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be covered? >> reporter: senators blistered rowe for his agents failing to communicate with local snipers, for supposedly rejecting a local police offer to fly a drone to surveil overhead, and for letting trump take the stage after reports surfaced of a suspicious man. >> no information regarding a weapon on the roof was ever passed to our personnel. >> how is that even possible? >> reporter: rowe also took heat for not firing those who failed to secure the rooftop. >> i will tell you, senator, that i will not rush to judgment, that people will be held accountable, and i will do so with integrity and not rush to judgment and put people unfairly persecuted. >> unfairly persecuted? >> unfairly, sir. >> we've got people who are dead. >> reporter: rowe also faced questions about law enforcement communication that took place largely via text instead of radio. >> we need people focused on the problem or on their area of responsibility. it was great that there was a
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text chain, but that communication needs to go over the net. it needs to go over a radio channel. >> that was scott macfarlane reporting on capitol hill. "cbs news roundup" will be right back. what's up, you seem kinda sluggish today. things aren't really movin'. you could use some metamucil. metamucil's psyllium fiber helps keep your digestive system moving so you can feel lighter and more energetic. metamucil keeps you movin'. and try fizzing fiber plus vitamins.
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palestinians have been killed. this according to the local health ministry. and the united nations now reports that more than half of the dead are children. tracy smith reports on the conflict's youngest victims. >> reporter: it's hard not to smile watching 2-year-old jude damo feeding giraffes at the brookfield zoo near chicago. but this is just a moment of joy in a lifetime that's already seen too much pain. >> good, good. >> reporter: on december 26th, jude's family was living in a refugee camp in the gaza strip when it was hit by an israeli air strike. jude's father, ahmed, says he found his son screaming with his right leg crushed and his wife, jude's mother, dead. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: "she was hugging jude. she protected jude with her body." >> she saved his life?
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>> yeah. >> could you get medical treatment for jude in gaza? [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: "we have reached a point where there are no doctors and there are no medicines. all i felt for jude was that he would never be able to walk on his foot again. i was imagining that he would reach the point where his foot would be amputated." a photo of jude bleeding on a dirty hospital floor went viral. and after weeks of coordination, the nonprofit palestine children's relief fund rescued jude and ahmed, bringing them some 6,000 miles away to chicago for medical care. unicef calls gaza the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. the palestinian territory has been under assault by israel since october 7th of last year, when hamas led a brutal surprise attack that killed 1,200 people
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and took roughly 250 hostages. 116 of those hostages remain in hamas captivity. israel launched a counterattack, and in the violence, more than 38,000 palestinians, a number that includes civilians and militants, have been killed according to the hamas-run health ministry. of those deaths, they say more than 14,000 are children. unicef says the death toll is likely much higher. and unicef reports hundreds of thousands of children are in need of medical care. but israel has destroyed most of gaza's hospitals, saying hamas stores weapons in them and hides beneath them. it's a reality that has left thousands of children trapped, desperate for help. >> "doctor, please, the bone is exposed.
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please don't leave me here." these are voice messages i receive on a daily basis. >> reporter: tareq hailat is the head of the treatment abroad program for the palestine children's relief fund, an organization working to get children like jude medical care. to date, hailat's team has evacuated more than 200 children from gaza. >> this is the list of where we have all our children that we're trying to evacuate. >> what's the red? >> so the red are the children that they've passed away waiting. >> all of these children have died? >> all of them. >> while they were on the waiting list? >> yes. >> what are children who need medical treatment doing now? >> sadly, the real answer is they're dying. a broken leg here in the united states is not the same as a broken leg in gaza. a broken leg in gaza means most likely you're going to have that leg amputated. which means that most likely you're going to get an infection post that amputation, which most likely means that you're going to die. >> reporter: getting a child out
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of gaza can take months. the only way to evacuate is through egypt, and israel requires multiple background checks before it will allow a child, who must be accompanied by a guardian, to leave. in may, israel seized the rafah border, the last remaining crossing point between egypt and gaza. aid workers say that's made rescuing children almost impossible. >> when were you in gaza? >> end of april, for the first couple weeks of may. >> reporter: dr. mark perlmutter, an orthopedic surgeon from north carolina and vice president of the international college of surgeons, volunteered in gaza. >> so of all the disaster zones you've seen, how does gaza compare? >> all of the disasters i've seen combined, combined, 40 mission trips, 30 years, ground zero, earthquakes -- all of that combined doesn't equal the level of carnage that i saw against
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civilians in just my first week in gaza. >> and when you say civilians, is it mostly children? >> almost exclusively children. i've never seen that before. never seen that. i've seen more incinerated children than i've ever seen in my entire life combined. i've seen more shredded children in just the first week. >> shredded? >> shredded. >> what do you mean? >> missing body parts, being crushed by buildings, the greatest majority, or bomb explosions, the next greatest majority. we've taken shrapnel as big as my thumb out of 8-year-olds, and then there's sniper bullets. i've had children that were shot twice. >> you're saying children in gaza are being shot by snipers? >> definitively. i have two children that i have photographs of that were shot so perfectly in their chest, i couldn't put my stethoscope over their heart more accurately, and directly on the side of the head on the same child. no toddler gets shot twice by
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mistake by the world's best sniper. and they're dead center shots. >> reporter: in fact, more than 20 doctors recently in gaza also told "sunday morning" about gunshot wounds to children. one american doctor told us he even reviewed ct scans to confirm what he saw because he, quote, didn't believe that this many children could be admitted to a single hospital with gunshot wounds to the head. some shootings have been captured on video. [ sound of gunfire ] the israel defense forces declined our request for an on-camera interview. but in an email, a spokesperson told cbs news, quote, the idf has never and will never deliberately target children, adding, quote, remaining in an active combat zone has inherent risks. and the idf stressed that it calls for the evacuation of civilians from combat zones. the u.n. reports that to date,
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more than 80% of gaza's population has been displaced, and the majority of its buildings destroyed. a reality which has taken its own toll on the well-being of children. in fact, so many palestinian children have had family members killed that doctors created a shorthand term -- wcnsf, wounded child, no surviving family. last month, speaking in washington, d.c., other american doctors echoed dr. perlmutter's calls for help. >> we describe it as a catastrophe, a nightmare, a hell on earth. it's all of these and worse. >> we didn't even have hand sanitizer or alcohol or soap most of the time. >> while we're there, we're listening to, you know, aid is getting in. we're taking care of civilians. they're not being targeted, and
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yet we're witnessing a completely different story. >> for dozens of miles, we saw 18 wheelers parked bumper to bumper, engines off, outside of gaza. food or health care could not get in. >> how many kids are in danger of starvation in gaza? >> all of them. absolutely all of them. >> reporter: united nations experts have accused israel of carrying out a targeted starvation campaign. but israeli officials say they've allowed the delivery of more than 600,000 tons of food and supplies, quote, with the goal of bringing as much aid into the gaza strip as possible. injured children continue to trickle into the united states. last weekend, we were there when a 13-year-old girl, jana yesin, arrived in los angeles. despite the warm welcome, these kids are only scheduled to stay until their treatment is complete.
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>> it's unbelievable. >> reporter: as for jude damo, he's regained his ability to walk. >> you want to go in the stroller? okay. let's go. you want to go in here? >> reporter: but still has months of medical treatments ahead of him. his father, ahmed, says he's grateful for the help of people like tareq hailat from the palestine children's relief fund, even though there are some wounds that can never be made whole. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: "all the children of gaza suffer like jude, whether they are injured or wounded or not. they are all suffering. jude is just one of them." >> jude is just on tina zimmerman: five years ago, i reconnected
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with my estranged father, and that's just something i never ever thought could happen. but when he became a believer, he just had this insatiable appetite to learn the bible, and he began to watch dr. stanley. dr. stanley: god always blesses obedience without an exception. tina: he teaches in a way that it just makes sense, and i feel like that's the way our heavenly father would teach us.
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another 7 million pounds of ready to eat products possibly linked to a widespread outbreak of listeria. the recall includes deli meat, poultry products, and some packaged food. two people so far have died, and three dozen others have been hospitalized in 13 states. listeria is the third leading cause of death by food poisoning here in the u.s., and it is especially dangerous for pregnant women, newborns, the elderly, or those with compromised immune systems. cristian benavides has more. >> reporter: the usda has announced a recall of some boar's head liverwurst and other deli meats because the products may be contaminated with listeria. a tainted sample of the liverwurst was found at a maryland store during their investigation into the outbreak, and the company is recalling other deli meats made the same day in june as the tainted sample. so far, nearly three dozen people in 13 states have been sickened in the listeria outbreak, and two people have died.
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>> the symptoms of listeria are similar to food poisoning. persons most at risk are older persons, people who are frail, the immune compromised, and persons who are pregnant because this infection can sometimes precipitate a miscarriage or get into the baby. >> reporter: symptoms usually start one to four weeks after eating contaminated food but can start as early as the same day or as late as ten weeks after according to the cdc and can include fever, muscle aches, and tiredness. >> it can take a long time before you become ill, and if it contaminates food and you put it in the refrigerator, this listeria bug can multiply even at refrigerator temperatures. >> reporter: most listeria infections are treated with antibiotics. the cdc recommends in general anyone at higher risk for the illness avoid meats sliced at the deli or those meats should be heated up to 165 degrees or steaming hot before eating. the bacteria can also hide in
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fruits and vegetables, so it's important to wash those thoroughly. cristian benavides, cbs news. >> boar's head says if you have any of those meats in your fridge, simply throw them away or bring them back to a stre for a refund. 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 24/7 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 staying up with us. i'm shanelle kaul in new york, and here are some of the top stories on "cbs news roundup." israel says it has killed a senior hezbollah commander in a rare strike on beirut. presidential contender kamala harris is reportedly just days away from choosing a running mate. and violent clashes continue in venezuela over hotly disputed presidential election results. we begin this hour with some breaking news from the middle east. the militant group hamas now says the man widely considered to be hamas' political leadier, ismail haniyeh, has been assassinated. elsewhere in the region, israel says it has eliminated the most senior leader of the iranian-backed militant group hezbollah during a strike inside lebanon.
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at least three people were killed in the strike and 74 injured according to lebanon's health ministry. israel says among the dead was the intended target, a high-ranking hezbollah officer, a man also wanted in connection to the 1983 attack on the u.s. marine corps barracks in beirut that killed hundreds of u.s. military personnel. cbs's imtiaz tyab reports on the strike from southern beirut. >> reporter: this is what israeli retaliation looks like. beirut's densely populated southern da heeia neighborhood showered in debris following a precision strike by israeli fighter jets. when we arrived at the scene shortly afterwards, hundreds had already gathered. just over my shoulder you can see there is one of the buildings that was damaged by the israeli strike. and as you see, a real chaos here but also a real anger. in a move almost unheard of, the israeli military immediately
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announced that it was responsible for the attack and named its target. this man, fouad shukr, one of hezbollah's most senior military leaders, wanted by the u.s. with a $5 million bounty on his head. shukr played a central role in the 1983 bombing of the u.s. marine corps barracks in beirut, which killed 241 u.s. military personnel and wounded 128 others. israel says he was killed in the strike but hezbollah has yet to confirm. the attack comes just days after prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowed a severe response after 12 young people were killed in the golan heights in a rocket attack launch from lebanon. as hezbollah insists it won't stop its attacks until there's a cease-fire in gaza betwee israel and hamas. and cbs news has learned israel informed top u.s. officials before carrying out the strike
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here in beirut with the state department insisting an all-out war is not inevitable. but following tonight's attack, hezbollah will no doubt respond. imtiaz tyab, cbs news, beirut. now to the presidential election. cbs news has learned vice president kamala harris is planning to hold a rally with her yet-to-be named running mate on tuesday in philadelphia. cbs's ed o'keefe is traveling with harris in georgia, where some democrats tell him harris is injecting newfound enthusiasm. >> reporter: vice president harris trying to do something many democrats didn't think would be possible this year. she's trying to win georgia. >> the peach state is going blue! >> reporter: former president donald trump still leads in this and most other battlegroundatlad the kind of enthusiasm democrats haven't shown all year. >> we've gone from an emotional feeling of no hope to hopefulness. >> reporter: harris launched a
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$50 million ad blitz across six battleground states. trump also unveiled a new ad linking harris to the crisis at the southern border. >> failed, weak, dangerously liberal. >> reporter: and he unleashed this attack during a radio interview. >> number one, she doesn't like israel. number two, she doesn't like jewish people. you know it. i know it. everybody knows it, and nobody wants to say it. >> reporter: harris' husband is jewish and so is one of the top candidates vying to be her running mate, pennsylvania governor josh shapiro. and the attack of j.d. vance, once a fierce trump critic. >> j.d. vance isn't being honest with himself. when he goes out and sucks up to donald trump every day, he's full of it, and he knows it. i think that's why it's hard for him to be authentic and real rar vance remains under fire for remarks in several past interviews criticizing people without children. >> you go on twitter, and almost always the people who are most de ranged and most psychotic are people who don't have kids. >> reporter: trump offered this defense of vance. >> all he said is he does like -- i mean for him, he likes family.
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i think a lot of people like family. >> reporter: the vice president was asked today whether she's pick aid running mate. she said not yet. cbs news has learned she will begin formal interviews with an announcement expected by monday. then she'll launch a battle ground state tour with her new partner in hopes of finding crowds just as big and excited as this one. ed o'keefe, cbs news, atlanta. the venezuelan government is now calling for opposition leaders to be arrested. violent protests there continued following a disputed presidential election. the u.s. wants to see voting data released to the public amid widespread accusations of fraud. cbs's lilia luciano reports from caracas on the mayhem. >> reporter: another day of violent protests in venezuela. thousands have taken to the streets outraged over the re-election of authoritarian leader nicolas maduro. brawls erupting in the capital and across the country throughout the night and day, some clashing with the national
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guard, calling fraud. protesters toppled symbols of the socialist regime, seen burning flyers of the venezuela's strongmen. at least 11 have reportedly died so far. but this eastern caracas, a bright contrast of confident hope. people are chanting freedom and rushing to get a glimpse of the leader of the opposition and the man they say today is the president-elect. johanna campbell says many of her family members have had to leave venezuela since maduro came to power and is pleading for the international community to step in. >> that's what you'd like to see from the u.s. government, from the white house? >> yes. of course. that's what i want from the white house, to say people in venezuela went outside peacefully. they voted for the people they wanted to be president. >> reporter: machado claimed opposition candidate had more than doubled the number of votes than maduro. government loyalist gangs continue to intimidate civilians
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and attack protesters. this as the president of the national assembly has called for the arrest of machado and maduro's challenger for what they say is inciting violence. and after violent clashes through the afternoon, police here are getting ready to quash another protest of this major highway. all of this adding to those concerns that there is another mass exodus of venezuelans in the weeks ahead of our presidential election. lilia luciano, cbs news, caracas, venezuela. when "cbs news roundup" continues, addiction in america. we look at the toll opioids are taking on native american communities. communities. stay with us. for each life moment, your kids could get free or low-cost health coverage from medicaid or chip. kids up to age 19 are covered for check-ups, vaccines, dentist visits, hospital care, and more. your kids may be eligible now even if you've applied before.
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the opioid crisis affects every corner of america, and it has been especially devastating to native american communities. some have turned to a controversial approach called harm reduction. but as mark strassmann reports, critics insist it just makes things worse. >> an indian is an indian. a brother is a brother. a sister is a sister. >> reporter: twice a week, coleman cox drives more than an hour into controversy. >> 30 shorts. >> 30 shorts. >> reporter: today we are headed to event e ta, oklahoma. >> reporter: it's called harm reduction. its focus, preventing drug overdoses and the spread of infectious diseases rather than urging abstinence. >> across the board of this 7,000 square mile reservation, no one is immune. >> reporter: this is the principal chief here. >> there's something that's especially sad, even pathetic about this, isn't there? >> no one sets out to really get
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addicted to anything. but so many people were using this medicine because it was prescribed to them. >> reporter: america's opioid scourge is a special sorrow here on the reservation. in 2022, more than 100,000 americans died from overdoses. native americans are twice as likely to overdose fatally as white americans. cox and chris rich set up their van in an alley and waited for people with addictions to show up. >> we have sterile syringes. we call them points. >> reporter: points are needles, clean ones for people using. >> this is the controversy. >> it can be, yes. >> reporter: harm reduction programs have also been tried in dozens of communities. in several states, needle exchange programs were disbanded. critics complained they encouraged homelessness. >> it's easy to be unsuccessful because it tends to be just blanket approaches. >> reporter: cassie abbott ang has researched harm reduction programs at the university of
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tulsa. >> is this an approach born of december desperation? >> i would agree with that. >> reporter: we met donald cody in event e ta. now 61, he was struggled with addiction since he was 17. >> i'm so tired. i'm doing the same old thing and expecting something different to happen. >> what do you think of the van program? >> people are going to do what they're going to do, and that way they have the safest way they can. >> reporter: cox, now in recovery himself, agrees. >> when people say to you, you're just enabling users -- >> i am enabling them. i'm enabling them to live tomorrow. all my enabling leads to them eventually making the decision to change their relationship with their drugs, and then we can begin to talk about treatment and recovery. >> reporter: as a tribe, the cherokee fought opioids by suing multiple drugmakers and pharmacy chains. they've won more than $100 million. some of that money funds this harm reduction program.
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>> i learned a cherokee word today. >> oh, you did? >> gaduke. >> gaduke, working together as a community, as a tribe. >> and that's what this program is? >> but it's also -- [ speaking in a global language ] which means the ones who help from the heart. >> reporter: this drum circle celebrates cherokees trying to stay clean and sober, handing out clean needles is sobering, out clean needles is sobering, but nothing else has worked. “the darkness of bipolar depression made me feel like i was losing interest in the things i love. then i found a chance to let in the lyte.” discover caplyta. unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar i, caplyta is proven to deliver significant symptom relief from both bipolar i & ii depression. and in clinical trials, movement disorders and weight gain were not common. caplyta can cause serious side effects. call your doctor about sudden mood changes, behaviors, or suicidal thoughts right away. anti-depressants may increase these risks in young adults.
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♪ in the heartland, a growing number of farmers are taking out a kind of insurance against climate change, harvesting wind to make ends meet. janet shamlian has the story. >> reporter: for this person, this is a window of opportunity. >> i have my very own wind direction machine out there. >> reporter: in fact, she has three wind turbines on her 160-acre farm in central iowa. as farmers ready their fields, there's a new cash crop working the land year-round. wind turbines. >> how much money do the turbines bring in each year? >> my payment is $35,000 this year, and it keeps going up with inflation. >> reporter: that's made the difference between keeping the family farm and losing it for struggling farmers. as agriculture becomes more unstable due to climate change.
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>> how many days is it windy out here? >> practically every day, i would say. >> reporter: when her husband wallace died a decade ago, farm debts lived on. >> how much debt did you have? >> i had $350,000. >> and now you have? >> 67. >> how did you get that paid off? >> with my wind turbine money. >> reporter: each turbine takes up less than an acre, leaving plenty of farmable land. two decades ago, there were only a few hundred wind turbines in iowa. now there are more than 6,000 in this state, and they turn on about 60% of the state's forecast. u.s. wind energy, clean and renewable, avoids carbon emissions equivalent to taking 70 million cars off the road. nationwide, turbines power about 10% of the u.s. electric grid. you might call attorney kathy law the conduit for iowa wind. a daughter and wife of farmers, she's helped place almost half the state's turbines. >> from my farm background, i think i can talk their tack and have conversations with the landowners if they're interested in having wind turbines on their
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properties. >> reporter: both women have fielded complaints who say they're a threat to wildlife, ruin the view, and that this is too noisy. >> what do you say to the naysayers? >> nobody is requiring them to put that on their farms or their land. we want to be able to put turbines on our land and receive those benefits. >> they need to be perfect. >> reporter: everybodivy help is still old fashioned in some ways. but on power, the 75-year-old is progressive. >> i look at it as progress. i think we can't stand in the way of progress. >> reporter: the vista has changed from decades ago, a view she says suits her. >> i need to give up one or two acres of my land so that i can generate a commodity that we all use every day, and we all want to use more of it every day. so i'm happy to be able to be a part of that generation. >> reporter: perspective focused on the future.
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creates a clean slate on the sand. it's a blank canvas for the designs of denny dyke. >> when i want to make a turn, all i do is do what we call a bulb on the end of it. >> reporter: for more than a decade, he's been creating elaborate labyrinths on the beach near banden, oregon. what begins with a line in the sand soon transforms into a series of twisting shapes, which have become known as the circles in the sand. >> do you have this all mapped out in your head? >> no. >> you're just as you go? >> as i go. >> dike isn't big on making plans. he certainly never planned for his freehand labyrinths to boum a tourist attraction. he started out as a solo meditation practice. >> it's a practice i started years ago, kind of living in the now. if you're down here on the ocean with no other input and you're walking a lab rinth, which is a single path, you don't even have to worry about what direction
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you're going. it just puts you in a different place. >> reporter: it turned out lots of other people wanted that same experience. ♪ hundreds now show up to experience the designs dyke creates on select days throughout the spring and summer months. >> how did that change things for you to go from drawing it for yourself for other people? >> i still do it for myself. >> reporter: that help comes in the form of a network of volunteers, most of them former visitors to the labyrinth. >> i bought my house where i bought my house so that i could be here to do circles in the sand. and i organize my life around it. >> reporter: retired attorney emily simon moved to banden after walking the labyrinth three years ago. >> it just really changed the way in which i thought about things like permanence and impermanence and that i could create something beautiful that i didn't really believe i could in my life. >> previosly had you considered yourself to be an artist?
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>> not at all. not one little tiny bit. i'm a lawyer, and that's all i thought of was my words and my speech and my writing and winning. that's all i thought of every day. >> there's no winning in the sand labyrinth. >> that's right. >> now we're going to take a walk. everybody's going to get a dream stone to remember their walk. >> reporter: there's no right or wrong way to experience the labyrinth. some are joyful. some are contemplative. >> i walked it a couple of times, and each time it feels a little bit different. i think whatever you go in with the intention of thinking about or working through, everybody is here for their own reason. you know, we're all -- we're all going through life. >> i needed today. >> thank you, dear. >> thank you. >> reporter: presiding over it all, is denny dyke, handing out hugs. >> thank you, dear. >> reporter: and ensuring everyone is having a good time. ultimately it is just a bunch of people walking in circles, and yet it feels like it's more than that. >> you talk about it a lot in a
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spiritual way. do you feel like this is a ministry for you? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: each day of circles in the sand begins with a dedication circle. >> the path today will be walked by many people. some are here for the intention of walking. others don't know what to expect. just keep moving forward. share the love. so let's go out and create a path. >> reporter: and it ends when the tide rolls in. all of this hard work disappears, washed away bit by bit. for those who show up to walk this path, that impermanence is the point. >> it reminds us everything's pretty temporary, right? i think that's the message for all of us is be in t now
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