>> reporter: meet man's best friends, but a bed bug's worst enemies. >> good boy. >> reporter: if you've got bed bugs, bed-bug sniffing dogs are the most reliable way to find them. we don't want to scare you but.... >> it's conceiveable that at some point everyone that you know will have dealt with them in one way or another. >> reporter: the bed bug blues. later this sunday morning. >> reporter: the horn of plenty will be here this morning has created some of the most popular recordings as the past half century. this morning we visit the man behind the music. ♪ it's been nearly 50 years since herb alpert introduced his smooth tijuana brass sound. ♪ he's been playing ever since. not to mention painting, sculpting and giving away millions to help others. >> herb alpert's donation saved this school. >> pretty magical. >> reporter: living the good life with herb alpert later on sunday morning. >> reporter: chris rock is a stand-up comic who is accustomed to getting laughs from live audiences by working alone. these days he's working as one of the cast on broadway. our harry smith has gone to the theater to catch him in the act. >> i worked out over at the y. >> reporter: yes, that is chris rock up there on the stage making his debut in a setting far removed from his comfort zone. >> now i realize how big broadway is. in the last four months, i'm like, wow, they just don't let anybody do this. >> all right, all right. >> reporter: chris rock, rocking broadway. later on sunday morning. >> reporter: required reading is a story from our steve hartman all about a father's love for his daughter and the printed word. when should you stop reading bedtime stories to your kids? >> no one heard my calls. >> reporter: fourth grade, fifth grade? senior year? >> it was our way of being connected. if i got that done and nothing else, that was the important thing of the day. >> with like my life. >> reporter: we'll meet a father and daughter who stuck with story time much longer than most. but in doing so, created a wonderful story of their own. later on sunday morning. >> reporter: we will revis it the controversial career of the late doctor jack kevorkian and get a preview of christopher plummer's new film and catch up with our man in paris and more. first here are the headlines for sunday morning the fifth of june, 2011. the president of yemen has left the country. it is unclear if he'll be allowed to return home. saleh arrived in saudi arabia yesterday for treatment after he was hurt in an attack on his compound friday. saleh's vice president has assumeded command in his absence. during his final visit to afghanistan as defense secretary, robert gates is saying that there could be a turning point in the fighting there by the end of the year. it all depends he says on whether chances for peace talks with the taliban have improved since the killing of owe osama bin laden. one of bip laden's possible successors is thought to have been killed in an american drone attack in pakistan. he was wanted in connection with the 2008 siege attack at m buy india killed more than 160 people. in arizona, they are literally fighting fire with fire using controlled backfires to try to stop a fast-moving wild fire by last night the wallow fire had consumed more than 144,000 acres and was classified as completely uncontained. lawrence eagleberger, a foreign service officer who rose to the post of secretary of state during the presidency of the elder george bush died yesterday in washington. lawrence eagerberger was 80 years old. it has been two-and-a-half years since u.s. airways flight miracle landing in the hudson river. it set out on its final journey on a flat bed truck bound for an aviation museum in charlotte. and the stanley cup finals, alex burrows scored 11 seconds into o.t.giving the canucks a victory over the bruin. vancouver leads the series 2-0 with game 3 tomorrow in boston. there isn't any hockey weather in our forecast. higher than normal temperatures are expected all over the country today. in some places much higher than normal. that trend should continue during the week ahead. remember, summer is not even officially started yet. >> we definitely have something here. >> reporter: next, the enemy within, bed bugs. and later trumpeter herb >> reporter: what's bugging us? well for folks in nearly every corner of the country that is no idle question and the answer is not for the faint of heart. our cover story is reported by martha teichner. >> reporter: fyi, this is a female bed bug. this one with the pointy abdomen is a male. if you accidentally bring one home with you.... >> the adult females are the ones you really have to watch out for. they're visible. >> reporter: females are likely to be loaded with eggs, just waiting to hatch. >> in the worst cases of bed bugs that have gone unchecked there are probably hundreds of thousands in a home. >> reporter: jody gangloff- kaufmann an entomologist and bed bug expert is the bearer of this bad news. the little vampires consume what's known as a blood meal. they aness they size you when they bite so you don't even feel it until you wake up. >> the first thing you'll see are bites. the next sign that we tell people to look for are blood stains lining little magic marker spots on the sheets. >> reporter: those little black specks with humaned blood, your blood if it's in your bed. >> right. all digested and then excreted. >> reporter: we at sunday morning like to tell you good fuzz stories but this time there is no good news. unless you like your horror stories good and cito gastonly. exterminator brian alonzo arms himself for his inspection of delores stewart's home in columbus, ohio. >> we definitely have some in here. that's a medium-sized one. they can get slightly larger or smaller than that as well. found another one in here, delores. yep, yep. one back behind the joint there. >> i stay up day and night sometimes because i don't want to go to bed. i don't want them crawling all over me. i stay up and spray and catch them... i catch them with my hands. >> reporter: eewww! a brand new survey of the nation's most bed-bug infested cities finds they're literally all over the map, from coast to coast. pour the second straight year, new york holds the top spot. which might make sense. it's big, congested. there are lots of travelers coming and going. why the explosion of bed bugs? here, there, and everywhere? and why now? >> where nobody is quite sure. but one thing that has changed in the past ten years is the way we control things like cockroaches and ants. we tend to use baits instead of sprays for them. we've lost a few of the chemicals that we would have used against those pests. that may have given bed bugs a window to catch hold of our cities. >> reporter: although ddt, the deadly chemical people suddenly seem nostalgic about, was banned in 1973, long before the current outbreak. >> it's like an automatic fear, you know. anything that flies, crawls, creeps, i don't like. >> reporter: entomo-phobic is the word for being afraid of insects. there's probably nothing that freaks people out more than being attacked in their beds. >> if i hear somebody has bed bugs, i start scratching my head. >> reporter: this woman, who prefers to remain nameless, started scratching when she discovered that her neighbor, two doors down the hall, had bed bugs. skads of them. >> k-9 unit. >> reporter: enter: sam soto, a first-rate solutions. formally called first rate exterminator. >> if it wasn't for the bed bugs we'd still be known as first rate exterminators. the word exterminators has a stigma attached to it. when you walk into a building people see the word exterminators they get upset. >> reporter: we can only tell you this building is somewhere in manhattan. >> come here. soto brings with him his trusty bed bug sniffing beagle, apollo. >> ready to work? ready to work? come on. >> reporter: the state of new york now has a law requiring that landlords tell prospective tenants about bed bug infestations, but inspections like this one starting at around $250 are done discreetly, given the hysteria a bed bug infestation tends to cause. >> good boy! >> my mother would always say-- she should rest in peace-- if somebody said something about bed bugs or lice, oh, my god, they're dirty. they're dirty. that's a dirty house. don't go there. >> reporter: we know now that's not true. anybody can get bed bugs. finding them before they're crawling all over the place, out of control, is where dogs like apollo come in. >> yeah, yeah, here's the bottom bottom line. you can't see inside that bed. the dog can smell inside there. >> reporter: bill's k-9 academy near tampa has placed 350 bed bug dogs around the world. >> good boy. show me, yes. >> reporter: he says he's gotten up to 100 calls a day. mainly from pest-control professionals more than willing to pay $10,000 for an effective weapon in the war against bed bugs. it takes about two months to train a dog and its handler. caleb is a bouvier. some people like caleb's owner bring their dogs in to be train but most of the students are muttates he rescues from shelters. >> mix is a beginner. >> reporter: this is a salt shaker full of live bed bugs. >> we purchase them. they're $3 apiece. >> reporter: he starts by just trying to get next... the dog to distinguish it from other smells and to give it a good sniff. >> good girl. >> reporter: we thought we'd show you what bed bug hunting looks like from a dog's point of view. with our own bed bug cam. >> good sniff. good sniff. good girl. >> reporter: now i'm sure you're wondering where does bill get his live bed bugs? they're overnighted from new york. where else? and if you're not totally grossed out already, listen to this from jody gangloff-kaufman. >> i think it's conceiveable that at some point everyone that you know will have dealt with them in one way or another. >> reporter: all of us? >> i think it's conceiveable. we really haven't stop them or slowed them yet. >> reporter: here's news you can use even if you would prefer not to have to. if you see those tell-tale blood spots, throw your sheets, your clothes, your shoes into the dryer on hot for half an hour. at 120 degrees, dead bed bugs. and then call a professional. don't even try to do it yourself. and don't, whatever you do, city dwellers, scavenge stuff off the street for fear of picking up an instant bed bug infestation kit, the only missing ingredient is you. after all, bed bugs love snuggling up to nice, warm sleeping human bodies. rest assured. >> ahead the 30 years' war on aids. 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the centers for disease control reported five unusual cases of pneumonia among gay men in los angeles. it was the first warning sign of an epidemic, the aids epidemic, which to date has killed more than 615,000 americans and more than 25 million people worldwide. transmitted primarily through sexual contact or blood, the human... h.i.v. attacks the body's immune system opening it to infections that wouldn't harm a healthy person. doctors were helpless at first in the face of aids. and its largely gay victims were often stigmatized. >> mr. rock hudson has acquired immune deficiency syndrome. >> reporter: rock hudson's disclosure in 1985 that he was dying of aids brought wide public attention to the outbreak. as did the case of 1-year-old ryan white from indiana who was banned from school after he had contracted aids from a tainted blood transfusion. >> he can eat in any restaurant and he roller skates every friday night with his classmates. the point is, he can play in the town. he just can't learn with his friends here. >> reporter: he eventually won a legal battle to return to school. >> i'm glad to be back. >> reporter: and live for five more years. and then in 1991, another shock from basketball great magic johnson. >> because of h.i.v. virus that i have attained, i will have to retire from the lakers. today. >> reporter: but almost 20 full years later magic johnson is still alive and well, a measure of the success scientists made in developing drugs to hold h.i.v. at bay. >> this is the only thing between you and h.i.v.. >> reporter: still health officials and public service announcements warn us that this is no time for complacency. >> talk about getting tested. knowing your status and knowing the facts. >> reporter: more than 1.1 million americans continue to live with h.i.v. right now with a new infection every 9.5 minutes. for all the medical progress, two sobering realities stand out. there is still no h.i.v. vaccine, and there is still no cure for aids. >> reporter: ahead, fatherly love. >> your house is small. >> reporter: by the book. finally, there's a choice for my patients with an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, or afib, that's not caused by a heart valve problem. today we have pradaxa to reduce the risk of a stroke caused by a clot. in a clinical trial, pradaxa 150 mg reduced stroke risk 35% more than warfarin. and with pradaxa, there's no need for those regular blood tests. pradaxa is progress. pradaxa can cause serious, sometimes fatal, bleeding. don't take pradaxa if you have abnormal bleeding, and seek immediate medical care for unexpected signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. pradaxa may increase your bleeding risk if you're 75 or older, have kidney problems or a bleeding condition, like stomach ulcers. or if you take aspirin products, nsaids, or blood thinners. tell your doctor about all medicines you take, any planned medical or dental procedures, and don't stop taking pradaxa without your doctor's approval, as stopping may increase your stroke risk. other side effects include indigestion, stomach pain, upset, or burning. if you have afib not caused by a heart valve problem, ask your doctor if pradaxa can reduce your risk of a stroke. man: and all the pens are put down... woman: and everything there is to learn is learned. man: till the heroes retire and the monsters return to their dens... woman: and all the plots are wrapped up. man: till that day... boy: by hook or by crook... girl: by book or by nook... woman: i will read. >> it is now just two weeks until father's day. the perfect time for steve hartman's story on required reading starring a very dedicated dad. >> reporter: thanks to a retired librarian in millville, new jersey, i may have found the secret to successful parenting. not in any one single book but in this one single dad whose wife left him when his daughter was ten. jim says he and his daughter alice were always close but around 4th grade he started worrying they would soon drift apart. >> they start looking to their friends. it could be we didn't see each other or talk during the day. it could have been. >> reporter: could have been, he says. if not for the streak. the streak was a challenge jim issued to his daughter that fourth grade year to see how many nights in a row they could read together. he even made rules that they had to read at least one chapter and to finish before midnight. >> it was our way of being connected. if i got that done and nothing else, that was the important thing of the day. >> with like my life. >> reporter: alice, now 23, took it just as seriously. >> you would think 15 minutes a day wouldn't be that fundamental, but it turned out it was what everything came back to. >> reporter: starting with chapter books and building to shakespeare, jim continued reading to alice well after most parents give up on story time. well into high school. that's right. while the other kids were leaving parties to get beer.... >> i don't know that i was particularly popular. >> reporter:... alice was leaving for king lear. >> and i didn't drive either. so it was like i would have to burden someone at a party to take me home to get read to and then drive me back. >> reporter: and yet she and her dad kept it up every night until the first day of college. after unpacking her things at rutgers jim and alice sat in the stair well of her dorm and shared one last read. >> it was a hard thing to bear to know that after almost nine years that we were now doing the last time. >> he put in every night for years. he didn't have to do that. he's selfless. >> reporter: alice ended up graduating top of her class with a degree in-- you guessed it-- english literature. and thanks to all that reading her dad did, alice is now able to read to him from her own book. >> well, my father read to me. >> reporter: it's called the reading promise. >> he had been reading to me every night for as long as i can remember. >> reporter: as for jim, although he rarely reads to alice anymore, he still finds a regular audience by traveling around to local senior centers. >> the toilet bowl. >> reporter: apparently you're never too old to be read to. >> reporter: ahead, something new for actor christopher plummer. >> what kind of music is that? >> probably house music. >> reporter: but first the legacy of dr. kevorkian. >> this could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened. >> those who say that jack kevorkian, dr. death, is a fanatic? zealot. >> sure, you try to take a liberty away and i turn fanatic. i'm fighting for me, mike, me. this is a right i want when... i'll be 71. you don't know what will happen when you get older. i may end up terribly suffering. i want some colleague to be free to come and help me when i say the time has come. >> reporter: that was dr. jack kevorkian speaking in 1998 with mike wallace on 60 minutes. he passed away friday in michigan at the age of 83. we thought we would take a look back now at the famous interview and the infamous dr. death. a warning. what you're about to see is disturbing and includes videotaped mercy killing by the doctor. wallace began the interview by asking kevorkian if that was in fact mercy killing or simply an act of murder. >> it's not necessarily murder. but it doesn't bother me what you call it. i know what it is. this could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened. >> he led an active life. he restored and raced vintage cars but' two years ago at age 50 he was diagnosed with lou gehrig's disease, a devastating incurable illness that destroyed his muscles. he lost the use of his legs and then his arms. his family says he was in terrible pain, had trouble breathing and swallowing. and was choking on his own saliva. so they wrote dr. de vorkian who lives nearby and he videotaped his first meeting with tom. >> can you move your legs at all? >> no. >> how about your left arm? try. that's all you can do? you can't lift your hand off? >> trying to talk to tom you learn how bad he was. he couldn't also make intel i believe words. barely intelligible. >> reporter: from the tape you could sea barely. >> right. what is your religion? do you have any children? >> you could see him breathing, gasping leaning back every time he trieded to talk.