News Wrap: Trump and Harris try to energize voters in final days of campaigning

John Yang:

Good evening. I'm John Yang. Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are spending this final Saturday of the campaign in battleground states trying to energize their supporters to go to vote, if they haven't already, and persuade the undecided to go over to their side.

John Yang (voice-over):

In North Carolina, Donald Trump offered a litany of familiar promises.

Donald Trump, U.S. Republican Presidential Nominee:

I will end inflation. I will stop the invasion of massive numbers of criminals that have come into our country, and I will bring back the American dream. This is all you need to know. Kamala broke it. She broke it. We will fix it. I will fix it. It'll be fixed very fair.

John Yang (voice-over):

In Atlanta, Kamala Harris vowed to bring down the cost of living and make the economy a priority from day one.

Kamala Harris, U.S. Democratic Presidential Nominee:

I will give a middle class tax cut to over 100 million Americans. I will enact the first ever federal ban on corporate price gouging on groceries. Economists have compared what he's talking about to what I'm talking about, and they have indicated my plan will strengthen America's economy. His will weaken it.

John Yang (voice-over):

The vice presidential candidates were in the West.

Tim Walz, U.S. Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee:

We know when labor does well, America does well.

John Yang (voice-over):

In Nevada, Democrat Tim Walz went door to door and Republican J.D. Vance slammed the White House's handling of the economy.

J.D. Vance, U.S. Republican Presidential Nominee:

What the hell have you been doing the whole time?

John Yang (voice-over):

In Pennsylvania, the battleground with the most electoral votes, the Supreme Court sided with Democrats to allow voters to cast provisional ballots if their mail-in ballots are rejected.

John Yang:

The Israeli military says it's captured a senior Hezbollah commander in northern Lebanon who they say is responsible for attacks on Israel. It came after a night of air raid sirens in central Israel as a barrage of missiles came from Lebanon.

The Israeli military says it intercepted most, but not all of them. Nearly a dozen people were injured in Tira, which is an Arab city in central Israel.

Hours later, Iran's supreme leader said his country would dole out a crushing response to Israel and the United States for last week's Israeli attacks on Iranian military targets. And in Gaza, health officials are scrambling to give children a second dose of the oral polio vaccine. Israeli airstrikes have delayed the effort and limited it to Gaza City.

Spain is sending 10,000 more soldiers and police to the Valencia region in the aftermath of deadly floods there. So far, more than 200 bodies have been recovered, and the search goes on for more. An unknown number of people are missing. Floodwaters that decimated the city this week have covered cars, buildings and homes in mud. Thousands of volunteers have joined the effort to clean up and distribute food and supplies.

A former Louisville police detective could spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in the 2020 shooting death of Breonna Taylor, who worked as an emergency room technician. A federal jury convicted Brett Hankison of violating Taylor's civil rights by using excessive force during a botched drug raid.

None of the 10 shots Hankinson fired hit Taylor, but prosecutors said he acted recklessly. He's the only officer to be charged in connection with Taylor's death, is to be sentenced In March.

South Carolina carried out the nation's 21st execution of the year, killing 59-year-old Richard Moore by lethal injection. Republican Governor Henry McMaster rejected pleas to reduce Moore's sentence to life in prison. Among those who sought clemency were three of the jurors who convicted Moore of fatally shooting a convenience store clerk in 1999, the judge who presided over his trial, and a former prison director.

In a letter turning them down, McMaster said he'd reviewed the materials they'd submitted and spoken to the victim's family.

Still to come on PBS News, the role anti-transgender campaign ads are playing in the election and the crisis in Haiti that's driving many to seek refuge in this country.