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Remembering 60 Minutes producer Howard L. Rosenberg
This past weekend, 60 Minutes producer Howard L. Rosenberg died after a short but fierce battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
A longtime investigative reporter, Howard produced his first story for 60 Minutes in 1992. He is fondly remembered by his colleagues for his exuberance and love of life as well as for the ever-increasing number of credentials jangling around his neck and the number of devices buzzing from his many pockets.
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Howard produced or co-produced over 40 stories for 60 Minutes during his time with the broadcast. Below, watch some of his memorable work.
2011: The Man Behind WikiLeaks
In January 2011, Steve Kroft interviewed Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks who shook the world when he began releasing government secrets online.
2014: Public Enemy Number 1
In October 2014, Bill Whitaker reported on the pursuit and capture of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, kingpin of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel and the world’s most wanted man.
2016: El Chapo
Bill Whitaker reported on the recapture of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman after he escaped a Mexican prison through a tunnel.
2016: 28 Pages
In April 2016, Steve Kroft reported on the classified “28 pages” from a 2003 Congressional report on the intelligence community’s preparedness for and response to the 9/11 attacks.
2018: Senator Gillibrand
In February 2018, Sharyn Alfonsi profiled Kirsten Gillibrand, New York’s junior senator.
2018: The Theranos Deception
In 2018, Norah O’Donnell reported on Elizabeth Holmes’ biotech startup, Theranos, which had a blood-testing machine that did not perform as touted.
2016: 60 Minutes Overtime: Hacking Your Phone
In April 2016, 60 Minutes aired the story “Hacking Your Phone.” The report detailed how cellphones, and the networks that carried their signals, could be vulnerable to hackers. Professional hackers, some of whom acted as security consultants by day, demonstrated how they hacked into Sharyn Alfonsi’s phone by using a flaw in the global mobile network called Signaling System Seven (SS7). That week, 60 Minutes Overtime further explored how strangers could hack a phone in your pocket, featuring an interview with Howard Rosenberg.
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Yellowstone hiker burned when she falls into scalding water near Old Faithful, park officials say
Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. — A New Hampshire woman suffered severe burns on her leg after hiking off-trail in Yellowstone National Park and falling into scalding water in a thermal area near the Old Faithful geyser, park officials said.
The 60-year-old woman from Windsor, New Hampshire, along with her husband and their leashed dog were walking off a designated trail near the Mallard Lake Trailhead on Monday afternoon when she broke through a thin crust over the water and suffered second- and third-degree burns to her lower leg, park officials said. Her husband and the dog weren’t injured.
The woman was flown to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho for treatment.
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Park visitors are reminded to stay on boardwalks and trails in hydrothermal areas and exercise extreme caution. The ground in those areas is fragile and thin and there’s scalding water just below the surface, park officials said.
Pets are allowed in limited, developed areas of Yellowstone park but are prohibited on boardwalks, hiking trails, in the backcountry and in thermal areas.
The incident is under investigation. The woman’s name wasn’t made public.
This is the first known thermal injury in Yellowstone in 2024, park officials said in a statement. The park had recorded 3.5 million visitors through August this year.
Hot springs have injured and killed more people in Yellowstone National Park than any other natural feature, the National Park Service said. At least 22 people have died from hot spring-related injuries in and around the 3,471-square-mile national park since 1890, park officials have said.
TRENTON, N.J. — Democratic Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver has defeated Republican small businessman Carmen Bucco in a contest in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District that opened up because of the death of Rep. Donald Payne Jr. in April.
McIver will serve out the remainder of Payne’s term, which ends in January. She and Bucco will face a rematch on the November ballot for the full term.
McIver said in a statement Wednesday that she stands on the “shoulders of giants,” naming Payne as chief among them.
She cast ahead to the November election, saying the right to make reproductive health choices was on the ballot as well as whether the economy should benefit the wealthy or “hard working Americans.”
“I will fight because the purpose of politics and the purpose of our vote is to give the people of our communities and our nation a bold voice,” she said.
Bucco congratulated McIver on the victory in a statement but said he’s looking forward to the rematch in November.
“I am not going anywhere,” he said in an email. “We still have a second chance to make district 10 great again!”
Who are LaMonica McIver and Carmen Bucco?
McIver emerged as the Democratic candidate in a crowded field in the July special election. A member of the city council of New Jersey’s biggest city since 2018, she also worked for Montclair Public Schools as a personnel director and plans to focus on affordability, infrastructure, abortion rights and “protecting our democracy,” she told The Associated Press earlier this summer.
Bucco describes himself on his campaign website as a small-business owner influenced by his upbringing in the foster system. He lists support for law enforcement and ending corruption as top issues.
The 10th District lies in a heavily Democratic and majority-Black region of northern New Jersey. Republicans are outnumbered by more than 6 to 1.
It’s been a volatile year for Democrats in New Jersey, where the party dominates state government and the congressional delegation.
Among the developments were the conviction on federal bribery charges of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, who has denied the charges, and the demise of the so-called county party line — a system in which local political leaders give their preferred candidates favorable position on the primary ballot.
Democratic Rep. Andy Kim, who’s running for Menendez’s seat, and other Democrats brought a federal lawsuit challenging the practice as part of his campaign to oust Menendez, who has resigned since his conviction.