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EXPLODING IN SIZE IN THE LAST 24 HOURS.

NEIGHBORHOODS TURNED INTO A HELLISH LANDSCAPE.

>>> FINAL FACEOFF, TRUMP AND BIDEN HEAD TO HEAD IN THE SECOND AND LAST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE.

AMERICANS HOPING FOR A MORE SUBSTANTIAL DIALOGUE AND JUST HOURS BEFORE TAKING TO THE STAGE, PRESIDENT TRUMP COMPLAINING ABOUT THE MODERATOR AND NEW DEBATE RULES.PLUS, PRUESIDENT TRUMP'S COMBATIVE INTERVIEW WITH "60 MINUTES."

THE LATEST ON U.S. INTELLIGENCE WARNING, SENDING THREATENING EMAILS MEANT TO INFLUENCE THE ELECTION. 

>>> AND THE RECORD BREAKING ABSENTEE BALLOTS.TENS OF MILLIONS OF VOTES ALREADY CAST.A BALLOT WATCH TONIGHT, THE BESTTO MAKE SURE YOUR VOTE ISCOUNTED.

>>> COVID'S DEADLY RISE MORE THAN 1,200 DEATHS IN JUST 24 HOURS, THE COUNTRY'S HIGHEST DEATH TOLL SINCE THE SUMMER AND A MAJOR MOVE TONIGHT BY THE FDA WITH THE FIRST DRUG IN THE U.S. TO RECEIVE FULL APPROVAL FOR TREATING COVID. 

>>> AND THE FRUSTRATING IMAGES OF CROWDED BARS AND RESTAURANTS ARE ALSO PACKED.

>>> THE PUSH FOR THE NATION'S ELDEST. 

>> THE BIDEN AGENDA WOULD BE A CATASTROPHE FOR ARIZONA SENIORS.

>> THE ONLY SENIOR THAT DONALD TRUMP CARES ABOUT, THE ONLY SENIOR IS THE SENIOR DONALD TRUMP. 

>> WE'RE EXAMINING THE IMPACT OFSENIORS ON THE VOTE AND WHAT TO EXPECT COME ELECTION NIGHT.

>>> AND GINGER ZEE GIVES US A CLOSER LOOK AT WHY THE NEXT FOURYEARS WILL BE CRITICAL AT COMBATTING CLIMATE CHANGE, WHY IT'S NOT TOO LATE.

>>> GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.I'M LINSEY DAVIS.THANKS SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US.JUST TWO HOURS UNTIL THE SECOND AND FINAL DEBATE SHOWDOWN BETWEEN PRESIDENT TRUMP AND FORMER VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN.THE STAGE IS SET AT BELMONT UNIVERSITY IN NASHVILLE, AND A LAST MINUTE CHANGE REMOVING THE PTHEPLEX SEE GLASS DIVIDER THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON THAT STAGE.JOE BIDEN AND HIS WIFE JILL ARRIVING THIS AFTERNOON IN NASHVILLE AHEAD OF TONIGHT'S FACEOFF.FOR AMERICANS IT WILL BE A FINALCHANCE TO SEE THE TWO CANDIDATESHEAD TO HEAD MAKING THEIR CASE FOR LEADING THE COUNTRY FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.WILL TONIGHT PROVIDE ANY CLARITY, OR WILL IT PROVE TO BE ANOTHER NIGHT OF SOUND AND FURY SIGNIFYING NOTHING.MARY BRUCE LEADS US OFF. 

>> Reporter: JOE BIDEN HEADING TO NASHVILLE FOR THE FINAL DEBATE.

THE CANDIDATES FACE-TO-FACE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THEIR CLASHIN CLEVELAND AND THE PRESIDENT'SCOVID DIAGNOSIS. 

>> HOPEFULLY HE'S GOING TO PLAY BY THE RULES.HOPEFULLY EVERYBODY'S BEEN TESTED.I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS. 

>> Reporter: PRESIDENT TRUMP ANDTHE FIRST LADY ALSO MAKING THEIRWAY LEAVING THE WHITE HOUSE, THEFIRST TIME WE'VE SEEN HER PUBLICLY SINCE SHE CONTRACTED COVID.THE WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCING THAT ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE THIS AFTERNOON, THE PRESIDENT TESTINGNEGATIVE.

THE PANDEMIC IS EXPECTED TO BE FRONT AND CENTER ON THE DEBATE STAGE.

BIDEN PLANNING TO HAMMER TRUMP OVER HIS HANDLING OF THICRISIS.BUT THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN EAGERTO MOVE ON.

>> COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID.COVID, COVID, COVID.

THAT'S ALL THEY PUT ON BECAUSE THEY WANT TO SCARE THE HELL OUT OF EVERYONE. 

>> TRUMP HAS SPENT THE WEEK ON THE ATTACK GOING AFTER EVERYONE FROM DR. ANTHONY FAUCI TO TONIGHT'S DEBATE MODERATOR KRISTEN WELKER OF NBC TO LESLEY STAHL OF "60 MINUTES" AFTER TRUMP CUT SHORT THEIR INTERVIEW.HE ACCUSED HER OF BIAS, HATRED AND RUDENESS.IN CLIPS LATER RELEASED BY CBS, STAHL PRESSES HIM ON HIS RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC AND WHYHE'S NOT URGING SUPPORTERS AT HIS RALLIES TO WEAR MASKS. 

>> WHY AREN'T YOU GETTING UP THERE AND SAYING I HAD IT.

I DON'T WANT YOU TO GET IT SO PLEASE PUT YOUR MASK ON. 

>> WE HAND OUT MASKS TO EVERYBODY THAT COMES TO THE RALLY.WE TELL THEM TO WEAR THE MASKS. 

>> BUT YOU DON'T AND THEY LOVE YOU -- 

>> OH, I DON'T KNOW, LESLEY. 

>> IF THEY HEARD YOU SAY IT.THEY LOVE YOU, THEY WOULD PAY ATTENTION TO ANYTHING YOU SAID. 

>> I HOPE YOU'RE RIGHT. 

>> STAHL PUSHING TRUMP ON OBAMACARE, THE ADMINISTRATION ISASKING THE SUPREME COURT TO THROW IT OUT.

TRUMP PROMISED TO REVEAL A REPLACEMENT PLAN MORE THAN A YEAR AGO.

HE TELLS "60 MINUTES" ONE IS, QUOTE, FULLY DEVELOPED BUT MINUTES LATER SAYS HE WILL COME UP WITH A PLAN IF THE LAW IS OVERTURNED.

DOWN IN THE POLLS AND ON DEFENSE, TRUMP NEEDS A WIN TONIGHT.

HIS LAWYER RUDY GIULIANI SAYS ATTACKING BIDEN'S SON HUNTER WILL BE HIS NUMBER ONE MESSAGE.

BIDEN'S TEAM SAYS HE'S BRACING FOR TRUMP TO GO PERSONAL AND TO TRY TO INTERRUPT LIKE HE DID AT THE LAST DEBATE.

>> I'M NOT GOING TO ANSWER THE QUESTION BECAUSE -- 

>> WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER THAT QUESTION?

>> THE QUESTION IS -- 

>> THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE -- 

>> RADICAL LEFT. 

>> WILL YOU SHUT UP, MAN. 

>> IN HIS OWN INTERVIEW WITH "60MINUTES" THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT TRYING TO GET AHEAD OFANOTHER POTENTIAL TRUMP LINE OF ATTACK ON WHETHER HE'LL EXPAND THE SUPREME COURT.

BIDEN STILL NOT GIVING A CLEAR ANSWER, BUT SAYING HE WOULD NAMEA SPECIAL COMMISSION TO RECOMMEND REFORMS TO THE COURT.

>> IT'S GETTING OUT OF WHACK.

THE WAY IN WHICH IT'S BEING HANDLED.PRESIDENTS COME AND GO, SUPREME COURT JUSTICES STAY FOR GENERATIONS.

>> BIDEN FINALLY ANSWERING THAT QUESTION THAT HE HAD DODGED FOR QUITE SOME TIME ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD DO WITH THE SUPREME COURT IF HE WINS.

MARY BRUCE JOINS US FROM THE DEBATE SITE IN NASHVILLE.THAT FIRST DEBATE WITH SO MANY INTERRUPTIONS.

EXPLAIN TO OUR AUDIENCE ABOUT THE CHANGES TO TRY TO REDUCE THAT AND WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE PLEXIGLASS THAT WAS SUPPOSEDTO BE ON THE STAGE. 

>> IT WAS HERE JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES AGO, THEN REMOVED.IT'S NOT QUITE CLEAR WHY THAT DECISION WAS MADE.THEY WILL STILL BE A CONSIDERABLE DISTANCE APART, MORE THAN 12 FEET.FOR THE MUTING, THE SILENT TREATMENT THAT WILL BE HAPPENINGHERE TONIGHT, THIS IS A FIRST.

THE CANDIDATES' MICROPHONES WILLBE MUTED AT SOME POINT WHEN THEIR RIVAL IS ANSWERING A DIRECT QUESTION.

THEN THERE WILL, OF COURSE, BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CROSS TALK.

IT WILL BE VERY INTERESTING TO SEE HERE IN THE ROOM TONIGHT WHETHER THEY'RE ACTUALLY SILENT WHEN THAT MICROPHONE IS MUTED.JUST BECAUSE YOUR MICROPHONE IS DOWN, DOESN'T MEAN YOU NECESSARILY WILL STOP TALKING. 

>> JOE BIDEN HAS NOT BEEN ON THECAMPAIGN TRAIL ALL THAT MUCH THIS WEEK.

WHAT'S HIS CAMPAIGN SAYING ABOUTHIS STRATEGY FOR TONIGHT AND HOWHE'S GOING TO DEAL WITH THOSE LIKELY ATTACKS FROM THE PRESIDENT ON HIS FAMILY?

>> Reporter: THEY SAY THAT THEY KNOW THIS COULD GET UGLY.THEY ARE BRACED FOR PERSONAL ATTACKS, BUT THEIR ARGUMENT IS THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT TOKNOW WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THEIR FAMILY, WHAT THE NEXT PRESIDENT CAN DO TO MAKE THINGS BETTER IN THEIR LIFE.NOT SO MUCH ABOUT THE CANDIDATE THE PRESIDENT'S FAMILY, HIMSELF,SO THEY'RE GOING TO TRY AND LIKETHEY DID IN THE FIRST DEBATE, JOE BIDEN WILL TRY TO SPEAK DIRECTLY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

TRY AND CALL OUT THE PRESIDENT WHEN HE SAYS SOMETHING WRONG ANDBASICALLY TRY TO GO AROUND HIM.THE CHALLENGE HERE AS IT WAS LAST TIME IS NOT TO TRY TO GET DRAGGED INTO THE MUD WITH THE PRESIDENT AS HE TRIES TO MAKE ITALL ABOUT THESE PERSONAL ATTACKS. 

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