reporting in our sunday morning cover story. >> reporter: with a stunning admission of doping, it became clear that lance armstrong's 7th tour de france victories weren't as inspiring as people thought. some are now saying the same about the world famous cancer charity he founded livestrong. without lance armstrong will live strong survive? >> absolutely. we're not hunkering down. we're doubling down. >> reporter: but some donors like michael birdsong are planning to sue to get their money back. >> we were suckers. we got taken. >> reporter: a look at livestrong later on sunday morning. >> osgood: a new movie based on a true story takes a look at a controversial shooting four years ago that still hasek owes today. erinmoriarty has the story behind the film. >> reporter: on new year's day 2009 a transit officer shot oscar grant pointblank in the back and killed him the city of oakland california erupted in anger. now is reliving the shooting in a new movie. >> are you arresting us? when i knew that the gunshot was going to go off, i just put my hand over my ears and just put my head down. >> reporter: how a young film maker brought oscar grant back to life coming up on sunday morning. >> osgood: bruno mars is one of the music world's biggest stars. this morning, mars tells the tale to our lee cowan. >> reporter: he is pop music's stylish wonder kid. bruno mars has taken the charts by storm. >> reporter: but his first label dropped him and he almost didn't get another. >> why would we sign you if they couldn't get you. it's your fault. you know? >> reporter: how bruno mars bouncedded back later on sunday morning. >> osgood: 1026 north beckly is a street address in dallas texas that few of us would have any reason to know were it not for the identity of the individual who briefly lived there. tracy smith has that story. >> i really don't know what the situation is about. nobody has told me anything. >> reporter: what we do know about lee harvey oswald is ha for the last few weeks of his life he rented a room at this dallas boarding house. and that the lady who ownd the place lived to regret it. >> she started getting hate mail, death threats. >> reporter: because she had rented a room to him. >> correct. the table, the chairs and the piano are are all original. >> reporter: inside the house on north beckly. >> osgood: elizabeth palmer shows us some sculptures that walk with the wind. steve hartman has found a barber with a tender touch. we'll remember washington press corps legend helen thomas. nancy giles is all hot and bothered about the weather and more. but first, the headlines for this sunday morning, the 21st of july 2013. firefighters battling a huge wild fire near palm springs california now have a new worry: the possibility of thunderstorms erratic winds associated with such storms could reverse the progress they've already made. at this point they say the fire is 49% contained. thousands rallied across the country yesterday to remember trayvon martin, the unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot by neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman. demonstrators are calling on the federal government to file civil rights charges against zimmerman and to make changes in state self-defense laws like the one in florida. zimmerman was acquitted in the killing eight days ago. police in arlington texas believe a woman who fell to her death from a roler coaster at the six flags amusement park was not the victim of foul play. the coaster is known as the texas giant. at its peak it's 14 stories high. three bodies have been discovered in the cleveland suburb of east cleveland, ohio, since friday. police fear that they may find others. investigators are questioning a possible suspect who they say admits being fascinated by a serial killer who murdered 11 women in the same area. as we mentioned, one of washington's legendary white house reporters helen thomas died yesterday. she was 92. thomas was a trail blazer for women in the press corps. we have an appreciation later on sunday morning. now today's forecast. cooler temperatures will prevail from the northeast up past the great lakes. heavy storms are likely in the south. the week ahead is expected to be warm and muggy and rainy. sorry about that. ahead, meet bruno mars. but first, q,,,,,,,,,,,, announcer: right now at sleep train, save hundreds on beautyrest and posturepedic. but first, q,,,,,,,,,,,, choose $300 in free gifts with tempur-pedic. even choose 48 months interest-free financing on the new tempur-choice. the triple choice sale ends soon at sleep train. the livestrong foundation and cyclist lance armstrong have parted ways. after years of being thought of almost as one. and the cancer support group has been under fire from critics, including some who were once volunteers. our cover story is reported now by sheryl attkisson. >> i view this situation as one big lie. that i repeated a lot of times. >> reporter: with his stunning admission of doping, it became clear that lance armstrong's 7th tour de france victories weren't as inspiring as people thought. some are now saying the same about the world famous cancer charity he founded livestrong. michael birdsong is part of a lawsuit being prepared on behalf of donors planning to sue tore get their money back. >> it's like when you find out there is no santa claus. along those lines. >> reporter: armstrong started livestrong in 1997 after doctors successfully treated his cancer. >> mr. lance armstrong. reporter: fueled by his comeback story, livestrong grew into a highly rated charity. >> july 29 in the city of new york as lance armstrong day. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: and millions wanted to be seen wearing livestrong's distinctive yellow west bands. >> i will be, i hope, and i want to be known as the cancer survivor. >> reporter: the charity has raisedded over a half billion dollars. much of it from people like birdsong, an avid cyclist himself he was drawn to livestrong after his in-laws died of cancer and his wife battled the disease. how much money would you estimate that you either gave directly or helped fund raise for the foundation? >> right around $50,000. of our own money. >> reporter: birdsong says he got a first-hand look at how the charity was run when he became an official livestrong challenge volunteer mentor, bringing in an additional $65,000 from friends and family. what was your impression of where a lot of that money should be going? >> i thought a lot of it was actually going to these cutting-edge research mini-grants. you know, to help these promising studies that were going on. >> reporter: livestrong says birdsong was well acquainted with the group's mission, but birdsong says when he first got involved he had no idea that livestrong had decided early on to phase out investments in scientific cancer research. catherine mclean heads communications for the charity. you must be aware that there are aate lot of people who think that this is a cancer research foundation. >> well, it's a little frustrating to us because it sort of mischaracterizes what everyone in this building does. we're not spending money to... sending money to labs to fund research, although we recognize that as tremendously important snort now livestrong needs to find an identity and a path forward as a cancer charity that doesn't fund cancer research and without its founder who is no longer affiliated with the organization. but earlier this year then executive vice president andy miller spoke at livestrong's first annual meeting without lance armstrong. >> will the livestrong foundation survive? yes! absolutely yes! >> it's a challenge but it's also an opportunity. we have to turn the page. we have to introduce ourselves to donors, to survivors and to patients to reassure them that we're not hunkering down. we're doubling down. on our commitment to them. >> reporter: so where does all livestrong's money go? and what's the mission if not cancer research? mclean says the charity's mission is to help cancer survivors with programs that have improved the lives of 2.5 million people. >> what we began investing in instead of clinical research was an ongoing dialogue with patients, with survivors, with their families to gauge the long-term effects that cancer takes on a family and on one's livelihood and on one's psyche, on one's body. >> what about our nurses. reporter: livestrong offers free advice, counseling and referral services. >> we specializes in break down any barriers that a family or an individual has to getting treatment. >> reporter: at the charity's austin headquarters there's a brand new transportation program for patients. >> i don't have a car. i don't know how to get to my chemo appointment. we developed a pilot recently that recruits volunteers to drive people. >> reporter: the charity also gives out grants to help fund conferences and a nationwide network of summer camps supporting the children of cancer patients. but birdsong says he saw a lot of money going out the door for questionable expenses. when did you start to have doubts about what the foundation was doing or where the money was going. >> it was going oddly enough when i was starting to work with them, you know, officially, mid 2007-2008. these questions started popping up into my head. >> reporter: critics were already accusing armstrong of using his charity as a so-called cancer shield to deflect persist ebt doping allegations. birdsong also felt there were frivolous expenses that did more to promote armstrong and events like the tour de france than fight cancer. >> they sent like five staff members for 21-plus days to france to just follow him around. >> reporter: and tweet about it. and tweet about it. they had this really big party on the final day of the tour. it was like, how is this effective? >> reporter: his biggest objection came when livestrong sold the use of its name in 2008 for $2.5 million. if you didn't know better, you might think livestrong . org, the charity runs livestrong dot-com, but a media company owns this for-profit website that advertises health and fitness products. >> it's unheard of. i've never heard of anything like that. >> reporter: this man, also a cyclist, is an accounting professor at brigham young university who has looked into livestrong's practices. >> it's just questionable. to sell their name and allow somebody to take a website and make money doing other things. that boundary is so gray. >> reporter: do you think people might get confused if they google livestrong and they end up on the for-profit website. >> there's possibly always room for improvement but our goal is to avoid any confusion. >> reporter: then there's the matter of how much money directly helps cancer survivors. >> 82 cents of every dollar that the livestrong foundation raises is invested in programs, services and grants that support people struggling with cancer. >> reporter: that 82-cent mark wins livestrong a high rating among charities. but that's using a common charity accounting method that counts everything from marketing costs to executive salaries, lobbying and legal fees as what's called program services. do you consider executive salaries programs that help cancer survivors? >> i think the breakdown is tough to calibrate. >> reporter: is lobby fees and legal fees, is that part of program services directly helping cancer patients in your opinion? >> i think advocacy is enormously important for the cancer community. >> reporter: prior to armstrong's doping admissions, the charity's 2011 i.r.s. tax form show it put $13 million in the bank in a rainy day fund and reported $103 million in cash and assets. that's an unusually large amount, charity experts say, when livestrong spent $5.2 million -- that's 11 cents on the dollar -- for grants to help cancer survivors. that's a pretty small percentage of the program. >> grants aren't the only thing that the foundation invests obviously. we have 104 people here in austin texas many of whom are social workers, policy experts, people who work with survivors every single day. >> reporter: in late may came the news that nike, a key sponsor, was cutting its ties with the charity. livestrong officials responded saying the charity is deeply grateful that nike and remains in sound fiscal health. but however it adds up, michael birdsong wants a refund. >> i gave you this money. and i worked for you. i asked other people for this money in good faith. we were suckers. we got taken. that's the way sometimes we feel about it. >> there is a small tiny percentage of people who have asked for their money back. we invest the funds that donors entrust to us into programs and services that help survivors get access to care and a better quality of life. we don't pull those investments out. >> reporter: they're not getting their money back. >> we do not offer refunds just like most nonprofits. >> osgood: in an email yesterday livestrong indicated that michael birdsong was very familiar with the organization's purpose and cited blogs he has. he did believe in livestrong, that is, until he became disillusioned with the charity's practices. coming up, tom sawyer, 138 years young. 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>> well, because it's so much work to repair them all the time. >> reporter: the skeletons like fantasy dinosaurs have been shown in galleries across europe and asia with yanson on the lecture circuit to explain how they work. >> a backbone which makes the circular movements like this. >> reporter: but is this engaging mixture of engineering and whimsy really art? yes, it is, says denise, the head of sculpture at london's royal college of art. what is it that draws us in? >> i think audiences like to experience wonder before things. i suspect the encounter is one of wonder and awe. >> reporter: wonder, awe and sheer enchantment. the beasts are irresistible to passers-by and passing dogs. the secret of their uncanny life like walk says yanson is the proportion of the leg parts which he worked out as a computer algorithm. >> one of the major details was a leg shouldn't spend too much time in the air. just go back to the ground. we have to think of real animals trying to seek balance. >> reporter: he is hoping for a major exhibit in the u.s. his only worry? that the manufacturer will stop making his raw material. >> this is enough for the rest of my life. >> reporter: is it really, for the rest of your life? >> yes. reporter: yanson bought and is now storing 30 miles of the stuff so he'll be sure to have enough to continue work on his ultimate project: a strand beast so perfect it could one day leave its creator behind. and keep walking after you're gone from the earth. >> that's right. i keep on living somehow in the future. >> reporter: one man's pipe dream of immortality. >> osgood: coming up, helen thomas. one of a kind. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: as we told you earlier, helen thomas, one of the most familiar figures in the washington press corps, passedded away yesterday. she was 92. our bill plant, himself a very familiar face at the white house, worked along thomas for some time. he has this remembrance. >> do you know of any country in the middle east that has nuclear weapons? >> well,... reporter: helen thomas always wanted answers from the president of the united states. >> mr. president, when are you holding a news conference? >> reporter: as the white house correspondent for united press international for 40 years and then as a columnist, thomas confronted ten presidents with bulldog persistence. >> why did you really want to go to war? >> reporter: she was a path-breaker for women in journalism. born to lebanese immigrants, thomas grew up in michigan. after college she moved to washington. in 1943, she went to work as a writer for united press. her big break came in 196 when she became the first woman reporter at the white house to cover the president and not just the first lady. >> mr. president, thank you. thank you, helen. reporter: she went on to be the first female president of the white house correspondents' association and the first woman admitted to another washington journalism institution: the grid iron club. president johnson once complained that he first learned of his daughter's lucy's engagement from one of thomas' stories. but her own engagement to associated press reporter doug cornell was only revealed after pat nixon spilled the beans to a room full of their colleagues. helen thomas laughed easily with one president after another. but that never stopped her from asking them hard questions. >> do you know of any money that could have gone in. >> i have no knowledge of that. reporter: i sat next to helen in the white house briefing room for years. on the receiving end of countless asides and opinions. one of her favorites usually repeated during a press briefing was, "how the hell do they expect us to believe that?" helen thomas was tough, cantankerous and opinionated. her opinions ultimately got her in trouble. >> these people are occupied. reporter: a lifelong champion of the palestinian cause, she said in an impromptu 2010 interview that israel should get out of palestine. after apologizing for the remark, she retired. in a statement president obama said, quote, she never failed to keep presidents -- myself included -- on their toes. what made helen the dean of the white house press corps was not just the length of her tenure but her fierce belief that our democracy works best when we ask tough questions and hold our leaders to account. >> osgood: ahead, destination fruitvale station. >> this is the room? 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>> and this is the room. reporter: oh, my goodness, it's tiny. >> it is a small room. reporter: gladys johnson's granddaughter patricia hall with a 11 years old in 1963 but her memories of lee harvey oswald are clear. what did you think of him? what was your impression of him? gee was just another guy. my grandmother appreciated the fact that he kept his room neat and clean. he didn't monopolize the bathroom. because we had five roomers sharing one bath. you don't need to monopolize. he was just a regular guy. >> reporter: there was, it seemed, nothing about oswald that would draw anyone's attention. that is, until that day in november. >> did you kill the president? no, i have not been charged with that. in fact, nobody has said that to me yet. the first thing i heard about it was when the newspaper reporters in the hall asked me that question. >> reporter: what was her reaction when she found out what he had allegedly done? >> she was scared. humiliated. and, in fact, she even destroyed the sign-in sheets showing that he had paid his rent. she just wanted to erase him. she started getting hate mail, death threats. >> reporter: because she had rented a room to him. >> correct. reporter: once the hate mail started, hall says her grandmother became more defensive and stopped answering the door for tv news reporters. in fact, the only filming inside the house after 196 was when a man named oliver stone asked to shoot a scene there for his 1991 movie j.f.k. >> a man shot the president. reporter: pat hall also says her grandmother was a bit rangeled by the way the police searched oswald's room. >> when the authorizes came, they dumped everything in. they just grabbed the sheets arch walked out. >> reporter: cbs news man lou wood found mrs. gladys johnson. did the officers take his possession? >> yes, everything. everyone? everything. >> what did they say when he left. >> they said he wouldn't be returning. >> reporter: and this f.b.i. inconvenient inventory includes a note about a mrs. johnson claiming one of the pillow cases. >> my grandmother harbored the fact that she never got her sheets back until the day she died. >> reporter: serious lie. seriously. not because they were historic but because those were fairly new sheets and she could have used those on other beds. >> reporter: the sheets may be gone but hall says that to the best of her knowledge the bed is oswald's. what's more, many of the furnishing and lighting fixtures were here in november 1963. the exterior is unchangedded as well. same red roof over the covered porch. only the for sale sign is new. why sell the house now? >> at this time in my life i feel like i have to be practical and say, maybe there's someone else that might be a better steward. >> reporter: hall's hoping for a buyer that will turn the place into a museum or maybe a bed and breakfast. all of the furnishings including the original stove are included in the $500,000 asking price. what you can't buy or maybe won't buy are pat hall's memories of lee harvey oswald. in particular an incident involving oswald and her two younger brothers. >> my brothers were rough-necking outside. lee was out on the front porch. he pulled them apart from each other and sat them on the stairs and said, boys, i want you to listen to me. you're brothers. you need to love each other. and never ever do anything that would harm another human being. >> reporter: lee harvey oswald said that. >> he sure did. reporter: when was this? two to three weeks before the assassination. >> reporter: 1026 north beckly avenue. history, for sale. in dallas. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: it happened this week, a sign of the times or perhaps we should say a sound of the times. (buzzer) that is the sound that jolted thousands, maybe millions of new york city residents out of their deep sleep at 3:51 a.m. wednesday morning. an amber alert warning of an abducted infant, a text message transmitted automatically and loudly to cell phone users across the region. >> scared me on death. reporter: robert mitchell was among those awakened by the wireless emergency alert system. authorized by congress in 2006, it transmits urgent text messages to potentially millions of cell phones primarily those purchased since 2011. >> i think it was not effective. i didn't know what was going on. i don't know if i could have done anything to help with that situation at that hour in my apartment. >> reporter: maybe he couldn't but someone did. police say a tip from one of those amber alerted millions led to the safe recovery of the infant. nationwide more than 50 cell phone amber aletters have been transmitted since last december. cell phone owners unconvinced of their usefulness do have the option of disabling the alert with one very big exception. emergency alerts personally ordered by the president of the united states cannot be turned off. there has not been a single one of those. at least not yet. ahead: fact. and film. ,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: a new film based on a true story tells of a shooting death that for many americans speaks to broad concerns about equality and justice. erin moriarty of "48 hours" takes a look. >> reporter: every day riders run through this bay area rapid transit or bart station in oakland california. the sign says fruitvale but there's another name that hangs heavy over the platform: oscar graham iii. >> that's my favorite picture of my baby boy. >> reporter: wanda johnson is oscar graham's mother. what do you love about that picture? why is it your favorite picture? >> because his mouth speaks to everybody. his mouth speaks to me. >> reporter: bart police were waiting on the platform when a train rolled in about 2:15 this morning. >> reporter: in the early morning hours of new year's day 2009, 22-year-old graham and some friends were on the bart train returning from celebrating in san francisco. there was a report of a fight. when the train pulled into the fruitvale station, bart police started pulling oscar and his friends off the train. other passengers pulled out their cell phones and recorded video of what happened next. describe that video. what did you see? >> in the video i see that there's an officer out with a taster walking back and forth cussing, telling people to get off the fin' train. and then he grabs one of the boys and takes them off the train. he escorts a cup canal more off the train. and he throws them down on the ground. >> reporter: one of them is an unarmed oscar graham, a bart officer is on top of graham trying to handcuff him. >> he has oscar's neck. he pulls out his gun. and he shoots him. (gunfire). >> and everybody... why would you shoot him? >> get on the train. they just shot him. >> reporter: transit officer shot grant pointblank in the back. oscar grant died in the hospital seven hours later. >> i just remember being another home on the computer watching the video and just being like in awe. like wow what happened. >> reporter: after michael b. jordan saw the cell phone video online... when you say it happened again, what do you mean? >> a person of color being beaten and shot, harass, you know, the prejudice, the racism. all of that. >> i remember the first time seeing him. just having an empty feeling in my stomach. >> reporter: young oakland film maker ryan coogler saw the video too. >> oscar, you know what i mean, being my age, looking like me, his friends looking like my friends, it really triggered all kinds of emotions from sadness to anger to a sense of helplessness. >> reporter: the streets of oakland erupted. the officer claimed instead of pulling out his tazer he mistakenly grabbed his gun and firedded the fatal shot. the officer, charged with murder, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and served less than a year in jail. so where are we? coogler saw a story he wanted to tell in a movie. not so much about the shooting. he wanted to talk about oscar grant himself. >> he made some mistakes in his life but he also had some great love in his life. great positives in his life as well. to be honest he was a person. just like you, just like me. >> reporter: but to make his film simply called fruitvale station, coogler had a lot of people to convince starting with oscar's mother. didn't you think no way. >> very hesitant. reporter: the thing is, coogler had never actually made a feature film before. but his student films at u.s.c. and elsewhere had attracted admirers like actor for rest whitaker who signed on as producer. whitaker convinced oscar's mother to say yes. and then coogler picked michael b. jordan to play oscar after seeing him on tv in "the wire" and "friday night lights." he needed someone to play oscar's mother wanda. >> i was immediately humbled by her strength. >> reporter: he went after octave i can't spencer, just coming off an oscar win. you're a first-time film maker and you get octave i can't spencer. how hard was that? >> i compare it to like playing the scratch-off. you know what i mean? throwing caution to the wind. playing the lottery or something north but coogler was so persuasive, he even got the embattled transit agency on board. >> when ryan came to us, he really wanted to help the making of this film to help with the healing process. >> reporter: kenton rainy is the current bart police chief, taking over since the shooting. wasn't that tough to say yes, you can not only do this movie but you can do it right here at the platform where it happened. >> the story will be told. reporter: was it hard the very first time, i mean, to re-enact what happened to oscar grant here? >> i was hard every time. it was hard every time. >> reporter: so difficult that before they filmed the scenes on the platform, they had a moment of silence. >> every take i felt like i was going to lose my life. i was very scared because the train was there. you know, you have oscar there. you have him, myself, you know, handcuffed. the same thing. >> next stop fruitvale station. reporter: but how oscar died is only a small part of the film. he's a father whooping it up with his daughter tatiana. , hanging out with friends and family. and even the oscar grant who served time on drug and weapons convictions getting some tough love from his mother. >> hey, ma. back to the visiting area. ma, i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i need a hug. let me just get a hug, mom. >> what are your friends at? reporter: the movie leads with the fatal shooting, tough for anyone to watch especially when the audience includes wanda johnson. how difficult was it then to go see this film? >> it brought back every emotional... like it was just happening again. still in the process... during the process of the film when i knew that the gunshot was going to go off, i just put my hand over my ears and just put my head down. >> reporter: the film won awards at the sun dance and cannes film festivals and it played for one audience that might surprise you. >> i actually took members of my command center so they could watch it as well. >> reporter: watch the film. yes. reporter: why did you want members of your staff to watch the film? >> it's important for us to understand what we're doing so that another incident like this never happens again. >> reporter: and oscar grant's mother hopes oscar's smile will win over everyone who watches. >> i don't think you can leave the movie without thinking about the humanity side of him. he was somebody. he was loved. he loved people. he cared about things. he was human. and he didn't deserve to be murdered. >> you haven't had a haircut in murdered. >> you haven't had a haircut in a long time, willie. >> osgood: coming up, a little off the top. a great block party. elp make this ♪ [ male announcer ] advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a day. people with copd taking advair may have a higher chance of pneumonia. advair may increase your risk of osteoporosis and some eye problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking advair. ask your doctor if including advair could help improve your lung function. 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[ splash! ] ocean spray cran-lemonade. a bold twist on an old favorite. >> it's sunday morning on cbs and here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: treasure is yet another hit for bruno mars. his music videos have been viewed more than a billion times on youtube tube. that's pretty good considering that his music career almost ended before it ever started. all part of a story lee cowan has to tell in this summer song. >> this song is called "just the way you are." >> reporter: by his own definition, bruno mars is amuseical melting pot. he can spin from pop to r and b to reggae at the drop of that signature fedora. ♪ when i see your face, there's not a thing that i wouldn't change ♪ ♪ i like it just the way you are ♪ >> reporter: what would you say your style is? >> what's my style? i'm a singer. i'm just a singer. hello, guys. >> reporter: it's the way he sings his love songs that put mars into orbit three years ago. ♪ >> reporter: grenade and "just the way you are" both reached number one on the billboard charts becoming two of the best-selling singles of all time. ♪ today i feel like i could do anything ♪ >> reporter: debut album sold more than six million copies. his second album unorthodox juke box generated three top ten singles. at 27, the boy from hawaii seems to have it all. is it sort of a precarious being on top of the peak? >> i'm a happy dude, lee. the fact that i even get to feel this at this moment is enough. enough. >> reporter: he was born peter james hernandez on the island of oauhu to a purity owe keek and father and a filipino mother. his dad named him bruno after a popular wrestler and bruno added mars years later. for him and his five siblings music was always the family business. >> my dad had this 1950s review show, very las vegas style. my uncle impersonated elvis. that was my favorite part of the show. >> reporter: even when you were two years old. >> when i was two years old. you know, it was because especially the young elvis, like, girls were screaming for him. and as a young kid, you're like i want that. >> reporter: so when his dad put bruno on stage, he did the only thing he knew. his mini-elvis was an instant hit. becoming so popular that little bruno was given a cameo in a movie "honeymoon in vegas." >> i can't help falling in love with you. >> and i became a real, real attention whore. after that. ♪ i want to be a billionaire so fricking bad ♪ >> reporter: by 18 he moved to los angeles. he and his brother started a cover band jokingly called sex panthers. he began performing any place that would have him. places like pick wick's pub in l.a.'s san fernando valley. >> oh, my god. you finally came back. reporter: do you write a little bit of your own stuff. >> a little bit. i had a couple tunes we would try out here. >> reporter: good ones? no, not good ones. reporter: soon he had inked a deal with motown records and left pick wicks for bigger gigs. turned out pick wicks actually left bruno first. did you fire me? i thought i left this place. within a few months, motown had left him too. releasing him from his contract without ever putting out an album. how much of a blow was that when they dropped you? >> the biggest blow. that was a hard phone call to call my mom and dad and say, i'm no longer a signed artist. and i've got to rethink this whole thing. >> reporter: broke, he started going to pawn shops. his guitars were all he had left to sell. going home to honolulu was tempting but he resisted. >> if i moved back to hawaii, i felt like i would have never made it back up here. i would have been at the polynesian review with a ukelele and an aloha shirt singing elvis tunes. again. >> reporter: so he teamed up with two other songwriters: philip lawrence and ari levine. ♪ >> reporter: their goal? to write a hit song. >> we knew that we could do it. if we kept going, if we kept trying, if we kept pushing, we were going to write the song that's going to change our lives. >> reporter: and it did. yeah. wrote a few songs that changed our lives. you see the jewelry. ♪ all over the world >> reporter: performed with hip cop artist was the first to hit. and then he cowrote the smash "for get you." finally, bruno got his second chance at a label and he made the most of it. "just the way you are" won a grammy and solidified his status as a star and a heart throb. but there were those who still had their doubts. there were some critics that said it was too sugary, too soft, to... >> they can good to hell. reporter: does that bother you? do the critics... >> it doesn't bother me. it's just shut up. you know? you write a song then. that's how i feel. >> reporter: but just as everything was beginning to click came a stumble. in september of 2010 bruno was arrested for cocaine possession. the bust in las vegas. >> had to do it. reporter: was it eye opening though to your fame that it became headlines everywhere that you were... >> mmmm. i was embarrassed. and very... me being extremely, extremely careless and not thinking. >> reporter: he got probation and moved on and up. he helped headline the grammies. rocked the victoria secret fashion show. and even hosted saturday night live. so when they told you though that you were going to have to dress up in drag? what did you say? >> you know what? reporter: you looked good by the way. >> thank you. i appreciate that. >> reporter: his second album showed a more mature side with more adult themes. like the number one single "locked out of heaven." what was the inspiration for that? >> the inspiration for "lockedded out of heaven," i don't know if we can say it on tv. come on, lee. we're grown men. >> reporter: as he did from the start, bruno surrounds himself with friends and family. his brother still plays in the band. as for hawaii, bruno did finally go home after all. to a packed arena. >> hawaii, i'm home. reporter: or perhaps not too coincidentally where elvis once performed. >> ever since i was a kid, this is all i've wanted to do. i've wanted to do music. i've wanted to sing. that's all i know. ♪ just the way you are all those hard times, it feels like it goes to show that if you put in the work and you don't stop believing, then it can happen. >> thank you all very much. osgood: what's hot? by 8:00 every morning, i am drenched in sweat. >> osgood: nancy giles next. when it comes to getting my family to eat breakfast, i need all the help i can get. i tell them, "come straight to the table." i say, "it's breakfast time, not playtime." "there's fruit, milk and i'm putting a little nutella on your whole-wheat toast." funny, that last part gets through. [ male announcer ] serving nutella is quick and easy. its great taste comes from a unique combination of simple ingredients like hazelnuts, skim milk and a hint of cocoa. okay, plates in the sink, grab your backpacks -- [ male announcer ] nutella. breakfast never tasted this good. you've all heard the phrase they're cold. our contributor nancy giles has some thoughts on that. >> i know that some of you may think there's no such thing as global warming. but can i just say that this part of the globe feels pretty darn warm right now. they call these triple-h days on the east coast: hazy, hot and humid. we've had a solid week of this with warnings to use our air conditioners sparingly and keep our eyes on pets and the elderly in that order. this heat is kicking my butt. by 8:00 every morning, i am drenched in sweat. i take a shower, put on clothes and i'm drenched in sweat. i have a little breakfast, wash a couple dishes and i'm drenched in sweat. i put the leash on my dog, open the front door and am drenchd in sweat. i feel like i need to carry a garment bag wherever i go with fresh clothes and a towel. i'm sweating so much that i look ill. people look at me with concern. it's not pleasant. according to the national institutes of health, a person is born with more than two million sweat glands. and in my case it feels like everyone of them is working. much like they were for albert brooks in that hilarious scene from broadcast news. >> this is more than nixon ever sweated. >> just how noticeable is this? the weather has been nutty. on the east coast we broke records for the most rainfall in june. so add to that this crazy heat. most of us are dealing with sweat sensors that are on the fritz. according to m.i.t.'s patricia christy who teaches the chemistry of sports, on dry days when our bodies sweat, our pours open and release water and salt on to our skin. as the sweaty vap rates it france fers our body heat into the air. it happens pretty quickly and we cool down. but when the air is saturated with water, thick with humidity like it has been every day for what seems like years, that sweat has nowhere to go. it just sits there. and you can't cool down. it's a nightmare. ew! who was it that said horses sweat, men perspire and women glow? they were wrong. i'm so not glowing that the only way i'll socialize is after sundown in some dimly lit air conditioned space in close proximity to a ladies' room with lots of mirrors and paper towels. that way i won't be too visible and can run for a quick mop up when necessary. i realize that sounds like a dripping, conceited vampire. you know what? forget socializing. just call me when the summer is over. in october. >> osgood: just ahead, the longest wait. [ male announcer ] frequent heartburn? the choice is yours. chalky... not chalky. temporary... 24 hour. lots of tablets... one pill. you decide. prevent acid with prevacid 24hr. >> osgood: here's a look at the week ahead on our sunday morning calendar. tomorrow, pope francis arrives in brazil to begin his first official overseas trip. here at home, former senator and presidential nominee bob dole celebrates his 90th birthday. tuesday, president obama invites this year's n.c.a.a. basketball champion the louisville cardinals to the white house. wednesday sees the court hearing for former new england patriots tightened aaron hernandez who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of a semipro football player. on thursday, the lumber jack world championships open in wisconsin. friday the rolling stone mick jagger's 70th birthday. and saturday brings the london triathlon, the world's largest. an expected 13,000 competitors. the week ahead could also bring the much-anticipated birth of a royal baby to prince william and kate middleton. from london clarissa ward is watching the baby watchers. >> reporter: as the royal baby waiting game finished its second week, the prolonged anticipation began to take its toll on the gaggle of journalists from across the globe who have been sitting outside st. mary's hospital. >> we're going mad. it's the great kate wait. no two ways about it. >> reporter: even the queen appeared to be growing impatient when this school girl asked her majesty if she wanted the baby to be a boy or a girl she said she didn't mind as long as the baby arrived before her holiday. from the moment kate and william emerged from westminster abbey as husband and wife, speculation was rampant as to when the fairy tale couple might produce a royal heir. now all eyes are on the hospital steps where the happy family will emerge much like the family portrait of diana and charles posing with baby prince william on the very same steps 31 years ago. royal reporter explained that this is the money shot. >> i think that first image of the three of them coming out of the hospital just behind us here, you know, with this new baby, a future monarch, will be huge. all the photographers and camera crews are desperate to get that shot. >> reporter: the announcement of the birth will be a traditional affair. a formal birth notice will be driven from the hospital to buckingham palace where a foot man will place it on an easel, the same one used to display william's in 1982. back then the announcement came at night. and went up first on the palace gates for well wishers who just couldn't wait. following the announcement, there will be a 62-gun salute from the tower of london, the same salute that echoed across the city back when prince charles was born in 1948. and it doesn't stop there. the london eye, one of the city's main tourist attractions, will be lit up in red, white and blue, the colors of the britain's flag the union jack. and the river thames, which was the focus of last year's jubilee celebrations, will be illuminated by a spectacular light show, a fitting birthday party for britain's newest royal heir. there is something very special and very different about the royal baby-to-be. whether it is a boy or a girl, the child will be third in line to the throne. that means that if william and kate have a daughter, she might one day be queen regardless of any younger brothers she might have, a first in british royal history. charles? >> osgood: correspondent clarissa ward. now to bob scheiffer in washington for a look at what's ahead on face the nation. good morning, bob. >> schieffer: good morning, charles. we have house speaker john boehner on washington gridlock and the michigan governor rick snyder on the detroit bankruptcy. >> osgood: thank you, bob scheiffer. we'll be watching. next week here on sunday morning , we're spending sunday at the shore. honey! we're pregnant! what? we're pregnant! we're pregnant? yeah! you're going to be a mom! you're going to be a dad! there's a little baby in there? there's a human being growing inside your stomach? yeah! now what? i don't know? what? introducing huggies mommy answers. the best advice in one place. from the brand new moms trust. that hasn't been cleared yet. ♪ uh! i just want to celebrate [ male announcer ] every time you say no to a cigarette you celebrate a little win. nicorette gum helps calm your cravings and makes you less irritable. double your chances of quitting. it can only be called black silk. from folgers. a taste you can enjoy fresh brewed one cup at a time or on the go. black silk from folgers. >> sunday morning's moment of nature sponsored by... >> osgood: we leave you this sunday in the cool peaks of the canadian rockies. >> osgood: i'm charles osgood. please join us again next sunday morning. until then, i'll see you on the radio. i have copd. if you've got it, you know how hard it can be to breathe and man, you know how that feels. copd includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that helps open my obstructed airways for a full 24 hours. you know, spiriva helps me breathe easier. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powder does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems, glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva. discuss all medicines you take, even eye drops. stop taking spiriva and seek immediate medical help if your breathing suddenly worsens, your throat or tongue swells, you get hives, vision changes or eye pain, or problems passing urine. other side effects include dry mouth and constipation. nothing can reverse copd. spiriva helps me breathe better. does breathing with copd weigh you down? 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