one new yorker, elissa montanti, decided to help.and no training in humanitarian relief. yet montanti has helped change the lives of more than 100 crippled children. in march 2011, scott pelley reported on montanti's journey with one child: a nine-year-old boy from iraq named wa'ad. >> this is wa'ad when he arrived in america with his mother, waffa. elissa montanti brought them here after an american soldier told her wa'ad's story. >> he was walking with his friends, and they were kicking a bottle. i think the first child kicked the bottle, and then maybe the second, and then he kicked it, and it exploded. >> it was a bomb. >> it was a bomb. >> the blast shattered his face, tore out his eye, and took away his right arm and left leg. wa'ad would receive treatment for all of those wounds from a network of volunteers and charities that elissa montanti has recruited one by one over the last 15 years. wa'ad's first stop was at the shriners hospital in philadelphia. shriners has 22 hospitals that provide free care to burned and crippled ch

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elissa ashwood starred a company called truly accomplished.s a web-based operation helping people to organise their lives and businesses. if you have a good idea that can be proven in the midwest, and in pittsburg, you can be successful in the other mark. >> 30 years ago pittsburg was at its worst. it lost much of its steel and industrial base in the '80s the economy collapsed. over 100,000 jobs were lost, and a carter million people moved out. >> so it was really a steel depression in the early 1980s, and pittsburg had a long road to come back. >> bill flannagan has the leading community development organization. and he says after the economic bust reinvention was key in moving pittsburg floored. health care, education and financial services fuel the economy. >> we have hundreds of companies employing tens of thousands of people that didn't exist 30 years ago. >> with unemployment hovering above 6%, chris briem, a regional economist at the university of pittsburg says there's a lot of work to do. >> the challenges remain in the core towns in

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one of the growing pains that any new technology is going to have to figure out thank you so much elissa wall and co-founder honey bee three d. really appreciate your time thank you. now it's our show you guys thanks for watching join me again tomorrow and i'll break the all over again until then have a good night. if you like what you see so far go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash breaking the sets and guys be sure to like us on there to get all the updates happening around the world will be updating our site as daily there with links to past segments as well as reaching out to you the viewer for ideas on what you want to see covered on the show you also check out behind the scenes photos were taken our studios when breaking a side is reporting on the road to. rescue . the result would. be. obviously more for the ladies because it's paying. women wanted to avoid rate they really needed to buy guns environ how to use them i'm. sure this is the one that i'm going to go with them once again as the field for women are definitely the target of the gun lobby in the you d

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on rides the city requires drivers to get downtown core is to have a license to speak the tories elissa one guy in learning the hard way that it's against the law to drive without speaking and extensive history exam according to the local paper in the post inquiry or it cost him a fine double for one thousand dollars the thing happened back in september but did not become knowledge until recently charles said has this story helps clean out has some of the strongest lies in regulating tourism in the country. and we are going to leave it out there for more and stories we cover check out our youtube channel youtube dot com slashed its key america. a website or tea ofcom slash usa and follow me on twitter. apple is it will be back here friday pm. new new new you see you when you use. when you will . the well they're welcome to the zionist there's a january twenty ten thousand comanche and still camp representatives of the syrian government and the opposition had sat down to find a plain tee and a civil war. delegates from around the world join them for peace johnson the swiss town of montan