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KPIX CBS News Sunday Morning January 27, 2013

Among them apparently our Martha Teichner. You are the one reporter it was a number one hit for music megastar Michael Bolton in 1993. That was then. I said i loved you reporter this is now. For all the love i feel inside reporter a visit with Michael Bolton ahead on this sunday morning. Said i loved you but i was wrong osgood flower power is the order of the day every day on the islands our seth doane has been to visit. Reporter while much of the country is blasted fury, theres a state where the flowers are blooming and winter seems so far away. What does a lei symbolize . What does it mean . In hawaii we have a thing called the aloha spirit. If it was tangible, it would be a lei. Reporter come along to paradise. Ahead on sunday morning. Osgood tracy smith talks with playwright edward albee. David edelstein reviews the oscarnominated film amour. Steve hartman visits a young chicken farmer with pluck and more. First the headlines for this sunday morning the 27th of january, 2013. From southern brazil comes news of a huge nightclub fire. Firefighters in the town of santa maria say at least 245 people were killed inside the club. Hundreds more were hurt. It is not yet clear what started the fire. Its been a weekend of bloodshed in chicago. Six people were shot dead in the city yesterday. Two of the killings happened just blocks from an antigun rally. Among the victims was a 16yearold boy. Another guncontrol rally took place in washington yesterday with thousands marching calling for stricter weapons laws. The senate is preparing to begin debating the issue this week. Hackers have taken aim at the department of justice. Yesterday a group known as anonymous took over the u. S. Sentencing commissions website. They say it was a response to the suicide earlier this month of aaron swartz. He is a computer prodigy who was facing up to 45 years in prison for allegedly illegally downloading millions of academic articles. The first of six Patriot Missile defense batteries is now operating in southern turkey. Nato says it underscores the alliances willingness to help turkey to intercept any rockets fired from syria. Iran yesterday warned that it would view any attack on syria as an attack on iran itself. Longtime u. S. Senator tom harkin, democrat of iowa, announced yesterday that he will not seek a sixth term. As for why hark insaid i just think its time for me to step aside. Remember when people used to mail letters . If youre among those engaging in that quaint custom, first class postage has gone up again. 46 cents now as of today. No wonder so many of us dont do that anymore. Now to weather. The cold snap goes on and today as much as six inches of snow is expected in the upper midwest. Things will warm up over the next couple of days, but it wont last long. The chill returns at the end of the week. Next, the invasion of the super bugs. When a man loves a woman osgood and later singer songwriter michael mmmmmm. A choice of 6 skillet entrees, each with an appetizer and dessert . Whoa no wonder they call it a complete meal. 3 courses, one diner price. Complete skillet meals starting at 8. 99. Only at dennys. P osgood can anything stop the socalled super bugs that are making people sick and seem to defy the tools of medical science . Researchers are working on it but to no avail so far. That is the subject of our cover story, reported now by serena altschul. Reporter two month old harrison carlynn has been in and out of intensive care all of his short life. Born in kidney failure he came here to get lifesustaining treatment but instead his surroundings may contain a deadly threat. It kills people. This one right here. This one the mortality rate in some of the outbreaks has been as high as 40 . Reporter terrifying. Theyre called super bugs. They have an enemy in this man. These are the very dangerous organisms. Reporter Infectious Disease specialist dr. Robert muller at harvards Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has devoted more than 40 years to studying them. Why do you love these bugs so much . Theyre among the most interesting things that we can study. Reporter what he finds interesting many people find terrifying. Thats because super bugs are extraordinarily resilient bacteria. They tend to infect hospital patients and even kill those who are extremely ill. The most recent study on Health Care Associated infections in u. S. Hospitals found that out of about 1. 7 million infections, nearly 99,000 patients die. According to one of the studys authors, the vast majority of the deaths were due to super bugs. Are some super bugs resistant to all the antibiotics that we have at our disposal . A few of them are literally resistant to everything. Fortunately these are the exceptions rather than the rule. But the fact that we have any of these at all is cause for alarm because the only thing we can say is were to see more of these as time goes on. Reporter super bugs can enter a patient through surgical wounds and catheters including i. V. S. Uncontrolled, they continue to move throughout the body attacking a persons organs. At the top of your list, what are the bacteria that youre most concerned about now . The socalled escape organisms. That includes organisms called the reason were concerned and the reason that theyre singled out is because these are the ones that commonly cause infections in humans. These are the ones that have developed multiple resistance. Reporter take the one that the doctor says is resistant to just about everything. It only recently came to this country. The war wounds in iraq often became infected with this bacteria. Soldiers were then bringing it back to military bases and ultimately to hospitals military hospitals in the united states. It shows the ability of this particular organism to get into a hospital and shows the difficulty in getting rid of it when that happens. Reporter in fact, most super bugs, in addition to run of the mill viruses and bacteria, make the job of cleaning and disinfecting hospitals even more challenging. So Johns Hopkins hospital in baltimore, maryland, has implemented a hightech approach investing in two pairs of stateoftheart robots to disinfect i. C. U. Rooms. The robots spew vapors of Hydrogen Per Oxide. We hear that super bugs are so hard to kill. Its incredible that Hydrogen Per Oxide can kill them. The concentration that is required is very high and toxic. Reporter i see. Infectious disease specialist dr. Trish pearl. Hydrogen per oxide isnt what you put on your cuts. Exactly. Thats 2 . This is 35 . Reporter dr. Pearl has studied how well the robots work against super bugs. They actually are highly effective. Reporter she found a 90 reduction in the room and a 60 decrease in transmission from one patient to the next. Oh, it changes culture because we could look at people and say, this room is essentially sterile now. Reporter that is perhaps more important now than ever. A deadly strain of bacteria recently made headlines when there was an outbreak of the super bug at the National Institutes of health in bethesda maryland. Seven patients died. The doctor says there will be more outbreaks because like other super bugs, this one is always changing. Theyre able to pick up new resistance genes. I suspect that were going to see continued progression of resistance in these organisms. Reporter which makes treatment all the more difficult. The mortality rate for this particular strain of bacteria is 30 to 40 . For an infek disease thats very high. A mortality rate of 23 is really high. Reporter the doctor says other super bugs are also dangerous, just in different ways. Take m. R. S. A. Even though it has resistant in its name, Drug Resistance isnt what makes m. R. S. A. Most troubling. M. R. S. A. Is not resistant to absolutely everything yet. The reason its a big problem is because the organisms easily spread from person to person. Reporter so it moves so quickly. Its almost hard to catch up to it . Yes. And it can cause such a wide variety of infections. It can literally infect every tissue of the body except the fingernails and the teeth. Reporter and that can be lifethreatening to patients like little harrison carlynn. So Johns Hopkins instituted a protocol of washing all children in its i. C. U. In a special antiseptic call. Its like taking a giant wet one and wiping all over. We start with the chin and we wipe the entire body from the chin down. Reporter pediatric Infectious Disease specialist aaron millstone found it proceed them from blood infections. Hes now testing if it will protect them from m. R. S. A. Too. An early study funded by the c. D. C. Showed that bathing i. C. U. Patients reduced spread of m. R. S. A. By about i think it was 35 . Reporter youre replicating that study study now with children. There are now incentives to decrease infection rates. Financial incentives from the federal government. Reporter but harvards dr. Robert mullerring says thats not enough. Until more money is spent on antibiotic research, super bugs cant and wont be stopped. Well, this is a ticking time bomb because of the fact that the bacteria are developing resistance mechanisms more rapidly now than we can find new antibiotics. It is in a very real sense an emergency. We need to deal with this soon. Or were back to the preantibiotic era. Reporter mortality rates then were really grim . They were. Osgood coming up, a few words from tarzan. Otherworldly things. But there are some things ive never seen before. This ge jet engine can understand 5,000 data samples per second. Which is good for business. 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Osgood and now a page from our sunday morning almanac. January 27,xd 1918,co 95 years agoni today. The debut of a dashing new Silver Screen hero. For that was the openingconr day for the silent film hare zan of the apes with he will mow lincoln in the title role. The first film to be based stories of edgar rice burrows was an immediate hit to be followed by several other tilent tarzan films. In 1932 came the first full talking tarzan picture. Tarzan the ape man starring johnny wise muller. A gold medal winning olympic swimmer, he had no acting experience but as tarzan he found his true calling. tarzan call . Osgood in the film, tarzan also finds true love in the form of jane, an english explorers daughter played by maureen sullivan. Though tarzan never actually says me tarzan you jane in this film or any other one this exchange does come close. And you you. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan. Osgood in the 1939 film tarzan adopts the infant survivor of an airplane crash whom tarzan comes up with the perfect name. Boy. Thats not a name. Boy. Osgood and boy it was. Played convincingly for years by Johnny Sheffield. While all three actors had left the series by 1948 many another tarzan film has followed. Including 1984s the legend of tarzan lord of the apes starring Christopher Lambert widely regarded as the adaptation most faithful to the original character. For many fans john remained the definitive tarzan despite the lack of acting credentials that gave even him some doubts as you remembered. For a while i didnt think i would make it. I was so bad that i was natural. Osgood johnny weismuller, Maureen Osullivan even Johnny Sheffield are gone now. Tarzan himself lives on. Never to know defeat. tarzan calling . And never to be silenced. Next,. Theyve never seen anyone like him. Osgood banned in beijing. You hear that beat . Campbells healthy request soup lets you hear it. In your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. Great taste. Mmm. [ male announcer ] sounds good. Its amazing what soup can do. Were sitting on a bunch of shale gas. Theres natural gas under my town. Its a game changer. It means cleaner, cheaper americanmade energy. But weve got to be careful how we get it. Design the wells to be safe. Thousands of jobs. Use the most advanced technology to protect our water. Billions in the economy. At chevron, if we cant do it right, we wont do it at all. Weve got to think long term. Weve got to think long term. Ai wei wei is an artist who is causing Chinese Government censors more than a few sleepless nights. Rita braver with a portrait of an artist as a dissident unvowed. Reporter this may look like a bowl of pearls and this merely a collection of crabs. Yet to artist ai wei wei they represent the idea that there is value not just in the group but also in each individual. Whether in art or in life. A notion that is not always welcome in china. speaking chinese embedded in the works whether they are directly political or not i think are his ideas and his desire to see the world change. Reporter that attitude can now be seen at the smithsonians museum in washington. According to chief curator gary brower. Was this the first major exhibit in the u. S. Of ai wei weis work . Yes, it is indeed. Reporter there are whimsical sculptures made of bicycles and antique charless that suggest how old ideas can be transformed. And then there is this series of photos showing ai wei wei actually dropping a 2,000yearold han dynasty vase. First of all he is trying to shock you. Hes trying to shake you up. Reporter why would you drop that . By destroying objects it brings attention to the destruction thats happening in society. Its almost Like Fighting fire with fire. Reporter 55yearold ai wei wei learned to challenge Authority Early on. His father a famous revolutionary poet, was accused of criticizing the communist government for not allowing full expression. So in 1957, like many intellectuals, he was sent along with his whole family to the provinces to be reeducated. In exile,. An exile that lasted 18 years. speaking chinese but ai wei weis real Artistic Development began when he came to the u. S. On a fellowship in 1983 and stayed ten years. Through the people he met in new york city, the alan ginsburgs, that opened his mind up. He began even in those days to become a kind of street photographer. That included demonstrations. Reporter he returned to china where his work in everything from sculpture to architecture was so well respected that he was chosen to help design the signature birds nest stadium for the 2008 beijing olympics. He photographed the construction. Hes created for this installation here at the museum meu an environmental installation where you walk through. Youre standing in it feeling like youre part of it. Reporter but ai wei wei ended up disowning his own work because he thought the government was using the stadium as a symbol of nationalism and authoritarianism. For years he had been smarting. Finally it came to a boiling point over the olympics over the hypocrisy that he saw the effort to sell the world a china that doesnt really exist. Reporter New York University Law School Professor jerome cohen is an expert on china and a longtime friend of ai wei wei. I was surprised at his political activism. I worried about him. Very dangerous. Reporter he says what really enraged the Chinese Government was that after the 2008 serb want earthquake that killd more than 85,000 people, ai wei wei began investigating shoddy construction. As shown in this recent documentary, he was beaten by police and had to be hospitalized. Then in 2011, he was imprisoned for 81 days on allegedly trumpedup tax charges. Reporter he was finally released after a worldwide outcry. I cannot see anything. Reporter is he sort of a perpetual thorn in the side of the Chinese Government . That is an understatement. Theyve never seen anyone like him. Normally they just lock somebody up and throw away the key. But theyre afraid to do that with ai wei wei. Reporter though our cbs News Beijing Bureau was able to speak to ai wei wei this past week, he lives under constant surveillance and was not allowed to travel to the u. S. For his show. Reporter but he sent works that speak for him. A serpent constructed from small backpacks like those carried by children who died when their poorly built schools collapsed during the quake. An inspiration made of straightened rods that ai wei wei reformed from twisted iron he had sul vajed from the rubble. In a way this is like a memorial. It is also a warning that we need to be straight. We need to stand tall and straight against these kinds of things happening in the future. I want to say. His works are filled with questions. Thats what great art work does. It raises questions. It doesnt necessarily answer them for you. It makes you have to think about things. Osgood ahead, say it with flowers. And later say is that Michael Bolton . Osgood it happened this week, the deaths of two people as different as different can be. Linda died tuesday of Heart Failure in new york, the final chapter in a bizarre saga told in a 2007 documentary crazy love. In 1959, linda was 22 years old and pursued by a married lawyer ten years her senior named burton. Bert was relentless. He would not stop calling. He would not stop following me. Osgood after linda spurned him bert hired three thugs who showed up at her door, one of them armed with lye. He was already in the vestibule and he threw the liquid right in my face. I was burning. My face was burn

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