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what i went through. >> reporter: and you wouldn't speak to them about it? >> i didn't speak to them at all. >> reporter: he didn't tell them of the watchtowers and the wire and the filth and the starvation, and he didn't tell them what happened during the horror of the selection process when camp officers decided who might live for a while and who would die. so you were selected for work and your father and your brother were sent immediately to the gas chambers? >> correct. that same day, 35 members of my family were burned or cremated, the same day, that friday. >> reporter: david marks somehow survived. he moved to the u.s. in the '50s. widowed 27 years ago, he is now engaged to marry kathy this summer. it was she who convinced him to return to auschwitz for closure, she says. world jewish congress president ronald lauder says there is
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another reason survivors need to tell their stories now. are you concerned at the rise of anti-semitism over the past few years? >> i'm very concerned about it, because when i look at what happened and i speak to survivors, and they tell me how it started off very small. it got bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. >> is that what you're seeing? >> i'm seeing that same thing. >> reporter: the survivors' numbers are dwindling. few will ever be back to this place. all that remains are the wires and the watchtowers and the ovens and their stories. tributes are still pouring in from around the world for basketball superstar kobe bryant. as you likely know now, bryant was killed along with his daughter and seven others when their helicopter crashed in thick fog outside los angeles. in addition to being a basketball legend, bryant was writer and an inspiration to many, butis most important role was that as dad, as he
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explained to dana jacobsen. >> as you you've can see, we've got this makeshift memorial, keepsakes that are there from the fans paying tribute to kobe bryant and his family. athletes also remembering kobe. so many of them point to the father that he had become. derek jeter in online posting wrote that despite kobe's athletic gifts and his obsession to win, he always put family above everything, and that was something that when we spoke back in october was quite apparent. are you enjoying being able to have time with them? >> oh, i am. >> reporter: kobe was the man of the house he shared with wife vanessa and their four daughters. you're the only man. what is the bryant household like? >> i'm very comfortable with where i'm at on the totem pole. >> reporter: kobe told me he was enjoying more time with daughters and newborn. his main job since retiring in 2016, dad in your house do they look at you dad, stop, be quiet.
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>> oh my god, yeah. i never know what i'm talking about. i have absolutely no say so. and they do it tongue-in-cheek, but they mean it. >> reporter: except maybe when it came to basketball. kobe's 13-year-old daughter gigi had developed her own love of the game. you coached gigi's basketball team. >> yeah. >> what is the challenge in coaching your own daughter? >> making sure she knows i love her whether she plays well or plays like crap. it doesn't matter. it's fine. you're my daughter before you're a basketball player. >> reporter: is there a different sense of pride in watching her out there as her coach being there? >> what i love the most is that we have gotten to a place now where sees something that is making her uncomfortable on the court, she'll come up and say dad, this is what is happening, this is what i'm feeling. what should i do here? >> kobe so proud to be the father to those four daughters, but if you think about it, he really was a father to so many others. i said it earlier.
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dj khaled won a grammy on sunday night for best rap performance for his song "higher." but khaled is more than just a singer. he considers himself a musical genius. and he zroydescribed it all to leaf fa sena. >> if you never heard his name, dj khaled is more than happy to introduce himself. >> i'm just not a dj. i'm not just a producer. >> reporter: he has worked with some of the biggest artists in music, rihanna, justin bieber, drake. and on beyonce's last tour, he was the opening act. so what exactly does he do? good question. >> ask me what i do. >> what do you do? >> i'm a genius. it's too many things i do.
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>> but you must get asked that a lot, right? >> when i hear people say, that it's all love. it means you're trying to figure me out. why are you trying to figure me out? i'm already a trillion steps ahead of you. ♪ >> reporter: his most valuable skill may be bringing people together. his songs are all-star collaborations, and he's been making hits for over a decade. >> all i do is win, ross, t-pain, snoop dogg and ludicrew ludacris. it's going to be a national anthem forever. >> reporter: the 44-year-old calls himself the quincy jones of hip-hop. >> the thing to be a great collaborator is let everybody know the eagles got to leave the room for that moment and let's come together and make the most incredible collaboration ever. and people that work khaled know
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i'm going to hit a home run. >> how is he able to bring these all-star collaborations together? >> well, i think he has proven himself. people like being around him, and his energy is very contagious, and it makes you excited about whatever he is doing. >> reporter: one of those all-stars r&b singer john legend. ♪ >> i think he has defied gravity. he is a great example of someone that guess out there, and he is his biggest cheerleader. he goes out and there anderson says you need to hear this. you need to pay attention to what i'm doing because what i'm doing is special. >> reporter: their latest collaboration is "higher" with the rapper nipsey russell. the song is nominated for a grammy award, but it's a bittersweet momentum. ♪ we keep going higher, higher >> reporter: nipsey hussle was murdered in front of his clothing store just daying after
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filming this video. he was 33 years old. >> he was so powerful because he came back. he invested in the community. he built things that were lasting. no matter how young we lost him, those things are going to survive. ♪ keep going higher >> reporter: born khaled mohammed khaled, the son of palestinian immigrants, he says his parents supported his obsession with music, as long as they didn't have to hear it. >> they just told me be loud music all day, yo, we're going to give you the garage, you know what i'm saying? they gave me the garage, and i ended up making the garage and started decorating like a studio. >> you mentioned both your parents are from palestine, and you had a different background than maybe some of the other people in the world of hip-hop. was that something as an obstacle or something people talked about?
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>> nah. i've always been embraced with love from my background and where i'm from. again, i only keep myself around love. any time it doesn't feel like love, i'm out. >> reporter: he dropped out of high school and focused on music full-time. he was his own best hype man, passing out flyers and cds. >> a lot of people me no, i could never make an album, told me no, i could never be a dj, told me i could never be a ceo. >> reporter: in the 90s, he worked as a dj at a hip-hop station in miami. he built a big local following and got a national record deal. but it wasn't until he discovered social media that he moved front and center. >> get up, be great. be great. >> and i was just being me. and the world embraced it. it went viral with love. >> right. >> fan love worldwide, fan love worldwide. >> fan love. >> fan love is the most incredible thing ever.
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just the love they show me and the love i show them back. that's what it's about, supporting each other. >> reporter: in fact, hours after our interview, he took to social media to announce his latest collaboration. he and his wife nicole welcomed their second child, a baby boy. ♪ ♪ don't you know girl i am the one for you ♪ >> reporter: no matter what happens tonight at the grammys, dj khaled is confident that his rise to the top isn't over yet. do you ever think well why me? why did i make it? >> i work hard. i'm note stopping, and i'm great. >> reporter: this confidence thing, is this a 24/7 thing, or are there moments every once in a while where you think about failure, where it's a little harder to be confident? >> i don't like using the word failure. i think it's just part of your
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journey for the win. i'm living my dream. i'm living everything i said i was going to do, you
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roughly 20% of american service members who serve overseas return home with ptsd. carter evans brings us the story of one program that hooks these veterans up with animals who are also suffering. >> reporter: feeding time can create a frenzy. >> toss them their food. >> reporter: all of these animals were rescued along orange county's coastline and brought here to the pacific marine mammal center. some sea lions are sick, some injured. >> put that right up here. >> crinkle came to was a broken flipper. >> reporter: coby, a former marine leads the course. he has been diagnosed with ptsd. and that's helped him empathize with wounded animals like this sea lion named zion. >> zion was very badly entangled
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and pinned down against a buoy. i saw a lot of me in zion. zion thought he was doing just fine. he was going figure it out on his own, right. and it's not until someone helps you that you realize how badly you needed the help. >> look at him go, oh, my gosh. >> reporter: veterans lisa stein and erica discovered the program while searching for help for ptsd. >> a lot of time when you get out, especially if you have ptsd, you're lost. you're nervous in crowds. you have nightmares. you can't talk to anybody. that's a lot like these animals. they have no voice. >> reporter: like the military, not all the work here is glamorous, but these vets agree, caring for the animals has a calming effect. >> it clears your mind. because all you're doing is thinking of looking at their eyes and their whiskers and the little flippers. >> reporter: the marine mammal center has rescued more than 180 animals this year, and some require surgery. >> i'm going clamp off the tube. >> reporter: veteran naomi watched as a critically ill seal
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was tube-fed. seeing an animal fighting for life triggered memories. >> evebody was scared. i know for me, it was my emotions. i couldn't contr my emotions. >> reporter: but each found strength working alongside other veterans, and bonds formed, just like the sea lions. >> they can feel like a team again and they can feel like they're doing something positive. >> that was so much fun. >> it's incredible, isn't it? >> so sweet. >> they can look in their eyes and they can understand that the animal has struggled too. and the animal is not broken because it needed help. >> reporter: when the animals recover, the vets are invited to witness their return home. and like battle buddies in the military, they're released with a friend to help them find their way. >> it was very emotional, because they were on to another chapter, and i felt like that's what i was dealing with, on to another chapter. >> go! >> reporter: it's just like you learned in the military. sometimes you're going to have to crawl along under the barbed wire, and that's just what you have to do until you find
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yourself getting that stride of service back. >> reporter: it's a new ission for these veterans, helping sea life to heal, a it's tuesday, january 28th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." crash investigation. new details about the helicopter crash that killed kobe bryant and eight others as authorities reveal the final actions of the pilot. rising pressure for witnesses. damaging allegations and a forthcoming book by john bolton could bolster the call for fresh testimony in the impeachment trial as president trump's team wraps up its opening arguments today. coronavirus deaths climb with new cases reported in china and around the world, there's a and around the world, there's a new warning for americans. captioning funded by cbs
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