7/18/2021: Left Behind, Talent on the Spectrum, Survival
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On this week's "60 Minutes," Scott Pelley hears how families are remembering loved ones lost to COVID-19. Many adults with autism are having a hard time finding a job, but more companies are discovering the unique skills and potential people with autism offer. Anderson Cooper tells us more. And Holly Williams reports on how a group of schoolboys worked together to survive 15 months stranded on an island.
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| 0:44.3 | The vaccine campaign offers hope, but for the families of the more than 600,000 dead, there's no medicine for the pain. |
| 0:53.3 | People are talking about, isn't it going to be great when |
| 0:56.2 | this is over? And it occurs to me that for a lot of people in this country, it will never be over. |
| 1:03.8 | What is normal? Normal is not a thing for a lot of us anymore. |
| 1:11.6 | In the model, we put things like... |
| 1:12.6 | Many adults with autism are unemployed or work in low-skill positions. |
| 1:17.6 | But as you'll see tonight... |
| 1:18.6 | I think my greatest skill is I see things differently from other people. |
| 1:23.6 | That may be changing. |
| 1:24.6 | Dan may be too modest to tell you, but he is the inventor of record of this platform, |
| 1:30.3 | and NASA has licensed it. |
| 1:32.3 | NASA is using filter graph that you invented. |
| 1:35.3 | Yes. |
| 1:36.3 | Tonight, a story of solidarity, hope, and ultimately survival in the face of adversity. It took place more than 50 years ago, but when it was rediscovered last year, it caused a sensation. |
| 1:52.0 | It's a tale of a group of schoolboys stranded on a remote and deserted island for more than 15 months. |
| 1:59.0 | It was hard. |
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