>> says i'm playing the woman card. deal me in! >> the other to shatter the system. >> our country is rigged. it's crooked and it's broken. >> at tthe election that's defi prediction comes to a vote. today, history will be made. >> a good tuesday morning to you from new york. i'm craig melvin and this is it. election day 2016 finally here. you are looking at history in the making. polls open up and down the atlantic sea board and points west to alaska, some 135 million americans are expected to cast ballots from across these 50 united states and some new numbers just into our newsroom. more than 46 million of those votes have already been cast in early voting across the country. the choice today, deciding a

direction of the country for the next four years and with the high court in the balance, likely four beyond. donald trump voting this hour here in new york. his running mate, mike pence, expected to follow shortly thereafter in his home state of indiana. the democratic ticket, hillary clinton and tim kaine both voted early this morning. clinton and her husband, of course, former president bill clinton casting their ballots in their adopted hometown of chappaqua, new york. kaine in richmond, virginia, where he got start in public service as a member of city council there. first polls closing in just under nine hours. first batch of early exit polling data expected in just a few hours. we will be here, of course, all day and likely into the night bringing you all of the results. every member, every member of our reporting team out on the campaign trail across the country right now. they'll be there all day and night as well covering every

angle of what will be one of the most historic days in the history of our republic. jacob rascon, kasie hunt toll g following the candidates. is it public school 59 where trump will cast that ballot any moment now? kasie 50 miles north of there in chappaqua and jacob, let me start with you. whatever your politics, remarkable that donald trump sees himself on a general election ballot for the first time for president of the united states. >> reporter: no doubt. most people dismissed him early on but many of those supporters say they always saw this day. donald trump expected here very soon. behind here, ps 59. public school 59 where thousands have already come. the line wraps around the building and again, but donald trump when he shows up will not wait in line but cast his vote for himself. we remember when he did so during the primary and asked who he voted her, he joked it was a

secret but said it was a special and great honor to vote for himself. he's tweeted already today in true trump fashion. he said, today, we will make america great again. and yesterday as he closed the final rally, tenth event in three days, 10 different states in trying to expand the map to states that have been blue for decades. he said, essentially, i've done my part. i've worked. now it's your turn. get out and vote. let's win. thank you were his final words last night in michigan. >> waiting for donald trump to cast that vote and let me bring you in here. we know that hillary clinton is preparing two speeches for tonight. what else do we know? >> reporter: that's right, craig. she started working on those speeches last night on the plane with her speech writer, dan schwaren. they are expecting her to give the victory speech.

i think there would be a lot of shock among clinton staff and the clinton family itself were she to lose tonight and you can feel that optimism surrounding hillary clinton and those close to her in these final days. a string of massive late night rallies in philadelphia with bon jovi and bruce springsteen, for the first time making reference to make sure the win is significant enough that donald trump doesn't contest it. and then flying on to an overnight basically to raleigh for bon jovi landing late last night in chappaqua, new york. and this morning, going into the polling place to vote for herself, the first woman to appear on a general election ballot as a major party nominee. she and her husband, bill clinton, going to the polling place at a local elementary school. she talked about with the pool camera that was there, the small group of people allowed to

follow her in and actually watch her vote, what it felt like. take a look. >> i know how much responsibility goes with this and so many people are counting on the outcome of this election, what it means for our country, and i'll do the best i can if i'm fortunate muff enough to wi today. >> reporter: so from talking to her strategist over the course of the last 24 hours, the things you'll watch tonight, craig, florida, they think it's possible that they could do better than president obama did in florida there. that's based on what they're seeing in the early voting, the potential latino surge. if they were to and we're talking a small amount of votes, president obama won by 74,000 votes. just under 1 percentage point and if they can do better than that, it will be significant and north carolina, they think that is the tightest of these races and that is the one that we

could see going late into the night. craig? >> kasie hunt for us in chappaqua. thanks as always. let me come back to you for a second. kasie just mentioned hillary clinton's speech preparation. what do we know about donald trump ea trump's preparations tonight in terms of speeches and the team that's going to surround him tonight? >> reporter: you know, we know that he has a late afternoon event, a private event with vips, friends, surrogates close to him and a party scheduled for tonight. i talked to the campaign and aides, not sharing a specific plan, for example, in the speech writing whether he wins or loses. it's worth noting his son, don jr., this morning asked about his plans in case he loses and son said if it's a fair fight, if it's a clear cut winner, then donald trump will concede but all he wanted was a fair fight but then talked about different stuff going on, different things donald trump has talked about a rigged system. that's a big question tonight,

craig. >> jacob rascon here in new york city where, again, donald trump expected to cast his ballot roughly 20, 30 minutes from now. we'll bring it to you live when it happens. thank you, jacob. the whirlwind across the battleground states finally over now. those voters go to the polls as well. as you can see there, our correspondents in the key states this morning. new hampshire, ohio, north carolina, florida. let's start with tammy leitner in nashua, new hampshire. ballots coast just after midnight and the tradition continuing in dixville notch. how did dixville notch go? >> reporter: craig, we've got our first results here in new hampshire. four votes for clinton. two for trump. one for mitt romney and one for gary johnson. that goes to speak to the independent thinking of new hampshire voters. take a look. it's a packed room. it's been packed all day and started showing up around 6:00

a.m. as of five minutes ago, 1,651 people have voted here and they're expecting about 7,000 and if you go take a look over here, all of these people sitting over here are signed up to register to vote today. a little factoid here, craig, new hampshire is one of only seven states to register to vote on the day that you vote. craig? >> someone voted for mitt romney there, huh? >> reporter: that's right. that's right. and you know, this is not only the only important race we have here in new hampshire, a senate race that is extremely important, craig. we have two women that are very popular. very capable. and why this race is so important is this could help determine which party takes control of the senate. >> kelly ayotte. new hampshire, thank you. chris jansing standing by for us in cleveland, ohio. home, of course, of the basketball champs, also of chris

jansing. ohio, historically consequential swing state. what can we expect today? >> reporter: a lot of activity from both campaigns because that's how close it is here. this, where i'm standing, cleveland, ohio, cuyahoga is the epicenter of hillary clinton because of the heavy african-american vote. i would not say overwhelming. that's a problem for her. early voting a problem for her. down 16% in the county. 22% in the city of cleveland and so she really needs to see a big rush here as well as a push in the suburbs north of columbus. look, donald trump has made it his goal to win here. he's come here time and time again. look at the numbers. 26 times, different stops compared to 17 for hillary clinton. and the voters here, here in cleveland have to make a last-minute surge if hillary clinton is going to have a chance here in ohio. interesting, craig, in the last

hour, i talked to a dozen different voters. all african-american. seven of them said they had friends or family staying home and i asked them, is it because of the divisiveness of the campaign but because they feel the recovery hansn't hit them. that's the exact message by which donald trump has gained so many working class whites here in ohio. craig? >> we know no republican ever won the white house without winning your state. chris, thank you. morgan radford is in charlotte, north carolina, and one of the busiest polling places in the most populous county. i saw your tweet a short time ago. 700 people voting in the first three hours there. how does it compare to four years ago? >> reporter: it compares to four years ago in that we see large numbers this time. as you can see, this is the place to vote and craig, you know better than anyone, there is no place finer than to be in carolina. come inside. you can see the polling station as we mentioned about 800 people and the first three hours of

poll bug insiing but, hi there . this is the actual polling station and we expect to see 6,000 people here by the end of the day but to give you a sense of things, what you see happening here in the battleground of north carolina which is such a pivotal state at such a pivotal time is a microcosm for what's happening at the national level of the campaign strategy. more popular areas like mecklenburg county and then young and older white voters in more rural parts of the state turning out for donald trump. but craig, we've been here all weekend and coming back and forth to talk to voters and the democrats feel like this is their time to take back the state whereas republicans say, look, there were 300,000 early voting ballots that went to the democrats but not worried because republicans typically turn out on tuesday and they say the state will be red like it was in 2012. >> morgan radford many hin her state. mariana atencio in miami where a

heavy latino voter turnout is expected. what's been the motivation for a lot of these latino voters this campaign, mariana? >> reporter: good morning to you, craig. election day here in the sunshine state. as a latina, an immigrant covering this community for years and after my two-week tour of tlachflorida, there is not o kind of latino voter. cuban americans, puerto ricans, caribbean americans, they care about different things and could vote differently on a day like today but why are we talking about the latino vote today? why will it be one of the big narratives tomorrow and even an important voting bloc eight years from now? >> it it's the sleeping giant, that's what the latino vote is referred to. 27.3 million latinos eligible to vote but when the caucuses rolled around, the primaries rolled around, 13 million were

registered. i was covering latino volunteers, trying to register 20,000 latinos there. well, up to this day, election day, naleo and pugh hispanic research said 13 million have registered t registered to vote. we don't know how many headed to the polls until tomorrow but the clinton campaign field report said roughly a million latinos voted early and according to them, that's double the numbers of in 2012 so in this polling station where i am now in miami-dade county that tends to lean republican because of the cuban american population is where donald trump has his eyes set on today. this is the community he needs to turn out for him if he has to have any chance of winning the sunshine state. >> mariana atencio in miami. thank you so much. we saw hillary clinton there in chappaqua bright and early this morning casting her vote. we are, again, expecting to see donald trump do the same just a few blocks from where i sit any

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public school 59 here in new york city. the republican nominee for president of the united states. donald j. trump expected to cast his ballot any moment now. when it's all said and done, expectations are that some 130 million americans will have cast their ballot by the time polls close in alaska just after 1:00 a.m. eastern. with me now, sean spicer. whatever your politics are to argument that the rnc has not gotten their money's worth out of you. >> thank you. >> good to see you. >> good to see you. >> kellyann conway said yesterday that sean spicer and

reince priebus are to be commended for standing by the candidate when so many ran for the exits. if he comes up short tomorrow morning, how much of it will be because popular republicans and prominent republicans, establishment republicans, if you will, do not do more to help the guy at the top of the ticket? >> we'll have to see how close this is but i think we'll be able to be decisive. we had 876 staff out in the field. we have 6,012. 11.5 million door knocks in 2012 and exceed this year. trump doing six rallies between the candidate and the rnc. it's up to the voters now. >> how would a president trump unite a country that is so obviously divided in so many ways? >> i think both candidates, this is clearly a di vvisive electio and donald trump talked about making america great.

he's not, i think he understands even if you haven't voted, a lot of americans have been left behind by this government that aren't having their voices heard and feel like the policies of the government, the regulatory policies, the tax policies, and i think he wants to be the president for them. >> we heard from mariana atencio before the break, there's been reporting coming out of the sunshine state that the latino voter turnout is through the roof. how much does that worry the rnc? how much does that worry the trump campaign? >> not at all. we built that into our models but if you looked at the cuban community in miami-dade, trump received the first endorsement from the bay of pigs group that evolved down there. there's excitement in the cuban community but a lot of the puerto rican community into the i-4 corridor, we've been modelling them for 4 years and we will carry the state. >> do you think you have this in the bag? you said that.

>> i don't think we have anything in the bag. we're going to work until every poll closes to make sure we get every vote. >> how does that victory happen? which states you win? >> i think ohio is with us. north carolina. good about michigan and colorado, two states very, very blue presidentially. michigan hasn't voted republican since 1988. i know you had governor granholm earlier and i shook her hand on another network. i think we'll take that state and make it red tonight and maine too. a lot of these states and remember, obama carried all of these states except for north carolina but virginia, florida, ohio, new hampshire, pennsylvania. but carried them all twice. i think that we've closed that gap in early vote and absentee ballot vote. i think you'll see a lot of these states flip for donald trump tonight. >> personally for you in the last 6 or 9 months, how has it been? >> intense but i feel good and when you see the excitement and the enthusiasm, it's what gets

you going. it's like your own personal caffeine. >> thank you, sir. sean spicer with the rnc. voting has just started out west this hour. we will take you to vegas where my friend and colleague miguel almaguer is camped out. miguel? >> reporter: a huge voter turnout here behind me. you're looking at the entrance to one of the biggest polling places here in nevada. we'll have a complete wrap-up of what's going down here in the battleground state coming up on msnbc. ♪ ♪ hey, is this our turn? honey...our turn? yeah, we go left right here. (woman vo) great adventures are still out there.

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we know the latino vote there promises to play a major factor in what happens in the outcome. what are you seeing on the ground? >> yeah, craig. certainly a hotly contested state. i can tell you as you mentioned a short time ago, the polls opened but before they did, a line stretched all the way outside of this door and around the block here but the crowd pushed inside. i went and it's a large auditorium packed with more than 100 voters here eager to cast their ballots. we are told by county officials here that this polling place is certainly one of the busiest in the county. we're here in the city of las vegas where many of the registered voters. craig, there's been 770,000 people who have cast their ballots early. many of them are what we are told latino voters. nearly one out of every four or five voters in this state is an eligible voter, is latino.

certainly making a big push here over the last several days and craig, we're told the lines here will get longer and longer throughout the day. in the first 30 minutes of voting here, craig. >> so many eyes there on nevada, las vegas. miguel almaguer there. thank you so much here in new york. again, we wait for donald trump to arrive at his polling location. when he casts his ballot, we'll bring it to you live. voters all over the country lining up hours after the candidate themselves made their final pitches to the american people. >> there is one core question for you to consider. do you want america to be ruled by the corrupt political class or do you want america to be ruled by you, the people? that's what it is. by the people. >> love trumps hate. let's get out and vote. philadelph

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this time, i'm asking you to work as hard as you can this one last day to elect my fellow americans, this fighter, this states woman, this mother, this grandmother, this patriot, our next president of the united states of america, hillary clinton. >> live look there at democracy plaza here at 30 rockefeller. polls set to close depending on where you live, 7, 8, 9 hours from now. get exiting polling data in.

just a few hours before that, all hands on deck here at the rock. hillary clinton ending her campaign in philadelphia last night with that huge rally in the city of brotherly love. philadelphia voters expected to turn out for secretary clinton but less clear in which direction the city's suburbs might go. we have reports from the city of wynwood with jacob soboroff. he is in philadelphia. we know the justice department is monitoring some polling places there. more than 60 cities across the country as well. what are you seeing in philadelphia? >> reporter: i think so far, largely devoid of any problems, any poll watchers. in a negative sense of the term, voter intimidation. the back of the line here in center city. he said it's the shortest it's been all day. here's the back of the line. ready for a wait? >> yeah. >> reporter: voted before?

>> no. >> reporter: you know who you're going to vote for? >> yes. >> reporter: you want to tell us? >> no. >> reporter: fair enough. 1686 different election divisions throughout the great city of philadelphia. each one of them with their own dedicated polling place. workers. not all has this. excuse us. donuts and pizza boxes for people waiting in line. a lot of people waiting for a long time. are people, oh, you're taking them up on a donut. have you voted already? she voted. check this out. she showed me the sticker. how do you feel today after doing that? >> i feel fine. >> reporter: you want to tell us who you voted for? >> hillary. >> reporter: she whispered it. and that's absolutely true, craig. so far, so good. right here at this polling la place. west philadelphia, southwest

philadelphia earlier today where, again, hillary clinton needs to do well, quite well amongst african-americans here in philadelphia in order to drive that margin up in philadelphia to win the state of pennsylvania. we'll be back there later today and bring that to you then and maybe a donut, craig. >> jacob soboroff continuing to make people feel uncomfortable all over america. thank you so much. steve patterson in the philadelphia suburb of wynwood. what are you seeing out there, good sir? >> reporter: good sir, i know you know a little bit about basketball. this is lower marion high school where kobe bryant used to rain down threes and dunks. now known as one of the most important polling places in the country. this county, montgomery with delaware, chester and bucks. some of the most important in philadelphia. generally, if a presidential candidate wins these counties, they carry the state of pennsylvania. that is 20 crucial electoral

votes. we've been talking to some voters here and have one right here. i see the hats. obviously, we know who you're not voting for. >> correct. >> reporter: can you just tell me, you've been here a long time. you're the coveted white college educated female voter that many think are going to be the change in this election. what have you seen with your county and your area as far as who's voting republican and democrat over the years? has it changed in this area? >> it's changed a lot with younger families moving in. it's become more democratic because in years past, it always was very republican. >> reporter: now it's moved to democrat. >> i think it's moved to democrat. it's hard to tell because unfortunately, most people don't put republican signs out. i mean, in past elections, we put signs out for mccain and for romney and they were destroyed. >> reporter: do you think because of donald trump, people aren't as proud this year to celebrate a trump candidacy? >> i think he can be polarizing,

but i think he has a good message and i think if you listen to the message, both messengers have flaws. >> we didn't say your name. nancy sherwin, thank you very much. >> reporter: very crucial. these voters have been targeted for some time. the advertising heavy. the candidates spent a lot of time here and a lot of people in line voting today. >> steve patterson. love hearing from the voters cristina schake. >> great to be here. >> let's talk about tonight. which state, which one state is team clinton looking at and saying if we win this one? we could pack our bags for 1600. >> we're proud. we built a lot of paths to 270 so we feel really good coming into election day but really good about florida today. the early vote, it was phenomenal. 6 million people in florida already vote and we saw record

turnout from latinos and asian pacific islanders. they actually turned out at double the rate in early vote and we think it's a great story tonight. >> michigan. one of the states that got some last minute attention from both sides and you ended up losing that one and bernie sanders concerned tonight that michigan, again, is a lost cause for hillary clinton. >> you know, i have to say michigan is just a reflection of who hillary clinton is. she never gives up. always gets in there and fights and michigan was really important to her. she took it seriously coming out of that primary loss and we feel really good about the organization that we built there and it's a game-day state. most people are going to vote today unlike florida, nevada, and michigan comes down to today and we spent a lot of time there and the leader in the campaign. we saw president obama there, chelsea clinton there, hillary was there. so we're taking it really serious and feel really good. >> tim kaine said something this morning that caught my attention. he talked about what a hillary clinton cabinet would look like.

and led folks to believe we would see republicans, we would see perhaps some notable trump supporters in a cabinet. is she going to, if she wins this thing, going to have a cabinet that's a team of rivals? >> you know, i have to say, first and foremost, let's not get ahead of ourselves. we need our supporters to get out there and vote today and if people can't find their polling place, text us at "where" and we'll help you find it but one of the hallmarks of hillary's career her entire life in public service is she's always worked across the aisle and found common ground. every major accomplishment of her life from children's health insurance and improving the foster system to make kids adopted. she's always -- >> the talking points this morning. kristina. >> thank you for the thoughtful coverage during this election. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> you take a job inside the west wing, don't you forget

about us if you guys win this thing. >> thank you so much. >> kristina schake, thank you. pennsylvania, one of the few swing states that could help decide this thing. we watch the lines forming across the country. we are in pennsylvania as well as you can see there. when we come back though, we are live in battleground florida.

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ii could stand in the middle of a5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters, okay? and you can tell them to go f**á themselves. you know you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. you gotta see this, i don't know, i don't remember. he's going like 'i don't remember.'

live look. public school 59 here in new york city. donald j. trump, republican nominee for president of the united states expected to cast his ballot any moment now. when it happens, we will, of course, bring it to you live. he may well have comments for the assembled press there at the

corner so we're watching this very closely. florida, of course, one of the more closely watched battleground states tonight. we just heard from kristina schake with the clinton campaign watching florida perhaps closer than any other state tonight. 29 electoral votes up for grabs that could very well turn the tide. the voting under way for nearly three hours now in florida. a state where nearly half of all registered voters have already voted. nbc's kerry sanders is in tampa for us. florida, florida, florida again, kerry sanders. >> reporter: tim russ ert did name it and still true. florida, florida, florida. but let's add to that, i-4 corridor, i-4 corridor, i-4 corridor. that's interstate 4. that's a ribbon of road that runs around the middle of the state starting in tampa bay. 132 miles over to daytona beach and along that ribbon we have 5.5 million voters. if you just took them

collectively, it would be like the size of virginia. so to the northern part of the state, mostly the conservative vote. often called dixie and then to the south, the more liberal vote. a lot of people who move down to the state from new york and the northeast region, but along the i-4 corridor, what you have is a split. you have 50% and 50%. republican and democrats and then you take the independent vote and put that in there. more than 3 million independent voters in the state here. you've got all up for grabs and what we have here and where i'm standing in hillsborough county is the likely choice of where the next president will come from. in fact, 19 of the last 20 presidential elections were chosen correctly here in hillsborough county. so if you watch just one county that would be here in tampa, hillsborough county and probably get a good idea of who's going to win the national election. a lot of people like to know, what about the voting system?

could in any way be corrupted? florida, of course, in 2000 had the hanging chads with the punch cards. that was a disaster. replaced by touch screens. that didn't work so well because the touch screens didn't have a paper back-up. now they have paper back-ups. you fill it in like the s.a.t. tests with a pen, feed it in with a computer and here's the most important thing. when it goes into a computer, those results are added up right there so we don't have to worry about a russian hacker or internet virus and i think you'll enjoy it, craig. in florida at $115 million that is spent on television ads, $60 million here in tampa and orlando. normally 79 miles apart. people are exhausted and people always say, as they get exhausted, i'm moving the canada, whether he or she wins. well, here's an ad that's running. moving to canada? let me sell your house. a bit of humor today on a day

where a lot of people are just exhausted. >> kerry sanders doesn't just cover florida politics, he has lived there for decades. good to see you, my friend. always appreciate your insight. gabe gutierrez is south of where we just saw kerry in miami. hialeah to be exact. latino vote expected to be a major, if not the biggest factor there and if not the entire sunshine state. what are you seeing there, gabe? >> reporter: good morning, craig. so far today, we haven't been seeing huge lines here and that's because as kerry mentioned, so many voters here in florida have voted early or by absentee. we expect this to pick up through the lunch hour. kerry mentioned yesterday, the i-4 corridor so key but here in hialeah, a cuban american stronghold, long time cuban american stronghold and here with a columbian initiative with the initiative. what are you guys doing here?

>> reporter: the liberty initiative is outside, not just in miami-dade but in tampa and orlando, no get a. the clinton campaign feels it's voting for them. you tend to lean conservative and endorsed marco rubio for this senate race. how critical is a latino vote for both parties at this point? >> definitely, not just in this election cycle but any year, it's important because our community is growing. so right now, 55 million in spanish across the nation so important for any candidate to win the race. >> reporter: latinos don't vote a certain way. very many different types of ethnicities here. cuban americans. venezuelan. you're a columbian immigrant. what's important? >> to our community for the hispanic community, the most important is economy and jobs. we care about that.

why? we came to have opportunity and to better improve our economy for us and for our families. >> reporter: thank you so much. good luck out there today. good to talk to you. a lot of activity here in this cuban american political stronghold but you heard from kerry as well. a lot going on. the i-4 corridor. florida, florida, florida. back to you, craig. >> pafascinating conversation. a memorable moment right now from the campaign trail. >> first you supported obama's transpacific partnership deal and then you were against it. i think that people deserve to know, are you down with tpp? >> i'm not down with tpp. >> no, you're supposed to say, yeah, you know me. like the hip-hop group. >> don't tell me what to say. >> fine, lose. country goes to [ bleep ]. ♪

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plaza here at 30 rockefeller. we're ready. all hands on deck here. justice department all ready employing 500 staffers to watch for voting irregularities. the civil rights division monitoring polling places in some 28 staltes on this electio day. pete williams joins us now. what's the word so far? >> reporter: so far, it seems like the normal kind of day for elections in america. we have to remember these are come as you are process for people who put them on every four years. a lot of volunteers, people who have to be retrained and a lot of aging equipment but a flavor for what's going on, craig, problems where people go to check in at the polling places. in maricopa county, arizona, that's the phoenix area. they use little tablets like ipads to check you in to see if you're on the voter registration list. those weren't working so now they use paper poll books.

this durham county, north carolina, a similar problem. they have to print a little bar code on your ballot so that when you put it in your machine, it pulls out the right choices. that wasn't working. a similar problem. the express vote system. in connecticut, broken voting machines in west hartford, new britain and farmington. we're told in farmington, one of the technicians took the power supply, disconnected it, shook it, plugged it back in and it worked. and this kind of thing is going on here. providence, rhode island. a tweeted picture by brandon van dyke. you can see a polling place here in the window. vote here backwards and a piano here so i assume this is a church and here's a technician down on his hands and knees trying to service a voting machine as people wait to vote. it's that kind of thing going on around the country and heard of no systemic problems and no problems of complaints of voter intimidation. >> thank you, pete williams

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of suvs. difficult to sort of, there he is. there's donald trump waving to the crowd heading in to this public school, that is, just a few blocks from where we sit here at 30 rock feller going in there to cast his vote. telling reporters it's a secret for whom he will be voting but safe to say that, safe to say it's for himself. melania trump there. we saw the two of them going and didn't see the trump children head in. jacob rascon is standing by at trump tower. jacob, do we know if the trump children already voted? >> reporter: we do not know if the trump children voted. as we swing around, you'll see part of the motorcade here and noting when he stepped out and waving to everybody, melania was there. i don't know if you're able to hear it but met with, on the one hand, a lot of people waiting in

line to cast their vote were booing him loudly but others were cheering including a bunch of construction workers out of sight you're not able to see but a lot of them cheering, yay, go donald. that mixture that i don't know would have been caught on camera when you were seeing him go in. as you mention, melania trump there and h liin line for ps 59. peep li people lined up since 5:30 in the morning. but he's not going to wait in line but go in there and cast his vote. the last time, he said it was a great honor. the first time he had done that and expect the same will happen. >> i know you're outside there ps 59. this is the scene inside. trump and melania heading to the front of the line there to cast their ballots here in new york

city just before 11:00. his rally we're told, not so much a rally as it is just a party, a celebration and also happening here in new york city and got word top of the hour there's going to be a reception of sorts at trump tower this afternoon for friends, close family and also some vips. so that was the scene just outside ps 59. i'm told we just lost the feed there but donald trump casting his ballot along with tens of millions all over this country on this election day. polls open in every state now. tamron hall standing by to pick up coverage here. >> an election like no other. a country divided like thenever before. a historic vote? >> i've stayed focus on you. >> or a historic comeback?

>> america is tired of waiting. the moment is now. >> today, no more speeches. no more ads. it all comes down to this. one person, one vote. >> with your vote, you can beat the system. the rigged system. >> the best way to stop him, by showing up with the biggest turnout in history. >> today, america decides and history will be made. >> good morning, everyone. i'm tamron hall. let me take you to live images right now picking off where craig melvin left last hour. donald trump voting in new york city joined by members of his team, obviously, quite a crowd and secret service following along with him. this is the day that we waited so very long for. we are coming to you live as we keep those pictures up.