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KPIX CBS News Sunday Morning March 1, 2015

Element as lee cowan will report in our cover story. Its very clean work healthy work. The work that steve fuller provides him the best winter view in the world. Get this, he has it all to himself. I cant see any other life anywhere around me. Nothing. Theres something to be said for that. Yellowstones winter caretaker how yellowstone takes care of him ahead on sunday morning. Osgood peace and quiet was the last thing Anne Sinclair experienced, after her husband Dominique Strausskahn was caught up in scandal. Celebrity with a personal link she sat down with Erin Moriarty for some questions and answers. Anne sinclaira revered French Television journalist found herself on the wrong side of the camera in 2011 when her then husband was accused of Sexual Assault in new york. It was very painful for me and for my family as you can understand. Now shes helping her own family story will put her in a whole new light. Ahead on sunday morning. Osgood Kelly Clarkson is chart topping singer with a down home style. Tracy smith this morning will be paying her a visit. At the very first winner of American Idol she captured americas heart no big surprise to her. Are you one of those people who wants everybody to like you . I dont want everyone to like me. I find it puzzling why they dont like me. Im very like nice and im fun. The very likable Kelly Clarkson on music and motherhood. Later on sunday morning. I imagined it. Like a higher metabolism. Osgood next stateoftheart technology, museum is share can its treasures with people who cant tour galleries in person. John blackstone shows us how it works. At San Franciscos fine arts museum, dont be surprised if you encounter some art lovers on wheels. Enjoy the rest of your visit. They are part of new Program Using robots to bring shutins to visit the museum. If you want something you look for options. Bringing art to the people and people to the art. Virtually. Coming up later on sunday morning. Osgood jane pauly goes looking for clues in mystery of autism. Seth doane visits an american who is the talk of tokyo. Steve hartman finds school gym full of good sports. But first headlines for this sunday morning the 1st of march, 2015. Today thousands of russians are taking to the streets of moscow for what is being called a march of mourning for murdered Opposition Leader Boris Nemtsov outspoken opponent of russian president Vladimir Putin was gunned down walking in the kremlin. In detined number of u. S. Citizens on suspicion of espionage speaking before antiimperialism rally yesterday, country social list played that forced him to take restrictive measures against american diplomats and tourists. Rand paul of kentucky can claim some early momentum among republicans after winning conservative Political Action conference annual president ial straw poll. Received 26 of the vote followed by scott walker and senator ted cruz of texas. Jeb bush the former governor of florida finished a distant fifth. In canton massachusetts, a youth mock hockey team narrowly escaped before the roofer of the ice rink they were in collapsed. Amid the weight of piled up snow. Nobody was injured. State Officials Say snow has caused more than 150 roofs in massachusetts to collapse this winter. In a welcome sign that spring is near the 186th annual flower show opened in philadelphia this weekend. Worlds oldest and largest in door flower show attracts more than quarter of a million visitors each year. After this winter the crowd should be even larger. For todays weather winter is hardly gone, much of the nation will get another dose of freezing rain, sleet and yes even more snow for boston. The week ahead more fridge it cold in the Northern Plains and southeast will be the place to be. Coming up busy gallery here. Let a robot be your guide. But first Yellowstone National park. Osgood most people around the country have just about had it with this winter, one man is wrestling in the quiet solitude of northwestern wyoming. Steve fuller is the winter keeper at Yellowstone National park. Our cover story is reported by lee cowan. Extraordinary landscape huh . You see all kinds of animals passing through grizzly bears bison, elk. Youre out alone, dont want to make any noise. You want to whisper if youre talking. To understand this man, steve fuller, and his passion for solitude, you have to understand his job. Hes the winter caretaker of Yellowstone National park. One of just handful of hardy souls who remain in this wilderness long after the summer tourists have gone. How did you describe your job here . Usually start off with kay taker, no immediate responses have you seen the shining. Peek inside deserted canyon lodge you can see why. Expectation was that you were in here for the winter, you got snowed in until you got blowed out. Just getting to steve took us two hours by snow coach. This job has never been by the calendar or by the clock. You work with the winter. You work with mother nature. He lives here in one of the oldest structures in the park. A small cabin on a hill that boasts the only light for miles. I dont have a television. I dont have a vast library. At night when yellowstones temperatures can dip to 20 below, books keep him company. As well as his cat. His kitchen is crammed with just enough food to make it through the winter. What do you think the value of solitude is . Well an opportunity for self knowledge, reflection. Most yellowstone winter keepers last only a few years tops. But steve has stuck out this solitary existence for 42 years. Ever since the winter of 1973. It was the only reason i got hired. No one else applied . No one applied. I was paid 15. 25 a day. That didnt discourage you . No. It was enough. He raised a family here. Home schooling his two daughters, teaching them the ways of nature. It gone on to live their own lives as did his wife. Steve says hes been best staying put. Seems like its the kind of job that would fit a hermit or eccentric, how would you describe your way . I dont consider myself a hermit. I enjoy shall terry time but very much enjoy people, too. Do you get lonely . Never. Never do . Never have. Never had cabin fever. Never been bored. There is a lot to keep him busy and preparation starts early. Parts of the park remain open many of the facilities have to be tucked in for the parks long winters nap which starts first day in november. Its a flurry of activity that seems to send a message to the other residents of the park as well. As people move out. Retake the real estate. So they tell ya we got snow coming we want to get these water valves stakes while we can still find them. With just a few days left before steve is left alone we watched his crew complete a todo list a mile long. At an elevation of more than 7,000 feet the transition can be fast up here, going from this. Look like a different planet. Different world. For sure. To this in a matter of days. You told me hen we were here in october that it would be totally different world. Its a totally different world. It is indeed. The weight of winter tends to crush the lodge and other buildings in steves keep. That is your problem. Its one of my hundred problems. Ive got about a hundred buildings. Thats tons of snow up there right . It is. But i have an ally. Gravity. Hes worked out a system not so much shoveling as thawing the buildings free of their burden. He makes it look easy. But its a work out even for someone half of steves 70something weather worn years. How old are you now . Old as the hills. Hows that . Youre still able to do this. You live forever if it doesnt kill you in this work. Its not all work. Steve has never let a winter slip by without capturing it with his camera. Ive seen many wonderful things here. Occasionally get a picture of them. But a lot of the great pictures are in the head, you know, that you couldnt quite pull off with a camera. All of this steam and moisture becomes super cool. Any time they touch something they fly freeze. Frost crystals, ice crystals are light catchers, they are like jewels. Some of the jewels hes photographed have been featured in national geographic. But seeing is only the half of it. Yellowstone has taught steve to listen, too. Theres all kinds of interesting sounds out here. This is an obvious one. A roar. Sometimes you think you hear voices he its actually a spring bubbling and talking. The sound of snowplows will be heard in the park usually around the end of this month, actually. The estimated three million tourist, that will flock here over the summer when steve calls the coming and going of the great primate migration. Part of living in yellowstone. A lot of empty space a lot of quiet. Of course all that is evaporating. Quicker and more Reliable Transportation in and out of the park these days is made the winter keeper job not only less solitary, but a little less relevant, too. You might be one of the last ones . I suspect so. Do you ever think about retiring . I think of it. They say a lot of people die when they retire, you know . Being yellowstones winter keeper isnt a job for steve fuller. Its a way of life. Shall terry. Simple and spectacular. Osgood next say cheese. Osgood and now a page from our sunday morning almanac. March 1 1809. 206 years ago today. The day the photographer Robert Cornelius was born in philadelphia. This picture he took of himself in the fall of 1839 is believed to be the very first photographic self portrait ever taken in america. The first, but hardly the last. Many a famous photographer and any number of famous people including 23yearold Frank Sinatra played with selfportraiture in times since. But it was with the invention of the cell phone camera that self photography really took off. Just about everywhere you go these days somebody is taking a selfie. A term were willing to wager Robert Cornelius never used. This selfie, Ellen Degeneres took of herself and friends at last years oscars may well be the most viewed ever. Further enabling the practice has been the invention of the selfie stick the stick of narcissism some call it. In fact so ubiquitous has the selfie stick become that many leading museums are now banning it from their galleries. Behold, all is vanity. Just ahead in the eye of the beholder. Woman its been a journey to get where i am. And i didnt get here alone. There were people who listened along the way. People who gave me options. Kept me on track. And through it all my retirement never got left behind. So today, im prepared for anything we may want tomorrow to be. Every someday needs a plan. Lets talk about your old 401 k today. All the goodness of milk all the deliciousness of hersheys syrup. I love life, and my days are filled with important lunches and afternoon meetings. I also like to play hard whether im spending time with friends or an evening with my favorite date. I take good care of myself and i like what i see when i look in the mirror. In fact, ive often been told im the best pair of legs in the room. The so slimming collection. Only at chicos and chicos. Com. Sir, were going to need you on the runway later. Dont let a severe cold hold you back. Get theraflu. With the power of three medicines to take on your worst pain and fever, cough and nasal congestion. It breaks you free from your toughest cold and flu symptoms. Theraflu. Serious power. [reminiscing] started my camry remembered the choices ive made, to be bold where others are scared, to show her right from wrong and realized my little girl had become an amazing human being who will make choices of her own. Toyota, lets go places. Osgood a stateoftheart device is making the art far more accessible by one very innovative museum. John blackstone walks us through it. Visitors to the deyoung one of San Franciscos fine arts museums, have plenty to look at on the walls. But strolling through the museum with a robot can cause heads to turn. Pretty busy gallery here today. The deyoung now has two robots that open the museum to those who could never come here in person. How do you rate this experience seeing the museum this way . Allows you to explore the museum henry evans who is almost completely paralyzed work the withed museum to make touring by robot a reality. The fact that a quadriplegic can now wander through a museum on the other side of the planet or just across town while comfortably lying in bed at home is pretty remarkable. He was he was is sill son valley executive, full life, mba from stanford, four children with his wife, jane. Now he is pretty much confined to his bedroom at home about 40 miles from San Francisco to make interview possible we sent him questions in advance. Henry youre talking to me but when you smile i dont see your lips moving. Voice synthesizer with my head movement. A small spot in his eyeglass lens lets him move a computer curser letter by letter he spells out words the computer synthesizes his voice. If you want something you look for options. Evans can move only his head and one finger. Henry youre looking at thats enough log on to the internet and guide a robot through the deyoung gallery. Thanks for letting me join you on this tour of the museum. I havent done this kind of thing before. It takes a lot of technology, is it worth all this technology to bring you here this way . If you were ablebodied you can and do experience these things all the time and you probably take them for granted. But if you spend most of your life in bed you cannot literally experience these things and you dont take them for granted. Robots have opened the world for evans. All the way from california mr. Henry evans. He walked on to the stage at a conference on the east coast to deliver a ted talk on the liberating power of robotics. This Technology Allows me to remain engaged mentally active and feel like i am part of the world. I shaved myself for the first time in ten years. He is trapped in his body. So the biggest question came how do you live your life with what youre given. He communicates with his wife jane by moves his eyes. I t. Its. A, r e m a remarkable. S, t t test. A, m testament to l k j a to jane. No no, no, i dont put it off all on me, buddy. Its both of us. Technology is giving him more ways to keep busy. A drone has brought him an even higher level of freedom. With a little practice, i became good enough with this interface to drive around my home on my own. I could look around our garden and see the grapes we are growing. I inspected the solar panels on our roof. Evans desire to share the liberating power of robotics led him to the deyoung which seized the idea of becoming a stateoftheart museum. A lot of folks that encounter it in the galleries just think it is a robot. Some people think its performance art. There are different reactions to it. Rebecca bradley is the deyoungs director of accessibility. From her office she did some of the early testing partly to see if a robot would be too distracting for other museum visitors. Are you a student . No, im just visiting San Francisco. Enjoy the rest of your visit. Thank you. The robots are not only for the disabled. The museum wants anyone who cant physically come here, whether because of age or distance or cost, to log on to a robot and have a look around. Im from michigan. You could, yes. As long as you have a wifi connection. Wow, this is a powerful tool. Yeah. It was coupled with tears as well. It was the moment where there was someone logged on the beam from alaska with his friend in the gallery having that shared experience. It was very emotional because they could actually have that shared experience in the galleries and look at work artwork together. Just be museumgoers. You dont have to go slowly for me henry. I know that you drive pretty quickly sometimes. Im sure what would make this perfect is if could physically be here wandering through the museum. As an option this is pretty good. Overall it is remarkable. A Remarkable Technology that allows the Simple Pleasures of discovery and companionship. What do you think of this painting . It is interesting. Osgood still to come. Meet americas dave spector the talk of japan. Just ahead Anne Sinclair former wife of Dominique Strausskahn speaks out osgood in 2011 the arrest in new york of Dominique Strausskahn for Sexual Assault was media sensation. And excruciating ordeal for his then wife, tv journalist Anne Sinclair. The fascinating new book is not about her exhusband but about her famous grandfather. With some questions and answers she met recently with our colleague Erin Moriarty of 48 hours. Last fall, the journalist considered the Barbara Walters of france spoke inside a packed auditorium at new york university. Anne sinclairs name and face are instantly recognizable in paris, where she has interviewed top news makers for over 30 years. But here she is known more for something else. This is Anne Sinclair in may of 2011. She was in new york as the wife of Dominique Strausskahn, then the head of the International Monetary fund after he had just been accused of attempted rape of a maid at manhattan hotel. Sinclair reportedly one of the wealthiest women in france, put up 6 million in cash and insurance to bail him out of jail. So we had to stay in new york because he had an electronic bracelet and all the journalists was on the sidewalk in front of the house. What was that like for you . It was very painful for me and for my family as you can understand. Sinclair was relieved when the criminal charges were dropped. Justice was violent but in america i must recognize that when justice goes wrong they recognize it quite well. And ver

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