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This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Judy the last minutes are ticking away ithe president ial campaign. Nearly 100 million americans have already voted more than 2 3 of all the votesast in 2016. Today offered a last chance to gin up tomorrows turnout. White house correspondent Yamiche Alcindor reports. Yamiche the campaigns final day and both candites rushing to rally supporters, each in his own way. Prident tru mounted a blitz, hopping across four states to help deliver him the presidency in 2016. Wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania and northarolina. Remember what i said four years ago. I said i am your voice and we willake America Great again. Yamiche former Vice President joe biden focused his attention first ohio. My message is simple. The power to change the country in your hands. Yamiche but today, pennsylvania is the key state that gotnt atn. We will cover a lot of ground today. Joe is going to be here. Yamiche bidens running mate, senator kamala hars, rallied residents in an effort to flip back an area that last cycle help to President Trump. S i think you all know and thaty we are all here and keep coming back, because we care about pennsylvania and because pennsylvania will determine the outcome in this election. Yamiche the president also visited the rally. He replete it claims that the nation would soon round the corner on the pandemic. We did such a great job with the whole thing. You look at europe, they are spiking. We will quickly esdicate the vi and wipe out the china plate. In yamiche crisis appears to be getting worse. The top u. S. Infectious disease expertau dr. Anthony told the Washington Post over the weekend that the nation could not poss poorlyas we head into the er the white house fired back in a stateme, accusing dr. Fauci of playing politics. Lastn night in front of enthusiastic crowd in florida, the president suggested dr. Fauci would soon be fired. Dot tell anybody, but let me wait until little bit after the election. Yamiche today, biden hammered the president s Pandemic Response at own rally in beaver county, pennsylvania. O he refuses to the work to get this virus under control. He refusetoto do the work et our schools and Small Businesses and resourceshey needed to stay. Opened f and cops. S, teachers yamiche Vice President pence warrant bidens policies be a drag on the economy. Joe biden is talking abn t shutting de economy. Right at the time we are beginning to get back on our feet as a country. Yamiche while the btle on the trail draws to a clause close, another fight over the county is brewing and pennsylvania also in the middle of it. The states winter winter might not be decided untild tuesday night me counties might not even begin counting until the next day. President trump criticize the delay even though no state has ever reported complete final results on election day. T i thins terrible when we cant know the results of an election the night of an electionn the modernday age of computers. Yamiche he says hes already gearing upor a legal challenge. As soons as it over, we are going in with our lawyers. Yamiche today biden try to assure people their votes would be counted i dont care how much donald trump tries, theres nothing he will do to stop the people of this nation from voting. Folks, he hasnt figured it out folks, he hasnt figured it out. Voters deserve president s dont decide who gets to vote. Voters deserve to choose who ll be president. Yamiche last week, a convoy of Trump Supporters and vehicles swarmed a Biden Campaign bus on the highway, leading the campaign to cancel some events. President trump letter tweeted that these triots did nothing wrong. But Business Owners throughout the cotry are bracing for the possibility of postelection violence, boarding up windows anerecting fences. Judy a federal judge in texas today refused to toss out nearly 127,000 ballotcast at drivethru Polling Centers in houston. Iv republican ats argued the practice was illegal. The judge ruled they had no legal standing to sue. We turn now to yamic lisa desjardins. Both of them are following this closely. We just heard some of what the president is saying on the trail. What is then thrust of his Closing Argument . Yamiche o this day bore election day, the president is focused on making closing messages, focusing on a motion more than policy. He makes t case people should of black lives matter protests for Racial Justice and agnst police brutality, than of the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 americans and infected millions. He has said in rally after rally that we are rounding the corner. Of course, cases are spiking across the country. The president says he believes this is the way forward, that he knows best better than his Infectious Disease expert, including dr. Fauci, who has been attacked different speeches. The president is also making the case and Campaign Advisers say they feel confident they will win in critical states including carolina, states the president won in 2016 which surprised the political atmosphere. Than the president also making the case that if we dont know the results by midninit tomorrow t, that the election is rate. At is not true. There fraud. Vidence of voter in several elections, we did not know who was the psident at midnight including 2016. Is his closing message andhatat do we know about the game plan here . Lisa Vice President biden had an interesting closing message hase is still campaigning as we speak. One thing he said ending a e speelier today is i will be the most prounion president. He seems to be appealing to white workingclass voter democrats believed ey lost and 2016, barnstorming across pennsylvania. The Biden Campaign feels very good about this idea. They think they have many more votes. To getting 270 electoral they also like this, that the early vote count in many states seems to fav democrats if you look at registered voters and submitting ballots and atates that aouncing those numbers. They say they are ahead in wisconsin and michigan by amounts that mean President Trump would have to win with 60 or more two. Those states two. Those states. All sense of cfidence for the Biden Campaign. The Biden Campaign says the idea of election related fear is in of itsel suppression, and people need to be very aware it may just be perception, not reality. They want people to go out and vote. They also say by their math, theres no way President Trump will be able to declareerimself the wiy midnight on Election Night. Storieso differe here you have followed the president throughout his time in the white house. What are you watching for . Yamiche im wching for the same thing t Trump Campaign is watching for. They are bracing for physical confrontations as well as legal. On thesi pl front, the president , as we noted, the president is egging on in some ways his supporters who have physically been intimidating probiden supporters. There are people on campaign who say that it is ok for the president to do that. Someone today said these are people who did not break the people, even drive up to people to intimidate them with your vehicle, so we watch that. Another thing is that the donations going alway automatic until middecember. Hes doing that because he wants to have money in the bank for a prolonged legal fight. The p rnc has alrea aside 20 million to fight legal battles that they think ll happen soon after election. Esthe ent is also promising to he several lawsuits already filed so the president is saying in states like pennsylvania, possibly north carolina, that hes already getting his lawyers ready to file something as earliest tomorrow. Judy and we know both campaigns are gearing up if necessary for legal fight. Finally, lisa, you are watching senate and house races. What are you specifically looking out for tomorrow night . Lisa quickly for the house, lets talk about that. Speaking tond democrats republicans, no one is talking k out a likely path republicans have to taking be house. In fact, theres more of a question of how many gains democrats might make. Then lats look at the sen telets look at the se chamber. 53 republins and 47 democrats and independents i think the situation is such that we have a dozen perhaps senate races on the board. We may find out who will be president d before we ft who controls the senate. Judy lisa desjardins, Yamiche Alcindor, you will both be busy tomorrow, as are we thl. Thank you you have heard a lot about pennsylvania. Ct could well be the keystone for any path to y in this president ial election. On the ground in philadelphia tonight is our own daniel bush. Hello, daniel bush. You have been watching the state pennsylvania following all the goingson of the campaigns. How important is philadelphia to the outcome . Daniel philadelphia is critical. One out of every three votes will be cast in philadelphia and surrounding suburbs. The Biden Campaign knowns knows they need to do well with lack voters ansuburban voters. Ats why they have spent precious time down the stretch here. Kamala harris will be speaking a little while from now. The Trump Campaign is also isvoting a lot of time to state. Judy so much focus in recen days, weeks even, on the voting process. In pennsylvania and how they count ballots, what theare doing with early voting, you spoke to county officials. Whatre they tellingou . Daniel ad they are as as they can be. They have a plan in place. I was inside one electionshe building today they were receiving mail in and absentee ballots. They cannot start counting them however until 7 00 a. M. Tomorrow. It will be a long process of the Biden Campaign says they dont expect to have a clear picture results in pennsylvania until 1 30 a. M. It will be a long night. In york county and central lvpennia, a republican stnghold, a lot of voters saying that silent majority is real and they are excited to vote for trump. Judy certainly something we will watch very closely and that is where you will be for us. Daniel bush in philadelphia, thank you. Stephanie im stephanie sy with newshour west. We will return to Judy Woodruff and the rest of the program after these updates. On the eve of the election, former Vice President joe Biden Campaigned out the first of two rallies hes holding in pittsburgh tonight while prident trump held a rally in traverse city, michigan and goes to kenosha, wisconsin. In other news, covid19 deaths popped 1. 2 Million Worldwide including more than 230,000 in the u. S. In europe, the Italian Government announced its closing shopping malls on weekends, and limiting peoples movements. Germany began a 4week partial shutdown. All things considered, we had a relatively relaxed summer where people could make e of a vote of leisure activities. A lot of leisure activities, but now the autumn has crashed in on us. I can understand that it is difficult and that there is some atsistance, but it isnt a political thing e created. B stephanitish Prime MinisterBoris Johnson imposed a new lockdown effective thursday and he faces criticism he should have acted earlier. The death toll in an apparent terrorist attack in vienna has lifted. Authorities in vienna, austria say theres been an apparent terrorist attack in vienna tonight. One of the attackersle was k and e other was on the run. It happened near a Jewish Synagogue which waclos at the time. In afghanistan, Islamic State attackers stormed Kabul University today, touching off a gun battle that peft at least 22 le dead. Security officl said three gunmen struck during a bl k fair, and re killed, after the hours long fight. Families of students waited anously for word of their fates. At least i want to know if he died. I just want to know something about him. Police and the Security Forces dont allow us to go into the hospitals and still i have no news. Stephanie the ambassador to afghanistan from iran was supposed to be at the book fair. It is unclear if the attackers knew that. Emergency workers inurkey have rescued two children three days 94 people. Arthquake that killed plause broke out today as crews in izmir carried a 3yearold girl wrapped in a foil blanket to an ambulance. Efforts to find otheivors continued. Ngpotentially catastrophic hurricane is beaown on Central America tonight. Eta is already a category 4, and could get even stronger. It is on track to strike nicaragua overnight with winds of at least 130 miles an hr miles an hour and up to three th150 feet of rain across region. Still to come on the newshour with Judy Woodruff, raising covid cases threatening the capacity of hospital intensive care units. What to expect as the Campaign Draws to a close. Take an inside look at how the winners the races will be announced. Plus, much more. This is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and from Walter Cronkite scho of journalism at Arizona State university. Judy severalhemerican public th leaders warned this weekend th the coronavirus is spreading unchecked throughout the country and is likely to get significantly worse in coming days and weeks. Faces a daunting path ahead. States reported more than 80,000 new cases in the u. S. Yesterday and more than 445 deaths. William brangham loothe urgency of the situation with dr. Ashish jha, dean of brown tys school of publ health. William dr. Jha, great to have you back on the news hour again. Former fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb said recently that thanksgivingt the end of this month could be an Inflection Point for this incredible surge that we are seeing across the country. He also said the december mightu be theest month yet. Does that sound right to you . Dr. Jha k unfortunately, i th dr. Gottlieb is right abt this. We are in a very difficult situation already. Here we are, the beginning of november. We are identifying about a 100,000 infected people a day n across theion as opposed to the spri and summer or those those surges which were located in specific regions. Right now, every part of the country is seeing increasing number of cases. 49 states actually are seeing increasing numr of cases. Were probably missing 70 , 80 of all the casesut there. So the real number of infections is substantially greater. And were not doing the thingsto low this down. And so by the end of this monthx ct things to start looking much worse unless we act now so we can avoid a horrible december. But weve got to make some changes right now. Ll m and we are on the cusp, of course, of this enormous national election, one thats really been so of transformed d deformed by this virus. Every aspect of our sohas been. T and yet, president on the campaign trail recently has been saying that wereounding the corner. He also suggested at ahaally recentlyhe might consider firing dr. Anthony fauci. Lp us put this into perspective. Do you think, is this just bluster . The president sometimes is known to do. Isor should we take ore seriously . Dr. Jha so, first of all, i think its worth noting that dr. Fauci has been and continues to be the most important voice for fighting this pandemic. The president ca choose to get rid of dr. Fauci from his Coronavirus Task force. That is his decision. He can choose not to listen to the most expert voices in the country. Its not clear that he cod fire him from his nih role. But either way, it so undermines the National Confidence inic scientxpertise for the president to even suest that he would fire someone like dr. Fauci. I obvsly hope that he doesn carry through with it. It would leave the American People much worse off. William all right. Dr. Ashish jha, Brown Universitys school of public health. Thanks as always. Dr. Jha thank you. P judy sident trump and former Vice President joe biden teke their final pitch to inhe closing hours before election day, lets check in with both campaigns. First up, erin perrine. She is the