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that effort. few people realize that the green berets' traditional role is to train foreign armies, the only arm of the military designed especially for this purpose. they're known as "the quiet professionals," because they work mostly in secret, unnoticed and unrecognized-- among the best soldiers america has. right now, across afghanistan, green beret teams are trying to turn afghan commandos into the country's best fighters so they can eventually do it on their own. but they still have a long way to go. how far? that's what we'll show you tonight. "60 minutes" was given unprecedented access to a team of green berets, o.d.a. 7215. for two and a half months, our team lived with them, trained with them, and went to battle with them. for the most part, these "quiet professionals" are camera shy joes who let their expertise do their talking.

>> martin: we're definitely not rambo, you know? he was a green beret. that's not us at all. >> logan: martin is six foot, one, and 220 pounds. he can bench-press almost twice his body weight. and there are 11 other guys just like him on this special forces team, tasked with tracking down enemy leaders all across southern afghanistan. to film them, we had to agree to only use first names and help conceal their identities with sunglasses. soldiers often say, "i'm doing my job." is that what this is to you, is it a job? >> martin: there are miserable times where you kind of look at yourself and you're like, "what?" you know, "why am i running towards the gunfire?" but then there are times where, you know, i just couldn't see myself doing anything else. >> logan: is it who you are? >> martin: i think so. just as much as people find their calling as artists or musicians or lawyers. >> logan: unlike regular

soldiers, these men are allowed to grow beards, a mark of respect amongst the locals. their uniforms, without name tags or rank, tell you as little as possible about who they are, and they like it that way. >> let's do it again. >> logan: when they're not fighting, this is their focus-- transforming foreign soldiers into a formidable fighting force. the team's job is to leave afghanistan with a corps of their own special operations forces, the best of the best. >> we just have to get to the mission in one piece. >> logan: but the green berets are starting from zero; many of these afghan soldiers can't even read or write. about 100 of them pass through here every six weeks. much of their training comes not from drills like this, but from the front line. this was an all-night raid into a village used as a base by taliban fighters. and it went badly wrong. martin has just been shot. >> all i am seeing is blood on this one leg right here.

>> if you start losing feeling, dude, let us know. >> logan: two bullets from a machine gun ripped through his legs. but the worst part-- he's been hit by accident by one of the afghan soldiers. >> martin: i didn't realize at first. i thought we had stepped on a... a pressure plate. >> logan: a pressure plate mine? >> martin: yeah, an i.e.d. i wasn't sure my leg was going to be there when i looked down. >> logan: what happened? >> martin: well, you go to stand up, and it doesn't want to move because it's still in shock. like, it spasmed. then, you become aware of the burning sensations that's on the back of it. >> logan: is that burning sensation you described commonly known as "pain"? >> martin: yeah. yeah. that... it's only pain when you acknowledge it. there's work that has to be done. you don't have the luxury of self-pity. >> logan: martin refused to take morphine so he could treat himself. he's a special forces medic, trained in advanced combat medicine. he made it out and had surgery the next day. in less than 24 hours, martin was back with his unit. is it fair to say the last thing

you expected was to get shot by, you know, one of your own guys, one of the afghans that you'd been training? >> martin: that's... that's fair, yeah. >> bill: we were very angry. >> logan: bill is 29-years-old and just became a father. he's one of the team's top snipers, and before enlisting, he managed a sales team at a marketing firm. >> bill: you're angry at the individual because it's something that could've been prevented, you know. and then you're angry at yourself because we're training them, so that means we failed, at some point. >> logan: is it hard to go back with the same sense of commitment? put that anger aside? >> bill: at the end of the day, our job is not to be angry at them; our job's to make sure it never happens again, and to get them ready to go back out in the fight. >> logan: but the very next time they went back into the fight, it happened again. this time, another afghan soldier shot himself in the foot. how would you rate the afghan commandos that you've been working with? >> martin: on average,

they're... they're an organization that has a lot of potential. >> logan: when i hear words like "potential," that's usually a giveaway. that's like they're a long way from where they need to be. >> martin: no, they train hard, they work well. there's large cultural differences that we struggle with, you know, in terms of developing training for the individuals. >> logan: they also shot you in the leg. >> martin: right. yeah. >> logan: after the two accidental shootings, the green berets had to go back to basics, retraining the afghan soldiers on the fundamentals... >> first thing to do is your going to switch the weapon from "fire" to "safe". >> logan: ... like how to safely hold your gun, and even how to load it. >> you need to pay attention to whatever the ( bleep ) you're doing. >> logan: when they struggled even with that... >> put the ( bleep ) weapon on the ground, now! >> logan: ... it was weapons down, and back to boot camp. >> lay down. get down. now!

>> logan: these are supposed to be specialized soldiers. formed from afghanistan's regular army, they've already had three months of advanced training before arriving here. >> kick your ( bleep ) legs. one, two. don't ( bleep ) laugh. don't even ( bleep ) smile right now. >> logan: the team is hard on the afghans, and they have to be. >> you will keep going until he says to stop. >> logan: the missions they go on are complicated and dangerous. the battles fought mostly at night. the commandos and green berets use beams of invisible light from lasers mounted on their rifles-- seen here through a night vision lens-- to pinpoint enemy positions in complete darkness. that's an advantage on missions like this one, where they surprised a taliban commander and his guards in the dead of night. ( gunfire ) what you're hearing are american 40mm rounds fired from ac-130 gunships flying overhead, slamming into taliban targets as

they tried to flee the attack. when daylight came, they found taliban casualties almost on top of their positions. this fighter was wounded, his loaded ak-47 assault rifle next to him. he died before he could be evacuated for treatment. about an hour later, the taliban who had fled their compound in the night launched a counter- attack. >> everybody should be on a wall right now, or in a window. >> martin: at that point, you're moving all your security elements into positions where they can see and engage the enemy. we become fighter/managers of personnel of the afghani commandos. we're making sure they're positively identifying targets. what are you shooting at? >> logan: in the exchange of fire... ( explosions )

... a rocket-propelled grenade almost hit martin, and an afghan soldier was shot. >> bill: one of our commando machine gunners took a round through the throat, and... and he died instantly. i was pissed off. it's a really personal thing when another guy's trying to kill you. >> logan: the taliban continued their attack until u.s. f-16 jets were called in to silence them. we were later told nine taliban fighters were killed, and the enemy commander had escaped. the teams waited for darkness before moving out, the body of the afghan soldier carried by his comrades. the mission is so intense that, even on down days, some soldiers train to relieve their stress. brent, a soft-spoken staff sergeant from tennessee, took us with him to the shooting range. what were you doing before you joined the military? >> brent: i was parking cars, trying to find a job. >> logan: so, you went from parking cars to being a green beret? >> brent: ( laughs ) yeah. ( laughs )

weird. >> logan: brent makes it sound like it's easy to become a green beret, but the truth is, there's nothing easy about it. it takes almost two years of intense training, where intellect counts as much as tactical skill and physical endurance. brent is a serious soldier, who stresses restraint over force. >> brent: it does take, you know, a mentally tough guy to... to be able to calm himself down and think within those split seconds, "do i shoot or not?" you shoot when you have a target in sight; you just don't pick up and shoot. >> logan: but it's not always that simple, as we found out when we were with brent on a rare daylight operation to capture a senior taliban commander. to protect his team inside the village from attack, brent's job was to stop anyone using the main road. he had just one afghan soldier with him. brent was setting up a checkpoint when his demeanor suddenly changed. what you can't see is the truck of military-aged men fast

approaching that brent could see through the scope on his rifle. >> brent: i grabbed my weapon and... and i lost the vehicle for, you know, probably another split-second in the vegetation. by the time i saw it again, it was still moving fast and it was about 50 meters from me. ( gunfire ) >> logan: brent fired two bullets, that he later told us were warning shots. >> brent: there's a million things that were going through my head, you know, just a million things. and each thought was... was "it's a threat. it's a threat." >> logan: he feared a taliban attack or suicide bombing. then, another problem-- a motorcycle, coming up fast. >> brent: motorcycle approaching. >> logan: here, motorbikes often carry enemy spotters, and brent was taking no chances. >> brent: get off your bike! get off your bike! >> logan: from behind him, the sound of crying. brent turned around, lowering

his weapon as it dawned on him something terrible had happened. in the back of the truck, two young boys sat moaning, blood seeping through their clothes. the one, just 12 years old, was hit in the leg. the other, age 13, had taken a round to the chest. brent had hit the very people he was in afghanistan to protect. he believes the shots ricocheted off the road. >> brent: i really do not want to be involved with a kid's death. you can live with shooting guy that are shooting at you and them dying, but then there's a line where it's a kid, you know, or it's an innocent person. >> logan: the team's medics had to stop the 13-year-old's lungs collapsing from the air seeping into his chest cavity. the boys were quickly evacuated, and even though both survived, the incident still weighed heavily on brent.

>> brent: i never once aimed at... at the... those two kids. i wasn't even meaning to... to shoot anybody; i was meaning to stop the vehicle. >> logan: this is exactly the kind of incident that wears out america's welcome in afghanistan. but the green berets believe their afghan partners are not yet ready to operate on their own, especially against an enemy that's stronger than ever. >> bill: i absolutely believe we need to stay here and see it through. >> logan: what does seeing it through mean? i mean, what is the end state? >> bill: the end state is them saying, "okay, thanks. we don't need you anymore," you know. "we appreciate the help, but we've got it now." >> cbs moneywatch update. >> good evening, toyota will shut five north american plants this week as it races to fix an accelerator

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>> simon: when snowboarder shaun white won a gold medal at the last winter olympics in italy, he was nicknamed "il pomodoro volante"-- "the flying tomato-- for his aerial acrobatics and his fiery mane of red hair. he's since become one of the most recognizable redheads since lucy, and a veritable rock star in the world of action sports, a white hot virtuoso on a snowboard who, at the age of 23, commands a multi-million dollar empire. now, all eyes are on shaun white to bring home the gold again this coming month in vancouver, and he gave us a sneak preview of a trick he thinks will help

him win. to see it, he took us to his very own top-secret training facility, hidden high-- very high-- in colorado's rugged back country. >> shaun white: here's our ride. >> simon: the only way to get there? i think we're about to get sprayed by snow. helicopter. >> are we ready for take-off? >> white: not a bad way to travel. >> simon: not bad at all. the scenery was breathtaking. boy, oh, boy. then, at about 12,000 feet, just over a tree line... is that it down there? >> white: that's it. >> simon: there it was-- what shaun white had been keeping under wraps. >> white: what do you think? >> simon: wow. carved right into the mountain, this 500-foot-long snowboarding super pipe built by one of his sponsors, red bull. how many other snowboarders do you share this with? >> white: just me. >> simon: this is shaun's pipe.

we touched down, he geared up and hitched a ride to the very top. >> white: woo. >> simon: this is why shaun white is here-- this super pipe in the snow. but why would anyone want one of these planted right in the middle of some of the worst avalanche country in america? only someone as driven and determined as shaun white; driven to develop new snowboarding techniques, which are way over my head, but which he hopes will win him gold at the olympics. >> white: yeah! >> simon: for two months, with his own camera team in tow, shaun white taught himself a dizzying array of moves. first, to avoid injury, he tried them out in this foam pit. >> white: that one felt great. >> simon: and then, on the unforgiving 22-foot-high walls of his half pipe. the pay-off?

this new trick-- two flips, three spins, all at once-- daring, difficult and, until then, undoable. >> white: i'm freaking out. >> simon: are you scared when you do a trick like that? >> white: i'm a little nervous. i mean, you can throw the same things into the foam pit as much as you want, but at a certain point, you still have to get that kind of gall to throw it onto the actual wall of the half pipe. >> simon: shaun's landings weren't always soft... or perfect. his composure wasn't, either. but that's one of the perks of training in the middle of the wilderness. why didn't you build a pipe or use a pipe in a... >> white: normal... >> simon: ...civilized place like vail or aspen or... >> white: you know, it's just a really competitive sport and... and, you know, to keep your tricks private and to keep them a surprise, and show up and do something new that's kind of going to blow some people away would be really nice. >> simon: that's exactly what he's been doing these past few

weeks in competition-- adding height, rotation and inspiration to every trick, throwing down the gauntlet to any snowboarder who wants to take him on in vancouver. >> simon: how would you assess your chances for the olympics this year? >> white: i think my chances are pretty good. i'm not going to lie. >> simon: will you be disappointed if you get anything less than gold? >> white: i'm really disappointed at every event if i don't do what i wanted to do, so, yeah, i think so... >> simon: silver's a nice color. >> white: it is nice. >> simon: but not for shaun. >> white: yeah, i guess so. my beast of burden there. ( cheers ) >> simon: a burden perhaps... >> put your hands together for shaun white. >> simon: but his competitive drive has earned him the kind of fame and fortune... >> shaun white. >> simon: ... usually reserved for big-time athletes in far more mainstream sports. >> please sign my head. >> simon: it's not at all what cathy and roger white were going for when they took their six- year-old son off skis and put

him on a snowboard. >> cathy white: he was crazy on skis. and so i thought, "well, we'll put him on a snowboard and he'll fall all the time, and i won't have to worry about trying to dig him out of trees," so... >> simon: snowboard was a safety measure? >> cathy white: it was my safety measure. >> simon: she had every reason to be protective-- as a baby, shaun had undergone major surgery to repair a life- threatening defect of his heart. >> shaun white: i've just had this fight since i can't even remember. >> simon: it soon became clear he would be unstoppable. by the age of seven, shaun was winning competitions and landed his first sponsor, burton snowboards. >> shaun white: and it wasn't because i was awesome or anything; it was just because... >> simon: no. because what? >> shaun white: i was kind of awesome; i don't want to lie. ( laughs ) >> simon: but snowboarding took a lot of time and money. back then, cathy and roger white didn't have much of either. still, they managed to take their three kids from their home near san diego to the mountains, where shaun could compete. they traveled and slept in this old camper van. what was it like when your van

pulled up to a resort? >> shaun white: i don't think we were always welcome. we were pretty dirty to be in aspen and stuff. they're like, "you can't park that here." the propane heater would break down in the middle of the night, and we're all sitting in there. and i think those are the times that make me appreciate what i have. >> simon: like when he was a teenager, and won more money in one contest in japan than his parents earned in an entire year. >> shaun white: and i was sitting there, just eyeballs like this, looking at this pile of money. >> simon: how did that make you feel? >> shaun white: i remember thinking that i'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to, like, have them go to work anymore. because i'd way rather spend more time with them. >> simon: he could do that when he was home in the off-season, as his star was rising in another sport, skateboarding, which he learned here at his local ymca, and where he still practices today. >> shaun white: even though i'm not on my snowboard, i'm still doing the same motions and pumping and pushing, and looking

about where i want to do my airs and my tricks. and it's definitely like a kind of cross training, i guess. >> simon: it may have improved his snowboarding, but back in 1997, as his parents recalled, skateboarding nearly ended it all. >> cathy white: it was the worst thing in our lives, i think it was. >> simon: shaun was 11 and performing at this exhibition with a skateboarder twice his age and almost twice his size. >> cathy white: shaun lost his timing and came in and they just hit. >> whoa. >> cathy white: shaun was just limp. he was out for quite a while. >> simon: and what did you do? >> cathy white: i launched over an eight-foot fence, was it? >> roger white: six-, eight-foot chain link fence. >> cathy white: we both flew over it. >> roger white: and suddenly found ourselves on the ramp with him. shaun, are you all right? it's your dad. shaun? >> cathy white: it was the scariest moment in my life. i thought we lost him. >> simon: shaun suffered a fractured skull and broken bones, and told his mother he wanted to call it quits. >> cathy white: i think, deep

down, he was afraid. but i kept taking him to the y. >> simon: you kept taking him to the y? >> cathy white: yeah. >> simon: you didn't lock him up in a room? >> cathy white: god, no. >> shaun white: and i'm like, "i hate you," and i ended up learning a new trick because i stayed, and it just exploded from there. >> simon: the kid who says he was built for the board grew up to dominate two professional sports... ( cheers and applause ) far away from the snow, on the southern california coast, where he owns this house... i see there are some trophies up there. ... the spoils of victory were literally everywhere. >> shaun white: espy awards that are up at the top. this is x games summer. there's one right there. >> simon: there's a whole bunch of stuff in there. >> shaun white: these monkeys are actually awards. >> simon: and you've got a few... a few in your fireplace. >> shaun white: yeah. ( laughs ) >> simon: are you using them for kindling? >> shaun white: no. i just kind of ran out of room. this is, basically, the big one. >> simon: the big one-- the olympic gold from 2006. this must be the best medal you've ever gotten, huh? >> shaun white: for sure. >> simon: especially because

shaun white came so close to not getting any medal at all. >> fast track to the finals. >> wow. >> shaun white: i fell in my qualifying run. >> oh. shaun white catches the deck. >> shaun white: and i was playing it pretty cool until my brother came up, like, "you know what you just did? like, you messed up big." you know, like, "oh, gosh." >> simon: is that what you said, "oh, gosh"? >> shaun white: i probably uttered some things... i don't know, i think, in times where i'm really nervous and i'm really under the pressure, the worst possible outcome is for me to start thinking about it. i just do. >> simon: he delivered a clutch performance that has become his trademark, and won the gold. ♪ i saw the film of you being awarded the medal. >> shaun white: oh, yeah. >> simon: and you look pretty moved, huh? >> shaun white: yeah, it was just a heavy moment. i mean, your... your whole family's sitting there, and it's just like so overwhelming. >> simon: he wasn't crying for long. what's under the tarp?

the money started pouring in. it says "lam-bor-ghini." >> shaun white: lamborghini. >> simon: and he went shopping. wow. >> shaun white: i kind of went for it after the olympics. i'm not going to lie. i wanted the house and a sports car. >> simon: this is actually shaun's second lamborghini. the first? >> shaun white: i crashed it. >> simon: i heard that you wrapped it around a tree. >> shaun white: there might have been a tree that went down in the neighborhood. >> simon: you going to take me for a spin? >> shaun white: you want to go for a spin? >> simon: absolutely, but you're not going to wrap it around a tree? >> shaun white: i will not put us in a tree, hopefully. >> simon: decent acceleration. >> shaun white: my mom's terrified of this car. >> simon: lamborghini is not a car that mothers like. >> white: ( laughs ) >> simon: maybe not, but his popularity with kids in america has attracted corporate america to shaun white. you know, with a nickname like "the flying tomato," you could have ended up on a bottle of ketchup. >> shaun white: don't think i wasn't pitched. >> simon: but it was a proposal?

>> shaun white: it was a proposal. >> simon: today, at 23, he is carefully building himself a business empire, and insists on a hands-on role... >> shaun white: there we go. >> simon: ...in any deal he makes. he helped develop his very own best-selling video game, and designed a line of street wear for the mass retailer target. all together, shaun white makes around $10 million a year. but his success hasn't always played well back in the half pipe. some competitors who haven't achieved the fame and the fortune that you have, one of them said, "he's just got his self and he's in his own world, and he's doing his thing. but we all have each other. it's really kind of sad." >> shaun white: i definitely found it a bit lonely, sometimes. and i don't think you can have really good friends that you go and compete when... with and...

and you, you know, beat them at the hill in the competition, you're buddy, buddy when you get down from the hill. i mean, i couldn't do it. i totally understand. i mean, if... if you and i were competing on the hill, i don't think i'd want to hang out with you afterward while you're shining your medal or something. that would be a bummer. >> simon: shaun white may be as fierce a competitor as there is going into the olympics... >> switchback 900! >> into two 1080s! >> simon: but you'd never know it by looking at him. what you'd see is a kid full of spunk and grace, enjoying the ride-- in the snow, and up in the air, soaring above it all. >> shaun white: there's just this amazing moment where you're not going up anymore, but you're not coming down. it's just like this floating. and i... i've gotten comfortable enough to be able to look around. and it's... it's like flying. you're just flying. yeah, it's just the best feeling. >> simon: it's the world according to shaun. >> shaun white: it's not bad. i come down once in a while. i try to stay up. are you taking a statin medication to lower your

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>> kroft: her full name is beyonce knowles, but she is known far and wide simply as beyonce. the important thing is that you don't confuse her with what seems to be a gaggle of one-name pop stars.

she is one of the most famous women in the world now, and the foundation of that celebrity is not based on tabloid hype. it's based on raw talent. she is the real deal. at age 28, she has already spent half of her life in show business, and is well on her way to becoming the judy garland or barbra streisand of her generation. a singer, dancer, actress who has sold 118 million records, appeared in seven movies, won ten grammy awards, and is up for another ten tonight. and as we found out when we met up with her in dublin, on the final stop of a grueling nine- month tour, beyonce is just beginning to hit her stride. all you need to do is watch. >> beyonce: ♪ all the single ladies ♪ all the single ladies ♪ all the single ladies all the single ladies ♪ all the single ladies all the single ladies ♪ all the single ladies now put your hands up ♪ up in the club we just broke up ♪ i'm doing my own little thing ♪ decided to dip but now you wanna trip ♪ 'cause another brother noticed

me... ♪ >> kroft: she's a polished product that has been years in the making; a fiercely talented performer with a million kilowatts of energy; and a role model who has been strong enough to strut around all the usual pitfalls of fame. ♪ >> beyonce: i am definitely someone that analyzes everything. and i made the decision at a very young age to not do certain things. >> kroft: no drugs, no eating disorders, no bad relationships. no breakdowns due to overwhelming pressure. well... it takes a certain amount of... >> beyonce: yeah, it takes... >> kroft: ... discipline, i guess. >> beyonce: it takes discipline and it takes focus, and i think i'm very fortunate that i've had a gradual success. it's not something that happened in one day. it's something that i've worked at and worked at. ♪ i am beyonce and i'm in the groove... ♪ >> kroft: it's a career that began literally in grade school. beyonce knowles was raised in an

upscale houston neighborhood by her father matthew-- a sales executive who would become her manager-- and by her mother tina, beyonce's creative muse, who owned one of the most popular hair salons in houston. it became one of her daughter's first venues. >> beyonce: ♪ shake it, beyonce uh-uh ♪ to the left, to the right... >> kroft: you've been doing this since you were nine-years old. >> beyonce: that's when i started performing at wal-marts and... ( laughs ) and, you know, wherever we could perform. we didn't become professional until we got a record deal around 12-years old. >> kroft: so, who wanted to do this, you or your parents? >> beyonce: absolutely me. once i saw the jackson five and michael jackson, i'm like, "oh, my god." the second i got on the stage, i just opened up and i became this whole other person on the stage. and i wanted to do it every day all day. >> kroft: with her best friend, kelly rowland, and two other pals from houston, they began winning talent contests.

by the time they were 16, the quartet had morphed into destiny's child, one of the most successful pop groups of the 90s. ♪ home schooled, under-aged, and traveling with her parents on the road, beyonce skipped the boys and the after-parties, and passed the time on the tour bus with the other girls reading the bible. >> beyonce: we were nice ladies. i mean, i'm not sang that we were perfect teenagers. but, we were... we were raised well and, honestly, we were too busy to... trying to be superstars. we didn't even have time to think about it, honestly. lord god, we thank you for this day. >> kroft: there's still a prayer before every show. but since beyonce began her own solo career eight years ago, a lot of things have changed. she has a successful clothing line with her mother, lucrative cosmetics deals with l'oreal and coty, and an estimated income last year of more than $80 million.

she has graced the cover of more than 200 magazines. and that shy girl from houston who was a late bloomer in terms of her own sexuality has obviously been a quick study, and parts of her show would make a preacher blush. ♪ you have a really sort of clean- cut, wholesome reputation. and then, out there on the stage, you're a seductress. >> beyonce: okay. thanks. ( laughs ) i'll take that. >> kroft: you're seducing the audience. >> beyonce: really, i don't think about it too much. i'm just free, and i can express my sensuality. i can express my pain, vulnerability, my strength, all of those things. >> kroft: where did you learn all that stuff? >> beyonce: well, just because i had a sheltered upbringing doesn't mean i haven't been a woman. i'm a woman that has had life experiences. ( laughs ) >> kroft: she is also a married

woman now-- which we'll get to in a minute-- and a worldly one, having seen most of it several times over. this last tour took her to 12 countries and 66 cities for 110 performances, including six sold-out concerts in dublin. >> beyonce: so, that's a huge, huge accomplishment for me, especially being an african- american singer. there's not many of us that can sell out these venues. ♪ >> kroft: but her crossover appeal is by no means limited to white audiences. the reception was the same in japan and korea, in india, and even the middle east. >> beyonce: when i was in egypt, i was riding in the cars, and i had the window just down to here, so i could look outside and see this beautiful place. and everyone was recognizing this. and i'm like, "oh, my god, this is crazy. in egypt?" and it's just... music is so powerful, you know? there were women in burkas full out, singing, ♪ "to the left, to

the left." ♪ to the left, to the left... >> kroft: her fan base is largely women. they are drawn to her songs about everyday problems like boyfriends and breakups, and she is both a messenger and symbol of female empowerment-- glamorous, sexy, willful and strong. ♪ ♪ >> beyonce: these two hours on the stage every day is what i was born to do. it's why i'm here. ♪ >> kroft: while her career is still managed by her father, beyonce is the steam that drives the engine of this huge enterprise: 18 truckloads of gear, a family of 150 employees, many of them who have been with

her for nearly a decade and a few since she was 12. the production costs on the road are more than a million dollars a week. that's a lot of responsibility for... >> beyonce: for one woman. >> kroft: ... for one woman. >> beyonce: it is. but, you know, i... i put a lot into this show. i don't... i don't give half of anything, i give 100%. and it has to work every night. so... and when it doesn't... ( laughs ) when it doesn't, i'm not too happy. >> kroft: you're not too happy? >> beyonce: no, no. it just doesn't feel like what i want it to feel like. it's difficult, at times, because i am really critical. i have to be boss at one moment, and then the next moment, i'm, you know, me. >> kroft: have you always been a type-a personality? >> beyonce: i think so. yes. i'm absolutely... >> kroft: assertive. >> beyonce: very assertive. >> kroft: you got the last word. >> beyonce: the first and the last. ( laughs ) >> kroft: she says her top

priority is to make sure that the concert audience always gets its money's worth, even if it means putting herself at some personal risk. >> beyonce: the first time i was on that trapeze, i was a little afraid, like, "am i really going to do this every night?" but i feel safe now. some nights, i do two or three spins, and some nights, i do 20 spins, depending on how adventurous i'm feeling. >> kroft: but perhaps the most dangerous thing she does is to perform all those dance routines in five-inch stiletto heels. this rehearsal was shot by her private videographer, who records many of her off-stage activities for documentaries and dvds. she is very much the custodian of her own image, and this allows her to guard her privacy, keep outside camera crews and paparazzi at a distance, and control content for her own commercial use. she is particularly protective of her relationship with her husband, hip hop superstar jay- z.

this short backstage clip was provided to us, but you are more likely to see bigfoot than either of them sitting down to discuss their marriage. we gave it a try, but we couldn't even get her to mention his name. who's the most important person in your life? >> beyonce: it's not just one person. but, i guess, it should be me. it should be me. just start with me. >> kroft: is your husband comfortable living with somebody as competitive and as ambitious as you are? >> beyonce: i... you're going to have to ask my husband, but i think so. i'm not... i'm competitive, really, with myself. i'm not a competitive person that walks in thinking about other people and how i can compete with them, or especially not my husband. not at all. >> kroft: do you talk shop? >> beyonce: do i talk shop with my husband? what does... what does he mean? >> kroft: talk about the business, talk about performing. >> beyonce: we talk about everything. ( laughs ) >> kroft: one last question. >> beyonce: okay, is it about...? >> kroft: who has the bigger ego?

>> i don't know. we don't really have egos. it's not about ego. i think it's appropriate for the stage. it's appropriate for certain moments, but egos are not attractive. ♪ >> kroft: we didn't see any evidence of hers in dublin. when it came to evaluating her own talents and future prospects, she was remarkably humble. >> beyonce: what i love the most is singing. if i had to say, "okay, if you couldn't dance, if you couldn't do a movie, if you couldn't..." and i'd probably just stand there and sing, if i had to choose. ♪ >> kroft: you get the sense that, whatever happens to musical styles and tastes, beyonce will adapt. she has the ability to take a blues classic like "at last" and make it her own. ♪

♪ before she sang it to the obamas at the inaugural ball for their first dance in the white house, she'd sung it in the film "cadillac records", in a role she put on 20 pounds for to portray the tortured, drug- addicted etta james, who made the song famous. her performance won her the best reviews of her young movie career that's ranged from a comedy turn in "austin powers' goldmember" to a leading role in "dreamgirls". ♪ she says she wants to try and model her career after one of her idols, barbra streisand, another singer turned actress and director. >> beyonce: i know that she does everything, and i know that it's all barbra streisand. it's not someone that's telling her what to do, what to wear, what to sing-- it's her. and i respect those types of artists. >> kroft: is it true that you

run on a treadmill with a big picture of a... of an academy award in front of it? >> beyonce: i do. but it's not right in front of the treadmill, it's over in the corner somewhere. just so it's in the back of my mind. >> kroft: not quite the back, i'll bet. i bet it's a little closer than the very back of your mind. >> beyonce: well, it's getting closer. >> kroft: where does all this ambition come from? >> beyonce: i don't know. i always wonder myself, "what am i trying to prove?" like, "what is this?" ( laughs ) i think it's just, when i start something, i want to do it all the way. ♪ ♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> welcome to the cbs sports cup date. here in the final rounds of the farmer he insurance open at tory pines vin crane shot a final round 70 to win by

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>> kroft: now, a few minutes with andy rooney. >> my father was in japan on business in 1923 when one of the worst earthquakes that the world has ever known struck there, killing more than 140,000 people. fortunately for my father, he was staying at the imperial hotel in tokyo, which had been designed by the great architect, frank lloyd wright. the imperial sustained some shock damage but remained standing, because wright had

seen that it was built to withstand earthquakes. when dad got home, i remember how he described what it felt like. he said he sat drinking a cup of tea-- he said it was tea-- in the hotel when the tea began to ripple like a lake. then, the building began to sway. years later, when i was old enough, dad brought out an old box of pictures he'd taken in japan. the pictures showed whole blocks that were flattened. broken buildings and dead people were everywhere. the pictures, then, were incredibly gruesome. i thought i knew more about earthquakes than the other kids on the block because i had seen my father's pictures. a lot of time passed before the subject of the earthquake came up in conversation with my mother. she told me she had burned dad's pictures, because she felt that the world would be a better place if you could keep from thinking about the worst things that happen in it. mom was like that. as i read and watched all the

coverage in the newspapers and on television of the catastrophe in haiti, i was reminded of dad's box of pictures from japan. it doesn't seem as though so big an earthquake as happened in haiti could happen here, but i suppose it didn't seem to the japanese as though it could happen there, either. it's not easy to envision new york-- or anywhere else, for that matter-- after an earthquake. i'd be more worried about my friends and family than the buildings. people are harder to replace. an earthquake is one of the few things that happen in our world that give us any sign that life here may be temporary. >> kroft: i'm steve kroft. the super bowl is on cbs next sunday night, so we'll be back in two weeks with another edition of "60 minutes." [ mom ] my family and i love game time.

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