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pay restitution to their victims' families. that means inmates like albert jones have been transferred from death row to maximum security state prisons, where they will get a cellmate and privileges. >> the main thing is i'm going to be around people where i ain't got to be handcuffed all the time. >> so you're clearing death row. more than 600 death row inmates are being transferred to other state prisons. >> yep. >> there are victims' families who aren't thrilled about this because with restitution comes privileges. these guys will get opportunities that they wouldn't have in here. and some people think they shouldn't have that, they should exist in a punitive environment. what do you say to them? >> the idea the voters advanced is not a bad idea, that there should be victim restitution, there should be some remuneration. we're not letting people out. they're still condemned for life. >> reporter: but newsom is going beyond death row and is rolling out broader reforms statewide. it's called the california model.
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and it's designed to rehabilitate general population prisoners for life after incarceration. >> i'm walking through the san quentin prison yard right here. the majority of these guys have life sentences. many of them have killed people. and yet they're uncuffed. they're not behind cell doors. and that's part of the rehabilitative culture that is very intentional here and that california is trying to replicate in facilities across the state. >> my name is lily. he said. nice to meet you. >> reporter: inmates who demonstrate good behavior can sign up for classes from sign language to therapy to even coding. the state's data shows these kinds of programs help people those once incarcerated from coming back into the system. >> it's about addressing the reality that 95% of prisoners in the california system are going to be released back into the community. they're going to be released healthier than they came or more broken. we're as dumb as we want to be.
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you reincarcerate them, the costs associated with that, when you have that time in prison when we actually could have been fundamentally addressing the issue of trauma and ultimately addressing the issue of public safety. >> so you started to roll out these programs at eight incarceration facilities across the state. what have you learned so far? >> they work. >> how do you measure success? >> i measure success by reducing recidivism. >> reporter: recidivism is when a person reoffends after leaving prison. california's recidivism rate is just below the national average at 42%. newsom wants that number even lower, spending nearly 240 million taxpayer dollars to remake san quentin alone. that's less money than he intended to spend after his own advisory committee pushed back on the cost. you know, some folks may wonder why not double down on, say, early childhood education to keep people out of the system instead of investing in this? >> well, we want to begin at the beginning. that's prenatal care. all of that, and we have to deal
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with the lived realities of people that do commit heinous crimes. people that do belong behind bars. >> reporter: investing hundreds of millions now, newsom says, will save the state in the long run by keeping people out of prison. he's basing california's model off of one that's worked for decades in norway, the country whose recidivism rate went from 70% to 20. >> in the 1990s they were operating similar to how the american system was working. they're now an international model in terms of public safety. we want to bring an innovative mindset to criminal justice reform. the overwhelming majority of people that are incarcerated end back in your neighborhoods. >> wow. okay. so what's this? >> these are all formerly incarcerated people. as you see, it's a 0% recidivism rate. no one on this wall has come back to prison. >> no one who's gone through this program has commit aid crime afterward? >> no. >> reporter: greg eskridge is an inmate who hosts a radio program at san quentin. >> what do you hope to get out
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of this story? what is it you're trying to say? >> my older brother is ten years older than me. so with my dad not being around that was my father figure. >> reporter: eskridge killed a yurng man when he was 20 years old and was sentenced to 58 years to life. do you think about your victim? >> all the time. all the time. over the last 30 years of my incarceration i've had nothing but time to think. he had a mother. he had a family. and i took all of that away from him. >> what is it about these programs that changes a person from being someone who is likely to commit a crime to someone who is fully rehabilitated and will not commit a crime in their future? >> many people come from disenfranchised backgrounds. they come from poverty. and people aren't seen. people are thrown away by their communities. right? so to come inside of this place and to see people investing their time and their money and their resources and it just gives a person a new way of thinking.
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and once people begin to retrain their thinking, then they become successful. today i'm telling myself that i would never cause harm again. >> and that was contributor gianna toboni reporting. this is "cbs news roundup."
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stonehenge site in england wednesday as climate activists sprayed several stones with what appears to be orange paint. two people were arrested, and they say it was orange cornstarch that will dissolve in the rain. the activists are from the group just stop oil that issued a statement later saying "continuing to burn coal, oil and gas will result in the death of millions." the warming climate is something scientists have been warning about for decades, and u.s. researchers say they're seeing damage firsthand in rainforests. ben tracy visited a unique scientific outpost in panama. >> so this is your ride to work? >> yep, it is. got to get in the boat to get to the island. >> reporter: helene muller landau has one of the more unusual commutes in the scientific community. she rides to work alongside giant container ships heading down the panama canal. >> it's a pretty cool commute to work. >> indeed. >> reporter: and this is her office. barro colorado island. the world's oldest continuously studied tropical forest.
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>> we're here in the tropical rainforest. and on cue here comes the tropical rains. >> absolutely. it's amazing for a tropical site because it has a 100-year uninterrupted legacy of research. which gives us a really strong foundation of knowledge about the plants and animals here. >> reporter: muller landau leads a research team using drones to survey the health of the tree canopy. there's more than 500 species of trees on this island, which have been studied and measured for decades. it's also part of a worldwide network called forest geo, which monitors 7 million trees on 77 sites in 29 countries to determine the health of our planet's main ally in the fight against human-caused climate change. >> one of the great services tropical forests do is basically locking up a lot of carbon that would otherwise essentially change the climate.
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>> reporter: trees suck planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the air through photosynthesis. 46% of the world's living carbon pool is stored in tropical forests. but when those trees burn down in wildfires or are cut down in places like the amazon rainforest, all that stored carbon is released back into the atmosphere, causing more global warming. >> all of those trees are carbon. >> reporter: josh tewksbury is director of the smithsonian tropical research institute in panama, which has operated on barro colorado island for a century. why does the smithsonian run an island in the middle of the panama canal? >> so to answer the question you have to go back to the creation of the country of panama. ♪ >> reporter: backed by the united states, panama broke away from colombia in 1903, allowing for construction of the panama canal to be completed by the u.s. army corps of engineers. digging the canal created this massive lake in the middle of the country, turning a once forested hillside into barro
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colorado island. named for its red clay soil. the smithsonian sent scientists to start a research station here. >> science in the united states was the smithsonian. and therefore, we came and we've had a continued presence on the island, sort of been doing research there since about 1923. >> reporter: this is where tropical forest research was born. and it holds the world's most complete scientific record of plant and animal life in these unique ecosystems. has the mission, the focus changed in this era of rapid climate change? >> the urgency around that mission has shifted dramatically in the last 30 to 40 years. thinking about life on a sustainable planet as a major emphasis of what we do. >> reporter: our continued burning of fossil fuels is a threat to the so-called lungs of the planet. in a new study in the journal "nature" scientists found that places on earth are now so hot that tropical leaves may lose their ability to perform photosynthesis and die.
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>> good. >> yep. all set. >> reporter: it makes the research here on the island even more critical. >> the first few meters is not a problem. >> reporter: which can include climbing a nearly 150-foot-tall weather tower. >> this is why you had me sign that form. >> reporter: that houses is sensors collecting data on the health of this forest. >> we've run a network of sensors spread over all of panama. >> reporter: sergio dos santos is a project manager and says some sensors help determine whether the forest is absorbing or emitting carbon dioxide. >> so that sensor all the way up there, the white sensor, it's a carbon flux sensor. there's a rainfall sensor. >> i'm trying not to look down there. i like looking at the sensors up above me. this is a beautiful view, throw. >> yeah, it's nice. >> i mean, you can see the canal and the lake. >> yeah, you can see everything. it's beautiful. >> reporter: and while this island may be run by the smithsonian, it's a museum without walls, where nature's art is always on display.
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>> it's an amazingly special place. likely the most stable part of the u.s.-panama relationship over the last 100 years. and we're looking forward to being that stable part of it for the next 100 years. >> i'm ben tracy in panama. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.
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tonight, major league baseball will honor willie mays, who died tuesday at the age of 93. the san francisco giants will face the st. louis cardinals at a ballpark in alabama six miles
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from where mays grew up and where he made his pro debut in the negro leagues. special correspondent james brown remembers the say hey kid. >> here's a pitch to willie. >> reporter: count willie mays as one of baseball's top players ever. >> number 600 for willie mays! >> reporter: by the end of his 22-season career he had hit a total of 660 home runs, the sixth most of all time. >> way back, back, it is caught! >> reporter: his first of its kind over the shoulder catch is considered the greatest catch in the history of the game. ♪ say hey ♪ ♪ say who ♪ ♪ say willie ♪ ♪ >> reporter: at 16 willie mays joined the birmingham black barons of the negro leagues. after graduating high school in 1951, he signed with the new york giants. >> i arrived in new york city on a friday at 4:00, scared to
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death with three bats in my little briefcase, my glove. i didn't have a uniform. i didn't have a hat. >> reporter: but in his first season he was named the national league rookie of the year. he moved with the team to san francisco in 1958 and led the giants to the national league pennant in 1962. he became the team's captain in 1964, most valuable player in '65, and was at the forefront of the giants until he was traded to the new york mets for the 1972-73 season, which would be his last. a landmark statue was erected in his honor outside giants stadium. a small reminder of a man long regarded as baseball's greatest living legend. >> when i first heard it i said wait a minute, you mean i've got to be passed away before you guys give me credit for doing something? >> at bat m-a-y-s spells murder. >> reporter: actually not. he will always be the greatest. his combination of power, speed, and defense was, some would
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argue, the greatest of all time. james brown, cbs news, new york. >> and that's today's "cbs news roundup." for some of you the news continues. for others tune in later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs news broadcast center in new york city, i'm shanelle kaul. ♪
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hello and thanks so much for watching. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. and here are some of the stories we're tracking on "cbs news roundup." massive wildfires in new mexico claim another life and destroy many homes. tropical storm alberto is still miles away from landfall. but it's already battering the gulf coast. and heat records are breaking as much of the country swelters. state police in new mexico now say a second person has died in fast-moving wildfires ravaging the mountain community of rio doso. thousands fled as flames destroyed nearly everything in their path, including hundreds of homes. cbs's omar villafranca has seen the devastation up close. >> reporter: as two raging fires flank this cabin community, rio doso assistant fire chief ross coleman took us behind the flames for a first look. home after home burned to the
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ground. more than 1,400 structures destroyed. >> there were about five or six houses right in here. our fire chief just lost his house. >> reporter: he's not alone. roughly 8,000 people have not yet been allowed back, including connie loya and her husband frank. >> i don't know whether we're going to have a home. >> we were engulfed in smoke. that scared me to death. >> reporter: the flames from the south fork fire came from that way onto this ridge and destroyed this hotel. the flames were steady but very intense. so intense that cars that were here in the parking lot started melting. you can see some of the aluminum here running off. but the fire didn't stop there. both the south fork and salt fires remain zero percent contained and have already torched more than 23,000 acres. an area larger than the island of manhattan. nationwide, wildfires have scorched more than 2.1 million acres this year. far more than the ten-year
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average of 1.4 million. pamela bonner captured these stunning images as she fled to safety. now she's hoping there's a town to go back to. >> the best you can do is just try to not fall apart, and that's all you can do is just hope. >> reporter: signs of relief as storm clouds dropped rain in the area. the storm clouds are starting to clear out but not before dumping some much-needed rain on the area. and crews are hoping that that rain will help them get the fires under control. but now there is another issue. all that rain has created a flash flood emergency, which means some roads may not be passable. omar villafranca, cbs news, capitan, new mexico. now to tropical storm alberto churning through the gulf, driving torrential rain and powerful winds. cbs's dave malkoff is in corpus christi, texas right if the bullseye of the storm. >> reporter: the storm is hours away from landfall in mexico, but the effects are already
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being felt. in surfside south of houston rain totals have already topped nearly four inches. search and rescue teams were out on the water rafts looking to rescue people and they found two women stranded in a car. the water nearly up to their tires. they both got out. some residents were forced to evacuate. >> oh, the whole trash thing got moved. >> reporter: overnight water started gushing from the ocean onto the roads, and the forecast calls for even more storm surge. this is an abandoned vehicle. you can see the water sweeping almost all the way to the top. but the rain did not stop essential worker tony juarez from delivering port-a-potties in the tropical storm band. what's it like in the middle of all this? >> just rain and rain, you know. it's not fun. but we're out here doing it. >> reporter: these bands are not only dumping water on top of us
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but it's also lapping up all this storm surge. this used to be a street right in the heart of corpus christi on north beach, but now it looks more like a river. you can't even tell where the street stops and the bay begins. >> that was cbs's dave malkoff. now to dangerous heat. 18 states are feeling the soaring temperatures, with some areas seeing the heat index rise as high as 110 degrees. cbs's lilia luciano reports from a brutally hot philadelphia. >> reporter: in the city of brotherly love the heat came early. >> it's super hot. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: emt doniell green says he's bracing for a busy season. >> are you making those knocks? >> last summer it was actually summer when we started getting our heat stroekz or heat exhaustion. >> reporter: the city has already declared its first heat health emergency of the year through saturday. in vermont -- >> we're out here for the next
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couple days just trying to beat the heat, get out of the heat dome. >> reporter: there are parts of the state today that are almost ten degrees hotter than miami. meteorologist shell winkly with climate central says the shifting weather patterns have a culprit. >> as we pollute our atmosphere with things like carbon, extra carbon from burning oil and natural gas and coal, what we're essentially doing is trapping in a lot of this heat. >> reporter: it's also important to note that the nighttime temperatures are also rising. so there's not a whole lot of time for the cities, for the ground, the atmosphere and the people to recover before the sun comes out. so it only feels like it's getting hotter. lilia luciano, cbs news, philadelphia. in the nation's capital we have an update to a long-running congressional investigation into republican representative matt gaetz. cbs's scott macfarlane has our new reporting. >> reporter: multiple sources tell cbs news four women have informed the ethics committee they attended parties that
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included sex and drugs that congressman matt gaetz also attended. we've also learned the committee has gaetz's venmo transactions, allegedly showing payments to the women. the 42-year-old republican said he'll be exonerated and previously blamed then house speaker kevin mccarthy for the probe, before leading the effort to oust mccarthy. >> i fear no investigation. that was simply something that kevin mccarthy tried to use as leverage. >> reporter: the justice department previously investigated gaetz but no charges were filed. >> our thanks to scott for that reporting. louisiana's governor signed a new bill on wednesday requiring all public classrooms to display the 10 commandments. cbs's elise preston with more. >> reporter: louisiana has become the first state in the country to require a poster-sized copy like this one of the 10 commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. republican governor jeff landry signed the bill into law. in a statement the aclu says it's planning to file a lawsuit,
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if you think a large suv might be the safest vehicle on the road, recent crash tests might convince you otherwise. the insurance institute for highway safety looked at the nation's top-selling large suvs, and all had room to improve. as cbs's kris van cleave reports, two earn will he marks in crash protection. >> reporter: the latest crash tests from the insurance institute for highway safety focus on large suvs, finding the best-selling chevrolet tahoe and ford expedition fell short in several categories and underperformed in a front crash test more than 90% of new vehicles have scored well on since 2021. >> bigger doesn't necessarily equal safer? >> that is right. what these tests have told us is that having a bigger, heavier vehicle does not always mean safer. >> reporter: iihs vice president raul arbalaz. >> what we've seen over the years is when manufacturers do not perform well on these tests
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they quickly pull their engineering and design teams together, make the changes. >> reporter: while the jeep wagoneer earned a top safety pick for its overall performance, in new tests focused on crash protections for rear seat passengers none scored well. iihs found all three showed a risk of chest injuries in a collision. the chevy's pedestrian collision avoidance system underperformed, failing to stop before impact in some tests, and earned a marginal rating, while its headlights scored poor. all three earned a good rating in side impact crash tests. jeep in a statement cheered its top safety pick ranking. ford says the expedition meets or exceeds regulatory requirements and is the only vehicle in the segment to achieve a five-star overall vehicle score from safety regulators. and general motors says it's confident in the safety of the chevrolet tahoe and will look to incorporate these latest findings into our new vehicle
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cbs's nikki battiste takes a look at how one family is coping with the costs. >> to my future baby, know that you are so wanted. >> reporter: nearly every dollar mary delgado had was riding on one shot at ivf. >> today is day 3 of my stims medications. >> reporter: three years ago while she and her long-time partner joaquin rodriguez were trying to conceive a second child delgado, who is now 35 years old, learned she had severe endometriosis, a common cause of infertility. >> i was broken. to be told i'll never, ever get pregnant again. naturally. so the doctor told me the only solution for you is ivf. and i knew ivf was expensive. >> reporter: delgado was on medicaid after leaving her job to care for her now 10-year-old son, who was conceived naturally and has a rare genetic disorder.
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>> i knew medicaid was not going to carry ivf. all that ran through my mind was the dollar sign. that's all i thought about. >> is it fair? >> no, i don't think it's fair because they don't want the poor to reproduce. >> reporter: the cost for one round of ivf is $20,000 on average. and it generally takes three ivf cycles for a woman to have a baby. in most states medicaid does not cover any fertility treatment costs. but in new york where delgado lives medicaid currently does cover some of the medication needed to do ivf. delgado found a clinic four hours away that offered a discount and a payment plan. >> i took out a $7,000 loan with them and that was to be paid back in the course of two years. >> to the clinic. >> mm-hmm. and i spent about $3,000 on medication. and then genetic testing, that was another $2,000. so in total i spent $14,000. >> we need to bring the cost down. >> reporter: democratic senator tammy duckworth, who conceived her own two daughters have with ivf, is fighting to pass legislation that would give more
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americans fertility benefits and lower the costs. >> why would we preventative americans from being able to fulfill that dream of holding their own baby in their arms? >> reporter: currently 22 states plus washington, d.c. have passed fertility insurance laws. 15 of those state laws include ivf coverage requirements, and 18 cover fertility preservation, which include saving a person's eggs or sperm from infertility caused from chemotherapy, radiation or other medical treatment. >> that doesn't mean that everyone in that state will have coverage. sometimes it's partial. sometimes it's none. there's still this large gap that exists. >> reporter: dr. asama ahmad is the co-founder of carrot fertility, a company trying to close that gap by helping more than 1,000 employers globally provide fertility benefits including coverage for ivf, fertility preservation, post-part sxum menopause care. across the country 45% of large
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companies offered ivf coverage last year up from just 27% in 2020. >> is it that fertility coverage is expensive? is that why it's not so more readily available? or do you think it's just that we haven't caught up yet and recognize that a lot of people need the treatment? >> i think that the issue is that when people think that someone needs to do fertility treatment to grow their family they consider it as an elective procedure. infertility is a disease, and some people need to do fertility treatment to grow their family. there is no other way to do it. >> there you go. >> reporter: for delgado and her partner one round of ivf was money well spent. their daughter, emiliana, is now 14 months old, and their $7,000 ivf loan is paid off. >> she was definitely worth it. definitely, definitely worth every single penny because she came to fix my broken heart. she really did.
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90 degrees today, it's important to keep an eye out for people in your life with asthma. heat waves can trigger asthma attacks, and a recent study found a child with asthma is 19% more likely to wind up in the hospital during a heat wave. cbs's ian lee has the story of one man who's helping kids breathe easier. >> reporter: martha loves to play. especially ping-pong with her dad. but a severe asthma attack nearly killed the 6-year-old from england. >> it was a massive shock. it was a bit like an out of body kind of experience. she was in a coma for a week. >> reporter: martha recovered. and now her daily routine starts with five big breaths. martha uses her inhaler twice a day but initially refused to use it until a family friend, will hogg, gave it a funky makeover. >> i was only going to make one but i saw one in five children have asthma and i thought okay, there's such an opportunity to help more people. >> when i had the old one i
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didn't really want to take it. so it felt really boring to me. >> reporter: martha's duck and unicorn inhalers were an instant hit. >> just seeing her immediately so much prouder of her inhaler and running around saying that it was her unicorn puff puff. >> reporter: will and his wife now make handmade inhalers full-time, producing more than 20,000 with fun patterns like dinosaurs, ducks and soccer balls. >> we see roundabout four people a day dying of asthma in the uk, and we have one of the highest death rates because of asthma. >> reporter: the uk's national health service took notice and is looking to see if the designs could improve inhaler use with more young people. >> so far we've seen really good positive feedback on the inhaler covers from families. >> all inhalers are now cool in this house. >> reporter: with the new inhaler everyone can now breathe a sigh of relief and focus on other things, like who serves next. ian lee, cbs news, london. a new york boy is believed to be the youngest recipient of
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a bionic arm. cbs's michael george caught up with the 5-year-old, who's sharpening his skills with his new high-tech prosthetic. >> go jordan! >> reporter: the universe just got a new pint-sized hero with a gripping superpower. riding a scooter has never felt so secure for 5-year-old jordan morada thanks to his new robotic arm, fashioned after his favorite avenger. >> do you like it? >> yeah. >> and it looks cool. it looks like iron man, right? >> reporter: jordan's mom first learned he would be born without a left hand at her 20-week sonogram. >> obviously we went through a grieving process that, you know, our child was going to be born what you would call different. >> good job, "joy." >> reporter: at first jordan's difference didn't hold him back. he tried everything. rock climbing to baseball. he even figured out how to zip up a jacket. but his mom says that changed as he got older. >> more emotional. there have been a lot of nights where he's gone to bed crying
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asking for two hands. >> reporter: so the moradas reached out to the uk robotis company open bionics. their 3-d open prostheses are lined with electrodes that detect muscular contractions and convert them into hand movements. they tested jordan at their new york office, assuming he'd be too young, but found he could move the prosthetic and seemed mature enough to care for it. last week his custom-made arm arrived. and he's been learning new maneuvers ever since. >> all it takes is practice. >> reporter: his parents say his confidence is back. >> can you show me the thumbs up again? >> reporter: as he works to master a whole new set of super skills. michael george, cbs news, dix
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liz neeley: you know, you've probably heard it said that some people have to hit rock bottom before they really come to the
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lord and give him their life. and that's what happened. i probably had a lot of anxiety at that point about my future, but as i began to study the word and a lot of dr. stanley's teachings and sermons, i began to realize that, through the love of jesus, god saved me for a purpose.
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