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Recent episodes from 60 Minutes Podcast - Selected Segments

  • Hackers; Andre Agassi
    Published: Nov 9, 09
    On 60 Minutes, Could foreign hackers get into the computer systems that run crucial elements of the world's infrastructure, such as the power grids, water works or even a nation's military arsenal, to create havoc? They already have. Steve Kroft reports. Katie Couric interviews the tennis champion about his drug use, the depression that made him use methamphetamine and other aspects of his personal life and tennis career in his first interview about his upcoming book. Those stories and more on 6
     
  • H1n1 Flu Vaccine, Yakuza
    Published: Nov 2, 09
    On 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley reports on the manufacture and distribution of the H1N1 flu vaccine, and more importantly if it's safe to take. Lara Logan investigates the Yakuza, Japan's mafia, and how they may help foreigners jump the line in America for a life-saving liver transplant. Lesley Stahl looks into Hollywood Pirates...criminals who copy films and distribute them illegally before they hit theaters. Those stories and more on 60 Minutes.
     
  • Medicare And Medicaid
    Published: Oct 25, 09
    Medicare and Medicaid fraudsters are cheating U.S. taxpayers out of an estimated $90 billion a year using a billing scam that is surprisingly easy to execute. Steve Kroft investigates. More Americans suffer from epilepsy than Parkinson's, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis combined. Katie Couric reports on a disease that may not be getting the attention it deserves. Those stories and more, on 60 Minutes.
     
  • H1n1, Cancer, Drew Barrymore
    Published: Oct 20, 09
    Scott Pelley reports on the H1N1 virus and its growing toll on children and teens. Lesley Stahl speaks with John Kanzius, a man with leukemia who invented a radio wave machine to help cure his cancer. Finally, Anderson Cooper sits down with Drew Barrymore to discuss her transformation from a troubled child star, to a successful actress, producer and director.
     
  • Afghanistan; Concussions; Wingsuits
    Published: Oct 11, 09
    Scott Pelley reports from Afghanistan, where he spends time with a U.S. Marine company sent as part of President Obama's troop buildup. Bob Simon reports on connections being found between concussions and brain damage, particularly in professional football players. Steve Kroft reports on the latest trend in extreme sports, where men donning wing suits "fly" at speeds of 140 miles per hour.
     
  • Mini-madoff; Tn Waste
    Published: Oct 6, 09
    On 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft interviews Marc Dreier, the so-called "mini-Madoff" Ponzi schemer to help better understand how Bernard Madoff could have done what he did. Lesley Stahl reports on 130 million tons of waste in Kingston, Tennessee. Later on in the show, Scott Pelley travels to Kenya to see the great wildebeest migration. That and more, on 60 Minutes.
     
  • Afghanistan Troops; Madoff
    Published: Sep 27, 09
    On the season premiere of 60 Minutes, CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports on General Stanley McChrystal--the top U.S. Commander in Afghanistan--and the mission that lies ahead for him and American troops in the country. Later in the show, 60 Minutes Correspondent Morley Safer reports on the aftermath of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme and the man charged with finding billions of dollars owed to investors. And 60 Minutes Steve Kroft takes an interesting look behind celeb
     
  • Prosthetic Arms
    Published: Sep 21, 09
    Tonight on 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley reports on new technology that is making it possible for amputees to pick up small, delicate objects thanks to the biggest innovation in prosthetic arms since World War II.
     
  • President Barack Obama; True Compass; Sen. Ted Kennedy; Guiding Light
    Published: Sep 14, 09
    On "60 Minutes": Steve Kroft interviews President Barack Obama at an important time in his presidency. Ted Kennedy Jr. and "True Compass" editor and publisher Jonathan Karp sit down with Lesley Stahl to reflect on the legacy of the Lion of the Senate. Also in the show, Morley Safer interviews the actors and writers of television's longest running drama, "Guiding Light."
     
  • Wildfires, Afghanistan, Music
    Published: Sep 6, 09
    On tonight's edition of 60 Minutes: global warming is increasing the intensity and number of forest fires across the American West. Scott Pelley goes to the fire line to report. Also tonight, Lara Logan reports from a forward operating base in Afghanistan on the fight against the Taliban. And later, Morley Safer reports on mentally ill musician Nathaniel Ayers who has become the subject of a book, and now a Hollywood film, after he was discovered living on the streets by Los Angeles Times newspa
     
  • Recycling Electronics; The Wasteland; Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction; Forrest Bird
    Published: Aug 30, 09
    On tonight's "60 Minutes": Every year, millions of valuable electronics generated by the U.S. often illegally make their way to China, harming the environment and the people who salvage their components. And later, Steve Kroft reports on the roles certain complicated financial instruments are playing in the economic crisis, and Morley Safer delves into the life of Forrest Bird, famous for inventing the respirator.
     
  • Don Hewitt
    Published: Aug 23, 09
    60 Minutes will devote its entire hour this week to the news magazine's creator and former executive producer, Don Hewitt, who died Wednesday at the age of 86.
     
  • Michael Vick Interview
    Published: Aug 16, 09
    Michael Vick speaks in his first interview since he admitted to participating in the illegal dogfighting that resulted in a prison sentence and his suspension from the NFL. James Brown is the correspondent. Also tonight: Increasingly, the U.S. military is relying on un-manned, often armed aircraft to track and destroy the enemy - sometimes controlled from bases thousands of miles away from the battlefront. Lara Logan reports. Plus... Coldplay, the British rock group that has taken its place amon
     
  • Bananas; Brain Computer Interface; Sharks
    Published: Aug 9, 09
    On tonight's "60 Minutes": Critics argue that tour operators are making ocean waters more dangerous for swimmers and surfers, by attracting sharks to their boats with food. But first, Steve Kroft reports on the death of civilians in Colombia; and Scott Pelley looks at the future of BCI and its potential benefit for the paralyzed.
     
  • Tsa Checkpoints; Drunk Driving; Wyclef Jean
    Published: Aug 2, 09
    The Transportation Security Administration says the hassles passengers endure at airport security checkpoints really make them safer. CBS News Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports. With drunken driving fatalities staying constant despite all the campaigns against the crime, some prosecutors are pursuing harsher penalties against perpetrators. CBS News Correspondent Bob Simon reports. Wyclef Jean emigrated to the U.S. as a baby and grew up to live the American dream as a millionaire rock star. He's
     
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