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Healthcare workers were hailed as heroes. During the early days of the coven pandemics clause from the rooftops in Windows is safe at home after another exhaust at yet another hospital overrun with the desperately doing 1/2 years later the pandemic is far from over, though it does appear, the worst is behind us and those men and women on the front lines.

Leslie Stahl reminds us are still on the front lines. This was New York in the spring of 2020. Inside one of your hospitals even more apocalyptic scene we scared we were terrified that we wouldn't be able to care for this surge of patients coming every day was terrifying, covert combat I had on Sunday morning dance legend Mikal Baryshnikov is still on stage at age 74, but he has other matters on his mind and conversation with Anthony Mason this morning.

Memories of a Russia he left a long time ago, nearly 50. Famously now as he stars in a new adaptation of a Russian classic cherry orchard. Baryshnikov has become harshly critical of his how is it been for you to watch terrific regarding Baryshnikov later on Sunday morning is a viral sensation whose finally coming out of his shell.

David Pogue will introduce us to Marcel Michelle one marvelous mollusk make that dog marshaled the show began life as a YouTube viral sensation.

He holds himself with relaxed dignity is not overblown, and now Marcel Michelle is a movie on this Sunday morning of Juneteenth Mark Whitaker takes us on a very personal journey.

John Blackstone reports from San Francisco and tells us there's trouble in paradise. Luke Burbank visits a Portland sports bar where every night is ladies night story from Steve Hartman and more on this Sunday morning for 19 June 2022 and will be back after this is not only Father's Day.

It's our newest national holiday. Juneteenth the day which brought freedom to the last of all enslaved people in the United States that the to coincide as deeply personal significance for our Mark Whitaker Juneteenth celebration only started this weekend in Galveston Texas city where the holiday was 157 years ago today on June 19, 1865 when Union Gen. Gordon Green went from the peers to downtown Galveston reading Gen. order number three which said that all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, but it didn't happen until two years after Pres. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. I have my own personal connection to the story. This is the gravesite of my great-grandfather Frank Whitaker who was born enslaved in Texas in 1853.

My great-grandfather was 11 when he was freed on Juneteenth Frank Whitaker is buried alongside his wife Della in one of his daughters, Julia died when she was just one-year-old. The tombstones are in a tiny well-kept all-black cemetery down a dirt road just outside the town of Jewett. About halfway between Houston and Dallas.

How are you. You are away in Waco. I met my second cousin Bernice Bryant the first time. It's only recently that I am aware you know the family week two. Every father after all this time Frank Whitaker was also Brian's great-grandfather and she actually met him as a child when he was in his 80s and have lost his sight. Did you know Frank Whitaker asked him one time line okay very upset because he want to cry cry because the land and he can see I sat down with Bernice, her daughter, Angela, Tyler and Tyler son John Bible for earlier generations. Juneteenth didn't really change things all that much, you had slaves that were free but really had nowhere to go vacantly with a mule and plan anything like that. Any remaining sharecropping you know they didn't like men chat right immediately waited a year by their landline on my great-grandfather stayed close to but he was able to get some education in the decades after Juneteenth Frank Whitaker became a sharecropper on this white owned land outside of Jewett. Most of his 13 children never left this area, but my grandfather see Sylvester Whitaker Senior migrated north to Pittsburgh and became an undertaker before he died, he left this remembrance.

My father, an ex-slave was very highly respected by all who knew him. He became a fine statistician and historian anyone wanting to know anything about the history of Leon County would go to my father.

He wrote many articles for the Jewett messenger. The village newspaper even enter Bernice's generation. Many Texas descendents of Frank Whitaker picked crops.

You are all working as children with your parents you were picking cotton can tap the back then Juneteenth was just another day in the field and then allowing them to go back to now Juneteenth has spread from Texas into a national holiday in my newfound relatives have come a long way to Angela is the director of the daycare center were Bernice also works and John is the president and CEO of the Centex African-American Chamber of Commerce, which boosts black businesses. He helped organize the Waco Juneteenth celebration what you Juneteenth stand for. I think it should be a tally back and see what we can file and then celebrate why we are now what we're time to go back to being a federal holiday allows everyone to understand that there is a second Independence Day true Independence Day in America where everyone you know has a right to opportunity and freedoms. That's truly an Independence Day is not only for just black people but is for America new family. We have Juneteenth is surely about freedom, but for me this year. It's also about family, for Christ sake, we pray even in the best of times. Their work is demanding and difficult, but in these times of covert Leslie Stahl tells us for thousands and thousands of healthcare workers. The trauma seems to never end as head of the top intensive care unit in New York City. Dr. Lindsay Leif is no stranger to emergencies. If the organs are failing and you need to be placed on life support. You come to us how much death, do you actually see a lot a lot, but in March 2020. She saw more deaths than she ever thought possible covert storm through New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell's five S. we heard about hospital sort of crumbling and working the line and we heard from colleagues there that their patients literally dying on the floors of hallways with no oxygen.

So we had that certifier in our belly that that was not here but by April was a constant incoming the number of covert patients sword ICU beds more than doubled to have hundreds and hundreds of patients with the same disease on maximal life-support and I member walking floor to floor to floor. You were part of the small group turned the whole hospital is actually enticing. That's breathtaking. What they saw in that hospital was so disturbing to them. Some of them still haven't gotten over it.

Two years later, journalist Marie Brenner's new book, the desperate hours describes New York Presbyterian's early heroic battle against the covert pandemic. There were no vaccines, no antivirals, doctors were confronting the utterly unknown when doctors of any caliber, but of this level of expertise are kind founded by a medical mystery.

They are both enthralled they are in full adrenaline, but on some level there also terrified and overwhelmed.

I worked probably two months without a day off and then you go home at night. Do you actually sleep tenuously. You can definitely when it's quiet is when all those feelings and memories of the patient's are the colleagues who was in tears. That's and that all comes back.

I barely slept yet she still helped her two young boys with their homework over face time while struggling to run an ICU short on beds, masks and everything else Brenner rights had New York Presbyterian crumbled the damage to the nation and the world would've been many times worse than what we did experience right before you were intubated.

What did you say to her husband. I love you. I said you are now my proxy, so you have to stand in for me and make the decisions because I'm not going to be able to make them for myself. Karen Bacon knew she might die. She was not just another five S. covert patient a while Cornell pediatric nurse. She was the first healthcare worker treated. There is a virus. It was a wake-up call to them because you know they were saying on my God I could get this.

I can see that there she was sick and it was very upsetting. Of course for our staff to see one of our own in the bed just 30 years old and a newlywed bacon went from a cold in February to a ventilator in March. I think the hard part was going to sleep and then finding out it's 2 1/2, three weeks later.

Was it a, basically a medical induced coma like bacon every single a while Cornell ICU patient at the height of April was intubated, all the while there was a ventilator shortage.

I have colleagues who to this day still. I know talk about and think about decisions they made who got the first ventilator who got the first ICU bed was a guidance from the leadership of the hospital. We were told they were waiting from guidance from the governor so meanwhile, my colleagues and I are you making decisions with our best medical judgment in mind, however, you know, when when someone with covert diet which was every single day. Of course then you think, what if they had gotten the third ICU bed and not the fifth.

ICU bed right early 2020. Personally believe that we were all going to die and without the proper tools to confront this mystery illness, Dr. Ben Gary Harvey five S. pulmonary and critical care specialist knew the only answer was innovation. He started with covert patient Susie Beebe she'd been on a ventilator for months, always a woman in her early 50s, you can be on a ventilator that she was at death's door. She gets huge holes in her lungs. Dr. Harvey had an unconventional idea implanting a Zephyr valve recently approved for emphysema. It works by stopping the leaks and damage.

Lungs, but it had never been used at the hospital on a covert patient and many there rejected the undertaking as too risky. Still, it worked. The just gives me this of this fraction that we can become creative that we can continue moving forward, exploring new avenues and he said if you stay in your lane when you were confronting this level of medical mystery you're knocking to solve it. I figure that if I found the leak from Susie.

I can put some of those wells to prevent air from growing into that part of the but here's the operative word there. If loan what is imperative she would not have survived. I will think so. Susie Beebe is she okay now.

She's amazing.

She was able withheld weeks after she got out of the hospital via her son's wedding with her medical walked down the aisle holding her with so much death victories were joyous celebrations.

What was it like the day you left the hospital. They had everyone at the nurses station in the class. They put a crown on my head.

They just gave me the greatest sendoff talking as if this thing is behind us isn't absolutely not know, but it's enormously inspiring to know that in the hospital systems.

There are those who care so deeply and who did save lives at enormous cost to themselves. Turns out we are not the only ones who think Leslie Stahl is a great storyteller David Pogue introduces us to one of her biggest and smallest fans. There are plenty of big movies this summer with the highest rated one of all is very very small business/main character is no bigger than 1/4. He had thought of granite felt tiny sister and I think that there is a lot of humor in watching something be the wrong size, comedian, actor and author Ginny sleet his voice plenty of animated characters which he considers Marcel the shell finest creation is a NJ takes the whole family. Sleet had never produced that distinctive voice until one night in 2010 to save money. Attending a wedding she was sharing one hotel room with five friends. It was so crowded in there and I just felt tiny and all of a sudden I started saying like I can't her boyfriend, filmmaker Dean Fleischer camp. Love the new little character voices and decided to feature it in a short video for no animated short sort of something you have experimented with before he went to Tri-Star arts by storing googly eyes.that shall the three minute short was a huge hit online cholesterol and in the next few years maybe two more Marcel videos racking up 48 million views and counting published two Marcel books and got married people can think of is inevitably Hollywood came a calling with big Hollywood ideas.

Someone even recommended that we pair him with Ryan Reynolds and they fight crime together with you. I wouldn't see finally camp and slate found backers who give them full control but to fill 90 minutes.

They'd have to expand Marcel's emotional range, fill in his back stories and introduce new characters.

Did anyone ever say no whoa oh that's talking what made the short special too much. I think the part of that was in always got checking ourselves against the original and making sure it doesn't still have that sort of no electricity. That was so great about the shorts. One of those new characters is Marcel's grandmother played by Isabella Rossini in the movie they watch 60 minutes together every Sunday night.

Leslie is Leslie issue.

She makes every stop on this movie has elevated me in the eyes of my grandchildren. They see me on 60 minutes and nothing Marcel's is huge in my family.

Fortunately for the filmmakers, the real Leslie Stahl agreed to take the role they wanted me to play it hundred percent straight so they hired a 60 minutes crew 60 minutes producer came along to produce the segment and I think it does look like a 60 minutes story when you see it Marcel, a 1 inch tall shell reminds us of the true value of community does it make you inclined to look fondly upon the next proposal becomes your way. Well let me just say this I'm available here.

I am movie star Dean Fleischer camp is in the movie to as the offscreen voice of the filmmaker well mostly offscreen grants to know that I am playing a version of myself anymore at about the movie wound up taking seven years to make because the filmmakers had to make it four times, first as a complete audio soundtrack.

The second version added storyboards for the third past the film the empty backgrounds for the entire movie without Marcel finally the team animated the tiny Marcel one frame at a time and added him backgrounds. In the end the marriage of Marcel's creators didn't survive but their collaboration opens in theaters on Friday a movie about a bald armless one.

I'd shell on a quest to find his family and that the works of always crazy.

Of course, is dangerous to take and yet I love it when people comment on this. I can't believe I was bawling my eyes out of this little show with googly eyes and makes people feel like I'm a little guy like feeling you know wanting to be loved. I for your own dear smallness in this gigantic, weird cosmic scheme that were in his take-out with preacher Gareth this week Stephen Law ally of Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm monument list for me to Senate races where you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed with Nevada not Georgia. Georgia is right up there with New Hampshire's surprised New Hampshire people really just kind of don't like that you have for more from this week's conversation, follow the take-out with major Gareth on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts high podcast. It's me Drew Barrymore all my goodness, I want to tell you about our new shell business podcast and in each episode mean a weekly gastric to cover all the quirky, fine, inspiring and informative stories that exist on the wall because well I and maybe you do too. From the newest interior design trend RB core to the right and wrong way to wash her armpit also working to get in the things that you just kind of will probably not able to do in daytime television.

So watch out. Tristan is ever you get your podcasts. It's your good news on the got time now for an early happy hour complements of Luke Burbank chairs for all the world like an actual sporting taking place in recent Friday here in Portland, Oregon news, but all of this was to celebrate the opening of the sports bar and Jeannie or was first in line very monumental day. That's because this isn't just any sports first one in America that exclusively shows women's sports on all of its TV. If you mostly a fan of men's sports who never even occurred to you that a bar might not showing the championship game might have the sound turned off. But that's exactly what happened back in 2019.

When Ginny Nguyen and her friends wanted to watch Baylor versus Notre Dame in the women's NCAA championship game was one for the ages that ended up being just like the audio feed was nonexistent, at least in the bar where, when and her friends were watching something like that would've been better if the sound were on and so she had a thought that kind of thought you might have a couple beers but never follow up on said something to the effect of, the only way were ever to be able to watch the women's game in its full glory is if we had a place Nguyen and her friends even had a name for this still mythical bar fantasized about opening someday sports bra. You know, because it does make sense to switch a couple letters around a little bit after that was like the taglines can be.

We support women just it was a big joke but that joke got serious after the me to movement, and the pandemic had when looking for a way to make an impact on the culture in whatever way she could know the whole country was going through a phase of reprioritizing what was important, however, Jenny's mom, she'd been working for at their family real estate company was dubious and I said this is not good with the coffee in a bushel and it is not well like she's told me that mom you cannot stop me. I am doing and so she did raising over $100,000 on kick starter along the way she and the bar became something of a media sensation of its kind in the world but the most challenging part of running the sports bra might actually be finding enough televised women's sports. Keep the TVs busy.

Only 4% of all sports on TV are women's sports.

So when you have that kind of a discrepancy there's any issues, but changing that might be part of Wynn's plan in the 50 years since the landmark title IX legislation millions of girls gained access to athletics, so it's not that women aren't playing sports that the networks tend not to broadcast them and asking a lot of networks, streaming services, all of these things that they never encountered before. So a lot of it is almost like taking your machete cutting through the brush, hard slog on this night. However, there was no shortage of content was the semifinals NCAA women's final four sports bra would be packed, the volume turned up Steve Hartman this morning.

As the story of the high school graduates dream come true.

Mike and Tracy Tebo always believed the time heals all wounds with that belief pleaded last fall when the 18-year-old son Jake was paralyzed in a hockey like time to take care of this because he could cut a piece of steak couldn't sit up.

Couldn't you know choose loss. Jake's goal in life had always been to play college hockey and his parents couldn't imagine how long it would take to find new purpose really couldn't imagine Jacob just found out he would likely never walk again. When his high school principal came to visit him in the hospital whether Jay got caught up in the moment was simply in denial. He made a bold prediction. I don't member much but vividly remember saying to them, like I will walk a graduation.

What was that based on.

I have no clue. Honestly, I just said it was like a middle market situation. He was so positive. Todd Bland is head of school at Milton Academy outside Boston in a moment like that you want to be encouraging, but you don't want to assure something that your not sure can happen so simply said that's wonderful Jake so that this kind of became his goal. If I set something I want to do what it takes it to get to it that Jake immersed himself in their doing way more than was asked of him in the slim hope that one day he could do that walk Jake Morris Tebo under his own. So in the zone is kind of a sense of what you can do it nine months 30 steps menu looks up and he just had this smile on his face. One of the most special woman experience and motivates managers go harder than ever to be this school walk without suit because although time may heal all wounds.

Jake is waiting and dance legend.

If ever there was is lived a life in the spotlight on stage and off is in conversation with Anthony Mason, the Cherry Orchard at the Baryshnikov arts Center in New York. The sender's namesake is playing an old sermon is below zero and the cherry blossoms. All blue over 75 and then playing 85 years. Okay, the white hair. His character named fears it's bleached and yet most acclaimed dancer Congressman, most notably Oscar-nominated formants in the 1977 film turning point to be all right right and then on the room with cheese and playing Carrie Bradshaw's Russian boyfriends on sex and the city, but he learned from some of the best James Cagney's good friend of mine and he always thought that said James how you please listen will glimpse in the styling you and then they tell Tim back the truth.

And if you're not dumb you observed. He has some sort of a light that that or some sort of presence that is extremely was elected as a director is no way to control the Ukrainian gurgle. Yuck is directing the Soviet born actor in this Russian classic Baryshnikov has another role as playwright Anton Chekhov in the virtual production in Chekhov's play the matriarch of the family played by Jessica Hecht faces financial troubles has to face selling their beloved Orchard so it doesn't matter to Orchard in the bigger sense of the Ward 1 of the character says Russians are Orchard.

It's very likable right now there's a complete loss of Russia right now is go yuck was planning the production.

Russia invaded Ukraine.

His family had left give Boston back in 1990 when he was just 11 but when this war started something in the stomach started think twisting and it just hurts. How has it been for you to watch what horrific just now that heaven shows God Baryshnikov made headlines around the world. When he defected from the Soviet Union in 1974 visits in a long time ago know it's so fast. Unfortunately you never wanted to go back to Russia now somehow, maybe instinctively, I knew that one day something like that happens you soon years as a principal dancer with the Kirov ballet Baryshnikov was privileged to travel, watch, usually followed by KGB agents.

When you went yes but they will guys couple of guys always you knew the names sometimes coffee with them and know those like okay we had the nicknames for them.

The system was embedded in this, of course, there many different faces, but in 1974. While touring with the Bolshoi ballet in Toronto. Baryshnikov slipped away. Where is he is days after his defection he appeared at a dance studio in Toronto.

It wouldn't discuss his defection with newspeople today and he wouldn't attend a news conference after his short exhibition tried not to be political, but you made a point now with what's happening in your credit to say something. I couldn't stay silent this time I was born in Soviet that time so that latte in the family of military officer whose father was Soviet.

Col. was a Stalinist.

It was his mother who introduced him to the arts in Riga, the Latvian capital at the age 607 effects timeline. My mother took me to see Bala and his orchestra playing in this beautiful theater and got me in 2017.

Baryshnikov was given Latvian citizenship. It means something in my mother's buried there, and that's why back to your question about why now that the idea that I would say Russian tanks would go again to Baltics referred for left freight Florida all got part of the boat and because I am positive it recently. He cofounded the charity Russia to raise money for Ukrainian refugees when Russia banned its website earlier this month, Baryshnikov addressed an open letter to Pres. Putin your Russian world world of fear he wrote will not live on as long as there are people like us. What did you think when Prudence of Russians who support the West are scum and traders since disgusting. Do you think of this as Russia's war for it is put into a is trying to create new history of Prussia patient does not care about people told although how it's possible he educates himself how it's possible Russians to speak out against them have a way of disappearing. Listen will be 75 years old. What I have to lose my old mustard that would be a father as he performs in the orchard become Baryshnikov's is the rule of the arts is to inspire and engage in oxygen and his most important job is here at the art center that bears his name.

Why is it the most important. It's a social service I've been on the to make my home in New York. I love this country with all craziness that is nothing better than that be a free man living with your family and face society.

In this extraordinary siege, like so many of our cities.

The city by the Bay has no shortage of problems these days. Reason enough for John Blackstone to catch up with San Francisco Mayor London breed 47 you read the city of postcard views, but much of that was not part of her you mean I grew up in poverty. I grew up in public housing so I wasn't really expose early-onset all of the beauty that you see now I didn't know some of these neighborhoods, even listed in San Francisco for this mayor who is risen from poverty fighting the city's inequality is one of her major challenges in an area that's home to many of the world's most valuable companies. San Francisco now counts 8000 homeless people, the fourth highest rate of any US city that is been made worse by some of the country's highest housing prices smash and grab robberies along with car break-ins and become their own postcard underscored by the fact that police solve less than 7% of those property crimes infuriating.

Both residents in the city's more than $6 billion tourist industry you said yourself.

Many people in the city don't feel safe here any long yeah and I think that's why were working on it were working on it with making sure were able to add more police officers were working on it by having alternatives to policing to respond to people who are dealing with mental health challenges after breed was elected four years ago she picked up a broom and plan to spend tens of millions a year. Cleaning the streets in total San Francisco is spending billions, city, state and federal dollars on homelessness. Everything all morning. There are people who work for the city and County of San Francisco, cleaning up where you wouldn't even know it's the same neighborhood and even before noon were dealing with some of the same challenges that some of the letter in the feces and urine in some of the other issues that many of us are frustrated over those frustrations, particularly over crime may be making this famously liberal city a little less liberal you recall, this month voters throughout the district attorney.

Critics called soft on crime that followed the recall in February of left-leaning school board member focused on renaming schools rather than reopening them during the pandemic on the national stage politics. Here are a juicy target for critics on the right now basically San Francisco attacked Mecca, surrounded by a filthy mode of degeneracy, lawlessness, criminal 549 team rocks. It is rhetoric long legacy that was amplified in 2007 San Francisco Democrat Pelosi became the first female speaker of the house Republicans talk disdainfully about San Francisco value Nancy Pelosi represents a San Francisco value system, what values and examine Cisco values really consists of pushing the envelope and willing to try things that may make people uncomfortable for the purpose of really turning people's lives around the problem with faces is that for people on the right. It's become shorthand for liberal crazies yeah and again there's nothing I can do about that other than to make sure that were taking care of our city. We cleaning it out were keeping people safe and were doing the things that make the people who live, work and visit here happy.

December the mayor broke from the cities often leave policies when she announced plans to get tough on crime and it comes when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement more aggressive with the changes in our policies, and less tolerant, that is destroying our city. I looked at the police dashboard retail theft this year is correct on crime I don't think it's fair I don't think it's a fair assessment to take statistics and then to equate them to a major headline around San Francisco being dangerous especially in light of when you look at our homicide rate in particular when you look at the number of cases we been able to solve and the number of people that we been able to held accountable FBI violent crime statistics confirm at least 65 other cities have higher rates of murder, rape and assault but highly visible crimes. Car theft and shoplifting up nearly 17% so far this year compared to last year. I don't think numbers mean anything when something happens you and so ultimately you know we gotta do a better job with improving how people feel in the city. Among the improvements.

The mayor is proud of transformed corner tough neighborhood fell on the corner of Hyde and Turk. This used to be a notorious area where there was a lot of drug dealing and drug using all kinds of things going on there you go there day and there's a part of a brand-new park there kids are now using yes you just to explain San Francisco to an outside that's a hard line complicated unique beautiful crazy.

While fine innovative, challenging all of those things and more like any other American city. San Francisco has plenty of problems much like any other big city mayor London breed her cities biggest fan. I love San Francisco even though it's a complex city with all of its challenges and issues but it's a place of beauty is a place of hope.

It's a place of opportunity. Thank you for listening. Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning progress and crazy time once final season is the point is we need people in the best way to protect good people is to convict final season Millstream exclusively on