Welcome to the news hour. The 2024 presidential campaign is entering the

final weekend before the critical first debate between Donald Trump and

Kamala Harris. While the Vice President huddles with her team for a debate prep, the Republican nominee was in federal court fighting to overturn a guilty verdict,

while another case saw a big delay. John Yang begins our coverage.

The former president began his day with a familiar legal battle.

In New York City, Trump and his lawyers asked a federal appeals court to overturn a $5 million verdict that found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation of the columnist E. Jean Carroll.

She accused him of raping her nearly three decades ago. Today

Trump lashed out against the accusations and once again claimed without

evidence that the lawsuit was politically motivated.

I'm running for president and I have all these cases all of a sudden come come out

and they have fake cases and they report back to DOJ.

In another courtroom, a legal win in another case.

For now, a Manhattan judge delayed Trump's sentencing in his Hushmani case until after the November election.

It had been scheduled for later this month.

By afternoon, Trump was back in a battleground state, North Carolina, making his case to the Fraternal Order of Police.

With your help we will restore public safety to our streets. We will bring back

law and order to our nation. His Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, spent

her day in Pittsburgh out of the public eye but gearing up for next week's

presidential debate. Today the Harris-Waltz campaign announced that in August it had raised a staggering

361 million dollars. That's nearly triple what Trump took from donors in the

same month, $130 million.

Harris begins the home stretch to election day

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