Country. Another death every 107 seconds. Tonight, images coming in from the midwest to the south and in wisconsin, a warning that there could soon be a shortage of beds in the icu. Europe got hit with it before the u. S. And now their second wave and its deadly grip. Tonight lockdowns now in france and germany and our Foreign Correspondent in belgium where icu numbers have now tripled in just three weeks. The deadly hurricane slamming into the u. S. The trees coming down killing several people. Its path through atlanta, the Power Outages and early voting affected by this. Snow and rain in the northeast and rob marciano timing it out tonight. The deadly terror attack at a church in france. Three People Killed. President Emmanuel Macron tonight deploying thousands of troops declaring france is under attack. Here in the u. S. Tonight the massive train derailment. Cars carrying chemical, schools and neighborhoods forced to evacuate. Good evening, great to have you with us on this thursday night. Five days to go, almost there. How much well know on Election Night still very unclear. With the Record Number of early votes this this country, one very important tate, though, where they do process those mailin votes earlier than others, florida. It happens to be a crucial state as you well know which explains why President Trump and joe biden were both there today. The president pointing to record gdp growth, signs of a recovery while at the same time a reminder this virus is taking hold again with the Colder Weather here and alltime record tonight, more than 85,000 new cases in the u. S. In just 24 hours. President trump with First Lady Melania Trump today at a rally in tampa pointing to the new gdp number downplaying the state of the virus saying the bottom line is youll get better. Joe biden at Broward College in coke cut creek acknowledging the surging virus saying the only way to truly turn things around is get a handle on this pandemic and to keep americans safe. Joe biden telling supporters today if he wins florida, they win it all. President trump knows florida is crucial to his hopes of winning a second term and our chief White House CorrespondentJonathan Karl from florida tonight with the latest. Reporter trump, biden. Today, same time, same place. Florida in campaign 2020, no state looms larger. Ladies and gentlemen, the heart and soul of this country is at stake right here in florida. Its up to you. You hold the key. If florida goes blue, its over. Its over. Reporter and thats almost certainly true. To get reelected, President Trump must win florida. Theres no state he has visited more. Heck, he even became a florida resident. In tampa today, he was joined by the first lady. This is like home. This is home. Right . This is home. Reporter today, the president had something worth boasting about. A new report shows the economy grew at a record 33. 1 in the third quarter, as the country began recovering from the even steeper losses triggered by the covid19 shutdown. They say talk about your economic success. Talk about 33. 1 , the greatest in history. Now, look, if i do, i mean, how many times can i say it . Ill say it five or six times during the speech, 33. 1. Reporter but theres another big number for the United States today. More than 85,000 new covid cases in a single day. And the nations jobs crisis is far from over. 751,000 americans filed for unemployment just last week. Biden told floridians theres only one way to turn things around, get control of the pandemic. Millions of people out there are out of work, on the edge, cant see the light at the end of the tunnel, and donald trump has given up. Reporter infections are now on the rise again in florida, even as the president insists the nation is rounding the turn. Now in the campaigns final week, the president is trying to outrun the virus holding one giant rally after another. Biden calls them superspreader events, but the Trump Campaign sees them as key to getting Trump Supporters to vote. Here in florida, the president is making a direct appeal to latinos. Were going on to win a record share of the hispanic american vote. You see what is happening. Reporter hes also been trying to win back women, but he often steps on his own message. Overnight in arizona, the president sounded irritated as he called to the stage one of the years most vulnerable republican women senators. Martha, come up just fast, quick. Fast. Fast, come on quick. You got one minute, one minute, martha. They dont want to hear this, martha. Come on, lets go. Quick, quick, quick. All right. Im coming. Thank you, President Trump. Reporter as the candidates race around the country, voters are turning out in droves. Here in tampa, you dont even need to get out of your car to drop off your mailin ballot. All right, signed, sealed and delivered. Reporter more than 7 million floridians have already voted, 75 of the total number who turned out in 2016. Whyd you decide to bring it in person . Because i wanted to be sure it was counted. Jon, weve been reporting it could be an early turnout in the country. So many key stays dont even begin counting them as you know until election day, but in florida, they actually do begin processing those votes early. So in florida, if we get a result, it could really frame the entire night ahead and several new polls there tonight, this is a close race. Reporter david, there are three new polling out of florida, voters, and all three show a slight lead for biden. All within the margin of error. The fivethirtyeight election forecast gives biden a slight chance of winning. But there is no question there is a lot of enthusiasm in florida for donald trump and democrats and republican operatives i have spoken to agree that the president has a very good chance of winning the state. Yes, a tightening race and recent days and the horns honking there behind you, jon karl, thank you. With five days still the election that sobering new number, the number of new cases of the virus hitting a record level. More than 85,000 new cases in 24 hours. Dr. Anthony fauci has said right here that weeks ago that we needed to be at 10,000 new cases a day heading into the Colder Weather in order to get a handle. We are now at the 85,000 mark. 228 228,370 lives lost and matt gutman tonight. According to data from Johns Hopkins another american gets this virus every 1. 2 seconds. Reporter a staggeringle 5,000 new covid cases in the u. S. Reported in just the last day. An american testing positive every 1. 2 seconds and dying from the virus every 107 seconds. Our patients are so sick, theyre struggling to breathe. We wish that we could do more. We have treatments that we can provide, but its not enough. We really need to stop the spread. Reporter wisconsin running out of icu beds. At least six midwestern states today hitting new record case numbers. El paso county, texas, now weighing a full shutdown for its 800,000 residents as surge tents go up to ease the pressure on overwhelmed hospitals. Doctors warn we could see lockdowns again if we dont mask and social distance. This is exactly what we want to avoid, before we go into the thanksgiving and holidays, we dont want to look into a lockdown but thats where were heading if we dont act urgently. Reporter in idaho where hospitals are near capacity, some patients doubled number rooms. All of us are by nature free and equal. Reporter and yet the Lieutenant Governor and a group of legislators putting out a video and claiming their own states covid restrictions violate their rights. Among which are enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property and pursuing happiness and securing safety. The fact that a pandemic may or may not be occuring changes nothing about the meaning or intent of the state constitution. Reporter in the college town of rexburg with one of the highest covid rates in the country, many cavalier about mask wearing. I dont really think student, students, i dont think we care. Ive already had corona. So lets bring in matt gutman with us from idaho and really difficult numbers youre reporting on. Weve also reported on dr. Faucis guidance on thanksgiving saying be very careful. Dont let your guard down and the cdc this week with guidance, reminders on halloween. Reporter and, david, thats because the cdc considers trickortreating a highrisk activity and thats why its urging people to stay at home, find activities in the household if you can. If you do go out and wear a costume mask, wear a cloth mask over it and for those of us fiending for candy they urge people to try to grab it at a distance, maybe take a bag from the edge of someones driveway. Really just try to play it safe this year, matt gutman, thank you. We turn to that deadly hurricane. Whats left of it, the remnants of hurricane zeta speeding north taking at least five lives so far. Slamming into louisiana as a cat 2, 110mileanhour winds shredding buildings in biloxi, mississippi, flooding this park garage as well and downed trees killing several and power lines down in many states. Key early voting affected today as well. Senior meteorologist rob marciano from the storm zone for us again tonight. Reporter tonight after a stunning late season landfall in louisiana, zeta continues its path of destruction, knocking out power to millions. Multiple People Killed by falling trees in the atlanta area. It basically tore out a large chunk of the front of this mobile home, killing a man who was asleep. Reporter power knocked out to some early voting locations in georgia, just days before the election. Zeta coming ashore as a powerful category 2 hurricane south of new orleans. Weve already had winds gusting over 100 miles an hour south of here. You can see the winds ripping down canal street. Over eight feet of storm surge in mississippi. In biloxi, this family rescued from high water. We woke up, and the house was flooding. And we were all scared. Because the water was coming in really fast and we didnt know what to do. Reporter daylight revealing destruction in gulfport. Boats pushed into parking lots. There is damage and debris across the city of new orleans. The winds were so strong here, they were able to rip the roof right off this twostory apartment building. Brian ellis was badly hurt by the flying debris. Im glad just somebody witnessed it and called the ambulance. Back to rob marciano tonight. Rob, we all remember last night you were getting slammed there in new orleans. We appreciated the effort as we were watching you on the air. I know youre in atlanta tonight. We can see the damage right there behind you. Reporter yeah, we have winds over 50 miles an hour in atlanta as zeta came through. Luckily the folks who own this house were out of town so nobody got hurt here but a massive tree coming down. Were not done with zeta yet off the coast of new jersey rocketing northeastward at over 50 miles per hour, still wind alerts behind it. A lot of rain ahead of it. New york, albany, boston, cold air will catch up with it and snow mixing in with it and cold rain continues along i95 tomorrow morning. Another tropical system in the caribbean with a good chance of developing. We have time to watch it. Hurricane season, im sad to say, lasts another month. Another month, all right, rob, we appreciate your reporting this week. Overseas, the horrific terror attack in a church in nice, france. Abcs maggie rulli is there for us. Reporter tonight, france on its highest terror alert level after a deadly rampage inside a church. Authorities say a young man stabbed several people inside the notre dame basilica in nice this morning, killing three, one woman nearly decapitated. This 55yearold father of two among the dead. Officers storming the church, opening fire on the suspect, taking him into custody. Police say the 21yearold attacker was born in tunisia and was unknown to the intelligence community. Authorities finding a copy of the koran near the suspect. Tonight, french president Emmanuel Macron deploying an additional 4,000 soldiers to schools and places of worship, saying the country is under attack. France fighting a surge in terror attacks in recent months. Just two weeks ago, near paris, investigators say a man beheaded a teacher who showed his class the controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed published by the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in a lesson about free speech. And macron is doubling down calling it an islamist attack, the third here in france in the last two months. Tonight this country is bracing for even more violence but, david, many muslim nations have come forward today including egypt and turkey condemning this horrible attack. David. All right, maggie rulli in nice for us, thank you. Its not the only crisis theyre facing in france and across europe for that matter, the deadly second wave of the virus. French president Emmanuel Macron saying it is spreading faster than even the most pessimistic forecasts. New lockdowns tonight in france, in germany and this evening in belgium just an extraordinary scene now playing out. Our Foreign CorrespondentJames Longman with rare access. Reporter tonight, what you are looking at is possibly the ground zero of the second covid19 crisis hitting europe. Liege, in belgium, with an astonishing nearly 41 infection rate. We were given rare access to an icu here, now full. The numbers tripling in just three weeks. And this is what you call the war zone line. Yep. Thats the war zobayan. Yep. Reporter hospital admissions across the country surging. Experts warn the Health System is close to collapse. Reporter there are ambulances arriving quite often. When youre working inside the room and you see them coming, your level of stress is higher and higher. Reporter this doctor says delegates summer lockdown worked but restrictions were relaxed too soon. You had covid19. Yep. Reporter whilst you were working . But you had no choice. I had no choice. No, impossible. I say, its either that or youre not treating your patients. Reporter 75yearold florent is on the mend. He may not have survived in march, but better treatment now means he will. And its his birthday. He says his only wish is to go home. With cases climbing, hospitals across europe worry they wont cope this winter. So lets get to James Longman live. I know cases are rising. Real fear what youre seeing in europe we could then see here and i know official there is in belgium are holding emergency meetings tomorrow. Reporter thats right, david. Europe is watching belgium in horror even as their own cases start to spike. Germany hitting new restrictions, a new National Lockdown in france and officials will meet here tomorrow to decide whether belgium should do the same. David. All right, James Longman from belgium, thank you. Back here in the u. S. Tonight and from michigan this selfproclaimed head of a White Supremacist Group and one of his associates arrested in that state. Justin watkins and Alfred Gorman took this photo at a home where they believe a producer of a podcast, that podcaster did not live in that home. When we come back here tonight the fbi warning hospitals here in the u. S. About imminent cyberattacks from Russian Hackers during this pandemic and the train tonight the fbi is warning u. S. Hospitals of an imminent cybercrime threat even as hospitals fight to save patients. Hackers demanding money to release data. Security experts saying its the work of a russian speaking cybercriminal gang. They say a number of hospitals have already been hit just this week. Authorities are now urging all Health Care Providers to step up protections of their computer networks. Tonight that Freight Train derailment forcing evacuations in morrisville, texas. Cell phone video showing them falling off the tracks. None of the cars were carrying hazardous material. Two schools within a mile radius evacuated as a precaution. 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Ballots missing in contra costa county. Voters tracking ballots noticed the problem. The question is what happens now . Thanks for joining us, im beil. Im kristen sze. Were less than a week away from election day and questions are swirling about missing ballots, what happened and what is being done to make the votes count . Is wayne freedman. Reporter they arrive all day long, ballots at contra costa countys registers office. 370,000 have come in from 700,000 registered voters. Assistant register considers this a solum duty. Youre serving democracy and we take it very seriously and get kind of corny about it sometimes. Reporter which explains his concern about one bac