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IrelandTrump rallies and rising travel costs lead CBS's weekend broadcast
Jericka Duncan's October 31 bulletin draws an unusually large audience for a full edition, with separate campaign and Ukraine clips also moving.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 226,955 views a day, 18 times a normal first day on this channel (12,920).
CBS Weekend News Full Broadcast | October 31, 2026
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Press to jump
- 1:39Trump campaigns in battleground states as CBS examines contested Senate races in Alaska and Michigan.
- 4:22Rising airfares and energy prices squeeze travelers, with Akiko Fujita reporting from Burbank Airport.
- 9:41International coverage includes European youth protests and the evacuation of residents from Oleshky, Ukraine.
- 12:18Andrew Kozak outlines Southwest flash flooding and incoming snowfall in Colorado.
- 13:42Reports cover Caribbean slavery-reparations demands and English campaigns to pardon women convicted of witchcraft.
- 18:09Allison Stevenson cleans historic headstones in Watertown, preserving the stories of ordinary people.
Campaign stops meet household budgets. CBS Weekend News pairs Donald Trump's final midterm push in Iowa and Kansas with a report on the rising cost of getting away.
The October 31 full broadcast drew roughly 227,000 views in its first day, compared with about 13,000 for the channel's usual regular upload. That makes this a standout start for the bulletin, rather than a channel-wide surge: daily views across CBS Evening News are below their usual pace.
Jericka Duncan anchors an edition that moves from contested Senate races in Alaska and Michigan to Akiko Fujita's reporting from Burbank Airport. Higher airfares and energy prices put the pressure on travelers, giving the broadcast a household-cost counterpart to the campaign speeches.
Two stories from the edition also drew unusually large early audiences as separate Shorts: Olivia Rinaldi's report on Trump's rallies and Aidan Stretch's account of residents evacuated from Oleshky, Ukraine, reuniting with their families during a temporary ceasefire.
The bulletin eventually leaves the campaign trail for a quieter kind of public record. In Watertown, New York, former nurse Allison Stevenson cleans and documents historic headstones. Her interest is in the lives of ordinary people, including farmers, bakers and seamstresses, whose stories she works to preserve.
A city in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region, on the left bank of the Dnieper River.
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The numbers
The full broadcast's first-day audience was far above the channel's usual regular-video start. The separate campaign and Ukraine Shorts also exceeded their usual first-day audience.
