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We begin with a yogurt entrepreneur. At a time when americans are debating whether immigration and refugees are a good thing or a bad thing for the country, it is sometimes noted that tesla, google, ebay, and pepsicola are all either founded by or currently being run by immigrants, and in one case, a refugee. Its a reminder that foreigners dont always take jobs from americans sometimes, they create them. And of all the success stories, none seems more relevant to the current debate than the tale of hamdi ulakaya, who came here from turkey 24 years ago on a student visa with almost no money. As steve kroft first reported in april, ulakaya is now a billionaire who has changed american tastes with his chobani yogurt, resurrected the economy in two communities, and drawn praise, and some hostile fire, for the way hes done it. Kroft he is a familiar, paternal presence on the factory floor, where everyone calls him hamdi. Hamdi ulukaya hey, brother, how you doing . Kroft he oversees every detail of a product line that barely existed a dozen years ago greekstyle yogurt, a thicker, tangier version of the dairy product that ulakaya popularized here and named chobani. Its now the bestselling brand in america. What does the word chobani mean . Ulukaya it means shepherd. Kroft shepherd . Ulukaya shepherd. Its a very beautiful word. It represents peace. And it meant a lot to me, because, you know, i come from a life with shepherds and mountains and all that stuff. Kroft his family raised goats and sheep and made cheese and yogurt in a small kurdish village in eastern turkey. During the summer months, they would move to the mountains and graze their flock under the stars. He says he was born on one of those trips, but he doesnt know the date, or the year. So how did you come not to know your birthday . Ulukaya yeah, in the old days, you know the nomads, you know, they didnt deliver babies in the hospitals. Kroft midwives . Ulukaya midwives, yeah. They would register when they come back. The registration officer would put everybody in january. Says its easy for math. Like, 70 of our town at that time, born in somehow in january. Im january 20th. This reminds me of home. Kroft he came to the u. S. At 22, a passionate, idealistic student who had gotten in trouble with turkish authorities for writing articles sympathetic to the kurdish rights movement. He was hauled in for questioning, and decided it might be a good idea to leave. Did you speak any english when you came . Ulukaya no. Kroft none . Ulukaya zero. Kroft no family, no ulukaya nothing. Nothing. Kroft no friends . Ulukaya nobody. No. Kroft it took him a year to find his footing in upstate new york, where he spent the next decade finishing his studies, working on a dairy farm and starting a modest feta cheese business. Where one day, he spotted an ad. Ulukaya it said, fully equipped yogurt plant for sale. And it has a picture in front, it said 1920 on the back. There was small, small pictures of various per parts of the plant. And i called the number. Kroft the Real Estate Agent said the 85yearold factory was owned by kraft foods, which had decided to get out of the yogurt business. Ulukaya and i asked for the price, and he says 700,000. I mean, you cannot even get a tank with 700,000. How could this be . So i didnt ask the second time, because i didnt want him to think that i kroft didnt believe him . laughs ulukaya yeah. Kroft or get him to reevaluate the price . Ulukaya yeah, he says, oh, maybe were asking too little. Kroft sensing an opportunity, hamdi set off to the small village of new berlin, new york to have a look. There he found the last employees of the last plant in the area, closing it down. Ulukaya i remember like yesterday. Its like, this sadness in this whole place. Like as if somebody died, like, somebody important died. Kroft 200 jobs . Ulukaya 200 jobs, was gone. Kroft former employees frank price, maria wilcox and rich lake were among the mourners that day. Rich lake your whole livelihoods gone. You dont really know what youre going to do or where youre going to go. Kroft so in comes this guy. Did you think he was for real . Lake honestly, it was a little farfetchedsoundin at first. laughter there was a little bit of doubt. At least for me, there was. You know, i mean ulukaya its okay. I doubted myself, too. laughter kroft he didnt have any money, but he managed to get a Regional Bank and the Small Business administration to split the risk of a Million Dollar loan. That put chobani in business, and allowed hamdi to hire his first five employees four of whom had been let go by kraft. Ulukaya and we had no other ideas what we were going to do next. Kroft it would take them two years to come up with a product and figure out how to produce it. Hamdi spent most of his time in the plant, except to grab two meals a day at the local pizzeria owned by another immigrant, frank baio, and his wife betsey. Ulukaya this is the only place in my, you know, in my early days of coming here, this is the only place you can come and connect to life again, and society and go back to whatever you do. Frank baio and i want to say something, scuse me if i interrupt you. Before hamdi showed up in this town, i was the king. laughter kroft what did you think of his plans . Frank baio well sighs lets put it to you this way i kind of felt sorry because i dont think he knew what he was getting into. I mean, i you figure for kraft to shut it down, who the hell is this guy, that hes going to open up and make it right, make it going . Kroft almost all of the early chobani meetings took place here, along with some small celebrations. Betsey remembers one where hamdi offered this toast. Betsy baio he said, heres to wishing we could ever make 100,000 cases of yogurt in a week and not worry about the light bill anymore. I said to my husband, im going to feel so bad when he loses his shirt, cause hes never going to sell 100,000 cases in a week. Kroft actually, it would take only a year. The first order of chobani yogurt, 150 cases, was delivered to a Kosher Grocery store on long island in october of 2007. No one knew if there would be another. Ulukaya the store manager called me and said, i dont know what youre putting into these cups. I cannot keep it on shelf. Dont tell me what youre putting in there. At that moment, i knew this was, like, three months in, this was not going to be about if i could sell it. It was going to be about, can i make enough . Kroft more milk . Ulukaya yeah. Kroft it would require more machines, bigger facilities, more milk from the surrounding dairy farms, and a lot more people. Between 2008 and 2012, production of chobani yogurt grew to as much as two million cases a week, revenues reached a billion dollars a year, and the number of employees shot up to 600. Its now roughly 1,000. Ulukaya anybody in the community who wanted to work for those years would find a job at chobani. Anybody. We were hiring. And if they were not working for us, they were working for the contractors that were doing job for us. Because the my my number one thing is, i was going to hire everyone local before i go outside. Kroft hamdis recruiting effort included a stop at a Refugee Resettlement center in the city of utica, 40 miles away, where he heard they were having trouble finding people work. Ulukaya they said, well, the language is a barrier. And transportation. I said, okay, lets try some. I will hire translators, and well provide transportation. Let them come and make yogurt with us. Kroft and they worked out . Ulukaya oh, perfectly. And they are the most loyal, hardworking people, along with everyone else here. Right now in our plant in here, we have 19 different nationalities, 16 different translators. Kroft by 2012, the capacity of the plant in new berlin had maxed out. They were running out of people, running out of milk and running out of room. So, hamdi decided to build a second facility the largest yogurt plant in the world, in the town of twin falls, idaho, all based on a sketch hed roughed out on a napkin at franks pizzaria. Ulukaya and if you look at the plant and the and the napkin, its basically the similar similar design. The piping in this plant is if you put it together from here to chicago, and we built them, less than a year. Kroft there were some initial growing pains a shipment had to be recalled because of mold contamination, and early production delays necessitated an emergency loan. But the business survived and has thrived in large part because of hamdis competitive nature. Ulukaya i love innovation, i love competing. I hate my competitors. Kroft you hate your competitors . Ulukaya of course i do. I want to beat them up. Kroft you want to make dannon yogurt and yoplait suffer . Ulukaya back to france. laughter just kidding aside. What i mean is, you cannot be in the world of business when you dont have this consciousness of winning. But in a right way. Kroft today, the twin falls plant has 1,000 employees, with aboveaverage wages and generous benefits. It pumps more than 2 billion a year into the regional economy, which is now running at close to full employment. Its allowed hamdi to hire fellow immigrants and refugees, not instead of american workers, but alongside them. We met two of them in twin falls, sisters, and agreed not to use their names or disclose the middle eastern country they fled, because they fear reprisals from the human traffickers that separated them from their family, then abandoned them as young girls on a Street Corner in eastern europe. How did you manage to get out . Sister 1 took us a long time. I prefer really not to talk about it because it is really painful sister 2 its painful, yeah. Kroft would you have survived if you had stayed there . Sister 1 no. Kroft youre sure of that . Sister 1 yeah, definitely. I was not sitting here alive if i was not leaving. Ulukaya they got here legally. Theyve gone through a most dangerous journey. They lost their family members. They lost everything they have. And here they are. They are either going to be a part of society or they are going to lose it again. The number one thing that you can do is provide them jobs. The minute they get a job, thats the minute they stop being a refugee. Kroft Hamdi Ulukaya insists hes not an activist, just a businessman. But the fact that he comes from a muslim country, supports Legal Immigration and helps refugees has not been universally popular in idaho, one of the most conservative states in the country. During the 2016 president ial election, chobani was attacked by far right media, including breitbart, claiming it had brought refugees, crime and tuberculosis to twin falls none of which is true, but both hamdi and the mayor of twin falls received death threats. One publication had a headline that said, american yogurt tycoon vows to choke u. S. With muslims. Ulukaya yeah. Kroft people targeted you . Ulukaya yeah, it was an emotional emotional time. People, you know, hate you for doing something right. I mean, what can you do about that . Theres not much you can do. Kroft the situation has cooled somewhat, and hamdi enjoys the full support of idahos very popular and very conservative governor, butch otter. Governor butch otter i think his care about his employees, whether they be refugees, or they be folks that were born ten miles from where theyre working. I believe his advocacy for that person is no different. And theres nothing wrong with that. Kroft we traveled with ulukaya to europe, where he has made the International Refugee crisis the focal point of his personal philanthropy. Hes donated millions to help survivors, like these in italy ulukaya whats your name . Kroft . Who risked everything fleeing iraq, syria and africa in hopes of finding a better life. Hes also enlisted the support of major u. S. Corporations in the cause and pledged to give most of his fortune to charity. Ulukaya she died . Refugee yes. Ulukaya and the kids died too . Kroft hamdi says he had no idea that things would turn out the way they have, when he came to america 24 years ago and bought that shuttered yogurt plant in upstate new york. He is now showing his gratitude. In 2016, he gave 10 of all of his equity in chobani to his employees. Ulukaya its not a gift. Its not a, oh, look how nice i am. Its a recognition. Its the right thing to do. It is something that belongs to them that i recognize. Thats how i see it. Alfonsi two days after our story first aired last year, the far right radio host alex jones posted a fresh round of accusations that chobani was importing migrant rapists. This time, the Yogurt Company sued. Last may, jones settled the case and expressed regret for the way he characterized the employees of chobani. Preponderance cbs money watch sponsored by lincoln financial, helping you protect those you love most. Benny layne good evening. Jerome powell will be sworn in tomorrow at the news chairman of the federal reserve. Congress is expected to passes another shortterm spending bill this week to avoid a government shutdown. And disney, tesla, and twitter are among the Major Companies reporting earnings this week. 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President obama started the thaw in the relationship, reestablishing economic ties and easing restrictions on travel. Now, President Trump has announced plans to undo many of those moves. And fidel castro, who spent 50 years poking his thumb in the eye of every american president , has died. Whatever happens, theres already a war under way that has the u. S. And cuba on the rocks. As we first reported last year, its a war over rum specifically, over two different versions of Havana Club Rum and its as bitter as the cold war ever was. Its a tuesday afternoon at el floridita in old havana, and we and lots of other visitors to cuba are filing in and filling up at the bar that calls itself the cradle of the daiquiri. Head bartender alejandro boliiivar needs to double up on rum bottles just to keep up with demand. How many bottles do you go through a day . Any idea . Bolivar so, its at. Its between 60 and 80, 80 bottles per day. Alfonsi thats a lot of daiquiris. Bolivar yeah. Plenty of empty bottles. Alfonsi oh, my gosh. Is this just from today . Bolivar yeah. Today, yeah. Alfonsi all those bottles were filled with Havana Club Rum, produced by a 5050 joint venture between the cuban government and the french beverage giant, Pernod Ricard, which sent jeeroome cottinbizoe to cuba to run the business. We met him in a place thats rarely open to outsiders a warehouse stacked to the ceiling with oak barrels full of rum. Jerome cottinbizonne we built a very Great Success with havana club, when we started the partnership in 1993, and we sold five million bottles a year. Today, we sell 50 million bottles a year. Alfonsi 50 million bottles, 11 million of them sold here in cuba. The tourists drinking havana club are obvious, but we went looking down the side streets and found