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they just need a chance. >> they just need a chance. >> reporter: don dahler, bo w t baja, mexico. >>ple is getting fall in love all over again after 20 years of marriage. our steve hartman reveals how a devastating loss revealed a precious opportunity. >> which pictures do we have here? anything current? >> reporter: jeff and angela are in that getting to know you stage of their relationship. but unlike couples going through that discovery period. >> i remember that. >> reporter: jeff and angela hartung of tulsa, oklahoma. >> what did we do when we were there? >> reporter: are married and have been for the past 1 years. >> i don't remember. >> reporter: so much was lost after the accident. about five years ago, angela got hit by a car while crossing this intersection in new york city. she suffered a traumatic brain injury and was in a coma for about a month. when she woke up, she was trapped in the past. >> i don't remember anything. at all. my two children. i thought they were 2 and 8 years old. they were 17 and 23 years old. >> you're sweet. >> reporter: angela had no memory of at

don dahler joined an expedition that's trying to save the species from extinction. >> reporter: as thereeps above the horizon, we head out with a disparate group of volunteers, veterinarians, and marine biologists on a difficult, some would say impossible mission, two years in the making. to traction the rarest of marine mammals, the vaquita porpoise. >> this is bigger than vaquitaa. >> conservation in general with marine mammals. >> reporter: lorenzo braja is directing the effort. it's been an uphill battle against the odds, the cost now in the $5 million range, and the elements. >> might seem calm out here, but when there's any chop in the water at all the spotters have a hard time telling the difference between the little tops of the waves and the dorsal fins. >> reporter: challenge is amplified by the fact that there are so few of the diminutive porpoises left. recent reports show the vaquita population has dropped from almost 600 in 1997 to just 30 today. found only here in the gulf of california. >> the threat is these sunken nets that are placed out illegally at night to catch t

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don dahler's on fire island near where one of the kids was hurt. don, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. state investigators are still trying to determine if they were, in fact, shark attacks that happened right off the shore of this popular beach. one of the victims, a 12-year-old girl, is scheduled to have surgery later today to close up her wounds. but she says she has no doubt it was a shark. >> i saw, like, this tannish orange fin and body. >> reporter: enjoying a family day at the beach when the 12-year-old felt something grab her leg. she started screaming for help. >> i see her, like, in the water, like, struggling and there was a commotion in the water next to her. >> it mostly just hurt but i felt something in there and then it let go and i was like, what just happened. we looked down. we saw like the bite marks and the blood. >> reporter: her parents brought her to ifwho evaluated her wounds and bandaged her leg. she was taken to the hospital for further treatment. >> i knew it had to be something like a shark because there's nothin

it's really been an amazing treetz. >> wow. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning: saturday," don dahlert's my kind of camping. >> yeah. exactly. it's the disconnect. >> i was astounded by those views. imagine being in the center of it all and not having all of it caving in on you. loved it. >> i will say this. the glam pers got kuwait a view of new york city. >> they sure did, at a relatively cheap price. >> that's right. speaking of new views, visitors are getting one. up next we'll navigate at maps. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday." >>> this is such a big, big deal to go to south africa for the very first time, partnering with the house of mandela and global citizen sounds like a perfect partnership. we need mandela's words more than ever. >> yes, we do. we're celebrating mandela's 100th b bds this year, so we wanted to throw a concert in south africa to celebrate that and know was on the goal of ending extreme poverty, and we believe we can do it, and we've made a lot of progress. a lot of organizations over the years have been working toward this goal and global citizen