Telecommuting. Do you have your confirmation number . It may not surprise you that when you call jetblue to book a flight, the person doing it is at home, not in a call center. Abdominal ultrasound. But it might be a big surprise that the raidologist reading your xray, cat scan or m. R. I. Could very well be doing it from an office in his basement, not a hospital. Is this the future of the American Workplace . To commute or telecommute later this sunday morning. In a new role, actor tim robins plays to a captive audience. Hes encouraging men behind bars to act rather than act up. Serena altschul will have the inside story. Actor tim robbins has played many memorable roles, none more memorable than Andy Dufresne in the shawshank redemption. I spent some time in solitary to prepare for shawshank. I asked to be locked up. All emotion, go, go tim robbins is behind bars again, this time teaching acting to inmates. Ahead on sunday morning, well go back to prison with tim robbins. A new bay bridge connecting San Francisco and oakland, california, is opening this week. John blackstone will tell the story of a photographers labor of love. 24 years after an earthquake damaged the old bridge, the new eastern span of the San Franciscooakland bay bridge is just days from opening. Its rise has been covered bay photographer focusing on the workers who turn steel and concrete into a new bayarea landmark. I just want them to be recognized for what they did. Its teamwork and you became part of the team. Absolutely. Its team work. Its collective labor. The labors of photographer joe blum and the workers he pays tribute to later on sunday morning. For former late night host arsenio hall, the second time could be the charm. Lee cowan will tell us about a comeback nearly 20 years in the making. Johnny carson may have been the king of late night, but for a time, arsenio hall was the prince. Call your friends. Oprahs on. And then he disappeared. What have you been doing for yourself for. 19 some odd years. Oh, gosh. What he did and what hes planning next may surprise you. It may be 20 years but arsenio hall is indeed back and back is beautiful ahead on sunday morning. Anthony mason will have the untold story of famously reclusive author j. D. Salinger. And we tell you why silence is golden. Mo rocca has some points to make about pencils and more. First here are the headlines for this sunday morning, the 1st of september, 2013. President obama now says he wants congressional approval before launching any military action against syria for allegedly using chemical weapons. Major garretts in washington with the latest. This is plan b. President obama has no intention of giving congress a voice in syria, but after the British Parliament voted against using military force, Top Democrats and republicans warned the white house opposition was building and congress had to play a role. A reluctant president said this is the question lawmakers must answer what message will we send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no price . Whats the purpose of the International System that weve built if a prohibition on the use of chemical weapons that has been agreed to by the governments of 98 of the worlds people and approved overwhelmingly by the congress of the United States is not enforced . There is no urgency. Congress wont decide for more than a week. If it says no to a strike, mr. Obama reserves the right to attack anyway. Charlie . Major garrett in washington, thank you. In damascus, a staterun syrian newspaper is calling president obamas move the start of the historic american retreat. Saying they are convinced that he will receive the same care at home as in the hospital, doctors treating former South African president Nelson Mandela have let him go home. Were outside the mandela residence in suburban johannesburg. Nelson mandela returned here to his home earlier this morning. The road was cordoned off by police to allow the ambulance easy access. It was a potentially hazardous journey the some 30 miles from his pretoria hospital to his johannesburg home, but according to our source inside his home, Nelson Mandela made the journey safely. However, his return home should in no way be seen as an indication that his condition has changed in any way. He remains critically ill and, according to the government, he sometimes becomes unstable, requiring medical intervention and, in fact, his home has been reconfigured so that he can receive the same 24hour intensive care that he was receiving in his pretoria hospital. Nelson mandela has long expressed the wish to spend his final days at home rather than in the sterile hospital bed, and according to one source, intimately connected to the family, the doctors have done their best, but there is nothing more that they can do for him at his preor pretoria hospital, as returned them to spend his final days here, however long that may be. Charlie . Thank you. Near home, smoke conditions at Yosemite National park are hampering efforts to extinguish a twoweekold wildfire that has charred more than 340 scare miles. The smoke now blankets yosemite valley, where some of the parks most famous landmarks are. Legendary broadcaster sir david frost has died. Frost had a prolific career in television. Early on with that was the week that was. He was perhaps best known here with his interviews with former president richard nixon. His family said frost died of a heart attack aboard the cruise ship the queen elizabeth. Sir david frost was 74. Now todays weather. Mild temperatures for the midworcester. Midwest. The northeast will see scattered showers. Rain in the southeast, as well. Sunny and mild in the plains today and tomorrow, but in the east, theres more rain in the labor day forecast. Now theyve taken those towers down with thermal torches. Ahead, work in progress. This is michelle. How can i help if youre like me, youve been working youve been working like a dog all year. But you dont need to camp out til labor day to reward yourself mattress discounters labor day sale ends monday rest those tired bones on a queen size sealy gel memory Foam Mattress for just 497 get 48 months interestfree financing on the entire tempurpedic cloud collection. Not to labor the point. But this sale ends monday mattress discounters oh, the joys of working at home. With a home office, you can sleep later, avoid the morning rush, also avoid facetoface confrontations with your boss. But before you join the growing trend, listen to what Martha Teichner has to say now in our sunday morning cover story. Its 5 58 a. M. Dr. Samir shaw, a raidologist who lives outside pittsburgh, is about the start his morning commute. It takes him less than ten seconds. Nothing like the full hour it used to take each way on top of the 60plus hours a week he spent doing his job when he worked in a hospital. Examination colon. Looking at images virtually identical to those he would see there, now he sits in his basement office, reading xrays, cat scans and m. R. I. S from all over the United States that his employer, minnesotabased virtual raid logic or vrad sends his way. Pelvis. Dr. Shaw is a fulltime telecommuter. He works set shifts and then actually gets to spend time with his family. My whole life is better now. I feel like im the luckiest guy in the world to have this job. I feel like i do my job better, and i feel like im a better dad. I feel like im a better husband. Have fun. Does this sound like work heaven . What does it say that the alternative has become the subject of screen comedy . The paper jam, i swear to god. To commute or telecommute, that is the question at the heart of what may or may not be a fundamental change in the way americans work. The biggest misconception is that a lot of people are doing it. Sociologist jennifer glass is a professor at the university of texas who studies telecommuting. It has not by any means taken over the occupational landscape. Its still very, very restricted. There are no definitive statistics. The numbers depend on who is doing the counting and how they define telecommuting. But in a new cbs news poll commissioned for sunday morning, 24 of working americans said they telecommute regularly for their jobs. The dirty little secret is what telecommuting means to most telecommuters. To what extent is the fancy title telecommuting just another way to get sucked into being at work or available to work 24 7 . Well, i love the way you put it because i think thats absolutely accurate. Its still very much about taking work home. Its about overtime telecommuting when youve already put in a substantial amount of time fulltime at the office. But look which days people are most likely to work from home monday and friday. Employers often complain that telecommuting is just another word for goofing off. In our cbs news poll, 40 of telecommuters say they work fewer hours at home than at the office. But 60 say they work the same hours or more. Most telecommuters are higherpaid, sal rid workers or professionals, but the number of hourly employees who telecommute is rising. Thanks for calling jetblue. This is michelle. How can i help you . Each day Michelle Muir puts on her jetblue tshirt and her jetblue airplane slippers. She handles reservations from 7 00 until 5 00 with a couple of breaks. The department will go ahead and register him, okay . What the airline calls its Customer Support team, more than 1,900 employees work from home in and around salt lake city. The arrangement saves the company a lot of money on office space. Did you sleep good last night . For Michelle Muir, a devout mormon, it means she can be the homemaker, wife and grandmother she wants to be. Go see grand pete sampras. Its the extra income that we need. So it works great for us. And who would want to give up this little guy and not see him . But how does jetblue know Michelle Muir is actually working . Ive been logged in for two minutes. All her calls are recorded, and her supervisor can see and hear exactly what shes doing. Rebecca ludlow works for jetblues Customer Support center a few miles away, except when she too telecommutes one day a week. All right. I love the pleases. I heard a little too many okays though. Ludlow regularly critiques muirs calls. And the first call on here, im going to say you did a great job. You remember jetblue very well. So youve got jetblue, known for its Customer Service, on lists of Good Companies to work for, committed to telecommuting. Then theres zappos. Com, the Las Vegasbased online shoe and accessory retailer, also known for Customer Service and on lists of the best employers. It discourages telecommuting. [phone ringing] the wideopen Office Spaces where its 1,400 employees Work Together are famously funky. Youre very welcome, monica. Have a great day. Our numberone priority is company culture, and our whole belief is if we get the culture right, other stuff will be a byproduct of that. Tony shea is c. E. O. Of zap zappos. Com. We encourage our employees to interact as much as possible both inside and outside the office. Thats hard to do from a telecommuting position. When yahoos new c. E. O. Melissa mayers bombshell was wreaked in february that she was radically scaling back telecommuting as part of her turnaround strategy for the ailing tech giant, Zappos Tony Shea publicly defended her. A great story. This is the idea wall from tony sheas work space. Shea believes that great ideas come from what he calls collisions. This is the only way in. Every single one of our employees, visitors, everyone who companies in will start here, and then go their various ways. Zach ware oversaw the transformation of the Old City Hall complex in downtown las vegas into zappos new campus. The plaza is kind of our lobby. It gives us an opportunity to bring everyone together before they go their various ways. Nearly completed, the refit has been all about engineering those creative collisions. The average office has anywhere from 150 to 200 square feet per person when you combine all the space and divide it by number of employees. We will be at roughly 90 square feet per person. Why . By minimizing the amount of space between two people, were maximizing the opportunities for them to connect with each other. But sociologists general nor class thinks telecommuting is the future, especially considering Research Done on the millennial generation. Theyve grown up with technology. Theyre used to using it and they expect to use it in their jobs. They place a very high value on autonomy, and they want the ability to telecommute. A good example of what she considers the inevitability of its growth. You ready to go to camp . Dr. Samir shaw, his employer vrad already has over 400 raidologists servicing the needs of 2,70000 medical facility, but listen to this . Just in a few years, we have become a real option for many of the top graduates of the best training programs, and we are flooded with applications because they all realize that this is a great choice for lifestyle and realize that its actually a less stressful job overall. Actually a less stressful job overall. Next. Will pop balloons popping i can see the edge of my couch balloons popping a blt with best foods is the best. Bring out the unmistakable taste that can only be best foods. Bring out the best. That can only be best foods. Now page from our sunday morning almanac, september 1, 1752, 261 years ago today. Thats the day word came from london. Philadelphias superintendent heralded the aieflg of the original liberty bell. Engraved with a stirring historical passage from leviticus. Proclaim liberty throughout the land and for all the inhabitants thereof. 12 feet around at its widest and weighs just over a ton, the bell was commissioned by the Philadelphia Assembly at a cost of more than £100, equivalent today to about 20,000. Even at that price, cracks appeared when it was rung and it had to be recast twice by craftsmen in philadelphia. In october 1777 during the British Occupation of philadelphia, the bell was removed from the city and hidden in a church for fear it would be melted down to make cannons. It is said that the bells call of freedom sounds the noted e flat, although the last time i was actually heard for any sustained period was in 1846 in honor of George Washingtons birthday. But that lengthed a hairline crack. The large split we see today is actually a repair. As for the name, liberty bell, that comes from the abolitionists who adopted the bell as their antislavery symbol in the 1830s. The womans suffrage used the bell as its symbol, too. From 1885 to 1915, the liberty bell traveled around the country to expositions and fairs and to mark dday in 1944. The mayor of philadelphia sounded the bell using a rubber mallet. Today the liberty bell stands as a silent symbol as a promise of America Liberty and justice for all. Ahead, hard at work. announcer answer the call of the grill with new friskies grillers, full of meaty tenders and crunchy bites. Help the gulf when we made recover and learn the gulf, bp from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. I can tell you safety is at the heart of everything we do. Weve added cuttingedge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a stateoftheart monitoring center, where experts watch over all drilling activity twentyfourseven. And were sharing what weve learned, so we can all produce energy more safely. Our commitment has never been stronger. Its the largest Passenger Ship ever wrecked, so how are they going to raze it . Go aboard the coasta San Franciscos new bay bridge opens on tuesday. Thousands of workers hefted the tools of their trade to make it happen, and moving among them, over the years, man whose only toll was a camera. On this labor day eve, John Blackstone tells us about a labor of love. The photographs capture soaring views from near the top of the new bridge atop San Francisco bay. But more often the photographer focused his lens on the workers building the bridge. Joe blum, now 72, has been documenting the construction for 15 years. I joke with people i was a young man when i came out here, when i started on this project. Lets go. His age never seemed to get in his way as he maneuvered on scaffolding, catwalks and cables hundreds of feet in the air. I think its kept me young. I think the exercise is great. You know, the camera bag, when i bring it out fully loaded is 25 or 30 pounds, and i do a lot of walking, sometimes uphill walking, a lot of climbing up and down the scaffolding. He took photographs as workers hammered bolts and wrestled with iron to create the elegant bridge suspended from a single 525 foot high tower, but as impressive as the structure, is its the workers that blum wants us to see. The engineers get credit, the designers and architects, they know how to get in front of the camera and talk about themselves. These guys do not at all. And theyre the ones who are taking the plans, the designs, the prints and turning it into a living structure of steel and concretement now theyve taken those towers down with with thermal torches. Blums admiration of iron workers grows from his own experience. He worked as a boilermaker and welder in San Franciscos shipyards for 25 years. How you been . How are you, my friend . What skills do the people who build this bridge have . Obviously you have to be fearless in a certain way. You have to be strong. You have to have stamina, and i think you have to have a certain mental and emotional toughness to go out there. Blum admired the bridge workers. But how did they feel about him . Ironworker steve batiste, jerry cabala and ed meyer. Theres been a lot of photographers out there. We really dont care