is a secret agreement with mexico to stop tral american migrants heading to the u.s. the mexicans say they've already begun a crackdown. manuel bojorquez is on mexico's southern border. >> reporter: immigration agents in southern mexico seemedager to prove tre cracking downimmig. they app to be okilen as well, off of this one van. they've been checking people's docume documents. they pull them out of the car and take them into custody. it's a push to show the country will make good on a deal to avoid u.s. tariffs. today, mexico's foreign minister repeated plans to send 6,000 members of a newly formed national guard to areas known to be migrant routes, an effort to stem the flow of asylum seekers to the u.s., though mexico has in some ways already been doing that, deporting more central american migrants in the last seven years than the u.s. many of them come through here,

the suchiate river, which separates mexico and guatemala. this is every day along the suchiate. people bring food and drinks, even furniture, trying to get it to the other side to sell. when migrants try to cross here, they do the same thing. they'll charge about a dollar e al question is how will the government prevent those migrants from coming across this porous border. the town's mayor welcomes the national guard. just the word that the national guard was coming has had an impact? yes, she says. i think it has diminished the people coming. but just across the river in guatemala, we found anselma and her four grandchildren looking for shelter. they say they're fleeing poverty and violence in honduras. the u.s. still their destination regardless of mexico's plans. i will continue to the point that god gives me the strength, she says. i will not stop. mentality.country with that so far, we h yet t

mexinaonuard troops me5 days to p an will wor or go negotiat thisfternoon, u.s. customsis se guatemala. margaret? >> manny, thank you. david ortiz has taken his first steps since he was shot in the back sunday night in the dominican republic. a spokesman for the baseball superstar says ortiz remains in intensive care. ortiz had a second operation last night after being flown to boston. one suspect is in custody. investigators are looking for at least one other. leaders of the southern baptist convention are gathered in alabama this week addressing the sex abuse crisis in their church. the nation's largest protestant denomination. mireya villarreal is in birmingham. today the lead investigative >> reporter: brooks hansen and prosecutor from the central park kenny stubblefield were just 15 five case spoke out against the years old when the two best way she is portrayed in ale h t. friends were sexually abused by their youth pastor. >> forced me to sleep in the bed with him, and i woke up with his

>> reporter: in "the wall street hands down my pants. journal" op-ed published today, >> reporter: they mustered up the courage to report the linda fairstein said "when they assaults to their church pass for, who assured them he would see us" is full of distortions handle the situation. and falsehoods and misleadingly your pastor told you not to say depicts her as a bigot and evil anything. >> for me to be a faithful christian, i had to stay quiet. mastermind. >> i never saw no lady. >> he told us he would handle it >> reporter: the four-part series details the 1989 and we should be quiet. conviction of five black and latino teens accused of raping a >> reporter: a recent investigation by the "houston white woman after a night of chronicle" and "san antonio rioting in new york's central express news" found more than 700 people had been sexually park. it depicts coerced confessions, assaulted by nearly 400 southern baptist church leaders and overzealous law enforcement and race-based prejudice. volunteers over the past 20 years. yusef salaam, antron mccray, >> yes, it can happen in your kevin richardson, korey wise, church. >> reporter: responding to and raymond santana recently growing complaints of inaction, recounted their experience with officials at the southern police to maurice dubois on cbs baptist church annual convention are trying to address the issue. sunday morning. >> and i'm hearing korey being j.d. gruyere is president of the southern baptist convention. physically beaten in the next >> but out of the vast majority room. >> reporter: a judge threw out of southern baptist pastors the convictions in 2002, relying aren't uncaring but many of them are complacent. on dna evidence and a new >> reporter: russell moorheads confession from another man. the sbc's ethics commission. but not until after the

so-called central park five >> one of the things that will spent 6 to 13 years in prison. be talked about at this fairstein denies the confessions convention is how to hold one were coerced and said there was another accountable. we're autonomous churches, but certainly more than enough evidence to support those convictions for the attacks on autonomy doesn't mean or several other victims that night. shouldn't mean a lack of >> ms. fairstein continues to accountability. >> reporter: the vote that is miss the big picture points. set to happen tonight would allow the southern baptist >> reporter: attorney barry church as a whole organization pr wchesen defendantthe to be expel any smaller churches that don't properly respond to sexual abuse allegations or nvted. >> what is the lesson learned tries to cover them up. here? >> we have to change these but here is the caveat. interrogation techniques because in order for there to be actual there's too much coercive change, there has to be a second vote at next year's convention. interrogation going on till this day. >> reporter: fairstein now a >> mireya villarreal, thank you. best-selling author has been dropped by her publisher and is next, the prosecutor from no longer serving on several the central park five case says boards, all since the premiere a netflix miniseries is full of distortions. of that netflix miniseries. >> painful story. thank you very much, michelle. coming up, we're in france as the u.s. women broke records at the world cup. (vo) my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish. but those days are over. now, i take metamucil every day.

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plenty of reasons to cheer. out of the nearly 1 million tickets sold so far for this tournament, about a third were bought by americans, a sign of the growing popularity of women's soccer in the u.s. >> we're changing the face of women's soccer throughout the world, so it's super important to cheer them on. >> reporter: while the players have won fans and trophies, they say they're not earning the pay they deserve. in march, 28 players sued their employer, the u.s. soccer federation, alleging institutionalized gender discrimination, a charge the federation has denied. and though fifa, soccer's international governing body, has doubled the prize mon f is year's world cup winners, it's still roughly 10% of what the men get at their world cup. midfielder allie long doesn't expect equal prize money anytime soon. >> any little step that we get is a win, and i wish it would go faster. >> reporter: she says though her team has helped women's soccer grow, it's now fighting for future generations.

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we end with a young woman's unlikely trip from the streets of new york to the halls of ivy. here again is michelle miller. >> reporter: 18-year-old athena capo-battaglia found the value of home in the nypd precinct where she volunteered. >>the auxiliary officers. they're all there for you. they have your back when you need them. >> reporter: her journey is far from ordinary. athena was recruited two years ago near a homeless shelter. she's lived there since high school with her mother. lorraine capo was a dance

teacher but lost her job and their home after being diagnosed with cancer. what was the hardest? >> i think that first night, like when we went into the shelter system. we just had one suitcase for each of us, and it's kind of like we're totally on our own right now. >> reporter: despite all that, lorraine never gave up on athena's education. >> i always made sure there were pens, erasers, internet, things that kids need nowadays. >> how were you able to do that? >> you just save for the things that are important. >> reporter: which motivated her to reach unimaginable heights. >> i'm actually here. it's pretty -- it's really surreal in a way. >> reporter: athena just finished her first year at harvard university after earning a full ride. do you feel as though you had to make it? >> yeah. i didn't feel like there was an option of like failing. >> because? >> because my mom was depending on it. >> you sound like you were trying to be the rock for your

mom. >> we were kind of each other's rock. it was kind of like hard on both of us, and so i wanted to like make sure that she was still smiling. >> reporter: while the times remain tough, ty' lookingsweet ♪ >> i came from somewhere that's a bit more difficult. i'm not leaving it behind as in forgetting about it, but taking it as a learning experience. >> reporter: showing that in every one of us, there's more than meets the eye. michelle miller, cbs news, new york. ♪ dream a little dream of me and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and, of course, "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm margaret brennan.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm nikki battiste. the people of iowa got a preview of the possible 2020 presidential election. president trump and former vice president joe biden held dueling campaign rallies in the state and tore into each other. biden has an early lead in the race for the democratic nomination and a new poll shows he has an even bigger lead over president trump if there were an election held today. ielieve that the president is literally an existential threat to america. >> i'd rather run against i think biden than anybody. i think he's the weakest mentally. >> reporter: given the way former vice president joe biden and president donald trump

targeted each other today, you'd be forgiven if you thought the election was next week. >> sleepy joe. he was someplace in iowa today, and he said my name so many times that people couldn't stand it anymore. >> this is a guy who does everything to separate and frighten people. >> reporter: but there are 237 days until the iowa caucuses and 511 days until election day 2020. one reason for the early action, cbs news has learned that internal trump campaign polling shows biden leading the president in several key states mr. trump will need to keep the white house, including florida, north carolina, and arizona. but mr. trump's campaign believes biden's record on trade and his previous support of nafta are weaknesses the president can exploit. >> joe biden thought that china was not a competitor of ours. joe biden is a dummy. >> iowa farmers have been crushed by his tariff over china. >> reporter: among iowa democrats, biden remains the

favorite. today the former vice president dismissed the early surveys. >> i see all these polls. they give them to me. they don't mean a thing right now. this is a marathon. >> reporter: that iowa poll also showed that roughly three in four voters here want many of those running to be the democratic nominee, now numbering 24, to drop out. the president is concluding at an iowa gop fund-raiser just outdes moines. the trump campaign is also keeping its eye on massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. one senior campaign official describes her as authentic and the real deal. jon stewart took his crusade for 9/11 first responders to capitol hill. he laid into congress for not acing for those who got gravely ill working at ground zero. nancy cordes reports. >> you are ignoring them. >> reporter: in a hearing room packed with first responders, stewart berated the lawmakers before him. >> your indifference cost these

men and women their most valuable commodity -- time. >> reporter: the september 11th victim compensation fund has helped tens of thousands of people who inhaled deadly toxins at ground zero. former nypd detective luis alvarez will undergo his 69th round of chemotherapy tomorrow. >> this fund is not a ticket to paradise. it is there to provide for our families when we can't. >> reporter: bgress approve 2015 s nearl rou ing th fund ar slashpayouts. >> this should be flipped. this hearing should be flipped. these men and women should be up on that stage, and congress should be down here answering their questions as to why this is so damn hard and takes so damn long.

>> reporter: congress has balked at the price tag before. >> right now we have a $22 trillion federal debt. >> reporter: but the former "daily show" host and longtime advocate argued ailing heroes shouldn't be left in limbo. >> the official fdny response time to 9/11 was five seconds. five seconds. they did their jobs with courage, grace, tenacity, humility. 18 years later, do yours! >> reporter: there is bipartisan support for renewing these funds, and this afternoon when i asked senate leader mitch mcconnell if he backs the move, he said he does. that's an encouraging sign from someone who has held up similar funds in the past. ent trsaid h reivnother, letter from north

korean dictator kim jong-un, and he says he would never allow the cia to recruit kim's family members as u.s. spies. but according to one report, that's just what happened. david martin has the details. >> reporter: the 2017 assassination of kim jong-nam, the older half-brother of north korea's leader kim jong-un, was recorded by security cameras. two women came up behind him, one at a time, and rubbed chemicals over his face which combined to make the deadly nerve agent vx. at the time, it was assumed north korea's ruthless leader had simply eliminated a potential rival. but now the plot surrounding kim jong-nam has thickened. >> he seemed to be short on money in his final years, so he had been supplying information about north korea to the cia. >> reporter: "washington post" beijing bureau chief anna fifield has written a new book about kim jong-un. in it, she suggests that kim jong-nam, who spent most of his life living in exile outside north korea, might actually have

been returning from a meeting with his cia handler when he was killed. >> on the day he was killed, he was found with $120,000 in cash in his little backpack, and so that may have been as a payment for his services. >> reporter: cbs news could not independently confirm fifield's reporting, and the cia has no comment. so the bizarre life and death of kim jong-nam is likely to remain one of the many mysteries surrounding north korea. we're learning more about the pilot who died when he crash landed a helicopter on top of a midtown manhattan high rise. for one, he shouldn't have been in the air that day. don dahler has the story. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board was on the roof of the 54-story building today, but there is not much of the 19-year-old chopper left. >> the wreckage is confined to the rooftop. it is highly fragmented, and a post crash fire consumed much of

the eckage >> reporter: the questions yet to be answered, why pilot tim mccormack took off from the 34th street heliport in poor weather conditions without being certified to do so. why he flew into airspace over the city that has been restricted since donald trump became a presidential candidate. and did he decide to attempt a rooftop landing rather than put the thousands of people on the streets below at risk? his brother, michael, believes he did. tim put other people's lives first, he said in a statement, by putting the helicopter on the roof of a building, which took great skill. it is a true act of heroism. the how and why of this accident will be a challenge to discover. helicopters typically don't have black boxes, and the ntsb is trying to determine if the pilot said anything over the radio before the crash. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." the fda is considering a plan to legalize cbd in food and drinks from coast to coast. cbd comes from a plant in the cannabis family, but it won't get you high. proponents say it helps everything from soreness to stress. in denver, they're drinking it in coffee. barry petersen went to see what the buzz is all about. sparw, but unual. it's infused with cbd. >> can i get u to drink potsbut the versi eed coffee craving. >> for me it got rid of all the jitters. >> isn't that what you drink

coffee for? >> no, not the jitters, no. the best way i canst levels out had a chance to start a coffee business, but what i'm doing now is delivering a better life to a lot of consumers. >> this man is co-founder of denver's strata coffee. he started as a high-end coffee roaster, but competition forced him to be different. so he added in cbd, and often that's where the misconceptions start. so if i were to say to you, andrew, oh, you're selling pot coffee -- >> no. >> what do you say back to that? >> we're not selling pot coffee. we are selling a coffee that has been infused with nutrients from a plant that do not have a recreational purpose. they don't produce any kind of high or experience like that. >> reporter: it's confusing. pot comes from the marijuana plant that's loaded with thc, the ingredient that creates a high. but cbd oil comes from the hemp plant. soon legal to grow across the

u.s. it has trace amounts of thc but usually too small to make anyone high. and lately it seems like cbd is for sale everywhere, claiming to help with everything from soreness to stress. but that depends on how your body reacts. >> the raw cannabis -- >> said martha mont pay i don't remember, a certified nutritional consultant. so the fad part of this, cbd coffee, cbd donuts, cbd spritzers is good for you, not good for you, or nobody knows? >> some people are definitely going to feel better. some people are going to feel nothing. >> reporter: back at strava, this may be the closest thing to coffee heaven. the quality control tasting room. strava founder is my guide for my first taste of cbd coffee. takes pretty much like normal coffee. >> it takes like great coffee. caffeine is still there. the cbd is going to balance it out a little bit, help with mental clarity and focus, and

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any, considered by many the grandfather of the movement. >> there's a list of state department employees. one of them who worked in rome, confessed, july 3rd, 1953. adishlg interview scheduled for purposes of developing information concerning others. they wanted paul to tell about other people. >> that was the technique that was used by the government. grab one person and then get that person to inform on other people. >> reporter: you may have heard of the red scare of the 1950s. the fear stoked by republican senator joseph mccarthy that communists had infested the federal government. but a panic of a different shade -- >> homosexuals must be handling top secret material. >> reporter: led to a much wider purge of gay employees that long outlasted mccarthy's tenure. p theacair. >> reporter: david cay johnston is the author of the definitive history of what's come to be

known as the lavender scare. what is the lavender scare? >> i describe it as a fear, a fear that permeated cold war political culture, this fear that gay people were a threat to national security, that they had infiltratefegornment, and that d to be systematically removed from government service. >> reporter: the rooting out of homosexual employees became official policy with an executive order signed by newly elected president dwight d. eisenhower in st real threat. he's the supreme allied commander in world war ii, so you would think he would understand a real threat. >> i think he did. i think he probably didn't see this as a real threat, but he saw that it won elections. >> reporter: that it was expedient politically. >> it was part of their campaign, right? let's clean house. let's get rid of all these people. >> reporter: josh howard, formerly of cbs news, has

produced and directed a new documentary due to air on pbs about the lavender scare. he says there's a good reason you probably don't know about this chapter in history. >> the lavender scare happened in private. the people who were being fired didn't want to tell their closest friends and relatives why they had been fired because they wanted to stay in the closet. if you were found out to be gay in those years, your life was essentially over. you were shunned by society. you were shunned in the workplace. it's the reason people were in the closet in the 1950s. >> reporter: even in private homes, gay people were not safe from investigators. >> at christmastime, some friends were having a party. somebody must have tipped them off that there was a party where gay people were going to be. >> reporter: bob cantilian, a navy serviceman, was told to report to the police station for interrogation.

>> i freely admitted that i was gay, and then they said, we also want five names of other people you know. so i searched my mind, and five people i thought would be least hurt. my impression was that after i named the five names, they'd let me go, and nothing else would happen after that. but then we were all discharged. >> was there any due process? i mean could you call a lawyer? >> you could not bring an attorney, no. it wasn't allowed. >> you were just forced to answer yes or no, to confess or -- >> the security officials boasted that gay people very easily confessed and told the truth. what they don't talk about is the fact that they essentially blackmailed people. they said they'd tell their families. so a lot of gay people quietly resigned. >> reporter: johnson estimates

that between 5,000 and 10,000 people were fired or resigned. and we'll never know how many didn't pursue their dreams for fear of exposure. navy captain joan cassidy came from a family of proud veterans. she had a shot at becoming the first female admiral. >> i couldn't do it. i just couldn't do it. it was too big a chance to take, and so i had to give up the possibility of admiral because i was gay and because i wasn't sure i could hide it well enough. >> reporter: other storiesnded in the worst possible way. drew ference, the son of immigrants, spoke five languages and was serving in the u.s. embassy in paris when investigators confronted him with evidence that he was gay. shortly after confessing, he killed himself. he wasn't the only one.

>> i saw lots of news reports, newspaper reports of, you know, single young men, government employees who committed suicide in washington for no apparent reason. >> no one was defending gay people. the democrats stayed away from this issue. at the time the aclu believed it was perfectly legitimate for the government to fire homosexuals as a threat to national security. >> this is the aclu? >> the aclu. >> reporter: the persecution of homosexual public servants gave rise to the gay rights movement in the pugnacious person of frank caminy, a ph.d. from harvard and an as stronener with the u.s. army map service, was fired in 1957 for being gay. >> to the best of my knowledge and belief, i was the first person to fight back out of all of those large, huge number of people that were fired in the '50s. >> he says that this issue is --

it's not about national security. it's not even about morality. it's about civil rights, and he creates this new rhetoric. he calls himself and his colleagues in the group hoalri citins, and you can't forget either part of that. >> reporter: in 1963, he became the first openly gay person to testify on capitol hill. then in 1965, he organized picket lines in front of the state department and the white house. >> every american citizen has the right to be considered by his government on the basis of his own personal merit as an individual. >> those folks were very courageous. it had never been done before, and they were scared to death. >> reporter: but the discriminatory policy continued. in 1980, jamie shoemaker worked for the national security agency as a linguist. what kind of a security clearance does your job require?

>> very high, probably more than the president has actually. you might be surprised. >> reporter: one day his supervisor told him that security wanted to question him. >> reporter: a >> and the first thing they said was, mr. shoemaker, we understand you're leading a gay lifestyle. and i said, well, i didn't think i was leading it. but i said, yes, i am. and immediately they took my badge off, and they read me my rights. >> reporter: and so he called frank caminy. >> and he yelled at me and said, why did you let them take your badge? and why didn't you shut your mouth? >> reporter: six months later, with caminy's help, shoemaker made headlines when the agency allowed him to keep his job and his security clearance. in 1995, after 42 years, the vestis of eisenhower's executive order were finally

overturned. how many gay federal employees actually spied for foreign governments? >> there was not a single example of a gay man or lesbian who ever submitted to blackmail by a foreign agent, not a single one. >> reporter: in 2009, frank caminy was back at the white house. >> frank caminy. >> reporter: this time invited by president obama for a ceremony extending the rights of gay federal employees. kameny died in 2011, not long after he was interviewed by josh howard, who says there are still lessons to be learned from his courage. >> i grew up in a time before there was marriage equality and before stonewall. so i'm in some ways envious of younger people, that they are growing up in a more tolerant society. but i also hope that they

if you ever saw the movie friday night lights, you know that varsity high school football is very big in texas. everything's big in texas. but lately another varsity sport is getting the attention of students and fans -- competition barbecue. mireya villarreal got a taste of the action. >> what's texas brisket for us? >> reporter: chef mike erickson is using barbecue to teach some big life lessons in this small texas town. >> are we done developing flavor? no. because we're still going to apply heat. >> reporter: at burnett high school, students cook in a state of the art kitchen worth a quarter of a million dollars to create what some would consider the holy grail of texas grilling. >> you don't have to be the biggest kid. you don't have to be the smartest kid. you don't have to be the richest kid, and you could go to the

houston livestock rodeo and win. and for some young people, it's a dream. this would be a competition-style. >> reporter: everyone in here is part of the underdogs, a high school varsity barbecue team that won the regional championship last year. here in texas, you know, everybody always says football is king, but barbecue is pretty high up there. so what's the level of respect that you get when you guys walk around as a barbecue team? >> the reaction i most often get is we have a barbecue team? >> reporter: in just three years, the number of varsity teams across texas has grown to 102. dishes like brisket, ribs, and beans are judged on taste, texure, and presentation. and the competition is as hot as their grills. the team placed 11th at their annual statewide tournament after doing practice runs like this all year long. this is really good and, yeah, really juicy. what makes the perfect rib for

new. >> i mean flavor's big, but the texture of it, if it's like rubb rubbery, that's a big no. >> reporter: for you, is it just about barbecue or a little deeper than that? >> i enjoy our teamwork and the stuff we do as a barbecue team. it's a lot of fun. i get the same feel as with football. the difference is it's more personal. >> reporter: most of this team is made up of seniors planning to attend different colleges. so right now they're savoring every moment together. mireya villarreal, t, texas. >> doesn't that all look delicious? and that is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and, of course, "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm nikki battiste.

captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, june 12th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." dueling events, president trump and former vice president joe biden in iowa trading insults. who's pulling ahead in the polls. >> you are ignoring them. comedian jon stewart was emotional as he blasted lawmakers over funding for 9/11 first responders. the fight to help the ailing heroes. and today marks 25 years since the murders that led to the trial and acquittal of o.j. simpson, how the impact is still felt today.