Sitting there unspent. Why isnt it being put to work and Holiday Plans in limbo we want to see family and friends. But how . Tonight coed guidelines to keep you safe the news good evening. Just two weeks left until the election covid is rising and colliding head on with politics. Increasing in 42 states over the past week including battleground wisconsin where early inperson voting began today right now President Trump holding a rally in erie, pennsylvania First Lady Melania Trump was supposed to be there with him but canceled her spokesperson said she has a lingering cough from her covid infection. Joe biden stays off the trail. His campaign insisting to prepare for the final president ial debate day after tomorrow time is running out for a covid relief deal before the election. More mixed signals on where things are headed for americans. Details on that coming up in a few minutes. Heres a hint. For people in need, its not looking good we have reporters covering it all focusing first on battleground wisconsin early voting and covid rising in the same state at the same time. So we have two reporters there first to Shaquille Brewster in milwaukee. Reporter the only thing longer than the lines waiting to vote are the lines of cars people taking advantage of this curbside voter option as this pandemic continues to spike here in wisconsin you see Election Officials going and bringing the ballot to people and people can vote from the comfort of their own cars. What people have been telling me as theyre waiting in line, it is the coronavirus that has been driving them out people understanding the seriousness of it and the importance of the political leaders and they want to get their voices heard in that measure. Listen to my conversation with a voter who came out early this morning about what she saw in early 2016 people are voting on it like their life depended on it. We see covid people are dying people have not seen an unemployment check people wondering when theyre going to eat we have a lot of stuff going on. And its going to make a difference whether somebody lives today or tomorrow. Its our life depends on it. Reporter and before the doors open, more than 915,000 people across the state of wisconsin already cast their ballot i spoke to the mayor of milwaukee. He said thats their intention people voting by mail, early in person and that will alleviate some of pressure on election day and struggling with covid hospitals adding beds, Funeral Homes burying the dead 215 members of one Hospital System many covid isolation recently new cases across the state almost doubled, say Health Officials, in the past 30 days theyre seeing a spike now like nothing since coed began. Gabe gutierrez is live at a testing station. Reporter yes, the cases are rising here in wisconsin they are saying it is a Software Issue costing days to be lumped together but this site opened yesterday we came from here yesterday as well and today again. Long lines of cars of course, not for voting but covid testing. It went for seven or eight hours today. The people were lined up here. It isnt just here in wisconsin. This is happening across much of the country including parts of the midwest. Just to our south in illinois, there are new restrictions in place across the southern part of the state the mayor and the governor are sounding the alarm and were hearing from a doctor at northwestern in chicago. This pandemic is clearly taking its toll we all feel better about ways to protect ourselves we know what the importance of masking, universal magsing, hand washing. We know it works but were tired. People are tired and theyre starting to get lax and thats what were seeing come into our hospitals now. We feel like professional soccer goalies just trying to keep people safe until their bodies can recover. It is fine for us food when we have a couple balls coming at us but when it comes to a hundred, you cant keep all the balls out and thats when were worried. Reporter in missouri the thats on it rate is more than 21 in other parts of the midwest, seeing rising cases nebraska, record hospitalizations in kansas, sadly, one nursing home, ten people dead. Dozen of other patients and employees, more than 80 of the hospital beds in this state of wisconsin are still filled wow another blow for californias theme park workers and visitors new today Health Officials giving no clear date as to when large theme parks can reopen the covid time lines are strict. The response from disney razor sharp. Julia is live in Los Angeles Julia . Reporter thats absolutely right. California prohibiting theme parks from opening until the countys covid19 risk level drops. Disney along with universal has asked to reopen their parks when they reached a moderate spread now the disneyland president saying that disney has proven it can responsibly reopen parks with Sciencebased Health and safety protocols saying these safe guidelines will keep us shuttered for the foreseeable future, forcing thousands more people out of work, leading to the inevitable closure of small familyowned businesses and irrepairably can he have stadev community. It is all tough under so many ways. Were all feeling it we take a deeper look at the issuesful at this bottom of this news hour, Contessa Brewer talks with a Mental Health professional who will give us tips to make it all easier to handle then Frank Holland with what is low risk for you and your family at gatherings and what you really need to avoid first the early voting totals they are staggering amid covid constraints. More than 35 million americans have cast a ballot thats like nothing ever seen in manager. It is one quarter of the entire voter turnout from four years ago. And our latest Research Polls are out and they she joe biden with a 10point league nationally but we dont vote nationally in six swing states, that will go a long way deciding the election things are tightening up steve, which races jump out for you in. There are two states here two battlegrounds. Pennsylvania and florida that really jump out. You see biden with an advantage of two in pennsylvania with an advantage of five in florida and i think when you look at the electoral map and the race for 270, boat these states, i think these are the two biggest mustwin states for the president if hes going to get reelected. Let me show you why. This is what happened in 2016. The most direct path to the presidency for joe biden, it is to flip pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. All three of these were decided by less than 1 point in 2016 biden leads in all three but pennsylvania is closer closer than michigan, closer than washington, trump is closer in pennsylvania than any of the other two. Weve been seeing it a while if biden flips all three, biden goes over 270. If trump can who know to pennsylvania he has to find a way to win one of these three midwest states. Pennsylvania is looking like his best shots and then to florida with 29 electoral votes. If i flip this to biden, look how devastating losing florida would be all the way to, pennsylvania is looking like his best and biggest shot and he has to hang on to florida. Other things of to fall into place but these are the two most essential Building Blocks for trump. So some ground to make up this is an interesting stat from the cnbc poll asking people who are not currently supporting trump, what are the chances you might still support him . 2 , some chance, 4 , small chance, 5 , a very slight chance 90 who are currently supporting trump say there is no chance at all. There is a pool of voters for trump to tap into but it is very small. He who is the clean up there if he is going on get over the top. Some clarity at the intersection of sxoefd politics. Disaster relief is not coming. Not before the election. Not if the leader in the senate gets his way Mitch Mcconnell told his members in a closed door lunch that he vised the white house not to agree to a stimulus bill with the House Speaker nancy pelosi until after the election mcconnell saying he does not want to divide his conference before the vote. Speaker pelosi gave them up to tonight to keep the agreement but now she says shell keep negotiating. Pushily, they say everyone in America Needs relief and many of which cant recover without help cats have one plan, republicans have a plan and the president says do more something this big, this expensive and this urgent. How do we make sense of all this well, at this stage of the game, this late stage of the game, it is less about that. There are a couple scenarios emerging in one the white house could raise its offer beyond the 2. 2 trillion package Speaker Pelosi has put forward. President trump said he could do more that would get democrats on board and soon but there would be significant gop defections if they were to do that if pelosi and the Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer got all of their members to back the package, only 13 republicans would be needed. There are 11 currently in reelection races. They might have incentive to back a package getting to 60 would be difficult but for the first time today, Mitch Mcconnell said he would be willing to give it a thought if such a deal were to clear the house, obviously, with the president ial signature promise, we would put it on the floor of the senate and let the senate consider it. Reporter but in another scenario, privately mcconnell has advised the white house to pump the breaks on talks avoid splitting the Republican Party during a Supreme Court battle and avoid vote fogger a package that has ballooned from what they proposed in july and several gop Officials Say if they were to back out of the package, it would have been we are better to have gun in august or september before thats headed to the polls. While theres no disagreement, millions of americans do need help, there is a lot of money from the last relief bill passed months ago that hasnt yet been spent how much money you asked us that question this morning we spent the day looking for it. We found you a boat load so there are two pots of money that we can identify the 500 billion that Congress Gave to the treasury for airlines and then to give to the fed. About 248, we found another 130 billion from the ppp, the paycheck protection program, the Small Business protection. So ald it all together why is it sitting there still when so many need it yeah. First, the ppp deadline, it expired with the money not loaned out some people are saying the rules are too tough. Businesses dont want to borrow money because it is unprofitable for them the treasury says theyre following the will of congress if i dont have a job, cant faye rent, cant feed kids, that sounds like mularkey to me thats the way it goes sometimes. If Congress Wants this money, they can reallocate it they can make a decision they can get together and change that bill or they can pass new money. As you see in washington, there is a whole lot of mularkey going on there is. So where are the vote orders this Disaster Relief or lack there of how high on voters priority list is money during the pandemic is this our Research Poll shows twothirds of voters in the battleground states. Remember, theyre ones who matter politically twothirds say they need help. How much of a challenge is this for the president , steve this is interesting thing you were just talking about the potential of this to split the Republican Party look at this divide in the poll here overall, you mentioned it. 66 of voters in the battlegrounds support more relief this is republican number. It is completely the opposite. 66 of Republican Voters say they oppose more relief coming from washington. Thats the tension theyre feeling. And this is when they say, this is what all think. Does the blame shift or does data not answer the question the data answers it this way. They both get blamed this is who is to blame if nothing happens here pelosi and the democrats, 44, trump and republicans, 45. It was exactlily even. One more thing. Our Research Poll showed back in the summer, pennsylvania, Vice President biden had about an 8point lead now it shows it is down to a 2point lead do we have an idea why that change happened . When you look at the demographics, biden has been outperforming Hillary Clinton among white voters pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. Now he is simply not outperforming clinton by as much as he had been there might be some voters who come back to trump in pennsylvania it looks closer now than michigan and wisconsin the trump campaign, they seem to be noticing it it seems like cycle after cycle, it tightens at the end. Problems here and there are nothing new at election time things always heat up in the final days of an election. But not often like this. A ballot drop box set on fire in california tracking down whose votes went up in smoke. Were all feeling it the stress of the pandemic tonight, tips to better meantly cope with covid. My brother came one this phrase travel like a rock star. Plus, concert tours are covid canceled now you can rent a rock bus for your own road trip alright, i brought in ensure max protein to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you dont. [grunting noise] ill take that. Woohoo 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. Ensure max protein. With nutrients to support immune health. The largest wildfire in recorded history in the state of colorado that has been burning for months now is finally one half contained tonight the cameron peak fire burning since midaugust Near Rocky Mountain National Park according to the u. S. Forest service, the wildfire has scorched more than, get, this 320 square miles thats an area bigger than the size of the city of new york and firefighters arent just battling the flames. Listen to this the firestorm itself creates brutal winds on, top of existing brutal winds that are blasting the fire crews the smoke making it impossible to see and another fast moving fire broke out. They call at this time calwood fire now the largest wildfire in Boulder County sheriffs Officials Say it has burned more than 9,000 acres and destroyed at least 26 homes. Thousands of people now forced to evacuate. And right now, firefighters have that one 17 contained california also devastated by wildfires this year forcing tens of thousands to evacuate there so how does everyone in a disaster area with flames every where and burnt embers on the other side cast a ballot well, enter vote mobile. Its a one stop shop where people can get a replacement ballot, or one in another language whatever they need they can vote onsite or take it to go. Jake ward is in santa cruz reporter santa cruz has the feeling nothing goes wrong there are sumpbers, a guy went by on a unicycle but this terrible for this county of thousands of people were displace bid a 90,000 acre fire took place in the hills just a few miles from where im standing once that happens, if youve lost your mailbox, how do you get your ballot . How do you vote . In this case you use the vote mobile it was put together by the Santa Cruz County clerk who described just how important this is there are people who lost their homes. You may have lost your home but youre not losing your right and your ability to vote we are going above and beyond to make sure they have access the thing about election mail is it is not forwardable. If they did a forwarding address to a family member, it is lost reporter with 169,000 registered voters, a new record for santa cruz, it is incredible to think they have this, 15 ballot boxes to take advantage of and their traditional polling places on november 3rd thats how seriously this county is taking voting wow, thank you. Then theres this. This was in baldwin park just outside library. Look at this l. A. County firefighters had to put a hose into the lot where you drop the envelopes to douse the flames they cut it open and inside they say they found 200 ballots some of them burned. All of them soaking wet. Authorities say this is arson. No question. Theyre reaching out to everyone whose ballot was destroyed to make sure their votes are in the end, counted diving in to save an elderly couple in new york and a blast that shakes a neighborhood and ignites a fire in pennsylvania on a cnbc trip coast to coast. Pennsylvania a huge explosion destroying a house. The homeowner was inside at the time fire Officials Say two neighbors pulled her to safety the blast so intense, even the house next door caught fire and others a half block away also damaged. No word yet on a cause ohio the former mlb umpire selling his sons collection of baseball items. He said it is to benefit the magic of Michael Foundation named after his son. More than 850 items up for sale including items sold by president reagan and the cardinals. Alaska u. S. Coast guard rescuing. They spotted a deer. Look at this deer swimming right up to the boat they pulled it safely on board but it kept trying to hop back in the water. New york a car plunges into a long island canal after a children onlookers jumped to the rescue, literally. Kn emoh my god theyre going on die and i have to do something then i jumped in cops say seven people jumped in to save them. Judge Amy Coney Barrett one step closer to the u. S. Supreme court. We know the senate is scheduled to vote next monday to confirm