Capacity to handle another influx. New restrictions and even curfews enforced to stop the spread. Just ahead, we will talk to a member of the Governments Task force ahead. Overnight, violent protests. The National Guard now being deployed to philadelphia after a second night of unrest over a fatal police shooting. The mans family pleading for calm. We are supposed to be united and not divided. I hope that people show my family and this city some kind of respect. The very latest ahead. In the cross heirs again, and the gulf coast is in the direct path as zeta strengthens again. Those stories and plus, the wait is over. And they have won it in 2020. The long dods angeles dodger won their first world series in 22 years. A celebration that came with a very 2020 twist. Today, october 28th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news this is the today show with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning and good to have you along with us. Can you hear them in l. A. Still celebrating. And in your house, your fiancee, joel a fan of the dodgers. Yes, the franchises first world series since 1988, and i mean, there were so many tears flowing after the celebration, and we will get into all of that. When you have waited that long and it is so special and we will have more on that in a little bit. Yes, we will have more on that and hurricane zeta is intensifying and heading to the gulf coast, and we will give you an update on the conditions and new orleans, one of the cities in the path, and that is looking like lake pontchartrain in the hurricanes path. They dont need anymore. And now, six days to go and the story seems to be the record shattering early voting, and nearly 70 million ballots have already been cast and that is more than half of the entire total of voting in 2016. Another big headline the push from the battlegrounds and President Trump is going to be on the campaign trail today while Vice President joe biden is going to be in Broward County and tampa. We have more on the story with White House Correspondent peter alexander. Good morning, peter. Yes, joe biden is going to be briefed by Public Health experts who he says is going to guide his public response if elected. And he is looking to guide his expanse to victory, and the president insists that the pandemic crisis is nearing the end even though it is growing bigger. Reporter the president is stumping overnight in nebraska. You better get me omaha. Reporter and the state traditionally votes republican, but one of the state es seats up for grabs. Reporter and the Vice President is taking a democratic tour in georgia. And the state has not been republican since 1992. And if we win georgia, we will win everything, and while the Vice President unleashed everything, the president unleashed a battleground blitz. I have to say i am working my ass off. Reporter and holding rallies in michigan and wisconsin and states where he won in 2016, but where widen is winning in the polls, he is looking for lancing. I am getting to your husbands, because they want to get back to work. We are getting your husbands back to work. Reporter and on in the pandemic in wisconsin where he once again repeated this false claim. We are rounding this racetrack, and like this is perfect. We are rounding the curve, and we will vanquish the virus reporter and later talking about how the pandemic is covered. And you know the fake newsi s covering covid, covid, covid, and excuse me, i am here. Reporter and former president obama mocking him. He said it in one of the rallies covid, covid, covid, and he is jealous of covids media coverage. Reporter and the Vice President is saying he is conceding defeat to the virus. He is waving the white flag, but the American People dont give up, and neither will i. And peter another key battleground that both candidates are battling for hard and that is arizona. Savannah, the desert could be traditionally a republican state, but 11 electoral votes up for grabs. Some polls show ta biden is the lead there, but most have moved it from lean to tossup, and this is why the president is going to be there for a couple of rallies and Kamala Harris is going to head there for a rally in tucson and phoenix. And there is also a hotly contested Senate Battle to help the Democrats Gain the senate, savannah. Thank you very much. And now, there is subject without evidence that there is widespread voter fraud, but there are teams in place across the country to make sure that the voters and their ballots will be safe and secure. Nbcs tom costello is joining us from maryland where the early voting started this morning. Hey, tom, good morning. Hoda, good morning. We are in gaithersburg, maryland, where they started to vote, and at 6 00 a. M. , they started to line up around the building and down the block, and started to process the first surge of people, and no problem here. Very peaceful, but in some areas of the country, we are seeing the people showing up with flags and honking and yelling and screaming and some people showing up with guns. Is that voter intimidation . We talked to the Police Chiefs across the country, and they say they wont stand for any intimidation. Reporter in the final days before the election, President Trump is, again, raising suspicions about the integrity of the vote. These ballots are turning out exactly what i said, who is sending them . Where are they going . Who is sending them back. Reporter with nearly 70 million early votes already cast, the president is calling for the winner to be declared quickly. It would be very, very proper and nice if a winner were declared on november 3rd instead of counting ballots for two weeks which is totally inappropriate. Reporter in fact, because of the pandemic, and the increase in mailin voting, the results could be delayed and many states by law are given weeks to officially count the results. The president is also calling on his supporters to act as, quote, poll watchers on the election day. Be very vigilant and watch, and be poll watchers and watch. Reporter putting a spotlight on the crucial spotlight of pennsylvania and the largest democratic stronghold. We are watching you philadelphia and watching at the highest level. Reporter and philadelphias d. A. Says that is amounting to voter intimidation which he says they will not tolerate from either the left or the right. And raising concerns that the president s words may incite militia groups to turn up. We dont have private armies in the United States, and you do not get to be a militia just because you say so. Reporter while the laws are varying state by state, the poll watchers must be registered and not allowed to intimidate voters. In michigan where the militia members were charged in an alleged plot to kidnap the governor, a judge struck down the directive to ban the open carry within 100 feet of voting locations. Next door in the battleground state of wisconsin, the Green Bay Police chief says they are ready for next week with the plans to have officers in plain clothes near polling places in case there is any effort to disrupt the process. I want the people to know in green bay like any other election, but in this one, we will be much more aware of what is happening. Reporter one other note here, if you still have an absentee ballot and have not mailed it in, experts say dont wait and dont bank on the mail any longer, and physically take it to the county drop box and put it in the box yourself, and that way, you know for sure that your ballot has arrived on time, and that it is going to be counted. The mail at this point really it is iffy. Hoda, back to you. Thank you, and good advice from tom costello in gaithersburg. Good morning, craig. More advice on the coronavirus . Yes, the United States is not just breaking record when it comes todayly covid cases, but we are seeing more hospitalizations than ever before. The situation is growing so dire in one texas town an emergency Field Hospital has been set up there. And we will talk about where things stand with a member of the nations Coronavirus Task force in a moment, but first, nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is in texas. He is in el paso for us this morning. Gabe, good morning to you. Craig, good morning. We are overlooking the University Medical center here in el paso, and of course, you will remember the headlines in new york more than six months ago, and this is starting to look a little bit like this, and the emergency Field Hospitals, and elsewhere, the makeshift morgues and seemingly no orelie in sight. Reporter the medical hospitals in el paso are full, and so medical tents are set up outside to treat the covid patients. A Childrens Hospital was offering beds for the overflow, and the citys Convention Center is now a Field Hospital. This is not new york. It is texas. We are at a critical situation at this point in time. Reporter the county judge here has imposed an overnight curfew. And the provisions of the stay at home order that you can get. Reporter across the country 36 states have seen a rise in the hospitalized patients in the last week. Most of us are very paranoid about this winter. You have covid and flu. Plus the normal emergencies that we always see, and we just dont have the capacity to handle another influx. Reporter rising cases in chicago are forcing new restrictions starting friday, no indoor dine dg or bar service. 1 in 250 chicagoans have been infected and diagnosed with covid just within the last three weeks. Reporter in wisconsin leah lundburg was diagnosed with covid, but she has lingering symptoms. I would have taken it more serious if i had known how serious it is. Reporter the u. S. Is averaging 70,000 new cases everyday and here in el paso hospitalizations up 300 . This doctor runs a clinic for migrants and low Income Patients and he is seeing is almost 200 a day, and almost half is covid positive. There is fear amongst my patients and i had a woman 76 years old having an asthma attack and worried about being infected with covid and you could hear the fear. Reporter here outside of the Medical Center in el paso, these tents are set up to alleviate the pressure on the health care system, and the doctor says he is seeing a 73 increase in the cases, and he and others here are bracing for the worst, savannah. Thank you. And we are joined by admiral brett girard, and a member of the administrationss task force, and admiral, it is good to see you. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you for having me on again. We have laid out the situation in the country where the cases are on the rise in almost all of the case, and how disturbed are you by what we are seeing and how serious is this . Well, thank you for asking that, and the leadin is very good and as we saw in memorial day, we are at a good case in the Pandemic Response and the cases are going up in states across the country, and the hospitalizations are up, although, we are tense of thousands of hospitalizations where we were in july, but it is rising, and we are starting to see the increase in deaths, but i want to emphasize that as we did in the sun belt, and as we did in the deep south, we can control the virus, and we know how to do that and smart policies and very critical to wear a mask when you cant physically distance and avoid the crowds like the crowded indoor spaces and wash your hands and we have more like these binax tests sent out to states to identify those who are symptomatic or asymptomatic taking the tests, and we had a doc meeting late into the night last night and we have the tools to combat this, and control it, but it is an important time to do it. You said yesterday in the interview that the situation is ten yu wouous and that word stre are you worried that we are in a precipice where if we do the right things we can stave off the disaster, buting at a very,y dark period of time in this country coming up . Well, i was not an english major, but tenuous seems like a right word, savannah. And we can control this, and by smart tasks by wearing the face masks and avoiding crowds and stay i staying safe in the holidays and avoiding draconian measures so that we can control it by making changes because the virus is acting on its own. And are you frustrated . Because the administration and the doctors are all singing one tune which wear a mask, and wear a mask, and there are mixed messages coming from the top from the president , and there is not any doubt about that, and does it frustrate you . Look, i have a job to do, and like the other docs, and we will try to give the american the best evidence tossable. Americans have done a great job. Mask wearing is up across the country, and the americans are listening, and what i want to emphasize is that we will have a vaccine. We will have a safe and effective vaccine, and it may be this month or next month or in december, and this is not going to go on forever, and the vaccine is going to end the virus pandemic, but until that time, we have to do what we can do and that is the simple mitigation measures, wearing a mask and avoiding crowds indoors and washing hands and increased testing. We are only using onethird of the nations Testing Capacity and we have to test more people especially in the outbreak areas, and we have surged to eight different cities now, and the surge federal sites and two started last week, and six starting this week, and six next week to surge in the testing and sometimes doortodoor, and if we do this, we can defeat the virus. And can i ask about that because the president said that the cases are up, because we test, test, test, and fake news conspiracy, and you are saying it is not a function of doing more test, and this is real cases and serious surge that we are seeing is and how do you know that it is not just because you are doing more testing well, two points. Compared to march and april, and march and april are looking like lower cases than we have now, and that is probably false, because the testing was not sufficient to detect all of the case, but between july, august, september, october and now, and we believe and the data show that the cases are going up, and it is not just a function of the testing, and yes, we are getting more case identified, but the cases are going up, and we know that, too, because the hospitalizations are going up. The peak was in the 70,000s in july and we are at 40, 43,000 now, and so those are going up and it is real, and the deaths are increasing unfortunately. So we do assess that the cases are actually going up, and they are real because the hospitalizations and the deaths are starting to go up, and again, we can reverse that. I want everybody to know that nobody is wearing the, waving the white flag. The American People can make a difference, and you have done a great job, and the americans have defeated this before in july and august and we have to do the same thing now, and because as you said, we are entering the winter period, and to come indoors and slow down small gatherings before we get the safe and the effective vaccine and it is around the corner, and maybe not this month o next, but we are going to manufacture millions of doses as soon as it is deemed effective and it is critical. We appreciate your time, and thank you very much. Thank you. And we are going to get to a hurricane that is bearing down on the gulf coast. And al has the latest. Yes, and zeta is back to category 1, and 8085 miles per hour, and at 17 hurricane warnings where youd expect around the central gulf and new orleans. And look at how far inland that warning is extended. By this afternoon at noon, this may qualify as rapid intensification and getting to category 2 storm may make landfall between 3 00 and 6 00 and moving into the Midatlantic States and strong winds causing Power Outages and heavy rain in the east, and cold air pulled in behind it friday and may bring snow and interior sections of new york, and upstate new york, and storm surge back in the gulf and 6 to 9 feet east of new orleans all of the way to the mississippi alabama border, and the winds are going to push in and some of them getting up gusts of 90 miles per hour, and that is going to lead to a lot of Power Outages especially in the Lower Mississippi river valley, and all of the way into the Midatlantic States and heavy rain, and locally up to 8 inches of rain from the gulf to the southern Mississippi River valley, and look at how widespread this rain is going to be up into the northeast, and we will get into your local forecast in the next 30 seconds. Good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. As we take a live look outside in san jose, a beautiful start to our wednesday morning but its also very chilly out there as weve started out with temperatures in the 50s, even some upper 40s as youre making your way out the door. Now were going to see our highs reaching into the low 70s for San Francisco with some upper 70s for san jose. A few spots will reach the low 80s today like ukiah and morgan hill. Concord today will see a high of 80 degrees. That is your latest weather. Guys, if zeta hits louisiana that is the fifth hitting hurricane for the folks in louisiana and it has been a horrible weather season for them. Wow. And now, Mark Zuckerberg is going to be facing questions on capitol hill. Has he done enough to protect users. And the dodgers have won the world series, and now a bizarre world series, and now a bizarre t