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60 Minutes

Sunday, March 3, 2019

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Climate change is one of the country's hot button issues. Now, a lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 kids alleges the U.S. government knowingly failed to protect them from climate change. Steve Kroft reports. The gender gap is widening in computer science jobs. Sharyn Alfonsi spotlights an organization that hopes to change that, by getting girls interested in STEM -- BEFORE high school. In his first interview with Lesley Stahl, Mark James, a former Amtrak engineer, recounts the deadly crash which killed 2 and injured more than 90. Those stories on tonight's "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.8

You're 11 years old and you're suing the United States government. That's not what most 11-year-olds

1:16.3

do, right? Yeah. Levi Dreheim is one of 21 kids asking federal courts to block the U.S.

1:24.0

government from continuing the use of fossil fuels. They say it's causing climate change and they've

1:30.4

amassed 50 years of evidence that's already forced the government to make some remarkable admissions.

1:36.3

So you've got them with their own words. It's really the clearest, most compelling evidence I've

1:41.8

ever had in any case I've litigated in over 20 years. When that train hit the switch,

1:50.0

it came in on top of us. You can see where it rocked. My god, no, please, no, please, no.

1:56.6

This is the first time engineer Mark James has talked about the violent crash

2:01.6

between his parked freight train and an Amtrak passenger train. It happened because the signal system

2:08.5

was out of service. That's not the only problem we found with the safety of our railroads.

2:15.1

People might be thinking, well, I don't care about this story. I don't ride a train,

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