it's friday, october 19th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." president trump says jamal khashoggi, the missing journalist, is probably dead. now mr. trump is making threats but he's not pointing fingers. thousands of honduran immigrants are headed for the u.s. as president trump issues a plan to stop them. and are you feeling lucky? the chances you'll win botioowe dollars. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york.

good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. president trump conceded it looks as though journalist jamal khashoggi is dead but he didn't say why he thinks so. the president also threatened very severe consequences if it's proven the saudis murdered him. laura podesta is here with more on this. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. and that investigation is expected to be wrapped up by tomorrow, according to cbs news sources. what kind of severe consequences the kingdom could face has not been said by the president or anyone else in the administration. president trump says missing journalist jamal khashoggi is likely dead. >> it certainly looks that way to me. it's very sad. certainly looks that way. >> >> and he warned of consequences for saudi arabia if it's culpable. >> it's bad, but we'll see what happens. >> saudi arabia and turkey are

both investigating his disappearance. he was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul on october 2nd. >> i told president trump this morning we ought to give them a few more days. >> secretary of state mike pompeo briefed the president on thursday. after returning from a fact-finding mission in riyadh and istanbul. sources tell cbs news nobody in the u.s. government has seen or heard the recording turkish officials claim to have proving he was murdered. pompeo urged the president to wait for the results of the investigation. >> when we see that we'll get a chance to determine, all of us will get a chance to make a determination with respect to the credibility and the work that went into that. >> there are now reports saudi arabia may ultimately blame a high-level intel official for khashoggi's death. both "the new york times" and "the washington post" say a top general may be accused of going rogue, an explanation that would deflect blame from the crown

prince mohamed bin salman. >> yesterday the committees for human rights activists called on turkey to launch its own investigation. those groups say u.n. involvement is the best guarantee against a saudi cover-up. anne-marie. >> laura, thank you so much, laura. president trump says he'll close the u.s. border if a caravan of honduran immigrants headed for this country is not stopped. that would disrupt hundreds of thousands of cops each day which could have an impact but border security is a hot issue. earlier he threatened to cut off aid to central american countries if the migrants were not stopped. mexico's foreign minister said they are assisting those that have already made it into mexico. here's that report. >> reporter: as many as 4,000

migrants are making their way from honduras to guatemala and into mexico with their sites set on the u.s. border. groups are sleeping in shelters and accepting food and money from strangers. many say they have fled violence in their home countries, some with little more than the clothes on their backs. after crossing in guatemala on monday, the next major border is mexico where the government has deployed hundreds of police officers aboard 727s to deal with the caravan. many migrants will be told to turn home, some will be allowed to seek asylum. geronimo gutierrez is the president there. >> there is a hue maptarian crisis going on, and we need to call it what it is. >> reporter: but president trump is lashing out threatening to deploy the military to the u.s. border. since the president suspended his controversial family

separation policy in june, illegal border crossings have sky rocketed. according to unpublished border patrol data, there were 16,000 family members arrested in september. an 80% increase over july. they say they are swamped and seeing more and more large groups crossing together. one official said on september 20th they encountered 275 adults and children, on october 2nd, 1 sixty four adults and children. john bolton reportedly got into a shouting match at the white house over the administration's immigration policies. on 60 minutes, leslie stahl asked the president if he would return to his family separation policy. frankly, when you allow the parents to stay together, okay, when you allow that then what happens is people are going to

pour into our country. >> are you going back to that. >> we're looking at a lot of things. >> reporter: these things happen from trial to time. the migrants travel in groups for safety. in april, several hundred made it to the u.s. border near san diego but a limited number were allowed to apply for asigh limb here in the u.s. jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. for the first time federal prosecutors are investigating abuse by roman catholic priests. subpoenas were served in at least seven of the eight roman catholic dioceses. the feds are demanding secret files and testimony from high-ranking church officials. nikki has more. >> reporter: catholic dioceses say they have received subpoenas. from the u.s. justice department as it investigates sexual hay buce within the church. two people familiar with the investigation tell "the associated press" the subpoenas were served across the state last week.

it demands information about whether priests, bishops, seminarians or lay people committed federal crimes. they want documents church leaders stored in secret and historical archives and confidential files along with they want any evidence pointing to anyone under their supervision who took children across state lines, used phones or computers to send sexual messages, or told anyone not to contact police. the federal investigation follows the state of pennsylvania's 800 page grand jury report in august listing the names of 301 predator priests and six dioceses. the report detailed widespread sexual abuse going back decades. just this week david poulson pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two boys between 2002 and 2010. he faces up to 14 years in prison. >> david poulson is a priest who preyed on children for his own sexual gratification. he is now an admitted sexual

predator. >> they say they are cooperating. nikki battiste, cbs news. more rain is forecast for today and tomorrow in texas. flood watch and warnings are posted for much of central texas. a state of disaster has been declared in 18 counties. the catastrophic floodwaters are blamed for at least two deaths. roads remain closed, houses and businesses have been flooded and thousands have been forced to evacuate. the national weather service says this winter looks to be wet and mild thanks to a el nino. the northern and western three quarters of the nation can expect a warmer than normal winter. el nino is the natural warming of the central pacific ocean which influences weather around the world. the fbi is asking for help with missing teen jayme closs.

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♪ our top stories this morning, president trump said it certainly looks as though missing journalist jamal khashoggi is dead. but the president didn't say why he thought that. mr. trump did say if the saudis are found to have murdered khashoggi there would be severe consequences. and some of the approximately 4,000 hondurans headed toward the u.s. in a migrant caravan have made it to mexico. president trump says he'll use the military to close the u.s./mexican border if mexican authorities don't stop the caravan. the top u.s. general in afghanistan yesterday escaped an insider attack that killed three top afghancuty for saturday's

parliamentary elections. >> reporter: general miller escaped from an attack during a critical week here. the billboards plastered across kabul show fresh faces vying for a chance to compete for change. but with just days to go for election, it's the uncertainty of violence that have people worried. the police chief says the sheer numbers expected in this neighborhood alone on election day takes security to a whole new level. >> more than 10,000? >> more than 10,000 voters? >> more than 10,000. more than 10,000. >> how are you going to be able to handle all of those people? >> reporter: holding the elections will mean mounting one of the biggest security operations this country has ever seen with 54,000 security personnel deployed across afghanistan. there are more than 2,500 candidates fighting for 249

seats in parliament.re tha5,000s open across the nation, but more than 2,000 have already been closed due to a high risk of attack. ten candidates have been assassinated in the last two months, one by a bomb planted in his couch. isis bombings in recent months have left dozens dead and the taliban has issued repeated warnings for voters to stay away on election day for risk of attacks. it hasn't deterred candidates like mariam solaimankhail born and raised in the u.s. she decided to move here from the u.s. where she was a business woman. she said it's vital that people step up and run. >> people are sick of seeing men be corrupt. it's a fresh face and something new and they know i have a great life in the united states, i have no need to steal from these poor people. >> you're a candidate, you're a

you're woman, you're an american, you're a prime target for the taliban. >> oh, yeah. coming up on "cbs this morning," the group behind ted talks has launched a new podcast called the ted interview. we'll talk with chris anderson who runs ted. and for the first time, christi's auction house will be selling art created by artificial intelligence. we'll have the computer-generated portrait in the studio. that's this news for this friday. i'm anne-marie green, have a great day.

i'm kenny choi. good morning, thanks for waking up with us. as take from our "salese tower"camera looking ady for the weekend. and we are warming up.

good morning. i'm kenny choi. >> and i'm michelle griego. we have in the meantime, new information on the fire that threatened a gas pipeline that caused thousands to evacuate. the investigation now involves birds. it all started with a small grass fire near suisun and poinsettia avenues in bay point. a fire then started in a nearby underground utility vault owned by chevron. christin ayers -- kpix 5's christin ayers on what one witness saw. >> reporter: jennifer brock was at home 200 yards from the pole that caught fire. >> heard this buzz and couple of seconds later two birds fell down, smoke started coming around by the pole. >> reporter: pg&e is investigating whether those birds may have brought down the power line on chevron property sparking a small grass fire and then a potentially catastrophic fire in a concrete vault putting a 12" natural gas line inside