We have new, national and battleground state polls showing that it is a virtual tie. Take a look for yourself. Election is just 43 days away and stakes couldnt be higher. Lets begin our coverage and give you the numbers and the analysis and cnns Jason Carroll starting us off. He is live inside the debate hall. Yes, chris. And a lot of folks are wondering whats going to happen when these two candidates take the stage behind me. Two very different candidates who are preparing in very different ways. Lets take donald trump who has not been following the traditional route. Has not been holding mock debates. His advisors saying they dont want him to be overprepared for whats going to be happening later on. Instead, what hes been doing is going over some of the issues with his trusted advisors. Versus Hillary Clinton who has been following their traditional route. What shes been doing, she has been holding mock debates, in fact, having one of her longtime trusted advisors standing in as donald trump as she prepares. Even late last night, preparing for the debate thats to come ahead. Two very, very different styles. Both campaigns trying to manage expectations ahead of tonight. Im very concerned that donald trump will be graded on a curve. Just because he doesnt fly off the handle in the middle of this debate does not mean that he is prepared to be president of the United States. If mr. Trump has any disadvantage going into tomorrow nights debate, its that hes not really treated fairly and thats pretty obvious if you read many of the reports and turn on any station at any point in the day. So, the debate will last about 90 minutes. It will be broken into six 15minute segments. Clinton will be at the podium on stage left. Trump will be at the podium on stage right. 1,000 people expected to be right here in the hall. Up to 100 Million People expected to watch. Alisyn. Just huge numbers in terms of viewership. Thank you, jason. Lets look at some other important numbers right now. The latest polls show donald trump and Hillary Clinton locked in a virtual tie nationally. A new cnn poll of polls, thats the one that averages the last five national polls. Shows clinton with a razor thin lead. 43 to trumps 41 . New battleground state polls, as well. The allimportant swing states which has the race down to one point in two key states. Lets look at colorado. Trump edges out clinton among likely voters there. 4 2 to 41 . While clinton has a slight lead in pennsylvania over trump 45 to 44 . It couldnt be any tighter, chris. All right, joining us now with what we can expect from donald trump at tonights epic debate. Senior communication adviser for the Trump Campaign, jason miller. Jason, thank you for joining us before the big night. How is your candidate feeling . Hes feeling good going am to tonight. I think we have the momentum is on our side to see the new poll numbers out today showing that donald trump has support, momentum and particularly in the key battleground states and mr. Trump is in the lead and with regard to secretary clinton, i saw reports from showing that secretary clinton was polling something to brag about when youre getting ready for High School Football but heading into the biggest debate that our country has ever seen that that is something that you really want to be putting out there. What is wrong with preparation, jason . Ask you g trump doesnt want to study the issues and do mock debates . Why is going in there and winging it an advantage . Thats not the case, at all. Mr. Trump is going to be very prepared for this evening. But the key point to make about mr. Trump, he will go in there with the clarity and conviction of a candidate who knows exactly what his vision is and exactly how he wants to help the country. Hes going to go in there and essentially be himself. Shaerkt clint secretary clinton has a bigger figuring out what is going to help tonight. Thats why i think hes doing so well in the polls. And, obviously, the excitement is the volatility with trump, right . And what he wants taavoo avoid tonight is a moment like the fiorina one and you tell me why you dont think that will happen tonight. Ms. Fiorina, i want to ask you about this in an interview last week in Rolling Stone magazine. Look at that face, would anyone vote for that . Could you imagine that, the face of our next president. Mr. Trump later said he was talking about your persona and not your appearance. Please feel free to respond what you think about his persona. Its interesting to me mr. Trump said he heard mr. Bush very cloearly and what mr. Bush said. I think women across this country heard very clearly what mr. Trump said. I think shes got a beautiful face and i think shes a beautiful woman. What have you taught or what has he learned from that moment that will make him different tonight . I think what youre seeing tonight, mr. Trump will be very focused. I think he knows exactly what he wants to tell the american people. That is that hes ready to be commander in chief right now. Eight years of the country going in the wrong direction and mr. Trump has take on the better direction. I think youll see him remarkably focused for the evening. Is this the night . Do you think, we always talk about the hype in politics. I dont think there is any. I think this is the moment that this is Donald Trumps chance to stand across from Hillary Clinton and make the case he can be president of the United States. Do you see it as that big of a proposition tonight . To me its always important and mr. Trump is a gameday player and hell be ready for this evening. I take you back, lets look to the energy and momentum coming to this weekend. The poll numbers looking good for mr. Trump. We see these crowds and rallies and drawing tens of thousands of people and quite frankly, chris, the news from the clinton camp coming this weekend with cheryl new taking immunity and consultants who have taken and more before this next weekend. With mr. Trump, hes very focused and very clear and hell be ready to go for this evening. I think the burden is on secretary clinton. If the scandal, if thats what tonight is about. If its a scandal kind of measuring contest, you wont get to any of the issues because so many controversies with both of these candidates. Thats part of the trick for the moderator. One of the spin moves thats coming out of both sides is, hey, will there be Fact Checking tonight . I always thought that was the main job of the moderator. From the trump side, dont fact check, thats not what this is about. Why would you not want Fact Checking in a debate . I think what tonight is going to be about, how were going to get our economy back on track and keep our nation safe, again. Renegotiating the trade deals and stop illegal negotiation. Secretary clinton can present her vision and i think especially with upwards of 68 of the American Public think were going in the wrong direction. Theyll see mr. Trump is that agent of change and ready to take our country forward. Thats what i think were going to see tonight. Right. Thats what i understand you want to be discussing. When one of the candidates Say Something that is wrong or, obviously, nonfactual, why would you not want the moderator to be in the position to check that . We think that lester holt will be very fair this evening. There is some concern that things might be a little bit tougher for mr. Trump, just because so much blow back against nbc after the commander of chief a couple weeks ago. Mr. Trump will be ready and ready to make his case, defend his positions. I think hell do well. And when youre coming into tonight with the preparation, was there a moment where you were sitting with trump or watching him and saying, hes ready. Did you have a moment like that with him . There have been several of those moments. I mean, mr. Trump is really hitting his stride as a candidate right now. Were seeing it on the campaign trail. Quite frankly, were seeing it with the poll numbers that are great. Hes, hes going to be ready for this evening. You think this is the big moment . You said earlier when i asked you, well, debates always matter. Weve never seen anything like this. Hillary clinton has never been in a situation like this and never been in a general Election Debate before. Trump has never been in anything like this before. Do you think this will be the defining moment of this race . I think tonight will be important, like i said, chris, several debates that the candidates will be going through and six more weeks on the campaign trail. But the trend lines are really what matters here. Were seeing the crowds and were seeing the energy and the momentum and seeing that mr. Trump is a very focused candidate. Tonight will be important, but so will the other two debates and everything that happens for the final six weeks. But theres only one first, jason, and thats what were going to see tonight. Thank you for joining us on new day. Good luck tonight. Thanks, chris, appreciate it. Charlotte North Carolinas mayor lifting a midnight curfew as dash cam and body cam video of Keith Lamont Scott was release this weekend. Brynn gingras is live in charlotte with more. What have you learned . These two videos are what keith scotts family viewed before they went public and they dont provide many answers to the big question of was the shooting justified . Of course, that question the center of an ongoing investigation. Dont shoot him reporter Keith Lamont Scotts widow releasing cell phone video of her husbands final moments before he was fatally shot by a Charlotte Police officer. Drop the gun he doesnt have a gun. Reporter insisting that scott was not armed when officers opened fire. Keith, keith, keith dont you do it did you shoot him . Did you shoot him . Reporter under mounting pressure from the public, Charlotte Police releasing their own video a day later, including this dash cam footage showing an officer in plain clothes with his weapon drawn on scott. You can see scott exit his suv and begins walking backwards towards police. Then scott is shot at four times by officer Brently Vinson who is off camera at the time. Theres no definitive evidence in this video as to whether or not there is an object in his hand and, if there is, what that object is. Reporter also made public, body camera footage from an officer racing to the scene. In the chaos, you briefly see scott with his right arm by his side. Moments later, he is lying on the ground with five officers converging on him. None of the three videos show clearly whether scott was armed. You have to put all pieces together. We interviewed a lot of people. Weve interviewed all of our officer os invols involved and consistent themes were the facts. Reporter handgun, holster and marijuana cigarette that officers said they recovered from the scene. Demonstrators swarming bank of America Stadium sunday. Activists boycotting the nfl Carolina Panthers game in protest of scotts death. Reporter a sit in calling for the resignation of mayor and police chief has started last night until this inclement weather came through. We expect it to pick back up later this evening. Chris . Brynn, thank you very much. A lone suspect in the deadly shooting rampage at a Washington State mall expected to be arraigned today. The turkish immigrant is accused of killing five people last friday at a macys store at a mall in burlington, just north of seattle. Authorities say the 20yearold who has a criminal record was taken into custody after nearly 24hour manhunt. They say he has no ties to the victims. Theyre still digging for a motive in the attack. The king of golf is gone. Beloved golfing legend Arnold Palmer died sunday in pittsburgh. He was 87 years old. Palmer had millions of adoring fans and credited for making the sport a televised sport. His hall of fame career defined in part by his epic battles on the fairways with rival jack nicklaus. Extending condolences to palmers family. Thats a long life, long, full life. You know, truly Great American there. You know, of course, golf is still a country club sport, by and large, but arnes palmer and arnes army with his wood chopping stroke and allamerican appeal and working class roots. He really introduced something to that sport that made it so attractive on television. It wasnt much about him as it was about the event. I pay tribute to him at every lunch because i do enjoy an Arnold Palmer. He does have a drink named after him. Protests did extend into a sixth straight night over the Deadly Police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. Newly released dash and body cam video, as well as photos are not going to end the controversy. Was there a gun that police say, yes, you hear in the video a police saying gun, gun, gun. But did they need to shoot and kill . We debate, next. Ot to be ready. I mean, really ready. Are you ready to open . Ready to compete . Ready to welcome . The floors, mats, spotless. The uniforms clean and crisp. Do your people have the right safety gear . Are they protected . Im ready you think your customers cant tell the difference between whos ready and whos not . Of course they do. Everybody wants a piece of ready. For a sixth straight night charlotte protesters marched through the streets of North Carolina demanding justice for keith scotts death. Over the weekend, Charlotte Police released dash cam and body cam videos of the deadly encounter. Police say a gun was recovered at the scene. Joining us now, cnn political commentator and Law Enforcement trainer and former nypd officer joseph. I want to start with you. Police recovered a gun and they say the gun had keith scotts fingerprints on it. Does that change your thinking about this case . The police made that claim from the beginning. What i was hoping for was something more conclusive from the video. For over a week now, or nearly a week, once you see this video, all doubt will be erased. And all protesters will be put to shame. When i look at the video, i still dont see any conclusive video of him having the gun at the moment. I dont doubt there was some gun in the area. Did he have a gun when he was backing away from police . It is very disturbing when you watch the video. Lets take a look at, this is the dash cam video of one of the Police Cruisers that pulled up on the scene and its very upsetting and i just want to tell our viewers because right now there on the left side of your screen, that is mr. Scott getting out. He looks like hes complying. Hes walking very slowly backwards. And then hes shot. And you just see him fall there on the left side of your screen. Joe, what do you see . It looks like, again, to us, how is he a threat walking backwards there . The issue that comes down to here is that like mark said, we dont know if he has a gun or not. You cant see it. Its pretty obvious that we dont know. He closes the door with his hand, you know. The only way he would have it would be with his left hand. He was a righthanded man and maybe if we believe the police, he had a gun in his left hand. But, again, in his left hand walking backwards slowly, how does that pose a threat to them . The only way they can articulate that is if he had a method of escape. What do you see when you look at this video . A guy who is walking back and a Police Incident where they didnt isolate and contain him. Try to keep him within that circle. So, you see bad Police Protocol that they shouldnt have had him get out of the car and walk backwards towards them. The issue they come down to, they have to get him out of the car. You have to try to slow this thing down. Hes not listening to commands and the wife is shouting out things that are going on. For the police they get this tunnel vision. I counted 12 times where he says drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun. The issue that this comes down to, at least the crime scene photo of the gun and the evidence marker should have been released. This is a standard thing that happens in many cities, including new york city. Marc, police have released this evidence that they say was the gun. They took a picture of it and said there was a holster and they say his fingerprints were found on it and you do hear even in his wife cell phone video of them saying drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun. Why are you still skeptical there was a gun . I have these eyes that are committed to look for the gun and cant find it. I dont doubt there is a gun. If you look at charleston with walter scott, there was a gun, just wasnt walter scotts. Sometimes Police Officers place things on the scene afterwards. I should not say that police planted evidence, but it it is plausible. This man was backing out of a car and decided to pick up a weapon to get in a shootout and use his off hand, his weak hand strikes me as curious. In the video they absolutely say drop the weapon. But ive been in a lot of scenes where i see Excessive Force use. And police will say stop resisting us and they continue tahit him. Yelling those commands out sometimes is a way of making of creating a nar ittinarrative fo yourself. We asked him to drop the weapon and he wouldnt. Finally, yeah, its on the tape, but, also on the tape is her saying he doesnt have a weapon. If we go by audible observations, we could just as easily say he didnt have a weapon. Joe, do you right and the video is clearly inconclusive and unsatisfying on that level. Do you understand, joe, why the public is skeptical even though the police have said, oh, we found a gun at the scene and theyre like, not so fast. Absolutely. The Police Department has failed to address the