A 17yearold from the bronx who died last friday. He is believed to be the youngest of at least 24 who have died in 20 states. More than 1,000 illnesses from vaping have been reported nationwide. Nationwide. Now, a cbs news investigation into zantac and its generic versions. The nations three largest pharmacy chains stopped selling the heartburn drug used by millions after the f. D. A. Warned this month that it may contain a potentially dangerous impurity. Our dr. Jon lapook reports zantacs problems may not just be an impurity but something much more serious. We take the entire tablet, just as a patient would, and we dissolve it into the solvent. Reporter at this connecticut lab, called valisure, researchers test drugs from its own Online Pharmacy to check for purity and quality. Last spring, they decided to analyze a few heartburn drugs to see if they contained a chemical called m. D. M. A. , a probable last year, that same chemical had led to recalls of some Blood Pressure pills. So, were going to crush this. Reporter okay. One medication stood out zantac and its generic version, ranitidine. It had levels of m. D. M. A. Higher than considered acceptable. Valisure c. E. O. David light the active ingredient in zantac appears to us to be a fundamentally unstable molecule. Reporter light reported to the f. D. A. His suspicion that the problem is not just an impurity, but what could happen to the pill inside the body. And in a variety of conditions conditions of the lab, conditions of the human body it can break down and then form the carcinogen m. D. M. A. Reporter youre saying the thitidine could be converted into m. D. M. A. Inside the body, was suggested three years ago in Research Published by william mitch, a professor at stanford university. Watested. L study, ten voluntrs m. D. M. A. Levels were more than 400 times greater than what the f. D. A. Considers acceptable. Even after adjusting for a new f. D. A. Protocol for measuring m. D. M. A. , mitch got similar result what we were hoping was that someone else would eventually pick up the results, who is in the pharmaceutical field. Reporter and did they . To my knowledge, not yet. But maybe this will spur them to. Reporter three months after valisure first alerted the f. D. A. To its findings, the Agency Issued a safety alert, saying its own testing found low levels of m. D. M. A. In ranitidine. It is now calling even those levels unacceptable. The agency told cbs news it is now investigating what happens to ranitidine inside the body after its exposed to stomach acid. What do you think happens Going Forward now . What would like to see happen . What weve been petitioning for is for the complete recall of all ranitidine products brand, doest matt m reporter zantacs maker, sanofi, told cbs news that the mitch study has limitations, that the company is working closely with the f. D. A. And while zantac is still being sold, some generic makers have issued voluntary recalls. Okay, i think the bottomline question everybody wants to know is there a link between zantac and cancer . Reporter no, but memorial sloan kettering, one of the worlds top cancer centers, has pulled ranitidine from its pharmacy shelves as it looks for any evidence that people who take it are more prone to get certain types of cancers. Now, people should know, norah, if theyre taking zantac or ranitidine, there are alternatives they should discuss with their clinician. All right. Were going to continue to follow this story very closely. Thank you, dr. Lapook. There is still much more ahead tonight in the cbs evening news. There is a twist in the murder of a key witness in the amber geyger case. Also, why Ellen Degeneres refuses to be shamed over her choice of friends. And simone biles at age 22 proves again why she may be the best gymnast ever. My lady those darn seatbelts got me all crumpled up. 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Simone biles led the way, earning a record 21st medal. Be remeered ar e bidiits us e orr and again backflip. Doubledouble reporter nailg signature moves no one has ever done in a major competition. That is biles reporter slow motion shows the skill needed to pull them off d it will now be known as the biles ii. [ cheers and applause ] to top that, biles dazzled the crowd on the balance beam, landing a doubledouble dismount, now dubbed quite simply the biles. Thats four moves now named in her honor. It finally felt good to go out there and hit a beam routine like i trained, because i feel like every time i go up to compete beam, i just, like, bomb it. So, it felt really good to nail it. She wears goat on the back of her leotard. She is the greatest of all time. Reporter olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion kurt thomas has three moves to his name. When you and you keep raising the Difficulty Level the way simone does, thats where youre just changing the sport. 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With dawn an air force flyover today honored the service of a world war ii aviator missing for more than half a century. Major donn young was buried at Arlington National cemetery. He was killed when his b25 bomber went down in papua, new guinea, in 1943. Youngs remains were found after a yearslong search by the nephew of the planes pilot to locate the crash site and its crew. One man is in custody tonight and two others are being sought in the murder of a key witness in the trial of former Dallas Police officer amber guyger. Remember joshua brown . Well, he was shot and killed friday in what police say was a drug deal gone bad. They insist theres no connection to the guyger trial. Californias largest utility is going to extremes to prevent wildfires. Pacific gas and electricity says just after midnight, it will begin turning off the power to nearly 800,000 to prevent wires from sparking. The National WeatherService Calls fire conditions in the bay area and Northern California extreme. Now to this story americans are stressed out, and a new study finds nearly 40 of us say politics is to blame. Some say its affecting their health, others claim theyve lost sleep over the subject, and 20 say political differences have damaged a valued friendship. So, on that note, coming up next, two very famous people prove it doesnt have to be that way. Announcer this portion is finally tonight, we thought wed address kindness, civility, and politics, which dont seem to be mentioned in the same sentence much these days. It took a greeting on the gridiron between former president george w. Bush and Ellen Degeneres to bring it into sharp focus. It may not seem like a big deal for a celebrity to attend a football game, but i never leave my house, so it is a big deal. Reporter ellen and her wife, portia de rossi, were invited to sit in the private box of Dallas Cowboys owner jerry jones. Former president george w. Bush and his wife, laura, were also there. [ laughter ] but during the game, they showed a shot of george and me laughing together, and, so, people were upset. They thought, why is a gay hollywood liberal sitting next to a conservative republican president . Didnt even notice im holding the brandnew iphone 11. [ laughter ] but a lot of people were mad, t. Buheres one tweet i loved. This oerson says, ellen a have faith in america again. [ cheers and applause ] but instead of getting into the fray on social media, ellen used the moment to preach about civility. Heres the thing im friends with george bush. In fact, im friend with a lot of people who dont share the same beliefs that i have. Were all different, and i think that weve forgotten that thats okay, that were all different. When i say be kind to one another, i dont mean only the people who think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone. It doesnt matter. [ cheers and applause ] thats the overnight news for this wednesday. For some of you the news continues. For others, check back later on cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in n york city, im norah odonnell. P shall announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Warm welcome to the overnight news. Im errol barnett. President donald trump has declared political war on the congressional impeachment inquiry, calling it a kangaroo court. The white house has barred a diplomat from speaking to investigators and the president signalled he will stone wall any effort to speak to witnesses or to subpoena documents. Nancy cordes brings us the latest. Lyer said d. C. From his post in brussels. House intelligence chairman adam shif. The failure to produce this witness we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress. Reporter President Trump appeared to take responsibility for the lastminute move, tweeting, i would love to send ambassador sondland to testify. But unfortunately, he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court. What we see in this impeachment is a kangaroo court. Reporter a group of House Republicans backed the president s move. The administration is blocking a key interview. Doesnt that imply that there is something theyre trying to hide . No. Its based on the unfair and partisan process mr. Schiff has been running. Reporter sondland is a hotel mogul and trump megadonor. Text exchanges this summer show sondland pushing for an unequivocal promise for election medding and burisma. Mr. Trump really wants the deliverable, sondland wrote. When a fellow diplomat argued, its crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a political campaign, sondland responded four hours later, the president has been crystal clear. No quid pro quos of any kind. A source tells cbs news sondland called the white house during that fourhour gap. Democrats say sondland has more texts and emails stored on a personal device that they now plan to subpoena. She has argued that she is under no legal or legislative obligation to hold that vote and shes not going to be bullied into it by the white house. Democrats also argue that if they were to hold this vote, they think that the white house would simply come up with some other reason not to cooperate. The Supreme Court is back in session, and at the top of its agenda, the case of two people who were fired from their jobs because they are gay. Jan crawford has this story. I was fired for being gay. Reporter Gerald Bostock says he lost his job in georgia after joining a gay recreational softball league. Its a much bigger issue than just me. Reporter transgender woman Aimee Stephens said she was fired from a micn funel home af transitioning from a man. And we all deserve the same rights 14 federal civil righ act, which prohibits discrimination based on an individuals race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, also protects employees based on their Sexual Orientation or gender identity. But conservative justices suggested those arguments should be directed instead at congress. Justice samuel alito. The point is that discrimination on the basis of sex in the sense that congress understood it in 1964, is a different concept from discrimination on the basis of Sexual Orientation. Justices noted farreaching implications samesex bathrooms, dress codes, and transgender women playing on womens sports teams. Congress repeatedly has refused to change the 1964 law to specifically prohibit employment discrimination based on Sexual Orientation. And until last year, federal appeals courts have uniformly said it wasnt covered, leaving 22 states and the district of columbia to pass their own laws outlawing it. But liberal justices were sympathetic, saying the civil rights law was aimed at combating discrimination, even if not seen as a problem at the time. Justice ruth bader ginsburg. Tight the 7 was meant to strike out the entire spectrum of sex stereotyping. Now, the courts two new justices seemed impossible to predict. Justice neil gorsuch did seem somewhat open to the idea that the words of the law might be read to cover this kind of discrimination, but then he worried about massive social upheaval. Now, there are new concerns this morning about the widely used heartburn medication zantac. The food and Drug Administration found unacceptable levels of cancercausing impurities, both in zantac and its generic version. Some drugstores have already pulled it off the shelves. Dr. Jon lapook brings us the latest. We take the entire tablet, just as a patient would, and we dissolve it into the solvent. Reporter at this connecticut lab, called valisure, researchers test drugs from its own Online Pharmacy to check for purity and quality. Last spring, they decided to analyze a few heartburn drugs to see if they contained a chemical called m. D. M. A. , a probable carcinogen. Last year, that same chemical had led to recalls of some Blood Pressure pills. So, were going to crush this. Reporter okay. One medication stood out zantac and its generic version, ranitidine. It had levels of m. D. M. A. Higher than considered acceptable. Valisure c. E. O. David light the active ingredient in zantac appears to us to be a fundamentally unstable molecule. Reporter light reported to the f. D. A. His suspicion that the problem is not just an impurity, but what could happen to the pill inside the body. And in a variety of conditions conditions of the lab, conditions of the human body it can break down and then form the carcinogen m. D. M. A. Reporter youre saying the ranitidine itself can break down and form m. D. M. A. Correct. Reporter that possibility, that ranitidine could be converted into m. D. M. A. Inside the body, was suggested three years ago in Research Published by william mitch, a professor at stanford university. In a small study, ten volunteers were given a tablet of zantac, and their urine was tested. M. D. M. A. Levels were more than 400 times greater than what the f. D. A. Considers acceptable. Even after adjusting for a new f. D. A. Protocol for measuring m. D. M. A. , mitch got similar results. What we were hoping was that someone else would eventually pick up the results, who is in the pharmaceutical field. Reporter and did they . To my knowledge, not yet. But maybe this will spur them to. Reporter three months after valisure first alerted the f. D. A. To its findings, the Agency Issued a safety alert, saying its own testing found low levels of m. D. M. A. In ranitidine. It is now calling even those levels unacceptable. The agency told cbs news it is now investigating what happens to ranitidine inside the body after its exposed to stomach acid. What do you think happens Going Forward now . What would like to see happen . What weve been petitioning for is for the complete recall of all ranitidine products brand, generic doesnt matter. Doesnt matter who made it or what lot number it is. Reporter zantacs maker, sanofi, told cbs news that the mitch study has limitations, that the company is working closely with the f. D. A. And doing its own robust testing. While zantac is still being sold, some generic makers have issued voluntary recalls. Dr. Jon lapook, cbs news, new york. And starting a business means i have to be well rested, every night of the month. Always ornight pads have up to a 2x larger back for up to 10 hours of protection. It catches leaks, so you can catch zzzzs. Because my morning starts, before morning starts. Always. 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So what we did not expect to find was prisoners who told us they were american. You were born in belgium . Yes. Reporter the prison is like the united nations. Youre from holland . Yes. Reporter youre from the netherlands . Yes. Reporter except everyone here is accused of joining isis. Im from germany. Reporter they signed up for an islamic paradise, but ended up living 50 to a cell, some with terrible injuries from the battle field. And youre american or youre american . Reporter yes. He told us he left his home in chicago to live under isis in 2015, and hes unrepentant. Thees that i made in somebodys eyes are the wrong choices, so i face jail time. Reporter were they the wrong choices in your eydo you think choices . No. Just wanted to live under islamic law. Reporter there are about 5,000 prisoners inside this jail, and the guards say many of them are dangerous. If they escape, there are fears theyll rejoin isis insurgents who continue to carry out attacks. They organized him to pretend his sick and then called the guards in. The guards showed us this attempted prison break. They pull the door off its hinges and they charge even further down the corridor. They want to send the foreign prisoners home, but in most cases their own governments dont want them back. Even when theyre children. We met another prisoner here who identified himself as a 17yearold u. S. Citizen from new york city. He told us his parents took him to join isis. He didnt want to appear on camera. But like nearly all of the foreigners here, he is desperate to leave. Do you want to go back to the u. S. . Of course. Im going to die soon here. Im sick. I do not get any medical attention. Reporter if you go back to the u. S. , youre almost certainly facing a prison term. I know. I know. I know. Introducing new Vicks Vapopatch easy to wear with soothing vicks vapors for her, for you, for the whole family. New Vicks Vapopatch. Breathe easy. The battle against Climate Change is usually focused on reducing Greenhouse Gases to stop the rise in global temperatures. But now in many parts of the world, theres a more pressing need. Peoples health. In india, for instance, nearly 1. 8 Million People die every single year from breathing polluted air. Elizabeth palmer brings us this report from new delhi. Reporter delhi has tubes in both lungs fighting tuberculosis. They have a lot of respiratory distress. He was having difficulty breathing. Reporter he still is. And so is every patient in the emergency ward of delhis National Institute for tb and respiratory disease. All of them, one way or another, are victims of delhis filthy air. Every day, between 800 and a thousand people with lung problems, line up here to be treated. Dr. Arvand kumar is a prominent chest surgeon and founder of the lung care foundation. We have no nonsmoker in india. Everybody living in india is a smoker. Reporter he means just from breathing the air. At its worst, it can be 70 times dirtier than the World Health Organization considers safe. In delhi, a booming city of 19 million, a thousand extra cars hit the road every day. Contributing to murk thats dangerous in many ways. But the real cost of this pollution is human health. So, brain attack, Brain Development poor, heart attack, hypertension, birth defects. Reporter politicians if you need a taxi in new delhi, you get into one of these. But with 100,000 rickshaws spewing pollution into the air, the government had to do something. They started out banning the gasoline powered ones. Now the natural gas ones are being phased out because the future is electric. And its being built here, at shigans factory in delhis out skirts. Not very high tech maybe, but these vehicles are zero emission. The managing director headed the shift to electric models three years ago. So the writing is on the wall. Yes. Reporter india is going electric. Yes. It is inevitable. Reporter already the erick shaws are a hit. They can be recharged by the driver at home and the government is about to subsidize the cost of the batteries. Thats because india cant clean up unless everyone, even the poorest, can afford to join in. Take traditional cooking fires in the slums. They send fine particles of burning wood, garbage, even dung deep into the lungs. Smoke is a huge part of delhis air problem. While cooking fires like this may nourish a family, at the same time it makes everybodys health that much worse. So the government is subsidizing an alternative. Cleanburning natural gas stoves at a price almost everyone can manage. Air is needed for every breath. The only thing you can do if you want to avoid total damage is to stop breathing. Which, unfoertunately, we canno do for more than a minute. Reporter there is some hope. Peak pollution levels in new delhi seem to have levelled off, so now the urgent challenge is to actually bring them down. Im Elizabeth Palmer in new delhi. Now, one way to battle air pollution is to grow more trees. Of course, the people who make money chopping them down have other ideas. Tificrthw number 2122 sierra, runway 2 for take off. Reporter our trip began in a small plane, maybe the best way to see whats happening in western oregon. You can see where theres a few trees left here and there thats required by oregon law. Reporter our guide, shan dra la gue of the group, oregon wild. Were actually in the heart of the area logging rht now. Reporter the views from overhead can be jarring. Mountai mountains teeming with towering trees, with nothing but winding stumps. This is what modern day clearcutting looks like. Giant machines handle massive trees like match sticks. This land has never been logged. No, it hasnt. Reporter this is a place where none of that has happened. A socalled old growth forest. We only have about 15 of the forest that once grew trees like this that are left. Reporter areas like this were protected by the northwest forest plan, which was signed in 1994, and impacted more than 24 million acres of federal land in oregon, california, and washington. Was the northwest forest plan a success, or failure . From an environmental perspective its a success, but were only 25 years in. Its kind of a longterm experiment. Reporter logging on federal lands has dropped by as much as 90 . But on stateowned and private land, time lapse of satellite images over northwest oregon give a sense of just how common clearcutting still is. Lague says it has a lasting impact. Forests capture carbon, helping to cool the earth and slow Climate Change. Logging companies are required by law to replant new trees after t take at absorbs as much carbon as an old one. Not every company like yours is willing to talk about their story, or take us to places like this. Why, why do you do that . I think we as an industry have not done a very good job historically of telling our story. Reporter todd payne is the c. E. O. Of seneca jones, a timber giant in western oregon. Has the northwest forest plan been a success or failure, in your estimation . Honestly speaking, i think it was a failure. Reporter payne believes the northwest forest plan is choking growth. And hands off advocates believe it is leading to more wildfires because forests have been neglected. He took us to one of senecas expansive tree farms an hour and a half outside eugene where they operate on 50year cycles. This area next to us was clearcut about 55 years ago for the first time, and then clearcut again three or four years ago . Three years ago, correct. Reporter why clearcut . Were mimicking what Mother Nature has done for billions of years. Reporter but this looks traumatic for a lot of people when they see Something Like this. Um, i actually look at it quite different. I think its somewhat esthetically pleasing. Reporter you think that looks esthetically pleasing . I do. Maybe its somewhat biased, but i look at this and i see sustainability, rejuvenation. Reporter Timber Companies have also traditionally used a practice called aerial spraying, chemicals dropped via helicopter to kill vegetation other than trees used for lumber. We use it once or twice in the 50year cycle. Reporter it ultimately flows somewhere, though. No, it doesnt. A lot of times this stuff doesnt flow off the landscape. The product will adhere to the vegetation that its targeted for and stay there. Reporter nancy webster, who vebeach, oregon, is worried those chemicals seep into her drinking water. This affects the fish, the wildlife, and we are up against large corporations. And to even counter it, you kn help. And its really difficult for small commutes. Reporter today the situation may be reaching a critical point because the federal government wants to suspend a public review process, which logging Companies Say needlessly ties them up in court. Should there be a public review process when logging takes place on public lands . Well, we have professionals in place in our federal agencies that are managing these lands and i think we need to let them do that work. Reporter in other words, he wants groups like oregon wild to stay away. The argument is for them, if theyre not able to log, people cant build homes. Yeah. Well, no one is talking about shutting down logging. Were talking about what i feel are common sense changes that do less damage to the environment that we all share. Reporter lague wants to see forests thinned, not clearcut. A far less invasive approach. She acknowledges it is more expensive and would produce less lumber. I think people do need to come to grips with the fact that the wood that they use to build houses or anything else comes from clearcutting forests in places like the oldest living American Veteran of world war ii recently turned 110 years old. Michelle miller was there for his milestone of a birthday party. Morning. You know, youre my hero. Reporter when youve been on the planet as long as Lawrence Brooks has, you develop a following. Are you going to have fun today . Yes, yes, yes. Reporter at 110, hes the oldest American World war ii veteran, a feat worthy of pomp, circumstance, and a fivestar serenade at the worlds naltionl museum. Happy birthday to you what is the secret to your success . I always love people. I love people. Reporter and people love Lawrence Brooks. Thats why so many of them showed up to celebrate, even strangers. Thank you. God bless. Reporter from 1941 to 1945, brooks served overseas with the predominantly africanamerican 91st engineer battalion in places like australia and new guinea. He was a reluctant soldier, opting instead to work as a cook in his unit. When i first went was drafted in the army, no sergeant was telling us that youre training so you can go kill people. Kill people . You mean as much as i love people, i have to go kill them . Reporter after returning home to new orleans, brooks faced the challenge of the jim crow south. Then more than a half century later, Hurricane Katrina threatened his life and took hi everything i owned. Washed away everything. Reporter and yet you survived that, too. I survived that, too. Yeah. The lord was just good to me. [ laughter ] my daddy still gets on his knees at night and pray reporter brooks daughter vanessa credits her fathers diet, exercise and faith for his long life. And in some ways, its prayer that made this celebration possible. I heard that he was an old vet, and i said, well, we need to do something at the world war ii museum. Reporter Museum Docent lee crane met brooks years ago at church and helped launch the now annual museum party in 2014. Its a tradition employees hope wont end any time soon. Happy birthday. Reporter we asked brooks if this year he enjoyed any birthday presents in particular. Those ladies who left all that red stuff on your face. The bell . Reporter you like all those kisses . Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Happy birthday to you and many more now at 4 00 looking live from our exclusive Sales Force Tower camera thousands of people in the bay area waking up in the dark this morning and we are looking east. You can see some of the black outs in oakland. Good morning. It is wednesday, october 9th. Im michelle griego. And im ken