and the civilian population alike. dozens of people killed, as many as 200,000 displaced. us tonighm dohuk. so charlie, where does this leave the u.s. military in the region? >> well, norah, cbs news has learned the pentagon has had no change to their withdrawal plan, and no direction on how the removal of kurdish forces will be implemented. >> great reporting there, charlie. thank you. tonight there are fears of another possible collapse at the hard rock hotel under construction in new orleans. part of the building crumbled on saturday, killing three people. omar villafranca now with a newly posted video that shows workers had serious concerns about the safety of the structure. >> reporter: this grainy video is now being examined by investigators, potential evidence that may help determine what went wrong. >> oh my god.

>> reporter: two days before the accident, a concerned worker filmed an upper floor of the 18-story hotel under construction. he points to a series of red flags like this floor-to-ceiling temporary beam supporting concrete slabs. in spanish he says "they couldn't remove this one because it's too bent. it has too much pressure. this is serious." >> this was a cascading set of failures. >> reporter: civil engineer norma jean mattei watched the video. >> it makes me wonder why. was the brace ged? was the concrete placed not of adequate strength? was the concrete just not strong enough? >> reporter: governor john bel edwards said the possible of tropical storm winds moving in tomorrow is posing a danger for the two damaged cranes still standing. >> we are working as hard as we can on a timeline that will allow for those crane towers to actually be taken down safely.

>> reporter: omar villafranca, cbs news, new orleans. to chicago now where teachers in the nation's third largest school district walked off the job today. as megve report >> fair contracts! >> reporter: by daybreak, thousands of striking teachers flooded the streets. duwana evans who has been teaching on chicago's west side for 13 years was one of them. >> it's about equity. so it's not about the money. >> reporter: the most contentious issues overcrowded classrooms and wage increases. but in a city plagued by gun violence and concentrations of poverty, teachers also want additional social workers and nurses in every school. >> they need someone to talk to. their families can't provide it all the time. >> reporter: recently elected mayor lori lightfoot offered the teachers union a 16% pay raise over fife years.

she visited students today at two community centers that took in kids who couldn't go to class. >> we always have to keep in mind the taxpayers. >> reporteth360,0 snts and thei families are searchi au up with the muhisanis this morning, getting their daughters ready for a $110 a day strike camp. >> you don't have to eat anything you don't want. >> reporter: helen muhisani is hoping the strike ends quickly. what's the best possible outcome here? >> that they go to school. >> reporter: that they come to an agreement soon? >> yeah, and they go back to school tomorrow that would be awesome. >> reporter: unlike the last strike in 2012, all of the chicago school buildings here are open, offering breakfast, lunch and dinner for students. norah? >> all right, meg, thank you so much. we'll be right back.

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across maryland in honor of congressman elijah cummings. he long-time civil rights impeachment inquiry died this morning. he was 68. chip reid looks back at cummings' remarkable life. >> i may be dancing with the angels when all of this is corrected, but i got to tell you, we must fight for our democracy. >> reporter: his colleagues on capitol hill say elijah cummings' death leaves an enormous void. >> he is now with the angels. out of pain. >> we respected him because he was good. ught heel in. because of what >> reporter: cummings was chairman of the powerful house oversight committee. >> those in highest levels of the government must stop invoking fear, using racist language, and encouraging

reprehensible behavior. >> reporter: he denounced the president's immigration policy >> we are >> reporter: and he fought back when the president called his baltimore district a rodent-infested mess. >> i do not have time for people who want to trash our city. >> reporter: but today the president praised cummings, tweeting his work and voice will be very hard, if not impossible to replace. after riots broke out in baltimore four years ago -- >> go home, folks. >> reporter: cummings took the lead in trying to restore order. community activist anthony presley says cummings never strayed from his roots. >> we saw him every day. he walked the streets. he went to the local churches here. he was just a part of baltimore. he wasn't from baltimore, he was of baltimore. >> reporter: in a statement, cummings' wife maya said he worked until his last breath because he believed our democracy was the highest and

best expression of our >> huge loss indeed. chip, thank you. there is still much more ahead. the reward is growing in the case of an alabamaapped during party. and a new study blames a design flaw in an infant sleeper for causing dozens of deaths.

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pediatricians have been raising questions about incline introduced them more than a decade ago. and as anna werner reports, a new study out today says their design is dangerous and deadly. >> she was everything to me. >> reporter: amanda butler's daughter arya died in a fisher-price rock 'n play incline sleeper. >> it's turned our life upside down. >> reporter: nationwide, 59 babies have died in incline sleepers since 2005, according to the consumer product safety commission. millions of sleepers were recalled. now a study from the consumer product safety commission says that none of the inclined sleep products it examined are safe for babies to sleep. >> babies are dying and have died in these products. >> reporter: university of arkansas's erin mannen led the study. >> based on the results of ourha product.

say bslanp sleepers are set on an incline . doctors say the angled position can cause the head to fall forward and block an infant's airway. the cpsc says suffocation risk to infants disappeared when the incline was below 10 degrees, but doctors had warned of risks for years, and amanda butler says earlier action would have saved her daughter's life. >> our daughter had a full life ahead of her. she only had to live ten weeks of it. that's not -- i don't want anyone else to have to go through that. >> reporter: the cpsc is expected to vote on the new tougher standard next week. it will then be opened for comments. norah, we reached out to manufacturers but did not hear today. >> i hope some changes are on the way. thank you, anna. still ahead, why the country's biggest e-cigarette maker has extinguished some flavors.

tonight the reward is growing in the case of a missing 3-year-old alabama girl. it's up to $33,000 in the search for kamille mckinney. her family nicknamed her cupcake. police say she was kidnapped birmingham last saturday during a birthday party. juul said today it will immediately stop selling its fruit-flavored e-cigarettes. the company will keep stelling the lucrative mint, menthol and tobacco flavored. the move comes as the government considers banning all e-cigarettes. up next, the story that is out of this world. the women who are about to step into space history. >> this portion is sponsored by ancestry. unlock your past. inspire your future.

finally tonight, since 1965, there have been 420 spacewalks. at least one man has taken part in every one of them. well, mark strassmann reports tonight that changes tomorrow. >> everybody take their positions. >> reporter: living on the international space station gets cramped, but that's not why astronauts christina koch and jessica meir will step outside it tomorrow morning. together they'll replace a faulty battery charger on an exterior solar panel, the first

all-female spacewalk innist. >> in the past, women haven't always been at the table. and it's wonderful to be contributing to the human space flight program at a time when all contributions are being accepted. >> reporter: back in march koch was supposed to spacewalk with anne mcclain, but both women needed a medium-sized torso suit, and only one suit was ready. history had to wait. >> we currently do happen to have two medium space suits on board now. >> reporter: just this week, nasa modeled this new space suit. it's designed to fit the first woman who will walk on the moon. just think. nasa once thought only men had the right stuff. now meir is about to become the 15th female astronaut to walk in space. >> it's really nice to see how far that we've come. >> reporter: as in women stepping together into history, 260 miles above earth. mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. >> and if this story also has you over the moon, you can watch it on nasa tv, and we're going

the tweet out the link for you. it starts at 7:15 eastern time tomorrow. i'm norah o'donnell in new york. we'll see you tomorrow. good night. ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm tom hanson. the white house has done a u-turn in its battle against the impeachment inquiry gaining steam on capitol hill. acting chief of staff mick mulvaney for the first time admitted that president trump withheld military aid to ukraine as a quid pro quo, which means they'd get the money if they investigated mr. trump's political rivals. for weeks now, the president and his allies have denied this. meanwhile, one of president trump's long-time supporters gave congress a behind-the-scenes look at the

pressure campaign in ukraine. nancy cordes reports. >> it left the president's own lawyers mystified and blindsided, according to our sources. so tonight mulvaney is already trying to walk his comments back, saying in a statement that he was somehow misconstrued. >> i have news for everybody. repolicy.it.ertopolitics >> reporter: the president's acting chief of staff mick mulvaney admitted today that there was a quid pro quo involving u.s. military aid to ukraine, but not, he insisted, for the reason everyone thinks. >> the money held up had absolutely nothing to do with biden. that was the point i made to you. >> reporter: instead, he said, president trump put a temporary hold on millions in aid to get ukraine to investigate a debunked theory about a hidden server containing hillary clinton's emails. >> look back to what happened in 2016. certainly was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation.

>> reporter: but the white house summary of a call from july shows president trump asked his ukrainian counterpart to investigate both the crowdstrike server and former vice president joe biden, his potential campaign rival. >> things have just gone from very, very bad to much, much worse. muly's comments unned impeachmt igatorapitol hi. >> it has never happened in the history of this country, as far as i know, to condition security assistance on a personal president of the united states. and they've just admitted that's exactly what they did. >> reporter: another central figure testified behind closed doors today. gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the european union said he was disappointed when the president directed him to work with his personal lawyer rudy giuliani, whose agenda,

quote, included an effort to prompt the ukrainians to investigate vice president biden. >> the white house is saying this is what happens in politics all the time. get over it. that may be true, but not in america. >> we're told by sources there that justice officials were angry and utterly confused by something that mulvaney said. he suggested that the president just wanted ukraine to cooperate with a u.s. investigation into the 2016 election. well, doj fired off a statement saying that, quote, if the white house was withholding aid in regards to any investigation at doj, that is news to us. president trump is calling it a great day for civilization after vice president mike pence announced a five-day ceasefire in turkey's invasion of syria. turkey's foreign minister refuses to call it a ceasefire, instead labeling it a pause in his country assets battle against the kurds. but in washington, the u.s. senate is pushing ahead with sanctions against turkey, and others are calling for an investigation. charlie d'agata has the view

from the war zone. >> reporter: when vice president pence met president erdogan today, nothing on their faces suggested what was about to drop. >> a week after turkish forces crossed into syria, turkey and the united states of america have agreed to a ceasefire in syria. >> reporter: but it's more of a a plate. >> it will be a pause in military operations for 120 hours while the united states facilitates the withdrawal of turkey's stated objective, the removal of kurdish forces from a 20-mile deep so-called safe zone along the turkish border. speaking before a rally in dallas, president trump took the opportunity to express his gratitude to america's former allies. >> i want to thank the kurds because they were incredibly happy with the solution. this is a solution that really -- well, it saved their lives, frankly. >> reporter: kurdish commander mazloum kobani accepted the

agreement and said his forces will do what's necessary to make it work. for the past week, turkish artillery and air strikes have rained down on kurdish forces and the civilian population alike. dozens of people killed, as many as 200,000 displaced. cbs news has learned the pentagon has had no change to their withdrawal plan and no direction on how the removal of kurdish forces will be implemented. the trump organization is poised for a windfall after the white house announced next year's g7 summit will be held at one of president trump's florida resorts. is it legal? constitutional? here is major garrett. >> doral is by far and away, far and away the best physical facility for this meeting. >> reporter: amid accusations of conflict of interest, acting chief of staff mick mulvaney asserted hosting the global

economic summit at the trump-owned doral resort was not illegal or inappropriate because the president will not reap a profit. >> been doing this at cost. as a result, it's been dramatically cheaper for us to do it at doral. >> reporter: the white house narrowed its finalist to four sites, including two locations in utah and another in hawaii. mulvaney said it was mr. trump who proposed holding the g7 at his club. rahoing the summ mr. trump said this in augus-- location. i think it's very important. >> reporter: but business at doral is struggling. according to "the washington post," doral's profits dropped nearly 70% between 2015 and 2017. rooms range from $134 to $878 per night. doral tends to attract fewer guests in june, meaning the summit could compensate for a seasonal lag in revenue. >> it's publicity that you couldn't pay for. >> reporter: the white house move comes amid charges from

president trump that joe biden's son profited from his father's office by serving on the board of a ukrainian energy company. >> if there is one difference that you look at between the trump family and the biden family, the trump family made their money before they went into politics. rorter: tstio prohibits office holders from accepting any present or emolument from a foreign state or payments from the federal government. >> he continues to own that company and to benefit from it. there is no question that the federal government is going to be paying him a lot of money, which is against the constitution. >> reporter: the president's legal team was not consulted about this public briefing announcing doral as the site of the g7 summit, and would have much preferred a paper statement, fearing inevitable questions about ukraine to the acting chief of staff. for his part, mulvaney said president trump told him that he personally would take the heat for doral winning the g7 summit sweepstakes. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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this is the "cbs overnight new news". >> welcome back to the "overnight news." i'm tom hanson. the father of a young man killed in the sandy hook massacre is speaking out about the online abuse he's endured for years. this comes after a legal ruling against one of the online trolls who called the mass shooting a hoax. a jury in wisconsin ordered james fetzer, who co-wrote the book "nobody died at sandy hook" to pay $450,000 for defaming

lenny posner. posner's 6-year-old son noah was killed in the 2012 shooting. and posner has made it his mission to protect victims from online bullying. he has made progress and enemies. we agreed not to show his face for his own protection. tony dokoupil has the story. >> 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 seen. >> reporter: lenny posner says he has been forced to move at least a half dozen times since the death of his son noah. one of 20 children and six adults killed in the 2012 shooting at connecticut's sandy hook elementary school. while still grieving, posner faced a new shock as strangers claim that the shooting had never really happened. what did you find online? >> 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: posner 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 never even got to a person. >> reporter: but in the years since, this unlikely activist has not only succeeded for ro his organization honor network, whose volunteers keep an eye on the internet, protecting victims of tragedy, cyber stalking, and harassment. people like andi parker. >> i feel sick. >> reporter: after his daughter allison was shot to death on ve theorists reposted the video, again claiming it was a fake. parker contacted youtube to get

the videos taken down. >> i thought i could do it just one time and be done with it. and they said no, you have to do it for each video. it's tantamount to saying watch your daughter's murder and then 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 posner had a better idea. he helped parker get theig the 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 you've personally played in getting facebook and google and youtube to change their policies? >> i think had i n sha t blicly u tress t tou hen

>>eporter:n conngortion, posner changed minds. >> i think it could be summed up with the term rr: dave gehery' company published "nobody died at sandy hook" which prompted posner to sue in the first place. but he 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 experiencing. >> reporter: gehery settled the case, and now fetzer is on the hook for a $450,000 verdict in wisconsin, and posner says his work is just getting started. so is this fight, crusade, mission you're on, does it take up your life? 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

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a fierce battle is under way in utah over 40 square miles of land where nothing grows and no one lives. it's the bonneville salt flat,

and for more than 100 years, it's been one of the nation's most beloved raceways. f de ons out the salt is slowlyd sapp diwho's to blame and what should be done. here is jeff glor. >> reporter: we arrived at the flats before dawn. the peace at sunday sunrise a stark contrast to the blast of adrenaline that followed. busy, loud, ridiculously fast. >> and final mile was 247.303. >> reporter: amateur racers and their families have been coming to the bonneville speedway for generations. this is your dad's fire suit? >> it's a little big. can you tell? >> reporter: it works. >> reporter: including olivia nish. what is it about racing for you and racing here? >> it's a rush.

it's good to be honest. ,motorch 50 503.332. >> reporter: the racing here began in 1912, but really picked up in the rise of hot rods, modified model ts and their successors. ab jenkins, the so-called father of the bonneville salt flats held more records than any other sports driver in the world. >> here comes ab jenkins, the mormon meteor. down goes the flag, and this great speed run isime vehicles amped up by greasers to hit knee-knocking speeds. racing works here because thousands of years ago, a body of water the size of lake michigan evacuated, boxed in by surrounding mountains. the salt that was left behind, moist and cool, allows tires to grip and not overheat.

but the salt at bonneville is changing. >> i tell people any time you want to know what it feels like to go to another planet, you go to the bonneville salt flats. >> reporter: dennis sullivan is president of the utah salt flats racing association. >> i don't think that the general public realizes that this place is being taken away, and i'm going to use t raping of the bonneville salt flats. >> reporter: you think the bonneville salt flats are being raped? >> i think they are. >> reporter: that's a hell of a took all the salt away. >> reporter: you're blaming the government? >> i'm blaming the blm. >> reporter: the bureau of land management oversees the salt flats for the federal government. more than 50 years ago, they made deals with mining companies who use this land to get pot ash, a fertilizer. the process requires separating out the salt from the pot ash. but the racing association says the leases don't require putting the left oversalt back. kevin oliver is the utah west manager for the blm.

dennis sullivan says the blm, and i quote, is allowing the land to be raped. >> you know, that's his quote. he owns it. he can speak to that. >> reporter: what do you think when you hear that? >> i don't think much. reporter: the racing land to be association says the top layer of salt was once four feet thick and is now in most places down to one inch. the blm for their part acknowledges a 7% decrease of the crust package over the last decade and a half. is there a solution here that makes everyone happy? >> i mean, i think that's what they're working towards right now. >> reporter: brenda bowen is a scientist who hwh s so fa yea o footprints of the two desurface of salts here in this landscape >> reporter: bowen showed us the current state of the terrain. by the way, it is nothing more than what's on your dinner

table. this is like table salt? >> yeah, yeah. taste it. yeah, salt. >> reporter: salt. just millions and millions of shakers stretched out over a changing landscape, less of it on the speedway. the racing community says all that salt has ended up here, up to 250 million tons of it just a couple thousand feet away from the trac,ntll at mi, they want $50 million to put it back. >> when i first came out here, i never saw any bumps. it was flat like a billiard table. >> reporter: louise nowith is a long-time journalist who is now spokesperson for save the salt, a nonprofit group that wants the speedway replenished. she is also a former racer, which makes her mission personal. why should we pay for this, to fix it? >> because america was built on hopes and dreams, and they're killing the dreams. >> reporter: that's how rooted, how deep it is? >> it is.

these are ordinary people doing extraordinary things. every one of these is hand-built. every expression. i'm going have the fastest air-cooled vw. i'm going have the fastest chevrolet. i'm going to have the fastest hot rod in the world. >> reporter: while all of this runs its course, brenda bowen's work continues. you believe it's a combination of factors that leads to less salt on the track? >> yes. >> reporter: those factors include what? >> the mining and extraction that's been going on for 100 years. it also includes changes in the environmental conditions and then also land use and how we're manipulating the landscape with roads going through, and the racers on the surface. >> reporter: we reached out to the mining company, intrepid pot ash. they declined our request for an on-camera interview, but now say they're voluntarily running hundreds of thousands of salt every year. the racing association says it's not enough. they also told us they believe any effect the racers are having on the salt is negligible in

comparison. what should happen here? >> i would say leave it alone for a few years. don't come out here, don't drive on it when it's wet. give it a minute, and let's see where it gets to. >> reporter: you know that's a non-starter, no pun intended, for the racing community. >> i mean, it's not a racetrack in a warehouse. it's not an indoor environment. it's nature. >> reporter: olivia nish, the first female driver in her family's three general united nation -- generations at bonneville hit 150 miles per hour before spinning out while attempting to hit 180 on run number two. she plans to be back for many, many more. >> it is disappointing to see, but we just make the best of what we have and drive. right? >> reporter: you're the next generation to drive. >> yeah, right. that's what i'm hoping because we were talking about that earlier as if it would stay ere

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every year, nearly two million americans are diagnosed with cancer. there are many ways to fight, and for one group of survivors, it involves lacing up the gloves and climb manage the ring. chip reid has the story. >> let's go! >> reporter: at age 31, annie dragolich got blindsided by cancer. but 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 the help of hay makers for hope, a nonprofit that pairs people who are literally fighting for a cure. let's say you don't want to fight a cancer survivor. >> reporter: the group's founders met >> so you are a champion amateur boxer. am i beyond your range where i'm sitting right now?

>>y get to you pretty quick. >> reporter: she is also a cancer survivor. >> after treatment i fell into a little bit of a depression. and i just 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 i 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 the ninth year, haymakers for hope has raised more than $19 million at 26 events, includie ining belle the brawl, featuring female fight fighters, rumble in the rockies and this one in washington where a lymphoma survivor also stepped into the ring. is there anybody you know who you think might be looking forward to you get punched in the face? >> oh plenty of people. >> i'm sure i have exes out there. >> reporter: they provide a trainer and gym and they're not pulling any punches. this is the real thing? >> this is the real thing. i expect my opponent is going to come out ready to knock me out.

>> reporter: seriously? knock you out? >> i mean, i hope she does fou months in grueling training, learning how to defend against and landing haymakers of her own. he 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 is like if you want to continue doing anything like this, we're going have a discussion about it. >> reporter: but on fight night, she was in his corner. are you nervous? >> i'm so nervous. we found out i was pregnannd he had cancer in same month.mon. >> reporter: annie's cheering section -- >> look at her! >> 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 dragalich. >> were you surprised? >> no. >> reporter: no! >> what did i tell you? >> reporter: you said you were

going win. winning comes with the confidence when you've already won the fight of your life. captioning funded by cbs it's friday, october 18th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." [ gunfire ] breaking overnight, mexican cartel shoot-out. one of drug lord el chapo's sons is apprehended by police, but they suddenly let him go. we'll tell you why. contradictory statements. how president trump's acting chief of staff is trying to walk back his comments after he admitted the administration did withhold military aid to ukraine. plus, a possible conflict of interest? how the white house is defending the decision to hold the g7 summit at president trump's resort.