Query event post by today’s date

I have created a custom post type for ‘event’ using Pods. Using Elementor Jet elements post module I can create a WP query BUT only want to display posts that have event date of today or after. Jet Elements support haven’t been much help. I think the issue is with the meta query and ‘today’ value. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks.

{“post_type”:”event”,”post_status”:”any”,”order”:”ASC”,”orderby”:”meta_value”,”meta_key”:”event_date”,”meta_query”:{“0”:{“key”:”event_date”,”value”:”today”,”compare”:”>=”},”relation”:”AND”}}