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The country is still deep in recovery, and this years storm season is already underway. The relentless cycle of disaster, rebuild, repeat has many coastal residents feeling numb and helpless. And climate Scientists Say we can expect more frequent, more powerful storms in the future. As we first reported last fall, the netherlands, one of the most flood prone places in the world, almost never floods. Holland is about twice the size of new jersey and is one of the worlds most densely populated countries. Much of it is below sea level, yet the dutch dont bother with flood insurance. They dont need it. With Hurricane Season here again, we wondered, do the dutch have a solution . It was a disaster that unfolded in slow motion for four days last september, Hurricane Florence crawled up the east coast, dumping record rainfall more than 35 inches in North Carolina flooding thousands of homes and taking dozens of lives. The destruction from hurricanes katrina, sandy, harvey, and maria cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Florence is another chapter in a story we know all too well. We met a dutchman, henk ovink, who says its time to rewrite americas disaster playbook entirely. Henk ovink and theres only one opportunity. That is when a disaster hits. Its like a xray. It tells you where all your vulnerabilities are and gives you the opportunity to step up and say, we can do better. Whitaker ovink is the worlds only water ambassador, a role given to him by the dutch government. Ovink we need to take action now. Whitaker he advises the u. N. , 35 individual countries, and a dozen u. S. Cities. He travels the globe like a missionary, preaching the gospel of flood prevention. Ovink this is your house . Woman yes, this is my house. Whitaker one of his latest stops was houston, still recovering from hurricane harvey. So whats the biggest challenge in the United States . Ovink youre solution oriented. You have a collective. When things happen, you come together. You want to build back and repair and be ady when disastrous things happen. But theres not so much a belief that you can actually prevent a disaster from happening. Whitaker but how do you go about preventing a disaster, like katrina, harvey, sandy . It it just doesneem possible. Ovink we cant prevent them from happening. But the impact that is caused by these disasters, we can decrease by preparing ourselves. I think the catastrophes we see in the world are all manmade. The storms are perhaps man caused, and you can debate that. But the catastrophes because of the storms . Those are manmade. Whitaker its dical statement. We went with him to the netherlands to learn what shaped his thinking. Its water. Water is everywhere in this country known for its charming canals, picturesque dikes and windmills. But theyre not just quaint tourist attractions. For centuries, the canals and dikes have held back water. The windmills pump it away. Ovink took us up in a helicopter so we could see it from above. We flew over rotterdam, his hometown, so he could show usen. W oalrythin whitaker when was the last time this flooded . Ovink this doesnt flood. And we whitaker because of the precautions you have taken . Ovink yeah. Whitaker the dutch allocate more than a billion dollars a year to manage their flood infrastructure. Some of it is massive, like the maeslantkering storm surge barrier. These are the gates. Ovink right, theyre big. Whitaker theyre enormous. Ovink its like an eiffel tower, like the paris eiffel tower, on its sides. But then, two. Whitaker each one the size of the eiffel tower. Ovink each one. Whitaker the gates guard one of the largest ports in the world, and most of the dutch population. They dont have hurricanes like we do, but ferocious storms with hurricaneforce winds can blow in from the north sea and push in huge storm surges. When that happens, the two arms seal off the rhine river and rotterdam. The gates took six years to build and cost 500 million. Thats a big investment for something that youve only had to use once or twice since it was built. Ovink 150 billion were lost in new orleans. I dont think i need to say more. How many people were killed . Sandy, another storm, 70 billion. We dont have those damages. Whitaker but they did in the past. Your katrina moment was in 1953 . Ovink 53. Yeah. 53 was our real wakeup call. A storm blowing in from over the north sea, from the west. Whitaker what happened . Ovink it actually swallowed the southwestern part of the netherlands. The dams, dikes and levees broke and the water flowed in, taking away lives of almost 2,000 people. A lot of families were ripped apart. Whitaker the dutch still refer to it as the disaster because they havent had one since. Not a single death from flooding in 66 years. Theyve learned the lessons of the past well. Dutch engineers calculate how high and strong dikes and dams must be to withstand the most extreme weather, a onein10,000 storm. Rotterdam is at the forefront of defensive design. This Basketball Court can hold 450,000 gallons of storm runoff. This sloping park atop a Shopping Center is a storm surge barrier. And this worldclass rowing facility doubles as a flood reservoir. The dutch pride themselves on blending form and function. So what is this place . These look like dunes. Ovink they are dunes. Whitaker but, i take it, this is the netherlands, so these arent just dunes. Ovink no, these are manmade dunes. Whitaker henk ovink took us to one of his favorite projects along the north sea. The beach town of katwijk was vulnle engineers created these natural looking dunes. Many beaches in the u. S. Have manmade dunes, but theyreke t. And these dunes protect the town from a sea surge or a big storm . Ovink sea surge, storm, and also we incorporate Sea Level Rise of the future. Whitaker they also integrated urban planning. To unclog katwijks streets when tourists flock to the beach, and to raise the height of the dunes to 25 feet above sea level, engineers built a parking garage. Under the dunes . Ovink under the dunes. Whitaker so under this whole stretch is it looks like, i dont know, several football fields. Ovink yes. Whitaker under all of this is a parking garage. Ovink is a parking whitaker could a structure like this have saved new jersey beach communities from sandy . Ovink yes. It could. Whitaker you might call the netherlands the storm drain of europe. Several major rivers empty here. When france and germany flooded like this three years ago, most of that water ended up in the netherlands, but towns and cities in holland werent inundated, largely because of something the dutch are doing that defies logic. Theyre lowering dikes and dams along some rivers. Ovink rivers are living elements in a landscape, and they become bigger when there is more water and become smaller when theres less, and they need to have that capacity. Whitaker so you went from Flood Control to controlled flooding. Ovink yeah. Whitaker you have to let some places flood so you can keep other places dry . Vinkyeah. Whitaker the dutch call it room for the river. So this is where your old house was . Vic gremmer yeah. Whitaker vic gremmer, a social worker in the village of werkendam, personally had to make room for the merwede river. Hundreds of people like him had to move so their property could. So the government comes and asks you to leave. Did you have a choice . Gremmer not really. We we had a choice to leave, or stay, but on their conditions. Whitaker the conditions he could remain in the area, but had to sell the family home to the government. He used the money to build a new house on higher ground. Whatd you think of that, when they tore your house down . Gremmer the old house, there are 25 years of memories. Its really the end of im getting emotional. laughs whitaker but he said he did it for the greater good. Allowing the swollen river to pool in this new floodplain could save thousands of people from flooding downstream in rotterdam. The idea of moving people out of the floodplains in the u. S. , wed be talking about millions of people. That would be a really tough sell. Ovink you pay for people to be in the most vulnerable places of your country. Theres a National FloodInsurance Program that is going bankrupt. You pay disaster bills every year. And the rebuilding, its costing a lot of money. Its wasted. Whitaker that waste seems built in to our disaster d. N. A. In the u. S. , fema deals with natural disasters. Its primary mission is not to prevent, but to respond. Fema helps disaster victims build back, usually the same structure, in the same place. Dawn zimmer peoples apartments were flooded, peoples businesses, our critical infrastructure, all of our substations. So we had no power. Whitaker dawn zimmer was mayor of hoboken, new jersey when Hurricane Sandy hit, almost seven years ago. She told us the city of 55,000 people, right across the hudson river from manhattan, was almost entirely underwater. In some neighborhoods, ten feet of water . Zimmer ten feet of water, yes. And there was fish in peoples apartments. It was waste. It was oil. It was a toxic mix in our city. Whitaker she said hoboken got money from fema to put things back pretty much the way they were, but she wanted to rebuild smarter. Dawn zimmer it doesnt help for me to have a fire station that is individually protected, but theres water all around it. That fire station wont be able to help anyone in the middle of a storm. It just doesnt make sense. Whitaker so why cant you just get the money and use it as you see best . Dawn zimmer thats just no whitaker she says thats when henk ovink entered the picture. Shaun donovan, thensecretary of housand ban development,tapped t obamas Hurricane Sandy task force. The two came up with an idea for an International Design competition to fix what sandy had destroyed, following the dutch philosophy rebuild differently for the future. Ovink helped convince the federal government to cough up almost a billion dollars for it. You know, in the u. S. , that sounds kind of crazy. Ovink yeah. Whitaker 1 billion for a competition to rebuild . Something like that had never been done before . Ovink never been done in this capacity. So, they also had to believe my blue eyes and my story. And saying, okay, we believe this young man coming from the netherlands. Lets work with him. Whitaker a proposal that will protect hoboken and its neighbors was awarded 230 million of the competition money. A dutcsith the winning plans with a dutch twist a storm surge defense disguised as a park, with a boathouse. Benches, and outdoor seating as barriers to keep the hudson from drowning the city again. Coming up with the plan was the easy part convincing residents to go along was much harder. Zimmer there were people that were calling out, like, give back the money. Whitaker so let me get this clear, that even after the devastation of sandy, people were not convinced that they needed flood protection . Zimmer people are really concerned, for example, about their Property Values. What would the Property Values of hoboken be if were flooded on a regular basis and our entire city is destroyed . Whitaker after consulting with the community, the plans were amended, and most residents got on board. Hoboken plans to break ground next year. It could be the first test for ovinks vision in the u. S. Ovink its a choice in the end. Its a human choice. 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We first met him two years ago at one of the nations premier law schools where hed just become its newest professor. A tale of redemption as improbable as any youre likely to hear. Shon hopwood question one is, was there a constitutional violation . Kroft in his first semester at georgetown university, professor hopwood is teaching criminal law. Shon hopwood were the first statements unlawfully obtained . Yes. Kroft the irony isnt lost on him, or his students, who know that hes a convicted felon, and that less than a decade ago, was an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in pekin, illinois. Youre a professor at one of the finest law schools in the country. Is that something that you thought you would be able to do . Shon hopwood laughs no it it makes me laugh, hearing you say it out loud, because th make s to meand ive liv it. So i can see why it doesnt make sense to hardly anyone else. Kroft its easier for me to imagine you as a georgetown law professor thanisto imagine you as a bank robber. Shon hopwood well, thats because the bank robbers long been dead and gone. Kroft hopwood was born here 44 years ago, in the small Farming Community of david city, nebraska, surrounded by cornfields and cattle. He was a bright, cocky, stubborn kid from a solid family, and he hated rules; a good athlete and a miserable student who won a basketball scholarship to Midland University and partied his way out of it in one semester. He drank himself through a twoyear hitch in the navy, then added drugs to the mix when he returned to david city working in a feedlot. How much has david city changed . He was broke, unrepentant, and frustrated that things werent going his way. So, this is where it started . One night, he got a call from a friend asking him to come down to the local bar for a drink, and listen to what turned out to be a very bad idea. Shon hopwood he said, what do you think about robbing a bank . And most people would have laughed that off, or said, maybe we need another beer. Or anything, other than that sounds like a great idea, which is what i ended up saying. Kroft really . Shon hopwood you know, i dont think either one of us thought that night that we were going to actually do it. Kroft it wasnt until months later, when they started scouting locations, that shon realized they might actually do it. So this is one of your banks . Shon hopwood it is. This is the third bank. Kroft the idea was to stick up very small banks in tiny towns like gresham, where there was no Police Presence and little risk of armed confrontation. Shon hopwood we wanted to get in and out of the bank as quickly as possible, not hurt anyone, grab as much money as we could, and run. And thats basically what we did in all five bank robberies. Kroft were you any good at it . Shon hopwood no. I did 11 years in federal prison for stealing 150,000. I dont think thats good. Put t compite sketch and began closing in. In july 1998, he was apprehended in this omaha hotel, ten months after his first robbery. Shon hopwood when they arrested me, they searched my car and found 100,000 in cash that was directly traceable to the bank i had just robbed, and multiple guns, and a scanner, and binoculars. Kroft they had you . Shon hopwood they had me. Kroft and they would have him for a long time. When he entered the federal penitentiary in illinois in may of 1999, he was 23 years old. Was it dangerous . Shon hopwood of course. In part because, theres not a lot for the inmates to do. Kroft he doesnt talk about the things that he witnessed and experienced in federal prison. He doesnt want his family to know, and he sees no value in reliving them except for the job he landed in the safety of the legal library, which every federal prison is required to have. Shon hopwood and for the First Six Months i worked at the prison law library, i didnt hardly touch the books. They were big, they were thick, they were intimidating. Kroft what was the spark that got you to start opening the books and looking at them . Shon hopwood self motivation. Kroft it all started with a Supreme Court ruling that shon thought might help him get his sentence reduced. And it ended with him assisting other prisoners with all sorts of cases. Shon hopwood i spent two months working on my own case, researching, and i was never able to get any legal relief for myself the entire time i was in federal prison. Kroft but you were for other inmates . Shon hopwood i did. Lawyers had made really bad mistakes, and it really cost their clients sometimes, you know, a decade or two in federal prison. Kroft inside the walls at pekin, he won the respect of fellow inmates, and discovered that he had an aptitude for something the law. Shon hopwood i would be sitting in my cell reading a federal reporter, which is a compendium of federal court of appeals cases, and i would just read that cover to cover as if it was a novel, just for fun. Kroft was it fun . Shon hopwood oh, i think the law is fascinating. Kroft in what way . Shon hopwood it was like a big puzzle for me. Kroft three years into his prison term, he got an opportunity to show just how much hed learned when john fellers, a friend and fellow inmate, asked shon to appeal his drug conviction to the highest court in the land. Shon hopwood he came to me and said, would you take the case and would you file this petition to the Supreme Court . I said, no, absolutely not. Kroft why . Shon hopwood his case was very complex, and i didnt think i could do it. But john was very persistent. Kroft he would spend months working day and night on the petition. It required him to master the s of t case, understand the statutes and legal precedents, identify the errors made by lawyers and judges in the appeal process, and then craft an argument in the language of the court before mailing it off to washington. Did the Supreme Court know that the brief had been written by a prisoner . Shon hopwood the first hint wouldve been the fact that it was typed on a typewriter. laughs i dont think law firms in 2003 were using typewriters to knock out Supreme Court briefs. Kroft four out of nine Supreme Court justices must agree for a case to be heard. That year, more than 8,000 petitions were filed. 74 were accepted. One of those was written by shon hopwood. Shon hopwood and one morning, a friend of mine came running and screaming my name, shon, shon, sho a it said the court had granted john fellers case. Kroft what went through your mind . Shon hopwood i was shocked. I was shocked that the court had granted the case, and that i had done something that, you know, lawyers wait their whole lives to do, and done it the first time. Seth waxman its not that unusual for prisoners to file their own petitions. What is freakishly unusual is for one of those petitions to be granted. Kroft seth waxman, a prominent appellate lawyer and the former solicitor general of the United States, is not easily impressed. But when he was asked to argue the fellers case before the Supreme Court, he said he would do it only if shon hopwood would work from prison as part of the team. Waxman i wanted him to be involved, because i was really curious. It seemed, actually, almost inconceivable that somebody with his level of education and his level of exposure to the life of the law could actually write a much better than average cert petition. Kroft so this would have been good for a washington lawyer . Waxman even for a licensed, appointed lawyer representing a federal prisoner, you would say, wow. Kroft waxman won the fellers case before the Supreme Court in a unanimous decision, and became shons mentor during his final six years in prison. Shon hopwood when a former solicitor general of the United States says that you did a good job writing a brief, that has an impact especially when youre surrounded in this environment where Prison Guards are telling you every day that youre worthless and that you dont amount to anything. Kroft did you win some more cases . Shon hopwood i did. I won another case on the suprcot, won a case on the sixth Circuit Court of appeals, and i won cases mostly on resentencing motions for federal prisoners and Federal District court cases, kind of all over the country. Kroft he found a purpose in life, and when ann marie metzner, who had once had a high school crush on shon, began writing letters and paying him visits, he started to think he might have some kind of future when he got out. But he knew there were huge obstacles ahead. Did you decide you wanted to be a lawyer while you were in prison . Shon hopwood i did, but i didnt think i could. I had had countless number of lawyers tell me i could not go to law school, and even if i could, i would never get licensed by any of the state bar associations, given my crimes. Kroft when he was released to a Halfway House near omaha in 2008, he had never seen an iphone, never been on the internet, and was computer illiterate. But, as if by miracle, he saw an ad for a document analyst at cockle legal printing, one of just a few companies in the u. S. That helps attorneys assemble briefs for the Supreme Court. Andy cockle and his sister Trish Billotte remember that shon showed up for his interview in illfitting clothes, with a rumpled letter from seth waxman and an 11year gap in his resume. Andy cockle we work with attorneys every day, all week long, that are trying to get their case granted. And none of them do. And this guy comes out and says i had Trish Billotte two. Cockle two of them granted. Oh, yeah. Kroft did you believe him . Cockle no. laughter i i thought he was delusional. Kroft but his story checked out, and they gave him the job. Youre glad you hired him. Both oh, yeah. Billotte it was sad to see him go. Kroft he spent three years with the cockles in omaha, completing the undergraduate degree hed begun in prison, and continuing to impress the lawyers he worked with. With their help, and against all odds, the university of Washington Law School took a chance on him. He won a full scholarship from the bill and Melinda Gates foundation and upon graduation, was admitted to the bar. How did you do in law school . Shon hopwood surprisingly well. Kroft you were already a lawyer . Shon hopwood well, i mean, it was it was a new experience, doing well in school. Kroft he did well enough to land a prestigious clerkship with the United States court of appeals for the district of columbia, the second most Important Court in the country. Waxman the idea that a convicted bank robber was going to go work for Janice Rogers brown a very conservative judge on a very Important Court. Surprising in the absolute sense . Yes. In the context of who shon hopwood is and where, what he was setting out to do . Not that surprising. Kroft a year later, it led to a highly competitive teaching fellowship at georgetown laws appellate litigation clinic, where he did so well, the faculty awarded him a position as a professor of law. How hard is it to get a job teaching law at georgetown . Steven goldblatt its very hard. Kroft professor Steven Goldblatt is the faculty director for the Supreme Court institute at georgetown law. Goldblatt to have somebody whos a credible voice, who actually lived the experience, who understands what its like to spend a day in prison, much less 11 years, is highly unusual. So i think this was a unique there, ahathe potentodfo was enormous. Kroft along with his other accomplishments, shon hopwood also got to marry that girl from david city, annie metzner, who is now a law student herself. They have two children. Are you surprised how this has turned out . Annie hopwood yeah. Yeah. I had no no idea of what the future would hold for us. Neither one of us had any clue that this would all these wonderful things would happen. Kroft hopwoods main interest now is criminal justice reform. He is an advocate for shorter prison sentences for most crimes, and more vocational training, drug treatment and Mental Health counseling, which are often nonexistent. Shon hopwood prison is not the place for personal growth. We warehouse people and then we kick them out into the real world with very little support, and hope that a miracle happens. Kroft but somehow, all the things stacked against you, you were able to do it . Shon hopwood yeah. It was people that helped, that went out of their way to provide grace to me, that made the difference. ticking cbs sports hq is presented by progressive insurance. Im adam glooker in our new york studio. In the open championship ireland shane lowrey wins his first major highlighted by shooting 63 in saturdays third round. And the National Baseball hall of fame inducted its class of 2019 headlined by the late roy halladay, edgar martinez, mike musina and mariano rivera. For 24 7 nution and highlights visit cbs news hq. Com. What a sign, huh . 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Lauren mcgough took us to one of the most remote places on earth to meet the hunters who trained her. And, before the next few minutes are through, you will know what its like to fly like an eagle. The mongolian steppe is the greatest expanse of grassland unaltered by humankind. It endures because human existence has narrow odds between the widest climate extremes on earth 104 degrees in summer, 50 below in winter. Nomads depend on the animals that yield nearly all of their food, fiber, clothing, and fuel. And, one of the oldest bonds in nature is an alliance of survival among hunters, horses, and Golden Eagles. Lauren mcgough this is the most ancient form of falconry in the world. This is where it all began. Its the cradle. So, several thousand years ago we dont know precisely when a man saw an eagle catch a rabbit or a fox, and had the ingenious idea to hunt in partnership with it. It blows my mind that its even real. Its like something out of lord of the rings, but you can do it. Pelley Lauren Mcgough was in high school when she dedicated her life to raptors. She traveled with us to the place she calls the cradle. 6,000 miles led us first to the mongolian capital of ulaan bataar. This civilization conquered the known world in the 13th century. The mongols ranged from asia to europe, the largest contiguous empire of all time. From here, we flew another 800 miles to bayanooolgii, whee mongolia, russia, china and kazakhstan meet. This was the end of the road, but not the end of our journey. We crossed the open steppe, past wild bactrian camels with two humps a vanishing species, with only about 1,000 left in the world. Our destination was a camp of nomads, people who introduced Lauren Mcgough to the golden eagle. Mcgough hello laughs pelley they hadnt seen her in two years. Mcgough it feels like i never left. laughter just in a few minutes of seeing everybody. Such a magical place. Pelley now, how did a woman from oklahoma end up out here, in mongolia . Mcgough ah, well, i read a book on falconry. And its like the fire was lit. I just knew i had to do it. And, as i was researching, i went to the library, and i found this old book that had black and white photos of eagle hunters from mongolia. So, you know, this beautiful shaggy horse, and this man with a giant eagle and a fox pelt on his horse. And it just looked like the most incredible thing. And i thought, i have to see it, i have to do it. Pelley at the age of 17, her father, a former air force stealth pilot, brought her to mongolia. Lauren returned five years later, with funding from a fulbright scholarship. Then she earned a ph. D based on her work with the eagle hunters. Mcgough these are the people that can talk to animals. Because they have relationships with goats, sheep, horses, camels, eagles. They have intimate knowledge of where Snow Leopards are and foxes are. Theres no agriculture here because the lands not arable. So, theyve ingeniously learned to domesticate animals, and then build these unique relationships with wild animals. Pelley its a relationship that she learned from people who endure the life of 19th century ranchers. They are kazakhs, who make up just 4 of mongolians. They have no running water, no electricity. They survive on meat and milk, and burn dung as fuel. The nomads live in clusters of a half dozen families or so. The boys mind the flocks, while the men ride in search of foxes to make furs for subzero survival. In all the years youve been doing this, what have you learned about these animals . A hunter named chukan gave us an answer we never saw coming. As they said in the old times if the horse makes your name famous in a race, once a year; the eagle makes your name famous 100 times a year. if iift to pe, they will say it was chukan who gifted us the foxes. Eagle hunting is more about your name being spread far and wide among the people. So, if eagle hunting is about the ego of men, we wondered how they saw Lauren Mcgough. She had her mind set on learning to hunt with the eagle. Her motivation came from deep in her heart. We just couldnt say no. When lauren first came to mongolia, it took her two weeks to catch an eagle she could call her own. How do you catch a golden eagle . Mcgough yes. So, you have a dead hare that you lay out with a crow or a raven staked nearby, and you encircle it in a net. So, the eagle on migration looks down and sees this hare that only a crow has possession of. And it thinks, ah, i can easily bully that crow out of that rabbit and have a free meal to myself. So, it comes in, and, when it tries to grab the dead rabbit, the net enfolds around the eagle. Pelley the eagle is taught to feed at the hand of the hunter. And, as long as the meals are regular, the eagles are calm, content, and come back for more. They perch on the hunters arm with a rawhide leash called a jess tied to their legs. They train the birds with a fox pelt tugged by a rope. This is what happens when the eagle zeroes in on a fox. After the bird makes the kill, the hunters ride in, strip the pelt, and give the meat to the eagle. Its a technique well over a thousand years old. We may not know exactly when it started, but you dont have to be here in mongolia very long to figure out why it began. In an area as vast as this, with game so rare, it helps to have a hunting partner that can see seven times better than a human and cover all of this at about 50 miles an hour. What is that like . The eagles were kind enough to show us. We custombuilt a soft, rubber camera harness, and learned how to fly. Golden eagles are abundant all around the northern hemisphere. In terms of survival as a species, conservationists call Golden Eagles an animal of least concern. Mcgough this is a tenpound bird. Which, dont be fooled if that doesnt sound like a lot. They have hollow bones, and theyre mostly feathers. So, ten pounds on a bird is an enormous bird. They have a sixfoot wingspan. They usually have lovely amber eyes. And the name golden eagle derives from the beautiful golden feathers on their nape. And then, the rest pelley around the neck . Mcgough yes, around the neck. Theyre incredibly effective at killing, which is what theyre built for. I mean, theyre a modernday velociraptor. A perfect product of evolution. I will never be tired of a golden eagle flying. Every time, it thrills me. Pelley the eagles talons can close on its prey with a bonecrushing force of 900 pounds per square inch a fun fact that is no fun to know. Come on, sweetheart. Mcgough perfect. Very good. And then, go ahead and stand up. And then, to secure the eagle, place your jesses between your thumb and the rest of your fingers. Pelley right here . Mcgough yes. Pelley okay. Mcgough the noise that the eagle recognizes is kah, kah. Whenever youre ready, just take off her hood. Pelley remove the hood . Mcgough yes. Kah. Kahkah. Good girl. Pelley laughs oh, god, what a feeling. Notice she said, good girl. The only eagles worthy of partnership are female. Theyre larger, stronger, better hunters. Ironic, since the human partner is traditionally male. Of all the eagle hunters youve known, how does lauren rate . How good is she . She is at the same level as men. She could compete with them. Lauren, at 31, is considered one of the best falconers in the world. She has brought the ancient ways to oklahoma, where she rehabilitates raptors and trained with her own eagle named miles. Whater oone of these eagles . Mcgough so, an eagle is trapped the first year, second year, maybe third year, on its migration. And then, it has a time with an eagle hunter, which could be as short as a year, or as long as six, seven, eight years. Eventually, they return that eagle back to the wild. Pelley it is part of the tradition to let them go . Mcgough yes. They firmly believe that an older eagle should be in the wild. Pelley what do you say to some people who might watch this and think that the eagles are being abused . That they shouldnt be caught . Mcgough i would encourage anybody that has doubts to go out with a falconer in this country or in the United States or anywhere. We only encourage their natural instincts. The only difference is you are right there. You have a frontrow seat to see this incredibly millionyearold pelley do you worry that, one day, there will be no more eagle hunters . A hunter named ouni told us, no, it is an essential art that kazakhs are born with. Since kazakhs have come to the earth, they have been practicing this tradition. It will not disappear. Also, each of us has a young person that we teach, like this boy. It passes from generation to generation. Whats at stake if this tradition is lost . Mcgough this is where man first figured out that he could have a relationship with a raptor. And what a loss would it be for humanity if it was gone. We can take an individual eagle and bring it from the spectrum of wild all the way to tame, and then wild again. And we get to see what theyre capable of, up close and in person. Man, if that understanding of eagles and animals were to leave, i thats not a world i want to live in. Pelley the boy named bekka is the hope of his familys traditional world. Hes learning horsemanship and falconry, and it was with bekka that we discovered the most endangered species on the steppe the nomads themselves. There may be only 300 eagle hunters left, a rare breed of human still speaking the language of the wild. ticking how did the 60 minutes camera crew get these shots . Go to 60minutesovertime. Com. Sponsored by eucrisa. Theres eucrisa. Its a prescription ointment for ages 2 and up. Thats steroidfree. It works both at and below the skins surface. Blocking overactive pde4 enzymes within your skin. Do not use if you are allergic to eucrisa or its ingredients. 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