a pilot is killed while fighting a wildfire in california. his plane crashes into a canyon. fbi is asking for help identifying an isis leader who may be from north america while they're waging war in syria. >> if you keep on poking and cornering a wild dog that wants nothing but its freedom, he will bite you and he will bite you hard. >> oh. >> and accusations of excessive force by police during a traffic stop for a seat belt violation. captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for wednesday, october

8th, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. federal aviation officials are investigating the deadly crash of an air tanker used to fight a wildfire in yosemite national park. the plane slammed into side of a cliff yesterday afternoon. search crews reached the crash site overnight. the fire forced the evacuation of dozens of homes in for is ta. our reporter of our san francisco station is nearby. good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. the crash happened around 4:30 while the pilot was trying to stop the dog walk fire from growing. he was the only one aboard the plane. the crash was near the top of a 2,500-foot cliff. witnesses say it looked like it went out of control and came

down. wildfires are a common set especially this summer. ken yager who shot this photograph calls the crash devastating. >> it's horrible. this community has had fires on and off for years and years and it's a challenging place to fight fires. >> reporter: the pilot's family has requested his name be withheld for now until other relatives are notified. they're starting a memorial fund for this family. that's how valued they are during wildfire season. they'll hold a briefing to talk about both the fire and the crash. anne-marie? >> andrea borba in california. thank you, andrea. this morning they're watching what's happening in syria near the border of turkey.

isis fighters are close to gaining control of kubani. the assault has cost hundreds of lives and is putting pressure on turkey. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. the president of turkey says kubani is about to fall to isis and while he is at odds with the u.s. about joining the coalition he seems to be in agreement with the officials at the pentagon who says the city cannot be saved through air strooiks alone. protests in turkey turned deadly overnight. police used live ammunition to break up kurdish demonstrators protesting against the isis advance on cue pany. they're calling on turkey's government to help the band of kurds fighting to maintain control of the border town. turkish forces are standing by and watching as kubani has weathered an isis siege for three weeks.

groups are already in parts of the city despite the air strikes. as one pentagon official put it, we do not have the ability to safe kubani from the air. >> if they take it, it shows they can still take the town even while under american air strikes. this is a win by winning. so from a strategic perspective it will look very bad for us, good for them. >> reporter: turkey says they won't take isis unless the troops get involved. they need to do more to back rebels trying to topple assad. >> canada's parliament has voted to approve air strikes against them but they will not carry it out in syria. they only cover isis targets in iraq. >> thank you, susan. the fbi is asking for your help in identifying an english-speaking man in an isis

propaganda video. he speaks with what appears to be an american accent. the militant appears to help in the execution of syrian soldiers. well, coming up later in the broadcast, clarissa ward travels to syria and speaks one one fighting along syrian militants. >> a man is so sick they cannot look at him. thomas duncan is fighting for his life in dallas hospital. omar villafranca has the latest on trying to contain the ebola outbreak. >> reporter: reverend jesse jackson led a prayer meeting. duncan is on a respirator and undergoing kidney dialysis. duncan had direct or indirect contact with about 50 people including his family.

health officials are monitoring the group, but so far doctors haven't seen any symptoms of ebola. doctors are using the same experimental drug on freelance cameraman ashoka mukpo. it's killed 3,500 people including nearly 378 aid workers. carolyn miles of save the chirp just returned from liberia and says the virus must be fought in africa. >> there are lots of precautions being taken, but at the end of the day, we have to stop the epidemic over there. >> reporter: more are questioning if it's easier to capture than they thought but health experts says there's no evidence to support that. >> reporter: but to keep the disease spreading from the u.s., the cdc is considering new

screening at the airports. omar villafranca, cbs news, dallas. so far there are no reports of injury or significant damage following a strong earthquake in mexico. it hit late tuft and was centered in the gulf of california, about 70 miles northeast of cabo san lucas. this morning recovery efforts are under way in southeastern china after a strong earthquake caused significant damage and injury. at least one person was killed. the 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit when most people were home. 300 were injured. coming up on the "cbs morning news" a star answers questions about molesting underaged girls. of conversation! you know, i like you! i like you too! at discover, we treat you like you'd treat you. get the it card and talk to a real person. ...and tkind of like you huffing sometimes, grandpa.

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very concerning about fighters from western nations joining isis and other rebel groups.& they pose danger to american and other coalition forces and their countries. clarissa ward managed to get inside syria and talk to a jihadi from europe. >> reporter: after months of negotiations we met a 26-year-old dutch fighter born in holland but now one of the thousands of western jihadees fighting in syria. >> i will fight anybody, even if it was my own father bombing these people, i would fight him and kill him myself. >> reporter: do you feel it's because of your home?

>> yes, of course we left everything behind. everything. our family, our friends, basically our future. >> reporter: he was a soldier with the dutch army, but when special forces turned him down, he quit. around the same time, the uprising in syria began. he said his world was turned upside down by the endless gruesome videos of the regime crackdown. >> i feel the need as a person, a a human, and a person i had to stand up and do stuff. >> reporter: two months ago without telling his family he left to join syria with a wiej range of toops. >> it's scary. >> reporter: do you miss anything about home or the west? >> the food, electricity, warm water. these are the things that i

miss, but the west, hypocrisy. it's filled with hypocrisy. >> reporter: he has become more extreme during his two years in syria. he does not fight with isis, but he won't join them either. he argues that it pales in comparison to the assad regime. >> the beheading and cruise fig people is difficult for the people in the west to justify how their tactics could ever be justifiable. the they're war crimes. >> war crimes. what's a war crime? more than 200,000 is not a war crime? barrel bombs, terror attacks is not a war crime. >> reporter: his ultimate goal is to overthrow the isis dictatorship but it's different

than the u.s. >> we don't want you. we don't want your rules. we want our own rules. >> what kind of rules? >> islamic law. it's the only solution. >> you're speaking for who. >> no. >> what about the millions of people in seary who don't want it. >> where are they? >> but this isn't your country. >> we're fighting for our country. >> reporter: these days assad is not the only enemy. recent air strikes against islamic militants in iraq and syria have reunited their belief that the u.s. is fighting a war on islam. >> the american economy that's waging a crusade against the muslims all around the world, they've always been our enemy. >> so do you think there will be more attacks on america? >> if you keep on cornering and poking a wild dog that wants nothing but his freedom, he will bite you and he will bite you hard. this fight never ends, never ends.

this is our religion. this is our faith. this is what we believe in. >> western governments have been panicking at the prospect that fighters like him may want to return home and could even launch attacks in the west. as for him, he told us that he wouldn't want to go back to holland and that he couldn't go back anyway because he's too well known and would immediately be arrested. clarissa ward, cbs news, london. well, tonight on the cbs evening new, clarissa speaks to an american fighting in syria. straight ahead, though, caught on tape, cops in indiana drag a man out of his car and taser him. now he's fighting back. ...we're going to need you on the runway. (vo) don't let a severe cold hold you back. sir? (vo) theraflu starts to get to work in your body in just 5 minutes. (vo) theraflu breaks you free from your worst cold and flu symptoms.

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the star of "seventh heaven" stephen collins has been accused of child molestation. celebrity website tmz says it has an audiotape made by his estranged wife made during a therapy session. he admits to molesting three girls decades ago. the new york city police department says it's looking into the allegations but no charges have been filed. and two indiana police officers are being sued for allegedly using excessive force during a routine traffic stop last month and as dean reynolds shows us, the confrontation was all caught on tape. >> reporter: what started as a stop for a seat belt violation quickly escalated. on september 24th, lisa mahone was driving with her friend jamaal jones in the passenger seat and two children, 14-year-old joseph and 7-year-old. nia in back.

>> joseph, get your phone out and videotape this. >> i'm already doing it. >> reporter: the hammond police pulled them over in a highly aggressive way. >> they pulled me over like i robbed a bank. >> reporter: but in a cell phone video shot by his son, the police focused on jones especially when he failed to produce an i.d. mahone calls 911 when the officers draw their guns. >> i feel like my life is in danger. i need a lieutenant here right now. >> reporter: jones stays put, he says, to protect the family and then asks for a higher ranking shirt. >> look at my shoulder [ bleep ], i've got the bar. >> do you want to have your kids see me pull you through the window? >> you're not going to pull me through the window. >> reporter: then this happened. 7-year-old jania cries from the back seat.

joans is hit with a stun gun and arrested for resifrting. >> i feel like my civil rights was thrown out the window along with my family. >> reporter: in a statement the police said they feared fir their lives when he didn't leave the vehicle. no weapons were found. dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. when we return, the san francisco giants rob washington for a chance at their first championship pennant.

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national league championship series thanks to some crucial mistakes by the washington nationals. washington's bryce harper tied the game at two apiece with a long seventh inning home run, but in that same inning, aaron's bases wide pitch allowed joe panik to score the go-ahead run as the giants bead the nationals, 3-2. the giants won the championship division series, three games to one. earlier dodgers clayton kershaw was unhisable. aallows one hit into six innings. in the seventh he gets into trouble allowing two runners to get on base and then matt adams comes to the plate. >> driven into right. hit the wall. it is gone! cardinals lead it, 3-2. >> kershaw can't believe it. 3-2 would be the final score. the cardinals advance to the nlcs for the fourth straight

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been filling in the lives.as his skull was found along the banks of the kennewick river. he's been an enlightening teacher while also being the subject of a fierce legal battle. chip reid has his story. >> it is certainly america's most important skeleton. it is an exceptionally rare discovery and does not happen but once in a lifetime. dougously is the smithsonian's top anthropologist. 18 years ago he and scientists sued the government and a local tribe for the right to study this 9,000-year-old man.

the tribe believes the bones were ancestral and needed to be reburied. the court ruled in favor of science. >> what does he tell you about how humans first came to north america. >> >> you have people coming in thousands of years earlier than we thought and he's from the east asian coastal populations. >> reporter: he was 5'7" and a muscular 163 pounds. his diet left a chemical signature in his bones. >> you find that this man is heavily, heavily dependent on seals from lots of indications, a lot of sand in his diet. he's a marine mammal dieter. >> reporter: it was suggested he hunted with a spear. his life was often brutal. >> his existence expresses a strenuous life. he has half a dozen fractured

rips. >> >> reporter: add to that a skull injury and spear injuries. >> i think it was the i tension of killing him. he was able to get away. >> reporter: one of the biggest challenges was recreating what he would have actually looked like. it took months. his bones have been locked away by the federal government buttobut ousley says there's so much to learn especially what killed him. >> i feel like he's just beginning to talk to us and we need to carry on a conversation. >> reporter: a conversation he's been waiting to have for a very long time. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> old bones tell a very interesting tale. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the hunt for a masked isis terrorist. why the fbi thinks he's from

north america. plus, how an indianapolis woman managed to live rent-free for almost a half a decade. and a story on toxic twins. the early era of aerosmith and he dishes about steven tyler. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day.

today, it is wednesday objecting eighth good morning i'm natasha brown. i'm erika von tiehl. here are stories we are following today, happening today, some students in philadelphia say they are going on strike, to protest cancellation of the teachers contract. we have been live from district headquarters. new dangers in the fight of ebola virus, why the pentagon says u.s. troops may come into contact with the deadly disease. allegations of a sex assault at trump taj mahal in atlantic city and suspect are police officers. more on those stories coming up. but first lets get our forecast from katie, man that rain overnight. >> i had branches on my car. >> oh, no, just little ones.