Good morning. Im jane pauley and this is a special edition of sunday morning. A sunday morning by design. Its our annual look at the people, places and things that enriches our lives every day. To that end, you might notice Something Different about our look this morning. More on that in a few minutes. For now, just enjoy the view. Its a reminder how design in ways large and small is everywhere. And well start large. Very large. If you had unlimited funds to design the perfect city from the ground up, what might it look like . Sound farfetched . Luke burbank tells us thats exactly what some tech billionaires in california are trying to figure out. But how theyre going about it is raising some eyebrows. Reporter if you build it, they will come. At least thats what the backers of a new plan to turn this farmland into a new city believe. What if not Everyone Wants it built . I had a hunch this was a good place to do this. Reporter coming up on sunday morning, big tech, big dream of a big
Perfect memories. Little ronnie got a heel prick after birth. His newborn blood filled six spots used to test babies for dozens of disorders. A couple days after. We got a call. They learned ronnies heel prick revealed a disorder known as the bubble boy disease. His first infection could have killed him. Instead he was rushed to ucsf where he received life saving gene therapy and where he met dr. Puck. I could never develop a newborn test if we had not had stored dry blood spots. Reporter it was the first using distracted dna from leftover blood spots from the newborn biobank. You see, doctors only need a few spots for the life saving genetic test. The rest becomes property of the state. California has been storing blood spots from every baby born here since 1983 and can now test newborns for more than 80 Rare Disorders thanks to Research Using the blood spots. California has amassed the largest stockpile of blood spots in the country. One of only a handful in the states that will stor
They asked that the chimney remain as a war memorial. The bricks were cleaned and stayed in the rest of the building was torn down. The Augusta Canal was deepened and widened to allow for more water power. Those bricks were built back into other plants. After the expansion, the factories that were built are the same ones that when you see on our boat ride. This mill was built in 1877. You have sibling mills built in the early 1880s. With industry moving to any area, today as well as yesterday, you are creating a l ot of jobs for people. You are creating better ways to make money, more stable careers for people. You have people moving to town. Anytime there is economic growth, people cannot look to the city, especially a city in the south. People can look to the city. The building of the augusta factory, the first the big text title mill really gave augusta a big economic boost. It was a fivestory building with lots of looms and the opportunity for lots of workers. It was seen as a gate
Here the bachelors at the university of colorado and his doctorate at harvard. He has been serving as an associate professor of history at the university of california are equally. University of california berkeley, some of us call the other School Across the bay. Professor delay is known best for his book war of a thousand deserts which 15 major book prizes. He also one multiple book prizes. 5 major book prizes. He is even ventured into the realm of art history in a terrific essay on winslow homers famous painting, was tson and the shark. Entitled the familiar made a strange american artifacts after the transnational turn. His new contract under ww norton is to be called shoot the state arms, capitalism, and freedom. Professor delay is also a multiple awardwinning teacher who has served as an organization of american historians distinguish actual or and eight fulbright distinguished lecturer in japan. He one distinctions from many he won many distinctions. Yet i must add that officer
Correspondent if theres any way back from the break also coming up the girlfriend of the los vegas gunman breaks her silence how much did she know about the killers plot to commit the worst mass shooting in modern u. S. History. And the latest blockbuster hits russian movie screens its a love story amid the fight to liberate an occupied land but that land is better known as ukraines crimea now the filmmakers are facing accusations of making propaganda. Hello im Terry Martian good to have you with us the crisis over Catalan Independence has hit a deadlock spains government has rejected calls for talks over what it calls an Illegal Movement in a defiant statement it said it would not give in to blackmail officials in catalonia threaten to announce their split from spain as soon as next week thats after claiming some ninety percent of people voted for independence in last weeks referendum. Welcome to the republic of catalonia say the flags but the issue is deeply divisive not just in the