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Originally developed by the U.S. military, the Global Positioning System -- which is now vital to nearly every facet of modern life -- is being upgraded to GPS III. CBS News Contributor David Pogue reports. Seth Doane introduces us to Ruth Coker Burks – who inherited a family cemetery in Hot Springs, Arkansas -- and became a mother of sorts to countless sons who were abandoned by families and churches because they suffering from AIDS. Lee Cowan gets to know Alec Cabacungan -- the leading spokesperson for Shriners Hospitals for Children. A new film -- starring Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce -- images what a conversation would have been like between Pope Benedict and Pope Francis. You Oughta Know -- there is a new Broadway show based on the music of Alanis Morissette.


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This is 5G built right morning probably is off today and this is Sunday morning is the end of the Thanksgiving holiday approaches the start of the drive home and millions will be relying on their GPS get them there.

We all loaded ball satellites but if you ever wondered just how GPS really works well are David Poe certainly happens. You might think of GPS as the satellite system that lets our cars navigate let's go GPS is behind much more that ATMs credit card transactions GPS is integrated into all of our systems will great, but that makes GPS a big fat target to the Chinese and Russian are building antisatellite capability so they can reach out and strike GPS satellite Counties coming up on Sunday morning the efforts to protect GPS written conversation with Jonathan Price and Anthony Hopkins stars of the new film. The two popes brought to you by our one and only, Tracy Smith.

If you do this you will damage the papacy for O to be a fly on the Sistine Chapel wall damage might do if I remain a new film. Let's eavesdrop on, played by Jonathan Price and Anthony Hopkins did say to me Jonathan that you were nervous the first time your onset later on Sunday morning job in heaven. There is no shortage of charitable organizations asking for your good graces.

This time year. Alex is the young face of one of those organizations and he's on a mission to Hartford. Now if you're ever having a bad day. One of these commercials comes on, chances are alchemical will make your problems feel well pretty small. I've always known that I was going to be different and I couldn't do anything about it so I might as well just deal with it and take this disability and turn it into a positive story behind the face of hospitals for children helping likely more stuff known as the tale of a miracle worker and all her socks writing to Broadway with Burbank to take in a new show based on the music of Alanis Morrissette basically lowers the boom baby boomers and more all coming up in our Sunday morning podcast content tens of millions of us traveling home today. GPS knows the way we rely on it so much. We hardly ever question just what's behind all, but are David Poe did Southeast on W. 57th St. toward 10th Ave. GPS man your car your phone even your watch is exactly where you are on the planet by listening to satellites 12,000 miles over your head. GPS is always on the pay anything for it. Don't even know anything about how it works and wonder where very proud of it.

We enjoy providing that utility to planet on behalf of six Air Force offer free through. That's right, the Air Force runs the American GPS system overseeing it all is Brig. Gen. Deanna Bert, the director of operations at Air Force space command. A lot of people think oh it's that navigation thing on my phone. Is that about it.

Polyester. So think about your ATMs at the gas pump, stock exchange, the Internet power greatly are you telling me that the Internet and the electrical grid need GPS anytime a standard to link it up around the world. We have a constellation of 31 GPS satellites, each beaming a one-way radio signal towards her. Those signals are being broadcast continuously and when you are in view of that satellite.

Your receiver will pick the four best satellites in view so you want one directly overhead and three on the horizon that gives you the best position. Of course those critical satellites don't find themselves believe this room master control station is very secure building is difficult now the Ascension six River Air Force Base in Colorado brings a team of young technicians works in this room 24 hours a day watching over the satellites. The commands they sent can adjust the satellites positions or check their health got a good step nine for 58 is there ever trouble I was on duty as a good commander couple years ago he had a satellite turned out that the satellites and heartbroken Capt. Josh Harnish is the operations flight commander you have a spare so we actually have about four on orbit spares because you can just send a fix-it man up to space right and how old is the oldest ones to look their boldest when it is active to user user is about 26 years old. That's, I daresay older than some of the people controlling it absolutely said the operators that are generally fresh out of high school that's safer something is important so they go through a very rigorous training program than anything, talk to the satellites to people have to actually walk and approve what's going to that satellite.

So one person could go rogue.

There is no self-destructive wealth. It's nice to know that such an incredibly important system is in good hands and absolutely positively safe. Rye is there any way an enemy of our country could take out the whole system.

Oh, absolutely. And they would necessarily have to attack the satellites is much easier to attack the signals. Dana Coward is the president of the resilient navigation timing foundation, a group dedicated to protecting GPS.

GPS is so integrated into all of our systems that any significant disruption would be catastrophic. Almost an existential threat if the US Naval Observatory were a master clock synchronizes the satellites clocks.

He gave me a little history with the system.

The ship could determine its position on any ocean in the world within 30 feet. Originally, the GPS network was developed for one primary customer, US military attack unit could accurately determine local time for a coordinated attack. Additional applications include precise weapons delivery during inclement weather mandate was to put five bombs in St. Paul about 10 years after GPS was deployed. Some people in the military were astonished to find out that was being used by civilians all the GPS system as we now know it became operational in 1995. Today, only a tiny fraction of people that use GPS of anything. Mostly it's the underpinnings of our network technological world, all right, but what about this business of vulnerability.

If you and I were writing a screenplay about North Korean bad guys would be plausible to think of a scenario where they could bring down the whole system. Yes, it could happen a suitcase size GPS tremor.

For instance, could have a massive impact on a major metropolitan area, especially if it was located. Aerial platform jamming means drowning out the GPS signal hereunder. If your evildoer, you don't have to build some expensive rocket to blow up our satellites just broadcast so much radio gibberish nearby receivers can't hear the satellites general. Bert says she's well aware of the threat. What sorts of things could a bad actor new GPS that to that I most worried about is operations officer is jamming the second piece would be a most concerned also about cyber intrusion. So how do we fight back against the gym so GPS three will be three times more accurate and have eight times more jam resistance. As it turns out GPS three is a new generation of satellites being built by Lockheed Martin is lovely this is the first time Lockheed has ever allowed network camera crew into its factory air is very clean actually clear of the ability Tonya Ladwig is in charge of the GPS three program at Lucky actually clean room environment gets changed out at least 10 times per hour even a speck of dust could damage the satellite once it's in space. Think about a fleck of foil that might be your clothing and get actually sort some of our electronics to the new satellites are already in the next six are right here in this room in various stages of construction and this is not a model is not among the real thing. This time next year.

My phone will be talking to this that each one is built by hand and takes 18 months to complete. By 2034 our entire constellation GPS satellites will be GPS three models which are better protected against jamming and cyber attacks. Even so, GPS watchdog Dana Coward would like to see a backup system on the ground to users will essentially be bulletproof to any kinds of disruption. If there using both system so a backup system will be on the ground, a complementary and backup system always said let's go. In the meantime, Gen. Deanna Burton says she intends to keep right on worrying about protecting our GPS. My job is to make sure you don't have to worry but I do think we need to be aware of as a nation that there are threats and there are people wanting to threaten our way of life and we have to be prepared when they come the draft lottery alive. Report on tonight thinking of the birthdates for the draft and now a page from our Sunday, December 1, 1960, not 50 years ago today. The night of America's first military draft lottery since 1942 with the war in Vietnam as a backdrop in the futures of some thousand young men on the wine featured a bid containing 366 capsules, one for each possible birthday.

The order in which their birthdays were drawn from that Ben would determine the order in which those young men would be drafted first chosen first to Sir Congressman Alexander Purdy of New York through the first number number 14 Y capital filled up December 6 finally concluding with Junie as number three stations soon cried out, arguing that birthdates near the end of the year had virtually been clustered toward the top, making them more likely to be drawn here are not only men with birthdays numbered one through 195. We called men with remaining 171 birthdays.

America ended the military draft in 1973 and is relied on voluntary enlistment ever since.

For many of the files watch the drawing with baited breath. Memories of that draft lottery telecast remain as vivid as ever.

This is a very busy time here named in his very special mission probably seen a number of times on TV, but this morning we hope you get a chance to know there are few places both is hopeful and is heartbreaking as a Children's Hospital, especially around the holidays. Okay.

While there are many chances are you may know Shriners hospitals for children with one very special global i.e. community that came in a wheelchair now on Alec on the committee showed that special to me and Chicago's Alec Kuhn is one of the kids Shriners since he started doing these ads five years ago with you monthly get will send you this adorable love you like it.

Thank you nations have skyrocketed right along with his blue.

Perhaps you simply if you like it gotten better done more. I know those kids see him as a mentor and that's we can become certain director Tracy Truax's handpicked Alec for reason he special grabbed people without even having to try. He has life force that not all people have greatest I've ever seen. Shriners known for their tall fraternal brother doing charity work. Alec hospitals around America.

That means he's on the road about its demanding job pretty 17-year-old bones are broken only 60 bones in my lifetime will be with me for my life. I live with a tie-dye. That's what brought Shriners in the first place, a rare genetic disorder called osteogenesis imperfecta, better known as brittle bone disease. His parents, and Gil got the news before he was born because Think Doctor Crystal Pl., Callie.

It was very emotional for us. We tried for our fourth child, and hopefully it was your son. And when we learned there was a son learned that he had disability and disease just what it sounds like bones are so delicate. He could crack a rib, even something as simple as a semi-physical therapy like this helps, but is no Q and shoulder up in here were the knowledge been feeling really good lately's longtime position at Shriners in Chicago is orthopedic surgeon Dr. Peter Smith expert brittle bone disease. Healthy right now. I now weigh staying away from Dr. Smith actually like any other kid videogames and more recently cars he's going for his drivers. My first) I go into a better day that I've found you check your extension so we can reach the accelerator, but that's about it doing so well with his lessons in juggling this out now you jacking that way parents is very own call home, giving them the feeling of independence that any team. Alec infinitely more special treatment. Like everyone else and I think that's probably one of the things that he has to fight for the most everything Alec does with gusto, looting, wheelchair basketball contacted the fast pace it may have exploits like okay no limits eliminate sports sport is his escape place. Shriners places especially me.

I have left.

I stepped on the court's home.

Camera rolling action being a sports broadcaster which explains the makeshift TV studio that's in Alec's bedroom called sound is an encyclopedia so good.

DMT even welcomed them and be a halftime show. I really appreciate your support and I think my divorce I shave my head but he makes it all look so easy course you did a lot of tough days I just I want to sometimes give up. I want to just stop and tied to live with but is lidocaine to have more challenges in life and I'm pretty fortunate that every day it's not easy sent by the hardness and Alex life always has been behind every step of the way have been infected during tissue overwhelmed pay one Malik Lamon, my dad, Alex, grateful heart like it was about to burst you wanted the best care best doctors that we baby son and I just wanted to tell you guys I love you love you dad. How could be more genuine than in this season of giving.

We can all receive a little something from a less and what grace really looks like. I don't know too much about what will happen in the future, but if if something bad does happen. I know that will get through it.

I know tomorrow is going to be about a day and if it's not that I can make a better day today is world AIDS day three Barry mar all my goodness, I want to tell you about our new shout business podcast and each episode, weekly, gastric and other quirky find inspiring and informative stories that exist because well maybe you do to newest interior design trend Barbie car to the right and wrong way to wash her also getting the things that you just kind of well probably not able to do in daytime television. So watch out. Tristan is ever you get your podcast on the paper stepping up the fight to prevent new infections and support people living with HIV, known as the story of a woman who devoted years of her life to comforting those in need, then you might call all her sons. You inherited part of the cemetery. I dad my country is the cemetery nice ring or watch what wind you would need a cemetery. Ruth cougar Brooks told us this unusual inheritance of 262 cemetery plots was left to her after a family feud. My mother got a huge argument with her brother Stan and bought all the remaining spaces in the family cemetery said he and his family couldn't be paid with the rest of us.

That was the meanest thing she could think to settle the score. The plots set mostly unused until the AIDS crisis hit hot Springs, Arkansas. You were with some of these guys as they took their last death and I got to be old friends cougar Brooks of self-described Street church lady remembers when the disease went by another name. There are more lives claimed victims claimed that toxic shock and Legionnaires' disease combined and yet most of the country doesn't know about this cancer. Well I think it's because of the gay cancer. Scientists scrambled to learn more. By 1984, researchers identified that the HIV virus as it would come to be known, caused AIDS by 1985 there were more than 20,000 reported AIDS cases worldwide say people think that the epidemic happened in San Francisco happened in New York. It didn't happen in the center of the country that it is the case with so many aspects of age. The enemy isn't just disease it is fair and as fierce world Ruth cougar Brooks then in her mid-20s found herself face to face with the disease, while visiting a friend in Arkansas hospital. She noticed a room no one was entering an AIDS patient was inside was so frail and so pale and so near death, and he white less than 100 pounds and you couldn't really tell them from the sheets on the bad 6H through what happened next was dramatized in a short film patient known as Jimmy asked to speak with his mother. His mother's phone number place he wants his mother is not coming. Room six weeks, but Ruth cougar Brooks returned to Jimmy's room and says she sat with them for the next 13 hours. What made you stay with him until he passed away. His mother had already abandoned nobody wanted his remains so cougar Brooks is she paid for his cremation and then put his ashes in the cookie jar brought them up to that cemetery. She think she ended up helping maybe hundreds with AIDS, mostly men abandoned by families and churches sound like it wasn't always love my neighbor now was after helping Jimmy what made you think a minute help others.

While I just kept, I couldn't turn anybody down. There was no one else to take care of them.

There is no other option is the KKK barn process in my yard.

Three different times really. Yes, you must've felt threatened.

I was, I had a killer on my I was dealing with phase 1 was I going to be afraid of semi-burning across in my yard Coker Brooks became one woman needs help center writing patients to appointments trying to find doctors drugstore filling out death certificates John Anderson Scott Owens gone Danny nail there all people have done here. We were pretty much. I had roof had to meet Ruth.

I met her at work I managed a bar and she came in one night trying to raise some funds to bury someone died of AIDS. Weinmann says they'd spin up drag show fundraisers to support Coker Brooks work. One of the performers was his own partner of 10 years Billy stage name Marilyn Morel was really great things if he was doing for people and then it turned out that I needed her. Billy Billy was diagnosed with AIDS before dying. He left Ruth.

His favorite red dress just to know that someone cares for you longer to Jeannie Neuwirth's younger brother Joe Ross was buried here to you, just like fear and all that panic and anxiety Neuwirth that her family had little money and were struggling in those final days of her brothers life until a nun gave her Coker Brooks number and all he cannot pick a spot.

Jimmy's right here you have any idea how many people you buried here. There's over 40.

She admits her memories are a little fuzzy. There's exam. Maybe that's not so bad back. It was just incomprehensible that this would go on and on and on. She says she found solace out on the waters of Arkansas's Lake Hamilton. No one was dying on the like. No one was sick on the light he could catch efficient going back in hit swim away to live another day. It wasn't that way on dry land Coker Brooks took on an informal advisory role and AIDS in the Clinton administration would eventually be recognized for her work. I was a good man like their man in 2010 she had a stroke port she blames on the stress of that era and I forgot to point out this is Miss Misty McCall's grave. She has one biological daughter. But during that crisis. Ruth cougar Brooks became a mother of sorts to countless sons.

I didn't have the honor of giving birth to them that I had the honor of being with them in the moment that they needed somebody mouse and I would take them in my arms and I would carry them across the river that there would be on the other side waiting all of the people who love their and didn't charge them, and I had that honor of handing them back to their friends and that God they were lucky to have suck it happen. Fair warning if you were born between 1946 and 1964, face silly is about to be talking okay Boomer has become the generational shot heard round the world. It's deployed mainly by gender the kids, those born between 1995 through 2010 and it's all over social media. Okay, okay, it's fashionable.

It's political 25 lawmakers shutting down an elderly colleague who handled her in the New Zealand Parliament fired in FOLKS who need to school to get the message. Baby boomers 99 Gen Xers born between 1965 in 1980 had talked to the hand and whatever which indifference in a benign Connie way aimed at a specific demo which is why okay Boomer stating shut up, which has a width of engagement. Kids are saying talking old person role are that you write you to the future were going have to fix ourselves. I find okay Boomer delightful.

I shouldn't because even though I'm not Boomer this meeting can maim anyone over 30 kids are not voicing indifference make a difference change, activists who delay last week, young people have inherited a world full of rising waters, disappearing species, crippling debt and crumbling democracies.

Gender is not catching disease a long way from the silent generation look now you're not right just because you're young, but don't always deserve respect to just because they're old okay Boomer hurt your feelings a reality show called in which old folks compete for words without help from anyone under 55 something that could bring generations together. You Sunday morning on CBS. Here again is Lee Cowan and Anthony Hopkins is almost anonymous with Hannibal lector showing character he played in the silent fellow actor Jonathan Price in conversation with Tracy Smith about their latest role something that just doesn't happen just did a Pope resigned. This is what the unthinkable. Like thousand 13 meeting of court feeling health for some time, old and frail to continue with the job resigned to retire in a few days later something else that was once unthinkable rocked the Vatican Cardinal Jorge Gully of Argentina became the first pope ever from the New World for the first time in centuries the Catholic Church had to use different men hung out what they might've talked about. It was all happening, but a new flexibility is filling in the blank can see this is in the hopes we hear what those conversations might've been based on both men speeches and writings, it could never be me and since they disagreed on almost everything. Not all of that conversation is polite Jonathan Price to look a lot like Pope Francis placed them in the movie. If you do this you will damage the papacy for answer. Anthony Hopkins is Benedict did say to me Jonathan you missed the first time your onset is so all right about your work is been fun of Tony's for long time church yes truth is, Christ slipped rather easily into the role as we learned when we met up at the Met cloisters medieval arts Museum in New York course it's not quite the Vatican, but the Fuente Duane you chapel there is a certain celestial majesty, all lit so when you first asked to play what you think the baby was created was full of images, both rhythmic switchover recognizing the like.

My son's cold. You, the Pope forgive me. Of course, but for two hours. He seems to get pretty close. Christ did not come down from the cross price respected stage actor who's also been in more than five dozen Phil stopped on the street. This one, 1985 classic changed their lives. I'm curious because you are widely seen as one of the finest Shakespearean actors of our time, how he reacted when Disney came to you and said would like for you to be in a movie that's based on an amusement park ride.

Oh the movie.

Of course, was Pirates of the Caribbean and if you're wondering how Jonathan could be franchise wearing no less be the advice he got years ago. Over lunch with legendary acting coach Lee Strasburg during the show on Broadway have never done anything for weeks or months on what advice can you on the sandwich in his hand. He said you it's your job. Now it's Rice's job to face off against the dating of those present. See my correction did you feel like you could relate to Benedict yes sense when I'm old but he sure doesn't act old sounding is something he's not out shooting Sarandon, who turns 82 this month is an avid painter and you have several going at once say Hopkins has a knack for creating level images you do all the that if they do well mousing about in a storied career. He's probably best known for his Oscar-winning role as an especially hungry new Hannibal lector was the part of a lifetime when you read this well you shall reap what your relationship with that character. Now, you forgot the people must constantly I ate some nice for him.

The 1991 role seem to come at just the right time you fly back to school not what my mother before hospital bills seven to the last. This thing is as follows:/on-screen and off. It seems Faith comes easy to Anthony Hopkins. Or at least it does now did this affect how you see the divine doing this movie did it make you look at religion differently.

Yes, you should be no nothing wrong with believing anything. Except as mental and emotional pain too much stuff but Hopkins says he got sober in 1975, after a chat about God with someone from AA and he now believes that his sobriety took more than just his own willpower a lot more suddenly the craving to drink vanished vacuumed out to me just vanished sense of well-being for the first time in my life is about 38 years of age is 44 is going so do you think that when you are 38 and you are able to just quit drinking was that divine intervention so very of who you are somebody does deal briefly with the abuse that rocked the Catholic Church at its heart, the two popes is about rivals hashing out their differences. Maybe that's the point. Sometimes even the most unlikely partners can end up finding some kind of harmony. Is there anything else you want to touch on is the duo. This is you want to know was a Grammy-winning song for awareness more set back in 1995 will now that song is front and center in a new Broadway show based on Burbank's legacy. If you're a certain kind of person came of age in the 1990s and someone innocently asks you, isn't it ironic, your brain can only go to one place of a generation generation of young women realized they didn't really fit into the box. Society was trying that was okay trail jagged Little 5.5 years later will Broadway. I just didn't want to be an awkward square peg into a round hole. Morrissette finally agreed, but on one condition. The musical couldn't be autobiographical, meaning it had to have its own story so she turned to Diablo Cody.

The Oscar-winning writer of the film Juno is not my girlfriend face Cody's job was to write a plot around Alaniz's song. A lot of them actually have narrative. They have characters there about something there about meaningful things. Things like a seemingly perfect Connecticut family feelings trying to come to terms with just how life actually is reeking of real life, Diablo Cody, a mother of three showed us the somewhat unglamorous spot in her LA home where she wrote the shows first draft actually wrote a couple of weeks. I was just completely manic, like I just was cranking it out. I would call and get delivered to the garage door Doritos inherent in some very race addiction, sexual assault things directly from today's news headline in the cast list down to simulate the shot and we project an image that click mass shootings have become so common that I can say like oh that's an interesting tonight because I was mashing some topics in there that some people involved in musical room little reticent in my response to any apprehension on their part was its meal back or set has never shied away from think the big life, something that was apparent even on jagged Little pill which Morrissette wrote she was just 19 years old as the from that record was immediate, intense, and disorient after Hannah my pocket was released could walk down the streets anymore.

So, life went from me watching people to all of a sudden I became the watch I thought fame would afford me this hyper connectivity with people we become by eyeing Sharon Stone would be like lying in her lap.

She be petting my head so none of that was happening and I was actually feeling quite isolated and alone. I think a lot of people be surprised to hear that you felt invisible while you are very very famous not speak for everybody but there is a often it's that there's a trauma that has us chase fame. If you think about what fame is its a lot of eyeballs looking at you and my father very wisely said when I was younger.

He said honey in the public eye.

People will love you people hate you, and people won't care. Now 45 years old. Morrissette spends time these days at home in northern California with her husband and three children. She's been open about her struggles with postpartum depression, with all three children, including her four-month-old son Onyx is actually saving grace to be able to write I can write when I'm happy I can write when I'm despondent. Writing is always there for me smiling is one of the two new song Morrissette wrote and she's not done yet is often the reasons I drink. She's currently working on a new album shall support with a tour this spring, but the one thing she says she wouldn't write differently is her hit song. Ironic, which is maybe the most well-known, but which sleep doesn't so much describe irony as much is just a bunch of bad things happen in I am aware that I'm really really fine that's ironic. I would count for joining us this morning. Will see again next week with Gary this week.

Stephen Long live Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm monument list for me to set races 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 products to New Hampshire people really just don't like you have more from this week's conversation, follow the take-out with Maj. Garrett on podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts