The Bus on Route 62, The Last Best Place, The Empty Rooms

60 Minutes

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Correspondent Scott Pelley returns to Ukraine for his 13th report inside the war-torn country since Russia invaded. As President Vladimir Putin’s attacks have hardened into a brutal stalemate, Pelley travels to the city of Sumy, where two ballistic missiles struck four minutes apart on Palm Sunday. One obliterated a crowded city bus on Route 62. Pelley reports on the civilian toll. The old license plates read “Big Sky Country,” but Montana has an unofficial state motto: “The Last Best Place.” Correspondent Jon Wertheim reports from a state that’s seen a development boom in recent years and found itself at the center of a national debate over what to do with America’s vast reserves of public land. Wertheim speaks with locals and officials for a look at the bipartisan fight to preserve what many Montanans hold most dear. For seven years, CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp have documented the rooms of children killed in school shootings across the United States. Their bedrooms – virtually untouched as the children left them on the day they were killed – have become memorials to young lives cut short. Correspondent Anderson Cooper visits these spaces and speaks with the parents about their significance. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.9	On Palm Sunday, the bus on Route 62 happened to be on Peter and Paul Street.
0:44.2	At the same moment, a warhead was bearing down at 2,000 miles an hour.
0:51.1	One blow on more than a dozen cameras.
0:57.0	The attack in Ukraine is being investigated as a war crime,
1:02.0	one of thousands in a Russian campaign against the innocent.
1:07.0	The attack seems to be calculated to make as much destruction as possible and to terrorize the civilian population.
1:15.6	Montana's landscape beguiles as it unfolds, a patchwork of golden prairies and green mountains with rivers that run through it.
1:24.6	So when politicians in Washington, D.C. suggested selling off public lands for development,
1:30.8	Montanans of All Stripes stood in opposition. It's a red, white, and blue issue. It's not a Democrat
1:37.3	or a Republican issue. This is an American issue. And once you sell land, you're not going to get it back.
1:46.7	Steve Hartman, a veteran CBS News correspondent and Lou Boe, a photographer, have spent the last
1:52.5	seven years asking parents whose children were killed in school shootings for permission to
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