120,000 tons of snow, rocks and mountainside. It took ten hours for rescue crews to arrive at the remote, snowedin resort. No one expected to find survivors. 29 people died, but miraculously, 11 people did survive, including four children who spent days buried alive. Where is the motor . Here is motor is here. Whitaker hes talking about this, minimotors fixed inside bicycle, a hightech stealth form of cheating that many people we spoke with believe have been used in the Tour De France. So if someone came to you and said directly, i want to use your invention to cheat, ill pay you a lot of money for it, would you sell it to them . If the money is big, why not . Whitaker we took a test ride to sigh how well these motors work. Im steve kroft. Im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im scott pelley. Those stories tonight on 60 minutes. Ooh. Psst. Hey. Where you going . Weve got that thing you know. Diarrhea . Abdominal pain . But we said wed be there. Woap, who makes the decisions around here .
Harland in march of 2016. The leader of the Senate Republicans majority leader mcconnell announced for the first time, for the first timey in the 200 30year history of the senate he would refuse thete president nominate judge garland a hearing and a vote. Senator mcconnell would further say he would refuse to even meet with judge garland. It was a transparent political b decision made by the republican leader in the hopes that a republican would be elected president of vacancy and part of a broader republican politicalre strategy to influence if not captured the Judicial Branch of court system. Not only did the Senate Republicans keep the Supreme Court seat vacant for over a year, they turned the executive calendar into a nomination obituary column for judicial nominees who had been reported out of the Judiciary Committee with bipartisan support. They were hoping a republican president would fill all of those seats and they were prepared to leave it vacant for a year or more to achieve
It has been more than a year since the untimely passing of Justice Antonin Scalia in february of 2016. Under article 2, section 2 of the United States constitution, president obama had a duty to make a nomination to fill that vacant seat. He nominated chief judge merrick garland. But the leader of the Senate Republicans, majority leader mcconnell, announced that for the first time for the first time in the 230year history of the senate he would refuse the president s nominee a hearing and a vote. Senator mcconnell said he would refuse to even meet with judge garland. It was a transparent political decision made by the republican leader in the hopes a republican would be elected president and fill the vacancy and it was part of a broader republican political strategy to influence if not capture the Judicial Branch of government at every level of the court system. Not only did the Senate Republicans keep a Supreme Court seat vacant for over a year, they turned the Senate Executive calend
[inaudible] which includes reading, writing, extended time on exams. So i am a disability specialist. At this time, we are going to do our presentation. Autism support groups and the one thing i want to emphasize is connect students with peers, tips on managing, expiration of special interests and Effective Communication and [inaudible] for success. We have approximately 30 students on the autism spectrum that identify on the autism spectrum that are registered with our office. So at this time, i would like for mikael to introduce himself sure just a little bit of information about our program. Okay. Im the carol again. Im a second year broadcasting major at San Francisco state and currently im switching majors because i have linguistic [inaudible] but now in the broadcasting department. Just trying to succeed from there. Great. Thank you. Question number one, michalak, when and how did you come to discover your identity as someone on the autism spectrum . Definitely when i arrived at
Cooper hated yourself because you were. Michael meeropol i was denying. I was too scared to admit that my parents were my parents. Cooper being the rosenbergs children in 1950 was almost like being osama bin ladens kids here after 9 11. Their parents were convicted and executed for being two of the most damaging spies ever. So why are the children speaking out now . Because they have a message for president obama. Im steve kroft. Im leslie stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight on 60 minutes. Cbs money watch, sponsored by American Express open. Proud supporter of growing businesses. Good evening. Wells fargo is facing fallout from last months banking scandal. New checking accounts and credit netflix, ibm and bank of america report earnings tomorrow, and workers at distilleries in kentucky are now on strike. Im elaine quijano, cbs news. Hey, evan. So, youre stuck at a work thing. With directv and at t you can stream all your favorite shows w