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>> both candidates barnstorming battleground states, crossing paths in north carolina. >> are we ready to vote? [ cheers ] are we ready to win? >> with your vote this november we are going to fire kamala, and we are going to save america. i'm skyler henry in charlotte where the harris-walz campaign and days before the election. in. >> reporter: i'm in greensboro where president trump is holding one of three rallies in the car heel state -- tar heel state this weekend. women march in washington, d.c., and beyond to support harris. [ chants ] while trump supporters stand by their man. >> he's called her lazy, stupid, a sleaze bag. does that bother you as women? >> not a bit. flood disaster. spain braces for more rain as the death toll from this week's devastation rises.
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first gaza, now lebanon. cbs' debora patta with the reporter's notebook from beirut. later, voters on edge. how americans are feeling in this super-charged election. >> reporter: how are you feeling this election cycle? >> i think like everybody else, there's a lot of nervousness and angst. ♪ this is the cbs weekend news. from new york with jericka duncan. good evening, and thanks for joining us on this saturday. tonight this final weekend of campaign 2024, the race for president is in the homestretch. the candidates fighting for the sliver of undecided voters in battleground states and crossing paths again. this is the airport in charlotte, north carolina, where the planes carrying trump and harris arrived today with three days to go until election day. more than 73 million americans have cast their ballots.
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we have reports tonight from both campaigns beginning with skyler henry. good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening to you. it is a razor-thin race here in the tar heel state. it's why both trump and harris are making stops here. in this crowd of thousands of people in charlotte, the vice president making her final message to voters. and while this state hasn't gone to a democratic presidential candidate since 2008, the harris-walz campaigns feels it's very much in play. vice president kamala harris is on a battleground blitz, rallying earlier today in georgia before coming back to north carolina. >> it is time for a new generation of leadership in america. [ cheers ] >> reporter: she's shrinking former president trump's polling advantage on the economy. >> look, i know the cost of groceries is too high still, everyone knows it. and so my plan includes what we're going to do in terms of taking on corporate price gouging. >> my name is jon bon jovi -- >> reporter: the stars are out for harris. rapper cardi b. with a following
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of more than 200 million of both instagram and x spoke at a rally in wisconsin friday. >> i wasn't going to vote this year. i wasn't. but kamala harris joining the race, she changed my mind completely. [ cheers ] >> reporter: in charlotte, top issues are front of mind. >> so tell me what are some of the issues that you are most concerned about. >> i could give you the easy ones like economy, immigration, all that. but women's reproductive rights is very important to me. >> reporter: and tomorrow the vice president will spend the entire day in the battleground state of michigan, while president biden won the state in 2020. former president trump carried the state in 2016. >> all right, skyler henry. thank you. now to cbs' caitlin huey-burns in greensboro, north carolina, with the trump campaign. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. the former president will be campaigning here in north carolina every day until election day. this is a state that has been
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reliable for republicans. trump himself won it twice. in the closing days of this campaign, he's going to be spending as much time here as he is in pennsylvania. all a sign that this is up for grabs. >> we win this state, we're going to win the whole ball game. [ cheers ] >> eporter: former president donald trump kicked off the final campaign weekend in a state he can't afford to lose. >> kamala broke it. she broke it. we will fix it. i will fix it. >> reporter: cbs news polling shows a neck-and-neck race here. trump's closing argument centers on a top issue for his support ears -- immigration. >> the united states is now an occupied country, but it will soon be an occupied country no longer. >> reporter: and he isn't changing his messaging as he faces a deficit with women voters. >> i will protect our women. i'm going to protect our women. the suburbs are under attack right now. >> reporter: trump briefly jumped over to virginia today, a
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reliably blue state, where his campaign hopes to cut into harris' margins. trump's southern swing comes after a tour of blue wall states where he once again faced some technical difficulties getting his message out. [ cheers ] >> way too low! >> reporter: in the final days of the campaign, both candidates have packed schedules. trump has eight events planned, while kamala harris has ten. this is all in a last chance to reach those voters. jericka? >> a lot of events there. caitlin huey-burns, thank you. tonight thousands of women are gathering in washington, d.c., and in marches in all 50 states to support vice president harris. this movement was launched in 2017, one day after donald trump's inauguration. not all women find the former president offensive. here's cbs' weijia jiang. >> reporter: from insulting her intelligence -- >> she's dumb as a rock, and you can't have that. >> reporter: to straight-up name-calling. >> when that sleaze bag said
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during the debate, she said oh, your rallies aren't well attended -- >> reporter: former president trump has not held back the personal attacks against vice president harris. heats called her lazy, stupid, a sleaze bag. does that bother you as women? >> not a bit. >> no. >> no. >> reporter: these trump supporters say their vote is based on his record, not his rhetoric. >> for me it's not personal, it's policy. >> what he did for the economy, what he did for the black community, what he did in terms of trying to secure the border. >> i think it goes back to finances. you know, the grocery bills, the energy costs, gasoline, just all of that -- when people's paychecks are affected, especially as a mother or -- >> looking at 2019, are we better now? and the answer is no, we're not. >> reporter: the harris campaign
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is banking on so-called secret supporters who will vote for her even if they won't admit it. these women believe there are plenty of hidden trump voters, too. >> seeing a swalgz situation where no one wants to see how they feel because there's divisive rhetoric happening. >> our friends who own small business, government workers, and a lot of them are actually supporting president trump because the future of our children is at stake. >> reporter: they're not saying it out loud. >> correct. >> reporter: soon they'll say it the loudest way of all, at the ballot box. weijia jiang, cbs news, alexandria, virginia. watch cbs news on election night. well have the results and analysis from our expert political team on our cbs news 24/7 streaming channel and here on the cbs television network. tonight anger is growing in spain four days after terrifying flash flooding killed more than 210 people. more than a year of rain fell in just one day.
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the eastern state of valencia was hardest hit. cbs' chris livesay reports on the rush to help. >> reporter: they've come by the thousands, volunteers armed with brooms, shovels, or their bare hands, searching for survivors and the dead. like this rescuer chest deep inside a parking garage. in some areas more than a year's worth of rain fell in a mere eight hours. in just minutes this street goes from bone dry to swallowing cars and flipping them all before residents got their first emergency phone alert warning them not to leave home. >> i'm angry because the rage, you know, our -- our local government didn't do anything about it knowing -- they well knew this was coming. >> reporter: climate scientists blame a warmer atmosphere for
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retaining historic levels of moisture, a slowing jet stream for failing to push the storm away, and parched soil that couldn't absorb the catastrophic downpour. >> we have no resources. everything we have is -- thanks to the volunteers that are helping. >> reporter: they're being joined by 10,000 troops in spain's biggest peacetime deployment in history. made the country's worst natural disaster in generations. chris livesay, cbs news, rome. to louisville, kentucky, now. a federal judge has found former detective brett hankison, who shot ten times into breonna taylor's apartment in 2020, guilty of violating her civil rights for using excessive force. taylor's death and the botched raid sparked police reform and racial justice protests across this country. hankison will be sentenced in march. tonight jason kelce is making news after an altercation
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with a football fan at penn state. in a video circulating on line, you can watch as a fan taunts kelce repeatedly, calling his brother travis who dates taylor swift a home phonic slur. the retired eagles slur grabs the person's phone and slams it to the ground and said a homophobic slur back. kelce was working as a football analyst at the game. straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news," we head to arizona and a senate race that could decide the balance of power. plus, election stress and ways to cope with it.
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the race for the white house is not the only nail-biter this election. control of congress hangs in the balance, as well. republicans currently hold the majority in the house, democrats control the senate where there
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are 34 seats up for grabs this tuesday. one of them in arizona. here's kris van cleave. ♪ >> reporter: saddle up in battleground arizona, the final push to get people to the polls had congressman ruben gallego at a rodeo in phoenix hoping to lasso undecided voters. voters like sundance -- what are you hoping -- >> something good -- something that is going to make me make a decision. >> reporter: latinos make up a quarter of eligible voters in the grand canyon state. >> they largely feel left out of politics. we're talking about bringing politics back to them. >> reporter: the democratic congressman has consistently led his opponent, former tv news anchor kari lake, in the race, even as vice president kamala harris finds herself narrowly trailing former president trump here. what are you doing here that your message is resonating that hers is not? what are you doing differently?
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>> a lot of these republicans are crossing over support because they know me, work for me, and don't like the extremism of kari lake. i am a latino marine. >> reporter: is there something you think she could do in arizona to help her case? >> continue emphasizing two things -- number one, her economic plan. also talk about january 6th. latino men are very patriotic. they understand what happened on january 6th. >> reporter: lake, a maga fire brand, has focused on inflation and immigration. >> we are ground zero for the border crisis with an open border. frankly the economy, it's -- the cost of living just really unaffordable here in arizona. and we also are seeing crime increase on our streets. >> reporter: she got help from senator j.d. vance rallying supportsers in scottsdale. >> all right, scottsdale! it's good to be in scottsdale. it's good to be in the great state of arizona. >> reporter: governor tim walz lobbied voters in flagstaff as the harris campaign rushed all
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these boxes of supplies to volunteers statewide hoping to knock on close to 200,000 doors before election day aiming to close the gap in this race to the ballot box. kris van cleave, cbs news, phoenix. still ahead on the "cbs weekend news," reporters notebook. debora patta from lebanon on a war's impact on everyday lives.
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a new warning tonight from the country's supreme leader threatened israel and the u.s. with a, quote, crushing response after recent attacks on iran and its allies. one of them, hezbollah in lebanon. at least 52 people have been killed in the latest strikes. cbs' debora patta on assignment in beirut shows us the grim reality of life in a war zone.
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>> reporter: for more than a year we have watched from a distance the endless cycle of misery and horror in gaza. foreign journalists have been barred by israel from reports independently inside gaza. now as israel's war has expanded against hezbollah in lebanon, we are witnessing what we've been prevented from seeing up close all along. the first casualty of any conflict is the truce. everyone bends the facts that suit their cause, but there is one thing that does remain constant -- it is the innocent who bear the brunt of the suffering. we met people like this who fled the fighting in the south and asks, "we didn't harm anyone, so why are they harming us?" or this person covered in burns head to toe who's barely lived
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life at all, but at 21 months has endured more pain than most people will in a lifetime. and dedicated first responders like this who courageously save lives by risking their own. it can't be easy when you go out each day because you're risking your life. "our job is to help people, to keep them safe." while wrapping up our interview, there was a strike nearby. just like that, jarber was gone. duty called. two hours later, he was racing to another emergency scene. "anyone there," he yelled out. at least 12 bodies were pulled from the rubble. shortly after this video was filmed, jarber was wounded in another israeli strike. his injuries were minor, and
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they are so short staffed he went straight back to work. because for every home flattened, he knows there were people who once lived, laughed, and loved there, and they more than anyone need his help. debora patta, cbs news, beirut. and with debora, our special thanks to her colleagues. next, the weekend forecast. stay with us.
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today in breezy east rutherford, new jersey, balloons for this year's macy's thanksgiving day parade got their first test flight. six are new. this is the 98th year of the
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event. there's change in the air across the country. let's check in with cbs news meteorologist andrew kozak for more on that. hey, andrew. >> there is, jericka. yeah, kind of hard to believe the countdown, 26 days until thanksgiving. we'll start with the pacific northwest with more snow across the high elevations, up to nine inches for idaho, montana. through monday, utah, colorado could get over a foot. and we're not done because we'll have another system coming for monday into tuesday delivering more snow. now to the midwest with showers and thunderstorms through texas and oklahoma. not just severe weather but major flooding for this area including areas like wichita, kansas, toward arkansas. three toics sinchs of rain -- three to six inches of rain by monday. we're dealing with that across the midwest. snow in the higher terrain of the west. for the east coast, surprise, surprise, another sunny fall day. and before we go, all eyes are still going to be on the tropics with this cluster of storms off of nicaragua. a good chance of development in the next two days. this would be raphael. >> good to know.
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thank you so much. when we come back, election burnout. you have heard of it? the struggle to get past all the noise.
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we end tonight with election exhaustion. two years of nonstop campaigning ends tuesday with one nation totally stressed out. here's cbs' elise preston. >> reporter: two assassination attempts, a last-minute candidate switch -- >> the best way forward is to pass the torch. >> reporter: -- the attacks personal -- >> you're a [ bleep ] vice president. >> unhinged and unstable. >> reporter: the nail-baiter election is super charging stress with many voters on edge. how are you feeling this election cycle? >> i think like everybody else, there's a lot of nervousness and angst. >> reporter: nearly 70% of
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american voters are anxious about the presidential race. polling shows in an erosion of belief in our nation's institutions. cbs news' anthony salvanto. >> democrats and republicans testimony us they feel democracy is under threat. so all of that at the very least puts high stakes into this election. >> reporter: the stakes are high, and so is campaign spending. nearly $16 billion, a record. >> i hope that it's going to be a fair election. >> reporter: to lower stress, experts including self-help author john gordon say exercise and limit time on social media. >> use it to get information and not validation. don't tie your identity or your own mental health to what you're watching. >> reporter: another tip -- avoid talking politics, making your voice heard at the ballot box instead. >> if you don't vote you shouldn't have much of a say. so this is your opportunity to get out and cast what you
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believe in and what you stand for. >> reporter: a good reminder that one person and one vote can shape this land that was made for you and me. elise preston, cbs news, los angeles. that is the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. don't forget it is time to fall back as daylight saving time ends for most of us. for now i'm jericka duncan in new york. we thank you for watching. have a great night, and we'll see you tomorrow. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. >> alameda voters with a big decision on their ballots this
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tuesday and, we are hearing from both sides on whether to oust the district attorney, pamela price. hundreds of donald trump supporters gather in the valley today. we were out speaking with them on my they went to send him back to the white house. protesters in san francisco gathering outside of city hall calling on those running for office to stop supporting israel's war in the middle east. live from the cbs studios in san francisco. >> election day is three days away and while many voters have already sent off their ballots, this is a look at busy city hall from this morning. >> we spoke with one san francisco resident. >> there is a lot on the line. locally and nationally. i think it is how we take contr

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