>> pelley: how do you keep it running?a prayer. ( laughs ) >> pelley: she simply begs and borrows from doctors and hospitals, whatever it takes. she's traveled to the middle east, arranging passports, cutting red tape, and getting wounded children out one at a time. word spread among soldiers in iraq that an american charity called global medical relief is a lifeline. >> montanti: we are working in mosul. >> pelley: now, she gets a dozen emails a month from the war zone, most of which start with "dear sir." >> montanti: there's so many. >> pelley: how do these letters end? >> montanti: "please help." >> pelley: it was an email like that that started wa'ad on his journey with elissa montanti. and seven weeks after he arrived, wa'ad was scheduled for his first surgery to repair his face. he walked into the hospital, thanks to his new prosthetic leg. when you first met miss elissa, do you remember what she told you that she would do for you? >> wa'ad ( translated ): she said they will help me to make surgery and fix my arm, l

>> jacob braverman: "i love you, mom." >> pelley: that always works. >> jacob braverman: yeah. >> pelleyrosa, jacob, joey and the dog are all in one room, right across the street. the neighbors took them in. we've seen a lot of that in our stories on the recession-- neighbors, even strangers, opening homes to the homeless. we talked to the bravermans at the neighbor's house. they've been here three months, and that is starting to worry them. >> jacob braverman: i want to give the neighbors their own privacy, too, you know? i don't want to be invasive. >> pelley: so you miss your privacy from across the street. what else? >> jacob braverman: sometimes, you know, i have to go to the bathroom at night. and here i have to be, like, really, really quiet, because if i wake them up, i don't want to make them upset and get us kicked out. >> pelley: homeless kids tiptoe in a world of insecurity, hoping to be invisible. >> jacob braverman: people said that i talk too much, and now they say i don't talk enough and that i'm really shy, i guess. >> pelley: you think all this has changed you? >> jacob

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cbs's "60 minutes" correspondent scott pelley is in our tokyo bureau this morning. scott, bring us up to date on the latest. >> the death count, it was announced today here in japan, has been confirmed so far at 8,000 with something on the order of 15,000 missing. so the country is preparing itself at this point for a total death count from the tsunami of about 20,000 people. >> schieffer: scott, what's the latest on those reactors? >> well, it's still a fight out there, bob. there has not been a new release of radioactive steam in the last day or so. but the four reactors are still overheating. one american official working here told us that the japanese have done a great job of getting water cannons in there. they put 2,700 tons of water on one of the reactors in the last 24 hours, but that is still not keeping it quite cool enough. and the pressure has been building in that reactor. that's going to be a fight for quite some time. >> schieffer: you were up there about 20 miles from one of the reactors. what was it like up there, scott? >> it's a little bit of a gh

millions of americans tuned in sunday to "60 minutes," and were moved by a piece by correspondent scott pelleyf homelessness in the orlando, florida, area. specifically looking at some of the youngest victims of these recent tough times. >> who can tell me what it's like to feel hungry. >> it's like hard -- you can't sleep. you just like wait -- you just go to sleep for like five minutes and you wake up again. and you're like stomach hurts and you're thinking i can't sleep. i'm going to try and sleep. i'm going to try and sleep. but you can't, because like your stomach is hurting, and because it doesn't have any food in it. and it's like a block hole. and sometimes when i don't eat my stomach, you can hear it like it's like growling. you can hear it. >> usually we heat macaroni, or we don't -- or we drink water or tea. >> my mom will sometimes like make food and then she won't have enough so at night we'll just eat cereal or something. other times my parents will fight about money. because they don't have enough money to pay the food. >> we have to sometimes take food from our church. it's har

. >>> coming up tomorrow night on "60 minutes" scott pelley reports from japan.ident, as well as recovery efforts in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami. >> and then coming up monday on "the early show," new regulations for car seat safety. are the new car seats actually going to be making your kids safer? that is the question. we will have the answer for you come monday morning. >> of course, updates all day long on cbs news. and of course check the web for the latest going on in japan, libya and all over the world. thank you, martina. >> thank you. >> great having you. >> thanks for bringing spring. >> any time. >> tomorrow, right? >> tomorrow is the first day of spring. >> only a day away. >> we're all there. >> your favorite part of the show, let me guess, "chef on a shoestring." >> are you kidding? getting to eat. >> have a great saturday, everybody. enjoy. >>> we end with our saturday spotlight. this week's story comes from texas, where like all of us, people are watching the still-unfolding disaster in japan. children want to help but don't know ho