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Cutting-edge heart surgery saves skydiver

Iwan van der Schoor tore his aorta in a skydiving accident on the Fourth of July. Half of the people with that type of injury die within 24 hours. But van der Schoor was able to live thanks to a new type of surgery. CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports.
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