Help himself without a teleprompter, without an aide whispering in his ear. I think hell have a tough time staying together. Some of the headlines about the debate prep have been really fascinating. Weve seen some reporting on hillarys prep. Shes prepare for angry trump, affiable trump. Do you think she might be overpreparing or is this what e has to do . At the end of the day this guy has been so unconsistent throughout his campaign. He changed his position on abortion three times within eight hours once. So she needs to prepare for absolutely anything because the the public . . T debating . . Ke Hillary Clinton and very unable dont want her. Negative addition to that, she were not a swing state and now were totally a swing state again. S will be . Hard fought in [k . C d . 0u expect the . Ixw . Aai . Backn colo . Rado if numbers holdor clinton spent against trump. Really quick the one thing youre most watching for tonight. Kelly . I am watching for hillary and energy. Donald trumps a
President ial debate. The stage is literally set right behind us. There are the two podiums where Hillary Clinton and donald trump will take their positions in just a short while from now. And the stage is set in every other way in expectations, in stakes, in suspension, in suspense and the importance to the choice voters make in 43 short days. Tonight, a string of new polls shows the race is nailbitingly close for both candidates. Our new nbc News Survey Monkey a fivepoint lead nationally, but other major polls out today show a race virtually tied nationally, and in some key battleground states as well. Some are estimating a total audience on the order of 100 million tonight, and thats super bowl level. And the super bowl is as good a metaphor as any to describe how much is on the line tonight. We have our Political Team assembled and ready to go. Nbcs Hallie Jackson won the coin toss, and she starts us off this evening. Good evening, hallie. Reporter good talk, put it this way, donal
He wanted to stay with both families by their side throughout the entire afternoon. That was his priority. As we move forward to the day and into the evening he is going to come back up the mountain and meet with his team here and do some other things to really take care of each other. He wanted to be here but he wanted me to express why he isnt and what he isnt and also share his thoughts of thanks and great pride for the community. It has been a great outpouring of support and truly loved. We appreciate that, especially at sheriff. We are hoping the sheriff will make comments at some point. It wont be today and it wont be tonight but we will really stay with that piece. As you know, a news release was recently sent out but the clark county sheriffs Sheriffs Department detailing the events of the day and a listing those members of the park county Sheriffs Department who were update from the sheriff himself. If you dont have access to that information you can find on the Jefferson Coun
And highway 85, you can see all the flashing lights in both directions. We were coming from the south, police made us get off at around 42nd and of course i saw police tape everywhere on both sides of the highway and they have this huge area blocked off. Were hearing unconfirmed reports we dont want to get out there yet until e get it confirmed with police. Theyre going to give us updates when they can. Clearly a very active scene. A new scene as well. There will be a lot of information coming in at some point this morning, we just nothing confirmed. You can see clearly its a huge scene that has a large highway blocked off. So thats clearly going to cause issues for commuters this morning, because both directions are closed and jayson luber has details on that. Its going to be a mess. It will beelater on this morning. Now through evans on the south its well traveled but not heavy traveled at this hour. South side of greeley right there in that town of evans, this is the section eric wa
Mountain as we move into the evening. While he wanted to be here, he wanted me to express that reason why he is not typical he also wanted to express his thoughts. This has been a tremendous outpouring. We greatly appreciate this. Especially the sheriff. We were we are hoping that he will sheriff. It will be tonight most likely. As you know a news release recently sent out detailed the events of the day, it listed county Sheriffs Office who were shot. It also provided a little bit of an update from the sheriff himself. If you dont have access to it on the Jefferson County the cbi is also sending this out to their list serve. You have a lot of opportunities to receive this information. Before we provide an update of would like to talk a little bit about Corporal Nate Carrigan. I dont profess to be able to share the stories that are going to be released about nate and what he is meant to his community. And what he has done to help everyone around him. What i do know is that he served his