pastors, students and the bishop here in north carolina gathering in front of grace chapel at lenoir rhine university. >> there's a lot of hatred and fear. there's a lot of exclusion, especially when it comes to ill grace. >> supporters of trump showed today how people can disagree about a candidate and still come together despite those differences. >> people have different opinions but we can all stand on the same property and do it peacefully and stand for what we think is right. >> the hard thing for the trump supporters, the auditorium there were thousands out here in the line hoping to get inside. police were ready. they had roughly 80 officers out here this morning. reporting live from hickory, dave faherty, channel 9 eyewitness news. >>> all right dave. on the democratic side, bernie sanders is well behind hillary clinton in the north carolina poles. but the senator from vermont is still making a big push here in charlotte. eyewitness news reporter liz foster is live in university city where sanders wrapped up speaking to about 6,000 supporters minutes ago. liz? >> that's right, scott, bernie