Right around the corner . Troubling alarming dire the rural surge is real people sick. Front line workers exhausted hospitals forced to make tough decisions about medical care live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening. Eight days until the election and both candidates are targeting one mustwin battleground state called pennsylvania both were there today. President Trump Holding three separate rallies in pa while joe biden made an unannounced visit to his Campaign Field office outside philly biden calling out the president s rally saying its not appropriate to hold events with massive crowds right now as covid cases ride to unprecedented highs across the country, but President Trump insists were rounding the corner on the pandemic, something scientists confirm is not true coronavirus fears rattling the markets today. The dow plunged almost 1,000 points before closing off 650. Well hear from jim cramer on that in a few minutes. Vice president mike pence moving forward with a Campaign Event in minnesota even after five of his aides tested positive for on capitol hill the senate covid19 over the weekend. His Spokesman Says the vp tested negative this morning. On capitol hill the senate expected to confirm judge Amy Coney Barrett within the next hour after that hell host a ceremony at the white house so a lot to cover. First to Kayla Tausche following the Trump Campaign kayla . Reporter shep, it is a battleground blitz for President Trump with eight days to go trying to out travel his competitor, former Vice President joe biden, who was currently out polling and out spending him today Trump Campaign manager bill stepien told report injuries he believes the president s ground game chips away at any ground game for early voting suggesting the other side is leaving absentee votes on the table by not getting their candidate in front of more and bigger crowds and there were large crowds as you can see in pennsylvania today. A state Trumps Campaign notes is critical to any path it has to 270 electoral votes tomorrow President Trump will campaign in wisconsin, michigan and nebraska wednesday back to the sunbelt. Trump said tonight like an athlete hes leaving it all on the field and criticized his rivals slimmer schedule. I thought it wasnt going to make it. One make it. One thing, unlike joe where he goes into a basement if he loses, who knows what happens, you know . G i did five,n this is called an election he should be ashamed of himself because he didnt work one thing i did five, six, seven of these in the last few days. Reporter meanwhile, Trumps Campaign is taking out 6 e bid campaign that ended september with 43 million in new ads across the rust belt focusing on the economy and seniors. Jason miller, trumps senior advisor, says it will put them closer to parity with the Biden Campaign that ended september with 432 million to spend in the home stretch Kayla Tausche on the trump he campaign ali vitali with a look at joe bidens ground game in the final days ali . Reporter shep, while donald trump has been blitzing these states, several states and several stops in a day, joe biden has not matched that pace out on the campaign trail and its something that has some democrats hand wringing wondering if biden should be out there campaigning more its something the Vice President was asked about during an impromptu stop in chester, pennsylvania listen to what hes saying why hes campaigning. The big difference between us and the reason it looks like were not traveling, were not putting on super spreaders we are doing what were doing here everybodys wearing a mask and trying as best we can to be socially distanced. , pennsylvania, the stat reporter now, shep, pennsylvania, the state that biden has spent more time in than any other this general election, but hes also adding some other key states to the mix this week. We know that he begins tomorrow in georgia thats a state that democrats havent won since 1992 they have a chance to invest there and see if they can get it to flip in 2020 especially after they saw how close the 2018 governors race was. Biden making critical stops in places like florida, michigan, iowa, florida this week in the home stretch these are the ones we know so far. Its the final week until the election anything can be added for a few days out on the campaign trail here. No doubt. Ali vitali the senate is out on track to vote in less than half an hour to confirm judge Amy Coney Barrett. Hallie jackson is at the white o celebrate. Reporter c house. Tell us about the ceremony that the president is planning to celebrate. Reporter ceremonial swearing in of judge Amy Coney Barrett presuming that she ends up confirmed here in the next hour or so as Justice Barrett she was going to be a big difference and the one that you saw exactly one month ago today for barretts nomination the only difference. This time im told by a senior official, the video is masks will be required for attendees to be at the white house a primetime event for the a celebration for him. President. This is going to be a celebration for him. The third justice that he has gotten onto the Supreme Court here that has been confirmed by the republicans. Party line vote expected tore Amy Coney Barrett. Of course, a big deal particularly in the closing days of the campaign, shep. I mentioned the Vice President moving forward with Campaign Events even after his staff tested positive for could he individual. Thats against the guidelines. Reporter youre not suppose guidelines the vice to do that if you or i or somebody came into close contact, wed have to go into quarantine for a while if you are an essential worker, the cdc has different guidelines the Vice President s office says hes an essential worker he can still go do the work of the campaign as you were just looking at with the Vice President in minnesota, and take various precautions like pence did wear a mask on his way up to the stage, he took it off when he spoke, put it on when he went back you have to know, shep, its four white house staffers and one of those staffers is his chief of staff somebody who was extremely close to the Vice President. He did though, both he and karen pence tested negative for covid today. Hallie jackson, thank you. Covid watch and covid deaths are mounting in america. Were now averaging close to 800 deaths per day up 10 over just the past two weeks according to johns hopkins. Cases continue to flareup the country adding the largest seven day surge during this pandemic 8,000 in the past week some of the states with the lowest populations, the dakotas and montana, theyre nowl surges recording the highest number of cases per 100,000 over the past two weeks. The rural surge is real. No one sees ite crisis is ravagn smaller communities for th nbcs Gabe Gutierrez says south dakota is dealing with it. Reporter covid cases are up 42 states up 10 the crisis is ravaging many smaller communities for the first time for example at this hospital there are about 70 Covid Patients here now. Hospital administrators say its not the potential lack of bed space that worries them. They keep expanding their hospital to accommodate that its the potential staffing issues over the past few months. Having so much covid within our community, we have a certain percentage of our nursing staff, physician staff, all of our staff that are out quarantining or sick with covid. Winter is now here and we dont foresee the cases slowing down any time soon unless people change their behaviors. Reporter around the country, around 41,000 people are hospitalized, about a 40 jump in the last month. Here in south dakota hospitalizations have risen and the state is reporting a record for the city second straight day, but theres also disagreement here between local officials and the states governor local mayor and Public Health officials are urging residents to wear a mask but the states republican governor says its a choice people who dont want to wear a mask should not be shamed into it shep gabe, if everyone in america would wear a mask, 130 lives would be saved by february hear that . 130,000 people are going to die who would not if we would all wear masks thats from the scientists, but thats not happening in utah Covid Patients flooding icus doctors saying theyre 2 3 full. Statewide a few patients away from what theyre calling unmanageable fitzgerald is live in in cases utahs increased 44 just this month. S the most cases since the pandemic began nbcs Meagan Fitzgerald is live in salt lake city. Meagan, how are hospitals there and across the state coping with this surge reporter you know, shep, i think the short answer is day by day. What i can tell you is theyre certainly sounding the alarm just last week going to the providers will have to governor to say, look, if the state continues on this trajectory of covid19 cases continuing to increase, theyre going to have to start prioritizing patients. What this means is, for example, if you have a younger patient and an older patient who have similar or equal levels of illness, these Health Care Providers will have to prioritize that younger patient and of course all of this taking an emotional toll on these doctors and nurses i can tell you personally that i have been at the bedside of multiple patients of covid19 and been the last person that they saw, the last person to look at them in their eyes before they died i have to do this sometimes multiple times a day i have seen nurses walk out and say, i cant do this but we have to who else is going to do it reporter yeah. A dire situation here in utah. Covid19 numbers hitting record levels last friday they saw nearly 2,000 new cases in just one day. Were seeing hospitals across the state overwhelmed. Icus at or approaching capacity. All of this while health care workers, the governor, state this virus sh officials are literally pleading with the public to do their part to try to stop the spread of this virus shep meagan, thank you. Cnbcs on the money. Stocks plunged today the dow was off nearly 1,000 closed off 650 the worst day in almost two months the s p and nasdaq a little better nasdaq lower by s p down almost 2 nasdaq lower by 1. 6 the reason well, analysts are pointing to the record rate of new covid cases, competing Disaster Relief which is not happening those bills stalled in the congress and the hoped for economic recovery anemic economists, the fed, Everyday Americans have been sounding the alarm for months so why is wall street just taking notice today . Jim cramers with us, cnbcs voice of the investor. Jim, what spooked the markets today and why now . Thank you so much for having me on. I think that what spooked people is that when you get certain numbers, they begin to think were going to go back to the lockdown when we go back in the lockdown, then there is a dramatic decline in employment and dramatic decline in the amount of money that people have without a stimulus package so i think it was a logical, logical move and for a moment we forgot about the possibility the vaccines around the corner. We have the bad and the good. Im wondering, this lack of a stimulus bill. This lack of a Disaster Relief, is wall street price that go in . Theres a lot of people wall street would say can we accept there wont be a stimulus, anything near term we are worried about individual lockdowns. I know there are a lot of people who want to go to bars and restaurants, a lot of people who want to go out there are 14 Million People involved in the hospitality. Those are the people and directd so if we see the shutdowns, we families directly impacted so if we see the shutdowns, we started seeing Airline Traffic go down again, we started seeing Hotel Reservations are terrible, theyre talking about 50 occupancy around the country shep, thats not the way you can maintain any growth. Is there uncertainty within the markets on the election . Because ive heard you and so many on cnbc in the mornings say a biden win is sort of priced in already, is that right i think a biden win is priced in i do not think a senate the socalled blue wave is priced in if only because people are just now starting to get the arms around their idea, capital gains, wealthy people, they have capital gains, their taxes are going to go up ive got to tell you, shep, there was an overhang, kind of a belief that you know what, lets take some profits ahead of the election its follow the fauci. If we just all wear masks, if everyone would do it tech, wall street in general pushing the re we wonder why big business, big tech, wall street in general pushing the rest of the country to say, if you wear it, we wont die. Walgreens. Under armour is a ground swell if you wear it, our economy will return where are they honeywells behind it, doing the right thing. 3m walgreens. Under armour is a ground swell its happening youre right theyre going to fall in line. I promise you. Y bit as great its great to be your post game show. Thank you im thrilled to see you. I worked with you at another point in my career youre every bit as great as then i thank you for your kindness. Group hug. One day we could. Thank you, pal. I appreciate it. Strong winds fueling flames in Southern California today it is awful. The one theyre calling the silverado fire doubled in size in just a matter of hours. Fire officials are telling people to get out and for many th were live on the ground where fire officials are telling people to get out and for many this is all too familiar. Burning ember falls on top, it will just slide right down the metal. One homeowner who lost everything to the wild fire builds a house thats not supposed to burn. Early voting shatters records. More than 60 million ballots already cast how much does election day still matter plus, water on the sunny side of the moon why that could be a game changer. The facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith back in 60 seconds stressballs gummies have ashwagandha, an herbal stress reliever that helps you turn the stressed life. Into your best life. Stress less and live more. With stressballs. It just lit up this morning and the powerful winds just exploded it already scorched 4,000 acres nbcs Miguel Almaguer is on the ground. Reporter ive been covering it just lit up this morning and the powerful winds just exploded it already scorched 4,000 acres nbcs miguel already scorched 4,000 acres nbcs Miguel Almaguer is on the ground. Reporter ive been covering wildfires for the last 20 years. I am shocked that not a single home or subdivision at least has been destroyed by the flames here the situation has been erratic on the weather front, you can see this is one of those hillside neighborhoods under threat theres hundreds of homes out in this area. Firefighters are trying to protect the hill sides all the way down the block we have fire trucks standing by at the ready. Earlier today there were wind gusts upwards of 96 miles an hour thats the same strength as a cat 2 hurricane. Those are the conditions firefighters are really battling against and starting these small spot fires and quickly blowing them through entire communities there. As you mentioned, some 70,000 people have been forced to evacuate that number could rise over the next 24 hours. The diablo winds in Northern California winds, its been cut to a Million People. Theyre so concerned that the transmission lines could actually spark other wildfires the good news here, shep, no major destruction in terms of homes lost, no lives have been lost, but two firefighters are also in Critical Condition its going to be a long 24 hours as these nasty, nasty winds continue to kick up in strength up to 80, 90 miles. Incredible. Thank you so much. California winds fueling the flames meanwhile, Winter Weather in colorado is really helping firefighters there look at this snow and cold temperatures slowing down at least. Two of the largest fires in state history. Al roker is with us now. Lots of weather, al. How are you doing . Hey, im doing good, shep its good to be on your program. Weve got a lot to talk about today. Not only do we have the wildfires where we have another hurricane developing lets talk about the wildfires fire danger for 33 Million People right now gusty winds. Low humidity continuing. Not just for california but also into parts of arizona, new mexico, on into colorado and also looking atz nevada as well for those winds and those conditions in fact, talk about the winds. Strong wind advisories, high wind warnings. Wind advisories for 27 Million People scattered power outages, downed trees, blowing objects those winds will be fueling wildfires. G wildfires. The stronges the strongest wind gusts shep will be in the los angeles mile per hour winds from los mountains. Tomorrow afternoon, 70 to 80 mile per hour winds from los angeles, south of las vegas. Those winds will fuel the fires. It will only take a couple of embers and, boy, those embers with these fires, these winds could blow as much as 1 to 2y j break. Neither can the gulf south louisiana, missi miles away from their origin thats a big, big problem to firefighters. Al, they just cannot catch a break. Neither can the gulf south form. Louisiana, mississippi on the target zone again. Yeah. E Tropical Storm watches this is hard to believe. Again, this system, hurricane zeta has formed. Its a record breaker forming about five weeks earlier than normal the last time we had zeta was in 2005 it will hit th we have Tropical Storm watches and hurricane watches stretching from central louisiana all the way to the Florida Panhandle coast. Zeta is a category 1 storm 80 mile per hour winds moving west at 10. It will hit the yucatan peninsula tonight and back out into the gulf. Were not expecting right now for it to strengthen because theres colder water, wind sheer. Tomorrow afternoon well start flooding rainfall, to see rain all along the gulf coast from this. Makes landfall sometime shep Late Wednesday night new orleans again in that cone of uncertainty flooding rainfall, strong winds. Storm surge of anywhere from 2 to 6 feet. If you think its the gulf coast problem, look at this. It races up into the midatlantic and northeast on thursday bringing heavy rain and wind storm surges anywhere from 2 to 6 feet and the rainfall, shep, were looking anywhere from locally to 6 inches of rain in the Lower Mississippi valley as we widen out by friday, heavy rain, 3 to 5 inches stretching from the mississippi and ohio river valley all the way into i man, it just wont stop al roker on weather from the midatlantic, shep. Man, it just wont stop al roker on weather from home. Im telling ya. Al, great to see you. Thank you. You too, my friend. Wildfires have destroyed more than 25,000 california homes in just the past three years. That number is from the government and it doesnt even include the year 2020. Everyones favorite year some of these homeowners tell us never again, but theyre not moving away. These homeowners are trying to build houses that wont burn heres cnbcs rahil solomon. Reporter watch as a firefighter tests the structure by lighting up piles of wood to simulate a wild fire one side is made of noncombustible siding, the other plain wood 30 minutes in the fire resistant siding survives, the wood burnt to ash missy and david barnards house met a similar blaze. A simi it destroyed 12,000 homes including theirs but they made the decision to rebuild, not only did they want noncombustible siding, they wanted the entire house fire resistant. The way i describe it to people is like a silo on its side when youre 51 years old, your whole idea of a house was a square box, it took me a minute to get used to. Reporter the unusual style is known as a quonset hut. The exterior material is 100 noncombustible. Most vulnerable part of the house is the overhang. I have eliminated the roof cavity so there is nowhere for fire to get sucked into. A little burning ember falls. A little burnin on top it will slide down. Reporter added bonus, much faster to build than traditional houses traditional arrived in early october installed by the next week and the roof a row of 2 dozen arches lowered two weeks later. We do all the hard work in the shop and then its just a matter of bolting everything together in the field. I think the biggest fire risk is my neighbors houses. Reporter some arent risking it three more have enlisted vern to build his house for them. I have a feeling our house will be 50 years ago the Ground Breakers and trend setters made these super efficient noncombust i believe homes. A record setting number of voters in texas already. Millions of people lining up to cast their ballots a record setting number of voters in texas already. Millions of people lining up t whats bringing people to the polls . 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More than 60 million americans w predicting early voting could hit 100 Million People by have already voted the nbc decision desk is now predicting early voting could hit 100 Million People by election day long lines in spots across the country, including these new york city over the weekend 2 3 of likely voters nationwide say they plan to cast their ballots before election day and about 1 3 say theyll vote in person on november 3rd thats data from our cnbc change research poll. In texas more than 7 Million People have already voted. For context, its about 82 of all the votes cast there in 2016 thats from the u. S. Election project. Nbcs Priscilla Thompson on the top story with what shes hearing from voters in texas. Reporter shep, we are one week out from election day here in texas and both democrat and Republican Groups are on the ground working to turn out the lastminute voters we spent time with the congressional leadership fund. That is a Republican Group on the ground looking to get Republican Voters who would not turn out otherwise to get out and vote on the flip side we also spent time with a Texas Organizing project, Democratic Group specifically targeting black and latino voters who havent historically voted in elections but theyre hoping can make the difference in this one you know, we spoke with former congressman beto orourke who was out canvassing with that Democratic Group today he said hed like to see the top of the ticket make a visit take a listen to what he said. I want the top of the ticket to come here and meet that voter and encourage others in her rs e family and her community and her neighborhood to turn out as well reporter and this comes as more than 6. 9 million texans have already voted in this upcoming election with still one week to go of early voting shep priscilla, thanks. President trump and joe biden both hitting the campaign trail in pennsylvania today. The president narrowly won that state back in 2016, but with the polls showing him trailing by close to somewhere around 10 points, hes looking to keep this state red cnbcs Brian Sullivan on a battleground state tour ahead of the election hes live in erie, pa tonight. Hey, brian. Reporter shep, if the candidates could not be different enough they are campaigning different ways trump appearing three times. Biden hammering the covid strategy saying the president mishandled that. The president downplaying covid. You referenced the cnbc change research polls right now it is the economy, not by much, by a neck, that is top of mind on pennsylvania voters 45 saying thats their key issue. You can see the lines coming in. More people may be worried about covid as the case numbers grow fewer worry about the economy. Top of mind trump hammering that every step he gets in this key of all keystone states. Brian sullivan in eri, pa we have two divergent Campaign Strategies for President Trump and former Vice President biden. The president s game plan, be highly visible since the beginning of october President Trump has held 25 events in 12 states, large rallies without much social distancing, but joe biden a much more limited public schedule during the pandemic holding 18 much smaller visits. One candidate cautious and the other not so much. According to two political strategists on the brand and the right plan for each of them. People want a responsible president and they can see by joe biden not participating in huge rallies, by being socially distant, by wearing a mask, again, its not just a smart strategy, its also smart politics. The Trump Campaign is kind of stuck. Theyre behind in the polls and running out of time. They need to change it up and try to make it about the economy and big rallies are their favorite tool. Theyre not as worried about being criticized over covid because theyre already losing that issue to biden. What are voters thinking about these two very different strategies lets get back to pennsylvania the battleground of all battle grounds. Steve kornacki, how close is that here . This is the key one really. For the president , he needs to hang on to this state. For joe biden, this could be a decisive win if he gets it the average of all the polls in pennsylvania puts biden ahead of trump by 5 points. Take a look, this was 2016 this is how trump pulled off pennsylvania i just show you quickly here, this in particular, philadelphia and the philadelphia suburbs, this is where democrats believe theyve made their biggest gains, that they stand to make their biggest gains. Hillary clinton won these counties outside in 2016 democrats think theyre going to get a much bigger margin, potentially much bigger turnout here the margin in the state was less than a point for President Trump, its places like scranton in 2016 where he improved on how republicans normally do. They think they can run up the score. It is a philadelphia suburbs versus the more rural parts of the state, some of the older, smaller cities in the state. Those are the two coalitions that are kind of at odds here. Thats pennsylvania lets talk texas im reading a new poll from the Dallas County news the democrats are trying to turn that state blue but is that at all realistic . Its not totally unrealistic when you look at this. This is the poll average in texas. Donald trump leads but its only by 4 points. This has been the trend in texas, by the way. In 2012, mitt romney the republican won texas by 16 points in 2016 donald trump won it by 9. Now its down to 4 in the polling. The trend has been moving towards democrats. You get a look here. This was trump this was 2016. This was how he won the state. Where democrats think theyre making the gains, the dallas area, austin area, houston area, san antonio area, metro areas fast growing, politically changing the democrats think they could be on the cusp of something there. Whether this is the year it tips or they get tantalizingly close, thats what well see. Kornacki, thank you. Youve got it. Covid watch now and a frankly frightening surge in el paso hospitals there are so overwhelmed that patients are being air lifted to other cities in some cases. A curfews just been put in place. So how bad in the days ahead a doctor on the front lines joins us and fatigue turns into fury in italy cases of covid are rising, restrictions are rising. Many are fed up. The revolts in italy next. Volts. The facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith back in 90 seconds texas is now tied with texas is now tied with california for the most covid19 cases. Thats according to the latest figures from nbc news. I want to focus on el paso for a moment where they have record numbers. More than 10,000 in the past two weeks. The most for any county in the whole state. A 200 rise in hospitalizations, intensive care units reported to be at capacity city officials have issued a curfew now residents required to stay home from 10 00 at night to 5 a. M. Unless theyre essential violators face a 500 fine more testing the lines are long more medical personnel coming to help a Convention Center being turned into a field hospital. Dr. Alozi is with us sitting on Texas Governor abbotts task force. Hes the chief medical officer at del sole Medical Center describe for us if you could what its like in your hospital . First of all, thanks for having me. I think what we would best describe it as, organized chaos. Were lucky in terms of ppe and supplies were doing great. As you understand, with over 200 medical personnel being in our hospitals and the fact that those numbers are going up so rapidly, its really concerning what the next four to six weeks have in play. Are you getting the support you need is the personnel coming in do you have the equipment you need as part of the hca network, they have a huge supply network. Were not worried in terms of supplies, equipment, bringing in nurses, physicians specifically. Those are the people that are driving the care were able to give in the hospital. Doctor, do you have a sense for why this is happening and why now . Is there something specific to your community or do you know. Were not really sure looking at the city numbers, a lot of it is gatherings. Lot of it is gatherings. Multigenerational homes where children and adults, even a grand parent live in the same home 79938, one of our zip codes, one of the most populated zip codes in america we are on the border juarez closed down their city and theyre going into a 14day shutdown multifactorial we cant pinpoint it the thing is for people to understand irrespective of the numbers, theyre human beings. We get lost in the 1,000 cases, 10,000 cases thats the 20yearold who got inundated in the icu the patient that came in in their 50ed asking for a cup of sprite prior to getting intubated. That may be the last wish. People have to remember, those numbers are just numbers we need to Work Together to improve it. Dr. Alozie, before we finish. You have to plan ahead as you plan ahead for the next 2, 3, 4 weeks, what are you seeing i think that the community and the country needs to realize that this is just the beginning of what could be a dark and tragic time over the next four to six weeks we understand that cases beget hospitalizations which beget tragically deaths. So if were working with our city authorities, our community and the Hospital Partners with fema and the governor, we have as many supplies as we need. I bet you youre begging people to follow the fauci and wear masks totally we should be way past the conversation of masks, physical distance, stay at home but, again, any time that we can reiterate it, i think its critically important. Follow the fauci, dr. Alozie, its great thank you. As the covid pandemic first started spreading, europe gave us clues to our covid future in america. Remember same is true now parts of europe is reeling wales starting a 17 day lockdown closing bars and pubs. Health Officials Say the number of Covid Patients in hospitals in wales is now the highest since june the Czech Republic has banned movement of people entirely to curb the spread of covid thats according to the Health Minister there it now has the highest second highest per capita death rate in all the world over the weekend then theres spain declaring a National State of emergency imposing a nighttime emergency for at least 15 days but warning it could go up to six months depending how it goes. Spain was the first in europe to pass 1 million covid cases then theres italy disturbing rise in infections. The daily covid number over the last week, nine times higher than at the start of this month. Nbcs bill neely is in milan. Reporter hi, shep. A very different italy tonight very quiet because from 6 00 tonight all bars, cafes and restaurants right across italy have closed their doors. Until 11 00 tonight. They have to shut and thats hundreds of thousands of businesses right across this country. Many people protesting at the weekend unhappy about this because they think their livelihoods are endangered scuffles, small protests in roman, naples. Not just restaurants and cafes, gyms and movie theaters will close. Religious services are being restricted sporting events, all sporting events except professional events like soccer which will take place behind closed doors the reason for this, record numbers of daily new coronavirus cases. Theyre averaging about 20,000 new cases a day. At the start of the month it was about 2,000 new cases a day. The Health System is buckling. Hospitals are beginning to be overwhelmed. People are scared because its not just here in the north and milan is the epicenter, its now right across italy the covid cases are increasing the only good news is that so far deaths are not at the level that they were at at the spring. Im afraid, shep, in italy the second wave is sweeping across and history is in danger tragically of repeating itself in the most deadly way shep bill, thank you an historic vote in south america, plus a major storm as we go around the world in 80 seconds. The philippines, a typhoon ripping through the country. Officials say the storm displacing more than 25,000 people crews rescuing five fischer men. Knocking out power and tearing roofs off homes. Falling trees and other debris injuring dozens. First responders working to save people from flooded villages chile, the country voted to rewrite the constitution celebrating the fireworks and music. Officials say it was the highest voter turnout in 30 years. The late dictator drafted the current constitution that vote happened during a time when Political Parties were banned venezuela, jesus take the wheel. This church near caracas transforms its parking lot into a drivein mass. Dozens of parishioners honk and wave while this priest delivers communion through their car windows keeping a tradition alive during dark times. China. Tienzu mountain or heavenly pillar becoming a racetrack. Hitting more than 60 miles an hour flying down the road on long boards as we go around the world in 80 seconds. Judge Amy Coney Barrett minutes away of becoming Justice Barrett. Theyre still in the discussion phase in this live look on the senate floor the vote will be happening shortly, were told. Amy Coney Barrett has important cases coming her way, cases with real consequences. Pete williams on those next. Plus, seek and destroy, seey the mission to take out the murder the mission to take out the murder hornets how scientists won a battle in the war coming up. A live look at washingto a live look at washington coming Mitch Mcconnell still speaking on the floor with confirmation for judge Amy Coney Barrett coming in minutes. The outcome is not in doubt. Tomorrow we will have a new Supreme Court. Six conservatives and three liberals so what are the first big cases before the justice and how might this solidifying on the majority have on our lives. Heres nbcs justice correspondent pete williams. Shep, Justice Barrett wont be able to vote on any of them argued in october. She can vote on four hot button cases that will be in her in box when she arrives at the Supreme Court tomorrow three are emergency appeals from president ial battleground states on whether to extend the deadline for accepting mail ballots that come in after election date. Democrats have said the pandemic and the Postal Service slowdown mean that some voters could be disenfranchised if their ballots get stuck in the mail. Two come from wisconsin and North Carolina in the third, Pennsylvania Republicans lost on a 44 vote in the Supreme Court seeking to roll that back now theyre trying again clearly hoping Justice Barrett will give them a fifth vote. The other is President Trumps a people to turning over his tax returns. If the Supreme Court says, no, its game over for the president , sky vance would get the documents hes been asking for. President , sky vance would get murder hornets the giant orange and blueish asia and left unchec black insects that come from asia and left unchecked can age agents found potentially wipe out honey bes in north america its very serious. D have now be but score one for the scientists for the first time Agriculture Agents found and destroyed an entire nest over the weekend almost 100 murder hornets. Now we actually thought that those murder hornets were dead, but apparently they were just knocked out and have now been revived in captivity for testing and studying so the murder hornets live none of this was easy. Scientists have been trying to find the nest and putting the trackers to their bellies where a 2 inch long queen murder hornet holds court over all the captive murder hornets its all a tall order because in winter murder hornets hibernate and then theyll come out to destroy in the spring. Cnbcs Contessa Brewer on how cnbc found and took out murder hornets lair. Reporter suited up like storm troopersfrom t they had to whack the tree to s get the murder hornets to budge from their nest. Finding this first nest was no easy fete. First they set all kinds of traps to capture the invasive insects and tested tiny tracking devices on domestic hornets. Once they caught one they attached the radio censor. Were going to hope this does what it usually does it wasnt underground like these nests are in asia. Theyre already exhibiting different behavior. Reporter workers wrapped the tree to block any of them. The team pumped Carbon Dioxide in the nest. Y of sprayed foam over the entire tree with plans to cut it down and check for a queen. We were never once attacked by the hornets. This is just the beginning of a war on murder hornets. Keep fighting these battles until we have eradicated asian giant hornets if thats possible. S if thats possible. Now, far enough away for a different nest or two. Scientists are on their way for number two theres water on the moon and not only in the shade. Huge implications for a mission to marge pope francis making history expecto patronum and action. 16 people died did he catch our bad guy . Were know as the charmed ones. You got one day to show me what you got. I want to fight. You need us harry. What a goal bockey ball, hockey ball, you name it ball. Im gonna be ready. Just say show me peacock into your xfinity voice remote or download the app today. Pope francis making history naming the first africanamerican cardinal. Hes a progressive originally from chicago just like pope francis. He tried to reform the church after a massive sex abuse scandal. Made headlines criticizing the president over the photo op. Theres water on the sunny side of the moon thats from nasa where scientists are reporting it could be a game changer. They originally thought the water or ice really was limited to the moons colder, shadow which regions. Water could be trapped in Little Pockets all over the moon. A game changer is this if there is water, they could use it for space travel. They could mine ice or even make rocket fuel. 55 seconds left on a race to the finish officials order at least 70,000 people to evacuate in Southern California fastmoving fire in irvine voting underway on the senate floor to confirm judge Amy Coney Barrett. President says there will be a ceremony the dow sinking almost 1,000 points before closing down 650 as coronavirus cases hit frightening highs all across the country and now you know the news for this monday, october 26th, 2020 im Shepard Smith. Follow us on twitte twitter thenewsoncnbc follow the fauci if we wear our masks, as manas so wear the mask it is 5 00 a. M. At cnbc global headquarters. Your top five at 5 stocks trying for a turn around tuesday after mondays massive meltdown the dow closing down below the 28,000 mark for the First Time Since october 6th. On the campaign trail. It is one week to go until election day but the specter of rising covid cases and a stimulus stalemate in d. C. Continue to loom large. Bracing for the biggest ipo of all time as alibabas ant group is for