central intelligence. he says this asset may be impossible to replace. >> this is the crown jewels of what the cia does is trying to develop highly placed human resources who give them access to information about foreign adversaries that they otherwise might not be able to get. >> reporter: former intelligence officials warn this asset is still at risk. norah, last year russia used a nerve agent to try to kill a former spy in the uk. >> paula reid at the white house, thank you. we're going to turn now to capitol hill where house democrats today jump-started their push for new gun control measure, following several mass shooting incidents that took place while they were on summer break. nancy cordes reports gun control advocates are also making their voices heard. >> in the next decade, over one million americans will be shot. >> reporter: joseph sakran spoke from experience today, shot in the neck at a high school football game, he was inspired to become a trauma surgeon. >> you know, the worst part of my job is having to walk into

those waiti tell them that their child is never coming home. >> reporter: doctors and gun victims and mayors are blanketing the capitol, as some republicans signal new openness to gun laws after a summer of deadly mass shootings. >> i'm hoping that in the next few day, early next week, we'll have a breakthrough. >> reporter: gop leaders met with the president today to try to nail down what he supports. >> he's very interested. i think he is learning about this issue. >> reporter: house democrats aren't waiting. >> the judiciary committee will please come to order. >> reporter: advancing bills today that would ban high capacity magazines and confiscate guns from high risk individuals. they're urging the senate to join them in passing universal background checks. >> we won't stop until the job is done. >> reporter: finding consensus won't be easy. >> do you think that it would be reasonable to mandate background checks for all commercial gun

sales? >> we're waiting to see how we can actually achieve something on this issue. >> what do you believe? >> i'm going to wait and assess the proposal that could actually become law. >> reporter: the republican leader says there is no point in him endorsing any particular policy until he knows what the president would sign. democrats say they won't believe that republican leaders are serious about this issue until they start getting specific, norah, about what they're willing to do themselves. >> waiting for those specifics. all right, nancy cordes, thank you. > and we're following breaking news tonight from arizona where a state trooper has been arrested. 43-year-old tremaine jackson is accused of sexually assaulting at least eight women during traffic stops. now police believe there may be more victims, and they're asking the public to come forward with additional information. jackson worked for the department of public safety for 13 years. there was a remarkable sight in arizona today.

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parents. >> ms. bland-ball testified she had no training on how to remove a picc line. she explained she watched a youtube video on how to do it. >> reporter: in may they protested the state's intervention outside the hospital. >> why won't you let us take our son and go our way? >> there are still so many side effects that he could have for the rest of his life from chemotherapy, and these other options that we're considering, they don't have proven studies that they are necessarily as effective yet, but they do have way less side effects. >> reporter: the couple said they would rather give him nontraditional treatments, including oxygen therapy, cbd oil derived from hemp plants, and a special diet. this despite research that shows 98% of this type of leukemia goes into remission within the first few weeks of chemotherapy treatments. florida law allows the state to provide medical treatment to children even if the parents object. the judge granted temporary custody to the child's maternal

grandparents, nor remarks but the state has the option of returning him to the custody of his parents in the future. >> so he is going to get treatment? >> yes, he is getting treatment. >> don, thank you. >> sure. coming up, something you may have to convince your boss is necessary. the potentially life-saving benefits of a daytime nap. liz, you nerd, cough if you're in here!

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we're going to end tonight with a lesson in the power of inspiration and determination. >> how are we doing today beautiful people? >> with hugs and high-fives, dr. reyes guana greets kids at discovery bay elementary school in northern california. >> hola! >> guana wants nothing more than for these children to feel accepted at school, remembering a time when he did not. >> when i became a custodian, i remember being at schools, and nobody cared about me. >> the son of mexican immigrant,

guano was taught to work hard and always try to make a difference, even while mopping school floors. >> when i was a janitor, i remember visiting classrooms, and i would -- i would pretend i was teaching. >> reporter: the money guana ownered as a school custodian helped to pay for his college education, which allowed him to follow his dreams up the ladder. in a journey that took more than two decades, he became a campus safety monitor, then a teacher, and eventually an administrator. now guana is the boss, the new superintendent of the byron union school district just miles from where he once cleaned classrooms. today guana's goal is to show his students that through grit and hard work, they too can achieve the american dream. >> i had all the cards stacked i really should not be where i'm at today had i not had the right people in my life to inspire me. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm norah o'donnell.

this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm anna werner. the revolving door continues to spin at the white house. the latest top administration official to find himself on the outside national security adviser john bolton. bolton says he quit. president trump says he was fired. either way, the president will be shopping for his fourth national security adviser in 20 months. who's on the short list? weijia jiang rounds up the usual suspects. >> reporter: our cameras spotted john bolton outside the west

wing this morning just hours before the president revealed that he had told him his services are no longer needed at the white house. but the ousted national security adviser disputed that, saying he offered to leave. his resignation letter delivered to the president this morning. >> we're going to announce sanctions -- >> reporter: notoriously hawkish, bolton took a hardline approach to foreign policy that clashed with the president's. most recently, he opposed the widely criticized plan to meet with taliban leaders at camp david. bolton was also against mr. trump's embrace of north korean dictator kim jong-un and his openness to engaging with iran. >> john bolton's priorities and policies just don't line up with the president's. >> reporter: cbs news has learned in his 17-month stint he never worked well with the national security team, and had become increasingly isolated, even skipping meetings. he and secretary of state mike pompeo were locked in a public feud. can you describe your working relationship with john bolton? >> i know everyone's talked about this for an awfully long time. there were definitely places

that ambassador bolton and i had different views about how we should proceed. >> reporter: but it's the relationship with president trump that matters most, and theirs had deteriorated. >> john bolton is extraordinarily abrasive. i think at the very beginning, his style, rough and tough, may have been appealing to the president, but over time, i don't think that worked for him. >> cbs news has learned president trump was furious because he believed john bolton leaked a story that he wanted to explore the use of using nuclear weapons to stop hurricanes from hitting the u.s. but at the core of this is the dispute over foreign policy. under his watch there were no, quote, bad deals made. did you ever wonder how the cia knew vladimir putin was personally behind the effort to help president trump win the last election? well, it turns out we had a spy inside the kremlin.

reportedly close enough to putin to take pictures of what was on his desk. well, that person's not in moscow anymore. paula reid tells us why. >> reporter: it was a stunning assessment. in january 2017, the u.s. intelligence community publicly said russian president vladimir putin had directed a campaign to influence the 2016 election in favor of candidate donald trump. now a u.s. government source says the conclusion was based in part on a cia asset within the russian government. after the intelligence community published its findings, news organizations began to dig into the source of the intelligence that reportedly led the cia to become concerned for the asset's safety and the u.s. helped him leave russia later in 2017. today secretary of state mike pompeo disputed reports the so-called ex-filtration was prompted by concerns about the trump administration's handling of classified information. >> i've seen that reporting. the reporting is materially inaccurate. >> reporter: and in russia,

kremlin spokesman dmitry peskov described the spy reports as pulp fiction. robert litt is the general counsel for the office of central intelligence. he says this asset may be impossible to replace. >> this is the crown jewels of what the cia does is trying to develop highly placed human resources who give them access to information about foreign adversaries that they otherwise might not be able to get. >> reporter: former intelligence officials warn this asset is still at risk. last year russia used a nerve agent to try to kill a former spy in the uk. members of congress are back from their six-week summer vacation, and the democrats in the house have two things on their minds. one is impeachment. the other is gun control. nancy cordes reports from capitol hill. >> in the next decade, over one million americans will be shot. >> reporter: joseph sakran spoke from experience today, shot in the neck at a high school

football game, he was inspired to become a trauma surgeon. >> you know, the worst part of my job is having to walk into those waiting rooms and look at those parents and tell them that their child is never coming home. >> reporter: doctors and gun victims and mayors are blanketing the capitol, as some republicans signal new openness to gun laws after a summer of deadly mass shootings. >> i'm hoping that in the next few days, early next week, we'll have a breakthrough. >> reporter: gop leaders met with the president today to try to nail down what he supports. >> he's very interested. i think he is learning about this issue. >> reporter: house democrats aren't waiting. >> the judiciary cmittee will please come to order. >> reporter: advancing bills today tat would ban high capacity magazines and confiscate guns from high risk individuals. they're urging the senate to join them in passing universal background checks. >> we won't stop until the job is done.

>> reporter: finding consensus won't be easy. >> do you think that it would be reasonable to mandate background checks for all commercial gun sales? >> we're waiting to see how we can actually achieve something on this issue. >> what do you believe? >> i'm going to wait and assess the proposal that could actually become law. purdue pharma faces hundreds of lawsuits for its alleged role in the opioid crisis gripping the nation. the sackler family, which owns purdue pharma, is willing to sell the company and pony up billions of their own money to end the lawsuits. mola lenghi has the story. >> reporter: the details of purdue pharma's proposed settlement are the clearest sign its owners are ready to settle up to settle the more than 2,000 lawsuits accusing the drugmaker of fuelling the opioid crisis. members of the sackler family are willing to give up ownership of the comany and pay an additional $3 billion to $4.5 billion from their personal

wealth. over two decades while the sale of the painkiller oxycontin generated billions of dollars in profits for the drugmaker, the nation's opioid addiction was reaching a crisis. according to the cdc, overdose deaths linked to prescription. opioids have killed more than 218,000 americans since the l e 1980s. tony lagreca died after a long struggle with opioid addiction. >> it seems that the sackler family, that purdue pharma may now be willing to pay up? >> it seems that the sackler family, that purdue pharma may be willing to pay up? >> well, they're offering a certain amount of money. and first of all, the amount of money is way too small. there are still millions of people who now still are fighting addiction, and that addiction has come from the initial prescription from opioids. >> reporter: well meanwhile, the threat of bankruptcy looms. a source close to the

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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome back to the "overnight news." i'm anna werner. well, the latest fad in the butcher aisle of your grocery store is meatless meat. yes, plant-based products that cook, smell, and some say taste just like beef or chicken or fish. you can even order a plant-based whopper at burger king. but scientists aren't finished. now they're growing meat. it's real meat without the animal. seth doane got a taste. >> reporter: this truly qualifies as experimenting in the kitchen. not the recipe, but the steak

itself. we had to sign a waiver just to try it. you've worked hard for that bite. >> the ceo explained how they're growing steak from the stem cells of cows in this laboratory near tel aviv. >> we can produce meat more efficiently in a world that is more sustainable and healthier. >> reporter: environmentalists say we should be eating less meat. according to the united nation, farming animals is one of the most dangerous sources of greenhouse gases and water pollution. >> right now most of the agriculture is there to feed the animals. >> reporter: this is a billionaire investor in so-called food technology, including what he calls clean meat made in the lab. >> we need to change the way agriculture and food are being produced. >> reporter: humans cannot continue to eat the way we are today? >> no. because the planet will not sustain it. the beauty with celless meat is

once you establish the cell bank, you don't need the chicken. so theoretically, one chicken can feed the world. >> reporter: at supermeat, the ceo explained how they extract stem cells from chickens, whose stem cells can become any type of cell. so by tweaking the mix of proteins and amino acids, they can direct them to become whatever they need, muscle, fat, or connective tissue. >> inside it looks very similar to sort of artificial womb. >> reporter: and he adds they'll be able to produce exactly the cuts of meat desired. a vegan himself, he think there's is also potential for consumers who object to killing an animal. >> these are very delicate portions. >> yeah, just to get this portion is a lot of work. >> reporter: one of the many hurdles is the sci-fi aspect of all of this, and he hopes minds will be changed at the table with the first lab-produced meat likely served in restaurants within a few years.

and as to our taste of the future -- >> it tastes like chicken. >> reporter: it was surprisingly normal. >> no one can seem to agree on a term. i hear plain meat or cultured meat or cell-based meat. >> i think once it's vastly produced, it will just be called meat, because that's what it is. >> reporter: seth doane, tel aviv. it's still officially summer, but class is back in session from coast-to-coast. the less for most schools. but for the first time in 185 years, there is no fall semester at green mountain college in western vermont. turns out the school just couldn't balance its books. brook silva-braga is there as the college packed up for good. >> reporter: when robert allen became president of green mountain college in 2016, he admired the picturesque campus, marvelled at their carbon neutral footprint, and then

gawked at their balance sheet. how soon did you realize there might be a problem? >> very quickly. within the first couple of months. i'm a mathematician by training, a financial person. i realized we were going to come up short. >> reporter: the main problem was shrinking enrollment. by last year, just 427 students remained on campus. broke and unable to find a school to merge with in january, allen announced that the school's 184th graduation would be its last. what's left of green mountain has a ghostly feel. empty classrooms, empty dorms, not even the pool is filled. and it speaks to how these closures affect not just the school and the students be, the whole community. >> this is the only swimming pool in town. it was effectually a public swimming pool. >> reporter: the costs to run a college keep going up. new buildings, higher administrative costs, but sluggish middle class wages mean fewer americans can afford to

pay. i think this is something people have trouble understanding. tuition is so high. >> right. >> shouldn't it be easy to keep a college in good financial health? >> it would be if anybody really paid tuition. so at green mountain college this past year, we didn't have one full pay student. >> really? not one. >> in other words, our published tuition was roughly 36, $500, and the average student paid just a little over $12,000. >> reporter: we left green mountain and headed towards boston, finding other shuttered schools was as easy as pulling to the side of the road. southern vermont college in bennington, vermont also closed after the spring semester. this past spring also marked the last classes for the college of st. joseph inn rutland. just across the board in massachusetts, atlantic you know closed the year before. in brookline graduated its last class too. in boston, at harvard, we met michael horn, who has been studying education and has a grim prediction.

you think more of these closures are copping? >> absolutely. i think 25% of schools will fail in the next two decades. >> reporter: a quarter? >> a quarter. absolutely. if they're going to close, they're going to merge. some of them will declare some form of bankruptcy to reinvent themselves. it's going to be brutal. >> reporter: and horn says the problems, colleges already face finding enough paying customers is only going to get worse. >> we know families had fewer children after the recession in 2008. which means in fewer years there are going to be not as many kids going into college. the business models are breaking at the seams. >> reporter: small schools in the midwest and northeast are especially vulnerable, and horn says new forms of education will bring even more pressure. >> i think we're going to see basically faster and cheaper programs emerge. i also think we're going see a lot of mobile learning programs come up where you can literally pop on your phone, learn a few things. so i think we're going to see a lot more of these flexible,

affordable convenient programs. >> reporter: but what these college alternatives would mean for students and the families helping pay their way, that's less clear. i have a 1-year-old at home. is he young enough that society will have moved off this idea of the degree in time that i don't have to come up with 500 grand in 17 years? >> that's the big question in my household too. i've got 5-year-old twins. i don't know. because there are huge parts of society that have to shift with that. it's not just expectations. it's how employers hire. and a huge reason people are going to school is for social reasons. >> reporter: so what becomes of the classic college campus? >> the asking price is $23 million. >> reporter: president allen says he has received interest from international high schools and a group hoping to educate veterans. another college here seems unlikely. this problem is not going away. the demographics are not going

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you. but when he died the painting vanished. it took decades to track it down. but it's finally back with the flagg family. his paintings are like a who's who of the american 20th century. as a young man, his mentor was the famous illustrator james montgomery flagg. flagg's best known work, the drawing called "uncle sam" was used for this world war i poster. but his most famous piece was of his model in love. what do you remember about that painting? >> very sensual. when he painted people, he breathed. you could feel the character in a way and the whole personality. >> reporter: after flagg's death in 1960, kinsler helped clear out flagg's new york apartment. >> i looked out the window and everything was in there. everything was in place. >> reporter: but the next time

he fit vitted the beloved nude had vanished. kinsler figured maybe a building worker stole it. >> i said it's probably the superintendent or an elevator operator who got his kicks out of looking at a really hot nude. and i bet you it's in somebody's apartment in brooklyn. >> that always intrigued me, because i wondered for many years had it mysteriously disappeared or had it bn stolen or was it completely lost to time. >> reporter: collector and attorney james head writes about what he calls the american illustrators of beauty. two years ago, he saw this picture in an auction house catalog. sure enough, it was the missing nude. so you did instantly recognize this picture? >> absolutely. >> reporter: so what did you think? >> i thought i would never see it. this is a mysteriously disappearing nude, and there it was. >> reporter: both head and kinsler alerted heritage auctions they might be selling a stolen item, and someone else noticed too. >> we received a call from james montgomery flagg's

granddaughter. >> reporter: sergeant mark ammanson is with the new york city police department. >> she said there was an auction going on. her grandfather's stolen painting was on it. >> reporter: the sergeant usually investigates more recent crimes where evidence is fresh. but in a case going back 58 years, he wasn't even sure he would be able to find a police report. >> the big question is there a report made. >> reporter: in other words, did anybody ever report it stolen. >> essentially. >> reporter: the sergeant had to determine where the report would have been filed and then search for it. how many records did you wind up looking at to find this report? >> roughly about 6,000. >> reporter: 6,000? >> yes. >> reporter: why were you even willing to go through all that? >> she was adamant that the painting was stolen, and it's part of her family's history, part of new york history and american history. so to get an opportunity to investigate something like that comes by once in a lifetime. so i figured i'd take a shot. >> reporter: and 6,000 reports

later -- it's not very big. you caught that? >> yeah. >> reporter: wow. good eyes. there it was, one oil painting misplaced in manner unknown. that single phrase gave flagg's descendants the ability to get the painting pulled from its auction and put it back where it belonged, with a family member. as to where it disappeared to all those years, even the detective can't say. >> we can't prove one way or the other, especially with such a time lapse that there was ever any criminal intent. and so i couldn't prove that someone tried to steal it or did steal it. all i can prove is somehow it went missing and it ended up on this auction house, or it ended up in the hands of someone else. >> reporter: but the story of the painting is one james montgomery flagg would likely have appreciated. >> he had a great sense of the ridiculous and that life was --

he has an ironical side. he said it's ugly everywhere but i'm certain beauty exists. >> reporter: ray kinsler passed away e lier this

well, you may think you have a work ethic, but wait until you meet the guy steve hartman found at the grocery store. >> reporter: when you reach a certain age, just getting down to the driveway can feel like a full day's work. but for 97-year-old bennie fasito of perth amboy, new jersey, overcoming those stairs is just the beginning of his work day. >> the time is up here. >> reporter: two days a week he clocks in for a four-hour shift. his job? bag boy at the local stop & shop. >> see that? >> reporter: bennie used to be a warehouse supervisor for a cosmetics company. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> reporter: he supposedly retired back in the '80s. but he has been doing odd jobs

ever since, because he says he loves a hard day's work and always has. what was your first job you ever had. >> who me? >> reporter: yeah. >> a shoe shine. we had a shoe shine when i was young. >> reporter: at what age? >> 7 or so. >> reporter: so you shined shoes. then what did you do? >> then i go home. >> reporter: no, what was your next job. >> i went to barber school. >> reporter: okay. >> after that i went to the army. >> reporter: bennie served in the army air force during world war ii. he was a gunner on a b-25 mitchell bomber, flying mostly over northern africa and italy. today his italian casualties are far less consequential. but he still approaches his job with that same tireless warrior-like determination. for example, bennie says he'd sooner stack a honeydew on white bread than loaf around on the job. >> i don't take no breaks.

>> reporter: no breaks? >> no breaks. >> bennie will not take a break. >> reporter: mike moss is the assistant manager. what if you went up to him and said it's break time. >> he'll yell at me. >> reporter: i learned that the hard way. >> i don't want to. >> take a break. take a load off. >> i don't want to stop. don't nell how to work. see the light on? that's where i'm going. >> reporter: when i pressed bennie on this, he said something really interesting. he said why would i take a break when i only get to work four hours? he actually put it that way. i only get to work four hours. as if bagging groceries was some kind of privilege bestowed upon him. >> i get a feeling that i did something good. you can't just stand around like an idiot. you have to have a rea keep alive. you're welcome, sir. >> reporter: for bennie, that reason is to go out and earn. not just a paycheck, but purpose. he says you need to contribute at all times and avoid breaks at all costs. >> you go sit down? >> no, i don't want to sit down.

>> an that's the "overnight news" for this wednesday. from the cbs roadcast center in w york city, i'm anna werner. it's wednesday, september 11th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." victory for the gop. republicans win a special election in north carolina, but there could still be a silver lining for democrats. president trump's national security adviser, john bolton, is out. we'll reveal the many disagreements between the two men, including over the departure. and football star antonio brown accused of rape. what his former trainer says happened and how brown is responding. ♪