Lockdown we are watching where the 28th named storm is on the move. Well tell you where its headed. Plus, an exciting weekend in the nfl filled with twists and turns. The first monday of the month in november early today starts right now glad to have you with us im frances rivera. Im phillip mena. On the eve of the election, both candidates are launching one last blitz joe biden is Holding Events in ohio and pennsylvania. A tremendous amount of americans have already voted casting a record breaking 93 million ballots and it could cross the 100 million mark once this weekends numbers are tallied up the president is trailing his democratic rival by 10 points according to the latest nbc news wall street Journal National poll nbcs tracie potts is joining us from bidens hometown of wilmington, delaware busy day for both candidates reporter a really busy day, phillip. Good morning, everyone biden is staying close by. President trump, all over the place today. He will be in michigan, in wisconsin and North Carolina, pennsylvania not far from here, but last night he started out with a rally in mustwin florida. The latest New York Times sienna poll shows President Trump behind 3 Percentage Points in florida, within the margin of error, making that a tight race. He held a midnight rally sparking controversy after suggesting he might fire the nations top covid expert. Fire fauci. Fire fauci fire fauci fire fauci fire fauci fire fauci dont tell anybody, but let me wait till a little bit after the election i appreciate the advice. I appreciate that. Hes been wrong a lot. Hes a nice man. Hes been wrong on a lot reporter meantime, joe biden going all in on pennsylvania he has rallies all over the state today. The latest New York Times sienna point shows him up 6 points in the state he was born. Biden talked about the importance of pennsylvania on the trail. Every day is a new reminder of how high the stakes are, of how far the other side will go to suppress a turnout especially here in philadelphia President Trump is terrified of what will happen in pennsylvania he knows the people in pennsylvania get to have their say. If you have your say, he doesnt stand a chance reporter now tonight biden is tapping off the day with a star studded rally in pittsburgh, pennsylvania featuring lady gaga, john legend, his top supporters president obama will be in atlanta and miami today. And back here in wilmington, theyre building a stage phillip, we dont know when well see biden on that stage and what he might say when hes there. Depends on how and how quickly those results come in. So much uncertainty all going to be unfolding in the next 24, 48 hours. Tracie, thank you so much. Over the weekend, both campaigns blitzed key battleground states fighting for the final undecided votes. Biden making a pit stop in pennsylvania a state trump won in 2016. Can he turn that state blue this time around . Ali vitali is in philadelphia. Reporter good morning, frances. Joe biden beginning day two of his pennsylvania blitz he and Kamala Harris are effectively dividing up the state. They have spent more time than any other battleground state during the general election. Its clear now that this is the place that they are going all in on joe biden going to be campaigning in cleveland, ohio, as well as then moving closer to pittsburgh, pennsylvania, taking over the western part of this keystone state while his running mate, senator Kamala Harris and her husband take the eastern part of the state around the philadelphia area and the suburbs around that area as well key places for them not to just run up big turnout but also potentially flip some counties that went for donald trump in 2016 if were talking for places theyre looking to flip, look no further than where Kamala Harris spent the day yesterday. Thats georgia democrats have been salivating over the chance to flip it they think 2020 just might be the year to do it. Ali, thank you. A former republican strong hold is showing shades of blue in 2020. In our latest arizona polling average, joe biden is leading President Trump by about 4 points nbcs Vaughn Hilliard is joining us good morning reporter phillip, there are 40 hours left until polls close in the state of arizona. When folks are looking at the political map, arizona could be the state that clinches it florida, North Carolina, pennsylvania, georgia but later in the evening when the polls close in arizona, we may know up to 90 of the results there on Election Night the Biden Campaign is looking at this state with optimism they have seen consistent results in arizona donald trump won here four years ago. In 2016 he won the state by 3. 5 Percentage Points. Those numbers have only declined over the last several years putting the Trump Campaign in a tough position there are no more Campaign Stops so its up to the organizers to get folks to turn in their ballots. In maricopa county, already the number of returned early ballots exceeds all of the ballots sent in in the county in 2016 combined phillip. Sounds like a similar story throughout the country vaughn, thank you. In North Carolina the stakes are at an alltime high with the senate a senate race up for grabs Morgan Radford has more. Reporter good morning. North carolina is the state to watch because of not one but two important races. Of course you have the president ial race. This is a state that President Trump won back in 2016 by less than 200,000 votes but hes losing some support right now among suburban voters. Women voters and voters with a college education. Those are exactly the voters joe biden is trying to pursue. On the other hand, you have a Critical Senate race this is one of those states democrats are hoping to flip to regain power its also on track to become the most expensive u. S. Senate race in history surpassing the race in 2018 in florida all eyes right now are on the tar heel state our Election Night coverage begins tomorrow at 7 p. M. Eastern here on nbc. The u. S. Continues to shatter coronavirus records as experts say the pandemic has reached the third peak so far more than 9 million cases have been confirmed in the u. S. And deaths have climbed to over 232,000. On friday the nation reported over 99,000 new covid19 cases beating its previous record of more than 88,000 set only a day prior. 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Welcome back florida is critical for winning the presidency remember that happening chad fiasco back in 2000. Nbc reports that Election Officials there have made a lot of changes since then. Reporter 20 years ago Broward County was the center of the political universe counts, recounts and rerecounts. Unprecedented vote recount still has not answered the question who will be the president. This is the answer. The broward supervisor of elections says were ready for t. Were ready for it. Theyve invested nearly 2 million on new Cyber Security software and high speed counter machines and hired extra staff to process ballots 16 hours a day. If you want turnout, if you want people to participate, they have to have confidence that what theyre doing is going to matter reporter further south in Miamidade County theyve learned their lesson florida is one of a handful of battleground states that processes early votes before election day North Carolina, texas, arizona also allow for some early vote counting meaning if those races arent tight, the networks could call them early in the night. In florida, about 1. 5 of mail in or absentee ballots are thrown out on the election that means thousands of votes are not counted. How many of you voted by mail this last primary . All of you did and vote raise your hand if you had an issue when you were voting by mail none of you. Reporter but by accessing public voter data we were able to determine the status of their ballots. It turns out that all of your votes were rejected for this last primary. What . Well, thats kind of crazy. Im kind of surprised honestly. I hope it didnt happen this time. Most are discarded for missing or invalid signatures, but many because they dont meet a strict deadline. If its not received by election day at 7 p. M. , it doesnt count, regardless of when it was mailed. Did anyone reach out to you, let you know there was a problem . Not that i recall, no. Reporter a new florida law does require Election Officials to reach voters who are rejected. What are you doing to ensure it we have a reconciliation procedures to make sure they are matched. We want them to know their ballot has counted accurately and securely. Eye opening you can track your mailin ballot online to know whether it was received and counted giving you time to vote in person if there is a problem with us. You so much for being i am anxious in the sense in light of the new vote by mail we wont know whats going to happen until much later than tuesday. Right now at 4 30, the clock is ticking with just one day to go until election day. 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