the grave of his son beau, that is how he started off the day, and now he's just flown into an area near scranton where apparently he has brought i think he said two of his grandchildren. 100 million people have already cast their ballots before the polls opened today. that is a record. right now polls are opening in six more states, you can see them there, long lines, voters are standing in lines at polling locations across the nation. this is the scene at one polling site in philadelphia. there's certainly anxiety, there's excitement, there's uncertainty with the nation auto divided and the coronavirus pandemic surging, it is one of the most critical developments in our nation's history. we could see president trump head to the rnc annex offices in virginia this morning. joe biden is spending part of his day in pennsylvania he has just arrived there now to make a final pitch to voters. we have correspondents in positions to bring you the latest. polls in florida opened a short time ago, the sunshine state a critical battleground during any election but especially important for president trump this time around. cnn's randi kaye is at a polling place in broward county this morning. how things going? >> reporter: good morning, we are in lighthouse point, florida, which is a pocket of broward county that is highly republican. back in 2016 trump won this area of the county with about 65% of the vote compared to hillary clinton who got about 31%. there was a line here for people coming out and voting earlier this morning, about 7:00 a.m. when it opened, now that line has gone down, but i did get a chance to speak with some voters, i spoke with one couple, they are in their 60s and they said they both voted for donald trump, they think he has done a great job on the economy and with the pandemic. then i spoke to another woman who said she doesn't really like donald trump, but she voted for donald trump here because she thinks that the issues that he cares about are important to her such as pro life. i asked her -- she also said she thinks he's been honest with the american people about the pandemic. i asked her about his comments earlier to bob woodward for his book and she said she didn't know anything about that. finally i talked to this other gentleman, a younger guy, probably in his 30s or so, he voted today but he didn't know who he was going to vote for, anderson, until he actually walked into this voting precinct. he said he's been struggling with it, agonizing over it, his issues are racial equality and he's also pro life and he just wasn't sure which candidate to go with. he refused to tell me which candidate he actually voted for when i asked him if he was okay with this decision he said, no, he wasn't happy about it at all. meanwhile, of course, we have about 8.9 million people who have voted already in the state of florida, that's about 93% of all of those that voted in 2016. this is a must win really for donald trump. 29 electoral votes up for grabs. he will probably get a lot of support from the panhandle, from a lot of the cuban americans in miami, joe biden certainly trying to offset that with african-american support in the miami area, he's getting a lot of that here in broward county as well. we will see as the day goes on who is voting because even the supervisor of elections here in broward county said that so many people have voted here, more than they have had in all of 2016 have voted early here in the county that he expects maybe 100,000, 125,000 people to vote here and who will they be? that's the question. will they be independence who have had a lower turnout or republicans who want to vote in person on election day. >> it's interesting whether or not there are long lines at a location like that given in florida how many people have actually already voted. you know, everyone was anticipating long lines and we're certainly seeing that in many places, but in some places there may not be as long a wait as there might normally be. >> reporter: right. i mean, 845,000 people have voted in broward county. so that's more than all of 2016. so they're not expecting the long lines. it depends on who really believes, you know, or has concerns about the vote by mail or who didn't get a chance to get there in the early voting process which ended on sunday, that was the last day of in-person early voting. so we will see who shows up. they are expecting a high republican turnout here in this area at least, anderson. >> randi kaye, appreciate it. another key state to watch tonight obviously pennsylvania, critical. it's been a big focus for both president trump and joe biden. our alexandra field is at a polling place in pittsburgh. more than 2 million votes have been cast already in the state, it's just remarkable. what are you seeing this morning? >> reporter: it is remarkable. there's still a long way to go, anderson, because that is actually just under 40% of the entire electorate for 2016. so we are going to see a lot of voting today, which is what we are seeing already. we've been at a couple of sites in the franklin park neighborhood, a suburban area of pittsburgh, we've seen pretty steady and boston stant lines. we are hearing a lot of conviction from people. we are not hearing from people that they are undecided, instead they are passionate about who they are going to vote for. this is a neighborhood where neighbors say there are deep divides, evidenced by the long lines they see driving down their streets, evidenced by the dinner table conversations or lack thereof. they are also aware if they are in this line ready to vote a lot of the country and perhaps a lot of the world is waiting to see what happens. that's because pennsylvania is a critical swing state as we've been saying. it's a state that trump won by 44,000 votes in 2016. we are in allegheny county, home of course to pittsburgh, it was the one spot of blue in a sea of red in western pennsylvania back in 2016, but in this neighborhood the votes actually skewed toward trump back then. so we are hearing from people that their political beliefs may not be at all in line with the people who live just across the street from them. it will be very interesting to see what plays out in neighborhoods like this. this is what has certainly inspired both president trump and former vice president joe biden to believe that there are voters that they can go after in the state of pennsylvania, it's what motivated both of their campaigns to hit this state hard, so much so that you saw joe biden not only start his campaign in pennsylvania, but also wrap it up with this trip to scranton and to philadelphia today. as far as voting, what we are seeing has been a fairly smooth process so far. allegheny county has reported that there were three sites that did not open on time because they were missing voting materials. the county has responded to that, they said the materials were being delivered. we will keep an eye on those sites and any other irregularities or difficulties that could crop up, but for now what we're understanding and seeing is that a lot of these sites are preparing for really what could be a historic turnout in this all important election. anderson? >> and also, i mean, pennsylvania also there continue to be a number of kpal lengths in courts about early voting, about which ballots should be -- should be counted in terms of when they arrive. there was a new filing today even in pennsylvania about a pre canvassing of ballots. a lot of watch for in the hours and days ahead. alexandra field, appreciate it. polls are also now open in ohio, there's no republican candidate that has ever lost there and gone on to win the white house. gary tuchman is checking on the voting situation in suburban cleveland. ohio has already shattered early voting records as have other states, what does it look like there today, gary? >> reporter: well, today a strong turnout in strongville. strongville, ohio. this is a leave fee suburbs, population 35,000 this precinct opened at 6:30 this morning and you were alluding to it, we didn't know how crowded it would be because 3.4 million people voted early here in the state of ohio. that's 60% of the total vote in the year 2016, but as soon as this precinct opened people started streaming in, about 35 people initially. now you can see this line. right now there's 10, 20, there's about 35 people inside the building but another 50 people outside the building. so we have had a very strong turnout in the small town. this is an even steven kind of place, about 70% of the people who live in this town are registered to no party, the 30% are split between democrats and republicans. i want to ask you a quick question, you had a chance to early vote, 24 days in ohio, how come you didn't early vote? how come you wanted to wait for today? >> i was not decided on who to vote for. >> you weren't decided. can i ask you a personal question? >> go ahead. >> why he. >> who have you decided on? >> democrat. >> who is the democrat? >> joe biden. >> i want to make sure you know who you're voting for. i just waam just joking with yo >> what made you decide not to vote early and decide to come on voting day? >> i felt comfortable voting today, i felt it was safe, there's lines and hand sanitizer. >> have you decided who to vote for? >> yeah. >> can you tell me. >> democrat. >> do you know the guy's name? >> yeah. >> still kind of shy about it. either way, you know, we try to be sensitive when we ask people who to vote for because they have every right not to tell us. we want to give our voters information about who they are voting for. one thing that's important in the state of ohio it could be a quick night and that's because i told you about the 3.4 million people who voted early, those votes will start being counted the second the polls close at 7:30 tonight. the initial results will be the early voting, absentee voting and then the people voting today. it's so striking seeing everyone in masks, we've been dealing with this a long time but there's never been a presidential election in american history where everyone wears masks to the polls. the pandemic in 1918 the presidential election was in 1916 before the pandemic, in 1920 after that pandemic. so we see here everyone with masks. one thing i will tell you here in ohio and i know it's the case in a lot of other states. if people insist upon not wearing a mask they will still let you vote. they don't want to disenfranchise everybody. >> there have been concerns a lot of people have had about being hassled if they go to vote about people on the line. you haven't seen any of that here? >> reporter: no, here in stro strongsvil strongsville, it's been very peaceful. >> if anybody has any concerns, you can see it there very peaceful. with record breaking early voter turnout cnn has declared states like georgia and arizona as true tossups. phil mattingly joins us now. which states will you be watching in particular in tonight? >> first off, finally mercifully, this map will turn from gray to red and blue over the course of the next several hours. there are a couple key states, these are states that i'm watching tonight and states that i think i'm going to go through in order of how they're going to report. start with the state of florida. this is obviously a true toss up and always a true toss up and we should get the results in a pretty timely manner because of how they process. let's flip back to 2016. the story of florida is not flipping a ton of counties, it's running up your margins in strong holds and trying to keep your hop nent's margins down. for democrats southeastern part of the state always a stronghold for them. for donald trump you look into the panhandle and northern part of the state as well. the big questions if you want to look at two counties to give you some signal of what's going on, pick up miami-dade, hillary clinton won this by record margins in 2016, there's been concerned by democrats that perhaps this margin will shrink down. it doesn't mean joe biden would lose but it would be a point of concern. another area, sumpter county, home to the villages, highest median age in the entire country. donald trump will win sumpter county, but take a look at the margins. the polling has shown senior voters have started to move away from president trump. you might get a decent sign in the state of florida when you look at sumpter county. you mentioned, anderson, the state of georgia. back in 2016 donald trump won this by about 6 points, no democrat has won georgia since 1996. the pathway here for democrats, why they believe georgia is finally very in play is actually not that different from what hillary clinton did in 2016. it's atlanta, pushing out into the suburbs. joe biden's map would probably look a lot like this. the question is margins. obviously joe biden will do well in fulton county and dekalb but can he push up the margins in gwinnett and cobb county and push them up higher than stacey abrams did in 2018 when she narrowly lost the governor's race. let's move over to the state of north carolina, another true toss up, another state that president trump won in 2016, has to win again in 2020, likely it's pretty much every pathway that he has. this is a similar story, you want to keep an eye on the research triangle in raleigh durham, keep an eye on the charlotte area, mecklenburg county, also pushing out into the suburbs and what kind of margins can joe biden run up in those areas. when it comes to north carolina keep an eye on the african-american turnout in. in 2018 when president obama won that state that was as much of a story as anywhere else. northern transplants, can joe biden break through in the state of north carolina? also want to move over to arizona. you talked about arizona becoming a true toss up right now, the biden campaign feels like they have a legitimate shot here. back in 2016 the clinton campaign gave arizona a run towards the end of the campaign. they fell short losing by 90,000 votes but in 2018 democrats flipped the state in the senate. why? maricopa county, 60% of the voting population lives here, hillary clinton lost it narrowly in 2016, kyrsten sinema won in 2018 for the democrats. if joe biden can win maricopa county democrats feel like they have a real shot. pay attention to arizona we should get their results in a fairly timely manner because of how they count early vote. pennsylvania and the midwest, obviously we've talked a ton about the industrial midwest, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. we will start with pennsylvania. obviously this was the stunner letting everybody know that president trump was shattering the blue wall in 2016. this will take time to find final results. nine counties aren't likely to count their abs tease until wednesday. we will have to take our time here but it will be most interesting to see obviously hillary clinton had great strength in the philadelphia area and the suburbs, great strength in allegheny county and yet president trump was still able to win. why? western pennsylvania. the margins he was running up, county after county after county were margins that republicans had never seen before even in republican counties. also attention -- >> phil, i just want to -- sorry to interrupt. i just want to let our viewers know what they're watching. joe biden has arrived in scranton, pennsylvania. two of his grandchildren are with him. said they had never been to scranton so he was going to bring them along. he attended church earlier this morning in delaware, also visited the grave of her son beau. as we look at these videos on the right-hand side of your screen you're seeing our ballot count in strongsville, ohio. phil, continue with what you were saying. >> i appreciate the biden campaign really lining this up with us as i talk into scranton. obviously trump's strength is in western pennsylvania, they need to run up huge margins here. the biden campaign won lackawanna county in 2016, keep that in democratic counties and then narrow the margins in luzerne. democrats don't necessarily expect to flip t but they want to narrow those margins. that's the story of pennsylvania. i will give you one more as we go through the day, go through the night. another state that will be a little bit slow, we won't necessarily know the end game by the end of the night but you can pay attention to a couple key things, michigan, donald trump won the state by 10,000 votes. very, very narrowly. where do you want to look? the pathway is the same for a lot of these states. urban turnout, push out into the suburbs. there is no more important place for joe biden and democrats than wayne county. you look at the margin in 2016, hillary clinton crushed wayne county. what was the problem there? this. 519,000 votes, compare that to 2012, president obama had 595,000 votes. the turnout drop off was massive, particularly amongst african-american voters. right now vice president biden and his team trying to ensure that doesn't happen and also come up a little bit higher into the state as well. you love into oakland county, you move into -- sorry -- mo of into macomb county, that's the suburbs, that's where democrats made gains in 2018. again, different reporting times, different pathways to 270, but keep an eye on those counties and key issues in the state throughout the course of the night. that will tell you where this race is going, anderson. >> let's listen into what is going on in scranton. >> -- and that is the next president of the united states. >> can you hear me? my name is joe biden. i was born in mercy hospital in scranton. by the way, you know, you have no idea -- you know that old expression -- but i have -- my great-grandfather was the first irish catholic elected to the state senate in the state of pennsylvania from scranton. 1907. you know, it's a long, long history, but it's good to be home and one of the things -- i know everybody says why do you keep calling it home? well, you know, i left here when i was going to the fourth grade, but i came home almost all summer, every summer. when i got married to my deceased wife my wedding party seven people five of my friends were from scranton because i grew up with them. so, you know, that's where i learned, like you did, all my basic values. i learned at my grandpa's table at 2446 north washington avenue that money did not determine your wealth. i learned that there wasn't anything you couldn't do if you set your mind to t i learned the basic responsibility that everybody had was just to look out, look out for the other guy, look at what's going on, be aware what's going on. so, you know, my dad used to have an expression when we left scranton, moved down to delaware, he would say, joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. it's about your dignity. it's about respect. it's about your place in the community. it's about who you are. it's about [ inaudible ] -- a lot of people can't look at their kids now and say it's going to be okay. i ran for three reasons and i'm going to stop and not keep you out here. number one, when i announced i said i wanted to restore the soul of the country. that wasn't been melodramatic, that was just restoring basic decency and honor to the white house. when i saw those folks come out of those fields down in charlottesville, carrying those torches and you [ inaudible ] -- talking about how this country was so prejudice, that's when i decided i had to run. that's when my granddaughters and the other three of them came to see me after what happened. they said, pop, you have to run. we know it's going to be ugly because their whole life they have either had a father who was the attorney general of the state of delaware or a grand pop who was the senator or vice president. that's why we ran. second reason we ran is you have to restore the backbone of the country. you all know it. you know, the middle class built this country. wall street didn't build it. the middle class built it. and unions built the middle class. they're getting clobbered right now. and the third reason i'm running is what i want to talk upbeat about today and that is uniting this country. we can do it. i think the country is ready. but i basically came to say thank you, thank you, thank you. >> thank you, joe. >> thank you, joe. >> the greatest honor of my life and i'm sure the mayor will feel the same way about serving. it's a great honor. so i want to thank you all and i'm not -- i know you're out canvassing, knock on 3,000, 4,000 doors. i'm only kidding. thank you for what you've done. i really appreciate it. >> scranton, pennsylvania. the start of a long day. jason carroll is in scranton for us, also cnn's kirsten powers and ryan lizza also are with me. jason, what's the plan for the vice president in scranton? >> reporter: well, look, a couple of things. first of all, the vice president knew that he had to make a stop here in scranton. you heard some familiar -- some of the familiar themes we have heard throughout the campaign when he was speaking at the carpenters union hall, he said it was good to be home, he also talked about restoring decency to the white house, also another familiar theme saying that the middle class built this country, not wall street. look, the campaign knows that this is an important stop for the vice president at this point, they know that it's going to take every single vote in order to win the state. it's so very, very close. and just as an example here, we're here in lackawanna county. back in 2016 hillary clinton just barely won this county, in neighboring luzerne county is a county that went for obama and then flipped and went for trump. trump still very popular in this section of the state. a lot of folks out there are very well aware of that. they know that -- they know that trump is still very popular. that biden has to make a lot of inroads into the state. that is why he is here spending time, spending energy here in the state hoping that his hometown charm that he can turn that on and turn out some votes here in these final hours. anderson? >> and, jason, the vice president was speaking to a group of canvassers, so they are people who will be going out in scranton essentially knocking on doors trying to get anybody who may have decided not to go to the polls to go to the polls today. >> reporter: right. and that's true. and think about this as well, the campaign is going to find out whether or not very soon their strategy paid off. what i mean by that is the campaign basically this go around they hired folks who had connections to all corners of the state in rural communities, those folks who had connection with white working class voters, urban sections as well. in addition to that the campaign ran what they called a persuasion program basically this was a program where they had folks getting out there, motivating people here on the ground. they said that's something that the clinton campaign didn't do back in 2016. so, again -- >> although -- >> it's interesting -- sorry. >> one of the things that the biden campaign decided to do and democrats decided to do, which is to actually not go door to door in many places for quite a while during the pandemic because of concern about coronavirus, which is something the trump campaign was still continuing to go door to door, so it's going to be interesting to see if that has any impact on, you know, the numbers that we end up seeing. >> right. and just to add to that, anderson, there are some folks on the ground who feel like the biden folks have ground to make up here in this ex-is of pennsylvania. this he feel as though once again trump is popular in this section of pennsylvania, he still has a lot of folks who support him out here and so i think that's one reason why you see biden back 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scene? >> reporter: anderson, with roughly 20,000 registered voters according to the moderator running this polling location that makes it one of the largest in the country. it's hard to debate that. you have seen a steady flow of people stopping by this particular location, it is a long but quick moving line here. the folks are waiting for about 20 minutes or so to actually cast their ballot. remember, new hampshire early voting was only done via absentee so if you live in new hampshire and you want to have your voice heard in person then today is the day. that is why we're seeing record numbers. local officials expecting a large turnout. these folks have been waiting outside, we have seen some flurries, cold temperatures, and yet people are determined to actually cast their ballot here. we are seeing an average of 12 ballots being processed a minute according to local officials. so far no issues. there are a couple political threads here. obviously we are not in primary season so it is a bit of a different game, but nonetheless there are still four electoral votes up for grabs. the last time that those went for the republican presidential candidate was back in 2000, so the trump campaign and trump administration certainly wants to change that trend, ultimately, though, some of the polling that voters are seeing here showing biden ahead, but remember, four years ago, anderson, it was only about less than 1% difference at least hillary clinton winning by just under 1%. so it still remains an extremely competitive state today on election day. >> do you have a sense of how long the wait times are at that location? >> reporter: yeah, i will step out of the picture so you can actually see some of the folks coming in. one woman told me she waited about 20 or 30 minutes or so, but walking in here earlier this morning, anderson, i also heard from one gentleman who said he's glad he did it. it is -- things are moving very smoothly, actually. a lot of folks have been preparing for today, again, because in-person voting is reserved for today, on election day, so that's one of the main reasons why we are expect to go see potentially over 800,000 people cast their ballots by the end of the day. that is one of the reasons why new hampshire is extremely busy today. when you speak to some of the folks in line as they wait to cast their ballot, a very smooth way here it seems that things are running very smoothly. the average wait 20 or 30 minutes but they are processing those ballots extremely quickly. kwen again, one official telling me about 12 a minute and they do have about 20,000 registered voters in this region. so it is still going to be a listening night, yesterday they did get sort of an "early start" on processing the absentee ballots by doing what's called partial preprocessing, they opened that outer envelope and then just made sure that the affidavit envelope that contains the actual ballot that will be counted today was actually signed. if it wasn't then officials gave those voters an opportunity to rectify that and also many of those voters here in this part of new hampshire and throughout the state they have an opportunity to actually register today as well. so the numbers that we're seeing, the estimates that we're seeing, they're likely going to be even greater before the day is over. >> polo sandoval, appreciate you being there. polo is in new hampshire. also you see strongsville, ohio, on the right-hand side of your screen. it is really heartening to see these images of just americans showing up and voting despite all the anxiety and concern, the apprehension about what the day might look like in polling places around the country. so far what we are seeing are the scenes you're seeing, people as they have every four years, there helping people to vote. long lines in some places, shorter lines in other places. there in new hampshire about a 20 minute late according to one person that polo spoke to. in the end it all 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president during the daytime, will visit campaign workers in northern virginia. tonight he will have a party, with he expect perhaps 400 people crammed into the east room of the white house. public health authorities of course say this is not the time for mass gatherings, but this president lives for the cheers of the crowd. we've seen that over the last couple of days. ten rallies over sunday and monday where the president is playing a lot of political defense, but also simply basking in the adulation of his supporters. at the same time he recognizes the challenge of the position that he's in and at those rallies he was preemptively laying outs some targets, people who have made his life difficult as if he was preoffering excuses. he's going after democrats, the media, china, lebron james, tony fauci and this morning in an interview on fox he offered a new one which is that he said that fox and friends -- or that fox news, the network, had not been helping him as much as they had in the past, complaining about that. so that's an indication that this president understands which way the wind is blowing, he's raised the question of legal challenges, he's raised the question of perhaps physical unrest if he thinks the ballot counting has gone on too long. the question that we're going to go inn to find out the answer to tonight, anderson, is whether or not he's running close enough to joe biden for any of that to make a difference in the outcome. >> jessica, we just saw biden in scranton, clearly a sign of just the importance of pennsylvania today. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. anderson, we've seen joe biden, his running mate, kamala harris, and both of their spouses here in pennsylvania. biden has been here since sunday, he was here on monday and of course spending time here on election day. so pennsylvania absolutely critical to the biden campaign and joe biden of course making that known as he spoke to union workers there in scranton, that's part of the coalition they are trying to put together. he's also trying to win back white working class voters, voters who perhaps voted for president trump in 2016, who might have voted for joe biden and barack obama in previous elections. the campaign and joe biden really believe they can win some of those people back with a lot of his messaging that we've heard over the last months of this election, which includes that park avenue versus scranton messaging that joe biden really sees himself as someone who understands every day americans, working americans and promises to be their adequate should he go to the white house. it's also important, anderson, i think, to zoom out for a minute and realize that joe biden going back home to scranton with his grandchildren, this is personal for him, it's very much joe biden at his heart. he loves scranton. he talks about it all the time. for him to take his granddaughters there who have never been there before it was very important to him. we also saw him going to mass earlier today. he and joe biden visiting the grave of his late son beau biden who has been very present on the campaign trail in terms of joe biden speaking about him time and time again in his stump speech. so all of these threads coming together, both the personal and the political, here in these final hours. anderson? >> jessica, thanks very much. appreciate it. in his final pitch to voters president trump warned that cheating in the key state of pennsylvania could lead to violence in the streets. of course, he showed no evidence. >> well -- >> and when the supreme court gave you an extension, they made a very dangerous situation and i mean dangerous physically dangerous and they made it a very, very bad -- they did a very bad thing for this state, this he did a very bad thing for this nation. >> it was in a tweet last night right before his last campaign rally that he talked about the potential for violence in the streets. of course, the idea that there is rampant voting fraud in pennsylvania is just simply false. there is no evidence of that, nor has the president ever been able to find any evidence of that for all these claims that he has been making. the president told reporters another baseless claim that the supreme court decision allowing pennsylvania to count mail-in votes that a right up to three days after the election will lead to cheating at a, quote, very high level and was, quote, very dangerous. joining me now a kirsten powers and ryan lizza. kyrsten, it's interesting to me today to watch sort of calm voting at, you know, polling stations across the country, people standing in line. after all the drama, after all the lies, after all the threats, all the, you know, anxiety it comes down to american citizens taking time out of their day to stand on a line and to cast a ballot. it comes down to just a very simple act that seems to be going peacefully in all the places we've been this morning. >> right. exactly. and i think that what you have is the president who when he talks about there's going to be violence or this is very dangerous, the only reason that would happen is because he would be inciting it with the types of things that he's saying. by suggesting that following the law and counting ballots is how cheating, he's leading his followers and some of his voters to believe that if somehow he loses that it's only because the democrats are stealing -- stealing votes, right? never mind the fact that this is very common, that many states allow ballots to be counted after election day as long as they are postmarked on election day. but he continues with this drum beat of, you know, if i lose it's only going to be because they stole the election. >> yeah, ryan, i mean, we know being a loser is the president's greatest fear, that's his greatest insult to somebody is that they are a loser. to kyrsten's point, i guess, if he can convince people or has an argument that, you know, it was -- it was a rigged election, then in his mind he's not a loser, if, in fact, he does lose. >> yeah, and in the best case scenario this is just rhetoric and we shouldn't take it literally or seriously and it's just trump having a handy excuse for a loss. in the worst-case scenario it's something more grave and setting up some kind of post-election day argument that might be combined with some court challenges and as he suggested last night most ominously might be suggested with pushing people to take to the streets and do something more rash. you have to remember this state supreme court decision in pennsylvania which was -- was upheld by the u.s. supreme court with chief justice roberts siding with the liberals and it was a classic conservative let the state -- you know, federalism, let the states decide this, the federal government shouldn't intervene, our elections are state and county and locally run. so for the president to be -- and for the republicans to be challenging this really does go against their conservative legal beliefs that they have talked about for quite a long time. that aside, trump has now added this ominous element of, you know, people should be doing something about that. >> kirsten, it also seems to clearly designed just to sow confusion and fear and potentially suppress the vote, maybe convince some people who, you know, have concerns or anxiety about what might happen to stay home and not cast a ballot. i mean, it seems like such a blatant obvious attempt at a voter suppression and so many of the efforts that we've been seeing, whether it's republicans in texas who try to get 127,000 votes that had already been cast in pre-approved drive-thru voting areas in harris county, tried to get those thrown out, which numerous judges, republican judges, have said that's not going to happen. >> right. i mean, trump only -- it's not just that he thrives in chaos, he only really survives in chaos. so that's why he always -- he always creates this chaos. wherever he goes. and i think, you know, the texas example is really an important one, you know, for everybody to understand, what the republicans have been trying to do. they're trying to do this across the country wherever they can. but the idea that you would take, you know, 100,000 votes and throw them away, you know, like that is so offensive. that should be so offensive to every single american. it is not just about republicans versus democrats. the idea that you would just -- that you would go to court to try to get perfectly valid ballots that were filled out thrown away. and so the other thing i would take away from it from a sort of political standpoint is they obviously don't think that they can win fair and square. if they did they wouldn't be doing these kinds of things. you wouldn't have, you know, republican districts in pennsylvania going out of their way to not start processing ballots, you know, until tomorrow morning when you have all the other counties processing them, you know, refusing help, saying we can't do it because we don't have enough people and they're told we will send you more people, we will give you more money and they go, no. they believe those are democratic ballots so they don't want those to be counting on election night. >> ryan, no matter who wins this election, i mean, the electoral map is changing. we see that -- we've been seeing that each presidential election, but certainly this one as well. >> yeah, you know, i just spent the last two weeks on the road covering some of these new sun belt swing states, nevada, arizona, texas, georgia and north carolina. you know, usually at this point in an election you're spending all your time in the midwest and florida, but these other states are the future of -- they are the future competitive states in the and they're changing in big ways. and we're seeing, if you look at the polls in texas and arizona, you're seeing this rebellion in the suburbs against trump's behavior and mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic. i think that will be the basic story, if biden wins. i don't think that means that biden has some -- if he wins tonight that he's put together this new unbreakable coalition. i think what we see in this election in 2016 is competitive elections for a while between the two parties with a whole new rash of states in the sun belt being the fulcrum. >> yeah, brian, kiersten, thank you. 2020 could be the year of the youth turnout. we'll take you live to michigan next. trelegy for copd. ♪ birds flyin' high, you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ it's a new dawn... if you've been taking copd sitting down, it's time to make a stand. start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy helps people breathe easier and improves lung function. it also helps prevent future flare-ups. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. tell your 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carolina. polls opened just a few hours ago. suzanne is at a polling place in charlotte. what's it like? >> reporter: we're at precinct 212 in peck lenburg county, and there's been a steady stream, a lot of enthusiasm from voters since 6:30 in the morning. i want to take you quickly through the process here. the first desk you see people filling out an authorization to vote form. this is a state where no voter id is necessary. so it's just name, address, you certify with your signature that you're 18 years old, that you're registered, if you are a convicted convicted felon you served out your time. then you go to the second banks, this is the poll books. it has the name of those who have registered and who have not voted in the precinct. if your name is not on that list or there's a discrepancy, go to the help desk. if they can't be addressed they'll get a provisional ballot nevertheless. and then they take it over here, this is where they're doing the voting itself, the ballot mashing machine. put in the ballot, punch our your selection, it spits it out and it takes it here to the tabulators, scans and puts it in that black box. joining me now is the chief judge, you and i have been up early, a couple cups of coffee now. >> we have. >> how is it going? >> it's going to great. pleased with the turn out, a steady flow. i think we're around 300 voters this morning. a lot of people vote early here. we've had turn out for mail and early voting. >> reporter: any problems or dy repansies? i know there was an issue things were not matching up or concern they wouldn't? >> things have been going smoothly. we had things in the provision, as we always do, that people aren't in the book. but it's going smoothly. >> you had concerns about the provision that there is no requirement for mask wearing. has that been an issue? >> it has not come up this morning. we are encouraging people to have masks we're providing people with masks if they don't have one. as far as i can tell, everyone has worn their mask, most people have gotten in line with masks so it's not been an issue this morning. >> you even taped yoursup. >> i did. i was getting fog. >> anderson, unlike other states, north carolina is expected to get out the provisional results at the -- the unofficial results as early as 7:30 this evening because they have been tallying and counting those early votes coming in, that's about 62% of all the registered voters of north carolina. >> can you get some inside tips from the poll worker about how he tapes up his mask because i have the same problem with the fog on the classes. it's something that's been the bane of my existence the last several months. >> reporter: there's an invention in there somewhere. somebody is going to get rich off of that i tell you. >> appreciate you being there. nice to see things so normal. which is, that in itself is surprising in this day and age. almost at the top of the hour, polls are about to open in california, arizona, idaho, nevada. coverage continues on election day in america in 60 seconds. ery gel... available over the counter. voltaren is powerful arthritis pain relief in a gel. voltaren. the joy of movement. i'm anderson cooper, thanks for joining us, this is live coverage of election day in america. it's an exciting day. we have seen so far. voters get the last word on who they want to see run the country in multiple crises. more than 100 million people have already cast their ballots before the polls opened today, that's a record. polls are opening across california, nevada, arizona, washington and oregon. so voters coast-to-coast are casting ballots on this final day. many are standing in long lines, other places we've seen short lines and short waits because so many people have already voted. this is the polling site in philadelphia, line stretching down two blocks and around the corner. there is someanxiety, there's uncertainty with the nation divided, the pandemic surging, and there's what it comes down to, americans taking time out of their day, standing in line to cast their votes. this is one of the most politically consequential moments in our countries. former vice president joe biden is already out, he arrived in scranton to make a final pitch to voters he began his day at a church in delaware, going to mass with his wife, and visiting the gave of his son beau. we have correspondents in position nationwide. michigan, a critical battleground state, the president won by a razor thin margin in 2016. omar joins us from st. clair shores in the detroit area. what are you seeing? >> reporter: we're off to the races. polls are open and those absentee ballots, which you've seen a record number of can now be counted. we're in mccomb county, a county that's a suburb of detroit, a county president trump flipped from democrat to republican in 2016. and it's a county where the winner has ended up being the state-wide winner for presidential and governors races the last seven elections in a row. one of the things we're keeping an eye on, seems to be the percentage of young voters coming to make their voices heard. if you look at the percentage of absentee ballots of 18 to 29 year olds, it's 9.4%. we spoke to those voters here in this county as some waited in line on election day. >> it's crazy that the outward like advertising for voting that we've seen this year versus 2016. i don't think i saw anything. it really says a lot about where we're coming as a country. i'm proud that the younger generation is m coming in and making sure they're voting. my friends are like it doesn't matter. my vote doesn't count. then we saw the results so this year a lot of them had made the choice to vote, either before or in line currently right now as well. >> reporter: when you look at turnout overall, before we got to election day we've seen more than 3 million absentee ball lots sent in, which is 60% more than the entire 2016 presidential election turn out and more than 60% of the entire 2008 presidential election turn out, which saw the highest voter turn out in michigan history. it's no secret, michigan is always and has been an important state when it comes to the election, it's a place president trump won by less than a percentage point in 2016, and it's a place that he held multiple rallies over the course of the weekend. the last stop he made actually was in grand rapids last night and it's a place where joe biden and president obama also held events over the weekend in detroit and flint and we expect to see senator kamala harris here in detroit later this afternoon. anderson? >> have you seen long lines? because so many people voted early are you not seeing lines? what does it look like? >> reporter: well, in this location in particular, a few of them across the detroit area we did see long lines right before polls opened and once the doors opened there was that lag time of getting people in, but one of the things the secretary of state has said repeatedly is they've gotten just about two-thirds of their entire voting population, they got them to vote through absentee ballots. so there was no real worries about long lines headed into today and we're keeping an eye out for it but we haven't seen it widespread yet. >> appreciate it. thanks very much. we'll check in with you throughout the day. want to go to wisconsin, another critical battleground state, half of the voters have already cast ballots due to that they're warning it's likely we won't know unofficial results until tomorrow. ryan young is in milwaukee. polls opened an hour ago, right? >> absolutely. we're at an elementary school about five miles south of downtown milwaukee. when the polls first opened there was a line down the hallway here but the poll workers got those voters out the door quickly. the whole process works smoothly so far. you walk up here, meet this gentlemen, he checks you in and tells you which ward to be a part of. as we come through this building here. this is where the votes happen. so you register at the post here to figure out what ward you're in. you get a card and you go over to vote. one of the things you notice, anderson, all the protection in place because obviously wisconsin has been dealing with tough numbers when it comes to covid-19 so every poll worker has a face mask on, face shield and they're doing social distancing. they make sure all the pens are sanitized afterwards. this is a state where more than 1.8 million people cast their ballot early. we saw the initial rush but so far it's gotten slow since then. in fact, we talked to one voter who said he had to be here today because he wanted to cast his vote because he thought it was pretty important. >> it's so interesting, ryan, what we're seeing across the country, again, because so many of these ballots have come in early, you know, do you know did they anticipate more people this morning or were they not really sure what to anticipate? >> reporter: well, think about this. you had 61% of the folks who wanted those votes cast have already put their ballot in. then you have the idea that donald trump won the state by less than 1%. so he was here just last night campaigning once again. so there's conversation. every time you turn the television on in this area you have a situation where you're flooded with the commercials about who to vote for. the guy who i was referring to, who we talked to a second ago, was telling us he wanted to vote because he wanted to be part of the process. he understood that this state is pretty important. we also talked to a small business owner who said that covid-19 has impacted her business so strongly she's not sure how long she can survive in the future. so she's looking for leadership when it comes to controlling the coronavirus. also one other thing to talk about here, anderson. you can register today in the state and vote. >> interesting, ryan young, appreciate it. turning to texas. we're going to show you pictures of the only drive-thru voting location open today in the houston area. this is actually joe biden in scranton, pennsylvania, going to his childhood home. earlier he was with his granddaughters who had never been to scranton and he wanted them to see his childhood home. so that's where they're visiting now. he and jill biden attended mass this morning in delaware, attended the grave of beau biden, joe biden's son, and then flew to scranton. we saw him earlier this morning talking to canvassers who are going out trying to get people coming into the polls, doing their last minute work. and now he's visiting his home in scranton. cnn's brian todd is joining us now -- or this morning from houston, texas. what's the scene where you're at, brian? >> reporter: anderson, if you want to see what voter energy looks like we'll show you in harris county. this is the multiservice center on west gray street. this is the entrance, memos are checking in, going to vote, these lines have snaked around here and almost to the street all morning long. it's gone all the way down here, past the elbow there and then to the right along that fence almost to the street there. it's dissipated a little bit now but we anticipate it'll get longer again later. lots of energy here, people campaigning lots of poll signs out here. there was question whether voter turn out would be strong in texas because texas is setting records for early voting, 9.7 million people voted in texas before election day. that eclipsed the total number of voters in texas in 2016. i want to talk to a lady who's a long-time voter here in harris county. you've been voting for 50 years. she doesn't want to give her name. but what's your interpretation of the energy and turn out? what drove people to come out today? >> i think it's going to change the direction of our country one way or the other. i've never seen emotion like this before in all the years i've lived here. >> you've been voting here for 50 years. you told me the town and dynamics have changed here. >> i'm a native and when i was growing up here it was an overgrown cow town and now it's a thriving metropolis. so many different views and ideas. >> reporter: thank you for talking to us. if we hold you up longer you won't be able to vote. so i'll let you go vote. there you have it. changing dynamics here in harris coup canty. the turn out impressive because of the early voting here. you mentioned the drive-thru voting situation. there is one drive-thru voting station because harris county, the clerk closed down nine of ten stations he was concerned that any votes cast by a drive-thru today on election day might not be counted might be illegal because a judge ruled yesterday that if on election day if voting does not take place in a place where there are walls and a roof they should not be counted, they're illegal. and a lot of those stations had tents. so they closed down nine of ten stations, there's one open in downtown houston we're told it's gotten a lot of volume so far. so that's part of the dynamic as well. >> i hear hubbub in the background, i heard somebody chanting four more years it sounded like on a bull horn. for people concerned being yelled at if they're going to vote. what is the situation there, are there people protesting? are they a certain distance away from people? how does that work? >> they're a distance away. i can show you here. we're in the shade. we'll have to show you, banning into the light. those are trump supporters across the street chanting four more years. they're voicing their passion for the president. but there's no intimidation going on. i can tell you that. we've been here all morning. these are people who are just enthusiastic, expressing support for the president, playing music, chanting. there have been other people on bull horns expressing their political views but no intimidation here. it has not been a factor. i talked to the harris county clerk a little bit earlier, asked him if there were any problems he was very optimistic. he said he didn't anticipate any, there hadn't been any so far. that doesn't mean it's not going to happen but this operation has gone smoothly. and despite the passion of some of the trump supporters and others, there's been no intimidation here. >> passion is not a problem, just illegal behavior is. doesn't seem like there is any. that's a good thing. that's what we're seeing in all the polling places we have been physically at this morning. and it's heartening to see. a lot of passion, anxiety and concern, but people standing in line, casting their votes, lines not as long as maybe some people anticipated in some areas and we'll continue to be monitoring that throughout the day. moments ago we saw melania trump alive to vote in palm beach florida. let's watch and listen. >> sorry. audio issue there. more than 9 million people have already voted in that state, an incredible 95% of all the ballots cast in 2016. polls close in that state at 7:00 eastern. to georgia, atlanta is reporting technical difficulties with polling machines, they're aware of the issues and they're sending paper ballots out. there are long lines for voting there. let's go north of atlanta, nick valencia is at a polling station in nor cross, georgia. any problems so far? >> reporter: good morning. no issues to report and no line, you can see three people in line. officials tell us this morning at 5:30 when they showed up there was a crush of people to vote. at the height there was about a 45 minute weight time. this is an important district and county, it has been firmly held by conservatives, historically but in 2016 that changed when hillary clinton won this county. in 2018 when stacey abrams ran for governor here there was mobilization here among democrats. she won this county and joe biden is hoping to inch this county further to the left. this would be the first time since 1992 if joe biden takes georgia that a democrat would win the state. 16 electoral votes are at play here. take a look behind me. as i mentioned it is very smooth, in and out at this point. the day did start in georgia with voting issues. you mentioned south of us in spalding county, a computer glitch led to voting machines going down there. we understand officials are bringing about 2,000 provisional ballots to spalding county. and in fulton county they had some vendor back out last minute in the morning so that led to poll machines not being delivered to sites. we understand they finally got delivered at 5:00 a.m. this morning but the day did not start without drama so far here in gwinnett county, an important county for the state for president trump and joe biden, no lines, no wait, everything running smoothly. >> appreciate it, nick. more than 100 million votes have been cast in the presidential election even before the polls opened today and the 2020 race could see the highest overall voter turn out in a presidential election ever. depends how many show up today. kristen holmes joins me now. take us back to 1972, the first election that included 18 year olds. >> i'm going to take you back to 1876 because that was the largest turn out we've ever seen in the united states, which was 82.6% of people who were eligible to vote voted. now, of course, we know not everyone was eligible to vote and we have really no idea as to how they tracked that. so we'll take you to the modern times. 1972, that's when we started to see a dip in turn out for voting. it had been relatively high in the '60s, during the 1940s, '50s and '60s, around 60% of eligible voters were casting a ballot. then 1972, 52.3. and it goes down. in 1996, that is the lowest, 48% of the voting age population casting ballots. ticks up in 2004, 55.7%. and then record numbers in 2008 when we had barack obama running against john mccain, 57.1% of the voting age population casting ballots. what do we need to do to get back to that number from where we are today. a lot of it depends on what happens today. they need about 49 million more ballots cast across the country to reach the 2008 threshold. 2016 did not come close to that. it dipped back down to 54.8. and right now when we talk about these percentages, we're at about 38% of voting eligible voters casting their ballot. we still need to have, again, 49 million ballots cast to reach that. the big thing to watch here, this is what both campaigns are watching, the early turn out was that foreshadowing an enormous record shattering event we'll see today or were those votes replacing votes of people who were going to cast their ballots today. >> right. >> one thing that we are watching closely, the lines in philadelphia, harrisburg, those are indicating there's still going to be a lot of interest and a lot of voter turnout. keep in mind in pennsylvania that's something you're watching closely if you're the trump campaign because 2.4 million absentee ballots were requested in that state, they were received and cast in that state. 70% of the people who requested those ballots were democrats. so republicans need that turn out on their side today. >> democrats are also looking closely at turn out of african-americans, latino voters today given concerns that some democrats had about a kind of lower percentages of african-american voters and latino voters voting by mail in advance of the election in states like florida, arizona, and elsewhere. >> that's right. one thing we're really watching closely is wisconsin, milwaukee. as well as the non-atlanta metro atlanta areas in georgia. that's where you're looking to see some of the black voter turn out that you talked about. one thing that was interesting, i spoke to several gop operatives in georgia asking if if they believed biden could take this. they said, absolutely. if you look at the non-atlanta metro areas. if you can get black voter turn out outside that area that we did not see the big early voting numbers in, they believe biden could beat trump in that area. coming down to turnout. in mail wailwaukee they're expe record numbers of people going out to vote today, people that are part of various advocacy groups they said they were talking to people who said they don't trust the ups system, they're going to vote on election day. they'll be set up in milwaukee, various cities throughout the state with snacks and things to make sure people do not leave those lines. it'll be interesting to see. >> let's listen in to joe biden. >> translato >> it's only been two families for i don't know how many years now. so signed years ago on the third floor, had me sign my name, they had me sign it behind a picture in the living room. i'm afraid i'm tractiattracting of people to their home. [ inaudible question ] >> yes, i have. >> have you talked to president trump today? >> no, i thought you said have i talked about my son today, i beg your pardon. no, i haven't talked to president trump today. [ crowd cheering ] >> vice president biden visiting the house that he grew up in in the first four years of his life. bringing his granddaughters there. phil mattingly joins me now. let's look at where we can see the vote totals come in first. >> look we've all been talking about it, anderson. you preach patience on a night like tonight, because of the pandemic, early voting, over 100 million votes have been cast, 60 million coming by mail that how and when people count is going to be different during the course of the day and different based on states and the states rules. i put up this match, a lot of times people have been watching with the volume down. if the state is dark red it's safe republican. if it's dark blue, it's a safe state for joe biden. we put this up to try to demonstrate what different pathways are and someone will start yelling that colorado is currently a toss up when nev everyone assumes it's going to democratic. pay attention to not just the colors but how people are describing the way things are going to go. you look at the key battleground areas we talked about pennsylvania into the midwest and the sun belt as well. how they count their early votes versus their day of votes is different. i want to pull this up and give you a sense how people are counting absentee ballots. you see in states like florida, arizona, iowa, nevada, north carolina, they start the process or processing of their ballots the day before. some states start counting as well. however you move to pennsylvania, into the midwest. they only process and count on election day and some counties with absentee ballots, particularly pennsylvania and some of wisconsin as well, they will start the day after. that means in certain states, north carolina, georgia, texas, florida, you're going to see a lot of the absentee mail ballot dump when the polls close or shortly thereafter, and given the fact the democrats overwhelmingly voted by mail more than republicans give the sight that joe biden is doing well in the states however as the day of vote is starting to count sometimes the states revert back. it doesn't mean if joe biden is leading early in the night he won't be leading at the end of the night. same for the midwest. they count day of votes before absentee. same with the state of michigan so they may appear to be overly republican. so republicans by our polling have been voting in person more than by mail. what you see at the beginning of the night what you see as polls close may not be where things end up. patience, watch how this plays out during the course of the night. we will have information, have data and explain it the best we can as well as we know it. because there's a huge lead in a toss up state early in the night don't decide that's how it's going to end. don't decide your candidate is winning or losing. it's going to be a process throughout the course of the night and why it's different is what we've been talking about the last several weeks. 100 million plus early votes. a chunk absentee votes and states count them differently. that dictates how the vote comes in, how it's reported and how we see things throughout the course of the night. >> appreciate it. president trump and joe biden are wrapping up their time on the campaign trail. you just saw joe biden leaving his -- the house he grew up in scranton. we'll look at their election night plans ahead. plus police on alert, and dr. birx sounding the alarm about coronavirus. her blunt warning that's at odds with president trump. for skin that never holds you back don't settle for silver #1 for diabetic dry skin* #1 for psoriasis symptom relief* and #1 for eczema symptom relief* gold bond champion your skin ♪ here? nah. ♪ introducing the all new chevy trailblazer. here? nope. ♪ here. ♪ when the middle of nowhere, is somewhere. the all new chevy trailblazer. making life's journey, just better. both president trump and joe biden are out on this election day morning. the president is expected at the rnc offices in virginia moments from now as biden is wrapping up a visit in his hometown of scranton before traveling to philadelphia. joe johns is at the white house. staff matters are setting up for a big election night party. it's going to be indoors, right? >> yeah. this is going to be the big event tonight and about 400 people are invited we're told. it's on the state floor, which is the floor they hold state receptions. there's a lot of space involved here. still, there's a question about spread of the coronavirus. and about the only thing we know about that is that people who are coming in are going to be tested. we don't know what kind of test they're going to get. but this event was supposed to be held down at the trump hotel, which is just a few blocks down pennsylvania avenue but they can't do that because the mayor of washington d.c. still has restrictions in place about the number of people who can gather. the only other event on the schedule for the president today, low key day for him, is the visit to the rnc annex, the republican national committee annex, which also houses some trump staffers for the campaign. the president expected to spend an hour, running late on that, he was supposed to leave about 10:00 eastern time and now it's pushed to 11:00. so a couple opportunities i guess to see the president. the question is whether there's going to be a victory party tonight. and that's anybody's guess. the president ones to fox toda asked when he would declare victory. he said i think we'll have victory but only when there is victory. top white house coronavirus adviser is pleading for more aggressive action even as president trump continues to falsely claim that the u.s. is rounding the turn on the virus. in a november 2nd report, dr. birx is quoted as saying we are entering the most concerning and deadly phase of this pandemic leading to increasing mortality. this is not about lockdowns it hasn't been about lockdowns since march or april. it's about an aggressive balanced approach that is not being implemented. our political analyst and white house reporter for "the washington post" josh darcy joins me now. tell me about this internal memo from dr. birx. >> dr. birx has been sounding the alarm for several weeks what she sees as a lack of action by the administration. she's predicting more than 100,000 cases a day beginning this week. and she's saying that the administration has to do more messaging, more testing, more to convince people to social distance to avoid big crowds or the winter is going to be grim. dr. anthony fauci obviously did an interview with us on friday, he shared the same sentiments. but there's a growing frustration among dr. birx and dr. fauci who feel their concerns have been pushed aside amid the campaign for presidency. >> how bad does dr. birx think the current coronavirus situation is? i mean, she has always been very measured in her public pronouncements to not critique the president, to not -- to essentially one often had the sense she wanted to stay in the room where things were being decided and, therefore, wasn't publicly, you know, contradicting the president. clearly now she is. >> yeah, she's been frustrated, anderson, with the rise of scott atlas, adviser who the president brought in this summer who shares a lot of the president's opinions on the virus. dr. birx has not been regularly seeing the president in recent months. the vice president has been on the trail. she's told others she feels like she lost her influence to actually make policy at the white house. she's been traveling the country, going to about 40 states talking to state officials encouraging them to wear masks but she said we have 230,000 deaths, more than 9 million cases and this winter is going to be the most concerning and deadly time of the pandemic. in these memos that she sent around to others, anderson, she said we need to avoid large crowds. it's not because of the rise in testing of why we have more cases. it's because of rapid community spread. the administration is not doing enough to take on the virus. in many points it's a direct remud united natior repir repied of what the president is saying right now. >> possible unrest over the election, including the nation's capitol, fencing and barricades now surround the white house. we're outside the white house to look at the extent of the measures. vivian. >> reporter: good morning, anderson, overnight d.c. has turned into a city offenses and plywood. standing on the west side of the white house, you can see the fences have gone up overnight. crews up worked around the clock to put the fences up in the event that unrest happens on election night, they wanted to be prepared. d.c. residents are no strangers to the fences we saw them go up in the wake of the george floyd police brutality protests over the summer. they went up again overnight as authorities anticipate them, these are dubbed nonscalable fences, they're 8 feet high, 4 feet wide, difficult to push over. they're locked together, each panel. and so really difficult to do that. d.c. authorities, the metro authorities, as well as federal authorities say they don't have any credible threats being posed at the moment but they want to take precautions saying they're anticipating any worse case scenarios that may come about tonight and in the coming days. also around the city you'll see, like other cities, plywood, boarding going up in the an t anticipation of unrest. a lot of them experienced vandalism and threat over the protests in the summer so they're trying to get ahead of it. but these are what officials are hoping will keep people away from the white house. i want to show you a map quickly to get a sense how widespread this is. 52 acres surrounding the white house are fenced off from protests with these exact nonscalable fences also lafayette park to my right is also fenced off. a lot of protests took place there over the summer. so authorities really trying to keep people as far away from the white house complex as possible. you may remember that the president was ushered into a bunker over the summer because protests got a little bit too close to the white house. so authorities saying they are trying to take all precautions necessary and they're hoping these fences do the trick tonight and in the coming days. >> i don't think it's something we've seen before on an election day in the united states. appreciate you being there. still ahead, president trump won ohio in 2016. can he do it again? 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>> reporter: so far the voting has been picturesque no problems whatsoever. this precinct has been open for four hours and it's been steady. the mayor of the city just walked in, mayor any troublemakers in town? >> no troublemakers in this town whatsoever. as a matter of fact, it's a beautiful day here in town, people have been very patient and really thrilled just to be voting. >> reporter: mayor, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> reporter: nice to meet you. people come in, show their id, checked in, and this is the voting area. i want to show you, i'm not voting right now, it's not e electr electronic here, you take your paper and pen, comes to the scanner where this gentleman is, once you scan it as you're about to see. you have cast your vote. and so far everything is going good here in the state of ohio as far as we know. except us getting in everyone's way. ohio is an important state, 18 electoral votes, seventh most in the country. this is interesting, no republican has ever made it to the white house without winning the buckeye state. >> a lot of folks are watching what happens in ohio to see if there's any hints of what may happen in some parts of pennsylvania as well. >> reporter: that's right this could be a har binger of pennsylvania since it's in the same region. ohio, joe biden does not have to win this state, donald trump does. interesting interestingly, joe biden made a last minute visit to cleveland yesterday. >> the trump campaign felt good ability the president's chances in ohio. apparently the biden campaign saw something in cleveland hoping to mobilize, perhaps african-american voters there to see if that might tip the scales. appreciate you being there. gary, do you know how long wait times are at the polling station you're at. >> reporter: people are waiting 20 to 25 minutes at this polling station. it moves quickly. i will tell you, there are 3,000 people registered to vote, this is three precincts in one place. we've had almost 400 people come in four hours. so you're talking 12, 13, 14%. it's hard to tell if that's a lot or a little because so many people have early voted in the state. >> one of the things i find so heartening, i'm a broken record on this. given the anxiety that's going on, just how normal this morning is. at every polling place we've been to, it's good citizens wanting to cast a ballot and volunteer poll workers who are there helping them and it's just normal. >> reporter: you've heard what the mayor said, it's peaceful. that's a really important point to emphasize people have been worried about going out and voting here it's like any other day. what's important to point out, anderson. i covered the california primary in march, i was at a sacramento polling place, two people came in that day wearing masks, it was the beginning of covid, we were like what's going on here. now all of us are wearing masks. you see everyone here trying to protect other people standing by them. and these heroic people working in the precinct. it makes you feel good to be an american. >> it does. gary, appreciate it. the election is making history. before the first polls opened this morning, more than 100 million americans cast their ballots already. here with me now, former governor of ohio, john kasich. he endorsed joe biden for president. 100 million votes cast before today, nearly three quarters of the entire votes counted in 2016. it's going to be interesting to see what turn out is like today if -- to see if this is breaking all the records or if because so many people voted early it's actually a lower turn out today. >> well, i mean, we'll have to see anderson, but the intensity is high. we worry about how do we get more people to vote. people tend to vote when they have something they care about. if there's not much they care about, it's just casual. you won't see high voter turn out. in this case the intensity is high on both sides. those who want to support donald trump are geared up. and those supporting joe biden, you know, i saw a special over the weekend, they asked one lady, was her vote for biden or against trump and she said, can i have both? so there's a lot of intensity out there. that's why you're seeing a very big turn out. >> what do you make of the biden campaign going to cleveland with the candidate kind of a last minute stop in cleveland? >> well, that's because they took a look at ohio and thought it's so close, if they can produce a greater turn out in cleveland, you nailed it, anderson, when you talked about a higher african-american turn out, it's possible that biden could win the state. if you notice today, biden is back in pennsylvania. he's over in philadelphia because philadelphia is so critical in terms of turn out and it can overwhelm the rest of the state if the turn out is large enough. no surprise he's over there and frankly i'm not surprised he went to cleveland because they see this as a possibility. >> you know, the issue of fracking is something that got a lot of attention. it always has, but during the last debate obviously, the president felt that joe biden had made a big mistake by talking about fracking, though vice president biden actually supporting fracking, just not on federal land moving forward and gradually getting off of fossil fuels. i'm wondering, do you think that hurt him in ohio, parts of pennsylvania? >> you know, anderson, my gut tells me that's a small slice of people. the people who are actually in the industry, you know, get very worked up about that. when i heard it in the debate i thought it would take a heavier toll on biden than i think it has because it's a narrower slice. in ohio where i approved fracking except in our public lands i don't think the numbers are that giant. close contest it could make a difference but i have not seen the impact of that that i thought i might see. >> how quickly do you think we'll see results from ohio? >> well, they're pretty good, they start processing the ballots, the mail in and then, you know, they're going to do their very best. we have up to ten days to count ballots that are postmarked the day before election. this is something that's been traditional in the state. it's been this way for a long period of time. i can't tell you. anderson, i'd love to tell you i know exactly when we'll know but i can't say that, i wouldn't be telling you the truth. >> that's a tradition in the state, ballots sent in can be counted as long as they're postmarked before the election, they'll be counted up to 10 days? >> yeah. and they'll process them, you know, they're processing them today. and then exactly when they'll be begin counting them, but people will keep an eye on that. we expect the early votes to favor joe biden but as we know, come election day, those votes matter as well. so do it right, take your time, i know in all the elections i ever had, i want to know what's the absentee vote, how are we doing that? traditionally it's been for republicans but it certainly has changed in this electionas chan seems. governor john kasich, an exciting day, appreciate you being with us. thank you. the world watching as americans head to the polls. what u.s. allies and adversaries are looking for tonight. we'll talk to christiane amanpour about that ahead. in the bay area, we believe in science. traffic and air pollution will be even worse after the pandemic. that's why we support measure rr to keep caltrain running. which is at risk of shutdown because of the crisis. to keep millions of cars off our roads, to reduce air pollution and fight climate change. and measure rr helps essential workers like me get to work and keep our communities healthy. relieve traffic. reduce pollution. rescue caltrain. [all] yes on measure rr. as americans cast their ballots in unpress denned numbers countries around the world are watching to see who the next president of the united states will be. joe biden is promising to return the u.s. to a more traditional role on the world stage. christiane amanpour joins me now. what do you think u.s. allies are watching for tonight? because clearly there's an intense interest around the world in this. >> intense is an understatement. everybody is on the edge of their seats. this is a matter of extreme importance for the rest of the world because it matters. here in britain, obviously the government, prime minister johnson has hitched its style really to president trump idealogically they're similar and believe they could get a super free trade deal with a trump united states post brexit. they're also seeking to ingratiate themselves with a biden camp depending on how it goes. 75% of br britain the people would vote for biden, though. same in france where 80% of people who have been polled say they prefer a biden win. we've been asking ambassadors and former cabinet ministers they told us in france and here in england, former ministers that they can't really take another four years of unilateral and, quote, hostile disengageme disengagement. if that does happen, there is another four years of president trump, it really will alter the course of world history and world affairs, particularly amongst these particular allies of europe. if you go further south and the middle east, israel has prepared two statements and we've been speaking to the u.n. ambassador he tells us that president trump has set the bar high when it comes to u.s. foreign policy towards israel. they're appreciative, as you can imagine of the u.s. president moving the embassy from tel-aviv to jerusalem. of the kushner, trump peace plan being weighed heavily to benjamin netanyahu. also the agreements. on the other hand they said if there's a biden win they go back to the decades that senator biden, vice president biden has been engaged with israel in supporting israel and also the peace accords. most hope that if biden were to win he would reengage on the palestinian israeli peace protess sesz. that's the allies. we know that turkey would like to see a trump win, they believe it's been helpful to them. trump has pulled away from turkey's historic enemies, parts of the kurdish parts of that population south korea an ally would like to see a biden win but does not want a return to the obama administration idea of patience with north korea where they thought obama let them build up missiles and test them and bring that danger to a head there without standing in and confronting it. >> obviously u.s. adversaries are another matter not just allies. we know russia, china, iran have attempted to sow discord in the u.s. >> look, iran is the big one. the prime sort of foreign policy objective of the trump administration in these first four years has been to collapse the iranian regime or to completely squeeze it with a so-called maximum pressure policy of sanctions so as to really force it onto the back foot. they pulled out of the iran nuclear deal, obviously allies hope biden would go back to that and back to climate change. but iran kept its powder dry, metaphorically, it has not come out to do any provocative things that it thinks would receive a negative response from president trump but clearly when pushed they would rather see a president who's going to reengage with the iran nuclear deal and so do the european allies, as i said. we know china which has been heavily engaged with president trump on trade and tariffs. president xi said neither threats nor provocative measures are going to be conducive to a relationship. i don't know if that's a direct swipe to president trump but they are not commenting publicly also. russia has stayed mum about who they would prefer. some are saying it doesn't matter who wins. what matters is the relationship between whatever country and the united states. >> exciting day. appreciate you being with us. thanks very much. >> it is. >> talk to you later. the postal service reporting another drop in the on time movement of mail ballots threatening election day delivery in battleground states. we'll have more on that. and when you get a big deal... ...you feel like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip is a big deal. welcome. top of the hour, 11:00 a.m. on the east coast of the united states. it's an incredibly exciting day in this country. thank you for joining me, cnn live coverage of election day in america continues. a big consequential day as voters get the last word on who they want to lead the country in multiple crises. the race is historic, more than 100 million people have already cast their ballots before polls opened. right now polls opened in every state coast-to-coast. alaska opening up this hour and hawaii opening next hour. some long lines at polling locations like this one in philadelphia, line stretching two blocks and around the corner. many sites across the country with no lines at all. there'san anxiety with the nation divided and the coronavirus pandemic surging. making this one of the most consequential moments in our country. we could see the president head to the rnc annex in virginia to encourage his workers there. he's running late this morning pr that visit. joe biden has already been out we saw him in scranton. he began his day in church at delaware going to mass and he also visited the grave of his son beau. we've been checking in all morning long. let's go to florida. polls have been open for a few hours. the state has nearly matched the total number of votes cast in 2016, officials say. randi kay is in florida. how are things now? >> reporter: it looks like they're getting the high turn out that they were hoping for. we've seen a few lines here this morning we're in lighthouse point. i can tell you i spoke with the office of the supervisor of elections here for the county. he said already they have almost 54,000 people who have voted in broward county already. keep in mind, they were saying that they were predicting maybe 100,000 to 125,000 people voting in all today. so they are off and running in terms of that. that's because they've had so many people vote already in the county. they already around the state they've had 9.1 million have voted. that's about 95% of the 2016 total. but here in the county they've had about 850,000 who have voted already. so big numbers to talk about. but here in lighthouse point, this is really a red pocket in a very blue county, which is broward county. donald trump won this area with about 65% of the vote compared to hillary clinton with about 31%. she did take the county, though, with about 66%. so this is a very highly democratic area but this is a must for donald trump, really. the last republican candidate to win the white house without the state of florida was calvin coolidge back in 1924. we've been talking to voters here today, anderson, there there are a fair amount voting for donald trump as expected in this area. one couple would not tell me who they voted for. they said they were waiting until they walked into this building here behind me. the rec center where we are to decide who to vote for, they were torn because racial equ equality is important to them and they're also pro life. they said -- i said are you happy with your decision? they said no. it wasn't a write in. i got that much out of him. donald trump is certainly expected to do well in the panhandle, which is a red part of the state. he's pulling a lot of support from cuban americans in miami where he's been pinning democrats to socialism and that is really resonating with that group. but joe biden and the democrats are hoping for a strong win here in broward county and seem to be getting a big turn out that could work in their favor. a hiccup in another key battleground states, at least three districts saw delays opening today in pittsburgh. have those issues been resolved? >> reporter: those are three sites that were missing some of the voting materials. the county has delivered those materials to the sites. they are back open and we assume they're seeing what i'm seeing in frank park, a suburban neighborhood in pittsburgh, which is a long and steady line of voters. we saw it since before the polls opened at 7:00 p.ma.m. what i'm hearing is that this is a longer line than they're used to waiting in. that's because people in pennsylvania know how much pressure they're under. this is a state donald trump won by just 44,000 votes in 2016, flipping the state to red. they know this is a state everyone is watching. a word that a lot of the voters out here to describe it is tense. that's how they describe what's going on in their neighborhoods in pittsburgh right now. neighborhoods that are deeply divided. yes, this is a state that flipped to red in 2016 but allegheny county home to pittsburgh was the blue spot in western pennsylvania in the sea of red. however this neighborhood did go towards trump at that time. this year i'm hearing more of their friends that are going to the polls. they know more people who sat out last time who will vote this time. i haven't heard anyone say they changed their vote in terms of party between 2016 and 2020. so we're going to have to see how this all shakes out. what is unifying voters out here, whether they plan to vote for trump or biden, is something of a sense of frustration, that is because they are not expecting to get results from pennsylvania today. they know they're going to hang on and wait longer. there have been some 2.5 million mail-in ballots that were cast as of now. and some counties in pennsylvania are saying they won't begin to count the mail-in ballots until tomorrow. the day after the election. so that's fuelling this sense of anxiety for some. they know they could have to wait to hear the results for the entire state. they also know there's likely to be further legal challenges to ballots that are received after election day. that despite a state supreme court ruling that said that ballots could be counted as long as they're postmarked by election day and received within three days of the election. anderson? >> it is nice to see. as tense as people may be about this day and in anticipation of this day in the reality we've been seeing in polling place after polling place we've been looking at over the last several hours since they opened around the country is just how normal it is. and just how peaceful it is. we see it on the right-hand side of the screen in hon dyderry new hampshire. there's no one yelling in the line, it's just like a normal election day. >> no one is confronting one another as far as what we have seen in the polling sites that we have visited in this part of the state. we don't see a lot of people advertising on their clothes, hats, holding signs who they're going to vote for. this is an interesting site because people seem reticent to say who they're voting for at all. it's everyone's right to keep that private. when you talk to people in general people tend to have a strong opinion in some places in the country they're eager to express it. here people seem to be keeping it quiet. they know that there are real divides that exist within the community. they tell me it's very likely that the neighbor next door will have a different lawn sign than your yard. i heard about family members that are deeply divided so these are tensions that people are living with on a daily basis. it's not just about the ballot that they cast today. it's about their view of the country, where it's been and where it should go. >> alex field, appreciate it. i want to turn to michigan, another critical battleground state the president won by less than 1% in 2016. om omar jimenez joins us from st. clair shores. >> reporter: we heard from the secretary of state's office who say so far things have been running smoothly. they had to call in about a dozen reserve poll workers that they set aside for covid-19 reasons just in case. but they wouldn't say if this was pandemic related or someone didn't show up to an actual poll. but again, so far so good here in michigan. as you mentioned a state that president trump won by less than a percentage point. this county where we're standing, within mccomb county is a county that president trump flipped in 2016. it's a county whose winner has been the statewide winner for presidential and governors races seven elections in a row now. when you talk to people here, this is a place trump had a rally over the weekend, when you talk to the people here obviously they're divided in many ways but specifically for people who support president trump, some might think his image has taken a hit over the past four years at least one voter we spoke to said he was with him from the beginning and said he's going to continue sticking by the president. >> i knew trump was going to take it all the way. he said himself i don't get in anything to lose. he's, he's, he's suave, he's busy savvy, he can think off the cuff and he says what a lot of americans want to hear, you know, not politically correctness stuff. >> reporter: and one of the interesting things he went on to say as well that i've actually heard in common between democrats and republicans that you speak to here is that the stakes of this election have never been higher. he told me this is the most important election he has ever voted in. when you look at the turn out, the numbers we've seen so far, that mindset and mentality is reflected. 3.1 million absentee ballots have been returned here in the state. that's more than the 2016 election turn out and more than 60% of the 2008 presidential election turn out, which set the record here in michigan. you look no further than the campaign activity as well from the candidates, president trump between friday, over the weekend and last night has held at least four rallies in the state of michigan and joe biden and president obama were in detroit and flint over the weekend. senator kamala harris is expected to be in detroit later this afternoon. so a lot of attention being paid, again, to the state that president trump took by just the slimmest of margins in 2016. >> omar, appreciate it. thanks. record turn out this year with more than 100 million ballots cast. six states have already topped the number of votes cast in 2016. walk us through these numbers, phil. >> this is all gray right now. it's going to fill in over the course of the night. but we have a sense of one key thing. that's enthusiasm, like we've never seen before in early vote. there's a reason for that, it's in in the middle of the pandemic. but you mentioned, six states at this point in time have already surpassed their 2016 total vote. texas nearly a million over that. washington state, arizona, nevada, battleground states. montana a key senate race as well. there are seven other states that hit the 90% mark like florida, arizona, georgia and north carolina. overall, anderson, 37 states and the district of columbia are past 50% of their 2016 vote. you talk to both campaigns, operatives on both sides and one thing they agree on, they don't agree on much right now, but they agree that the enthusiasm is there. that raises this question. is the u.s. today on track for record turn out? you look, it's dropped off over the course of the last 50, 60 years, rather sad levels. 1960 the high point of the modern era at 63.8%. 2008 was 61.6% and it's dropped since then. the big question right now is, is the united states going to surpass perhaps what we saw in 1968. it's a possibility, at 63, 64, 65% of turnout. i think what goes with that is the question of what that means, who does that benefit, what does it mean for the map and does it shake up the map based on states we assumed was going one way and because of voters turn out, and because of mail-in balloting, all of a sudden those become more in play and start shifting directions. we don't know the answers and won't until tonight. we know people are turning out at least in the early voting, on record levels. >> we're seeing more states more purple the past decade. >> this is the interesting thing. i'll pull up the 2016 map. that's the baseline, which the trump campaign has operated throughout this campaign. they know what their pathway was in 2016, they need to replicate that as much as they can. the biden campaign they're looking through the pennsylvania and the midwest as their clearest pathway to 270. win back the wall. there are plenty of differences between 2020 and 2016, though. the idea there are a handful of states as you move from the southeast to the southwest, the sun belt, that all of a sudden weren't in play for democrats a couple of cycles ago that have moved in that direction. georgia, president trump, it's red in 2016, arizona it's red back in 2016, a shift in demographics, the move of suburban voters over the last couple of cycles. we saw it in the 2018 midterms in senate races in arizona, house races in georgia, what is going to happen over the course of the night. those states have been moving towards democrats. they haven't cracked the map yet on the democratic side. will tonight be the night it changes. we've been talking about the early vote, the city of texas nearly a million votes behind what they did in the entirety of 2016, a lot of that surge is coming from suburban areas, dallas county and outskirts. what does that mean, does that put texas in play? i think republicans have long said we understand the demographics are shifting in texas but they don't think it's there yet for democrats, think it'll take a couple more cycles. democrats believe tonight may be the night. if texas changes tonight, the entire map changes for democrats. >> so much to watch for. thank you so much. breaking news on how the u.s. postal service is handling mail-in ballots, for the fifth day in a row, the postal service moved fewer ballots on time than it did in the previous day. this is really concerning. we're learning this from court filings. what details have you learned? >> this is concerning, given the fact that in at least five of these states they don't actually accept mail-in or absentee ballots after the election. so this is putting ballots in states like michigan, wisconsin, georgia, at risk of not being counted. i want to give you some of the numbers here. overall we talk about the slow down, the ballots being processed and it looks like a shift down one point from 91% of ballots being processed to 90%. okay. then i get into the weeds of the numbers here. and i'm looking at things like this. just 52% of the atlanta district ballots were processed. 52%. 69% in wide swaths of north carolina moved on time sunday and monday. 69% in wide swaths of one of the most critical battleground states of north carolina in this election. so i can't stress this enough. for the last several months we've been talking to the postal service we have asked questions, we have said look at the numbers there's slow downs in all the policies that postmaster general lewis dejoy instituted. they said they were ready for the election, they were going to get the ballots in on time, that is not what we're seeing right now. they said it's a lack of staffing because of covid-19 but we've known this could have been a problem now for months. so this is just a -- it really is shocking to see some of the low numbers in the 50 or 60% here for the postal service these ballots that may not be counted because of the delays, anderson. >> also there are some states you can track your ballots and if you realize it hasn't already been received, that you can actually still vote. but in some states that's not the case. if you 'sent in a ballot, that's it. you can't go to a place if you realize it hasn't yet been counted. >> we're talking about some of these critical states where every vote counts. so a state like wisconsin, you are out of luck if you do not have your ballot cast at that time. in a state like pennsylvania, if you don't get your ballot, see where it went, you can show up, if you can't turn in that ballot, which you can't if it's lost in the mail. you can file a provisional ballot there. there are different rules across the board. if people are not seeing their ballot delivered, they should show up at their polling place no matter what and try to cast a provisional ballot to make sure their vote counts. looking at some of these numbers in had different areas of the swing states. i saw in pennsylvania and ohio it was roughly 80% on time ballot sorting and moving. these are not great numbers given we're on election day right now. >> that's really stunning. kristen holmes, appreciate it. after months of build up, the day is here. the waiting game for president 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(female vo) get 0% apr financing for 63 months on select new 2020 models, now through november 30th. president trump is making one public appearance today in the rnc in virginia, once he's returned to the white house he's expected to remain there the rest of the night. joe biden is making final campaign stops in his childhood home of pennsylvania. john harwood is in washington and jessica dean is in philadelphia. i understand joe biden had his granddaughters with him today, said he wanted to take them to the home where he was born? >> reporter: that's right. he was in scranton, pennsylvania his childhood home taking two of his granddaughters with him. i mentioned earlier today, this is obviously strategic being in pennsylvania, it's a critical battleground state they want to turn out union workers, white working class workers like you would find in scranton, pennsylvania and he did speak to union workers there. but what you said is also true, he did go to his childhood home in scranton where he spent several times during the campaign. he went inside and wrote on the living room wall there a short message, signing the wall, from this house to the white house with the grace of god and signing it and dating it today. he did a similar thing back when he was running with barack obama as his vice presidential candidate but scranton played so much into the theme of this campaign but also is so much of who joe biden is and how he sees himself and presents himself to the world, to voters, to his family. we heard time and time again his closing argument of park avenue versus scranton. because he was born in scranton, grew up with working class parents he understands everyday americans, which sets him apart from president trump who he charges is looking out for himself and his millionaire friends with tax cuts and decisions in the white house, his lack of leadership in the white house. but also in scranton, going by his old church, a local hoagie shop he likes. really weaving in the personal in the final day of the campaign. and he'll head to philadelphia before coming back to will mington, delaware where he'll await election results. >> the white house has made changes to their election party plans, i understand. >> reporter: they have. the president will visit the rnc office this afternoon and then have the party at the white house. originally they talked about having a party at the trump hotel but after the regulators in the city, who give out liquor licenses raised questions about the arrangement, they shifted it to the white house. told us they expected around 400 people there. today they announced they will limit the size of the gathering to 250 people with everyone receiving a rapid covid test and getting a bracelet indicating that test before having the part tonight. now kayleigh mcenany said they expect to celebrate a landslide victory tonight. does not sound like the president was expecting a landslide. he phoned in to fox news this morning complained fox had not been as good to him this year as they had been in the past and when he was asked about the reports that he would try to prematurely claim victory before the votes were counted he said no i'll claim victory when victory countries if if victory occurs. he said, i think i have a solid chance. that does not sound like a candidate expecting to win a landslide victory and the polls tell us it's not likely he wins a landslide. trailing traditionally. he has to hope the close battlegrounds he won in 2016 tip his way and he can figure out some way to deny joe biden one of the three rust belt states that gave trump the presidency in 2016, wisconsin, michigan or pennsylvania. pennsylvania is probably his best shot, which is, of course, why joe biden is there today, anderson. >> john harwood, appreciate it. jessica dean as well. the last three u.s. presidents went on to serve full two four year terms. if president wins he'll continue that tradition, if he loses, where does that leave him? doug, only six other presidents since 1924 have ever lost re-election. >> that's right. you want to win. you want to be the two-term club when we rank presidents. that's the first thing you look at. it's a referendum, are you doing a good job. if donald trump loses and has, you know, 42% of the public backing him, it doesn't bode well for him trying to establish any kind of legacy. he'll be always ranked towards the bottom of the presidents, like james buchanan and warren harding, known for impeachment, corruption, dividing the nation. jimmy carter was sitting president he got killed in a landslide by ronald reagan in 1980. this might be more like 1992 when bill clinton squeaked out a victory over bush 41, but ross pe rote was the weird third factor in that particular election, perot got 19% of the vote as the third party candidate, really messed up the political energies of the country. >> and if trump wins re-election, it'll be the seventh time since 1924 a president won re-election to a four-year term. >> if he wins, we're living in the age of trump. the republican party is donald trump. >> there is no other platform. >> there is no other platform. there is no plan b for the republican party. it's got turned into trumpism. so if that gets rejected now, the slate is open of who could become -- to take charge of the republican party, i'm sure marco rubio wants to insert himself in the road, maybe nikki haley. but donald trump is not going anywhere. he built his career as i'm a winner not a loser. he may try to take the results of the election to the supreme court. and if you get him out of office, he may not show up for the biden inaugural but he'll probably create his own media network, which he intimated and his twittering will continue. he'll keep trying to get followers and still be a disruptive force in american life, intimating he might go back at it in 2024 and run for president yet again. >> doug, thank you very much. coming up voters casting their ballots in iowa, president trump won the state in 2016. also ahead, intense battle for the senate. we'll look at the key races that could determine the balance of power there. and now your co-pilot. still a father. but now a friend. still an electric car. just more electrifying. still a night out. but everything fits in. still hard work. just a little easier. still a legend. just more legendary. chevrolet. making life's journey, just better. chevrolet. with this seal, this restaurant is committing to higher levels of cleanliness. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the expertise that helps keep hospitals clean, is helping keep businesses clean too. look for the ecolab science certified seal. keeping your oysters growing while keeping your business growing has you swamped. 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(camera clicks) ♪ watch what i do ♪ i see you looking ♪ watch what i ... do! welcome back. voters making their way to polls across the country including battleground iowa where more than half the total number of ballots cast in 2016 have been cast in this election. martin savage is on the ground in des moines, iowa. what's it like there since polls have opened? >> reporter: really busy. early voting in the state went until 5:00 last night. and the numbers were, by the end of the day, about a million votes cast. so the thinking was perhaps come the general election maybe you wouldn't see as many people coming. in this particular polling place where we are, it has been extremely busy. it's pretty much evenly split between the parties. polls opened at 7:00 local time, there was a long line when it opened, there's not a line now but there continues to be a constant flow, seeing about 150 voters an hour, sometimes 200 voters an hour. and this is the lull you get between lunch and when the polls open in the morning. so consistently busy here. like many states, iowa set records when it came to early voting and registration for 2020. as i point out, about a million early votes cast roughly. that's important to note because the secretary of state thinks overall in this election there will be a little over a million and a half votes cast. which means the vast majority have been cast. that's important because in this case they can start counting those votes early, and they have. they started yesterday. in des moines, they pretty much have counted all the early votes cast. so when the polls close at 9:00 tonight central time they'll have a huge leg up on all the ballots and counting and processing them, which, of course, means the secretary of state is confident that iowa will have a result tonight. remember, it's 6 electoral votes, winner take all. we should point out it's been really close in iowa. the president won it by nine points in 16 but this time around close for months. then a break last weekend. the des moines register came out with a poll that said it looked like independents, and there were a lot of them in this state, have begun to break in the president's favor. we'll see. it could be an outlier or it could be accurate. we'll find out tonight. control of the senate is on the line. there are a few key races across the country democrats hope to go to their favorite for the balance of power. what races are you watching closely tonight? >> there are a lot on the board right now for democrats who think they have a shot at winning some of them. some of them better than others. arizona, you have mark kelly, a former astronaut, husband of gab gab gab gabby gifford running against marsha mcsally. mcsally tied herself to president trump, it doesn't seem to have worked so well according to the polls she's in danger of losing. down to colorado, you see cory gardner, he is being challenged by john hickenlooper, the former governor, our governors may remember him on our air as a candidate for president he decided to ditch that and in turn run for senate. right now he has a good chance of picking up the colorado seat. i'll say, iowa as well, joni ernst we saw martin savage out there, joni ernst has tied herself to donald trump we saw a poll out of the des moines register for donald trump that may help joni ernst she may survive, she may end up loosing. you go to the east coast. north carolina right now, you have thom tillis being challenged by kyle cunningham, republicans thought they had a shot of getting back this -- or holding onto this seat because a scandal two weeks ago regarding cal cunningham. tillis is somebody who tied himself to president trump he was with him last night at the rally in north carolina but also somebody who went against donald trump early on in the administration when they were talking about the border wall, that may have hurt him with the base. if you go to the north, to new england, and you look at susan collins up in maine, she's in deep trouble right now being challenged by sarah gideon. if one of these candidates does not get 50% tonight, then it goes to rank choice voting. that means when you went in to vote you put who was number one as your choice but you also put who was number two and number three and four, there are four people on the senate ballot right now. if someone doesn't get 50% they go back and tabulate the second choice. >> there's the tight race in south carolina, lindsey graham seeking his fourth term running against jaime harrison. a lot of money poured into that race for jaime harrison. what are you peck eexpecting ton there? >> at this point i think republicans feel better about this race than they did say three or four weeks ago. if you remember we saw lindsey graham whenever he would be doing an interview, he would ask for donations because he knew he was being hammered so hard. lindsey graham faced a tough re-election to south carolina, some folks didn't think he was conservative enough. at this point he has tied himself to the trump train, saw him as one of the biggest supporters and advisers on capitol hill. he will have a bit of a fight tonight. if he loses south carolina, we will see an incredible wave that will sweep across the nation that could pick up other seats, including texas if you can imagine that and perhaps kansas as well. >> our cnn correspondents fanned out across the country. we'll take you live to minnesota, a state president trump is hoping to turn red this election. th liberty mutual, so they only pay for what they need. false alarm. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ woman: after covid, my hours got so we can't pay our bills. and now our family budget is gonna be hit hard with prop 15. the yes on 15 ads say it only raises taxes on big corporations. that's not true - we're all going to pay. $11 billion in new property taxes will get passed on to small businesses and farms. they'll raise prices... ...higher gas, health care, food...even day care. we can't make ends meet now. families can't afford 15. no on prop 15. the killing of george floyd and the protests that followed sparked a political awake evening for many young voters in minnesota. about 30% of voters are under 30, that's more than twice the level in 2016. cnn correspondent adrienne broadus is at one of the buzziest polling stations in st. paul, minnesota. how is it looking? >> right now not a long line. there were long lines this morning but not now. nearly 2 million people have already voted here. the secretary of state steve simon says that's about 62% of all votes cast in 2016. to perhaps those early voters can be attributed to the short lines we're seeing here right now. we are in st. paul, that's the state's capitol. typically this state leans blue, hillary won minnesota back in 2016 this year as always the prize 10 electoral votes. it's important to note president trump almost won minnesota in 2016. he captured and won more than half of the state's counties, but this state is blue. and today, as many people head to the polls, voters i've spoken with, say on their mind is george floyd. you remember george floyd was killed at the hands of police in minneapolis here in the twin cities we spoke to a yungs voter who turns 23 next week he was one of thousands who protested in the days following the death of george floyd and he created a song called "why vote" in it's encouraging others to look beyond the presidential campaign. >> i don't feel safe as a black man living in america. i don't. but i understand the lay of the land. and i understand that a lot of these things are systematically organized. so we must systematically make changes so that is why i'm going here, i'm exercising my right to vote. >> reporter: and anderson, across the country, many black men have died at the hands of police saying i can't breathe. that was the case with george floyd. you might have noticed lewis was wearing a hoodie that says, we will breathe. he said that hoodie is a form of protest and his way of changing the narrative. when he cast his ballot today, on the back of it he wrote the name of black men and women across the country who died at the hands of police. anderson. >> appreciate it. thanks very much. coming up to maine let's go there. a state with only 4 electoral votes but voters are turning out to make sure they count. evan mcmorris is in brewer, maine. it looks cold there. how are voters handling the weather conditions? >> reporter: welcome to a know snowy, cold election day here in brewer, maine. it's a very important county in the 2016 election, it is one of those pivot counties that voted for president obama in 2012 and then president trump in 2016. that helped this part of maine flip and become one vote that trump surprisingly picked up on the 2016 election night, something he's trying to do here. we're voting in a pandemic so there's a line outside of people that have been waiting, polls opened at 7:00 and they've been like this ever since. and inside the building, there's only about 30 people allowed at one time to vote because of trying to keep the social distancing of only 50 people inside every building here during the pandemic. let me introduce you to one of the voters we have here. edna, hi. >> hi. >> reporter: thanks for talking to us. can you tell us why you chose to vote on election day instead of earlier? >> it felt more normal to me. i think it's fine if people didn't feel comfortable with the pandemic or needed to vote, this felt normal to me, nothing during the pandemic felt normal so i decided to vote the way i always do. >> who are you supporting today? >> do i have to answer that? >> reporter: you don't. secret ballot. >> i'm not going to answer then. >> reporter: here in maine, people are voting in large numbers. big turn out in absentee ballots and in bankgor seeing a big turn out too. this is an area of the country you could see something interesting happening seeing the president picking up an electoral vote or going to the democrats. >> i like when the voters say i'm not going to tell you who i'm voting for. it seems the wait there is pretty short. >> reporter: yeah it's not that bad right now. it was longer earlier this morning. and election officials are telling me they expect big lines closer to the end of polling at 8:00 tonight. so maybe after 5:00 when people get out of work you might see the lines snake out back here. they're ready to do it. they're hearty folk. >> it's interesting she used the word normal. nothing has felt normal. that's the word i come back to today, looking at the election places, looking at how normal this is. given the drama that's gone on, the anxiety, anticipation, look at polling spots around the country. you see philadelphia on the right-hand side of your screen and it is election day. americans are standing in line to vote. some of the lines are long, some are short, but things are just proceeding along normally. and that certainly is a blessing. evan, appreciate it, thanks so much. no matter who wins today's election, the democratic party is going to look difference with establishment democrats. cnn political commentator and former presidential candidate andrew yang joins me now. andrew, first of all, what are your thoughts on election day seeing all these polling places, seeing short lines in a lot of places because so many people have voted already, long lines elsewhere. >> it feels great, anderson. over 100 million americans have already cast their votes. you're seeing potentially record turnout. if you're watching this and think it's too late for you, there's same-day voter registration in 20 states. you can get in on it. this is an historic election. i'm thrilled that turnout is so high. i think it's a great emblem of democracy. >> it's also cool to me just how, as i said, how normal it is. people are worried about is there going to be violence or people shouting at you as you stand in line or people wearing hats and t-shirts and trying to convince you to change your vote. we're not seeing that. not to say it's not happening somewhere. but for the most part, you know, there are strict laws in place about voter intimidation and there's good people who volunteered who are working at these polling places and it seems like it's moving along. >> it's very positive, anderson. but it's not surprising to me in the at least having traveled this country, meeting thousands of people who supported donald trump in the last election. americans, when you get down to the individual level, are for the most part imminently reasonable. they know they're going to go. they could disagree with someone in line with them and they're never going to have any kind of exchange. they're going to stand there and wait to cast their vote and come watch cnn to see the results. not surprising at all to me having travelled this country. >> we talked to one reporter a little while ago about some of the slow downs that we continue to see in the mail delivery in some key battleground states. i mean, really serious numbers, like 60%, you know, on time delivery is off by some 60% in some places. it's really stunning and could have significant impact on the results. >> especially because some of those states are tightly contested battleground states, places like north carolina and wisconsin. to me this is one reason why you want to try and drive every single vote because there are some uncertainties with the process. if there's one concern i think many of us share, it's really does the process hold up? i'm personally confident that if all the votes were magically counted then we would have a very clear result, but the mechanics may hold up the vote count and may actually end up with a significant number of contested votes in a number of key states. >> yeah. in some of these -- in some of these states if -- as long as the ballot was sent in and postmarked before the election, it will be counted. in some of them there's three-day window or ten-day window. but in others, it's -- if it's not there by election day, it's -- it may not be counted. so the slowdown of the mail is a huge concern and probably something the authorities will be looking into once this is all said and done because this is the kind of thing that can't happen again in the future. when do you think you're going to be able to get a sense of -- or actually i guess, anandrew, r you tonight what states in particular are you looking at? >> anderson, you're looking at florida, north carolina, georgia, potentially ohio. these are states that if they go to joe, we could have a very quick and powerful repudiation of trump. now, if trump wins those states and some of which he's expected to or he won last time, it doesn't necessarily mean that he's going to win the entire election. but if joe wins some of those states, then this could be a quick night. that's what i'm going to be looking for. you're going get those results by not that late tonight. >> if whoever wins while the president has been saying the pandemic is going away, they've rounded a turn, the truth is, you know, certainly for the next several months anybody -- the whoever wins, things are going to be dominated in this country by the surge of the pandemic. dr. deborah birx, anthony fauci, others and we're seeing what's already happening in europe, there is, you know, a rising death toll, rising case count. and it is going to get very ugly and very, very difficult for the next several months. >> we've lost hundreds of thousands of lives and millions of jobs, many of which will never come back. congress completely dropped the ball not having any pandemic relief after april. so, whoever is the president in 2021 is going to have an enormous challenge for them, anderson, because we need a new, new deal. we need a massive rebuild of the country, economically, public health, infrastructure to try to get the pandemic under control. this is one reason i'm confident that joe is going to win tonight because so many americans think we need a different leadership team in the white house. but it's going to be a monumental challenge for the new administration whoever it happens to be. >> andrew yang, appreciate it. great to see you. just into cnn, election officials are warning voters in one state after an anonymous robo call went out telling people to stay home. we'll have more on that. stand by. i'm susan and i'm 52 and i live in san francisco, california. i have been a sales and sales management professional my whole career. typical day during a work week is i'm working but first always going for a run or going to the gym. i love reading. i love cooking healthy. it's super important to me. i was noticing that i was just having some memory loss. it was really bothering me. so i tried prevagen and it started to work for me. i wish i had taken prevagen five or ten years ago. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. ♪ ♪ heart monitors that let your doctor watch over you, just like you watch over your best friend. another life-changing technology from abbott, so you don't wait for life. you live it. ♪ welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm erin burnett, this is cnn's special coverage of election day in america. at this hour, polls in all 50 states plus washington, d.c. are open. >> erin, you know when you hear that music, that means it is go time. it is go time. we are not even down to the wire. this is it. i'm don lemon, of course, joining erin burnett today, trying to help erin out today although she doesn't need the help. this is an election unlike we have ever seen before, erin. millions of voters have lined up across the country. they have been doing it for days, right? doing it for weeks. but many lined up before dawn. and even before the first polls opened this morning, 100 million ballots have already been cast here in the united states. that is a jaw-dropping number. the president is about to visit the rnc offices in arlington, virginia. he has been expected to return to the white house, erin, for the night. so we'll see. >> we will see. a gorgeous day in washington and across this country. no excuse for people to not be out there voting if they haven't already. joe biden spending the day in pennsylvania soon heading to wilmington, delaware, where he'll spend the evening. the next four hours, we'll talk to voters as we count down to

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