went wrong? what have you taken away from me? >> reporter: more than a year after losing her son, alison jean says she just wants to hear the truth. >> just come clean. >> reporter: what would that do for you? >> i'm looking forward to the trial as one step to closure. >> reporter: the jury is made up of eight women and four men. five of the jurors are black. now, if she's convicted of murder, geyger could spend the rest of her life in prison and she is expected to take the stand during this trial. margaret? >> omar, thank you. a new u.n. report sounds the alarm about the planet's failing health. it will be released am monaco. mark fill indiana pacers is there tonight with more on what's being called the most dire u.n. climate report ever. >> reporter: the final wordinge report b word on erbuilng but it's expected to say that the ice in the arctic and antarctic is melting far more quickly than was feared. not only that, global warming is

so advanced, so many tipping points may have been passed, that some of the severe consequence of warming may now be inevitable. among the cited consequence, rising sea levels that displace hundreds of millions of people from coastal areas. increased numbers of destructive storms. devastated fish stocks and even reduced supplies of drinking water. the report is the gloomyest prediction thursday far of the u.n. panel that warns if global emission ands greenhouse gases are not reduced, the consequence will be even worse. margaret? >> thanks. at the u.n. today, teen climate activist greta thunberg blasted world leaders for inaction to stop climate change. in her speech, thunberg warned politicians they are failing to protect the planet. >> we are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. how dare you! >> social media lit up over this

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tool and die maker from long island says he could barely move. >> it wasn't an elective thing. >> reporter: it was that obvious? >> it was that obvious. >> reporter: you couldn't even walk. doctors told esposito he needed immediate surgery. that a herniated disc in his spinal column threatened to leave him permanently paralyzed. >> the pain was bad. i never thought it would end. >> reporter: but the surgery was just the beginning of esposito's nightmare. he has private insurance, so you might think, as he did, that he was covered for this kind of emergency, but just weeks into his seven month recovery, the bills started pouring in. this says the amount you owe is -- >> $256,000. it's mind-boggling. that's only one doctor. >> reporter: esposito was on the hook for over $650,000 in bills, including $256,000 for the orthopedic surgeon who fused his spine, $220,000 for the neurosurgeon, and another $53,000 for a doctor who monitored his breathing.

he was denied coverage because his insurance company decided it was not an emergency and not medically necessary. >> you say, this can't be real. i really don't have to pay this. how am i going to pay this? you sit there and you start crying, because you don't know what you're going to do. >> reporter: esposito's story is exactly the kind americans fear most. four in ten say they have received a big bill in the past year. it's all part of a healthcare system that has become more complicated and costlier, with out-of-pocket spending up more than 50% since 2010. >> it's far too easy for these kinds of crazy stories to happen. >> reporter: aaron caroll is a pediatrician and health services researcher. so many people feel they are being pushed to the limit, that nobody is responding to them. >> yes, it's soul crushing. truly. the really bad part is the people we're asking to do all of this leg work are the sick. that's just not a good system. >> reporter: frank esposito has

taken $49,000 from his 401(k) to pay down some of his bills.icil specialist and even appealed to the state. but he still owes more than $220,000. >> you need to be able to know that you can do this, that you're going to get the care you need, that you're not going to be destitute by the time you're done. >> reporter: after appeals, esposito's insurer, oxford united healthcare, paid some of his doctors' bills. we're still waiting for a response as to the remaining $220,000 bill. now, as part of this series, we want to hear what you're paying for medical procedures. go to cbsnews.com/healthcosts and click on the link to share what you paid. you can also search prices in the two markets already surveyed by our partner, clearhealthcosts. that's dallas and san francisco. margaret? >> important reporting. it's going to be a key issue for voters, that's for sure. a lot of people are naming this anna, thank you.

there is much more ahead. caribbean islands and puerto rico are bracing for another storm. an update on two six-year-olds arrested in florida. and prince harry and wife meghan evoke memories of princess diana as they visit africa.

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today, charges against two six year olds in florida were dropped. yeah, i said six year olds. they were arrested in separate incidents last week at a charter school in orlando. manuel bojorquez has disturbing details about one of those arrests. >> this should never have happened. >> reporter: six-year-old kaia role's grandmother says she got a call last week saying the girl threw a tantrum and kicked a staff member at her charter school. she was shocked to learn that led to kaia being handcuffed, booked, and having her mug shot taken. >> no six-year-old child should be able to tell someone they had handcuffs on them and they were riding in the back of a police car. >> reporter: she believes kaia's tantrum was likely the result of a medical condition, sleep apnea. the arresting officer was identified as dennis turner. tonight, the orlando chief of police announced the officer has been fired.

>> i was sick to my stomach when i heard this. >> reporter: they say he failed to follow department protocol, which calls for a supervisor's approval before arresting anyone under 12. arresting someone that young is not unheard of. in fact, in florida, nearly 3,000 children between the ages of five and 12 were arrested in the fiscal year ending in 2018. michelle morton of the a.c.l.u. argues many are for behavioral issues that should be dealt with differently. >> law enforcement has to approach it in a more social worker-type role or more de- escalating situations rather than confronting them. >> reporter: manuel bojorquez, cbs news, orlando. >> coming up, a powerful storm blows through the arizona desert.

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tropical storm warnings are posted tonight in puerto rico and the virgin islands. they could get up to six inches of rain by tomorrow from karen, which is now a tropical depression with 35mph winds. over the weekend, karen slammed trinidad and tobago with powerful waves and torrential rain. what's left of hurricane lorena caused flash floods in arizona today. a number of people had to be rescued from their cars in the phoenix area. firefighters used a long ladder to reach a family trapped in their minivan. up next, harry and meghan in africa. a ceremony m

prince harry and wife meghan began their trip to south africa today with meghan declaring, "i am here with you as a mother, as a wife, as a woman, as a woman of color, and as your sister." our debora patta has more from cape town. >> reporter: this trip as a family, but royal watchers hoping for a glimpse of baby archie were sorely disappointed. he's not with the couple right now. he stayed behind with the nanny who is looking after him while they are here on official duty. like most royal visits, that

included glad handing crowds, sampling regional cuisine, and doling out hugs to the local children. but harry and meghan want to be taken seriously. today, they spoke out against violence toward women. >> i know that when women are empowered, entire communities flourish. >> reporter: later this week, meghan visits mothers living with h.i.v./aids, sure to evoke memories of princess diana. and prince harry will literally follow in his mother's footsteps when he treads the same path diana took, walking along an angolan landmine field, passing on her passions to the next generation. debora patta, cbs news, cape town. >> and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. 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 margaret brennan.

♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news, everyone. i'm errol barnett. president trump takes center stage in new york city when he addresses the united nations general assembly. 90 heads of state and diplomats from around the world have gathered for this annual week of meetings and speeches. but at the top of the agenda was yesterday's climate action summit. president trump stopped in, but didn't speak at that event. he's been dealing with the fallout from the phone call he had with the president of ukraine. mr. trump insisting he did nothing wrong when he pressed for an investigation of the son of former vice president joe

biden. and mr. trump insists he didn't know the u.s. was withholding $400 million in military aid earmarked for ukraine. weijia jiang brings us the latest. >> we had a perfect phone call with the president of ukraine. never knows it. >> reporter: the phone conversation between president trump and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskiy is the talk of the town as president trump meets with world leaders in new york city. the president has been on the defensive since it was revealed that a whistleblower filed a complaint about his communications with ukraine. the question, did mr. trump in that july 25th call threaten to withhold military funding if the ukrainians did not investigate joe biden and his son? >> no, i didn't. no, i didn't. >> reporter: today he confirmed they discussed foreign aid, but no quid pro quo. >> i put no pressure on them whatsoever. i could have. i think it would probably possibly have been okay if i did, but i didn't. i didn't put any pressure on

them whatsoever. >> reporter: president trump claims the former vice president abused his position to help his son hunter who worked for ukrainian gas company at the time. there is no evidence of wrongdoing. >> joe biden and his son are corrupt. >> reporter: the president stood by his discussion with his ukrainian counterpart as an effort to combat corruption in ukraine. >> one of the reasons the new president got elected is he was going to stop corruption. so it's very important that on occasion you speak to somebody about corruption. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news the white house is seriously considering releasing a transcript of the conversation, something biden urged as well. >> i hope you get to see the call. >> reporter: but mr. trump acknowledged the potential consequence of doing so. >> so i don't think it's a great precedent so ig ease it at all. >> reporter: during an interview, ukraine's foreign minister opposed releasing the transcript, arguing the confidentiality is a main condition of conversation since sometimes leaders share

sensitive information. presidents trump and sew lin ski are set to meet here at the u.n. on wednesday. >> right now hundreds of thousands of people are scrambling to find their way home after one of the world's oldest tour companies suddenly went belly up. kris van cleave has the story of the demise of thomas cook. >> reporter: the last thomas cook flight touched down in england this morning, leaving the company's 21,000 employees potentially out of work and an estimated 600,000 tourists stranded in vacation spots around the world and here in the u.s. >> really disappointed the holiday has to end like this. >> reporter: at new york's j.f.k. airport, flyers showed up only to learn their flight home was canceled. >> we have been given no information at all by anybody. >> reporter: in addition to new york, the airline served five other u.s. cities, 267,000 people flew to orlando alone in the last year. thomas cook specialized in low- cost vacation packages but was over $2 billion in debt. the british government declined to offer a bailout and new

funding couldn't be secured over the weekend. >> it is deeply distressing to me that this has not been possible to save one of the most loved brands in travel. >> reporter: the british government has now chartered more than 40 airlines to bring home stranded passengers, the largest repatriation of its citizens ever in peace time. thomas cook was struggling as bookings dropped due to a weak british pound and uncertainty surrounding brexit. as many as one million people woke up this morning to find out the vacations they had already booked had been canceled, and margaret, it's not clear if they will get a refund. >> now, polls show the cost of health care is one of the top issues for voters in the upcoming presidential election. a reecent gal up survey show americans borrowed an estimated $88 billion for expenses last year. no one really knows what anything costs. our consumer investigative correspondent anna werner brings us one man's story.

>> there was no other way to go. >> reporter: it's been a year since crippling back pain sent frank esposito to the doctor. >> he looked at the m.r.i. and he said, "you need to go to the closest hospital immediately." >> reporter: this 59-year-old tool and die maker from long island says he could barely move. >> it wasn't an elective thing. >> reporter: it was that obvious? >> it was that obvious. >> reporter: you couldn't even walk. doctors told esposito he needed immediate surgery. that a herniated disc in his spinal column threatened to leave him permanently paralyzed. >> the pain was bad. i never thought it would end. >> reporter: but the surgery was just the beginning of esposito's nightmare. he has private insurance, so you might think, as he did, that he was covered for this kind of emergency, but just weeks into his seven month recovery, the bills started pouring in. this says the amount you owe is -- >> $256,000. it's mind-boggling. that's only one doctor. >> reporter: esposito was on the

hook for over $650,000 in bills, including $256,000 for the orthopedic surgeon who fused his spine, $220,000 for the neurosurgeon, and another $53,000 for a doctor who monitored his breathing. he was denied coverage because his insurance company decided it was not an emergency and not medically necessary. >> you say, this can't be real. i really don't have to pay this. how am i going to pay this? you sit there and you start crying, because you don't know what you're going to do. >> reporter: esposito's story is exactly the kind americans fear most. four in ten say they have received a big bill in the past year. it's all part of a healthcare system that has become more complicated and costlier, with out-of-pocket spending up more than 50% since 2010. >> it's far too easy for these kinds of crazy stories to happen. pediatrician and health services researcher. so many people feel they are being pushed to the limit, that

nobody is responding to them. >> yes, it's soul crushing. truly. the really bad part is the people we're asking to do all of this leg work are the sick. that's just not a good system. >> reporter: frank esposito has taken $49,000 from his 401(k) to pay down some of his bills. he has hired a medical billing specialist and even appealed to the state. but he still owes more than $220,000. >> you need to be able to know that you can do this, that you're going to get the care you need, that you're not going to be destitute by the time you're done. >> reporter: after appeals, esposito's insurer, oxford united healthcare, paid some of his doctors' bills. we're still waiting for a response as to the remaining ,0il now, as part of this series, we want to hear what you're paying for medical procedures. go to cbsnews.com/healthcosts and click on the link to share what you paid. you can also search prices in the two markets already surveyed

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♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome back to the overnight news. i'm errol barnett. fans of country music are familiar with the tune, i was country when country wasn't cool. well, a new documentary by renounced historian ken burns digs up the roots of country ignoring the eras of youtube and mtv. jeff glor takes a listen. ♪ oechlt ch, can the circle be unbroken ♪ ♪ ♪ you've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold

'em ♪ ♪ what was it about that one moment when you said, i have to do this? >> i suddenly realized that this would be american history firing on all cylinders, but just great stories. ♪ just a good old boy >> reporter: defining country may be impossible, but what is possible is tracing its roots back to america's coming of age. from the fiddlers ♪ and the banjo players to jimmy rogers and his yodelling. ♪ burns, over the course of more than 16 hours and eight days explores the highs and lows of country's history. gene autry's singing cowboy. ♪ dolly par ton's breakthrough. ♪ and the meteoric rise of garth brooks. ♪ i got friends in low places

>> reporter: at the heart of so many stories is the carter family starting with the carter family singers in the 1920s. ♪ later, june carter and johnny cash's marriage created a dysfunctional dynasty that affected nearly every corner of country music's future. >> hello, i'm johnny cash. ♪ >> my dad, he worked out all of his problems on stage. that's where he took his anguish and fears and grieves, and he worked them out with an audience. that's just who he was. ♪ >> reporter: instead of focusing on historians in this documentary, burns went straight to the musicians. legends like merle haggard. kris kristofferson. and marty stuart. >> the thing i love about this, all of a sudden country music in the 21st century is elevated thanks to ken burns. >> reporter: is this a reset for

country music? >> i think so. >> reporter: stewart is country music's unofficial record keeper. a man trained by lester flatt, bill monroe, and haggard and cash. he was the person who guided burns and his lead writer dayton duncan more than anyone else. >> he saved every scrap of paper, every telegram, every photograph, every uniform. he knows the history back and forth, and he in the course of it has seen everything. >> reporter: we met stuart in nashville where his famous mandolin is its own piece of history. >> bob dylan, ricky skaggs, chet atkins, b.b. king, charlie pride. >> reporter: so what was it that grabbed you at such a early age? >> i didn't want to go to new york. i didn't want to go to l.a. i wanted to go to nashville and play country music. because of the stories that i heard johnny cash sing me and johnny western sing me. those stories they sang, they were like folk heroes talking to me. ♪ you've got to kiss an angel good morning ♪ >> reporter: one thing often ignored or misunderstood in the

history of country music is the influence of african americans. >> everything in america, every manifestation is never a one thing because it's america. it's a many things, it's an alloy stronger by that combination. country music is born in as much african-american history -- country -- so country music is itself born in as much african-american history as it is in what we think is sort of white rural southern history. >> reporter: so any of these musicians had black mentors. >> yes. >> reporter: i think a lot of people don't understand that. >> no. let's take the mount rushmore of early country music and say a.p. carter of the carter family. i put up there obviously hank williams. obviously bill monroe, the inventor of blue grass. obviously johnny cash. now, those four men all had african-american mentors. ♪ she said here she was -- >> reporter: also covered, an other sometimes sidelined part of country music. >> the women's role in country music, you can never diminish that. you pull out loretta and patsy and connie and doll ee, they're the vast void in the story of

country music. >> reporter: maybe not after this series. >> i hope not. >> we tend in the way we categorize country music, we denigrate it. it's never been given the respect it deserves. and so, you know, we don't think it's got the same chops as jazz or blues or rhythm and blues or rock and roll. but yet in the mid '60s, loretta lynn is singing "don't come home a drinking with loving on your mind." ♪ so don't come home a drinking with loving on your mind ♪ >> nobody in rock are focusing on that. that's way ahead of anybody else. now, she's not going to call herself a feminist, but she's speaking for women and their aspirations and their frustrations better than anyone else. ♪ well, a lot of things have changed since a way back then ♪ >> if you're writing truth and you writing a song and sitting here writing about your life, it's going to be country. >> reporter: loretta lynn singing about motherhood and birth control was ashonest as it gets.

♪ a canvas of a cabin in a crowded labor camp ♪ >> reporter: so is merle haggard talking about what it was like to grow up in a family of okies, migrants from the dust bowl who went to california in the great depression where they were seen as a lower class. hag ardern died in 2016, but spoke to burns at length before he passed. >> the human being has a history of being awful cruel to some -- something different. >> merle haggard is distilling all of that pain and suffering and channelled it into poetry that all of us can identify with. >> reporter: country music is about love and loss? >> i think so. and if you think about the great songs, you know, johnny cash, at my dthaves are falling. ♪ at my door the leaves are falling ♪ >> cold, wild wind. ♪ the cold wild wind will come >> i wonder if she's sorry.

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we all go, why not enjoy the go with charmin? guitarist mark notify knopfler. anthony mason caught up with him in the studio. >> reporter: down a london back street, an anonymous rieder glides unnoticed, slipping discretely passed a garage door. the giveaway is the guitar etched into the motorcycle's gas cap. the rieder is mark knopfler, and this is where he makes his music. his latest album, down the road wherever, was recorded here in the state of the art dream studio he built more than a decade ago. ♪ ♪

>> reporter: did this come out of abbey road? >> it did originally. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: you don't really have to make music any more. i mean -- >> i do. i'm afraid it's a bit of an obsession. >> reporter: a lifelong obsession for knopfler who grew up in glasgow scotland and new castle, england, before moving to london to form a band called dire straits. you have such a distinctive guitar style. >> i have a style that is probably all wrong. it would be a guitar teacher's nightmare. i hold the guitar like a plumber holds a hammer. >> reporter: musician wasn't knopfler's first job. you had a brief career in journalism. >> it was a good thing for a kid to do. i was a cub reporter. >> reporter: did you like being a reporter? >> i did.

but i don't think i was tough enough for it. >> reporter: but it shaped his talent as a story teller. and all those songs he had in his head. >> there's a junk yard in there. the songs just kept pushing and pushing. >> reporter: what were they pushing for? >> just to come out. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: like sultans of swing, which put dire straits on the map in 1978, music kept pouring out of knopfler. so much that he gave some songs away, like "private dancer." >> i just inked it over, and that's how the thing with tina started.♪ ♪ >> reporter: tina turner would turn it into a huge hit. >> tina injected a whole lot of power and, you know, stuff into it. ♪ ♪

>> reporter: dire straits' biggest album, brothers in arms, released in 1985, would sell more than 30 million copies. ♪ ♪ but just as the band was launched into the stratosphere, knopfler suddenly dissolved it. you walked away essentially at the peak. >> well, it seemed to me that was the only intelligent thing to do. they got so big that we had three stages that were leapfrogging around in front of each other. and you'd walk into catering and see some guys you just didn't know. and i didn't like that. i didn't want to be that. i didn't want it to be that size. >> reporter: you didn't mind the success, but you depth like the fame, is that fair to say? >> well, i can't think of

anything good about fame. can you? >> reporter: last year, dire straits was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame. knopfler did not show up for the ceremony. ♪ ♪ the 70-year-old singer may have turned his back on celebrity, but not on the music. and you still enjoy playing those songs? >> i still enjoy playing the songs. if you've written them and they have that effect on people, it's very important to -- and to play them well. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: his latest american tour will have its finale at madison square garden this week. mark knopfler plays on. still a brother in arms, but with a different band. >> they can all play better than i can, but they let me get away with stuff because i'm the guy who wrote the song. >> reporter: you're very happy

with these guys? >> i really -- i mean, i think that's why people find themselves going to the armers

now, for a lot of kids, the bus ride to school is nothing more than a couple more minutes to try and wake up. but for one young girl and her driver, it's the sunshine that lights the day. steve hartman found their story on the road. >> reporter: no matter what side of the bed she wakes up on, jackson bus driver aletha sherman knows her day will get better. >> i may have a bad morning, but once i see her it gets better. >> reporter: the turning point is a 5-year-old girl named anna. >> you're my best friend. >> can i have a best hug? >> reporter: she is the ultimate pick me up. >> thank you. >> i love you. >> i love you, too.

let's go. >> bye, dad, bye, mom. >> reporter: anna was born with a rare muscular disorder. she's constantly in and out of the hospital. >> the fact that she has so much going on in her life, but she's always happy, always bubbly and she's always, hi, miss sherman. and we start communicating. >> reporter: the parents say they first noticed this bond about a year ago. anna had missed school one day because she was sick. but that afternoon the bus came to their house anyway, and the driver came to the door just checking to make sure anna was okay. >> and i thought, well, she didn't have to do that. >> reporter: but kathleen hobson said that was nothing compared to what happened next. >> yummy, mama. >> reporter: in april for anna birthday, aletha bought her a princess dress and tee ara and decorated the whole bus to celebrate. >> all she could do was take her hands up and say, all this for me? it was just -- it was just so overwhelming. >> reporter: then just recently

arle arletha bestowed on anna the greatest thing she had received. she invited her to be the flower gi at her wedding. for anna's mom, this act of kindness was almost too much to bear. >> i want her to have as many experiences as she can, so -- sorry. >> reporter: kathleen went on to say that she always hoped tough. so this night, this sight especially, anna dancing with her dad, it was such a gift. >> give it up for anna and her dad. >> reporter: any bus driver can take a kid from here to there, but only a special few can deliver a dream come true. steve hartman, on the road in jacksonville, florida. >> and that joy lights up our day as well. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a bit later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm errol

barnett. captioning funded by cbs it's tuesday, september 24th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." ukraine scrutiny. president trump protects details of a phone conversation with ukraine's president as some lawmakers fight to have them released. an american soldier charged with sharing bomb-making instructions online. who police say he planned to target. and climate summit showdown. 16-year-old activist greta thunberg makes an impassioned plea to save the planet. >> right here right now is where we draw the line. good morro