Rio de Janeiro — A candidate in the mayoral race in Sao Paulo, Brazil was treated and released Monday from a hospital after one of his five rivals in a televised debate slammed him with a metal chair following references to allegations of sexual misconduct. Pablo Marçal, a personal development influencer turned right-wing politician, referred to the allegations against José Luiz Datena, a former TV presenter turned candidate, during the debate Sunday evening and said Datena had wanted to slap him.

He added: “You’re not even man enough to do this.”

Datena, who has denied the allegations, then came over toward Marçal’s podium with the chair above his head and slammed it into Marçal’s side as the influencer put up his arms. The moderator of the TV Cultura debate then quickly interrupted and cut to commercials, and the debate resumed later Sunday night without Marçal.

Marçal’s team shared video of him subsequently rushing to a hospital in an ambulance while receiving respiratory support. He explained on social media channels Monday that he had felt pain while breathing, and had suffered a fracture at the bottom of his rib cage.

Marçal suffered “trauma to the right chest region and right wrist, without major associated complications,” the Syrian-Lebanese hospital said in a statement Monday, adding that he had been discharged.

A video on social media shows a doctor talking to Marçal in the hospital bed, telling him that he has “a little line of a fracture.” Marçal referred to the incident on social media as “attempted homicide,” and compared it to the assassination attempt against Donald Trump earlier this year and to the stabbing of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro in the lead up to the 2018 presidential election.

Marçal has parlayed his internet fandom and fiery rhetoric into a nascent political movement, shooting up in the polls in recent months and now running neck-and-neck with incumbent Ricardo Nunes and leftist lawmaker Guilherme Boulos. That has drawn even greater attention to the mayoral race in Brazil’s biggest city.

An inquiry into the alleged misconduct by Datena never resulted in any charges, and it was shelved when the accuser retracted her statements.

Speaking to reporters after the debate, Datena explained that the episode had been especially painful for him because he believes it prompted his mother-in-law to suffer a series of strokes and pass away.

On Monday, Datena said in a statement that he had made a mistake, but that he did not regret it “at all.”

“If the circumstances were the same, I would not refrain from repeating the gesture, an extreme response to a history of aggression perpetrated against me and many others by my adversary,” his statement said.

Marçal’s campaign team said the debate shouldn’t have continued without him, and that it hopes appropriate legal measures will be taken against Datena.

A statement from Sao Paulo’s public security agency said the incident was registered as “bodily injury and insult” at a local police station on Sunday night, indicating that an investigation was under way.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is backing Boulos. Bolsonaro endorsed Nunes, but many supporters of the former president have rallied behind Marçal, enthralled by his persona.

The September Harvest Moon, a partial lunar eclipse, will make its debut in the sky Monday evening and last through Thursday morning. The full moon will peak at 10:35 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 17, according to NASA.

The is the second of 2024’s four consecutive supermoons, following August’s blue supermoon, a rare phenomenon that dazzled stargazers around the world.

Here’s when and where to catch September’s supermoon spectacle.

When can I see the supermoon and the partial eclipse?

The supermoon will be visible for three full days from Monday to Thursday. What makes this moon special, The Old Farmer’s Almanac says, is that it appears at the same time every night just as the sun is setting.

The partial lunar eclipse will peak 10:44 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 17. At this point, only 8% of the Moon will be in full shadow, NASA says.

For those looking to get an early start, the moon will enter into Earth’s partial shadow beginning at 8:41 p.m. EDT. Spectators can look up specific moonrise times for their ZIP code using  this tool from the Farmer’s Almanac.

Why is it called the Harvest Moon?

The Harvest Moon coincides with the autumnal equinox, the first day of fall, which is Sunday, Sept. 22. As almanac lore goes, it’s called the Harvest Moon because in the days before electricity lit up our fields, the moon’s bright glow helped guide farmers as they were harvesting crops at the end of the season.

When people think of Harvest Moon, they often picture an orange globe in the sky. Music fans’ minds may also jump to Neil Young’s 1992 album “Harvest Moon.” The album’s titular song references the lunar event with the lines, “Because I’m still in love with you on this Harvest Moon.”

Does September’s full moon have any other special nicknames?

As NASA points out, the September harvest moon goes by several other monikers including the Corn Moon, the Potato Harvest Moon, and the Fruit or Barley Moon.

When will the next full moon take place?

The next supermoon, the third of four, will light up the sky on at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct.17, per NASA. October’s moon is nicknamed the Hunter’s Moon.

Baltimore — The families of three of the six immigrant construction workers who died when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed will be asking a federal court to prevent the owner of the ship that crashed into the structure from escaping legal liability.

The families are slated to announce on Tuesday that they will take legal action to hold Grace Ocean Private Limited legally liable for the deadly collapse. The Singapore-based company owns the Dali, the massive container ship that rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in late March after it lost power, causing a large section of the bridge to collapse. 

Eight workers doing maintenance on the bridge that night fell into the water — and six of them died. It took 11 weeks for the Port of Baltimore to fully reopen after the bridge collapse, causing millions of dollars in economic losses.

If approved by the federal district court in Maryland, the move set to be announced Tuesday could allow the victims’ families to request and obtain monetary compensation for the deaths of their loved ones, said Matthew Wessler of Gupta Wessler LLP, the firm planning to file the court motion.

“They all have suffered an unimaginable tragedy, losing their loved ones, whether it was one of our clients who lost her husband and partner. Another who lost their son,” Wessler told CBS News. “And we think that accountability, or they think that justice here means holding those responsible accountable.”

Grace Ocean Private Limited was “negligent,” Wessler argued.

“We believe that, at least at this point, what we know so far is that the ship should not have left the port when it did, after having lost power multiple times, within a day or two before it left,” he added.

Wessler said his firm is planning to file the motion to hold Grace Ocean Private Limited legally liable before Sept. 24, a deadline in a federal court case started earlier this year after the ship company sought to limit its legal exposure stemming from the accident. CBS News reached out to the attorneys representing Grace Ocean Private Limited.

The legal action will be filed on behalf of the families of Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez, Jose Maynor Lopez Sandoval and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, three of the construction workers who died in March.

“My husband is a hero”

In an exclusive television interview inside her home in Glen Burnie, Maryland, Maria del Carmen Castellon called Luna Gonzalez “the best husband” and her “best friend.” The two immigrants from El Salvador met in the U.S. and married in 2017 after spending more than a decade together. 

Castellon said she still vividly remembers the last conversation she had with her husband in the hours before he left for his overnight shift on the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26.

“That Monday, my husband calls me and says, ‘Mami, can you make me a tortilla?” Castellon recounted.

“He said goodbye with a kiss,” Castellon added. “And when he said goodbye, all I remember is that he took his phone and he put it in the car and I saw his wallpaper was a photo of us. It was the last time I saw him.”

Gustavo Torres, the executive director of CASA, an advocacy group that has been helping the families of the deceased construction workers, said the victims’ loved ones deserve monetary restitution, labor protections and work permits, as some lack permanent legal immigration status in the U.S. 

“They are people who work really, really hard. They’re people who were always thinking in the American dream, making a contribution and building their own businesses,” Torres said. 

For Castellon, justice is a difficult concept: “Justice for me would be to have my husband at my side. Share all the dreams we had planned.”

To honor her husband’s memory, Castellon has continued operating a food truck they opened together in Glen Burnie. Every day, she cooks and sells pupusas, tortas, tacos and cheesesteaks to a loyal clientele, many of whom are construction workers like her late husband. 

One day, Castellon hopes to open her own restaurant, a dream she and her husband shared. “I know he’s going to be very proud of me when I open the restaurant,” she said.

Castellon implored people “not to forget” her husband and the other victims of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. 

“They were there,” she noted, “so this country can have better streets. And those bridges, to have better conditions.”

“The only thing I would love for people to know is that, for me, my husband is a hero, alongside his five co-workers,” Castellon said.