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two million americans served in afghanistan and iraq, and at least 600,000 have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. for the most part, the u.s. is doing better, recognizing and treating these wounded warriors. but less well known are millions more who are in need but remain hidden. they are the children living with injured veterans. in a profound sense, ptsd can be contagious. many children have become caregivers confronting depression and fear. and you will hear tonight that the stress can be so great it can lead to attempts of suicide. you're about to meet two courageous families, who spoke

to us so that others can know that help is on the way for america's children of war. >> in 2011, chuck rotenberry was a marine on patrol in afghanistan when an improvised land mine detonated a few feet away. >> which sent me down the hill 20, 30 feet, knocked me out, caused catastrophic injuries to the marine behind me and the marine behind him. >> it was rotenberry's second combat tour after iraq. >> what happened to the marine behind you, who had stepped on the ied? >> he lost both his legs above the knee. >> you and the medic put the tourniquets on him. >> yes, sir. >> you saved his life. >> i helped, yes, sir. >> when he came home, his wife, liz, was pregnant with his fourth child.

chuck was suffering with a brain injury from a concussion and ptsd. >> chuck was struggling to just be in the house because he was dealing with so many emotions, mentally and physically. he was hiding in back rooms, and i'd find him crying and he didn't understand why he was crying. >> i didn't know whether i was coming or going. >> chuck kept a video diary, as he dealt with self-isolation, anxiety, depression, and denial. >> one second i'm up super high, the next, i'm not. >> chuck, who was that man who came home? >> in my head, it was me. but i was very far from it, i think. >> at age seven, his son, kristopher pitched in. over the years he shielded his

dad from triggers that set him off and shield his sisters from the emotional trauma. >> i just worried about a lot of things, things that i guess kids at that age should not be worried about. and it kind of evolved into kind of like a helplessness. >> he was becoming almost like my husband. there were times where he wouldn't be able to go to school because he was so stressed internally from everything happening. and i don't think he knew how to process it and understand it. i knew kristopher was starting to struggle with the weight of it all. >> the weight grew, as kris turned 12. >> the worst of it was in seventh grade. i think i kind of decided that, you know, my family would be better off without me here.

i remember looking back on those days. it was just chaos all the time. and i -- i remember taking my -- one of the dogs' leashes upstairs and tied one end to the bunk bed that we had, my little brother's bunk bed. and i tried, you know, hanging myself. and it was working, and my mom walked in on me kind of, and i think i was, kind of, about to pass out. i was, kind of, you know, losing consciousness. >> walking in and seeing what was happening to him and what he was really struggling with, i knew everything else had to stop. everything just had to stop. and my focus had to be kristopher.

>> liz became the warrior, fighting for her family. kristopher went to intensive therapy. then he and his sisters enrolled in a clinic for military children confronting ptsd. >> it's hard when you're built on such pride, strength, and you're seen as resilient, as the word is in our community. but it's okay to not be resilient. and it's okay -- it's okay to ask for help. >> therapy saved your family. >> it did. >> little was known about families like the rotenberrys until the wife of a wounded warrior spent ten months at walter reed national military medical center. elizabeth dole, former senator and transportation secretary, heard these families, while caring for the late senator, bob dole.

>> i met all these young spouses, mothers, dads, who were caring for their wounded warriors. i don't think america is aware of what's happening. most americans have no idea what's happening in these military families. less than 1% are serving in the military today. less than 1% are protecting our freedom and our security. and it's so important for us to raise awareness of their challenges and their needs and provide them support. >> dole created a foundation that commissions studies of military caregivers. the studies discovered that more than 1 million are caring for those injured during the wars since 9/11. nearly half said they were overwhelmed. >> they felt guilty really that they were leaning on their children so much, needing their support, and that this was causing problems for the children.

there are 2.3 million military children living in the homes of wounded warriors. >> one of them is elizabeth cornelius. >> and i just need to make sure everybody's okay because if my mom isn't okay, everything is going to just fall. >> elizabeth has helped her mom, ariel, as long as she can remember. even before she was born, her dad brought terrifying memories home from a combat tour in iraq. ariel told us his first episode came with a pizza delivery. >> the delivery man came up to the door and knocked on the door. and you know, my husband didn't expect it. he had an immediate flashback and threw me to the floor and was yelling, get down, get down, get down, get down. >> even with that, he deployed to iraq again in 2007 and to afghanistan in 2011. ariel is a schoolteacher. her husband is completely disabled by ptsd.

he can't work and wasn't up to speaking with us. 16-year-old elizabeth has become something of a coparent to a brother and sister at home in montana, shielding them, she told us, from episodes and arguments. >> i just try to shield them as much as i can, as my mom did for me. and she did it for a very long time. >> a lot of it falls on myself, and she goes out and picks up the pieces that i can't. >> her husband's worst crisis came on the anniversary of an attack that killed several of his fellow marines. >> oh, gosh. he was extremely suicidal because of all the memories that came back. he was barely hanging on. it's just that regret. it's the memories that come in. >> extremely suicidal, but ariel found beds for inpatient mental health care can be scarce.

>> you know, helena is an hour and a half to two hours away. casper, wyoming, is eight-plus hours away. and they didn't have a bed. we then looked at idaho. they didn't have a bed. we looked at oregon. they didn't have a bed. we ended up having to wait three weeks before he could get the support he needed in puget sound, washington. and, you know, that's ten hours away. >> three weeks during this time you felt like he could commit suicide. >> at any point in time. and we couldn't get help. >> chasing care in a crisis and navigating government health insurance raised stress for everyone. >> it's rough on her because she's been on the phone for hours and hours reading pamphlets trying to find us help. >> in 2018, elizabeth dole watched president trump sign a law that expanded v.a. benefits for caregivers of the severely disabled.

it offers a stipend, access to health insurance and counseling. the dole foundation studies found that at least 100 other organizations are providing support, which now include the dole foundation itself. steve schwab is the ceo. >> how does the foundation help these children? >> one of the first things that we do is we offer emergency financial support to anybody who needs it. second is peer support. we're building a first of its kind peer support model that will link these children with other children like them for the first time in their lives. we offer on the ground respite care, backup care in the home to provide a trained health care worker to come in and back up that mom or dad so that that family can take a break together. >> one dole foundation partner called our military kids paid fees to help keep the cornelius children in sports. their mom, ariel, says that even

the little things help her husband. >> he is an amazing man, and i can't wait for him to get past -- i know he'll never get past the ptsd, but for him to heal enough to enjoy life and to be able to enjoy the family dynamics and just being around. >> you have hope for that? >> i sure do. yeah. >> today, liz rotenberry leads a dole foundation initiative to train caregivers to be public advocates, for example, on capitol hill. husband, chuck, is recovering and works as a dog trainer for the secret service. and son, kristopher recovered and has applied to follow his father into the military. >> after all the things that kris did to help the family during your troubles, what would you like your son to know?

>> first of all, everybody -- everybody that's in my life now, i wouldn't be here without them. i tell him i love him all the time. and he replies. but i never really say why. watching him grow, being aware of other people, there's plenty of proud dad moments for me. but i'm proud of you every day. all the time. you owe me nothing but to be happy. >> more than just about anything, these families told us they want the nation to simply see and know the children living

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only four companies in the world are worth more than $2 trillion, microsoft, apple, alphabet, parent company of google, and computer chip maker, nvidia. the california-based company saw its stock market value soar from 1 trillion to $2 trillion in just eight months this past year, fuelled by the insatiable demand for its cutting-edge technology, the hardware and software that make today's artificial intelligence possible. we wondered how a company founded in 1993 to improve video

game graphics turned into a titan of 21st century ai. so, we went to silicon valley to meet nvidia's ceo jensen huang, who has no doubt a.i. is about to change everything. >> at nvidia's annual developer conference this past month, the mood wasn't just upbeat, it was downright giddy. more than 11,000 enthusiasts, software developers, tech moguls, and happy shareholders filed into san jose's pro hockey arena to kick off a four-day a.i. extravaganza. they came to see this man, jensen huang, ceo of nvidia. >> welcome to gtc.

>> what was it like for you to walk out on that stage and see that? >> you know, bill, i'm an engineer, not a performer. when i walked out there and all of the people going crazy, it took the breath out of me. so, that was the scariest i've ever been. i'm still scared. >> you'd never know it. clad in his signature cool back outfit, jensen shared the stage with nvidia powered robots and shared his vision of an a.i. future. >> a new industrial revolution. >> it reminded us of the transformational moment when apple's steve jobs unveiled the iphone. jensen huang unveiled nvidia's latest graphics processing unit, or gpu. >> this is blackwell. >> designed in america but made in taiwan, blackwell, he says, is the fastest chip ever. >> google is gearing up for blackwell. the whole industry is gearing up for blackwell.

>> nvidia ushered in the a.i. revolution with its game changing gpu, a single chip able to process a myriad of calculations all at once, not sequentially like more standard chips. the gpu is the engine of nvidia's a.i. computer, enabling it to rapidly absorb a fire hose of information. >> it does quadrillions of calculations a second. it's just insane numbers. >> is it doing things now that surprise you? >> we're hoping that it does things that surprise us. that's the whole thing. in some areas like drug discovery, designing better materials that are lighter, stronger. we need artificial intelligence to help us explore the universe in places that we could have never done ourselves. >> let me show you. >> jensen took us around the gtc convention hall to show us what a.i. has made possible in just the past few years. >> we're making a drink now. >> some creations were dazzling.

>> this is a digital twin of the earth. once it learns how to calculate weather, it can calculate and predict weather 3,000 times faster than a supercomputer and 1,000 times less energy. >> but nvidia's a.i. revolution extends far beyond this hall. >> blue, metallic, spaceship. >> and this generates something. >> pinar seyhan demirdag is originally from istanbul, but cofounded cuebric near boston. her a.i. application uses gpus to turn a text prompt into a virtual movie set for a fraction of the cost of today's backdrops. >> this isn't something that's already planned? >> no. we're doing it in real time. it's live. >> is hollywood knocking at your door? >> we're getting a lot of love. >> nearby, at generate biomedicines, dr. alex snyder, head of research and

development, is using nvidia's technology to create protein-based drugs. she was surprised at first to see they show promise in the lab. >> initially when i was told about the application of a.i. to drug development, i said, yeah, show me the data. i looked atthe data. it was very compelling. >> dr. snyder's team asked its a.i. models to create new proteins to fight specific diseases, such as cancer. a new way to defeat coronavirus is now in clinical trials. >> you're now working with proteins that do not exist in nature, that you're coming up with by way of a.i.? >> yes. we are actually generating what we call completely new structures that have not existed before. >> do you trust it? >> as scientists, we can't trust. we have to test. we're not putting frankensteins into people. we're taking what's known and we're really pushing the field.

we're pushing the biology to make drugs that look like regular drugs but function even better. >> this is a technology that will only get better from here. >> brett adcock is ceo of figure, a silicon valley startup with funding from nvidia. look at his answer to labor shortages, an nvidia driven prototype called figure one. >> i think what's been extraordinary is the pace of progress we've made from 21 months. we were walking this robot in under a year since i incorporated the company. >> could you do this without nvidia's technology? >> we think they're arguably the best in the world at this. i don't know if this would be possible without them. >> i'm here to assist with tasks as requested. >> we were amazed that figure 1 is not just walking but seemed to reason. >> hand me something healthy. >> on it. >> figure 1 was able to understand i wanted the orange,

not the packaged snack. >> thank you. >> it's not yet perfected. >> you're going to get it. >> but the early results are so promising, german automaker bmw plans to start testing the robot in its south carolina factory this year. >> i think there's an opportunity to ship billions of robots in the coming decades onto the planet. >> billions? i would think that a lot of workers would look at that as, this robot is taking my job. >> i think over time, a.i. and robotics will start doing more and more of what humans can and better. >> what about the worker? >> the workers work for companies. so, companies, when they become more productive, earnings increase. i've never seen one company that had earnings increase and not hire more people. >> there are some jobs that are going to become obsolete. >> well, let me offer it this way. i believe that you still want

human in the loop because we have good judgment, because there are circumstances that the machines are just not going to understand. >> the futuristic nvidia campus sits just down the road from its modest birth place, this denny's in san jose. >> good morning. >> -- where 31 years ago, nvidia was just an idea. >> my goodness. >> when he was 15, jensen huang worked as a dishwasher at denny's. as a 30-year-old electrical engineer married with two children, he and two friends, nvidia cofounders, chris malachowsky and curtis priem. envisions a whole new way of processing video game graphics. >> we sat right back there, and the three of us decide to start the company. frankly, i had no idea how to do it, nor did they. none of us knew how to do anything. >> their big idea? accelerate the processing power of computers with a new graphics chip.

their initial attempt flopped and nearly bankrupted the company in 1996. >> and the genius of the engineers and chris and curtis, we pivoted to the right way of doing things. >> and created their groundbreaking gpu. the chip took video games from this to this today. >> completely changed computer graphics, saved the company, launched us into the stratosphere. >> just eight years after denny's, nvidia earned a spot in the s&p 500. jensen then set his sights on developing the software and hardware for a revolutionary gpu-driven supercomputer, which would take the company far beyond video games. to wall street, it was a risky bet. to early developers of a.i., it was a revelation. >> was that luck or was that vision? >> that was luck founded by

vision. we invented this capability. and then one day the researchers that were creating deep learning discovered this architecture because this architecture turns out to have been perfect for them. >> perfect for a.i. >> perfect for a.i. >> this is the first one we ever shipped. >> in 2016, jensen delivered nvidia's a.i. supercomputer, the first of its kind to elon musk, then a board member of open a.i., which used it to create the buildings blocks of chatgpt. when a.i. took off, so did jensen huang's reputation. he's now a silicon valley celebrity. he told us the boy who immigrated from taiwan at age nine could never have conceived of this. >> it is the most extraordinary thing, bill, that a normal dishwasher/busboy could grow up to be this.

there's no magic. it's just 61 years of hard work every single day. i don't think there's anything more than that. >> we met a humble jensen at denny's. back at nvidia's headquarters in santa clara, we saw he can be intense. >> let me tell you what some of the people who you work with said about you. demanding, perfectionist, not easy to work for. all that sound right? >> perfectly, yeah. it should be like that. if you want to do extraordinary things, it shouldn't be easy. >> all right, guys, keep up the good work. >> nvidia has never done better. investors are bullish. but last year, more than 600 top a.i. scientists, ethicists, and others signed this statement urging caution, warning of a.i.'s risk to humanity. >> when i talk to you and i hear you speak, part of me goes, gee whiz. and the other part of me goes,

oh, my god, what are we in for. >> yeah. yeah. >> which one is it? >> it's both. it's both. yeah, you're feeling all the right feelings. i feel both. >> you feel both? >> sure. sure. >> humanity will have the choice to see themselves inferior to machines or superior to machines. >> pinar seyhan demirdag is an a.i. optimist. though she named her company cuebric, homage to stanley kubrick. the director of 2001, a space odyssey. in that film, the ai computer goes rogue. >> open the hatch. >> i'm sorry, dave. i can't do that. >> i think that's what worries people about a.i., that we will lose control of it. >> just because a machine can do faster calculations and analytic

solution creation, that doesn't make it smarter than you. it simply comp uitates faster. smarts have to do with your capacity to love, create, transcend. these are qualities that no machine can ever bear. they're reserved to only humans. >> jensen huang sees an a.i. future of progress and prosperity, not one with machines as our masters. we can only hope he's right. >> thank you all for coming. thank you. cbs sports hq is presented by progressive insurance. rory mcilroy and shane lowry teamed up to win the zurich classic of new orleans in a playoff. elsewhere in the sports world, nba, the knicks beat the sixers to go up 3-1.

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the u.s. military takes pride in protecting its own. that's why military families we met in hawaii told us they feel so betrayed. two years ago, there was a fuel spill close to the drinking water system at the pearl harbor base in hawaii. navy leadership assured thousands of military families that the tap water was safe. but nearly two weeks after the spill, parents learned the truth. the water they drank or used to bathe their kids contained jet fuel. tonight, you'll hear from some of the families who say the jet fuel tainted water made them sick. but first we'll go to where the water crisis at pearl harbor began. >> from the air, the historic naval base is easy to spot. eight miles from honolulu,

sparkling blue waters host battle gray ships and memorials to those killed by japan's surprise attack in 1941. what you can't see is the once secret storage site that provided fuel for the pacific fleet and its planes for 80 years. >> it doesn't look like much from the outside. >> wait until you get inside. >> vice admiral john wade led us through the red hill storage facility. seven miles of tunnels cut through volcanic rock built to hold 250 million gallons of fuel. >> so, this is one of the tanks. >> oh, my gosh. >> that black hole is a steel-lined fuel tank so deep it's hard to see the bottom 20 stories below. >> to just show you how enormous this is, this tank holds 12.5 million gallons. the statue of liberty, not the base, but the statue itself, can fit in here with enough room. >> and this is just one of the

20 tanks hidden here. >> this is the arizona, wrighting in agony. >> when the japanese bombed pearl harbor, construction was under way to protect from an aerial attack. >> the decision was made to embark on a herculean task. to build a bulk storage fuel facility inside a mountain in secrecy. >> how long did that take to do? >> it was a little less than three years. at its peak, there were about 4,000 men working here. >> but this testament to american resolve became a monumental liability after this. that's jet fuel spraying from a cracked pipe. the video was recorded by a worker inside red hill on november 20, 2021. the fuel, 20,000 gallons of it, was trapped in a plastic pipe. the weight caused the pipe to sag.

this trolley hit it, and jet fuel spewed for 21 hours. close to the well, the supply of drinking water, for 93,000 people on and around the base at pearl harbor. >> according to navy investigators, the workers who responded didn't have the right tools to contain the spill. they also assumed there was no dnger to the drinking water. they were wrong. at least 5,000 gallons of jet fuel drained into the tunnel floor and into the navy water system. >> the next day, the navy issued a press release about the incident and told the 8,400 families living in military housing the water remains safe to drink, even though the navy had not tested the water yet. a week later, residents began to notice a problem. >> when did you get the sense that there was something wrong with the water? >> my husband came into the kitchen and washed his hands and said, gosh, the water smells like i just did an oil change. the water smells weird.

>> brittany traeger lived on base about two and a half miles from red hill, with her daughter and husband, who is a navy chief petty officer. traeger says she began to feel sick a week after the spill. >> i had a cough, my tonsils were very swollen. i remember a very distinct moment where i was walking to the car and i had vertigo so bad that i had to hold on to the car. >> the smell was that overwhelming. >> in an email to residents nine days after the spill, the commanding officer of the base reassured residents, there are no immediate indications that the water is not safe. my staff and i are drinking the water. >> did you stop using waters, did you stop taking baths? >> i did, my daughter did. >> just because you had a bad feeling, not because anybody told you to? >> correct. they gave us an email address that we could send an email to if we wanted to have our water tested. i emailed those people who emailed me a phone number i

should call, and i called that number for days. it was just busy. they were overwhelmed and inundated with reports. >> ten days after the spill, there were more than 200 reports from six neighborhoods across the base of strong fuel odor coming from kitchen and bathroom faucets. but the navy said its initial tests did not detect fuel. >> it defied logic. you know, even though there was a leak and even though our water smelled like jet fuel, and even though there was sheen on it, they continued to say, the tests are coming back negative. >> after 12 days and four statements assuring residents the water was not contaminated with fuel, the navy reversed course. on december 2, 2021, it announced more comprehensive tests conducted by the navy had detected jet fuel in the water. three weeks after the spill, tests from hawaii's department of health revealed jet fuel

levels 350 times higher than what the state considers safe. richelle dietz lives on base with her husband, a navy chief petty officer, and their two children. >> jet fuel is not something you would think would be in your water. >> how were people reacting to the news? >> i was so sick to my stomach from that news that i actually threw up when i heard. >> because why? >> because my kids had just been poisoned. >> within a month, the navy set up hospital tents for residents. some complained of stomach problems and fatigue and coughing. the military moves more than 4,000 families to hotels. small studies of military personnel suggest jet fuel exposure can lead to neurological and breathing problems. but the long-term impact of ingesting jet fuel is unknown because it's so unlikely to ever happen. richelle dietz told us days

after the spill her daughter's tonsils became inflamed and her son started suffering from chronic headaches. >> i can hear people saying, tonsils, headaches, kids get that stuff. how do you know it's related? >> because they never had it before november of 2021. it wasn't an issue. >> it's unclear how many got sick. but of 2,000 people who responded to a survey by the centers for disease control and prevention, more than 850 sought medical care. the water system was flushed over three months and bottled water brought in. brittany traeger said her 4-year-old now suffers respiratory problems, which require hour-long treatments at least two times a day. that includes a nebulizer and this vibrates vest to clear her lungs. >> tell me about your daughter's health. >> 13 days after the contamination, after our water

smelled like jet fuel, my daughter woke up in the hotel with a cough. and it pretty much never went away. >> three months passed before pearl harbor's drinking water was deemed safe again. the navy's own investigation into the spill described, quote, cascading failures and revealed poor training, supervision, and ineffective leadership at red hill that fell unacceptably short of navy standards. for the last ten years, hawaiians have raised concerns about the threat from smaller leaks at red hill. the primary water supply for the city of honolulu is 100 feet below the navy complex. in march of 2022, the secretary of defense ordered red hill permanently closed. vice admiral john wade was brought in to get the 104 million gallons of fuel out of the tanks and move it safely to sites around the pacific.

>> there's ongoing and will be continued long-term environmental remediation to restore the land and surrounding area and there's also a medical components for those who have been impacted. >> you view something that was a lifeline for the fleet as a threat. >> that's right. that's right. >> in six month's, wade's team in hawaii successfully removed almost all of the fuel. but it took two years before the navy issued disciplinary letters to 14 officers involved in the spill response, including five admirals. >> was anyone fired because of this? >> at the time that the accountability came through, we had officers that had already retired. so, they had already separated from service. >> meredith berger is an assistant secretary of the navy. we met her at the pentagon in november. she told us the navy has been accountable.

>> we're talking about 20,000 gallons of fuel leak, 90,000 people had their water contaminated. it looks like people retired or were reassigned and no one was fired. how is that accountability? >> it's accountability within the system that we have established. and we have heard that this was too long and that maybe it didn't go far enough. >> 2,000 military families agree the navy didn't go far enough and are suing the government. the traegers and dietzs have joined the lawsuit, alleging they were harmed by negligence at red hill. >> are you angry that it happened, or are you angry at what happened after? >> it's a little bit of anger, but it's also this feeling of betrayal. >> what do you mean betrayal? >> so, my husband has been in for almost 18 years. we have moved our family cross-country, across oceans. we gave so much of our life to

the navy for them to ignore warnings. and then we were directly and blatantly lied to about it. >> navy leadership has apologized for the spill but has not said that the contaminated water is the cause of the ongoing illnesses. the navy did set up a clinic on base to collect data and treat anyone who believes they have health issues related to the tainted water. >> what happens in five or ten or 15 years? will those services still be available to these families? >> so, that's -- that is part of why we are making sure that we're collecting that information, to inform future actions and what the requirements are for those types of needs and care. >> that doesn't sound like a guarantee of care in the future. >> and i want to be careful because i don't do the health care part of things. so, i don't want to speak outside of where i have any authority or a decision.

>> so, we followed up with the defense department, which told us it's reviewing the question of long-term health care for military families, including more than 3,100 children. two years after the spill, some residents have reported water with a smell or sheen. the navy is conducting daily tests at pearl harbor and says it is confident there is no fuel in the tap water. richelle dietz is still using bottled water. the lawsuit she joined with brittany traeger and the other military families is scheduled to go to trial tomorrow. >> what is the remedy that you want? >> in our family, it's restoring my faith in our nation. >> that's a big thing to say. >> there's a body of government that failed, that contaminated our water. they lied to us. they did not protect us. and they did not intervene. and accountability looks like a lifelong care plan for me, my family, and the people affected.

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