dangerous roads and grounded flights. a major snowstorm howls across the central u.s. just as holiday travelers are trying to get home. one of the nation's busiest airports could become a no-fly zone. also tonight, crisis at the border. the crossing between san diego and tijuana is closed after hundreds of migrants breach a fence. a thanksgiving tragedy. in the confusion of a mall shooting police mistakenly shoot and kill a young black man. >> i want the truth. i want justice. for my son. holiday shoppers set an online record on black friday.

with 75 million more ready to shop on cyber monday. >> i don't do malls. i can't handle the traffic, the lines, the people. >> and hours from now a nasa spacecraft will attempt to land on mars. one wrong move and the mission could be a multimillion-dollar disaster. >> we call them the seven minutes of terror. welcome to the overnight news. i'm elaine quijano. on the busiest travel day of the holiday weekend blizzard warnings stretched through the heart of the country. from the great plains to the great lakes. but snow isn't the only threat. powerful wind advisories are posted from texas to illinois. whiteout conditions prompted a state of emergency in kansas. hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed long before snow started falling at chicago's o'hare international. jacob weikopf is tracking the severe weather at wbez.

jacob? >> we have blizzards stretching from metro chicago to the kansas city area. pretty impressive swath of blizzard warnings. we need specific criteria for a blizzard to occur. visibility less than a quarter of a mile, blowing snow and also wind gusting over 35 miles per hour. we've seen wind gusts up to 50 to 60 miles per hour with this system. last time metro k.c. had a blizzard warning was back in 2011. we're going to add some additional snow. six to twelve inches along the interstate 70 corridor. whiteout conditions there. 12-plus inches out toward moline, illinois. this will be impactful as it lifts and moves on out of here. this is paused at 8:00 this evening. then you start to see that rain move through pittsburgh, columbus, into cleveland. the i-95 corridor tomorrow afternoon getting in on some of that rain. and this is going to be some impressive rain totals too. you're talking another one to two inches of rain solidifying the fact that this hee he autumns in new england recorded history. on the north side of this system

white gold to all those ski resorts in northern new england. adding 6 to 12-plus inches of snow late monday and into tuesday. we're talking sunny skies and upper 40s for atlanta and into denver, a mix of sun and clouds for minneapolis and near 20 degrees. elaine? >> jacob weikopf. jacob, thank you. the rough weather is disrupting travel plans for many headed home after the holiday weekend. hundreds of flights into and oust storm zone have been grounded. the highways are also treacherous. here's meg oliver. >> reporter: icy roads and whiteout conditions shut down parts of i-70 in kansas as low visibility made the highway impassable. trooper ben gardner from the kansas highway patrol warned people to stay off the roads. >> in my 19 years this might be the top five worst i've ever seen across kansas in this area. people need to slow down. they need to stay home. >> i can't see anything. >> reporter: kansas governor

jeff collier issued a state of disaster emergency. the strong system caused back-ups in nebraska and at least a dozen crashes on interstate 80. blizzard warnings from western missouri to nebraska are impacting travel on the ground and in the air. thousands of flights are delayed and hundreds of flights are canceled nationwide. the impacts will be felt in chicago's o'hare international airport. one airline official tells cbs news customers should avoid flying to and from that hub. we're told delays could reach five hours for? flights during the height of the storm. airlines are allowing passengers to change their flights. more airline disruptions and tough driving conditions are expected as this fast-moving system targets upstate new york and northern new england on monday. elaine? >> meg oliver. meg, thank you. in aleppo, syria more than 100 people were taken to hospitals after a suspected poison gas attack.

as the assad regime and anti-government rebels blamed each other, russian warplanes hammered rebel targets. here's jonathan vigliotti. >> reporter: dozens of patients including children flooded a hospital where they were treated for trouble breathing, skin rashes, and inflamed eyes, symptoms doctors said were consistent with chemical warfare. it's still unclear who launched this attack and what chemical was used. doctors on the scene say they suspect chlorine. the attack took place saturday night on the now government-controlled city of aleppo. which has been the sight of some of the fiercest battles in syria's system war. be both sides have denied responsibility for this most recent attack and blamed each other in what has become a familiar back and forth throughout the nation's brutal seven-year fight. while the assad regime has repeatedly denied using chemical

weapons the international intelligence community has found the syrian government responsible for some of the war's worst offenses. including an attack in duma earlier this year that killed more than 40 people. the horrific scenes of that attack prompted military action from the u.s., uk and france, who carried out missile strikes on three sites they said were specifically associated with the syrian regime's chemical weapons program. unlike douma there have been no reported deaths in this week's incident. though the use of chemicals does threaten to break a fragile ceasefire that's been in place since september. elaine? >> all right. jonathan vigliotti. jonathan, thank you. monday afternoon nasa will attempt to land a spacecraft on mars. it's been done before but the thin martian atmosphere makes it very difficult. 60% of attempt landings on mars have failed. here's chris martinez. >> reporter: nearly seven months

to the day nasa's insight lander launched from california the 800-pound spacecraft is finally raechk its destination. and the toughest part of the journey is still ahead. >> that's actually the camera where we're going to get our first picture. >> reporter: farah alabay is part of the engineering team that designs "insight's" instruments. she says data from the mission will reveal more about the red planet's core. that is, if it survives its seven-minute landing in one piece. >> we call them the seven minutes of terror because at that point there's nothing we can do. >> reporter: nasa scientists estimate the spacecraft len ter mars atmosphere at just over 12,000 miles per hour. a supersonic parachute will deploy first to slow the descent. then insight drops from its heat shields bea mile from the surface freefalling until the reverse thrusters put on the final brakes. >> we have one shot. if we end up being on a rock or something that could affect our science. >> reporter: if it all goes well

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tensions escalated today at the border crossing between san diego and tijuana, mexico. a group of migrants reportedly part of a caravan of central american migrants breached a fence at port of entry in san ysidro, california. border agents reportedly fired tear gas and promptly shut down the crossing. this comes as the trump administration and the incoming government of mexico are t ha yl-seeking migrants

held in mexico until their cases are processed. weijia jiang has more. >> reporter: hundreds of migrants attempted to cross the u.s. border between tijuana and san diego, hoping to apply for asylum. but u.s. customs and border patrol agents formed a human wall to block them and close an official port of entry. this comes just hours after president trump tweeted "would be very smart if mexico would stop the caravans long before they get to our southern border. dems created this problem. no crossings." cbs news has learned the trump administration has talked with mexico's incoming government about keeping those migrants in mexico as their cases are processed in the u.s. republican senator joni ernst. >> i think the intent of the president is to divert any issues before they actually happenaf o ourn comes

firs pitched other ways to handle thousands of migrants heading to the united states like turning away asylum seekers if they do not go to anffortf entry. and authorizing troops to use lethal force if necessary. he's even threatened to shut down the entire southern border. but on "face the nation" senate armed services committee member angus king said it's illegal for the military to act as law enforcement. >> if indeed there was an vacation, which there isn't, clearly we can defend ourselves. using troops in a border situation with asylum seekers is i think not appropriate. >> reporter: president trump will likely talk about the southern border when he holds two rallies in mississippi tomorrow ahead of the state's runoff election for a u.s. senate seat on tuesday. elaine? >> weijia jiang. weijia, thank you.

it was a thanksgiving tragedy. in the confusion of a shooting at a mall in alabama the police mistakenly shot and killed a young african-american man. here's mark strassmann. >> reporter: on thanksgiving night chaos exploded at the river chase galleria mall. someone had shot and wounded two people. and 21-year-old emantic bradford jr., known as e.j., lay dead, shot by a responding police officer. april pipkins, his mother, got a call from one of his friends. e.j. he said e.j. dead. and at that moment i just lost it. i'm like not my baby. no. i'm like no. this can't be. >> reporter: at first police in hoover, alabama claimed they had stopped a deadly threat. >> the hoover officer encountered an armed individual and he did shoot and kill that person. >> reporter: his family says bradford, who had a concealed weapons permit, was armed but

his gun was always holstered. and by friday night hoover police admitted bradford likely did not fire the rounds at the mall. they're now searching for the real shooter. that pains emantic bradford sr., the victim's father, who is also a police officer. >> you've got on tv, you made it national. made it good like that officer's a hero. no. he screwed up. >> reporter: the bradford family is angry that hoover police have never contacted them. >> you shoot first and ask questions later. it's backwards. >> reporter: hoover police have not responded to more questions about the shooting or the investigation. elaine, the officer involved has been placed on administrative lead while state investigators look into how he shot and killed the wrong man. >> all right. mark strassmann. mark, thank you. holiday shoppers racked up record online sales on black friday. and according to retail analysts at fewer customers

traveled to stores on friday. could this be a sign of heavy online traffic to come on cybermonday? here's mireya villarreal. >> reporter: cyber monday is a proverbial summit for online shoppers around the world. >> i don't do malls. i can't handle the traffic, the lines, the people. >> reporter: it's the day you'll see big bargains for tablets, tv, toys, and fitness gadgets. experts are predicting the day could bring in over $7.5 billion. campers were still seen waiting in long lines on thanksgiving night. and the tradition of crowds pouring into malls across the country on black friday is still alive and well. >> we kind of like the rush. >> reporter: but this year thanksgiving day became the fastest-growing online shopping day, with a total of $3.7 billion in sales. up 28% from last year. according to online data analyst adobe analytics, the black friday crowds are thinning out.

instead online sales on that day hit a record $6.2 billion with nearly 1/3 of purchases being made on smartphones. proof that convenience is playing a key role in holiday shopping. >> i've done the black friday, and i never want to do it again. i have all day tomorrow to be in front of my computer. >> reporter: the holiday season is expected to bring in $124 billion. elaine, there are 36 days between cyber monday and christmas day, and each of those days is expected to bring in $2 billion apiece in online sales. >> mireya, thanks. up next, an nfl player is cut from his team hours after being arrested on charges of domestic violence.

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nearly two months after the murder of dissident journalist jamal khashoggi it appears the saudi crown prince hasvimurder.t hollms wnd in saudi aan >> reporter: saudi arabia isn't a place that likes to share its secrets. this conservative islamic kingdom is veiled. its government opaque. a difficult place to investigate the killing of jamal khashoggi, a veteran saudi journalist who dared to criticize his country's all-powerful rulers. but one thing that's never changed is saudi arabia's vehement denials that crown prince mohammed bin salman was involved. though that hasn't put a stop to widespread suspicions that he's culpable. to explain its version of events that khashoggi's killers were saudi officials gone rogue the kingdom brought out its suave

american-educated foreign minister. >> the crown prince has nothing to do with this issue. >> reporter: the saudi government desperately wants to go back to business as usual. at this forum in riyadh last week they were touting saudi innovation. >> she's a female fighter with kind of saudi values. reporter: shadow is everywhere. >> we'd like to ask ordinary saudis what they think about the killing of jamal khashoggi and allegations that the crown prince was somehow involved. but many people here are simply too fearful to speak openly. and that problem has gotten worse since the crown prince came to power. the prince portrays himself as a reformer. over the last year we've witnessed women finally granted the right to drive. more mingling between the sexes. and even rock bands allowed to perform openly. but that hasn't translated into political freedom. and the proof of that may be what happened to jamal khashoggi. holly williams, cbs news, riyadh, saudi arabia.

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we end tonight with an extreme test of stamina and an enduring bond between brothers that cannot be broken. here again is mark strassmann. >> reporter: this is in every sense a real partnership. >> all the way. >> reporter: in every way brent and kyle piez's brotherly bond has gone the distance. they race as a team in ironman competitions. you know, those grueling swim,

bike, run events that cover 140.6 miles. >> what about you? are you a competitive guy? >> yeah. >> reporter: kyle has cerebral palsy. no use of his arms or legs. >> from the earliest stage i wanted kyle to be included in whatever we did. so it was like okay, let's just figure this out. >> he always look out for you p. >> he was always there for me. maybe a little bit too much at times. >> good big brother. >> great big brother. >> reporter: kyle got the idea watching brent race in his first ironman in 2010. they found the right equipment, started training, and made it happen for kyle. just as when they were kids. >> kyle uses my legs and i use his spirit. i pull kyle on a boat and i push the pedals on a bike and i push him on the run, but that whole time kyle has spaftic quad ry plooeja. so his body is fighting itself. >> reporter: their first

ironman, madison, wisconsin in 2015. it took them 15 hours to finish. >> the most competitive athlete in our house is kyle. because he's been competing to be just like everybody else his whole life. >> reporter: last month in kona, haw hau hawaii the pease brothers competed in their fourth ironman, the world championship. they finished in 14 1/2 hours, more than six hours behind the men's winner. but as always, brothers first. >> i knew in my heart i wanted to become an athlete. to become an athlete with my brother is so much sweeter. >> reporter: mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. >> a beautiful bond. and that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city i'm elaine quijano.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm elaine quijano. on the busiest travel day of the holiday weekend blizzard warnings stretched through the heart of the country. from the great plains to the great lakes. but snow isn't the only threat. powerful wind advisories are posted from texas to illinois. whiteout conditions prompted a state of emergency in kansas. hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed long before snow started falling at chicago's o'hare international. jacob weikopf is tracking the severe weather at wbez tv in boston. jacob? >> elaine, we do have blizzard warnings stretching from metro chicago down to the kansas city

area. pretty impressive swath of blizzard warnings. we need specific criteria for a blizzard to occur. visibility less than a quarter of a mile blowing snow and also wind gusting over 35 miles per hour. we've seen wind gusts up to 50 to 60 miles per hour with this system. last time metro k.c. had a blizzard warning was back in 2011. so we're going to add some additional snow. six to twelve inches along the interstate 70 corridor. whiteout conditions there. we have 12-plus inches out toward moline, illinois. this will be impactful as it lifts and moves on out of here. this is paused at 8:00 this evening. then you start to see that rain move through pittsburgh, columbus into cleveland. the i-95 corridor tomorrow afternoon getting in on some of that rain. and this is going to be some impressive rain totals too. you're talking another one to two inches of rain, solidifying the fact that this has been one of the rainiest autumns in new england recorded history. on the north side of this system, white gold to all those ski resorts in northern new

england. adding 6 to 12-plus inches of snow late monday and into tuesday. we're talking sunny skies and upper 40s for atlanta and into denver. a mix of sun and clouds for minneapolis and near 20 degrees. elaine? >> jacob weikopf. jacob, thank you. the wet weather is disrupting travel plans for many headed home after the holiday weekend. hundreds of flights into and out of the storm zone have been grounded. the highways are also treacherous. here's meg oliver. >> reporter: icy roads and whiteout conditions shut down parts of i-70 in kansas as low visibility made the highway impassable. trooper ben gardner from the kansas highway patrol warned people to stay off the roads. >> in my 19 years this might be the top five worst i've ever seen across kansas. people need to slow down. they need to stay home. >> i can't see anything. >> reporter: kansas governor jeff collier issued a state of disaster emergency.

the strong system caused back-ups in nebraska and at least a dozen crashes on interstate 80. blizzard warnings from western missouri to nebraska are impacting travel on the ground and in the air. thousands of flights are delayed and hundreds of flights are canceled nationwide. the impacts will be felled in chicago's o'hare international airport. one airline official tells cbs news customers should avoid flying to and from that hub. we're told delays could reach five hours for some flights during the height of the storm. airlines are allowing passengers to change their flights. at laguardia airport in new york city the gomez family got to the airport early to beat the storm. >> you're getting out in the knick of time. >> i think so. >> reporter: more airline disruptions and tough driving conditions are expected as this fast-moving storm targets upstate new york and northern new england on monday. elaine?

>> meg oliver. meg, thank you. tensions escalated today at the border crossing between san diego and city juana, mexico. a group of migrants, reportedly part of a caravan of central american migrants, breached a fence at port of entry in san ysidro, california. border agents reportedly fired tear gas and promptly shut down the crossing. this comes as the trump administration and the incoming government of mexico are discussing a plan that would have asylum-seeking migrants held in mexico until their cases are processed. weijia jiang has more. >> reporter: hundreds of migrants attempted to cross the u.s. border between tijuana and san diego, hoping to apply for asylum. but u.s. customs and border patrol agents formed a human official port of entry. this comes just hours after president trump tweeted "would be very smart if mexico would

stop the caravans long before they get to our southern border. dems created this problem. no crossings." cbs news has learned the trump administration has talked with mexico's incoming government about keeping those migrants in mexico as their cases are processed in the u.s. republican senator joni ernst. >> i think that the intent of the president is to divert any issues before they actually happen. so of course we don't want to see the border closed. but you know what? safety of our nation comes first. >> reporter: the president has pitched other ways to handle thousands of migrants heading to the united states. like turning away asylum seekers if they do not go to an official port of entry and authorizing troops to use lethal force if necessary. he's even threatened to shut down the entire southern border. but on "face the nation" senate armed services committee member angus king said it's illegal for the military to act as law

enforcement. >> now, if indeed there was an invasion, which there isn't, clearly we can defend ourselves. using troops in a border situation with asylum seekers is i think not appropriate. >> reporter: president trump will likely talk about the southern border when he holds two rallies in mississippi tomorrow ahead of the state's runoff election for a u.s. senate seat on tuesday. elaine? >> weijia jiang. weijia, thank you. it was a thanksgiving tragedy. in the confusion of a shooting at a mall in alabama the police mistakenly shot and killed a young african-american man. here's mark strassmann. >> reporter: on thanksgiving night chaos exploded at the river chase galleria mall. someone had shot and wounded two people. and 21-year-old emantic bradford jr., known as e.j., lay dead. shot by a responding police officer. april pipkins, his mother, got a

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." if you didn't get your fill of holiday shopping on black friday, well, today is cyber monday. the monday after thanksgiving is traditionally the biggest online shopping day of the year. now some major retailers are trying to get the best of both worl worlds. blending technology with tradition. they call it digital retail. tony dokoupil went shopping. >> reporter: this walmart in rogers, arkansas looks like the store you've been shopping at for years. well, almost. america's largest retailer is hoping to stay on top. bringing a dose of online convenience to old-fashioned offline shopping. this holiday season every aisle

can be the check-out aisle. >> i would like "saturday night fever." >> ing to ts bar code right here. let me just scan your card. >> that's it? no big? ready to go? >> you can go. >> reporter: if you're tired of getting lost in giant stores, well, walmart says it has a solution. type, say, "instant pot" into your walmart app and your phone will guide you to it. >> there it is. aisle h-20. >> yeah. >> let's go get it. >> reporter: and if you'd rather not wait for your online order to come to you, you can come to it by using one of these pickup towers. >> got a bar code. >> reporter: walmart's mark ibitson gave us a demo. >> it is a simple ask. scan the bar code. little message saying retrieving the item. you can hear it clunking away in the background. not sure it should be clunking. but there you go. >> look at that. >> within seconds, there you go. there's your purchase. >> is there a little person in there? >> absolutely not. ♪ come on and dance with me

>> reporter: of course walmart isn't the only retailer selling convenience these days. thanks to curbside pickup, nordstrom and target customers don't have to leave the car. and home depot shoppers can skip the line by picking up their order from in-store lockers. >> holiday sales are going to go up again. >> absolutely. >> reporter: "usa today" national business correspondent charisse jones. >> amazon revolutionized retail by making shopping so easy, so fast, so convenient. and i think traditional retailers are really having to roll out this technology and be very savvy on smartphones to kind of attract those shoppers that they're losing to amazon. >> reporter: those stores are giving customers more options. the popularity of online shopping is growing. last thanksgiving weekend people spent $19.6 billion online. that's up more than $2 billion from just a year before traditional retailers will always have one comforting advantage when it comes to

holiday shopping. >> literally every year for the last 20 years, you know, mothers and grandmothers and daughters line up. they've got their hot coffee. this ritual that a lot of people embrace as much as the turkey and the pumpkin pie. >> reporter: and for all the shoppers out there we urge you not to splurge too much on a holiday dream item. according to jones, about 25% of people are still paying off debt from last year. this may come as a disappointment to some people looking to visit italy, but the famous leaning tower of pisa is starting to straighten itself out. seth jones tells us why. >> reporter: tourists have been using cameras and the power of perspective to push up the tower, at least as an illusion. but engineers have been at work for about two decades to actually stop the famed tuscan bell tower from leaning. now it's stabilizing and straightening just a bit. the 186-foot leaning tower of

pisa is tilth an inch and a half less than it was about two decades ago. with less earth on the opposite side from how it's leaning, roberto cella explains, the tower has reacted by straightening out. the marble bell tower, a tribute to the one-time strength of the republic of pisa, started tilting soon after construction began back in 1173. it was closed to the public in 1990. 11 years later it was reopened after an ambitious restoration project to attach braces and weights to the structure. while removing soil from one side to allow it to straighten. this civil engineering professor studying how the tower was abe to withstand strong earthquakes explained the ground beneath. >> the walls are particularly thick. so the whole structure is very stiff. and the third characteristic is the particularly soft ground. because the place used to be a

river. a river that doe anymore. >> reporter: in fact, the word "pisa" is ancient greek for marshy land. at this pace it could still take thousands of years for it to completely straighten. so fear not. those poses and photo ops should

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music scene three years back with her blockbuster hit song "scars to your beautiful." well, she's got a new album coming out this week and she invited lee cowan in for a chat. ♪ she just wants to be beautiful ♪ ♪ i know that she snows ♪ no limits >> reporter: it's become an anthem for almost anyone who's ever felt like an outsider. ♪ your scars to your beautiful alessia cara's "scars to your beautiful" is an oath to self-love and acceptance that she says has changed her as a young artist as much as it's changed her fans. >> i've had people come out to me for the first time like saying i am gay and i've never said that out loud. and like for them to feel safe enough to tell me that through a song of mine is like unbelievable. >> reporter: she quite literally revealed the song's empowering message during last year's video music awards. ♪ you should know you're beautiful just the way you are ♪ ♪ and you don't have to change a

single thing ♪ >> reporter: that performance helped explain why her music strikes such a chord. especially with millennials. >> alessia cara. >> reporter: because it summed up who she is. less a pop star and more the girl next door. >> i've been like pretend winning grammys since i was a kid, like in my shower. >> reporter: in fact, she may be the only grammy-winning artist to still live at home with her family. in brampton, ontario, a quiet suburb outside toronto. >> i grew up here. this is my bed. this is my home where i still write some of my songs. >> reporter: fans have gotten to know her childhood bedroom. it's made more than a few cameos in her work. that closet you see behind her is where she used to upload songs to youtube. most of those youtube videos were shot in here? >> most of them, yeah. if you watch them back you can see some clothes hanging in the background. and like very dim lighting.

it was in here. >> reporter: she turned her basement into a makeshift studio of sorts. >> i just took the raw clips and made it into this. ♪. >> reporter: born leasia caraciola she grew up in an italian canadian family. her mom a hairdresser, her father a welder. ♪ as a child alessia loved to sing. and she loved the camera. oddly enough, the older she got and the better her voice god, the more reluctant she was to sing in front of anyone. in fact, she was so shy she would hide it. even from her parents. >> the idea of singing for them seriously was such a scary thing. because you know, it's your parents. you don't want them to think you're weird or anything. i don't know. ♪ >> reporter: she was 13 when she retreated to that closet of hers to post cover songs on youtube. ♪ under the mistletoe she didn't have a huge number of views or even a viral hit.

but what she did have was that voice. ♪ when she was just 16, alessia's cover of "sweater weather" by the neighborhood happened to catch the ear of an executive at a record label, e.p. entertainment. >> you didn't believe him zblip did not believe them. >> reporter: she responded the way you hope your own teenager might. >> i have to speak to my parents. i can't just take a call with you. i don't know you. but i'll ask my dad and then maybe he'll take a call with you. >> reporter: her dad took that call, gave her his blessing and soon alessia was in a studio writing songs for what would become her debut album, "know-it-all." but all the while she kept the big news from almost everyone, even her friends at school. >> they'd be like why weren't you at school yesterday or why did you leave early? and i'd be like oh, i had a doctor's appointment. >> not that you were in the studio writing songs.

>> yeah. i didn't want to tell anyone. i was too shy. >> reporter: most didn't find out alessia had signed with def jam recordings until after she graduated and released her first single in 2015. ♪ i ask myself what am i doing here ♪ >> reporter: "here" was a top ten hit. a true story about a high school party where alessia felt so out of place she called her mom to pick her up. >> it showed a sign of me, it showed a side of a lot of people that i think wasn't talked about in the mainstream world a lot. it didn't always have to be about partying and drugs and sex. and i felt like there's a group of people who weren't being represented at all in music. >> reporter: she cast her family to appear in some of her videos. her dad, her mom, and her brother. even her squad from high school appears. including her best friend olivia, who's still by her side to this day. her accessibility extends to social media, where she often responds directly to her fans. >> i always think i have them

muted. it's not true. >> reporter: but it's also a place where alessia's attempts to be different have anawards show. how dare you? it's crazy to them that i have flaws and that i'm showing my flaws to the world. like i have a lot of moms, which is funny, commenting on my things -- >> this is from moms. >> from moms. because i go -- of course i always look at their pages. and for the most part it's older women who probably were told that they need to look a certain way their whole life and probably have daughters that are told this. but it reminds me that i need to keep doing what i'm doing because i want to change these people's minds. ♪ >> reporter: her highly anticipated second album, "the pains of growing" is not only about love and loss and loneliness but about coming of spott.ile being in the a themeeflected in the oversize suit she's drowning in. >> i go through periods of ups and downs where i just cry for no reason or i just feel alone or down. >> it's a lot you're dealing

with. >> it is a lot. so you have to take care of yourself. and sometimes taking care of yourself is just crying it out or taking a couple minutes to yourself. ♪ you don't know >> reporter: she's been very open about going to therapy. in part, she says, to help her cope with the sudden onslaught of fame. a level of transparency she knows comes with some risk. but rewards too. do you ever worry about putting so much of yourself out there? >> sometimes. sometimes i do. but i think it's important to do that. there's going to be someone out there that is like going through something and might hear a song about me and feel like okay, i'm not the only one who does this, like this is okay then. ♪ >> reporter: at only 22 she says there is a lot more music ahead. whr slaying to huge her bathtub. ♪ this one-time closet popenne

steve hartman ended thanksgiving week with a return visit to a motel in south carolina where both love and generosity were on the menu. >> reporter: you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in america more thankful this week than the residents of the midtown motel in myrtle beach, south carolina. each and every guest says they owe a heaping helping of gratitude to this man, motel owner jarrett hucks. as we first reported a couple months ago, during the florence flooding jarrett stayed open for business. >> jarrett hucks, nice to meet you. >> reporter: or for like open for charity. >> we'll take care of you.

>> reporter: jarrett actually gave away more than 1,000 free nights to this community's poorest and most vulnerable evacuees. >> i don't know what we would have done, to be honest with you. i don't know where we would be right now. >> there's so many other ways you want to say thank you. >> there's no words to describe what it means to our family. >> love thy neighbor, right? that's what you're supposed to do. >> i've read that somewhere. >> yeah. i've read it somewhere too. my mama taught me that a long time ago. >> you need a room key, don't you? >> reporter: so far jarrett has given away $50,000 worth of goods and services. but even more important is the generosity he has inspired in others. >> people started running to me right away, how can i help, what can i do? >> reporter: they brought diapers, ice, and plenty of food. anyone staying at the midtown now gets three square meals a day. in fact, from the new shoes on their feet to the hairs on their head, we did not see a single need go unmet here. >> you're being a good boy.

>> reporter: especially for the children, who now play, wonderfully oblivious to the suffering that surrounds them. since we first told this story in september, jarrett has been flooded too. >> read this one. >> reporter: with mail. most offer kudos. but many come with cash. which jarrett uses to help the midway families get back on their feet. whether it's a car repair or a down payment on a new apartment. jarrett is now a full-service good samaritan. further guaranteeing that he has made his mama proud. steve hartman, on the road, in myrtle beach, south carolina. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the cbs broadcast center i'm elaine quijano.

♪ it's monday, november 26, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." chaos at the border. migrants try to force their way into the u.s. from tijuana, mexico, while in this country president trump threatens a government shutdown unless a border wall is funded. white out. airlines are trying to catch up after a white out cancels hundreds of delays on the busiest travel day of the year. and ethical questions. twin girls born in china are said to be the