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Yeah. In just hours, the first presidential debate of the 2024 general election will take place. Here is a live look this midday outside the CNN studios in Atlanta, courtesy of our sister station. This will be a debate like no other as there have never been as there has never been one so early in the campaign season. A B C's Rachel Scott explains why the stakes in the race that is neck to neck couldn't be higher. It's the biggest test yet of the 2024 campaign this morning, President Biden and Donald Trump set to come face to face for the first time in four years. In the final hours, President Biden hunkered down at Camp David. He spent nearly a week there holding mock debates with senior advisers, his rival, not doing any of that. I think I've been preparing for it for my whole life. If you want to know the truth, I'm not sure you can lock yourself into a room for two weeks or one week or two days and really learn what you have to know Trump is preparing more than he's letting on. Holding more than a dozen policy sessions with advisers and allies. Both sides already trying to set the tone as Biden prepares to cast Trump as a threat to democracy. His campaign rolling out an endorsement from former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger who served on the January 6th committee. There is one man running for re election of two men running for re election that cares about the future of this country and cares about democracy. And that's Joe Biden. Trump's campaign hosting an event at an Atlanta barbershop. All right, everybody. You're on with the president, the former president calling in suggesting his legal troubles help him appeal to black voters comments, the Biden campaign, Colin salting. I think my representatives will tell you this. The black support has gone through the roof and I guess they equate it to problems that they've had. Trump is now the first convicted felon to become a party's presumptive nominee. And in another unprecedented moment, he and Biden are the oldest candidates to ever seek the White House tonight. There will be no studio audience mics will only be turned on when it's their turn to speak both sides hoping that helps avoid this shouting match that happened last cycle because the question is, the question is left.