Ahead on sunday morning osgood as the year 2012 comes to a close this morning, we continue our holiday tradition here at sunday morning. We take time out to remember some of the remarkable people who have left us in the year just pending. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,. Take a load off. Osgood they made our hearts sing. They made our spirits soar. Thats one small step for man. Osgood some saved lives, some gave their lives. And all touched our lives in ways great and small. We remember those who left us in 2012. On these cold winter days, what could be nicer than a trip down mexico way. In mo roccas case make that way down. Reporter the beaches of cancun, mexico, are known for girls and guys going wild. Its art in the wild. I have a whole little team of helpers underwater that do the finishing work. Reporter ahead on sunday morning, art that lives underwater. Osgood the fast draw asks why we dress boys in blue and girls in pink. Well travel to scottland to order up some world class scotch whiskey. Well be remembering the good and the bad of the year 2012. And more. But first here are the headlines for december 30, the last sunday morning of 2012. Senate negotiators in washington are working through the weekend to try to come up with an agreement on proposed budget cuts and tax increases. Any deal they reach must then be voted on by the full house. The deadline is midnight tomorrow. The 23yearold woman who died after a vicious gang rape on a bus in new dehli was cremated today in a private ceremony. Hours after her death yesterday another young woman was reportedly molested on a bus there. Angry demonstrations throughout india have been demanding better protection for women. Prosecutors say the woman theyve charged with pushing a man to his death in front of a new york city subway train on thursday told them she did so because she hates hindus and muslims. Her victim was an immigrant from india. Doctors in houston report former president george h. W. Bushs condition is improving and that he is no longer in intensive care. Mr. Bush has been hospitalized since last month with a bronchitisrelated cough. This week marks the 150th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation, the document deciding that all slaves were to be forever free. To mark the occasion the document signed by president Abraham Lincoln goes on display in the National Archives in washington. Now the weather. The chance of rain in the northeast but it will be sunny in the Central Plains and the southwest. Scattered showers in the pacific northwest. The first few days of 2013 will see colder temperatures across most of the country. Nothing bad. Osgood ahead, meet jamie foxx. I had a neighborhood. Everybody was going to chump. It was cool. If somebody pulled a gun, they osgood natural gas is cheap and plentiful and could supply us with energy for decades to come. But to get at all that natural gas, you have to delve far beneath the surface of the earth. That is where fracking comes in. David pogue of the New York Times reports our sunday morning cover story. Reporter what if i told you that we have a new source of fuel. Its cheap. It burns cleaner than coal. Its found right here in ameri america, and theres enough of it for the next 100 years. The fuel is natural gas. And the new source is gigantic deposits of shale rock thousands of feet underground. This one is called the marcellus shale. It covers 95,000 square miles across four states. So this is the famous shale. There is gas in that. Reporter locked in there . Correct. Reporter how come i cant see it or smell it. If you were to crack a piece of this off, you would smell a piece of gas. Reporter george stark represents cabot oil and gas, the second largest gas producer in the marcellus. We toured a new shale gas well. Typically were pulling in an average day almost three quarters of a billion cubic feet of natural gas a day. Reporter where is it going . Its going to heat homes. Its going to fuel our vehicles. Its going to create electricity. Reporter and how do you get gas from shale . With a hightech operation called fracking. Okay. Suppose im america. I have an insatiable craving for gas and oil. Excuse me, guys. So in fracking, we drill way way deep past the water table as far as two miles. Heres the technologically amazing part. We make a right turn and we drill horizontally through that shale so we can slump up all that delicious gas and oil. Ill let rob jackson describe the next step. Hes a professor of environment studies at duke university. That step is to inject millions of gallons of water and chemicals at very high pressures. Reporter natural gas is trapped in billions of tiny pours. We fracture the rock to release it. Hence, the word fracking. Now actually weve been fracking rocks for oil for over 60 years. But in the last decade, weve totally transformed the process by adding in that horizontal business, all those chemicals, and the incredible pressure of the water. Building a fracking well means a few months of noisy trucks and dust. After that, the finished well quietly pumps out gas for 30 to 50 years. They give you a, you know, a certain amount of money. Just sign with them for a certain period of time. Reporter fracking can turn struggling farmers into millionaires. Bob and tina mcshane signed away the rights to the shale under farm, but the money isnt flowing yet. They live in new york state which so far hasnt permitted fracking. Hi, girls. We support 40 some beef cows here. Money isnt everything. If we dont have quality water here we dont have anything. Reporter stories of contaminated water from fracking are giving them second thoughts. Youve got spills. Youve got water aquifers, pollution. Reporter ramsey adams runs the Environmental Group catskill mountain keeper. Fracking is a very industrial process that uses chemicals that are toxic, carcinogen i can and disrupting. Reporter as it turns out fracking is just a tiny bit controversial. The town is going to put it to a vote in three weeks. Reporter in matt damons new movie Promised Land the Fracking Company is the bad guy. Im not the guy with all the answers. Well then youd be the perfect guy for them to send here to deny everything. Reporter as you guessed the gas industry says that the dangers are overblown, that the chemicals arent so bad. Bottom line, 99 of it is water and sand. We add an anticorroding agent. The last thing were adding is what we refer to as surfactin but its really hand soap. Reporter actually according to the e. P. A. , the chemicals are slightly scarier than hand soap. These are things that you dont want in peoples drinking water. You dont want sloshing around the environment. Reporter rob jackson studied the water at hundreds of homes near marcellus fracking wells. Is your water any different if youre living near a natural gas well . It was a glass half empty Glass Half Full kind of story. We did not find evidence for the chemicals in fracturing fluids, for instance. What we did find a much higher likelihood that you would have gas in your water, the things that are in the natural gas itself. We think the simplest explanation for that is well tell integrity. Reporter in other words, those milelong pipes can leak. Depending on where you are five, ten, twenty percent of oil wells have problems with their well integrity through time. Were not saying its a problem every time. But there are a number of cases where there are problems. Reporter its not just people drinking that water. This vet michelle and her husband cornell Professor Bob oswald studied 24 cases where animals had problems. The changes in breeding, abortions, stillbirths, were more common after drilling than before drilling. Reporter which brings us back to george stark. His cabot oil and gas company has racked up a number of violations for allowing natural gas to pollute the local water. We got this 2010 letter from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection saying, cabot, you have leaky pipes. Shame on you. Reporter what was that about . That was at a time in 2010 where there was a question of methane migration. What we discovered is that 70 of the water well here have preexisting methane in them already. Reporter today pennsylvania Gas Companies are required to test homeowners water before and after fracking. Live and learn. Now we test it everywhere. Reporter then theres the disposal problem. What do we do with all the poisonous water that comes back up from the fracked well . There are still some states where you can spray that water on lands or where its used for dust control. Terrible idea. Most of it around the country goes to what are called deacon jeks wells. You take your waste water and pump it back underground very deep. Reporter maybe the best solution is the newest one. Recycling that nasty water to use in the next well. What were able to do is clarify that water and reuse it again for the next operation. Reporter i was really hoping i would be able to tell you once and for all who is right the Gas Companies or the worry vie viesh. Worried environmental. But im sorry i cant. Theres so much we dont know. We dont know exactly what chemicals theyre using. The problem is there are a number of proprietary compounds that are used. Theyre not revealed. Reporter we dont know how often problems occur. A number of these cases have been closed by nondisclosure agreements. The land owner, the farmer, is compensated. In exchange for that compensation its purchased. Reporter is fracking worth the risk . The trouble is we dont know what the risk is. The e. P. A. Is only now conducting the First National comprehensive study. It wont be finished until 2014. Heres one thing we do know. Fracking has been incredibly successful. There are 36,000 fracking wells in this country. Thousands more open up every year. The price of natural gas has dropped 86 from its high in 2008. Were actually about to start exporting it. Over time, its a good bet that fracking will become cleaner and safer, thanks to public pressure and new regulation. And thats lucky because heres another thing we know for sure. Fracking isnt going away. Okay, heres the pla osgood next, you do the math. Check our bags for free, rst were gonna thanks to our explorer card. Then, the united club. My mother was so wrong about you. Next, we get priority boarding on our flight i booked with miles. All because of the card. And me. Okay, whats the plan . Plan . Mmhmm. Were on vacation. There is no plan. Really . [ male announcer ] the united mileageplus explorer card. 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Characteristically they had slow information input and output performance, but their Computing Power was the marvel of the 1950s. Reporter the 60s gave us the handheld calculator. And in 1981, i. B. M. Introduced its first personal computer. It could fit on a desktop and was chock full of stateoftheart features. A High Resolution printer. The option for graphics and the new standard i. B. M. Keyboard with both upper and lower case letters. Osgood personal computing has come a long way since that upper and lowercase breakthrough. Today portable computers from a multitude of manufacturers are out performing anything sir Samuel Moreland could have imagined. So for some of us, like Jerry Seinfelds television dad, all the extra bells and whistles dont quite add up. You can do everything with it. You can get email, fax. Theres a calculator. So i can use it in the restaurant to figure out the tip. Yeah, i guess but the really cool thing is the daily planner. Hell, we can go to the restaurants to figure out the tips. Jerry, youre getting your father too excited. Reporter not everyone is convinced that the modern computer has rendered human mathematical aptitude obsolete. Back in 1976 i posed a challenge to indian math wizard. Could she calculate the cube root of a ninedigit number in her head. 986 is the answer. Reporter 986. Is that right . We asked the computer before. I see. Reporter to see what it would be. What the computer gave us as the answer is 986. Im glad the computer is right. Osgood in the battle between machine and humankind, score one for us. Why do toys for tots and hasbro osgood coming up, taking the plunge. Preserve. It locks in power for up to 10 years in storage. Guaranteed. Duracell with duralock. Trusted everywhere. A delicious new way to get essential vitamins you need. Just bite into the tasty shell. To a chewy vitamin core for a unique multivitamin sensation new centrum flavor burst. I need all the help i can get. 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In spanish it stands for museum of underwater art. Thats an erie world of sculptures being shaped by the sea life around it. I can go one day and there will be a huge school of fish there. Another day ill go and lobsters will be crawling across the sculptures. It really out there in the elements and changing dramatically. Reporter this british sculptor created these ghostly figures that live 25 feet beneath the surface. We tend to be oblivious to this underwater world because its out of our sight most of the time. What an incredible place it is. Reporter the project started when two hurricanes devastated the areas coral reeves. As director of cancuns national park, Jamie Gonzales mission is to repair the reef. A half Million People come to this small spot. Reporter just touching the reefs living, breathing organisms inflicts harm. After a hurricane, keeping tourists at a distance is crucial to letting the reeves grow back. Some of the areas required some closing. Reporter but closing off the reeves permanently would devastate the business of roberto diaz who runs aqua world, cancuns largest water tour operator. When he heard about a proposal to shut off access he was not amused. You shut down the reeves, ill sue you. Reporter what happened next was an all too rare collaboration between art, business, and government. I got a call from the marine park director Jamie Gonzales and i said well what about if we have an underwater museum. Do you want to come over and check it out. He said he had this 200sculpture project that would be very interesting for cancun. Reporter taylors vision was to draw park visitors away from the reeves by having them mingle with his underwater crowd. Hundreds of local people posed for him. Look at that face. Hes brilliant. Hes actually the first person when i came here. His name is joaquin. He had a pitted face and it came out so well in the card. Reporter the process is time consuming and arduous for the artist and the model. They come in. We have to get all the hair, slick it all back, put vaseline it and stop it from sticking to the mold. Reporter taylors models have come from all walks of life. Theres this nun. She was my spanish teacher when i first arrived. Shes 85 years old. One of the oldest people ive ever carved. Reporter and this victorias secret model. Good bone structure. Reporter great bone structure. And this young boy. He stood in this position for an hour. All he did was blinked. He didnt move. Didnt breathe. He was just amazing. Reporter the sculptures are made of an ultrahard concrete thats 20 times stronger than the normal stuff. Its really heavy. After theyre installed on the sea floor, the ocean takes over bring life to the art. Literally. I have a whole little team of helpers underwater that actually do the finishing work. Reporter they are more than just statutes of local people. Over our underwater lunch taylor showed me sculptures set in water nine feet deep, accessible to snorkelers. This is one way of, you know, changing peoples attitudes towards the other than and and towards the reeves. Reporter has this sculptural museum met your expectations . Yes, it was increas