That. Susan spencer will be reporting on sunday morning cover story. Here comes the new year. Time for brand new resolutions. Sooner or later the same old excuses. How something happened, push it aside and move on. This is just part of the human condition . Absolutely. So, whats your excuse . Ahead on sunday morning. Osgood rock and roll will never guy but mic jones did have doubts a few years back. Anthony mason will talk with mick jones for the record. Foreigner is one of rocks most successful bands. But just a few years ago founder mick jones feared his career was over. You must feel like youve got a second life. Yeah. I honestly never thought id play on stage again. The remarkable come back of foreigners mick jones ahead on sunday morning. Osgood then on to a star on television who is taking a star on broadway in a story about las vegas. Im going to get knocked out. Tony danza was tv sensation starring in back to back hit sitcoms. Now hes one of the stars of new broadway musical, a long way from his youth in brooklyn. Did you get in fights as a kid. Like a game. Lets go fight. Should i hold this for you . We catch up with tony danza later on sunday morning. That time of year we pay tribute to some of the memorable people who wont join us in to 2015. These are the best day of our lives. Osgood who blessed us with their tall it. You know highway to whistle dont you steve . Just put your lips together and blow. Their beauty and charm. Osgood we sing hail and farewell later on sunday morning. Much more. First here are the headlines for this december 28th, last sunday morning of 2014. Indonesian airliner carrying 162 people is missing over the sea. Details now from london. The information board Singapore Airport announcing routine arrivals and departures advised loved ones 850 to contact the airline. The seemingly innocuous message. The air asia flight departed indonesia after 5 30 a. M. Bound for singapore just 40 minutes in to the flight the pilot requested a change of course to avoid clouds. That was the last contact with air Traffic Control. There were 162 people on board the airbus. Seven crew members 17 of them children. Severe thunderstorms were reported in the area at the time just before the plane went missing. They have launched search and rescue operations still no word of the planes whereabouts. Friends and family wait for news as each hour passes hope fades. Its hard to escape the feeling this is all too familiar. Its been a rough year for asian air travel. In march the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 remains a perplexing mystery. Four months later another malaysian plane was shot down over ukraine. This is debra patta in london c are slowing the rescue of several hundred passengers aboard ferry in greece. Thousands of Police Officers from across the country came to queens new york yesterday for funeral of new york city mom rafael ramos one of two officers killed a week ago. Among those paying respects was joe biden. Ive spoken at too many funerals for too many peace officers. So many funerals for brave women and men who kept us safe. Every day new york citys mayor who has been critical of Police Shootings also spoke at yesterdays service. As he did some officers turned their backs. Doctors treating 90yearold president george bush who spent at the hospital hes improved and whether he should be allowed to return home. To todays weather warm temperatures but clouds and rain expect snowy conditions and Cool Conditions in Pacific Northwest to the plains. The week ahead will bring Colder Weather to the east, rain for the plains states westward but the south should be sunny. My bad. Excuse us. Story about excuses is just ahead. The role of excuses in politics . Central. Absolutely central. Osgood a look at ways we remember 2014. The Holiday Season is here, which means its time for the volkswagen signthendrive event. For practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a germanengineered volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta. And the 2015 motor trend car of the year allnew golf. If youre wishing for a new volkswagen this season. Just about all you need is a finely tuned. Pen. Hurry in to the sign then drive event and get a fivehundred dollar new years bonus on select new volkswagen models. Offer ends january 2nd. Osgood all those res luke, what happens to them . Some though are a little more excuses, our cover restore refrom susan spencer. Navy veteran Ryan Sullivan got the ultimate call to duty in 2012 to introduce president obama at a speech in minnesota. The president of the United States of america. He was thrilled. His 11yearold son tyler not so much. I didnt think it was going to be that fun. I didnt think it was a big deal. Nothing boring about what happened after the speech. The president went around shaking peoples hands he looked at me he was like, arent you supposed to be in school . I was like yeah. He said, can i write you an execute note . He wrote down please excuse tyler he was with me, barack obama, the president. Makes it sound like you wept out to lunch. Yeah. An 11yearold Rochester School was excused to see the president. Overnight tyler was a star. Getting hundreds of thousands of views on youtube. I guess i was more popular than Kim Kardashian was. This is where you keep this valuable document . Yeah. Really . Yeah. Hidden in the basement under lock and key understandably. You have to admit this has to be the best excuse anybody could possibly have. Yeah. How many of us can get a president ial pardon and without one, what is the best way to excuse yourselves. When we, forget anniversary or sleep through a meeting or find ourselves enemas when were supposed to be at work . How would you formulate a really good excuse . An excuse is not a lie. Not necessarily a lie. Some of the finest ones are. Lou harry and julia make no excuses for writing their two volume complete excuses handbook. Published biff division of cbs simon and shoeser. My favorite excuse is on my list of things to do. You cant argue with that. Excuses i think work best when theyre vague. On my things of list to do implies that youre working on it. Sound familiar . Excuses just seem to be part of the human condition. Excuses sometimes try to reduce them to a single thing. Try to explain how something happened. Push it aside and move on. Through the ages the most common way to do that finger pointing. Something even bible characters may have tried. Judas mother said, he was a nice boy just fell win the wrong crowd. Always way to blame other people. Or the weather. The manager of 2011 north Korean Soccer Team says lightning struck several players before their match. Of course they played poorly. Earlier this year, u. S. Olympic speed skater said, it was their new uniforms that slowed them down. An excuse is about trying to deny, its not my fault. Dont blame me. Freethrow fess or of the university of understand actually studies excuse making. Is it effective to push blame on to other people . It is. A lot of evidence to suggest that it works. Not always. This was a prank committed on me. My system was hacked in to. Former congressman Anthony Wiener couldnt save his job. Today im announcing my resignation from congress. From washington to hollywood excuses never seem to go out of style. Charlie sheen trashed his hotel room in 2010 his publicist blamed allergic reaction to his medication. Paris hilton thought the cocaine she had was chewing gum. Poor Ashlee Simpson caught lip syncing on saturday night live tried to dance her way out of it. I just feel bad my dancers played the wrong song. Sometimes an attempt to connect to the humanity of another person. To say been there. Sometimes that can work. You guys understand what this is like. Which doesnt explain why the prostitute was in the hotel room. But were all human says former toronto mayor rob ford. Am i an addict, no. Have i tried it probably in i wish all politics were like him. What was i thinking when we passed that bill, i was drunk and smoking crack. It was unique. But politician are masters of this art. Political satirist. How would you characterize the role of excuses in politics . Central. Absolutely central. Back to the nixon administration. I have never heard more seen such outrageous vicious reporting. They began the great shift from blaming things on powers that are beyond you to blaming things on people who are beneath you, bad staff. Never got to my level. It never got to my level. I like that. If that nails there are always those two ever popular words. I misspoke. I may have misspoken. I did misspeak. Did i not mean to impugn i didnt lie. I didnt Say Something incredibly stupid. I didnt let my darkest thoughts. But i misspoke. What . What do you think makes a good political excuse . There are no good political excuses. Maybe there are no good excuses at all. A cbs news poll found that 85 of us think we use too many of them. Professor suggests an alternative approach, something he calls self handicapping. Preemptive excuse. A High School Student scared about a test, teacher is not very good, hasnt been doing good job explaining the material, i dont understand it. When she does badly on the test. That horrible teacher. Yeah. Because she managed expectations. If you fail the test or late for your meeting spend your works day shopping plan that excuse before you need it. And watch out for the accident. Things have gotten increasingly checkable, a traffic problem . I can find out if there was a traffic problem. Google is your enemy. Exactly. Technology has become the enemy of the excuse. Not an issue for the lucky sullivan. What have you taught him about making excuses. Dont make excuses. Hes holding the best excuse ever. Make the the best excuse ever. He did. Osgood next. The headlines of 2014. Then those categories change every few months. Sometimes its drug stores, then its hardware stores. Nothing says happy holidays like a shovel. Fortunately theres the quicksilver card from capital one. With quicksilver you earn unlimited 1. 5 cash back on every purchase every day. Tis the season to ask. Whats in your wallet . My hygienist told me that less tartar means less scraping. So im going pro. [ male announcer ] new crest tartar protection rinse. The only rinse that helps prevent tartar buildup and cavities. A little swishing. Less scraping. Yes [ male announcer ] new crest prohealth tartar protection rinse. It helps you escape the scrape. Janet . Cough if you can hear me. Dont even think about it. 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We are looking in to ll remember march as the month that saw the disappearance of malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people traveling from koala lamb tour to beijing. In april more than 200 Nigerian School girls were kidnapped by boko haram terrorists. Most never to be seen again. May brought the release of Army SergeantBowe Bergdahl who had been held captive in afghanistan for five years. Came up short. In june, House Republican leader eric cantor lost his primary race to conservative david brat bringing an apparent tonight can tores 13year political career. Basketball star lebron james left the heat in miami to return to his home state Cleveland Cavaliers in july. In august the shooting death of 18yearold Michael Brown by a white Police Officer in ferguson missouri, led to protests that continue to this day. George clean he knee said yes to Amal Alamuddin in venice in september. While scotland said no to independence in britain. 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Osgood lucy and ethel work in Chocolate Factory was anything but smooth. But not so, a mac who found his sweet spot. Our man in paris has his story. At his workshop just outside paris Patrick Roger has been creating chocolate for almost 20 years. I know, i love lucy, they make about ten hill one pieces a year. So this is serious. Each piece goes through 25 steps. This is the work of Patrick Roger. Recognized by the french government as one of the finest craftsmen in his trade. Actually i hesitate to call it a trade because theres so much passion that goes in to his work this is also the work of Patrick Roger. These are made entirely of chocolate they average almost 200 pounds and they arent meant to be eaten because even though the life cycle of chocolate can be ephemeral these statutes well 23 years. And yet doesnt seem to have held him back. Because every member of his crew is an apprentice hoping to learn the craft from a master. Its exactly how roger began except for the fact this wasnt really what he wanted to do as kid growing up in a small town. At 18 he came to paris and since his father was a baker Young Patrick became an apprentice to a master pastry chef. Except that baking didnt hold much interest for this bakers son. So the chef assigned him to create elaborate Chocolate Center pieces for alist parties that was the turning point in his life. This isnt candy. Chocolate is about seduction. Theyre willing to pay boxes like these range from about 30 to almost 150. Even individual pieces. You can see some of his statues around paris and belgium. He draws inspiration for flavors in garden behind his workshop. Like this. This is citronella. I dont know if id go that far. Chocolate history probably goes back almost 4,000 years. When it was brought to europe in the 17th century it was thought to have medicinal even nutritional value maybe. Also considered aphrodisiac, that ones probably closer to the truth. Because for the french, chocolate is always a recipe for romance. Osgood just ahead. Name that tune. Ive smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. Now. I use this. The nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release Technology Helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. I want this time to be my last time. Thats why i choose nicoderm cq. Osgood cold as ice helped to make foreigner one of the hottest bands. Anthony mason talks with the man behind the band, guitar wrist mick jones. We first heard from foreigner in 1977. Kind of came out of no where. When mick jones assembled the journey men of musicians three brits and three americans. And foreigner put out their very first record. What did you think with that album took off . I mean it was like being at cape canaveral. It was intense. For the next decade they rained hits down on radio. Selling 80 million records. But before foreigner made mick jones famous the british born guitarist has had whole other career in france. What made you go to france . It was partly that attraction of wow what a cool hip place. A