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reporter: sold, like the country seems to be. mark phillips, cbs news, oslo. with three simple words. my name is chris noth and i will listen. from maine to maui, thousands of high school students across the country are getting in on the action by volunteering in their communities. chris young: action teams of high school students are joining volunteers of america and major league baseball players to help train and inspire the next generation of volunteers. carlos pea: it s easy to start an action team at your school so you, too, can get in on the action. if you were a hippie in the 60s, you need to know. it s the dawning of the age of aquarius. yeah, and something else that s cool. what? osteoporosis is preventable. all: osteo s preventable? right on! all: cbs cares! today, a senate report found that gilead sciences, which makes a cure for a fatal form of hepatitis, is more interested in profits than patients. the cure was invented under the leadership of the cele ....
that s it. sold. reporter: sold, like the country seems to be. mark phillips, cbs news, oslo. with three simple words. my name is chris noth and i will listen. from maine to maui, thousands of high school students across the country are getting in on the action by volunteering in their communities. chris young: action teams of high school students are joining volunteers of america and major league baseball players to help train and inspire the next generation of volunteers. carlos pea: it s easy to start an action team at your school so you, too, can get in on the action. if you were a hippie in the 60s, you need to know. it s the dawning of the age of aquarius. yeah, and something else that s cool. what? osteoporosis is preventable. if you dig your bones, protect them. all: cbs cares! today, a senate report found that gilead sciences, which makes a cure for a fatal form of hepatitis, is more interested in profits than patients. the cure was invented under the le ....
15% cleaning ingredients or 90%. don t pay for water, pay for clean. extreme athlete j.t. holmes is celebrating his conquest of one of the world s most forbitting mountains in switerland. anderson cooper and the 60 minutes cameras went along for the thrill of a lifetime. reporter: the 13,000 feet, the icy summit is too steep and rocky to simply ski down. ready? reporter: so j.t. holmes is training in three extreme sports to rocket down more of the mountain than anyone ever has. right now he s practicing one of those sports, speed riding, on a nearby mountain slope with his to speed ride, he s using skis, but he s also attached to a glider-like parachute. it allows him to soar over rocks and legends, impossible to ski you re both skiing and you re flying. and then you re skiing a little bit more. exactly. reporter: but speed riding will only take j.t. so far down the eiger. he ll ski off a cliff and freefall the rest of the way, all in one long, non-stop, bre ....
that s a good question. i mean, i think the price will come down eventually. reporter: zion yisrael wonders if the price will come down in time to save him, in the two years his doctor says he has left. it s not right that the vets, we re still alive and we come here, and because of $84,000, you know, we can t get cured, a medication produced by the country that we re protecting? reporter: dr. schinazi says the drug he helped create has helped save hundreds of thousands of lives around the world, but, scott, the v.a. concedes that funding for u.s. veterans is limited. so far they ve treated about 35,000 vets, just 15% of the veterans infected with hepatitis c. chip reid with a revealing story in our washington newsroom. chip, thanks. patients who suffer from a rare infection called toxoplasmosis got some help today when express scripts offered to sell the treatment for $1 a pill. the drug is similar to daraprim, sold by turing pharmaceutical for $750 a pill. ....
if you were a hippie in the 60s, you need to know. it s the dawning of the age of aquarius. yeah, and something else that s cool. what? osteoporosis is preventable. all: osteo s preventable? right on! if you dig your bones, protect them. all: cbs cares! today, a senate report found that gilead sciences, which makes a cure for a fatal form of hepatitis, is more interested in profits than patients. the cure was invented under the leadership of the celebrated doctor in the department of veterans affairs. but at $1,000 a pill, even the va can t afford to save the lives of vets who need it. chip reid has been looking into this. reporter: in 2013, vietnam veteran zion yisrael was told he had five years to live. he had stage four liver disease caused by hepatitis c. which has infected as many as 230,000 veterans. most contracted it in vietnam where it was spread by battlefield blood transfusions and vaccinations. the longer it goes, the harder it is to treat. reporter ....