from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm omar villafranca. battle lines hardened at the impeachment inquiry witnesses take the hot seat, including a trump donor turned ambassador. >> there was never this quid pro quo. >> this is about our democracy that is at risk with this president. also tonight, the road to 2020. who's up? who's down? a stunning reversal for a controversial police tactic. >> i'm sorry that we didn't. but i can't change history. there is no body, no dna. a sensational murder trial is wrapping up in colorado. new warnings about lasik eye surgery. why some patients are calnga le

>> i not until someone tt you re el >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm omar villafranca. historic impeachment hearings pick up steam this week in the house of representatives. eight witnesses will testify over three days, and the person at the center of the investigation is eu ambassador gordon sondland. the trump mega donor turned diplomat has already had to update his secret testimony once. wednesday he'll appear before the american people and answer questions about a telephone call with the president. catherine johnson has the story. >> we are unfolding the facts. that's what an inquiry is about. >> reporter: lawmakers are gearing up forea new week of public impeachment testimony. but the president's supporters are standing firm in their defense. negative, one's testified that there has been a quid pro quo.

everyone's got second, third hand, fourth hand information. >> reporter: this week eu ambassador gordon sondland testifies. friday an aide to the top diplomat in ukraine testify head overheard a loud phone call between sondland and president trump. asked sondland if president's zelensky is, quote, going do the investigation. sondland replied he's going to do it. president trump says he doesn't remember that call. >> no, not at all. not even a little bit. >> reporter: the spotlight on sondland will be bright. he has already changed his closed door testimony, saying he now recalls a conversation with a ukrainian official, that the u.s. would withhold military aid until the ukraine agreed to investigate. >> my guess is ambassador sondland is going to do his level best to tell the truth otherwise he may have an unbless legal future in front of him. >> reporter: saturday they released the transcript of

jennifer williams, an aide to mike pence. she was on that infamous july 25th phone call and said it struck her as, quote, unusual and inappropriate. just this evening, president trump lashed out at williams on twitter, calling her a never trumper, and telling her to read the transcripts of his calls. this is the second time the president has tweeted directly at a witness in the impeachment inquiry, something that has eyebrows raised on both sides of the aisle. omar? >> katherine, thank you. the impeachment inquiry continues. next week cbs news will have special coverage of the hearings on tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. this week ten democrats take the stage in the fifth presidential debate. the latest cbs news battleground tracker has a snapshot of the race in early states. joe biden leads the field at 29%. elizabeth warren is right behind. bernie sanders and pete buttigieg follow. cbs news elections and surveys director anthony salvanto is here to break it all down.thony

what's behind that? >> hi, omar. he has bounced back. elizabeth warren was leading that field in our last poll last month. what's happened is that warren has faced some criticism from biden and other democrats saying that her plans might be too liberal for a general election, too liberal to beat donald trump. democrats are worried than. we find that about a third of democrats say that if her policies. very few say that about joe biden's, and of course electability remains a key concern for that democratic base. >> mayor pete is at 9% in wider polls, but he is making gains in iowa. why is he making those gains? >> well, it's sort of the classic play using the ground game, getting out there. we know he is campaigning hard in n hampshire, and we have seen him now rise basically to the top of the field there in iowa, also making gains now in double-digits in new hampshire, though elizabeth warren still leads there. >> anthony salvanto, thank you

very much. >> thank you. former new york city mayor michael bloomberg, who could soon join the democratic race, made a surprising admission today. speaking in brooklyn, bloomberg said he now regrets supporting the police tactic known as stop and frisk that critics say targeted young men of color. >> i want you to realize back then i was wrong and i'm sorry. >> bloomberg said the policy eroded trust in him, and he wants to win that back. to california now, where red flag warnings for high fire danger are in effect again for the southern part of the state. the forecast, hot, dry and windy with gusts up to 50 miles per hour. temperatures could break records. l.a. could top 90 degrees. fire weary californians are on alert from ventura county south to san diego. it was enough tough day in venice. another high tide today flooded the city, closing the landmark st. mark's square. tourists wearing rubber boots

made their way through the high water. it's the first time since records began in 1872 that venice has suffer lead high tides in the same year, let alone the same week. in northern syria, russian troops have taken command of a u.s. air base. and as charlie d'agata report, the russians did it without firing a shot. >> reporter: russian state media showed commandos staging what looked like a military invasion. the russians are playing up the takeover of the kobani airfield as a victory. the former u.s. air base that served as a main logistical hub for america's fight against isis now with the russian flag flying over it. the russians moved in just a day after u.s. forces moved out, leaving behind barracks, beds, abandoned medical supplies, and the skeleton of a gym, weights removed to render it useless. the same can't be said of the

runway, however. an american made landing strip now under russian management. the repositioning of u.s. troops mean their footprint has been reduced to patrolling oil fields while partnering with america's kurdish allies on the ground. even top kurdish commander commented that the sudden u.s. retreat left him no choice but to turn to the russians. >> translator: we had an understanding with russia to avoid turkish attacks in this region, he said. the vacuum americans left behind we had to fill with the russians. an imperfect solution to a desperate situation, giving the russians the upper hand on the ground. charlie d'agata, cbs news, in northeast syria. protesters in iran clashed with police this week, a sharp rise in gas prices sparked protests in a reported 100 cities across the country. a thousand people were arrested. one person was killed.

the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> in colorado, jurors hearing the murder case against patrick frazee are expected to begin deliberations tomorrow. frazee is charged with killing his fiancee and the mother of his child, kelsey berreth. as nikki battiste reports, testimony wrapped up with a bombshell. >> reporter: nearly a year after kelsey berreth disappeared, seven women and five men are set to decide the fate of her fiance, patrick frazee. prosecutors called frazee a cold, calculating me ining mani

killer who never testified on his own behalf. the star witness was a secret girlfriend named crystal lee. told authorities he tried to get her to kill berreth three different times. he she said he beat his fiancee to death with a baseball bat on thanksgiving day and berreth's last words were "please stop." he called her and said she had a mess to clean up. lee claims she drove from colorado to idaho and cleaned up the crime scene because frazee told her to and she feared for her life. lee has also admitted she destroyed berreth's cell phone, her keys and a gun all to help frazee cover his tracks. in exchange for her testimony, lee agreed to plead guilty to evidence tampering. a few days after thanksgiving she watched as frazee burned a poet box that he said contained berreth's body and a baseball

bat. berreth's body has never been found. last week a fellow former prisoner testified how he received 16 notes from frazee with instructions to kill several of the witnesses testifying against him, including lee and berreth's mother. he said frazee wrote "they all need to disappear, unseen until after the trial." closing arguments will begin here tomorrow morning. if convicted, patrick frazee faces life in prison. crystal lee will be sentenced after the case wraps up and she faces a maximum of three years in prison. >> nikki, thank you very much. louisiana governor john bel edwards is celebrating his reelection. he captured 51% of the vote beating a republican challenger heavily supported by president trump. edwards is the deep south's only democratic governor. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

for more than two decades now, lasik eye surgery has helpedpr and freed patients of eyeglasses and contacts. but now some doctors say the procedure should be stopped. dr. tara narula has a closer look. >> it's a devastation that i can't even explain. >> reporter: abraham rutner says lasik surgery damaged his vision and nearly ruined his life. so what happened after the surgery? >> things would appear double. around the lights were like having starbursts. >> reporter: after months of not being able the drive or do his job, the brooklyn electrician finally found help in miami. >> his cornea is very distorted as a result of his lasik surgery. >> reporter: where optometrist edward boshnick fitted him with

special contact lenses. >> don't blink. >> reporter: boshnick estimates he's fitted thousands of patients with contact lenses. paula had surgery 19 years ago. >> and from day one, my vision was an absolute train wreck, and it still is today. >> reporter: she started a lasik complication support group on facebook and quickly found she was not alone. >> you really have to understand you're risking your only pair of eyes. >> how you feeling? >> perfect. >> reporter: since 1998, an estimated 20 million lasik procedures have been performed. and according to an fda patient survey, more than 95% of patients were satisfied with their vision after surgery. still, the fda's own website is filled with stories of serious complications. ins, detached t relentless eye retinas, and tell the agency lasik ended my life and this procedure needs to stop. >> essentially, we ignored the

data on vision distortions that persisted for years. >> reporter: morris waxler is a retired fda adviser who voted to approve lasik. he now says that vote was a mistake. >> if we examine the documentation, and i said wow, this is not good. >> reporter: waxler says his own analysis of industry data shows complication rates between 10 and 30%. in 2011, he petitioned the fda to issue a voluntary recall of lasik. three years later, the agency denied that request, and now tells cbs news it, quote, has not found any new safety concerns associated with lasik devices. do you think this should be taken off the market? >> absolutely. there is nothing wrong with a person's eyes who goes to get lasik. they could go and get a pair of glasses. >> you can see that light is going to get sharper and sharper. >> reporter: doctors who perform lasik surgery say risks can be minimized with presurgical screening. >> the most important thing is knowing who to operate op and who not to operate on. ane sh

>> reporter: abraham rutner now believes he was never a good candidate. >> and i was blaming myself. why in the world did i go into it? >> reporter: rutner estimates his vision is now about 90% improved. he tolerates the discomfort of hard contact lenses but wishes he had known more before he had lasik. what would you tell someone who came to you and said they were considering having lasik done? >> think it over. it's your eyes. it's not something you can rectify later. >> dr. tara narula reporting. for more on the risks to consider about lasik, go to our website, cbsnews.com. up next, remembering the man up next, remembering the man known as the you don't let a cold ruin your day. you take dayquil severe liquicaps and crush it. dayquil severe. the daytime, coughing, aching, stuffy-head, fever, sore throat, power through your day, medicine.

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winery. the world's largest private fleet of fighter jets, 110 in all. it's not your typical collection. but 87-year-old michal pont is not your typical collector. "i was born passionate," he says, "and a bit crazy." he started buying the jets 30 years ago to save them from being destroyed, and that attracts the crowds of tourists interested in wine and war. >> it's very surprising, particularly in the middle of the wine country. this is a beautiful vineyard. this is quite a surprise. >> reporter: it isn't just a massive display of weapons of war. each jet tells an individual story. like this f-8 crusader known as the last gunfighter. it squared off against the mig-17 in the skies over vietnam. and this f-100 super saver. the air force's thunderbirds used it to dazzle spectators at

the paris air show in 1967. but the pride of his squadron is this f-16, but it didn't come easy. "i was friends with a belgian general who wanted to give me the f-16, but the americans wanted it destroyed," he recalls. after badgering the american saying bring your truck you. get your jet. >> reporter: these jets in particular, well, they're special to paul. it's thanks to the americans and brits that we were liberated from the nazis, he tells me. so i enjoy displaying this american pride in honor. a man rooted in both wine and history and still on the market for another american jet. ian lee, cbs news in france. up next, how sick and injured st. louis are a source of strength for veterans with ptsd.

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we end tonight with a helping hand. it comes from veterans coping with their own issues who have come to the aid of sea lions hurt in the wild. it's an unlikely pairing with remarkable results. here is carter evans. >> reporter: feeding time can create a frenzy. >> toss them their food. >> reporter: all of these animals were rescued along orange county's coastline and brought here to the pacific marine mammal center. some sea lions are sick, some injured. >> put that right up here. crinkle came to us with a broken flipper. >> reporter: colby, a former marine, leads the sea lions for service members course. he's been diagnosed with ptsd. and that's helped him empathize with wounded animals like this sea lion named zion. >> zion was very badly entangled and pinned down against a buoy.

i saw a lot of me in zion. zion thought he was doing just fine. he was going to figure it all out on his own, right? it's not until someone helps you that you realize how badly you needed the help. >> look at him go, oh, my gosh! >> reporter: veterans lisa stein and erica discovered the program while searching for help for ptsd. >> a lot of times when you get out, especially if you have ptsd, you're lost. you are nervous in crowds. you have nightmares. you can't talk to anybody. it's a lot like these animals. they have no voice. >> the marine mammal center has rescued more than 180 animals this year and some require surgery. veteran naomi watched as a seal was seen that was too sick. seeing a seal fighting for life triggered memories. >> everybody was scared. i know for me, it was my emotions. i couldn't control my emotions at all and i felt very weak. >> reporter: but each found

strength working alongside other veterans and bonds formed, just like the sea lions. >> it was life changing. >> reporter: what is it about putting veterans together? it seems to create something special. >> they can feel like a team again and they can feel like they're doing something positive. >> that was so much fun. >> it's incredible, isn't it? >> so sweet. >> reporter: they can look in their eyes and understand that the animal has struggled too. and the animal isn't weak. it's not broken because it needed help. >> reporter: when the animal's recover, the vets are invited to witness their return home. and like buddies in the military, they released with a friend to help them find their way. >> it was very emotional, because they were on to another chapter, and it felt like that was what i was dealing with, on to another chapter. >> it's just like you learn in the military. sometimes you're going to have to crawl along under the barbed wire, and that's just what you have to do until you find yourself getting that stride of service back. >> reporter: it's a new mission for these veterans, helping sea life to heal, and maybe healing their own invisible scars along the way.

carter evans, cbs news, laguna beach, california. ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm omar villafranca. historic impeachment hearings pick up steam this week in the house of representatives. eight witnesses will testify over three days, and the person at the center of the investigation is ambassador gordon sondland. he has already had to update his secret testimony once. wednesday he'll appear before the american people and answer questions about a telephone call with the president. katherine johnson has the story. >> we are unfolding the facts. that's what an inquiry is about. >> reporter: lawmakers are gearing up for a new week of

public impeachment testimony. but the president's supporters are standing firm in their defense. negative, one's testified that there has been a quid pro quo. everyone's got second, third hand, fourth-hand information. >> reporter: this week trump donor turned eu ambassador gordon sondland testifies in public. >> we'll see how his testimony plays out. >> reporter: friday, an aide to the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine testified he overheard a loud phone call between sondland and president trump. david holmes said the president asked sondland if ukrainian president zelensky is going to, quote, do the investigation. sondland replied he's going to do it. president trump says he doesn't remember that call. >> no, not at all. not even a little bit. >> reporter: the spotlight on sondland will be bright. he has already changed his closed door testimony, saying he now recalls a conversation with a ukrainian official, that the u.s. would withhold military aid until the ukraine agreed to investigate. joe biden. >> my guess is ambassador sondland is going to do his level best to tell the truth otherwise he may have a very unpleasant legal future in front

of him. >> reporter: saturday they released the transcript of jennifer williams, an aide to mike pence. she was on that now infamous july 25th phone call and said it struck her as, quote, unusual and inappropriate. just this evening, president trump lashed out at williams on twitter, calling her a never trumper, and telling her to read the transcripts of his calls. this is the second time the president has tweeted directly at a witness in the impeachment inquiry, something that has eyebrows raised on both sides of the aisle. >> kat, anyou. the impeachment inquiry continues. next week cbs news will have special coverage of the hearings on tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. this week ten democrats take the stage in the fifth presidential debate. the latest cbs news battleground tracker has a snapshot of the race in early states. joe biden leads the field at 29%. elizabeth warren is right behind. bernie sanders and pete buttigieg follow. cbs news elections and surveys director anthony salvanto is here to break it all down.

anthony, joe biden has bounced back. what's behind that? >> hi, omar. he has bounced back. elizabeth warren was leading that field in our last poll last month. has faced some criticism from biden and other democrats saying that her plans might be too liberal for a general election, too liberal to beat donald trump. democrats are worried about that. we find that about a third of democrats say that if her policies. very few say that about joe biden's,' and of course electability remains a key concern for that democratic base. >> mayor pete is at 9% in wider polls, but he is making gains in iowa. why is he making those gains? >> well, it's sort of the classic play using the ground game, getting out there. we know he is campaigning hard in iowa. also in new hampshire, and we have seen him now rise basically to the top of the field there in iowa, also making gains now in double-digits in new hampshire, though elizabeth warren still

leads there. >> anthony salvanto, thank you very much. >> thank you. former new york city mayor michael bloomberg, who could soon join the democratic race, made a surprising admission today. speaking in brooklyn, bloomberg said he now regrets supporting the police tactic known as stop and frisk that critics say targeted young men of color. >> i want you to realize back then i was wrong and i'm sorry. >> bloomberg said the policy eroded trust in him, and he wants to win that back. to california now, where red flag warnings for high fire danger are in effect again for the southern part of the state. the forecast, hot, dry and windy with gusts up to 50 miles per hour. temperatures could break records. l.a. could top 90 degrees. fire weary californians are on alert from ventura county south to san diego. it was another tough day in venice. another high tide today flooded

the city, closing the landmark st. mark's square. tourists wearing rubber boots made their way through the high water. it's the first time since records began in 1872 that venice has suffered three high tides in the same year, let alone the same week. in northern syria, russian troops have taken command of a u.s. air base. and as charlie d'agata report, the russians did it without firing a shot. >> reporter: russian state media showed commandos staging what looked like a military invasion. the russians are playing up the takeover of the kobani airfield as a victory. the former u.s. air base that served as a main logistical hub for america's fight against isis now with the russian flag flying over it. the russians moved in just a day after u.s. forces moved out, leaving behind barracks, beds, abandoned medical supplies, and the skeleton of a gym, weights removed to render it useless.

the same can't be said of the runway, however. an american made landing strip now under russian management. the repositioning of u.s. troops mean their footprint has been reduced to patrolling oil fields while partnering with america's kurdish allies on the ground. even top kurdish commander commented that the sudden u.s. retreat left him no choice but to turn to the russians. >> translator: we had an understanding with russia to avoid turkish attacks in this region, he said. the vacuum americans left behind we had to fill with the russians. an imperfect solution to a desperate situation, giving the russians the upper hand on the ground. charlie d'agata, cbs news, in northeast syria. protesters in iran clashed with police this week. a sharp rise in gas prices sparked protests in a reported 100 cities across the country.

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♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm omar villafranca. and we've got a loot more to tell you about this morning, starting with the 50th anniversary of "sesame street." since its debut in 1969, more than 86 million americans watched the series as children. and through the years, it's won an impressive 193 emmy awards and 11 grammys, more than any other children's program. dana jacobsen took a stroll down the street. ♪ sunny day sweeping the clouds away ♪ >> reporter: it began as an experiment, a tv show to level the educational playing field for all preschool children.

>> i always learn when i watch you guys. >> it's a very educational place. >> yeah. >> we learn lots of things from allen and chris and nina. and really, we just like to have fun. sing, play games, have cookies. >> isn't that the best when you play and have fun and you learn? >> sure.it's bonus. >> go! ♪ >> reporter: 50 years later, "sesame street" is still around. >> 50 years. >> 50th anniversary. >> yeah. >> long time. >> how you guys celebrating? >> well, elmo is celebrate big learning how to count to 50. elmo is up to 47. >> you're almost there, elmo. >> thank you. >> so close. >> one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight. >> reporter: over the last half century, "sesame street" has had the same goal, to make kids smarter, stronger, and kinder. >> i said i'm sorry i made you angry and we got in a fight. i won't do it again. can we still be friends? >> reporter: and that's not all.

>> "sesame street" from the very beginning has adopted playful learning as its approach to teach. >> rosemary is in charge of content and learning at "sesame street" workshop, the ground breaking concept behind the show. why do children learn more easily from an elmo or a cookie monitor? >> because elmo and cookie are their friends. so there is this word we use in developmental psychology. it's called this power social relationship. when children watch "sesame street" and they see elmo and big bird and julia and abbie, they're friends. they're real. they talk. they eat. they sleep. they cry. they're real. and when you develop that connection, you're going to learn more from a character that you care about. >> reporter: take cookie monster. >> are we done show -- >> yes, yes. >> reporter: the most impulsive character on "sesame street." >> me no can resist cookies

anymore. >> by watching cookie fail, they're learning hey, he messed up. he ate the cookie. ♪ remember good things come to those who wait ♪ >> that strategy didn't work. and the next time he used that strategy, it worked. so it's important for us to show that trial and error. ♪ >> reporter: those same muppets are also the best choice to explain difficult realities. >> my dad's in jail. >> reporter: like incarceration. >> we don't have our own apartment anymore. >> reporter: homelessness. >> what's the matter, julia? >> noise, noise, noise. >> the sirens are bothering you? >> reporter: and autism. >> she does things just a little differently in a julia sort of way. >> the sesame magic is they take difficult topics and put them through the lens of a child so that it's very easy to understand. >> reporter: teresa fitzgerald heads up branding.

she and her team spent years creating julia, a muppet whose on the autistic spectrum. >> we were just going to create a storybook. and we created character art for a storybook. and it was so well received that they decided to build a puppet. so we took those drawings and went to henson, and henson created a puppet. so that translation, there is a lot of creative decisions made, and then she appeared on the show. >> julia, can big bird see your painting? >> see your painting, yes. >> reporter: and then this year we just added her family. ♪ i love my family >> reporter: what was the response when she first appeared on the show? isamazin really was there was need that there was such a positive response. >> reporter: but it's more than feedback. research shows that "sesame street" has a positive impact on kids. this paper on early childhood education found access to the show was associated with better elementary school performance.

>> they compared the sesame viewers to nonviewers. on average they performed 16% higher than the nonviewers, but they also had these positive dispositions towards learning. ♪ grab a book and you'll see >> much more motived to learn and engage in leisure reading and better pro social skills as well. so it wasn't just the academic. it also had a social impact. >> reporter: "sesame street" continues to strive for that impact by using everything from >> there is so much to do in elmo's room. >> reporter: to books, including rosemary trulio's new book, "sesame street, ready for school". >> children are learning from the adults around them. >> reporter: you're teaching children. you're also teaching parents. >> i often say i wish parents would watch "sesame street" as a parenting show because we have a human cast who is really representing you as a parent.

♪ feelings pass and feelings change ♪ >> feelings pass and feelings change? >> reporter: and so when our characters are struggling with an emotion or they're dealing is basically telling and showing us as parents how we could possibly address this with our child. >> reporter: learning for all ages and lessons for everyone. is it any wonder 50 years after "sesame street" was created, people are still asking -- ♪ can you tell me, how to get sesame street ♪ >> you know what we like? we like that we all different colors. >> reporter: yeah. >> we even have a grouch. >> i speak another language. >> that's right. >> and we all live really happy together. >> yeah. >> it's a great lesson for all of us. >> true. >> what do you say we go get some cookies? >> i like that. >> okay, everybody, cookies!

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♪ ♪ ♪ the calming scent of lavender by downy infusions calm. laundry isn't done until it's done with downy. tomorrow is the 100th birthday of a true american treasure. zion national park in utah. and to mark the event, a new

film celebrates the park's epic trails, climbs and river walks. jeff glor took a tour. >> reporter: we are headed out here to overlook, looking down pine creek canyon. >> reporter: our trip began at the awe inpeyering canyon overlook. >> then nine layers of geology. >> reporter: you're looking at more than 250 million years of history from top to bottom. >> when you come through the entrance of the canyon, it's like wow, what planet are we on here? >> reporter: a good one. >> yeah. >> reporter: these rocks have given jeremy collins both his obsession and his profession. he is among the world's most recognized at free climbing and landscape sketching. >> well, i started drawing same time you did, in kindergarten, and just never stopped. and it's gone on to define my whole career. that's how i do my storytelling. >> reporter: collins has travelled the world to climb mountains from china, to venezuela and the arctic circle,

but always returns to zion. >> you spend enough time in a place and it becomes home, and that's zion for me. >> reporter: and now stars in a new documentary, celebrating the park's centennial. >>thers o rock here, there is layers of stories about zion. >> reporter: you get lost sometimes? >> yeah. you go into the zone and the world disappears for a minute. i think anyone wants that experience. >> reporter: these days, more than four million visitors come to zion every year looking for some version of the same experience. they follow zion's scenic drive, hike to angel's landing, and walk the narrows. >> i'll spend time working in the visitor's center, maybe some time roving trails. >> reporter: park ranger darcy mckinley lester started walks us to her favorite spots, the emerald pools. >> you've just got to be careful of spines. >> reporter: along the way, we found a snack. >> all i didn't have to do is -- >> a prickly pear. >> cut it, split it open.

and once you got the skin pulled off, you have this beautiful fruit on the inside there. >> it reminds me ofuhuh. epor yeah, >> and this is it. my favorite spot right up here. there will sometimes be a mule deer walking through here because it's green year round so they can always find food. it's kind of a little sanctuary for everything that's here. >> reporter: but that's the thing about zion. you've got waterfalls and desert. >> yep. you have these two ecosystems meeting up. so you can also look up or look out and you can see more of the desert, but right here you're in that little oasis of water that you don't always find in a desert landscape. >> reporter: that water from the virgin river carved zion's epic canyon. but this area wasn't well-known until 1904 when this painting was featured at the world fair in st. louis. it was so stunning, the story was many didn't belie

real. in the 1920s, the union pacific railroad launched a very successful campaign to market the park, featuring coeds dressed in the latest fashionable hiking gear. pictures were published as far away as london. a tunnel that allowed far more to access the park was completed in 1930. a shuttle and tram system was introduced in 2001. >> obviously going somewhere that we are not. probably going to the same spot the different way. >> reporter: there is no tram that goes to the places jeremy collins prefers. >> i'm going to follow your route thinking can get pretty mean in the spring. >> reporter: i would imagine doing this when it's rushing. >> oh, yeah, grabbing at your niece. it's still cold. >> reporter: yes, it is. he took us to the climbing wall called moonlight buttress. >> watch out for this yucca here. >> reporter: ooh, yeah. it looks mean. >> you're looking for a particular challenge. it is something you can free

climb. i'm a free climber. i like to use my hands and feet, not my gear. >> reporter: when climbing is your passion, taunt like this can't be passed up, although this one wasn't necessarily park-approved. >> dude. be careful. you just can't resist, right? >> well, if i'm not going to get to climb while i'm out here, at least i can stress you guys out. ♪ i've had experience climbing here in the park when i'm all alone. and even though i felt like i was on fire, it was also a pretty special experience, just having the place to myself. >> reporter: do you like punishing yourself? >> i think anybody who is climbing cracks has a little bit of a masochistic dint. >> reporter: zion national park may be turning 100, but as collins is happy to tell you, it never gets old. >> i would say if you find a place you love, keep going back. wait fife years and come back.

develop a relationship with that place, because when you have a relationship with a place or a person, you want

record executive scooter braun's office in nashville, tennessee was shut down this weekend after threats that were allegedly sparked by his legal battle with superstar taylor swift. braun owns the rights to swift's first six albums and she claims he is not letting her perform any of those songs on tv. jericka duncan has the story. >> reporter: it began earlier this year when swift says she was blind sided by the sale of her former music label to powerful talent agent scooter braun. she planned to sing at this month's american music awards, but now she says braun and his business partner are exercising, quote, tyrannical control over her. ♪ he is the reason for the teardrops on my guitar ♪ >> reporter: from her

self-titled debut album in 2006 to "reputation" in 2017, mega star taylor swift has conquered the charts for more than a decade." but her first six albums are all owned by music label big machine, which she left late last year. in june, that label was purchased by a man whom she calls a bully. >> which brings us to scooter braun. >> reporter: as swift told cbs sunday morning's tracy smith in august, braun purchased the rights to all those songs. he was among a number of high profile celebrities who had trolled swift on social media, according to variety's senior music editor jim aswad. >> a few years ago when taylor and kanye west were sort of feuding, scooter braun and justin bieber kind of got in on the game, and she never forgave them for it. >> reporter: now could you rerecord? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: might you do that? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: while reregarding would give swift new control

over her new music, her contract prevents her doing so until a year from now. >> they're arguing that her performing those songs on the amas would be on television, that it would be recorded, that that violates that agreement. >> reporter: in her facebook post swift claims they'll allow me to use my music only if i agree to not rerecord copycat versions of my songs. >> it's very much a quid pro quo because they're delaying any way her rerecording her older songs and thus costing them an awful lot of money. ♪ you belong with me >> reporter: thursday night the #i stand with taylor was standing with taylor. >> the moral outrage is about the ownership of her songs. they're her songs and the fact that someone else owns them, controls them, can tell her not to play them on television, there is a lot of outrage there. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this monday. for some you, the news

continues. check back for morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm omar villafranca. it's monday, november 18th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." mass shooting at a football party. gunfire erupts in fresno, california, as a shooter opens fire at a back yard gathering leaving multiple people dead and wounded. standoff in hong kong. protesters holed up in a police water cannons as the violence escalates. key witnesses. eight people are coming forward this week for three days of impeachment hearings. impeachment hearings. a look at what's to come. captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio