. hurricane mathew continues its deadly path towards the eastern seaboard with over a million already ordered evacuated. late-breaking details ahead. >> the number go head-to-head. each attacking the top of the ticket. >> six times tonight i said to mike pence i can't understand how you can defend your runing mate on each issue. on both issues. >> let's don't put words in my mouth. you have to give me time. >> yet he is asking everybody to vote for somebody he cannot defend. >> and a life saving revelation to howard stern that you have to hear.

biden goes under cover in study or die. >> got the moves. >> are you ready, mr. vice president? >> it's rock 'n' roll, man. >> "early today" starts right now. >> it's good to be with you. i'm frances rivera. >> i'm ayman mohyeldin. the eastern seaboard is onig alert as hurricane mathew the strongest storm in years closes in on the u.s. >> overnight, the eye of the storm made landfall in eastern cuba with its strength and tact, a category 4, winds reaching up to 140 miles per hour. eight deaths have been tolled so far. this after it tore through haiti, flooding streets, flattening homes in what could be the worst crisis to hit the

>> each hour, mathew is weakening. officials are taking zero chances. a state of emergency is in effect from florida to the carolinas. south carolina, calling for a complete coastal shutdown. >> our goal is to make sure you basically get 100 miles awoi from the coast. -- away from the coast. what i will tell those people thinking of fought leaving, yourself. think about my law enforcement and my national guardsmen. pause they are going to have to be the ones that go out and try to get you. you are putting their lives at stake. >> let's get an update how this storm is playing out. officials not calling for evacuations. bill karins is keeping an eye on it, bill. >> reporter: the bottom line is 36 hours from now, hurricane force winds are arriving in florida. it's off the coast of cuba.

itself to a category 3. it could easily go up to a category 4 over the warm waters over the next 48 hours. this is thursday, 8:00 p.m. near freeport. clo those areas near ft. lauderdale, that's when it will be along the florida coastline. we go 24 hour hours, at least, with hurricane force winds, all across the east coast of florida, from west palm beach, indian riff, ft. melbourne, daytona beach, flagler, possibly towards savannah with damaging winds, storm surge issues on the coast and the possibility of flooding rains. if one improvement has been up here in areas of north carolina. the trend is further to the south. i won put too much credence into this at this point here. so again, our computer models are targeting areas along the

raking the coast guard. this can be a devastating blow for about 24 hours along florida's space coast all the way up in the northeast corridor. now to the only vice presidential debate of the campaign, it was combative. democrat tim kane and republican mike pence squared off in a 90 minutes hotly contested showdown. most of the night was about defending their running pate, sparring over a whole range of topics from domestic issues to foreign policy. at trump taxes resurface. >> we have a tax code, for, that actually is designed to encourage entrepreneurship. >> why won't he release his taxes? >> we're asking the question about the business thing. >> i do want to come back on this. >> his tax returns showed he went through a very difficult time, but he used the tax code just the way it's supposed to be used. he did it brilliantly. >> how do you know that? in there first and foremost, donald trump supports our

veterans. >> he won't pay taxes. >> donald trump has paid all the taxes -- do you not take deduction, how does it work? it is about our troops. >> i understand why you want to change the subject. >> kane continued to attack pens's running mate in a heat discussion about nuclear weapons. >> ronald reagan said something interesting about nuclear proliferation in the ''80 proliferation some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic evechlt i think that's who governor pens's running mate is, who ronald reagan warned us about. >> senator,s that was even below you and hillary clinton. that's pretty low. >> reporter: pence was mild mannered, kane was far more aggressive. the two battled over which campaign hurls more insults.

insult-driven campaign. did you all just hear that? ours is an insult-driven campaign. to be honest with you, donald trump had said all the things you said he said in the way you said he said them, he still wouldn't have a fraction of the insults that hillary clinton levelled when she said that half of our supporters were a basket of deplorables. she said they were irredeemable. they were not america. i mean, it's extraordinary. d for taking after somebody in a twitter war and making fun of a rape? did he apologize for saying african-americans are living in hell? did he apologize for saying president obama was not even a citizen of the united states? will you look in vain to see donald trump ever taking responsible for anybody and apologizing. >> the combative kane repeatedly challenged pence to defend trump. >> six times tonight i have said to governor pence, i can't imagine how you can defend your

issue after the next. and in all six case, he's refused to defend his running mate. >> don't put words in my mouth. if he's going to do that, you have to give me time. >> yet he is asking everybody to vote for somebody he cannot defend. >> you heard there tim cane bringing up donald trump. donald trump was watching the debate. he tweeted through the entirety, mike pence won big. we should be proud of mike. cnbc john harwood trump adviser thinks pens won but missed opportunities to defend the presidential pick t. pundits will argue over who won, debate, there is early word on what americans think. a new cnn-orc poll taken after the debate thought 48% thought pence won. 42% gave the nod to kane. >> as for the presidential candidates, themself, earlier in the day, donald trump and hillary clinton made campaign stops.

attacks on one another. clinton criticizing trump's treatment of women and business prowess. andrea mitchell has more. >> reporter: donald trump in arizona. >> i started as a very private successful business person. hillary clinton made her money as a corrupt public official. >> reporter: hillary clinton in pennsylvania trying to remind suburban republican women about the past week. in this moment with a 15-year-old girl. >> i see damage donald trump does when he talk about women and how they look. >> you are more than the way you look. you should be health yell. you should take care of yourself, but we're not all going to end up being miss yuvgs i hate to tell you. >> clinton surrogates out in force, including michelle obama, knocking trump comblain complaining about his microphone. >> when she egets down, she doesn't complain, she doesn't cry foul. >> reporter: clinton is less

obamacare. >> you have this crazy system where all of a sudden 25, 000,000 people and people out there busting it 60 hours a week wind up with their privilege doubled and coverage in half. >> can you imagine what he went through after making that statement? >>. >> reporter: bill clinton talked that back. >> president obama talked about obamacare doesn't need to be sacked and strapped, it needs improved. >> reporter: on the trail today, donaldru rallies in nevada. his running mate mike pence kicks off a bus tour with a rally in pennsylvania. hillary clinton doesn't have events. bill clinton has two events in ohio. bernie sanders campaigns for clinton in iowa and wisconsin. tim kaine will do so in we are learning more about an apparent security briech, yahoo complied with a classified government directive and scanned millions

back in 2015, citing two former employees and a third source with knowledge of events, narrows down the agencies making the demand to the nsa or fbi. not only that, though the company allegedly dedicated its own staff to create custom software to help facilitate the investigation. cnbc, yahoo says it is a law abiding company and complies with the u.s. laws. the aclu i unprecedented and unconstitutional. urging law reform. a slew of tech companies say they have never received such requests and would never even fulfill them. just ahead, find out how you can get one of these. remember these, a pair of -- oh, way back, marty mcslide's. first, bill karins is here back

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good morning. i'm susan kim. i'm vince vitrano.let's start off with brian gotter. after a cloudy start, yesterday afternoon was partly cloudy and mild with highs near 70. this morning is partly cloudy with lows near 60, and clouds will be on the increase with a chance for a few showers around the noon