Lassana Bathily, immigrant and hero in France

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The court ruling on the Charlie Hebdo attacks on Wednesday was a relief to many people in France, including Lassana Bathily. Bathily is a Muslim immigrant from Mali who became a national hero in 2015 for hiding customers from an ISIS gunman at a Paris kosher supermarket. Reporter Rebecca Rosman has the story.

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