Cardinal's Braver Profiled

CBS's Rita Braver talks to the network's Public Eye:

A few years ago, a huge crowed gathered as I was doing the on-camera section of a story in a very dangerous neighborhood in Port au Prince, Haiti. Suddenly, I saw a man approach our cameraman Mario DeCarvalho. The two seemed to be arguing, but I was too far away to hear what they were saying. The next thing I knew, Mario was shrugging his shoulders, popping the cassette out of his camera, and giving the tape to the local man, who seemed to be objecting to our presence in his neighborhood. Worried that the man was taking not only my stand-up (which was easily replaceable) but also all of the tape we'd shot earlier in a clinic for impoverished children, I started following him, begging him to return our property. Suddenly I heard Mario call out: "Rita, could you please come over here right now." I immediately turned and walked back to Mario ... who said: "I gave him the tape because he pulled a gun on me ... now we have to leave very quickly." Mario, our producer, soundman and I all jumped into our vans. The crowds tried to block our car ... but our experienced Haitian drivers were able to get us out of the neighborhood. The good news is that Mario had changed tapes just before shooting the stand-up and our morning's work was safe.