here's chris jansen. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> every couple has it.red song, a favorite movie, or maybe a special place. stephen scharf says that for his wife and him jody, this was it. two rocks forming a lover's chair on the edge of a cliff. >> that was our spot. we would bring a couple of long chairs, a cooler, and she would bring her work from graduate school. >> they had been escaping to this magical place for years. ever since they were newlyweds in a starter apartment in new jersey. up here, the air was fresh and the views seemed limitless. >> it's sort of framed the trees but you can look down to the right through the view of the george washington bridge. >> what they couldn't see from here, of course, was the future. had they caught even a glimpse of what was to come, surely they would have abandoned this place forever. stephen and jody met in the late seventies in georgia. he was in the army, a bookworm who loved the civil war. she taught history. there is was a meeting first of minds. then hearts. >> how would you sort of describe those ear

joining us right now in virginia with the very latest, senior and national correspondent chris jansendates trying to campaign in the waning days of the election? >> reporter: frantically, i think, in a single word. look, the stakes are incredibly high. this is the only contested governor's race in the country this year, but it's also the first big contest since joe biden won the white house, and a lot of folks are looking at this as sort of a harbinger of what's to come in 2022 as a referendum of what's going on in washington and whether this administration has been delivering. so you're going to see the candidates all across the state today, youngkin continuing on a bus tour, 50 stops over ten days. he's going to start an hour from now in alexandria and go five more cities today. terry mcauliffe is going to be in the virginia beach hampton area tonight. he drew in a crowd with pharrell, "come on, get happy." this is a site that's going to open up in a couple of hours, and this is what both sides are hoping to do. get that enthusiasm up. it's always hard in these elections. take a loo

chris jansen is at a swing left event in virginia. chris, what are you hearing from the viewers? >> reporter: i got to tell you i was just at a poling place. there's an intensity on the ground that you don't see in off-year elections. this is getting national attention. two, if you aggregate all the polls you see this race is less than 1 percentage point separating the two candidates which is probably why we're bringing out folks here. these are all various grassroots organizations out today. people are coming through the parking lot. you see groups of people here ready to go door to door, including folks from swing left which is where david is from. how many doors have you knocked on? what about phone calls and letter writing? >> great to be here. to date we've knocked on 40,000 doors. >> just in virginia? >> just in virginia. we're seeing a level of enthusiasm of folks coming out of the woodwork. people understand the urgency and what's at stake. we've been working closely with coordinated groups to make sure we're funneling in as many groups as possible. >> there were like 50

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