Good morning. I'm Jane Pauley, and this is Sunday morning. It's a little-known subset of the Justice Department, which can have a profound impact on the lives of newcomers to the United States, immigration judges. Ted Koppel this morning tells us about their changing and controversial role in the Trump administration. It was never a slam dunk, but a little more than a year ago, an immigrant who applied for asylum in court.
had about a one in three chance of hearing this from an immigration judge. Welcome to the United States. These days the Department of Homeland Security is looking for another kind of judge altogether. When we first saw the ad, thought it was a fake. They're calling them deportation judges.
A HID on Sunday morning. Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle and Emmy winner Iowa Debry are known for their performances on screen.
Now they're taking the stage together, making their debuts on Broadway. They'll talk about it with Tracy Smith.
Alright, let's go. He's a film superhero. Richie, do you even know how to do prize? She's a TV superstar. 25.
I feel old. They are the heart and soul of a Broadway play.
So do you have a father-daughter relationship? Off stage? I do check up and see what time she's going to bed. I'm proud of you. Don Cheadle and Iowa Debry team up for proof later on Sunday morning.
Right, yeah. For those weary of all the run-of-the-mill car commercials on TV, Luke Burbank will introduce us to an unusual salesman whose approach is Well, a bit more operatic. Andrew Hires was struggling. They're not going to give a new car salesman any of the hot leads until you prove you can sell. That was until he decided to unleash his real talent on the world of car sales.
So, how am I going to separate myself from the other salesmen? Price 200 users. Arrrrr. Listen. Bull choice.
Selling cars in Florida for a song. coming up on Sunday morning. Earth Day is Wednesday, so our David Pogue is going green throughout the morning. offering us a glimpse of some small steps that could make quite a difference for the future of our planet Earth. Jim Axelrod investigates how trucks are becoming a more deadly threat than ever on the nation's highways.
And more on this Sunday morning for the 19th of April. The majority of the 2020. We'll be back after this. Let's see. Immigration Judges.
They work in the Justice Department, and their role is critical to the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts. Theirs is a little understood job which senior contributor Ted Coppel has been looking into. On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history. And he did. This is kidnapping.
President Trump began his second term by dispatching troops and armed ICE agents to carry out aggressive arrests and mass detentions, mainly in blue states. As his Secretary of Homeland Security, the President appointed Christy Noam. whose appetite for deportation and publicity appeared to match and at times eclipse his own. I'm Christy Noam. That and pinning her promotional campaign's $220 million price tag on the boss from President Trump and me, welcome home.
May have ruffled a few important feathers at the White House. Secretary Noam was fired. Signaling a change in tone for the administration, but no change in mission. You have only to check out what's happening in our immigration courts. You think there's any doubt among immigration judges these days as to what the administration wants?
Zero doubt. They want numbers, they want deportations. They want to keep as many people detained as possible. And stress the system. When Ryan Wood retired a little more than a year ago, he was an assistant chief immigration judge in the Midwest.
He probably could have stayed on. He was appointed during President Trump's first term. denied many more asylum applications than he granted, But even so, he didn't like what he was seeing. I have seen judges that have not made it very long in this new regime where they've been walked off the bench. Walked off?
Who walks a judge off the bench? They're in the middle of dictating an oral decision and they get an email or they get a tap on the shoulder, literally on the bench, saying, please come with me. Is that what happened in years past? No. Never.
We've never seen anything like this. The Immigration Court is not a part of the judiciary. It's overseen by the Department of Justice, which is in the Executive Branch. And over the past 14 months, the Trump administration has fired, retired, or forced out. over 200 immigration judges.
It was crushing. It was a dream job for me. in a lot of ways. made personal and professional sacrifices to take that job because I believed I could be a good and fair judge. Before she was fired last September, Annam Petit gave up a well-paid job as a law partner to take on a job as an immigration judge in Annandale, Virginia.
In my two years of being a judge, I never received any negative feedback from colleagues. superiors All of my probationary reviews were positive and No reason was given. What does your gut tell you? I came from a background where I represented immigrants previously. I was a law professor at Georgetown Law where I taught on gender-based immigration issues.
I am a woman, a person of color. Jeremiah Johnson was an immigration judge in San Francisco for eight years. My last words on the bench were to a family of four. You've been granted asylum in the United States. Welcome to the United States.
He was appointed during the last Trump administration. He was caught off guard last November when he was terminated. I logged on to the computer and I saw the email notification with an attached letter indicating that I had been fired. Within 30 seconds, I was locked out of the computer system. unable to print that letter, and then I was escorted out of the building.
Were you ever given a reason? No reason was ever given. This recruitment ad from the Department of Homeland Security offers a pretty broad hint. It features the fictional character Judge Dredd, a futuristic hanging judge. Deliver justice to criminal, illegal aliens.
Become a deportation judge. Save your country. In another ad, you be the judge, make up to a little more than two hundred thousand dollars, and there's a twenty five per cent bonus if you'll take the job in a sanctuary city. When we first saw the ad, we thought it was a fake. It was not real.
It might be spam. We're not deportation judges. We're immigration judges. And it offends you? It does.
So far, the administration has recruited more than 70 deportation judges. most from enforcement backgrounds, with little or no immigration experience. Also, to fill the gap created by the Administration's own firings, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth authorized sending military lawyers, known as JAGS, To serve as temporary immigration judges for six-month rotations. What's wrong with that? I'm a former Army judge advocate, so I have a lot of affinity and respect for those judge advocates.
This is not a temporary detail. Immigration law is extremely complex. It's only rivaled by the tax code in complexity. It takes A year or two to really get up to speed and to understand the law and how to make good, fair decisions. But we're pulling these people out of private practice.
for six-month details and truncating the training. And there's clearly been messages out there of read the room. If you're not going to make appropriate decisions, you won't be here for long. The Department of Justice declined our request for an interview, but almost a year ago, the President succinctly summed up his approach aboard Air Force One. We need judges that are not going to be demanding trials for every single illegal immigrant.
We have millions of people that have come in here illegally. And we can't have a trial for every single person. That would be millions of trials.
So we've got three and a half million cases. How many immigration courts? Over 60, and we had, at the start of the administration, we had around 600 immigration judges. And There are about 100, 125 fewer judges now. We're talking about 3.5 million cases.
I can't even do the math out courtly. It's a difficult It's a lifetime problem. I guess the point I'm trying to make... He is The administration's case is not an unreasonable case. We have this overwhelming number.
Of illegal immigrants in the country, we've got to start shipping people out of here in big numbers. Do you see any legitimacy to that argument? The issue is that we also have a statute. Congress has set laws and it has established what removal proceedings are. It has established what a right to asylum is.
And an administration can't procedurally get around that rule of law. Oh, yes, they can. They're trying. I mean the fact of the matter is that they are ignoring the law. You're seeing chaos in the streets.
I think you're seeing chaos in the courts. Jeremiah Johnson continues to serve as executive vice president of the National Association of Immigration Judges. You shouldn't have police or ICE agents arresting people who are coming into court, tasers being outside the courtroom. What's the consequence?
Well, if they're there to send a chilling effect to the people coming to courtroom. Then that person is prevented from having their day in court. If they're arrested before they even get to the courtroom, then they have to defend their case miles away in a detention facility, perhaps away from their family, resources, lawyers. There are about 60,000 such people currently being held in U.S. detention.
More than 70% of them have no criminal record. According to a count by the Associated Press, 30,000 immigrants have filed what's known as A habeas petition Claiming illegal detention because they haven't been granted a bond hearing. These are basic due process issues. American citizens are taken into custody. They're flown across the country and held without bond.
That's extremely concerning. Even if you are wanting to deport more people, that's. Fine, but we should follow the laws that are in place. If we don't like the laws, Congress should change them. When you talk about American citizens being flown to detention centers in some other part of the country.
How often is that happening? The real answer is I don't think we know on some of these cases. There's such strong incentives to self-deport and to give up and to sign papers without talking to counsel or even talking to a judge. And I think we're going to learn years from now about some really egregious examples. Where we We didn't do what we're supposed to be doing.
A year ago, 31% of those seeking asylum in this country were successful. According to data for this past February, that number hit an all-time low. The legal pathway for asylum seekers to the United States is approaching zero. I'm very concerned that we're doing a lot of things right now without any changes to the law. We're doing it by executive order and executive power alone.
Whether it's firing of immigration judges or deportation orders, that's not the way a democracy is supposed to be run. As we've told you, Wednesday is Earth Day. For some, it may feel hard to celebrate given recent efforts to increase our reliance on coal and oil. but innovators keep coming up with new technologies for a cleaner world. and this morning David Pogue introduces us to a few of them.
Here are two global problems you probably don't like to think about. First, burning gas and coal is still heating up the planet. Second, you know those thousands of AI data centers popping up all over the country? They consume enormous amounts of power. Which produces even more carbon pollution and drives up our electric bills.
And this is not really going to stop. We're still at the beginning of this demand. Garth Sheldon Coulson is the CEO and co-founder of Panthalasa. He hopes to address both problems at once. With wave energy.
The ocean is really unlimited in terms of how much energy is available. It will really be the cheapest energy on the planet. What this thing is, really, is a floating hydroelectric dam. Panthelos' test model, the Ocean II, now rests on its side at the company's plant in Vancouver, Washington. as it goes up and down with the waves.
It causes water that's in that tube to be forced up into the top. Once it's in the ball, the water is forced through a turbine. The turbine spins, and that's what makes the electricity. The water sits here, so all you see is this part on top. Using a model of the latest design, the Ocean 3, Sheldon Coulson explained the most surprising part.
There's no anchor and no cables. And this is not tethered to the bottom. Correct. This is a self-propelled system. And so it's like a little Roomba, except it's enormous.
There's no cable to bring power back to shore either. In essence, these are floating data centers. They generate power from the waves, process AI computing tasks on the spot, and send us the answers by satellite. When you deploy many of our systems, they work together basically as a data center.
So we think of it as a really good alternative to data centers on land. Panthelasa has all of the private funding it needs, because it offers AI companies a quicker, cleaner way to get power than building data centers on land. Construction of the Ocean 3s is well underway. When will this exact unit see water? This system will be deployed around August of this year.
And what are the advantages of the power that it will generate? Clean, no fuel, no land use, no getting in the way of other activities on land, and very fast to scale because we can just manufacture the systems. Eventually the company hopes to deploy thousands of them far out at sea. Do you ever wake up in the morning going, I might be the guy who can solve two of the biggest problems in the world, not enough energy and too much pollution? It is really exciting that we're working on something that is coming along right at the right time in a way that's much cleaner, much more sustainable, and quite scalable so that we can really meet that demand as it comes.
To Luke Burbank and a man who makes selling cars. truly music to your ears. Down to House Hood, one of these friends in Coke Cool. Andrew Hiers might have the best singing voice of any car salesman in America. That's because most of his adult life hasn't involved selling cars.
It's involved singing opera. How do you describe your vocal range? Bass baritone, and that's right above bass, but below baritone. It's own specific genre. And lately I've exhibited some tenor notes.
The thing is, Florida's space coast, where Andrew lives, is not exactly an opera hotbed. The birds say Meet by the ring. That combined with a 2018 cancer diagnosis that sidetracked his singing and at 38, Hires found himself scrambling to make a living. any way he could.
So he decided to sell cars for this guy. I'm A.J. Hiers of Butterface Hires Kia in Melbourne, Florida. A.J. Hiers, who yes, does happen to have the same last name.
It's a distant relation, but I haven't really figured out how close we are related. Not close enough that it helped Andrew much during his first few weeks. In fact, he was having no luck selling cars or getting much attention at the dealership. You're not going to give a new car salesman any of the hot leads until you prove you can sell.
So how am I going to separate myself from the other salesman? I picked a car and I sang some opera in front of it. Come in and ask for a Bonner base hires Chrysler Dodge deep. Yeah. But even after he recorded his songs Yeah.
Hiers was too nervous to post them on his real Instagram account. I was kind of reluctant to share with the world that this is what I'm doing now because. 10, 15 years ago, if you had a second job, it said you weren't a serious opera singer. You need to be devoted to your art.
So he created a secret Instagram account called Luciano Carvarati. But then accidentally posted the songs to his real account. It blew up immediately, just getting likes and comments right off the bat. That happy accident of posting to the wrong account turned Andrew into an internet darling. What use for?
Betty just was so All told, the videos have been viewed over 8 million times. Helping Andrew sell seven cars already in his short career. My general manager called me and says, Hey, there's a guy with your name. He's an opera singer, and he's. Singing about the cars and he's putting it online and customers are inquiring about it.
AJ Hires says he's impressed with Andrew's ability to generate interest on the internet but he was also quick to point out that despite their distant family relationship, did the musical talent make its way to your side of the hires? Absolutely not. I couldn't carry a tune if you paid me. Al pasar le pregunte. You get star con manual.
Someone who can sing is 90-year-old Roman Ortega Cowen, retired banker and artistic director at the Vero Beach Opera. whose cast hires in multiple productions. Have you seen the videos with the cars? No. And delighted to see.
I admire a guy like that. He's true to his compass, where he wants to go. But he needs that little break, he needs that little chance. A wandering minstrel I in need of a cheap compass. For his part, Hires hasn't given up on his singing dreams.
I want to be performing everywhere. I don't feel more alive than if I'm on a stage in front of a thousand strangers. I am never going to stop being an artist. but I'm done with the starving part. The explosion of online shopping is one reason there are more trucks on the nation's highways than ever before.
Those trucks can be deadly. More than 100 people die every week. in crashes involving big rigs. CBS News has been investigating one of the industry's largest companies.
Now asking the Supreme Court to shield it from lawsuits that often follow deadly truck crashes. Jim Axelrod reports This is what Ohio State troopers confronted. responding to a crash outside of Cincinnati the day before Christmas of 2022. Can you hear me? A tractor trailer heading north on I-75.
Cross the median. and slammed into two vehicles. They were texting me throughout their drive saying how close they were, where they were, and then. I heard nothing. Amy Ross had planned to host Christmas for her family that year.
In those two cars? Her mother Kimberly. a sister Laurent. Another sister, Karen, and brother-in-law. Jeremy Baney.
And that's When we got in touch with the police and the police said They're all gone and There was nowhere to go, there was no hospitals to go visit them at. They were just gone. It's like this can't be real. For Jeremy's parents, David and Mary Bainy, The loss was catastrophic. but making it even more painful, their daughter in law Karen, was five months pregnant.
I wish he was here. I wish Karen was here. I wish the baby was born. The driver of the truck, a Cuban national with a green card, Had left Miami two days earlier in a truck that police said had a stolen federal registration number. Empty, where'd you deliver at?
Yeah, I'm delivering Warmer. A toxicology report showed elevated levels of cocaine and methamphetamines in his system. After the crash, the driver fled. Back to Cuba. How does a guy like this end up?
hauling goods for Walmart. I don't think that this driver or many others like him end up on the road, but for the broker. Turning a blind eye. Michael Leiserman is the Ohio family's attorney. He says the driver was just a cop.
in a much larger system Fueled by Middleman. Thousands of freight brokers that pair trucking companies with big box stores like Walmart. and target. Yeah. The biggest broker?
C. H. Robinson. A Fortune 500 company that did more than $16 billion in revenue last year. Do they have their own trucks?
They do not.
So they simply exist. as a broker. Walmart needs flowers moved. They contract with C.H. Robinson.
C.H. Robinson finds the actual trucks that will move the flowers. That's correct.
Some 5,000 people died in trucking accidents in 2024. up more than fifty percent. from 15 years ago. There's part of it that we're having a lot more things delivered than we were before. And everyone who delivers is trying to find some way of avoiding responsibility if they put someone unsafe on the road.
Delilah Coleman was only five years old. President Trump put a spotlight on the issue when he spoke about Delilah Coleman in this year's State of the Union address. Delilah, please, you are a great inspiration. Please stand up. In 2024, An 18-wheeler carrying ice cream for Target.
struck a car as she was riding in. You want to walk down the stairs by yourself, or you want me to hold your hand? leaving her severely disabled. Were you worried your daughter was not going to survive? Yeah.
Especially when they told me that sh that her skull got crushed. Marcus Coleman is Delilah's father. Hi. She has a mentality right now, about an 18-month-old. The government says the truck driver in this case is from India.
and was in the U.S. illegally. That's why tonight I'm calling on Congress to pass what we will call the Delilah Law. barring any state from granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal airlines. You have fast.
But Marcus Coleman, a trucker himself and other safety advocates, said the legislation only addresses part of the problem. It doesn't hold brokers. Accountable. Trust me, I'm upset with the driver, I'm upset with the carrier, but if we don't go after the broker, this is going to continue happening. CBS News obtained records that tie C H Robinson to the truck that injured Delilah.
The Colemans are suing. alleging the broker failed to perform an in-depth safety review of the trucking company. And it's not hard at all, within thirty seconds. We found out how many out-of-services he had. We found out how many violations they had, how many suspensions, car accidents.
C. H. Robinson turned down our requests for an interview. The company is fighting the Coleman lawsuit. Our investigation found in the past decade, C.H.
Robinson hired thousands of trucking companies that had a history of safety issues. dozens had hallmarks of chameleon carriers. operators that paper over poor safety records, By reconstituting under a new name. Same trucks? Same trucks.
Same owner? same owner will have cases where they'll change one letter. in their name. and avoid detection. Yeah, so that they can keep getting loads without changing their safety practices.
The family in Ohio is also suing C. H. Robinson. An analysis of federal records shows the trucking company in that crash had changed names at least three times to cover up safety issues. They hauled exclusively.
for CH Robinson. Two of Dave Hahn's daughters died in the crash. They're responsible. And that truck was on the road because of them. They enabled it.
C. H. Robinson. C. H.
Robinson. C. H. Robinson denies responsibility. It says both here and in the Coleman case the hauler subcontracted the load without its knowledge.
The company told us it only works with federally licensed carriers, and only the government has the authority, data, and expertise. to determine whether a carrier is fit to operate. firms sanctioned by regulators are automatically blocked. The company would not say if it conducted any additional safety checks.
So we went with an industry source to America's largest trucking show, To find that. I A C. H. Robinson representative explained how it all works. All that's needed under the law is federal authorization, which requires proof of insurance and a $300 fee.
But no safety review. conducted by the company.
Okay. But like for us it's not just about safety core, it's about like on-time delivery, that kind of stuff. That's where you start getting more loads. The Supreme Court is now hearing a case that will determine whether C.H. Robinson and other brokers.
can be held liable in truck accidents like Delilah Coleman's. If the court sides with the company, We get absolutely nothing for Telida. Delilah, she she doesn't gain anything at all. During oral arguments, a Trump administration lawyer told the justices they were aligned with C. H.
Robinson. putting them at odds with the very girl who inspired their truck safety initiative.
So does it shake your confidence? in their support for you and for Delilah. It honestly does. A few weeks ago, we saw a suspected chameleon carrier. pulling out of a C.
H. Robinson warehouse in Miami. It's ridiculous. There's no accountability at all. Nobody's keeping track of any of this stuff.
and the same trucking company in the Ohio crash is back in business. this time under a new name. Still hauling loads. for CH Robinson. I keep hearing this word.
Accountability. Right, accountability. Of course you can't stop everything, but you sure need to make make a dent in it and show that you care. These are new varieties. This is a buckwheat.
This is David Pogue. Washington State University professor Kevin Murphy is trying to fix bread. Bread's been baked for many, many thousands of years. But the last hundred years we've lost a lot of the nutrition and flavor and that's what we're trying to bring back. He's the director of the university's bread lab, whose mission is to breed better grain.
to make better bread. We're not eating whole grain breads anymore. All these micronutrients that our body needs. is in the outer layer, the skin of the wheat. And you're saying we typically throw that away?
Well yeah, it's removed. From the wheat flour. Why? It can lend the flour to go Rancid after maybe four to six months, whereas just white flour, once the bran and germ is removed, can be stored indefinitely for a very long time. Is this a true statement that most adults prefer the taste of white bread to wheat bread at the moment?
Yes.
Okay, but you're trying to Fix that. through careful breeding for flavor. No genetic engineering is involved, just careful cross-breeding of thousands of varieties. What we're looking at is a breeding nursery of about 300 different varieties and breeding lines here. Oh, like batch, batch, batch, batch.
Exactly. Breeding the perfect wheat is a tall order.
So the ideal wheat would have a good yield, bushels per acre, disease resistant, bug resistant, heat resistant, drought resistant. higher nutritional value and better tasting. Yeah. See? Is that everything?
You're a plant breeder already. I'm kind of stretching it. The Bread Lab's Janine Sanguin. What do you want on your pizza, David? Baked us some amazing 100% whole wheat pizza.
So if it's better for you, why isn't it a thing? Because people think it tastes like cardboard. Typically. A way to sell it, you mean? I people think, not this person.
Are there climate benefits? Yes.
We are losing 30% of our food. 30% of the kernel is thrown away and not used for human nutrition when we use sifted white flour. A certain percent of that 30% that you don't need to grow wheat on anymore can be wetlands again, or can be just more diversity of different crops being grown. Breadlab is also breeding wheat to withstand the more extreme growing conditions in our hotter, drier, floodier climate era. to give the farmers the capacity to buffer changes in the environment.
Thanks to $19 million in new grants, you'll soon see more bread that's good for flavor, good for you, and good for the planet. What can we do as plant breeders that can be really impactful? Either for nutrition or climate. It sounds like what you're saying is that. We're doing it because we wish people well.
Yeah. And we love doing it. Fair to say, actors Don Cheadle and Iowa Debry have both conquered Hollywood.
Now, as our Tracy Smith tells us, they've got a new address. on Broadway. It's not even champagne. The bottle is the right shape? You might say they're larger than life.
Great Lakes Vineyards. I didn't know they made wine in Wisconsin. A girl who's drinking from the bottle shouldn't complain. In proof, David Auburn's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Don Cheadle plays a mathematical genius with mental health issues. Iowa Debry is his daughter with issues of her own.
I hope you're not spending your birthday alone. I'm not alone. I don't count. Why not? I'm your old man.
Go out. This is the first time they've ever worked together when you were presented with the prospect of working with Don. What'd you think? I was very happy. And I was, I mean, I honestly was like, oh, I don't know if you would.
Do this, like, I feel like, I don't know, he's on, I can't look at him now, I feel very strange. But he's on like my Mount Rushmore of actors.
So, do you have a father-daughter relationship? Off stage? Um, I do check up and see what time she's going to bed and when she's texting too late. I'm like, hey. Yeah.
We do have a show tomorrow. In order for your friends to take you out, you generally have to have friends. It's funny how that works. You have friends. The play centers on Catherine, a young woman who put her life on hold to care for her aging father, a professor named Robert.
What about dad?
Someone needed to take care of him. He was ill. Two-time Tony winner Kara Young plays the sister who did leave home, and you can practically feel the family drama from here. I was working. I was here.
I lived with him alone. The play is obviously a lot about what you. Take from your parents what you give to your parents. And I'm curious if you've thought about your own parents differently. It's kind of hard not to.
It's a weird thing that we all go through that you don't realize you're going to go through. Whoa, yeah, but when it changes and all of a sudden you realize, like, now I'm taking care of my parents.
Now my my parent is sort of my child. He was crazy. Yes, but he wrote them. Proof is a deep dive, but Iowa Debris is up for the challenge.
Okay, so what are you doing here? You know, this um this was my dad's favorite spot. When I was a kid. Cameri Sunday. She'd been a rising star in Hollywood for years, but her role in The Bear made her a household name.
It also made her an emulator. And the Emmy goes to IO, get your ass up here. I think there's enough here to keep me working for the rest of my life. Not just me. I was starting to imagine I was finished.
Seems co-star Don Cheadle hasn't stopped working. In more than 50 films, he's played an astonishing range of characters. Like a stone-faced attorney opposite Denzel, Washington. Captain Whitaker, this NTSB hearing is a federal agency hearing. Do you understand that?
Yes, I understand that.
Okay, well, we can't play around with these people. He was one of the Ocean's 11 crew, opposite Al Pacino. Do you know what Chuck Berry said every night before counting 1, 2, 3, 4? And what did he say? Pay me my money!
And of course, he looked right at home in an Iron Man suit.
Alright, let's go. Was there a moment in your career where you felt like, okay, this kind of parlaying one into the other is actually happening? Was there a moment when you thought, okay, now I have some. traction. Tuesday.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean really you know we have this Every time you do the last thing, you're like, well, that's it, you know? You don't know that it's just going to keep happening just because it has been happening.
He also played a real-life hero, a hotel manager during the Rwandan genocide. I cannot let these people to die. He says he would have happily done anything to get that film made. As I understand it, you told the producers, hey, I understand if you get a more bankable star, I still want to be part of this project. Yeah, absolutely.
I was like, I just want to be a part of helping to get it. to get it made.
So, yeah, I did tell him that. And, and, um. Thankfully it came my way. Hotel Rwanda also scored him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. I'm pretty sure it's on the proof bio, you know, Oscar nominee Don Cheadle.
But how much does that mean to you personally? I mean, it's great to be recognized. You know, I I do this because I'm passionate about it and I and I want to be a part of it. Whatever happens after that happens, you know. Makes sense.
But I really hope I can. Did that come out? Did you hear that? Did that come out of my mouth? This is so cool.
Right? Welcome to our experiment every night. For all of his years in show business, Proof is Don Cheadle's Broadway debut, as it is for Iowa Debris and for two of the show's producers, Barack and Michelle Obama. What does it feel like in your gut when you come out here?
Okay. for the first time every time. This one. Like Here we go. You know, I feel like when we're backstage and we're waiting for that cue light and the queue light goes off, I feel like when you're on the roller coaster and it's like.
Sure. Then we come out here and it lights up and it's like Here we go. I don't know what's gonna happen. We're gonna see. Hopefully I remember to say all the things I'm supposed to say and don't throw my scene partner and that we have some magical experience.
You get your degree, you do your own work, you were just getting started. If you hadn't gone into math, that would have been all right. Claire's done well for herself. I'm satisfied with her. I'm proud of you.
Now, it seems Adebri and Cheadle are so in sync that even in moments where there is no script, you still get the sense they're family.
Now that you have this relationship, do you think that you'll work together again? God, I hope not. That was so well timed. There was no way that was going to be any other answer than that. Good answer.
Ew. This is David Code. We make 30 billion tons of concrete every year, enough to build the Hoover Dam 12 times a day. Unfortunately, to make it, we heat up crushed limestone to extreme temperatures by burning coal. The process produces more carbon pollution than all the world's ships and planes put together.
It generates mountains and mountains of CO2 into the atmosphere. Christina Crater and Ben Griffin are executives at Biomason in North Carolina. Insta Calcium Carbonate, where they make cement at room temperature. No burning coal, no fiery kilns, only bacteria. These are naturally occurring microbes.
We're making these tiles with microbes the same way you might make bread, you might make cheese. Only now we're using it to make materials and infrastructure. And why not? Nature uses a cement-like material called calcium carbonate all the time. in sea shells, coral reefs, limestone, and marble.
Biomasin's bacteria make the same stuff. on command. And do you have any examples of the finished Stuff? You're walking on it. Cement is like the glue.
Mix in sand and gravel, and you get concrete. Can you walk us through the whole process of making a batch? Once we have the bacteria, we would mix it with our sand, our rocks. It gets pressed into molds to take the form that you want that final product to be. After that, we would then provide food for the bacteria.
That chemical food triggers the bacteria to produce cement, right there in the sand and gravel. This is the calcium carbonate. Erin Eitel operates the electron microscope. but we can zoom out and you can see here the calcite is cementing these pieces together. And this is what's building strength in our cement.
And it's a lot of strength. We are at twenty-nine thousand pound force. Katie Mayer tests samples in a hydraulic press. Hey, yo. That was a big one.
So that one required 38,515 pounds of force. That's roughly double what driveway concrete would be. Uh-huh. Biomasons' process is ideal for making pre-formed shapes like tiles, slabs, pavers, curbs, bricks. And highway barriers.
We've made structures as large as 12 inches thick, 6 feet high. Biomason has a small plant running now in Denmark. It's also designing a huge commercial plant. And it plans to license its technology to thousands of other concrete companies. Making cement the way nature does has all kinds of advantages.
But for Biomason, this is the big one. We're just trying to get rid of cement and the CO2 that pollutes into the environment. Thanks for listening. I'm Jane Pauley. Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning.
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