> a lot of things are offensive, your questions are offensive a lot of times. >> the only president with worse approval ratings heading in to a mid term election than president trump was president bush when the republicans lost 30 seats in the house. the democrats hope to see a repeat, but know it's not a done deal. "satuday night live" took advantage of the insecurity. >> former president barack obama who has campaigned sentence acti -- campaigned extensively during the election, was out to turn up the turn out. >> the character of who we are is on the ballot. >> reporter: voters seem to know it, a battleground tracker poll finds 93% of both parties say their vote tomorrow matters just as much or more than as in a presidential election.

more than 36 million people have already voted. shattering the mid term record set in 2014 when about 27 million cast a ballot early. after president trump wraps up here in ft. wayne, indiana, he is heading to missouri for one final rally before election day. and tomorrow, he will watch all the returns from back at the white house. >> republican brian kemp royaled this tightly contested race with a call for the fbi to investigate his hacking charge against the state's democratic party. kemp, currently the secretary of state that oversees elections offered no supporting evidence. and denied the charge was a last minute campaign ploy. >> we are handling this like any other incident that we would get dealing with the potential cyber crimes. i'm not worried about how it looks i'm doing my job. >> reporter: kemp based his charge based on an e-mail sent from a private citizen.

georgia's democratic party said that they were merely trying to bring attention to possible security flaws. >> we want to tell them that we are better. >> reporter: kemp's opponent, democrat stacy abrams said that the hacking allegation is a proof that he cannot do his job and said it's a witch hup-- a wh hunt. >> he went to a desperate place for blaming democrats for alerting cybersecurity experts to his failure. >> it's the latest twist in a bitter campaign, as babe rams looks to be the first black female governor. she has accused kemp of suppressing minority votes. kemp has called the allegations a farse, a trump loyalist, he has consistently painted abrams as an extreme liberal. he tweeted this photo, of armed

black panthers supporting her. this is a get out of the vote rally in atlanta's baptist church, officially nonpartisan, practically the crowd is all abrams. turn out is key for both sides tomorrow, jeff, and polls though the race is dead even. in the last days of the tight campaign, claire mccaskill's political compass steers right ward. she is not one of the crazy democrats she insists. nor is she a softy on that caravan of my grants the president calls a threat. what is your position on that caravan? >> i think that we have to make sure that we secure the border and there's an orderly process under oor to turn themselves in for asylum. >> reporter: last week, she said that the president should use every tool at his disposal against the migrants and today, clarified. >> i'm wondering if your support for him, includes shooting at them? >> no. >> don't forget to vote on

tuesday. >> reporter: a bit of positioning can be prudent, but backing and opposing the president is a bid to have it both ways in a state that mr. trump won by 19 points. missouri toernl general josh holly, a lockstep supporter of the president is challenging mccaskill and said, she is a liberal. plain and simple. >> she votes with chuck schumer 90 percent of the time. is that what we want? she voted to raise your taxes. is that what we want in missouri? >> are you voting tomorrow? you already vote hd? >> i have already voted. >> reporter: millennials now out number boomers in america with the potential to be the biggest voting block. the question is will they go to the polls? >> have you voted yet? >> yeah, i have. >> reporter: the nonpartisan gr next ned a out of a y ago. the effort seems to be working impaired with the 2014 mid terms

the 18-29-year-olds are showing up for early voting in several hotly contested races, including, arizona, florida, georgia and nevada. >> have you been surprised how many people have come out to vote? >> um, yeah, honestly i waited in line about 45 minutes. >> reporter: the senate race is tight, with obama campaigning for jake rosen and the trump family shoring up the base for dean haler. >> are you sick of winning yet? >> reporter: young voters have been considered unrelooiiable i the past. the states that had early voteding they are showing up. jeff, the top issues for young people on both sides are education costs, gun laws, and healthcare. the cbs news will be right back. i was on the fence about changing from a manual to an electric toothbrush. but my hygienist said going electric

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♪ > this i the "cbs overnight news." a woman in north carolina is behind bars this morning charged with plotting to kill her own mother for the insurance money. why did she need the money? had well, she was caught up in an online catfish scam. we explain how that works. >> reporter: victims of cat fishing rarely speak out because they are embarrassed. most of them are women over 50, single and looking for love, some have sent their entire life savings to do a roam yo, one woman plotted a murder to keep sending the money. the online romance started in january, when 65-year-old roxanne reed fell for someone on facebook called scott humpal, the scammer started to ask for money to pay medical bills, even though they never met in person, she sent the stranger more than

$50,000 over seven months. >> we are able to get hold of some text messages, that led to the charge that we are looking at today. >> reporter: but when family members finally reported the scam, investigators alleged that reed, now out of money, had been plotting to kill her 88-year-old mother. she is now been charged with several counts of fraud and conspiracy, to commit mutter with the fake scott humpal. >> reporter: have you ever been in a relationship with roxanne reed? no. >> the real scott humpal lives in texas. his wife died in a plane crash, and soon after, he received suspicious mess on facebook. >> it seemed odud, i did not knw them. i sent a message that said, do i know you? and they said, yes, i've been conversing with you for months on match.com. >> reporter: he discovered that

scammers had created multiple profiles under his name. how many women do you think have fallen for the fake scott humpal in catfishing scams? >> hundreds. >> reporter: this is a favor in expert in identity theft. he checked all of the boxes for a catkisher a hand -- catfisher a handsome, well to do man. >> who you do you characterize them? >> they are emotional terrorists are. s ttdvises s accept suspicious requests and match.com said it asks users to never send money or share financial information. levin said that while catfishing has become more sophisticated the red flags are alw e. >> well the red flag here is that the grammar is horrible and the spelling is sth-- is not gr

at all. >> those red flags are often missed by some. >> why did you go on match.com? >> to maybe find somebody to talk to. >> reporter: the retired nursing assistant lives in golden valley, arizona. she fell for a man claiming to be a 61-year-old service man who told her he was stationed in afghanistan. >> he just looked like a nerd. >> reporter: somebody you could trust. >> the catfisher sent a copy of his fake passport, he only signed his first name and was wearing a hat. even still, beverleyly believed him. >> he was polite and said he had a son and his wife died five years ago. >> reporter: she sent the stranger more than $30,000. he asked for her to pay for the child's medical bills.she draie. why did you send him money?

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if you are a fan of the "big bang theory," you probably know it's the last season of the show. the man behind the megahit said he has another one up his sleeve. tony spent a afternoon with chuck lori. >> it's chuck lorrie productions. if you thought the classic american sitcom is dying. >> this is where you park your car? >> this is where i park my car. >> go visit chuck lorrie on the wan warner bros. lot in los angeles. he has kept the sitcom genre alive, producing some of the biggest hits. >> i have seen -- >> that is not even counting what he has going on now. >> "big bang theory," stage 25. stage 20 is "mom," 19 is one of two stages for "young sheldon,".

>> last season those three shows averaged more than 40 million viewers a week. ♪ led by the single most watched series on television. "the big bang theory," on cbs. >> it's a fundamental problem with elementary quantum mechanical -- >> hey, don't dumb this down for me. >> the show, about a group of socially awkward scientists is in its final season. >> it's going to be heartbreaking when we are done. this is just going to be very, very difficult to end this after 12 years. >> smell that? that's the smell of new comic books. oh, yes. >> "the big bang thierry" for me was about people who don't fit in. who want to fit in, who want to participate in life but don't know how.

that's a story worth telling. >> and that is the secret to chuck lorre's success, don't only try to be funny, try to be honest. >> keep it real. real family dynamics, real family issues. >> is that it? >> yes, the most accurate pregnancy test on the market. >> don't tell silly stories. >> which is why, perhaps the most successful sitcom creator since norman leare in the 1970s, hates the word sitcom or situation comedy. >> situation, i think is appropriate word if you marry a witch or if you come home from being an ask electronaut and have you a genie with you. good morning master darling. >> that's a situation. >> and now, the 66-year-old lorre as a new show, about the one situation we all have in common. getting older. >> it's an amazing thing, because internally, it's still a 14-year-old looking out of this

old face. you walk passed a window in a store window, and you go, oh, oh! it's startling. >> "the kominsky method," has aging hollywood players. it's starting to stream this month on netflix. >> you do not want to be in a sitcom. >> what are you talking about? those little pictures on the big bang thing are making a million bucks a week. >> you are one of the all-time great acting coaches. >> one of the reasons i wanted to do it was humor. i love humor. it's not had my natural affinity, but for me, i thought, here is an opportunity to work with the best. >> and for lorre the format feels new. after decades of filming in front of a live studio audience. >> people that the laughter is canned. no, turn the cameras around, there's all the seats. there's a couple of hundred people that sit here, and when they are not laughing, it's

horrifying. and we re--write the material and reshoot it and do whatever we can. >> so, how do you trust had that a moment that you think is working in your edit room on kominsky is going to work in people's living room? >> the word you just used is the whole thing, is trust. you have to go on faith. it's a matter of i like this, i hope you do too. >> that small window up there on the right, that was my bedroom where i used to lean out as a teenager and blow the pot smoke outside. because i was so clever. >> you could say chuck lorre's first sitcom too place on new york's long island. >> a lot happened in 12 years in this house. >> where he grew up with a volatile mother and a father who's business was constantly in danger of failing. >> this was reality. you know, this, this is what i knew. >> one person lorre wishes he knew longer was his father. robert. >> can i indulge you in a game

of catch that we will call work? >> we will call work. >> he died when lorre was just 24, missing all of his son's success. >> i would give anything, anything, to have experienced some of this stuff with my dad. >> after his father died, lorre drifted. spending the next decade as a struggling musician until something had to change for the sake of his children. >> there was no alternative other than make money. you must make money. you have children. it's not really an option. >> to survive, he took a job selling radios door to door in los angeles. one of those doors ended up leading to an animation company. >> and i walked in there and there was a bunch of people working and i had the temerity to say, hey, this is your lucky day. and i said, i am a writer. you do comedy? yes, sometimes. okay, great. i'm your guy. there's great power in ignorance

and naivety. i did not know i couldn't. i worked on that show too. as some doors opened and ors slammed shut. he was fired, pushed out, or quit, many of his early jobs, and in 2006, entertainment weekly dubbed him the angriest man in television. >> you know, i think i'm a teddy bear. >> you are a teddy bear, now, clearly. i'm trying to figure out what changed. you mellowed, what happened? >> i'm trying, i'm trying to have more perspective, and -- this is more personal than i really want to get in to on cbs sunday morning. but, fear for me exhibiting as anger. i'm not going to show you fear. i'm going to show you anger. because that is just how i grew up. and that's what you present to the world and that may become your reputation. >> lately though, lorre has worked to re-write that reputation. he even said that he would be

open to shaking hands with charlie sheen. who's bizarre public downfall in 2011, threatened one of lorre's hits. 2-1/2 men. >> no, no, not chicken. good common sense. fighting accomplishes nothing. >> oh, i didn't know you were so french. >> i was proud of what we did. i will catch re-runs and the shows holdup. we did good stuff and we had a good time. and it was, it was a horrific thing that happened. and it happened a long time ago. moving on. >> but chuck lorre knows that even as he moves on with the kominsky method, his new perspective has limits. >> i have to stay grateful, and not worry about if i'm getting my due. that would be whiney

the remains of a utah mayor killed in afghanistan are back on u.s. soil. brent taylor a major in the army national guard was gunned down by one of the afghan soldiers he was there to train. he leaves behind a wife and seven children. john blackstone is in north ogden, utah, with his story. >> i'm here on heroes boulevard, it's where banners are displayed honoring community members who are serving in the military, you can see this one paying tribute to brent taylor has become a memorial, paying tribute to a fallen soldier who was also this city's beloved mayor. as a married father of seven, army national guard major and mayor, he devoted his life to helping others. >> there's three great loyalty y i that have guided my life and everything in it, god, family and country. >> reporter: in january, taylor announced on facebook that he

would be taking a leave of absence as mayor in order to deploy overseas for a fourth time. his mission, training the staff of the afghan battalion command, with two months left in the year long tour, taylor was killed by an afghan soldier, in an insider attack. >> i know he was encouraged to not go, he volunteered because he thought he could do something good. >> reporter: taylor's best friend said that his children lost a role model and the country has lost a hero. >> he did what he did, because he wanted to make sure there were no injusticnjustices. >> reporter: he is the third soldier to be killed in an insider attack since july, there's still 15,000 u.s. troops in the country. many's roles are to train and advise afghan forces. more than half of the combat deaths in afghanistan have come from suspected insider attacks.

michael ohanlon is a researcher and author that specializes in u.s. military strategy. >> it's a deliberate tactic on their part, to kill people like mayor taylor and to try to therefore effect american will. this brings home the need to ask ourselves again, there a light at the end of the tunnel? >> reporter: taylor is being remembered as a man who wanted to make the world a better place. city administrator john call worked with him.>> my heart ble kids. i just can't imagine what they are going to go through. >> reporter: less than a week before his death, taylor wrote would be his final facebook post, urging everyone to vote, regardless of party we have more than unites us than divides us. >> final message of an american hero. that is "cbs overnight news" for this tuesday. check wiwith us throughout the y

captioning funded by cbs it's tuesday, november 6th, 2018. captioning funded by cbs it's tuesday, november 6th, 2018, this is the "cbs morning news." the midterm elections are finally here. days, months, even years of work oday as ame call come into place today as americans cast their vote. a look at some of the most heated races. reports of an attempts election hamming in georgia. the accuse saeg and the evidence. and severe weather do challenge some polling places.