8/15/2021: Hell Flight, Justice Defenders, Kings of the Road
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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On this week's "60 Minutes," after passengers on the Costa Luminosa cruise ship fell ill with COVID-19 in March 2020, Americans were flown to Atlanta after reaching Europe. Passengers say what happened next was nothing short of a nightmare -- Sharyn Alfonsi reports. In 46 prisons across Kenya and Uganda, the Justice Defenders organization is training hundreds of inmates, many of whom don't have their own lawyer, to become paralegals and attorneys -- Anderson Cooper has the story. Companies are already testing driverless trucks on America's roads. The technology will bring untold profits, but it may cost thousands of truckers their livelihoods -- Jon Wertheim reports.
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| 0:36.3 | Someone described it as a flight from hell. |
| 0:39.9 | He's talking about the evacuation of sick Americans after a COVID outbreak on a European cruise. |
| 0:46.5 | It was the beginning of the pandemic. |
| 0:48.9 | But as you'll hear tonight, passengers on that flight from hell were surprised how their own government responded. |
| 0:55.9 | And all of a sudden, this man comes walking up, he's heading like he's going to the bathroom, |
| 1:00.8 | and he just starts like a webo-wobble, and he just hits his head on the wall, and he falls to the ground. |
| 1:09.4 | Good afternoon, brothers. |
| 1:11.1 | Our work is to help people who don't have lawyers to access justice. |
| 1:17.0 | This soft-spoken, 36-year-old lawyer founded an organization called Justice Defenders, a group |
| 1:23.4 | that so far has trained hundreds of incarcerated men and women in prisons in Africa to become |
| 1:28.5 | paralegals and lawyers. The results have been astounding. |
| 1:37.6 | You've heard a lot about the future of driverless cars. But what about this? That's right, 18 wheels on the road and nobody in the driver's seat. |
| 1:51.6 | Don't be surprised to see this on American Highway soon. How close are we to the day when |
| 1:57.1 | these trucks have no driver? We'll be operating on the public highways with real cargo, with a real fleet in 2021. |
| 2:08.6 | I'm Leslie Stahl. |
| 2:10.3 | I'm Bill Whitaker. |
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