Voir Dan Rather Reports, Season 8 - Episode 2

(1/15/2013) Almost 30 years ago, President Ronald Reagan famously announced a plan to build a missile shield to protect the U.S. against Soviet threat. But the idea was far ahead of what technology could achieve and it never came into being – until this past November. For the first time in history, a missile defense system actually proved itself effective in a real-life conflict. The scene was Israel, where hundreds of rockets were flying in from Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. But the skies above Israel were being protected by a system the Israelis call Iron Dome. And the implications for the troubled Middle East, and the U.S., are profound. Also, we speak with Australia's ambassador to the US about changes that were made to Australia's gun laws after a massacre that killed 35.