>> she knows what she's talking about. >> you know. cbs this morning is coming up next. have a great day everyone. day everyone. good morning to our viewers in the west, and welcome to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. breaking news -- congressman and civil rights activist elijah cummings dies overnight. we'll look at his legacy. >> melt down. president trump and house speaker nancy pelosi face off in an explosive meeting over syria at the white house. turning anger into action. only on "cbs this orning," the father of a boy killed in the sandy hook massacre talks about taking o on strangers who claimt never happened. and fighting for a cure. our series, "a more perfect union," finds cancer survivors putting on boxing gloves to raise money to knock out the disease. it's thursday, october 17th, 2019.

here's today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> reporter: maryland congresswoman elijah cummings has passed away. cummings was 68 years old. >> the nation loses a tighten of civil rights. >> there are those who seek to dominate our nation by dividing us. i remind you that our diversity is not our problem, our diversity is our promise. >> reporter: democrats stormed out of the white house meeting on syria. they accused president trump of having a meltdown. >> we have to pray for his health. this is a serious meltdown. >> reporter: democratic and republican lawmakers in the house voted to condemn president trump's withdrawal in northern syria. >> i view the situation to be very the united states strategically brilliant. a nasty nor'easter packing drenching downpours and raging winds flooded streets and knocked out power to tens of thousands. >> it's been crazy.

like noah's ark. >> reporter: general motors and the uaw reached a proposed tentative agreement. >> could this end the month-long strike. >> reporter: a utah trooper rescues an unconscious man seconds before a train smashes into his vehicle. all that -- >> reporter: a close call for an idaho state police trorp after he barely escaped being hit by a runaway truck. and all that matters -- >> google has unveiled its pixel 4 smartphone. >> reporter: it will include gesture control meaning you don't need the touchscreen. >> the first phone that will turn everyone into a magician's assistant. call mom. on "cbs this morning" -- >> ladies, this is the united states of america, and you must be the agents of change. you are the ones that can guide us the rest of the way. i've often said that our children are the living messages we send to a future we will never see. you, you, and you are our messengers.

>> boy, welcome to "cbs this morning." we begin with sad news. it's breaking from baltimore right now. the loss of a powerful voice, you just saw him, among congressional democrats. maryland congressman elijah cummings, chairman of the house oversight committee, died early this morning at a hospital in baltimore. he was 68 years old and had faced a series of health issues. >> cummings' committee is one of three leading the house impeachment inquiry. before that he led efforts to -- before he -- we're going to go to nancy cordes here on capitol hill who is looking back at a tremendous leader's career. nancy, good morning. there's no way to put this other than to say that the nation lost a fierce advocate for civil rights and a tremendous leader. >> reporter: that is really putting it well, tony. this is a huge loss for

lawmakers who are on apitol hill. he was someone who was emulated by younger members, respected by democrats and republicans alike. cummings died overnight due to complications from longstanding health problems. elijah cummings dedicated most of his life to public service. an attorney and former state lawmaker, he was elected to the u.s. congress in 1996. >> we are the greatest country in the world. we are the ones that can go anywhere in the world and save people. >> reporter: the baltimore native and son of sharecroppers quickly became one of the most powerful orators in the democratic party. >> it is so painful, i can't even begin to tell you. >> reporter: when democrats won back the house in 2018, cummings became chair of the powerful house oversight committee which roots out fraud and mismanagement in the administration. >> the child is sitting in their own feces, can't take a shower. come on, man. what's that about? >> reporter: it's a job reserved for those who won't back down from a fight.

when cummings was hit with a barrage of angry tweets, he defended his city, not himself. >> i want people to come to baltimore. we are a great city. we really are. [ applause ] we are, we really are. i do not have time for people who want to trash our city. >> reporter: cummings was open about his recent health problems and grew increasingly reflective during his final months. >> a lot of people do not understand where my passion comes from. it comes out of pain, passion, purpose. >> reporter: in a statement, cummings' wife mia who was also the chair of the democratic party in maryland said, quote, he worked until his last breath because he believed our democracy was the highest and the best expression of our collective humanity and that our nation's diversity was our promise, not our problem. it's been an honor to walk by

his side on this incredible journey. i loved him deeply and will miss him dearly. gayle? >> you're going to hear a lot of comments like that about elijah cummings. nancy, you know all the players on capitol hill. how do you think his absence will be felt there? >> reporter: well, you know, cummings was one of just a handful of lawmakers who democrats would often turn to to make their closing argument on a particular issue. he was uniquely talented at making those kind of cases on the house floor. very argumentative, yes, but also very passionate in a way that few others could emulate. but he also had a lot of respect from the other side, and that was something that you could feel when you were at hearings, when you were in the halls of congress. i remember talking to him just a couple of months ago as he was trying to figure out what to say after the president called him a racist and called his city, baltimore, rat infested. and he was really struggling with it. he said i don't want to make it all about myself, and i really want to take the moral high

ground here, so i'm going to be thinking about it over the next couple of days. he was very frank with reporters, and that's something i'm going to miss and something i'm sure a lot of people around here are going to miss. >> i think so, too. pain, passion, purpose. thank you. we don't know exactly what the medical condition was. but he had just released a statement from the hospital saying, "my doctors anticipate i will be returning to washington, d.c., when the house comes back into session." this was september 30th. so he anticipated that he would be coming back. a big surprise to wake up to this news this morning. >> yeah. the first face-to-face meeting between president trump and top democrats since the impeachment inquiry began did not go smoothly. the democrats walked out yesterday claiming the president insulted house speaker nancy pelosi during a briefing for

congressional leaders on the deteriorating military situatio% in syria. the president tweeted this photo from the meeting showing a moment of confrontation between the speaker and the president. weijia jiang is at the white house. that triggered the blowup? >> reporter: well, good morning, anthony. democrats say president trump lost his cool and was visibly shaken up because the house overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning his decision to pull those u.s. troops out of syria. the white house is painting a very different picture and blamed democratic leaders for leaving early so they could come out here and whine to the press instead of work with their colleagues. democratic leaders say they stormed out of the white house after president trump pounced on house speaker nancy pelosi. >> when he started calling

speaker pelosi a third-rate politician -- >> which i said, i wish you were a politician, mr. president -- >> never have i seen a president treat so disrespectfully a co-equal branch of the government of the united states. >> a witness on the part of the president was a meltdown. sad to say. >> reporter: democrats say the president called out "see you at the polls" as they walked out. republicans said pelosi warned the president to watch what we do. after the meeting, mr. trump tweeted a photo of the confrontation with the caption "nervous nancy's unhinged meltdown," seemingly unbothered, pelosi responded by making the photograph the backgrounds shot of her twitter profile. >> she storms out of another meeting, trying to make it unproductive. >> reporter: lawmakers on both sides have slammed president trump for pulling u.s. troops out of syria, leaving kurdish allies to fight the turkish military alone. >> i want to express my gratitude to the kurds. i'm sorry that we are where we are. >> the kurds are much safer. >> to suggest the kurds are safer is delusional.

>> reporter: trump ally senator lindsey graham repeatedly called it the biggest mistake of his presidency. >> it will be to our shame and to our national security's detriment, and trump will own the reemergence of isis. if you think they're just coming after europe and don't present a threat to the tuds, you're sadly mistaken. >> reporter: the white house press secretary described president trump as finished, factual, and decisive in the meeting. democrats say they kept pressing him to hear what his plan is in syria. he responded to keep americans safe, to which they pointed out thats goal, tony, and not a plan. this morning, vice president mike pence and secretary of state mike pompeo are on a mission to stop the violence in syria. they've arrived in turkey to ask for a cease-fire. senior foreign affairs correspondent and "face the nation" moderator margaret brennan joins us. good morning. will they meet with the turkish president as planned?

>> reporter: that's the entire reason the vice president is on the trip in the first place, to make it too hard for erdogan to say no. this mission is a skraum bell which is put -- a scramble which is put together to mitigate the fallout from the president's quick decision to pull out which paved the way for the turkish invasion. the administration and this trip is basically about trying to limit the extent of it. that is why pence is there in the first place. to try to get turkey to limit the damage here. the sdf does not really need u.s. help, they all right cut a deal. all of that's a blow to u.s. influence. >> the white house released a letter from president trump to turkish president erdogan. what did it say? >> reporter: it was dated october 9th. it was meant to back up the

president's claim that he clearly warned erdogan not to invade syria. if you read it, it sounds just like the president wrote it. it says, "don't be a tough guy. don't be a fool," and it was sent the same day at that turkish air strikes began. that shows how late the dministration was to realize erdogan was going through with this. just three days prior, there was a far less strong white house announcement that said the u.s. would just be getting out of the way and didn't support it. so these mixed messages have confused even erdogan who said he can't keep track of president trump's tweets. >> margaret, thank you. house impeach mement member are pushing forward the investigation of the president investigating the bidens. cbs has a copy of the prepared

remarks by the ambassador to the european union. he said he and others worked with the president's personal lawyer,giuliani because they were told to. giuliani ran his own private campaign. in his statements, sondland also says he didn't know until recently that hunter biden was connect to that company. >> british prime men stinister johnson tweeted it is a great new deal that he is confident will go through for brexit. parliament will vote on saturday. three previous agreements failed to pass. they face an october 31st

deadline. >> millions of people are in the grip of a powerful nor'easter. crashing winds and rain sent waving crashing over walls in maryland. wind gusts approaching 100 miles per hour were recorded in massachusetts and more than 400,000 customers in the northeast are still without power right now. >> nearly 50,000 striking gm workers may be back on the job soon after the united autoworkers reached a proposed deal with the company. they joined the picket lines halting production at dozens of factories nationwide. it has cost gm an estimated $1.5 billion. we have a report from the assembly plant.

>> we're anxious to go back to work. >> a member of the united auto workers union. he says he is ready to resume his job, but she not settling for less than what union workers deserve. >> it's not just getting anything, it's getting what we want. >> terms of the tentative four-year contract was not released, but sources say it includes pay raises, lump sum payments to workers, maintains low out of pocket costs for health care and has a path for temporary workers to become full-time employees. >> we have a history of things like temporary workers. >> negotiations are coming to an end, and we can get out of this cold. >> uaw is telling workers to

keep strikes as they propose the deal. >> it is hurting all of us. it is hurting general motors and our family. we could stay out here for a few more days. >> this has been the longest national strike against gm since 1970 and by some estimates workers have lost a million dollars in total wages in the last 30 days. they're about to find out if it was worth it. >> a trooper in utah rushed into harm's way to save a man's life with just seconds to spare. dramatic dash cam video shows the trooper running toward a car stranded on railroad tracks. and he scrambles to pull out the driver that is unconscious as the train barrels towards them. david is here with the incredible rescue.

>> the good news story of the morning. he had a medical emergency, loses control, crashes through a fence, is stuck on the tracks. the trooper gets the call to go to the scene and watch what happens. >> it was just after 6:50 a.m. pulling up to the scene where the suv was stuck on the tracks. >> the main concern was getting him out. >> he ran toward the suv with his flashlight on believing the driver was still inside. he would have just 35 seconds to get the man out. >> there is a train coming. >> he did it with less than two seconds to spare. the car flew through the air as the train bull doesed down the

track. > after i saw the train hit the vehicle and the vehicle flew about 30 feet in front of us, i realized that was a lot closer than i would have liked. the driver told the state trooper he is just grateful to be alive. >> i'm still trying to process everything that happened. i'm grateful that i got him out and he is alive and back with his family now. >> the trooper has only been on the force for about a year and a half. she okay, she in his 2-- he is 20s and he doesn't want to talk to the media and that's okay. >> the flashlight and the big light from the train, amazing. >> we know how the story will end, it is still tough to watch it because it was so close. >> that is what you call a close call. >> he could see that light coming and you're grabbing the guy and whew. >> i can see why the guy doesn't want to be named. we all want to talk about the

trooper. >> one of the country's biggest states is stepping up an effort to curb bullying. we're going to look at the sweeping new laws meant to protect children good thursday morning to you. things are starting to clear up as far as the skies are concerned. a beautiful fall afternoon. clear skies. high temperatures in the mix of the 60s and 70s. 69 in san jose. 67 oakland and san francisco and cooler along the coast. that cooling trend continues into saturday as things clear up. then we're going to start to warm up at the beginning of next week. there is a slight chance of rain saturday evening.

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it's 7:30. here's what's happening on "cbs this morning." >> we are supposed to be the beacon of hope. the beacon of light. >> a leader of the house impeachment probe, congressman elijah cummings, dies overnight. >> may god bless, may god bless america. witness on the part of the president was a meltdown. sad to say. >> top democrats walk o of a white house meeting on syria saying president trump insulted them. >> we need to have the tools that we need to do our jobs in our schools, that's extremely important. >> no school today for thousands of kids in chicago after their teachers go on strike. it's important to find out who that person is.

>> plus, we hear from the law firm representing the ukraine whistle-blower. >> if this person becomes the story, then the subject of all this comes about the bias of the whistle-blowers. this is about charity, but i would say at about maybe 2.5 months into this, i realized this is also about boxing now. >> in our series, "a more perfect union," cancer survivors literally fight for a cure. >> am i beyond your range where i'm sitting right now? >> i can get to you pretty quick. >> like her confidence. like it. >> he's not putting on the gloves, doesn't look like. welcome back, i'm tony dokoupil with gayle king and anthony mason. we begin with this, only on "cbs this morning," the father of a sandy hook victim is telling us about his fight against misinformation. and this comes after a major legal ruling against a man who called the mass shooting a hoax. a wisconsin jury ordered james fetzer, who co-wrote a book called "nobody died at sandy

hook," to pay $450,000 for defaming lenny pozner. pozner's 6-year-old son noah was killed in that 2012 shooting. and pozner has made it his mission to change tech company policies to protect victims from online bullying. he's made progress but also enemies. as a result, we agreed not to show what he looks like for his own protection. how many death threats have you received? >> oh, there have been dozens. and there are threats that are just posted that i may not have is even seen. >> reporter: lenny pozner says he's been forced to move at least a half dozen times since the death of his son noah. [ sirens ] one of 20 children and six adults killed in the 2012 shooting at connecticut's sandy hook elementary school. while still grieving, pozner faced a new shock as strangers claimed that the shooting had never really happened. what did you find on line? >> the talk of conspiracy theories, the talk of crisis actors, the talk of a staged

event to take away people's gun rights. >> reporter: most people probably would have just walked away. and you didn't. >> i never thought i had the option to walk away. >> reporter: because? >> because that was my life now, the father of a murdered child. and the name associated to an online conspiracy theory. >> reporter: pozner funneled his anger into action asking social media platforms to take down the posts. at first with little luck. >> most of the time there was an automatic robotic response. >> reporter: you're not even dealing with a person it. >> it never got to a person. >> reporter: in the years since, this unlikely activist has not only succeeded for himself, he's helping others through his organization honor network, whose volunteers keep an eye on the internet, protecting victims of tragedy, cyber stalking, and harassment. people like andy parker. >> i felt sick. >> reporter: after his daughter allison was shot to death on

live tv in 2015, conspiracy theorists reposed the video again claiming it was a fake. parker contacted youtube to get the voeideos taken down. >> i thought i could do it one time and be done with it. they said, no, you have to do it for each video. it's tantamount to saying watch your daughter's murder and tell us why -- >> reporter: over and over again. >> over and over again, and then tell a robot why this needs to come down. that's essentially what they told me to do. >> reporter: but pozner had a better idea -- he helped parker get the rights to the video, allowing him to force the removal in bulk on copyright grounds, and it worked. >> it was just a matter of who can help me with this. and i knew it was lenny. >> reporter: more recently, many large tech companies have updated their policies on harassment. so what role do you think yuch personally played in getting facebook and google and youtube and wordbless to climate change their policies -- wordpress to

change their policies? >> i think had i not shamed them publicly using the press that none of that would have happened in the way that it has happened. >> reporter: in confronting misinformation, pozner has also changed minds. >> i think it could be summed up with the term sandy hoax. >> reporter: dave gahary's company published james fetzer's book, "nobody died at sandy hook," which prompted pozner to sue in the first place. as pozner spoke at a deposition, gahary had a revelation. >> i'm listening to him, and i decided, i determined that what he was saying was authentic, and i wanted to do what i could do to not contribute to the negative things that he's experienci experiencing. >> reporter: gahary settled the case. fetzer is on the hook for a $450,000 suit in wisconsin. pozner says his work is just getting started. is there fight, crusade, mission you're on, does it take up your

life? i mean, is this what you do? >> this has become my life's work, yeah. >> reporter: this is your life's work. >> yeah. that's what it's turned into. >> reporter: does it still feel good when you get something taken down? >> it feels right. >> wow. >> lenny pozner is also suing internet personality alex jones for defamation for spreading false information about the sandy hook shootings. jones' attorneys are using free speech arguments to try to get the case dismissed. . guys, pozner says this is not about other people's free speech, it's about people like him and other victims, their freedom from harassment -- >> yes -- >> and terror on line. >> absolutely. >> considering what he's gone through, it's very sad that this has to be his life's work, that he would now be subjected to this. >> i tell you what, he is making progress. >> good work. >> it's fascinating that it took a copyright situation to pull a video down when something that was toxic and hateful was allowed to stay. >> the tech companies don't know how to deal with grieving parents, but they do know how to deal with lawyers and the fear

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october is national bullying prevention month. despite that, there have been a rash of school bullying incidents reported in pennsylvania, maine, and california in recent weeks. some of them have been deadly. to fight the worsening problem, california's governor signed three new laws aimed at preventing bullying and suicides. carter evans is in los angeles with more on this story. so carter, what prompted this action? >> reporter: well, the new laws come after one southern california school witnessed two acts of violence, and one of them leaving a 13-year-old boy dead. and concerns a 10-year-old student at another school might have died over suicide over being bullied. the question now -- do the new laws go far enough? a student sucker punched in this video last month.

diego stoltz died of his injuries a week later. on monday, another attack at the same school. >> these girls had time to punch my daughter in the face nine times. >> reporter: now police are investigating whether 10-year-old allison wendel who attended this southern california elementary school died by suicide last weekend. police have been scouring her social media and following leads at her school that she might have been bullied. >> we want people to remember her like who she was, not think that she was a sad little girl that was in some, you know, horrible depression because it wasn't the truth. >> reporter: rise up against bullying is a school violence program based in southern california. karyna gonzalez is a counselor there. >> the bullying continues at home on line. >> reporter: the online threat is addressed as part of three new anti-bullying laws signed by governor newsom over the past month. the safe place to learn act requires that children in kindergarten through sixth grade

have easy access to suicides prevention materials including on the internet. meanwhile, an amendment to the state's education code is also aimed at younger students, requiring an updated policy on suicide prevention, appropriate to the needs to those at high risk including youngsters who are disabled, homeless, or identify as gay, lesbian, or transgender. another law creates a special suicide prevention funds for taxpayer contributions. it would help fund crisis centers that are active members of the national suicide prevention hotline. >> we need parents and schools and communities and our legislators to work together to combat the combat this problem. it's a responsibility of all of us to ensure that our students go to school to learn and not to survive the day. >> reporter: nationwide about 20% of students aged 12 to 18 say they've been bullied. experts say because of the internet, students are often unable to escape their bullies and are constantly being

retraumatized. tony? >> yeah. a sad reality. thank you so much. good reminder to have a conversation as a parent with your kids about in predicament. >> the scary part. now it's -- literally the bullying is coming into the home through the computer or phone, whatever it is. >> sure does. >> we can't stress that enough when we were little it ended tup school yard. home was a sanctuary, no longer the case. >> all right. ahead, disturbing video shot inside a new orleans hotel before a deadly collapse. why construction workers were so concerned about what they ♪

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they do. >> they have extra jobs, working in retail, doing things on the side. >> there's nobody more important in your kid's life at that age than a teacher. >> that affected us in our lives. we will remember their names. a disturbing video from hid the hard rock hotel in new orleans reportedly shot two days before part of it collapsed. it was uncovered by our new orleans affiliate wwl. officials say three people were killed when a large section of the under-construction hotel collapsed on saturday. the video shot by a worker claims to show flaws inside the construction site. now it's in spanish, and in spanish, he says sarcastically, look, the best engineering, look at these large stretches between supports and beams. they're already to the point of breaking. he goes on to say, look at how it's already bent. bent already, rather. they couldn't remove to because it's too bent and has too much pressure. he ends by saying, "this is seriously bad." a spokesman for the project

contractor cautioned against drawing any conclusions from the video. we reached out to the hard rock hotel regarding the video and have not heard -- >> you're right. you can't draw conclusions, but something tells me that will end up in a courtroom down the road. >> you can say it's unusual for a worker to go through and same i'm worried, there is bad. >> we were at the empire state building. we marvedle at the construction. it was built in 19 it -- 1931. on the anniversary of one of california's deadliest earthquakes the state is rolling out the nation's first statewide earthquake warning system. i was surprised that this wasn't already in existence. 30 years ago today a massive 6.9-magnitude quake rocked the san francisco bay area killing 67 people. geologists say another major earthquake along the san andreas fault line is overdue. the new warning system that goes into effect and can warn people up to a minute before tremors reach them. it uses seismic stations to detect grounds motion, identify strength, and sends out letters.

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♪ cummings good morning to you, our viewers in the west, thursday, october 17th, 2019. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king with tony dokoupil and anthony mason. ahead, a look back at the life and impact of democratic congressman elijah cummings. >> plus, the high stakes and high-level mission to turkey to stop the crisis in northern syria. >> a fundraising organization brings cancer survivors to the boxing ring in our series a more perfect union. here's today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> maryland congressman elijah cummings, chairman of the house oversight committee died this morning at a hospital in baltimore. >> he was someone who was

emulated by younger members, respected by democrats and republicans. >> democrats say president trump lost his cool because the house overwhelmingly passed a resolution denouncing his decision to pulls u.s. troops out of syria. >> what's happening on the ground right now is that the turks, the russians and iran are moving faster than the u.s. can retreat. >> an apparent break through in brexit negotiations. prime minister boris johnson announced the tentative agreement this morning. >> this has been the longest national strike against gm since 1970. they're about to find out if it was worth it? >> i look up to the heavens, i see the stars and sometimes i see my father. and if my father was standing here with us tonight, he would say these simple words, you are blessed so you can bless others. go out there and vote and don't stop lifting up the american

people. may god bless -- may god bless america. >> he was a very powerful speaker. welcome back to "cbs this morning." we're going to begin with the breaking news overnight, you've heard about it by now, the death of long-time democratic congressman elijah cummings. his office says he died early this morning in his hometown of baltimore after, quote, complications concerning long-standing health challenges. cummings used his position as chairman of the house oversight committee to repeatedly question president trump and other officials. he spoke to "60 minutes" when he became chairman back in january. >> the fact that we can look at anything is part of the problem. there's so much. i'm serious. there's so much. >> you only have two years. >> less than that. actually less than that. the congress doesn't meet but so many days in a year. all i'm saying is that we've got to hit the ground not running, but flying. >> cummings was 68 years old. nancy cordes on capitol hill. the question is, how are

lawmakers reacting to this very unexpected news? >> gayle, the grief here on capitol hill this morning is bipartisan. one democrat described cummings as a towering presence, a republican called him an extraordinary man. cummings had struggled in recent years with various health problems. he had a heart valve replacement a couple years ago. he was dealing with a knee infection. those recent procedures had slowed him down. he took his last vote a little over a month ago, but his wife says this morning that he worked until his last breath. this morning, i spoke with senate minority leader chuck schumer who called the news a punch to the gut. >> he was a wonderful, amazing man. he always showed in his professional life and personal life strength and kindness and compassion and humility. people would seek his advice, i would, because you know you would get a dispassionate answer but a caring answer. not what would benefit --

>> cummings began his career in the maryland house of dell gates in 1983 where he served for 14 years before he was elected to congress in 1996. representing part of baltimore and its suburbs. as the chair of the powerful house oversight committee he was one of a handful of leaders of the impeachment inquiry into president trump. house majority whip james clyburn said this morning, today we have lost a giant. elijah cummings was a public servant to his core. during his career in congress, cummings has sponsored or cosponsored more than 5200 pieces of legislation. he will be remembered by his wife and three children. >> boy, all right, nancy, thank you. civil rights attorney ben crump with us now, knew cummings for a decade and considers him a mentor and a role model. good to see you, ben crump today. >> good to see you. >> under these circumstances i'm sorry to say. what can you tell us about him?

you know we heard nancy say that the grief on capitol hill was bipartisan. >> yes, ma'am. >> what can you tell us about him? >> gayle, elijah cummings was a prince of a man. he was a giant in government, but more importantly, he was a pillar to our community. i remember with when trayvon martin was killed, he was co-chairing the congressional black caucus panel on black men and boys and how they are disproportionately affected and by profiling and in employment and he at that hearing made the preamble to the declaration of independence real. we are all created equally and you saw that with him in our government, the u.s. congress talking about this black child who had been taken away from us. then i remember, gayle, debbie wasserman-schultz, congresswoman of south florida, was going through a re-election bid, and

we had hosted congressman cummings to come down to south florida and we for 48 hours campaigned and it was -- on sunday morning we went to all the baptist churches in the black community, received him, but then we went to the ju wish synagogues and the same effect. >> same reaction. >> he had respect on both sides of the aisle and across communities. >> absolutely. he was so dignified as a past president of the national bar association. he was a black attorney so he mentored all of us young lawyers and told us about diplomacy and trying to have conflict resolution and not being disagreeable even though you disagree. i think we saw that play out in the halls and house levels of our government with elijah cummings. >> you must have been surprised and shocked as everyone else. >> unbelievable. >> thank you. thank you very much. you were here to talk about your book. it just worked out you're here

on the same day he passed away. you will be back, ben crump will join us in the next half hour about his book "open season legalized genocide of people" ahead on "cbs this morning." the trump administration making its strongest push for a cease-fire in northern syria. vice president mike pence and secretary of state mike pompeo sat down with turkish president erdogan in turkey's capital ankara. they're trying to convince turkey to halt its military operation against the kurds. cbs news obtained a letter mr. trump wrote to erdogan last week asking him to handle the situation the, quote, right and humane way. he added, don't be a tough guy, don't be a fool. and let's make a deal he added. retired admiral sandy winafeld a military and homeland security analyst and a former vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. admiral, good morning. exactly the person to talk to on a morning like this. can the vice president and the

secretary of state succeed in getting a cease-fire done? >> they might be able to get a cease-fire accomplished. who knows because erdogan is a strong man who has his own domestic political issues and doesn't want to appear to be weak. even if they're able to accomplish a cease-fire there are a lot of other things that are a problem at the strategic level with this deal. >> very unusual letter that the president apparently wrote to the president of turkey, the language was odd, the posture of the american government was odd. what struck you? >> well, when i first saw the letter candidly i almost thought it might have been a fake. >> a lot of people did. >> yes. >> yeah. >> and, you know, it didn't seem to have the gravitas that you would expect a super power leader to use when speaking to an alley who i ally stepping ou >> president trump called the kurdish fight noers angels. you worked with them for 30 years. how would you describe them? >> the kurdish fighters, there's a long history here. post-world war i they were guaranteed a homeland and have

been betrayed many times ever since. we began our closest relationship with them in 1991 when we sent them humanitarian aid after the first gulf war and they never forget that. they've been loyal allies and friends since and supported us in numerous operations in iraq and now they've been fighting and dying to the tune of 11,000 kurds who have essentially been working on the ground against isis who was a sworn enemy of the united states. >> for us. >> he also said that the kurds are safer now. what's your response to that? >> well -- >> the president said this. >> several hundred kurds have been killed in the last few days in the initial phases of this incursion. i don't believe that i could credibly say the kurds are safer now. >> you heard the president say, this is their war, we need to get out of there, i'm sick of americans dying over there, let them handle their own battles what do you say to that? >> when you're trying to take on a terrorist organization, it's a long-term operation. and so the important thing is to make an economy of force operation where you find a partner on the ground who is willing to fight your enemy and

you support them perhaps with some special forces, with a lot of air power. that's the economy of force. you have to sustain that if you're going to win something. >> can we fix this effectively? >> it's going to be very difficult to fix this. it's essentially irreversible because the territory we're leaving is very rapidly going to be filled in which syrian forces supported by iranians and russians, and the kurds have switched their alliance over to that. it's essentially irreversible. the one thing that we can only hope for is that they will continue the fight against isis so thathe middle east, europe and, of course, the united states can -- >> can always send troops back in. that might reverse it. >> i donhink that we'll send troops back in unless perhaps there were a major terrorist attack against the united states or close ally. that ground is gone now. we handed it over for free. >> wow. >> all right. admiral, always good to hav

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what does it take to protect the identity what does it take to protect the identity of a white house whistle-blower? alex wagner asked a lawyer from the firm representing the whistle-blower who triggered the impeachment inquiry. the co-host of the "the circus"

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clo ♪ ♪ what are we fighting for more closed door testimony is scheduled today in the house impeachment inquiry on capitol hill. one whistle-blower you'll recall accused president trump of pushing ukraine to investigate the bidens in exchange for military aid. well, the law firm representing the whistle-blower is fighting to keep their client's identity a secret. this is despite calls from the president and other republicans to reveal it. cbs news special correspondent and co-host of showtime's "the circus," alex wagner, spoke with an attorney at the law firm. >> we're trying to find out about a whistle-blower. >> reporter: since news broke about a whistle-blower complaint deemed credible and urgent by the inspector general of the intelligence community, president trump has appeared to focus on unmasking his or her identity. >> i think a whistle-blower should be protected if the whistle-blower's legitimate. >> reporter: but among the layers of protection for whistle-blowers, to a certain

degree, is anonymity. is the whistle-blower afforded federal protection if they are unmasked? >> it's not quite clear what would necessarily be legally entitled with respect to this whistle-blower. >> reporter: who gets to make that decision? >> in theory, the president. >> reporter: bradley moss is from the law firm mark zaid which is representing the whistle-blower at the root of the impeachment inquiry. >> reporter: is it a fool's error to think that this person is going to stay anonymous. >> if this person becomes the story, the subject of all this is not about whether or not the president's, you know, behavior his conduct was wrong, impeachable, it becomes about the bias of the whistle-blowers. >> reporter: but the president's allies on capitol hill see that issue differently. >> the american people have a right to know who started this whole thing. >> reporter: this week, republican congressman jim jordan who sits on one of the committees conducting the closed door impeachment depositions demanded transparency.

you've called for this person to be unmasked. do you worry that harm may come to him or her if he or she is unmasked? >> we don't want harm for anyone. >> reporter: you know the president's rhetoric on this. >> we don't want harm on anyone. what i do know and what i worry about is the idea that you have someone who is anonymous who has no firsthand knowledge -- >> reporter: right. >> -- and who has a bias against the president. >> reporter: today the house is preparing for more high-profile depositions. you think the information that has come out since this initial whistleblower report was made public has buttressed the whistle-blower's complaint or negated it? >> i think it is what it is. it's the transcript, and the two most important people in this issue are president trump and ukraine president zelensky. they both said there was no quid pro quo. >> alex wagner is on capitol hill. good morning. adam schiff says he's keeping the transcripts secret for now, but eventually will release

them. what's his case for doing this behind closed doors? >> reporter: so house democrats say, look, this is a fact-finding mission, and it's important that we get at the truth. as such, we can't have witnesses coordinating their stories with one another. so these proceedings need to happen behind closed doors. they further say that democrats and republicans in the committees are getting equal time. so this is a fair proceeding. that has not convinced house republicans who are lashing out at adam schiff and democrats saying this is a secret soviet-style set of hearings. >> alex, the ambassador of the european union, gordon sondland, goes before lawmakers today. why is his testimony so important? >> reporter: sondland is a big deal today on the hill. he is the ambassador to the european union and has been intimately involved in the back and forth between the trump white house and president zelensky. house democrats are particularly interested in meetings that sondland had in the white house with ukrainian officials, and they are likely to ask about a series of text messages he was directed to send by the order of president trump himself. there is a lot that will happen

behind closed doors. you can expect the testimony is going to go on for quite some time. >> it's going to be interesting when he testifies. there's been so much conflicting information revolving around him. let's talk about the impeachment vote. where do the democrats stands on that? >> reporter: you know, there's surprising unanimity from both sides of the aisle here. widespread expectation that that the democrats are going to proceed forward with articles of impeachment in a sort of expeditious manner, if you will. mitch mcconnell, the senate leader, yesterday said that he expects to receive articles of impeachment from nancy pelosi around thanksgiving, and that the senate will move forward with an impeachment trial that he expects to wrap before the end of the year. so bipartisan accord that this should happen relatively quickly given all the testimony that we've had thus far and testimony that we have yet to hear. and that it will happen before the end of the year. >> all right. alex wagner, thanks. "the circus" airs sundays on showtime. a division of cbs. check local listings. civil rights attorney ben

crump has represented families of trayvon martin and botham jean. he's in our toyota green room this is a kpix 5 news morning update. good morning it is 825 i'm michelle griego. another small ersdz quake hit parts of northern california in just a short time ago. the magnitude 3.7 jolt hit about 7:55 this morning. the epicenter was 10 miles northwest of pinnacle's national park. the 6.9 magnitude quake centered in the santa cruz mountains left more than 60 people dead on october 17th, 1989. mark zuckerberg plans to deliver a live address today about the importance of free speech.

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welcome back. welcome back. you know what time it is. time to bring some of the ors at are "talk of the table" this morning. that's where we pick a story we like to share with each other and all of you. anthony, you're up. >> am i first? >> okay, all right. an elementary school principal in gillette, wisconsin, is getting high marks for a letter that he wrote. it was to the tootfay. the letter last week was to verify that a student did, indeed, lose a tooth during the school day. he said a first grader lost it on the playground and became distressed. he asked the tooth fairy to accept the letter as official verification of a lost tooth and provide the standard monetary exchange rate he normally used

for a real tooth. here's the letter. i'm holding it up. from kurt angel -- angelly, the principal. he said as a trained principal and hobby dentist i can verify there's definitely a gap in the student's teeth. >> yes. the tooth fairy's very, very busy. >> the tooth fairy accepted the letter andpaent ought a dollar to the first grader. >> good on the tooth fairy. >> good on the principal, as well. >> that's right. i'm talking about a milwaukee police officer who you could say went beyond the call of duty after he pulled over a driver for not having the proper plates on a new car. officer kevin zimmerman noticed three kids in the back seat on saturday and two of them were not in car seats. the driver was a single mom of five. she bought winter coats, she had the car, but she didn't have enough for the seats. she couldn't afford them. instead of giving her a ticket, zimmerman took down her information and later went to her home to deliver books, stickers, and also, yes, new car seats, the ones she didn't have.

>> fabulous. >> zimmerman even installed the car seats and showed the mom how to do it herself. take a listen. >> when i thought about my kids, and i knew if -- if i wasn't able to afford it, i would hope somebody would help me out. >> that is called empathy, it's not charity. it's neighborliness, and i love it. >> yep. i saw when she was stopped, the woman first thought, uh-oh. >> yeah. >> uh-oh. uh-oh. and then she was very shocked when he came back to her house to deliver the car seats. >> yeah. >> very important story for a lot of reasons. i like a good story that makes you go, aah. i've got another. a little girl named gabby. everybody on the internet is talking about miss gabby. gabby's adoptive parents who are based in dallas shared a video of gabby talking about the first time the two of them met along with her little sister lily. >> when i saw you, my heart fell in love with you. >> your heart fell in love with me?

oh, my heart fell in love with you, too. >> i'm just thinking throughout the day, you -- can we all meet someone that you say "when i saw you my heart fell in love with you"? i just love the sentiment of that. >> i love it. i want it on auto play when i go in the office door. i love you, too. >> my heart fell in love with you. very nice. ne. civil rights attorney ben crump was here earlier. he's back. he's been called the african-american family emergency plan. he gained national recognition back in 2012 during the trayvon martin case. since then he's been by the side of many people seeking justice including the families of tamir rice, michael brown, and most recently botham jean. his new book is called "open season: legalized genocide of colored people." crump examines how racist practices in the criminal justice system impact america from police brutality to voter suppression. ben crump, thank you so much,

for joining us once again at the table. >> thank you. >> you said that in the book you write "living in con distance -- constant fear is paralyzed. demoralizing, can kill your ambition and outlook. racism is a tool in genocide." genocide is such a strong word. >> it is, but it is appropriate to draw attention to what's happening. most people are thinking that we see another hash tag so often that it gets attention for one day -- >> yes. >> think about all the hash tags we've seen in just this year. >> yeah. and the crux of the problem that you see is what exactly? >> it is certainly implicit bias, and where i really try to focus on in this book is holding a mirror to america's face to say, america, we can do better. this book endeavors to make all racists confront our biases because we need to admit that there's a problem. you know, one in five black men and n tennessee, in florida -- in tennessee, in florida, in

many of the other states have similar statistics are convicted felons. if it continues, ty believe in the next 25 years one in three black men will be convicted felons. and so when i think about the inspiration of this book, i go back to seeing the young people protesting in ferguson and the aftermath of michael brown, gayle. and there was this one young man i remember specifically who confronted the national guard who had the assault rifles pointed at him. he said, "go ahead and kill me now. with all the cameras here, you're going to kill us anyway when they're gone." he said, "it's important that the world sees how you all are killing us," and that stayed in my mind. it's important. >> ben, a lot of people are uncomfortable having this conversation. >> yeah. ings >> how do we have it? >> well, it's a necessary conversation. we have it because we want to do better as a society. >> how do we really start it? >> you start it by being honest.

you look at the empirical data. we have empirical evidence here that we talk about those things that even though black men make up only 7% of the population in america, we make up almost 50% of the population on death row. so you have to admit that one or two things, either black men or some terrible evil criminal minded people are -- our criminal justice system is racist and discriminatory, and i choose to believe that black men are no worse than any other man in america. >> here's the very hard part which is implicit bias is re thing. i don't think anyone would argue against it. it takes a lifetime embedded in our society to become biased in that way. how do you train that out of somebody in like a 15-hour sessn or a weekend or something like that? >> it's never going to happen in a 15-hour session. >> a weekend retreat -- >> this is what happens. there is implicit bias training. one-day training. everyone at corporations do this. is that going to do it -- >> we are the solution. each and every one of us is a solution. we know it's not going to happen

in an eight-hour session, 15-hour session. every day we have to try to better ourselves. we have to look at situations where the -- in the courtroom where black and brown people are sentenced twice as much as white people and say there's something wrong with that. we can't as dr. king says see injustice and see evil and look the other way. >> be a bystander. >> yeah. >> you have a chapter called "white men are not shot in the back." you give examples of unarmed black men who were killed. yet there are white suspects who have done mass shootings that are still alive. can you talk about that? >> absolutely. you know, two things, gayle. even -- whether it is hands up, don't shoot, black people, brown people are killed in some of the most unbelievable ways when they have encounters with police officers. michael brown was walking, hands up, don't shoot, in ferguson.

then you have earnest hoskins who we talk about, a young man having a debate with his boss in front of his three employees, and his boss blew his head off and claimed stand your ground. he claimed stand your ground. and then you see pamela turner who's having a mental illness crisis, and the police officer shoots her five times while she's on the grounds and he's on his feet. >> on the other side you have dylan roof. >> you have dylan roof, the shooting in parkland, florida. and white men who are confirmed mass murderers are arrested and protected -- >> arrested and protected. white men who are -- >> they take him to burger king after they know he's killed nine of the most innocent people you could ever find. but stefan clark, philando castile, all these black men, if they move a certain way, they are shot and killed. so it's the implicit bias that we have to not feel one another, we have to reach out to one

another. >> you have solutions. you say change the focus of criminal justice reform to transformation. >> yeah. >> rethink incarceration, think successful rehabilitation. >> absolutely. there is a better way that we can make this world better for all our children and let them know that all our lives matter. i -- i honestly think, gayle -- >> all our lives matter -- >> all our lives matter. >> there's no such thing as sitting on the sidelines on this one. that in itself is taking a position. mr. crump, we appreciate you being here. the book, "open season," on sale right now. chip reid shows us how cancer survivors and their supporters are literally fighting for a cure. he's in the boxing gym outside washington, d.c. chip, good morning. >> reporter: well, here in this gym some people learn how to box so they can fight cancer. you might wonder what in the world is the connection between boxing and finding a cure. coming up on "cbs this morning," i'll explain.

our series "a more perfect union" aims to show that what unites us as americans is far greater than what divides us. every year nearly two million more americans are diagnosed with cancer. one innovative organization is letting cancer survivors and their supporters lace up their gloves to give cancer a knockout

blow. chip reid is at a boxing gym near the nation's capital where some of the fighters train. chip, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning. you might think the last thing a cancer survivor would want to do is climb into a boxing ring and put their body through another pummelling. but we found some people who have done exactly that. they're doing it to raise money for haymakers for hope. at age 31, annie dragolich got blind sided by breast cancer. >> round one. >> reporter: now healthy, she picked this fight. did you ever in your wildest dreams imagine yourself in a boxing ring? >> never, no. >> reporter: annie is here with haymakers for hope, a nonprofit who perils people who are

literally fighting for a cure. >> you don't want to fight a cancer survivor. >> reporter: the founders met at the gym. you are a champion amateur boxer. am i beyond your range where i'm sitting now? >> i can get to you pretty quick. >> reporter: julie ann kelly is also a survivor. >> i fell into a depression and said to myself, you're here. other people don't get to experience what you're experiencing. throw that out, and do something good. and i started boxing and absolutely fell in love with the sport. it was medicine for me just as much as chemo and radiation was. it was something that i needed. >> reporter: now in its ninth year, haymakers for hope has raised more than $13 million at 26 events including bells of the brawl featuring female fighters. rumble in the rockies and this one in washington -- pranav vora a lymphoma survivor also stepped into the ring. is there anybody you know who you think might be looking forward to you getting punched in the face? >> plenty of people. absolutely. >> i'm sure there are axes out there. >> reporter: haymakers for hope provides a trainer and a gym, and they're not pulling any punches. >> this is the real thing.

i expect my opponent is going to come out and expect to knock me out. >> reporter: seriously? annie spent four months in grueling training, learning how to defend against and land haymakers of her own. parnov trained five days a week. even with his own business, two young kids, and a wife who wasn't always on board. >> i didn't tell my wife until after the fact. so every day she's like, if you want to continue doing anything like this, we're going to have a discussion about it. >> reporter: on fight night, she was in his corner. >> are you nervous? >> i'm nervous. i found out -- i was pregnant, and he had cancer, in the same month. >> reporter: annie's cheering section -- >> look at her! [ cheers ] >> reporter: -- included her mother and sister, also a cancer survivor. >> she is tough! >> reporter: tough enough to beat more than breast cancer. >> and the winner, awesome annie dragolich. >> reporter: were you surprised? >> no. >> reporter: no?

you said you were going to win. winning with the confidence that comes when you've already won the fight of your life. [ chants ] you don't have to be a cancer survivor to do this. in fact, anybody who wants to fight cancer can volunteer. in fact, haymakers for hope is having their iggest event ever next month in new york city. and tony, you might want to check and see if it's too late to sign up. >> i don't know. this face can't take a punch i don't think. thank you so much. >> i love that name, belles of the brawl. that's the best. >> that's beautiful. >> you could wear one of those face guards. >> i'll wear two of them maybe. >> they always say your attitude is so important when you're going through something like that. i would think you'd have a really great attitude if you could get in the ring and just hit somebody. >> and annie throws a hell of a punch. >> warriors there. all right. thank you so much. great piece. on today's podcast, brian

cox discusses playing the president, lyndon b. johnson in "the great society." he reveals what he has in common with his character on the hbo series "succession." listen to wherever you like to get your podcasts. before we go, we'll tell you how a man's simple act inspired an entire community to help students and their families. we'll be right back.

before we go a florida man's simple act of kindness for students inspired a chain reaction in his community. andrew levy was moved to take action after he learned about the lunch debt in the school district. he paid off the $944 debt for all nine schools in jupiter. >> children shouldn't have to learn hungry. these children that were in debt were going to either not eat or, you know, they would get just cheese sandwiches. and i thought, that's crazy. >> and it is. levy told our west palm beach affiliate, wpec, that when others found out about his donation, they asked how they could help. levy, who has no children in the school district, plans to set up gofundme pages to keep raising money so no lunch debt will accumulate ever again. >> thank you, andrew levy.

see, kindness begets kindness. nice. >> sometimes kids don't go to school because they're embarrassed they don't have lunch money. that will do it for us. see you tomorrow. this is hamish. he's a bit more brave. ♪ oh. look. ♪ ♪ ♪

good morning. it is 8:55 i'm michelle griego. today marks 30 years since the destructive loma prieta earthquake rocked northern california. it left more than 60 people dead on october 17th, 1989. san francisco's department of emergency management plans to test its wireless management system today. . search warrants have been served on the owner of a contra costa fuel facility.

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good morning it's 8:57. still very busy out there. especially that commute out of the east bay into san francisco. we're seeing slow and go conditions off the nimitz freeway. it looks like we've got a bit of a snag there. conditions backed up out of hayward for your morning drive.

a little bit better on the san mateo bridge. an accident now cleared out of lanes. once you're past that speeds improve nicely heading towards 101. 101 itself expect a few brake lights. speaking of break lights look at this. we've got a lot of them northbound 880 nimitz freeway as you pass the coliseum. it looks like it's the usual there. >> we are starting to see clearing conditions out there. taking a lye ook towards the north bay. those breezy conditions are only set to intensify in the afternoon hours. 54 degrees. 60 in concord. 55 in santa rosa. your high temperatures a mix of the 60s and the low 70s. 71 concord, livermore. 67 oakland. 72. santa rosa along the coast. that cool off continues into saturday. we have another chance of rain saturday night into sunday. that clears up on sunday and then warms up at the beginning of next week.

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