bodes well for donald trump. however, however, because it's early voting and there is still a lot of time left, about the 12, 11 days left until november 5th, there is still a lot of time left for more voters will turn up. so the dynamic could shift with this last stretch before election day. >> most certainly could. well, earlier this week, donald trump's former chief of staff john kelly warned that trump would rule like a dictator, calling the former president a fascist. the vice president has jumped on these comments, calling trump a fascist herself. how is this playing out on the campaign trail? >> well, speaking to the harris campaign and people close to the harris campaign, they tell me this was an opening for her to remind voters of what potentially could come up with a trump presidency, with trump back in office. and because of this, you're going to hear even more these sort of stark warnings coming from the vice president.

on tuesday, she is going to be holding a rally on the national mall. it's her closing argument, argument rally, which is the same location, by the way, carissa, where donald trump held that stop the steal rally back on january 6th, 2021. and it's there again to they're holding it there to remind voters and to try to appeal to their base to go out and vote, but also try to reach out to expand past their electoral base territory to wider targets like moderate republicans and traditional conservative republicans in these battleground states that they feel strongly they can make a play for with this argument, carissa. >> well, now to the star-studded folks that are going to be coming to these rallies coming up. talk a little bit about that. we're talking beyonce. you confirmed that today? >> i did, i did. beyonce, the multi-grammy award winning musician and of course

globally known artist will be campaigning for kamala harris. bruce springsteen, again, a very legendary musician. former president barack obama, actor tyler perry and media mogul tyler perry. but this is all an effort, this last stretch, to try to appeal to their base voters, and also those, again, who might be on the bubble to vote for her. they feel that this is a big effort to mobilize that their supporters in these battleground states, these seven battleground states, but also again try to appeal to those who may be on the bubble. look, carissa, this is a battle of margins. we're looking at races across the seven battleground states which could be, you know, within just a few thousand points potentially of each other, a few thousand votes within each other. it is a battle of margins. so right now it's to try to get attention, to try to make that

final push to get voters out to the polls. >> all right. well, fin, thank you so much. so much going on within these last two weeks leading up to november 5th. thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you, carissa. when "cbs news roundup" returns, we'll sit down for a chat with one of the loudest voices for the democratic party, james carville, and hear what he thinks about the upcoming presidential election.

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now with vitamin d for the dark days of winter. for the past 40 years, james carville has been an outspoken and often abrasive voice of the democratic party. most recently, he led the push to get president biden to drop out of the race for reelection. in an opinion piece this week, carville says he is certain kamala harris will defeat former president trump. michelle miller has his story. >> and president bush has been a do nothing president. and now he is a do nothing candidate. >> that's the way a political strategist thinks. >> his wicked wit and combative style. >> go ask them. i'm a political strategist. >> reporter: have made him one of the most outspoken voices of his time. mr. carville, how are you?

>> mr.? i like that. oh my god. >> reporter: a progressive pit bull. some say helped form the tone of cable news talk. >> iraq is getting more violent by the day, and we've been there forever, an the thing has gone to hell in a hand basket. >> reporter: but earlier this year, james carville laid aside party loyalty and sounded the alarm for president biden to drop out. >> somebody better wake the [ bleep ] up. he's going to come to the conclusion that this is just not a good idea. >> reporter: you seem to have predicted what we've seen this entire summer. >> well, i guess it's fortunate sometimes to make a big call right in the middle of the film. >> reporter: that film, "carville: winning is everything, stupid." >> hey, give me a call when you get a chance. >> reporter: also recounts his four decades in politics. someone said of you that the path to victory is his religion. that's what he cares about. winning. >> right.

i was obsessed with winning because you would hear this -- there were a lot of democrats and kind of progressive people that wanted to feel good about themselves. oh, we were just way ahead of our times and no one could appreciate us. that doesn't do anything. it's [ bleep ]. if you don't win, there's nothing. >> reporter: we first saw that fervor in "the war room." a film chronicling carville's 1992 presidential campaign to elect a relatively unknown governor from arkansas. >> i'll tell you what's at stake in this election. >> reporter: a victory that put democrats back in the oval office for only the second time in 24 years. >> talk about things that matter to people. it's the economy, stupid. [ applause ] >> reporter: carville's simplicity in turning a phrase struck a chord with voters, and to date remains one of the most-quoted slogans in politics. bill clinton -- >> what about him? you got a week?

>> reporter: he said, when i first met carville, i thought i was home. >> i think that you would have to have been a southern, white liberal of my generation to kind of talk the same language, knew the same kind of people, had to forge alliances and partnerships with different kinds of folks. we had an idea of the struggles that the people went through and how life was kind of difficult for a lot of people. and i think that was a kind of common bond. this is the house that my father was born in. >> reporter: the film also takes carville back to his small hometown just south of baton rouge. >> this was the family store. and the sign has changed a little bit, they've shut the post office down. that's the original building. the way i grew up was trained for politics. i hear people say, well, i know more people -- wasn't anything

around me than people, a poor black person living on the mississippi river, you going to tell me about marginalized people? that's all -- all i ever knew. >> look at that. is that carville or is that carville? >> reporter: the youngest of eight, carville learned the art of salesmanship from his mom, who sold encyclopedias. i didn't know you were a mama's boy. >> have you ever known a male from louisiana that wasn't a mama's boy? >> reporter: touche. >> we're all mama's boys. >> hey, gary, carville. >> reporter: it took this mama's boy a little while to fully find himself. >> always been kind of a late bloomer. i worked on a tow boat, a bank, enlisted in the marine corps, went to law school, i worked in the mayor's office. and i think by the time that i was ready to do politics, i was pretty well trained in life.

>> took a job in 1986 working for a man named bob casey. >> reporter: those local campaign wins landed the big one. >> you are the new wonder boy. >> reporter: that national spot with bill clinton. it also caught the eye of republican strategist lee atwater who dispatched his own chief of staff, mary matalin. >> people had vested in me that somehow or another that i was the savior. guess it's true -- >> reporter: you were hot? >> i was hot, yeah. >> if you don't think for a nano second -- >> mary's appointed the deputy campaign manager, in charge of all field operations. >> reporter: she was hot too. >> very. she was a very, very well-known figure in republican politics. and -- >> sparks flew. >> reporter: sparks flew in every kind of direction they can fly. >> i really have never liked having our marriage be the cause of our -- of our celebrity. >> the private lives of this

political odd couple fascinated and perplexed the public. >> have a national dialogue. i'm not having this conversation with him. >> reporter: years of duking it out on the campaign trail and national tv may have pushed them to the limit. >> sometimes if you got to have a fight at least it wasn't over the toothpaste cap. it was over a war. >> we could torture each other in perpetuity, and we came perilously close, but we are not getting divorced. >> reporter: and have been married for more than 30 years. >> she's always exciting. i've always -- i'm excited by her. she'll come up to new york and i'll be waiting out in front of the hotel for her to get there. and just kind of -- >> reporter: really? >> yeah. age is something that everybody deals with. >> reporter: for carville, when it comes to elections, he takes nothing in stride. are you excited about the race? >> i can't get excited because i'm trying to win. and people always ask me, james,

who do you think's going to win? i said every minute i'm thinking about who's going to win, i'm not thinking about how to win. >> reporter: win or lose, don't ever expect him to change. >> i always wanted to be james carville, and i actually got to be james carville. >> reporter: that is the best advice in the world. >> right. >> be you, do you. >> and then i got to be me. so what do i -- why would i want to be somebody else? >> reporter: and why would he? that was michelle miller with james carville. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

boeing factory workers rejected the airplane maker's latest contract offer, meaning their strike, now six weeks in, will continue. so what's next? cbs' kris van cleave got the story from the picket line. >> reporter: resounding rejection. nearly two-thirds of striking boeing machinists gave a thumb's down to a new contract that included a 35% pay hike over four years as well as improved health and retirement benefits. the reason? workers want the pension they surrendered a decade ago. >> i would love to have my pension back. i really am bitter about it. we're all bitter about it. >> i voted no. and i'm feeling like they're continually trying to give us the bare minimum. >> reporter: but boeing says a pension is too costly and is off the table. that follows a 40-year trend

nationally of companies moving away from pension programs. in 1980, nearly half of company workers had access to a pension. now only 15% do, while 67% have access to a 401(k). >> pensions are generally better for employees, and pensions are generally worse for the companies. putting a pension in place is actually a big heavy lift for a company that has put one to bed. >> reporter: we asked local union president john holden about the pension impasse ahead of wednesday's vote. >> the autoworkers said they wanted their pension back. didn't happen. i don't know that i can point to a single union that has won a pension back. >> yeah, well, that's not because it's not justified. it is the direction society is going, and it's not right. it's note okay. some want that defined benefit pension, and i understand that fully. we haven't been able to achieve that, and i can't say that we will by staying out on strike. >> reporter: there is no public timeline for when negotiations may resume, but the white house

says biden administration officials have already been in touch with the union and boeing executives, urging them to get back to the table and to make a deal. >> well, let's hope they get that sorted out. that was kris van cleave on the picket line. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." for some of you, the news continues. for others, tune in later for "cbs mornings." and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm carissa lawson. hello and thanks for staying up with us.

i'm carissa lawson in new york. here are the top stories on "cbs news roundup." in arizona, donald trump criticizes current border policies while kamala harris brings in star power in georgia. a surprise turn in the case of lyle and eric menendez, two brothers convicted of killing their parents in 1989. and more restaurants are pulling onions off the menu after a deadly e. coli outbreak that started with mcdonald's. former president donald trump held rallies in arizona and nevada on thursday to bring attention to the border, while vice president kamala harris zeroed in on georgia with some celebrity assistance. cbs' dina dimitrios has the very latest on the campaigns. >> my friend, the next president of the united states of america, vice president kamala harris! [ cheering ] >> reporter: vice president kamala harris led a star-studded rally in georgia, sharing the stage with former president

barack obama for the first time during her campaign. >> thank you, mr. president! just 12 days left in one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime, and i don't need to tell you voting has already started, and everybody here knows it's going to be a tight race until the very end. >> reporter: early voting is under way in more than 30 states. more than 30 million votes have been cast either in person or through the mail. >> we have an opportunity before us to turn the page on the fear and divisiveness that have characterized our politics for a decade because of donald trump. >> reporter: earlier, former donald trump came out swinging in battleground arizona, where immigration and border security are prime issues. >> my message today is very simple. kamala's migrant invasion given to us through gross incompetence disqualifies her from even

thinking about being president. >> reporter: if trump wins back the white house, he's vowed to crack down on people living illegally in the u.s. >> we're a dumping ground. we're like a garbage can for the world. that's what's happened. >> reporter: trump is hoping to win arizona after losing the state by fewer than 11,000 votes in 2020. dina dimitrios, cbs news. president biden on friday will formally apologize for the role of the united states in a brutal policy of forcing generations of indigenous children into boarding schools. right up to the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of american indian children had been taken from their families and placed into the schools. many were physically, emotionally, and sexually % abused, and more than 950 of them died. mr. biden will travel to arizona on friday to make his first presidential visit to a tribal nation. in a surprise legal twist, the l.a. district attorney is calling for the early release of lyle and eric menendez, convicted in the sensational

double murder case that captivated the nation in the 1990s. if the judge approves the request, the pair could be set free after serving more than three decades of a life sentence. cbs' jonathan vigliotti reports on the combination of factors that led up to this. >> reporter: a dramatic twist in a long-running legal drama. >> i came to a place where i believed where under the law resentencing is appropriate. >> reporter: as family members stood by in support, l.a.'s district attorney outlined his reasons for seeking the early release of lyle and eric menendez, 35 years after they brutally murdered their parents. >> i believe that they have paid their debt to society, and i do believe the brothers were subgeneticed to a tremendous amount of dysfunction in the home and molestation. >> reporter: abuse mostly excluded from the jury that convicted them of first-degree murder, some of them emerging

last year when roy rocello of menudo claimed he was raped by jose menendez in the 1980s. >> he had been forced to have sex with jose menendez as a child numerous times. >> reporter: mary incla produced that documentary and had met several times with the menendez brothers. she says for the first time in decades, they now have a glimmer of hope. >> is the prison system about housing bodies, or is the prison system about rehabilitation? these brothers have been rehabilitated. >> reporter: some prosecutors in the d.a.'s office oppose any release, adamant that this was a crime about money and not abuse. family members have been mostly united, pleading for their freedom. >> this step gives us all hope that the truth will finally be heard, and that lyle and eric can begin to heal from the trauma of their past. >> reporter: and at least one

family member is against their release. the attorney for the brothers say they could be home before thanksgiving, though legal experts we've spoken with say that's unlikely. so what's next? the case will be handed over to a judge who will hold a hearing in about four weeks. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, los angeles. popular fast food restaurants are pulling onions from their menus as the fda zeros in on the vegetable as the possible source of contamination in that mcdonald's e. coli outbreak. the move comes two days after mcdonald's stopped serving quarter pounders at 20% of its 14,000 u.s. locations in response to the outbreak. cbs' karen morfitt reports. >> reporter: yum brands, the owner of fast food chains including taco bell, kfc and pizza hut says it's removing fresh onions from its meals at select locations. taylor farms, the supplier of fresh sliced onions in the region removed yellow onions from its plant in colorado out

of an abundance of caution, even though the company says no traces of the bacteria have been found. health authorities continue to investigate other possible sources of contamination, including quarter pounder beef patties. but the fda says the onions are a likely culprit. there have been 49 cases and 1 death in ten states in the outbreak so far. >> within a month, my son went from being a toddler and learning to walk to dying of respiratory failure. >> reporter: the e. coli in the mcdonald's outbreak is the same strain that killed darrin detweiler's son riley in 1993 during a jajack-in-the-box outb. >> consumers are often treated as canaries in the coal mine where we don't react until we have enough consumers harmed by a product. >> reporter: of those 49 reported cases, more than half are here in colorado. state health officials urging anyone experiencing symptoms to

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consider the u.s.-mexico border a major factor in their choice for president. while there are no shortage of opinions in the immigration debate, we wanted to see what those closest to the issue are thinking. omar villafranca hit the road for a 1600-mile reality check. >> reporter: the southern border as described on the campaign trail. >> it's an invasion of our country. >> i saw the violence and chaos. >> reporter: or seen on the news. >> in just the past 24 hours, more than 10,000 migrants have been processed. >> reporter: can easily create a picture of all border towns as lawless and chaotic. but the reality is more nuanced, as we learned during our 1600-mile trip from mcallen, texas, to the california coast. in laredo, texas, ranked as one of the safest cities in the state, mayor victor trevino told us his city is not the wild west he often sees depicted. >> there is cartels, there is

crime and this and that, which is not true. >> reporter: he points to a different surge, $320 billion worth of gm and tesla car parts, microchips and produce that cross america's busiest port of entry by train and truck. about 500 miles west in presidio, texas, restaurant owner hector sees people leaving for better paying jobs, including his own family. >> this is my teenager daughter. she's graduating this may. we have three. they've left, and they don't come back. all our kids leave, and they don't come back. >> reporter: mayor john ferguson says the local economy relies on hundreds of mexican citizens who legally cross every day to work in restaurants or oil fields. what would happen if it was harder for mexican residents to come over to work in presidio? >> i think we'd be in serious trouble. like the pandemic, where you didn't have enough workers and things would slow down.

and certain sectors might kind of dry up. >> reporter: columbus, new mexico mayor phil skinner says without border trade, towns shrink, with consequences you may not think about. how many dentists are in town here? >> in columbus? >> reporter: yeah. >> none. >> reporter: how many in porto palomas? >> ten. >> reporter: so if you need dental work, you're going to mexico? >> yes. >> reporter: arizona borders mexico for more than 350 miles, and it is a drug smuggling hot spot. in fiscal year 2024, 66% of the fentanyl seized on the u.s.-mexico border happened in the tucson sector, which includes all the ports of entry in arizona, including the one behind me. douglas, arizona mayor donnell huish liked the bipartisan border bill that has been front and center in the campaign, that one that died after donald trump's criticism. >> i will bring it back up and proudly sign it into law. >> it would help us because we would have had more border patrol agents. i can understand why people didn't like the entire bill.

but why stop talking about it? >> reporter: did that frustrate you? >> it frustrated the heck out of us. >> reporter: frustration is everywhere along the board ir. just ask sheriff daniels in choe cheese county. he smuggles with drug influx and immigrants. >> is more of an unknown, because politics and the country is so divided right now. >> reporter: which is why the one thing you won't find on the border is hope for a solution. border is hope for a solution. for "eye on america," emergen-c crystals pop and fizz when you throw them back. and who doesn't love a good throwback? ♪♪ now with vitamin d for the dark days of winter.

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syracuse, new york is surrounded by pristine lakes, but testing shows the water some residents are drinking contains dangerously high levels of lead. the trouble has been traced to the service lines bringing water into people's homes. lilia luciano reports. >> reporter: city officials are pushing back on claims that this is a crisis, saying that the latest water testing this month showed that the levels had improved, but some advocates are questioning those results and methodologies, and residents we spoke with say the city needs to be doing a lot more to protect their families. >> thank you. how was school today? good. >> reporter: when 5-year-old ella showed traces of lead in a blood test, her grandmother, oceana fayer was terrified. knowing the effects of blood

poisoning starting with her brother more than 40 years ago. >> and is essentially an 8-year-old that me and my siblings care for. >> reporter: in 2020, fair fought for federal funding to fully remove lead point from her home. she was confident her home was lead-free, but as recently as 2022, tests showed her granddaughter was still exposed. how did you feel? >> helpless. helpless because we couldn't put our finger on it. we didn't know where she was coming into contact with it. >> reporter: she says the culprit had been hiding in the basement. how did you find out? did you have to hire somebody? >> it's pretty simple. you can scratch your line, and that silver that you see underneath. >> reporter: that means? >> that's lead. >> reporter: she only checked this august after a letter from the city warned of high lead levels in nearly 30% of water sample taken from homes with lead service lines. more confirmation. >> we eventually brought a new fridge that had a filter.

our lead levels went down and we assumed it fwruz the diet we were feeding her. >> reporter: this is from a community with lead issues where 9% of children have suffered from lead poinzing. in some black and brown neighborhoods, it's one in five. >> reporter: ben walsh has called the results from the spring outliers, showing the latest testing showed far lower lead levels, but said the city is working to replace all lead service lines faster than the epa's ten-year deadline and providing filters to families with small children. we've heard from people in this community who are extremely alarmed, whose children have tested positive. this is being compared to flint. what's your response to people who are that worried? >> well, i don't think the facts support those comparisons. the specific challenges that we're dealing with, again, are limited to the properties that have lead service lines. so if you don't have any lead service lines, there is no reason to be concerned. >> reporter: but he acknowledges even the city does not have a full inventory of all pipes made of lead. this is a community that 70%

renters, meaning people don't know whether those pipes are made out of lead bringing water into their homes. >> reporter: darlene medley said the city is failing her two twin boys who suffered from developmental from lead poisoning. >> when you're told they'll never make it to what they're supposed to be. you don't think that deserves a damn apology? that deserves an apology a lot more. >> she says the twins were exposed from the lead paint, not the water, but then they realized the water was still an issue. this year the state mandated that systems must change every pipe that contains in the next ten years. the law provides $15 billion in funding to replace lead service lines. in syracuse with at least 14,000 known lead water lines, it's going to take at least five years. many of the residents say they can't wait that long. lilia luciano, cbs news, new

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>> reporter: inside the ucan center in one of chicago's most violent neighborhoods. >> it's a war zone out there. >> but it's our reality. >> reporter: there is calm and the promise of peace. >> raise your hands. how many of you have lost somebody to gun violence or yourself been involved in gun violence? >> reporter: women at high risk for gun violence come here four days a week for a year to learn ways to cope with trauma, anger, and grief, and get coach and the life skills that can put them on a different path. >> is violence in the community contagious? >> yes, very contagious. >> reporter: women like 21-year-old mckayla medina. she has already lost her sister and boyfriend in shootings. have you ever found yourself in the crossfire? >> yes, a million times. every day i walk out the door, it's always something happening. it's always some gunshots. >> reporter: while men make up the majority of shot or shooting, the number of women here involved is rising.

>> last year we had about 90 women killed from gun violence and nearly 500 women were shot. >> reporter: krista hamilton from ucan developed the program, part of an anti-violence approach called community violence intervention, designed to stop crime and violence before they happen. trained specialists establish relationships with people at the highest risk of being victims or perpetrators of violence. they provide support and often respond to crime scenes, working to de-escalate tensions. >> the police cannot do this alone. this is a societal issue. i don't want to go this alone. i don't want my officers to go this alone. >> reporter: in chicago, $300 million has been pledged for intervention programs in underserved invested communities. >> violence is an outward expression of a deep-rooted problem. it might be housing. it might be education. it might be mental health. >> reporter: chico tillman from the university of chicago's

crime lab has studied the cost of crime and the return on investments in intervention. what's been shown in terms of the cost-effectiveness? >> when a homicide takes place, there's an investigation. the case goes to court. the case gets prosecuted. incarceration if they're found guilty, the medical bills. it costs society as a whole anywhere from $1.4 million to $2.5 million every time somebody is shot. >> and that's why i love that we come here to get assistance, because we each share a story. >> reporter: for the schiros, the community is the key and a

it's friday, october 25th, 2024. this is cbs news mornings. a chance for freedom. los angeles district attorney is recommending the menendez brothers be resentenced after serving more than three decades in prison for their parents'