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captioning made possible by johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations >> osgood: good morning i'm charles osgood this is sundae morning. the people of france are observing another day of mourning, with the victims of the terrorist attacks on paris on friday night. also night the symbol of the city of light, the eiffel tower was darkened. all the while we're seeing evidence of the resilience of
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also learning more about the perpetrators. we'll have reports this morning from elizabeth palmer, and our david. also be showing you the work of a photographer trying to prevent thousands of animal species from vanishing. martha teichner will report our cover story. >> meet talula the fence fox. national geographic photographer joel sartore is hoping his pictures of the 12,000 different animals in zoos around the world will help save them from extinction. >> the very last of his kind. >> later this sunday morning, portraits of peril. >> osgood: sylvester stallone first made fame as a boxer.
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rebalboa is back as he tells lee cowan. >> sylvester stallone maintained childhood. >> was that you growing up? >> in the sense that you wanted people to think that you were >> not so much. >> i am big and tough. i don't know if you noticed. >> sylvester stallone on his latest in carnation of the italian stallion ahead on "sunday morning." >> osgood: a singer with recording and triumph is about to have her debut on broadway, her name is jennifer hudson this morning anthony mason has her story. >> jennifer hudson who started out singing on a disney cruise ship is about to make her broadway debut in "the color purple."
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>> can she add a tony to her grammy and her oscar? >> even to this day it feels very surreal. >> jennifer hudson, later on "sunday morning." >> this is my kind. >> osgood: good "newsweek" end like this one the funnys can provide welcome diversion. rita bravera comic milestone. >> 92-year-old burt walk r walker, beetle bailey for 56 yes. >> you were in the military. were you as big a goof off as beetle bailey. >> where do you think i get the inspiration? >> he is only one star of the syndicate. celebrating 100 years of funnies, ahead on "sunday
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>> osgood: tracy smith talks with sarah palin. ste hartman visits with some dogs. the birthday of the great artist george o'keeffe and more, but first, the headlines for this sunday morning the 1h of november, 2015. in paris, understand cathedral is holding specialervice today for vicms of friday's terror attacks. 129 people were killed, hundreds more were wounded, 99 critically. french president has declared three days of national mourning. authorities say there were three groups of terrorists, eight in all. so far one american is known to have died in the attacks, she was a junior at california state university. she was design student studying in paris, she was 23 years old. today in long beach, the school
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plans a vigil in her memory. elizabeth palmer will have more on all of this just ahead. president obama is calling the terrorism in paris, an attack on the civilized world. president is in turkey this morning to attend the summit of g20 leaders. still obama is pledging to rebuild u.s. efforts to eliminate isis. the attacks dominated last night's cbs news democratic presidential debate. front runner hillary clinton was put on the defensive over her 2003 senate vote in favor of the iraq war. >> i don't think any president would disagree that invasion of iraq led to the massive level of instability we are seeing right now. >> i have said invasion of iraq was a mistake. this is an incredibly complicated region of the world. it's become more complicated. and many of the fights that are going on are not one that the
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united states has either started or have a role in. >> osgood: former maryland governor martin o'malley took aim at republican front runner donald trump's plan to deport mexican immigrants. >> the fact of the matter is, let's say it because you'll this are never hear this from the immigrant bashing carnal barker is, immigration from mexico last year was zero. fact check me. >> osgood: debate started with moment of silence for the victims of the paris terror attacks. now for today's weather. a west coast storm will deliver chilly air, rain and mountain snow from washington to california. east coast will be sunny and pleasant. the week ahead powerful storm threatens at least a dozen states from new mexico up into illinois with flooding rain and
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elizabeth palmer is in paris for us this morning. >> the opening salvo that left paris reeling. as ambulances help the wounded, the picture became clear of coordinated, multi-pronged attack by at least seven terrorists on six targets. including the bataclan concert hall. what sounded like rockets is actually gunfire. then chaos. there was a lot of panic. everyone was thrown to the ground. they shoot a little everywhere, randomly. for an hour as police got into position to storm the building a french journalist filmed
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escape, some tried to get out the back door grabbing wounded and dying companions. >> we heard shots, this woman said. it was the risk people were being tortured. terrible, carnage, dead people everywhere. a few blocks away gunman had also opened fire on crowded restaurants and cafes, that's where 2-year-old californian was fatally shot. the story in the main football stadium was tragedy averted. thousands of fans were kept inside after the game ended, safe and two suicide bombers who had planned to kill as many of them as possible. the french president would be among spectators was hustled to safety. later francois hollande spoke to the country. terrorist capable of carrying these out will show france that will not be intimidated. in less than 24 hours police working with forensic teams said
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they had identified all the terrorists. but they have only named one, the 29-year-old french citizen and petty criminal as islamic radical. last night's spontaneous memorial grew wherever the terrorist have struck. the country will now observe three days of national mourning for an attack isis claimed to have staged. as the group itself said in the statement, our brothers aimed their weapons into the very heart of paris. less than a year ago islamic radicals killed journalist at the charlie hebdo magazines and customers jewis deli. one has remarked this time, it's different. they didn't target a specific profession or group, they were gunning for everyone. and from around the world, support has poured in. international landmarks lit up with the colors of the french
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our cover story is reported now by martha teichner. >> they haunt you. these eyes. as intended. you're supposed to regard the greatest and the tiniest, the lowness equally. if we can get and look these species in the eye we'll get down low and look them in the eye you see how lovely they are. how much intelligence there is. they're telling us something. they're shouting it. >> for ten years now our friend national geographic photographer joel sartore made it his life's mission to be their mesnger
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they're noh, building a phographicrc. >> this is the arc room, we call it. we have 5,002 species in here. all rolling past. at this rate it would take two hours to s tall. it's supposed to just overwhelm people with what life looks like on earth. >> and what might soon be extinct. >> the very last of very last, the rabb's fringe-limbed tree frog. he's like nine years old at least. when he's gone, that's it. will be extinct. >> his photo arc will be at the national degree graphic museum in washington, d.c. until april. >> this is the northern white rhino that i photographed at duvr kralove zoo this summer, there were five at the time. very old female named nabire. she died one week to the day
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now there are four. this is the columbia base in pygmy rabbit. she was very -- >> it has gone extinct? can. >> see her from the other end of the exhibit. we wanted people to able to see her come into this room have experience of, well, this is what we're talking about. this is the consequence if we ignore the world around us right here. this is the consequence of that. thousands of species extinction per day on this planet. >> scientists over the past half a billion years we have seen five mass extinctions, like val kay knows and asteroid. scientists describe the loss as the sixth mass extinction. >> anthropologist catherine
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the national geographic's protecting wildlife initiative. >> we're losing animals at a rate of 1,000 times that of rates of extinction in the past. which is unparalleled, it's an extinction that we haven't seen since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. habitat loss, hunting, climate change, the combination of all these threats on planet that shortly will have seven billion people is really hammering the planet biodiversity. >> joel didn't set out to create a photo arc. it began as act of desperation when his wife, kathy, was diagnosed with breast cancer and he needed to stay home in lincoln, nebraska. >> i need to shoot something. exeat is going to be sick for a long time. on days when she felt better through the chemo cycles, i just needed something to shoot. >> this world traveler who shot
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35 stories for national geographic, including six covers, drove to the lincoln children's zoo a mile from his house and asked if he could photograph the animals. >> they let me take a naked mole rat put it on a white background that's how we started. i did couple of blue and black poison dart frogs, i think. that was 5400 species ago. >> sartors, not quite half way through photographing all 12,000 animal species in captivity endangered or not. he figures it will take him the rest of his life to finish. he's taken pictures of more than 200 zoos in the united states
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the how to part can be tricky. >> wrangling flamingos. >> he's not shadow. >> not quite like getting your ducks in a row. >> perfect. >> on the other hand, success is not always guaranteed. >> and there can be hazards. >> you've heard of angry birds. >> $6,000 camera. didn't you know that? >> this bird, the nastiest most bad-ass bird. >> nice. >> why zoo animals? >> zoos have the only populations of these animals. if it weren't for zoos lot of these species i shoot would be extinct by now.
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in love with fuzzy, cute animals. like the fennec fox. these at the st. louis zoo he wants us to appreciate the importance of the uncuddly ones, ones we've never heard of. >> this is often the only voice they will ever have before they go away. this is their only chance to sing, in a way. >> his animals have been projected on the empire state building and at the u.n. soon they will be shown on the vatican. anywhere he can as often as he can, joel sartore pleads for their lives. >> the best time ever to be alive to save species because there's so many species that you don't know. >> he hopes his photographs will
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and he likes to hook them young. >> we know the tiger bones are sold. >> i do take comfort in the fact that all is not lost by any means, in this country, the whooping crane, black-footed ferret, california condor, mexican grey wolf, all those animals got down to few than two dozen they're all stable now. not the best shape but stable. just speaks volumes to the fact that people do care but we have to let them know these animals exist and they're in trouble and what the need s. >> the ark is joel's invitation to look them in the eye. to look hard. >> osgood: next, georgia on
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born in sun perry, wisconsin. educated at the art institute of chicago, o'keeffe works first won notice in 1916 at the new york city gallery run by the famed photographer alfred stieglitz. she soon became his muse and his model. in 1924 his wife. following his death in 1946, o'keeffe left new york for new mexico where she'd been occasionally spending time. its desert landscape fascinated her from the first. and she recalled in this 1981 interview for "sunday morning." >> i saw the country from the hill up there. i looked out in this valley and the red hills and these cliffs
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nobody knew. >> osgood: inspired by her surroundings georgia o'keeffe painted flowers, animal skulls, the vibrant colors of the desert landscape. became mine. i looked at it so long. >> i'll just keep up. >> osgood: active and alert deep into old age, georgia o'keeffe died in 1986, she was 98. in 1997, a museum devoted to her work opened in santa fe. last year, one of her paintings, jimson weed, white flower number one 19 2 sold at auction for just over $44 million. far and weigh way the highest
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>> osgood: in many newspapers you can find this, special section saluting 100 years of the funnies. rita braver takes a look. >> they are named many of us have grown up with. blondeie and dagwood, her sandwich making husband. popeye taught us to eat our spinach and this little fellow became synonymous with mischief. >> to the day people know dennis the men as. you might have them described. comics gave people to talk about who they are or compare themselves to someone. >> and one thing these and hosts
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of other comic strip characters have in common is that they were brought to us by syndicates. >> we have 56 comic strips right now. over the years, we have syndicated hundreds. >> brendan burford now editor. it was created one century ago by the brash and bold newspaper mogul william randolph haerst. >> he was the original media tycoon. he understood something about connecting to the masses, giving them what they want. >> turns out they wanted the funnies. he stole the yellow kid from the rifle publisher joseph pulitzer, in the first supplement featuring the kid and other strips sold 375,000 copies of heart's new york journal. he realized to get a group of
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newspapers to share the costs of hiring a stable of comic strip artists. >> he said, i can collect these and send them out to the world essentially. and did he that. >> by 195, hears had formed the kick syndicate to distribute comics and other features. there were existing syndicates, but king became, well, the king. and still is with comic strips now published in 2800 newspapers in more than 70 countries. some, like flash gordon, have become screen stars, too. >> stop your attack on earth i'll spare your life. >> and like flash gordon, many comics have been drawn by series of artists over the years.
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but the strip with the longest continuous run in history drawn by one artist, is beetle bailey, that slothful perpetual private. you were in the military. were you as big a goof-off and goldbrick as beetlz where do you think i get the inspiration? i was lazy. always taking a nap. i didn't care where i was. >> at age 92, mort walker had been drawing beetle and his years. why did you think people are still reading this strip? >> i like to think is that i keep coming up with things that make 'em laugh. >> today his sons brian and greg work with him on both beetle bailey and strip walker cocreated in 1954 called hi and lois. >> it was kind of about our family. i could see things that happened
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in our family life would end up in the cop i can strips. >> is that hard walking that line? >> it can be. everybody has a cell phone now and computers all that. >> in the future do you think all comic strips will be online and not really in newspapers? >> well, i've always had very agnostic attitude about this. whatever they might once digest this stuff is where we're going to be. >> at the recent comiccon in manhattan, drawing legions of youthful fans, king features artists were busy autographing a new book, celebrating the syndicate's centennial. today, strips like ray billingsley curtis shows how cartoonist and their characters have become more diverse. >> this hasn't actually been an
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industry where there's been a lot of inclusion. >> but above all it's really only the quality of the come i can strips that can keep readers coming back for the next 100 years. >> what we have to do is lure them in with good work, good characters. something that is fun to look at. not always humor, humor. but things that make people think and to feel. >> so long everybody. >> osgood: singer jennifer hudson.
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but next, the newest fran tear. >> osgood: upped scored important role of social media. even as tragedy unfolds. here is contess saw brewer. >> at the beginning of the night, gilles and marianne posted a picture on in center gap. excited to see the eagles of death metal. inside, orphans were sharing video of the band rocking the stage.
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and then, as we know, everything changed. there was shock, confusion and horror. the terrorists opened fire. and concert-goers began using social media as a lifeline. desperate escapes were captured on cell phone cameras. benjamin wrote on facebook, first floor, hurt bad. there are survivors inside. they're shooting everybody, one by one. with those messages potentially the difference between the s.w.a.t. team storming in and waiting outside to see what would happen next? >> absolutely. >> michael morell is former deputy director of the cia and senior national security contributor for cbs news. >> that told law enforcement that they needed to move now and not wait and try to negotiate. >> outside the same story. the soccer stadium, chaos caught on camera. and restaurants, witnesses
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shared pictures. as the attacks intensified and police urged people to get off the street, parisians to twit tore offer their homes as safe place to shelter. the attacks saw facebook deploying new feature "safety check" used for the first time during a terror attack. allowing people to get confirmation their friends were okay. but then, there is the darker side. isis, too, is using social medium its supporters expressed glee over the attack and intelligence experts worry that the tech-savvy terror group may have been able to pull off their coordinated plot using apps with advanced inscription designed to keep messages private. >> the time following the debate about privacy, about government over reaching all of those allegations, series comes out that are encrypted that have messages that self destruct.
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>> john miller is deputy commissioner of intelligence and counter terrorism for the new york city police department. >> you can walk in the door with court order from the federal judge, hand over to the company we need to see what is inside like we did in mumbai and after 9/11 they will say we can't see what's inside. >> for better and worse, friday night's attacks were followed globally. prayers for paris trended around the world. as did recerche paris, where the faces were haunting echoes of those faces we saw on flyers across new york city after 9/11. new technology was familiar feeling. desperate families searching for their loved ones. among them that instagram photo of marianne and gille. friends say she's been located,
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>> it's "sunday morning" on cbs. here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: jennifer hudson's rendition of the song "i'm telling you i'm not going" is a high point of the 2006 film "dreamgirls." now, she's about to open on broadway. here is anthony mason. >> in a manhattan rehearsal hall, jennifer hudson is
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roles of her career. the part of shug avery in the revival of the musical "the color purple" the 34-year-old singer has won an oscar and a grammy. but her last theatrical role was on a disney cruise ship more than a decade ago. this is your first broadway show? >> have you been in the theater yet? >> no. this is the first time. >> last month she made her first visit to the stage at the bernard jacobs theater. >> the stage when you're up here doesn't look that big. >> no. you think like, wow, all of that is going to happen on this little stage? it's so exciting. i want to sing in her right how to. >> go ahead.
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began this past week. hudson opens on broadway next month. >> here you are. >> so nice. my first trip to was when i was coming to do the news for being eliminated american kinds. and so it's like full circle. >> she was 2 when she made the finals of "american idol" in 2004. it was before her dramatic weight loss and judges criticized her wardrobe. she finished 7th. >> you emerged from that unscathed. or not? >> yes, i did. it gives you tough skin. i kept going with it. they can tell me i can't sing on the show but they can't tell me i can't sing. >> you don't need me. all you wear about is her bony ass. >> she beat out more than 700 other actresses to win the role of effie white in "dreamgirls."
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the lead singer of a girl group whose replaced by a more camera ready rival. in her first film, she starred opposite beyonce and jamie foxx. >> you're walking into a film with a pretty imposing cast. >> yes. >> and you've never acted before. >> no. i'm sitting here between them i'm like, oh, my, god. it's like, you know what, they had first start, too. they had to start some where. i love y'all but this is my first start, excuse me. i got a job to do. >> and she did it. her performance of "and i'm telling you i'm not going" in her climactic scene became an immediate film classic. filmed. i swear, they wrapped the chairs, they wrapped the x-rays
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every tear i cried in that scene was a real tear. it came from somewhere. i put it in this moment. >> it earned ud son an armful of hardware. >> this is the oscar, this is the british oscar. >> the awards live in the home she shares with her long time fiance, wrestler david. and their son, david, junior, in the suburbs of chicago. >> this keeps me grounded, centered, definitely. >> growing up on chicago's south side the center of life for hudson was the pleasant gift baptist church. >> this was the first place you sang publicly? >> oh, yes, definitely. >> from the beginning her family knew she had a gift. >> i stood right there and i sang "must jesus bear the cross alone."
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>> you were how old? >> i was like seven. >> hudson's maternal grandmother, julia, who was a church soloist was also her coach. >> i was so young. she used to make these faces and as kids we used to sit and laugh. she was very expressive. >> you hear her sometimes in your own voice. >> yes. >> when you hear her coming out of you. >> it's chilling. >> is it? >> it's special. we treasure her gift. i was just singing the other day, when i say, a god, that's how she would have phrased it. >> hudson's voice arguably the best of her generation, won her a grammy for her debut album in 2008. but the honor that year would be eclipsed by a violent family tragedy.
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29-year-old brother jason and her 7-year-old nephew julian king were all murdered by her sister's estranged husband. how do you even begin to process that? >> i don't think you can. it's one of those things where it comes in flashes. >> what do you do when it comes? >> i try to allow myself to let it do, be, bring, whatever it brings. because it's too much. and when it's more than one person, you don't know who to grieve for first. when it comes, it comes. >> do you still have conversations with your mom in your head. >> all the time. and my brother, if he was here, if i was sitting up crying he'd say, jenny, knock it off. >> you strike me in some ways as pretty fearless about certain things. >> i hear that often, i don't know why. >> you do? >> yeah.
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>> how did you get through the trial that year? >> that i think was the toughest thing ever. >> she testified and went to court every day. >> i remember going -- god came to me, everything happened he i do? he said, i want to you get up and keep going. you don't question god. i said, okay, let's go. >> she set up a charity in her nephew's name with her sister, julia, provided school supplies to chicago kids. next month, hudson will star in chi-raq, spike lee's new film about violence in chicago. >> we got to stop the killing. >> a mother who has a slain little girl that was caught in a stray bullet going to school.
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>> it was very personal for her. you can see when she was -- >> on the set, lee applauded her courage in taking the part. >> i know it was rough. thank you. [ applause ] >> it's been a notable year for jennifer hudson. a new film, a broadway debut and a performance at service for pope francis at madison square garden. >> couldn't help but to think about my mom, my grandmother, my church family. like, wow, definitely one of those moments. you wish that they were there. it's so cool. the energies of everyone that's -- >> here? >> yeah. it's overwhelming almost like,
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sarah palin of alaska is not among the many republicans running for president this time around. but she says she's keeping long range options open. tracy smith visited with her on her home turf. >> this is stunning. >> isn't it a gorgeous view? i love wake can up to this every day. >> wasilla, alaska's most famous private citizen still lives in the same house the one she bought before she was a household name.
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wounds? >> came back here, man, because got to get back to real life, you know. >> did you feel like a loser? >> well, sure. you either win or you lose. it's like, dang, i wish i could have added more, contributed more positively. maybe there was no chance that we were going to win anyway. >> do you feel like you're to blame for the loss in 2008? people do blame you. >> it takes a team to win. it takes a team to lose. i was part of a team that came in second out of two. you either win or you lose. we lost. that makes you not a winner. at that time. >> it all began, of course, in the summer of 2008, when senator john mccain picked alaska governor sarah palin, a feisty
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be his running mate. >> the next vice president of the united states, sarah palin! >> at that moment, she had lot going on in her private life. her oldest son was bound for iraq. she had a new baby with special needs. and she'd just found out her unmarried teen daughter bristol was pregnant. >> they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? lipstick. >> sarah palin was new to national politics and sometimes it showed. her every stumble was immortlized on late night tv. >> i believe that diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any foreign policy. and i can see russia from my house. >> she also took a lot of heat for this awkward moment with then cbs news anchor, katie couric. >> when it comes to establishing your world view, i was curious, what newspapers and magazines
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did you regularly read before you were tapped for this, to stay informed and to understand the world. >> i read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media. >> specifically i'm curious -- all of 'em, any of 'em that have -- have been in front of me overall these years. i have a -- >> can you name a few? >> was that a fair question? >> sure. yeah. i had a crappy answer but fair question. i didn't like the way that forever then in these seven years that interview has kind of been stamped on my forehead. she's an idiot. i think in the context of the whole ball of wax that day or two days of interview it wasn't real fun. >> in the end it wasn't even close. >> this is a defining moment. change has come to america. >> let me show you something, for instance,.
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>> if 2008 was hard year for sarah palin 2015 hasn't been much better. she lost her job as a commentator for fox news. though she won't exactly be going hungry. >> this is season's moose. >> this is all moose in here? >> yeah, this is all moose. >> ts past may her daughter bristol's wedding to marine medal of honor recipient dakota meyer was lled off. >> one of your disappointments was bristol's wedding falling through. bristol is pregnant again. >> yeah. >> that't b how you saw i playing out. >> heck no. being single mom, myoodness, my heart goes out to the single parents. my enormous admiration for what it is they're able to accomplish doing double duty i watch bristol do that all the time with her little boy, trip. i can't wait for about 45 more days, i'll have a little baby granddaughter. i'm happy about it. >> you're looking at it like a blessing.
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>> absolutely. >> of course there are those who say, this goes against everything you stand for. >> well, the cool thing about putting your faith in god is he certainly is a god of second chances and third and fourth and fifth chances. i screw up all the time. >> she says she turns to scripture to help her through tough time and as she writes in a new book she's had her share. >> i think that this book will express some of that because lot of it. the mistakes, there's admittance in the book about things that, oh, yeah, orchestrated that one, i pushed it too far, i screwed it up. god bless united states of america. >> palin's political future may be cloudy right now, her opinions are as clear as ever. there's this feeling that maybe instead of contributing to making things work, that you're
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not being able to find -- >> because some of my comments are probably very candid and perceived as cause particular to some. i do that because i know that i speak for whole lot of people who are thinking the same thing but don't have a microphone or a stage they want somebody to say it and i'll say. that i'll call people out for doing something stupid. i'll use the word stupid. >> do you worthy that that's too divisive? >> i think too many people worry about too divisive or they worry about the politically correct police who will tell them, you know, sit down and shut up because you're politically incorrect. i'm like, that's part of the problem in our country right now. >> i want to move on to 2016. if you had to choose one stand out candidate in the g.o.p. field who would it somebody. >> right now i'd say that fighter is donald trump. because he's got nothing to lose. he doesn't have to be bought or
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especially when it comes to contributions. he is his own man. >> i may leave here you may say, that was not nice what he said, who cares.>> but at the momenthe are more important people in sarah palin's life. >> how did you do at school today. >> trig her youngest is now seven. >> did you get to go on the slide at recess? >> yeah. >> was your job to push the kids down the slide? >> yes. >> being full time mom never slowed her down before and it doesn't now. >> i still usually write something every day for my facebook page because i want to keep up on five million people who we reach informed about issues that i think they need to start talking about. and then, my goodness, before we know it's time to give you a bath, right? is that fun? how about brushing teeth? no. you would leave this to go back
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on the campaign trail? >> this will always be home. i would know that i could always come back here. >> translation, she'd jump at the chance. you're willing to run again. >> i'd be willing that's good way to put it. >> sarah palin really can't see russia from her house she never actually said she could. but what she can see is even better. >> a lot of silver lining here, don't you? you see a lot of the clouds, light coming through the clouds all the time. i have illustration every day here in alaska of beauty in more ways than one. i look around and i get to see the beauty of god's creation and
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going to the dogs. >> i came if fort worth, texas, thinking i'd seen everything when out rolled everything to the contrary. guy on the mother pulling nine dogs on a train. that's a new one. in fact the only thing more surprising than the site may be the story mind it. this train ride is the brainchild of brothers eugene and walter bostick, it's just a small part of a much larger mission. the bosticks, who live in the same 11 acre woods they grew up in spend thousands of dollars a year just feeding the wildlife here. >> you game 'em. see the ducks over there? >> they don't miss so much as a mallard. if you're wondering why they have this insatiable need to feed. the answer is simple. childhood guilty. >> when we first moved here we killed them all. the rule of the day was anything that moved we shot.
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are making amends which brings us back to the train. >> over the years a lot of stray dogs have wandered on to the property. 6 of course they're cared for but that wasn't enough for the bostick boys. who thought they might enjoy a little movement. >> everybody ready? >> you have to be prepared when you see them loading up and how happy they are. >> the train departs once a week for an hour of pure joy. the mangy misfits now the envy of the neighborhood. the dogs no one wanted now like celebrities on a catwalk. they're giant chew-chew toy takes the dogs mostly through the local warehouse district. but for the brothers each trip takes them one step closer to redemption. they say all dogs go to heaven if that's true, there's got to
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dave, i'm sorry to interrupt. i gotta take a sick day tomorrow. dads don't take sick days, dads take nyquil severe the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep with a cold, medicine. this is a story about doers, the artificial heart, electric guitars and rockets to the moon. it's the story of america- land of the doers. doin' it. did it. done. doers built this country. the dams and the railroads. john henry was a steel drivin' man hmm, catchy. they built the golden gates and the empire states. and all this doin' takes energy -no matter who's doin'. there's all kinds of doin' up in here. or what they're doin'. what the heck's he doin? energy got us here. and it's our job to make sure there's enough to keep doers doin' the stuff doers do...
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>> move your tail! what's the matter with you? >> it's "sunday morning" on cbs here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: sylvester stallone chased a chicken as part of his training in the 1979 boxing epic "rocky ii." now, all these years later, stallone is about to appear on screen as rocky balboa for the 7th time. lee cowan has our sunday profile. >> hi, everyone. >> go anywhere in philly with sylvester stallone. >> how you doin'! >> it might well be with rocky himself. >> is that arnold. >> the statute at the foot of
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the philadelphia museum offer. >> look at these guys. >> keep going. >> at 69, stallone is a fixture here. what did you think when you look at it. >> i don't go, hey, i look pretty good. like i wish i was that noble. >> as if rocky was flesh and blood. people come here to pose run those famous steps. these? >> all the time. buildings. all the way up and down. >> standing there with him at >> even took my niece. >> got to admit it was a little surreal. >> it is my favorite place ever. i feel like, you can do anything from up here. you can seal your whole life out there.
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life much of it, anyway. >> the last round of your life. >> that is the last rocky nearly a decade ago. the 6th in franchise some thought should have heard the bell long ago. >> you're 06 years old. you want to play a fighter. that's a tough sell. >> testifiest sell of his life it turned out. the italian stallion did get one last fight. and stallone got to give his character fitting farewell. >> i thought, i'm done. and rocky in a sense waves goodbye to the audience. i was waving goodbye to myself as sort of mutual farewell. >> but then, this happened. >> director ryan coogler reached out to stallone with the idea for creed, a boxing film that
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turned the spotlight on to the son of rocky's long time rival, apollo creed. >> your father was special. tell you the truth, i don't know that. >> played by michael b. jordan, creed's son has heart. but needs a trainer and a mentor. he got one in stallone. both on screen and off. >> my god did he take a beating. >> did he? >> oh, my, god. i wanted him to get hit a little bit. it's a right of passage, you have to get clocked. >> because you did. >> i did. mr. t, dalph lundgren, carl weathers. he went home trying to figure out why am i listening country western music backwards. i don't know my own zip code. >> as a boy stallone didn't look the part of guy who could take a punch.
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>> i had a lot of nerve. but i didn't have lot of physicality. >> his birth in small clinic in new york's hell's kitchen, didn't go as planned. >> they put in forceps, because i was twisted. and the forceps caught me here, instead of under here, caught me here so i have this crooked mouth. >> it damaged a facial nerve on his left side. and people, you slur, you slur, like only half works. give me a break. i don't do it intentionally. people didn't understand what i was saying for many years. still don't. they still don't. >> some mistook that for stupidity including his own father. >> oh, man. it was never just -- he said, you were born with too much of a brain so you better start using your body. >> something that your dad said to you. >> a lot.
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>> that you weren't born with much of a brain so you better develop your body. and it stuck. >> when he was 12 he saw the movie "hercules, that changed everything. >> i flipped out. flipped out. out of that theater i literally ran to a junk yard where there was pieces of metal that resembled a bar bell. >> his family moved to philly where stallone spent his teenage years bulking up before heading back to new york to give acting a go. they were pretty lean years to say the least. >> i had to sell my dogs. i couldn't afford dog food. $50 at a 7-eleven. >> eventually his bulk started paying the bills. he was cast with guy who mugged woody allen on the subway. >> i didn't see you.
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by jack lemon. >> but nothing really big clicked. >> that's when i realized i'm never going to make it in acting, per se. i have to find some other niche, something. >> that turned out to be writing. >> all did i was write and write and write. maybe 30 screen plays, of which 29 are probably horrible. but it's the process of completing them that mattered. >> he completed the screen play for "rocky" shortly after his 29th birthday. writing the world he remembered back in philadelphia. >> put it this way, all the clothes in rocky were mine. >> even the hat? >> even the hat. everything was mine. >> studios loved his script. but stallone had a condition, he refused to sell the rights to his film unless he was cast in the lead role. you had no money people were offering you hundreds of thousands of dollars, right? you were turning it down. >> everything. yeah.
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it went up to about $360,000 which is crazy. >> what are you thinking about when the buzzer -- >> adrian! >> it turned out to be a sure bet. rocky went on to win three oscars. sequels started rolling out. the fame took a toll on his personal life. stallone went through a divorce, married actress bridge it nielson got forced again after just 19 months. all while rocky was morphing into another character. stallone called rambo, rocky on -- >> it's over, jenny. >> it's over. >> the script for that had been bouncing around for years, right? >> i was the 11th choice. >> 11th? >> yeah. >> they were just about to hire a chimp. and then i came along. >> again, stallone had some demands.
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in the original "first blood" rambo dies. stallone wand the ending changed. >> there's a lot of vets that look at this and go, there's no reason to go on. this character representing us in the end he gets shot? this is irresponsible on my part. >> it made millions at the box office. within few years, the man some thought was challenged as a child, had written his way into two movie franchises. as his characters matured, so did he. he married again, this time happily, and kept writing even directing. did you feel like for awhile that after the rocky and rambo that you were owned a little bit by those characters. >> totally. still do. >> you still do? >> oh, yeah. i think -- now i look at it as a prief glenn for awhile though you did sort to want to distance. >> i tried. >> it never really worked, though. >> everything i got is moved on. and i'm here.
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>> certainly not with rocky and he's at peace with that now. >> i am serious. slowing down. >> sylvester stallone knows he's as much rocky as rocky is sylvester stallone. >> really emotional. damn, this has really been magical. unbelievable ride. lot has happened on these steps. keep punching, philly, i owe you. nature made.
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bakery, cafe, newsstand. everyone is on first name basis, when you enter a shop it's always, bonjour, david. eastbound though city of more than two million people you can't walk down the street without greeting two or three of them. it can be a little annoying sometimes you realize that everyone knows your business, that's when i long for the anonymity of new york. because in those villages no one is ignored, everyone is part of a community. this morning after the charlie hebdo attacks my district was in shock. one of the artists killed had lived for many years just around the corner and everyone knew him. it wasn't just a terrible event that happened elsewhere, a neighbor had been murdered and that's why in january the city marched and proclaimed, i am charlie. i watched of the events friday night helplessly from new york and tried frantically to call friends and make sure they were safe. as the names of the vic testimonies are released there
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will doubtless be people whose death will touch someone in our village. some people i spoke with security. how could this happen? why weren't they more vigilant. the police and government might tighten security but it won't be so easy because above all the french cherish their liberty, they won't allow patriot act or metal detectors to constrain their freedom. a friend of mine who owns a bee toe wrote that he and his staff have opened as usual even though they aren't far from the site of the killings. paris is bruised, he said, but the light of the city must not be extinguished even for one day. it won't. and it's because those villages, that sense of community are what give paris its strength. that's why for me all of paris is my village. i'm doing the same for my family.
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biden celebrates his 73rd birthday. and on saturday, our friend comedian jim gaffigan is guest ring master at the new york's big apple circus to benefit nonprofit community programs. now, to john dickerson in washington with look what's ahead on "face the nation." good morning, john. >> dickerson: good morning, charles we'll get latest on the terror attacks on friday in paris. we'll talk to the chairman of intelligence committee then we'll talk to presidential candidate bernie sanders. we'll be watching. next week, here on sunday morning. eat, drink be merry. the food issue. try nexium 24hr, now the #1 selling brand for frequent heartburn. get complete protection with the new leader in frequent heartburn. that's nexium level protection.
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