A terror attack. At least 20 dead and tens of thousands of homes destroyed as the philippines is hit by a super typhoon goni. Plus how robots are coming to the rescue to help keep our pop up Art Exhibition in london pandemic proof. Well we begin in the United States where there is now less than 7 hours to go until the 1st polling booths open on election day already a record 98000000. 00 americans have cast their ballots more than 2 thirds of the total number who voted in 2016 now these are live pictures where President Donald Trump has held 5 rallies across 4 states in a last minute push for support in battleground areas where rival joe biden focused on ohio and pennsylvania taking aim at trumps response to coronavirus. Oh these. Are Frontline Health care workers they suffer sacrificed arts this president s question their character their integrity their competitor their fellow gherkins its a disgrace the right software on to say he was going to fire dr fouts well ive got a better idea lets stop with. If you want your children to be safe if you want your values to be respected if you want to be treated with author dignity and respect then i am asking you to go tomorrow and vote for a person a president of the of wealth wallace thats close over 12 White House Correspondent can be how kittys following events from washington d. C. And of course the clock is ticking away those polls will open in just a few hours time the messaging hasnt really changed very much but its very focused kimberly. Yes absolutely focused and as you heard there really both candidates painting very different visions for how they see the United States and thats the clear choice that americans are being presented with but what is similar about both messages is that each one is kind of portraying it as an existential threat to see the either in office so americans have at times had some real competing information not just on the campaign trail but also on the airwaves where we know that joe biden has had a bit of advantage in terms of ad buying but now all of that has come to an end weve seen these candidates with an exhausting schedule as you point out for donald trump it has been focusing on states like michigan for joe biden it has been focusing on states like the one where he was born in pennsylvania but whats really clear is that with the polls well joe biden has had a strong lead donald trump believes that in the final week in these rallies that hes been holding that he will be able to make up the difference and pull out a victory in fact its something that he did in 2016 and hes telling his supporters that he will do it again and of course can believe there is a general sense of nervousness with sort of news in some of the larger areas talking about areas being boarded up. Yeah absolutely in fact what were seeing which is really astonishing is that i can tell you ive never seen this in the more than 20 years ive been covering u. S. Politics the u. S. Elections but there is a fence a wrecked it around the white house anticipating on rast as well there are businesses that are being boarded up in washington d. C. In new york even all the way to los angeles major American Cities anticipating there will be civil unrest and americans reacting in anticipation and with anxiousness hoarding food going to the Grocery Store much as they were prepare for Tropical Storm for example and in the last couple of hours weve also had this development the u. S. President tweeting about one of those battleground states the u. S. State of pennsylvania sensually saying that a recent Court Decision to extend the vote counting in that state would be dangerous as he called it will twitter has since flag that tweet as being misleading potentially so in the closing hours once again we have the u. S. President making very strong claims and essentially discrediting the results in advance something we should point out that joe bidens team is doing as well saying that there is no scenario where they believe that donald trump will be able to declare victory on election day again what this is left is americans feeling very confused and most certainly almost half of americans likely to be frustrated with whatever result happens on tuesday or later indeed of course the campaigning coming to an end and of course completely part of the Front Line Team so the voting starts and we continue our special coverage of the American Election thanks for joining us from washington d. C. Now to austria where at least one gunman is on the run following an attack in central vienna. The. Gunshots rang out in the capital just after 8 oclock local time on monday in what the interior minister has referred to as a terror attack 2 people have been killed and at least 15 have been injured including a Police Officer one of the suspects is also being killed police say there are of there are 6 crime scenes pardon me some close to viennas main synagogue i want to mention it to our nima our special forces managed to take out a heavily armed terrorist who was armed with an automatic Assault Rifle and according to our current knowledge to use at least one assailant still on the run this is not really nic and it is of course a very tense security situation while we pursued the perpetrators and we noticed they are very well equipped with automatic weapons very professionally prepared it is definitely a terrorist attack. Thomas maier is european editor stand out hes more he has more on the situation unfolding in the austrian capital. Theres police everywhere the whole city center is now closed the problem is there are so many people outside who went into restaurants and bars to to have joy in the last evening before the lockdown which was thought at midnight so that i want to say people cant go home because the streets are closed and as the speaker of the the minister of interior affairs has said before there were even 6 places not only in the center where there were shootings and incidents and police and special forces even the military has been called in the town and now at the moment the action is still going on they are hunting for the attack is one they have caught people shot as they say. For sure several others who are still on the run the streets are empty now because police has asked people to stay in their homes or in the bars or restaurants where they were when the shooting started so its a very dangerous situation still there were several men who ran the through the streets and shot on people as i said in 6 different places so we still do not know what is behind that attack what kind of group it is police is desperately hunting for them and i think then when they identified them well one of them perhaps or know more about the motivation behind. At least 20 people have been killed by the most powerful storms to hit the philippines the share a massive cleanup operation is underway in the wake of super typhoon tony with one region reporting 90 percent of its infrastructure damaged reports from a province in the southern region. Helen between you know was inside her home with her 2 children when flash floods swept them all away they held onto each other and climbed onto a floating matches nearby they all survived but ended up hundreds of meters away from their home helen went back the next day were home to it this is all thats left of it now. It took me years to be able to build this house but i am grateful because i feel that god has given me another chance this is the town of give the baton by one of the areas in the philippines worst hit by typhoon gone be the most powerful storm this year of farmland community now mostly reduced to rubble at least 300. 00 homes have been destroyed here across the region of luzon the damage is staggering to. The beagle region was once hailed as a model when it comes to an Emergency Response not this time thankfully he was just too powerful rescue energy of all operations are almost entirely dependent on machines like this one those in search for missing loved ones say they know that the situation is desperate but they remain hopeful they will still find family members alive beneath the rubble. But salvador manrique is world has collapsed he fears his wife and daughter have been buried in the mud his sons body was found lifeless several kilometers away. We are holding on to each other but the other sort of power when i was pushed back when i got out i didnt see them anymore shields that somehow their bodies can still be found and be given a proper burial survivors here tell us they were able to clean with just the clothes on their backs but they have lost Everything Else their homes their livelihoods there is so much grief and sadness here. Drill and joins us now from out by province in the philippines which has seen some of the worst damage an annual report we see of the sheer devastation that particular location but the philippines is no stranger to such storms how have the authorities and the communities in general weathered whats happened over the last 72 hours. Well you know sohail are the because the region has always been a model for Emergency Response but this typhoon has proven to be extremely difficult not just for the call but all the other areas that was called by this wide i was on my mind. The country has been reeling from the impact of the economic crisis brought about by the girl in the virus and demick and of course were seeing a lot of surveillance you know lost their homes are currently in Evacuation Centers really finding it very hard to practice social distancing or even that here to the very basic sanitary requirements by the front demick thats force not to mention that they have lost their farms their livelihood these schools that have been empty for months because of the coronavirus pandemic may be their home for a while and so its clearly a hand to mouth existence so hell the government admits resources are stretched theyve been giving a lot of aid over the last few months but they assure residents there will still be enough and it will be given to those who need it most president that there was here yesterday Vice President a bit ago is still here yesterday trying to assure civilians basically that they are not alone but this is a very difficult situation because there seems to be no end in sight since another typhoon is also on the way again of the authorities always make these promises and you know and hopes that they can help everybody in time in all the locations but then months down the line we see people are in the same situation is there a sense of apathy as well from those that youll speaking to where you are where they feel perhaps the authorities yes saying all the right things but its not actually translating into a physical help that they really need and. They do they do that and they feel that way there feels like a sense of hopelessness here but because the region in particular has been very good at Emergency Response however it may be a bit slower this time the. Officials here are civilians who are basically telling us what the major concern really is shelter and food there is no more issue or worry at this point as weve spoken to surveillance about sanitary conditions theyre no longer afraid of the coronavirus pandemic it seems to be at the back burner at this point so we hailed the president president that there was highly criticized this week for not appearing at all during the entire time the typhoon going he was devastating many areas in Central Luzon only appeared for the 1st time a few days later yesterday for a few moments as chopper was hovering over the area where we were as as we call ground 0 and then he flew to manila for a briefing he was criticized for not being present and this is not an unusual criticism from a lot of government officials in fact the interior secretary said he will someone all the others who have gone missing or really not show up during the time when they are most needed but its something that as you know youve covered the baby its not something thats how you a regular but people hope this time there will be more help cash aid in particular is quite critical and so we shelter here to interference with you or for us in the philippines thank you. Well still ahead here on aljazeera the w. H. O. Warns of a critical moment as a coronavirus pandemic 2nd wave gathers pace. And the green shoots in the slums that could help feed some of brazils poorest people those stories after the break to stay with us. However the weathers looking lousy fina dry across much of north america we have got some basin places a plateau rolling across ontario quebec and its was canadian maritimes in northeast of the u. S. Will also see some bits and pieces of cloud and rain around new england but thats aside an election day looks fine and dry a brisk wind up towards the northeast but not too bad for most pretty much wall to wall sunshine it is looking good because some wetter weather around the Pacific Northwest into that western side of canada that will slide across the rockies as we go on into were when the state is pushing across the mountain states here but for many as you can see the fine weather continues and if anything the temperatures recovery say things started cheering quite nicely in terms of the temperatures certainly plenty of sunshine around not so much sunshine across the caribbean we have what is now hurricane easter making its way across the western side of the caribbean just been upgraded from a Tropical Storm will see that wet weather punching its way into one nicaragua some parts could see maybe 600 millimeters of rain over the next few days staggering amounts of rainfall and that is a lot its a lead to life threatening floods then that wet weather stretches from panama into honduras with wet weather there too for much of jamaica. A journey of personal discovery i found this which is the copy of a letter to germany addressed to my ground. 0 as barbara 0 traces of family links back to the regime of Benito Mussolini and asks his fascism return to italian polish fascist in the family it makes me sick this letter alone and i found. On aljazeera. A book about if you want your desire that means the whole rom the reminder of all top news stories there are just hours left until the 1st polling booths open for the us president ial election donald trump and his rival joe biden have been making the final pitches to voters already a record 98000000 americans have cast their ballots. At least one attacker is on the run up to several gunman opened fire across central to get out on monday evening 2 civilians were killed and 15 others injured in whats being called a terrorist attack police in austria say they shot one person dead the suspected gunman. And a cleanup and rescue operation continues in the philippines after super typhoon goni at least 20 people died in the storm theres extensive damage to homes and basic infrastructure. The Afghan Government has announced a national day of mourning after an attack at Kabul University 22 people have been killed and 22 others injured during a gun battle. To fury reports from kabul. As students rushed to get out of Kabul University gunshots could be heard things got i. Thought witnesses say attackers and heard the campus through its north gate and started shooting indiscriminately as i want to know didnt you know we saw them when they entered they were shooting at every student they saw us even shot at students who were running away a few of us managed to leave the scene through another gate Security Forces quickly surrounded the campus it took Security Forces more than 6 hours to get the situation under control the 3 gunmen have been hurled and the bodies of the dead are now being removed from the campus for identification. Doing this long hours until the attack was over parents of students trapped inside waited for news. I was downtown when i heard from people that there was a Suicide Attack at Kabul University i got here so quickly and started ringing my sons phone i dont know whether hes in class or somewhere else on the University Campus i asked him where he is but he just told me to pray for the attack happened during a book exhibition by afghan and the rain in publishers no one has claimed responsibility for the taliban says its fighters are not involved. This is the 2nd attack on the School University in the last 10 days while government and taliban negotiators meeting qatar to broker a peace deal violence is still affecting the lives of many afghans from your country for algis ear. Proof president is facing his 2nd impeachment trial in less than 2 months martin his car has been accused of accepting bribes of more than 600000. 00 from 2 companies that won public work tenders he denies the allegations but a majority of politicians in Congress Said this serious enough to warrant a trial is caro survived a previous impeachment trial which was part of a wider bribery probe or to the corona virus pandemic now the head of the World Health Organization says Global Leaders are facing a critical moment with a 2nd wave of infections dr ted drastic abrasives says its time to step up against the pandemic the w. H. O. Chief has been placed under quarantine after coming into contact with someone with 19. Over the weekend we saw that while many countries have broad government united and. Cases countries in europe and north america continue to survive this is another critical moment for action another critical moment for leaders to step up and i know the critical moment for people to come together that what the government does see is the opportunity its not truly. Several countries across europe are opposing tougher restrictions as infections continue to rise france reported another record jump in new cases on monday with more than 52