Right around the corner . Troubling alarming dire the rural surge is real people sick. Front line workers exhausted hospitals forced to make tough decisions about medical care live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening. Eight days until the election and both candidates are targeting one mustwin battleground state called pennsylvania both were there today. President Trump Holding three separate rallies in pa while joe biden made an unannounced visit to his Campaign Field office outside philly biden calling out the president s rally saying its not appropriate to hold events with massive crowds right now as covid cases ride to unprecedented highs across the country, but President Trump insists were rounding the corner on the pandemic, something scientists confirm is not true coronavirus fears rattling the markets today. The dow plunged almost 1,000 points before closing off 650. Well hear from jim cramer on that in a few minutes. Vice president mike pence moving forward with a Campaign Event in minnesota even after five of his aides tested positive for on capitol hill the senate covid19 over the weekend. His Spokesman Says the vp tested negative this morning. On capitol hill the senate expected to confirm judge Amy Coney Barrett within the next hour after that hell host a ceremony at the white house so a lot to cover. First to Kayla Tausche following the Trump Campaign kayla . Reporter shep, it is a battleground blitz for President Trump with eight days to go trying to out travel his competitor, former Vice President joe biden, who was currently out polling and out spending him today Trump Campaign manager bill stepien told report injuries he believes the president s ground game chips away at any ground game for early voting suggesting the other side is leaving absentee votes on the table by not getting their candidate in front of more and bigger crowds and there were large crowds as you can see in pennsylvania today. A state Trumps Campaign notes is critical to any path it has to 270 electoral votes tomorrow President Trump will campaign in wisconsin, michigan and nebraska wednesday back to the sunbelt. Trump said tonight like an athlete hes leaving it all on the field and criticized his rivals slimmer schedule. I thought it wasnt going to make it. One make it. One thing, unlike joe where he goes into a basement if he loses, who knows what happens, you know . G i did five,n this is called an election he should be ashamed of himself because he didnt work one thing i did five, six, seven of these in the last few days. Reporter meanwhile, Trumps Campaign is taking out 6 e bid campaign that ended september with 43 million in new ads across the rust belt focusing on the economy and seniors. Jason miller, trumps senior advisor, says it will put them closer to parity with the Biden Campaign that ended september with 432 million to spend in the home stretch Kayla Tausche on the trump he campaign ali vitali with a look at joe bidens ground game in the final days ali . Reporter shep, while donald trump has been blitzing these states, several states and several stops in a day, joe biden has not matched that pace out on the campaign trail and its something that has some democrats hand wringing wondering if biden should be out there campaigning more its something the Vice President was asked about during an impromptu stop in chester, pennsylvania listen to what hes saying why hes campaigning. The big difference between us and the reason it looks like were not traveling, were not putting on super spreaders we are doing what were doing here everybodys wearing a mask and trying as best we can to be socially distanced. , pennsylvania, the stat reporter now, shep, pennsylvania, the state that biden has spent more time in than any other this general election, but hes also adding some other key states to the mix this week. We know that he begins tomorrow in georgia thats a state that democrats havent won since 1992 they have a chance to invest there and see if they can get it to flip in 2020 especially after they saw how close the 2018 governors race was. Biden making critical stops in places like florida, michigan, iowa, florida this week in the home stretch these are the ones we know so far. Its the final week until the election anything can be added for a few days out on the campaign trail here. No doubt. Ali vitali the senate is out on track to vote in less than half an hour to confirm judge Amy Coney Barrett. Hallie jackson is at the white o celebrate. Reporter c house. Tell us about the ceremony that the president is planning to celebrate. Reporter ceremonial swearing in of judge Amy Coney Barrett presuming that she ends up confirmed here in the next hour or so as Justice Barrett she was going to be a big difference and the one that you saw exactly one month ago today for barretts nomination the only difference. This time im told by a senior official, the video is masks will be required for attendees to be at the white house a primetime event for the a celebration for him. President. This is going to be a celebration for him. The third justice that he has gotten onto the Supreme Court here that has been confirmed by the republicans. Party line vote expected tore Amy Coney Barrett. Of course, a big deal particularly in the closing days of the campaign, shep. I mentioned the Vice President moving forward with Campaign Events even after his staff tested positive for could he individual. Thats against the guidelines. Reporter youre not suppose guidelines the vice to do that if you or i or somebody came into close contact, wed have to go into quarantine for a while if you are an essential worker, the cdc has different guidelines the Vice President s office says hes an essential worker he can still go do the work of the campaign as you were just looking at with the Vice President in minnesota, and take various precautions like pence did wear a mask on his way up to the stage, he took it off when he spoke, put it on when he went back you have to know, shep, its four white house staffers and one of those staffers is his chief of staff somebody who was extremely close to the Vice President. He did though, both he and karen pence tested negative for covid today. Hallie jackson, thank you. Covid watch and covid deaths are mounting in america. Were now averaging close to 800 deaths per day up 10 over just the past two weeks according to johns hopkins. Cases continue to flareup the country adding the largest seven day surge during this pandemic 8,000 in the past week some of the states with the lowest populations, the dakotas and montana, theyre nowl surges recording the highest number of cases per 100,000 over the past two weeks. The rural surge is real. No one sees ite crisis is ravagn smaller communities for th nbcs Gabe Gutierrez says south dakota is dealing with it. Reporter covid cases are up 42 states up 10 the crisis is ravaging many smaller communities for the first time for example at this hospital there are about 70 Covid Patients here now. Hospital administrators say its not the potential lack of bed space that worries them. They keep expanding their hospital to accommodate that its the potential staffing issues over the past few months. Having so much covid within our community, we have a certain percentage of our nursing staff, physician staff, all of our staff that are out quarantining or sick with covid. Winter is now here and we dont foresee the cases slowing down any time soon unless people change their behaviors. Reporter around the country, around 41,000 people are hospitalized, about a 40 jump in the last month. Here in south dakota hospitalizations have risen and the state is reporting a record for the city second straight day, but theres also disagreement here between local officials and the states governor local mayor and Public Health officials are urging residents to wear a mask but the states republican governor says its a choice people who dont want to wear a mask should not be shamed into it shep gabe, if everyone in america would wear a mask, 130 lives would be saved by february hear that . 130,000 people are going to die who would not if we would all wear masks thats from the scientists, but thats not happening in utah Covid Patients flooding icus doctors saying theyre 2 3 full. Statewide a few patients away from what theyre calling unmanageable fitzgerald is live in in cases utahs increased 44 just this month. S the most cases since the pandemic began nbcs Meagan Fitzgerald is live in salt lake city. Meagan, how are hospitals there and across the state coping with this surge reporter you know, shep, i think the short answer is day by day. What i can tell you is theyre certainly sounding the alarm just last week going to the providers will have to governor to say, look, if the state continues on this trajectory of covid19 cases continuing to increase, theyre going to have to start prioritizing patients. What this means is, for example, if you have a younger patient and an older patient who have similar or equal levels of illness, these Health Care Providers will have to prioritize that younger patient and of course all of this taking an emotional toll on these doctors and nurses i can tell you personally that i have been at the bedside of multiple patients of covid19 and been the last person that they saw, the last person to look at them in their eyes before they died i have to do this sometimes multiple times a day i have seen nurses walk out and say, i cant do this but we have to who else is going to do it reporter yeah. A dire situation here in utah. Covid19 numbers hitting record levels last friday they saw nearly 2,000 new cases in just one day. Were seeing hospitals across the state overwhelmed. Icus at or approaching capacity. All of this while health care workers, the governor, state this virus sh officials are literally pleading with the public to do their part to try to stop the spread of this virus shep meagan, thank you. Cnbcs on the money. Stocks plunged today the dow was off nearly 1,000 closed off 650 the worst day in almost two months the s p and nasdaq a little better nasdaq lower by s p down almost 2 nasdaq lower by 1. 6 the reason well, analysts are pointing to the record rate of new covid cases, competing Disaster Relief which is not happening those bills stalled in the congress and the hoped for economic recovery anemic economists, the fed, Everyday Americans have been sounding the alarm for months so why is wall street just taking notice today . Jim cramers with us, cnbcs voice of the investor. Jim, what spooked the markets today and why now . Thank you so much for having me on. I think that what spooked people is that when you get certain numbers, they begin to think were going to go back to the lockdown when we go back in the lockdown, then there is a dramatic decline in employment and dramatic decline in the amount of money that people have without a stimulus package so i think it was a logical, logical move and for a moment we forgot about the possibility the vaccines around the corner. We have the bad and the good. Im wondering, this lack of a stimulus bill. This lack of a Disaster Relief, is wall street price that go in . Theres a lot of people wall street would say can we accept there wont be a stimulus, anything near term we are worried about individual lockdowns. I know there are a lot of people who want to go to bars and restaurants, a lot of people who want to go out there are 14 Million People involved in the hospitality. Those are the people and directd so if we see the shutdowns, we families directly impacted so if we see the shutdowns, we started seeing Airline Traffic go down again, we started seeing Hotel Reservations are terrible, theyre talking about 50 occupancy around the country shep, thats not the way you can maintain any growth. Is there uncertainty within the markets on the election . Because ive heard you and so many on cnbc in the mornings say a biden win is sort of priced in already, is that right i think a biden win is priced in i do not think a senate the socalled blue wave is priced in if only because people are just now starting to get the arms around their idea, capital gains, wealthy people, they have capital gains, their taxes are going to go up ive got to tell you, shep, there was an overhang, kind of a belief that you know what, lets take some profits ahead of the election its follow the fauci. If we just all wear masks, if everyone would do it tech, wall street in general pushing the re we wonder why big business, big tech, wall street in general pushing the rest of the country to say, if you wear it, we wont die. Walgreens. Under armour is a ground swell if you wear it, our economy will return where are they honeywells behind it, doing the right thing. 3m walgreens. Under armour is a ground swell its happening youre right theyre going to fall in line. I promise you. Y bit as great its great to be your post game show. Thank you im thrilled to see you. I worked with you at another point in my career youre every bit as great as then i thank you for your kindness. Group hug. One day we could. Thank you, pal. I appreciate it. Strong winds fueling flames in Southern California today it is awful. The one theyre calling the silverado fire doubled in size in just a matter of hours. Fire officials are telling people to get out and for many th were live on the ground where fire officials are telling people to get out and for many this is all too familiar. Burning ember falls on top, it will just slide right down the metal. One homeowner who lost everything to the wild fire builds a house thats not supposed to burn. Early voting shatters records. More than 60 million ballots already cast how much does election day still matter plus, water on the sunny side of the moon why that could be a game changer. The facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith back in 60 seconds stressballs gummies have ashwagandha, an herbal stress reliever that helps you turn the stressed life. Into your best life. Stress less and live more. With stressballs. It just lit up this morning and the powerful winds just exploded it already scorched 4,000 acres nbcs Miguel Almaguer is on the ground. Reporter ive been covering it just lit up this morning and the powerful winds just exploded it already scorched 4,000 acres nbcs miguel already scorched 4,000 acres nbcs Miguel Almaguer is on the ground. Reporter ive been covering wildfires for the last 20 years. I am shocked that not a single home or subdivision at least has been destroyed by the flames here the situation has been erratic on the weather front, you can see this is one of those hillside neighborhoods under threat theres hundreds of homes out in this area. Firefighters are trying to protect the hill sides all the way down the block we have fire trucks standing by at the ready. Earlier today there were wind gusts upwards of 96 miles an hour thats the same strength as a cat 2 hurricane. Those are the conditions firefighters are really battling against and starting these small spot fires and quickly blowing them through entire communities there. As you mentioned, some 70,000 people have been forced to evacuate that number could rise over the next 24 hours. The diablo winds in Northern California winds, its been cut to a Million People. Theyre so concerned that the transmission lines could actually spark other wildfires the good news here, shep, no major destruction in terms of homes lost, no lives have been lost, but two firefighters are also in Critical Condition its going to be a long 24 hours as these nasty, nasty winds continue to kick up in strength up to 80, 90 miles. Incredible. Thank you so much. California winds fueling the flames meanwhile, Winter Weather in colorado is really helping firefighters there look at this snow and cold temperatures slowing down at least. Two of the largest fires in state history. Al roker is with us now. Lots of weather, al. How are you doing . Hey, im doing good, shep its good to be on your program. Weve got a lot to talk about today. Not only do we have the wildfires where we have another hurricane developing lets talk about the wildfires fire danger for 33 Million People right now gusty winds. Low humidity continuing. Not just for california but also into parts of arizona, new mexico, on into colorado and also looking atz nevada as well for those winds and those conditions in fact, talk about the winds. Strong wind advisories, high wind warnings. Wind advisories for 27 Million People scattered power outages, downed trees, blowing objects those winds will be fueling wildfires. G wildfires. The stronges the strongest wind gusts shep will be in the los angeles mile per hour winds from los mountains. Tomorrow afternoon, 70 to 80 mile per hour winds from los angeles, south of las vegas. Those winds will fuel the fires. It will only take a couple of embers and, boy, those embers with these fires, these winds could blow as much as 1 to 2y j break. Neither