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It would pretty good so what are scientist doing with the seeds from those ancient trees and why possible to bring a place like this back will it'll take a while through the thousand years old.

We have to begin someday.

The shift from Redwood conservation restoration ahead on Sunday morning. We have a summer song tailor-made for independence day visit with singer John Mellencamp. Let's just say it was a wild ride time with John Mellencamp you still pray for them all to take your life in your hands. I know I shouldn't want to help as well. 4 July is all about our inalienable right to choose our political leaders this morning. Aaron Moriarty takes a look at one high profile candidate in our Empire State in Nixon made a name for herself as part of a famous court on sex and the city is looking for a starring role on a different day running for governor of New York a lot money you don't have the poles right now. How it is totally a David and Goliath thing that's absolutely true why Cynthia Nixon is taken on her toughest role yet ahead on Sunday morning. Plenty of us will be seeing red over the coming holiday.

Our Luke Burbank. Among them in these divided times there are still at least one thing Americans seem to agree on most Americans would come for virtually everybody yes catcher we put it on everything but how to get in all those bottles from field. The French fry everything you wanted to know about catcher later on Sunday morning will have those stories and more just ahead America's independence and liberties are rooted in a history 242 years old. America's most net craning trees are rooted in a history much older than that. Our cover story is reported by Lee Cowan deep in one of California's few remaining old-growth forests sat popular with tourists since the 1880 Giants record so dry and a total was carved in its trunk last year. The treetop school was estimated to be around a thousand years old and other trees. Why couldn't Redwood family are testament to how much we are fascinated by these ancient evergreens social reminder of just how much we use the look like the redwoods were limitless resource that we could never possibly cut all of them down and we needed those for houses and lumber camps in the mineshaft tunnel shore up poles or everything seem like a limitless resource. Alex Timoney is a Ranger at the very first state park in California big basin redwoods State Park, about 65 miles south of San Francisco. It's been a Park since 1902. Ever since a photographer named Andrew PQ led the first of its kind conservation chart to protect Giants like this one. What's now called the father of the forest tree was probably only to be another six months to a year before all of these old-growth trees were standing right now. What got is that close that close those trees were saved. Other old-growth groves were not so much five document school reported on the roster terms on the last remaining Redwood forest either in the lumbar work to clear them out of the way to make room for a hike with original Redwood forest covered acres along the California coast more than two thirds of Redwood trees goal their loss amended the more you can preserve better. I I don't think that the world needs anymore freely and with no place to go on the final tally 95% of California's original Redwood forest was law wiped clean Giants stop reminders of what it stood here for so long and it's not as if the threat is entirely open. Even today, only about 1/4 of the Coast Redwood habitat protected from commercial logging to develop. That said, those that remain stand as cathedrals of nature, been here long before Columbus landed in the Americas tower some 30 stories tall. Yes, that's a grown person being dwarfed massive truck like when someone is the best is the best. I say usually it's something like all Sam Hodder is Pres. and CEO of the nonprofit save the redwoods league started buying up forest land. 100 years ago, but much of it is younger for maturing as big or as fast as some conservationists would like to see these when he thinks 56 years old. Amy's relays are just babies just babies were working with Redwood forests that have been clear-cut multiple times and are growing back with such a density of stems that there crowding each other out. That becomes a thicket of spindly trees that don't get enough sunlight. But don't get enough water is just too much competition. There's too much competition. So there is some shift underway from forest conservation to forest restoration which includes one idea that may have you scratching your heads logging next five years. Save the redwoods league will be working the thin over 10,000 acres of smaller tree to give the remaining redwoods space more nutrients and more light in order to grow faster. This like in a garden where you prune to accelerate the growth of the dominant plants need to fit figuring out which of these precious trees day and which ones go is no easy decision, which I'll trade like that assignment that really really not save the redwoods league scientist Emily Berger along with University of California Davis Prof. David Neal are trying to unlock the genetic sequence. Some of the oldest living things on the planet so as old as they are as iconic as they are when really know that much about the strong silent type science to help decode what's going on trees.

Last year into UC Davis. The other Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. They began the complex task of mapping the Redwood Gino to uncover nature's blueprint that is as unique to every tree is a real genetic makeup is to its you have to have a parts list to understand whether anything is the same or different that it was before the parts list for Redwood did not exist. The daunting task we we won't be able to do it overnight you will take a few years, but it's achievable. We as humans have 3 billion pairs of DNA complicate, but the Coast Redwood has some 30 billion days. I thought we were the most complex organisms on earth well know that you should rethink that essay, probably two or three that would pretty get it all starts with the redwoods coming in the seeds embedded in high.

Someone has to make their way way up there and pluck them off by he clear Kleiman to 300 feet near me.

I would like to its from the seeds where the DNA is extracted one scalpel cut at a time. Millions of little pieces of DNA chemical building blocks of life sequenced and then fed into a powerful computer is a puzzle and told on the floor and I have to put back together $2.6 million project has been funded by mostly private donation when it's done scientist will map enough of the genome and enough trees to help identify the kinds that are most resilient and likely to live long life within 100 years.

We absolutely can set these forests on a healthy trajectory where they have many of the characteristics by looking final death nurturing knowledge from site to save what John Steinbeck was called ambassadors from another time when so much of the conversation today is about what we've lost the damning of the world's waterways. The receding glaciers we have in the Redwood forest, a sense of hope and we can truly leave the world better than we found. This is your United States producing our new five digit program will patronize Sunday morning, July 1955 years ago today a red letter day for the US Post Office goes up both bookwork want to know how to work it was day one of its zoning improvement plan for short email delivery.

The post office gave each of its locations.

A unique five digit number, ZIP Code five trailblazing numbers like this one as outlined by Postmaster Gen. J.

Edward day and exhaustive geographical detail. The first one of the five members will indicate a section of the country, such as all of the Western states next to numbers out of the five will designate either a particular state or a part of a state had ever dealt with question in the signing is one thing to use them was another carefully, which was where a massive PR campaign came in caring was created to give the new system human face celebrate: perhaps most singly of all, I know another than a five digit enough to remember 1983, featuring additional digit neighborhoods buildings even postal boxes no matter where we live over service can always claim to have you seeing anyone special. Nixon won a fair amount of thing for her role as Miranda on the TV series sex and the city, but does not mean she can win the Democratic nomination for governor of New York hears Aaron Moriarty of 48 hours Nixon space instantly recognizable thanks to that show sex in the city and 40 years of appearing on stage and screen, but that may not help her win the role of a lifetime once played Maranda Hahn the hard driven lawyer has now joined the ranks of the more than a dozen women across the country who are running for their state's highest office.

Because what are we waiting for. What are we waiting for. There's no cavalry coming we we have to be to Calvary ourselves. We have to we have to leave the charge rising change of career for a woman didn't need one. 52-year-old Cynthia Nixon is 12 mayonnaise a Grammy and to Tony's one just last year for best featured actress in the Broadway revival of the little foxes. She's been acting since she was nine, beginning with the game show to tell the truth where her mother worked at 12 she was passing the feature found little darlings what is that you liked acting it since it's a wonderful piece of literature is a piece of literature made flesh, but it's also a chance to try on different personalities and and see different people's lives and for me, particularly when I was an adolescent. It was awaiting how my powerful feelings that it also help pay the bills. She was raised by her single mother in Manhattan after her parents marriage broke up. My dad had some real troubles and in our home could really be a scary place.

Sometimes he said to him, he was physical but a lot of screaming and a lot of crying and a lot of a lot of upset. So when Nixon was six, her mother walked out, taking her daughter with her for me all the times in my life that I found the strength and courage to stand up including now are for what she showed me the that I could do with her mother's encouragement.

Nixon's career took off. My name is Dan in 1998 learning along came sex and the city, and 32-year-old Cynthia Nixon became a star really feeling. We certainly could never have imagined the success and popularity in the longevity, but I think it really was ahead of its time and I think Maranda in particular was so ahead of her time. He said that when you first took on the part of Maranda even really connected (I love Maranda from the get-go but but certainly she was far more confrontational than I was. She was far more of a gladiator but I found that by the end of the shell that I had definitely become more like is time to stick to remember where we came from is time to be visible this time it all seems to given her the drive run for New York Gov. taking on another Democrat Andrew Romo two-term incumbent in the primary and the most recent poll, however, he's more than 30 points ahead of her. Everybody assumes that that figure more establishment better funded candidate is, is the person who's got it in the bag. I wouldn't write me off so quickly this phrase as with so many of the races around the country.

I really a fight for the soul. We need a Democratic Party that is getting people something to vote for not just something to vote against. You can't just say vote for me because I'm not Donald Trump celebrity or more than a lot of other first-time candidate hasn't saved her from half question. No offense, but you do not have experience in public office should governor of New York be the first job you have.

Well, Nixon has worked for years as a public school. After this, she has never held public office. If you really want to make change in you start on a more accessible office. Why, that's because the governor is what's wrong with the state to pull this musical off you don't have the money you don't have the poles right now. How it is totally a David and Goliath thing that's absolutely true, but we've got three months and if you look how far we've come in the in the three months since and since I started running. We just need to keep talking about the issues, Nixon could pull off an upset. She would not only become the first email that also the first gay governor of New York State.

She's married to Christine Maren Downey, a woman she met when she first became involved with public education advocacy mattered. Now I never had when you realize that you were filing for Christine. Well I had such admiration for her. From the very beginning, but there was a lot going on in my life I was doing sex and the city I was raising my family and it wasn't really until my mind. We were married that my relationship with my children's father broke up and I was at such a low point.

She was really she was there for me in an incredible way to have a young son Nixon's child and they share a home filled with reminders of the world she left behind. It's not hard to put this behind this is been your life.

You know, Jackson, I mean she served in Parliament for what is it 23 years left his back and probably just wanted us actress Tony a lot of careers this time around.

Cynthia Nixon has chosen to write her own script for a role she says she's ready to play. Women have as much right to leave anybody and our voices have been to few and far between, and it's why am so inspired by all the women who are running for office for the first time.

It's one of the things that really clinch my decision to run to before there were podcasts there was television. Remember, see what's new under the sun every Sunday morning lovers will be seeing rounded many a Fourth of July picnic or barbecue our Luke Burbank can hardly wait picture is just one of those American things so common, so typical, so ubiquitous that most of us never given a second thought. Everything that you wanted sweet-and-sour vinegar and sugar. Andrew Smith is a food historian who says catch up actually started out in what is now considered Indonesia as a sort of fish sauce called Coetzee. British colonists brought it home and then in the 19th century. It landed here where there was an overabundance of tomatoes. If you have chosen to do something with one of it took off immediately due to its ability to add flavor to things and we mean everything. During the depression. People go into small divers they would order a glass of water and then they would pick up the ketchup and they would add the catchup and they would have tomato juice at the end about the low vodka in their couple of olives and the man may be most responsible for ketchup's spread was a young German-American businessman in Pittsburgh named Henry J. Hines. He started out selling horseradish with limited success, but it was his tomato ketchup.

That really took off were to Middlefield, California. This is a field that contains 4707 or what course of Hines writing Troy Shannon works for Hines, this tomato is exactly right for ketchup. It's much thicker and less juicy than a normal tomato that you buy the grocery store. The 4707 has actually been patented by Hines. The result of years of research and development and after those 4707 are picked they become the responsibility of Hector Osorio tomato ketchup master really that's his title and he knows the secret recipe you yes Osorio is one of only seven ketchup Masters of Hines. I charge maintaining the taste color and consistency of all 600 and million bottles sold year old file right now. Okay. But one place his ketchup mastery will be necessary. Chicago, at least not when it comes to hotdogs and step behind the counter at Portillo's culture deals you'll see that Chicago style hotdogs or hurting for flavor is our strategy to eating some. And don't even think about asking for ketchup across town at the legendarily saucy wieners.

No Chicago. I know and it turns out she wasn't kidding. Thank you, thank you okay well I had to try. I guess the good news is that just means more ketchup for the rest of Steve Hartman now with the story of a couple getting a second chance at love purchase the current Jeff and Angela getting to know you stage of the relationship. Like most companies going through this discovery. Jeff and Angela Hartung of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where there are married and have for the past 17 years.

Remember so much was lost after the accident about five years ago Angela got hit by a car crossing this intersection in New York City.

She suffered a traumatic brain injury woke up at all.

My two children, but they were right to an eight years old. They were 17 and 23 years old. We Angela had no memory of at least the last years of her life. She thought she was still married to her first husband who died long ago and had no recollection whatsoever over second wedding to Jeff or anything about Jeff, which left him with a question that had no easy answer how to go from stranger back to spouse.

He started by lighting virtually every inch of their home with pictures reminders of happier days. Then he began courting his wife about that one.

And most importantly never left her side. Help me and eventually it worked which called for a celebration. One, Angela.

Never forget last month surrounded by friends and family in New York's Central Park. Jeff and Angela started the next chapter of their story today I choose you again. Of course years would a lot of marriages would Jeff believes the accident did quite the opposite.

I honestly believe that this happened you feel like it's a blessing. This happened not the injuries but the fact that you prove yourself all over to over time as we set our wish I could go back and do something over again.

Got that and that's the beauty of having a second chance find one coming soon mode obituaries a podcast on matters of death and life from Mo Rocca that John Mellon, 1980.

He was honored at the songwriters Hall of Fame awards in New York earlier this month and he was a most gracious host when I came to visit him on his home turf.

John Mellencamp was born lives outside.

Keep your feet on the plague where it crossed my mind like a giant one. I am not letting I know I should've one helmet John Mellencamp has come a long way. Seymour is about 50 miles from here is 86 acre estate borders like Monroe near Bloomington. What is it about human I have to come home and I can be away for long time back here Bresson I run you know the bucolic life fast. Okay 85 is what you claim all but I didn't come home to Indiana to ride, I came to talk. Where would you rather be than sitting here being interviewed well cards on the table. I don't. I have talked about myself 40 years just not that interesting, not interesting, married in high school and the father in 19 Wasted no time at 21, he went to New York to study art or to sign a record. It turned out certainly wanted me record company wanted to give me a C. I ended up getting a record deal like that. I interviewed the head of a record company and he said within minutes.

Everybody knows that somebody was watching the door has something but the most humility.

I say that's what happened. They did were still listening to Mellencamp classics like Jack and Diane will I know 25 guy with no life would go on long after the thrill of living is: I wrote those words, and for me it was very helpful because I'm about you but I want to do something every day. I want to learn something every day. I want to make something every day if I go for day and don't make anything guilty about.

I love every part of that statement what you think is delighting you. I wrote a song like a short song he's been smoking by the way most of his life since he was 10 is also a serious and prolific painter's portraits have been shown in museums and the music often interrupts the brushwork record targets that song I couldn't keep up. So songwriting has become like a real surprised and really exciting at my age is worksite. Now the 23rd album is called sat down and healed. The critics took notice on finding this out for you and really, really good. I don't care this matter to me if you if you care about the music changed over his name in the 1970s through the 80s. He was John's first manager thought while he went by John cougar Mellencamp by the early 90s. The cougar was in times of political Mellencamp songs about freedom struggling farmers working to make assumptions. While my biggest disappointment. You would think with all the god damn people in somebody with taking the time to set forth so $51 for John Mellencamp.

Sounds like one self-assured son of a gun. She is the reason why here's the trick is confidence.

My grandmother told me buddy.

Don't forget you're the handsomest luckiest talented way.

The flipside of that is is really hard for girlfriends to compete with knowledge fact that relationships been a struggle with the greatest lesson you've learned from the women in your life.

Apparently women just like that's all I he's been linked in recent years to perennial cover girl Christie Brinkley and actress Meg Ryan before them, three wives has five children and nine grandkids you look at we talk what triggers you have a voice to protect you in my voice fantastic like a black guy singing that's what I want.

I wanted to sound like you know Louis Armstrong but I did I sound like a white guy that I got my babies. He says he doesn't worry so much about cigarettes and his health.

He's got a strange theory, rightfully or wrongfully. I believe that it's the combination of cigarettes and alcohol get people to of them combined and he hasn't had a drink. He says since college is probably a wacky idea, but it comforts me now that I said that two weeks from now you Mellencamp dies hard. He's already had a heart attack at 42 and now at 66. He does think about mortality. I can see the finish line. I only have so many summers I tend not to waste the season for movies critic David Alstyne some recommendations.

Here's the problem facing the critic telling you what the sea around July 4. You have incredible stew Jurassic world, whatever. And some Marvel insects superhero nonsense there on 18 different screens at the multiplex in IMAX 3D 2D smell a vision the great smaller films are harder to find because this is fast golf this distribution chasm between movies budgeted a zillion dollars and everything else. So I'll split the difference. First, the big event you haven't seen incredible stew go because it's a terrific animated movie, but because it's proof that someone not anyone director Brad Bird can make a superhero picture that sleep and shapely action sequences that are stylish, rather than loaded and noisy.

That said, Marvel however much it gobbles up screens as its virtues and the loss Friday is readable, family-friendly slapstick comedy over busy good sight gags in which you laugh at every crazy lurch and scale.

On the other hand, Jurassic park falling kingdom proves the kingdom hasn't fallen far enough.

The first time a Dino case is a little girl around the house is excited.

The second, less so by the third the movies just chasing its own dumb tail to weirder territory.

Sometimes I swear if you're one of those nutty masochist who lives to be emotionally ripped to shreds by horror movies, the love of your life hereditary with Tony collecting a performance almost as a woman can't tell if demons are infesting her family or if it's just you know dysfunctional family business as usual for both stress and spoiler spouse decided to keep a journal almost as masochistic and devastating is Paul Schrader's brilliant first reform in which Ethan Paul plays an alcoholic pastor torn apart by the church's failure to act in the face of environmental catastrophe change.

Look for two documentaries, one in raging the other healing. Three identical stranger centers on triplets adopted by three different families who meet by chance and bond is known one another all their lives. When things kind guy. What begins as a goofy parent trap like tale in which nature trumps nurture more horrific project to a diabolical study will confirm your worst fears about science and the government for your best hopes she won't you be my neighbor and celebrate Fred Rogers love you unconditionally. It's a wonderful breather from reality what you come back more dismayed than ever. By the hate that runs the world and markdown on your calendar. July 13 I opening day of comedian Bo Burnham's debut feature eighth grade, starring an amazing girl named Elsie Fisher so cool if there's a more wrenching, more hauntingly accurate portrait of growing up now, well, I'm not sure I could take it. I'm Jane Pauley.

Thank you for listening and please join us again next Sunday morning.

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