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Board member earlier this morning here in forsyth county just about some of the specific challenges they're facing here. take a listen to what he told me. >> so we don't have concerns about being able to manage it. we have concerns about having another hands on deck and that's the real concern. if you got a lot of ballots you want to have a lot of people so you can manage the numbers of ballots that come in. >> reporter: so in this election it's not necessarily the process that is concerning officials but just trying to get enough hands on deck to deal with these huge volume of absentee ballot...

How do you do? you've got to prepare and start early. that's why election officials here at wake county have spent the last days and weeks getting that first batch of 600,000 ballots ready to go, stuffed into envelopes, loaded on to trucks and headed to voters today. listen to what elections director gary simms had to tell me about whether north carolina is ready. >> can north carolina handle this volume of absentee ballots? >> the answer is we have to. that's what we're working on right now. we're working on scaling up our operations. >> i would also tell people go ahead and request your abse...

3,000 medical staff are prepared to handle half a million tests per day. assisted by a team of experts from mainland china raising concern the tests could be used to collect dna. >> how the experiment of that company provides the service and the education and with the collection it's time to realize how beijing and hong kong government pretend and facilitate the interference in hong kong using covid-19. >> a lot of people ask the question whether this important private information will be transmitted or handed to other institutions, laboratory, going back to institutionness china. >> reporter:...

Unsolicited to claim you as a customer so they can then post a bogus positive review for any product they wish. as for the seeds, this is really important. they could be an invasive species. they could carry disease. or agricultural blight or harm animals. ideally your state agriculture department would like to examine them and dispose of them for you, but one firm request they're making of people is don't throw these in the trash because they could take root in landfills. the experts are actually asking you to destroy them any other way. smash them with a hammer. bake them in the oven. throw ...

>> it's weird. i figure the world feels upside down the way it is anyway. to have these mystery seed being sent out -- who knows. a little bizarre. >> similar seeds ending up in mailboxes across the country. >> i'm getting seeds from china. what the -- >> it's straight up creepy and believed to be an e-commerce tactic called brushing. someone gets your name and address from somewhere. usually a third party seller and sending you something unsolicited. to claim you as a customer. so they can post a bogus positive review for any product they wish. as for the seeds, this is really important. they...