the remaining u.s. troops in northern syria, pulling out, as our allies, the kurds, look to cut a deal with assad and russia. a former white house official expected to testify behind closed doors just hours from now, in the trump impeachment inquiry. what the officer observed and why he did not announce police, will be addressed. >> ft. worth, texas, police speak after an officer shot a woman to death in her own home. umpire core glazeer.

>> this time is over. the astros beat the yankees in game two. >> welcome to our viewers around the world and in the united states, this is "early start." >> it is columbus day and indigenous peoples day. 4:00 a.m. in new york. the remaining u.s. forces in northern syria, preparing to withdraw under new orders from champion. defense secretary mark esper says the president and his national security team are concerned american troops could get caught in the crossfire. >> what we're facing is, u.s. forces in a trap between a syrian russian army moving north, to take on the turkish army moving south. it puts us in a terrible position. and the protection and safety of

our service members comes first to me. >> esper says with the president ordering u.s. forces to pull out, america's main ally in the fight against isis, the kurds, are now trying to save themselves from turkish troops. they're trying to cut a deal with the syrian regime and their russian backers. we go live for the latest. what are you learning? >> good morning, dave. we have a very chaotic situation in northeastern syria. the united states is planning what is being described as the deliberate withdrawal, to pull out what remains of northern syria, because of what is fast developing. very concerning for u.s. officials. you mentioned there, you have on

the one hand, the turkish-backed southeastern for syrian forces and militias. the u.s. has concerns about them. they say there's extremist elements among them. they're not really seen as a friendly force. on the other hand, we're hearing that the syrian military is confirming through its state media, saying their forces are moving north, a claim we have not been able to independently verify at this point. what we do know and we heard from the kurdish authorities in northern syria yesterday, in a statement, they put out on their facebook page, that should come as no surprise, as we've heard. their leaders hinting at this for days, saying they have been left with no option, but to turn to the syrian regime. they've announced they have reached an agreement for damascus for the syrian military to deploy along the turkish

border. they say that is the duty of the syrian regime to protect the borders and its sovereignty. we have to wait to see what happens in the next few hours. we haven't heard a confirmation about this agreement. the details of the agreement and what might happen. but this is being viewed, dave, as a success and a victory here. not just for the syrian regime, but for the russian backers. >> and quickly, jomana, what is the latest with the prisoners we haerdz had escaped? >> this is something we heard from kurdish officials. they're really concernconcerned. you have the camps where family members of isis detainees are held with refugees and currently displaced people. and you have the detention facilities where they have about 12,000 isis detainees, 2,000 of them foreign jihadists from 50 different countries.

while they're fighting the turkish military operation, they're saying that this is really leaving these prisons and these camps pretty vulnerable. and yesterday, these reports coming out from kurdish authorities, saying one of those camps, they say that several hub hu hundred -- 700 people linked to isis managed to escape as part of this because of the chaos we've been seeing. according to the united nations, there's a population about 13,000 people in one camp. the majority remain there. but there's reports that some may have fled. a chaotic situation. >> jomana karadsheh, thank you. more subpoenas are coming through in the trump impeachment inquiry. the pressure from house democrats to vote on impeachment

as soon as thanks gigiving to g it over with before the heat of primary season. republicans, in the meantime, are trying to find various ways to fight back. jeremy diamond has more from the white house. >> reporter: good morning, dave and julia. a busy week on capitol hill, indeed. it all begins today, as democrats continue to move forward with their house impeachment inquiry. they will be bringing forward fiona hill for a deppation behind closed doors. she was the top adviser for much of the president's tenure. she left the white house days before the president's call with zelensky in july. later in the week, they will be bringing forward gordon sonla sondeland. last year, he was barred di the white house and the state department from testifying on capitol hill.

now, under subpoena pressure he will be testifying. and sondland, denying there was any quid pro quo in the conversations, according to "the washington post," he will say the president told him there was no quid pro quo, but he doesn't necessarily know if that statement was, in deed, truthful. while democrats have spent much of the weekend preparing for the busy week on the bill, the president, meanwhile, is spending time defending his personal attorney, rudy giuliani. >> he was a fantastic prosecutor. i know nothing about him being under investigation. somebody said, i heard a report. i can't imagine it. he's a man who looks for corruption. and whatever he does, i believe he's a totally -- i mean, i know, he's an honorable man. >> reporter: a source confirming that the president had lunch with rudy giuliani at his golf course on saturday. and the president's defense and

decision to have lunch with husband personal attorney gener general, after saying that giuliani was under investigation. dave, julia? >> thanks. joe biden's son, hunter biden, announcing he will resign from the board of a chinese company at the end of the month. and he will not work for foreign-earned firms if his father is elected. president trump lashed out at the biding e inns at the face o impeachment inquiry. joe biden said his white house would be free of con fliktds. >> if i'm elected your president, i will carry on the squeaky clean white house that we had at the obama white house. and no one around me will be

involved in any foreign operation, period. end of story. >> biden answering no family member would have an office in the west wing or sit in on meetings, as if they were a cabinet member, a shot at the trump white house. a video of a fake president trump, shooting, assaulting and stabbing members of the media and his critics were shown at a pro-trump conference last week. the video shown at the group american priority, held at trump's miami resort. cnn cannot verify the video and has chosen not to show it. one part of the video, shows a fake trump's head edited on to the body of a man opening fire on what is labeled the church of fake news. cnn said, sadly, this is not the first time that supporters of the president have promoted violence against the media in a video they apparently find

entertaining. but it is by far, the worst. the images depicted are vile and horrific. the president and his family, the white house and the trump campaign need to denounce it immediately in the strongest possible terms. anything less equates to a tacit endorsement of violence and should not be tolerated by anyone. the campaign said they did not produce the video and does not condone it. the family of a black texas woman who was fatally shot inside her ft. worth, texas, home by a white house police officer is calling for an outside agency to investigate. an attorney for the family says she was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew when an officer shot her through a window. >> the officer observed a person through a rear window in the residence and shot at that person. the officer did not announce he

was a police officer prior to shooting. what the officer observed and why he did not announce police, will be addressed as the investigation continues. >> the officer who fired the fatal scheduled to be interviewed later today. >> we went from a welfare check to a woman being killed by the cops. >> reporter: outrage is building. saturday morning, just before 2:30 a.m., police were called to the home, after neighbors noticed her front door was open. body camera video picks up what happens next. after police peer through the front door, they walk the perimeter of the property, when suddenly, police say, an officer spots someone standing near a window. >> put your hands up. show me your hands. >> reporter: the medical examiner identified the woman as

jefferson. she died at the scene. >> i feel guilty. had i not called the police department, my neighbor would still be alive today. >> reporter: in a statement, ft. worth police said their officer drew his weapon and fired the shot after, quote, perceiving a threat. in addition to the body camera footage, investigators released this still photo, showing a firearm inside the house. cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson cautions not to jump to conclusions. >> you're going to release the fact that she has a gun in the home, as what? to suggest she had a gun and we were, perhaps, fearful for our life. there's no indication where that gun was. there's no indication she had the gun. there's no indication she should not have had the gun. >> reporter: cnn has requested the unedited body camera footage. nothing will be released at this time and the department shares the deep concerns of the public and is committed to completing a

thorough investigation. police have not named the officer who joined the department in april of last year. the u.s. and china have reached phase one of a trade agreement, easing tensions of falling short of a deal. president trump said finalizing the deal would take three to five weeks and confirmed a meeting with president xi at a summit next month. >> we'll be in chile together. we've come to a deal on property. a purchase of 40 million to $50 million of products. >> steven appeared confident, too. >> both sides will work hard and

anticipate we will be cholosing this. >> trump tweeted that china has been buying products from the u.s. there's been no confirmation from the chinese side. the u.s. will not increase tariffs on chinese goods. tar riffs on $250 billion were t to increase tomorrow. that will not happen. to baseball, the american league championship series tied 1-1 after the houston astros' dramatic 3-2 win in 11 innings over the new york yankees. >> talking to the home plate umpi umpire. the fly ball to right. back at the wall. this game is over. >> the score was tied until carlos correa hit the winner. what a thriller that was.

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called dream, and was air-lifted to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. the cause of the accident is not known. the operator of the ride says it is fully cooperating with the investigation. dramatic video shows a speeding suv slamming into a police cruiser on a freeway in southern california. >> whoa. he's coming. he's coming. he's coming. >> whoa. >> police on the scene were responding to an earlier multi-vehicle crash caused by a wrongway driver hitting a truck head-on. the suv driver nearly hit several people, including officers, as he came careening down an emergency lane as traffic had been stopped. the driver said he blocked out during the crash. he was arrested on suspicion of dui. 12 candidates getting ready for tomorrow's debate in ohio. a preview after this.

tomorrow, 12 democratic presidential candidates face off in the next primary debate. the trump ukraine scandal has put former vice president joe biden at the center of the news psych until t cycle in the last month. can he turn that to his advantage or will it go to someone else? >> reporter: democratic candidates heading to ohio for their fourth presidential debate. it will be on the campus in

westerville, ohio. all eyes will be on joe biden and elizabeth warren and bernie sanders recovering from a heart attack. but several candidates were speaking sunday night at an ohio democratic party dinner, rallying the party faithful. but there's questions that joe biden is bringing into this debate about his son, hunter biden. on sunday, hunter biden said if his father was elected he would not serve on any foreign boards or work with foreign governments, trying to move beyond the controversy that president trump has been stirring up largely without evidence. this is a defining moment for the candidates that will be sharing the stage on tuesday night, here in the pivot aal battleground state of ohio. >> thanks. you can see the cnn/"new york times" democratic presidential debate from ohio, tomorrow night, 8:00 eastern time, on cnn. coming up, the kurds may have found some fresh allies with the remaining u.s. troops

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the remaining u.s. troops in northern syria, pulling out, as our allies, the kurds, look to cut a deal with assad and russia. a former white house official expected to testify behind closed doors just hours from now, in the trump impeachment inquiry. what the officer observed and why he did not announce police, will be addressed. >> ft. worth, texas, police speak out after an officer shot a woman to death in her own home. talking to the umpire cory blazer. this game is over. >> the series is tied. a walkoff thriller in houston as the astros beat the yankees in game two. a lot of parents around the

world were wondering why their kids were staring at a black hole on a video screen. we'll tell you about the fortnite story later. i'm dave briggs. i'm julia chatterley. we're half past the hour in new york. the remaining forces in northern syria, now preparing to withdraw under fresh orders under president trump. mark esper says the president and his national security team are concerned american troops could get caught in the crossfire. >> what we're facing is, u.s. forces in a trap between a syrian russian army moving north, to take on the turkish army moving south. it puts us in a terrible position. and the protection and safety of our service members comes first to me. >> esper says with the president ordering u.s. forces to pull out, america's main ally in the fight against isis, the kurds, are now trying to save themselves from turkish troops.

they're trying to cut a deal with the syrian regime and their russian backers. we go to jomana karadsheh. tell us what kind of deal we're talking about between the kurds and the syrian regime? will it give turkey pause for cause, perhaps? >> reporter: those are the questions this morning, julia. we're waiting to find out more about this agreement that was no surprise, announced by the kurdish authorities in north and eastern syria. in a statement they posted on their facebook page late last night, saying, basically they were left with no choice here, but to cut a deal with the syrian regime. they say they've asked the syrian military to deploy along the border with turkey, to help them face this turkish military aggression, as they describe it. they say it is the duty of the syrian regime, to protect the

borders and maintain the country's sovereignty. they've not had details of this agreement. what kind of deployment is it going to be? are they going to be entering different cities? this is unclear, and we've not had confirmation from any announcement other than through the state media saying that the syrian military was moving north to help, basically, confront what they also describe as the turkish invasion and the turkish aggression. and the question that you bring up, everyone is waiting to see what turkey's reaction is going to be because they have said they will carry out this operation. but now, with the syrian military coming in, with the russian backing, and we know that there is open channels of communication through the russians with this syrian regime, is there going to be any sort of an agreement? or are we going to be seeing a

whole different level of confrontation in this war? it is all yet to be seen, julia, in the next few hours and days. >> we'll continue to watch. jomana, thanks for the update there. it's a federal holiday. but it is the first day of a busy week for lawmakers, with numerous depositions scheduled and subpoenas coming due in the trump impeachment inquiry. the fast pace dictated by the pace of democrats to hope to vote on it before thanksgiving. they want to get it over with before the heat of the primary season begins next week. the trump administration trying various ways to fight back. here's jeremy diamond from the white house. >> reporter: good morning, dave and julia. a busy week on capitol hill, indeed. it all begins today, as democrats continue to move forward with their house impeachment inquiry. they will be bringing forward fiona hill for a deposition behind closed doors. she was the top adviser for much of the president's tenure.

she left the white house days before the president's call with zelensky in july. fiona hill will be just the beginning of democrats' moves this week. later in the week, they will be bringing forward gordon sondland, the european ambassador. last year, he was barred di the white house and the state department from testifying on capitol hill. now, under subpoena pressure he will be testifying. and sondland, denying there was any quid pro quo in the conversations, according to "the washington post," he will say the president told him there was no quid pro quo, but he doesn't necessarily know if that statement was, in deed, truthful. while democrats have spent much of the weekend preparing for the busy week on the will, the president, meanwhile, is spending time defending his personal attorney, rudy giuliani. >> he was a fantastic prosecutor.

i know nothing about him being under investigation. somebody said, i heard a report. i can't imagine it. he's a man who looks for corruption. and whatever he does, i believe he's a totally -- i mean, i know, he's an honorable man. >> reporter: a source confirming that the president had lunch with rudy giuliani at his golf course on saturday. and the president's defense and decision to have lunch with his personal attorney general, after saying that giuliani was under investigation. dave, julia? >> thanks. joe biden's son, hunter biden, announcing he will resign from the board of a chinese company at the end of the month. he says he will not work any foreign-earned firms if his father is elected. president trump lashed out at the bidens at the face of an impeachment inquiry.

and at a campaign event in iowa on sunday, joe biden says his would be a white house flee of conflicts. >> i can tell you now, if i am your president, the next president, i will build on the squeaky-clean, transparent environment, that we had in the obama-biden white house. and no one in my family or soesh associated with me, will be involved in any foreign operation, ever, period, end of story. >> biden answering no family member would have an office in the west wing or sit in on meetings, as if they were a cabinet member, a shot at the trump white house. a disturbing meme video of a fake president trump, shooting, assaulting and stabbing members of the media and his critics were shown at a pro-trump conference last week. "the new york times" reporting on the video, shown at the conference of the american priority, held at trump's miami resort.

>> cnn cannot verify the video and has chosen not to show it. one part of the video, shows a fake trump's head edited on to the body of a man opening fire on what is labeled the church of fake news. cnn has released a statement saying, sadly, this is not the first time that supporters of the president have promoted violence against the media in a video they apparently find entertaining. but it is by far, the worst. the images depicted are vile and horrific. the president and his family, the white house and the trump campaign need to denounce it immediately in the strongest possible terms. anything less equates to a tacit endorsement of violence and should not be tolerated by anyone. a spokesman for the campaign told "the times," the campaign did not produce the video and does thought condone it. the video came from third parties and the conference did not endorse it. the family of a black texas woman who was fatally shot inside her ft. worth, texas, home by a white house police

officer is calling for an outside agency to investigate. an attorney for the family says she was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew when an officer shot her through a window. >> the officer observed a person through a rear window in the residence and fired a shot at that person. the officer did not announce he was a police officer prior to shooting. what the officer observed and why he did not announce police, will be addressed as the investigation continues. >> the officer who fired the fatal shot is scheduled to be interviewed later today by the major cases unit of the ft. worth police department. >> we went from a welfare check to a woman being killed by the cops. >> reporter: outrage is building. saturday morning, just before 2:30 a.m., police were called to the home, after neighbors noticed her front door was open.

heavily edited body camera video picks up what happens next. after police peer through the front door, they walk the perimeter of the property, when suddenly, police say, an officer spots someone standing near a window. >> put your hands up. show me your hands. >> reporter: the medical examiner identified the woman as jefferson. she died at the scene. jim smith says he's the concerned caller who first alerted police. >> i feel guilty. had i not called the police department, my neighbor would still be alive today. >> reporter: in a statement, ft. worth police said their officer drew his weapon and fired the shot after, quote, perceiving a threat. in addition to the body camera footage, investigators released this still photo, showing a firearm inside the house. cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson cautions not to jump to conclusions. >> you're going to release the fact that she has a gun in the

home, as what? to suggest she had a gun and we were, perhaps, fearful for our life. there's no indication where that gun was. there's no indication she had the gun. there's no indication she should not have had the gun. >> reporter: cnn has requested the unedited body camera footage. nothing will be released at this time and the department shares the deep concerns of the public and is committed to completing a thorough investigation. police have not named the officer who joined the department in april of last year. the united auto workers strike against general motors is entering its fifth week. members will now get $275 a week in strike benefits. the union had been paying workers $250 a week. the strike began one month ago with gm workers walking off the job over pay, profit sharing, job security and gm's use of temporary workers.

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tomorrow, 12 democratic presidential candidates face off in the next primary debate. the trump ukraine scandal has put vice president joe biden at the center of the news cycle over the last month. can he turn that to his advantage tomorrow night? or will someone else break out? jeff zeleny with a preview. >> reporter: good morning, dave and julia. democratic candidates heading to ohio for their fourth presidential debate. it will be on the campus in westerville, ohio. all eyes will be on joe biden and elizabeth warren and bernie

sanders recovering from a heart attack. but several candidates were speaking sunday night at an ohio democratic party dinner, rallying the party faithful. but there's questions that joe biden is bringing into this debate about his son, hunter biden. on sunday, hunter biden said if his father was elected he would not serve on any foreign boards or work with foreign governments, trying to move beyond the controversy that president trump has been stirring up, largely without evidence. clearly, this is a defining moment for the candidates that will be sharing the stage on tuesday night, here in the pivotal battleground state of ohio. >> jeff zeleny there. you can see the cnn/"new york times" democratic presidential debate from ohio, tomorrow night, 8:00 eastern time, on cnn. american gymnast simone biles is now the world's most decorated gymnast. she won her 25th career medal sunday at the world

championships in germany. she now has 19 gold medals. the four-time olympic champ preparing to compete in the 2020 olympic games in tokyo. she says that will be her last olympics, sadly. we could watch her forever. >> what a talent. retiring at 22. let's get a check on cnn business this morning at the global markets. nice session for asia for the tokyo and hong kong markets, taking off, i think, taking relief from u.s. markets book on friday. the japanese markets were closed for the holiday, as well. on wall street, pretty much unchanged right now, consolidating, as i mentioned, the gains we saw on friday, as investors cheered progress on the u.s./china trade talks. the dow closed up some 319 points. the subpoe&p 500 and the nasdaq closed higher, as well. investors prepared for a flood of earnings from america's

biggest banks and may not be all that pretty. they will hear from the life, citigroup, goldman sachs. the federal reserve cut rates in july and september, making it harder to eke out returns on loans. they can't charge as much for them. stocks, though, holding up reasonably well this year, despite the trade war and the slowing global economy. but weak corporate results could give investors a reason to pull back here. worth watching what happens here. are you kidding me? >> millions of kids are staring at this. a special event to end the tenth season of fortnite seems to have ended the game altogether. on sunday, players logged on to participate in the end, as the game prepares to launch it next it ration. around 2:00 p.m., a rocket blew up the landscape and dragged

players into a black hole. hours after the game went down, around 19,000 people are still watching a live stream of the black hole. >> this. >> you can see there on youtube. there's no official word on when the game's update will go live or how long this downtime will last. >> welcome to the world, children. you get your kids back for a day? two days? >> 50,000 people were watching on the live stream on youtube. 100,000 people on twitch. >> staring at a black screen. it's remarkable. you parents understand the power of this game. it's made $3 billion. it's free. i'm curious to see how kids handle life today. thanks to our international viewers for joining us. for the rest of our viewers, "early start" continues right now.

the remaining u.s. troops in northern syria, pulling out, as our allies, the kurds, look to cut a deal with assad and russia. a former white house official expected to testify behind closed doors just hours from now, in the trump impeachment inquiry. what the officer observed and why he did not announce police, will be addressed. >> ft. worth, texas, police speak out after an officer shot a woman to death in her own home. talking to the umpire cory blazer. this game is over. >> the series is tied. a walkoff thriller in houston as the astros beat the yankees in game two.