. this is going to be tough. cubs win the race. >> the chicago cubs win their than a century. >> the candidates mad dash, five days to go. hillary clinton looking to put arizona in the blue column, while donald trump works to shore florida. >> now for the first time, we have a real chance to turn this state blue again. >> we're going to be nice and cool, nice and cool. stay on point, donald, stay on point. >> plus the latest on that

moines and few details on the suspect. it was a night of political statements at the year's cma award. "early today" starts right now. >> good morning, i'm ayman mohyeldin. >> i'm frances rivera. it was the best night ever, the chicago world cubs are world champions. fittingly the game went into in the end, the cubs were able to end the curse. >> it's wet out here, the longest games ever. it's one of the best games anybody will see. the trumps everything. i'm so happy. i can't put into word how this feels. >> chicago it happened. we did it. we're world champions. we're world champions. i can't believe this.

don't know, i don't have word to tell you how i feel about this i think it's all surreal, and, man, it's a great feeling. >> nbc's jay gray joins us outside chicago's wrigley field, jay, i can hear the people behind you, i can imagine they are still up ripping it up this morning. >> good morning, frances, ayman. you hear the game ran extra extra innings. take a look at what's going on now, heavy police presence in wrigley feel. they brought out three sleepers to play and clean the mess but maybe move the crowd along a little as well. still, there are people trickling in here and there, there were tens of thousands in this area overnight and now what we have are the police, they're

the side streets here. like i said, a lot of people are making their way in, despite the street presence, despite the street sweeper, despite blocking the roadway itself off here. it is a celebration befitting that hasn't seen this championship in more than a century. it's going to continue going, i think a lot of people won't make it into work a little later this >> it will only be like that the next couple of days, with the parade and all the festivities going on. turning now to the presidential race, even the world series can't break through all the noise, baseball fans were inundated with ads from hillary clinton and trump. we are now five days away from election day. what has been a tight presidential race, strump

for states in arizona. >> close to of you out there on the phones for me, canvassing for me, talking to your friends and your co-workers, you know what an important choice this is and you have six days to convince everybody you can talk to to get out and vote. >> but i'm a messenger. i'm a messenger, when we win on november th, washington, d.c. and we are going to drain the swamp! >> now, those comments came as the trump team announced a massive $100,000 fundraising haul for the month of november. for trump, his inner conflict was on full display. he audibly told himself to remain on message while going after nbc's own katy tur.

house. a winner. it's feeling like it, already, isn't it? we got to be nice and cool, nice and cool. stay on point, donald, stay on point. no side track style. nice and easy, nice. we have two more today in florida and we have massive crowds. there's something happening. they're not reporting it, katy, you are fought reporting it, happening, katy. there is something happening, katy. >> and hashtag i'm with tur took off with support from all corners of the web. new polls in florida are giving clinton a razor thin lead there. she is beating him by one point from a four-point lead weeks ago. as the race tightens in north

to 3 point. in north carolina, president obama worked the votes there. >> if you don't vote, then you have didn't the worse of those who would suppress your vote without having to lift a finger. come on, i am not on the ballot, but i tell you what, fairs? on the bal lot. decency is on the ballot. justice is our democracy is on the ballot right now. >> and for the first time, the president spoke out on the latest e-mail controversy, taking a swipe at the fbi director's timing. >> i do think that there is a novp r norm that whether investigation, we don't operate on innuendo.

>> just days vitrola is out. clinton said, quote the perpetrators who set the hopewell m.b. church in mississii >> flu details on the suspect believed to have killed two police officers in an ambush-style attack. they said 46-year-old scott michael green has a history of

investigators are trying to determine what exactly set him off. nbc's james mccoy has more. >> reporter: with guns drawn, officers canvassed the iowa neighborhood where two of their own had just been ambushed, fearing they could become the next target. >> officers shot, paramedics. >> reporter: it was 1:2w450i67b answered a call of officers shot, they found a rookie two miles away, des moines sergeant tony beminio died in his car. a father and husband. >> they didn't have a chance to defend themselves. >> police moved quickly. green turned himself in, he is well known in the area.

high school football game for holding a confederate flag. >> you grabbed me. >> reporter: green lives here with his mother, who neighbors say was trying to evict him. >> you never would have guessed it would have come to this, that he was that unsettled. >> reporter: this year, nationwide, 115 officers have been killed in the lean of duties. a five-year high. 16 ambush-style attack, for those that knew these job. it was senseless. still ahead as iraqi forces retake mosul the leader of isis breaks his silence. >> first, meteorologist bill karins, you were right about the weather for the world series. >> they did get it in, though. >> that same rate briefly delayed the game. all areas, especially of northern and central new england have to deal with the race. here's the timing of it.

northern new england, by the time we get to everyone is headed home from school or work today the heavy rain will be moving out of this region. it looks like a brief shower, not a lot of rain. most of the heavy stuff will be in new york. here's a closer look at your day ahead t. rain is obviously cooling things off. temperatures returning to where they normally should be. in the southeast, another record highs, possible alabama and georgia. the heat in the southeast doesn't want to break, you guys. >> could i say i was right yesterday? i had the chicago cubs. >> you were right by so much. >> at least you got the weather right, bill, that's a good start. >> oh, all that in the early day ahead. still ahead, tension boil over, over the kr6r8.com access

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>> welcome back. everyone. al baghdadi merges with forces to enter mosul. he called on supporters to spread attacks to other countries, stressing confidence isis will win the battle for mosul. they have not ordered the authenticity of that state. matt. good to have you with us. what is the timing of this statement mean? >> reporter: well, ayman, good morning, it's clearly meant to rally the troops in the face of overwhelming opposition in the city of mosul, which is about an hour west of where i'm standing right now. here in irbil. of course, they're saying, baghdadi is making the exact kind of argument that he really

a stalwart of overwhelming force, fight to the death. don't retreat. he is saying he pulled the line. he is salting this statement with all kind of foreign rhetoric, the kind we got used to hearing from isis. this kind of bombastic statement aimed at claiming kinship between these current models and mohammed led in early islam. he is saying things like turn the infidel's night into day. make blood. decimate their territory t. kind of rhetoric we got used to hearing from isis. he is asking the elements fall away from here in iraq and syria. reenergize their areas. we have to look further away to see whether this message reaches its intended audience. >> thanks, matt. >> more protester clashes with police over the controversial dakota access pipeline.

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that breaking news, two deadly overnight shootings. investigations under way in maryland and in the district at this hour. what we're learning about the victims who died. >> also breaking, the cubs are world series winners, shattering a century old losing streak. the thrilling moments and delays that made this game stretch long into the night. look at that! we could see records broken in our area today when it comes to the weather. how high our temperatures could go on this november day. it is 4:4:26. >> we have erika gonzalez on the

>> good morning. a deadly night to report to you this morning from the live desk. two separate homicide investigations. we'll want to start first with what happened in prince george's county. we have video from a scene. police receiving calls around 9:30 last night of reports of a shooting. this is on the 4100 block of byers street that you're seeing this video from and all of the activity there. there at the location, one person found dead. let's move over to t in southeast, this is our view in what appears to be a stretch of an alleyway. a man found dead around 2:00 this morning. in both of these cases, prince george's county and d.c., right now, police are actively looking for suspects and motives in these two homicide investigations. at the live desk, i'm erika gonzalez. >> thank you. let's get you caught up on

warm weather chuck bell. >> fair enough. we can get you one more nice warm day and we'll go back to a november pattern. there is the cold front which brings chilly changes in for the weekend. ahead itself, dry around most of the d.c. metro area for now. there are rain drops moving into parts of central virginia. not a big threat of rain before lunch time but rain chances ramp up after lunch time. fourmi of montgomery county. be on the look out for patchy fog this morning but it is mild, mild, mild. the record is 80. we'll be within a degree or two of that. rain chances moving in this afternoon. we'll time that out and talk about the cool down coming up in a couple more minutes. it is traffic time. have they finished all of the roadwork? >> we have some roadwork hanging around but not on the beltway. beltway overall looking quite good this morning. here is the roadwork we were

cedar lane, right lane getting by and southbound in the area. they have the roadwork under way. a reminder about safetrack surge 10. red line shut down between noma-gallaudet and fort totten affecting a lot of riders. 200,000 people having to find other ways into and out of town. guys? we're waiting a the chicago cubs are the brand new world series champions of baseball. the party may never end, in fact, in chicago. the last time the team, known as the loveable losers won a championship was 108 years ago. they are the original source of the phrase "wait until next year." that belongs to them. that year was this year. they had to go through extra

them at 1:00 in the morning. a lot transpired after i went to bed at 10. jay gray will have the full story from chicago coming up and congratulations to all of the cubs fans. back to you. it is 4:30. we turn to decision 2016, we are just five days away from the election and the candidates are once again fanned out across the nation. democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton makes her final case in north carolina. her running mate, tim kaine, is in arizona today. other battleground states. president obama in florida. bernie sanders in ohio and chelsea clinton makes a stop in wisconsin. gop presidential nominee donald trump is stumping in three states today. florida, north carolina, and pennsylvania. his running mate, mike pence, makes his way to iowa, michigan, and pennsylvania. it is the last day of early voting in maryland. polling close tonight at 8:00. if you live in the district,