Breakneck sprint to election day just hours from now. President trump and former Vice President biden are battling those states. And lastminute votes they think theyll need to win. President Trump Holding five rallies in four states while joe biden is going all in for pennsylvania making three stops there. And a surprise visit to ohio. While election day isnt until tomorrow as we come on the air this election is already making history. More than 97 million americans have already voted early. Now thats record shattering and its more than two thirds of all the votes cast just four years ago. But it also means with so many ballots to count and some of the biggest battleground states not starting that process until tomorrow night, we may not know who won on wednesday morning. President trump is threatening to go to court to challenge that idea, falsely claiming that ballots that havent been counted tomorrow night shouldnt count at all. Now across the u. S. Tensions are running high and buildings in many major cities are boarding up ahead of tomorrow night. Theres a lot of new reporting to get to tonight. Were got our team of correspondent to cover it all. Cbs ed okeefe will lead off our coverage right here in our election news headquarters. Reporter throughout battleground states and pennsylvania where joe biden has spent more time anywhere else knowing if he wins the keystone state he could probably win the white house. Joe biden signaling he has one more day to go. He and his team spent the day focused on one of tomorrows biggest prizes, pennsylvania. Weve got to make sure everyone returns their ballot and vote them. Reporter biden acknowledged the president s reported threat to declare victory tomorrow night regard regardless of how many standing votes there are. When the message is heard i believe the message will be loud and clear. Its time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home. Reporter the latest cbs news Battleground Tracker polls shows biden up seven points but it might be tightening. Biden must drive out turnout compared to four years around philadelphia and pittsburgh when and in northeast pennsylvania and cut into the president s advantages in rural republican parts of the state. Even bringing lady gaga along. Running mate Kamala Harris worked the eastern side and blasted the president continuing to raise doubts against the integrity of the election system. Hes trying to run from the fact he has no record. Reporter incorrectly completed mailed in plots stood in frigid lines to make corrections. I love my state but its gotten ugly. I just found out it was rejected on friday. So that doesnt give a lot of time to people. Reporter biden also campaigned in ohio today where the race is tied. The campaign thinks its within reach. He slammed the president for suggesting he might fire dr. Anthony fauci after he said the u. S. Was unprepared for a tough covid winter. Elect me, im going to hire dr. Fauci. Im going to fire donald trump. Reporter mr. Trump can only sideline dr. Fauci who is a career Public Servant but that didnt stop him from discussing it. Dont tell anybody but let me wait until a little bit after the election. Reporter former president barack obama was also back on the trail helping to turn georgia blue for the first time in over two decades. You can be a state that sends joe biden and Kamala Harris to the white house. Reporter in yet another sign of how focused they are in pennsylvania, biden is going back tomorrow to scranton and philadelphia. Kamala harris plans to visit the detroit. Thats the biden teams top target. Norah. Odonnell looking forward to tomorrow night. Tonight, President Trump is closing out the race with a frenzy finishing kick, including those five rallies with the president trailing on the states hes talking about taking the fight off the campaign trail and into a court of law. Here is cbss weijia jiang. Reporter President Trump made his eighth visit to pennsylvania in the last seven days, knowing that a loss here would make his past to re election almost impossible. He lashed out on joe biden just outside of bidens home town of scranton. But this guy is a stone cold phony. And honestly hes not equipped mentally to be your president. Reporter still, mr. Trump acknowledged the former Vice President is beating him in several polls, including in pennsylvania. I have foreign leaders calling me saying are they serious. One of them said i see that youre down a little bit in the poll. I said could you believe this could happen to me. Reporter mr. Trump is relying on working class and suburban voters to turn out like they did four years ago. But biden has siphoned off some support. The president denied a report that hes going to declare victory tomorrow night if hes ahead. But with mailin ballots in pennsylvania counted up to three days after election day, the president promised a legal fight. As soon as the elections over were going in with our lawyers. Reporter Texas Republicans hope to have 127,000 drive through ballots in the houston area tossed out, but that was rejected by a gopled court. And the San Antonio Branch of the f. B. I. Is investigating a protrump convoy with the biden bus on the highway. Hello. Reporter with two stops in michigan today and the poll ing cbs reports the trumprump campaign is counting on its counting on its ground game to turn the tide. Theres a push by the republicans to get the vote out especially here in texas Macomb County which the last four elections including 2016 for donald trump. Im seeing just overwhelming support. I really dont think its going to be that close. Reporter President Trump plans to spend Election Night right here at the white house with a party of 400 guests invited. Washington, d. C. Prohibits gathering of more than 50 people in doors but this is federal property so the crowd size is up to the administration. Norah. Odonnell so weijia 400 people inside, are they requiring masks. Reporter we know those close to the president will receive tests but so far no answer on whether masks will be required. We can report, though, that last time there was a big event here outside on the south lawn, masks were required. Norah. Odonnell weijia jiang at the white house. Thank you. With the race coming down to a handful of closely fought states three voting groups could hold the key black, latino and younger voters. Our correspondents reports with the battle in the Battle Ground to win them over with three pivotal states. We start off in pennsylvania. Reporter im Jericka Duncan in north philadelphia where non partisan volunteers are canvassing this mostly African American neighborhood in a last minute effort to get out the vote. It helps to have somebody who looks like they can come and explain. Reporter in 2016 then candidate donald trump won pennsylvania by roughly 44,000 votes. Turnout for black oters statewide for Hillary Clinton was nearly seven points lower than expected. If you can get one out of every hundred people that you talk to would turn out turns out to vote thats definitely. Reporter im Manuel Bojorquez in florida where nearly 60 of registered voters in Miamidade County are latino. Like first time voter, a cuban american voting for President Trump. Its going to do like a better job like the economy. Reporter daniel muniz is cuban american. Im republican but im going to vote for biden. Reporter really . Yes. Reporter why is that . I do not like the president. Reporter republicans led the nty in in early votes until this early votes until this weekend when democrats caught up mak weekend, when democrats caught up, making the state even harder to predict, more than 20 of early and mailin ballots statewide came from independents. Reporter im jaime yuccas just outside phoenix. This is my first time voting. Reporter . Where both campaigns are targeting young voters who are turning out big time. Nearly 300,000 have voted already. Thats up nearly 80 compared to 2016. What are the issues to them that are most important. Its a variety from immigration to the environment. Reporter issues both Young Democrats and republicans share as priorities. We like to say we have the rational sane approach to these issues as opposed to the radical approach. Reporter its the youth vote and latino voters who are making arizona a battleground state for the first time. Norah. Odonnell jamie yuccas, thank you. The race is for 270 electoral votes. Cbs Major Garrett is joining us here. Major, the president had a good night in 2016 and hes going to defend those states again tomorrow. Explain. Reporter welcome to the what if. This is what the country looked like in 2016. The scenarios are not our scenarios they are the campaign scenarios. Theyre working on every hour as election draws ever nearer. Both campaigns agree for every legal reasons, pennsylvania will take a while to be tabulated. So for the sake of this experience, lets put pennsylvania for Election Night in the toss up category. The president s still got plenty of room 286 hes fine. But the polls as we just mentioned in wisconsin and michigan have been trending toward biden and the Trump Campaign knows they have to close faster. Lets put wisconsin and michigan to the biden count to 58. Close but still no clear winner. So the former Vice President has to eat into the trump somewhere down here. Lets look at georgia. Put that in the biden camp. 274. Take that out put that in the trump. How about North Carolina. Back to biden. Lets look the those 29 electoral votes in florida put in biden camp. Those are different ways if the Biden Campaign cannot crack through here even if its wish and wisconsin it will have to wait for pennsylvania. Odonnell and so what are you going to be looking for early in the night . Reporter early in the night North Carolina, georgia and florida all count their ballots rapidly. Well have good results from there. If youre looking on Election Night what are the trend lines to follow. Keep a very close eye on florida, georgia, North Carolina and weve just explained why. Odonnell the reason why everybody should join us tomorrow night at 6 30. Many of those states close at 7 00 so well have early results results comthem. Major garrett thank you so much. Tonight, a Senior Defense official tells cbs news theres no evidence that a foreign adversary has gained access to our election infrastructure and has no ability to change the outcome. Today news fencing went up around the white house complex and security is being tightened in concern of unrest after the election. We have more from cbs jeff pegues. Reporter today in new york city, the Police Department is putting businesses on alert as stores there and around the country board up as a precaution. One day to go political engines were made high in houston they have the Democratic Party headquarters. The window with words election no revolution yes. In Beverly Hills over the weekend. Efforts in counterprotests in the streets exists. The city chief is warned about electionmotivated violence. Today he told us the election is working 12 hour shifts with no days off. Basicially what we are doing is preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. Reporter in recent weeks the f. B. I. Say members are allegedly planning attacks. Starting tomorrow officials will be monitoring events across the country from a command center at f. B. I. Headquarters. Washington, d. C. Is likely to get extra attention. Are you anticipating violence. City officials are bracing for protests over the next several days. We certainly want to make sure those protests are peaceful and any type of violence will not be tolerated here in the district. Reporter we are seeing fortresses of plywood around d. C. As a precaution. There are no specific threats of violence. Even so, businesses around here arent taking any chances after a summer of unrest. Norah. Odonnell jeff pegues, thank you. In the run up to the election week, a nationwide surge in the coronavirus, new cases and hospitalizations are up in more than 40 states. Weve now passed 9. 2 million cases in the u. S. And more than 231,000 americans have died. Cbs adriana diaz now from wisconsin. Reporter tonight wisconsin is facing one of the biggest covid 19 surges in the country. A third of test results are coming back positive. Its been exhausting to say the least. Reporter jodie gord is a nurse manager in milwaukee. Cases are up 40 since we visited theory two weeks ago. Gord created a zen route to battle burnout. I see the look in their eyes and see the tears rolling down their cheeks. I see an exhausted group. Reporter late today the American Academy of pediatrics announced that the number of children contracting covid 19 has soared to unprecedented levels. Nearly 200,000 new cases in the month of october. Meanwhile the c. D. C. Study finds pregnant women with covid are higher risk for severe illness, death and delivering pre term. Health Officials Say the impact on infants is still unknown. 16 states with single day records for new coronavirus cases over the weekend. Despite the nationwide increase in infections, the c. D. C. Says voters who are sick or quarantining can still go to the polls on election day as long as they take proper precautions, wearing a masks, social distancing and telling poll workers about their condition. There are new rules for travelers going to new york. Starting wednesday, the state will require visitors from non neighboring states will be tested before and after they arrive. This comes as Massachusetts Governor reintroduces a strict curfew. The cases in wisconsin at Testing Centers like this one in kenosha. They closed an hour andahalf today after finishing the allotment of 750 tests. A county official told you its been like this for weeks. Norah. Odonnell how is there still a shortage of tests . Adriana diaz, thank you. Theres much more news ahead on tonights cbs evening news. A terror attack on the streets of austria, and a deadly gun battle tonight as some of the attackers are still on the loose. Still on the loose. Odonnell breaking overseas tonight, a terror attack in the austrian capital of vienna. At least one is dead and 15 wounded and several attackers are on the run. Here is cbss charlie dagata. Reporter heavy gunfire rang out on the streets of vienna in what the austrian chancellor called a repulsive terror attack, a coordinated assault by multiple assailants not far from the citys main synagogue. Six different locations. Cell phone footage captured what appeared to be a gunman shooting a victim at point blank range. Another showed a similarly dressed alleged attacker walking below and opening fire. With suspected active shooters still on the run. Antiterrorist squads launched a large scale security operation. Police ordered people to stay in inside, avoid open squares and public transportation. All of europe has been on high alert after a series of terror attacks in france. Charlie dagata, cbs news, london. Odonnell all right. Coming up next, thoughts on an election like no other, and how were reporting it. It. Odonnell and now a note about tomorrow. America is electing a president for the 59th time. And in the words of eleanor roosevelt, this is no ordinary time. Were in the middle of a pandemic that has caused hundreds of thousands of people their lives and millions their jobs. In spite of that and perhaps ple are of that, people are voting in record numbers. As the votes are counted tomorrow night, we here at cbs news will bring you news we can trust. Well tell you what we know and what we dont know. Well project winners the minute were sure and not a second before. We vow not to rush this most important act of democracy. Thats how important your vote is, because in the end, its america that decides. And well be right back. Ht back. Odonnell tune in tomorrow night at 6 30 eastern, 3 30 pacific for cbs news 2020 america decides. Our Election Night coverage will begin right here with a special cbs evening news live across the country. Well be joined by our Powerhouse Political Team and our correspondents as every vote is counted. That is tonights edition of the cbs evening news. Im Norah Odonnell at cbs news election headquarters here in new york. Hope you were able to vote safely. Well see you right back here tomorrow. Thanks for staying with us. It is election day 2020 and after the months of primaries and conventions, debates and political rallies, americans get to chart the course of the nation for the next four years. This is considered by many to be the most contentious president ial campaign in modern history. And theres a good chance a winner will not be announced by the time you go to sleep tonight. If so, it wont be the first time. Chief washington correspondent Major Garrett has your overnight news history lesson. Reporter father knows best and the gary moore show will not be seen tonight as cbs news brings you its nationwide election coverage. Reporter Election Night. One of the few remaining events when the entire nation gathers around the electronic campfire interrupting, ohio falls for bill clinton. Reporter to learn the nations political future together. We could be in for a long night. Reporter whether the winner is expected president nixon has been reelected. Reporter or expectations are upended. The word there is Hillary Clinton has called donald trump to concede. Reporter we watch because we are part of it. This president ial race is still not decided. This is bigger than the super bowl, bigger than the world series. Reporter president ial historian doris kerns goodwin. You may get caught up in the drama of the other sporting events, but we are participants. Were not spectators in this. The big Election Night 1952. Reporter 1952 set a new television age. Cbs pulled out all the technological stops. Before the space age was a wellknown term, cbs introduced remington brands vak. Its an experiment. We think its going to work. Reporter it predicted the nights winner, general dwight d. Eisenhower. Speaking that night before, add lee stevenson, resoundedly defeated, gave the first nationally televised concession speech in american history. It is american to fight hard for an election. It is equally traditional to close rent as soon as the people ha
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