million of them here. as for the americans, president trump confirmed today that the u.s. does have plans to keep a small number of troops in eastern syria to protect oil fields there. a u.s. official told cbs news they could number around 200, and their mission would be to deny isis oil revenue. norah. >> all right, holly, thank you. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg found himself on the hot seat today. he went to capitol hill to talk about the social media giant's cryptocurrency plans. but as ed o'keefe reports, zuckerberg ended up getting grilled on a range of controversial issues. >> fair or not fair, you're here today to answer for the digital age. >> reporter: mark zuckerberg wanted to talk about the new digital currency facebook is pitching, but lawmakers said he had other issues he had to deal with first. >> you've proven than we cannot trust you with our emails, with our phone numbers. so why should we trust you with

our hard-earned money? >> reporter: the 35-year-old billionaire, who hadn't appeared on capitol hill in about 18 months, was criticized on everything facebook, including for running potentially misleading ads from political candidates. >> why should the very politicians who lead our country be held to a lower standard for truthfulness and decency than the average american? >> congresswoman, this isn't about helping the politicians. this is about making sure that people can see for themselves what politicians are saying. >> i know, but mr. zuckerberg, it is hate speech. it is hate. and it's leading to violence and death threats in my office. >> reporter: missouri's ann wagner also hammered zuckerberg for not aggressively blocking sex traffickers. >> what are you going to do to shut it down? mr. zuckerberger berg? >> we're working with law enforcement and building technical systems to identify -- >> well, you're not working hard enough, sir. >> reporter: as today demonstrated, facebook generates plenty of controversy, and even as he was talking up his plans

for new digital currency, zukerberg admitted to lawmakers, "i'm sure people wish it was anyone but facebook putting this idea forward." >> i'll bet. there will be more on this story for sure. ed, thank you very much. a horrific discovery last night in birmingham, alabama. the body of three-year-old kamille mckinney was found in a pile of trash. the girl, named "cupcake," was kidnapped earlier this month outside a birthday party. two suspects are facing murder charges. mark strassmann has more on this heartbreaking case. >> it's a tough moment for our city. >> reporter: birmingham mayor randall woodfin talked about kamille mckinney, the little girl with a big winning smile. this community now mourns for her family. >> your grief, your te your pain is not ignored. >> reporter: kamille was last seen at this apartment complex october 12. surveillance video shows her playing with a friend. as you can see, they followed a man, and kamille vanished. police zeroed in on this toyota sequoia, spotted the same day by security cameras at this nearby gas station.

its driver, 39-year-old patrick stallworth, and his girlfriend, dara brown, were initially arrested on other charges. stallworth for possessing child pornography on his phone. police found kamille's body in the local landfill yterd after tracking trash from her neighborhood. the couple now faces capital murder charges. police chief patrick smith: >> this is something that they thought about and they saw an opportunity to take a young child, which they did. >> reporter: there is no known motive, only bewilderment and outrage, and at city hall, people here who never met the little girl felt like grieving together. >> it's heartbreaking, especially when you have kids and grandkids of your own. >> reporter: there are two other vigils for her planned tonight here. and at dusk, norah, city hall will be lit up in purple, the little girl's favorite color. >> such a difficult story to cover. mark, thank you. and we have new details tonight

about a terrible case of suspected human smuggling. the bodies of 39 adults and one teenager were found locked inside the trailer of a semi-truck at an industrial park near london, england. the truck had arrived by ferry from belgium and was registered in bulgaria. the 25-year-old driver has been arrested on suspicion of murder. there is still much more ahead visitors to disneyland may have been exposed to measles. the f.d.a. calls for new warnings for breast implants. and, we'll show you how one city is responding to america's mental health crisis by dispatching unarmed emergency responders. here's a simple true-or-false quiz for you.

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>> there's a guy on river road i think would benefit having -- with him. >> reporter: when a mental health-related 911 call comes in, a specialized team in eugene, oregon rolls out. >> pretty much everybody we see is, for one reason or another, in a state of crisis. >> reporter: manning walker is a medic, and laurel lisovskis is a mental health crisis manager. the pair are members of cahoots, crisis assistance helping out on the streets. they answer calls, like suicide interventions and overdoses. they're unarmed, and most of the time, without police backup. >> we always move as a team. whoever is talking and making contact, the other person is -- >> reporter: being the eyes and ears? >> yeah. >> reporter: they took our cbs crew on an exclusive ride-along. their first call was for a woman they'd met before. they believe she's schizophrenic. she told us her name was kayla. would you rather deal with someone with cahoots or, like, a uniformed police officer? >> definitely cahoots. >> reporter: how come?

>> they, like, help you when you're in a time of need or when you're hungry or certain things like that. >> reporter: cahoots was founded in 1989. last year, they responded to nearly 23,000 calls in eugene and springfield, oregon. denver is starting their own version of cahoots. city leaders from oakland; olympia, washington; and even new york city are all considering similar pilot programs. tim black is cahoots' operation coordinator. >> we handle almost 20% of t entire -- external public safety calle volume for our area. but there was such a dramatic need coming in through the 911 and non-emergency lines, that there was a need for there to be this kind of behavioral health first responsibility. >> let them know that you're out of your meds. >> reporter: cahoots team members are trained to de-escalate when responding to a mental health crisis. >> thank you guys so much. >> reporter: a recent study found 25% to 50% of fatal officer-involved shootings involve someone with a severe mental illness. eugene's police chief chris

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we're going to end tonight at arlington national cemetery with a special salute to the oldest living american who stood watch at the tomb of the unknown soldier.

david martin introduces us to this centenarian sentinel. >> reporter: they're called honor flights, and they have flown nearly a quarter million veterans to the nation's capital to visit the monuments built in their honor. it's safe to say, no veteran has felt prouder, or just plain happier, than 100-year-old jack eaton did today. >> '38, '39, and '40. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: 80 years ago, he stood guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier, the awesome monument to america's fallen that has the power to silence teenagers. it has been guarded 'round the clock since 1937. eaton became a sentinel in 1938, and served for three years. >> at night, it would be mighty quiet, and you do a lot of thinking about who that is under that marble statue there. >> reporter: there are no records dating back that far, but he was able to prove his service by remembering details only a sentinel would know, like

this small chapel hidden behind the tomb. so today he was back, not just to witness another changing of the guard, but to see his name go up on the honor roll of those who have stood watch over the unknown. >> that's going to be up there forever, and when i'm gone, people can come up here and look at it. >> reporter: your place on the wall can be revoked if, later in life, you bring dishonor on the tomb. a d.u.i., for instance. but that's not likely here. unless dancing becomes a crime. >> when the music starts, my feet want to move. >> reporter: "never will i falter," the sentinel's creed reads, and though his step has slowed, jack eaton never did, for 100 years and counting. david martin, cbs news, arlington national cemetery. >> jack is an inspiration to all of us, and thank you for your service. and that's the overnight news

for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. check back with us later for cbs news. from new york, i'm norah o'donnell. /s ♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is thing "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news. i'm tom hanson. president trump has been calling on republicans in congress to defend him against the impeachment inquiry gathering steam on capitol hill. and yesterday he got his wish. a hoard of gop congressmen stormed the hearing room trying to stop a top pentagon official from testifying about military aid to ukraine and why it was held up by president trump. after getting kicked out by capital police, they camped out in the hallways, chanting, let

us in. president trump, it turns out, knew all about the theatrics before they went down. nancy cordes begins our coverage. >> we want to know what's going on. >> reporter: they staged their revolt in the basement of the u.s. capitol. >> we're going in. >> reporter: more than two dozen house republicans stormed a secure area, and refused to leave a scheduled deposition. >> by golly, if they're going to do it, do it in public! >> reporter: one member broadcasting the rebellion from behind closed doors. >> we've been here for hours. by now, all the democrat members have left. >> what the republicans are asking for is insane. >> reporter: the sit-in delayed the testimony of pentagon official laura cooper by five hours, the eighth private interview by democrats and republicans on the three committees currently handling the impeachment inquiry. >> what's really going on here is, yesterday, ambassador bill taylor testified and gave the most sweeping and devastating

testimony about president trump's efforts to shake down the ukrainian government. >> reporter: closed-door hearings on capitol hill are not unusual. the republican-led benghazi committee did several. how is this different from that situation? >> this is impeachment of the president of the united states. it's a different thing altogether. when -- when we're talking about removing the president from office, it should be completely transparent. >> completely open. >> reporter: democrats cited the clinton and nixon impeachment proceedings, which included closed-door interviews. can you understand their frustration? they want to know what's going on in a very important investigation. >> investigations are not public. when the investigation is done, there will be public hearings. that's how it's always been done. >> reporter: tonight, republicans say it's time to hold those public hearings, and in a letter obtained by cbs news, they tell democrats that the witness they want to hear from most is that anonymous whistleblower who first revealed the contours of this ukraine

scandal. >> president trump has lifted all sanctions against turkey after it agreed to stop the military assault against our former kurdish allies in northern syria. turkey's president calls it a permanent cease-fire, but critics call the whole operation ethnic cleansing. weijia jiang has the story from the white house. >> reporter: president trump applauded himself for what he called a cease-fire in northern syria. >> this was an out come created by us, the united states and nobody else. >> reporter: the president sanctioned turkey after it invaded earlier this month. vice president pence negotiated a cease-fire, but turkey only agreed to completely stop the attack after striking a deal with russia. the deal requires kurdish forces to abandon the area, which they had controlled with the help of american troops until mr. trump pulled them out about two weeks ago. >> now turkey, syria, and others in the region must work to

ensure that isis does not regain any territory. >> reporter: republican senator lyndsay graham, usually an ally of the president, said that was not a solution. >> but you cannot rely on syria, russia, or turkey to protect the united states againt isis. >> reporter: the administration insists the nearly 12,000 isis prisoners in northeastern syria remain under lock and key. >> there were a few that got out, a small number, relatively speaking, and they've been largely recap toured. >> reporter: but mr. trump's special envoy to syria, james jeffrey, told a different story on capitol hill when asked about how many had escaped. >> we would say that the number is now over 100. we do not know where they are. >> reporter: jeffrey also testified that isis is pitching the u.s. withdrawal as a victory and warned there are consequence for leaving before the mission to defeat isis is over. president trump says he's

keeping a promise to bring those troops back home. >> the turkish army is trying to put a smiling face on its invasion, and they invited holly williams into the so-called security zone in northern syria for a look around. >> reporter: they are detonating explosives they say turkey left behind and safeguarding markets. health clinics are open and being run by turkish medics. >> we are here, the people are happy. and there's no problem actually right now. >> reporter: but the turkish offensive unlyriced after the u.s. pulled back this month cost hundreds of lives. hundreds of thousands of civilians fled the fighting, and syr syria militia men backed by turkey have been accused of war crimes. just three weeks ago kurdish-led forces allied with the u.s. were

in control of this stretch of territory. now the turkish military is in control. kurdish fighters, who were u.s. partners in the battle against isis, say they have been betrayed by america. for now the fighting has stopped. this is part of what turkey says will be a roughly 20-mile-deep safe zone along its border. turkey is home to over 3 million syrian refugees, and has plans to re-settle more than a million of them here. as for the americans, president trump confirmed today that the u.s. does have plans to keep a small number of troops in eastern syria to protect oil fields there. a u.s. official told cbs news they could number around 200. and their mission would be to deny isis oil revenue. >> facebook founder mark sucker berg was on capitol hill testifying about his plan to create his own worldwide currency. he faced bipartisan backlash. ed o'keefe, reports.

>> fair or not fair, you're here today to answer for the digital age. >> reporter: mark sucker berg wanted to talk about the new digital currency facebook is pitching, but lawmakers said he had other issues he had to deal with first. >> you've proven that we cannot trust you with our emails, with our phone numbers. so why should we trust you with our hard-earned money? >> reporter: the 35-year-old billionaire who hadn't appeared on capitol hill in about 18 months, was criticized on everything facebook. including for running potentially misleading ads from political candidates. >> why should the very politicians who lead our country be held to a lower standard for truth of thefulness and decency than the average american? >> congresswoman, this isn't about helping the politicians. this is about making sure that people can see for themselves what politicians are saying. >> i know, mr. sucker berg, but it is hate speech. it's hate. it is leading to death threats in my office.

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♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome back to the overnight news. i'm tom hanson. eight demti candates have so far qualified for the party's fifth presidential debate next month. that includes, perhaps, the most unlikely contender, billionaire tech entrepreneur andrew yang. nick thompson caught up with him on the campaign trail. >> reporter: in a park in l.a. last month, thousands gathered to hear the democrat perhaps least likely to be running for president.

>> and i am the ideal candidate for that job because the opposite of donald trump is an asian man who likes math. >> reporter: in andrew yang's world, math stands for make america think harder. and yang is mostly thinking about dire economic times ahead. he's on message, if sometimes off color. >> that's right, i did some [ bleep ] math. we have to be pretty [ bleep ] stupid to let a trillion dollar tech company pay nothing in taxes. am i right, los angeles? >> yes! >> reporter: for first-time politician, yang is doing surprisingly well. polls put him in single digits, but in the last three months, yang picked up $10 million in donations. that's less than half of what the front runners took in, but it puts him solidly in the middle of the pack. >> yang, yang. >> reporter: his supporters are known as the yang gang. >> he's all about humanity first.

>> he's not really a politician. >> and i'm [ bleep ] a politician. >> reporter: andrew yang, in fact, calls himself an entrepreneur. his parents immigrated from taiwan. his father a physicist. his mother has a master's in math and statistics. yang grew up in schenectady, new york. his first success was running a college test prep company. then he founded venture for america, a nonprofit that helps train entrepreneurs in struggling cities. and he thinks jobs, or rather, the loss of them, are why donald trump won the presidency. >> the numbers tell a very clear story. we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs in michigan, ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, iowa -- all the swing states that donald trump needed to win and did win. >> reporter: and yang believes robots and artificial intelligence will accelerate the loss of all kinds of jobs. >> and now what we did to those jobs we're doing to the retail jobs, the call center jobs, the

fast food jobs, the truck driving jobs and on and on through the economy. >> rorter: we met yang on the campaign trail, as he took a break for some tea. >> i'm going to get the duke of earl gray. >> reporter: and then discovered a foosball table. where we naturally talked about economic ty and another of yang's big ideas. reforming how we calculate gross domestic product, or gdp. >> well, if you want to see how out of whack gdp is, all you have to do is look at my family. my wife is at home with our two boys, one of whom is autistic. and one is her work every day included at gdp, zero. and we know that her work is among the most important work being done for our society. >> reporter: isn't your work also valued at zero right now running as president? >> it probably is. >> reporter: instead of just measuring economic output, yang-style gdp -- >> would include things like our health and life expectancy. our mental health and freedom from substance abuse.

how our kids are doing. how clean our air and water are. >> reporter: but the center piece of the yang campaign is what he calls the freedom dividend. as president he would give a thousand dollars a month, $12,000 a year, to every american adult, rich or poor. >> our economy functions much better when we have money to spend, where we can participate in the market, where businesses are responsive to us. we'll start more businesses. we'll be able to change jobs more easily. so the money doesn't disappear in our hands. it creates a trickle up economy from our people, our families and our communities up. >> reporter: is this a good idea? >> there's some parts of it that are, that are an interesting idea. >> reporter: austin goolsbee was chairman of president obama's council of economic advisors. >> on a practical basis, you kind of would need to know how would that work. that's a thing that's going to cost $2.4 trillion a year.

>> reporter: how big a number is 2.4 trillion? >> put it into context. the entire income tax in the united states on everyone combined is like 1.5 trillion. >> reporter: to pay for it, yang proposes a federal value added tax, essentially, a sales tax, 10%. though goolsbee estimates it might have to be up to 30%. yang says his proposals will particularly hit big tech. >> if we put a mechanism in place where we, the american people, get our fair share, tiny slice of every amazon sale, every google search, every facebook ad, every robot truck mile, we can generate hundreds of billions of new revenue and easily afford a thousand-dollar dividend for every american adult. >> you are one of the winners of the freedom dividend. you're going to get a thousand bucks a month per year. >> reporter: yang has already started giving out freedom dividends. >> thank you so much. thank you so much. >> reporter: he's called ten families with the good news.

>> oh, man, i'm like shaking right now. >> reporter: paid for it first out of his own pocket, and then by the campaign. though it's all getting yang a lot of attention, the odds against him of becoming president are overwhelming. >> i am here with you tonight, one of only two candidates in the field that 10% or more of donald trump voters say they will support, which means when i am the nominee, we win the whole thing. >> yeah! >> reporter: but he's not lacking in confidence. andrew yang says he's done the math. >> it's like a game of rock, paper, scissors. and if donald trump's the scissors, i'm the [ bleep ] rock. rock. [ cheers and charmin ultra soft! it's softer than ever.

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they live now, the present. for me being a cook or serving people, it's about that. >> reporter: that kitchen-obsessed kid who had trouble concentrating at school decided to give cooking a try. >> i was just in my own world. i was lucky enough to find something that i can lose myself, which is cooking. >> reporter: but ixi'im also quenches a thursday for another ancient tradition. >> tequila was born in mexico. in tequila, jalisco. >> reporter: luis l ronzon and luis alberto flores muno are experts in tequila. you don't need to pour that much, bro. that's a lot for me. ixi'im has the largest tequila collection in the world, 3800 bottles strong. its oldest? the jose cuervo, which has been around 240 years. >> if you want to try a sip. >> reporter: just a little sip. >> just a little one. >> reporter: our mexican dish would not be complete.

>> fire. >> reporter: fire. without a lesson in the proper etiquette of tequila sipping, because tequila, like the cuisine here in this pocket of paradise, is to be savored. oh, wow, that's very smooth. >> tequila may be really high-quality spirit that you can enjoy just as you enjoy cognac. >> reporter: for chef vallejo, the way to honor his mexican heritage is to bring that mayan cuisine to the world stage. >> and that's what we want to showcase here in the restaurant, the pureness of the ingredients, but how can really works in a luxury ambience. >> reporter: mission accomplished, because quintonil has been rated one of the top restaurants in the world. >> yes. >> reporter: am i wrong about that? >> no, no, no. >> reporter: why are you looking surprised?

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president trump's latest round of tariffs affect cheese. seth doane has the story from cheese country, parmesan italy. >> reporter: the price was already at a premium. after all, they control each step here, tracking which cows ate in which field and ate on which day. nicola bertinelli is the fourth generation to run his business in the specific region where parmigiano is made.

he said it is their second most important market and they plan to double business there in the next five years. at least until these tariffs. >> we are worried that the price is going to achieve a level that after that it's a broken price. >> reporter: people won't buy it? >> it's too expensive. >> reporter: cheese from almost every country in the e.u. will be hit by the 25% duty. >> when you look at the list, you say, hey, why these products are inside the list and the other products are not? >> reporter: the u.s. tariffs read like a shopping list of european specialty products, from clams to coffee to whiskey produced in scotland. there's yogurt, or olives from spain sparking protests there. german tools are on the list. so are sweaters made in the u.k. french wine and france in general is a big target. the unlikely target was the battle between boeing and french

airplane maker air bus. so aircraft parts will get a 10% duty. the u.s. government argues european subsidies have undercut american workers. >> it hurts products that have nothing to do with e diste of air bus and boeing. >> reporter: he is italy's biggest exporter of parmigiano reggiano. he estimates the price in the store could go up by $2.50 per pound. >> so, in other words, in simple words, the american consumer, theygoing to pay for this. >> reporter: at bertinelli's they're ready for a fight and armed with their own spin. >> trump says america first parmigiano reggiano saves american consumers first. >> reporter: a good line. cheese makers say there is no match when it comes to their taste or tradition. and while they are used to competing for a lace in yr grocery cart, they say these new

u.s. tariffs place unfair pressure on both producers and consumers. >> bring home a wheel of that cheese, seth and that's the vernight news for this thursday. from the cbs broadcast center in it's thursday, october 24th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." republican revolt. dozens of members of the house gop storm a closed door meeting demanding access to the impeachment inquiry, but democrats point out their colleagues across the aisle already have access to the hearing. breaking overnight, some in california are ordered to evacuate their homes as a fast-moving wildfire burns through wine country. officials say strong winds are fueling the flames. and mark zuckerberg in the hot seat. the facebook ceo faced lawmakers on capitol hill, and they had a lot of questions about the company's rece