Swiss contest to clear munitions from lakes

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Switzerland is holding a contest to clean up a longstanding problem: military munitions that have been dumped into its lakes. The Federal Office for Armaments is offering a $58,000 prize to the winning idea of how to safely retrieve the munitions from the lakes. Host Marco Werman has more.

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