stephanie flanders coming up.ching cnbc live from london first in business worldwide. >>> today is the day the british people are heading to the polls to decide their destiny within the european union. and that includes some of the biggest names on both sides of the debate. earlier this morning, david cameron cast his battle. we know which way. he is voting to remain in. he has made final rallying cries over the last few days in 24 hours. we'll keep an eye on that for you and of course the polls close 10:00 p.m. tonight so we're live with you throughout. we're also approaching the top of the hour so that means the team is getting ready for a special "squawk box"? new york city. becky quick joins us and both wilfred and i are very excited to join us with some updates from london. >> we're excited to here from you too. a big day. you are both there on the ground so we'll be gets updates at least every hour to see what's happening. we have a lineup of guests here as well to weigh in on the brexit vote. obviously it i

we were discussing this with stephanie flanders who's the head european strategist this morning. even if the vote is incredibly close, 50.1% remain, one we get that result markets would move in the same way if the vote ended up being 70/30. that's what's happened as we got closer to the outcome. even if it's very, very close, of course it would be. votes like this behind us would be exactly the same. the votes itself would be very close. the polls are the closest way to tell what the vote is likely to be. 48-46 on the "financial times" polls of polls. that's what's going to be interesting between 5:00 and 5:30 when we get this u-g.gov poll. >> meanwhile i've heard that many hotel rooms if not all of them are already taken up by the banks and the brokers to put their traders there overnight to give them a place to rest while they wait for results and take advantage of this opportunity. >> that is true, as someone who tried to book one of those hotels in canary wharf, bill. we experienced it first-hand. it's unclear whether the trading volume itself will be more because they're eli