Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Reporter maryland congresswoman Elijah Cummings has passed away. Cummings was 68 years old. The nation loses a tighten of civil rights. There are those who seek to dominate our nation by dividing us. I remind you that our diversity is not our problem, our diversity is our promise. Reporter democrats stormed out of the white house meeting on syria. They accused President Trump of having a meltdown. We have to pray for his health. This is a serious meltdown. Reporter democratic and republican lawmakers in the house voted to condemn President Trumps withdrawal in northern syria. I view the situation to be very the United States strategically brilliant. A nasty noreaster packing drenching downpours and raging winds flooded streets and knocked out power to tens of thousands. Its been crazy. Like noahs ark. Reporter General Motors and the uaw reached a proposed tentative agreement. Could this end the monthlong strike. Reporter a utah trooper rescues an unconscious man seconds before a train smashes into his vehicle. All that reporter a close call for an Idaho State Police trorp after he barely escaped being hit by a runaway truck. And all that matters google has unveiled its pixel 4 smartphone. Reporter it will include gesture control meaning you dont need the touchscreen. The first phone that will turn everyone into a magicians assistant. Call mom. On cbs this morning ladies, this is the United States of america, and you must be the agents of change. You are the ones that can guide us the rest of the way. Ive often said that our children are the living messages we send to a future we will never see. You, you, and you are our messengers. Boy, welcome to cbs this morning. We begin with sad news. Its breaking from baltimore right now. The loss of a powerful voice, you just saw him, among congressional democrats. Maryland congressman Elijah Cummings, chairman of the House Oversight committee, died early this morning at a hospital in baltimore. He was 68 years old and had faced a series of health issues. Cummings committee is one of three leading the house impeachment inquiry. Before that he led efforts to before he were going to go to nancy cordes here on capitol hill who is looking back at a tremendous leaders career. Nancy, good morning. Theres no way to put this other than to say that the nation lost a fierce advocate for civil rights and a tremendous leader. Reporter that is really putting it well, tony. This is a huge loss for lawmakers who are on apitol hill. He was someone who was emulated by younger members, respected by democrats and republicans alike. Cummings died overnight due to complications from longstanding Health Problems. Elijah cummings dedicated most of his life to public service. An attorney and former state lawmaker, he was elected to the u. S. Congress in 1996. We are the greatest country in the world. We are the ones that can go anywhere in the world and save people. Reporter the baltimore native and son of sharecroppers quickly became one of the most powerful orators in the Democratic Party. It is so painful, i cant even begin to tell you. Reporter when democrats won back the house in 2018, cummings became chair of the powerful House Oversight committee which roots out fraud and mismanagement in the administration. The child is sitting in their own feces, cant take a shower. Come on, man. Whats that about . Reporter its a job reserved for those who wont back down from a fight. When cummings was hit with a barrage of angry tweets, he defended his city, not himself. I want people to come to baltimore. We are a great city. We really are. [ applause ] we are, we really are. I do not have time for people who want to trash our city. Reporter cummings was open about his recent Health Problems and grew increasingly reflective during his final months. A lot of people do not understand where my passion comes from. It comes out of pain, passion, purpose. Reporter in a statement, cummings wife mia who was also the chair of the Democratic Party in maryland said, quote, he worked until his last breath because he believed our democracy was the highest and the best expression of our collective humanity and that our nations diversity was our promise, not our problem. Its been an honor to walk by his side on this incredible journey. I loved him deeply and will miss him dearly. Gayle . Youre going to hear a lot of comments like that about Elijah Cummings. Nancy, you know all the players on capitol hill. How do you think his absence will be felt there . Reporter well, you know, cummings was one of just a handful of lawmakers who democrats would often turn to to make their Closing Argument on a particular issue. He was uniquely talented at making those kind of cases on the house floor. Very argumentative, yes, but also very passionate in a way that few others could emulate. But he also had a lot of respect from the other side, and that was something that you could feel when you were at hearings, when you were in the halls of congress. I remember talking to him just a couple of months ago as he was trying to figure out what to say after the president called him a racist and called his city, baltimore, rat infested. And he was really struggling with it. He said i dont want to make it all about myself, and i really want to take the moral high ground here, so im going to be thinking about it over the next couple of days. He was very frank with reporters, and thats something im going to miss and something im sure a lot of people around here are going to miss. I think so, too. Pain, passion, purpose. Thank you. We dont know exactly what the medical condition was. But he had just released a statement from the hospital saying, my doctors anticipate i will be returning to washington, d. C. , when the house comes back into session. This was september 30th. So he anticipated that he would be coming back. A big surprise to wake up to this news this morning. Yeah. The first facetoface meeting between President Trump and Top Democrats since the impeachment inquiry began did not go smoothly. The democrats walked out yesterday claiming the president insulted House Speaker nancy pelosi during a briefing for congressional leaders on the deteriorating military situatio in syria. The president tweeted this photo from the meeting showing a moment of confrontation between the speaker and the president. Weijia jiang is at the white house. That triggered the blowup . Reporter well, good morning, anthony. Democrats say President Trump lost his cool and was visibly shaken up because the house overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning his decision to pull those u. S. Troops out of syria. The white house is painting a very different picture and blamed Democratic Leaders for leaving early so they could come out here and whine to the press instead of work with their colleagues. Democratic leaders say they stormed out of the white house after President Trump pounced on House Speaker nancy pelosi. When he started calling Speaker Pelosi a thirdrate politician which i said, i wish you were a politician, mr. President never have i seen a president treat so disrespectfully a coequal branch of the government of the United States. A witness on the part of the president was a meltdown. Sad to say. Reporter democrats say the president called out see you at the polls as they walked out. Republicans said pelosi warned the president to watch what we do. After the meeting, mr. Trump tweeted a photo of the confrontation with the caption nervous nancys unhinged meltdown, seemingly unbothered, pelosi responded by making the photograph the backgrounds shot of her twitter profile. She storms out of another meeting, trying to make it unproductive. Reporter lawmakers on both sides have slammed President Trump for pulling u. S. Troops out of syria, leaving kurdish allies to fight the Turkish Military alone. I want to express my gratitude to the kurds. Im sorry that we are where we are. The kurds are much safer. To suggest the kurds are safer is delusional. Reporter trump ally senator Lindsey Graham repeatedly called it the biggest mistake of his presidency. It will be to our shame and to our national securitys detriment, and trump will own the reemergence of isis. If you think theyre just coming after europe and dont present a threat to the tuds, youre sadly mistaken. Reporter the White House Press secretary described President Trump as finished, factual, and decisive in the meeting. Democrats say they kept pressing him to hear what his plan is in syria. He responded to keep americans safe, to which they pointed out thats goal, tony, and not a plan. This morning, Vice President mike pence and secretary of state mike pompeo are on a mission to stop the violence in syria. Theyve arrived in turkey to ask for a ceasefire. Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent and face the nation moderator Margaret Brennan joins us. Good morning. Will they meet with the turkish president as planned . Reporter thats the entire reason the Vice President is on the trip in the first place, to make it too hard for erdogan to say no. This mission is a skraum bell which is put a scramble which is put together to mitigate the fallout from the president s quick decision to pull out which paved the way for the turkish invasion. The administration and this trip is basically about trying to limit the extent of it. That is why pence is there in the first place. To try to get turkey to limit the damage here. The sdf does not really need u. S. Help, they all right cut a deal. All of thats a blow to u. S. Influence. The white house released a letter from President Trump to turkish president erdogan. What did it say . Reporter it was dated october 9th. It was meant to back up the president s claim that he clearly warned erdogan not to invade syria. If you read it, it sounds just like the president wrote it. It says, dont be a tough guy. Dont be a fool, and it was sent the same day at that turkish air strikes began. That shows how late the dministration was to realize erdogan was going through with this. Just three days prior, there was a far less strong white house announcement that said the u. S. Would just be getting out of the way and didnt support it. So these mixed messages have confused even erdogan who said he cant keep track of President Trumps tweets. Margaret, thank you. House impeach mement member are pushing forward the investigation of the president investigating the bidens. Cbs has a copy of the prepared remarks by the ambassador to the European Union. He said he and others worked with the president s personal lawyer,giuliani because they were told to. Giuliani ran his own private campaign. In his statements, sondland also says he didnt know until recently that hunter biden was connect to that company. British prime men stinister johnson tweeted it is a great new deal that he is confident will go through for brexit. Parliament will vote on saturday. Three previous agreements failed to pass. They face an october 31st deadline. Millions of people are in the grip of a powerful noreaster. Crashing winds and rain sent waving crashing over walls in maryland. Wind gusts approaching 100 Miles Per Hour were recorded in massachusetts and more than 400,000 customers in the northeast are still without power right now. Nearly 50,000 striking gm workers may be back on the job soon after the united autoworkers reached a proposed deal with the company. They joined the picket lines halting production at dozens of factories nationwide. It has cost gm an estimated 1. 5 billion. We have a report from the assembly plant. Were anxious to go back to work. A member of the United Auto Workers union. He says he is ready to resume his job, but she not settling for less than what Union Workers deserve. Its not just getting anything, its getting what we want. Terms of the tentative fouryear contract was not released, but sources say it includes pay raises, Lump Sum Payments to workers, maintains low out of pocket costs for health care and has a path for temporary workers to become fulltime employees. We have a history of things like temporary workers. Negotiations are coming to an end, and we can get out of this cold. Uaw is telling workers to keep strikes as they propose the deal. It is hurting all of us. It is hurting General Motors and our family. We could stay out here for a few more days. This has been the longest National Strike against gm since 1970 and by some estimates workers have lost a Million Dollars in total wages in the last 30 days. Theyre about to find out if it was worth it. A trooper in utah rushed into harms way to save a mans life with just seconds to spare. Dramatic dash cam video shows the trooper running toward a car stranded on railroad tracks. And he scrambles to pull out the driver that is unconscious as the train barrels towards them. David is here with the incredible rescue. The good news story of the morning. He had a medical emergency, loses control, crashes through a fence, is stuck on the tracks. The trooper gets the call to go to the scene and watch what happens. It was just after 6 50 a. M. Pulling up to the scene where the suv was stuck on the tracks. The main concern was getting him out. He ran toward the suv with his flashlight on believing the driver was still inside. He would have just 35 seconds to get the man out. There is a train coming. He did it with less than two seconds to spare. The car flew through the air as the train bull doesed down the track. After i saw the train hit the vehicle and the vehicle flew about 30 feet in front of us, i realized that was a lot closer than i would have liked. The driver told the state trooper he is just grateful to be alive. Im still trying to process everything that happened. Im grateful that i got him out and he is alive and back with his family now. The trooper has only been on the force for about a year and a half. She okay, she in his 2 he is 20s and he doesnt want to talk to the media and thats okay. The flashlight and the big light from the train, amazing. We know how the story will end, it is still tough to watch it because it was so close. That is what you call a close call. He could see that light coming and youre grabbing the guy and whew. I can see why the guy doesnt want to be named. We all want to talk about the trooper. One of the countrys biggest states is stepping up an effort to curb bullying. Were going to look at the sweeping new laws meant to protect children good thursday morning to you. Things are starting to clear up as far as the skies are concerned. A beautiful fall afternoon. Clear skies. High temperatures in the mix of the 60s and 70s. 69 in san jose. 67 oakland and San Francisco and cooler along the coast. That cooling trend continues into saturday as things clear up. Then were going to start to warm up at the beginning of next week. There is a slight chance of rain saturday evening. We have much more news ahead. We have more news ahead, clues into the deadly Hotel Collapse in new orleans. 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