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KPIX Sunday Morning March 19, 2017

Our Anthony Mason will look back on a generation. Tomorrow is also the u. N. S International day of happiness, the day a panel of experts releases its ranking of the worlds happiest countries. For the record, the nation that currently hold top honors for happiness is well leave that to faith salie who reports our cover story. Did you guessed america, youre wrong. So, what is the happiest country and what do they have that we dont . Hygge. Hygge. Hygge. Hygge. We learn that answer and some new vocabulary later on sunday morning. The name Betsey Johnson has always promised fashion, is that are anything but ordinary. Not surprising considering that the real life Betsey Johnson is a bit out of the ordinary, too. With Serena Altschul well pay her a visit. Since the 1960s, this maniacally free spirited new york designers clothes have been the uniform for folks that dont want to look like everyone else. Everything that i do is basically a little costume, a little dress up and pretend. Later on sunday morning, Betsey Johnson counts her lucky stars. Pauley the after glow of a by gone era is dazzling visitors as an attraction in the nevada desert. Lee cowan will be our guide. Its not the city of lights, that distinction goes to paris. But las vegas certainly has a glow of its own that makes history in its own way. Were the only city in the world who implode its buildings and saves its signs. Its a funny little town. Preserving las vegas legacy in lights later on sunday morning. Pauley Mario Andretti is a legend in the world of auto racing, still as comfortable behind the wheel as ever. Mo rocca hitched a ride with him for our sunday morning profile. Foo f you know nothing else about race car driving you know the name Mario Andretti. He survived half a century of racing with barry a scratch. And hes barely slowed down. You got to make that car purr. Thats the appeal. Of course it is. Ahead on sunday morning, who do you think you are, Mario Andretti . Pauley Martha Teichner serves up a taste of irish cuisine that goes well beyond corned beef and cabbage. Lucy craft sent us a very tidy postcard from tokyo. Give. Began explains why Winter Sports leave him cold. And more. First, here are the headlines for this sunday morning the 19th of march, 2017. Fbi director james comey makes a much anticipated appearance on capitol hill tomorrow. For the first time, hell publicly testify about the Bureau Investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. Comey is expected to be questioned about president trumps accusation unsubstantiated that he was wiretapped. Paris was rattled early saturday when a man attacked a female soldier at orly airport. He was shot and killed. The man born in france said he wanted to quote, die for allah. In peru dozens have parished in mudslides. Thousands of others have been dispoliced. Per are yous rainy season has seen ten times more rainfall than usual. It didnt take long for the first major upset in the ncaa tournament, top seed and bounced by 8th seeded wisconsin. On wisconsin. To the sweet 16. Cbs sports march madness coverage begins later today. Now the weather. Cold canadian air will send temperatures plunging from the northeast to florida today. But in the west, expect record heat from texas through nebraska. In the week ahead, winter finally ends tomorrow. And plenty of spring showers are on the way. Next Long Distance information from chuck berry, pioneer. ,,,, pauley chuck berry was amuck i can legend if ever there was one. His passing at age the 0 at his home near st. Louis is truly the end of an era. Our music man, Anthony Mason, has an appreciation of Charles Edward anderson berry. A man whose music defined a genre that helped shape our time. Chuck berrys indelible guitar licks helped form the bedrock of rock and roll. Roll over, beethoven. If beethoven havent rolled over there wouldnt have been any room for us. All of us are footnotes to the word of chuck berry. Roll over, beethoven theyre rockin in two by two. St. Louis born, he blended blues riffs with country twang and on stage swagger by his signature strut. The duck walk. You still do the duck walk . Oh, yeah, i cant get off without it. In 172, berry, then 45, told Charles Osgood how that started. I never forget i slipped. And fell. But i rolled over and put it in the act and got back up. Ever since then i got such a big ovation i kept doing it. Charles Edward Anderson berry grew up in a segregated middle class neighborhood. His father was a contractor, his mother a school principal. As a teenager, berry did time in a Reform School for armed robbery, the first of several brushes with the law. But in 1955, he got his break in music when he traveled to chess records in chicago to meet leonard chess. He told me to bring four records. I brought six. Maybelline was one. O, maybelline a number one r b hit maybelline would change his life. I was making 94 a week at an assembly plant. Suddenly he was playing 40 weeks a year. At 50 a night and the lord had answered my blessings. Go, go, go johnny, go in the late 50s he laid down one classic after another. Up in the morning and out to school, the teacher teaching everybody drives cars. Everybody has to have money. Everybody has a love affair, inspiration. These are the things i write about. And rocks next generation all paid homage to him. The beach boys 1963 hit surfin usa then everybody be surfing like borrowed its melody from berrys sweet little sixteen. Everybody is rocking and rolling the beatle covered roll over beethoven im and young Keith Richard wrote about it. April 1962, you sent this from home. In this letter to his aunt. Im playing guitar chuck style. That would be chuck berry, yeah. He is the poet of rock and roll. As richards told me this past november. Its american rock and roll that turned us all on. Richard tweeted, one of my big lights has gone out. Everybody repeat after me chuck berrys final album will be released in june. He played on into his 90th year. And his influence never aged. Rock and roll. The feeling is there body and soul pauley with this years u. N. Report on Global Happiness due out tomorrow, the country defending its title as happennest nation on earth is quite possibly not your first guest. Our cover story is reported by faith salie. When you picture the happiest police in the world, you might imagine white sand beaches and swaying palm trees. But it turns out, the happiest place is a bit different. Welcome to denmark. A small country of nearly six Million People. No tropical beaches here, just rain for about 50 of the year. But despite the weather, this country still row maintains a sunny disposition. So sunny, in fact, its been named the happiest country in the world. What bee find when we study happiness around the world is that the definition is quite similar. Jeffrey sachs is an author of the United Nations World Happiness report, which ranks the happiness of 156 coin trees and consistently place denmark at or near the top of the list. People want to live well. They want to have money in their pocket and in the bank. They want to trust their government. They want to be healthy. Last year, america came in 13th place, behind israel and just a few notches ahead of mexico and brazil. Usa its a ranking that might leave us scratching our heads. Americans love to chant, were number one. But we arent always. What does denmark have that we dont . Free health care. Uhhuh. Free education . Yes. What about maternity leave. I think its 12 months. Paid . Five weeks of paid vacation per year. Its not bad. Meik wiking is the ceo of the Happiness Institute located in copenhagen. How can we be as happy as you guys . One reason the welfare state. It is focusing on reducing extreme unhappiness. Investing in public goods that create quality of life for all. But this comes at a steep cost. Danes pay more income tax than any other nationality as much as 60 . If you ask danes, are you happily paying your tax . Yes, im happy to pay my tax. Thats because people are aware of the huge benefits they get in terms of quality of life. Jeffrey sachs says think or benefits, too. Like the fact that denmark has one of the highest income equality and lowest poverty rates of any western nation. Basically, social mobility is high because the obstacles are very, very low. Youre really given the basics for a good healthy productive life. What do you say to someone who like, but, built thats socialisms. With they call social democracy. The idea is were a market economy. Were privately owned. We better compete so they have to be at the top of the game in technology, in research and development and science and quality of education. While denmark excels in these areas, not every be one would call it a utopia. Danish people dont strikely as cheerful as just like content, everything is fine. We are the happiest country in the world. Id like to say were the least unhappy. Danes still face the same struggles a as everyone else. They have the highest cancer rate in the world. In part few to its smoking and drinking habits. Large portions of the population also suffer from alcoholism and depression. Still, that hasnt kept americans like dina honour from moving here. What surprised you the most about living in denmark . How much we liked it. Originally from boston, she moved to copenhagen in 2011 with her british husband richard and their two sons. You have to find just the right piece. They liked it so much they decided to stay. Family life has been better than it would be in the u. S. The danes, they leave work at rack theyre home for dinner by 5 30. Richard is home for dinner every single night. We both agree that its probably the best decision we have made as a family. The family has adopted two uniquely danish philosophies, that they say keep danes smiling a bit more than the rest of us. Hygge. Hygge. Hygge. Lying encourages people to enjoy lifes simple pleasures. Theres no l real translation into english. It is a danish phenomenon. For quite a large part of the year it gets quite grey here. Hygge, the sense of bringing light and warmth and friendship into a house is trying to make things cozy and happy. The second uniquely danish term is something called the law of jante. For danes, that means, living simply. Showing off wealth just isnt their style. It seems like in order for america to borrow from this danish notion of happiness, americans have to give up things that are so prized like exceptionalism and competition. I struggle with that myself. Maybe we need to focus more on helping others and taking others into consideration. I dont think that means abledding the idea of the individual. Just means finding more of a balance. Its a philosophy thats even mentioned on the governments website. Which says money is not as important as social life here. So maybe the elusive secret to happiness isnt that much of a secret after all. Philosophers have been telling us for millennia, dont just chase the money, theyre right. Americas gotten richer, a lot richer, over the last 50 years. But weve not gotten happenner. Its worth pondering how we americans can get our hygge on. We love learned to take each day as it comes a little bit more. And to not always be thinking about whats next, whats next. I think careerwise, familywise, schoolwise. Or maybe were more danish than we think. Maybe. Pauley coming up, the war for the falklands. I know, we need to talk about this. Its time. It is a big decision for us. Lets take the 1000 in cash back. Great yeah, i want to get one of those gaming chairs with the speakers. Oh, you do . Thats a surprise. The volkswagen 3 and easy event, where you can choose one of three easy ways to get a 1000 offer. Hurry in to your volkswagen dealer now and you can get 1000 as an apr bonus, a lease bonus, or cash back. So we know how to cover almost alanything. Ything, even a truckcicle. [second man] how you doing . [ice cracking] [second man] ah,ah, ah. Oh no [first man] saves us some drilling. [burke] and we covered it, february fourteenth, twentyfifteen. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum pauley and now a page from our sunday morning almanac, march 1, 18, 35 years ago today. Opening day for a war in the remote south atlantic. For that of the day a small group of arch enteen civilians planted their countrys flag on south georgia island which along with the falkland island to the west had been british territory since 1833. On april 2nd, arch enteen thats military invaded the falklands, to be known as the malvinas. Ham radio operators helped get the word out. At approximately 9 30gmt a group came ashore in Landing Craft and stormed port stanley. Pauley britain responded with two aircraft carriers and ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 12 refitted as a troop ship. At stake was a group of wind swept island with some 2,000 people and many thousands of sheep. British troops went ashore. On april 25, British Forces retook south georgia island prompting this famous declaration by Prime Minister margaret thatcher. Just rejoice at that news and congratulate our force. Pauley british spirits rose again when a royal navy s submarine sank the cruiser. Then struck counter below by sinking the british destroyer sheffield with an airlaunched missiles. British force are tonight firmly established back on the falkland island. Pauley on may 1st the British Force landed and engaged in battle. Ross combat video made it back to london our Martha Teichner reported. Here in argentine jet is blown up in mid air by a british missile. Pauley on june 14th, the last argentine force suffer rended. They lost more than 650 dead and britain more than 250. And a third of a century later the falklands remain a british overseas territory, even as argentina continues to press a claim it failed to win by combat. A threemonth interlude of sound and fury signifying the status quo. Up next this is las vegas. Pauley a life in lights. ,, pauley neon signs are fading from our landscape. Fortunately lee cowan found a place where we can basketball in neons after glow. There are few cities as infinitely bright as las vegas and glaringly temporary. Despite its youth, vegas always seems to be getting a facelift. Out of the dust, always rises something new. But lost perhaps is what made us look in the first place. You really cant remember the buildings, but you remember the signs. Isnt that crazy . The signs. This is las vegas. Since the 190s they have lit up the desert like a giant welcome mat. The sands, the mint, the pione pioneer. Just a few of the stars of the citys golden age of neon gone dark. What do you have here . This was the Silver Slipper. Back in 1993 sunday mornings jerry bowen found a few famous survivors. Of the 1950s. Gathering dust in the back lot of the young electric sign company, the firm best known for giving vegas its neon vibe. We just didnt have the heart tootle a lot of these signs away, because the workers want the signs. Jeff young is the Third Generation of youngs to lead this family business. His grandfather founded it back in 1920. To this day young still tries to save . Signature piece from being devoured by developers. Look at that. Restoring it as we speak. There we go. Its hard to find a sign in las vegas we havent been involved with in some way. Young, however, is a businessman. Not a museum curator, and storing signs that were often bigger than the building was becoming a real estate challenge. Running out of space. So, the city got together said we need to save these signs. Lets think about a museum. In 2012, this dusty twoacre lot became just that. Rob mccoy is president and ceo of the neon museum. This is the bone yard. Great bones. Great bones. It now has more than 200 artifacts, including the skull from the old Treasure Island casino. That ones so big you can see it from space. Its a status symbol. Absolutely. Coolest biggest sign you must have the coolest best canoe know. Size matters. Atop the rivera sign lights up. The museum enjoyed record attendance around 100,000 people took one of the several daily tours. Each sign tells a story and a history. America in the 20th century. Big, bold, brash. And in las vegas we were big, bold and brash on steroids and we still are. Bold and brash, yes. But also elegant. Like the graceful visit for the moulin rouge. It was the first interracial hotel casino. For a time the only place sammy davis junior was allowed to sleep. Until Frank Sinatra said, you know what, if sammy cant walk through the front doors of these hotels like i do and perform then im not going to perform. Then theres the stardust. With its huge atomic age lettering. It was historic, too. At 188 feet, it was one of the largest Free Standing signs in the world at the time. Salvaging that was no easy task. It had to be cut up into multiple piece and transported here. It was a quarter of a Million Dollars just to deliver the sign to us. Just to get it here. Correct. Now, at night, these ghosts of a by gone era sparkle back to life. Even those whose bulbs can flush no more. That was the greatest sign. And biggest, right . The biggest. Frank defrancesco is a nati native. Now lead some of the night tours. This is the history we have. Lets keep it. Thats important to me. No vacancy. Resurrecting the past isnt always easy. Bending the fragile glass tubes in many ways a dying art. But the results are almost always worth the work. Remember those signs rusting away in the young electric sign companys back lot in the 90s, that not so Silver Slipper next to it . Well, this is what they look like today. Sparkling again on las vegas boulevard. Sign posts to the museum that helped fund their restoration for generation to come. As a population, and maybe as a culture, we dont appreciate histo

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