Country. Americans hear from judge Amy Coney Barrett. The terrified runin that a jogger had with this Mountain Lion we speak with the man live tonight. Announcer live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the news with Shepard Smith. Early voting happening at this moment in 46 states voter turnout turns to be rec d recordshattering. Take a look at these lines in texas. Some people report they had to wait for hours joe biden spent the day in florida with a focus on Senior Citizens and black voters. Right now President Trump is set to speak at a Campaign Rally in johnstown, pennsylvania. Its aen airport rally, where le flying in, speaking and flying out in air force one. We have never seen numbers like in. In texas early voting comes on the heels of a federal Appeals Court ruling just yesterday that the state can limit counties to just one dropoff spot what does that mean . Look at Harris County. 26 states have a smaller population than the county, yet Harris County has one dropbox its at the arena where the Houston Texans play football Priscilla Thompson is in houston. Day one there, and hows it going . Reporter well, it has been a recordbreaking day here, shep more than 117,000 people have passed ballots in Harris County, a record for any period of early voting in the countys history as you can see, that voting is still going on you take a look over here, you can see that drivein voting is still under way here folks are able to pull in and cast their ballot electronically then, you know, head on their way without ever having to get out of their car you know, polls are closing in less than an hour, so things are beginning to wind down here, but you mentioned the absentee ballot dropoff location, this is it. This is the one place in the county where folks can drop off the absentee ballots theres been a steady stream of folks here today were just under an hour until polls closed its slowed down a bit, but one of the key issues here will be in the coming weeks whenever folks the timeline is too tight to mail in the ballots is this site going to become overwhelmed with people trying to drop them off in person now georgia, early voters casting again a Record Number of ballots. They did it after waiting many hours. According to georgias secretary of state, more than 126,000 people voted in person early on monday thats a 41 increase over the first day back in 2016 local conch, wxias hope ford is just outside atlanta hi, hope reporter people in this line have been waiting for about two hours to vote, which is short in comparison to some of the wait times we have seen both yesterday and today. The polls actually just closed that means they people will get a chance to vote, but people who are still showing up, they will have to come back tomorrow we have seen continuously throughout georgia, the long wait times today people became more prepared this time they had chairs, books, unbrillas. People in a neighboring county started lining up at 4 00 a. M. To have a chance to vote weve still had technical issues today that we saw also yesterday as well. We actually also found out that people have been cancelling their absentee ballots to show up to vote in person, because they dont trust the mailin process here in georgia. We just found out, talking to the elections director in gwinnett county, where we are right now, just a few minutes ago, and they told us they will add more ballot marking stations to help alleviate some of these wait times the wait time got up to eight hours hope ford with some technical issues in georgia. Today is the last day to register to vote in virginia somebody cut a cable this morning, which sudden down some state sites. By that time people were complaining. Theres nothing in the statute to allow for that. Again, this is all new and confusing like everything covid. Confusing and sometimes overwhelming report number of voters are trying to cast their ballots, or in some way participate early. Lots of questions. Can the system handle . Are there efforts to get in the way . Will voters trust the outcome . Lets turn to larry sabado professor, good to see you, and thank you. Thank you, shep. A cut cable in virginia, misprinted ballots, wrong names, wrong addresses. Not everywhere, but there have been glitches. Can the system handle this were going to find out some days i dont think so, like virginia, with the cut cable, for all of the days for the system to shut down, the last day to register to vote. It makes you wonder, are these things really accidents . Or as many people have emailed me today, were they intentional in some fashion . I dont think they were intentional, but, you know, shep, this is because first of all the system want built to handle maybe half the vote cast ahead of election day. Its also partly a result of part sans that certain voting measures favor them and they want to minimize the methods that dont that leads to voter suppression. Help the viewers understand the facts about whats happening in texas and georgia. Lets take texas, for example. I try to be as kind as i can be, but ive got to say the decision by Governor Abbott by texas to limit the vote dropoff boxes to one per county, when some counties have very little population, and Harris County has millions of people, as you mentioned. One drop box for votes isnt it obvious Harris County, houston, is a democratic area. It will produce a big margin for democrats, assuming people are actually able to vote. So youre talking voter suppression. Absolutely that is voter suppression. Nobody is going to prove otherwise. That is voter suppression, underlined ten times. Given all that testify we have heard, what should voters expect on Election Night given that a good piece of the voting will be done ahead of time but cant be opened in many states until the polls close at 7 00 p. M. Or 8 00 p. M. , or whenever they close locally, youre going to have to have all of those paper ballots first taken out of the envelopes in some states others have already done it, but count it, sent through a machine maybe partisans will want to doublecheck theres no way to do it quickly. Hundreds of thousands, millions and millions across the country. So people who want an Election Night need to remember if theres not a landslide, then youre talking about election week lets just all pray it doesnt go beyond a week. In absence of a landslide, as you put it, what are your concerns about how candidates may react . Im very concerned, particularly, to be honest, about President Trump at the national level, and some state candidates who are going to take the voting day, november 3rd voting, which will probably be released first in most states, and use that to claim victory when in fact the election day vote is going to be very substantially republican the preelection vote is going to be very substantial democratic, but it wont all be counted until the next day or later in the week. So if youre a republican candidate or youre President Trump, you go out there and declare victory, then your supporters will think that any attempt to count the other votes and to make the election go the other way is voter fraud, which is ma larky, but we all know that people are gullible professor sabato from uva, thank you. Thank you, shep. The plot to kidnap the governor of michigan thickens. Brand new today, the fbi says some of the same paramilitary groups also considered absubjecting the governor of virginia, Ralph Northham an fib agent today testified about the suspects discussed taking the governors because of their lockdown orders. The men discussed inciting a civil war with the governor of michigan some were back in april at protests which heavily armed protesters stormed the capitaling President Trump tweeted liberate michigan and liberate virginia today governor northham said rhetoric like that said this language has to stop people find means in these words, and thus these things happen, and thats regrettable. Tom winter now shep, that plot to kidnap the governor of virginia, ralph nor northam, was there at the hearing. If they can somehow keep them in jail, in custody pending this trial. We got new details about how this investigation started to unravel, specifically the june 6th meeting, which is one of these key meetings that the fbi says they were able to survey, that happened in dublin, ohio, northwest of columbus, a Nice Community there, where people, according to the fbi agent who testified today, from four or five different states. Came together to talk about these plots, talk about covid19 restrictions, their kefrs and really their anger they had toward the decisions made by governors in several states. They talked about the plot, about encryption apps, using code names, change different apps, thinking they would outsmart the fbi, which according to the testimony, had a confidential informant in their discussions. Movement today on the Relief Bill Congress has tried for months parent to get something down now the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says hes planning a vote on a stimulus bill this month. He says the plan is to include started relief for american workers, thats a quote, and new funding for Small Business loans. Thats through the Paycheck Protection Program or ppp. Mitch mcconnell says hell have enough time to do that and confirm judge barrett. Democrats, of course, could dismiss this proposal as not enough for people who need help. Right now frankly theres no bill to see, and democrats havent commented on the record. Covid watch now. Two setbacks today, one on the antibody front, the other in the race for a vaccine there was the adverse event. An unexplained illness causing a key Coronavirus Vaccine trial to pause what this means for the battle against covid19. We cannot let ourselves remain divided. We are more successful than ever before. President trump in pennsylvania, joe biden in florida. What is the status of the race just three weeks to the vote living through heron delta in her own words. Unbelievable, but we will rebuild. 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The United States is averaging nearly 50,000 new cases every day over the past week that is the highest in nearly two months, according to johns hopkins. Right now 41 states are reporting an increase. The states here in red are getting hid the harders. Ohio showing a spike in new cases, and today ohios governor warned we could have a tough winter ahead with more people moving indoors dr. Anthony fauci said the same thing when we spoke last night. We have a baseline of infections now that vary between 40,000 and 50,000 a day. Thats a bad place to be when youre going into the cooler weather of the fall and Colder Weather of the winter. Dr. Fauci said continue to follow the guidelines so we can, as he said, turn this around. Johnson johnson paused a vaccine trial. It says one of the volunteers has an unexplained illness. And eli lilly this afternoon paused, citing safety concerns meg tirrell, should people be concerned about these governments . Hi, shep. Weve gotten very limited information right now, but experts say based on what we do know, even though theyre moving at record paces, these pauses show that the system is actually putting the right safety checks in place lets start with eli lilly we just got that information this afternoon theyre developing antibody trucks to treat covid19 that was the same approach to use to treat the president , though that drug was made by regeneron. It says its an abundance of caution to assure the safety of the patients in the trial. Last night Johnson Johnson confirmed it temporarily paused covid in the vaccine trials because of an unexplained illness in a participant we have no more details yesterday either, but dr. Eric topol said theres yet no reason for concern. This means the system is working, independent safety and monitoring boards are reviewing the data, getting the facts together, and its expected. Every large Clinical Trial once into these once at one point or another pretty much. Reporter he also said its crucial for public trust that the companies by transparent. Meg tirrell, thanks. Remember, hospitalizations are a lagging indicator, right new today the number of people ending up in a hospital increased in 42 states for context we turn to dr. Esther chu, from Oregon Health and sciences university. Thank you. Nice to be here, shep. Doctor, cases are spiking, hospitalizations are up. Are hospitals and medical professional prepared for the surge. Can the system handle it well, theres going to be a business of an unknown factor here, but we have good news, and then maybe concerning news the good news is we prepared all spring preparing for this. There were some projections that had us ways over baseline capacity, so we spent much of the spring and realizy summer building in extra capacity s transforming our spaces so we can accommodate many more people and creating protocols and procedures so we were equipped to handle all kinds of surge in patients, while also keeping staff and patients safe from contracting the disease. Were in a totally different situation than in the fall, in that weve invested a lot of time and resources to be prepared for almost anything i think the issue is were headed into covid colliding with influenza, and we cant estimate how much that collision will cost us. There are some indications from south america that all the masks and all the hand warhandw has made the influenza better. Youre right. They things like social distancing, face mask wearing, extra hand washing, those things will affect any virus. So its possible well see different epidemiologic patterns this year. Its way too early to tell, and of course all these things depend on people actually doing these things, and in places where people are not as careful for covid, i think there would not be much of a chance where it can curb flu. Some in the pacific northwest, some in other areas, in those areas, with the a combination of flu and the surge all of your colleagues are predicting, are you concerned about the ability to handle things there we are concerned everywhere you know, some of the things ive mentioned we have taken care of. A lot of protocols, policies and plans for surge, but i will tell you there were some fixed resources we havent managed to make a dent in things like personal protective equipment. We have not stopped running out of it. Youre still running out of ppp. You dont have enough masks, gowns, you dont have enough for hospital workers, even still we are still reusing and rereusing things that are normally singleuse items like n95 masks. Why why isnt there enough for our doctors and nurses its the big question part of it is that they supply chains are very complicated and cannot be ramped up quickly. Part of it is we havent mobilized existing resources by invoking the defense production act. Part of it is theres worldwide demand since in epidemic has affected everybody, but all these many have not solved the problem. So theres not enough, and if we dont want to have a surge, putting people at risk, weve got to do our stuff, wear our stuff and wash our hands is that the bottom line . Thats the bottom line. The only thing to allow Health Systems to function well and give the sickest of people the best care, to do as much as we can upstream to limit the number of people who come to us avoiding large indoor gatherings, these have never been more crucial. Dr. Esther choo, thank you very much. In china they have tested more than 3 Million People in one city, a port city south of beijing. Out of more than 1 million tests returned, zero have come back positive thats the report from qingdaos department but beijing says six cases were found over the past day. Other places, covid is gripping europe hear this. More than 566,000 cases confirmed over the past week in europe alone that is close to a 50 increase from the previous week fall surge anyone . Despite the lockdowns, the eu is trying to establish red, orange and greens zones in green zones where the infections are low, trabl wont be as restrictive. In orange and red zones, tighter restrictions will remain in place. Heres nbcs matt bradley in paris on how europe is handling all of this. Yeah, shep, here in france, the Prime Minister said the second wave is here. France say a threemonth high in the number of icu patients with covid. The head of the Health Service said as early as next week, 90 of icu beds could be occupied with covid patients. Thats why authorities are considering a nighttime curfew that decision could come as early as tomorrow. Now, in britain across the channel, 143 people died from covid in the was 48 hours. Thats a fourmonth high that comes as 17,000 new cases were just reported today in italy, pickup games among friends ba