>> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell. >> o'donnell: good evening. thank you so much for joining us. we're going to begin with breaking news. a domestic terror attack averted tonight. the f.b.i. has broken up a plot to bomb one of the oldest synagogues in colorado. a 27-year-old man who called himself a skinhead and believed he was fighting a racial holy war is under arrest. authorities say he also tried to poison drinking water at the synagogue in the city of pueblo. the man used several facebook accounts to detail his hateful ambitions, and that's how the f.b.i. found him. jeff pegues tonight with all the details. >> reporter: investigators say richard holzer, a skinhead and former member of the ku klux klan, wanted to attack pueblo colorado's temple emanuel early sunday morning. u.s. attorney jason dun says the

f.b.i. was in on the plot. >> mr. holzer suggested they use devices tory to the synagogue and "get that place off the map." >> reporter: according to court papers, holzer met with undercover agents last friday in a hotel room. he was animated and displayed a nazi arm band and removed a knife, mask, and a copy of "mein kampf" from a backpack. the undercover agents gave him two fake pipe bombs and 14 sticks of dynamite. shortly after that he was arrested. >> mr. holzer repeatedly expressed his hatred of jewish people and his support of a racial holy war. >> reporter: holzer first came to the attention of the f.b.i. online. an f.b.i. employee posing as a female white supremacist made contact with him in september after he posted rants about jews and other minorities, displayed white supremacy symbols and wrote about getting ready apop his arrest comes just over a killed 11 worshipers at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh.

since then the anti-defamation league says at least a dozen white supremacists have been arrested after threatening to target jewish houses of worship the f.b.i. also says that holzer talked about putting arsenic in the synagogue's water supply and that he said he paid someone he called "mexican hitler" to do it last year. so far there is no evidence that that actually happened. norah? >> o'donnell: all right, jeff. incredible job by the f.b.i. tonight. thank you. we're going to turn now to capitol hill where we're getting a first look at some of the compelling testimony that's been behind closed doors in the impeachment inquiry. nancy cordes spent the day pouring over the transcripts like some of the rest of us and tonight has the cliff's notes version for us. nancy, some fascinating details. >> they really are, norah. one 300-page transcript documents a u.s. ambassador's growing dread as the president's allies circulated false stories about her. at one point a colleague, gordon sondland, even urged her to try

to save her job by tweeting her support for the president. marie yovanovitch told congressional investigators she was warned by ukrainian officials last winter to watch her back, because the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, was planning to do things, including to her. >> she got fired finally, but she was blocking it. >> reporter: giuit as he worked to convince ukraine to investigate president trump's campaign rival joe biden. house intelligence chairman adam schiff. >> and she was working with ukraine to get ukraine to fight corruption, and so what does this irregular back channel sanctioned by the president do? it seeks to remove someone fighting corruption in ukraine. >> reporter: once she was removed, yovanovitch said she was shocked to read that the president himself described her as "bad news" in a phone call with his ukrainian counterpart, warning she would "go through some things."

yovanovitch was asked, "did you feel threatened?" "yes, i was wondering, is there an active investigation against me in the f.b.i? i don't know." >> the president of ukraine was not a fan of hers either. >> reporter: president trump defended his call today. republicans struggled to do the same. was it appropriate for him to say that she was going to go through some things? >> i'm not... i don't know what that even necessarily is in reference to. >> reporter: the house also released the testimony of diplomatic veteran michael mckinley. "it was extremely clear to everyone," mckinley said, "that state department officials were being used in a way that certainly didn't fit in to any past example we can think of." a lawmaker asked, "because they're being used to dig up political dirt on an opponent?" he responded, "that's correct." mckinley said he urged secretary pompeo several times to put out a statement supporting yovanovitch. >> i never heard him say a

single thing. >> reporter: pompeo has disputed that. >> not once. not once, george, did ambassador mckinley say something to me during that entire time period. >> reporter: four white house officials were subpoenaed to appear before depositions today, and all four were no-shows. democrats said it's just mor fodder for a likely article of impeachment centered around obstruction of justice. norah. >> o'donnell: nancy, thank you. president trump suffered another legal setback today in his battle to keep his tax returns private. a federal appeals court ruled that the president's tax returns cannot be kept from new york state investigators looking into those hush money payments made to adult film star stormy daniels. paula reid joins us now from the white house. so, paula, does this mean we're finally going to see the president's tax returns? >> reporter: norah, the president's attorneys are going to do everything they can to keep these returns private. cbs news has learned they intend to appeal this decision to the

supreme court, arguing that the president is protected from any criminal proceedings while he's in office. but today these judges held they don't think that the president will prevail at the high court, because they believe the president's accountants are not protected from subpoenas, and they may have to hand those returns off to investigators. >> o'donnell: another question for you, paula. the justice department today demanding details about an anonymous senior administration official who has written a critical book about the president. this is the next big showdown. will that stop the book's publication? >> it's unlikely. norah, this is the same official who last year penned an anonymous op-ed in the "new york times" describing the president as impetuous, adversarial, and ineffective and said there was faction inside the administration working to contain the damage. now, cbs news has obtained a letter the justice department sent to the official's publisher today saying that by writing the book he or she may have violated non-disclosure agreements and could have to forfeit any

profits. the author's representative suggests this is just an intimidation tactic and it will not prevent the book from being published in a few weeks. >> o'donnell: all right, paula, thank you. there is word tonight that turkish authorities have captured the sister of abu bakr al-baghdadi, the fallen leader of isis, calling the arrest an "intelligence gold mine." you'll recall it was intelligence from turkey's sworn enemies the kurds who helped u.s. special forces take down al-baghdadi last month. a u.s. delegation met with the kurds today trying to repair relations with the abandoned u.s. allies. here's charlie d'agata. >> reporter: new video today shows the chaos and carnage tearing syria apart as america struggles to redefine its role in this region. president trump says the priority now is for u.s. troops to protect oil wells in syria, giving the country's natural resources higher priority than its civilian population. the chairman of the house armed services committee, adam smith, told us today that perception is a wrong his delegation came here to right.

>> i don't know why he would say something so stupid that is so wrong on policy. the united states of america doesn't have that oil, is never going to have that oil. it's not our oil. i don't know why the president can't understand that. >> reporter: he also said the decision to pull back u.s. troops in syria giving the green light for turkey to attack kurdish forces has had far- reaching implications. >>does the united states have a credibility issue? >> absolutely we have a credibility issue. that's part of the reason we're here is to begin to rebuild that credibility. >> reporter: the united states maintains a significant military presence here and continues joint military operations with both kurdish forces here and in neighboring syria. operations against isis, which is far from beaten, says regional kurdish prime minister masrour barzani.

how serious is the threat of resurgance of isis in this region? >> it is very serious. we have seen a 3400% increase in the activities of isis since last spring. >> reporter: that's a 300% increase in the number of isis attacks, norah, and congressman smith told us the number-one priority for u.s. troops here remains the fight against isis. >> o'donnell: all right, charlie, thank you. tonight, police have released an image of two persons of interest in the murders of a new hampshire couple. their bodies were found in texas. meg oliver tonight on the clues in the case. >> reporter: the buried remains of navy veteran james butler and his wife michelle were discovered in a shallow grave on padre island just over a week ago. today investigators released this image taken from surveillance video of a male and female driving the butler's truck across the border into mexico four days after the couple was reported missing. klerberg county schiff richard kirkpatrick. can you describe them?

it appears tt they have go >> reporter: last year the butlers left their hometown in rumney, new hampshire to explore the country in an r.v. stops throughout the southwest. along the way, they took odd jobs to pay for their dream adventure. at a resort in mesa, arizona, and the oil fields in laredo, texas. >> he said, "i've never seen the united states." >> reporter: debora van loon is james butler's sister. she same james and michelle kept in touch regularly. >> they were very good at staying in touch. they were awesome at sharing their daily adventures. you never think it will be you, and then it is. and it's hard. >> reporter: i just got off the phone with a district attorney who says an arrest warrant for the man in that photo could happen as early as tomorrow morning. the motive for the butlers' murder is still unclear. norah, james butler would have turned 49 years old over the weekend. >> o'donnell: all right, meg. thank you. freedom came today for close to

500 prison inmates in oklahoma. it was the largest single mass release in u.s. history. all had been locked up for low- level crimes. omar villafranca shows us howre. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: one by one these now-former oklahoma inmates hugged their loved ones. >> i love you. >> i love you too, granda >> reporter: patrina hunt cried in her daughter's arms. hunt had served almost half of a ten-year sentence for drug possession and theft. the 22-year-old is now free in time to celebrate her daughter's birthday. >> i am very blessed to let this happen and for this to happen to me and my family, and i'm just so glad to see my family. >> reporter: the 527 total commuted sentences are part of sweeping statewide criminal justice reforms which made simple drug possession a misdemeanor and increased the dollar amount to make property

today's releases run counter to oklahoma's tough-on-crime reputation. therne in the sooner state's prisons. it also has one of the highest female incarceration rates in the country, something governor kevin stitt wants the change. >> we hope they get back into society and they don't come back to this place. >> reporter: as for hunt, she's looking forward to a second chance with her daughter. >> i'm very young. i have a lot of things i'm changing in my life. she's going to have to teach me as i go. >> reporter: the 527 who had their sentences commuted are only a small fraction of the oklahoma prison population, but now that they are out, it will save the state nearly $12 million. norah? >> o'donnell: all right, omar, thank you. and there is still much more ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." wh battery acid is being investigated as a hate crime. more fallout at mcdonald's.

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decorating the walls of 11-year-old zechariah's bedroom are from every corner of the country. >> they sent them to me because they love what i do. >> reporter: zechariah runs a mile for every first responder who loses their life in a service. since january he's run 283 miles. >> all i think about during the runs is the fallen heroes, the fallen firefighters, their families. >> reporter: inspired by new york's tunnel to tower 5k, which honors 9/11 first responders, zechariah started his tribute when he was just eight years old. >> it's a beacon of hope for our future. >> reporter: near zechariah's home in seminole county, says it comes at a critical time. is it hard to hear an 11-year- old boy talk about officers being gunned down and that's why

>> reporter: on this night zechariah ran to honor 37-year- old brian ishmael, a sheriff's depurtbehind him, he had a following nearly 3,000 miles away. >> reporter: elementary school students in el dorado were inspired by zechariah to run and remember their fallen hero. >> that final lap is the final good-bye. i want to give it all in that final lap. i want to show how much a great man or woman this officer was. >> reporter: mireya villarreal, cbs news. >> o'donnell: a beautiful story. thank you, mireya. that is the "cbs evening news." i'm norah o'donnell in new york. we'll see you right back here tomorrow. good night.

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australia in august. >> we're going to need an ambulance. >> reporter: he made his first ever landing after his flight instructor passed out. but often on a small plane, there is only one pilot. while crashes due to pilot incapacitation are relatively rare, they've killed at least 269 people in the u.s. in the last ten years. >> when something happens to the pilot going forward, people live. and today there's a good chance that's not going to happen if you have an incapacitated pilot. >> reporter: garmin has designed new emergency auto land technology it hopes prevents crashes, like that of professional golfer payne stewart. his private jet lost cabin pressure, knocking out the pilots. the new auto land system is designed to activate when there has been a prolonged period of no activity. it could also prevent more common accidents, crashes like the one that killed john f. kennedy jr. where it's believe he got disoriented in weather and lost control, or wherean da so

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he scaled the highest peaks in the world faster than anyone else. ian lee reports. >> reporter: with each step he pushed further into thin air and the record books. the mountaineer smashed the speed record of scaling 14 peaks over 26,000 feet in just six months. it took the previous record holder nearly eight years. all the while, he made it look easy. >> made it not only for us, we made it for everybody. >> reporter: purja's journey took him to some of the most stunning but dangerous places on the planet, to heights where the human body starts to die from a lack of oxygen. during those six months, he also rescued several climbers. >> you okay? >> reporter: the former elite british soldier battled sub-zero temperature, blinding snowstorms, and traffic jams. in may he snapped this photo of 320 climbers waiting to summit mt. everest.

and in the end, just after sunrise, he summited his final peak, postingachieved." a mission not just to push human endurance, but to inspire others. ian lee, cbs news, london. >> absolutely incredible. and if you think that's amazing, wait until you hear about the world class archer that lee cowan caught up with. >> reporter: you're looking at one of the top-ranked archers in the country. 36-year-old matt stutzmann of fairfield, iowa. >> the last time we looked into it, 1% of archers in the world make a living shooting a bow. >> reporter: he is not bragging. he is really just that good. and he has the accolades to prove it. >> january of 2010 is when i decided to be the best archer in the world. and by 2011, i already made the u.s. team. and by 2012, i went to my first games. >> reporter: and won them? >> and won a silver, right. >> reporter: and he did it all with his feet.

yep. one of the most celebrated archers in the world was born without arms. >> when it first started, it was look at this guy without arms. and now it's agh, matt's here. >> reporter: his competitors have learned to fear him. not only those at the paralympic games in london where he won his silver medal, but also able-bodied archers that he's bested time and time again. wow. >> that was my first number one in the world. >> reporter: so just how does he do it? you basically had to figure this all out there. is no manual for this. >> no, no. >> reporter: his only adaptation is a strap around his chest, which he uses to pull the bow string back. >> at this point i'm adjusting my strap to make sure it's in the same place. that way when i draw the bow back, i push my leg away from my chest, i bring my right shoulder up and set it. bring to my face and release. and then i shoot. >> reporter: that is so amazing.

>> if i can take a bow that's not modified for me and i can compete against people that have arms and beat them at their own sport, well, then, what's everybody else's excuse? >> this is where i come back for a tiebreaker. >> reporter: matt's pretty easy to spot in a tournament. he is usually the only one sitting down. he knows he's the center of attention and believe it or not, he actually likes it that way. >> for me, i'm used to being looked at all the time, right? for most archers who are able-bodied have never had that experience. so when it's time to make it count, they get nervous, where i don't get the nervousness like they do, because i've been in this situation my whole life. >> reporter: in case you can't tell already, this single father of three certainly doesn't consider himself disabled. at all. are there times, though, that you just wish you had arms? no. >> reporter: really? >> not once. nope. >> reporter: now you might find

that surprising, but he is serious. when we went out to lunch, eating with his feet was as ordinary as anything, to him. >> i can hold my fork. and i just stab and dunk. and eat. >> reporter: back at his house, we watched him change a tire. it was pretty hard not to offer help. but the fact was he really didn't need it. >> i call this the unicorn. >> reporter: why? he is a car nut. >> it's a nissan with a new corvette engine in it. >> reporter: he can outdrive just about anyone. yep, with his feet. >> so right now my right foot is on the steering wheel, and my left foot runs the gas and the brake. >> reporter: and none of this is modified for you? >> nope. this is completely just like anybody can drive this car. >> reporter: not exactly. at least not the way he drives it, doing donuts in a parking lot and all.

>> i even have a motorcycle permit. >> reporter: are you serious? >> absolutely. i can legally ride an unmodified motorcycle with my friends. >> reporter: it all started right after matt was born when his birth parents learned something had gone wrong. >> based on what the doctors told them, that was too much for them. >> reporter: they were just overwhelmed? >> they were just overwhelmed. >> reporter: so they put matt up for adoption. he was just 2 months old. and not long after, that jean and leon stutzmann entered his life. do you remember the first time you saw him? >> oh, yes. here was this little curly head, blond haired guy. he kind of sat up, here i am. >> so we picked up the little guy, and he was a cute little stinker, fell in love immediately, i guess. >> reporter: they raised him along with their seven other children, just like any other kid. were there times when you'd see him doing something like riding a motorcycle or something and you'd look out the window and say oh my god? how?

>> we protect him. >> that's when we went into double prayer time. >> reporter: they gave matt prosthetic limbs at one point, but they sat on his shelf most of the time. so they decided not to really modify anything in their home. >> we decided not to do anything just because he's not going to live in a handicapped world. he is going to live in a world where people expect it. >> he has to adapt. ings.has to adapt to those kind that's kind of the way our philosophy that we took is figure it out. >> i don't think it was an orchestrated thing. it was just kind of he'll find his way. he'll figure it out. >> reporter: and he did. but as matt got despite his abilities and his willingness to try anything, there weren't many willing to give him a try. >> couldn't find a job. >> reporter: no one would give you a chance? >> no. like i -- i even went to try to do a typing job because i was that desperate to try to figure out something. >> reporter: so what was your

mind-set at that point? >> i was pretty depressed, you know. supposed to be a man taking care of your kids, and nobody would give me a chance to prove myself. >> reporter: it was 2009 at the height of the financial crisis. but it also happened to be deer season in iowa. he thought if he could just teach himself how to shoot a bow, maybe he could at least bag a deer and feed his family. >> i went up and bought the cheapest bow i could find. and actually went out that year and shot a deer. i'm now excited about life again, because i had just set a goal, went out and accomplished putting food on the table. >> reporter: to earn a little extra cash, he started entering target shooting competitions, where one bow maker actually asked to sponsor him. pretty exciting, right? it was until a friend towhy.wh snsorou isause rms and attention to their product, and it's not because you're good.

>> reporter: wow. >> the reality was i wasn't that good. and i didn't want to be known as, like, the sideshow or the guy who gets stuff because he had no arms. i wanted to be known as the best archer in the world. >> reporter: that's where it clicked for you? >> that's where it clicked for me like hey, i'm going to prove everybody wrong. i'm going to show them that i am the best and that i deserve sponsorship because i am the best, not because i'm unique or different. >> reporter: matt's aiming for a spot at the 20 tent paralympic games in tokyo next summer. and while he says a gold would sure be nice, that's not all he's after anymore. >> i started archery just to provide for my family, right? but now i've seen it's much bigger. when someone cowith a disabilit saw me do this or that and now they can do that, that makes me feel good about myself. the feeling is -- it's almost better than winning. like what is defining of the best archer in the world? the best archer in the world is somebody who changes the sport

and makes it better, or changes people that watch, m

there's an old saying a friend in need is a friend indeed, but what if you haven't seen that friend in 50 years? here is steve hartman. >> okay. >> reporter: life has its ups and downs, but rarely do you see a swing as dramatic as what 66-year-old coy featherston just went through. >> i'm speechless because of how it happened. >> reporter: coy used to work as a concert director and graphic artist says he still hasn't fully processed his good fortune, to end up here, from here. and to do it virtually overnight. >> i was beginning to lose hope. nore here.hoesthanthss.

>> was just through friends. they started coming from everywhere. >> i figured i could find him. >> reporter:firslast frompast. she started looking for coy after seeing his picture in the austin newspaper. if not for the caption, she would have never recognized her high school friend, the talented football player who was once voted best all around boy. coy was everyone's friend, which is why leah felt compelled to return the kindness. >> and i came and looked here at this church. >> reporter: after three days of searching, she found him right here. >> i said hi, coy. it's leah. do you remember me? and he said of course i do. >> i was relieved because it was someone that i knew. >> reporter: and it wasn't just leah. >> and it's really shocking when you find that an old friend that you've known is living in your same town on the street. >> reporter: all these high school buddies saw the same picture in the paper. >> i jumped right into action. >> reporter: and had the same response. >> yeah, i got him a phone, put him on my telephone plan.

>> getting some dental work done. we got his social security done. >> he lives with me. he can stay there as long as he wants. >> whatever it takes we' going to turn it ound. >> reporter: fortunately, his friends say coy doesn't have any drug or alcohol problems. they say he ended up on the streets of austin after and som mental health issues. and once he started spiraling, there was just no crawling out on his own. >> i don't know if i'd really have gotten through it without my friends. make friends now. >> reporter: you may need them some day. >> you may need them some day. you may be glad that you have them, because it can happen to anyone. >> reporter: a friendly reminder from of the richest men on earth. steve hartman, on the road in austin, texas. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm tom hanson.

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