Is in tampa. President trump won florida in 2016, his new home state and it is critical to his path to victory in 2020. Reporter no doubt about that. Youd be hard pressed to find a path to victory is that doesnt include the 29 electoral votes here in florida. The race here is extraordinarily tight and in the past when the race has been tight, it has tended to lean republican and they are hoping that it does as to again in 2020. As a result, the president is spending a lot of time me, spending a lot of money and a lot of energy in getting the vote out here in florida. And he is doing it in part by continuing to hold these makes suff massive rallies despite the fact that the coronavirus continues to be a bigger and bigger problem here in the sunshine state. 4,000 indicaticases announced f third day in a row, 79 people died because of the coronavirus yet the president continues to hold these rallies with folks packed in shoulder to shoulder and hardly any masks. Yet his message to the crowd is that were rounding the corn beer abe corner and not something that you have to worry about. And he looked out at this crowd where everyone is packed in, almost no one wearing masks, and he actually said if you get a little close to someone, put on a mask. Obviously there are thousands here who are not doing that. Still the president believes florida is a state they can win and that is why they are focusing so much energy here in the closing days of this campaign. Ryan, thank you. Moments ago joe biden wrapped up a drive din rally in Coconut Creek continuing his message of controlling the pandemic. And telling the crowd if he can turn florida blue next week, he will win the election. Jessica dean is live for us in Coconut Creek. Obviously this is a radically different type of Campaign Rally that we just saw from President Trump, but a very consistent closing message. Reporter right. We have heard this message again and again, biden being very disciplined with his closing message. And to your point, you look at these two events side by side, the cars now coming out, but they were all in their car, socially distanced. The Biden Campaign going to Great Lengths to make sure that everybody is following the safety guidelines. And the response to the coronavirus pandemic playing into this closing argument, abo and the economy. This event really targeting early voters where the Trump Campaign will rely on people showing up and voting on election day. The Biden Campaign really wants their voters going early and getting it done and they encouraged them to immediately go and vote. We are in brin broward county, democratic stronghold here, they really want to run until score to try to give them an edge in what as ryan said is a very tight race here. And as part of a targeted new ad airing in states like florida where there is a large latino population, biden is addressing how he would try to work on reuniting the 545 children forcibly separated from their impeaches at the border who have not yet been returned to their parents. Right. He has called that criminal. It is something that advisers say has really affected the Vice President and we saw today when he rolled out some new ads in Battle Ground states this promise that if elected, he will form a task force whose soleal responsibility wou responsibility would be to reunite these children with their families who the government has said they cant find their families. So the Biden Campaign zeroing in on the hispanic vote as well as releasing new ads in a number of Battle Ground states. They also hosted a call today explain more of their strategy, doing a lot of targeted things by holding by link quauilinguals and making sure their yououtrea is effective. Biden has been running behind Hillary Clinton in florida among hispanics according to poles. Jessica dean, thank you. Both campaigns clearly still see florida as a place they can win. Since 1928, only two candidates for president have won the white house without winning florida. Harry enten is joining me now. What is the state of the race in florida right now . Yeah, if you pull up our race to 270 map, you will see florida is in a nice yellow, that indicates that it is a very, very close race. Unlike perhaps some of the midwestern battlegrounds. And if you take a look at the polling average, you see joe biden with perhaps the latest of edges. He is at 49 to trumps 46 . But that is a race that at this point is too close to call. And the biden cam mapaign sa they are aggressively courting latino voters. But the question is whether or not the puerto rico stroetd votn Central Florida who favor biden can make up the strength with others in southern florida. What do you think will happen . Yeah, if you look at the polling average among hispanic voters and you compare to four years ago, biden is still up with them but his lead is only 12 points versus Hillary Clinton the final preelection polls then was 21 points. And it is that cuban vote in the southeast part of the state that donald trump is doing significantly better in than he was four years ago. Will it ultimately be enough for trump . Im not quite sure. One other little nugget there is of course among senior citizens, you are seeing biden coming better than Hillary Clinton did. So perhaps that could help compensate with his performance with hispanics. Florida has already start the counting their early and absentee votes. Are we likely to know who won florida on Election Night . Yeah, much better chance than say the midwest because they are already starting to process those ballots. And unlike those midwestern battleground states, what you will see in the state of florida is joe biden will actually probably jump out to an early lead because we know from the polling data that joe biden is winning amongst those who have already cast a ballot. While those who have yet to vote, that is where trumps vote really is. He will try to run up the score on election day. That is interesting, some of a blue Miles Per Hour wranrage expect to see. Walk us through howe each could win the white house if they dont win florida. Yeah, it is significantly easier for joe biden. You can see it in a man in which you say, okay, well give trump the state of florida, well even give him North Carolina and arizona. All joe biden has to do is win in pennsylvania where he holds a polling lead, win in wisconsin and then win the Hillary Clinton states. That gets him to 278. For donald trump, the math is much more difficult. Yes, it is possible if he loses in the state of gla, of florida wins the rest of the six closest swing state that he is won this 2016, he would be able to basically do it. But here is the key. If you just look at the numbers and you run them over and over again, even if joe biden loses in the state of florida, he still has about a 65 chance of winning. If donald trump loses florida, i estimate his chance of winning is less than 5 . Interesting. Thank you so much. Agreeing concern in two Battle Grounds states about koundi counting mailin ballots. And plus dr. Yfauci says two tw companies are practically tied in the race for a coronavirus vaccine. What that means for potential timing of a vaccine. burke deepsea driving, i see. customer Something Like that. burke well, heres Something Else with your farmers policy perk, new car replacement, you can get a new one. customer that is Something Else. burke get a whole lot of something with farmers policy perks. We are farmers. 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Dr. Gottlieb says were at the hardest point in the pandemic right now. Take a listen. This is really sort of last stage of the acute phase of this, 2021 will start to look a lot better. I think that well be celebrating together this 2021 thanksgiving. We need to get through the next couple months. This is the hardest point, the next two months. Do you agree this is the hardest point, the next two months . Yes, i think a lot of things are converging. One, were still not great at wearing masks. Two, were entering the winter months when a virus like this which is spread by small droplets typically rages in the winter. It was surprising that it continued in the summer. And it will be concomitant with the typical influenza. As a doctor, are you surprised that all of this is happening and there is no leader, the president , the Vice President , nobody in the white house saying okay, obviously things are not working and we need to do x, y, z . Does that surprise you . It has continued to surprise me. If you look at especially south korea which is a model for how to get control of this particular pandemic, but everyone our neighbor to the north canada has done a much better job because they have stronger federal and local leadership. Also the governors could have been much better at doing the most powerful thing we have, which is hygienic measures. Masking, social distancing, that is the most powerful tool we have and yet we choose to set aside and certainly no leadership at the federal level that mimics good behavior. The White House Task force said in one of its weekly state reports, quote, we continue to see unrelenting Broad Community spread in the midwest, upper midwest and the west. This will require aggressive mid gags to contr mitigation. South dakota has a 46 positivity rate. North dakota with the most new cases per population this week. How did things get so bad in those regions . In defense of the administration at some level, also things are raging in germany and in france. This is hard. What makes it hard is that it is so much asymptomatic spread. Most of the people that you come in contact with who you will catch the virus from have no sympto symptoms. So therefore, what you should do is assume that everybody you come in contact with is asymptomatically infected with the virus so you wear a mask and social distance. It has been hard in this country to get people to do that. Maybe because we were found ed n the basis of individual rights so maybe they feel like that gives them the freedom to catch a potentially fatal disease. Dr. Fauci thinking about a national masking strategy, i think it is a great idea. Dr. Fauci says that moderna and pfizer are neck and neck in the race for a vaccine. You are a member of the Advisory Committee on vaccine approval. What do you think . Hard to know. Still reading the tea leaves. The only people that really know the answer to that question are a group of people called the data safety monitoring board, they are the ones looking real time at who has gotten the vaccine, who hasnt, even the companies dont really know because the data safety monitoring board is really a firewall between the company and the trial. As soon as the data safety monitoring board says i think we met an efficacy standard, then they call the company and the Company Submits for approval through the socalled emergency authorization. And then well hear about it. Right now it is hard to know. Weve learned dr. Scott atlas pushed to slow testing down when he joined the task force this summer. He is not an expert on infectious diseases, but he has this view of the virus that the president likes, he shared the view with Florida Republican governor ron desantis. And around that time, there was a dramatic drop in testing in florida. President trump has been pushing for less testing well before this. How concerning is this to you . Youve seen companies sorry, youve seen countries using testing to get their way out of this and that is essentially what south korea did. It is hard to test your way out of this pandemic. Unless you are a country like south korea which has very strong federal leadership and a populist that is willing to do what the federal authorities are asking them to do. We dont have that country in both ways, a lack in federal leadership and a populist that sees them as having freedoms that they shouldnt see themselves as having. I think the problem with the freedom rights is the individual. That is what is wrong at some level, a group of bikers go maskless and they are proud of the fact that they have flaunt aed their independence and then maybe became a super spreader event. Doctor, thanks so much for joining. Why counting mailin ballots in one Battle Ground state just got more complicated. Stay with us. Last nights sleep, interrupted by pain . 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Reporter with five days to go until election day, more than a third of americas registered voters have already cast their ballots. More sense of security when we vote in person. Reporter 28 states have received more than 50 percent of total ballots cast. And in florida where more than 7 Million People have voted, the democrats big early turnout lead has narrowed to just over 200,000. The texas turnout is already massive with more than 8 million votes cast so far. Early voting there is on track to eclipse its entire 2016 vote total. We want to make it as easy as it can be to make it accessible. So this location is open 24 hours. Reporter there are also new legal battles over whether late arriving maim lin votes will b counted. North carolina can count ballots up to nine days after the election if they are clearly postmarked by november 3. And pennsylvania, the decision is trickier. Allowing ballots received by november 6 to be counted for now, but the court may clear they could be disputed later. Pennsylvania officials announcing that they will securely segregate votes by setting aside ballots that arrive after election day. Setting up a potential nightmare legal battle if late arrival ballots end up being enough to swing the leaelection. I know there is confusion about court decisions. Make a plan today to vote. Right now do not wait. Reporter and each county has a different counting plan. Cumberland county wont begin counting until wednesday. Prioritizing inperson voting. Another wants to to have it done by tuesday night, but mailin ballots could lag. We believe that Election Night well have all the inperson voting done and approximately if everything goes well 50,000 mailin ballots completed. Reporter New Hampshire is already getting started. As Election Officials there begin partially processing absentee ballots today. And in minnesota, a bipartisan message from former governors urging patience warning the count may not be complete on Election Night. A delay just means our system is working. And that were counting every single ballot. But no matter who wins, lets demonstrate the civility and decency that minnesotians are known for. And jake, early inperson voting is wrapping up in several state, but in arizona, it has been extended through monday. Officials say that is because of the pandemic. But of course as we know, every state has different rule