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>> stahl: kathryn bigelow directed what critics say is the best war movie made in years. and while it was weak at the box office, "the hurt locker" beat out "avatar," the year's biggest movie, by james cameron. incredible that the two films were made by people who were married to each other. >> you couldn't have scripted it. >> stahl: no. >> simon: he was as big as it gets going into the vancouver olympics. he was expected to bring home gold. >> yeah! >> simon: no worries, the snowboarder shaun white, who developed new tricks at his very own top-secret half-pipe... and invited "60 minutes" to come along. this is shaun's pipe. >> whoo! >> i'm steve kroft. >> i'm leslie stahl. >> i'm bob simon. >> i'm morley safer.

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this past winter, in the aftermath of the quake, we spent six weeks around port-au-prince with an american charity called the global orphan project. we found an emergency that was still unfolding as rescue workers raced the clock to save the lost children of haiti. ten weeks after, haitians walked an apocalyptic landscape. many couldn't be certain of food or shelter. and for families with missing loved ones, it was impossible to know who was living and who was dead. survivors raised urban campsites of sticks and cloth and plastic. it was crowded. water and sanitation were poor. when we arrived in january, the good samaritan orphanage outside port-au-prince was overwhelmed. even before the earthquake, orphanages like this were common, because desperate families often feel forced to abandon their children to the care of others.

but, now, new arrivals were pouring in. we found moise vaval and joe knittig of the global orphan project as they rushed food and tents to desperate orphanages. >> joe knittig: one of them, when we showed up the first time, had one cup of flour, and the children were asking their pastor, the caretaker, whether they were going to die. >> pelley: they had one container of flour for how many? >> knittig: not a container, a cup. >> pelley: at this children's home, when the quake hit, the kids just happened to be in a prayer service under this mango tree. their building crumbled. global orphan discovered the children... >> knittig: we're really excited to have you come with us. >> pelley: ...loaded up the survivors, and checked them into an emergency camp that it's set up outside the capital. moise vaval is global orphan's country director and a haitian pastor. while he was helping hundreds of orphans, we learned that he was

also looking for his own missing son. eight-year-old jean-mark didn't come home from school after the quake. >> moise vaval: jean-mark is a lovely child, a charming guy. anybody who meets him, man or woman, you fall in love with him. >> pelley: you did something that i think is quite remarkable: you came back to work. >> vaval: we are looking for one, but there are hundreds here to care for. >> pelley: you were looking for one, your son. >> vaval: my son. >> pelley: but there were hundreds here to care for... >> vaval: ...to care for. >> pelley: vaval didn't know whether his boy was dead, injured or lost. we followed his search over the next six weeks, a search common to many thousands of haitians. how is it possible to know how many lost children there are in haiti now? >> marie de la soudiere: the answer is, we don't know. we feel it's upwards of 50,000.

>> pelley: 50,000? >> de la soudiere: yeah. >> pelley: marie de la soudiere is responsible for unicef's program to unite lost children with their families. it's a monumental task, because kids were off in school when the earthquake hit, and 5,000 schools were destroyed. it's detective work. she coaxes leads from the children-- addresses, neighborhoods, relatives that they remember. this girl, who didn't want to talk, finally did draw her family in a happier time and began to open up. >> de la soudiere: either the child is too young to remember enough or fairly traumatized, and then it takes a lot more time. but in my experience-- and i don't think it's going to be any different in this country-- 95% of the families can be found. >> pelley: 95%? you have that much hope? >> de la soudiere: oh yeah, even little ones. you just can't give up, never give up. >> pelley: when we met her, de

la soudiere's team had registered 600 kids and reunited 20 with their families. it was a small start. going forward, now, weeks after the earthquake, what worries you? >> de la soudiere: that children disappear without their parent's knowledge, that we have desperate parents looking out there every day. i get parents saying, "could you find my child," and that they end up in wretched orphanages without even knowing... anybody knowing they're there. >> pelley: we caught up with pastor vaval again in early february. it had taken weeks to gear up the registration of lost children. vaval took a break from his work at the global orphan project to go with his wife to report jean- mark as a missing person. he also returned to his son's school. this is jean-mark's school, pancaked all the way down to the ground, and these are some of the desks that the children were using when the earthquake hit.

we don't have any idea how many kids are still entombed in this building, but it is many. it is a terrible thing to contemplate, but the fact is, for thousands of haitian families, they will never know whether their children were killed, and if their children lived, they may never find out what became of them. maybe it was to keep his mind occupied, but vaval was working night and day. he traveled to neighboring islands to check on orphans... and he preached to his own congregation amid the rubble of his broken church. he told us, no matter what happened to jean-mark, his son was in the hands of god. >> vaval: i never worry about tomorrow. never. tomorrow will be good because it's in god's hands. >> pelley: the global orphan project was started by mike and beth fox of kansas city. he'd made a fortune in business, so, seven years ago, they decided to give back, with just a few orphanages.

>> mike fox: we were going to do maybe ten homes. >> pelley: how many orphanages do you have now, worldwide? >> fox: oh, 130, 140. we have 20 locations in haiti, we have several in southeast asia-- cambodia, thailand, the philippines, a couple... one in trinidad, honduras, and then the rest are in africa. >> pelley: in haiti, global orphan was already caring for more than 2,000 children before the quake. now, they were taking on more. we met 13-year-old renise in the camp. rescue workers had picked her up from the quake-ravaged streets. it's hard to believe but the quake was, to her, a blessing-- it ended a nightmare of a childhood. months before the quake, renise was raped and became pregnant. but there was more. she was also the victim of something almost unimaginable in this day and time. renise had been given away as a

child to become a household slave for another family. >> renise ( translated ): there were moments when i would just stop and cry. i cried because they made me work like a donkey. their daughter never picked up one bucket when i was there, not once. >> pelley: they didn't treat you like their daughter? >> renise ( translated ): not at all. i used to sleep on the floor. >> pelley: the daughter slept in the bed and you slept on the floor, is that right? >> renise ( translated ): yes. >> pelley: child slaves in haiti are called "restaveks," which in creole means "stays with," as in one who stays with the family but isn't part of the family. it's a grotesque tradition, especially for a country born out of a slave rebellion. but it is not illegal. the u.n. estimates that there are about 175,000 restaveks. that may sound like a huge

number, but others believe there are many more. >> jean robert cadet: if there are 300,000 or 400,000 restaveks running around in haiti, those children are me. they are who i was. >> pelley: jean robert cadet was a restavek who was given away by his father when he was four years old. the worst abuse that you suffered was what? >> cadet: the worst abuse? wow. i was beaten, i would say, almost every morning. a lot of time, it's not the beating, which is the worst abuse. i mean, you... you're a child; you get on... you get a beating, it's over. but it's when the family leaves the house, and they lock the house and leave you outside all day long without food. >> pelley: when they leave the house, they lock it up and leave you outside? >> cadet: absolutely. and they still do that today. >> pelley: now, cadet believes children left alone by the earthquake will suffer in

slavery. >> cadet: they would be absorbed into the communities as restavek. friends will pick them up, distant relative, an uncle or an aunt. yes, they will become restaveks. >> pelley: the earthquake created slaves. >> cadet: the earthquake created more slaves-- not create slaves, create more slaves. >> pelley: as a boy, cadet moved with his owners to america. eventually, they threw him out. but with a teacher's help, he managed to finish school, become a u.s. army ranger, and then a teacher himself. >> cadet: we're going to talk and i'm going to give them some options. >> pelley: these days, cadet works to free child slaves. but since keeping a restavek isn't illegal, he has to persuade owners to release the kids. >> cadet: you can tell she has scars. she is whipped severely. and you can see her face, she has scars on her face.

she said she's well. there's nothing wrong with her. >> pelley: he wasn't able to talk this woman into releasing the girl. and out of the more than 300,000 slave children in this country, you think you can make a difference, pulling them out of families, one at a time? >> cadet: you have to know, somebody made a big difference in my life. you know, somebody did. and that person was a teacher. and this man helped me get into the welfare system. he tutored me every day. he gave me a chance. and i can come here to my country to make a difference in those kids' lives. so, saving one is worth it to me. it's worth it. >> pelley: renise, the pregnant girl from the emergency camp, is one who has been saved from a life of servitude. she's planning to go back to school, and global orphan is

speaking with a haitian family about adopting her baby. by the end of our six weeks, global orphan had taken in over 400 lost kids, it rebuilt that orphanage by the mango tree that we saw earlier, and it delivered tents and food to another 15 orphanages. ça va bien? some were getting just a little bit better. ten weeks after the quake, we went back to jean-mark's school. they had brought in heavy equipment and were digging through the rubble. it was then that moise vaval was pulled away from his work at the orphan project by a call from the workers at the site. they had found a book bag that belonged to jean-mark. and not long after, his weeks of wondering came to an end. a few days later, he brought his family to his own church for the funeral service of jean-mark.

he told us the moment was a grace from god, a blessing that he was able to bury his boy in a time when so many others do not know the fate of their children. in march, that former child slave, renise, gave birth to a baby girl and named her kimberly. the adoption didn't go through, so mother and child now live together at the emergency camp. a nanny is on duty so that renise can go to school for the very first time. >> cbs money watch update sponsored by:. >> mitchell: good evening, wall street feels bullish on the economy, financial firms added almost 2,000 jobs since february. booep says its effort to put a better cap on the gushing well is paging progress but warns there is no guarantee it will succeed "dispectable

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>> stahl: kathryn bigelow is a film director who made a movie almost no one went to see about a subject, the iraq war, the hollywood studios were afraid of. and yet her film, "the hurt locker," beat out the biggest grossing movie of all time, "avatar," for best picture at the oscars, and she became the first woman ever to win for best director. bigelow, who's been making movies for more than 30 years, became known for her high- intensity action films, but none of them received as much critical acclaim as "the hurt locker." as we reported earlier this year, we met with kathryn bigelow after the oscar nominations were announced, but before the envelopes were opened. critics say that kathryn bigelow's "hurt locker" is the best war movie made in years.

and there was an irony in the fact that it was up against james cameron's "avatar." how sweet is this, to be head- to-head with your ex-husband? incredible that the two films were made by people who were married to each other. >> kathryn bigelow: you couldn't have scripted it. ( laughs ) >> stahl: no. >> james cameron: there's this whole thing that's going on where people love to... they love to create a headline-- "battle of the exes," you know, "war of the roses." we were married two decades ago for a brief period of time, and we've been friends and collaborators since. >> stahl: as we talked about this with bigelow at a ranch where she escapes from the hoopla of hollywood, she said she and cameron are now such good friends, they swapped scripts and early versions of each other's movies. when he saw "hurt locker," did he say, "you ought do to this, you ought to do that"? >> bigelow: yeah, he said "cut negative". >> stahl: what is "cut negative"? >> cameron: "cut negative" means you're done editing. >> stahl: "cut negative" means "it's perfect"? >> bigelow: it was a big compliment. ( laughs ) >> stahl: and her little movie

ended up with just as many oscar nominations as cameron's blockbuster-- nine for both. >> bigelow: i was stunned, shocked, thrilled beyond belief. >> stahl: best actor? >> bigelow: yes. >> stahl: best screenplay, best picture, best director. >> bigelow: yes. >> stahl: in "the hurt locker," a riveting two hours filled with fear and violence, bigelow shows how terrifying it is for a bomb squad in iraq. >> butcher shop, 2:00. dude has a phone. >> stahl: here, they're trying to stop that butcher from detonating an i.e.d. with his cell phone. >> put down the cell phone! >> stahl: by using wobbly hand- held cameras, bigelow heightens the tension and the sense of immediacy. she wants the audience to feel like the fourth member of the bomb squad. >> bigelow: the ground just erupts out of nowhere. i mean, it's just an incredibly harrowing, dangerous, volatile environment.

>> stahl: she sees the film both as anti-war and as a tribute to the soldiers who sign up to do this kind of work. >> bigelow: these are men and women who volunteer, who are there by choice, who are walking toward what you and i and perhaps the rest of the world would run from. and they arguably have the most dangerous job in the world, yet they're there by choice. >> stahl: they don't know where to look. they don't know. >> bigelow: you don't know where to look. it's an invisible enemy. and you don't know if the man on the third floor balcony is shaking out a rug or calling in a sniper strike. >> stahl: but beneath all the action is a film about the psyche of soldiers under siege. bigelow opens the movie with a quote: "the rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug." >> bigelow: but it's also a sense of meaning and purpose that nothing else in your life can replicate, except the battlefield. >> stahl: her main character, sergeant will james, can only

function when his life is in danger. he's a go-it-alone cowboy who breaks the rules... >> oh, god. >> stahl: ...and terrifies his squad members with reckless behavior. >> what's he doing? >> i don't know. >> if i'm going to die, i'm going to die comfortable. >> stahl: he's fearless as he looks for bombs. and when he defuses one, he then has to deal with the usual secondaries. >> secondary. >> take cover. get in the wall. get in the wall. >> stahl: it never stops in this movie. really, it's one intense moment right after the next... >> bigelow: right. right. >> stahl: ... without letup. >> bigelow: without letup. >> jeremy renner: she likes to watch and she captures. she's a painter. >> stahl: jeremy renner plays sergeant james.

i don't know anybody who has seen this movie who says, "i can't believe a woman directed this movie"-- the violence, the macho-ness. >> renner: what does having a set of ovaries have to do with directing a film? it's through her eyes that she sees, not through her mammaries or anything else that defines her as a woman, right? >> stahl: this muscular, somewhat violent world that she's attracted to, do you understand what it is she's drawn to there? >> cameron: i think the idea of war and conflict fascinates her. and so, it's something that's out there in the world that she's trying to understand. but i think she also takes pride in the fact that she can outgun the guys, you know; that, just in pure technique, just pure game, she's got more game than most of the male directors out there. >> stahl: bigelow is 58, and "the hurt locker" is her eighth movie. and if she has a signature, it's

exactly that-- a concentration on tough guys like harrison ford and liam neeson in "k-19: the widowmaker"; and on daredevils like keanu reeves and patrick swayze in "point break," about an f.b.i. agent who goes after a ring of bank robbers. >> bigelow: i'm drawn to provocative characters that find themself in extreme situations, and i think i'm drawn to that consistently. >> stahl: she's been drawn to it ever since the early '70s, when she was in new york studying painting and one night went to the movies with some friends. the film was sam peckinpah's "the wild bunch," a western known as much for its body count as its art. >> bigelow: it was visceral. >> stahl: very violent, it could be very bloody. >> bigelow: exactly. very, very visceral, very... you know, and you were just enraptured with this material. >> stahl: enraptured because she realized that, unlike painting, film could make you physically feel what the characters in the film were feeling.

one of her professors described it as... >> bigelow: scopophilia. >> stahl: scopophilia? >> bigelow: scopophilia, which is the desire to watch and identify with what you're watching. >> stahl: is that when you said, "it has to be film. i have to make movies." >> bigelow: it was just... it was like, suddenly, i had woken up from a drought and there was water in front of me, and i was just... i couldn't get enough. >> stahl: watch "hurt locker" and you do feel what the characters feel, as in the sniper scene where the unit is pinned down all day long out in the desert. the audience feels the fear, the heat and the thirst. bigelow shot the movie almost entirely in jordan, part of it in this palestinian refugee

camp, and used displaced iraqis as characters and extras. with a measly $11 million budget, the actors and crew had to take their breaks in bedouin tents-- no air conditioning for anyone. >> bigelow: i think what was in our head was to survive any given day. i mean, you're in the middle east, you're in the summer. you've got sandstorms, wind storms, probably an average of 115 to 120 degree heat. your lead actor is in a 100- pound bomb suit. >> stahl: the cast had other challenges, since bigelow often shot takes with four cameras rolling simultaneously, never telling the actors where the cameras were. anthony mackie plays sergeant j.t. sanborn. >> anthony mackie: i'd never shot a movie like that before, so it was always... >> stahl: you always knew where the camera was... >> mackie: always. >> stahl: ... and had to worry about it, and this... >> mackie: what was my good side? where my light was coming from. how should i talk to you? that's how you make movies. >> stahl: but this was different? >> mackie: this was different. >> stahl: this was almost like a documentary. >> mackie: and it was guerrilla filmmaking.

>> stahl: bigelow held a screening of the film for some real bomb-squad veterans. they agreed with her about the addiction of war, that the adrenaline rush in what they do creates a craving for more. jim o'neill, who heads a foundation that helps bomb squad techs, told about one tech who got wounded. >> jim o'neill: lost a leg, got blown up. has lost a leg from the knee down. and he's over there in afghanistan. >> stahl: and he's back? >> o'neill: wearing the bomb suit with a prosthetic. that's the personality. i mean, it's an incredible, incredible... >> stahl: brad somerville worked on a bomb squad in baghdad. >> brad somerville: after you've been there for a long period of time, doing this over and over, and going down range and you come home, there's an empty feeling inside. >> stahl: they think bigelow nailed it when she showed how difficult it was for sergeant james to go home. he couldn't relate to his wife... >> you know they need more bomb techs. >> can you chop those up for me?

>> stahl: ...and couldn't even function when he went to the grocery story to buy a box of cereal. >> somerville: the image, the one that i took away the most was at the very end, was him walking through the grocery store. and that was the one that got me because it was "wow, it's not happening anymore, and i'm back here and it's not real. it's all back there." and i can remember seeing him walking down the aisles and his mind going, "what do i do now?" >> stahl: can we play the clip of when jeremy talks to his son? >> the older you get, the fewer things you really love. by the time you get to my age, maybe it's only one or two things. with me, i think it's one.

>> stahl: bigelow ends her movie with sergeant james leaving his son and going back to the war. it was crushing to think he needed that rush, that adrenaline fix so badly, he couldn't stay home and take care of his son. >> bigelow: you know, that comes at a terrible, terrible price for him. and he knows it. but he's incapable of doing anything different. >> cameron: frankly, i thought kathryn was going to get this, so i'm kind of winging it. ( cheers and applause ) and she richly deserves it. >> stahl: cameron won at the golden globes for "avatar," the only big award bigelow didn't win. and before the oscars, he predicted she'd win there, too. if she does win and beats you out... >> cameron: you mean when she wins as director? >> stahl: you think she's going to win? >> cameron: i think it's an irresistible story-- to finally be able to award the very first

directing oscar to a woman. and kathryn... you know, i mean, i'm sure she'll be very ambivalent about this, because she'll be of a mind that, "wait a minute, i want to win for the work, i don't want to win because i'm a woman." but i think it's irresistible at the moment of voting, that story. >> stahl: kathryn bigelow will not like hearing that; she hates being considered a female director. >> bigelow: there's really no difference between what i do and what, you know, a male filmmaker might do. i mean, we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can. so, in that sense, it's very similar. on the other hand, i think the journey for women, no matter what venue it is-- politics, business, film-- it's... it's a long journey. >> stahl: "the hurt locker" ended up winning six oscars, including best picture and best director. kathryn bigelow's collaborator, mark boal, a journalist who wrote the script after embedding

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>> simon: when snowboarder shaun white went to the winter olympics in vancouver, all eyes were on him to bring home the gold-- which he did, for the second time in his career. it cemented his reputation as a veritable rock star in the world of action sports, a white-hot virtuoso on a snowboard and in the boardrooms of corporate america, where he commands a multimillion-dollar empire.

we first broadcast this story back in january as shaun white was getting ready for the games. 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. ...helicopters. >> 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: 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 thing 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 did last winter in competition, adding height, rotation and inspiration to every trick, a strategy he said he hoped would put him on top in vancouver. 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 the 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: 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 really make me appreciate what i have now. >> 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 that 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. 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: his first 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... but 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 mean, 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... >> 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. >> welcome to the cbs sports update. >> soccer's ultimate prize goes to spain beating the netherlands 1-nil in the world cup finals. scoring in the closing minutes of extra time to give spain its first ever world cup title. if golf at the john deeree

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