>> whitaker: good morning and happy new year. jane pauley is off today. i'm bill whitaker and this is "sunday morning." today is the day for new year's resolutions. is one of yours is to embark on unconventional travel, you could do worse than follow the lead of two authors we'll be introducing you to this morning.

sorry that altschul will report our cover story. >> hoping to spend your new year doing a little exploring? this duo might have just the travel guide for you. >> some of my favorite places look mundane but in fact have this incredible story. >> discovering the world's weird and wonderful places, ahead this "sunday morning." >> whitaker: the story of debbie reynolds and carrie fisher the mother highway daughter hollywood stars that died just one day apart this past week touched people all over the world. and that definitely includes our mo rocco. >> i have a delicious surprise. >> debbie reynolds of one of hollywood's brightest and most enduring stars. >> i just feel that you don't

give up. and if you get a blow, you go on. >> what the hell are you doing? >> somebody has to save our skins. >> carrie fisher was one of the generation's brightest stand keenest observers. >> what i say is if my life wasn't funny it would just be few. >> ahead this "sunday morning," remembering mother and daughter, debbie reynolds and carrie fisher. >> whitaker: we're saying hail and farewell to many another notable this new year's morning. jane pulley will be doing the honors. >> we are the music makers. and we are the dreamers of the dreams. >> they made us laugh. and sing. >> ♪ tonight i'm going to party like it's 1999. >> helped us dream. >> who's the greatest?

>> and changed our world. >> that view is tremendous! >> ahead, hail and farewell. >> whitaker: life does go on, of course, thanks in no small part to the local doctor of whom it can truly be said, he delivers. martha teichner will have his story. >> yeah! >> this is what a thousand people look like. now try to imagine ten times as many. that's how many babies the man all these people are here to celebrate has delivered in charlottesville, virginia. >> i didn't pick you. you guys picked me. you chose me to be part of your family and to be part of your most special event of having a baby. >> ahead this "sunday morning," what happened when he said, enough is stuff. >> whitaker: steve hartman

has the story of a hug that put a man's life back on track. conor knighton reflects on a year on the trail. and all through the morning, we'll be taking stock of the year gone by. first, here are the headlines for this first sunday of the new year. january 1, 2017. police in istanbul are searching for a gunman who opened fire during a new year's celebration. 39 people were killed, scores injured. elizabeth palmer reports. >> in the early hours of the morning turkish police launched a manhunt for the attacker. as ambulances took away the wounded and the dead. one of the swangiest nightclubs popular with tourists. and between 5-600 people had been ringing in the new year when a footage appears to show a man opened fire first outside the club and then inside

shooting into the crowd. >> i don't know. at the moment say they're looking for one gunman who managed to escape. the nightclub's owner told the turkish newspaper he had added extra security at the club after u.s. intelligence warned ten days ago that there was the risk of an attack. for sunday morning i'm elizabeth palmer. >> whitaker: here at home the new year dawned with more than a million revelers in new york time square. fireworks atop the space needle sparked a small fire that was quickly extinguished. president-elect trump said last night he's still not convinced the russians were behind the seiber medaling in the november election. mr. trump says, he has information horse don't know. actor william christopher has died in pasadena, california.

he was best known for playing the friendly father mull pay me on tv's "mash" he was 84. this year he's college football championship will be rematch, clemson and alabama. yesterday the tide beat washington 24-7 in the peach bowl. clemson pounded ohio state 31-0 in the fiesta bowl. now, today's wet. cold but clear across the heartland. soaking rain in the south. snow from the pacific northwest to the rockies. in the week ahead, arctic air will sweep across the nation making for a frigid start to 2017. bundle up.

>> whitaker: it's the mysterious name of guide to some of the world's most unusual places. atlas obscure a. our cover story is reported by sorry that altschul. >> josh foer and bile an thuras can usually be found looking for an adventure. >> without any light. >> but today, they are just looking for 134 peace and quiet. >> on the other side. >> they have come to the right

place. >> you can't hear everything. minor sound. like as clear. >> used to test the volume of a wide range of products, this room at the lab in minnesota is about 16 times quieter than the silence at your local library. >> all right, gentlemen. >> which makes it the quietest place on earth. >> we could hear each other swallow across the room. hear your eyebrows moving. hear your scalp go like -- after that experience it changes your perception of the world. you think about your own body and sound totally differently. >> which is exactly their mission. to make people think about the world differently. the world's quietest room is

just one of more than 600 obscure and unique spots featured in their new book "atlas obscura, an explorers' guide to the world's hidden wonders." >> that makes you feel like the world is a bigger, weirder, more wonderful place than you imagined. >> the book is an off-shoot of their website, founded in 2009, it's an online encyclopedia of weird and wondrous places that gets more than five million visitors each month. >> we always joke that, the eiffel tower could never be in atlas obscura but there's a little room at the top that was built stand secret place to entertain, yes. that atlas obscura. >> but it was the website's vast network of use that's right submitted many of the book's most awe-inspiring destinations. one that is surprising to you?

>> they come in every day. i remember the first time somebody submitted the the gates of hell in the middle of the turkmenistan desert. the giant flaming hole in the ground that was created through an accident in 19 0s. >> closer to home they found an organ unlike any you've heard before, tennessee -- virginia's great stalacpipe organ. >> this guy took an entire cave, attached little mall let's to different stalactite to play notes. when he plays the organ the entire cave was played. you can still go and they still play the cave for you. ♪ >> the blinking, what does that mean? >> josh and dylan discover many

of the sites themselves. while exploring south america in 2010, they walked across one of the last incan grass bridges. and they hiked to the top of gocta falls. peruvian waterfall wasn't even on any maps unfill 2006 when it was measured and found to be third tallest in the world. >> talk to villagers, what they said, we knew it was amazing, knew it was beautiful, didn't have any sense that it could be that amazing relative to everything else that might exist in the world. in a way, that's like the lesson of atlas obscura. what are the wonders all around us that we don't take the time to acknowledge and celebrate. what are the waterfalls that we're missing. >> they are betting that by highlighting those wonders, they will prove that the world is still full of surprises. >> everybody's curious about the

world. sometimes they just need a little spur to actually go out and explore. and hopefully we are giving people that spur. >> whitaker: next. 2016. a look back.

>> whitaker: we all lived through quite a year through

2016. here is a look back month by month. >> what do we want? >> whitaker: in january, michigan declared a state of emergency in the city of flint. a switch in the city's water supply caused lead to leech from old pipes. february saw the death of supreme court justice antonin scalia at age 79. >> today i am nominating chief judge -- >> republican controlled senate declined to academy on president obama's nomination of judge merrick garland as the success or. in march isis claimed responsibility for back to back bombings tap the brussels airport and subway that killed 32 people. on april 21st, queen elizabeth marked her 90th birthday, although the full scale public celebration wasn't held until june. in may, nasa announced its

kepler space telescope had discovered 1284 new planets in distant solar systems. that brings the total number of discovered planets to more than 3200. june saw the mass shooting at the pulse nightclub in orlando. >> i don't know where my son is. no one can tell me where my shonn s. >> gunman owe march mateen shot and killed 489 people and wounded 53 others before dying in that shootout with police. in july, a hot air balloon caught fire after hitting power lines and crashed in texas, killing all 16 people on board. >> it is really hot today. >> this past august checked in as the hottest august on record. the national oceanic and another months fear rick administration says the average worldwide temperature was one and 2/3rds

degrees higher than 20th century average. >> we're extremely fortunate and grateful that nobody was killed. >> in september, a bomb exploded on a busy new york city street, injuring 29 people. suspect ahmad khan rahami an afghan-born u.s. citizen was arrested after a shootout with police in new jersey. in october, hurricane matthew struck the southeastern coast from florida to north carolina, forcing tan estimated two million evacuations and killing at least 26 people. november brought donald trump's defeat of hillary clinton in the president shall election. he won a clear victory in the electoral college while losing the popular vote by almost 2.9 million votes. while in december a fire at an oakland, california, warehouse filled with cluttered artists' studios killed 36 people.

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>> whitaker: he delivers. at least a busy virginia doctor did delivered before calling it quits at midnight 68 just how busy was he? martha teichner will show us. >> counting down, jessica turner was number 23. when she arrived at sentara martha jefferson hospital in charlottesville, virginia, around 8 p.m. >> are you okay walking. >> she was met by her obstetrician, dr. edward wolanski. >> i need the chair. >> following this delivery -- you. want to try pushing with the next contraction, we'll see what happens. >> he will have 22 left. >> tell her to push, she can do it. you got it. >> he would go out with the old year. >> come on, you're almost done, promise. >> no more deliveries after december 31. >> all right, beautiful. >> oh, my, god.

>> jessica turner giving birth to a girl at 9:18 on october 4th. >> so our family's complete. got my boy and my girl. >> do you have a name. >> this is jaelle. >> wolanski delivered her 19 month old son, too. >> well, that's your sister. take care of her, man. >> when turner and her husband discovered that he was retiring from the obstetrics part of his practice, they panicked momentarily. >> please, lord, let him just us this one favor deliver this baby. >> have you any idea how many babies you've delivered? >> well, i know it's over 10,000 but i can't tell you. >> you heard right. more than 10,000 babies. >> i think i try to look at it say, if we take all these 10,000 put them in a stadium think how

many people that would be. >> the little town that i came from had 10,000 people. i'm thinking, oh, my, good, that's how i look at that number. he delivered my whole town. >> do you know the next steps? >> wolanski's wife cindy runs his office. call it a mom and pop operation. wolanski is a solo practitioner, a rarity in today's medical landscape. >> you feel the baby move? >> yes. >> he sees these women from start to finish. >> just show me where that discomfort is when you're having it. >> no hand off to a stranger at the hospital. >> i'll measure here. >> he's been with my family a long time. he delivered me and my sister. my mom was a patient of his. >> he delivered both of brett baker's other children. >> thank you. >> i tell him, he was the first

person to touch you guys, hold you guys, gave you to me. >> good deal. >> it is the relationship he develops with each of his patients that explains their intense devotion, especially when things go wrong. >> the first time we met him, actually, we were in the throe san francisco of a miscarriage, our first, pretty emotional. he immediately showed a lot of compassion and care. >> which gave mary elizabeth stand kasu luzar the confidence to try again through three more miscarriages. >> everybody here has always been so welcoming. they know us. they know our story. we're not just nameless faces when we walk through the door. >> wolanski figures he's handled four to 5,000 miscarriages in his more than 30-year career. >> is the flip side of that incredible joy that you experience, are you crushed? are you heartbroken? >> absolutely. yeah.

it's very painful sometimes. just part of life. >> he eventually delivered the luzar's daughter, adele, now four and a half. and gave in when they begged him to stay on to deliver their next child. >> he is as much a part of the pregnancy and delivery as our family. >> as for helen cohoon, her third pregnancy was actually planned around him. >> we found out dr. wolanski was retiring from that side of things we got straight to it, trying to get pregnant so we could sneak in. >> what? >> now or never. >> your baby will be the last? >> it is the honor of honors. >> at the start of his career, dr. wolanski tried group practice, but pretty quickly decided solo practice was more satisfying. >> it's harder. >> definitely harder. you have to be able 24 hours a day, seven days a week. somebody calls you at 3:00 in

the morning says they're in labor you don't have to look for a chart you know who they are, you know what the situation is. >> what is the largest number of births that you've had to juggle in the same time? >> i did ten deliveries in probably eight hours once. >> luckily he's one of those people who only needs three or four hours of sleep a night. which means somehow he manages to spend time with cindy and their two grown sons. and to ride his harley. and -- >> just another hobby i wanted to pick up. >> tend his bee. and -- >> come on. >> run. he took up running marathons at 50. now, at 60, he's run 25. so, when his patients wanted to

pay tribute to the doctor they consider family, holding a two-mile charity run in his name was a no brainer. >> thanks for your amazing commitment to our community and to our excellent care of moms and babies and families. [ cheering and applause ] >> here was the largest gathering of wolanski babies and hire parents ever. >> thank you. >> this is what dr. wolanski treasures. and will miss. >> did you walk or run today? >> i walked. >> good to be out here. >> thank you! >> this is not about me at all. it's about you. i didn't pick you. you guys picked me. you chose me to be part of your family and be part of your most

special event of having a baby. >> at the end of the run, minutes after this picture was taken, brett baker went into labor and dr. wolanski delivered her second boy. then, he had 13 deliveries left. by the time marry elizabeth luzar gave birth to a second daughter on november 18 the count was down to nine. >> good to see you. >> and helen cohoon, she was indeed last. >> the honor of honors. >> helen, here you go. >> that was that. just like a movie with a happy ending. >> this is freyja louise wolanski cohoon. >> did you catch that name? freyja louise wolanski cohoon. >> this is dr. wolanski.

>> a fitting tribute to a moment sweet and sad. >> that is nice to do this together. i appreciate that. >> at the same time. >> nice job. >> whitaker: a year that spoke volumes. a look at 2016's best sellers, next. mone hundredts thousand times a day, sending oxygen to my muscles. again! so i can lift even the most demanding weight. take care of all your most important parts with centrum. now verified non gmo and gluten free.

>> somebody has to save our skin. >> whitaker: larger than life.

♪ if you go from know been on the rote ♪ and you meet anyone you know, it's me ♪ >> whitaker: debbie reynolds is unstoppable, yes, unsinkable in the 1964 film "the unsinkable molly brown" in the end it took nothing less than the death of her daughter, carrie fisher to

bring her down. mo rocca has an appreciation times two. >> somehow both shocking and poignant. ed to fisher said about his mother's passing she wanted to be with carrie. >> debbie and carrie lived right next door to each other. >> our rita braver paid them a visit back in 2004. >> what did you think when your mother said, i'm buying the house down the driveway? >> i tried to litigate. >> she called me. mother, the man just died. and i said, should i go to the funeral? no, you should buy the house. >> but a good part of what made them so captivating as a pair, was what seemed to be their differences. >> would you please tell me what the this awful thing i did to you? >> dramatized in carrie's thinly veiled novel turned movie

"postcards from the edge." remember my 17th birthday party when you lifted your skirt up? >> i did not lift my skirt. it twirled up. >> you weren't wearing any underwear. >> well! >> if you only knew debbie and carrie from their screen work. you'd think that they were from different -- well -- >> gal taxis. >> some rescue. >> each epitomized her generation. >> what the hell are you doing? >> somebody has to save our skins? >> i have a delicious surprise. >> ♪ all i do is dream of you -- >> debbie reynolds was one of the brightest stars during hollywood's golden stage of movie musicals. hers was the school of whatever you do, keep on smiling. >> my entire life i have always

fought back. and i just feel that you don't give up. and if you get a blow you go on. >> the story of how she was discovered sounds like the plot to mgm musical. she was competing in a local beauty pageant when she was spotted by a movie studio talent scout as she told me in 2013. >> they had a screen test. there was a camera there. they said, look in the camera. i said, so, okay. and they said, now, just talk. just ad lib. i dead, why would i do that? i don't know what i'm doing here. that is all so silly. and they said, well, you want to be a movie star, don't you? i said, no, i don't anything about it. >> i don't want to be a star? >> i can't possibly be a movie star. jack washer saw the test. well, she's funny. let's put her under contract,

$65 a week ♪ singing in the rain. >> two years later she was singing in the rain with donald o'connor and gene kelly. 20 years younger than gene kelly. you'd had no dance training? >> no. no, i had no training of any kind. ♪ good morning on, it's great to stay up late ♪ >> debbie was the ultimate up toker. >> we danced ten and 12 hours every day. >> to give viewers a sense of how much work this was, you say your feet were bleeding. i mean, what else hurt? >> i think your heart hurt, could you keep up? were you going to fail? ♪ and gene kelly kindy scared me. he was the boss, he was brilliant. he was wonderful teacher. he had to teach me. and to be given a little kitty

cat, expect it to be a lion it didn't happen overnight. and i had to work, work, work without question. ♪ wish i knew if he knew >> debbie reynolds didn't just play innocent she was innocent, said her son, todd. >> ♪ tammy, tammy -- tammy's in love ♪ >> all those early movies, man, tammy, all that. that's just her. >> i don't want to say naive. >> she is innocent. she's a true innocent. >> i should expect to find you holding the leash. >> i recognized your foul stench when i was brought on board. >> on the other hand her daughter, carrie fisher, was all about candor and not masking the pain. >> it's good to tee ya, sweetheart. >> you contemptible pig. >> finding the mum or in the

vicissitudes of her very unusual life. >> i was born in burbank, california. to simple folk. [ laughter ] >> she was the child of a global scandal. when her father, crooner eddie fisher, left debbie for elizabeth taylor. >> the best thing elizabeth taylor did for me was to get eddie fisher out of our house. >> after becoming internationally famous as princess leia in star wars, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. >> my mother wants you all to know, this comes from my father's side. [ laughter ] >> then she began writing. >> you probably are the only person in the world who could make going off on sort of a manic depressive swing stand ending up in a mental institution funny?

>> it better be funny. in other words, what i say is, if my life wasn't funny it would just be true and that's unacceptable. >> carrie fisher saved herself and helped a whole lot of other people by writing. >> everything worked out very well in books. much more organized and ordered than everything out here. >> the differences between mother and daughter were real enough that they didn't talk for nearly ten years. but what always struck me about them wasn't just that they loved each other, but that they really liked each other. >> what i figured out i now have to turn into my mother if she lived next door. >> they may have come of age in two starkly different decades, the 1950s and the 1970s but these two women got each other. >> the reason she can write so many books is because of me. >> uh-huh. >> because you were giving her so much material? >> uh-huh. >> she is --

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>> whitaker: when better than this day for newbie beginnings to consider the hug. >> lot long ago in a cemetery outside augusta, georgia, a loving couple was buried. the wife buried below this white bouquet. the husband, buried above. in a mound of grief. >> took me totally by surprise. >> 82-year-old dan petersen says after mary died he fell into a deep depression you. had no purpose? >> no. >> were you just waiting to die?

>> yeah. >> for six knocks it was just that bad. >> then one day you walk into the grocery store. >> it all changed inside this publix. >> dan was nearing the end of the canned vegetable aisle. he hates grocery shopping, by all accounts the express confirmed his aggravation. but that's when this unapproachable man was approached by a 4-year-old girl named norah wood. in the security footage you can see norah randomly reaching out to him. her mom says it was quite embarrassing. >> she said, hi, old person, it's my birthday today. >> then had the audacity to ask for a hug. >> i said, a hug? absolutely. >> norah got her hug then asked her mom to take a picture of her with her new friend. >> she just wanted to make him feel loved and give him a hug.

it was just sweet. >> i said, you don't know. this is the first time, for quite awhile, that i've been this happy. >> that all happened back in september. his grin has only gotten wider since. >> hi, sweetheart. come in, come in. >> today norah visits at least once a week. >> how's my sweety? >> every time, it's the grocery store all over again. >> i knew i was going to get a hug. >> her last visit was over christmas. he got her some dress-up clothes he got him a gallery of framed photos. >> it's a bridge. >> okay. >> by the way, dan does have grandkids of his own. but they're grown and gone. and norah does have grandparents. but her mom says this is a completely different kind of bond that almost defies explanation. >> she fell asleep holding a picture of them. i'm like, what? >> to dan, it's equally

miraculous but far less mysterious. he believes norah is, quite literally, an angel. >> she opened me to a love that i didn't know existed. >> do you feel like you have a purpose now? >> of course. norah. i know i made room in my heart for a lot more. >> whitaker: ahead. the year online.

♪ never mind, i'll find someone like you ♪ park park i wish nothing but the best for you, too ♪ don't forget me, i beg ♪ i'll remember ♪

♪ hallelujah, hallelujah. i'll remember ♪ ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah. >> whitaker: still do come. e anything but simple. so i had an important conversation with my dermatologist about humira. he explained that humira works inside my body to target and help block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to my symptoms. in clinical trials, most adults taking humira were clear or almost clear, and many saw 75% and even 90% clearance in just 4 months. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections,

or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don't start humira if you have an infection. ask about humira, the #1 prescribed biologic by dermatologists. clearer skin is possible. our blogs are buzzing about the designer smile... ...by colgate optic white high impact white toothpaste. with a professionally recommended whitening ingredient. for four shades visibly whiter teeth. the designer smile... ...by colgate optic white high impact white. >> whitaker: we've already paid our respects to debbie reynolds and carrie fisher. time now to say hail and

farewell to some of the others we lost during 2016. jane pauley left us this tribute. ♪ dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life ♪ and if the elevator tries to bring you down ♪ go crazy ♪ >> like a preach tore his flock, prince spread a gospel of music bursting with love, funk and soul. ♪ so tonight i'm gonna party like it's 1999 ♪ i only want to see you ♪ i only want to see you in the purple rain ♪ >> he was that self taught virtuoso who wrote countless songs. >> ♪ honey, i say, little red

corvette. >> you know these are like my children, they will be all that will be left upon my departing of this experience. ♪ i just want your extra time and your kiss ♪ >> in his life he maintained an aura of mystery. and at 57, he left us this past year. he left us wanting more. >> you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. >> to kill a mocking bird by author harper lee. the novel, her first, won the pulitzer prize. the movie adaptation starring gregory peck is a film scholastic this day. a lot of us walked around in the skin of lee's characters. who lived in a fictional southern town that really could have been anywhere.

>> always felt that i told story of the south. i tell the history of the whole world. >> author pat conroy left in us in 2016. among his novels snoot prince of tides" and the great santini both about families. >> always seemed literature is much letter when there's a love-hate relationship. >> they believe in their children. >> no, they don't. >> as an overly involved parent on "everybody loves raymond" everybody loved emmy winning mom, doris roberts. ♪ mama tried, mama tried to raise me better ♪ but her pleading i denied ♪ that leaves only me to blame. >> merle haggard sang about his mother. he was no little angel. >> the more i haven't to jail the more i learned about being tan outlaw. >> convicted for burglary as a

young man, haggard spent time in san quentin. ♪ i'm proud to be an okie from muskogee ♪ >> then mined his life story for his songs and became a legend. some hoar music giants left us during the year. ♪ you wonder why the earth still moves ♪ you wonder how you'll carrie on ♪ but you'll be okay on that first day when i'm gone ♪ ♪ i'd like to teach the world to sing. in perfect harmony ♪ i'd like to buy --

>> adman bill backer, he was the real thing. he wrote jingles for coca-cola. tag lines for campbell's soup. ♪ soup is good food >> and remember this one? >> if you've got the time, we've got the beer ♪ far par two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese -- >> jim didn't write the jingle for the big mac. he cooked up the recipe. billions have been served since. >> you've got mail. >> raymond tomlinson, he knew where it's at. he put the @it sign in e-mail addresses. in countless photographers, bill cunningham turned people of new york into trend setting models. >> this is on the street. always have been, always will be. >> but it was own cat walks

where desteiner james galanos showed his style. >> times change. amy change. but good taste is most the most important thing. >> the president of the united states and mrs. reagan. >> and it may be that no one wore galanos better than this woman. first lady nancy reagan. she left us this past year. she was known for being president reagan's closest advisor. >> i think there's always a certain jealousy, if that's the word you want to use. of the one who's closest to the president. and obviously the one who is closest is his wife, or should be, i hope. >> after the president's diagnosis with alzheimer's, mrs. reagan became an important supporter of stem cell research. >> i just don't see how we can

turn our backs on this. >> a stance at odds with some of her fellow republicans. >> i think the pro lifers are the vitality, enthusiasm, heart and soul of the republican party. >> conservative phyllis schlafly battled fiercely for her causes. >> i attack ideas. i don't attack people. and if you can't separate the two, you got to get another day job. >> supreme court justin antonin scalia, he, too, was a vibrant conservative voice. >> i can be charming and combative at the same time. that's contradictory between the two? i love to argue. it may well be that i'm something of ashine kicker. >> a fighter, who could also be engagingly warm as a colleague and friend. >> those who tried to put us in jail have gone to prison themselves while we are still here.

>> activist tom haydn fought for the other side. he was a leader of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s. >> this is the beginning of the end. this is the beginning of the climax of the war of southeast asia. >> fid del castro at the age of 32 you now have in your hands a great deal of power and great deal of responsibility. >> fidel castro was a leader of the cuban resistance in the 1950s. who became a dictator in the '60s, who would live to haunt 11 u.s. presidents. >> viva la revolucion! >> some admired him. horse feared and even fled him. >> it is time for this little boy, who has been through so much, to be with his father. >> it was then attorney general janet reno who made the controversial decision to send

one young refugee, elian gonzales, back to cuba. >> janet reno, congratulations. >> reno was our first woman attorney general. and she served while grappling with parkinson's. through it all, janet reno never compromised her ideals. >> i am the king of the world. >> hold it, hold it. >> i'm pretty. >> hold it. >> nor did muhammad ali. >> who is the greatest? >> you are. >> he was three-time world heavy weight boxing champion. born cassius clay, ali changed his name when he converted to islam. >> yes, sir. it's muhammad ali. muhammad means worthy of all praises. >> he became a polarizing figure for his religious beliefs and his refusal to fight in the vietnam war. >> whatever suffering or punishment i may have to take, it will all be because of my

religion. >> but later be admired as much of fighting for his convictions as for fighting in the ring. >> float like a butterfly, sing like a bee. ahh, rumble young man, rumble. i've been punched a lot of times. so there's a great possibility that something could be abnormal. >> he, too, was afflicted with parkinson's, but muhammad ali put up the good fight until the end. >> the line is perfect. he's got it! >> arnold palmer, golf's first superstar. >> there out of the blue comes a thunder bolt. >> he popularized not only the game but the iced tea and lemon made drink that bears his name. we raise a glass to arnold palmer. and, to these other sports legends we lost in the year gone by. ♪ hallelujah

hallelujah ♪ ♪ and even though it all went wrong ♪ style stand right here before the lord of song ♪ with nothing, nothing on my tongue but hallelujah ♪ >> that's leonard cohen, he left us last year at age 82. cohen was already a poet and novelist when he released his first record. we'll remember his deep voice and powerful songs ♪

>> the most dangerous drug in rock and roll is applause. that seemed to be the one that got me the most jacked up. ♪ there's plenty of room at the hotel california ♪ >> and there was plenty of applause for glenn fry, cofounder of the eagles. ♪ do you remember, the 21st night of september ♪ love was changing the minds of pretenders ♪ >> hand we remember maurice white, creator and leader of earth, wind and fire. a name inspired by the stars or at least his stars. >> the elements in my chart is earth, air and fire. ♪ remember how the stars stole the night away ♪ ♪ i gotta have faith >> on the subject of stars. george michael was a pop superstar. ♪ i gotta have tate-a-tate

>> just last week we said goodbye to george michael. ♪ but losing everything is like the sun going down on me ♪ >> i sincerely like to make people laugh and make them smile. >> g taxrry marshal, he filled our lives with laughter. ♪ schlemeil -- >> i am morning. >> creating sitcoms stand directing rom-coms. >> nothing beats that to see a whole bunch of audiences laugh and smile and have a good time. >> for all those happy days, we'll remember garry marshal. >> they only pretend to applaud my song but what they really want is another glimpse of my broken heart.

>> stand zs tax $sa. we'll remember for her glamorous lifestyle and many, many marriages. patty duke, she became a star on stage and screen that is a child when she played helen keller. >> yes, oh, my, dear. >> what a crazy pair ♪ >> she may be best remembered for those identical cousins on the patty duke show. >> patty. >> yes, papa? >> william schallert played her dad, he left us last year, too. >> here's a story of a lovely lady ♪ >> stand so did drones henderson who headed television host famous blended family. >> i created carol brady to be the mother that i false wished i had. >> i love you. >> jon: as much as ever. >> we love you, too, ma ma.

>> can we talk? >> sure. >> we lost the another tv dad, alan thick. and still more beloved television friends. >> he was false the good guy. he was always the hero. >> i know you've all been expecting superman to make a personal appearance here. >> superman. >> for the defendant, your hon honor. >> salutations to you and your tine staff. >> what kind of name is that for a horse? >> what kind of a name is wilbur for a man? >> from the tv comedy barney miller, we said goodbye to ron glass and abe vigoda. >> you won't believe this.

according to their records i'm deceased. >> probably a mistake. >> i love you, wild, beautiful thing. >> from "cool hand luke" to "the naked gun." >> any other victims? >> you're standing on one right now. >> george kennedy could do it all. >> i can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. >> and alan rickman, known the world over as that professor of potions, severus snape in the harry potter movies. >> what's your name. >> my name is jim. >> i'm leo loom. i'm an accountant. >> my name is pronounced fronkensteen. >> we knew him as gene wilder, even that wasn't his real name. >> i didn't want to be introduced at jerry silverman. i couldn't see jerry silverman

in hamlet. it doesn't sound right. >> by any name, gene wilder was unforgettable. ♪ come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination ♪ >> i have no regrets. i have had a wonderful life, a charmed life. a great career. >> just think. yes, i was a meaningless little accountant and today i'm the producer of a broadway flop! >> not stow, edward albee, of won three pulitzer prizes for his plays. his "who's afraid of virginia wolff" is a classic. >> you are a bastard. >> i? >> yeah, you. >> no two people see the same play. the experience they bring, the enthusiasms they bring, what they wish to think about. how many see the play i wrote? some, not all.

>> he stairs down from the podium like this bird of prey. eyes staring past that great baby. >> who could turn a phrase like our morley safer. he never held his fire. not when he was covering vietnam. >> this is what the war in vietnam is all about. >> not when he set his sights on modern art. >> it's a white rectangle. >> right. he's a minimalist artist. and -- >> i would say so. >> we loved having him in our homes almost as much as he loved being there. >> it is on rare days like this that you must ask, do they really pay me to do this? yes. >> hi, mr. president. >> good to see you. >> because when we talk about race in this country we always talk about african americans, people of color. i want to talk about white people. >> journalist gwen ifill spoke

truth to power in washington. then there's john mclove lick. the one time priest who became a washington pundit. he never missed a show in 34 years. >> i think there are very few entities that you can describe as embodying evil in this world. i think the khmer rouge are one of them. >> sydney schanberg wrote. he won pulitzer prize and inspired the movie snoot killing fields." >> it just reminds us that genocide is just around the corner all the time. that it happened. it didn't end in world war ii. >> the question was why did i survive, why i? every survivor has had that question. every survivor is haunted by that question to this day. >> elie wiesel suffered atrocities of the holocaust and lived to tell.

>> if auschwitz couldn't kill the world of anti-semitism, what could, and what can? what will kill the world? >> he won a nobel peace prize for his legacy of books, museums and memorials. reminding us to never forget. ♪ taps and we will never forget our servicemen and women who died protecting our rights and freedoms during the year gone by. we thank them. ♪ rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress ♪ >> and we'll remember david bowie.

♪ fame makes a man take things over ♪ >> his songs spoke to millions. changes, turn the face boots? >> his perform tanss were quite simply out of this world. ♪ there's a starman, waiting in the sky ♪ he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds ♪ there's a starman, waiting in the sky ♪ >> which brings us to real life starman, john glenn. the first american to orbit the earth. >> oh, the view is tremendous! >> on his return, he was given a hero's welcome. years later, at age 77, he'd do it all over again. >> i know the word awesome gets

over used these days, but if anything is really awesome, it's looking out from up here. and seeing that for the first time on a flight. it's truly awesome. >> godspeed, john glenn. ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah. >> they made us laugh. they made us cry. many left us too soon. to all those who touched us with their words. and deeds. in ways large and small. we are grateful. they graced our lives. hail and farewell. last chance of the year.r h. noooooooooo! you made it just in time!

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i was there two weeks ago. but a smile would have been frozen on my face no matter what. america's first national park was my last stop on a year-long quest to visit every national park, all 59 of them. it's a journey that began with a hike in the dark one year ago today. i joined a small group of strangers on the top of cadillac mountain in acadia national park in maine to see the first rays of sun that hit the contiguous united states. i wanted to get a head start on 2016, the 100th anniversary of the national park service, i knew i had a lot of ground to cover. soon, i was underground at mammoth cave in kentucky. then under water at biscayne in florida. walking across sand and soil, from the lowest point in the united states to the base of our highest peak. the 59 national parks are spread

out all across the country. for most of the trip, i drove. it was always scenic, only sometimes scary. when i did hop on to a plane the change in landscape was even more dramatic. one week i was marveling at lava in hawaii, the next i was in awe of a glacier en masse has. our country's nature beauty as diverse as the people who live in it. setting aside these places for the enjoyment of all was and is a uniquely american idea and i've never felt prouder to be an american. it was certainly an interesting year to be crisscrossing the country. i spent plenty of time in red states and blue states. i saw 1500 foot high wall that already exists on the mexican border. i watched a debate at my hotel in american samoa, where the

people i met can't even vote for the american president. much has been made about how divided we are as a country. but you don't really feel that in the national parks. they're places where red and blue can come together, sometimes in the same vista. naturalist john muir once wrote, everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in. where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. we may need that now more than ever. fortunately, there's no shortage of cathedrals. you'll continue to see stories from the parks on this broadcast. but i encourage you to go out and see one for yourself this year. i've spent the last few days reflecting on the places, people and puppies i've experienced along the way in 2016.

i spent last night at point reyes national sea shore in california. on december 31st it's where the sun sets last in the lower 48. i wanted to have the longest year possible because i have loved every second of it. happy new year and happy trails. ♪ our whole universe -- >> don't touch that dial. the year in television is next.

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♪ all started with a big bang ♪ >> on the subject of television. we go now to john dickerson in washington for look at what's ahead on "face the nation." >> we'll look at america on this new year's day with a book panel including authors isabelle wilkerson, j.d.vance and diane guerrero. >> john dickerson in washington. and next week here on "sunday morning" -- >> that is crazy. >> david pogue was that virtual reality reality check. >>

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>> dickerson: today on "face the nation", on the first day of 2017, a look at america. >> on this new year's day we will explore the challenges facing our divided country, and what can be done to forge more unity in 20 speech. >> 2017. >> first a book panel with isabel wilkerson who wrote the warmth of other suns, j.d. vance, author of hillbilly elegy, actor diane guerrero, the author of in the country we love, and amani al-khatahtbeh, who wrote muslim girl, a coming of age. then a panel discussion with journalist michele norris of the race card project, jeffrey goldberg, editor of the atlantic, "washington post" columnist michael gerson and atlantic columnist david frum,

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