john blackstone, modoc n nation forest. that's the "overnight news" for this it's wednesday, ocober 31st, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." birth right threats. president trump claims he can take away the citizenship guarantee with an order. lawmaker debate the legality. more funerals will be held today for the synagogue shooting in pittsburgh. and a woman has reportedly come forward saying she was offered money to make up false claims against robert mueller.

good morning from the cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you, i'm anne-marie green. president trump says the hard line immigration policies he's pushing have nothing to do with next week's election. he says he can end the constitution's guarantee of birth right citizenship with an executive order. but some say he's off base and the proposal would be a long-shot legal battle. major garrett has more. >> reporter: a week before the midterm elections, president trump said he could end birth right citizenship with the stroke of his pen. >> you can definitely do it with the act of congress, but now th >> reporter: that would mean overturning a portion of the constitution's 14th amendment that says all persons born or naturalized in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction

thereof of citizens of the united states. >> we're the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the united states for 85 years with all of those benefits. it's ridiculous. >> in fact, at least 30 countries guarantee citizenship to people born within their borders. and federa ament applie cldre born in the u.s. to undocumented parents. republican house speaker paul ryan said the president cannot change current law by himself. >> you obviously cannot do that. you cannot end birth right citizenship with an executive order. >> reporter: in 2016 he raised the birth right issue on the campaign trail. >> the 14th amendment, i was right on it. you can do something with it and you can do something fast. >> reporter: the debate is in the hard line move to the run-up to the election including sending more than 7,000 troops to the southern border in reaction to the central american migrant caravan making it's way

north through mexico. the size of the u.s. force is roughly equal to that fighting in iraq and syria. on fox news president trump said people seeking asylum would be housed in tents while under review. >> we're going to put tents up all over the place and we're not going to build structures and spend hundreds of millions of dollars. >> reporter: the number of people born to undocumented migrants peaked 12 years ago but declined through 2014 according to latest data. even if the president signed an executive order ending birth right citizenship, it would face immediate court challenges and probably would not survive. major garrett, cbs news, new york. well, in the border state of texas, immigration is a critical issue in next week's election. but not the only one. democratic senator candidate beto o'rourke hopes to beat the

odds by winning the senate seat held by republican ted cruz. a democrat hasn't won a statewide election in texas since 1994. the race has been closer than expected, though the latest polls show cruz starting to pull away. meg oliver has more. >> reporter: on the campaign trail, energized democrats crete congressman beto o'rourke like a rock star. at this stop in san antonio, supporters formed a human chain to help him exit the park. what's your strategy for the homestretch? >> being with people who are going to decide this election. eight different voting stops, every one of them packed. >> reporter: texas is the most uninsured state in the country. now he's within striking distance of republican senator ted cruz. >> we will defend our freedom. >> reporter: cruz is touting booming growth and the biggest

tax cut in a generation achieved alongside president trump. >> the people of texas are common sense people. we won't low taxes, low regulations and lots and lots of jobs. >> reporter: but what was supposed to be a slam dunk turned into the senator turned into a bus tour canvassing the state to secure votes. >> o'rourke is trailing in the polls but leading with campaign cash. raisemorehan $38 million that's almost three times more than cruz and a fundraising record in a u.s. senate race. >> reporter: and early voting in texas is also setting records do you think a democrat has a chance of winning in texas? >> i do. >> reporter: why? >> because i have children that are in their 20s and 30s and they are looking for political change. >> i have to support cruz? >> reporter: why. >> i know what he's like. i don't know o'rourke at all. i go for the sure thing. >> reporter: but polls indicate nothing is a sure thing until all the votes are counted.

meg oliver, cbs news, san antonio, texas. special counsel robert mueller's office has asked the fbi to investigate allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about mueller. mueller's office did not specify what the claims were. reuters reports a professor at a vermont law school, jennifer taub, said she received an e-mail offering her money if she would discuss past encounters with mule -- mueller. she said she never met him. the synagogue shooting is due in court today. the first funerals were held yesterday. president trump visited the tree of life synagogue and a hospital where some victims are recovering.n pisbur jewish community, the president's visit was not welcome. laura podesta has more on that. >> there were protesters to coincide with the president's visit to the synagogue where the shooting happened. and pittsburgh's mayor said he

was afraid that mr. trump's visit would upstage the victims' funerals. funerals continue today for those killed in saturday's mass shooting at a pittsburgh synagogue. joyce feinberg, melvin wax, and irving younger will be laid to rest. >> the entire community feels they have lost their mothers, fathers, and sons and daughters. >> yesterday, four of the 11 victims were remembered, including dr. jerry rabinowitz, ben and arlene scheib were his patients. >> every wonderful word that's been spoken about dr. rabinowitz, absolutely true. >> i don't know if we'll ever find a doctor like that again. >> funerals were also held for daniel stein and brothers cecil and david rosenthal. >> there's a lot of people here have no connection with the rosenthal family, and it's just -- it's a sad day for pittsburgh, but it's a great day for pittsburgh too.

>> shortly after the funerals, president trump and the first lady came to squirrel hill neighborhood. . they placed visitation stones ou tree of life ouomacr of david synagogue. not far away, hundreds lined the streets to protest the president's visit. >> president trump, you are not welcome in pittsburgh until you fully renounce white nationalism. >> the president also visited a first responder at the hospital and last night injured officers anthony burke and mike smidga joined the pittsburgh penguins in a ceremonial puck drop. prosecutors say the suspected gunman, robert bowers, was a rabid antisemite whose hatred drove him to kill. he could face the death penalty if convicted.

>> thanks a lot, laura. a former boston crime boss james whitey bulger was reportedly beat to death by one or more of his fellow inmates. he was discovered unconscious yesterday morning at a federal prison in west virginia. >> any available medic need to respond. cardiac arrest. >> bulger, 89 years old, was serving two consecutive life sentences for 11 murders, racketeering, extortion, and other crimes. in the '70s and '80s he ruled the boston neighborhood known as southy. running a ruthless gang that knew no limits. back in 2006, one of his top lieutenants talked to 60 minutes. >> he shot people, strangled people, run them over with cars. >> he became ann form mant for the fbi and then went on the run and was captured six years later in california after a worldwide manhunt. coming up on "the morning news" now, stealing secrets. chinese intelligence officers are charged in a hacking case.

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the u.s. women's gymnastic and chinese agents are accused of hacking. those are some of the headlines on the morning news stand. "the associated press" reports indonesian search crews may have found the aircraft. that crashed into the java sea. the nav says a 70 foot object was located about a hundred feet below thefacee water. they found more bodies and debris yesterday. the boeing 737 max plunged into the ocean just minutes after taking off from jakarta killing all 189 people on board. the indianapolis star reports a 9-year-old girl and her 6-year-old twin brothers were hit by a pickup truck and killed as they crossed the road to get to the school bus. police say lights on the bus

were flashing and the stop arm was extndended when the truck slammed into the children near rochester yesterday morning. another unrelated child was critically injured. >> the school has been warned. this is an issue. they've made complaints, not just them, not other parents. it's not safe to walk a child across a highway. >> police say the driver of the pickup truck, a 24-year-old woman, was arrested and faces multiple charges. they do not think alcohol or drugs played a factor. the san diego union tribune reports two chinese officers in a group of alleged hackers are charged in the u.s. with trying to steal information on commercial jet engines. federal prosecutors say they conspired to hack into the computer networks of private companies in the u.s. and france to steal plans for a turbo fan engine. all the defendants are believed to be in china. and people says the u.s. women's gymnastics team is headed to the 2020 tokyo olympics after winning their fourth straight world championship.

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there are 72 confirmed cases including ten new ones. dr. jon lapook has more about acute flaccid myelitis. >> this picture of camdyn carr was taken on august 30th.inctio. but within 72 hours this healthy 4-year-old was paralyzed and two days later. >> my son died on that tuesday. >> died? what do you mean? >> he coded on tuesday. >> chris carr was camdyn's father. >> and where were you. >> about as far as you and i are. i lost it. i lost him. >> and you almost lost him. >> definitely. >> fortunately doctors revived camdyn. now he's at the kennedy krieger institute in boston. acute flaccid myelitis has ravaged his body. he has a tube to help him breathe and only slight movement

in one hand and one foot. rebecca martin manages the rehabilitation center. >> they make slow incremental progress and they really can change their functional level with the right kind of therapy like we provide. >> that's a road christa bottomley and her 6-year-old son sebastian know all too well. two years ago his cold turned into the polio-like illness and almost complete paralysis. after two years he can feed himself, and stand but learning to walk has been a slow, grueling process. >> occasionally he says, mom, why can't i walk like everybody else does without all this work. and i said, well, god knew that you were strong enough to handle this. >> and strong enough to once again walk all by him set of. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, baltimore.

coming up on "cbs this morning," actress diane lane from the show "house of cards" joins us in the studio. and first on "cbs this morning" we'll take you inside an auction of neil armstrong's personal collection of artifacts from his lunar lappeding and private mementos and hear from his two sons. that's this "cbs morning news" for this wednesday, thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. news, i'm anne-marie green, thanks for watching and have a great day. at pg& it's mb puic saf keepe pos the natural world is a beautiful th

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scene right now on raehs. there were no passengers on the bus. we have a reporter at the scene gathering information. so right now, we're going to check in with gianna for a look at the roads. >> reporter: all lanes are shut down on 880. we are seeing delays beyond whipple into union city. your best bet is to use an alternate at this point. they are diverting traffic off the freeway right at alvarado niles. you can use alvarado niles road at two dyer street to connect to whipple past the accident. but in the meantime, all