deidre cu rley from check the forecast first.lon wilkinson from this scottish licenced trade association, grateful to both the you for talking to us. a bit early for me. now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah keith—lucas. hello. we have had a mix of some bright spells but also some heavy downpours so far today, and that is going to be the story as we head through tonight and into the weekend too. it's going to be feeling a bit colder than it has been recently, with plenty of blustery showers on the cards as well. heading through into the evening hours, for a time the south—east of england will see some prolonged spells of rain, but for the rest of us, we are looking at clear spells and fairly heavy showers rattling in from the north—west. through tonight, the heaviest and the most frequent downpours will be across parts of scotland, some into northern ireland and northern england as well. further south and east, you've got clearer, cooler conditions to start your saturday morning. saturday brings us another day of sun

abc's deidre bolton joins us with more. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, eva.ime ever people between the ages of 18 and 35 will make up one-third of eligible voters greatly influencing who is going to sit in the oval office for the next four years. with just days to go before the election, more than 7 million young voters have already cast their ballots. many of them voting for the first time. >> i'm going to vote. i'm so excited. whoo! >> i'm doing my civic duty. >> reporter: in eight battleground states young people ages 18 to 29 have cast at least 50% of the early vote compared to 2016. a lot of enthusiasm from young voters can make a really big difference. >> reporter: for that reason, both parties are making big efforts to get support from gen-z and millennials, spending billions of dollars on social media and traditional media ad buys to pick up votes while twitter has banned political ads and facebook is restricting them to varying degrees, celebrities and social media influencers have taken on more important roles this election cycle. from kid rock -- >

for more on that we go to abc's deidre bolton. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.ou said it, what is going on with the president right now is certainly going to affect the markets. so think about instability being injected into the system and uncertainty. so in this tick tock about how we hear the president is recuperating, if it's faster, if it's slower than expected, that is likely to move markets. there's also questions, for example, if he's taking longer to recover, what does that mean for the functioning of government? how many other senior administration officials may fall ill? these are all questions that investors will be focused on. we saw the direct cause and effect. you remember this, the president tweeting out confirming that he had tested positive for coronavirus. that was at around 1:00 a.m. eastern time, of course, on friday morning. you saw the dow futures drop immediately, 500 points. this just shows you to what extent investors are keyed in to what is going on. of course with the coronavirus, it is a reminder when our president gets it, we are all