Young girl survives Mediterranean wreck

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In the Mediterranean Sea, a German sailboat rescued a girl they found floating in the sea, the sole survivor of a migrant shipwreck. The 11-year-old girl is from Sierra Leone. Host Carol Hills has more.

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