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The first ballots are out the door. The election has officially begun. Hes always just such a nice person. Jericka and Steve Hartman meets a School Custodian who takes us On The Road with help from some students. I will never ever forget today. Jericka the Cbs Evening news starts now. Good evening, and Thank You for joining us on this friday night. Im Jericka Duncan in for norah. We begin with yet another escalation in the fighting between Israel And Hezbollah in lebanon, its neighbor to the north. Israels military says it took out about a dozen top Hezbollah Members in a rare Air Strike in lebanons Capital City today. That includes a top commander, ibrahim aqil. The u. S. Labeled him a specially designated global terrorist and had been offering a 7 Million reward for any information leading to his arrest in connection with the Terrorist Attacks in 1983 that killed Hundreds Of Americans In Beirut. Cbss Chris Livesay leads us off tonight from tel aviv. Chris, good evening. Reporter good evening, jericka. Tensions are boiling here in israel and in lebanon. The u. S. Is calling on both sides to deescalate, but todays attacks following those Exploding Hezbollah Pagers and walkietalkies this week are moving the conflict closer to a fullblown war. Chaos and confusion tore through the heart of beiruts southern suburbs today, hezbollahs stronghold, following an israeli Air Strike. First responders desperately combed through the rubble of gutted apartments to find survivors, rushing them to the hospital. The target, hezbollah commander ibrahim aqil, wanted by the u. S. For his role in two bombings in 1983 that killed more than 300 people at the u. S. Embassy In Beirut and the u. S. Marine corps barracks. Israels Military Spokesman called aqil the head of hezbollahs Elite Radwan Force and claimed the strike killed ten other hezbollah operatives. Hezbollah confirmed aqils death, the latest in a series of severe, unprecedented blows. After Exploding Beepers and walkietalkies killed at least 37 and injured thousands. [indistinct shouting] reporter we were in northern israel, where clashes with hezbollah. You can feel the thud, thud, thud. Are heating up at the border with lebanon. All right, those are rockets being intercepted by israel, rockets flying from just over there on the lebanese side of the border from hezbollah into israel, and it appears they are being intercepted by Israels Iron Dome defenses. Reporter Yakobis Family has farmed this land for three generations. After almost a year of near daily clashes with hezbollah, just a few hundred yards away, those trees, those homes, thats lebanon, thats hezbollah. This is hezbollah. Reporter his village has been reduced to a ghost town. This Week Israel made it an official War Aim to resecure this area so locals can come home. Yakobi says the military cant afford to wait any longer. Before three, four months come here, not now. Reporter they should have come sooner . Sooner reporter the Israeli Military says some 120 hezbollah rockets were fired into israel. One of them directly hit the highway we were on, shutting it down completely shortly after we left. Jericka . Jericka wow, the realities of that escalation. Chris livesay, Thank You. In a rare unanimous vote the house passed a Bill Today that would bolster secret Service Protection for both president ial and Vice President ial candidates. The vote came as the Acting Director of Secret Service admitted to Mission Failures saying some agents will face disciplinary action for Security Lapses at a Pennsylvania Rally where a gunman opened fire on former President Donald Trump. Cbss Nicole Sganga reveals details from the internal report. Reporter Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe was under a microscope. The mission of the Secret Service is clear we cannot afford to fail. Reporter outlining friday systemic failures that allowed a 20yearold Gunman to fire shots at the former president from a rooftop roughly 400 feet away. I think that was a failure to challenge our assumptions, the assumption that local police were going to have more of a presence in that agr building. Reporter the internal review reveals advanced personnel recognized the line of sight concerns from the building, but Security Measures were not carried out as intended. We cannot advocate or defer our responsibilities to others. Reporter meanwhile, outrage on the hill. This issue is not about money. Its about management. Reporter as Lawmakers Debate if more money will be allocated to the agency. The house voted unanimously friday on a Bill Granting the former president and major party candidates the same level of secret Service Protection as the sitting president , a protective bubble. Bubble rowe says trump already has. Those same high levels are with respect to the Secret Service are being provided to the former president detail. Reporter after two assassinated times in nine weeks, one at is florida Golf Course. There are known vulnerabilities at that course, that is areas where you can get a clear line of sight from off the course of people playing the course. Reporter investigators are now piecing together how the suspect apparently hid behind the Golf Course fence for nearly 12 hours. Why did no one within the u. S. Secret Service Sweep behind that Fence Line for threats . Having been there and seen the vantage point, whether they were on the public side or the private side, the Bottom Line is the individual was detected. Reporter and today, acting Director Rowe commended the young agent he said spotted the suspect and took swift action, adding that Secret Service will hire more than 400 new Special Agents this year, but still faces Retention And Recruitment challenges. Jericka . Jericka Nicole Sganga for us in washington, d. C. Thank you. With 46 days to go until election day, the first inperson votes of the 2024 president ial election were cast today in virginia, south dakota, and minnesota. And tonight, there are new concerns about Election Night Chaos in the Battleground State of georgia. Thats because today the states republicanled Election Board passed a controversial measure requiring every single ballot to be counted by hand. Cbss Scott Macfarlane is in atlanta looking into how that could all play out. Reporter just as Vice President Kamala Harris arrived seeking new altitude in this Battleground State, a georgia state Election Board controlled by former President Donald Trump supporters is causing turbulence. With just more than six weeks until election day, three republicans who hold the majority on the board voted to change the rules for handling ballots, requiring Poll Workers at each precinct in georgias 159 counties to conduct a Hand Count of all the ballots on election night, in addition to the traditional machine count. Trump ally janelle king. What i dont want to do is set a precedent that we are okay with speed over accuracy. I dont see any danger in Hand Counting. If the complaint is that, you know, i just dont want to stay there an extra hour, thats just not a good enough complaint for me. Reporter an idea opponents blistered as an attempt to slow the vote count. We are talking about all these lastminute changes, and it makes me question whether members of this board are operating in good faith. Reporter others said it will cost millions of dollars to hire and train additional workers, and sow distrust in the results, and Delay Tabulation of final results by days or weeks. I brought with me 1,872 pages of paper representing what a stack of ballots could look like on a busy counting day. Reporter all the top are republicans in the state including the governor have criticized the boards actions, accusing them of exceeding their authority and making eleventhhour changes. Trump meanwhile has lauded and thanked the Board Members for considering new rules. They are on fire. They are doing a great job. Three members. Reporter the Vice President didnt address the Election Board controversy at an event in the olanta suburbs of cobb county. Instead slamming republicans for limiting abortion services, citing the story of amber nicole thurman, a cordial woman who died because she didnt receive the appropriate Abortion Care in time. We will make sure amber is not just remembered as a statistic. And that she should be alive today. Reporter this dispute over the Hand Counting of Ballots Rule seems destined for court. A legal challenge to stop the rule from taking effect by November 5th could be filed by monday. Jericka . Jericka all right, a lot to cover there. Scott macfarlane, Thank You. Cbs news will host the only Vice President ial debate between senator j. D. Vance and governor Tim Walz on tuesday, october 1st, here in new york. Norah odonnell and Margaret Brennan will moderate. You can watch our live coverage on cbs, our Streaming Platform Cbs News 24 7, and Paramount . Well, now to the political Scandal Rocking North Carolinas Race for governor. The republican Candidate Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson is no longer attending former President Donald Trumps rally in North Carolina tomorrow. This comes after cnn unearthed robinsons alleged racist posts on a pornographic website. Robinson spotted today by cbs cameras is denying the report and refusing to drop out of the race. North carolinas democratic governor Roy Cooper says robinson should have resigned years ago. He pointed to robinsons past incendiary statements against women, jewish people, and the lgbt community. Donald trump and north Carolina Republican leaders have known about his character and the kind of statements that he has made, his disrespect for women, his incitement to violence, yet they have continued to support him, even to this very minute. Jericka the democratic national committee is now running new Campaign Ads reminding voters about robinsons past ties to trump. To Los Angeles now where Los Angeles dodgers fans, as you can imagine, are pumped up for Tonights Game after phenom Shohei Ohtani put on an incredible show last night, becoming the first major leaguer to rack up, get this, 50 Home Runs and 50 stolen bases in the same season. Cbss Adam Yamaguchi is at Dodger Stadium with more on the global celebrations. On a 12. Ohtani. Reporter what happened in miami was more than a milestone. Back it goes. Gone reporter it was a phenomenon. Oneofakind Player Oneofakind Season reporter Shohei Ohtani hit his 50th Home Run and stole his 50th base, something no major leaguer has ever done. In one of the best singlegame performances in baseball history. The greatest in other sports, lebron james, patrick mahomes, billie jean king, poured on the praise. [speaking japanese] 50 50 reporter in japan, where fans follow ohtanis every move, his latest feat was frontpage news. He represents a country in a lot of ways, and hes transcended Baseball Fame into legitimate superstar fame. That, you know, very few athletes are able to do at that level. Shohei ohtani, 50 50 reporter even in celebrityobsessed l. A. , more than 40,000 fans recently waited for hours just to get a bobblehead of ohtani and to watch his dog fetch the first pitch. To shohei. Reporter major League Baseball has produced in incredible icons like Babe Ruth ty cobb, willie mays, and hank aaron. At this point he is certainly in the conversation is one of the greatest players of all time. I suspect when it is all said and done you are looking at a situation where this guy is the greatest player of all time, and there is not really a debate about it. Reporter and he is not done yet. The dodgers have nine games left in the regular season, and Shohei Ohtani is off to his Firstever Playoff Series since coming to the u. S. So potentially many more records to be broken. Jericka . Jericka absolutely, adam, Thank You. Well, there is new Information Tonight about a kentucky sheriff accused of shooting and killing a judge. Well explain. Thats next. Judge. Will explain. Thats next. The loaded fries and now your gut is in the gutter. Undo it with pepto fast melts. So you can keep on rolling. [bowling pins knocked down] when you overdo it, undo it with pepto bismol. If you have chronic kidney disease, you can reduce the risk of Kidney Failure with farxiga. 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Reporter inflation has kicked the little guy like you pretty hard. Very hard. We have been kicked all over the curb. Reporter over the last fiveyears, Americas Food prices jumped 27 . For consumers like doni jones. I think its us not holding our leaders accountable for making sure our economy is doable and safe for middleclass people. Reporter take this basket of groceries. So whats the damage . 55. 24. Reporter five years ago that would have been. 12 less . Yep. Reporter so the wine has to go if you want to stay on budget. Absolutely. Which is not as much fun. Reporter inflation has cooled, now at 2. 5 . But since 2019, eggs up 126 . Bread up 54 . Milk up 30 . We will rapidly defeat inflation. We are going to bring your prices down. Reporter Donald Trump has offered few specifics on lowering those prices. Hes pushing acrosstheboard tariffs, especially on chinese imports and cuttingcorporate taxes. During the trump administration, inflation averaged 1. 9 . The biden years averaged 5. 1 . I will take on corporate price gouging. Reporter Kamala Harris has also proposed Price Caps on prescription drugs. Another harris proposal, offering up to 25,000 to help many firsttime home buyers. Critics say both their plans could worsen inflation. Brad cunard is an independent voter. He believes both candidates talk past small business people like him. We are supposed to be the backbone of the country. Whats happening . Reporter have the candidates focused enough on the Inflation Issue . No, because they are busy caught up in the, you know, the cult of personality that drives our political scene now. Reporter leaving inflation a worry and millions of americans hungry for answers. Mark strassmann, Cbs News, atlanta. Jericka Steve Hartmans on the Road Tonight with a story of a School Custodian who received a very special gift. Thats next. Announcer this portion of the Cbs Evening news is sponsored by ancestry. Discover, preserve, share. 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Reporter it hit him out of the blue. Francis apraku, Custodian At James Madison high school in vienna, virginia, says he was walking through a Parking Lot earlier this month when he saw something that literally brought him to his knees. My leg started shaking. I cant stand. I cant stand. I was panicking. And i have to get myself on the floor and i was crying. Reporter you were crying . Yeah. Guys, get him up. Hes okay. Reporter laid out flat on the pavement crying. Tears of joy. [clapping] the trail of these happy tears starts here. With a group of Sophomore Football players. The boys used to chat with francis outside their weight room. These are my people. Reporter eventually those Conversations Led to friendships. You guys all. Reporter with students like bennett hibshman, nick tsibertzopoulos, and logan georgelas. Hes always just such a nice person. If we we were to have a bad take day, he would be the first guy, are you okay . Lets do something nice for him, No One Else is going to. Reporter and thats when they asked francis if you could have one splurge, what would you buy . I said why do you want to know . Reporter did you answer the question . Yeah. Reporter what did you tell them . I told them my Heart Desire is a Jeep Wrangler. Reporter a Jeep Wrangler . Yes. Thats why a try to work hard. Reporter francis sends money to his relatives in ghana. He is squeezed for cash. Getting that car was nothing but a pipe dream. So the boys started a fundraising campaign. All on their own, they did this, and within just four months, theyd raised 22,000 enough for a nice 2015 Jeep Wrangler. Francis was so surprised to see those wheels, he started rolling. Thats your car, man. Thats your car. It got to the point where we were like, is he okay . Making sure he is okay, help him up. And then we finally got him in the car, and he is just like in disbelief. It was incredible. I will never ever forget today. Reporter not because of the car, he says, but because of the kids. I cant believe they got me a car. Only america. Reporter only in america. America is a great country. God bless america. Reporter god bless the Jeep Wrangler. Exactly. You got it. [laughter] reporter Steve Hartman, On The Road, in vienna, virginia. Jericka what a blessing. That is tonights Cbs Evening news. For Norah Odonnell and All Of Us here, im Jericka Duncan. Have a great night. We had to leave. I had we had to leave. I had Family Members that were killed. So it was pretty traumatic. You dont think about those things till later in life. He came to the u. S. From iran and his next destination he hopes is the most powerful scene in San Francisco. I wrote on my Entrance Essay at mit that im coming to your program because i want to be a mayor of the city one day. Today Supervisor Ahsha Safai tells us his story. This is Cbs News Bay Area with elizabeth cook. Iran and San Francisco are separated by more than 7,000 miles, but now Supervisor Ahsha Safai is eyeing the road to the mayors office. Weve heard from the other candidates this week. Now its his turn to lay out his platform. Hes joining us live in a few minutes, but first a look at your news headlines. Another Bay Area mayor is throwing his support behind prop 36, the November Ballot measure that would stiffen penalties for some Theft And Drug crimes. The antioch mayor saying hes responding to concerns about retail Theft And Street conditions. While i dont