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good morning. i'm jane pauley and this is "sunday morning." you might call it the greatest show off earth. tomorrow's great american eclipse lasts just a few minutes, but its path will take it over 15 states and it will be visible to some 32 million of us. a light and shadow show like none other, likely to be remembered a lifetime. david pogue has his eye on the sky. >> reporter: maybe you heard something very cool will be happening in the sky tomorrow. >> it's too much of a miracle. i just can't understand how it's going to happen. all the way across in the very middle of the united states. >> i can't stress strongly enough, if you have the ability to get somewhere in the path of totality on april 8, 2024, you need to do it. >> here is your clips. >> reporter: ahead on "sunday

morning," how america's preparing for the great eclipse. it's perhaps a sign of our times that a soon-to-be-released movie called "civil war" imagines what would happen if that sort of conflict broke out in modern-day america. ben mankiwicz asks what if to its star, kirsten dunst. >> citizens of america -- >> reporter: a president under siege. a country torn apart. kirsten dunst calls her new movie a cautionary tale. does not feel like a sci-fi movie. this could be us in pick a year, 2025, 2026, 2024. is that fair? >> hopefully, not. i mean, but i do think it's a warning. i do. >> reporter: the film that may leave you thinking the unthinkable. coming up on "sunday morning." snoor the tony award-winning

musical the "the wiz" is back o broadway. in its title role, kelefa sanneh tells you a man perhaps best known for a very different role. >> who wants make a deal? >> reporter: wayne brady is "the wiz" on broadway. ♪ >> half a century after the original "wiz" premiered, how much pressure for this to work? >> me personally, it needs to work. for every single person on this stage, this is our people. our culture reflected in this fairy tale. ♪ >> reporter: later on "sunday morning," ease on down the road with "the wiz." you might be surprised to learn that women spend almost a third of their lives in what we call the change of life. still, there is far too much misinformation about menopause. tracy smith tries to clear it

up. >> reporter: ben tracy introduces us to the real captain cook. erin moriarty looks into a troubling loophole in foster care benefits. faith salie gets up close and personal with the diminutive washington, d.c., cherry tree they call stumpy. plus, a story from steve hartman and more. it's a "sunday morning" for the 7th of april, 2024, and we'll return after this. ♪

grab those glasses. david pogue has a sneak preview of tomorrow's great american eclipse. >> reporter: tomorrow's total eclipse of the sun won't be any old eclipse. >> this is referred to as the great american eclipse. the reason is, it's going through some very populated areas of the united states. >> we are in this area -- >> reporter: ed ting says that in a solar eclipse the man passes exactly between your eyes and the sun and casts its shadow on the earth. >> the shadow is only about 100 miles wide. so you have to be in a specific place on the earth to witness the solar eclipse. >> reporter: solar eclipses actually take place every 18 months or so, but during most of them the spectacle is wasted on empty ocean.

but tomorrow afternoon the moon's shadow will leave 32 million americans in 15 states briefly in the dark. it's all the result of a freakish cosmic coincidence. >> with we see the photos, we see this perfect black disc, that's the moon, and then we see that corona of sunlight around it. how does it happen that the sun and the moon appear to be exactly the right size for each other? >> it's interesting the way eclipses happen because the sun is 400 times bigger than the moon. but by happy coincidence, it is also 400 times further away. so, from our perspective, they are the same size. >> reporter: but the thrill of an eclipse isn't just about what's overhead. >> it's the sky and everything else around you. the wind sometimes starts to pick up. animals get confused. the streetlights come on. >> reporter: how dark does it get? is it like nighttime? >> it's not like nighttime. the sky takes on this sort of

fish scaly shimmery quality, and you will freak out. you can understand why theane shents ascribed such spiritual or religious significance to eclipses because you will feel very strange. half of the people who see an eclipse for the first time will cry. >> reporter: if you live in the path of the eclipse, you may notice one more effect. a lot more traffic. >> our town will grow twice its size, which means 160,000 people might be in town for the eclipse and we're very excited about it. >> reporter: cari white in jonesboro, arkansas, where the moment of totality, complete blockage of the sun, lasts 2 minutes and 17 seconds. >> our police department, our fire department, our city and light, they have been working over a year to design a plan. >> april 8th, park your ride,

protect your eyes and look at the sky. >> a total of four spots where yu can view the eclipse. >> reporter: there are kari white's all over the country? >> yes, doing exactly what i have been doing. it's a big, big deal. >> reporter: looking directly at the sun can permanently damage your vision, which is why you need eye protection. >> we ordered 75,000 pairs of glasses, and we have been working for weeks to pass them out to all of the schools. we have passed them out at all of the major businesses, the library, the city hall. if you don't have a pair of glasses and you live in jonesboro, i don't know how to help you. >> reporter: but here is something about the glasses you might not know. >> once totality hits, you can take the glasses off. >> reporter: why is that? >> there is not much light coming from the sun. once the sun starts to am come out again, you need to remember to put your glasses back on. >> reporter: cameras need

protective filters, too, but here is a classic piece of advice for would-be photographers. >> see your first eclipse, photograph your second. and i have seen this personally where there is an eclipse and the person is not looking up. they are fiddling with their camera and then before you know it the eclipse is gone. you never saw it. and you didn't get the picture. >> reporter: of course, all the precautions in the world won't help you if the conditions aren't right. >> i have to bring up the w word. what happens if it's cloudy and the weather is bad? >> i guess i'll cry. don't talk to me about the bad stuff. >> reporter: fortunately, it's mostly good stuff. >> when you consider that this truly is the great american eclipse, because it goes through the center of the united states, it just puts you in awe. i just know that it's going to be wonderful and i'm going to

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sticks like glue to my thighs ♪ >> reporter: 90 minutes of singing on a topic people used to just whisper about. it's been around two decades say producers kathi and alan glist. >> what it must have been like to put on "menopause: the musical" 20 years ago. did people say the word menopause outloud? >> not outloud. it was called the silent passage because there was such a stigma, almost shame attached to it at that time. ♪ change, change, change of life ♪ >> reporter: hot flashes, mood swings usually start in perimenopause, the months or years leading up to menopause self. if you didn't know that, you are not alone. is there an upside to menopause? >> there is a huge upside to menopause. >> reporter: dr. sharon malone is an ob/gyn and an author trying to take the mystery out of menopause with a new book aimed at grown women.

do you think most women know what to expect when it comes to menopause? >> they do not. most women have no idea when this whole perimenopause or menopausal transition starts. >> reporter: how long does this last? >> that's the $64,000 question. people are, how long is it? every woman is different, but the average is in the range of years. not months. >> reporter: now you can get back to feeling like yourself again. there are new treatments for menopause symptoms out there. just turn on your tv. >> this is a hot flash. >> reporter: the most common is hormone replacement therapy or hrt. it's basically a cocktail of different types of estrogen to put back what the body isn't making enough of. starting in the 1940s, that estrogen mixture came in pill form, sold under the clinical-sounding name premarin. and you're not going to believe where it comes from. the name premarin is?

>> pregnant mares urine. most people don't realize that. it's an inexhaustible supply of these end zone and horses you can imagine put out a lot of urine. as long as you keep the mares pregnant, you have an inexhaustible supply. >> reporter: and until 2002, it seemed there was an inexhaustible supply of menopausal women lining up for hormone replacement therapy. >> estrogen is not the only answer, but it is the most effective answer. for women who are symptomatic, by that i mean women who have hot flashes, night sweats, sleeplessness, neighborhood swings and the list goes on and on, nothing treats those symptoms better than estrogen therapy. and that's period, end of sentence. >> when i started having hot flashes, night sweats and menopause, my doctor recommended hormone replacement therapy. >> reporter: by the early 2000s, an estimated 6 million

menopausal women were taking hormones. then hrt got a black eye. through the '90s a government study called the women's health initiative was investigating a link between estrogen and a decreasing in heart disease. >> it was to see if estrogen prevented heart disease. that was the primary hypothesis in that study. >> reporter: the study's directors found something else. on july 9, 2002, they dropped a bomb. >> they did not find the expected benefit and decrease in the risk of cardiovascular disease, which was troubling, in and of itself. but more importantly, there was a 26% increase in the risk of breast cancer. and when they reported out the increased risk in breast cancer, it was almost game, set, match for the hormone therapy market. women are more afraid of breast cancer than they are of cardiovascular disease despite the fact that more women die of cardiovascular disease than breast cancer at any age.

>> reporter: but the headlines didn't tell the whole story. a closer look at that study showed for most women the risk of breast cancer from hor many therapy is actually very low and that for younger women, does lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. still, it seems most women only heard the bad news, and started throwing their hormone pills down the drain. >> women tossed it. i am not taking this. i don't care how i feel. i am not going to do this because you are increasing my risk of breast cancer. >> reporter: what's more, the news also had a chilling effect on women's health issues in general says jennifer weiss wolf froms brennan center for justice at nyu law school. >> menopause became deprioritized. doctors stopped learning about it. medical schools stopped teaching about it and the government stopped funding federal research for it. we found ourselves in an information vacuum that persisted all the way up until this new chapter where people started demanding change. >> reporter: things are

changing. there are several bills addressing menopause education and treatment working their way through congress. >> the first ever white house initiative on women's health research. >> reporter: and just last month president biden signed an executive order authorizing millions for things like menopause research. and at the grassroots level women are making change by talking about the change. >> i am in the vagina business now. >> reporter: welcome to menopause mondays. this gatherng is in san diego, but it could be anywhere. a little wine, a few laughs, and a whole lot of information about menopause. >> menopause is very exciting because it's that one day and that is when your ovaries have retired. okay? they are pooped, they are done. >> reporter: the cheerful emcee is ellen dolgen who started holding these seminars 20 years ago after a bad experience with her own menopause. >> my goal is to educate women,

you know. my motto is suffering in silence is out and reaching out is in. and i don't want anyone to go through what i went through because i was completely uneducated. and it shouldn't be. it's not necessary. >> reporter: and there is an information gap. sme of the women we talked to were actually dealing with perimenopause. they just didn't know it. ur >> turns out i realize i do have symptoms. i have been brushing it off as life, like i can't sleep, i'm busy, brain fog, and juggling a lot of things. >> is anybody having a hot flash. >> reporter: she has hosted these parties in more cities she can count. she says there is no end in sight. to her, menopause is having a moment. >> i think it's chic right now. >> reporter: menopause is chic? >> yeah, i'm wearing my menopause right now. and i think i'm pretty damn chic >> reporter: and so the big news flash here might be ignorance

about menopause is out. suffering is out. treatment is in. dr. sharon malone. >> i want women to understand that menopause is inevitable. if you have ovaries, you will go through menopause whether you have symptoms or not. the message, menopause is inevitable. suffering is not. >> reporter: do you think women still have this idea that we are supposed to suffer? >> we have sort of incorporated the language of suffering into the entirety of women's existence. we have to get used to the fact that it's okay to want to feel better. it's okay. why do we, as women, not have the ability to make decisions for ourselves without feeling guilty? put yourself first. to say that my quality of life is important, what's wrong with that? ♪ crunchy. ohh ♪ ♪ tasty ♪ ♪ ohh ♪ ♪ sweet or savory ♪

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time for us to meet stumpy. a tree, faith salie stel us, destined to stand the test of time. >> reporter: with congress mired in gridlock and a presidential campaign bitterly dividing voters, it can seem like washington doesn't have much to offer in the way of bipartisanship. but there is a unifying figure in d.c., and like our government, it has three branches. >> this tree affectionately known as stumpy.

>> beloved tree known as stumpy. >> reporter: yes, stumpy. the homely hollowed-out husk of a cherry tree by the d.c. tidal basin. it's not the prettiest. it's not the healthiest. still, tourists and locals alike can't get enough of this celebri-tree. >> just stands out, holds his own year after year. >> it's the underdog. he is still making it. >> stumpy never dies. stumpy never gives up. >> reporter: photographer kevin ambrose sells us "seasons of stumpy" wall calendar. >> i deck rated stumpy like a charlie brown christmas tree and took a photo of stumpy with christmas balls and it was popular. >> reporter: do you think stumpy is beautiful? >> no. i don't. i think stumpy is quite a rotting little tree, but it's so ugly, it's beautiful. make that way. >> if you look at the lower 80% of him, you would say he dead. then yet, every spring he puts out these beautiful blossoms.

>> reporter: national mall spokesperson mike litterst says this lovable runt endures despite its inhospitable habitat. >> the amount of water coming over the seawalls is simply far more than the roots of the cherry trees are capable of withstanding. quite simply, it killed a lot of the trees. >> reporter: sea levels at the tidal basin have risen about a foot over the last century due, in part, to climate change. a new $113 million repair project will raise seawalls and widen walkways. the bad news? 158 cherry trees will have to be removed. and stumpy is on the chopping block. now that cherry trees' days are numbered -- >> when word came, reaction was swift. trumpet serenades, floral tributes, a delegation from the japanese embassy came by to pay their respects. the fragile tree even had to be

fenced off for the own safety. but a reprieve is not in the cards. stumpy's frailty makes the prospects of uprooting and replanting it impractical. is it bittersweet for you? >> it's still bit ermt. we have to fix the seawall. we are losing cherry trees every year because the seawalls are failing. we can't replace the trees until we fix the problem. >> reporter: the national mall will actually see a net gain in cherry trees after replacements are planted. clippings from stumpy will be used to grow genetic clones, and the dead trees will be ground into mulch to enrich the soil. >> it's kind of like a sacrifice story. >> it's a sacrifice and it's also the full cycle, the full succession of the forest. the wood -- >> reporter: national marl arborist matthew morrison says stumpy will nourish other trees for generations to come. a lasting legacy long after its

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♪ ♪ it's a new movie that imagines what most of us consider unthinkable. yet another american civil war. but talking with its star, kirsten dunst, ben mankiwicz asks, what if?

>> reporter: america's darkest chapter has never been far from hollywood's vivid imagination. >> with them goes the semblance of law and order. >> reporter: from "gone with the wind" to "glory" to "lincoln," movies have brought us the barbarity and the politics of the civil war. >> i can't accomplish a damn thing of any human meaning or worth until we courselves of sla slavery and end this war! >> reporter: what if that war were merely our first civil war? that's the premise of a new film called "civil war," opening this week. an unflinching and relentless look at a nation divided and

violent. what kind of american are you? not in the 1860s, but today. >> i don't know. >> does not feel like a sci-fi movie. this could be us in pick a year, 2025, 2026, 2024? is that fair? >> hopefully, not. i mean, but i do think it's a warning. i do. >> reporter: kirsten dunst leads the cast playing a war photographer along with three other journalists. they drive from new york to d.c. hoping to interview the president before rebel forces led by texas and california reach the white house. >> at the heart of all of this, it's really about humanity and what happens when people stop treating each other like human beings. >> reporter: the lack of humanity in a few scenes is shocking as we follow the reporters on back roads, encountering an america entirely broken. no rules. no decency. >> who is giving you orders?

>> reporter: and a cold-blooded disregard for human life. >> someone's trying to kill us. we are trying to kill them. >> why is the film unnerving? the obvious reason is it's a film about the product of polarization and division. >> reporter: alex garland, an englishman, is "civil war's" writer and director. he leaves unanswered questions of how the war begins and to some extent who the good guys are. we're left with a movie that's intentionally vague. garland wanted the story seen through the eyes of reporters, even though a colleague told him that was box office poison. >> everybody hates journalists. i thought that was an interesting thing to say. sort of like saying everybody hates doctors much you can't hate doctors. you need doctors. actually, we know any healthy country needs journalists, it needs freedom of the press.

>> reporter: the audience will certainly be talking about the film's president, who we learn is serving a third term and has abolished the fbi. >> some are already calling it the greatest victory in the history of military campaigns. >> reporter: he is played by nick offerman, who says the character was not inspired by any commander-in-chief, past or present. he does say the film offers a warning that given today's political climate, americans need to heed. >> our ego and our history wants to allow us to believe that we are above such things, that, you know, lesser countries around the world may engage in, but we're americans, you know. we drink the finest cola beverages. we are immune to such things. >> there is an underlying truth with everything difficult, which is nobody's immune. >> it's like a pretty huge civil war going on across america.

>> reporter: seeing this happen here is an unsettling experience. one shared by the cast, including wagner moura, himself a former journalist, and cailee spaeny, two of the three reporters traveling with kirsten dunst. >> oh, my god, why didn't i just tell him not to shoot them? >> they are probably going to dill them. >> it was the first time i felt like the message really went through me. it felt like a gut punch. and i came out of it feeling like i want to take action, you know, that i don't want it to ever get to this point. >> i'm making an effort to sit down and listen to people, and i was absolutely surprised to see that, if you value democracy, if you think that democracy is an important thing, then there are lots of common grounds. >> and i personally have never felt the way i felt coming out of the theater. and i was in the movie and i was just as shocked. it felt like it was meant to be.

i never had that experience in a film before. >> reporter: for kirsten dunst, that's saying something. she has been in movies since she as was a kid. her first role at 12 opposite tom cruise and brad pitt in interview with a vampire. big movies followed. the virgin suicides and "bring it on." then three spider-man films. in 2022, dunst earned an oscar name nation for her aching performance in "power of the dog." now 35 years into the business, she knows "civil war" is unlike anything she has done before. >> i had never played a role like this. i think that this is one of the most important films i have ever been a part of. i think that it respects the audience and lets them put their own beliefs on to what's happening. >> reporter: you say it's about the audience. what does that mean for this film? >> it's up to the individual to

take whatever their political beliefs are and they will imprint, watching the film, what it makes them feel or whose side, what side. and i think that's really interesting and we'll get a lot of conversations that we need to have happen, and that's the beautiful thing about art. it's like that's what you want to be a part of in filmmaking. push boundaries and give something that no one's seen before, because i haven't seen a film like this before. >> reporter: whatever the audience projects, it will come with a degree of unease in a country that has always been comforted by the notion that this could never happen here. not again. >> unless we come to our senses, our polarized, divisive, noncommunicative, accusatory state is going to continue unless we do something about it. >> i hope as many people see it

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his is a familiar name. plenty of hawaiians wouldn't mind eradicating from history. ben tracy explores the complicated legacy of captain cook. >> reporter: on the big island of hawaii where the waves roll into kealakekua bay, an obelisk 27 feet tall looms. it's a tribute to the great circumnavigator captain james cook. stands just feet from where he died. >> i live across from his monument and i get up every morning and i see this. this is where they lived. >> reporter: akoni palacat-nelsen is a native hawaiian or kanaka as they call themselves. he works for the office of hawaiian affairs advocating for the native people. >> as a kid, what were you taught about cook? >> he brought a lot of diseases. he brought a lot of problems to our society.

he introduced westernization. >> reporter: is there a frustration that a lot of people think the history began here with captain cook? >> yes. >> reporter: captain cook is a controversial figure. villain or hero. colonizer or trail blazer depending on who is telling the story. but what is not in dispute that is in the 1700s. british explorer literally put much of what we now know as the pacific ocean on the map. creating detailed diagrams of the places he was the first european to discover, including new zealand, australia, the cook islands, which still bear his name, and the islands of hawaii. whatever you think about cook, he certainly is in the pantheon of the greatest explorers of all time. he gave us the contours of the pacific ocean. >> reporter: hampson sides is author of the book the"the wide wide sea", documenting cook's final and fateful voyage. >> he had three voyages around the world.

each one was monumental, but the third voyage left england in july of 1776 as the american revolution was taking off. >> reporter: what was this voyage supposed to be about? what were his marching orders from the crown? >> it was to go around the cape of good hope and proceed to the west coast of north america and all the way up to alaska in pursuit of the elusive, the fabled northwest passag. >> on his way to try to find the northwest passage, he stumbles upon these islands out here in the pacific. what was his reaction? >> he couldn't believe he found these islands, first of all. they aren't on the maps. these aren't locally atolls in the pacific. these are massive volcanic islands with thousands and thousands of people living here. a whole thriving flourishing civilization. he couldn't believe it. he was astounded. >> they were brought to this area, a sacred temple. >> reporter: he showed us where

cook and his men came ashore on the big island. warmly welcomed by the native hawaiians at this temple during a religious festival. sides writes that unlike many of his contemporary explorers, cook took a genuine interest in the people he encountered. he treated them with respect, tried to prevent his men from spreading venereal disease and made little attempt to convert them to christianity. >> on the third and final voyage, something was wrong with cook. he was mercurial. he was violent. he was cruel to the native people that he encountered as well. he just was losing it all the time near the end. >> reporter: that end came when cook and his men overstayed their welcome. attempting to hold the king of hawaii ransom to get back a row boat taken by the local people. >> and it turned into a brawl and a melee, and things didn't go well for captain cook. >> reporter: cook was killed on the shore of kealakekua bay on

valentine's day 1779. >> just across the bay there is where it ended. >> this where he met his end. >> reporter: 250 years later, cook's story is still being told, revisited and revised as the age of imperialism has not aged so well. the statues of cook have recently been toppled in canada and australia. his monument here in hawaii defaced. cook was the leading edge of what pacific islanders call the fatal impact and the death and loss of their culture that followed. >> i get the fact that he has become a symbol of imperialism because he was the first. it's easy to just assign the blame on one person rather than all of the people that came after him. >> reporter: yet here in the big island you find cook's name on a post office, roadside stands, and an apartment complex. there is no simple break from this piece of the past. >> historically, what is this

area? >> this is called kuala mali'ia. >> reporter: this high-risk park is one of the last places on the big island that still looks like what captain cook and his crew would have seen centuries ago. it was known as a place of refuge where, if you broke a rule or a law, you could get a second chance. keola awong, chief of interpretation and education. >> a second chance of preserving this history, all this history that existed before the stuff in the history book? >> yeah. i agree with that, yeah. it's a second chance for us to get to tell our story. yeah. and tell it from our perspective. >> reporter: she wants people to see hawaii as more than a tourist attraction, more than white sands and scarlett sunsets. a place that existed long before it was discovered by a captain named cook. >> when most tourists come to hawaii, do you get a sense they

know much about the history? >> no. they don't know much about the true history. i think they see the history told by the western point of view. our culture is very much alive. our culture carries on. it continues.

♪ ease on down the road ♪ ♪ ease on down the road ♪ it's "sunday morning" on cbs and here again is jane pauley. that's diana ross and michael jackson in the groundbreaking movie "the wiz." now this beloved film is returning to its roots on broadway. katya ec "the wiz," wayneb wayne brady. >> welcome! thank you for tuning in. >> reporter: on "let's make a deal," wayne brady is the host. ♪

>> reporter: but right now on broadway, he is the wiz. ♪ you come to the right place ♪ >> reporter: does it sink in when you see your face on the wall? >> i think it sinks in. this never gets old. come on. it's my big old head on broadway. >> reporter: it's very briefable. if i saw that, i think that guy can give me whatever i need. >> half the job done. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: in this revival of the tony award-winning musical set to open in mid-april -- ♪ ♪ >> reporter: brady's "wiz" is both a show man and con man promising the world to dorothy, the scarecrow, the tin man and the lion. >> this is nice to know when your art touches someone. part of the fun of the show, there is so much build-up. it's called "the wiz." they heard that you're the wiz.

are talk about the wiz, it's coming. >> at the intermission, still no wiz. >> you spend a whole act waiting for this cat. >> reporter: and finally we see whatever this is. >> yes. this. this is my throne. >> reporter: like a human-sized hookah or something. >> his place of power. it's his throne. that's the whole thing about "the wiz." you come out in something like this, you have to have the energy to live up to this thing. >> dig this. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: we first met brady earlier this year in san francisco. he joined the show in the final months of a 13-city national tour. tell me about this thing that seems like it would be tricky, which is this production is up and it's going and then you have got to jump in as the wiz. is like jumping on a moving train? >> that's exactly it.

it's like being shot out of a cannon, double dutch with 30 other people on stage. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the tour was a bootcamp and a bonding experience. >> so collapse in so you are ready to go into this. >> reporter: especially for nichelle lewis, ho plays dorothy. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: avery wilson, a scarecrow. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: phillip johnson richardson, the tin man. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: and kyle lamar freeman, the lion. >> you are actually friends and like each other outside of the theater space. so when you can find that in a cast, that is so he evident on stage. you can tell we like each other. there is love and we are having fun doing this together. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: with opening night just days away, changes are

still being made to a musical with a long history. l frank balm's novel "the wonderful wizard of oz" was publ published 1900 and transformed in a movie with judy garland fllowing the yellow brick road to the emerald city. in 1974, a new all-black musical called "the wiz" rewrote the story. now dorothy wasn't just off to see the wizard. she was easing on down the road. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: reviews were mixed, but audiences loved it. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the film version of "the wiz" starred michael jackson, lena horne, richard pryor, and diana ross as dorothy. >> wing thing i had forgotten about the 1978 movie, that dorothy is a grown-up, a teacher, wearing a blouse. >> very different.

>> she got heels on. >> my dorothy is a little bit more of a teenager. and she is just trying to figure everything out and find her voice. >> reporter: she has a little sass, too. >> oh, yeah, of course. she a black girl. yes, i always layer that in. >> the black, period, vibe. >> exactly. >> and i do that, too. >> reporter: the idea behind this revival was to update "the wiz," but not too much. >> what's new with this production is we're all similar in age, usually dorothy has three old uncles. but now she has three friends. that makes it a different experience and we're singing the arrangements, like, our incredible -- >> reporter: when i saw it, it felt like ease on down the road was walmost an extra character n the show because people love that song so much. as soon as they hear the beat, they start moving. >> yeah, kplapg. >> it's amazing to see how

people receive the music in itself still to this day. >> it's embedded in everyone. >> there are songs i feel like people, like, i didn't realize i love this song to so much. ♪ i wish i was home i wish i was back there ♪ ♪ with the things i know ♪ >> reporter: while audiences may recognizes music, they may notice what's missing. there is no toto, no flying monkeys, and no squad of police mice on patrol. most of the changes come from director schele williams and comedian and writer amber ruffin. >> we wanted this "wiz" to not be of the '70s, like the other "wiz" is. we wanted this "wiz" to be of no time, for it to be timeless, for us to not use any slang that you won't be using in 30 years. ♪ put your arms around me, child ♪ ♪ like when you bumped your

shin ♪ >> reporter: and audiences will find out that dorothy came to live with aunt em in kansas after the death of her beloved mother and father. why was it important to flesh out dorothy's back story and tell us about her parents? >> it's a little bit of my own crusade as a director. i think it's really important that we're not presuming that you have got, like, a deadbeat mom. we are really dignifying what your life is. same thing for the lion, tin man, scarecrow, we knew they belonged to people who loved them, that they are people that miss them, and that we are constantly reinforcing this idea of belonging and legacy. >> to give everyone such a rich back story, it makes it such a complete story. whereas, before the thing with "the wiz" and "the wizard of oz," it's almost yvignettes, lie sketches. here to make a real through line for the whole thing, it feels

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a loophole. >> my family was really centered around education and getting a's, b's, everything. >> reporter: katrina white remembers how determined her parents were to see her and all her siblings go to college. >> that never happened. >> which parent did you lose first? >> i lost my father first. i was 9 years old. >> reporter: then you lost your mom, too. >> i lost her in 2013. >> reporter: after living initially with an older sister, white spent most of the next seven years in group homes like this throughout southern california. when you were younger, did it ever occur to you, you'd end up in foster care? >> no, i didn't even know what foster care was. >> reporter: ian marks also landed in foster care. >> i grew up in new orleans, louisiana, and i was in foster care for eight years. >> i am anthony jackson.

>> reporter: anthony jackson, known as a.j., spent his teenage years as a ward of the state of minnesota. justin kasieta in michigan. >> i grew up in the upper peninsula of michigan, in foster care for three years. >> reporter: each of these young people ended up in the care of the state for the worst possible reason. the death of one or both parents. >> when i was 15 years old, unfortunately, my father got diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. >> reporter: ian marks' story is particularly heartbreaking. his mom and dad were both in the military. >> and my dad had killed my mother when i think i was 11 or 10 years old. i found her body in my house. >> reporter: but their shared loss doesn't end there. after being placed in foster care, they discovered that government benefits that they should have been receiving after the deaths of their parents had, instead, being claimed by the state.

>> social security benefits. >> reporter: death benefits? >> yes, social security and veterans benefits. >> while i was in foster care, i realized that i was suppose to be receiving these benefits. i inquired with my case worker and they told me they would be taking the checks to reimburse themselves for my care and my sick simone bileslings' care. >> reporter: that's the issue here. in most states, foster kids receive their care for flee. the only children who are singled out to pay for their own care are those receiving federal benefits, either because they are disabled or have a deceased parent. >> it's not the state's money to take. it's the child's money. it's their property. >> reporter: amy harfeld is the national policy director for the children's advocacy institute at the university of san diego school of law. she says that children who have lost parents are often the most vulnerable. >> we know that these young

people have needs and we know that when the benefits are applied for, there is a good use for them. but right now they are being used only to benefit the state. >> reporter: aren't they taking the money for foster care? >> no. they are taking the money really in most cases to put in general state accounts. >> reporter: nationally, three-quarters of those in foster care entitled to benefits, more than 25,000 children, are affected by in practice. but amy harfeld says most kids have no idea since agencies often apply for survivor and disability benefits without giving notice to the child or his or her relatives. >> for sure the secrecy is really the most insidious piece of this. you know, a lot of states might stand up and defend this practice, and to them i would say, if this is all above board, why is it you are doing it behind the kids' backs? why are you never telling them or their attorneys that you are doing? >> reporter: the social security

administration estimates that $174 million in benefits a year are at stake, but harfeld believes the number is actually higher. states are required by federal law to report back to the agency how much of these benefits they take each year. but only about a dozen comply. >> my mother didn't do all this work in the military just for the state to take this money. as you can hear, do nothing with it. no changes. no benefits for me. >> reporter: ian marks had it better than most. he was placed with one family. but often older children end up in group homes or bounce from one place to another. >> i lived in four different homes and attended four different schools during high school. >> reporter: and if it's difficult to thrive in foster care, it's even harder, they say, when you age out. >> i aged out at 18 years old. you don't have access to a case worker anymore and you are basically on your own.

they may check and see if you have a job or if you have a place to stay. if not, you may end up on the side of a street, which has happened to a lot of people. >> i was over here. >> reporter: people like katrina white. when she aged out of foster care at the age of 21 in the fall of 2022, she ended up here, living in a tent alongside a busy san diego freeway. >> i would just wake up in the morning before, like, the streetlights are off fully, and look around and be, like, do i really want to be here? >> reporter: white lived this way more than seven months while working part time and taking college classes online. where would you mostly do your classes? >> in my tent. >> reporter: were you scared? >> i was. >> i can't think of a single person who would have persevered

in her situation wr. >> reporter: sarah is now a project manager for a california non-profit that helps people like katrina, who have no place to live after foster care, to find housing. >> every kday for her where cani a take a shower or use a bathroom to manage my hygiene and go to school and work and try to blend in. >> reporter: white was homeless and penniless while welfare agencies have been collecting her survivor benefits for years. >> i happen to just piece to together with katrina because i remembered in one of our earlier conversations she mentioned both her parents passed away. this happens behind the backs of young people. >> reporter: how widespread is this? >> we think it's very widespread and that most states are doing it. >> reporter: it hasn't been easy to end the practice, says illinois congressman danny davis. he has been pushing since 2016

for congress to prohibit states from taking federal benefits from foster hildren. >> let's put it in some kind of reserve. a fund so that, as those individuals age out of the system, they may have a nest egg. how are you? >> reporter: so far, congressman davis has been unable to get any version of the bill to a vote. >> has been challenging, i'll put it that way. >> reporter: but there is a growing recognition that children need more support when they leave foster care. seven states have now passed laws to help children keep their federal benefits, although a similar bill in california was vetoed by the governor last year due to a shortfall in the state budget. and there are signs that the federal agency that pays the benefits may do more. why should children who happe

to be also entitled to social security benefits have to pay for the foster care that other kids don't have to pay for? >> that's the question. i don't believe it's fair. i don't believe it's the right policy outcome. >> reporter: martin o'malley, a former governor of maryland, became commissioner of the social security administration late last year. >> clearly, there is a desire, a hope that some of these dollars be conserved for kids that are receiving social security benefits. it doesn't happen very often. >> reporter: so you are admitting it doesn't happen. isn't that a violation of your own regulations that this money is supposed to be conserved for these kids? >> at this point it is not. but the question is, should it be? >> reporter: but any future changes will come too late for a.j. and other children aging out of foster care now. about how much money do you think you would have collected

if you had been given those benefits? >> a little under $72,000. >> reporter: over six years? >> over six years. >> reporter: you don't see any of that? >> not a dime. >> reporter: what about you, justin? do you know how much money? > over 18,000 was taken. >> reporter: all four have still managed to beat the odds and have gone on to college. anthony jackson is working on an art degree. ian marks is in law school. justin kasieta recently graduated from the university of michigan. katrina white is studying social work and now has stable housing. and sarah pauter, who was once there herself, says these are the lucky ones. why do you feel so strongly about this issue of benefits? >> because the outcomes of the young people who leave foster care are so bad. so, until we have created a

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