Refugees are children. More than three million of them. How old are you guys . We visited refugee camps in jordan. Six . When it was 111 degrees. There was no Running Water, no indoor plumbing, but there was a brandnew sesame street, produced with characters that these Young Refugees can learn from, as so many kids in america have for years. ticking this musical prodigy has been performing around the world since he was 11 years old. And hes blind. Which caught the attention of this neuroscientist, who wanted to see what would happen inside his brain. Okay. Shall we give it a shot . Yep. The part thats used for sight when he listens to music. This is what changes in his brain. Jeez, lights up. ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im sharyn alfonsi. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking ticking stahl tonight, dr. Jon lapook on assignment for 60 minutes. Lapook 20 years ago, scientists stunned the world when they announced they had decod
Nearly half of all Syrian Refugees are children. More than three million of them. How old are you guys . We visited refugee camps in jordan. Six . When it was 111 degrees. There was no Running Water, no indoor plumbing, but there was a brandnew sesame street, produced with characters that these Young Refugees can learn from, as so many kids in america have for years. ticking this musical prodigy has been performing around the world since he was 11 years old. And hes blind. Which caught the attention of this neuroscientist, who wanted to see what would happen inside his brain. Okay. Shall we give it a shot . Yep. The part thats used for sight when he listens to music. This is what changes in his brain. Lights up. ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im sharyn alfonsi. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking for my mother my father my grandmother my brothers and sisters my friends for going back to school the bbq the lake the beach my pla
Visions began. Visions brought about by the powerful Psychedelic Drug psilocybin. Administered by scientists, aimed at helping people suffering from depression, anxiety, and addiction. Do you ever have a day where you wake up and youre like, man, i wish i could have a vodka right now . Or a beer . Not at all. Which is the craziest thing, because that was my favorite thing to do. The image on the left shows connections within the brain before psilocybin. On the right, after. ticking student debt is a crisis. Americans owe 1. 5 trillion. The burden for medical students is especially heavy. But now, one of the countrys top schools has come up with a radical solution. The n. Y. U. School of medicine is now a tuitionfree medical school cheers and applause oh, my god saving these students more than 200,000 each, with the hope that one day, if youre dealing with a patient who cant afford to have something done, you might say, its on me. ticking this Holiday Season choose the longest lasting a
Tragedy in texas. At least 12 people have been killed today in a crash in the tex texas hill country. A church bus carrying Senior Citizens home from a retreat collided head on with a pickup truck on route 83, thats a twolane highway. Again, 12 confirmed dead. Parts of texas and oklahoma were pounded last night by tornados. 100mileperhour wind and hail. Near oklahoma city, a truck was blown off the road, and the driver was killed. And near lubbock, texas, three Storm Chasers were killed when a vehicle ran a stop sign. There is growing concern tonight that the u. S. Military may be responsible for the deaths of many dozens of civilians in the tough, urban combat in mosul, iraq. Iraqs military, backed by u. S. Airstrikes and special Operations Forces is liberating the city of 1 million from isis. Since last fall, nearly 800 iraqi troops have been killed. 4600 wounded. David martin has been hooking in looking into the civilian deaths. Reporter american officers have now inspected the coll
To get high. Social worker caitlyn dowd says its become an epidemic. Theres a whole trail, needles, baggies, spoons. Debbies son spencer died from an overdose in 2012. Warfield blames oxycontin. She says thats where it began. Oxycontin and heroin has taken such a toll on our family, you know, for the rest of our lives. Reporter the city of everett has now filed a lawsuit against the maker of the drug, Purdue Pharma. The lawsuit claims purdue knowingly, recklessly and negligently supplied it to pharmacies and physicians and monitored the illegal trafficking of its pills, knew high volumes were being distributed and didnt share the informations with Law Enforcement. Everetts mayor i believe its about greed, and they need to be held accountable to make our community high. Reporter Purdue Pharma denied our request for an interview but says it has a strong record of working with Law Enforcement and information its provided in some cases has led to convictions. In a statement, they told us t