5/27/2018: Friendly Fire, The Rhino Crisis
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On this Veteran's Day weekend -- Bill Whitaker shares a cautionary tale of how five U.S. soldiers -- including two Green Berets -- died -- when they were hit by a bomb that was dropped by an AMERICAN warplane. There's a conservative effort to protect rhinos from poachers -- who are being targeted for their horns. Lara Logan introduces us to South African rancher John Hume -- who has his own way of savings the rhinos -- on tonight's "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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| 0:00.0 | Bullets whizzing by, kicking up all around you. |
| 0:10.5 | All you can do at that point is return fire and hope the next one, you know, doesn't get you. |
| 0:17.5 | Members of a special forces A team were pinned down by the Taliban and by the time it was over |
| 0:24.1 | five U.S. soldiers were killed not by the enemy but by American bombs it was all of a sudden |
| 0:32.7 | this shock moment of oh my god they just they just, they just hit our heel. |
| 0:39.8 | Tonight, what our 60 Minutes investigation has uncovered. |
| 0:44.6 | When we send our soldiers into battle, it's wrong to have them using a weapon system |
| 0:49.8 | which isn't capable of doing what it's supposed to be doing. |
| 0:53.8 | It's not murder, but it's close. |
| 0:58.0 | It's so lovely to be able to be so close to a rhino. |
| 1:02.0 | Karin Udendahl took these rhino in after another orphanage was attacked. |
| 1:07.0 | Poachers killed two babies for their horns, and one of their caretakers was raped. |
| 1:13.6 | Reason enough for the pistol on her hip. But in Toto has a way of lightening up any conversation. |
| 1:20.6 | We've been... |
| 1:21.6 | We've been... |
| 1:23.6 | ...and Toto... |
| 1:26.6 | He's so naughty and he's so strong. |
| 1:28.5 | He's very strong. |
| 1:31.4 | I'm Steve Croft. |
| 1:33.1 | I'm Leslie Stahl. |
| 1:34.5 | I'm Scott Pelly. |
| 1:35.7 | I'm Anderson Cooper. |
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