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some say it's impossible to fix san francisco. they also said you couldn't escape from alcatraz. but watch me do both. other candidates want to tear down san francisco, but i'll build on what's already great to make it even better. with expanded rent control, new homes for the middle class community policing to reduce crime, and an inspector general to root out corruption. let's get to work. paid for by aaron peskin for mayor 2024. financial disclosures are available at sfethics.org tonight, race to the finish. with ten days to go, the
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presidential candidates hit the battlegrounds. >> vice president harris calls in a queen and a first lady. >> i'm in state college, pennsylvania, where former president trump is barnstorming. he is making a viral appear to young men. iran assesses the damage after israel's high stakes attack. new russian strikes in ukraine with new worries about the flow of american firepower to the front lines. weather shift. the norm thwest gets wet. the northeast wonders if it will rain again. the latest on mcdonald's e. coli trouble. having a ball. the first video of the panda's new habitat at the national zoo. later,
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-- library that got really big. >> i knew i needed to change the name. it is just not a little library. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs weekend news" from new york. good evening. with time ticking in the tightest of races, both presidential candidates are making their pitch to undecided voters. more than 35 million american have cast their ballot. we have two reports from the campaign trail tonight. we begin with ed o'keefe in michigan where vice president harris is bringing in some political star power. >> reporter: good evening. former first lady michelle obama has been reluctant to engage in politics over the last eight years.
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tonight, she made a direct appeal to men, saying they have to vote for vice president harris because the lives of women are at stake. >> i am asking y'all from the core of my being to take our lives seriously. please, please, do not hand our fates over to the likes of trump. who knows nothing about us. who has shown deep contempt for us. because a vote for him is a vote against us. against our health. against our worth. >> reporter: harris is focused on access to it abortion. >> because of trump and what he did with supreme court, we are looking at a health care crisis in america, which is a affectin people. >> reporter: she met with doctors. >> what's at stake is not just with respect to abortion care
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but reproductive care. >> reporter: dozens of other medical providers spoke out. >> as a physician, i cannot describe the anguish of not being able to help my patients. the fear of spending my life behind bars. >> reporter: the biggest star of the beyonce who didn't sing. >> i'm not here as a celebrity. i'm here as a mother. >> reporter: from the vice president heads to philadelphia on sunday, the biggest city in the key battleground state. she's trying to find votes at the beginning of the last full week of the campaign. on monday, she's coming right back here to michigan. >> ed o'keefe, thank you. from one battleground to another. former president trump is in pennsylvania, fresh off a visit with a powerhouse podcaser that left him apologizing.
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we have the latest. >> reporter: good evening. whether it's here at penn state or in a podcast with joe rogan, former president trump is targeting his message to young voters, particularly young men. former president donald trump made blue wall visits. >> we love penn state. >> reporter: following a stop in detroit, where he mocked kamala harris's latest superstar endorsement. >> beyonce went up. spoke for a couple of minutes and left. they booed the hell out of everybody. . >> reporter: despite being int interrupted, he appeared to left a warm reception. trump nearly three hours late, sent in a video apology. >> it's about winning.
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>> reporter: the former president flew from texas after recording what may be the lengthiest interview of his xap with joe rogan. the interview aped at a male audience. >> i always got more publicity than other people. it wasn't like he was trying. i don't know exactly why. maybe you can tell me why. >> i can tell you. you said a lot of wild [ bleep ]. >> reporter: the former president and rogan veered on and off topic on everything from election fraud claims to whether there's life on mars. the former president is banking on a audience when he rallies in madison square garden. president biden says he hopes israel's strike against iran is the end. the chief of the u.n. says he is deeply alarmed by the escalating
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tensions. we have latest developments. >> reporter: explosions over tehran as iranian missile defenses reacted to israel's projectiles. >> the israel defense forces is conducting precise strikes on military targets in iran. >> reporter: israel's military specified it targeted surface to air missiles. israel's strikes were in response to iran's attack when tehran launched nearly 200 missiles. iran has played down israel's latest attacks. with reports of minor damage, the hope is iran will not respond. >> if they would continue to launch and attack israel, we will hit iran in a way that they will not be able to launch against us again.
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>> reporter: israel is already fighting wars on two fronts, in lebanon and in gaza. after storming northern gaza's last functioning hospital, the idf pulled back leaving behind destruction and death. cbs news spoke to the hospital's director earlier this week. >> we don't have medicine. medications, medical supply, food. we have catastrophic situation. >> reporter: that situation now a personal tragedy. an israeli sniper shot his 16-year-old son in the head. he buried him, just 16 years owed. president biden hopes israel's strikes on iran will be the end of the round of fighting. the u.s. warned iran not to strike back to avoid blowing this conflict up into a regional war. >> so many concerns.
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to the war in ukraine now. today, russian attacks in two cities claimed the lives of five people, including a teenager. video shows the moments after a rus russian drone strike. >> reporter: the u.s. has supplied ukraine with over $60 billion in military assistance since russia innovated in 2022. including these striker fighting vehicles, used by ukraine's air assault brigade to launch an incursion into russia. is it -- >> it's critical. >> reporter: this man is a truck driver turned striker driver who told us he is grateful to americans for the strikers and other aid.
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have you seen them save ukrainian lives? seen it, heard it, and felt it, he told us. in central kyiv, john mccain street was named by ukraine in the late senator's honor. with this u.s. presidential election too close to call, the mood has turned gloomy and anxious. this woman's husband is in the military and told us ukrainians well hold on. she hopes americans won't abandon them. are you worried that donald trump could cut off the supply of weapons to ukraine? yes, she told us. for us, it's a matter of survival. holly williams, cbs news, kyiv, ukraine. a nasa astronaut hospitalized has been released. they were part of the crew who splashed down friday morning after an eight-month state on the international space station.
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the astronaut was kept for observation. the u.s. navy apologizing for destroying a native village of alaska nearly 150 years ago. a rear admiral apologized for attacking the village. the attack killed six children and caused such dire food shortages that villagers starved them services to children could eat. now to the weather. a big shift in the west. rain and snow are in the forecast. the east hasn't even seen a drop. let's check in with andrew. >> good eefvening. an atmospheric river will bring this rain for much of the pacific northwest. north he wern california, sever rounds. we will look at quite a bit of rain.
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along with that, cooler temperatures. cooling down in california. palm springs, 90s. by tuesday, we are going for 70s in phoenix. a nice cooldown. the east coast, not a drop of rain in new york city all month for october. philadelphia, about to shatter the oeld record. a tale of two very different scenarios. >> no doubt. thank you. game two of the world series in los angeles. >> cortez delivers. freeman hits a ball to right field. gone! >> freeman hit the first ever game-ending grand slam in world vier series history. it happened in the bottom of the
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news, including big problems for one fast food giant. mcdonald's dealing with an e. coli outbreak. one person dead and at least 75 people sick across 13 states. the cdc warns that's expected to rise. >> it made me think about my afternoon snack. >> reporter: it saw its worst weekly loss in more than four years. a price drop of more than $22 a share. >> how you can trust a place that allows this to happen? >> reporter: new turbulence for boeing. a $6 billion third quarter loss. the strike by machinists enters its seventh week. workers are demanding the return of the pension plan. >> it's unprecedented for boeing to agree to this. boeing is in an unprecedented state. >> reporter: tesla, a bright spot. reporting better than expected
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he werings. mortgages are climbing. sales of existing homes fell last month to their lowest level in 14 years. investors are bracing for a potential disruption on the horizon with the october u.s. jobs report due friday and a tight presidential election. >> thank you. still ahead, keeping excess food out of the landfill. to fight hunger in the u.s.
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to people in need. >> reporter: the kitchen cranks out up to 8,000 meals. what's not consumed, they package and prep for donation to arguizations in need. >> we love statistics here at the world bank. we get a weight. >> reporter: it would have been painful to throw it away. >> of course. perfectly edible. >> reporter: fovolunteers pick the leftovers weekly and deliver them on this day to a facility that provides housing to veterans who have experienced homelessness. lisa harris, who served in the air force, says this fills the
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fridge. >> you might be in this position. i'm testilling you, not knowing where you will eat, it's hard. it's very hard. we are appreciative. >> reporter: kate says her group serves a dual mission. fighting hunger and climate change. keeping the feud out of landfills and redirecting it to non-profits. >> when you think about the fact that 30% to 40% of food is wasted and over 40 million people live in households experiencing food insecurity, it makes a lot of sense to do the match. >> reporter: for the world bank, where ending poverty is the mission, it's a win/win. >> help one person, it would be a shame not do that. >> you got food like this, donate. >> reporter: lisa hopes more organizations heed the call. natalie brand, cbs news washington. coming up next, we head to
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the national zoo in washington, d.c. has released the first video of its two new giant pandas. they are settling into their think home and having a ball. they have been playing in the pool and doing adorable things. they are under a quarantine. they will make their debut on january 24th. it may be a little library, but this california collection of books is booming.
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boxes, take a book, leave a book? one woman in california may be starting a new chapter in the growing movement. >> reporter: when jodene of california first started her little library, it was never meant to be a big deal. until it was. >> we started with the little library. as time went on, we needed to add more shelves. >> reporter: her front yard holds a collect that's outgrown its title. >> i needed to change the name to a little library to a not so little library. it's just not a little library. >> reporter: neighbors say this is the goldilocks of book selections that feels just right. >> the public library, they have the different genres and so many to look through. you don't see anything. there's so much. >> reporter: percy took a page from the little free library
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movement, which began in 2009 in wisconsin. that's where todd created the first ever doll house structure on his front line. since then, his little free library has grown into a sprawling non-profit with nearly 200,000 lepdlepdi i ing -- lend sites. the executive director says the organization has seen growth as people rediscover traditional books. >> i think maybe the demise of pra printing book may have been overstated. >> reporter: as for percy, she will continue stocking the shelves as long as people keep coming. >> that's what can bring us joy is putting a smile on somebody else's face.
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>> reporter: lending a hand and more. the outcome of a novel idea. cbs news, concord, california. >> something tells me her story is not over. that's the "cbs weekend news" for saturday. norah o'donnell's interview with kamala harris tomorrow. have a good night. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition.
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