Former president donald Trump Meet for the first time ever in what could be their only president ial debate of the election cycle. Can they sway voters in a race that is Neck And Neck . The Cbs Evening News starts now. We are just hours away from the show down america has been waiting for. Kamala harris takes on Donald Trump on the Debate Stage good evening. I am norah odonnell in New York and thank you for being with us. This is where it is happening, at philadelphias national Constitution Center, and it is hard to overstate how pivotal tonights performances from the Vice President and former president could be. Election day is eight weeks from tonight, and right now, the race is all tied up nationally, and in a handful of Battleground States. Tens of millions of americans are expected to tune in to see the candidates argue their positions in what could be their only debate. The stage is set. You see the podiums there. Harris chose the podium on the right. Trump will be on the left. We have Team Coverage of this historic Night And Cbss Weijia Jiang will start us off with a preview from philadelphia. Good evening, weijia. Reporter good evening to you, norah. These candidates have a massive Spotlight Tonight and all of the pressure that comes along with it, especially since this could be their only chance to square off with no agreement yet for another debate. All this comes as the race to the White House is incredibly close. Tonight, after months of fighting from afar comrade Kamala Harris wants to sacrifice our wealth, kill the economy. So hear me when i say, i know Donald Trumps type. Reporter Vice President harris and former President Donald Trump will meet in person for the first time on this stage, inside philadelphias national Constitution Center. The two nominees will stand at podiums about 6 feet apart. There will be no live audience and microphones will be muted if it is not their turn to talk. Harris team fears that will limit moments when she can directly engage with her opponent, like this one from four years ago. Mr. Vice president , i am speaking. I am speaking. Reporter tonight will be harris first president ial debate and trumps seventh. She has been studying his past performances and getting advice from hillary clinton. She doesnt have the look, she doesnt have the stamina. Reporter who was the recipient of trumps attacks in three debates. The Trump Team is expecting tough talk from harris too. She showed off her skills in the 2019 primaries, criticizing thencandidate Bidens Record on busing and school desegregation. You also worked with them to oppose busing. And you know, there was a Little Girl in california who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools. And she was bused to school every day. And that Little Girl was me. Reporter but cbs News Polling shows harris has work to do tonight. More than a third of voters in three Battleground States do not know what she stands for. They want to know her why, what is the motivation. Shes not just the Vice President of the united states but why does she want to be President Of The United States . Reporter trump got advice from his allies, too. I think President Trump would be wise to explain how he would change the country, stay away from the personal stuff. Reporter tonight, aides to Vice President harris tell me she is feeling great and she is ready to call out any lies that come from trump and argue it is time to turn the page. The former president is expected to Paint Harris as a san francisco liberal who is out of touh with voters and incapable of change. Norah . Norah Weijia Jiang in philadelphia tonight, thank you. For more on whats at stake, lets bring in chief white House Correspondent Nancy cordes and chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett. And major, what about that . Trumps advisors may want him to focus on policy but he loves the personal attacks. He does, but these are nervous times within the Trump Campaign. Some of that has crept into the former president himself. Why is it a nervous time for the Trump Campaign . They know in the best polls, internal and external, they are close. They are not ahead. They were once ahead, they have lost the lead and clawed their way back to a tie. They know Vice President harris has more money, more enthusiasm, more volunteers. All of that works to her benefit. How do you block that . How do you rearrange this race . They basically have given this nervous Candidate Something that calms him down. A mantra. What is it . Inflation, immigration, world on fire. Whether you agree with those characterizations are not, the Trump Campaign believes all three of those issues work to his benefit and no matter how difficult is 90 minutes get tonight, always go back to inflation, immigration, world on fire. That is the way they want to try to define harris as the incumbent, not the change agent. They want trump to reclaim that ground. Norah Nancy Cordes joins us as well. Nancy, but despite that, the Vice President has to be preparing for personal, nasty attacks from Donald Trump. He has done it in the past. Her Campaign Advisors say she is preparing for the kind of attacks that she knows will come her way, that she is too liberal, too soft on crime, that shes too tough on crime. He has actually made both arguments so they say she will be prepared for either one. Yes, she will factcheck him if he says things that arent true but they say she cant spend the whole Night Factchecking because she has got work to do defining herself, explaining her positions, explaining who she is to an electorate that says it still doesnt know enough. And norah, i am told that no matter how tonight goes, they will be pushing for at least one more debate between harris and trump. Norah we do know that voters want to hear more about policy and what they will do in the future. Nancy cordes, Major Garrett, thank you so much. And our coverage of the president ial debate begins tonight at 8 00 eastern right here on cbs followed by a live simulcast of the debate at 9 00 and then we will have cbss expert analysis. So we will see you right at 8 00 p. M. Terrifying moments on the taxiway at Atlantas Hartsfieldjackson international airport when two Passenger Jets collided. No injuries are reported but the smaller plane was badly damaged. Cbss Omar Villafranca is on the scene. Reporter a runin on the runway. Just after 10 00 this morning, Delta Air Lines Flight 295 was taxiing for a trip to tokyo. We just hit something on the taxiway. Could you tell us what it was . Delta 295. When its Wing Tip clipped the tail of a Delta Regional Jet that was sitting on an adjacent taxiway. The whole tail of that. Reporter the impact almost took the smaller Planes Tail completely off. When it happened, we all freaked out, we thought we ran off the runway, and then all then all of a sudden, it was a bigger plane took our tail out and it was bad, man. It was bad. We were scared. Reporter some passengers on the bigger plane, like stephen shelton, said they barely felt the collision. The whole plane vibrated. You know how when you hit a really deep pothole and your whole Vehicle Kind of bounces, it was basically that. Reporter there were no reports of deaths or injuries. Shortly after the mishap, the smaller planes 56 passengers, who were headed to louisiana, were evacuated from the plane. According to the faa, the number of serious Runway Incidents in the first six months of 2024 have decreased 62 from the same time last year. Delta says there was minimal impact today to their operations. The ntsb is investigating the incident and affected passengers were rebooked on other flights. Norah . Norah Omar Villafranca, thank you very much. Tropical Storm Francine is expected to become a Hurricane Tonight before slamming louisiana tomorrow. Hurricane and tropical Storm Warnings are already in effect along the Gulf Coast from texas to alabama with threats of severe flooding, Storm Surge, and damaging winds. Cbss Dave Malkoff reports from houma, louisiana, which could get a direct hit from the storm. Reporter as francine gains strength, more than 2 Million people in communities along the Gulf Coast are under a hurricane warning. We dont take this storm lightly because of the movement towards the east which is closer to us, and again, we are prepared for any emergencies that arise. Reporter in morgan city, Business Owners and residents are boarding up and heading out and Gas Station lines are getting longer. Some even running out of fuel. You have been through a lot of storms. Yes. Been through quite a few. Reporter Carole Duplantis is getting ready for francine. She lives in houma and is using sandbags to protect her home that is still under renovation after ida, a category 4 hurricane. And you are still not recovered from 2021, though, ida . No, im not recovered. Reporter as an Essential Worker in a hospital maternity ward, Duplantis Cant evacuate. Her next shift is during francines landfall. We deliver babies, even through the hurricanes. Reporter born in a hurricane. This is one of the bayous that we are worried about as the Storm Surge flooding pushes up into those communities from the gulf of mexico, the Lieutenant Governor assures me that the levees will hold, but norah, there are still some communities here that are under a mandatory evacuation order. Norah wishing them the very best. Dave malkoff, thank you very much. So lets get the latest track on where francine is heading. Cbss Lonnie Quinn is here in the studio. Good evening, lonnie. Reporter nice to be here, norah. The Track Hasnt changed at all. This will still be louisianas hurricane even though right now, it is a lot closer to texas and louisiana. When you look at the satellite picture, it is about 150 miles offshore from the brownsville, texas, but it is forecasted to make that arc and start moving to the northeast so we now believe it is a category 1 as opposed to category 2, Making Landfall sometime later in the day on wednesday. Big rainmaker moving into the Tennessee Valley all the while, putting Rain Down but losing its tropical characteristics the farther inland it goes. So the question is, how much rain does the System Hold . Its a little bit weaker but the Rainfall Numbers are still pretty impressive out there. Yesterday, i thought we would be seeing 612, ive trimmed that a little bit, i think it is more likely a 510 Inch Range that includes new orleans. Freshwater flooding and Storm Surge of course are the biggest concerns with this storm. Norah, that is the latest. Norah Lonnie Quinn, thank you very much. Officials in gaza say at least 19 people were killed and dozens injured today when israel struck a Tent Camp for displaced palestinians. Israel says it was targeting hamas terrorists. The powerful Air Strike left craters up to 32 feet deep. Meanwhile, israeli defense officials are releasing new video of the tunnel beneath a Childrens Bedroom where six hostages were killed last month, days before troops found their bodies. American Hersh Goldberg Polin was among the victims found down there. That video was released on the same Day Israel acknowledged that one of its soldiers likely shot and killed a 26yearold american woman in the West Bank last week, a death u. S. Officials are calling unacceptable. Cbss Elizabeth Palmer is in israel and retraced the activists final moments with an eyewitness. Reporter Aysenur Eygis Body was carried in a traditional Funeral Procession in the occupied West Bank, wrapped in the palestinian flag. We went with Jonathan Pollak to see where she was killed. P My O try to stop the bleeding. Reporter 26yearold Eygi had traveled from her home in washington to join pollak and other activists. They were demonstrating with palestinians against the expansion of an israeli settlement. Rocks were thrown. The soldiers fired tear gas. And the activists ran into the olive groves. They were pointing guns at us. Reporter but the military was watching. At some point, i noticed soldiers taking over that rooftop over there. Reporter just looking at it now, it is a clear line of sight, a clear shot from up there to where she was standing. Eygi was hit in the head with live ammunition. Today, the israelis said the soldier had likely been aiming at a different activist, but u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken said that is no excuse. Her killing was both unprovoked and unjustified. No one No One should be shot and killed for attending a protest. Reporter he said the israelis have to make fundamental changes to the Rules Of Engagement that led to the death of an unarmed young woman. There had been some hope, norah, that the shocking violence in this region might stop with a Cease Fire before the u. S. Election, but that hope is pretty much died. There seems no political will on either side to make a deal. Norah Elizabeth Palmer, thank you very much. Today, ukraine launched one of its largest attacks on moscow since the russian invasion started more than two and a half years ago. Russia says it downed more than 140 ukrainian drones in several regions, including at least 20 that flew over the capital city. A woman was killed, making this the first time someone in moscow has been killed in a ukrainian drone attack. The first commercial Space Walk is just days away after spacex lifts off with an allcivilian crew. But that is not the only reason this flight will make history. The details next. The details next. 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