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>> susan willis was 43 when her son was born, and she'll be 46 when his sibling arrives. she's part of a growing national trend, women having children later than ever before. why did you wait? >> i'm not the same person i was at 20. i think this is the child, the children i was meant to have, and i wouldn't change a thing. 40 is the new 30. everybody is older. if you have a child at 28, it's like a teen pregnancy. >> reporter: ahead this mother's day, "never say never." >> osgood: from moms over 40 to a musically gifted son of australia whose marriage is the stuff of movies. john blackstone will be speaking "for the record" with country singer keith urban. >> reporter: with four grammys and 19 number-one songs to his name, keith urban sure knows how to make music.
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>> music is so much a part of our family because of him. ♪ but i won't live with regret ♪ >> reporter: chart-topping keith urban later on "sunday morning." ♪ because it's gone tomorrow here today ♪ >> osgood: our sunday profile this morning is of allison janney, star of a tv series with its own unique take on motherhood as lee cowan will show us. >> what are you doing? >> i can't sleep next to someone who doesn't value me. >> since when? >> reporter: on tv allison janney plays a mom with a host of problems, not the least of which she's in recovery. >> i know being an actor is you basically lie. you do things you haven't done before, but there are certain things i don't feel like i have a right to. >> reporter: with this role, allison janney says she does have a right to, but it comes with pain she may never lose. the story ahead on "sunday morning."
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>> osgood: bei bei is a different sort of mother's day story from our rita braver. >> >> reporter: okay, moms, if you think you have a lot of family photos, well everything these giant pandas do is recorded. did the zoo have any idea how popular the panda cams would be? >> i don't think anybody could predict the incredible popularity, but what i love is that this is science in real life, in real time. >> reporter: later on "sunday morning," panda >> -monium. >> osgood: mo rocca has the story of a decision to return home. conor knighton is on the trail to petrified forest national park. gary hart signs off on one very tal order and more, but first the headlines this morning, the 8th of may 2016.
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the huge wildfire raging in the western canadian province of alberta has now consumed more than 500,000 acres. it's forecast to be the most costly natural disaster in canada's history. parts of the town of fort mcmurray no longer exist. 100,000 people have been evacuated. mexican drug lord "el chapo" guzman, who was has twice escape from jail, has been moved. he's now jailed in northern mexico, just across the texas border. guzman's attorneys are fighting proposals that he be extradited to the united states. sadiq khan, the british-born son of pakistani immigrants and a muslim, is now the new lord mayor of london. he celebrated his victory yesterday with a multi-faith ceremony at an anglican cathedral. at the 142nd kentucky derby run at churchill downs in
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favorite did not disappoint. >> exaggerator on the outside. nyquist and exaggerator. they're coming to the line together. and nyquist is still unbeaten. he has won the kentucky derby! >> osgood: a crowd of 167,000 attended the race, the second largest in derby history. here's the weather: a wet mother's day is in store for folks across the plains, parts of the west and the northeast. severe storms could hover over kansas and oklahoma. for the week ahead, scattered showers across the east. warming in the west. just ahead, mother's day at the zoo. but first... ♪ old mcdonald had a farm >> osgood: never say never.
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. it's more than helping customers, it's helping neighbors. ♪ stand by me >> osgood: say hello to cal lilly rose, only five months old. her mother is robin rose mcfadden, one of our sunday morning producers. deciding when in life to have a baby is a very personal decision, and for more women these days, it appears to be a case of never say never. our cover story is reported now by serena altschul.
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in for mother's day over the weekend. >> reporter: when aisla danchand launched her baking business for 2009, she was hungry for success. what kind of schedule were you working? it sounds like 24 hours? >> 24 hours a day, seven seven days a week. >> reporter: non-stop? >> non-stop. thank you, ladies. >> reporter: and it paid off. in just four years she said evelyn's kitchen grew to be a seven-figure business. then in her early 40s, she wanted to expand again, in a different way. so why wait until your 40s to really try have a baby? >> we just had other priorities. >> reporter: work came first. >> work came first. >> reporter: but after several years and one miscarriage, she gave up trying, convinced she had waited too long. then, in july of 2014... >> i just f
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i didn't feel well. i was sure that this was first signs of menopause. i said, this must be early onset menopause at this point. i googled menopause. i didn't fit any... there was none of the checklist that fit. the next morning i took a pregnancy test. >> reporter: and another? >> and another. >> reporter: and another. >> i probably took like 13 or 14. literally i was buying the five packs. >> reporter: they all came back positive. and on march 2, 2015, brooklyn emanuel was born. five months later brooklyn's mother turned 46. did you have any concerns or misgivings about being pregnant at your age? >> i was already thinking like i'm crazy taking her to kindergarten and i'm going to be the age of some people's grandparents, and it will be like, this is my daughter. >> reporter: but it turns out she's not alone. nationwide the number of babies born to women 45 and
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while still relatively small, has more than tripled in the past two decades, and the average age of first-time mothers has climbed in every state across the country. seems like everywhere you look these days you see a woman over 40 with a beautiful little angel like this one. meet my vivian. she turned one last february. her mother, over 40. you see this as a temporary phenomenon? >> this isn't a blip. this is a seismic shift. >> reporter: social psychologist susan neumann says change on the american homefront started with a revolution in the american workplace. >> i think the opening up of careers and jobs for women actually paved the way more than anything else. women are staying in school longer. they're starting jobs but staying in them, getting themselves estabsh
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career path if that's what they want. >> 40 is the new 30. you know, everybody is older. if you have somebody that's 28, it's like a teen pregnancy. >> reporter: dr. joann stone is director of maternal fetal medicine at mt. sinai hospital in new york city. she says waiting has its risks. >> so one in five couples who are over 40 will have infertility. >> reporter: and for those who do get pregnant... >> a woman whose 40 has a 1 in 50 chance, a 1 in 40 chance that the fetus may have an issue, and that increases by a lot. then medical complications are higher, as well, so developing high bloop pressure, developing diabetes, premature birth, stillbirth is higher. >> reporter: but with medical advances, the odds of limiting those risks have gotten better. so have the odds of actually conceiving. >> if you can kind of rattle off the ways one can get pregnant/ these days.
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old-fashioned way of getting pregnant. >> reporter: sex. >> sex, right. probably the most fun way of getting pregnant. there's seeking fertility treatments or using your own eggs that may getting a little help with some oral medication or injections and insimilar nation, or there's in vitro fertilization, which can involve your own eggs. it could involve frozen eggs or frozen embryos from a earlier time period, or there is also the option for donor eggs. >> reporter: the use of assisted reproductive technology has more than tripled in the past two decades, but it can cost tens of thousands of dollars, and it's not always covered by insurance. still... >> having the ability to freeze eggs and embryos and make the decision when i was ready, as ready as i was ever going to be, i couldn't have done it without science. >> reporter: on the day we met dr. stone, she was also visited by
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mother pregnant again, her first child almost two and a half. >> are you feeling okay? >> yeah, i feel fine. >> good. baby looks perfect. nice. >> i didn't want to not have children because i didn't meet the right guy. >> reporter: so she relied on her back-up plan instead. at 40 she froze embryos, her own eggs matched with sperm from a hand-picked donor. how did you decide on the sperm donor? >> it's kind of like online shopping. there are photographs and there are interviews and there are likes and dislikes, and i spent a friday afternoon narrowing it down. i had a clear favorite from the moment i saw his picture, i had a clear favorite. >> reporter: an embryo was implanted at age 42. at 43 she gave birth to her son. >> i think technology has made it so that women do have what they think of in their minds as
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blanket. >> reporter: and with that security blanket, social psychologist susan newman says women are reshaping the american family. >> the fact of the matter is that families are getting smaller and smaller. you know, some women who are older are having second children. but the majority of them, especially the ones who use in vitro fertilization, two-thirds of those women are stopping at one. >> reporter: will that change things? >> we will have fewer aunts and uncles, but i don't really see that as a problem because we will use friends as substitute aunts and uncles. >> reporter: how old is too old? >> i would hate to put an absolute cut-off. i mean, i think being 80 would probably be unreasonable. >> reporter: love you. 80 is too old. >> reporter: 80 may b
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old, but 40-something feels just right, at least for the mothers we met. >> i think i always knew i always wanted to be a mom. ♪ old mcdonald had a farm. e-i-e-i-o ♪ i never once considered life without children. it was the best thing i ever did. what does the cow say? >> moo >> ♪ with a moo moo here and a moo moo there ♪ >> osgood: coming up... >> clearly under present circumstances, this campaign cannot go on. >> osgood: a little monkey business. of nowhere. i know. i had it. c'mon let's sit down and talk about it. and did you know that one in three people will get shingles? (all) no. that's why i'm reminding people if you had chickenpox then the shingles virus is already inside you. (all) oooh. who's had chickenpox? scoot over. and look that nasty rash can pop up anywhere and the pain can be even worse than it looks. talk to your doctor or pharmacist.
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>> osgood: and now from a page from our sunday morning online, may 8, 1987, 29 years ago today. >> gary hart officially dropped out of the race today. he made a statement. he took no questions. >> osgood: the day former colorado senator gary hart quit the democratic race for president in the face of a media frenzy. >> now clearly under present circumstances, this campaign cannot go on. >> osgood: a media frenzy many remember today solely by this photograph of hart and a woman named donna rice on the dock next to a yacht called "monkey business." >> i do not have to answer that question. >> the question w
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ever committed dull try, and gary hart never really answered it. >> osgood: just a few days before he dropped out, an anonymous tip about a possible affair had led "miami herald" reporters to confront hart outside his washington townhouse. their story ran the next day, the very same day "the new york times" printed quotes from an earlier hart interview. when asked about rumors of infidelity, he had answered, "follow me around. i don't care. i'm serious. if anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. they'd be very bored." >> gary hart fled to his mountain retreat in colorado thursday. >> osgood: boring it was not. the next day, giving him license, the media launched into full scandal mode. >> i'm a proud man, and i'm proud of what i accomplished. >> osgood: and within a week, candidate hart announced the inevitable. >> i refuse to submit my family and my friends and innocent people and myself to further rumors and gossip.
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situation. >> osgood: not content with a simple statement of withdrawal, gary hart went on to deliver this lecture. >> we all have to seriously question the system that reduces the press of this nation to hunters and presidential candidates to being hunted. >> osgood: for all of harts protests, the release of that "monkey business" photo was all most people needed to see. and with that incident, the precedent of non-stop, 24/7 coverage of the personal failings of politicians from both parties was firmly established. that's something all candidates, current and future, ignore at their peril. >> at least in spirit, i will be with you. thank you very much. [applause] >> i gotcha. i gotcha. >> osgood: just ahead, coming home. >> this portion of "sunday morning" is sponsored by advil.
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ct white. >> you may be surprised when you hear what state is having the most quakes, and almost all of them are manmade. >> it must be unnerving. >> it's no way to live. >> "60 minutes" tonight. >> osgood: coming home to care for an ailing mother is a path many a grown-up child has followed. with mo raqqa now, a case in point. >> if ten years ago someone had said to you, you're going to go
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take care of your mother, what would you have said? >> i would have said, whatever tragic thing can happen to me on this planet. >> reporter: for 25 years george hodgman was one of the publishing industry's top book and magazine editors. do you feel like you're really far away from new york? >> yes. i do. >> reporter: but five years ago he found himself back in his hometown of paris, missouri. >> i gotcha. i gotcha. >> reporter: taking care of his widowed mother betty. >> i've had this terrible fear all my life that i couldn't do this. i was an old child. i was going to be alone with this. and it involved all kinds of things that made me terribly uncomfortable, taking over my mother's taxes. i can barely do my own taxes. i thought the medicare doughnut hole was a breakfast special for seniors. >> reporter: at first he thought of it more as a visit.
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became years, and life came down to casseroles. >> i had to come up with three meals a day. i was like, how do they know all these things to make, because i'm down to jell-o and tuna fish casserole with potato chips on it and maybe i'll buy barbecue potato chips because maybe they that would throw a new zesty thing into it. we have all the medicine. we have bridge on may 20th. >> reporter: he began the write for therapy. >> even though she's old, i think she's more beautiful than ever, softer. it was a way to not feel sad and kind of get it out of my head. >> reporter: the writing became a book, bettyville, a bestselling memoir. >> when dealing with older women, a trip to the hairdresser and two bloody maries goes furthered than any prescription drug. i was able to write the book
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talking to me. if i had gone to them and said, you know, i want the write this book about a fat man and his 90-year-old mother, i would have been laughed at. good. >> reporter: the book is about betty and george, but it's also about george coming to terms with the town where he was raised. >> i thought of this place as kind of church territory and as a gay person, i was not so comfortable. >> reporter: you thought of this as that's my past? >> that's my past, and it's not my world, yeah. >> reporter: coming home meant driving along those old, familiar roads. >> tulips. see the tulips? >> yes. oh, they're pretty. >> uh-huh. my entire summation of my mother is this woman with dyed blonde here and a car
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that car to meet the school bus and with us kind of singing along with this pop music. >> reporter: betty played the piano at her church for years, and she kept on playing even when dementia clouded her mind and her fingers fumbled. >> i don't expect she'll play for church again, because the last time she played, she dropped her music on the floor and uttered a word that one probably should not utter during a church service. >> reporter: starts with? >> it starts with god and it ends with dammit. >> reporter: george says he's no martyr. he came home for one simple reason. >> i came back here because i like her. i just like her. >> reporter: both of you are funny. do you laugh around the house, both of you? >> a lot. we do. >> reporter: is this a favorite book you've read in t
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last year? >> my favorite? i think i like "truman." >> reporter: books about american history are fine, but her guilty pleasure? >> "the secret confessions of ava gardner." >> it's the most vulgar book i ever read. it is. >> reporter: ava gardner's secret confessions. >> but you enjoyed it. >> she's half a grapefruit every morning. >> reporter: george has come to appreciate the people of paris as never before. you write about kindness now, fresh-cut flowers in your mailbox. >> i think those gestures that say, i'm here for you, i'm seeing you, i'm seeing your struggle, it sounds cliche, but it's not. >> what did you think of everybody thinking of you as a celebrity? >> i'm not a celebrity. >> you're not a celebrity? >> you're the mother of one. >> y
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become quite the man about town. >> i never fancied myself an expert caregiver. i still don't. suddenly i'm like the mick jagger of elder care. >> reporter: when we visited with george, his biggest worry was that bedy was worried about him. >> i think my mother has this feeling that i'm here taking care of her and that i kind of retreat, and i would like her to come to terms with the fact that she has produced somebody who really cares about her, and i would like for her to wind up feeling that i was happy. >> reporter: betty hodgman died a few months after our visit. >> you did so good. >> reporter: just shy of her 93rd birthday. but she will lives on in her son's loving memoir, and george hodgman still lives in paris, missouri, a place he now calls home.
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♪ i'm a sunday morning i'm a mama and daddy ♪ singing along to don mclean ♪ >> osgood: keith urban is one of the biggest names in country music. how urban comes up with all those country hits is one of the things she'll share now with john blackston "for the record." >> two, three, four... >> reporter: at his rehearsal studio in nashville, keith urban is getting ready for a world tour that begins in june. >> funny things is you have these songs. we've written them, we've recorded them and we never played them live. we have to arrange everything. we could sit on that six minor for a while. it's brand-new, so opening night is always interesting. you get on the road and play stuff, and it's amazing how much stuff in theory doesn't work in practice. >>
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somewhere. >> reporter: the new songs are from a new album "ripcord" just out last friday. singles released early have already landed at the top of the country charts. ♪ all that wasted time and with four grammys to his name, urban has a deep reservoir of hits stretching back 16 years. ♪ i'm alive and i'm free who wouldn't want to be me ♪ it's one reason he tours with nearly two dozen guitars. >> we have songs on that list that we've played for a lot of years. sometimes as a guitar player, i use a slightly different guitar. >> reporter: and there are sinly those songs you have the play over and over. >> that we get to play over and over. thank goodness people still want to hear them. >> reporter: it's hard to believe urban, who is now 48, could be any happier than when he has a guitar in his hand.
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>> hi, baby. >> reporter: when his wife, nicole kidman, dropped in, she gave us some insight into his song writing. >> he will have worked all day, and he'll come home and go, i haven't got the song, and then suddenly the song will come together, and he'll be writing, and music is so much a part of our family now. the great thing about being an artists is i'm an actor and he's a singer and a songwriter, but you have an innate understanding of what it takes to do the work, especially if you want it to be authentic and true. >> reporter: they've been married ten years and have two daughters. >> the girls andly go on tour this summer. we'll be out there dancing. we like dancing. ♪ i'm a. >> chris: stoferson sunday morning ♪ >> reporter: some songs were written in london last year while
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play. >> it's extraordinary love coming from the audience. and i see what he gives and what they give back, and it's really... it's beautiful images. >> oh, my gosh, that moment when it's all one, it's amazing. >> reporter: urban began performing as a teenager growing up in australia. his parents, bob and marianne, were big fans of american country music. you quit school at 15. what did your parents say? >> they totally got it. you know, it's hard because i get asked by parents all the time, i can't advise anybody anything. everybody has to find their own path, but because i was playing in a band on the weekends and the band would play without me during the week, and because i'd been playing guitar since i was six, they could see, this is what i'm going to do, and i was willing to work. my mom and dad both strong work ethic. >> reporter: your father was a drummer. lots of music in the family. but you didn't read muse nick a traditional way. >> new york i
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school, which was a real drag. because it's all theory based. i wasn't theory based. i learned by ear. i got taught a basic cord and then another basic chord. it was like monkey see-monkey do. >> reporter: his goal was to get to nashville. he made it in 1992. >> tough. >> reporter: this is where you arrived in nashville? >> yes. this club has been here a long time. i really wasn't prepared for how hard it was going to be, how long it was going to take. >> reporter: a lot of stress. part of the challenge, you didn't start drinking until your 20s but then you made up for it. >> people say, just do your best. i went, i'm doing my best. i'm just smashing into a brick wall. what now? what now? i don't know what to do. >> reporter: and then you got through that once, met nicole, and you almost blew it. >> yeah. i had to surrender a lot to struggles i had and get help with that, and just be willing toog
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alcoholic. simple as that. >> reporter: kidman's support was crucial in his recovery. >> meeting her and getting married wasn't life changing, it was life beginning. it was literally like, okay, now life starts. >> when you go and see keith live, that's when you really get to know him, and you see the musicianship. it's extraordinary. and i know nothing about guitar other than i like how it sounds, but people come up to me... >> i know nothing about acting. >> so we're a good match. >> this song actually opens up the album. it's called "gone tomorrow, here today." >> reporter: urban says he can still almost hear his dad keeping the beat when he's writing a song. does the music come first? do the words come first? >> i hope anything comes. my dad was a drummer. rhythm is such a deep part of my whole being really. >> this is a ganjo. >> reporter: he used his ganjo
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from a rhythm to a few chords. >> it's a little drumbeat, just a little simple, straight ahead. that rhythm thing keeps playing. and then this little thing sits underneath. it's like... everything starts to dance together. so we just start playing that. then you just go forever. you just dig on it. you're in the zone. it's like a trans. things will come. ♪ oh, mr. melody you know. ♪ i don't know what i'm singing but it's coming out somehow ♪ but i won't live with regrets car bay diem is the seek ratted ♪ cause it's gone tomorrow here today ♪ i won't let it slip
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>> reporter: urban's influences often come from far outside country music. he seems as comfortable with aerosmith and the rolling stones as with any star from nashville. his new song "son don't let me down," he worked with nile rodgers, who has been producing hits since the days of disco. then he invited mr. worldwide, the rapper pit bull, to join in. >> it was one of those moments where i thought, he would be really good on that song. luckily he loved the song, and he did something on it. the next thing we knew it's becoming more like... ♪ keith urban mr. worldwide ♪ live it up >> he's suddenly all over the song. ♪ the sun comes up >> of course on the song he does a full verse. ♪ freedom is for real >> i love the fact those things can organically happen through hearing and thinking and putting things together. >> reporter: the
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cloud recently in urban's life was the death of his father in december. it's a tough thing to lose a parent. >> yeah, very much. i'm grateful that he got to see the field being fruitful for all the support and work he put in. he could see it. he saw me happily married and all the things i think as a parent you want to see from your kids. >> reporter: urban's music often takes country in new directions. he's made a signature of a driving sound that aims to lift people up and make the most of every minute. >> i've always had that feeling, i have for many, many years, that everything is now. this is all there is is now, like in the moment. >> osgood: next, a boy and his dog. [barking] is. and i was worried about joint damage.
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>> osgood: from time to time we like to share outstanding examples of animation with our audience, to with it, "the present" from german film student jacob frey. after you see it you won't be a bit surprised to learn that the film has won multiple awards and won jacob a job at disney.
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>> hold your position. >> let go! >> hey, sweetie. sorry i popped in so late. >> mom! [phone ringing] >> why don't you stop playing and open the present i got for you. hello? oh, yes, sir. i don't know why you didn't get the papers. i put them on -- >> okay. whoa. cool. [barking] you've got to be kidding me.
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♪ >> oh, goodness, can you come back this way? no, he wants to play. >> osgood: ahead... >> they're very curious, especially at this age. >> osgood: cute as a button.
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>> osgood: oh, bei bei. bei bei is the giant panda born last summer at washington's national zoo, and this morning rita braver has some bei bei pictures for us. >> can you tug it? good boy. >> reporter: okay, moms, let's face it, this baby may be cuter than yours, and a lot more famous. he's bei bei, born at the smithsonian institution's national zoo in washington, d.c., last august.
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his arrival made headlines, even though he wasn't much to look at then. >> they are about 1/900th the size of the mother. >> reporter: you always say like a stick of butter. >> yes, but holding them in your hand, you're amazed how sturdy they feel. >> reporter: they're born hairless and blind? >> yes, they're blind and deaf. >> andy: a panda keeper is aided by 60 volunteers to keep the giant pandas happy and healthy. bei bei will stay with his mother until he's about two. his father and big sister have their own separate specially designed habitat as pandas are usually solitary creatures. almost every move they make is captured by the zoo's famous panda cams. remember when this video went viral last winter?
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did the zoo have any idea how popular the panda cams would be? >> >> i don't think anybody could predict the incredible popularity, but what i love is this is science in real life, in real time. >> reporter: brandie smith, who oversees the zoo's panda operation, says the cameras help volunteers keep detailed logs of each animal's daily activity. >> must be getting warm outside because she is indicating that she's warm. >> right now we're looking at the mother-cub interaction, hoping we can learn from that and hoping we can make more pandas in the future. >> reporter: more pandas because they are a highly endangered species. found only in china, there are only about 1,800 in the wild, and humans have encroached on their territory. >> nope. good boy. all the way in. >> reporter: so the pandas at the national zoo get frequent check-ups, and in a rare
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behind-the-scenes visit, we got to see how they're trained to cooperate. >> i don't think you're in the middle of the scale. >> reporter: biologist laurie thompson coaxes bei bei to weigh in. -43 pounds. 43.5 pounds. >> reporter: the reward, a sweet potato. >> he's curious about anything new in his enclosure. >> am i allowed to pet him. >> no. >> reporter: yes, these cuddly creature kearse bite, and almost three years and 180 pounds, bow bow, bei bei's sister, does her training through a cage. >> all the way in. open. good. >> reporter: in exchange for a delicious stream of honey water. >> good girl. >> reporter: it's how she grows accustomed to everything from dental exams... >> open. good. >> reporter:...to blood blood tests according to the panda keeper. if you do aod
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does it hurt her? >> they might feel it initially, like a little pink, like a person does, as well, but she's getting a honey reward, which is much more fantastic than anything she's going through. >> reporter: it was panda diplomacy that brought first two pandas to the national zoo. >> i think they're adorable, endearing creatures. >> reporter: sing sing and andlingling were a gift from the government after president knickson's visit to the country. but that panda never produced a cub that survived. in contrast, bei bei's parents, who are here on loan from the chinese government, have produced three healthy cubs, including tyshaun, now almost 11 and living in china, but it hasn't been easy. >> the giant pandas are a species that is very difficult to reproduce and care for in captivity, primarily because our knowledge of their biology has
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last decade or so. >> reporter: the director of the smithsonian conservation biology institute in virginia. a key mission here is studying panda reproduction. >> the female only matures and ovulates one time a year some you have a 36-hour win deof fertility once a year with a giant panda. >> reporter: by collecting urine sample, researchers have been able to pinpoint exactly when she's fertile and ready for a visit. but so far they haven't been able to connect the parts, have i got that right? >> that's a nice way of putting it. there is an anatomical mismatch, let's say. >> reporter: to tell you the truth, lady, it's apparently a performance issue on the male panda's part. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: so bei bei was conceived by artificial insemination.
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but every panda that makes it is considered a minor miracle. >> they're still under threat, so we are in a race against time. we have much, much more work to do. >> reporter: bow bow and bei bei will be sent to china within a few years, so we should enjoy them while we can. and the zoo's brandie smith says there's a primal reason why we are so delighted by the antics of these creatures. >> when you see something that touches your heart, there's a biochemical reaction. you produce the same chemicals associated with childbirth. they make you happier. >> you got it? >> you become a better person by watching these pandas. >> osgood: next, a grande gesture. >> caramel frappuccino, please.
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>> osgood: keeping a customer happy can be tall order for anyone behind a counter, which is why the server steve hartman watched in action decided to go the extra mile. >> reporter: for a deaf person, getting the drink you want at starbucks can be a tall order. but not here. thanks to a barista who recently did something truly grande. >> when i came in, the first thing she did is she wrote the note. so i thought maybe she had a question for me, but it really wasn't a question at all. and as i read through it, it struck me. >> reporter: he immediately posted this picture of the note, which read, "i've been learning asl, american sign language, just so you can have the same experience as everyone else." >> w
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>> reporter: that was from crystal payne. she only waited on iny once before she went home and learned sign language for him. >> maybe i spent three or more hours on it. >> reporter: getting ready to take one order? >> yeah. if he's a regular, i want to make that connection with my regulars, i should be able to ask him what he wants to drink. >> what do you want to drink? >> reporter: today crystal knows everything she needs to wait on ibby. >> caramel frappuccino, please. >> reporter: and that's the extent of their interaction. to crystal, no big deal, but to ibby who says naff gaiting a hearing world is often frustrating, what crystal did is a wonderful gesture that he will never forget. he even saved the note. >> i wanted to keep it in the frame. >> reporter: sometimes customer service gets a bad rap, and it's often well deserved. >> hi, what can i get for you today? >> reporter: but there are those front line work there's go above and beyond, not for a tip
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but because kindness is who they are, and the customer is all they care about. >> this is something that gave me genuine happiness. >> reporter: even now? >> yes. even now. still smiling. >> osgood: still to come... >> mom, i've watched you lick cocaine crumbs out of a shag carpet. >> osgood: allison janney, tv's "mom." and later... >> two park rangers. >> hands off. >> i am so, so sorry for taking the petrified wood. i didn't know it was so special. don't stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. i'm not contagious. see me to know that... ...i won't stop until i find what works. discover cosentyx, a different kind of medicine for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
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>> and there you go. >> that's comedy right there. >> reporter: allison janney's career is so bright of late, she really doesn't need light. >> ready and action. >> reporter: her latest emmy, her seventh, by the way, came for a performance in a show that is decidedly unique. >> got to go. my mother has a canoe. >> reporter: we're not saying that just because it's mother's day and the show happens to be called "mom" or because it airs here on cbs, we're saying it because this particular sitcom is actually a pretty noble experiment. >> nice. she's sleeping at your house tonight. >>we don't shy away from real le affecting these characters, even though it's a comedy. >> reporter: janney plays a recovering addict, helping her daughter christie, played by anna ferris, who
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struggling with addiction. that doesn't sound too funny, but it is. >> mom, i've watched you lick cocaine crumbs out of a shag carpet. >> not a sin to be thrifty, dear. >> reporter: although it's a comedy, it takes a very serious look at the tenuous nature of sobriety, the on again/off again struggle against drugs and alcohol and the grim reality of relapses. >> you going to be okay? >> she's gone. >> you can't this a show about recovery and not show the reality of it, which some people don't make it. >> roll sound. >> reporter: janney knows that all too well because she watched her younger brother hal go through it. he struggled with addiction most of his life, which leaves janney sometimes struggling on set. >>
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in why i took the show. i wanted to... i'm sorry. >> reporter: no. it's okay. it's okay. >> reporter: she tried desperately to help her brother recover, but five years ago he committed suicide. you've been around this world, and you wanted to... >> i did. i did. i was around the world of recovery a lot trying to get my brother to want to recover. he didn't. he lost his battle with addiction and other things, and i felt this was important for me the take a part like this and be part of a show that shows people in recovery and also shows that there is hope. >> i just want to thank all of you for being with us here today. >> reporter: last week she was invited to participate in a white house panel with the surgeon general to talk about the issues of recovery and addiction. >> i felt very qualified to take this job because of what i went through with my brother. it's
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janney in front of people. it's great to be bonny plunkett on your tv. it's scary to be me. >> reporter: she's well-known for playing a wide range of people who aren't her, including playing that mom on "mom," something she's not in real life. >> mom. report she's gone from a neglected housewife in "american beauty." >> i want you to meet somebody. this is jane. >> hi. >> what happened to constantine? >> reporter: to a mississippi socialite in "the help." >> did you fire her? >> we were just a job to her, honey. with them it's all about money. >> reporter: she went from a alcoholic neighbor with a wandering eye in the "way, way back" >> you brought me a man. hello, sailor. >> reporter: to a wife discovering her sexuality in show time's "masters of sex." >> drink up now. you're going to need your strength. >> i was tg
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different style to different style. that was just what i learned to do. >> reporter: i don't know how you're in so many places at the same time. >> i don't know, lee. i'm just glad that it happened and i haven't been typecast into one role. >> reporter: typecast, no, but it's hard not to think of janney in one role in particular. >> arthur. >> reporter: she took home four emmys as her role c.j. in aaron sorkin's "the west wing." >> a democratic senator says if this goes down... >> we're not responding to a blind quote. we just assume you made it up. i'm not kidding. thank you. >> reporter: while in washington, she made a surprise visit, pretending to fill in for josh earnest. >> let's b
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at this than her. >> reporter: she's convincing, so much so that even today people ask for her advice. growing up were you a political family? did you talk about politics at dinner? >> oh, god, no. >> reporter: so this is a completely strange world? >> yes, and one they felt such a pretender. i'm not interested in politics. i hate politics. i cannot stand to watch what's going on right now. it makes me... i just close my eyes. i don't want the -- to hear it. i don't. >> reporter: janney grew up in dayton ohio. her father played jazz. her mother was an actress. that's when the bug first bit. while in a play at kenyon college, she was discovered by one very famous alum, paul newman and his wife joann woodward. they were so impressed they encouraged her to move to new york and enroll in the neighborhood playhouse. but janney was a late bloomer. her first break on broadway didn't come until she was8.
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part of the problem, she says, her height. she is 6'0", although janney prefers to call it 5'12". >> i was playing 40-year-old women when i was 20. >> reporter: were there times you thought about giving it up? >> all the time >> really? >> oh, yeah. i went to the johnson o'conor institute in new york city and took an an pitude test. they told me i would make a great systems analysts. >> reporter: systems analyst. what does that mean? >> i have no idea. >> reporter: she had grown up wanting to be a figure skater, but it was a dream that ended when she ran through a closed sliding glass door as a teen. you ran right through? >> i hit it and the glass fell on top of me and it guillotined my leg. >> how was it? >> it was bad. i lost an artery, cut tendons. it was bad accident. >> reporter: no more ice at
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that's something she still loves to do, by the way, only now it's zumba classes that she occasionally takes with her friend and "mom" co-star jamie pressley. >> i want you to push that bootie out a little bit. >> i do love to dance. i don't go to clubs anymore really, because who does? >> reporter: at 56, allison janney has a lot to smile about, while her brother hal is never far from her heart, with mom she's found a comfortable intersection of both her personnel and professional fashion, and it gives her the chance to revel in her choice to never become that systems analyst. can you imagine you'res the anything else? >> no. >> reporter: far career? >> no. there is nothing else i can do. i can't imagine ever retiring. i'm just going to keep doing it. i will. forever.
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teeth. report his archives are full of an impressive collection of ancient fossils, but he also looks after a small batch of letters. >> oh, gosh, this is a manifesto. >> yeah, yeah, i've had a four pager. >> reporter: a four pager? >> yeah. >> reporter: the letters are apology notes, tales of remorse written by reformed criminals. >> these are all pieces. >> reporter: at the park, the petrified wood is everywhere. it lines trails, tops the this e because this is by far one of the largest accumulations you'll ever see and possibly the largest in the world. >> reporter: 225 million years ago, this dry stretch of northeast arizona was lush and green, home to some of the early dinosaurs. the trees that stood tall back then were buried in sediment and fossilized. frozen in time. today that wood is beautiful.
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and so as paleontologist bill parker explains, rangers occasionally see visitors trying to smuggle a piece home as a souvenir. >> people tend to have the guilty conscience, right? and that's generally there's telltale signs of that. >> reporter: there are signs that attempt to deter would-be wood burglars. it's a crime the take anything out of the park, but not surprisingly, people still do. what is surprising is that some of that wood has come back. >> this is a material that was returned to the park. there are two pieces of wood in here. >> reporter: the letters that accompany the heavy packages speak of a long-ago theft that's weighed heavy on the conscience. if you take petrified wood, beware of the consequences. this is a poem. >> reporter: if you take petrified wood, beware of the consequences. you should. though enshrined on a
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still brought him ill health, some things are plain no good. >> some people ascribe a curse to the wood. i don't know how much i buy that, because if you're the kind of person who would take something from national park, maybe you just have poor judgment skills. i don't know. >> as a senior ranger, i am responsible... >> osgood: the park used to play up the curse. they put all the letters out on the display, which led to more letters. >> we may have been encouraging people to do the wrong thing, by overemphasizing it, by saying, fish are going extinct, so you better eat some sushi. >> reporter: rangers claimed they were losing a ton of wood a month until they asked around and realized nobody really knew where that number came from. could it be the problem wasn't actually all that bad? >> about ten years ago, we had all this photography of the wood.
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angles and reshot them. we were amazed to see that everything was still the same. >> reporter: so petrified forest recently changed its messaging, thanking visitors for doing the right thing, because most of them do. unfortunately, for the few who do so belatedly, the wood sent back to the park can't actually go back in the park. >> we can't put it back because somebody who is going out to study that stuff could inadvertently pick up something that has no reason to be there and botch their results. >> reporter: so it ends up here, in what the rangers call the conscience pile, tucked away down a service road, the pile contains years of returned wood, which honestly makes writing a letter and spending money on postage to send that wood back all seem a little pointless. but guilt is a trip. >> and in every case it's becausme
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company called google when i was four months pregnant. back then we were a start-up with only 15 employees and no maternity leave policy. today we have a great policy. any woman at google or youtube in the united states gets 18 weeks of paid maternity leave. last year i took my fifth, yes, fifth maternity leave at google. having experienced how valuable paid maternity leave is to me, my family and my career, i never thought of it as a privilege, but the sad truth is that according to the u.n., we're only one of two countries in the world that doesn't offer government-mandated paid maternity leave. the other country, papua new guinea. well, a few generous employers and a handful of states do offer it, but only covers 12% of private sector workers according to the department of labor. >> now millions of our people
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between their jobs and their families. >> the family and medical leave act of 1993 was a step in the right direction, but it calls for unpaid leave and doesn't cover 40% of workers in the u.s. according to one survey, a quarter of all women in the u.s. return to work fewer than ten days after giving birth. that leaves them less time to bond with their children, making breast-feeding more difficult, and increasing their risk of postpartum depression. but paid maternity leave isn't just good for mothers and babies, it's good for business, too. after california instituted paid leave, a sure fay found that 91% of all employers said the policy either boosted profits or had no effect. employers also noted improved productivity, higher morale and reduced turnover. i've been lucky to have the support of a company that
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>> osgood: here's a look at the week ahead on our sunday morning calendar. monday is the night for the annual jazz at lincoln center gala concert. it will focus this year on the influence of jazz on broadway. tuesday is national shrimp day, a celebration of america's most-consumed seafood. wednesday is national third shift worker's day, honoring the estimated 50 million of us who either permanently
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occasionally have to work overnight. on thursday lovers of humorous version mark national limerick day, the 204th anniversary of the birth of edward leer, who first made the limerick popular. friday is that most unlucky of day, friday the 13th. triskaidekaphobia, you have been warned. saturday is a competition between often eccentric musical acts to be broadcast live in the united states for the first time. now to john dickerson in washington for a look at what's ahead on "face the nation." good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, charles. we sat down with hillary clinton, and we'll have our long interview with her. we'll also talk with a number of conservatives about just what's the state of the party in the age of donald trump. >> osgood: thank you, john. we'll be watching. now a little news about us. as you may have heard last
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>> osgood: we leave you this mother's day with a look at mustangs, mayors and fools in the pine nut mountains of nevada. we leave you this mother's day with a look at the mustangs mares and foals in the pine nut mountains of nevada.
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>> today on "face the nation" it's donald trump's party now. the republican nominee is set and hillary clinton has more work to do but the battle has begun. we caught up with the democratic front-runner and asked about her campaign against donald trump. >> i'm not going to run an ugly base. i'll run a race based on issues. don't feel like i'm running against donald trump. >> donald trump has a different view. he's already launching attacks upon both clintons. >> she's married to a man who was the worse abuser of women in the history of politics and hilary was an enabler and treated these women horribly and some of those women were destroyed not by him but by the way that hillary clinton treated

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