by the pandemic caused lockdowns and remote learning. today s eye on america xplorers a program helping young people cope inside by taking them otdoors. cbs s jan crawford reports. reporter: denise sullivan didn t always think the great outdoors were so great. i didn t like going outside because i didn t like bugs. reporter: bugs? i really was terrified of things flying on me. reporter: kyla jackson says she used to like the great indoors. i was a home body. reporter: for the past six years, denay and kyleia have participated in city kids, to empower kids and teens by connecting them with nature. for me being outside, i try not to worry about things in nature. you can go away for yourself. reporter: after a year of pandemic lockdowns, city kids has seen the impact. anside, depression. reporter: paige mclaughlin is program emergency for city kids. they are using social and
tipping point for navajo people and if we don t do anything about it we ll lose it forever. can i just get a show of hands of who here speaks the navajo language? okay. the colleagues and panelists here have spoken about the need to preserve language. it all hinges on the difference in that we are the people. we speak the language. we have a connection to our land and when we speak these words into the universe in prayer it s how we find our grounding with who we are. my viewer may not be familiar, denay is what the navajo people refer to as their language and culture. yes, ali. yes. for months we have talked politics about this infrastructure bill and it finally got done, but it is uniquely not abstract to you in navajo nation particularly as it relates to water. for many decades the issue
they knew they couldn t go anywhere and a lot of people were trying to help. and how busy about what time of morning was it for you and how busy was the highway? it was 7:40, and i mean, the traffic at that time of day can vary. it was not bad on my side and it shouldn t have been bad on the other side given that the traffic at that point had only backed up about a quarter of a mile and i don t know how long it will be until they get that opened up again. it was it was not that much traffic which is why it was so unusual and to think, i m sure you ve gone on to work. if it were me i would be a little rattled and i would have seen all these pictures on the news. i mean, you missed this, denay, by seconds. yeah. i am one of those people that just i gave myself a second
to think about it could have been me and then what can i do. like i said, i hopped on to twitter and hey, can you donate blood? what can we do because it s not about us, it s about them, and i m happy to be here, though. bless you. thank you so much. i love that you re donating blood. denay, i am so glad you re okay. we will stay on this breaking story. we ll bring in a former railroad engineer who knows these rails. he actually lives ten minute away from where this derailment happened. we ll talk to him in just a moment. whoooo.
like i said, it s sobering for the casual conversation we had been having previously. we were talking about how it looks like something that you would see on a tv show, not something you see in real life. and we did get in and reporting that sheriff s office is tweeting out that there are injuries and casualties reported. of course we don t know the extent of this, what exactly that means, because sometimes casualties just means injured and sometimes it means far worse. we don t want to read into it until we know much more. but from what you saw would you be surprised if there were some extensive injuries after this? not at all. especially from the vehicles that appeared to be underneath the train cars underneath. the train cars seemed, i would say, mostly intact from what i could see but the cars underneath were pretty broken. all right. denay, thank you for getting on with us. a lot more is coming in on what is playing out in piers county,