Begins today in oklahoma. The final state to allow early voting. Well, the road to 270 Electoral College votes runs through tampa today. Joe biden and President Trump are making appearances in the battleground state of florida. Trump also has a stop in North Carolina where absentee ballots can be counted up to nine days after the election. We have more on that in a moment. A worsening pandemic hangs over the final days of a bitterly contentious race. Biden keeps hammering home the contrast between the candidates as the reality of a dark winter ahead sets in. Another 79,000 coronavirus cases reported yesterday in the u. S. The three worst days of the entire pandemic have all come in the past week. 41 states are headed in the wrong direction. 0 states are seeing a decline in cases. Dr. Anthony fauci now warning the u. S. May not be back to some version of normal until 2022. And he went further than hes ever gone advocating for a National Mask mandate. Do we need a National Mandate . You know, yes. We do. If we dont get one, i would hope the governors and mayors do it locally if its not done nationally. As we get through the fall and into the winter, with the Holiday Season going, weve got to do something different. We cant just let this happen. Were going to have many more hospitalizations, and that will inevitably lead to more deaths. This is an untenable situation. We cant just let this happen. With the changing weather a major factor, the White House CoronavirusTask Force Warns of quote, listen to this, unrelenting Broad Community spread in the midwest, upper midwest and west. This will require aggressive mitigation to control both the silent, asymptomatic spread and symptomatic spread. Now, the difference in how the two candidates would handle what lies ahead, on display as election day draws near. Mj lee is with the Biden Campaign in wilmington, delaware. Joe biden is sticking to a consistent strategy in this final stretch of the 2020 election. And that is to go all in on the coronavirus pandemic. On wednesday, we saw the former Vice President spend the day in his home state of delaware where he met again with Public Health officials in wilmington. These experts telling biden that they are worried about the spread of the virus and what they see as a wave in cases across the country. Biden has also gone after President Trump for continuing to hold crowded campaign rallies, and yesterday he also took issue with the White House Science Office saying that ending the pandemic is one of its top accomplishments. Biden coming out and saying this is an offensive thing for the Trump White House to say given how many deaths we have seen across the country. The White House Science Office and this stunned me, put out a statement listing ending the covid19 pandemic as a top accomplishment of President Trumps first term. Top accomplishment of trumps first term. At the very moment when infection rates going up in almost every state in our union. The refusal of the Trump Administration to recognize the reality were living through at a time when almost a thousand americans a day are dying, every single day. Its an insult to every Single Person suffering from covid19 and every family whos lost a loved one. Reporter biden also saying that if he does win next week, it is going to be very very difficult for him to turn things around, that this is not the kind of thing that is going to happen overnight. A very different tone from what we have been hearing from President Trump. Mj lee, cnn, wilmington, delaware. Mj, thank you for that. The president is campaigning as if this pandemic is over, holding multiple rallies per day with thousands of maskless supporters. On wednesday, he stopped in arizona, a state republicans are desperate to hang on to right now. Even in the desert, the president had his eye on the midwest. Were one up or even or whatever, but well end up winning it. But i get a poll, abc, washington post, theyre fakes, trump, 17 down in wisconsin. 17. Think of it. And they tried it last time four years, t ago, too, and that did work out too well. The president spoke as audio emerged of his soninlaw and Senior AdviserJared Kushner boasting in mid april of how the president had cut out the doctors and scientists advising him on the pandemic. The last thing was doing the guidelines, which was interesting, and that in my mind was almost like trump getting the country back from the doctors, right, in the sense that what he now did was, you know, hes going to own the open up, the three phases, panic phase, pain phase, that doesnt mean theres not a lot of pain, and but that basically was we have put out rules to get back to work. Trump is back in charge. Its not the doctors. We have like a negotiated settlement. The death toll at that time was 40,000. Thousand its almost 228,000. Overnight, dr. Anthony fauci said there has been quote a pivot away from Public Health. I find that just so revealing. How can you have a negotiated settlement with doctors, christine. The doctors are the ones trying to help us of course. Nearly 76 million americans have voted so far in this election. Thats more than a third of all registered voters nationwide, and overnight, Big Decisions from the Supreme Court, allowing absentee ballots to be accepted after election day in two key battleground states. Pennsylvania can receive ball loballots three days after the election, and North Carolina, up to nine days later as long as theyre postmarked by november 3rd. Both states are at peak pandemic case levels right now, exactly the reason more people are voting by mail. Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the Court Tuesday and could have cast a deciding vote but she did not participate in either case. Cnn has reporters on the ground in key battleground state where is record numbers of votes are already coming in. Im sara murray in philadelphia, and the race is on for pennsylvanias 20 electoral votes of the secretary of state and other officials are saying do not wait to turn those ballots. In do not wait until election day. Turn them in now, turn them in as soon as you can. Officials are also warning this is going to take a while. This is the first time pennsylvania has allowed this many people to vote by mail, and we probably wont know unless its a major blow out who won the state of pennsylvania on Election Night. It could take a couple of days. Officials say do not worry about that. We are going to keep counting the votes until we know who won this critical battleground vote. Im Dianne Gallagher in charlotte, North Carolina, more than 3. 6 Million People in this state have cast ballots. Thats more than half of the entire number of registered voters. To put it in perspective, more than 75 of the ball lots cast in 2016, they have been cast in 2020. Early voting ends on november 1st. People can mail narrtheir ballon until election day. Im drew griffin, in tallahassee. The big story here, the turnout, 6. 9 million voters have already voted in this election. Those ballots, whether mailin or early, are going to be counted within minutes of polls being closed on tuesday. This is a battleground state, o notoriously tight in the election. Thanks to our correspondents for those updates. Supreme Court JusticeBrett Kavanaugh forced to issue a rare correction to a controversial opinion he issued this week. Rejecting a bid by democrats to count mailin ballots after election day, Justice Kavanaugh cited vermont who hasnt made changes to ordinary election rules. Heres the thing, vermont has made significant changes. It sent mailin ballots to every registered voter for the first time, and began counting votes earlier than previous years. The state pointed this out to the court and Justice Kavanaugh corrected the opinion, and also su suggested the state courts may not have the last word in interpreting state election rules. All should be counted on election day. Nine minutes past the hour. Lets look at u. S. Futures after what has been a rough ride. Looks like a bounce back if this holds here, trying to get a little bit of ground. Wall street had the worst day in months as virus cases surged, stimulus stalls and major european economies locked down. The dow lost more than 900 points, the s p 500 down 3 1 2 . These are the biggest losses for both since june. The travel hi stindustry hit ha hotels, cruise lines, theres a lot here for investors to deal with. The stock market drop complicates President Trumps Campaign Message just days before the election. The president has touted the stock market as a barometer of his economic success. A sharp decline certainly hurts that argument. 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Reporter christine, this news is breaking so theres still a lot we cant confirm and you know the process. Im only going to say things to you that we can confirm. Im going to be careful with the sourcing here. The mayor of nice has been tweeting that there was an attack as you say at the basilica of nice, which by the way, is in the city center. It was a knife attack or using some kind of blade, and that the attacker or alleged attacker has been apprehended. The interior minister is also working on this of course, and has confirmed that a Police Operation has been underway. The attacker apprehended. We cant tell you how many, if it was one attacker or more. We cant give you a sense of death toll or injuries. That is what we know as far as the facts of the case right now. We also know this is serious enough that the Prime Minister who was at the Parliament Briefing lawmakers on covid reportedly had to leave in a hurry. 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Police arrested a man who refused to wear a mask. Sheriffs deputies north of baltimore arrested 52yearold daniel swain. Election Officials Say they had the right to turn swain away. Police tried to reason him for a half hour. They charged him with trespassing since he was already asked to leave. Court records show swain is suing the county board of elections and its supervisor but the county board of elections say hes not banned from coming back to vote again. Im Jacqueline Howard in atlanta, some doctors have harsh advice for halloween this year. Stay home with family. Professors from northwestern university, put out statements saying that the traditional doortodoor trick or treating can be hard to do safely with the risk of covid19. Instead, they say carving pumpkins with your family, watching scary movies or doing a Scavenger Hunt for treats can be safe alternatives. Yeah, a lot of families trying to figure that out this year. Than tha thanks to our reporters for that. Why dodger star Justin Turner violated Covid Protocols and celebrated with his teammates after he tested positive. Andy scholes has this mornings bleacher report. Justin turner, he was pulled from the world