portia's mother and four siblings made it out alive soon after, haji said the whole event was a blur. >> w we had no concept of time when we were there. all the time you are just looking out, you know, looking for shooter, getting people out of the danger, so there was no time to think of these things. >> reporter: still ahead, northern exposure, a group of adventurers take on weather extremes and grizzly bears to send a message on global warming. >> the cbs evening news, celebrating 50 years of the very best. original reporting. >> >> axelrod: a new report due out monday offers more evidence that humans are the main cause of climate change. terrell brown introduces us to a group of adventurers who saw for themselves the effects of global warming. trying to row across canada's usually frozen arctic. >> the four men launched this fiberglass and woodrow boat from canada's northwest territory in july heading east toward greenland. >> their route was part of the so called northwest passage, the arctic waters between europe and asia, for centuries frozen ice made it impassable. countless e

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the man reach outing to the girl is ab dull haji because his brother was trapped.che just 4 running to him. >> just running towards strangers holding gun i thought that was brave. i thought she was brave. >> reporter: she was with her mother and four brothers and sisters, americans living here. like so many survivors, waltons told us they are not ready to talk about their ordeal. haji said he just reacted to the situation. >> rescuing people and getting people out of danger so no time to think of fear or being scared. >> i think this thing has just made me strong. >> reporter: this lady was there with friends having coffee. gunfire pinned them down and she was lying next to a boy and his phone ringing loudly and tried to switch it off afraid it would attract attention. >> when i put my hand under him i realized this guy had been shot because he was bleeding. he was bleeding heavily. a lot of blood there. >> reporter: to play dead she covered herself with the boy's blood and laid still until help finally arrived. >> i felt really, really guilty doing that. >> report

one day, haji ali, the village chief--this is 3 years later, school's half complete. he took me aside and said, "you want to get a school built, you need to sit down and be quiet and let us do the work." - 6 weeks later, the school was built, and the life of this 36-year-old emergency room nurse was changed forever. in the 16 years since, greg's helped build almost 80 schools in pakistan and afghanistan, and he's come to believe that his schools can be part of a foundation for peace in this war-torn area... - [speaking foreign language] - if he can educate the girls. - there's a proverb that says, "if you educate a boy, you educate an individual, but if you educate a girl, you educate the community." - [singing in foreign language] - mortenson says female literacy lowers the birth rate, lowers infant mortality, and improves economic development, and it is the surest way to peace. - in islam, also, when someone goes on jihad-- and jihad means a struggle or quest, and it could be going on with your education, but it could also mean joining a militant group-- a young man

abdul haji and a group of just regular men with some plain clothes police officers, they risked theirsn't just me. they went through the mall floor by floor and got so many people out of the mall. >> you had a chance to thank him i understand? >> i did. we got to meet him last night and it was such a wonderful reunion. >> we're glad you're all safe and i want to thank you for taking the time to tell us your story this morning. >> thank you. >> all right. here's savannah. >> all right, matt, thank you. coming up, bill o'reilly on his controversial new book about the life and death of jesus christ. >>> but up next, what's buzzing in the orange room with carson? how angry are americans about ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] kleenex tissues help stop moisture better than the leading competitor. save yourself from an awkward situation. don't get caught without kleenex tissues. [ bump ] ugh. i'm the horseless headsman. i think you mean the headless horseman? no. have a snickers®. why? because you get confused when you're hungry. better? better. [ male announcer ] you're not you when you're hung