8/19/2018: War Crime, Saving a Generation, Second Act
60 Minutes
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3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Last year -- civilians in Syria were victims of a deadly gas attack -- prompting a 59-missile response from the United States. A rare video of the attack recently surfaced. Scott Pelley reports. Throughout the country -- young children are being put into the custody of their grandparents -- because their parents fell victim to opioids. Bill Whitaker reports. Holly Williams sits down with famed pianist and conductor Daniel Barenborn -- as he takes the stage for the second act of his career. Those stories on tonight's "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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| 0:00.0 | Over seven years of civil war, the Syrian government has repeatedly bombed its own civilians, |
| 0:08.0 | as we see here outside Damascus. |
| 0:13.0 | Incredibly, it has also continued to use chemical weapons on civilians, not just a few times, |
| 0:19.0 | but reportedly 200 times. |
| 0:22.3 | And tonight in our story, you will see the awful proof. |
| 0:26.2 | We have the big crater. |
| 0:28.3 | Siren was released. |
| 0:29.9 | Around 100 people were killed. |
| 0:31.4 | More than 200 people were affected, many children and women. |
| 0:34.4 | Who's using the Saren? |
| 0:35.7 | Only the Syrian government. |
| 0:39.5 | Yeah. Oh, good job. Yeah, I'm back it. All right. More than one million American children |
| 0:45.7 | now live with their grandparents, primarily because of their parents' addiction to opioids |
| 0:52.2 | and other drugs. Grandparents are putting off retirement and plowing through savings |
| 0:57.0 | to rescue their grandchildren from dangerous situations. |
| 1:01.0 | We can't not do it. They're our grandkids. |
| 1:03.0 | They're our family. |
| 1:05.0 | ...their-chit-chit-chit-chit-chit-ch... Of all the orchestras, Daniel Barron Boyne leads around the world, this might be the one that moves him the most. |
| 1:33.2 | Is it surprising that if you bring very good Arab musicians and very good Israeli musicians together, that they play together? |
| 1:37.0 | Of course it is surprising because from their education and where they come from, |
| 1:41.7 | they are taught the other is a monster. |
| 1:45.7 | I'm Steve Croft. |
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