Of a new day if he wins. And also on the program for people are killed as gunmen opened fire in the austrian capital of vienna the government there is calling it a terrorist attack. The non pietists improve the sports news audience on football legend Diego Maradona has been admitted to hospital all those doctors says its not too late to cope with all of the details of this news though. Right now across the United States versus are going to the polls to decide if donald trump will get a 2nd president ial term or if joe biden will become president voting has been open for just a few hours now but already long lines have been forming already nearly 100000000 people have cast their ballots an early voting bracing breaking previous records now this hour 13 g. M. T. Polls have also opened and a number of states including iowa kansas and all important texas. Here is our team on the ground for the south gabriel is under as monitoring developments for us from new york kristen salumi is in philadelphia and pennsylvania one of the big battleground states where as we heard voting has begun in the last couple of hours jamal ohio is at a polling station in wilmington delaware bidens home state and from washington d. C. Weve got alan fischer will get all the latest from them in a moment but 1st lets take a look at how the last hours of campaigning unfolded our White House Correspondent can be how he begins our coverage. Us President Donald Trump wrapped up his Reelection Campaign still behind in the National Polls but convince still pull off a victory and i think were going to have a tremendous victory truck rally in 4 different battleground states but made his last rally in michigan as he did in 2016 with an 11th hour pitch to voters but if the errors in the radical left gain power they will collapse our economy and send our nation into a very steep depression trumps rival former Vice President joe biden focused to other Northeastern State of pennsylvania calling in celebrity artists like lady gaga to wrap up the final night and in. Pennsylvania is the same state where bidens campaign started and also where he was born chad stared up a dirt track. Would you do this would you be bennett well we. If youre being. Asked. And it states of america as the candidates presented their closing arguments the number of americans who have voted prior to election day has set new records nearly 100000000 people have cast their ballots in early voting. Both polls show early mail in voting favors biden but trump believes his supporters are waiting until tuesday to cast in person votes but in the final hours of the campaign both candidates signaled they may not accept the results on election day sheeting can happen like youve never seen this is their dream and they are they are known for trouble even called a recent Supreme Court decision allowing an extension to count votes in pennsylvania as dangerous twitter flagged the tweet as potentially misleading with an immediate result on election day in doubt both candidates are preparing potential legal challenges to the results under no scenario while donald trump be declared a victory a victor on Election Night casting widespread uncertainty over poll results now appears to be a tactic employed by both campaigns you know weve already seen challenges to extended deadlines for allowing a mail in ballots that have been postmarked by election day but that arrive a few days later they have been challenges to adjustments in the law as American Voters are anxious hoarding food. And boarding up businesses from new york to Los Angeles Joe biden will be in pennsylvania on election day donald trump will be watching the returns come in from the white house were to add additional fences have been erected around the perimeter in anticipation of. Civil unrest can really help get aljazeera the white house alan fischer joins us now live from the capital washington d. C. And i know everyone says this every time around but this is a hugely consequential election and it does feel at the moment that the country is facing an unprecedented level of polarization talk us through whats at stake in. It feels significant it feels different and there is greater polarization in american politics but that also leads to greater engagement which is why were seeing that almost 100000000 people have voted in election why theyre expecting long lines that polling stations across the country in the next few hours we have a president who believes that he should be given a 2nd chance seeing that the corporate crisis essentially interrupted what he says that was the greatest american recovery in decades all economic factors dont point to that but it is certainly a story that his followers are willing to believe he points to the fact that he created record employment for africanamericans for latinos and also for Asian Americans and he believes he should be given a 2nd chance the democrats say that donald trump lost the right for a 2nd term because of his handling of the corporate crisis the ignored the severity of it and killed and its killed more than 220000 americans they say that they have a better plan for americas economy they believe that given the opportunity they can rebuild the country in the way that barack obama did after the financial crisis when he took office its an argument that they will make in various radio interviews today in fact though trump has just been on Cable Television one of the Big Questions of course will he accept the result when it comes through and he said hes going to when that has been a trump mantra for the last 2 or 3 weeks that the polls are wrong the polls are fake and he feels very much hes in the same position he was 4 years ago when all the polls and i mean all the polls were suggesting that he was going to lose he Still Believes he can win but well know more in a few hours time but the final result might not be known for a couple of days yet simply because there are states that will current those 1000000 votes allen you mentioned president transparent. Morning what can the rest are today. Well his intention is to do several more interviews by telephone from the white house he also intends to head over to Arlington Virginia where the Republican Party have one of their headquarters hell be thanking Party Workers who will be heading back to the white house where you watch the results come in with family members there was an intention to have an event at the trumpet tell not far from the white house but that has been put on hold because of the covert crisis moshing didnt d. C. It means that you can have only a limited gathering so he intends to hold an event in the white house a couple of people are saying well if you cant do it in the hotel why cant you do it in the white house because the white house is a Federal Building and believe it or not its not covered by laws and regulations particularly laws and regulations by washington d. C. So about 400 people are intending to gather in the east room were expecting to get some comments from donald trump the big question is if he wins a couple of early states say for example texas and ohio will he then claim victory for the whole evening even before we have the full picture as a way of trying to deal objective mice the results as they came and really can can claim that there was voter fraud so this election which has been hugely divisive do expect that as the results start to come in somehow america will become the United States again theres going to be a lot of divisiveness for a few days yet a very tense night and David Alan Fischer there for us on the ground in washington d. C. Thank you allen well lets now get the view from delaware joe bidens home state tomorrow i am as at a polling station wellington for us jamal i know the National Polls have been looking pretty good for biden but no one is taking anything for granted as we all remember Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but then lost the Electoral College last time around whats the feeling like in the biden camp today. Well lets say cautiously optimistic and there is still the drive to ensure as many people come out and vote as possible the message from the democrats is that they should be voting as if their life depended on it its the fact that joe biden is still canvassing in the butts of ground in pennsylvania shows that they arent taking anything for granted that they dont want to repeat the same mistake as they did in 2016 and trying to canvass as much support as possible we see it here even though it is so to speak a safe haven for biden it is his home town but there are still large voter turnout in the early hours despite the cold despite obviously the pandemic as well the asli there are precautions that are taken here everybodys going to come in were in the mosque they are wiping the areas and sanitizing bits and so forth but the message thats come out from the democrats particularly in the past 24 hours has been that this isnt just a choice between trump and biden this is essentially an attempt to save american democracy and that has been the consistent messaging that has come out from both biden and his running mates come of the horrors whove been pointing to the divisive nature as theyve put it of trumps policies how thats eroded american democracy and how its important and peretz of the people come out and have their voices heard when we look at the boarded up shops around the country and you look at the 10s atmosphere that is this is something that is alien so just speak to. An American Election and the fact that the tensions are so high is something that really does speak to the fact that there is the message of protecting democracy something that will resonates amongst millions of people here. On the ground for us and that no and thank you very much john always been talking a lot about battleground states lets go now to kristen frame issues in philadelphia pennsylvania one of the key battleground. States chris and i do want to ask you out a polling station the polling been going now for the last hour or so pennsylvania was won by trump last time by the very very slim mist of margins we could still be waiting for days for results even though polling already begun. Yeah thats true but this is a very important state the candidates have spent more time here than any other state its considered the Tipping Point with 20 Electoral College votes that the candidates need to put them into a victory im actually in philadelphia which is considered the birthplace of u. S. Democracy this is where the constitution was signed the declaration of independence was signed and i meant the museum of the American Revolution which has been turned into a polling station because of concerns about congestion and the coronavirus you can see people are already here voting they were lined up an hour and a half before the polls opened in the dark i spoke to the woman at the front of the line and she had actually requested a mail in ballot but because of all the concerns being raised by president chomp about counting the votes she decided to come and vote in person instead 3000000 mail in ballots have been requested in pennsylvania about more than 3 quarters of them have already been returned so those are expected to take some time. To be counted in pennsylvania the law requires that they dont start counting those mail in ballots until the day of the election itself 7 counties have said they dont have the manpower to even begin that process until the day after the election so this is why the results are expected to come in a bit later here and why President Trump has been raising objections and concerns about those votes coming in later the mail and votes of course expected to be more favorable sergio biden then the day of voting totals but the governor here has been urging calm other elected officials have also been on urging calm saying that the votes will be counted everyones vote will count but its going to take probably. Few days before we know the results here in pennsylvania kristen salumi there in pennsylvania all important pennsylvania for us thanks so much kristen well as we are waiting for there is results many people are also bracing themselves for unrest lets not speak to gabriel is under hes outside a polling station for us in new york again we did already see huge protests in new york over the course of this year and we are expecting more people out on the streets in the coming days. We are there are going to be protests at least here in new york but probably some other cities as well as early as tomorrow some protests have already been called protested say that if biden winds still take to the streets to hold him accountable for the promises that hes made during this campaign and they say that if trump wins they will take to the process to take to the streets to voice their displeasure at his reelection so its not a matter of if there will be protests in the u. S. Its a matter of where and how big they will be now here in new york city at this polling place weve been here all morning and there have not been very long lines quite frankly but do not mistake that for dis interest in this election we can pretty much attribute this to the fact that 1100000 new yorkers have already voted in early early voting unprecedented numbers so thats why perhaps were not seeing quite as long of lines here because people a lot of people have simply already voted but this certainly has been a very tumultuous year here within the United States with black lives matter protests protests against Police Brutality against racism and so now this election really coleman ates what has been a very very tumultuous year here in the United States and a lot of people wanting to see what these results will be and then see what their reaction will be from people here in america after these. Bad 9 passes in new york says he will be being contracted i thank so much came from. Well lets put all of this into context the u. S. Has a rather unique way of electing its president its called the Electoral College system its complicated and its contentious especially if youre talking about who actually got the most votes now each state is given a share of electors and that share depends on the size of the states population and therefore the number of representatives in congress so populous states like california texas new york and florida have more Electoral College votes and that entire nationwide Electoral College is made up of 538 members. Of 538269 which means the magic number that the candidates need to win is 270 so during the election when people vote for their perfect candidate theyre actually voting for these electors who in turn give their votes to the candidates now the states have mostly a winner take all system so if you get the most votes at the ballot box you get all of the Electoral College votes for the state except for maine and nebraska they split the Electoral College votes so in america it is actually possible to get fewer votes from the population and yet still win the election its already happened 5 times twice in the last 5 elections like 2016 as youll remember when Hillary Clinton got nearly 2900000 more votes than donald trump but trump flipped some crucial states with high electoral vote counts and he got 270 instead of her while almost 50 is the stage of minnesotas Electoral College votes have gone to democratic president ial candidates in 2016 President Trump lost that state by less than 45000 votes and now minnesota is one of the swing states that could determine the outcome of this years election the reports. A patchwork of soybean and corn field stretches across the plain of Blue Earth County minnesota the campus of Minnesota State university is in mint quito the seat of the county its attracted a Small Community of immigrants. In 2012 the county voted for president barack obama in 2016 it pivoted to President Donald Trump. Is a somali immigrant hes the 1st person of color elected to the man cato school board the democrat says the evolving demographics of the county are at the root of its political whiplash in 2016 that really gives a lot of my. Our White Brothers and sisters a lot of anxiety that change of 4 generations the live in you know they feel a sense of belonging but of a ledge and the system so that being threatened. Was something that from exploited. A 20 minute drive away on the duncans and family farm there harvesting the last 8 years of corn sold to make ethanol and probusiness anti regulation mindset of the trumpet ministration i appreciate we dont like people telling us how or what. We theres a sense of freedom out here agriculture and hog production are the economic drivers of Blue Earth County the population is about 90 percent white according to u. S. Census data the countys biggest city bank kato is the site of the largest mass execution in American History in 86238 members of the dakota tribe were hung after the us dakota war trials when westerman is dakota and the director of the Humanities Department