her life was truly a light in this world. >> reporter: zaver attended high school in indiana and had moved to florida with his mother. a woman identifying hess as a former girlfriend told cbs affiliate wsbt said that zaver had a fascination with hurting people. >> hi just for some reason always hated people and wanted everybody to die, and he got kicked out of school for having a dream that he killed everybody in our class. >> reporter: cbs reached out to the former shooter's high school in indiana multiple times but hasn't our her heard back. zaver is behind bars without bond, he could face the death penalty. jeff? >> thank you very much. the state department ordered nonessential u.s. embassy personnel home from venezuela and said all u.s. citizens should strongly consider leaving. that country's failing economy

has led to violent street protests. yesterday the u.s. called president nicolas maduro a dictator and recognized an opposition leader as president. manuel bojorquez reports tonight from neighboring colombia. >> reporter: venezuela's military leaders pledged their support to president nicolas maduro today, a day after the u.s. recognized 35-year-old opposition leader juan guaido as venezuela's interim president. "there is no doubt trump is trying to organize a coup d'etat in the country," maduro said. today mike pompeo pledged $20 million in humanitarian aid to the new government. >> the tyranny of now defunct maduro regime has for far too long choked the country and its citizens. >> reporter: the streets and the capital caracas are quieter today after three days of deadly protests. at least 14 were killed in clashes with security forces

according to a venezuelan human rights group. claudio smolansky is a journalist in caracas. >> people are not scared anymore because they are tired and they, yeah, want to reclaim their rights. >> reporter: cbs news travelled to caracas in 2017 during protests over maduro's plans to rewrite the country's constitution. what do you say about this election? "fraud, constitutional fraud." we also witnessed some of the more than two million venezuelans who have fled to surrounding countries since 2015. jeff, one million alone live here in neighboring colombia. pompeo has called for the protection of guaido. today russian president vladimir putin called to express his support for maduro. >> manuel, thank you very much. one of the most powerful women in american politics has under very unusual circumstances shared some very personal details. senator joni ernst says she is a survivor of rape and domestic

violence. ed o'keefe now on how her story became public. >> what i want people to understand is that i am the same person as i was last week. you just know more about what's inside of me now. >> reporter: republican joni ernst of iowa did not want the details of her marriage and divorce to become public, but this week iowa newspapers obtained her divorce records, which revealed she had accused her husband of 26 years of physically attacking her. >> they were supposed to be sealed. we're not sure where the error was made. so, yes, it did catch me off guard. >> reporter: according to the reports, ernst wrote in affidavit we went through a very dark and troubling time, and she very nearly filed for divorce after the attack. she said she was examined by a victim's advocate but never reported the incident to police. through an attorney, the senator's ex-husband, gail ernst, declined to comment. in a follow-up interview with bloomberg news, ernst also revealed she was raped in college by someone she knew. she called a campus hotline, but

didn't report the attack to police, saying she was embarrass and a private person. >> she's not your typical candidate. >> reporter: an army veteran, ernst ran for the u.s. senate in 2014 as a farm girl who carried a gun in her purse. while in congress, she's introduced bills aimed at ending sexual assault and harassment in the military and congress. >> i will always continue to work with survivors and provide them the best possible resources i can. >> reporter: in the divorce filings, ernst also revealed that in 2016 she interviewed to be then candidate trump's running mate, but she withdrew from consideration, saying it wasn't right for her or her family. ed o'keefe, cbs news, washington. up next, a school superintendent says she was just trying to help a student. why it got her in trouble with the law. and later, more patients sue a fertility clinic where eggs and embryos were destroyed.

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in indiana, a school superintendent was booked on felony charges after she says she tried to help a sick student. dean reynolds spoke with her. >> reporter: kayce smitherman is the superintendent of the elwood, indiana community schools, and this is not her favorite picture. it's her mug shot after getting arrested last week for insurance fraud, identity deception, and official misconduct, all for doing the right thing the wrong way. >> i would really like to go back and revisit that moment and change it, but i can't. >> reporter: she's talking about two weeks ago when she took a 15-year-old student without health insurance, but with a very sore throat to a medical clinic, passed him off as her son, and paid for the visit and

a prescription with her own health insurance. the boy she helped lives in town with his great uncle. do you feel a certain amount of, like, motherliness toward him? >> i do. >> protectiveness? >> i do, yeah. it's hard not to want to help all of our kids. >> reporter: in this school district, where 78% of the kids qualify for free or reduced lunches, groups of teachers have identified struggling students to help with food, clothing, and mentoring. last saturday, casey told the police what shed done and turned herself in. >> i think there should be some consequences be, but they shouldn't be career jeopardizing. i think there is a way to take care of that without destroying her career because her motives were good. >> i'm not justifying what i did, but i also think it's hard to think about looking in the face of that sick kid. so you're in that boat, you don't know. >> reporter: she is now in what's called a diversion program that will allow the

charges to be dropped if there are no further arrests in the coming year. casey says that's a good bet. dean reynolds, cbs news, elwood, indiana. >> what a story. coming up here tonight, colin powell's inspiring story about a veteran who helped him out of a jam. know what turns me on? my better half, hors d oeuvres and bubbly. and when i really want to take it up a notch we use k-y yours & mine. tingling for me, warming for him. wow! this valentine's day get what you want

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just three weeks after he was sworn in, florida's mi e sed after the tallahassee democrat newspaper published photos of him in black face, dressed up as a hurricane katrina victim at a halloween party 14 years ago. eight more lawsuits were announced today against a fertility clinic near cleveland. a freezer malfunctioned. lawyers for about 100 couples blame the loss on human error. four star general and former secretary of state colin powell got roadside help yesterday from a fellow veteran. powell was on his way to a doctor's appointment at walter reed in maryland when a tire blew out. former service member anthony maggert pulled over to help, telling powell he lost his leg in afghanistan, and greatly admired him. powell later wrote thanks, anthony. you touched my soul and reminded me what this country is all about and why it is so great. up next here tonigh story behind another stranger's

act of kindness. >> t s portion i when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you.

finally here tonight, it was an act of kindness and respect, captured on camera, and shared by millions. jim axelrod has the back story. >> reporter: by now, you may have seen this picture as the body of wytasha carter made its way through a rainy birmingham,

alabama this past saturday. >> it was a tough day for everyone here in birmingham and alabama and jefferson county. it was a tough day. >> reporter: a sheriff's deputy named tiffany dial stood saluting the casket of the police sergeant who had been gunned down on duty. >> i was representing my shift. i was the only one available to go out there. so i was representing everybody. >> reporter: in a city mourning the worst came a small reminder of our best. >> i really think it was just manners. >> reporter: the man never said a word to deputy dial, not for 45 minutes while he held the umbrella with both standing in front of a memorial to fallen police officers. >> you know, i didn't want her to get wet while i stood there dry. >> reporter: the man was shawn allen, a deputy district attorney. two days after spending 3/4 of an hour standing next to each other. >> hi! >> reporter: the two finally met. >> nice to meet you. come here, give me a hug. >> reporter: happy as he was to do the right thing, allen doesn't want that to overshadow

why they were there in the first place. >> my intention was never to get attention. my intention was to pay my respects to sergeant carter and to help this deputy who was paying her respects to sergeant carter. >> reporter: tonight, birmingham is still somber, though steadied by the gesture of shawn allen, who harnessed the meaning of a moment to cut through its gloom with a ray of light. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> that is the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor.

. this is the "cbs overnight news." >> it is friday, and this is the "overnight news." welcome to the cbs broadcast center in new york city. i'm david begnaud. good to have you with us. it is day 35 of the longest government shutdown in u.s. history, and a couple of funding bills went down in flames in the senate. it seems there really is no end in sight at this point. 800,000 federal workers are going to miss a second paycheck today. and, you know, a lot of them are living paycheck to paycheck, according to the stories they've told us. some of president trump's closest aides and family members are coming under fire for comments that a lot of people feel are insensitive. meanwhile, the people who run the coast guard and the tsa are warning of dangers ahead. nancy cordes has more on that. >> i just really want to thank

the republicans for holding. >> reporter: another day, another impasse. >> this is a joke! >> emotion is not agreed to. >> reporter: the senate failing to pass two competing bills to reopen the government. >> this is all man-made, and this is turning not only into a catastrophe, it's turning into an emergency. >> reporter: the divide today, as ever, whether to meet president trump's demand for $5.7 billion in border wall funding. >> how ludicrous it is that this government is shut down over a promise the president of the united states couldn't keep. >> reporter: air traffic controllers, safety inspectors, and air marshals are among those poised to miss a second paycheck tomorrow. in a starkly worded warning today, the pilots and flight attendants unions joined controllers to express growing concern. quote, we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play nor predict the point at which the entire system will break. >> hello, welcome. >> reporter: today those images

of federal workers lining up at food banks seem to mystify commerce secretary and multimillionaire wilbur ross. >> well, i know they are, and i don't really quite understand why. >> reporter: he said they should just take out loans. >> we're trying to make ends meet however we can. >> reporter: their reaction? >> you need to leave your office and go talk to regular people before making stupid statements like that. >> reporter: here on capitol hill, no one can explain why democratic leaders and the president haven't even met for two weeks. how do you work this out if you don't sit down and talk it through? >> well, we have met. we've met every time. the last time we met it was a photo op for the president to leave the room. >> reporter: this afternoon, a bipartisan senate group pitched a new short-term bill. >> i just got off the phone with the president. >> reporter: it would fund the government for three weeks. >> we can get to a solution on border security, but we need to open the government right away. >> reporter: mr. trump was noncommittal.

>> i wouldn't be happy with it. i wouldn't be happy. but we have a lot of alternatives. >> reporter: he said he would need at least a down payment on a border wall. in exchange, house speaker nancy pelosi quickly called that unreasonable. border patrol agents are among the federal employees who have been ordered to work without pay. how do they feel about the wall? mireya villarreal went out on patrol with them along the mexico border. >> reporter: this group is part of 180 migrants apprehended this morning by arizona border agents. fernanado grijalva says this area has become a hotbed for illegal crossings. >> i've seen six different presidents the time that i've been with the border patrol. and this is the worst crisis that i've seen. >> reporter: you actually will use that word, crisis? >> yes. >> reporter: grijalva says these patrols are dangerous, but that hasn't stopped him or agents from doing their jobs, despite not being paid because of the shutdown.

i mean, they're working without pay. tomorrow will be the second paycheck that they're missing. >> they believe that strongly in the mission, and they know that we have a job to do. >> reporter: in this part of the border, this is the only barrier between the united states and mexico. just over it is a major highway. buses come right through here. migrants get off and then they walk right into the united states. last year, border agents apprehended 52,000 people in this area alone, an increase of more than a thousand apprehensions a month over the previous year. in nearby nogales, mayor arturo garino says adding to the border wall, which his city has had for more than 20 years would be ineffective. >> we do not need a wall in nogales, right. and we do not need concertina wire in nogales. we need technology. >> reporter: on monday, surveillance cameras near yuma, arizona captured more than 100 migrants who scaled the wall with the help of a ladder. and last week more than 300 asylum seekers in san luis were arrested after they burrowed under a steel barrier. despite some lapses in the wall, agent grijalva says they still

work. >> operationally, i can tell you without a physical barrier, the border patrol, we would have a very tough time succeeding. so it turns out president trump's former lawyer and fixer michael cohen will be testifying on capitol hill after all. initially, he was supposed to testify in front of the house, but then he said he feared for his family's safety, so he backed it of that. well, now he has been subpoenaed to give closed door testimony to the u.s. senate. here is paula reid. >> mr. cohen, how will you respond to the senate committee? >> reporter: the president's former fixer will honor a subpoena and testify behind closed doors before the senate intelligence committee next month. his lawyer says cohen will say as much as he can about his long-time boss without jeopardizing the mueller investigation for which he is a key witness. >> mr. cohen can testify about his ten years' experience uwitnessing what mr. trump did to people without getting into

the subs of an investigation. >> reporter: the agreement to testify came a day after cohen postponed a public hearing before the house oversight committee. davis decided the threats made against cohen's family and rudy giuliani, both who referenced his father-in-law in recent interviews. >> he should give information maybe on his father-in-law because that's the one people want to look at. >> he may have ties to something called organized crime. >> reporter: the president kept up his attacks this morning, going after both cohen and davis and his ties to hillary clinton. now davis wants the house to censure president trump for obstruction of justice and witness tampering. >> the president of the united states has engaged in witness tampering not just by criticizing mr. cohen, but by attacking his family. >> reporter: but the president has dismissed claims he threatened cohen. >> he's only been threatened by the truth. >> reporter: in march, cohen heads to prison for throw years. part of that sentence is for lying to congress. so i asked lanny davis, why

should lawmakers believe anything cohen says after he admits to lying to them. davis says this time cohen will be truthful. to an important story south of the border. chaos continues to reign in venezuela. protesters are in the streets. the president, who has been recognized by the u.s. government is in hiding, and the socialist leader who claims he is still the president and in charge is closing the venezuelan embassy in washington. manuel bojorquez reports. >> reporter: venezuela's military leaders pledged their support to president nicolas maduro today, a day after the u.s. recognized 35-year-old opposition leader juan guaido as venezuela's interim president. "there is no doubt trump is trying to organize a coup d'etat in the country," maduro said. the streets in the capital caracas are quieter today after three days of deadly protests. at least 14 were killed in clashes with security forces, according to a venezuelan human rights group.

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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome back on this friday. there is a court hearing today in boston where the state attorney general is suing the founding family of a big drug company. the lawsuit alleges the family deliberately helped engineer the opioid drug crisis that's gripping this country. according to the cdc, almost 400,000 people died of opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2017. the lawsuit targets purdue pharma and eight members of the sackler family. tony dokoupil has the story from suffolk county superior court, which is in boston. >> reporter: i tell you, one thing you notice reading through this lawsuit is that there is a lot that is still redacted. and lawyers for purdue pharma plan to argue tomorrow that it

should stay that way, but the attorney general of massachusetts says this is already the most complete record to date of how the opioid crisis began and why members of the sackler family itself should be held accountable. >> i'll be 29 on friday, and i didn't think i'd make to it 25, to be honest. >> reporter: jonathan burke says his battle with addiction began 11 years ago with a dirt bike accident and a two-month prescription of oxycontin. just two weeks later, he was hooked. >> the way that your brain becomes rehardwired after an addiction is absolutely insane. >> reporter: burke later turned to illegal drugs and ended up stealing to fund his habit. >> it literally damaged every relationship with every family member, friend, person i acquired in my life. >> reporter: burke's home state of massachusetts is one of 36 states now suing purdue pharma, accusing the company of downplaying the dangers of oxycontin. in a 2007 federal settlement, the company admitted to falsely ing the drug as less addictive than rival products. the company paid $630 million in

fines. but massachusetts attorney general moira healey says the dishonest continued. in her lawsuit, she names eight members of the family that owns purdue pharma, alleging they micromanaged a deceptive sales campaign. in the conclusion to the complaint, you say the sackler family used the power at their disposal through purdue to, in your words, engineer an opioid crisis. that's pretty strong words. >> it's pretty reprehensible conduct. >> reporter: healey alleges sackler family members hired hundreds of workers to carry out their wishes, pushing doctors to get more patients on opioids at higher doses for longer than ever before. all while paying themselves billions of dollars. >> they don't want to accept blame for this. they blame doctors. they blame prescribers, and worst of all, they blame patients. you mean purdue or the sackler family, or are they one and the same? >> they're one and the seem. >> reporter: in one alleged

instance, president richard sackler described his solution to the overwhelming evidence of overdose and death. we have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible. they are the culprits and the problem. this so-called culprit suggests sackler take a dose of his own medicine. >> i would personally tell him to take two a day for two weeks and see how he ends up. >> reporter: in a statement, purdue pharma calls the massachusetts lawsuit a rush to vilify the drugmaker, saying it distorts critical facts and cherry picked from among tens of millions of e-mails and other business documents. >> if purdue thinks we're cherry picking, i invite them to produce all of their documents and let the public judge for itself. >> reporter: you're saying they knew this was addictive? they knew people were dying? it was greed that drove them forward? >> of course it was greed. >> reporter: now, we should point out we did reach out to the sackler family and their lawyer. three of the sacklers declined to comment through a press

representative who advertises crisis communication, and the rest never got back us to, but it's really no surprise there. this is a family that rarely publicly addresses its connection to the company that made it rich. you have may have seen this story on your social media. it's getting a lot of attention. commerce secretary wilbur ross is drawing fire over his comments about federal workers going without pay. mr. ross, who is worth more than $700 million says he didn't quite understand why furloughed workers would need to go to food banks. he said they should just go and get a loan from the bank until the shutdown is over. 800,000 federal employees are going to miss a second paycheck today. a lot of them are part of the 80% of american workers who live paycheck to paycheck. right s us tme of ose woers. >> it's expected to be another busy day here at the capitol area food bank. what's incredible is a growing amount of food in this massive warehouse is going to end up assisti inin ining furloughed f employees. a growing number of those

workers tell us they may need to find a new line of work. >> i do live pay he can to paycheck. >> reporter: one paycheck from peril. sigrid lane faces a more urgent. >> as of today i have $1.06. it's very terrifying when you look at your bank account. you have no money coming in. you don't know when you're going to get your next paycheck, and you're like what do i do? >> reporter: so far her answer get groceries at food banks and sell things off her own shelves. >> anything that i can sell that anybody would want to buy, because, as i said, have not been able to get another job. >> reporter: that's how desperate you are? >> that's how desperate i am. >> reporter: like the lamp? >> if somebody wants to buy it, they can buy it. that's how desperate i am. d 't make my first l>> b house, mortgage payment. >> reporter: she's not alone. after a 16-day shutdown in 2013, 64% of federal workers said had less than two weeks' worth

of savings set aside. on the day before payday, about 20% of them had less than a day's worth of spending money in the bank. >> in the last 40 years, we've had growing inequality in this country, and many families, many workers have barely seen their wages and incomes rise. so it's become increasingly difficult for them to pay for their basic expenses like housing and food and child care. >> reporter: a challenge facing furloughed workers like jessica apel, an executive assistant at the department of transportation. >> making sure now that we have enough groceries in the house. that paycheck to paycheck is everything for a small family like ours. >> reporter: and because she is a contractor, apel won't receive any back pay when the government reopens. already facing a stack of unpaid bills, apel found out when she went to the doctor that she and her 2-year-old son chase lost their health care. >> when i arrived, i was informed that my health insurance was not eligible. so i had to make the decision of

paying out of pocket. >> reporter: so jessica's boyfriend took a second job at night, and she started this gofundme campaign, one of about 3,000 for federal workers that have raised more than $1.3 million. meanwhile, sigrid lane is still stuck. >> i went outside to start up my car, and my battery was dead. and the money that i had to pay for groceries i had to pay for a car battery yesterday. >> reporter: you turned that key in the car and you realized it was not working. what was your reaction? >> what am i going to do? and it took everything i had. >> reporter: i want to emphasize something that sigrid told us there at the beginning. she has $1.06 in her bank account. because of this shutdown there is a public servant in this country with less than $2 to her name. let's think about that. now at this distribution center that services food banks across the d.c. area, they tell us they're going to serve about 600,000 more meals this month. that's because of the government shutdown.

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probably won't surprise you that many of ourrv nation are if a helping hand. these days, nearly 38,000 veterans are homeless, and more than 82,000 are living in nursing homes. the v.a. has put together a new program to get them off the streets and out of those nursing homes. it moves them in with regular families who are more than happy to help. chip reid visited with one family and the veterans living with them on a farm in indiana. ♪ >> reporter: watching bill sutton, you wouldn't know the 53-year-old combat vet couldn't walk when he got here. and you're learning to walk now? >> soon i'll be running. >> reporter: soon you'll be running? >> yeah. >> reporter: up and running, this double amputee says, because instead of going into a home, he found a home. >> there is no way i would go to a nursing home.

>> reporter: this is where you want to be. under the same roof as the roofing family who have open their home and their hearts to serve those who serve. you have how many children? >> we have six. >> reporter: and you have how many veterans living with you? >> we have three. >> reporter: that's right. six kids, all home schooled. three vets. >> go lay down. >> reporter: one dog, and too mccoutss and chickens to count. are the three veterans who live here like family members? >> they really are, yeah. >> reporter: who watches cartoons with them? >> i watch bad movies with them. >> reporter: you watch bad movies with them! their care is also a family affair. days begin with breakfast. >> depending on the veteran, we may have to toilet them, bathe them, dress them, shave them, feed them. >> reporter: and you're doing that and also doing it with six kids, right? >> yeah. >> when we first got our first veteran, after two days she was i can't do this. >> reporter: really? >> now we're doing it over four

years. so we're doing good. >> reporter: any regrets? >> maybe we should have made the home a little bit bigger. >> right here. >> reporter: destroy built this whole ndo y like it? >> i love it. it's beautiful. >> reporter: for the three disabled veterans, this house is an alternative to a nursing home. >> there are so many families who aren't ready to put their loved ones in a nursing home. they're not emotionally ready, financially ready. and this gives them an alternative. >> reporter: the v.a.'s medical foster home program allows vets to live in private homes for about half as much as costly nursing home care, and the $2,400 they pay on average each month helps their host families too. is that one of the best parts about this, that you get to stay home? >> absolutely it is. that's a blessing. and i have my husband working alongside me. >> reporter: idea came from troy's family. nearby, his brother todd houses two veterans, who are learning

to live with the loss of a third. >> i'm sure that's hard when someone's living here and you have a loss like that. are you guys doing okay? >> uh-huh. >> good. >> reporter: v.a. doctors and nurses -- >> did you fall or anything? >> no. >> reporter: make house calls. and music therapists -- >> work this other hand a little more. >> reporter: help keep their minds sharp. bill sutton says there is only one thing missing. >> they need more kids. >> reporter: they need more kids? >> yeah. >> reporter: they have six already. >> no, they need at least 23. >> reporter: they need at least 23 kids. >> yes! ♪ >> you have to open your home and open your heart to those veterans. it's a sacrifice. it's service. but they deserve it. >> reporter: deserve a home and a family who found their own way to serve. i'm chip reid in greenville, indiana.

if you watched any school sports, you know there may not be anything more competitive arguably than a high school wrestler, especially a state champion, or someone battling for a state championship. well, chip reid has a story of one young champion who has a different lesson, for all of us. >> get a piece of him, get a piece of him! >> reporter: as a state champion wrestler, merrick bush has very few real competitors. but the academy near utica new york has one rival, a junior named logan party. merrick met him ear wed >> reporter: terry was >> i've been iportme ieenanyt lt a great match, until with just

about 30 seconds left, logan twisted his elbow. up to that point, merrick had been losing, but logan's arm was now so badly injured, there was almost no way merrick couldn't win. so he told his coach, i got this, and went back in to do what he says he had to do. that's merrick in the blue. again, all he had to do was stand up and pin his hobbled opponent. but instead, merrick did nothing. he just told logan he was sorry about his arm and surrendered. logan couldn't believe it. >> he just sat there. he didn't move. i think it was goodness out of his heart. he is a great person. >> i know it makes me kind of like a weakling. >> >> reporter: no. >> but that's all right. >> no, it doesn't. >> no, he is no weakling at all.

i mean, state championships come and go, but that, you can't take that away from a kid. >> reporter: the crowd watched, on their feet and through blurry eyes as merrick lost the tournament but won the admiration of everyone in the gym. most especially. >> reporter: proud? >> -- his dad, bob. >> i'm very proud. it's not about winning all the time. it's about doing what's right, and he did. >> reporter: more importantly, merrick thought doing the right thing would make him look like a weakling, but he did i. now that's a powerful kid. steve hartman, "on the road" near utica, new york. >> that's a good lesson. thank you, chip, and thank you for watching. that is the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back a little later on in the morning. we've got the morning news, and of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm david begnaud.

thanks for watching. have a great weekend. captioning funded by cbs it's friday, january 25th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." two competing plans to end the government shutdown fail, but there are new bipartisan negotiations as federal workers miss a second paycheck today. the showdown in venezuela escalates. president maduro goes on the offensive against the opposition leader. and a rescuer needs rescuing when several people fall through thin ice.