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Good morning. Im jane pauley and this is sunday morning. Its been well over two years since haitis president was assassinated, and more than seven years since its citizens last went to the polls. Result, utter chaos. Why haiti . And what now . Thats where well start off morning with Martha Teichner. Of course, today is st. Patricks day. Around the world, more than 70 Million People have irish roots. Pretty impressive when you population of ireland is only about 5 million. Conor knighton takes us back to the emerald isle. Reporter it feels like everyone is irish on st. Patricks day. 30 million americans actually claim irish ancestry. Its such a special experience to tell them something about ancestors that have directly affected them today. Reporter coming up on sunday morning, we pay a visit to epic, the museum of irish emigration in dublin. Millions tune in to watch him every night as he hosts jeopardy . One of the longest running game shows on television. Luke burbank has some questions for the man with all the answers. Ken jennings. From the stage ly. The greatest jeopardy player of all time, and now he hosts the show. But he is hoping you wont hold that against him. Something about that kind of success seemed not just morally suspect, but unseemly, you know. Bad manners to be famous. Reporter how rude. Get over yourself. Who is ken jennings . Later on sunday morning. Its the novel that made you cry, which became the movie that made you cry. David pogue talks with nicolas sparks as the notebook opens on broadway. Reporter you didnt cry, did you . Yeah, i got a little you get a little weepy. The actors were crying. The audience was crying. Everyone was crying. Reporter its a story of everlasting love. Also a story of memory and how we became who we are at this moment. Sadness and joy reporter well go behind the curtain with nicolas sparks ahead on sunday morning. Also this morning, lee cowan goes trolling for trolls with spectacular results. Tracy smith is in conversation with Christine Blasey ford who talks about the toll contacted for speaking out. Plus, Mark Whitaker at a Sculpture Park dedicated to telling a story of slavery. Well go fishing for koi with elizabeth palmer. A story from Steve Hartman. A sip of bourbon with jim axlerod and more. This is sunday morning, march 17th, 2024, and well be back in a moment. Haiti has been without any sort of elected government for more than a year now, and this past week things appeared to go from bad to much wose. Weve asked Martha Teichner to take the long view. Reporter how could haiti even get to the point that its capital, portauprince, is paralyzed by armed gangs . Or at least part of the answer, take a look at its histor. You may find it hard to believe. The island haiti shares with the dominican republic, columbus landed here in 1492 and called it hispaniola, claiming for spain. But haiti eventually became a fabulously rich french colony. Its plantations producing much of the worlds coffee and sugar. In 1791, the enslaved africans who worked those plantations revolted. What followed was a 13year bloodbath. Then, on january 1, 1804, haiti traded the french flag for the own. It became the first black republic and abolished slavery. But in 1825, the french came back with gun boats and an outrageous demand. Reparations. Haiti had to borrow the money with interest. Yes, from france. 20 billion at a minimum. Reporter todays money . Yes. Reporter Jake Johnston is the author of aid state an in analysis of the effects of foreign intervention in haiti. They wanted to be paid to recognize haiti. Paid for their lost property, the enslaved population that had become an independent nation. It has a huge impact knowing that you gain your freedom, but you had to pay those who were holding you as a slave. Reporter Monique Clesca is a haitian journalist and activist. It is a collective scar that we carry. So it has a major impact because we could have been better. Reporter instead of building roads and schools and hospitals, haiti was paying off that debt, until 1947. How important an factor has the United States presence and involvement been . Well, i think its hard to overstate. The United States marines land in haiti to battle haitian bandits. Reporter in 1915, the United States sent in the marines, took control of haitis finances, and occupied the country for 19 years. It has continued to play political puppeteer ever since. Just one example. The United States backed the duvalier dictatorship. Francois papa doc duvalier seized power in 1956, declaring himself president for life. He eliminated opposition with the help of his murderous goon squad called the Toncontin International airport one reason they ended up being a supporter of the duvalier dictatorship, they were a bulwark against communism in the hemisphere. Reporter when Papua New Guinea died, his son jeanclaude, just 19, known as baby doc, declared himself president for life. But was forced into exile in 1986, taking with him by some estimates as much as 800 million stolen from the people. Of the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Haiti actually held free and Peaceful Elections in 1991. A former priest was elected president and was overthrown just a year later. So much for stability. Then, in january 2010, haitis worst earthquake in 200 years destroyed much of portauprince and killed, according to haitian officials, more than 200,000 people. In the chaotic aftermth, dozens of gangs emerged. They were working hand in hand with politicians. Reporter so you cant separate the gang situation from the political situation . No. Not at all. The gangs became empowered. The gangs were validated, armed, et cetera, by the economic and the political elites. Reporter since the assassination of president Jovenel Moise in 2021, arielle has served as the unpopular unelected prime minister. His resignation hinges on the establishment of a transitional council. Meanwhile, the gangs united under barbecue, making political demands. So what now with the United States and other regional players trying to broker the transition . It seems that haiti has rarely been in the hands of haitians . You are absolutely right, and it is a battle that we are waging to confirm, to affirm our sovereignty. Reporter haitis history has been described as a series of crises with brief periods of hope and peace. Will this be one of those periods . Or the same old story, doomed to failure . My heart tells me that it is 50 50, but my head tells me it may be 80 might fail. But what i know is we got to take the chance because were dying every day. Introducing, neds plaque psoriasis. He thinks his flaky red patches are all people see. 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We dont need a countdown. Just take the picture. Millions of us will celebrate st. Patricks day today, but its meaning resonates most among those who trace their roots to the emerald isle. Conor knighton sent us a postcard from dublin. Reporter the ruins of dthe castle tower. While its been centuries since anyone lived here, this American Tour Group has come to imagine what life might have been like when their ancestors called this home. Does that change the experience . Yes, to know that we have had relatives that probably rode horses out here. Thats exciting. Maybe lived in the castle. Who knows . Reporter more than 30 million americans claim irish ancestry. Worldwide, more than 70 Million People have irish roots. Yet, the Current Population of ireland is only around 5 Million People. And the capitol city of dublin, the epic museum tells the story of irish emigration. Thats emigration with an e. The waves of citizens who moved abroad. Os other countries dont have museums dedicated to everyone who left that country. Is that the story of ireland . It is a history of emigration. We were the only country in europe to have more people at the start of the 19th century than at the end. Reporter Catherine Healy is an historian in residence at epic. Exhibits at the Museum Highlight the achievements of those with irish ancestry. Athletes, entertainers, inventors, and authors. Everyone from cedric gibbons, designer ever the oscar statue, james hoban, who designed the white house. Its inspired by some of the jo gorgen architecture. Reporter 23 occupants, from president James Buchanan to joe biden. The poor irish, im at home. Reporter john f. Kennedy with the first Irish Catholic president. This is not the land of my birth, but i hold the greatest affection. Reporter in 2011, president obama traveled to the irish village of moneygall where his great, great, greatgrandfather lived before setting sale for america. He left during the great hunger. So many irish did to seek a new life in the new world. Reporter the peak of emigration in the famine of the mid 1800s. Over a tenyear period, the failure. The potato crop prompted a quarter of the irish population to set sail for america. It was a journey of desperation. People having no ability to have a livelihood in ireland. Reporter but the museum tells that story. It also tells the story of cherished exports from the irish pub to irish music. Have you done some research yourself . Reporter for an additional fee, its possible to book a session with a professional genealogist at the affiliated irish Family History center. My greatgrandparents came from ireland in the early 1900s. I worry my great, great, great uncle was the town streaker or Something Like that. No. Reporter there is no skeletons in the closet . No. Reporter Kayleigh Bealin uncovered lots of fun stories from a record of dog licenses. Your ancestors had so many pet dogs. Reporter to the origin of cra craig chriochain. It means descent ent of chriochain which is a short person, which i thought was funny. Reporter you are related to leprechauns . Yeah. Reporter although it turns out there was at least one troublemaker in the family. Your second or third great grad dad brought to court for the crime of herding two head of cattle on the public road. I think public road is a strong use of the word there. Reporter i will be free to leave the country. You will be free. You have to pay sixpence. Reporter epic stands for every person is connected. You can find irish links everywhere. The museum recently hosted an exhibition on irish migration to the caribbean. While st. Patricks day parades around the world are full of people proud of their irish heritage, she says its taken time for the irish to view emigration as something to celebrate. For a long time our diaspora has been overlooked and there has been a lot of shame associated with emigration. That tragedy is still there because were not just talking about famine emigration here. We are talking about single mothers who have to leave this country and because of the shame associated with having a child outside of marriage. Reporter epic was created to highlight the positive impacts of irish emigration. The walls feature a quote from irelands former president , mary robinson. After all, emigration isnt just a chronicle of sorrow. Its also a powerful story of contribution and adaptation. Reporter centuries of giant contributions all coming from a small island. You know that thing your family does . Yeah, that thing. Someone made it a thing, way back in the day. But where did it come from . And how did it get all the way to you . Curious . Ancestry can help you find out. Because that thing has a story, and its still being written. What are you waiting for, a sale . Well, lucky you. vo wish you knew how your cat was feeling . 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The architect danish artist thomas dambo wanted to draft this 10,000pound creature to be both imposing and inviting. He felt a little bit too human before. He has the big branches and fur and big beard. I dont want people to think its like human. Reporter right, right. He looks like a troll now, thats for sure. Yeah. Reporter oscar isnt the first, nor will he be the last. Dambo has built more than 100 trolls in 17 countries, and no two are alike. Each has its own story. Like mr. Jack lumber in denmark. Hector el protector in puerto rico. Anna green in germany. His way of the bird king project is one of the latest in a series of troll sculptures he has been commissioned to build here in the u. S. , which includes benny the beard fisher in michigan, rita the rock planter in colorado, pia the peacekeeper in washington state. Giants they are, but gentle ones. They arent here to terrify, he says. They are here to teach. Specifically, about the one mistake we humans cant seem to outgrow. Our ever growing piles of trash. Everything that i do is showing people that trash can have value. So that trash doesnt need to be a negative thing that is suffocating our world, but it can be a beautiful thing we can build our common world with. A pile like this, thats a dream come true. Its like a regular toy story. Yep, his trolls are mostly made from recycled wood. Scraps that might otherwise end up in a landfill or just be burned. Discarded shipping pallets are his favorite. A typical troll needs about five tons of them. The world is running out of resources and we are drowning in our own trash. Those two things are each others solution. Thats what my art is about. Reporter dambo has been dumpster diving since he was a kid in denmark. He says he always had a peculiar interest in what other people would throw away and how he might repurpose it. You can build anything out of anything if you just are creative. Reporter so why trolls . Well, dambo says trolls with always been protecters of our forests, and to create these giant guardians in the woods out of material that used to be forest itself, he hoped it would send a powerful but accessible message. Do most people get it . Most people get it. People, they want to be a part of something fun and something beautiful and a positive change. Pretty much everybody wants to be a part of that. Reporter thats why everywhere he goes he enlists armies of local volunteers to help. Like longtime Vashon Island resident greg martin. What have you gotten out of this whole experience personally . Just an expansion for all of us to look at a different way of doing stuff. A different way of looking at stuff. Reporter martin, who is one of oscars many caretakers. Dambo and his team move on and leave oscar behind. Im okay that they dont last forever. Thats the beauty of wood. It grows out of the ground and it decomposes straight into the ground again. Reporter but perhaps more than anything, what thomas dambo hopes you will take away from his not so trashy trolls is the journey to find them. Some he flatout hides, giving only a few clues to where his fans can find them. But its in that, he says, that his trolls show their true magic. Luring us humans out into the woods where there is just the wind and the whispers of nature. Thats when he says his trolls speak the loudest. I think its good to remind people that there is soil and sun and water and trees and thats a big joy for me to give that to people. Reporter all troll tales do have an element of truth. So, the next time youre out in the woods, look up at what might be looking down on you and find out just what you believe. Dont touch me i hate you i hate you why dont you just go leave go go it was a much loved film based on a bestselling novel. Get out your hankies. The notebook opened this past week on broadway. David pogue talks about the stories enduring appeal with author nicolas sparks. Reporter every broadway show has a souvenir stand for things like tshirts and mugs. But at a new musical that opened this past week, they are selling this. I guess this is one of the hottest little merch on broadway, according to articles that i have been reading. It is a tissue box with the logo of the play. Reporter nicolas sparks has published 24 romance novels, all bestsellers. They have sold 130 million copies and have been made into 11 movies. But the very first one he published is his biggest seller of all, the notebook from 1996. I wrote you every day for years. You wrote me . Yes. It wasnt over. It stale isnt over. Reporter the 2004 movie version put Young Ryan Gosling and Rachel Mcadams on the map and became a romance classic. Reporter now and its a broadway musical. Of course, i was here on opening night. It was unbelievable. Reporter you didnt cry, did you . Yeah. You get a little weepy. Reporter he is not alone. Did you cry at all . Um, from the jump. Did you cry . I did. Unelegant eye. Reporter you took a curtain call with the cast on opening night. Was that your first time on a broadway stage . Yeah. Shoot. I mean, it was my first time backstage. I am looking around like a tourist. Reporter every version of the notebook has employed a framing device as the end of his life approaches, husband noah reads from a notebook to his wife allie, who has alzheimers disease. Its the notebook containing the story of their own decadeslong love. Take me back one day take me back that was the story inspired by my exwifes grandparents. They met young, separated for years, she comes back, finds her first true love and they live long and happy and in their final years age begins to take its toll. Hey, im noah. Im ali. Reporter is there any shame in hearing this show described as a tearjerker . I dont mind it. If we are the play that makes you feel things cry, then there are worse boxes to be in. Reporter playwright bekah bruntsetter wrote the script and songwriter Ingrid Michaelson wrote the music and lyrics. I spoke to them on opening night. As we normally dont wear matching blazers and have this much makeup on. Reporter its the first time either of them has worked to on a broadway show. I thought, i can do this. I can figure out how to make people who are going to come with their arms folded unfold their arms, basically. Lets all laugh. You know . And kind of combining those two things constantly, because laughter and tears are just so right there next to each other all the time. Reporter in the musical, three pairs of actors play the couple at three different ages. From the very beginning, we knew we wanted three alis and three noahs. You can have an older version of a character watching theirselves, especially since we are dealing with memory so much and losing memory and fragmented memory, that having other versions of themselves on stage were really helpful. Reporter no nicolas sparks romance novel has ever included a black main character, but in the musical noah and ali seem to change races fluidly at different ages. I love you, ali. Reporter i asked codirectors Michael Greif and Schele Williams about that. Its not the story. You are seeing the spirit of who they are. You are seeing not only their essence, but their experience. For someone like me who grew up looking at theater through a window and never through a mirror, being able to see myself on stage is powerful. It grew out of how do we do this in the best possible way. Unique and i think wonderful casting idea. Reporter many on the Creative Team relate deeply to the dementia depicted in the show. My mom has alzheimers. So when i read the story, it really spoke to me. I have a grandfather who had alzheimers. I had witnessed it firsthand. And it seems like pretty much everyone has a grandparent or an aunt or uncle or sibling, you know. So its some form of dementia. Yeah. Reporter does it affect the writing . Yes. Yeah. I mean, all of that is in there from us. Reporter yeah. Reporter reviews of the musical have ranged from rave to reserved. But nicolas sparks suspects that a story this universal will be criticproof. It is a love story. It is a story of young love, reunited love, of everlasting love. Its also a story of memory. Reporter and speaking of eternal themes, remember that box of tissues . Turns out the musicals producers werent the first to recognize the marketing potential of kleenex. 30 years ago, when the notebook novel first came out, this, of course, is what we sent to critics and bookstore owners and, look at this. We give them a hankie for their tears. 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Now Christine Blasey ford is speaking out again. She is in conversation with our tracy smith. Reporter the waters around Lighthouse Field state beach in santa cruz, california, are beautiful to look at. But surfing here is something else. It takes a certain kind of fortitude to jump in. The waves are great, but the currents are strong and the rocks are sharp and unforgiving. Is there a part of you that wants to get in there . When i see it, i feel a little bit of an urge to go in the water, like if i had my stuff on, i would want to take a dip and dive in. Reporter Christine Blasey ford has surfed this break countless times on good days and bad, and as in this photo, she knows just what it takes to summon up your courage and hurl yourself off a cliff. I am here today not because i want to be. I am terrified. Reporter in september 2018, ford, a ph. D. In psychology, a professor at palo alto university, and a mother of two, jumped straight into the maelstrom of american politics. She alleged that Justice Brett kavanaugh, who was then a nominee for a seat on the Supreme Court, had sexually assaulted her in the summer of 1982, when she was 15 and he was 17. I was pushed on to the bed and brett got on top of me. He began running his hands over my body and grinding into me. Reporter the members of the Senate Judiciary committee hung on her every word, as did nearly 10 Million Viewers on cable tv. This confirmation process has become a national disgrace. Reporter a short time later, an emotional Brett Kavanaugh testified that ford had it all wrong. If the party described by dr. Ford happened in the summer of 1982 on a weekend night, my calendar shows all but definitively that i was not there. I categorically and unequivocally can deny the allegation against me by dr. Ford. I henever had any sexual or physical encounter of any kind with dr. Ford. Reporter re reached out to Justice Kavanaugh for this story but got in response to a request made through the court. Lets go over some of the things that the supporters of Justice Kavanaugh have said. One of the big things that they said is why is it that no one can recall that night in the way that you recall it, that there was that party. There were so many parties in high school. This was a pretty unremarkable one. His friends not being able to recall that evening, i guess just doesnt surprise me because everyone sort of got together almost every night to hang out together. Reporter do you think that that lends weight to his side of the story, that no one can remember it . It seems like they think that for sure and that that was how they were portrayed that night. Reporter but to you . Do you think that bolsters his side of the story of that no one can remember it . No, to me it doesnt bolster his story. For survivors out there, you know it happened to you. Even if no one of believed you or no one thought it happened or no one saw it. There are people that are assaulted all the time where no one else was even there, and that doesnt mean it didnt happen. Reporter and her testimony drew strong reactions from both sides. Were you naive about how the process worked . I like to use the word idealistic. Maybe i was naive for sure about how the consequences and how bad it would be after i testified. Reporter whats more, a memo release by Committee Chair Charles Grassleys office in november 2018 said that the senate and subsequent fbi investigations found, quote, no evidence to substantiate any of the claims of Sexual Assault made against Justice Kavanaugh. What was it like for you to see that . It goes out there. You know there were people on television saying, look, this exonerates Justice Kavanaugh. I was devastated when that report came out. I was really, really upset. That was a really difficult period that, i think, was the beginning of sort of the darkest times for me. Reporter things got dark, indeed. Not only was her moment in the National Spotlight deeply traumatizing, it also brought Death Threats credible enough to for force her and her family out of their home and into a hotel for months. What kind of threats were you getting . Gosh. I want to see you six feet under. I want tee to see you 12 feet u, a lot of those. I hope you get cancer. I hope you die. I give you a year. Glad you have two kids because we have two opportunities. And all of the letters like that, like they would have such similarity to them that it felt like do these people know each other . Because how could the wording be that similar . Reporter and they were threatening your family . Yes. Reporter your kids . Mmhmm, yeah. Especially the first born. That seemed to be a thing. Well take your first born. Reporter thats more than scary. Its still scary. It still scares me. Reporter in fact, it got so bad that the family needed round the clock security and, to this day, they still use guards for some public appearances. To go out to an event though for a night or to accept an award or Something Like that, maybe its only, like, five to 10,000. Reporter five to 10,000 a night if you want to go out . Yeah. Reporter she writes about it in a new book, one way back, including her struggle to decide how or if to come forward at all. It seems like you have kind of gotten back to if not normal, at least safety, feeling comfortable. Mmhmm. Reporter why write this book and put yourself out in the spotlight again . So this book is really for the letter writers and its dedicated to them. Reporter she says most of the mail she got was letters from supporters and survivors of Sexual Assault, so many that they have taken up the dining room in her home to, and they just keep coming. We have made it through 30,000 so far, and all i know is there is more than that left to go. Reporter she says the letters prove to her that even though Justice Kavanaugh was ultimately confirmed, her testimony meant something. I think it would be impossible to read the letters and not, even if you just read ten of them, and think that it didnt matter. Reporter do you feel like youre back to normal . Um, no. I think i gave up on the idea of normal quite a while ago. But im in a new normal, a new chapter, probably a new book. Reporter Christine Blasey ford says that when she first came forward, she didnt know how rough the waters would be, but for her it was the only way. Do you regret coming forward . Not at all. Reporter why not . I grew up in d. C. I revered all of those institutions. To me, the Supreme Court was sort of the ultimate. Thats where our very best people are, and i felt like the choice of saying nothing was more uncomfortable, that i would have to live with not saying anything about it. Dress for success is advice not normally tailored to third graders, until our Steve Hartman enters the picture. Reporter most 8yearold boys dont get dressed to the nines. To them, suits are for bathing and formal is a fourletter word. But james ramage of chelsea, maine, loves to dress for third grade success. He started a couple years ago and at first the other kids didnt know what to think. Every time i saw him, i was just, like, okay. Im, like, why is he dressing up . Reporter james knew he stood out. Did you just decide one day, i dont care what other people think . Yeah, i dont need to look like them anymore. I can be who i want to be. Reporter in any school, a decision like that can go a few different ways. 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Luke burbank catches up with ken jennings. Reporter the category is famous jennings. After being expelled from jamaica in 1716, this privatier became the unofficial governor of the pirate republic of nassau. I dont know this. Its one of my pirate forefathers named jennings . Reporter he may not know his trivia quite like he used to. This is the ravages of time we are witnessing . Like watching me turn to dust and blow away in a chill wind. Ken jennings you are the champion the greatest of all time. Reporter but thats okay if he is a little rusty because these days jennings gets to see all the answers before he heads out on stage as the now host of his favorite tv show ever. Its the plot of charlie and the Chocolate Factory i guess, retiring leader of a franchise takes, you know, five little boys and girls to see which one really loves his chocolate the most. And i was the one that didnt get sucked up the pipe or whatever. Alex trebek reporter his wonka, long time legendary host alex trebek who guided the show for decades. A show that turns 60 this year. As a young mormon kid living in korea, jennings said watching Armed Forces Television was his favorite way to pass the time. And his favorite thing to watch . Game shows, of course. I think it was actually the game play itself. It was a version of the world with well defined rules where you could watch a few of them and understand the format and as a kid dealing with a confusing world, game shows are different. Questions get answered almost immediately. For a right answer, there is a ping. For a wrong answer, an immediate buzz. Its not like life, which is messy. Game shows are neat and fun and easy. Reporter in college, instead of following his dreams of writing, he opted to become what he calls a bad computer programmer. Figuring it was the safe choice. He married his sweetheart, mindy, started a family and thought thats how his life would go. Im alex trebek and welcome to the jeopardy contestant exam. Reporter on a whim, he took the jeopardy contestant exam. I got the call a year later saying, hey, wed like to have you on in three weeks. I freaked out. I watched the show intensely. Standing up at home pretending it was a podium, mashing my thumb up and down on a fisherprice toy pretending it was a buzzer. My wife would keep scoring. It was a rocky training montage. A Software Engineer from salt lake city, utah, ken jennings. Reporter to this day, jennings says nothing compares to the nerves he felt under the lights and on camera that first time he stepped on stage as a contestant. But then something amazing happened. In that first game i found that, like, years of listening to the clipped rhythms of alex trebek really helped. Watching the show, standing up with my fake buzzer helped. I the timing right away. Julia. What is new zealand . Reporter in that first game, the score was close, and it all came down to final jeopardy. And i remember alex accepting my response. It was about the sydney olympics, who is marion jones. I had written down who is jones. Alex pusses for a second, like, is that enough . So alex looks to the judges and gets the high sign and says, thats correct. I realize im going to be a jeopardy champion for the rest of my life. It was an immediate rush of euphoria thats hard to explain. As good as the birth of my kids. I can say that now their teens and out of the house. It was an amazing moment. Alex would wait. If they didnt know, he would be like nope. Reporter that microsecond decision led to 74 straight victories, 2. 5 million, game show immortality, and eventually and improbably the job of jeopardy host. So i am standing at the might say altar of sorts. This is the telestrator where you can write down your name and final jeopardy response. Reporter why does it seem that so many highly intelligent people have such questionable handwriting on this show . Is it something to do with the device . The pen got better. This is nicer than the version i was trying to write with. I am getting flashbacks just by being here. Its almost like there were two jeopardy sets for me. This one and there is like a chasm between you and alex. Reporter jennings will admit to one possible advantage he might have in the job. His empathy for players. Because he has been there himself. Still, alex trebek looms large. If i was at sea, i would think, what would alex do here . And often if was to do less. He had an amazing minimalist kind of light touch where he never wanted the focus to be on himself, which is such an unusual beautiful thing in show business. I feel like even now, i want to be alex trebek when i grow up because nobodys ever going to do that job as well as he did it. Reporter which brings us back to our game and a mistake i made earlier, which the judges caught, that the top of the story, i said they give jennings the answers before the game, but, of course, thats incorrect. They give him the questions. So where exactly did that come from . Well, from jeopardy creator Merv Griffins thenwife julann, the story goes. Yes. They are on a plane coming back from vation and he is coming up with game show ideas and she says do one of those quiz shows like they used to have. He said we cant do those, they were crooked, giving the players the answers. She thinks about it and says, thats what you should do. Give them the answer. And theyll come up with the question. He says, what do you mean . She says, now, 5280 feet. He says, what is a mile . And thats the birth of jeopardy right there. Reporter the birth of a tv quiz show. More importantly, says jennings, the birth of something that in a small way has helped hold us americans together. At least for 30 minutes a night. And there is nothing trivial about that. The great and the odd thing about jeopardy is its kind of universally popular. Old people like jeopardy . Young people like jeopardy . Red states, blue states. Its bizarrely universal. America still agrees that there is like a half hour every day where facts do matter, and we are allowed to adjudicate things as right or wrong actually based on science and history. And i do think thats an important bulwark. vo welcome to lobsterfest. Is your party ready . Ready to attack this new lobster shrimp stack . Ready for your lobster lovers dream to come true . Theyre two of ten lobster creations, only at lobsterfest. Plus, cheddar bays for days. But lobsterfest wont last, so hurry in. The virus that causes shingles is sleeping. In 99 of people over 50. And it could strike at any time. Think youre not at risk . Wake up. Because shingles could wake up in you. 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They were mostly black and used for food in the japanese countryside, but about 100 years ago farmers began to breed them to bring out the colored markings. What began as a hobby became big business. Japan exported almost 50 million worth of koi last year. Its almost like magic you can say to create a fish like this. Reporter president of laguna koi ponds of california and a judge at the japan all japan koi show in tokyo. Basically, its a fish beauty pageant that draws connoisseurs from all over the world. This yardlong female won best in show. When you were judging this, what were you looking for and what impressed you . Size, i get it. Its a fish first. It has to have good body confirmation. You could say bone structure. Of course, those colored splotches. The pattern needs to fit the fish like on the face area needs to be a cute face, maybe a hat or a beret, something cute and unique. This is his face. This is where he greets you. This is what you first see and fall in love with, is their face. Reporter in winter, snow blankets the mud ponds of nishigata in northern japan with baby koi start out. But breeder Shigeyoshi Tanaka has moved them, now mature, safely indoors. Are do you have a favorite . Many favorite in here. Reporter in japanese, they are called nishikigoi, brocaded carp like swimming jewels. Just try to such. Reporter they are simpler to admire than wrangle. She doesnt like you. Reporter she doesnt like me . She definitely knew a safe pair of hands. Tanakas koi are famous. A group of buyers from thailand have arrived to make an order. Once upon a time, more koi customers were japanese. No longer. These days, many of the best fish will be shipped to the u. S. , which is the second largest koi importer in the world. Why is that . Partly, its space. America, unlike japan, has room for koi fish ponds. She is cute. Reporter but there is something else. Just ask ben. Look at baby they are so gentle. 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The 17acre park set to open this month is filled with nearly 50 sculptures by world Famous Artists like kehinde wiley, simone leigh, and kwame akotobamfo. In this region, cotton plantations were everywhere. Here you see generations. Yes, exactly. Reporter collectively evoking the history of slavery had america. Its a tough subject. Its a challenging subject. We wanted to use art to help people manage the weight of this history and engage in a more complete way with the lives of enslaved people. Reporter its the latest project for stevenson, founder and director of the equal justice initiative, also based in montgomery. For more than 30 years, stevenson and his team have provided Legal Services to people on death row. To date, overturning more than 140 convictions and sentences. Ten lashes. Reporter he says understanding the racial injustices of the present begins by reckoning with the tortured legacy of the past. As they say, the truth can set us free. I genuinely believe that there is something that feels more like freedom, more like equality, justice waiting for us in america. I dont think we will get there if be dont find the courage to talk honestly about our past. Reporter over the years, the eji expanded its mission to building cultural sites in montgomery like the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for peace and justice, focusing on americas history of lynching. There were ten Million People enslaved in this country, and much of what i hope we can do is honor those who struggled and suffered and those who endured and percent veered. Reporter that begins by taking part visitors across the alabama river, a route taken by tens of thousands of enslaved africans. You would see these boats with enslaved people chained in the bottom, docking just up here, just a halfmile from here, and then there would be what enslaved people referred to as the weeping time, the time where they had to fear being separated from children, separated from spouses. Reporter the park mixes artifacts of slavery, like these 170yearold plantation dwellings we documented dwellings where people were living in the same dwellings that parents were living until the 1990s. Reporter this whipping post. You see why it is so ominous. Enslaved people would be chained on the hooks on the side and would be standing and then be beaten and lashed. Reporter with powerful works of artistic imagination, such as strike by artist hank willis thomas. I love this piece. Its so important. I could have never imagined there would be a place this meaningful for this work to exist. So, obviously, violence, resistance. What else were you trying to evoke . Thinking about peace and resolution. In this case, the gesture of just stopping the brutality begins the opportunity for us to find peace. Reporter that theme of resilience continues down the pathway to the parks centerpiece. A 43foottall monument filled with names designed by stevenson himself. The names come from the 1870 census. The first time that formerly enslaved people could claim a name recognized by the government that would be recorded for history. People think that they got all those names from their enslavers. Thats not necessarily true . No. Only about 40 adopted names that were associated with an enslaufr to main you tan these kinship lines created on plantations. Brothers, sisters, cousins. They wanted to stay connected and they needed a name to bring that together. Reporter in total, there are 122,000 surnames, including my own. You see it. There it is. Whitaker. Yes. Reporter wow. Wow. Oh, my god. That was speaking to you. Most people dont find it that quickly and that easily. Reporter wow. 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