05/03/2026: Disaster Tourists, Birds of War, Perfume Capital of the World
60 Minutes
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Often following natural disasters, conspiracists, militias, and white supremacist groups sweep in to hard-hit communities offering help. But they’ve been called “disaster tourists,” out to soften their image, gain followers and sow doubt in the government. Correspondent Lesley Stahl speaks with law enforcement and a self-proclaimed white nationalist to explore whether this is becoming “the new normal".
From the dense jungle in the mountains of western Colombia, correspondent Anderson Cooper reports on how decades of armed conflict between the Colombian government and left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, and narco-traffickers created “no-go” areas where rare species of birds flourish.Â
Correspondent Cecilia Vega reports from Grasse in the south of France where flowers for the world’s most famous perfume have been grown and gathered for more than one hundred years. In the early 1900s, Grasse was home to more than 10,000 acres of flower fields; today it’s just over 100.Â
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| 0:00.0 | What if we told you that after natural disasters, |
| 0:11.0 | some of those who descend on hard-hit communities with offers to help |
| 0:16.0 | are anti-government conspiracies and white nationalists. |
| 0:21.6 | Their motive, recruit, soften their image, and... |
| 0:25.6 | Going to a disaster relief is directly helping our people. |
| 0:29.6 | You're going to help white people? |
| 0:31.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.6 | Once in a while, we get to travel so far off the beaten track, there's hardly a track at all. |
| 0:42.3 | For decades, this pristine forest in Western Columbia was a no-go area because of armed conflict. |
| 0:48.3 | But that allowed hundreds of species of birds to thrive. |
| 0:53.3 | Oh, that's the sea. |
| 0:55.0 | Some of which you can't find anywhere else on earth. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, look at that! Oh my god, look at that huge thing! |
| 1:04.0 | This is the rose centipolia. |
| 1:06.0 | Cultivated in row after pink row, it is a flower worthy of a serenade. |
| 1:12.8 | Piano notes play over speakers. |
| 1:15.7 | The vibrations are set to help the buds bloom evenly. |
| 1:19.9 | Twelve of these roses go into a bottle of Chanel number five, all grown here in the French |
| 1:25.6 | town of Grasse, where century-old traditions are used to develop scents |
| 1:30.3 | for some of the world's most famous perfumes. |
| 1:33.7 | How do you know when it's right? |
| 1:35.2 | It's instinct. It's like music. |
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