5/10/2020: Pandemic Politics, Amazon, Ghost Guns
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Scott Pelley investigates if politics are preventing the scientific community from doing crucial research that could help find a vaccine for the coronavirus. The Internet giant continues take orders and send millions of packages each day, but some of its workers say Amazon isn't keeping its workforce safe. Lesley Stahl reports. They are virtually untraceable weapons that can be made at home using legally purchased parts. Ghost guns have turned up in criminal cases in most of the country. Bill Whitaker has the story. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."
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| 0:00.0 | What evidence does the Trump administration have that the coronavirus started in a lab in Wuhan? |
| 0:13.3 | There is zero evidence that this forest came out of a lab in China. |
| 0:17.6 | He should know. He's an American scientist who's been working with Chinese |
| 0:22.0 | virus researchers for years. So why was his critical pandemic funding suddenly canceled by the White |
| 0:29.8 | House? That's our story tonight. Amazon has been a lifeline for many Americans through the pandemic. |
| 0:39.3 | We are regular human beings. |
| 0:41.0 | Though some of the company's employees feel they have not been taken care of nearly as well. |
| 0:46.6 | Their CEO, Jeff Bezos, has promised to spend $4 billion to make their workplaces safer and keep their products moving. |
| 0:56.8 | What does that look like? 60 Minutes was invited in to see. They can take someone's temperature |
| 1:03.0 | that fast? It can. 60 Minutes has spent the last year and a half investigating build-it-yourself firearms called ghost guns. |
| 1:14.4 | This is a firearm that was manufactured by a licensed manufacturer. |
| 1:18.8 | The law requires them to mark them with certain markings, including a serial number. |
| 1:23.1 | This is not marked. |
| 1:25.0 | No background check is completed when you purchase it. It's made at home by |
| 1:29.6 | somebody using commonly available handles. So they both do the same thing. They both shoot. |
| 1:38.3 | I'm Leslie Stahl. I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm Anderson Cooper. I'm Scott Pelly. Those stories tonight on 60 Minutes. |
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