i'm jim axelrod. >>> music's biggest night is right around the corner. sunday and you can catch it right here on cbs. one legendary singer-songwriter expected to bring home some gold is john prine and john dickerson got a chance to sit down with him in nashville. >> play a song from the new album. >> all right. >> reporter: john prine knows how to tell a story. ♪ if you like your apples sweet ♪ >> reporter: he can make you life ♪ and your streets are not concrete you'll be in your bed by 9:00 every night ♪ >> reporter: or put a lump in your throat. ♪ all wet and warm ♪ not ten miles away ♪ approaching my mexican home >> reporter: for more than five decades, the singer-songwriter has played his own kind of music, earning a devoted fan base. 7 it's a half an inch of water ♪ >> make sure you write something that you like because the worst thing that can happen is it becomes a hit and everywhere you go and every day of your life you'll be expected to sing that song becaut number one and, tag, you're it. ♪ we had an apartment in the city ♪ >> reporter: off hi

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here is jim axelrod. >> reporter: at this prop-up tennis court on the mexican/u.s. 13-year-old marilu portillo is practicing her forehand in the shadow of a wall. >> when i look behind me, i see the border wall and all the wire they just put up, and that makes me feel kind of sad. >> reporter: she is part of an after-school program that teaches tennis in nogales, arizona, and on the other side in nogales, mexico. charlie cutler is a tennis pro who started the border youth tennis exchange, or byt. throughout the year he brings 150 kids from both sides of the board together to play tennis. >> border communities are not scary places. border residents are the same as anyone else. the kid who learned to play tennis in mexico looks exactly the same as the kid who learned to play tennis in arizona. >> reporter: esteban alvarez is from arizona. >> i probably would never have met this person if i hadn't done this event. so doing this event kind of gives me a new perspective on life here. >> reporter: they're building a new friendship one volley at a time. >> we can be just f

jim axelrod joins us -- >> a tease. >> one enormously gripping hour of television.o escape? >> you know, we've all had this experience i'm sure where it's one of the unfortunate parts of the time in which we live. you think, what if i was in a movie theater, what if i was -- well, this is a what would i do hour. mary lynn who we saw wraps the situation in a blanket of humanity and decides she's going to get out by establishing a human connection with the gunman, with gene atkins. so she does, starts talking to him, and then begins working in can democrat with the lapd -- tandem with the lapd negotiator to work out the terms that they can all walk out. i don't want to give the ending away, but i am telling you, when they walk out at the end, it is -- it is just a compelling and powerful moment. >> i believe it. i'm curious about the gunman. what kind of guy do you have to be to shoot your grandmother? >> yes. think about that for a second. yeah. he's facing 50 counts of attempted murder, kidnapping, and we'll give you the rest of the story tomorrow night. >> that was

jim axelrod has the story m. >> reporter: at this popup court, this player is practicing. >> i see theakes me feel sad. >> reporter: she's part of an after-school program that teaches tennis in nogales, arizona, and on the other side of the border in nogales, mexico. charlie cutler is a tennis pro who started the border youth tennis exchange or byt. he brings 150 kids from both sides of the border together throughout the year to play tennis. >> border communities are not scary places. border residents are the same as anyone else. the kid learning to play tennis mexico looks the same as a kid learning in arizona. >> reporter: carolina aniges is from mexico -- iniguez is from mexico, and esteban alvarez is from arizona. >> this gives me a new perspective on life here. >> reporter: they are building a new friendship one volley at a time. >> we can be just friends, and we -- we aren't enemies just places. >> reporter: if the idea of a wall is to separate, these kids manage to render it useless. >> people across the border are no different. they're not bad people. we're all the same, and we