Responsible for Cystic Fibrosis and muscular dystrophy, and a noninvasive test for colon cancer. [ticking] Elissa Montanti is unlike almost anyone weve ever met. With the help of some very charitable american doctors, shes changed the lives of more than 100 kids like this one, a boy from iraq who needed an arm, a leg, and an eye. I love you, waad. Youll follow his transformation. Look at him. He looks beautiful. Which is a wonder to watch. [ticking] welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im morley safer. In this edition, we look at the Serious Business of philanthropy. Bill and Melinda Gates take us inside their foundation, we examine the unintended legacy of Howard Hughes, and meet a Staten Island woman helping children maimed by war. We begin with bill and Melinda Gates. With their plan to give away 60 billion, theyre the most generous philanthropists in the world. They want to make American Kids among the besteducated on earth. And while theyre doing that, they also intend to save millions
America under attack, live on the air. What we have just seen is about the most shocking videotape ive ever seen. And behind the scenes. He leaned in, and he said if i were you, i would stay off the e ring the rest of the day because were next. And it sent a chill down my spine. Looking back at that momentous day to get through that morning took everything i knew as a journalist, as a husband, as a father, as a human being. And in the days and weeks that followed. It was my first look at the charred latticework of the remains of the World Trade Center. He was one of the heroes who went to the World Trade Center that day wasnt he . This little boys world had gone away. Who y are you looking for . My son thomas. And i remember thinking thats the emblematic mother, thats the mother of all of us. That that moment occurred on our watch, on our air, on Live Television. Its been so years and i am still affected by it. Tuesday morning. Its the 11th day of september, 2001. Youre looking at peop
He leaned in, and he said if i were you, i would stay off the e ring the rest of the day because were next. And it sent a chill down my spine. Looking back at that momentous day to get through that morning took everything i knew as a journalist, as a husband, as a father, as a human being. And in the days and weeks that followed. It was my first look at the charred latticework of the remains of the World Trade Center. Stories seared in my memories. He was one of the heroes who went to the World Trade Center that day, wasnt he . This little boys world had gone away. Who are you looking for . My son thomas. And i remember thinking thats the emblematic mother, thats the mother of all of us. That that moment occurred on our watch, on our air, on Live Television. Its been 10 years and i am still affected by it. Its the 11th day of september, 2001. Youre looking at people gathered outside our study quo here on a sunny tuesday morning. September 11th, 2001 strikes me as being a normal, typica
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