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detained in this country have been released. all follows implementation of nuclear deal between iran and world powers. today's iran's president praised that and lifting of sanctions. more on this from elizabeth palmer and charlie d'agata coming right up. six canadians and one american are among 8 people killed in friday night's terror attack in the west african nation of burkina faso. a group linked to al qaeda claims responsibility. president obama has approved emergency federal aid for flint, michigan, caprice sieve water from the flint river has leeched lead from old water pipes leaving the city without safe drinking water. the national zoo held a come out party for bei bei. the new panda cub, dozens of
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in line for their chance to meet his acquaintance. if you went to bed early you missed this. packers tied up their game with the cardinals in last second hail mary pass. from a scrambling aaron rodgers. moments later they lost in over time. here is today's weather, temperatures will tumble as arctic air descends over the midwest and into the northeast. thunderstorms will roll across the southwest, the west coast as well. for tomorrow martin luther king junior day, snow in new england and parts of the west. sunny skies return to the
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our cover story from barry petersen. >> the farm on the big island may be a bit off the beaten path but it's smack in the middle of a worldwide debate about one of life's essentials, the very food we eat. his papayas, like almost all of those now grown on the big island are gmos. genetically modified organisms. is it safe? >> we say, of course. been eating it, my kids have been eating it for 20 years now. >> 20 years ago the big island papaya industry has been thriving, growers were shipping 60 million pounds of papayas a year. but then insects began spreading a devastating virus called ring spot, to nearly every papaya tree on the island.
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were dead, fields were baron, the industry literally wiped out. but a hawaiian born plant pathologist, dennis gone solves then a professor at cornell university came to the rescue. >> we have technology that could help develop a virus-resistant papaya. >> a team of scientists pulled off a remarkable feat of genetic engineering, they took a d.n.a. strand from the destructive papaya virus inserted it into the d.n.a. of papaya seed just as with a vaccine for a human, the papayas became immune to ring spot. one of the final field tests was on delan perry's farm in 1997. in these photos, you can see the dead and diseased trees
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genetically engineered trees. >> it grew beautiful, absolutely beautiful. and even to this day there has been no break down ever resistance. >> today american farmers grow about ten different gmo crops including more than 92% of all corn and soy. most are engineered to ward off insects or to resist we'd-killing herbicides or both. that means, farmers can dramatically reduce insecticide use. when they spray for weeds the herbicide won't kill their crops. and most of us eat gmos every day in processed foods like so he da, cereal, chips and cheese. and in november, salmon joined the list, it's genetically engineered to grow faster. and there are more foods in the
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among them a peanut without the toxin that triggers deadly allergies. cassavas and a bananas the main source of food for hundreds of millions of africans that would become immune to diseases now decimating those crops. so given all that, why are so many people so opposed to gmos? >> as a mother and a scientist who has been looking at these issues for some decades i am increasingly concerned at the ways in which corporations have gained more and more control and influence over our food system. >> marcia is a senior scientist at the pesticide action network. >> genetically engineered seeds are responsible for an enormous increase in the use of pesticides, i you primarily herbicides. people have healthy skepticism to corporations telling us that
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safe. we've seen that with the ddt and tobacco, for example. >> a lot of the opposition to gmo is directed at the world's largest seed company, monsanto. she says she is troubled that when farmers buy herbicide resistant gmo seeds from monsanto, they are locked into using large quantities of monsanto-produced herbicide as well. and there's something else. farmers who buy monsanto's patented gmo seeds must sign an agreement promising that they will use them for only one harvest are be sued. farmers have done this since the beginning of farming they raise their crops, saver this sides plant them the next year. why not plant seeds that are patented by monsanto. >> we spend billion and half dollars on research and
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there needs to be some way of seeing that. >> hugh grant is the ceo of monsanto. if farmers want to take their business elsewhere they have plenty of options. >> the grower has very little loyalty. they're looking for the best possible seed that produces the best possible crop. >> but those crops are getting harder to sell. as consumers say they don't want gmos in their food. >> i want to say no to gmo and yes to healthy food. >> we have no idea what potential health complications arise out of eating diets rich in gmos. >> and some companies are reacting, chipotle, hershey and whole foods have or will soon either ban or require the labeling of all gmos. the big question is, is all this fear justified?
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beginning to investigate the myriad of potential adverse health effects. >> like what? >> gmo. the issue is that we don't have long-term independent studies to be able to answer these questions fully. >> than is the great divide. polls show 57% of americans think gmos are unsafe to eat but consider this, 88% of scientists say gmos are safe. and prestigious scientific organizations, among them the american medical association, the world health organization and the national academy of sciences all say hundreds of peer-reviewed studies confirm gmos are pose no danger to health. >> we're looking at genes that make the plants tolerant of flooding, we're also interested in drought. >> pam ronald is a plant geneticist at the university of california-davis. her husband is a certified
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has any study shown even as much as one person who has been harmed or died from eating food that was genetically engineered? >> there's not a single instance of harm to human health or the environment using genetically engineered crops. >> ronald points out that farmers have been genetically altering food for thousands of years using techniques like grafting, hybridization and cross greeding. look at corn, for example. >> this is modern sweet corn. this is ancient ancestor of modern corn. this corn produces a hundred fold more grain than the ancient ancestor which is not used any more. nothing we eat has been engineered by nature. everything we eat has been genetically altered using human intervention. >> still the vast majority of americans say gmos are
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and should be clearly labeled. >> the foods are not labeled we have no way to really ascertain what are the kinds of impacts people are having consuming gmos. americans have right to know what's in our food and right to know how it's been grown. >> and she has unlikely ally, the ceo of monsanto. >> we've been voluntary labeling for quite some time. >> i'm surprised because i would think if there's one company that didn't want people to have gmo on a label when they walk through a grocery store it would be monsanto. >> if we're going to be transparent with this we should really open it up. >> what no one disputes is this, the controversy over gmos is creating an ever lengthening approval process in countries around the world. take vitamin enriched golden rice which could help 250
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sometimes fatal vitamin a deficiency. >> we absolutely have to have food that's safe. but what's been put into the golden rice is a pigment that we should eat every day in carrots. as we impose hurdle, is that are not placed on other crops, many children are dying every day. >> faced with increasing anti-gmo public opinion, the push to ban them is accelerating in rich counsel trees where there is so much food that obesity is a major health issue. yet their biggest impact could one day be in the increasingly hungry third world. a lesson not lost on dennis gone solves the man whose genetic engineering saved hawaii's papaya all those years ago. >> we have a lot of food, no problem.
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>> osgood: it took several hundred years, but an american has finally brought music back to the sacred place in italy. allen pizzey has sent us this postcard from norcia. >> for more than 800 years the sounds of gregorian chants filled the valley and town of norcia, birth place of saint benedict the founder the western monasticism. or at least it did until 1810 when the order was suppressed due to the code of law. it stayed that way for 200 years, until an american monk arrived.
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i didn't enter until i was 24. >> he grew up in connecticut his passion was mug i can he studied at the venerable voice program at the indiana university school of music until he had what he calls a conversion experience. >> i wanted something different, something more. that's what drew me to the monastery. >> as a monk he had to shed the trappings of his former life, nearly everything, one thing he hung on to was music. >> because the prayer in the monastery is always sung, my music training was very beneficial. >> father cassian came to norcia in 2000 starting with just two other monks formed a choir. after two centuries music once again filled the valley.
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of them americans. a few years ago they recorded some of their chants to share with friends and neighbors. and then a funny thing happened. a record label came calling, wanting to produce an album. >> we were asked to do it by de mont form music, they were keep on it and we were a bit reluctant because we had so many things to do. finally we were able to figure out how to pull it off in terms of our monstic schedule. >> cutting the album meant cutting into a day that is regulated by work and devotion. the monks pray eight times a day starting at 3:45 in the morning. so sound engineers more used to working rock stars whose schedules can be chaotic to say the least had to fit in time
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>> we have 25 minutes. >> the studio was the basilica itself and the job took a mere two and a half days. it was a learning experience for both sides. one which choir master father basil nixen found challenging. >> we're always trying to please god when we sing, so pleasing other thing is easier. >> and please people, they did. while not quite a miracle, the album the monks were persuaded to cut hit number one on the classical billboard chart. >> were you surprised? >> it is remarkable. but it shows that there's something in the music that attracts people. across a huge spectrum. and that something i think is desire for what people today call spirituality. something more than the every day lives that they lead.
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think, because of its beauty and maybe ethereal quality. typical calming effect. >> it takes four years to become a benedictine monk. because giving up everything for life of prayer, work and no luxuries is a serious decision. the cover art shows quintessential image of a monk, one who thought that when he world. >> i'm uncomfortably noticeable. even so connecticut born he figured the album would have limited appeal. >> but the music can get to
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>> as for dreams of turning out another number one album in the future, the monks are anything but star struck. >> you are the kind of people who can honestly say, success won't change you. >> that's the whole point of our lives. we didn't come here to be successful. we came here to seek god. >> osgood: a cake walk is coming up.
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ve p w eooacnbluid: >> osgood: this cake was made for us by ron ben-he is real of new york city. he's not the only master cake maker in town. martha teichner takes us on a cakewalk. >> they might as well have been a flock of flamingos loose in manhattan. but, no, these visions in pink happen to be members of, get ready, the australian cake decorating network, on a three day new york cake crawl. >> beautiful. >> you didn't know that new york city was a big deal in the cake world? home of what is hot? >> bling, everything is bling. everybody wants bling on their
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going to actually do cupcakes with bling. >> after eight hour days pursuing cake they did make brief stops at few new york city tourist landmarks. but prioritize. the tourist sites, bakeries and cake places. >> who needs the rockettes when you can see a com supar. ben-isrel. >> athing canappen he modeorld o profenals a fical
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ad >> osgood: the bond between partners in law enforcement know any limit? not in the case off steve hartman found. >> officer ryan davis is returning to the scene of the crime, reluctantly. >> it's getting very difficult right now. >> last weekend he and his partner were investigating an alarm at this grocery store in canton, ohio. it was the middle of the night. >> 1:49 a.m. treersis of break in. >> we just started working our way through the grocery store. >> sounds of an alarm. >> roof door is completely off. >> shots fired. shots fired.
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>> ryan's partner was a german shepard named yet row. he was more than just a police dog. the davis family got yet row at eight weeks. he grew up as both family pet and a k-9 officer. every day seamlessly transitioning from pillow to police work and back again. until last weekend when he charged at that burglar and took three bullets. >> i'm here because he did what he did. >> ryan says the dog saved his life. but remarkably he says he wishes it was the other way around. >> i would trade places with him in a heartbeat. >> do you mean that? >> absolutely. because i wouldn't have to sit here and suffer over the loss of him. he's left a hole that will never be filled. he gave his life for me.
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>> it's hard to imagine owing such a debt with no way to pay it back. but this week the city of canton tried. they filled their civic center, invited police officers from across the country and honored jethro on what would have been his third birthday. as for the killer, police do have a suspect in custody, but that's of little consolation to ryan who says the only thing that will make this better is making certain his partner is never forgotten. how do you want him remembered? >> the one word that comes to mind is unconditional. he was unconditionally loyal, loving, supportive. he was a hero. >> he was a hero. as is any officer who can be this devoted.
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academy awards. leslie caron was bona fide hollywood star. but she no longer lived in hollywood. following the second of three husbands, peter hall, director of the royal shakespeare company to london. >> hello. >> she appeared on cbs' person to person with charles collingwood in 1959. >> leslie, does this mean that you finally put roots down here in london? >> your character is associated with all these older men. in your life you didn't choose older men. >> no. actually talented me. peter hall, my husband. he was just a beginner when i met him. he had the capacity of being a great man of the theater. i could see that. >> what do you think attracted him to you? because he buried the things
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the stage, the dance, the fame. >> i forgive him, because it was, you know, his background. in his milieu women stayed in the home and sent off the children to school. and that's what he expected of a wife. >> the children. >> don't you wish you could have a chance to -- >> yes. >> to do it again right now? >> yes. i would say, now, look here. >> it was a different time. >> it was a different time. it took very long time for women to say, look here, i'm me, i exist. my life has to be fulfilled, too. >> in those days, would an actress imagine being the age of
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still having -- no way, roles. >> 40 and the door was closed. >> but today doors seem to be opening for 80-something stars. >> i think it's the english who changed everything with the maggie smiths dhe judy denches. those wonderful actresses, dudley the public said, hey, wait a minute. i prefer looking at those ladies who have experience and wit and wisdom. why can be one o th am g to b in f in 2he earned an eor herst appnceonlaw a ord s wha yu want? u sou wn'tay anng.
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d ceo now a look at the week ahead calendar. monday is martin luther king junior day. honoring the memory of the late civil rights leader who would have turned 87 this past friday. tuesday is national popcorn day, celebrating the estimated 17 billion quarts of popcorn americans consume every year. wednesday is the last day drone owners can register their device with the faa and still receive a refund of the $5 fee. thursday kicks off the sundance film festival in park city, utah. this year, there are 120 feature-length films from 37 counsel trees. friday sees the start of the first broadwaycon in new york. three day long convention for broadway theater fans. saturday is national handwriting day, marking the 279th
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penmanship icon john hancock. and with that we go to done john dickerson in washington for a look ahead. >> dickerson: good morning, about two weeks ago before vote ink iowa, we'll talk to hillary clinton and bernie sanders ones the republican side marco rubio and john kasich. >> osgood: thank you, we'll be watching. next week here on "sunday morning". >> film of robert redd t was somng youould abl do. >> talks with charlot rampling. our item genui "nyour p" toolthishly so-afteresive can ours f.
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