>> it was still nice. don't forget, the news continues all day on the cbsn bay area. have a great monday, everyone. ♪ good morning to you our viewers in the west. welcome to "cbs this morning." it's monday, november 2nd, 2020. one day to go. we're in the final hours of campaigning before tomorrow's historic election. president trump and joe biden are making starkly different closing arguments about the future of this country. what the candidates hope to achieve in key battleground states. political tensions heat up as the campaign draws to an end. how a dramatic incident involving a biden campaign bus is leading to allegations of threatening behavior by trump supporters. and praise from the president. an unthinkable milestone in the covid crisis.

nearly 100,000 new cases in a single day. why blunt new comments from dr. anthony fauci are creating a new rift between him and the president. >> and voter turnout could shatter records. we'll talk to experts about making sure your vote counts. and casting your ballot without getting sick. >> stay healthy. first, here's today's "eye opener." it's your world in 90 seconds. >> i believe that this is going to be loud and it's going to be clear. it's time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home. >> we are in the final sprint for the race for the white house. >> the president hinting he'll challenge all the results. >> a lot of fraud and misuse can take place. the night of, as soon as that election is over, we're going in with our lawyers. >> the fbi investigating the actions of trump supporters who swarmed a joe biden campaign bus. >> look at that. >> they were protecting his bus yesterday because they're nice. >> president donald trump suggested that he may fire dr.

anthony fauci. >> don't tell anybody, but let me wait until a little bit after the election. >> the united kingdom is poised to return to a national lockdown after a surge in new cases. >> now is the time to take action because there is no alternative. >> the death toll continues to rise after a massive 7.0 earthquake struck off turkey. >> all that -- >> on november 1st, mariah carey announcing it's time for the holiday season. >> it's time. >> and all that matters. >> look at the former president on the campaign trail. ice water in his veins. >> oh! >> barack obama nails a baseline three-pointer and then drops the mic dropping out. >> that's what i do. >> on cbs this morning. >> maybe the greatest play that doesn't count. indiana rutgers. >> he'll keep it hot.

o'neill, take this. oh, my good peninsula watch out. still no whistle. shaneen jones cuts it back inside. he's just tripped up. ball still alive. >> the play was called back because these officials clearly don't like to have fun. >> this morning's" eye opener" is presented by playingive. ma progressive. making it easier to buy insurance. >> people feeling sense and uneasy. i think sports is a welcome, welcome diversion. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." it's a sprint to the finish for both presidential candidates on this last day before the election. president trump is scheduled to hold five rallies in four key battleground states. former vice president biden will be in two states today, ohio and pennsylvania. the long lines have not deterred an historic early turnout. it's estimated more than 94

million americans have already cast their ballots. >> tensions are rising before election day. the fbi is investigating after a pro-trump convoy surrounded a biden campaign bus in texas and in north carolina. officers used pepper spray against a group of demonstrators that included children at a rally to promote voting. police said they were blocking the roadway. ben tracy is following the final countdown. ben, good morning. >> good morning. president trump will spend the entire day on the road holding those five rallies. his final one late tonight in michigan. that's also where he held his final rally in 2016. and with the president still trailing in the polls he continues to sow doubts about the outcome of the political election. >> we'll have a big victory. >> at his final rally in florida, the president sounded confident, surrounded by thousands of supporters who did not seem to mind that it stretched well past midnight. president trump held five rallies in five states sunday, and he's banking on a surge of

support on election day. >> wrat until you see what's going to happen with the great red wave. >> but he continues to demand to know a winner on election night. >> we should know the result of the election on november 3rd. the evening of november 3rd. that's the way it's been, and that's the way it should be. >> but that's not true. votes have regularly been counted after election day. in 2016, nearly 10% of all votes were counted after the election. and this year it's a scenario that's especially not guaranteed given record voter turnout in a record surge of mail-in ballots due to the pandemic. more democrats tend to vote early, and those votes could take longer to count. many states can't even start counting until election day. and while mr. trump is now denying reports that he may declare victory before an official result is known -- >> that was a false report. we'll look at what happens. >> reporter: he's signaling his

campaign is ready to challenge election results. >> we're going to go in the night of, as soon as that election is over, we're going in with our lawyers. >> reporter: both former vice president biden and his running mate hit back. >> my response is the plt resid is not going to steal this election. >> we plan to decisively win this election. so i don't think we're going to need to get to that point. >> president trump will now spend election night at the white house after scrapping plans for a matter at his nearby hotel. the president was not happy that washington, d.c., limits indoor gatherings to 50 people. the white house sits on federal land so those rules don't apply here and "the new york times" says the president plans to gather hundreds of people in the east room of the white house. >> ben, thank you very much. the president is holding five rallies today, including some in coronavirus hot spots. and one target of the crowd scorn at last night's trump rally in florida was dr. anthony fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert.

president trump has not said what could happen to dr. fauci if he wins a second term, but that may be changing. ed o'keefe is following both campaigns. good morning to you. what did the president say? >> well, good morning, tony. the president appeared to once again openly toy with the idea of firing dr. anthony fauci because he's a career public servant. the president could only demote, maybe sideline him. but the criticism comes as the doctor has given another scathing interview where he criticizes the administration's response to the coronavirus. >> wow, what a crowd. >> reporter: at the president's rally last night, the crowd broke into chants calling for dr. anthony fauci's removal. >> fire fauci! >> don't tell anybody but let me wait until a little bit after the election. >> reporter: the president can't technically fire the career public servant, but fauci has yet again angered the white house after he was asked by "the washington post" about the differences between the campaigns. fauci said the plt resident is

looking at the virus from the perspective of opening the country and the biden campaign is taking it seriously from a public health perspectivive. the white house called the comments unacceptable and called him partisan by praising the president's opponent. >> to beat the virus, we've first got to beat donald trump. he's the virus. >> reporter: in philadelphia sunday, biden slammed president trump for his response to the coronavirus which is disproportionately impacted communities of color. the vice president hoping turnout can help him. >> we need every one of you to get out and vote on tuesday. my message to you is simple. pennsylvania is critical to this election. >> reporter: but biden's road to the white house is not without tension. >> no wonder there's so much traffic. >> reporter: this video shows trump supporters in texas using trucks and cars to surround and follow a biden campaign bus over the weekend. it was traveling along interstate 35. and no one was hurt. but in a tweet, the president celebrated the drivers writing,

in my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong. and he was critical of the fbi's decision to investigate the incident. >> people that are driving down a highway with an american flag and a trump flag, right? don't worry. they'll be just fine. they're going to be just fine. >> reporter: important to note neither biden nor harris nor their spouses were on that bus. it was biden campaign staffers and volunteers and texas democratic officials told me this was an isolated incident. they are aware of nothing else like it happening in recent days in the lone star state. today the president, as we mentioned, is visiting -- making five stops in four key battleground states. joe biden begins in ohio. a state where his team sees last-minute hope of possibly turning it blue. then he spends the rest of today in western pennsylvania, ending it at heinz field in pittsburgh alongside lady gaga. guys, lest we forget because there's been viewer inquiry about this. there is just one day left until election day.

>> how many days? >> one. just one. >> i want a zero board tomorrow, ed. >> in a neighborhood nufull of g screens, we still go old school. >> i want to see a zero on the board tomorrow. >> i'll bring it for you tomorrow. >> the o'keefe countdown calendar goes on. with the political heat rising, some are taking precautions for after the election. our lead national correspondent david begnaud is here in new york city. david, what are you seeing? >> we are in front of the famed empire state building which has already been boarded up on the ground level to stop people from breaking the glass and going in to loot. but in general here in new york city and elsewhere around the country, there's a concern that the tensions are rising. to the point where a lot of people feel unsafe. police in graham, north carolina, using pepper spray on what was said to be peaceful demonstrators. at least one officer was assaulted. the people wouldn't move so they used pepper spray.

the governor said it was unacceptable. he called it voter suppression. to beverly hills now. over the weekend, about 4,000 plow-trump supporters gathered to rally in support of the president. anti-trump demonstrators showed up and clashed. back here in the tri-state, that being new york state, new jersey and connecticut, there were caravans of plro-trump supportes who blocked bl eed bridges stop people from getting in at one point. the backup was more than five miles in one area. back in front of the empire state building, we're expecting more businesses like this to be boarded up today. even nordstrom said they're boarding up all 350 of their locations around the country in advance of election day. >> boy, david, thank you very much. it's a shame it's come to that. thank you very much. joining us now is cbs news senior political analyst and "60 minutes" correspondent john dickerson. he's in studio today. john, welcome. we're not relegating you to the

kids' table. we're just practicing social distancing. we're very glad you're here. >> and it's good to be near you, gayle. >> all right. we're getting down to the nitty and the gritty. what does this tell us -- what does this final lap tell us about what each candidate is doing? >> the first thing is tells us, how important pennsylvania is. all the candidates will be there. harris, pence, biden and trump will all be in pennsylvania. the turf, if you look at the battleground map, this is turf the president is defending. he won in 2016. his travel is all about the places he's trying to defend. what's interesting is that one trip joe biden is taking into ohio. that's basically biden going into the deeper redder part of the map. they must be seeing something there. or they are fool hearty at the end. but that's quite interesting. and then the other important thing, they're all trying to turn out the vote on election day. no persuasion going on. it will be interesting what plaum

president obama does for the black vote in his travel. >> the president says we should know the results on election night and has told people he'll declare victory if it looks like he's ahead. what do you make of the president saying that? >> i spent time talking to national security officials in the administration and also secretaries of state and election officials in the states. and what they say is that when you've got an election where they're boarding up windows in american cities, you want forces at all levels to be tamping things down, not to be calling the election system into question. so in that environment, you have perhaps the most vocal voice, the most -- the person with the biggest platform calling the american election into question. so the plt resident is at odds h what his national security officials are trying to do. >> you were in arizona recently and cbs news is calling it a toss-up state. >> arizona is an interesting

state. it has maricopa county at the center of all of our conversations on election night. the biggest county in arizona, the fastest growing county in the country. the biggest county donald trump won in 2016. and he's got so many supporters there. but there's also a rift in the party there. and the reason arizona is interesting, that's where the country is heading, to be more like a state like arizona. more diverse and so if donald trump can win there it means he's winning into america where it's headed. this election is about who is the candidate of the future and who is the candidate of the past in part. and so arizona is interesting that way. i'm really interested in east coast states that report their results early. that's florida and north carolina. they've been counting and tabulating, processing votes early. >> both candidates spending their last hours in pennsylvania, hotly contested state. a key state. the absentee ballot deadline was extended there. there's a legal battle over that. what's the significance of that? >> the legal battle, it means the secretary of state in pennsylvania has said they will

count those votes that come in after election day. the plbs -- the question is, counting them. odding them to the total. will they be added to a legal fight. that's still a bit of a question mark. there's supposed to be more guidance from the secretary of state today on what happens. it could mean those votes could be counted even if they come in later. the president saying the election has to be determined on election day. that's never hand. so it just is another way in which pennsylvania will be a sticky state in addition to the fact it takes them a long time to count votes. >> many people worry about november 3rd, the day after election, the thinking is this country is going to be deeply divided. it already is. what do you think each candidate needs to do to unite the country? >> the candidate needs to unite the country. speak to the people who are not in your base. this is a key quality of the president to understand their needs, to hear them and say, i hear you. and not add just a bunch of gasoline to the floor that can

be ignited with people whose emotions are running high. >> john, thank you. side note. john and i will be part of the cbs news team bringing you the election results in a primetime special tomorrow night. cbs news 2020, election night, america decides. norah o'donnell is leading the coverage. he'll be joining here along with margaret brennan and ed o'keefe at 6:30 eastern here on cbs. we'll be on the air as long as it takes. the u.s. reported more than 99,000 new coronavirus cases friday, more than any country has ever reported in a single day. the new covid case load over the past three days is around 262,000. case numbers are rising in 44 of the 50 states. health officials are especially concerned about infections in key midwestern battleground states like iowa, michigan and wisconsin. as adriana diaz reports, these states highlight how political differences have affected efforts to control the virus.

>> it's the final push before election day in wisconsin, a state all too familiar with political division. one key point of contention this year, the country's coronavirus response. >> this has affected this communityprofound ways. >> reporter: this doctor treats patients at two green bay hospitals, both near capacity. he's concerned about making progress against the virus saying public health policy has become political. >> we are flaunting masking. we're debating basic effective measure. i notice the -- if you'd just stop and look at the data around you. >> reporter: we looked at the top 20 metro areas with the greatest number of cases relative to population. and ten were in wisconsin. >> in two months, our seven-day average has increased by more than 500%. >> reporter: democratic governor tony evers is not considering

another lockdown. the state's republican-led legislature has challenged his previous public health orders. >> honest to gorkd, it's breathtaking. we should be pulling together instead of pushing apart. >> reporter: another concern for the midwest, dropping temperatures forcing people indoors. especially during upcoming holiday gatherings. former nda commissioner scott gottlieb spoke on "nais the natiface the nation." >> it's going to be unmistakable what's happening at that point. >> reporter: the u.s. could hit a sobering and scary milestone this week. a daily record of more than 100,000 cases. on friday, we hit 99,3400 cases which was the biggest single day increase we've seen so far. and at least 14 states have broken their own single day records in the past three days. tony? >> adriana, thank you. ahead -- can democrats take control of the u.s. senate. we'll tell you about the key races to watch in their battle

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welcome back to cbs "this morning." we are just one day away from election day, but that's a bit of a misnomer because it's estimated more than 94 million people have already cast their ballots. a historic number for early voting. cbs news and surveys directioner is here with what it could mean for the race. anthony, good morning to you. what are you watching? >> good morning, tony. most important thing to watch going into tomorrow is that joe biden has a lead among the people who have already cast all of those ballots, but the president has a polling lead among those who tell us they plan to vote tomorrow. so what does that do? it sets up a turnout showdown amid continuing concern among all voters about coronavirus.

here is where our final battleground tracker polling stands. 50-state race. joe biden has an edge in enough states, enough leaning blue states right now, to get him over the magic 270 electoral vote line, but let's suppose republicans surge in turnout tomorrow like they tell us they will. re ran the numbers. that would put the president back on top across the sun belt. all of these states he won in 2016, flip maybe a pennsylvania, and put him on a path over 270 to re-election. however, let's suppose democrats match republicans in turnout and it's that early vote that dominates all the votes. well, then joe biden would flip a lot of these states in the sun belt. arizona, georgia, north carolina and the upper midwest, and be in a comfortable path to victory. so it's that turnout dynamic that we are watching tomorrow. now, let me say a word about what we are looking for at the decision desk where we're projecting races on election

night. when cbs news sees a poll close, close in a state, we will characterize the race. we will tell you if it's a toss-up, if one candidate is leading for a while. but we will project a race when all the votes are counted. we will say when all the votes are counted, cbs news can project a winner. and, let me take you into ohio for just one example. if all the votes aren't counted i'm going to tell you some of the votes maybe have been counted in a democratic area but not a republican area, or vice versa. in a republican place but not in a democratic place and for that you'll get the whole picture of what's going on as the night progresses, tony. >> really important information there to paraphrase dan rather, i believe in god country and cbs news pollings. anthony, thank you very much. >> no pressure there. >> but no pressure, tony! but no pressure. >> it's a good belief system, tony dokoupil has. >> held in high es scheme. cbs news contributor david becker joins us.

an election law expert and founder of the center for election innovation and research. good morning, david. thanks for being with us. >> good morning. >> as we mentioned, 94 million people have already voted. how unprecedented is that, and what do you think it's likely to mean for turnout tomorrow? >> well, we've never even come close to this in american history. to put it in perspective, by the time we get to the pollings, at least 100 million people have already cast ballots. that means if we see turnout around 150 million or 160 million which would be record turnout by far in american history, we would see the highest percentage in, really, in american history seen we've seen universal suffrage of eligible voters but actually see fewer voting on election day than we have in recent electi s elections, because so many people have already gotten their ballots in. >> a lot of talk about the legitimacy of this election. the president raised doubts. concerns about foreign interference.

is there any reason to believe that the u.s. won't hold a free and fair election tomorrow? >> not at all. in fact, there's a lot of reason to believe we're going to hold a very free and fair and one of the most secure elections we've ever had. again, one of the key reasons is that 100 million ballots that are already in the scanners, ready to be counted on election night. if we had had any problems if we had seen interference with election infrastructure it's highly likely we would have detected it already. fewer voters voting on election day by far than we've seen voting over the last several weeks. >> david, the president also said after the election one of the first calls he's making is to his lawyer. issue with ballots counted after election day. what do you make of that? >> well, i think it's -- it's a little troubling to hear that kind of language coming from any candidate, particularly an incumbent president. look, i mean right now the game should be to try to get as many voters out and to win the election with more voters than your opponent. we're not really seeing that from the president.

hopefully that, we will get a clear answer from the voters. i think the record turnout that we are seeing is going to yield a very clear answer from the voters, and i think there's a very good chance we're going to know who the president is sometime very late tuesday night, early wednesday morning. >> the president also says he will declare victory if ahead. seems to have walked that back a little bit now. but what happens if a candidate declares victory too early? >> well, a candidate can do kwha whatever he wants, but, of course, we've had this process for a long time. it's always been the way it's been. we have never declared a winner on election night unless the marge bes were excessively large. it's very, very normal to allow the process of counting all ballots to go on over the course of hours even be days if necessary. >> david becker, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. up next, the fight for control of the u.s. senate. why some longtime republican senators are struggling against their opponents, and a reminder. you can always get the morning's news by subscribing to the cbs

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this year's election is not just about the white house. republicans are also fighting to keep control of the u.s. senate. democrats are trying to overcome the gop's 53-47 majority to take full control of congress. nearly twice as many republican senators are up for reelection this year and more than a third of them are in very competitive races. our chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes is braving outdoors here in new

york city this morning. nancy, so glad to see you. chances this time around? >> reporter: gayle, because they see the president's poor poll numbers pulling down senate republicans across the country. anywhere he's trailing those republicans are, too. and all democrats have to do is defeat a few of them to take back control after six years in the minority. on the eve of election day, it's not just the presidential race that has republicans nervous. >> we turn this thing around. >> reporter: senators in formerly safe states are struggling, too. in georgia, republican david perdue is running neck and neck with a 33-year-old democrat, jon ossoff. >> you shouldn't do everything that your handles in washington tell you to. because you'll lose your soul along the way, senator. >> reporter: after that moment went viral last week, perdue canceled their final debate, opting for a campaign rally with the president instead. in north carolina, republican

senator thom tillis trailed his democratic challenger kyle cunningham for months in what is now the most expensive race in u.s. history. cunningham admitted to an extramarital affair and it still didn't change the polls. >> dishonest. >> reporter: in arizona john mccain's former senate seat could also go blue. republican senator martha mcsally criticized by former astronaut mark kelly for the gop's response to coronavirus. >> senator, you would understand this as a pilot. you guys did step one of the emergency procedure and then you didn't do anything else. and that is a colossal failure. >> reporter: then there's maine's suzb bsusan collins, on the senate's most senior regret >> reporter: lost by three points. >> time and again making excuses for trump's behavior. >> reporter: democrat voters

poured money even into rich states like south carolina. >> kills us financially. >> reporter: now lindsey graham's battle with democrat jaime harrison is considered a toss-up in a state graham won six years ago by 17 points. >> and i wish the senator would take the urgency he has for the supreme court nomination, put that into actually doing a bill to address the needs of the folks in south carolina. >> reporter: now, democrats are playing defense in a couple of spots. they're very worried about alabama senator doug jones keeping his seat, but in general, of the 13 states that we consider senate ballots beground or very competitive, 11 of those seats are currently held by republicans, and so even senate leader mitch mccnnell says that his chances of holding on to control are 50/50 at best. tony? >> we shall see. nancy cordes, thank you very much. ahead, vlad duthiers looking

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>> just a drink. a mart teeny, shaken, not stirred. >> oh, mr. bond. connery was the first james bond and, of course, still one of the most recognizable versions of 007. appeared in seven installments of the popular movie series and his acting career began in the 1950s. starred in nearly 50 films including "the untouchables" his own oscar and "the hunt for red october." people will know if they know that film. and died peacefully in his sleep on saturday having bun unwell for too time. sean connery was 90 years old. i know they say you love the bond you grew up with. for me sean connery is the definitive james bond. >> always and forever, be bond. and ian fleming wrote the bond novels didn't want him to play the part. he wanted carry grant to play the part. >> didn't think he was sophisticated enough. the line, shaken not stirred, in

the book, shaken not st-- stirr shaken. sounded better with connery saying it. >> and what about "goldfinger." >> wearing a "goldfinger"-style suit in honor of the late sean connery. moving on, ballots getting to voters late. u.s. district court shows the u.s. postal service showed three consecutive days. this is troubling since thousands of voters in critical states like pennsylvania and maine relied on mail-in ballots instead of voting in-person due to the pandemic. agreeing to a judge's order making sure ballots are delivered or returned in time to be counted. very important. >> yes. very important. also because there's questions about whether the count will be accepted after the fact. if they send it back and it's late.

i think at this point, if people do get it with extraordinary measures find a drop box or election office and walk it in. >> walk it in. >> yeah. >> if you're concerned, resources on cbsnews.com. check it out. every state listed. find out what you need to do. if you're feeling stressed about election day. >> yes, yes! >> everything here. this whole studio feeling stress. >> yes, yes. >> a new stud finds more than half of americans expect tomorrow, november 3rd to be the most tense day of their lives so far. 61% of millennials and 51% of gen x e-ers stressing compared the boomers. probably because the state of the world, boomers are responsible for the state of the world. 67% of people in the study just want 2020 to be over but we found a couple of resources. krispy kreme gives you a free doughnut if you come in with an "i voted" sticker. >> mcdonald's --

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he has dance moves. now has three of four. >> you can dance when you make a touchdown i guess. good morning to you. welcome to "cbs this morning." we are less than 24 hours away from election day, which means today is the final opportunity for the president candidates to troy to sway voters. both candidates are holding rallies in battleground states. that includes five stops in four states for president trump. >> one state all four candidates are visiting today is pennsylvania. the 20 electoral votes are highly coveted and the keystone state could be one of the determining factors in the race. our cbs battleground tracker estimate has joe biden with a seven-point lead in pennsylvania. jericka duncan has a lowser look there at the race in pennsylvania. >> thank you all. >> reporter: the candidates relentlessly campaigned to voters in this critical state. >> hello philadelphia.

it's great to see everyone. >> reporter: visiting pennsylvania a combined total of 29 times this year. amid the coronavirus pandemic, more than 3 million pennsylvania voters have requested mail-in ballots. state officials say they expect ten times as many mail-in ballots to be cast this year compared to 2016. the supreme court ruled last week ballots received up to three days after the election can be counted. pennsylvania's secretary of state is still urging voters to hand in their ballots immediately. >> we all know we are living in a time of postal service delays. it's too late at this point to mail your ballot and know that it is going to get here in time. >> reporter: results could still be slow to come in here. at least seven of pennsylvania's 67 counties say they will not count mail-in ballots until the day of a the election. >> it is a small fraction of the total vote by mail. and the largest counties are

going to be counting 24/7. so they are going to get it done. >> reporter: in the state's largest city, philadelphia, an estimated 400,000 mail-in ballots will be counted at the city's convention center tarting at 7:00 a.m. on election day. lease audio deeley oversees voting in philadelphia. what's your biggest concern going into this election? >> my biggest concern is to temper expectation, especially in philadelphia, where you see election day being over when the polls close. that is not going to happen on election day. it is going to take us a little bit of time. >> reporter: state officials say they expect to have all the ballots counted by friday. now, a question looming in the background is how will people react and respond if their candidate loses? you can see there are a number of businesses here in center city that are board up in preparation for possible looters. there is also concern of more looting following the police shooting death of walter wallace

jr. police announced they plan to release their body camera footage from that shooting the day after the election. >> it is no wonder, jericka, that a lot of people are on edge. tony ever since reported it shows you how hard it is, that people are working behind the scenes to count all of the ballots. >> everyone needs to be patient at home. the results will come in. they are going to be accurate, not fast. >> very deliberate. that's what you want. >> and they take it very, very seriously. ahead as our leksz countdown continues we will take a look at the candidat

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we are less than 24 hours from election day. president trump and former vice president joe biden will continue to make their final appeals to voters in campaign appearances today. "face the nation" moderator margaret brennan interviewed both candidates and joins us now. good morning. >> good morning to you, gayle. >> both candidates feel very confident. i don't expect any candidate to say, you know, it's not looking good for us. i'm very worried, but does any candidate in your opinion, have reason to feel more confident than the other as we stand here today 24 hours out? >> well, the democrats can look at those banked votes, that early vote, and feel good about the edge they have in certain states, but as the head of the republican party ronna mcdaniel told me on "face the nation" yesterday, she feels because they have sent staff door to door in key states asking republicans, hey, why haven't you voted yet? they believe there is a surge

that we haven't seen yet that will show up in-person tomorrow. if you look at states like florida and texas, republicans who are showing up to vote early have chipped away at some of the democratic lead in those states, but president trump is really going to be very heavily dependent on his supporters showing up in large numbers tomorrow, and joe biden is going to be heavily dependent on those votes that are still out there, particularly young voters that the biden campaign is betting on. >> margaret, the president's closing message seems to be a return to normal, a return to a time before the coronavirus, yet at he makes that pitch to voters in 13 battleground states, cases of the virus are surging. how do those it two intersect and affect election day? >> surging 45% over the past two weeks in those 13 battleground states. at a certainy you

ask, how long will they deny the facts of spiking cases in their communities? many supporters i spoke to when we do the focus groups tell us, look, it could have been worse and he's doing the best he can. there's an acceptance somehow. but as this gets worse heading into the winter, you wonder when the facts will overcome the politics. certainly for the biden campaign, they believe that they're strongest message is to remind the public that the president didn't protect the american people against a pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 people. for the trump campaign, they continue to argue, don't believe the headlines. even though in states like wisconsin, which are going to be so key for the president, that spiking infection rate could have an impact, even on turnout tomorrow, as the governor really warns people, it's dangerous to go out, i know. hit on that, don't believe the headlines thing for a second, margaret. now president trump is saying that, speculating out loud that

he may fire anthony fauci after the election. this is after a campaign stop where people were screaming in the crowd, "fire fauci, fire fauci! "the president seems to be stoking that. fauci saying it's a very dangerous time, all be careful with your thanksgiving plans. what do you make of that? >> reporter: well, at a certain point it becomes troubling to hear. >> yes. >> reporter: deeply troubling to hear. dr. fauci said in that interview, the interview he gave to the "washington post," the bit that really struck me he flat out said the president won't listen to his briefings or dr. birx's anymore because it doesn't fit the political message. you have the nation's top epidemiologist saying the political folks don't want top listen to the science and the facts. and so for a doctor who says he has no political agenda, that is obviously a warning to those out there that they are at greater risk than what they're being told. so the bottom line here and dr.

gottlieb said this is to us on "face the nation" yesterday, at a certain points the facts are going to overcome the politics. the question is when? he says after the election. that thanksgiving period that it is really going to hit us hard and become undeniable we are not around the curve. in fact, it's coming at us hard. >> and why market brennan, people are feeling very stressed. thank you very much. see you in a couple hours. mart and i a margaret and i are part of the cbs news team bringing the results in a primetime special. election night, america decides. norah o'donnell leads the team. coverage joined by john dickerson and ed o'keefe at 7:00 eastern time, 6:00 sen 2rcentrat here on cbs and expecting a long night. for how long it goes. and coronavirus cases are surging while millions of americans get ready to head to the polls tomorrow. ahead, we'll share simple tips on how to stay safe when you

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join governor newsom. vote yes on 15. we're back now with guidance on voting. how you cast your vote varies in every state, and in each polling place. that's especially true this year as polling locations try to protect voters from spread of the coronavirus. however, regardless where you live, if you plan on showing up in-person tomorrow, some rules are almost universal. for example, every state vermont prohibits campaigning at a poll location. one location has rules restricting apparel at voting locations. think about that. if you show up with a hat or shirt with a candidate's name on it, you may be asked to remove it before heading in to vote. something else to keep in mind before you leave your house. check with your county elections

office to see what you nid eed bring with you. nine states require official identification. 25 states colored in blue request it but also offer other options, like signing an affidavit. the remaining 16 states plus washington, d.c. in yellow, use other methods to verify your identity including your signature. finally, you may be so excited to vote that you want to take a picture to share with your friends. not so fast. in at least 17 states, ballot selfies or photos with your completed ballot inside the polls, not allowed. but as a top election official in georgia told us, i love this -- go ahead and take a picture outside. lighting is better out there, anyway. and he's right. of course, you can call your local election office or the non-partisan election protection hot line. they're at 1-866-our-vote. if you run into any issues at all on election day. have fun good luck and be safe. >> thanks, tony. and joined by tom englesby

for advice how to stay safe and healthy casting a ballot. the director for health security at the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health. good morning, doctor. thanks for being with us. >> good morning, anthony. >> how concerned are you about coronavirus transmission at polling stations, and should people feel safe voting in-person? >> i think if people follow simple instructions, take normal kind of sensible actions, that the risk can be as little as going to the pharmacy or going to the grocery store, but they have to think about it ahead of time, plan ahead of time and then act in -- in ways that public health suggests when they're at the voting place. >> what about those polling stations where masks are not required? >> you know, well, every place in the country, people should be using masking when they vote. going backwards to what they should be doing before they even get there, people should think

when they can vote where the fewest number of people there be there and in 20 states today, the polls are still open. for early voting. so i think i'd recommend going today as opposed to tomorrow. there's less density of the crowds. if you go tomorrow, then try to vote at a time when most people aren't there. we know that people go to the polls before work or during lunch or after work is over. so if you can go mid-morning, mid-afternoon, less people there. before you go, bring a pen. if you need to plan ahead, bring a chair if you need it. bring 60% hand sanitizer or hand sanitizer with more percent alcohol to be safe. and look at the sample ballot before you go. know who you're going to vote for. know what the ballot questions are so when you're inside, where the risks are higher than outside, you can get in and get out quickly. so that's what i'd do before you go, but when you're at the poll, then, you know, follow the things we're supposed to be

following all along. wear a mask whether or not your state requires it. it's important for everyone. it protects your neighbor, and you. and the second thing you should do is keep your distance when you're in line. make sure that you stay six feet away or more from others. and it doesn't matter if people are wearing masks. you still need to stay away from them by at least six feet. and before you go into the polls or out of the polls make sure you use hand sanitizer. >> in my polling station early last week everyone was being extremely careful and very respectful of each other. it was very encouraging. hopefully that's being replicated around the country. as you've heard, dr. fauci said in recent days he fears we're in for a whole lot of hurt in the coming weeks. >> uh-huh. >> and that we cannot be positioned more poorly. what do you fear is ahead of us at this point? >> yeah. unfortunately, with the way that the numbers are rising, on a daily and a weekly basis, i

think we're headed for very high numbers of cases. more hospitalizations, and higher numbers of people dieing from this disease. i think it's -- it's not a forgone conclusion. i think we do still have our fate in our hands, but governors and other leaders are going to have to change direction in places where cases are surging, and people are going to have to change the way that they're acting, and change their decisions in places where the cases are surging. >> we're at 100,000 cases. >> wearing a masks. >> do you think it can go a lot higher than that? >> there i no set peak for this virus. this virus is looking for people to infect. that's what it does. it hasn't changed since the very beginning. and we know that most of the country still is susceptible to this virus. still vulnerable to this virus. so the thing that's going to change it in the virus but what we decide to do. it's whether we decide to wearing a masks, whether we decide to distance ourselves to not gather in large numbers. >> right. >> we have to do those things ourselves to change the course.

>> doctor inglesby, thank for being with us. many call this election the most important of our lifetimes. good morning. i'm gianna franco. if you're headed toward the richmond center san rafael bridge, you have a lot of brake lights. we had an earlier crash not too far from here that is mostly in the clearing stages. we've got brake lights on the east shore freeway as well. as we look at our maps, there is a trouble spot eastbound side right after palo verde road. mary? a beautiful day across the bay area. sunshine with mild temperatures. we will see highs in the low to mid 80s inland. around the bay, mid to upper 70s to

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welcome back to cbs "this morning." time to bring you some of the stories we call "talk of the table." tony dokoupil is first. >> remember earlier i said i believe in god country and cbs news polls? >> yes. >> more on that. >> okay. >> so on the eve of election day my "talk of the table" is about amazing polling unit here at cbs news. cbs news pioneered the use of a computer to predict election results. take a look. >> univac will try to predict the winner just as early as we can possibly get the returns in. >> that is 1952. cbs news correspondent charles collingwood with the remington rand univac 1952.

>> looks like a movie set. >> correctly predicted dwight eisenhower would win in a land slide over adelaide stevenson and earlier estimates predicted a close race. not only the computer. a long-serving polling dete ini here at cbs news pioneered an exit poll, used to find out results early and in addition he and a colleague came up with random digit dialing, the basis for all telephone surveys. so it is without exaggeration the entire industry is founded in a not insignificant extent to the work done by people here. >> and exit polling then in the studio yesterday at election headquarters. kwul s you'll see it and get to see him. >> talking about murray. >> yes. when i look at the computer, looks like a small car. imaginer yaos from now showing anthony salvanto, years ago, how you used to do it.

>> getting a lot of grief but they do amazing work, those folks down there. >> not that they're perfect. they have experience, though. and experience matters. >> about the salutely there is a science to it. new information. this is my "talk of the table" from the hubble space telescope as a very valuable asteroid. the cool part. a new study on 16 psyche it's called providing evidence that the asteroid might be made completely of iron and nickel. some scientists estimate the asteroid is worth 10,000 quadrillion dollars. that's a real number. research reveals the ultraviolet slight reflected from psyche is similar to the way iron reflects sunlight. nasa is planning to send an unmanned spacecraft to psyche i. if you're thinking, wouldn't it be cool to mine this asteroid and bing that home and we'd all be rich? they say we don't have the tech

kno nology to the do that. >> a lot of motivation to come up with that technology. a couple buddies, a couple beers might figure it out. >> polling, asteroids and minus beyonce. doing everything. we don't call her beyonce, queen bee for mogg. telling british "vogue" she has two real beehives at her house. 80,000 bees producing hundreds of jars of honey. look at these covers for a second. hundreds of jars of honey a year. beyonce started the beehives beause of her daughter whose have allergies. honey has heali ining propertied everybody knows beyonce fans are known at the beehive. why i think it's so fun. can we go back to the covers just a sec? number one, extraordinary. shot by a 21-year-old student who goes to university of north carolina. her name's kennedy carter. she's going to graduate this

year and beyonce requested that -- what? what alexis? graduate next year. no, no. next year. thank you. alexis. >> news to the universitiant and to kennedy. graduating next year. sorry, kennedy. beyonce requested young, that she want add black female photographer to take the pictures. so i think it's great that kennedy carter is 21 years old who did this graduating from university of north carolina. go heels! >> that's what you call a big break. >> a big break and the covers are gorgeous. we sure would like to talk to her. gorgeous covers, nice job. >> having beehives in your house mightbecome nor popular now that we know beyonce. >> well, i don't know about that. >> upper west side? doris kearns goodwin, what's that sound in the back of your car there? a pulitzer prize winning historian who's researched american presidents more than 50 years and her works included

biographies of president's lyndon johnson, here to door roosevelt and fundamental rr. the most recent "new york times" best-seller called "leadership in turbulent times." doris generals goodwin joins us to discuss the historical significance of the 2020 election. good morning to you. >> hello. good morning. >> good morning. people are saying that this particular election is the most important of all time or of our lifetimes. but this time that may really be true. you go back to 1932 to find any election that is as significant as this one. tell us why. >> i think there's no question but the level of fear, anxiety, panic, consequence that was felt in 1932 is where we'd have to go to give us a sense of where we are today. just think of where we were in 1932. the depression had gone on three years. it was getting worse and spiraling down. no national leadership. a quarter of the people were out of work. other people were not working for full amount of wages. people were starving in the

streets. the banking system was collapsing. and there was a real sense of panic in the air, and a sense of paralysis. and the two people running, hoover, the republican, and fdr, the democrat, fdr had a plan to get us out of that. he comes in and it's amazing when you think about it. this is how things can change. at his inauguration, all he had to do in his inauguration saying the people have not failed. it's leadership that's fail and i am here 20 take that gift of leadership and get action. call an emergency session of congress, get people back to work in public jobs. there will be unemployment helpful for you and the mood of the country changed overnight. the headline said we have a leader! the government still lives. even a great story, somebody wrote in. my roof fell off, dog ran away, my wife is mad at me and i've lost my job but i'm okay because you're there. it shows leadership matters. >> yeah. infrastructure plan and got it of you a the ground as well.

sbi sbi division is on the minds of many. stores boarded up in many cities. we're more divided now than then. how so? why were they less divided and that we are now? >> i think there was still a sense that the people were in the problem, in the crisis tr g together. what's happened kniss time and here to door roosevelt warned about it turn of the century a lot of situations like ours. gap between rich and poor. industrialization really broken up the sense of the old paths in a way tech and globalization has today and warned democracy if people in different sections and classes began seeing each other as the other rather than as common american citizens. so i think right now we need a leader who can begin to tell us, you know, we have more in common with each other. people are hungering for that kind of unity. it's going to be hard put, not happening in a day or in a week,

but unless we feel that sense of coming together collectively as a howhole, that's how american s been strong and beaten much worse things than today because we worked together on a nation. >> picking up on that, doris for a second. what kind of leader do we have now and do we have that? >> well, you need two things, i think, in a leader right now. one thing you need ordinary qualities for a leader at any time, magnified at time of crisis. humility. ability to acknowledge errors and learn from your mistakes. have to do experimental things to figure out how we get our country back together. you need somebody with empathy to be able to see the other side, what teddy roosevelt was talking about. understand the other passions and prejudices and hopes of different people in different parts of the country. you need somebody with resilience because we're going through a crisis. you need that kind of courageous optimism that fdr had. you need somebody who whose ambition is not just for self but the greater good. somebody who can build a team

with all sorts of people to argue and question his assumptions and need somebody whose word can be trusted. that's one of our problems today. level of trust in the word of our government. but the greatest chance we have for that when you see huge numbers of voting now, that means people are beginning to pus trust back in the system and maybe the government won't seem like a foreign body if they, themselves, are engaged and active. where i would bet my hope on this election. >> of the qualities you named, which of those qualities does president trump have at this time? >> that's hard to see, to be honest. i mean, what he's been able to do is to mobilize his voters. he's out there in the field. he's got energy. i would say energy is one of the qualities you need. vitality and certainly has that. the biggest quality we need from him right now is being able to see the other side and go beyond his base. if he were to win again, go right out to the states he lost. just like teddy roosevelt did. traveled the country by train six weeks in the spring and in

the fall. went to the places he knew he didn't have mobilized support and made people feel they were a part of him and a part of the country. >> doris kearns goodwin, always good to see you and have you here. i love picking your brain. >> thank you. ahead, grammy winner brittany howard of the blues rock band alabama shakes talks to anthony about making her own music and writing about family. plus, why these days you're likely to find her out, think about this, fishing! all right,

musicares.org. that's brittany howard, flamboyant front woman to the blues rock band alabama shakes singing "hold on." won four grammys with the band and now producing her own profoundly personal munich. music. >> reporter: these days, you're likely to find brittany howard knee-deep in the elk river in southern tennessee. >> whoa! >> reporter: where we would have caught up with her if not nor covid. >> i was really hoping to go fishing, i was really looking forward to taking you fishing. one time in the world, fishing. i happily an talking to you right now. >> uh-huh! ♪ baby >> reporter: the alabama-born singer has become known for her

other worldly presence onstage. ♪ ♪ oh, baby >> tyler the creator said of you, brittany is an alien. everything about her is so unique. >> i love tyler for saying that. >> reporter: do you feel like an alien in some ways? >> all the tile. i wouldn't be surprised if i got on a spaceship, take you back home. i would be like, i knew it! >> reporter: raised in athens, alabama, where the video for her song "stay high" was filmed. ♪ i just want to stay high with you ♪ >> my dad, kind of like the unofficial mayor. everybody knows him. everybody recognizes his laugh. big laugh. [ laughter ] >> reporter: her dad ran a junkyard with her mom when brittany was growing up.

>> w n you started with the alabama shakes you were actually still working delivering mail. right? >> that's right. yeah. working like a 13-hour day delivering mail and whatnot and then speeding over to rehearsal because i didn't want to miss rehearsal because it was my favorite thing in life ♪ come on, come on up >> reporter: alabama shakes album in 2012 immediately put them on the map. ♪ hold on ♪ >> reporter: and sell more than 1 million copies. their follow-up went to number one and earned three grammys, but howard heard another voice with her, and in 2017 went out on her own. >> whether people believe it or not it takes courage to do it. because you have to be prepared to fail. you know? you also got to be prepared to succeed. ♪ there are miles between us >> reporter: last year she released her debut solo album.

"jaime" named after her older sister who died of a rare kansas whir brittany was 8. >> must have been devastating. >> yeah, it was devastating. i think it changed my entire family. >> reporter: her parents soon split. >> did your sister introduce you to music in a way? >> oh, yeah. definitely. you know, she is, like, the cassette box. full of cassette tapes and basically was giving me permission to like every type of music. from a super young age. ♪ >> reporter: howard's new music is her most vulnerable. "georgia" a love song from one girl to another. ♪ i just want georgia >> wrote it from a perspective of like an innocent love and realizing when you're young that you're different, as a little girl being attracted to older girls or just other girls. to me it just felt like, a story that needed to be told. >> reporter: another song, "goat

head" is a true story. ♪ that's why and white and is black ♪ >> reporter: about the harassment her parents faced as an interracial couple. ♪ but what i really want to the know is, who slashed my dad's tire and put a goat head in the back ♪ >> reporter: a story they only shared with her years later. >> because my parents were trying to do a really good job of making me not fear where i lived or the people that's and me. and i didn't grow thaup way. i didn't grow up in fear. >> reporter: during the pandemic howard has had time to reflect. >> do you feel your voice is more important in this moment? >> i don't know. it seems like everybody is important. i've been blessed to have a life of duality. i've seen both sides. been impoverished, wealthy, i have a white side to my family and a black side to my family. i'm gay.

i've tried to be straight, tried to do you a of those things and it's blessed me with such an expansive knowledge of empathy. ♪ >> reporter: it's hard to find things to look forward to right now. what are youing whoing forward to? >> i look forward to catching my next fish. >> looking at this! >> curious when you're fishing. do you ever write songs? >> yeah. i sing to the fish. yeah. ♪ jump on this hook, jump on this hook, jump on this hook, hey, hey, hey ♪ ♪ >> i hope i get my fishing trip one day and she gets grammy nominations. it's a great album. >> i now want to get it "jaime." >> the do is always open just wants to make music right now. >> fascinating. >> trick. an uber and lyft are like every big guy i've ever brought down. prop 22 doesn't "help" their drivers--

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