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Hemophilia . Yes. Odonnell theyre all diseases that can be identified by advanced genetic screenings. Huntingtons disease . Yes. Breast cancer . We do it regularly. Odonnell but as youll hear tonight, genetic science has moved further into the future. This woman believes the technology she used will stop the disease from stalking her family. You have said, the Breast Cancer stops with me. Yes. Its not just my children, its my children and their children and my great grandchildren forever and all time. I am a oneway runaway cooper the foo fighters may be americas best rock n roll band, but thats not the only reason theyre on 60 minutes tonight. Theyre also in the midst of one of the most interesting music projects weve ever seen. You know im not in the clear cooper dave grohl, the bands leader, invited us to watch as they traveled to eight american cities, interviewed some of the most influential musicians to record all thats great about American Music. Im steve kroft. Im lesley stahl. 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Contrary to reports that the hospital bungled the response, the story the nurses tell sounds more like a heroic effort to stop an outbreak. On september 28, duncan was rushed by ambulance to Texas Health Presbyterian hospital. He was isolated in a separate section of the e. R. , and nurse sidia rose, starting the night shift, was briefed on the special precautions required for what they now suspected was a case of ebola. Sidia rose i went over and met with a nurse who gave me report. She also went over the protective wear that we would be wearing that night. She gave. You know, finished briefing me on what was going to happen, and i literally burst out in tears. Pelley why . Rose its very scary. I know about ebola, and the only reason i do, its because ive been just researching it on my own. Since january, i kept hearing the word popping up in the news, and i just wanted to find out about it. Richard townsend when our supervisor said that we had a potential ebola case, i dont want to call it calamitous but there was a lot of concern. People became very vocal, understandably. Its the boogie man virus. Pelley emergency room nurses Richard Townsend and Krista Schaefer made sure that rose was suited up properly. As per the hospitals protocol, she worked with duncan alone, with townsend watching over her. When you went to approach mr. Duncan for the first time, what did you do . How did you prepare for that . Rose i gathered myself together. I put on my protective wear, and i went in and introduced myself to him and, you know, just let him know that i would be the nurse helping him tonight. Pelley what were you telling yourself . Rose i was very frightened. I was. But and i just dried my tears, rolled down my sleeves, so to speak, and went on about my night. Pelley but why do you go in there . Why dont you say, you know, this ones not for me . Rose as a nurse, i understand the risk that i take every day i come to work, and hes no different than any other patient that ive provided care for. So, i wasnt going to say, no, im not going to care for him. Pelley but you were risking your life to take care of this patient. Rose oh, i know that. And thats why i. As frightened as i was, i didnt allow fear to paralyze me. I got myself together. Id done what i needed to get myself prepared mentally, emotionally, and physically, and went in there and did what i was supposed to. Pelley though duncans test results wouldnt be known for two days, she was certain she was witnessing ebola. Rose the first time when i went in and he vomited, i was standing in front of him, he was sitting on the commode, and there was just so much, it went over the bag, it was on the walls, on the floors. I had two pairs of gloves on and shoe covers. And i had my face shield on. I didnt have two masks on at the time, i had just one. No, we didnt have any head covers. But i wiped down the walls, wiped down the floor with some bleach wipes. Townsend he was having so much diarrhea and vomiting that he. You know, she was constantly having to give him the little bags that we have for. For people to vomit into. All of that was hazardous waste, and it had to be bagged and then doublebagged, and then put into a separate container that could then be disposed of later. Because anything that has any of his bodily fluids on it has the potential to. To be lethal to somebody else. Pelley eric duncan was 42 years old, from liberia, which is ground zero for this outbreak. Half of all the cases in the world are in liberia. He flew to dallas to visit family, became sick a few days later, and then made his first visit to the dallas hospital. It was the night of september 25 when duncan first came into this emergency room. According to the hospital records, he had a temperature of 100. 1. Over the course of the four hours or so that he was here, his temperature spiked to 103, but then it dropped back down again, according to the hospital records. He told the staff that he had come from africa, but did not specify west africa or liberia. About 3 00 in the morning, with his symptoms not very severe, the staff decided to send him home with antibiotics. But three days later, he was back in the e. R. , gravely ill and about as contagious as he would ever be. The virus is not transmitted though the air, but physical contact with a single viral particle can cause infection. The hospital notified state Health Authorities immediately, and they wanted sidia rose to ask several urgent questions of duncan. Rose i explained to him, we are under the impression that you may have been exposed to ebola. And i said, where are you from . And he told me liberia. And i asked, have you been in contact with anyone whos been sick . Pelley he said . Rose no. He said no. Pelley state and federal Health Officials wanted to know if duncan had been with anyone who had died in liberia. Rose and thats when he said to me his family had suffered a loss, that he had buried his daughter who had died in childbirth. Pelley but nurse rose says duncan told her it wasnt ebola that killed his daughter. Rose told us that she reported this to the Texas Department of health, but then duncan denied his own story when he spoke to those officials. What information was it that he denied to the Health Officials . Rose about his travels, about his. Him burying his pregnant daughter who had died in childbirth. He denied that. He said thats not true. Pelley so he wasnt honest with them. Rose yeah. Pelley this is nurse Richard Townsend, who dressed in the protective gear that was recommended by the c. D. C. At the time, just as sidia rose did. Was any of your skin exposed . Rose at that time, it was just a gown that i was wearing, so yeah not my hands, not my legs, my face. I had my face shield on, the mask with the face shield. Pelley so your neck was exposed . Rose yes. Pelley so the c. D. C. Protocols that you wouldve looked up the day he came into the Emergency Department were, in your estimation, deficient . Yes. Pelley on september 29, duncan was carried from the Emergency Department to intensive care. Nurse nina pham, who was involved in the transfer, would become the first person to catch the virus in the united states. It took 48 hours to get duncans positive test results. And by then, the hospital, on its own, had equipped the staff with suits that allowed no skin to be exposed. It would be another three weeks before the c. D. C. Made this its new standard. Then, the hospital moved out all of the patients in medical intensive care and reconfigured the 24bed unit for just one patient. It was a strange scene for icu nurse john mulligan. John mulligan by the time i came in, they had already received the tyveks, the papers, so we had the full hazmat gear that people are used to seeing. Pelley is this the full suit . Mulligan this is the full suit, yes. There were always two of us in the room at all times, and we were designated two people to be in there. Ive been in health care for nearly 20 years, and ive never emptied as much trash as just from the waste of his constant diarrhea that he was having was remarkable. And we had these longer surgical type gloves on. They were taped to the tyvek suit, full headgear with a circulator with a hepa filter that would plug into the back. And the first time i got out of that suit, it literally looked like someone had pushed me into a swimming pool. I was drenched. Pelley they were working 16 to 18hour days, spending two hours at a time in duncans room. Mulligan and we held his hand and talked to him and comforted him, because his family couldnt be there. Pelley you held his hand through the spacesuit . Mulligan i did. He was glad someone wasnt afraid to take care of him, and we werent. Townsend i have nothing but respect and admiration for everyone that was involved in his. In his care, you know. Everyone has someone in their lives that they love and they care about. I have a fiveyearold and a threeyearold, and my wife is pregnant. And the mortality rate for pregnant women with ebola is. Its essentially 100 . Pelley but richard, why dont you go to the administration and say, you know, im sorry, but my wife is pregnant. Townsend people were allowed to request not to be tasked with his care. Krista schaefer we asked for volunteers. Everyone volunteered. Pelley everyone was a volunteer, everyone that was there wanted to be there . Schaefer every person housekeeping, respiratory, physicians, nurses. Pelley but despite all the volunteers, duncan grew worse. An experimental drug wasnt helping. Mulligan early saturday morning, he had become very critically ill and was placed on a respirator. Pelley he was intubated. Mulligan he was intubated. Pelley . Tube down his throat . Mulligan tube down his throat. He had a dialysis catheter placed, because his. He was not making any urine, but he needed to. He was heavily sedated and he had tears running down his eyes, rolling down his face, not just normal watering from a sedated person. They. This was in the form of tears. And i grabbed a tissue and i wiped his eyes and i said, youre going to be okay. You just get the rest that you need. Let us do the rest for you. And it wasnt 15 minutes later, i couldnt find a pulse. And i lost him. And it was the worst day of my life. This man that we cared for, that fought just as hard with us, lost his fight. And his family couldnt be there. And we were the last three people to see him alive. And i was the last one to leave the room. And i held him in my arms. He was alone. Pelley sidia, you spent perhaps the most time talking with mr. Duncan, and i wonder what you think people should know about him. Rose he was very kind and very appreciative. Even something as simple as me just giving him a cold washcloth to cool his face down, because his fever wasnt breaking even that he was grateful for. He told me thanks. Pelley within days of duncans death, nurse nina pham was admitted to the hospital with ebola. When nina became sick, that mustve sent a lightning bolt through the staff because, now, its one of you. Mulligan i thought someone was playing a cruel joke until i finally looked at my phone, and saw the missed Text Messages and the voicemails and turned the news on and went, oh my goodness. Pelley then four days later, nurse amber vinson fell ill. Both nurses have since recovered. This is nina pham leaving a hospital on friday. But many on the staff still wonder whether they could be next. Are any of you, all of you, still selfmonitoring for signs of infection . Rose i am. Pelley you are . Youre still within the 21day window . Rose for mr. Duncan, im passed my 21day period. But for nina pham, im still being monitored. Ive been asymptomatic. My temperature has been rock solid. Pelley those who contract the virus are not infectious until they actually become sick. Members of the medical staff must take their temperature now twice a day and show the reading to a state health official. But, in at least one other way, the effect of fighting this virus could linger. Mulligan i would have nightmares, and still do, of my coworkers being infected and not being able to get to a hospital and treatment and dying. And so its like any traumatic event this too shall pass; its just going to take a little time. Subs must be wach update sponsored by good evening, 13 euro zone banks have failed their latest stress test. 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The science of genetics has gotten so sophisticated so quickly that it can be used to not only treat serious diseases, but prevent thousands of them well before pregnancy even begins. Diseases that have stalked families for generations, like Breast Cancer, are being literally stopped in their tracks. Scientists can do that by creating and testing embryos in a lab, then implanting into a mothers womb only the ones which appear healthy. While the whole field is loaded with controversy, those who are worried about passing on defective and potentially dangerous genes see the opportunity to breed out disease. Did you ever envision that you would have the capability you have today . Mark hughes no, but thats the fun of science, its constantly surprising you. Wow, look at that odonnell dr. Mark hughes is one of the scientists leading the way in a rapidly growing field known as reproductive genetics. He pioneered a technique called preimplantation genetic diagnosis, or p. G. D. Hughes this ones got a minustwo. Odonnell . An embryo screening procedure that can identify deadly gene mutations and alter a childs genetic destiny. Hughes we all throw genetic dice when we have children, but when you know the dice are loaded and that theres a really reasonable chance that your baby will have an incurable, dreadful condition, youre looking for an alternative. Odonnell dr. Hughes helped develop p. G. D. Two decades ago to screen embryos for one disease, cystic fibrosis. Today, because of advances in the mapping of the human genome, he says it can be used to root out virtually any disease caused by a single defective gene. Let me do a rapid fire yes or no. Can you use p. G. D. For tay sachs . Hughes yes. Odonnell muscular dystrophy . Hughes yes. Odonnell sickle cell anemia . Hughes yes. Odonnell hemophilia . Hughes yes. Odonnell huntingtons disease . Hughes its one of the most common disorders we test for, yes. Odonnell alzheimers disease . Hughes if its a mutation in a particular gene that causes early onset, we can test for it, yes. Odonnell so you can test for alzheimers. Hughes this is a small subset of a particular kind of alzheimers that attacks very early in life. Odonnell colon cancer . Hughes if we know which of the colon cancer genes, yes. Odonnell Breast Cancer . Hughes we do it regularly. Odonnell dr. Hughes lab is one of a handful in the country that provides this genetic testing, which is why 3,000 couples turn to him each year, among them, matt and melinda, who asked that we not use their last name. If they hadnt done the embryo screening procedure, their four yearold son mason and his baby sister marian might very well have been born with a genetic mutation that increases the risk of breast, ovarian, prostate, and pancreatic cancer. It wasnt until melinda herself was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Breast Cancer seven years ago that she found out she carried that gene mutation known as brca1. Did you know what brca1 was . Melinda not a clue. Odonnell but as it turned out, it had haunted her family for generations. At age 29, facing chemotherapy and a double mastectomy, melinda was afraid that if she had children one day, they would also be cursed with that potentially deadly mutation. What did doctors tell you about the risk of passing on this brca mutation . Melinda 50 , so flip a coin. Odonnell and i bet that weighed on you even heavier. Melinda yes. Its a lifetime of having to worry about it, and i just didnt. I didnt want my kids to have to do that. Odonnell the best way to ensure that was to do embryo screening for the brca1 gene mutation, which dr. Hughes says is among the fastestgrowing parts of his business. Hughes this takes the risk. For example, in Breast Cancer, it takes the risk if you have this mutation from 50 50 of passing it to the next generation down to less than 1 . Odonnell but the screening isnt easy. All couples, even fertile ones, must first go through invitro fertilization, the process in which a mans sperm is injected into a womans eggs under a microscope to create embryos. Then, five days later, a tiny tube just one 20th the diameter of a human hair is used to extract from each embryo one single cell to be genetically tested for disease. Its just one cell . Hughes yes. Odonnell you can tell that much from one cell . Hughes you can tell an awful lot in one cell. Odonnell that cell is packed up at fertility clinics across the country and shipped overnight in ordinarylooking boxes like these to screening labs. We followed the process at dr. Hughes lab, called genesis genetics, just outside detroit, where a team of scientists took over. So what do you do with that one cell when it arrives here . Hughes well, were busy. We have to break the cell open. They have to pull out this enormous encyclopedia of Genetic Information. Odonnell hes talking about the cells dna, our genetic code that scientists represent with four letters a, c, t and g. For a gene to work properly, the letters have to be strung together in the right order. If theyre not, that could spell trouble. Its dr. Hughes job to find the mutation, or typo, in a gene that could cause disease. Hughes so you have to find that typo in, effectively, six billion letters. Odonnell a typo in six billion letters . Hughes yeah. Odonnell so how do you do that . Hughes technology is amazing. Odonnell dr. Hughes used the technology to screen matt and melindas embryos in 2010, ruling out the ones that carried the brca1 mutation, which would have given their children a reasonable chance of getting breast or other cancers. About how many of them tested positive for the brca1 gene . Hughes about half and, indeed, if you look at her embryos, here is an affected, an affected, an affected, an affected thats four. Its about half. It is just what youd expect. Its just what youd expect in nature. Odonnell but with the powerful intervention of science, embryos that carry a harmful mutation are often discarded, which is one reason the decision to go ahead with the screening was a difficult one for matt and melinda. Melinda we prayed a lot about it. Its a hard decision to make. Odonnell what did you struggle with . Melinda was it right . Was it the right thing to do . Is that. Is it playing god . Is it ethical . And the more we learned about it and got comfortable with the idea, it was like, yes, absolutely. Odonnell you have said, the Breast Cancerstops with me . Melinda yes. Its not just my children its their children and my grandchildren and great grandchildren, forever and for all time, in my bloodline, yeah. Odonnell the entire process cost them around 16,000, a small price to pay, melinda says, for her childrens health. Anne morriss oh, lets try that one again. Odonnell but anne morriss didnt get to change the odds for her child. By the time she learned she carried a dangerous mutation, she had already passed it on to her son, whos now seven. At birth, alec seemed the picture of health, but then came an unexpected call from a doctor. Morriss he started by saying, can you please go check and make sure that your child is still alive, and then come back and we can continue this discussion. Odonnell so a doctor calls you and says, i need to tell you something but can you go check that your son is still alive. Morriss thats how the conversation started. Odonnell what was your reaction . Morriss you know, your. Your heart just falls out of you. Odonnell a newborn Screening Test revealed alec had a rare and sometimes fatal metabolic disorder called mcad deficiency. He had to be fed every few hours just to stay alive. Morriss lets see what you got, buddy. Odonnell unlike Breast Cancer, mcad deficiency is a recessive disorder, meaning a child must inherit a copy of the faulty gene from both parents. Anne morriss had used an anonymous sperm donor to conceive, but in an incredible case of bad luck, he just happened to carry the same mutation she did. Morriss every human being walking the planet is a carrier for a rare disease. But what matters is who we choose to partner with reproductively. Like, thats where the risk shows up. Odonnell now, she wants to reduce the risk of a bad genetic match for others well before they start the reproductive process. She just started a Company Called genepeeks with lee silver, a Princeton University professor whos also a molecular biologist, though his latest idea doesnt take place in a lab. Its entirely virtual. Lee silver we are creating digital babies. Odonnell digital babies . Silver yes. Odonnell so youre simulating the process of reproduction, but on a computer. Silver exactly. Odonnell silver says all it takes is a saliva sample to obtain dna. He then combines the Genetic Information from both prospective parents in a computer to make a thousand digital babies. This is a digital baby. Silver this is a digital baby. Odonnell it contains virtual dna, which, like real dna, is represented by those same four letters a, c, t and g. Silver this baby has a mutation. Odonnell he says that by analyzing the dna in all those digital babies, he is able to calculate the risk of two people conceiving a child with any one of 500 severe recessive pediatric disorders. Now, genepeeks is available for 2,000 to clients using sperm banks and egg donors to conceive, though its founders say the goal is to expand it to all couples who want to have a baby. You think everyone whos going to have a baby should go and have a digital baby first . Silver i see a future in which people will not use sex to reproduce. Thats a very dangerous thing to do. Odonnell that may sound farfetched, but the way lee silver sees it, there will come a time when couples will no longer want to conceive naturally because its too risky. Silver its safer to have a baby with this preknowledge, this Genetic Information that might help them avoid disease. But with the promise of this technology also comes the fear that some parents would want to use it to select genetic traits in their children that have nothing to do with disease, a debate lee silver himself stoked when he wrote the patent for genepeeks. We read your patent and it says your technology could be used to assess whether a child could have other traits like eye color hair color, social intelligence, even whether a child will have a widows peak . If your company is so focused on preventing disease, why would you include those traits . Silver the purpose of the list of traits is simply to demonstrate that our technology can be used to study anything thats genetically influenced. That doesnt mean were going to actually do that. Odonnell okay, but youre running a company . That could be big business . Silver we are the. The ones who invented this technology, and were going to use it to study pediatric disease. At the moment, we will. We will make sure the technology is used only for that purpose. Odonnell and at the moment, youll have to take his word for it because there are no real rules in this country limiting what this kind of technology can be used to screen for, leaving those decisions up to scientists like lee silver and mark hughes. So, we should trust you to set the boundaries . Hughes if im setting a boundary, saying, im not willing to do that, thats no different from any other field of medicine, so sure. Odonnell but do you wrestle with this, at all . I mean, who is the gatekeeper . Hughes thats the question. Should it be some group sitting around a mahogany table, or should it be all left up to the patient. If it would get to the point where it was like cosmetic surgery, that would be downright awful. But id think those are all straw men arguments, and people asked me these very questions that youre asking me right now, 25 years ago. And it hasnt happened. Thats in part because researchers still only fully understand traits and diseases caused by a single flawed gene. Theres a lot left to learn about the interaction of multiple genes. But when that happens, mark hughes and lee silver believe their technologies will be able to screen for a host of genetically complex dseases that they say could include schizophrenia, and some types of diabetes and heart disease. Silver i think its going to be used by society in the 21st century, just like we used antibiotics and other advances in the 20th century to drastically reduce the risk of infectious disease. Were going to be able to drastically reduce the risk of genetic disease. Odonnell youre comparing this ability with reproductive genetics to antibiotics and vaccinations . Silver i am. And in some ways, this is more powerful. Odonnell earlier this month, because of how quickly the industry is growing, the fda proposed guidelines to review certain genetic testing to ensure the Technology Used in the diagnosis of serious diseases is accurate and safe. Welcome to the cbs sports update presented by pacific life. Im james brown with scores from around the n. F. L. Detroit scores 22 unanswered to beat atlanta in london. Seattle snaps a twogame skid with a late come yam win over atlanta. Cincy regains the top spot in the a. F. C. North. Big bens team record six touches sinks indy. The bills score six turnovers to ground the jets. Tom brady throws for five touchdowns in the pats win. For more sports news and information, go to cbssports. Com. It on the long journey to their feeding grounds. One of the most important things you can do is help the next generation. 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Its unlike anything any rock band has ever attempted, and a reflection of everything dave grohl loves about making music. Foo fighters sound is raw, real rock and roll no tricks, no gimmicks. This was one of two soldout shows they played to 165,000 fans in Londons Wembley stadium in 2008, but dave grohl insists money has never been his motivation. Dave grohl the reward of playing music should be playing music. Cooper but isnt that easy to say for someone whos, you know, incredibly successful . Grohl its really easy to say, but thats the way i felt before any of this happened. I was do. I wasnt doing it so that this would happen; i was doing it because i loved it. Cooper and you still love to play . Grohl oh, dude, yeah. laughs a lot. Cooper that love of playing is what grohl believes should always be at the heart of music. Grohl dont worry about what everyone else thinks. Dont let someone say, like, sorry, you didnt win the song contest. Go home. Cooper but on American Idol, the judges will say, well, look, are you doing somebody a favor by telling them, keep going at something theyre not good at . Grohl whos to say what theyre. Whos good or not . Imagine bob dylan standing there and singing blowing in the wind in front of those judges. Sorry, its a little nasally and a little flat. Next. Cooper how would you do in American Idol . Grohl oh, i. I would never make it, ever, in a heartbeat. People need to appreciate their voice. I dont want to sing like someone else. I want to sing like me. Cooper grohl was singing his heart out when we met up with foo fighters in may in new orleans. Theyd taken over preservation hall, a legendary Jazz Performance space in the french quarter. On a saturday night, the windows were opened up for the first time in more than 50 years so the band could play a surprise show for hundreds of stunned passersby. The concert was being shot for an eightpart hbo documentary about the history of modern American Music that dave grohl is directing. Each episode focuses on the unique Musical Heritage of one city. To help him learn that histor, grohl interviewed local musicians everywhere the band went, among them troy andrews, better known as Trombone Shorty. Grohl where you from . Trombone shorty from new orleans, from here, treme neighborhood. Grohl when i interview these people, i get them to explain not only the history of the city, but the influence that that has on the music that comes from here. Theres a reason why chicago blues sounds like chicago blues. And theres a reason why jazz music is here, in new orleans. Cooper and the reason is. Is the history of how that music was formed. Grohl it could be anything. In seattle, it rains all the time, so people stay in their basements and write songs. Cooper grohl approached the project as a both a musician and a historian, and says he was often surprised about what he learned. Grohl well, Everybody Knows nashville as the Country Music capital of the world. But then i start to realize, wait a minute, all of these. The foundation of a lot of these musicians is in the church. Whether its dolly parton or Carrie Underwood or. Like, they started in the church. I never knew that. Cooper it seems like the subtext is, the roots of music matter. Grohl oh, yeah. Cooper . And are important for people to know. Grohl i feel like i have the opportunity and the resource to give this to everyone. I can do it, so why wouldnt i do it . This is Trombone Shorty down here. Cooper what made the project so ambitious is that grohl wasnt just shooting a documentary; he was also using the interviews to come up with material for a new song hed write in each of the eight cities foo fighters spent a week in. Cooper the way youre writing songs for this album is completely different than anything youve ever done. And, as far as i know, different than anyones ever really done. Grohl these are all things that people have talked about new orleans is a crossroad, the sprits on the square. Cyril neville used to watch his family play music through, like, cracks on the door. Hed press his face against the screen. Hed go home with the imprint of the screen on his head. Cooper so these are all phrases you got out of interviewing various artists. Grohl yeah, words and phrases. Cooper grohl had just written the song an hour earlier. It wont be released until next month, but he invited us to watch him record it. Its called in the clear and references the lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina and the history of jazz. None of the foo fighters knew much about jazz before coming to new orleans, but that was the whole reason to make the trip. On their last day in town, grohl and the band joined a large crowd on st. Charles avenue to take part in a local sunday tradition, a musical jazz parade known as a second line. Grohl this is one of the best things about music, you know this is real, and its right now and its happening. The musical history of this country is deep, you know . And theres so much of it that i honestly feel like, if music were more a part of our daily lives, this country would be a better place. Cooper a few months later, grohl was back in los angeles along with bassist nate mendel, drummer Taylor Hawkins, and guitarists pat smear and Chris Shiflett in studio 606, a recording facility they built. They showed us some of their new documentary series, and told us how learning about the history of American Music has changed the way they listen to it. Chris shiflett its just such a big soup, American Music, you know, its all connected. Its not like what we do is drastically different from what a country band would do, or even maybe a new orleans jazz band. Its all pretty similar. Cooper thats interesting. Shiflett its interconnected. Cooper the First Episode is about the history of punk rock and the blues in chicago. Grohl this is a good example of a moment in an interview that made its way into one of our songs. The interview was with buddy guy, a guitarist and singer who took a train north from louisiana in 1957 and became a blues legend. Buddy guy oh, ill put it like this i was looking for a dime and i found a quarter. Grohl man, when that came out of his mouth, when he said that, i just thought i have to tell his story in this song. Cooper and that is what grohl has done. The song he wrote in chicago is called something from nothing. Chicago isnt just important to American Music, its played a crucial role in dave grohls own history. He grew up in virginia, and when he was 13, on a family trip to chicago, a cousin took him to his first concert, a local punk rock band called naked raygun. That night changed grohls life. Grohl my belly was up against the stage and the singer was diving on my head. And it was so loud, my teeth itched, you know. laughs cooper your teeth itched . Grohl there was spit and sweat, and that night, i just thought, i can do this. Cooper grohl taught himself to play guitar and drums, and at 17, dropped out of high school to go on tour with a punk band. By 21, he was broke in los angeles with no way to get home. Thats when he got a call about joining a seattle band called nirvana. Nirvanas first album with grohl as drummer knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the charts and changed pop music forever. But less than three years later, nirvanas lead singer and songwriter kurt cobain killed himself after struggling with drug addiction. Grohl losing kurt was just earth shattering, and i was afraid of music after he died. Cooper you couldnt even listen to music . Grohl no, man. I swear, if i. If i heard a song that even touched on an emotion in me, i would turn it off. I was just so terrified. Because, to me, thats what music always was. It was a direct connection to my heart. Cooper it took him several months, but grohl did Start Playing again, and went into a studio to record some of his own songs. He had no band, so he sang and played all the instruments himself. Grohl i called it foo fighters because i didnt want people. I didnt want to put my name on it at first. I didnt want people to say, like, oh, thats the guy from nirvana. Cooper how did you come up with the name foo fighters . Do you like the name . Grohl had i imagined that it would last more than a month and a half, i mightve named it something else. Its the dumbest band name ever. Foo fighters was a slang term that they used for u. F. O. S in world war ii. Cooper now 45, grohl is not the drummer of foo fighters, but he is still considered one of the greatest of his generation. Nirvana was recently inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame, and its likely, one day, foo fighters will be as well. Grohl lives in los angeles with his wife and three young daughters. None of them seem to care their dad is a rock star, particularly when they just want to go swimming. He doesnt like to be away from home for more than two weeks at a time, but has begun a new tour and is already planning another album. Grohl this is all i do man, like. Cooper theres not other interests you have . This is it . Grohl all i do is shuttle kids around in a minivan, and then come down here and be in the foo fighters. Thats it. And im not lying. Thats true, man. Cooper foo fighters will be returning to each of the eight cities where they recorded sonic highways, but grohl is looking forward to one city in particular. Grohl that week we had in new orleans totally changed my life. Cooper how so . Grohl it made me fall head over heels in love with music all over again. Cooper one of his favorite memories from that week in new orleans was when foo fighters gave the surprise show in the french quarter. After playing on their own, they were joined by the legendary preservation hall jazz band. Trombone shorty showed up late and had to borrow an old horn, but the sound was pure new orleans. Rock drummer Taylor Hawkins had help from jazz drummer joe lastie, jr. , who comes from a long line of local musicians, and told us he always dreamed of being a rock star. His wish came true that night. Grohl called it a musical gumbo, a beautiful blend of sounds and styles, a true celebration of what American Music is all about. Join Anderson Cooper inside dave grohls home studio. Go to 60minutesovertime. Com. So they can help you track a lot of stuff. Like today, i walked 3. 8 miles. Well, i ran 4. 2 miles. 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