60 Minutes 7/5
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Sharyn Alfonsi reportson the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Lesley Stahl shares the remarkable story of architect Chris Downey, who lost his sight, found a way to keep working and believes blindness has made him a better architect.And the world's number 1 tennis player, Rafael Nadal, takes Jon Wertheim back to his hometown on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, add free on Wondry Plus. |
| 0:04.0 | Dr. Mona is a bit of a superhero herself here because she was the first to link the water to high levels of lead in the children of Flint. |
| 0:24.0 | The word lead when you're a physician or a pediatrician signals what in your brain. |
| 0:30.0 | There is no safe level of lead when it impacts cognition how children think actually drops IQ levels. |
| 0:38.0 | It impacts behavior leading to things like developmental delays and has these wife altering consequences. |
| 0:48.0 | Chris Downey had constructed the life he'd always wanted. An architect or the good job. |
| 0:54.0 | He went up to the exterior, happily married and coaching his 10 year old son's little leak. |
| 1:00.0 | But then something awful happened. He went blind and that threatened to end his career. |
| 1:06.0 | That's fissionally different. Oh yeah. Or did it? |
| 1:10.0 | I'm a kid again. I'm re-learning so much of architecture. It wasn't about what I'm missing in architecture. |
| 1:18.0 | It was about what I had been missing in architecture. |
| 1:24.0 | You're not laid back when you play tennis. No, I think I'm a very intense person with a lot of energy. |
| 1:32.0 | I live life and sports at maximum intensity. |
| 1:36.0 | Tonight we will try to explain how Rafa Nadal, the most intense tennis player of his generation, can come from a place like this. |
| 1:44.0 | The sleepy, sunny island of Mallorca. Have you jumped off that? Yeah, a couple of times. |
| 1:50.0 | Oh man. I'm Leslie Stahl. I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm Anderson Cooper. I'm Sharon Alfonci. |
| 1:58.0 | I'm John Worth. I'm Scott Pelley. Those stories tonight on 60 minutes. |
| 2:08.0 | On a cold night in 2010, a boy is stopped by the police while walking home from a party in the Bronx. |
| 2:14.0 | He's only 16. He's been stopped by the police before, but this time is different. |
| 2:20.0 | In a special four-part series, the Generation Y podcast unravels the story of Khalif Browder, a young boy who was falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held without bail at Reikers Island for three years. |
| 2:32.0 | He endured regular abuse by prison staff and inmates and was held in solitary confinement for more than 700 consecutive days. |
| 2:40.0 | Three years later, Khalif was released, never having stood trial. |
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