every day. >> stahl: i'm lesley stahl.ition of "60 minutes." captioning funded by cbs and ford captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org i'm on expert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for, because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but it's for them, so i've found a way. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. ready to plan for your future? we'll help you get there. . phil: previously on "amazing race: all-stars" -- six teams continued raising through italy. at the detour, brendon and rachel hung on for dear life. then used their u-turn to hang on to their lead. >> dave and con ire. we havto phil: dave and connor were forced to use their u-turn. >> we need to u-turn somebody. leo and jamal. phil: but quickly apologized. >> we're really sorry. phil: and offered help. the father and son continued to fume --

do you feel... >> louise: yes. >> stahl: ...sorry for us? >> louise: i do. >> stahl: you do?a gift, and she had some encouragement for the newest member of the memory club... >> louise: i think it's like having a superpower. and, you know, you can be normal... >> jake: superior! >> louise: yeah, you can... you can be clark kent. you can sort of blend in with everybody else. but then, when you really need to fly, you can totally fly. and it's awesome. ( laughter ) >> stahl: on balance, taking your life, are you glad you have this memory? or you wish you didn't have this memory? >> jake: i'm glad. >> stahl: you're glad on balance? >> jake: yeah. >> stahl: after our story aired, dr. mcgaugh and his team heard from dozens of parents who suspect their children have this type of memory too. and marilu henner is working as a consultant on the cbs drama "unforgettable," about a detective who uses her henner- like memory to solve crimes. >> what does this memory wizard recall from 1980? >> me? >> find out at 60minutesovertime.com. sponsored by pfizer. a body at rest tends to stay at r

>> stahl: ...who are responsible for safeguarding them... >> ma'am, there is no button. >> stahl: there's no button? >> there's no button. >> that's it right there. >> stahl: ...and would ultimately launch the deadliest option in time of war. if, by accident or deliberate act, one of those missiles was launched, is there a way to bring it back? >> we can only launch with direction from the president of the united states. there's no way to recall it or disarm the warhead that's on the missile. once they're gone, they're gone. >> simon: it's one of the greatest humanitarian stories you've probably never heard.

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and as lesley stahl first reported in december of 2011, howard doesn't live the high life, and he loves getting down in the dirt. >> this is the man who'll become the next chairman of the company-acquiring, investment-picking, moneymaking machine berkshire hathaway if warren buffett has his way. howard is a farmer who would rather dig up the ground and drive big machines than sit in a boardroom. were you stunned? were you surprised? >> i was surprised. >> but no sign that he's about to leave? >> he won't leave until he's buried in the ground. i hate to put it that way. >> this is no gentleman farmer. howard buffett works his 1,500 acres in pana, illinois, himself. we're gonna go pick some corn? >> yeah, we're gonna pick corn. >> this year, he harvested 87,000 bushels of corn with his 300-horsepower combine that he runs hands-free off gps. you're like a kid, you know, that can ride his bike without his hands, right? >> it's a big toy. >> it's a big toy. >> but it's expensive. >> but with corn prices soaring, he can afford it. and incidentally, even a farmer named buffett can get farm sub

lesley stahl joins us.night's report. >> reporter: flying over the plains of wyoming in an old huey helicopter, we came upon a small fenced-in lot. it didn't look like much. air force colonel carl jones told us that underneath the concrete near that white pole there's a minuteman 3 missile, one of the deadliest and most powerful weapons on the planet. so is this particular missile armed right now with a nuclear war head? >> it is. >> reporter: the warhead on each of these land-based missiles is 20 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on hiroshima. >> is this a farm right here? >> it is. >> we were surprised the missiles were close to rural communities. we saw bales of hay and herds of grazes cattle. >> it's a safe weapon. it's not going to do anything here on the ground. >> reporter: if by accident or deliberate act one of those missiles launched, is there a way to disarm it or bring it back? >> we can only launch with direction from the president of the united states. once that missile is gone, there'

yet as lesley stahl reported in october 2011, when president obama was looking for someone to help get americans back to work, he recruited a most unlikely candidate: the republican ceo of general electric, jeff immelt. >> the mood is dark. people are pissed. why not try to do better? >> jeff immelt talked about his czarship at a gathering of g.e. managers. >> you know, i grew up in cincinnati, ohio, and my parents are really right-wingers. my dad watches, like, five or six hours of fox news every day and stuff like that. so i called home and said, "hey, just to give you a heads-up, you know, i'm gonna be with the president, and he's asked me to lead this jobs council." and my mother said, "well, you said no, of course, didn't you?" [laughing] i said, "no, mom, that's not what i said." [cheers and applause] thank you. >> when you were chosen, there was a lot of criticism. >> yeah. >> i saw a headline that said, "the job czar from hell." >> mm-hmm. >> because of how many jobs g.e. has outside the united states. >> i've taken heat from the right and heat from the left, and it's been unco

. >> stahl: when we first did this story, there were only six people known to have this remarkable memory ability in the world. there are now close to 60, including jake. >> i just have that type of >> a 7.1 earthquake hit the san francisco oakland o

and lesley stahl of "60 minutes" is here. she reports from greenland on an upcoming episode. tell me the connection between drought and the war in syria. >> well, charlie, the drought in the middle east we've seen since the bible. droughts happen. the question is, is the mediterranean region warming and making the droughts more frequent and more intense and there are a lot of scientists who believe they do. that's what's happening. the beginning in 2006 and lasting until 2010 syria experienced the worst drought in its modern history. about a million syrian farmers and herders left the land and basically flocked into the major cities in damascus where they really overwhelmed the infrastructure, people were living five, eight, ten to a room. and the simple story is the government did basically nothing for them. nothing to help them as that farmer in northern syria was telling us. the drought didn't cause the revolution. when the revolution came, all these farmers and herders could not wait to join. >> tom, you know this area he very well. you've been covering it for many years.

we have some world-class journalist like leslie stahl, bittman, andmark tom friedman.s justpening episode this gripping segment where we are trying to tell a story that i don't think many people know, which is that dryer to the civil war in syria -- prior to the civil in syria, there was one of the worst droughts of all time in syria. the science, the scientific literature and the scientist we spoke to said that climate change daily played a role in making this drought worse and there's going to be a lot worse in the future if we don't act soon. tom is like one of the only guys who would actually go to syria. he crossed the turkish border into syria during the civil war, place of utter chaos, to get to the heart of the story, to actually talk to some people in the rebel camps who used to be farmers will stop more than one million farmers were driven off their land by this drought. it isn't just the drought. the room multiple factors causing this. -- there were multiple factors causing this. you have the combination of a brutal dictatorship which just did not care about

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i go back and tell the story of 60 minutes leslie stahl some years ago. a harlem housing project in new york all minorities led by minority hard-core unemployed people who never had a job or for hamburger flippers working for minimum wage. they tell taught people how to dress for a job interview and look at it respective employer. stuff that we take for granted. they followed an african-american woman into a job interview. she went in and applied all the things she learned preachy came out and she was in tears not because she was rejected but because she got the job. for the first time in her life she felt that she had value. nobody told you this before. you are black and female and lived in the ghetto. your life is going to be lousy. that is the message to someone they get. saying if we can have more inspiration and more people telling how they overcame then i think we are going to inspire people. america has always been a storytelling nation. >> host: do you think that's it.from the fact that there is growing inequality in terms of income in earning in

i go back and tell the story to 60 minutes, lesley stahl that this piece years ago in a harlem housing project in new york. my nerdy sci-fi minority. hard for unemployed people who've never had a child or they were only hamburger flippers working for minimum wage. he taught people how to dress for a job interview, how to shake hands from the stuff you and i would take for granted. these people had never been taught. they focus on african-american women into a job interview. she applied all the things she learned. she came out and listen to you is not because was trisha did, but because she got the job. she thought she had value. nobody had told her this before. you're black, female, live in the ghetto. your life will be lousy. vote for democrats. that's the message so many dad. if we can have more inspiration and more people telling how they overcame, and i think we're going to inspire an awful lot of people. we don't tell stories anymore. postcode you think that's a dodge count that there's growing inequality in terms of income sinner need in our country, the realities, the harsh real

overinvestment and a massive buildup of local debt as seen in this "60 minutes" program hosted by lesley stahllast august. this has become a major risk to the economy. moreover, this dynamic has created space for corruption have local leaders pursued rents that come with rapid growth. third, leaders repeatedly fallen back on a familiar set of tools to create incentives for reform, including experimentation and external pressure. experiments such as xiaoping's decision in 1980 into the special economic zone limit the political and economic risk of new policies and incentivize competition among local leaders. interestingly, xi zhengping's father was the top party official in guangdong at that time. external pressure provides useful political cover and helps clear away domestic obstacles to refor. famously the former premier used china's negotiation join the wto as tool to push reforms that dramatically weakened the state-owned sector and laid a foundation for a decade of rapid growth. today the trans-pacific partnership and a u.s.-china bilateral investment treaty appear to be playing a similar

president's efforts have been intently focused on hurting the production of oil and gas resources and be the stahl tactics to establish confusing complex and confusing regulations on hydraulic fracturing process. every way we turn we see president obama trying to put oil and gas out of business. the keystone pipeline is the impel weather of energy policy today. -- bellwether of energy policy today. i know many of my colleagues have talked about and have the information, as the leader of our group here today, on what we could be doing in this country and yet there is some kind of asowm on this this if we don't complete the pipeline, they will stop processes in canada, inial beer tavment they are going to continue to do it. it is gb to be china and other countries that will benefit from t u.a.e. pplaud four the great work you're doing. we've got to let the american people know the potential bev got in this country. i appreciate the senator from texas for yielding to me . mr. hoeven: i would like to thank the senator from oklahoma for his work on this important issue and turn to the senator from texa