12/19/2021: Tornadoes, America's Dirty Secret, Trevor Noah
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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On December 10, one tornado generated winds as high as 190 miles per hour and left a path of devastation more than 165 miles long across Kentucky. Scott Pelley reports from Kentucky, By some estimates, more than half the impoverished, rural residents in one Alabama county have raw sewage running onto their property. One community advocate is turning the spotlight on this long-standing public health crisis. Bill Whitaker tells us more. "The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah grew up in South Africa during apartheid. As he tells Lesley Stahl, the comedian now connects American politics to his background. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."
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| 0:31.6 | This sounded like 10 trains on a track coming towards you full speed. |
| 0:40.3 | Your neighbor shot a video of the tornado. |
| 0:44.3 | A mile wide, spinning at 190 miles an hour. |
| 0:50.3 | The tornado propelled debris to a height of 30,000 feet. |
| 0:55.5 | Over here, over here. |
| 0:56.4 | When it cleared. |
| 0:57.5 | Hey, baby. |
| 0:58.0 | A 15-month-old and a three-month-old were delivered into the world again. |
| 1:05.8 | Oh, praise God. |
| 1:06.9 | Lord Jesus. |
| 1:10.2 | It's hard to imagine that on the eve of 2022, many Americans still live without sanitary sewage systems. |
| 1:18.4 | Not only that, in many cases, impoverished residents are breaking state laws by piping untreated waste directly from their homes onto the ground. |
| 1:28.3 | I have seen things like this in Haiti and parts of Southeast Asia. |
| 1:34.3 | I've never seen anything like this in the United States. |
| 1:38.3 | That's why we call America's Dirty Secret. |
| 1:41.3 | Trevor Noah has become one of the most successful and highest paid comedians in the world. |
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