A tradition for generations wolfe. Osgood good morning im Charles Osgood this is sunday morning. Earthquakes in ecuador and in japan remind us just how fragile life can be. Earthquakes provide us an opportunity to show our generosity. But despite our best of intentions a lot of the items that we americans donate for Disaster Relief are sometimes useless. As scott simon will report in our cover story. Survivors of a tsunami need, probably not these. But when disaster strikes well meaning people send all sorts of things. Gowns and wigs and tiger frostbite cream to rwanda. Just ahead this sunday morning, you may want to think twice before emptying your closet. Osgood bill wright is athlete turned entrepreneur, little proof to pays to put your best foot forward this morning hell talk with lee cowan. Hes one of the most recognizable brands in the world, chances on youre wearing something nike. You see your brand, your shoes, your apparel. Its pretty emotional. Its gone way beyond whatever we could have expected. Ahead, the man behind the famous swoosh and what a waffle iron had to do with his success. Osgood millions of us are looking forward to the fair this coming summer. Bill geist has already had a sneak preview. About to begin. Rides and finishing touches made at the carnival trade shore in gibsonton, florida. Later on sundae morning. Look who is talking with our gym axelrod this morning. Talk show host, just six days from the biggest toughest stand up gig in washington. Larry wilmore has carved out late night comedy. Its easy to say, black people, why arent you acting like the countess when you get pulled over. People say, well, why not. Black. Wrong. Of a american. Larry wilmore prepares to deal to his most demanding pro our Bill Flanagan offers an appreciation of the music of prince. On this weekend marking the 400th anniversary of shakespeares death, Martha Teichner a big what if. Maurice dubois talks with two up and coming broadway babies. And more, but first, the headlines for this sunday morning the 24th of april, 2016. Obama arrived in germany for twoday visit. Earlier caused controversy when he urged britain not to leave the european union. North korea claims yesterdays test firing of a holistic missile on the submarine was great success. U. S. Official called the test provocative but no immediate threat. Authorities are still looking for whoever killed eight members of a family at different locations in rural ohio. Execution style early friday. Friends gathered at princes home in suburban minneapolis to celebrate his life. His remains have been cremated. Slower powered plane has crossed the Pacific Ocean complete can the most dangerous leg of a trip around the world. Aircraft arrived in San Francisco yesterday and about to cross the country. Now the weather, storms threaten the nations heartland today. With strong winds and hail. Snow and rain are expected over the plains and northwest. But good day for yard work in the east. For the week ahead, cooler and stormy in many areas, but it will feel like summer in the southeast. Later, prince, an appreciation. Osgood despite our best intentions, all of the articles that we donate in times of disaster turn out to be of no use to those in need. Sometimes they even get in the way. Scott simon of npr. When nature grows savage and angry, americans get generous and kind. Thats admirable. It might also be a problem. General reafter a disaster people with loving intentions donate things that cannot be used in a Disaster Response and in fact may actually be harmful. And they have no idea that theyre doing it. Juanita rilling is director for the center of International Disaster information in washington, d. C. She spent more than a decade trying to tell wellmeaning people to think before they hurricane hitch, honduras, 1998. More than 11,000 people died. More than a million and a half were left homeless. And Juanita Rilling got a wakeup call. Got a call from one of our logistics experts who said that a plane full of supplies could not land because there was clothing on the runway. Its in boxes and bales, it takes up yards of space. It cant be moved. Well, whose clothing is it . What is it . He said, i dont know whose it is but theres a highhealed shoe, just one, a bale of winter coats. I thought, winter coats . Its summer in honduras. Humanitarian workers call the crush of useless, often incomprehensible contributions, the second disaster. The indian ocean tsunami, 2004. A speech in indonesia piled with theres no time for disaster workers to sort and clean old clothes. So the contributions just sit and rot. So, this is very quick quickly went toxic had to be detried. Local officials poured gasoline on it and set it on fire then it was out to sea. Rather than clothing somebody it went up in flames . Correct. The thinking is that these people have lost everything so they must need everything. So people send everything. You know, any donation is crazy if its not needed. People have donated prom gowns and wigs and tiger costumes and pumpkins and frostbite cream to rwanda and used tea bags because you can always get another cup of tea. You may not think that sending bottles of water to devastated people seems crazy, but Juanita Rilling points out this water is about 100,000 liters will provide Drinking Water for 40,000 people for one day. This amount of water to send from the United States say, to west africa, and people did this, costs about 300,000. But relief organizations with portable Water Purification units can produce the same amount, 100,000 liters of water for about 300. Then there were warm hearted american women who wanted to send breast milk to nursing mothers in haiti after the 2010 earthquake. It sounds wonderful, but in the midst of a crisis its actually one of the most challenging things. Rebecca gustafson has worked on the ground after many disasters. Breast milk doesnt stay fresh for very long. And the challenge is, what happens if you do give it to an in pant who then gets sick . Someone is shooting in the building. December, 2012, newtown, connecticut, a gunman killed 20 children and six adults artisan dehook elementary school. When did stuff start arriving . Almost in tan continuously. Chris worked for newtown at the time they had to get a warehouse to hold all the teddy bears. There was a need for teddy bears . I think it was a nice gesture. There was a need to do something for the kids. There was a need to make people feel better. I think the wave of stuff we got was a little overwhelming. How many teddy bears . I think about 67,000. 67,000 teddy bears . 67,000 teddy bears. There was also thousands of boxes of School Supplies and toys, bicycles, sleds, clothes. Newtown had been struck by a mass murder, not a tsunami. That came into the warehouse was more for the people that sent it than it was for the people of newtown. Thats the way it felt at the end. Every child in newtown got a few bears. The rest had to be sent away along with the bikes and blankets. There are times when giving things works. As many as 50 Million People along the east coast are in the path of this hurricane. More than 650,000 homes were detried or damaged in Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Thousands of people lost everything. We were able to respond in a way that the big, bureaucratic agencies cants. Tammy is one of the organizers of occupy sandy, which grew out of the occupy wall street movement. When the hurricane struck, they had a network of activists, connected and waiting. Very quickly, we just stopped taking clothes. Registry by using a wedding registry. We put the items that we needed donated on that registry. And then people who wanted to donate could buy the items that were needed. A lot we had on the wedding regis tree was diaper. They needed flashlights. How transportable is your experience here following Hurricane Sandy . For me me, the network is key. Who has the knowledge. Where are the spaces that can goods can live if theres a disaster. Who is really well connected on their blocks . This has taken portauprince in haiti. The album of disaster images shows shot after shot of good intentionj sus spoiling in warehouses or rotting on the landscape. This is heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking. Its heartbreaking for the donor. Its heartbreaking for the relief organizations and its heartbreaking for survivors. This is why cash donations are they buy exactly what people need when they need it. Cash donations enable relief organizations to purchase supplies locally which ensures that theyre fresh and familiar to survivors, purchased in just the right quantities and delivered quickly. And those local purchases support the local merchants, which strengthens the local economy in the long run. Disas perry sons worker rebecca gustafson. Most people want to donate something that is theirs. Money sometimes doesnt feel personal. Dont feel like enough of their heart and soul is in that donation, that check that they would send. The reality is its one of the most compassionate things that people can d. Whats it like to not feel 100 fresh . We dont know. We swish listerine. As do listerine users. The very people we studied in the study of bold. People who are statistically more likely do a yoga handstand. And be in a magicians act. Listerine kills 99 of bad breath germs so you can feel 100 in life. Bring out the bold. After 51 days of the pursuit of four bandits who chose a prius as their getaway car, a new development prius owners from all over america have descended on the chase hi to play what appears to be an automotive shell game with authorities. Its total confusion down here. The prius 4 have literally vanished. Theyre just gone. [laughing] i dont think anyone could have predicted this. Toyota. Lets go places. I try hard to get a great shape. This. I can do easily. Benefiber healthy shape helps curb cravings. Its a clear, tastefree daily supplement. Thats clinically proven to help keep me fuller longer. Benefiber healthy shape. This, i can do. Osgood now page from our sunday morning almanac. April 24, 1990, 26 years ago today. The day the Hubble Space Telescope was lifted into orbit on board the Space Shuttle discovery. Named for astronomer edwin hubble, the telescope was designed to peer deep into space, avoiding distortions the atmosphere imposes on earthbound telescopes. But from the beginning there was trouble, actual trouble as the headlines put it. Flaws in the telescopes near ly eight foot wide mirror created distortions. The telescope is plagued with persistent fud eviction. Facing criticism even ridicule nasa scrambled to create correct sieve devices, glasses as it were for the telescope mirror. Astronauts installed them during a mission in late 1993, a kind of orbital optometrist visit. Which one looks better, one or two . Hobbled no longer, the hubble has been producing breathtaking images ever since. Looking across both distance and time. To show us the universe as it was billions of years ago. Not the time is standing still, they plan to launch success or telescope in 12018. This one named for former nasa administrator james webb. With a farlarger mirror divided positioned much further out in space, the James Webb Space Telescope promises our best view yet of the greatest show not on earth. Osgood a tribute, next. Thousands of people came out today to run the race for retirement. So we asked them. Are you completely prepared for retirement . Okay, mostly prepared . Could you save 1 more of your income . It doesnt sound like much, but saving an additional 1 now, could make a big difference over time. Im going to be even better about saving. You can do it, it helps in the long run. Prudential osgood as you know purple rain is a huge hit for prince. So to remember him the new yorker features purple rain on this weeks cover. The questions remain about his death. No doubt that his was a life of we have an appreciation from Bill Flanagan. This has been a tough year for music legends, but the death of prince this past week is especially painful because it was so unexpected. He appeared eternally young and vital. Made music as a pace and standard of excellence that very few artists have or could ever match. The first time i saw prince perform was at a nightclub across from pen way park in boston on st. Patricks day, 1981. I was a big fan of his album dirty mind but nothing live. This was at a time when racial tensions were high in boston, but that night in that bar, irish guys from southie and black kids from roxbury and gays and straights and latinos were all united in the prince army. His big radio break through came a couple of years later with 1999 and little red corvette. A year or so after that purple rain made him a household name. Then the deluge, great record raspberry beret, kiss. He was so prolific that he gave away songs any other artist would have kept for himself. In the 50s and 60s rock and roll meant the mixture of black and white music. But the time prince came along radio had resegregated the play lists, the new rule said that rock was white and black music was called r b or funx or disco. Prince was a oneman rainbow coalition. He sang sweet soul ballads like smokey robinson. He laid down the funx like george clinton, he rocked like the Rolling Stones and he shredded on the guitar like prince transcended radios par advertise like a musical mandela. I met him five or six times but he was always pretty reserved. I never felt like i got to know him except through his music. His music was enough. The only limit i ever saw in prince was that he was so talented, so shockingly self contained that he did not leave much space for the audience to effect his performance. He did not seem to need the crowd. Auto few years ago that changed. The last three or four times i saw prince in concert he was playing off the fans, reacting to them, letting them into the music, too. There was a joy radiating from prince in those performance, is that was new. His playing was no longer guarded. Prince was doing what his songs had done all along. He was making room for everyone. Well, why not . Talk show host larry will born. Osgood money changes everything, even itself. The Treasury Department this past week announced that Andrew Jacksons face on the front of the 20 bill will be replaced by that of escaped slave turned abolitionist harriet tubman. Its a mile post. Our currency has stayed current. Consider the cash no longer being printed but good as gold legal tender. The 500 bill. Thats president William Mckinley staring back at you. Grover cleveland. He graces the 1,000 bill. James madison is the answer to who is on the 5,000 bill. Does the name salmon chase ring a bell . Hes on the 10,000 bill. Maybe it was because he was the 6th chief justice or more likely because he was secretary of the treasury under abraham lincoln. Last, but far from least, theres the 100,000 bill. Take a minute to dig one out of your purse or wallet. Recognize that face . President woodrow wilson. Its the largest note ever printed by the United States, used solely by Federal Reserve make 10 million of them. Osgood look whose talking about his upcoming performness at the white house Correspondents Dinner in washington, its Larry Wilmore, personal take on our times. As jim axelrod will now show us. What happened to you . When you were sworn in you looked like the guy from the old spice commercial. Now you look like lewis gossett, senior. Hosting the white house Correspondents Dinner is one of the highest profile, highest risk gigs in all of stand up. Its. Heard to be funny with the president of the United States looking at you. Somehow day in and day out joe biden manages to do it. The comedian in chief they will be hailing this year, Larry Wilmore. That can be a scary night. Oh, it absolutely is a scary night. Not cant be, it definitely will be a scary night. Because no matter how you slice it, the president is sitting right next to you. Its been 15 months since wilmore premiered the nightly show on comedy central. Hes applied a unique top spin to cut through. Its easy so say, black people, why arent you acting like the countess when a cop pulls you over . Its crowded space, this late night comedy thing. Whats your part of the curve . Well, the thing that we felt we had the permission to talk about more than anybody when we started was all the racial problems that were going on in the country. We dont have lot of time to waste. Last saturday a white cop killed a black man killed walter scott. We joked, all the goodbad racial stuff already happened theres nothing else to cover. Surprise, something happened. Im talking of course about the Oscar Nominations or lack thereof. People say, why do you got to talk about race, blah, blah . Well, why not . Of our day and of our time. Ill stop talking about race people stop being racist. Certainly familiar turf with his 54yearold native of southern california. After breaking into tv in the 80s. You wouldnt do anything that could get you his behind the camera work. As writer and cocreator of the bernie mac show. And the hit sitcom blackish gave him wide berth to comment on race in america. Sometimes i feel like a bit of an oddity. If you look to your left youll see the mythical and majestic black family out of their natural habitat and yet still thriving. Larry wilmore and in his work as senior black correspondent on the daily show and the formula all before we get too deep i need to be clear about something. I voted for obama because hes black. Is he still black . Yes, then hes doing okay. The white people get that . I dont think so. Its funny when people try to throw that back. Well, how dare you . But youve been voting for a white man, thats been the choice all the time, you know. Fine lee when a brother comes in, i cant vote for the brother . May not get anything done in the next few years at least hell still be black. Wilmore lampoons what he sees as a not so hidden agenda of this years election. Tha