It's an incredible feat--
Pearl Harbor's Red Hill
seven miles of tunnels
built to hold 250
So this is one of the tanks.
Oh, my gosh.
And to give you a reference
not the base, but
fit in here with enough room.
Tonight, you'll
at this once secret site
thousands of military families.
What is the scope of the
Unrecognizable in modern times.
We watched a young deminer
could detonate a mine nearby.
Russia has sown Ukraine
She threaded the grass, feeling
The day before, another
Welcome to the 2023
In Indian relay, as many as
are brought to a start
The horses are bareback.
No saddles or stirrups.
Their riders wear
At the sound of a
and tear down the track.
These horses are able to run
But the hard part
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The US military takes pride
That's why military
told us they feel so betrayed.
Two years ago, there
close to the drinking water
base in Hawaii.
As we first reported in
assured thousands
that the tap water was safe.
But nearly two weeks
parents learned the truth.
The water they drank or
contained jet fuel.
Tonight, you'll hear from
say the jet fuel tainted
But first, we'll go to where the
began.
From the air, the historic
Eight miles from Honolulu,
battle gray ships and
killed by Japan's
What you can't see is the
that provided fuel for the
for 80 years.
It doesn't look like
But wait till you get inside.
Vice Admiral John Wade led us
storage facility.
Seven miles of tunnels
built to hold 250
So this is one of the tanks.
Oh, my gosh.
That black hole is a
so deep, it's hard to see
To just show you how
this tank holds 12.5
And to give you a reference
not the base, but
fit in here with enough room.
And this is just one of
This is the Arizona,
When the Japanese
construction was already
the Navy's fuel reserves
The decision was made to
to build a bulk storage fuel
in secrecy.
And how long did
There's a little less
At its peak, there are about
All right, watch your head.
We're going to go this way.
But this testament
became a monumental
That's jet fuel spraying
The video was recorded
Hill on November 20 of 2021.
The fuel, 20,000 gallons of it,
The weight caused
This trolley hit it.
And jet fuel spewed for 21 hours
drinking water for 93,000 people
Harbour.
According to Navy investigators,
didn't have the right
They also assumed there was no
They were wrong.
At least 5,000 gallons of jet
floor and into the
The next day, the Navy issued a
and told the 8,400 families
the water remains safe to drink,
tested the water yet.
A week later, residents
When did you get the
something wrong with the water?
My husband came into the
and said, gosh, the water smells
The water smells weird.
Brittany Traeger lived on base,
Hill, with her
who is a Navy chief
Traeger says she began to feel
I had a cough.
My tonsils were very swollen.
I remember a very
where I was walking to the car.
And I had vertigo so bad that
The smell was that overwhelming?
Uh-huh.
In an email to residents,
the commanding
reassured residents, "there
that the water is not safe.
My staff and I are
Did you stop using water?
Did you stop taking baths?
So I did.
My daughter did.
Just because you had a bad
told you to.
Correct.
They gave us an
could send an email to if we
So I emailed those people who
that I should call.
And I called that
And it was just busy.
They were overwhelmed and
10 days after the spill, there
from six neighborhoods across
odor coming from kitchen
but the Navy said its initial
It defied logic.
Even though there
though our water
and even though there was sheen
the tests are coming
After 12 days and
assuring residents the water
the Navy reversed course.
On December 2,
more comprehensive tests
had detected jet
Three weeks after the spill,
of Health revealed jet
higher than what the
Richelle Dietz lives on base
petty officer, and
Jet fuel is not something
think could happen
How were people
I was so sick to my
that I actually threw
Because why?
Because my kids had
Within a month, the Navy set
Some complained of stomach
and coughing.
The military moved more than
Small studies of
suggest jet fuel
to neurological and
But the long-term impact
is unknown because it's so
Richelle Dietz told us, days
tonsils became inflamed.
And her son started suffering
I can hear people saying
kids get that stuff.
How do you know it's related?
Because they never had it
It wasn't an issue.
It's unclear how many got sick.
But of 2,000 people who
by the Centers for Disease
more than 850
The water system was
and bottled water brought in.
Brittany Traeger said
suffers respiratory
require hour long treatments
that includes a nebulizer
to clear her lungs.
Tell me about your
13 days after the
smelled like jet fuel, my
with a cough.
And it pretty much
Three months passed before
was deemed safe again.
The Navy's own investigation
"cascading failures" and
supervision, and ineffective
unacceptably short
For the last 10
raised concerns about the threat
The primary water supply
is hundred feet below
In March of 2022, the
ordered Red Hill
Vice Admiral John
to get the 104 million gallons
and move it safely to
We've got to defuel that's
There's ongoing and
long-term environmental
to restore the aquifer, the
And then there's also
for those that
Your view now the thing that
is a threat.
That's right.
In six months,
successfully removed
But it took two years before the
to 14 officers involved
including five admirals.
Was anyone fired
At the time that the
we had officers that
And so they had already
Meredith Berger is an assistant
We met her at the
She told us the Navy
We're talking about 20,000
90,000 people had their
It looks like people
And no one was fired.
How is that accountability?
It's accountability within the
And we have heard
and that maybe it
2,000 military families agree
and are suing the government.
The defuel and Deitzs
alleging they were harmed
Are you angry that it
angry at what happened after?
It's a little bit of
this feeling of betrayal.
What do you mean, betrayal?
So my husband has been
We have moved our family
We gave so much of
for them to ignore warnings.
And then we were directly and
Navy leadership has
but has not said that the
of the ongoing illnesses.
The Navy did set
to collect data and
believes they have health issues
What happens in 5,
Will those services still be
So that is part of
that we're collecting
to inform future
the requirements are for
That doesn't sound like a
And I want to be careful because
part of things.
And so I don't want to speak
any authority or a decision.
So we followed up with
which told us it's reviewing
care for military families,
children.
Two years after the
have reported water
The Navy is conducting
and says it is confident there
Richelle Dietz is still
She, and Brittany Traeger, along
are awaiting a judge's
What is the remedy
In our family, it's restoring
That's a big thing to say.
There's a body of
They contaminated our water.
They lied to us.
They did not protect us.
And they did not intervene.
And accountability looks like
my family, and the
And that will restore
Does Red Hill still pose
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No matter how Russia's
Dr. Yuri Kuznetsov will be
madness for years.
As we first reported
Kuznetsov is a Ukrainian
who stayed by his patients
Now, heroism is a
His city was liberated,
sees victims every
who step on one of the
across about one
There's a massive effort
but that will take a
Until then, there
with healing hands and eyes
Half his life, he's
and here in its basement,
All he'd become in 52 years was
We didn't imagine,
that Russia would
Dr. Kuznetsov told us.
When you're sitting
and a plane is
was impossible to predict
to see another day.
In 2022, the basement became
That's him dressed in white.
The wounded were endless.
A close friend's wife,
And this man who
Did you save more
We saved significantly
Many of your colleagues
I wonder why you stayed.
When you have
the only doctor, the only
I didn't understand
He could not leave Izium.
His city of 40,000 was
The Russians laid
from Ukraine's counterattack.
Putin's unprovoked war on an
of Izium and killed 1,000,
cleaved in two and this school,
The people of Izium clothed
and yet they are
Demining teams are still
Izium, 20 miles
one of the worst areas for
Throughout Ukraine, more than
wounded by mines.
Lidia Borova, a
was picking mushrooms
I turned by the tree.
And then there was an
I looked down at myself
My arm was injured.
My leg was injured.
I was losing strength.
Her right foot and
Kuznetsov said, first of
is to persuade a patient that
It's very difficult
that the leg is no
He told us a prosthetic is
Dr. Kuznetsov saved
I didn't realize how
I don't know how I
Ihor Bogoraz was with
They found 12 mines,
I decided to mow the
And one mine was under my foot.
I stepped on it and
And that's it.
No leg.
Serhii Nikolaiv was walking
while uncovering
If it had been green, he told
but it was Brown.
I didn't see it.
It blended in with the leaves.
I stepped on it.
And I knew right away.
Kuznetsov said, the
who stepped on petal mines
The person who invented
because they only
But what they can do when
Petal mines, 5 inches
by the thousands
11 pounds of pressure
Vasyl Solyanik found them on
There's 18 here, he told us.
But in all, there were over 50.
He showed us his video.
That's a petal mine right there.
They are so common that we were
woman who gathered them in a
station.
Solyanik told us, there's some
so don't walk around there.
He dialed 101.
And emergency services
Ivan Shepelev and Ihor Ovcharuk.
We encounter every
Ovcharuk told us, anti-infantry
artillery shells, rockets.
It's all here.
At Solyanik's home, a sweep
bomb.
Those are tricky.
So they blew it in place.
Ivan Shepelev told us,
they also left booby traps.
We have seen cases,
where explosives were
Ovcharuk said, my
on removing our dead Ukrainian
been mined.
In 2022, Ihor
shattered when a fellow
and lost his foot.
Shepelev told us, we know
that someone's life is saved.
A few weeks after our
wrecked the fire station
Some were injured, but
What is the scope of the
I think the scope is
Pete Smith heads demining
a charity founded in
Smith was 33 years
and awarded by Queen Elizabeth
bomb in a train station.
Today, he says, Ukraine is the
In some areas, the minefields
in areas--
maybe a dozen mines deep.
But that's just the
Then several
there are other layers
Smith took us to a farm sown
You have to step carefully.
Right there, in the
packed with 17 pounds
With three weeks of
Yulia Yaroshchuk was probing
would detonate a mine near her.
She threaded the grass, feeling
Only the day before, a
and two were wounded in
Doing this by hand
it seems to me that you have
She said, well, of course,
As far as I know, it'll
Each day of war means
Why do you do this work?
I didn't have to do it.
I wanted to do it.
This is my contribution
Will Ukraine ever
I think what I have
in Ukraine is the innovation,
the sheer will of
confident that they
the last mine from Ukraine.
Does this war make
Not to a single person here or
What kind of mind, what
do you have to be to
like this on your enemies?
You can't.
Even now, someone could
and it makes a loud noise.
And in your soul you feel
It's a real horror.
my sister-in-law
by a mine in front
in front of their eyes.
Of all of Vladimir Putin's
one was the bombing of
Kuznetsov told us, after
was damaged, a lot
simply became unavailable.
Here, we had both intensive
When Yuriy Kuznetsov
his grandmother
He told us that's why
And we suspect that's why he
and occupation, and the
When a town loses
doesn't just lose the
The best praise for me was when
that when we heard the
we realized that
It could withstand,
The future of
devotion and heroic patience.
On this day, Yulia
teased out one Russian mine,
from its edge.
The horse has played
in the history and mythology
The Shoshone, Crow, Blackfeet,
first saw horses when
to this continent 500 years
in hunting and in
Collectively, these tribes call
As we first reported
men and women from those tribes
that fans have dubbed America's
The tribes call it Indian Relay.
Its roots date back centuries.
And it's one of
dangerous, and inspiring things
Welcome to the 2023
We start at the start.
In Indian Relay, as many as
are brought to a start
The horses are bareback,
Their riders wear
At the sound of a
and tear down the track.
To actually get on
and run as fast as you
That's easy.
Yeah.
Ken Real Bird is a sort
of Indian relay,
all over the American West.
These horses are able to run
But the hard part
Wait, what?
After the riders race, one lap
they all speed into a sort of
are waiting with fresh
known as the exchange.
So he has to come
and then angle that horse in.
He gets off and
and he's on to the
Boom, there he goes.
Ken Real Bird makes that flying
sounds simple.
It is not.
It's more like a dangerous,
and horses from six
to do the same thing at the
You have what they
Their job, primarily,
in the proper position
Now, here they come.
Simultaneously, you have a guy,
on his feet.
And he's got to catch that horse
That horse, he really doesn't
A third member of the pit
because the riders must do
It's exciting, but it's
Yeah.
A lot of injuries.
Almost every heat will have some
Can you imagine the
Chiefs all combined in
That's what it's going to feel
pounds.
Injuries to both horses and
The team that best avoids
that third lap on a third
for showing off at the finish.
Well, that was a great race.
Ken Real Bird says the
are in the horse stealing
staged against white
These young men of
would travel when it
They would come and
and hightail it back
They exchanged horses as they
were being pursued.
And so that's pretty much the
that we know today.
Races in the organized
in the early 1900s.
When they first started out,
were happening more in
Native communities on
I've seen some races--
Calvin Ghost Bear is a
Seven heats, eight heats.
And president of an organization
Relay Council.
What we do with Horse
took a lot of the
within the tribal
into the mainstream.
And now we're bringing
Last summer's Indian Relay
and climaxed in Casper, Wyoming,
event that celebrated tribal
and dance, and offered more
thanks to sponsorship from a
Arapaho tribe.
This is the ladies.
It included a women's division.
It's two laps and two horses,
in men's races.
But the athleticism and danger
Now, there's no
There's also a
Takes a great tumble.
with riders as young
climbing on and falling off.
He's going to be all right.
Those are the guys
the great riders, the great
all horsemen.
And it's like that
On the Blackfeet
we met Ervin Carlson
who have been competing
Chazz is one of the most
circuit.
For relay, making
is just practice, practice,
of experience.
Chazz is off.
Another team we followed through
by 23-year-old Tuesday Washakie
in Wyoming.
Her younger sister, Zia, is the
Both feel a close
If you're having a bad day,
you can go out.
And you can catch your
and things will just
I think that's just how it is.
Mason Red Wing feels the
to care for his horses.
It's really something
all here for one purpose.
And it's the horse.
Just setting up over here.
Mason hails from the Crow
in South Dakota.
When I was younger,
why I used to feel such
towards my own people.
I didn't want to
And the horse helped me
and be proud of who I am
Why were you feeling you didn't
Growing up, where I'm
you see a lot of
not proud to be where I'm from.
Like what?
Alcoholism, drug addiction,
Suicide rates on the reservation
the national average.
My own father succumbed
So it really hit home.
You said the horse
Yup.
Yes, sir.
Essentially.
You think it does that for a lot
So there's a lot
that are just looking
There's little glamor in Indian
Every team is self-funded.
And nearly everyone has a day
But the sport is on the rise.
Prize money is increasing.
And 67 teams competed in
The quality of
Teams go to major racetracks
home of the Kentucky Derby,
to Indian Relay.
Kentucky, that would be
race before the derby.
That would be my goal.
Lots of thrills and
Each team competed in one heat
Their cumulative time
determined whether they
heat on Sunday.
Is the race usually won
Yeah.
It's like a relay team
But in Indian Relay, exchanges
18 other humans,
From what I've seen, it's like--
Chaos.
In the block, it's
Tuesday Washakie's women's
in Casper.
Oo Vee Das is right there.
And her sister Zia had a
They finished a close second.
I don't know, did you
it make you more determined?
It makes me more
I'd be out here mad as
Winning it all is going
The first place
came from the
in Washington State with
Is this your first championship?
No, I actually won the
All right.
Yeah, when I was 13.
And how old are you now?
17.
17?
Yeah.
Wow.
Are you going to do
Yeah, I'm going to do
I love this game.
The day before, we
win a heat with her arms
and strength.
It is how we connect to
the warriors of 200 years ago.
It's that same bloodline
is cursing through their blood.
Mason Red Wing.
Over three days of
Mason Red Wing and his team go
when an exchange went
as another went right.
Good, good, good.
Because we're always searching
They didn't quite
It's for the championship
The team that did was
met months earlier on the
Ervin Carlson and his son Chazz.
So we've been following
This is the culmination of
So does this give you bragging
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[CHANTING]
As a tribal elder sang a
of their victory and organizers
for $20,000.
Give him a nice
We noticed a group of kids
watching intently.
What the horse
the horse can do that for
And I'm a firm believer in it.
I know for a fact, it
and our young women back.
I'm Scott Pelley.
We'll be back next week with
So when you look out there
what do you think?
I see money leaving America.
Pure insanity.
You're noticing mis-
on your own social media.
This is the world
And we can make impacts
Is this a battle of
In part it is.
Black versus White.
In part it is.
If you're not willing to
then what are you
Go for me.
Go for three.
1, 2, 3.
Go.
I want a strong America.
I want a proud America.