captioning made possible by johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations >> cowan: good morning. charles osgood is off today. i'm lee cowan, and this is "sunday morning." we've seen the debut of countless miracle drugs in recent years, drugs that make a world of difference, but sometimes at a steep price that can make some miracle drugs tough to swallow. we call our cover story "a bitter bill." it's reported by erin moriarty. >> reporter: ten-year-old

graci diggs has spend much of her life on the sidelines in a wheelchair. >> i didn't know many kids who had arthritis at that time, so i'm like, am i the only one? >> reporter: a simple drug may be just the miracle graci needs, but it comes at a hefty price. and did those prices go up that much just simply because drug companies could do it? >> because they could do it. >> reporter: are drug companies making a killing on miracle medications? just ahead this "sunday morning." >> cowan: garrison keillor will be homeward bound after he hosts his final edition of public radio's "a prairie home companion" next weekend. first he has an appoint with us. >> i just spent a quiet week in lake wobegon, my hometown. >> reporter: news from lake wobegon, hometown boy moves on. there will be tears. >> from me? no. we can prevent that simply by talking about flatulence.

nobody weeps when flatulence is the subject. that's the news from lake wobegon. >> reporter: a fond if not a sad farewell later on "sunday morning." >> cowan: a highland fling heats up the moors of scotland in the hit tv series "outlander." michelle miller will tell us all about that. >> reporter: "outlander" is time-traveling television set in the scottish highlands of the 18th century. all about war and love and something else. >> you can ask about the sex. >> reporter: okay, yeah, is the sex really that good? passion and pageantry later on "sunday morning." >> cowan: this morning's story from mo rocca is a "fly by night" tale of an art project that's taken wing. >> what are you doing? >> reporter: duke riley had a dream.

>> i felt like i was saint francis or grizzly adams or something. >> reporter: gather a giant flog of pigeons. >> i can't lie. i'm remembering hitchcock's movie right now. >> reporter: fasten tiny lights to their feet and see what happens. this is what happens. "fly by night," a pigeon light show ahead on "sunday morning." >> cowan: serena altschul asks: is fashion really art? comedian tig notaro is bearing all the luke burbank. steve hartman meets a young man coming to terms with the orlando shooting. and much more. but first here are the headlines for this sunday morning, the 26th of june, 2016: president obama has extended the nation's condolences to the people of west virginia where gladwaters have claimed the lives of 24 people. kris van cleave is in the hard-hit town of rainelle.

>> reporter: search teams go door-to-door in rainelle, west virginia, looking for survivors from thursday's flood, the worst in at least a century. state trooper c.s. hartman. >> i don't know anything is going the prepare you to see the damage and destruction that you see here. >> reporter: neighbors tell us this street, like many in west virginia now, has a sad story to tell. one of the residents didn't make it out. those who did are coming back as the water is going down and finding very little of what they had was left untouched. a state of emergency has been declared in 44 of west virginia's 55 counties. the national guard and fema have been called in. thousands are without power, at least 100 homes were badly damaged or destroyed. becomey mcclung isn't sure she'll stay in hers. >> i don't want to go through this again. >> reporter: for sunday morning, this is kris van cleave, rainelle, west virginia.

>> cowan: in california the problem is fire. more than 4,500 firefighters are battling six persistent wildfires, the biggest east of bakersfield, has claimed at least two lives and destroyed 150 homes. in east africa, at least 14 people were killed by gunmen who stormed a hotel in somalia's seaside capital of mogadishu yesterday. the islamic extremist group al-shabaab is claiming responsibility. dozens of cities around the world are celebrating their l.g.b.t.q. communities with parades this weekend, especially poignant following the massacre of 49 people in the pulse nightclub in orlando, florida. today's weather: tomorrows in the heartland. hail and possible tornadoes from kansas east to michigan. hot again in the southwest, but just right in the pacific northwest. for the week ahead, expect more scattered storms and humidity. summer is certainly in full swing.

>> it works great. it's awesome, but it's expensive. >> cowan: ahead, soaring drug prices, they don't just affect the old. and later, taking flight.

>> cowan: people the world over are scratching their heads over "brexit," thursday's vote by britain to exits the european union. now the feeling even has a name, "regressive." mark phillips is in london. >> reporter: the "brexit" vote here may be first example of post-factual politics in a major country. the facts didn't matter, a weaker pound, a smaller economy, fewer jobs, higher prices. scaremongering it was called by the lead campaign. the warnings, however widely predicted, were ignored, and now they're turning out to be true. david cameron, who has announced his resignation, didn't have to call this vote. he did it because he was under pressure from eurosceptic members of his own party who have always wanted out. >> abindependent united kingdom! >> reporter: he did it because of this man, nigel feere.

largely on immigration issues. step into any cafeé in those place, and this is the sort of thing you're likely to hear. >> we're british. we don't want all the other people. we just want us. >> my skills are now being done but an unelected european parliament. >> reporter: the inconvenient fact, all of the people warning in this cafeé are immigrants frm eastern europe. this "breaking point" poster, unveiled late in the campaign, was widely considered a low point. it was rejected even by other lead campaigners for its apparent racism and was quickly withdrawn. it showed what seemed to be hoards of immigrants flooding in from the east, even though those migrants where nowhere near britain, but all those facts pale compared to this one: the

numbers. the lead campaign drove a bus around the country claiming e.u. membership was costing britain £350 million a week. it wasn't. it didn't matter. it was only a fact. here's another one, and this one can't be denied. this vote has split the country right down the middle, particularly on age lines. the young, especially the under 25s, have voted overwhelmingly to stay in the e.u. the old, especially the over 65s, voted just as strongly to leave. the old have determined what kind of country the young will live in, and one of the first reactions to this vote, after shock, has been resentment. >> the british people have spoken and the answer is we're out. >> reporter: for all its drama, the vote was just the beginning of the process of leaving europe. untangling the web of regulations, industry standards,

laws and other conventions may take years. establishing new ones even longer. in the meantime, british politics is paralyzed. boris johnson, the front-runner for david cameron's job, led the leave campaign and is now unpopular in london, which voted to stay. >> i'm a bit shocked. >> reporter: a lot of people who voted to leave are now saying they never thought they'd actually win and would change their minds if they could vote again. >> i love this country, and i feel honored to have served it. >> reporter: "brexit" has led to bregrets, and no one has more of it than the man who called the vote in the first place.

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i never know when i'll need relief. that's why i only choose nicorette mini. >> cowan: can a miracle drug also be a bitter pill? it can when the price of a life-saving prescription drug is more than most people could possibly afford. our cover story is from erin moriarty of "48 hours." >> most people don't know that kids can get arthritis, too. >> reporter: ten-year-old graci diggs may just make you believe in miracles. only a year ago, graci spent much of her time like this. >> you've seen graci in a wheelchair? >> yes. >> reporter: anna diggs is

graci's mom. >> seeing your child in a wheelchair is very difficult, especially when you have... any child, but graci was so outgoing, athletic, she loved sports. >> reporter: when graci was four years old, she was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, debilitating pain that can make even simple tasks excruciating. >> trying to put on my clothes, raising my arms, using my knees to get up. >> reporter: are there some days you don't feel like getting out of bed at all? >> a lot of days. >> reporter: yet just look at her now. the diggs credit graci's miraculous mobility to humira, one of the nation's top-selling drugs. since she started taking it earlier this year, her painful arthritic conditions have all but disappeared, and that wheelchair is in the garage. >> she plays volley, basketball

and softball. >> and football. >> reporter: and football? >> i was going to play. >> humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation. report humira is just one of several drugs. >> ask how anbrel can help relieve joint pain and stop drug damage. >> reporter: that have transformed the lives of millions of americans who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis or r.a. this is a photo from a juvenile r.a. conference 30 years ago. >> hello, world. >> reporter: this is a group of children with the same condition today. with similar advances made in treatment for cancer, multiple sclerosis and hepatitis c, the pharmaceutical industry should be basking in praise. instead it's on the defensive, trying to explain why the cost of many of these treatments are so high. the issue came clearly into focus last september.

>> tonight the head of a drug company accused of gouging patients says he should be thanked. >> reporter: martin shkreli made headlines after raising the price of a drug used to treat aids patients 5,000%. that's not a typo. >> no one was more offended by their behavior than our members. >> reporter: steve ubl was named president of phrma, a drugmakers's trade group, the same week shkreli was called the most hated man in america. i think you referred to him as a knuckle head. >> yes, on the one hand, patients are paying more for their medicine as the insurance market has shifted. on the other hand, they see the behavior of someone like martin shkreli, and they connect the dots in a way that is misleading and not helpful. >> reporter: others say shkreli's actions, while extreme, reflect a trend. >> he did it to a greater extent than anyone has ever attempted,

but other companies are taking big price increases, less than 5,000%, but they're taking price increases year over year. >> reporter: dr. steven miller is the chief medical officer for express scripts, the nation's largest pharmacy manager. he negotiates to get the best prices for health insurers. did those price goss up that much just simply because drug companies could do it? >> because they could do it. >> reporter: there's no market reason? they didn't get more expensive to produce? >> this is not inflation. this is just drug companies capitalizing on the situation. >> reporter: miller says when drugs lack competition, it is harder to negotiate and easier for drug companies to raise prices. how much? an analysis commissioned by reuters earlier this year found that list prices for the bestselling drugs in the u.s. had risen anywhere from 50 to 100% in five years. the drug that went up most, graci's drug, humira.

humira's list price rose from more than $20,000 a year in 2010 to over $45,000 in 2015ful how do these drug companies defendant a 100% increase on a drug that's been on the market for a decade? >> the problem is that they oftentimes focus on list price, which is a bit like a sticker price of a car. it doesn't reflect the price most people pay. >> reporter: in graci's case, her family does pay only a small portion of the cost of her medications. insurance pays 75%, an abbvie, the maker of humira, picks up much of the rest. >> do you have any homework? >> reporter: but graci's mom anna wonders for how long? >> it's not an antibiotic. it's not going to go away in ten days. she may be on this forever. >> reporter: many treatments for arthritis and cancer are expensive to develop because

they're biologic, produced from living organisms grown in labs, drugmakers understandably want to recoup their costs. but there is another reason for high prices in the u.s. in other countries, like canada, germany and great britain, the government limits what drugmakers can charge, which leaves american consumers making up much of that lost profit. so aren't we subsidizing? >> yes, we are. i believe that the u.s. is in some ways supporting innovation around the world. report the solution, say many, is to create more competition for these biologics with biosimilar, drugs that aren't identical but work in much the same way. one study estimated that the increased use of biosims could save the u.s. health care system $250 billion over the next ten years.

steve pierson runs the institute for clinical and economic review, an independent think-tank. >> i do expect that biosims will have a beneficial effect. they will be good for patients. they'll be equally effective and hopefully the price will come down. >> reporter: if they can get into the market. >> if they can get into the market. the early signs are that it will be contested at every step along the way. a lot of the effort, though, to keep the biosimilars and other competitors at bay doesn't add a lot of clinical value for patients. >> doctors have been prescribing humira for over 13 years. >> reporter: the original patent for graci's drug humira expires later this year, and the f.d.a. is set to review a biosimilar next month, but the drugmaker abbvie has filed for additional pat. , determined to keep a humira biosimilar off the market in the u.s. until at least 2022. >> any company seeking to market a biosimilar of humira will have

to contend with an expensive patent contest, which abbvie intends to enforce vigorously. >> reporter: drugmakers need to make substantial profits before their patents run out to fund research into the next generation of breakthrough treatment, otherwise we might never see miracles like graci diggs. >> these are the most innovative, most transformative medicines. there have to be incentives to produce better treatments or cures knowing that, over the course of a life cycle of the product, it's eventually going to be essentially given away. >> reporter: it works great. it's awesome, but it's expensive. it is expensive. >> reporter: but you couldn't imagine giving it up. >> no. >> reporter: i'll go try a different drug? >> not as long as it's working. as long as it's working, you know, i'll go live in a tent down by the river, as long as she feels good and she can be a normal ten-year-old girl.

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in our memories. for that's the birthday of roy plunkett, the accidental inventor of a remarkable non-stick substance. plunkett was a dupont chemist working with gasses in the late 1930s when an experiment unexpectedly produced a mysterious white powder. the slippery stuff turned out the have multiple military applications, and it even helped in making first atomic bomb. in 1945, dupont trademarked this miraculous discovery, mercifully shortening its chemical name to the more user friendly name -- teflon. for all its industrial and electronic uses, most of us know it best thanks to our non-stick kitchen pots and pans. >> well, good thing it's teflon. >> cowan: over the years teflon's praises have been sung in many a tv commercial.

>> even burned food won't stick to teflon, so it's always easy to clean. >> cowan: as for roy plunkett, he went on the make many more discoveries, many of them judged to be critical to our national defense. >> i think it ought to be used to make good for people, not harm. >> cowan: he died in 1994, just shy of his 84th birthday, but his name lives on in the form of dupont's plunkett award, and his teflon lives on, too, on stove tops all over the land. coming up... >> there is a huge aesthetic drive behind creating fashion. >> cowan: the art of fashion.

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fashionable art, all in the tradition of one trailblazing exhibit as serena altschul now shows us. >> reporter: in the summer of 2011 -- >> alexander mcqueen line, please go all the way to the back. >> reporter: -- the housest event in new york city wasn't a blockbuster show or a restaurant opening, but an exhibit at the metropolitan museum of art. >> it was a complete surprise to us when we started to have lines around the museum. we were so unprepared for them, as well. >> reporter: the exhibit featured the work of late fashion designer alexander mcqueen. and visitors couldn't get enough. >> reporter: we don't really set out to create a blockbuster per se. really it's people who make them. it was the people who made that show a blockbuster. >> reporter: and that's exactly what they did. andrew bolton is the director of the met's costume institute. record-breaking attendance for

the met for mcqueen. >> yeah, more than 650,000. so we were probably something about 300,000. >> reporter: so more than double. >> more than double what we were expecting, absolutely. >> reporter: what did it do for met membership. >> it was enormous. it introduced a new audience to the museum. that's always great. it was extraordinary. >> reporter: the mcqueen exhibit became one of the met's top-ten most visited exhibits of all time, alongside shows featuring the mona lisa and picasso, which prompted this headline and the question: is fashion art? is the jury out or has it been decided? >> i think it's still out. i think unfortunately. i find it extraordinary the fact that this day and age people are still debating it. >> reporter: regardless of those debates, the met is still fashion forward with a fashion exhibit this summer titled "manus x. machina," a look at hand and machine-made clothing.

and the met isn't alone, museums around the world are moving fashion from catwalks into galleries. >> here you see the pinning actually flowing and moving. >> reporter: take the museum of fine arts boston, home to the exhibit "textile," featuring technology-inspired fashion. >> there is a wonderful pair of 3-d-printed shoes, not particularly wearable, but they're fantastic and amazingly interesting. there's also some incredibly interesting interactive garments. >> reporter: lauren whitley is co-curator. >> the attendance for fashion shows has been extraordinary. this has almost beat records already, this show. we have to remember that fashion designers are artists. there is a huge aesthetic drive behind creating fashion. and it is one of the detective arts, like ceramic, like furniture, and jewelry and things like that.

it is design. >> reporter: the popularity of fashion exhibits has boomed in recent years, but clothing has been featured in museums for decades. in 1944, the museum of modern art presented an exhibit called "are clothes modern?" taking extra care to emphasize it was in no sense a fashion show. so when you look back at these, what do you think? >> i think, gosh, i'm old. >> reporter: no. fast forward to 2016, and we're still eager to differentiate a fashion show from fashion exhibit. >> some fashion belongs in museums, you know, and some really doesn't. >> reporter: that's designer isaac mizrahi, his life and work is featured in yet another fashion-themed exhibit in new york, this one at the jewish museum. >> because sometimes you do go into a museum where they have a show of clothing, and it does feel like a store window, you know. >> reporter: so there is a

difference? >> there is a difference. i think what place does fashion really have in the museum. and the answer to that is, you know, good work meets a level, and so i don't necessarily think that this is saying anything about more shows that we need about fashion and museums. i'm not saying that. i just think that good works deserves to be looked at. >> reporter: so maybe fashion's place in museums isn't buttoned up just yet, but for the time being, this appears to be one debate with a shelf life. >> i think people aren't afraid of fashion. fashion is very subjective. i think people have that sort of imimmediacy to fashion, which i think is really part of its power and poetry, as well, i think. >> cowan: still to come -- >> good evening. hello. >> cowan: laughs in the most

unlikely places with tig notaro. >> i have cancer. how are you? >> cowan: and later... >> she's going to ask you about that sex change operation, i know that she is. >> cowan: going, going, wobegon. garrison keillor calls it a career.

>> it's "sunday morning" on cbs, and here again is lee cowan. >> cowan: now you know why tig notaro's humor is a little difficult to describe. luke burbank introduces us to a woman who finds humor in just about anything, sometimes in life's least funny moments. >> i'm originally from mississippi. >> reporter: it's the little things that seem to fascinate tig notaro. >> my favorite laugh noise is the sigh after the laugh, the haaaaa. because it's like you're reminiscing about one second ago. >> reporter: notaro has been reminiscing allotted lately. >> that says "tig's autograph."

>> reporter: with a memoir just out. >> i wish you a clean bill of health. >> absolutely. thank you, sir. >> . >> reporter: and an amazon tv show based largely on her life. >> where do you think your boobs are? where do you think your doctors put them when they took them off? >> i hope some recycling is out of the question. >> reporter: who first started calling you tig? >> my brother came up with the name tig when i was two. he couldn't say my real name, which is natile. >> reporter: that's so strange because you seem like a tig. i don't know what a tig is. >> what would be my other name if i had to be? not only is my real name weird, but my nickname is weird. there's nothing normal. >> reporter: her mother was farm from the norm in the houston suburb where notaro grew up. she was a free spirit who reveled in having adventures, like the time she drove her 11-year-old daughter and her friend home on the hood of the

car. >> there was this guy at a stop sign in like a muscle car, and she pulled up next to him and had her window down with two little girls on her hood, and she's like, hey, want the -- to drag? that's who raised me. you know. it's hard to be in society and be like, i'm sorry, what are the rules? >> reporter: notaro followed her own rules through life, dropping out of high school and ending up in l.a., where she found her way into stand-up. >> that is my favorite visual in the entire world, an infant taking a shower. because even as adults we have to be careful when we take a shower, we could slip. when you add an infant to that equation... [laughter] it gets really tricky. >> reporter: honing her craft over 20 years, she'd become a successful touring comic and tv actor, but that's when everything started falling

apart. >> i could not ingest any food without it coming out of my body. and so i was losing half a pound a day. >> reporter: she'd contracted a life-threatening bacterial infection. notaro hovered in and out of consciousness in the hospital. finally she was released, which should have been cause to celebrate, except for the call she got from her stepfather. >> i am afraid i have some terrible news. your mother fell last night and it looks like she's not going to make it. >> the doctor told us there was zero chance of recovery, and we took her off life support. >> reporter: notaro's mother was just 66. then, two months later, as if that weren't enough... >> i was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer. and i made so many jokes over

the years about how flat chested i was. i started to think that maybe my boobs overhead me. [laughter] and were just like, you know what, we are sick of this. let's kill her. >> reporter: how long had you known that you had lumps in your breasts before you actually went and got it checked out? >> i had different levels of awareness maybe a couple years before. so i just ignored it. and it... i mean, i get waves of like, oh my god, the fact that i let that go. >> reporter: the diagnosis was grim. stage two invasive cancer. but this is where tig notaro did something most of us would think

was crazy. in the midst of her grief and shock and fear, she decided to go back on stage at l.a.'s famed club largo. >> good evening. hello. i have cancer. how are you? is everybody having a good time? >> reporter: would it be accurate to say that you felt like this could possibly be your last comedy show? >> i absolutely thought it could be my last comedy show, because i didn't trust where things were going. >> reporter: what followed was raw, uneven, brutally honest and unbelievably funny. >> it's going to be okay. it might not be okay, but i'm just saying, you're going to be okay. it obviously changed my career in a way that i actually never imagined for myself. >> reporter: but despite her

new-found success, notaro says she struggled to adjust to her new body after her double mastectomy. for a long time she wouldn't even look in the mirror. >> please welcome tig notaro. >> reporter: eventually, though, that changed, too. >> do not tempt me. i will do it. i will... [cheering and applause] >> reporter: and she did, performing much of her hbo special topless. why did you do that? >> you sound angry at me? after one show this guy was like, this is about being human beings. this our bodies. what is the big deal? why is this taboo? i heard through the grapevine that... >> reporter: before that epiphany, back when tig was being very private about her health problems, she met someone, on the set of a movie. >> you should cut your hair. >> stop trueing to woo me. >> reporter: actress and writer stephanie allen.

so she was hiding the fact that she was very, very ill. >> i really did think she had a cold because i remember going, you should have some tea, but even in all of that, you were still making jokes. >> reporter: their paths crossed again a year later at the film's premier. and they hit it off. so much so that notaro soon realized she was falling in love. >> i reached the point where i was like, oh, i want to be with this person, and she said no. >> reporter: did you actually say no? >> yeah. i couldn't identify it, because i hadn't been with women, and i really had an identity crisis because i felt like i needed to know this about myself before i could then say, okay, yes. >> reporter: they married last year and any day now are expecting twins, being carried by a surrogate. >> two boys. >> reporter: do you have names picked out yet? >> itsy and bitsy.

>> people also ask what we're going to be called because there's two moms. so my suggestion has been the pretty one and the funny one, but i want to be the pretty one and i want stephanie to be the funny one. >> reporter: notaro says she never actually thought she'd be famous, never expected to have cancer, which she says is now in remission, and she certainly could have never guessed that her darkest days would lead her here. to this light-filled house full of love and promise, making tig notaro the luckiest unlucky person you might ever meet. >> what i'm most proud of and most excited about is my personal life, and the fact that i am alive and happy and thriving. i... that's what i want to talk about is... that's what excites i... that's what i want to talk about is... that's what excites me.

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>> cowan: with the right accessory, big red here could become quite a skywriter, right? mo rocca takes us to meet the man behind a "fly by night" airshow like none other. >> reporter: welcome aboard artist duke riley's floating workshop, a decommissioned world war ii fighting ship. look at the view. look at the view from there! it's moored at the brooklyn navy yard, once one of the most

active boat yards in the country. do you ever stand out here and imagine what it was like 50, 60 years ago? >> oh, yeah, every day. >> reporter: with a view like, this it's easy to understand why riley's favorite canvas is right on the new york waterfront. >> i really like to draw pictures where i'm kind of combining what is on the waterfront now and sort of with what was there in the past and sort of superimposing those things together. >> reporter: when riley isn't focusing on the water, he's looking to the skies. his work depicts birds of all kinds, in mosaic, paintings, stained glass, even tattoos. >> oh, wow. >> reporter: and that brings us to riley's latest project, "fly by night." it was inspired by this handbook. >> restricted war department technical manual for homing pigeons. >> reporter: it explains how

homing pigeons were trained to flight at night to avoid capture during world war ii. >> because the nazis began using hawks to try to intercept our pigeons that were delivering messages behind enemy lines. >> reporter: in honor of those winged war hero, and, riley says, to encourage people to get their noses out of their smartphones and look up, he's gathered a flock of about 2,000 pigeon, flying them at twilight for most of this month with tiny lights attached to their feet. but more about that later. so how did duke riley become such a bird brainiac? >> i was about eight years old. i found a pigeon that was injured. and i took it in. what are you doing? >> reporter: he nursed that bird back to health and set it free, but it flew right back to his bedroom window. >> suddenly i felt like i was st. francis or grizzly adams or

something. wow, this pimg john knows who i am. >> reporter: at art school in providence, rhode island, he even lived in a coop. what is it like living in a pigeon coop? >> it was actually like a beautiful sound to wake up to every morning. you know, sometimes i would wake up and there were birds literally like sleeping on top of me. >> reporter: but that cozy love bird behavior didn't fly with everyone. >> it might have had some effect on my dating life a little bit. there was one girlfriend in particular who had some pretty not-so-happy memories about it. >> reporter: she said, this situation's for the birds. >> yeah, yeah. >> reporter: accord to riley, fear of pigeons -- i can't lie, i'm remembering hitchcock's movie -- is completely unjustified. >> we're in here surrounded by all these pigeons, but i'm not going to get sick? >> absolutely not.

you're much more likely to get sick from your neighbor's kids than you are from your neighbor's pigeons. >> reporter: two or false: pigeons are dirty >> false. >> reporter: pigeons spread disease in >> false. >> reporter: the author of "the global pigeon." >> i wrote a paper, "how pigeons became rats." >> reporter: he says the bird's bad rap goes the a new york city press conference. >> he wrote an article, we have to get rid of the pigeons. after that the phrase "rats with wings goes broadway." this could rehabilitate their image. >> reporter: we saw what happened when some schoolkids came out the riley's ship in the rain to meet his flock. another battle won in the war for avian acceptance. but there was no fighting the

weather. how are you leaning? >> i'm unfortunately leaning toward canceling at this stage. >> i'm leaning toward canceling too. >> reporter: the day we spent shooting, well, it was friday the 13th. >> i don't want them to get sick. and naturally you don't want them to get lost if a storm came in or something like that. >> reporter: but on another much drier evening, the show did go on to, a sold-out house. and the pigeons put on quite a show. swooping, gliding, spinning, dive bombing through the night sky like a careening constellation. >> i don't need to have lights on birds to watch them. i can watch birds for hours and hours and, you know, some of these birds fly for hours and hours. ultimately the goal is to have people paying attention to them.

report these quiet first, -- fire works that night. no one here was likely thinking of these birds as rats with wings. >> there is a reason that pigeons are such a revered animal that appears symbolically in almost every religion in the world. >> reporter: duke riley remembers when pigeons were treated like eagles and hopes this show will put them back on their proper perch, high in the heavens above. >> cowan: ahead... >> i wanted to officially be part of that community that was hurting. >> cowan: coming to terms.

>> cowan: people across the country are still coming to terms with the mass shooting in orlando. each in his or her own way. steve hartman has one young man's story. >> reporter: at the university of montavalo in alabama, sophomore music major jesse johnson was devastated. >> my heart sank inside of my chest. >> reporter: after the orlando attack, he says he wanted to mourn but couldn't, at least not with the sincerity he wanted to. >> in the back of my mind, i kept thinking, i can't show the sorrow that i have inside without first explaining to the world why i have that much sorrow. >> reporter: so after hearing the news, jesse sat down with his phone and did the most daring thing of his life: he typed out a message for his facebook page, stared at it for the longest time before finally mustering up the courage to click post. >> i just did it. >> reporter: the note read in part, "i thought about coming out for months but was afraid of

being shunned by those i care about over something that makes me who i am. i'm not going to change. i am game, -- i am gay, and i love you all. >> i wanted to be part of that community that was hurting and that needed as many people to come together and stand with them. >> reporter: a lot of people came out after orlando, but few took as big a rig as jesse johnson. jesse's family lives in jameson, alabama, in the heart of the bible belt. fly a flag here, and it better have just red, white and blue. >> i worry for his safety because of that. i mean, this is alabama. >> reporter: jesse's mom, nikki johnson. >> i personally will never understand the parents that turn their back on their kids. i love him and that will never change. >> love you, too. >> reporter: when some guy shoots up a gay bar, this kind of acceptance is not what he's aiming for, but jesse says the majority of his family and friends have been remarkably

supportive, and by doing so, they have helped turn his lifetime of fear into his future of belonging. >> we're going the stand together regardless of how afraid we are. >> reporter: and that's how you make a terrorist die in vain. >> cowan: still to come, can you give us a little sample? >> new york i won't give you any sample at all. this is a tasteful show, "sunday morning." we don't want to get into that. >> cowan: garrison keillor ready for his final. and later, tartan time travel. tomorrow is not a given. but entresto is a medicine that helps make more tomorrows possible. ♪ tomorrow, tomorrow... ♪ i love ya, tomorrow in the largest heart failure study ever.

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>> cowan: for fans of the radio program "a prairie home companion," news that garrison keillor is about to be homeward bound season an adjustment. why is he leaving a show that's made him an institution? he talks about that decision. ♪ i hear that old piano >> reporter: that old piano has been an old friend to millions of radio listeners for a long time, but next week garrison keillor will step away from the microphone. >> i'm going to get back to what i intended to do in the first place, which is to be a writer.

♪ it's saturday and the band is playing ♪ honey could we ask for more >> reporter: you didn't know that radio was your destiny? >> radio was not my destiny. it just happened. you get entangled in it. new york i'm a loaner. you can tell that by the fact i never make eye contact. just spent a quiet week in lake wobegon, my hometown out on the edge of the prairie. >> reporter: he calls "a prairie home companion" a 42-year detour, a deor the he took in 1974. >> i went to nashville to write about the grand old oopry for "the new yorker." i really loved nashville. it was so unbuttoned. all of these wonderful performers. porterporter wagoner, minnie pe, roy akof. they were all children of the depression, and they felt so lucky to have whatever they had. it was really a happy place. so i got seduced by that into

trying the start my own show. ♪ well look who's coming through that door ♪ i think we met somewhere before ♪ hello, love the midwest i talk about is the midwest of my childhood, and that is receding in the rear-view mirror at high speed. the urge to be number one is not a great urge. number two can be nice. number three can be even better. >> reporter: he grew up in onoka, minnesota, one of six in a fundamentalist family. >> we had a big radio. it was a zenith. we resisted television because my people associated with television with hollywood. and then we were talking about adultery and all of that. but we loved radio. you would lie on the floor, and you could feel the base come up through your diaphragm. i have never believed any movie

i've ever been to in the way that i believe radio when i was a kid. i have never suspended my disbelief in the same way as that strange amphibious creature breathing this phlegmy breath as timmy was whimpering and clutching on to his grandpa with only a screen door between them and sure death. after this word from toothpaste. last portion of our show brought to you by the fearmonger shop, serving all your phobia needs since 1954. >> reporter: keillor may owe his gentle gift to story to his belief that he's on the autism spectrum. undiagnosed as a child, he was allowed to be himself, a little apart, noticing things, listening. if you weren't high functioning autistic, you would not have had the blessingings that your

childhood gave you, that you are still investing even now as a 73-year-old man. >> takes you a long time to appreciate these strokes of astonishing good luck. i wanted to play football, and you had to of course go and get a physical, and i went down to dr. mork's clinic and put a stethoscope up to my dhesms he turned a click, which turned out to be a microvalve prolapse. so instead of playing football, i wrote about football. no better thing for a kid to write about actual things that are happening before your eyes, what a beautiful thing. i was really very lucky. >> reporter: and lucky for us a speech teacher taught a shy boy how to face his fear of people. >> if you take off your glasses, you can't see them, and they won't look like people anymore.

she said they'll look like flowers on a hillside. and she was right. and when you learn that you don't have to be afraid of people you can't see, you have take an step toward broadcasting, you see. hope you're enjoying the show, reminding you that coming up later on many of these station, stay tuned for iniquity on the tundra. >> reporter: and now keillor is stepping away from broadcasting and eagerly anticipating a life of writing, a memoir and a screenplay, and traveling, or simply strolling down his tree-lined street in st. paul. what is your favorite joke? >> my favorite joke? a man is walking by an insane asylum, and he hears the inmates shouting, "21, 21." they sound so happy.

and he walks up, and he looks through a hole in the fence, and they poke him in the eye with a sharp stick and yell, "22, 22." that's the greatest joke. i think i have a future in stand-up comedy, believe it or not. i really started to hit my stride about three weeks ago. i did four shows in four nights. it was a lutheran town. everybody was lutheran, even the atheists were lutheran. it was a lutheran god they did not believe in. during the course of that two hours, there were about 40 minutes of helpless convulsive laughter, during which people were embarrassed because there was stuff coming out of their noses. this is what i aspire to. >> reporter: is this before or after the seizure? no joke, last month keillor suffered a knock ternal brain seizure.

what happened to you? >> luckily it happens when you are asleep, so you're there on a mattress and you're thrashing, and this dear woman who married you for other reasons than this calls 911. and the neurologist gives you an i.v. with this anti-convulsant and you wake up and you joke around with the people in the e.. -- e.r. >> reporter: and 48 hours later, heed written and performed two new shows. this coming saturday's broadcast from the hollywood bowl will be his last. but the show goes on. >> this was not the result of a beauty contest. this was my choice. >> reporter: garrison keillor's hand-picked successor is 35-year-old chris. >> he's doing more of a music show because he has talent, which i don't have. ♪ oh it lasted 40-something

years ♪ and why it didn't end i'll never know ♪ >> reporter: but we'll miss that voice. >> i was in my office in the acme building, st. paul. >> reporter: and all the others. >> time now for the lives of the cowboys. >> you take a piece of paper and you put it in the corner of the cheek and then you become lefty. >> reporter: hey, lefty, where you going? >> i'm going the same place i've always been, just down the round and around the 2 corner. >> reporter: will we see you again? >> reporter: hope i'll see you again, sweetheart. >> that's the news from lake wobegon, minnesota. all the men are strong, all the women are good looking, and all the children are above average. >> cowan: up next... >> i think we should pay people to go to school. think about it. >> cowan: school days. getting faster. huh?

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>> cowan: one presidential candidate's signature issue gets an a plugs from our jim gaffigan. >> bernie sanders is proposing free college tuition for everyone. i support that idea. in fact, i'll go one step further. i think we should pay people to go to school. think about it: nobody wants to go to school. maybe we want to learn, but we don't want to go the school and hear someone with coffee breath talk about algebra. that's just gross. i'm baffled that anyone goes to school when they aren't being paid, let alone that people are paying to go to school. that makes as much sense to me as camping, jogging or keeping up with the kardashians. >> i really want to get my ears pierced. >> what? >> you don't have your ears pierceed? >> i tell you, every weekday morning after i hug my children and before they head out the door to go to school, i remind them that i never have to go to school again. it's an amazing feeling. me bringing this up to them never seems to get the response

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>> cowan: the lengths some people will go to for a highland fling. stars of a popular time-traveling tv series are the talk of television. michelle miller explains why. >> reporter: scotland, a land of myths, magic and this, the perfect setting for a romantic, historical adventure series. >> people disappear all the time. >> reporter: with some time travel thrown in. >> disappearance is, after all,

an explanation... usually. >> reporter: it's called "outlander," a surprise hit for starz tv, now coming to the end of its second season. katrina plays claire, an english battlefield nurse who travels to scotland with her husband frank at the end of world war ii. coming upon a mystical portal, she finds herself hurled 200 years into the past, 1743, to be exact, with scottish plans plotting rebellion against british forces. >> claire is, in away, the audience. she is the eyes they see the rest of the story through. >> captain randall wants this delivered to him tomorrow. >> reporter: compelled for her own safety to marry a handsome young scot, she finds herself falling in love. >> welcome. welcome.

>> . >> reporter: laird frazier's bedroom. >> yes, the blue room. it's a very special place. >> yes, i would say so. >> reporter: when you meet sam, who plays jamie frazier. >> what can i do for you? >> reporter: it's not hard to see why she falls hard. >> they don't us a see eye to eye. he's from the past. he has his own moral code, she's from the future, and, you know, certainly thinks in a different way, so they're constantly banging heads when they come to these moments, but they have that love for each other, and they discuss it and eventually work out that that takes their relationship forward and makes them closer. >> he didn't understand it all, but he listened. >> reporter: not only do you have this incredible love story at the heart of it, but, you know, there's an awful lot about what home means to people, you know, being displaced, how does that change your life, how do you find home within a new land.

i think that's something that people today can really relate to. >> reporter: another thing to relate to, the 18th century costumes design. >> this is the way they would have done it then. this is done with actual silver plate. and it's a technique in embroidery that hasn't been used in over 100 years. and under here, we shaved a million sheets of micah to catch light. >> incredible. >> i think it was about 69 pounds. i couldn't move too much in the dress. but it was really beautiful, yeah. >> reporter: did we mention claire and her young scottish husband have great sex? >> come on, you can ask about the sex. >> andy: yeah, yeah, is the sex really that good?

>> i would say... well, of course, but it's like it's... it's what you do to the rest of us out there, you make it look so good. >> >> if only you knew all the crew standing in the room at the same time. the theme of "outlander" is love. and it's the power of love, what love can accomplish. >> reporter: diana, who lives not in scotland, but in scottsdale, arizona, is writing her ninth book in the bestselling "outlander" series. how many books have you sold now? >> 26 million last count. they're published in 42 countries and 389 languages. >> reporter: she published the first 25 years ago. >> i'm telling what it takes to be married for 50 years because i haven't seen anybody do that before. >> reporter: and do it well. >> marriage can do you go. >> reporter: jamie and claire's love story will range the world over, but its roots are in scotland.

jamie frazier's home. >> it's been great to come back to scotland and rediscover the country that i grew up in and understand what it is i love about it. i realize that a great deal of it is the landscape and the culture and the people. report overlooking that landscape is june castle, just outside of edinburgh. it sits in for castle leok. >> leok. >> reporter: leok. >> that's it. you got it. >> reporter: gary lewis players colin mckenzie, powerful head of the mckenzie clam, shrewd, well read and hobbled by a rare disease. >> he studies history as much as he can and he tries to learn the lessons, which have taught him that without outside help we cannot defeat a terror. >> reporter: and yet the small, lucked band of hardy scots will fight bravely against

overwhelming odds. >> this is my favorite spot. this is the armory. >> reporter: filled with dirks and daggers, swords and muskets. >> three, two, one, fire. >> oh, man. >> it would just be likens in that ditch again. >> reporter: but at the center of it all is the time-traveling claire, a modern woman struggling with the painful knowledge that the scottish rebellion is doomed. >> we know what will happen if the jacobites lose the war, but what if they win? >> reporter: one thing we do know... >> allow me to present my life. report jamie and claire's love story is far from over. >> i promise, whatever happens you'll never be alone again. you have my word.

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>> cowan: here's a look at the week ahead on our "sunday morning" calendar. monday is day one for the 36th national veterans wheelchair games in salt lake city, one of the largest annual wheelchair sports events in the world. on tuesday, legendary comedian, actor and director mel brooks celebrates his 90th birthday. not quite the 2,000-year-old man yet, but he's well on his way. wednesday kicks off the smithsonian folk life festival on the national mall in washington with a focus this year on the basque culture of spain and france and the multiple cultures of california. thursday marks the start of rim rimpac2016, involving ships from the united states and 26 other countries. on friday the traveling exhibit

"ladies and gentlemen, the beatles" opens at the grammy museum in los angeles, while saturday is celebrated by true believers as world u.f.o. day, the key to the 69th anniversary of the supposed crash of the u.f.o. near roswell, new mexico. now to john dickerson in washington for a look at what's ahead on "face the nation" this morning. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, lee. the u.k. has decided to leave the e.u. we'll try to put that in perspective. one voice includes marco rubio who sees a lot of the same forces at play here in america. >> cowan: all right, john, thanks a lot. next week here on "sunday morning"... >> the kellogg folks have a swell new surprise in store for you. >> cowan: look who is opening up a restaurant. it's a whole new kind of joy you get when you bite into a jif bar made with real jif peanut butter.

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>> dickerson: today on "face the nation," britain leaves the european union and ripples are felt across the pond and the world. while some in britain cheer, financial markets buckle and american politicians see similar force here. >> there's a sense we are too engaged with this global economy, we're too engaged with the world. i think you see it ma manifested here in america. >> dickerson: we sat down with marco rubio and announce he's back in the running for his senate seat. >> dickerson: and from the fairway of his golf course in stotland, donald trump use the brexit surprise to take a swing at his democratic rival. >> hillary clinton, or as i say, crooked hillary clinton, and barack obama, called it totally wrong. you know what? they call everything wrong. >> dickerson: clinton used the economic turmoil to make herl own case. >> in v