state rex tillerson signaled that the u.s. will no longer insist on the removal of syria's dictator, bashar al assad. assad's war on his own people has killed 400,000 and triggered a global refugee crisis. secretary tillerson spoke today after meeting with turkey's president and elizabeth palmer is in ankara. >> reporter: in a brief photo op, secretary of state tillerson wore his best diplomatic smile. and so did president recep tayyip erdogan. but behind closed doors turkey has some serious bones to pick with the united states.

top of the list, the war against isis in syria, right on turkey's border. with few soldiers of its own on the ground, the u.s. has teamed up with a battle-hardened kurdish force called the ypg. but to turkey the ypg is a bitter enemy and a terrorist group. it's demanding the u.s. cut off its support, something mr. tillerson would not promise to do. >> what we discussed today were options that are available to us. they are difficult options. let me be very frank. these are not easy decisions. >> reporter: that didn't satisfy the turkish foreign minister, who accused the u.s. of fighting one terrorist group, isis, with another, the ypg. so much of this region is currently violent and unstable. both turkey and the u.s. want to change that. and at the very end of the news conference mr. tillerson appeared to signal a policy shift to that end. >> i think the status and the

longer-term status of president assad will be decided by the syrian people. >> reporter: now, that's what the russians have been saying for some time, scott, although if decided by the syrian people is actually code for elections it's hard to see how that can work with a quarter of the syrian population having fled the country. >> elizabeth palmer in the turkish capital tonight. thanks, liz. more than 100,000 people are in imminent danger of starving to death in the east african country of south sudan. the famine emergency is the result of a civil war that has wiped out agriculture and a rainy season that has cut off half the country. the united nations says 5 million people there can't be sure where their next meal is coming from, but for some it's coming from the sky. debora patta is there. >> 917 you're clear to drop. >> reporter: hope for the village of maar is pinned on the

skies. the scorched village has not had food for six months. jubilant laborers hired for the day rush to help sort the supplies dropped by the red cross. it's too dangerous to bring food to maar by road, so air drops are the only way to get some kind of nutrition to this community. food is the latest weapon in this civil war, where aid convoys are regularly ambushed by warring militias. despite months of waiting, villagers line up patiently to get their food, including nyaruach chuol. the 110-pound bag of sorghum and beans weighs about the same as she does. the food will help feed her family of ten, now facing a cholera outbreak on top of the food shortages. her father, chuol jotijiok, is wasting away.

"i have a sore stomach," he says. "there is nothing to eat but leaves and fruit. sometimes i have nothing." but not everyone gets help today. ujiwami bei bol is new to the region and not registered with the red cross. she fled the fierce fighting 300 miles away. "we were sleeping and then the war came to us," she said. "i saw the soldiers shoot my children and burn my house to the ground." heavily pregnant, she fled with her two surviving children, walking for 24 days to find safety. amazingly, she gave birth to a healthy boy in the bush along the way. but bol's gamble didn't work. there is no extra food. "i don't know anyone here," she says. "i just sit under a tree and hope people will help me." but everyone here already has too many hungry stomachs to

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sometimes to think that other families are going through what we're going through but there are thousands and thousands of families doing that. >> reporter: since casey's death the number of pedestrians dying in crashes has soared. up 22% in the last two years to nearly 6,000 deaths in 2016 alone, the highest in decades. have people just forgotten to look both ways? >> people have forgotten to look both ways. they're too busy looking at their phones. >> reporter: jonathan adkins runs the governor's highway safety association, which did the study. he said distracted walkers and drivers are a big issue. so is alcohol. 15% of the crashes involved a drunk driver, while 34% of those killed were walking drunk. >> we've done a really good job of encouraging people not to drink and drive but we don't see messaging about not drinking and walking. >> reporter: whatever the cause, the accidents can happen in an stnt. this woman was lucky. she survived. but so many others like casey feldman never made it home. >> she was beginning her life.

she was about to become that reporter. and it was all taken away in just a few seconds. >> reporter: this increase comes as communities across the country are working to become more walkable. scott, the majority of these crashes happen at night, often on rural or suburban roads. >> kris van cleave for us tonight. kris, thanks. coming up, for millions march is going out like a lion. you know your heart loves megared omega-3s... but did you know your eyes,

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two, one -- >> spacex launched another falcon 9 rocket this evening, and it became the first rocket booster of its kind to be used a second time. manuel bojorquez is at the kennedy space center. manuel? >> reporter: well, scott, that falcon 9 rocket took off from that pad behind me and minutes later landed back on earth after delivering a satellite into space, proving that reusability could save millions in future

launches. >> we have commit and we have lift-off. >> reporter: kennedy space center's pad 39a has launched space history, from apollo -- >> the space shuttle spreads its wings. >> reporter: -- to the space shuttle. >> lift-off of the falcon 9. >> reporter: now spacex is hoping to achieve another milestone. >> you can see it descending there. >> reporter: by relaunching a used rocket, the falcon 9, after successfully landing it back on earth last year. >> that's going to help lower pcosts. >> reporter: cbs news space consultant bill harwood. >> just like a science fiction movie coming down with that tail of fire and landing bullseye right on the target. >> reporter: a spacex rep compared it to launching a pencil over the empire state building and having it land on a plate on the other side, with the tip pointing up. spacex has stuck the landing 8 out of 13 times. but it's still risky. although this rocket landed back

on earth about a year ago, spacex says it can have them ready for relaunch in about four months. the goal is to make that even faster. gwynne shotwell is spacex president and c.o.o. >> as far as doing it as soon as you land, taking it over to the launchpad and reflying it again, we might be a couple years away from that, but that's certainly the intent as well. >> reporter: but reusing a rocket is only the first step before the giant leap spacex hopes to make, a mission to mars. manuel bojorquez, cbs news at kennedy space center. that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and be sure not to miss "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley.

♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm michelle miller. the investigation of russian meddling in the november election is back on track, at least in the u.s. senate. witnesses told the intelligence committee how vladimir putin unleashed a vast campaign of online disinformation attacking candidates of both parties. but it wasn't only fake news. one witness told the committee if you want to get to the bottom of this, quote, "follow the dead bodies." jeff pegues reports. >> this russian propaganda on steroids was designed to poison the national conversation in america. >> reporter: top democrat mark warner and the rest of the senate intelligence committee heard details today about

russia's vast information warfare campaign, which involves at least 15,000 operatives worldwide. writing and spreading false news stories and conspiracy theories online. witnesses said the effort goes back years and often starts with russian-backed media. the ongoing campaign has targeted president trump himself. former fbi special agent clint watts. >> i can tell you right now today accounts tweet at president trump during high volumes when they know he's online and they push conspiracy theories. >> reporter: many of the fake news stories begin with real events. last august during an active shooter scare at new york's jfk airport watts says russian fake news writers added to the panic. >> we watched social media trolls and gray outlets pump fake stories out which ramped up that fear. >> reporter: the russians also tried to manipulate a protest at a u.s. military base in turkey into a major terrorist attack. and tried to sow unrest in the

u.s. by inflaming protests such as occupy wall street and the black lives matter movement. the russians also used sophisticated hacking like that of the democratic national committee. cyber security expert kevin mandia says they stole much more than what has been released on websites like wikileaks and guccifer 2.0. >> what we've seen publicly releaseed is probably under 1% of what we'd attribute to the russian government's doing. >> reporter: the hacking continues. republican senator and former presidential candidate marco rubio. >> within the last 24 hours, 10:45 a.m. yesterday, a second attempt was made again against former members of my presidential campaign team who had access to our internal information, again targeted from an i.p. address from an unknown location in russia. >> reporter: watts also told congress the russians may now be trying to cover their tracks. there have been a series of arrests in russia of cybersecurity officials and a

number of mysterious deaths around the world. >> follow the trail of dead russians. there's been more dead russians in the past three months that are tied to this investigation who have assets in banks all over the world. secretary of state rex tillerson is in turkey, where he unveiled a major shift in u.s. policy toward syria. tillerson said the fate of syrian dictator bashar al assad should be decided by the syrian people. for years now u.s. policy insisted that assad must go. elizabeth palmer is in ankara. >> reporter: this is one of the first official visits that secretary of state tillerson has made. turkey is a priority not only because it's a fellow member of nato but it is a crucial ally in the fight against isis in syria. there's a lot riding on this visit, and the turks lost no time. the secretary of state plunged right into a whole day of meetings with top turkish officials. then the secretary of state headed for closed-door talks

with president recep tayyip erdogan. and there is a lot to talk about. top of the list the war against isis in syria on turkey's southern border. with few soldiers of its own on the ground, the u.s. has teamed up with local armed groups including a kurdish force called the ypg. but turkey sees the ypg as a bitter enemy. in fact, it calls them terrorists. >> how can with rely on a terrorist organization -- >> reporter: last week in washington turkey's foreign minister mevlet sobocolu told cbs news cooperating with ypg crosses a red line. >> this is unacceptable for us and the ypg is posing a direct threat to turkey. >> reporter: and there's another bone of contention. this man, fatula gulen, a turk currently living in pennsylvania. he's the spiritual leader of a huge islamic network. the turkish government blames him for organizing last year's failed military coup and wants the u.s. to hand him over.

so far the justice department will only say it's studying the evidence against him. on both these thorny issues turkey initially hoped the new administration would see things its way. an analyst with the economic research policy institute. >> when president trump got elected, there was a lot of hope in ankara that this would change. it now looks like a lot of that hope has been dampened. the african nation of south sudan has been ravaged by years of civil war and drought. the united nations says more than 100,000 people are on the brink of starvation. all that hardship has destroyed families. debora patta has the story of three boys living in a refugee camp in juba. they thought their mother was dead but we followed along as the red cross flew them 300 miles for a tearful reunion. >> reporter: the mother of these three young boys was atent

tending a wedding miles away when the country was plunged into civil war a neighbor was looking after the children in the capital of juba where they were forced to see the violence. >> reporter: in the three years since rich, mast, and goy last saw their mother they have grown a lot taller. today they prepare to leave the place they've called home since the civil war began. when the fighting broke out, the boys sought protection at this u.n. camp. up north their mother also fled the violence crossing the border into ethiopia. the boys had no idea if their mother was even live, until now. they've been living on the kindness of their elderly neighbor. it won't be easy for naye panyang to say good-bye. "i love them as if they were my own," she told us. in the long months when they yearned for their mother, soccer kept them going. who's the best at soccer?

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. for the first time in 17 years the republican party controls the white house, the senate, and the house of representatives. you'd think that would make washington, d.c. gop central. but there are deep divisions within the party. especially in the house of representatives. the vow to repeal and replace obamacare died in the house, and the house intelligence committee investigation of russian contacts with the white house has turned into a sideshow. house speaker paul ryan discussed all this with our very own norah o'donnell. >> let me first ask you about chairman nunes, the head of the house intelligence committee. you were among the first that he briefed. what did he tell you? >> he had told me that -- like a whistleblower type person had given him some information that

was new that spoke to the last administration in part of this investigation. briefed me about it, didn't know the content of it, only knew the nature of it and that he was going to brief others. >> did you ask to see the documents yourself? >> he didn't have the documents. so i didn't. >> did you encourage him to then go tell the president about it? >> no. but i told him just to add it to his investigation. >> so you at no time said whatever you find out you should go tell president trump about it. >> he was going to brief everybody. i already knew he was going to go and brief. what chairman nunes said is he just came in possession of new information that he thought was valuable to this investigation and that he was going to go and inform people about it. >> but he hasn't. i mean, he hasn't even informed the republicans on the committee. >> i haven't seen the actual documents. possession of them yet. let me say this. it's very important that we allow and encourage

whistleblowers to talk to congress. >> can you just help me understand this, though? because if it's a whistleblower why wouldn't that information then be shared with the democrats on the committee and even the other republicans who haven't seen ait? >> i don't know the answer to that question. you have to ask that person. i don't even know who this is. >> you're a member of the gang of eight. you can see the most classified intelligence that our government has, right? you could request this information. >> yeah. we want this information to be provided to congress. and we're waiting for it to be provided to congress. >> do you know if president trump is under investigation himself for ties to russia? >> i have no knowledge of that. i do not believe that to be the ase. >> so if we don't know that -- >> i won't speak for the fbi but i've never seen any suggestion or any evidence that that's the case. >> so here's my question. if we don't know if president trump is under investigation, why would it then be appropriate for a member of an oversight committee to then go brief the president? >> yeah, but i don't believe that he is. so i don't think that he is under investigation. no one has suggested that he is.

and not even in a vague way. i don't believe that he is. >> let's talk about health care. you promised to repeal obamacare for seven years. your bill didn't survive three weeks. what happened? >> well, it hasn't survived yet. what happened is we are going through what i would call a very painful growing pain. i'd like to see the growth at the end of that pain, which is we've been an opposition party for ten years and i've been long saying if we're going to be successful deliver for the american people, improve people's lives, we've got to become a proposition governing party. about 90% of our members are for this bill. we're not going to give up after seven years of dealing with this. after running on a plan all of last year, translating that plan into legislation, which is what this is. >> okay. so what's the plan b? >> well, plan b is we keep talking to each other and figure out how we get to yes and how we get this bill passed. >> so you're not changing the policy. you're just putting more

pressure -- >> no, we're listening to people. if we can make improvements to this bill, all the better. so if improvements can be made to this legislation that get people to yes, that's great. >> the president said that maybe he wishes he didn't do health care first now. do you regret that too? >> not at all. because we could not have done tax reform first for a whole host of reasons. whether -- tax reform gets $1 trillion easier. if we do health care first. if you want me to explain -- >> no, i understand. >> but the other problem is we literally didn't have the time to write a tax bill yet. the house is the only one with a plan right now. the white house is still working on a plan. the senate doesn't have a plan. so it is inconceivable that we would have been able to write a tax reform bill into law before summer. >> the government will shut down on april 29th unless you pass a funding bill. will it defund planned parenthood? >> that's in our obamacare legislation. we think the smart way to go is to reconciliation because that only requires 50 votes. it takes 60 votes to defund

planned parenthood in the senate if you go through appropriations -- i don't think -- >> you don't want the plan -- >> we want that to be in reconciliation. >> not in the funding bill. >> reconciliation is where we have the best chance of getting it done. let me say this. >> we're you can talking about shutting down the government and you hear people in the freedom caucus and they say we want the defungd of planned parenthood in this funding bill. >> it's in our obamacare replacement bill and that bill can't be filibustered. that's where we have a chance of doing it. let me say, this norah. we're not going to have a government shutdown. the president doesn't want to have a government shutdown. it's funding the government from april 28th through september 30th. >> so that funding bim doesn't need to include new money for the border wall? >> well, of course dhs needs money for border security. >> so that will be in there p. >> there's always money for border security. >> what i meant was additional money for the wall. >> the big chunk of money for the wall really is next year's -- next fiscal year's appropriations. because they literally can't start construction even this quickly. >> who's driving the agenda on tax reform? is it the white house or republicans -- >> i think it's a collaborative effort. it's the house ways and means

committee. it's the senate finance committee which are the primary drivers in congress. and the white house. >> the president's spokesperson just said it's the white house that's driving it. >> that's fine with me. i don't really care who's driving it. as long as we get to an agreement and get it done. >> but the -- >> it's really a three-way conversation. >> but the trump tax plan and the ryan tax plan is different. >> well, it's not a ryan tax plan. it's the house blueprint that every house republican ran on. but we're -- >> you're an architect. >> well, i helped kevin brady really our chairman of ways and means. i worked on this when i was chair. we always knew this was the beginning of the process. you never go into legislative process and say here's my plan take it or leave it. >> how's your relationship with president trump? >> very good. we talk frequently, actually. actually, we didn't know each other very well, you know your heart loves megared omega-3s... but did you know your eyes, your brain, and your joints really love them too? introducing megared advanced 4in1...

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clearasil rapid action begins working fast for clearly visible results in as little as 12 hours. but can it fix this teen's skateboarding mishap? nope. so let's be clear: clearasil works fast on teen acne, not so much on other teen things. singer-songwriter keith urban is getting ready for his big night sunday at the academy of country music awards. he leads all performers with seven nominations including entertainer of the year, album of the year, and song of the year. urban invited jan crawford into his studio to talk about life and music. >> how are you doing? >> reporter: when he takes the stage -- ♪ -- you can tell by the crowd and

his outside the box collaborations. >> the great john legend! >> reporter: keith urban is not your regular country music star. ♪ i'm about to lose my mind >> reporter: when he moves here 25 years ago from australia, nashville was skeptical. >> it doesn't matter if you've paid your dues for a decade somewhere else. this is what i'd done because it's like a different currency. you know? you come here and you pretty much start at the bottom and work your way up. >> some people would have said this isn't working, i'd better just do -- i'd better try to sound more like garth brooks or whoever may be the star of the time. but you didn't do that. what is it in you that kept you from -- or what was driving you to just be you? keith urban. and not try to just copy what the hot sound was. >> i don't think there was anyone that i was enough like. i'd grown up in country music. i'd played in plenty of cover bands playing rock, pop, top 40, but i loved country. but i loved a little bit of edge. >> reporter: staying true to his

unique sound, urban started working with more experimental producers. >> they would just kind of let you be you? >> yeah, just looser and a little less by the book. right up my alley. ♪ i want to love somebody ♪ love somebody like you >> reporter: and more than a decade after he first arrived, his single "somebody like you" skyrocketed to number one. ♪ love somebody like you on his most recent album you can hear urban's diverse influences. with a cameo by none other than pitbull. ♪ keith urban ♪ mr. worldwide >> sounds like you're miami not nashville. >> i just heard him. i heard him on a song one time wherever i was. i heard that voice, which i've heard many times. i went, he would kill on "sun don't let me down." he'd be fantastic on that. ♪ living it up ♪ tonight is going down yeah ♪ till the sun comes up

>> he's got the right flow. that song is super sexy. it's tongue in cheek sexy. >> reporter: fans of urban's guitar-driven country would say he knows something about sexy. but growing up his guitar meant something different. >> i was pretty shy. i was a bit lost without my guitar. the guitar was quite the linus's security blanket for me. it was something that i could hide behind. you know? i'm still a little bit uncomfortable on stage taking it away. >> reporter: he says his late father encouraged him to find his rhythm. >> he was always tapping on the table. and whenever we were in the car. and he's got the turn signal on. he would start tapping a groove to the turn signal. i do the exact same thing now. >> really? >> any kids in the back will start mimicking me. i don't even know i'm doing it. but i look for every -- >> you hear the beat. >> yeah. every rith mihm combination of that. >> reporter: but outside the music there are were well-known struggles with drugs and alcohol, two stints in rehab, the last one right after he married actress nicole kidman in

2006. all part of what urban calls his journey. >> i've come to terms with it. i've come to be at peace with it because it's all part of where i am today and i love where i am. so the only things i've ever had to work through is the hurt it caused other people. >> i love this song! >> reporter: he credits kidman with getting him back on his path and the guidance he felt with his new single "the fighter." he introduced to fans way playful video posted online. >> for me it's a song about trying to wrap myself around my wife's tenderness and purity and fragility to allow that to stay intact and not get hardened to the world. i feel that's my role. i want the best for her. i want her dreams to come true. i want to do whatever i can to help that happen. you know? that's just love, isn't it? >> and all the things in the past that you may regret, that's

put you where you are in some ways today. >> yeah. i'm probably at peace with the regret. you know, if there's any way to be that, it's -- i don't dwell on it. that's what it is. i don't dwell on it. and i try to make my life a living amends to people who i want to make amends to. ♪ i'm going to say it anyway >> reporter: urban turns 50 later this year. but he doesn't spend much time looking back or forward. he's learned to live in the moment. today the shy kid from australia is considered one of music's best entertainers. but it's here in the studio where urban has found his place. >> it's one of the things i really, really love more and more and more. i love being in the studio and spending lots of time building and shaping. >> creating. >> creating, yeah. it's a magical place. i've always found it magical because you can capture something. ♪ shattered like glass

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in our series "living stronger" we're celebrating older americans whose zest for life is an inspiration for people of every age. here's one story i found at the gym. at this high-intensity workout in new york city jacinto bonilla is redefining what it means to be physically fit. for an hour bonilla keeps up with the repetitious cross-fit routine, jumping on a 24-inch box, doing upside down push-ups, and climbing a 15-foot rope, all alongside gym members more than half his age.

at 77 years old why push yourself this hard? >> because i like it. i love it. i want to stay out of the nursing home. >> reporter: bonilla is the oldest man to compete in the cross-fit games, going up against men a decade younger. cross-fit is the fastest growing fitness movement in the world. in 2008 bonilla stopped training for two months to take on his biggest challenge yet. he was fighting prostate cancer. >> i get a little emotional with this. >> why? >> i've always been in healthy shape. i always watched what i ate. and i came down with prostate cancer. and i had it taken out. and then i started coming back. >> reporter: now cancer-free, bonilla has challenged cross-fitters around the world. each year they mark his birthday by doing six exercises like push-ups, squats, and the kettle bell swing, to match his age.

>> if i do it this year, all the exercises would be 78 times. >> in one sitting? >> in one sitting. >> give me that last one. >> reporter: two years ago when no one would give him a job as a cross-fit trainer he built a gym in his basement and got his own clients, including former navy s.e.a.l. luke mason. >> he's got years of experience on me. it's a testament. the guy's 77 years old, he's got something to teach. >> reporter: would you say this is your own fountain of youth? >> yes. i love being strong. i love being able to do a lot of things that a lot of young people cannot do or are not willing to do. >> reporter: motivation, inspiration, perspiration. his recipe for living stronger. and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others i know you'll check back a bit later for the morning news and of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center right here in new york city, i'm michelle miller.

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