Final preparations underway for presidential debate at Belmont

The final presidential debate, which will take place tomorrow night at Belmont University, has been more than a year in the making, and several adjustments have been made due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We are just under 37 hoursaway from the áfinalápresidential debate of the20-20 election season...PresidentDonaldTrump and former VicePresident Joe Biden are set togo head-to-head right here inNashville.

Preparations fortomorrow night's event havebeen underway for months now.Just this week-- theCommission on PresidentialDebates agreed to turn off themic of the candidate notspeaking during eachcandidate's two-minuteresponse at the start of eachdebate topic-- to cut down onunnecessary interruptions.Thursday's debate should havebeen the third debate of theseason...but the second onewas cancelled after thepresident was diagnosed withCOVID-19.With Belmont having alreadyhosted one debate back in20-08 -- it's no stranger toall the security preps thathave to go into hosting such abig event.The U-S SecretService is working with locallaw enforcement to make sureevery moment is planned withsafety in mind.Todd Hudson,Special Agent in Charge - USSecret ServiceWithoutquestion, this has been aunified and collaborativeeffort with the Nashville lawenforcement and safetycommunity.

The partnershipsthat exist in our network arevital to the comprehensivesecurity planning that hastaken place The SecretService says it came up with asecurity plan tht it believesis the best for the community-- with the least impact.Working alongside the SecretService-- Metro Police.We'retold the department will sendmore than 700 officers to helpout with motorcades andkeeping the Belmont campussafe.