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default, our country has been bouncing back these last few days. a recovery from a largely self inflicted wound it is still an example on a very large scale of a sort of resilience some individuals demonstrate when faced with setbacks and even near fatal disasters, susan spencer will be looking into some striking personal examples in our sunday morning cover story. attacked by a shark at age 41, mickey glen almost died and did lose the use of her right hand, but today, she refuses to dwell on any of that. come here, buddy. do you consider yourself extraordinarily resilient? i do now. i am proud of the way i handle things. in the great shark tank of life, we all faced a verse at this. the question is, how well do we bounce back? the science of resilience. ahead on sunday morning. super cal from genetic ex-by al do sister is a song written by mary poppins from a gifted team of brothers one that is still going strong and will speak with nancy giles. you might ....
we will sing along with richard sherman. supercalifragilisticexpialidosis (s). later on sunday morning. osgood: bill geist has been seeing red lately and this morning he will be telling us why .. don t say redheads it doesn t look that way to me. they are everywhere you look. i think we are going to break the record. i really think we have got it. we will have you seeing red and nothing but red later on sunday morning. osgood: mary steenburgen is an actress with a natural charm that lights up the screen, not to mention a newly emerging even she can t fully explain. with lee cowan we will drop in for a visit. the first bachelor party i ever attended that could be covered by medicare. you might thing mary steenburgen would be busy enough starring opposite four hollywood legend but there is another passion that keeps her up at night that came entirely out of the blue. reporter: so why the accordion? i am not judging. i am just asking. you are a ha ....
reporter: sunday, president obama weighed in writing i know this case has eliciteded strong passions. and in the wake of the verdict, i know those passions may be running even higher, but we are a nation of laws and a jury has spoken. this afternoon, attorney general eric holder promised to keep looking into martin s killing. the justice department shares your concerns. i share your concerns. reporter: tonight, george zimmerman is said to be in hiding, according to attorney mark o mara. meantime you can as for trayvon martin s parents, other than a tweet or two since the verdict, they have been largely out of public view. brian? ron mott in sanford, florida, starting us off tonight. more now on this notion of federal charges potentially against george zimmerman. and in light of the trial just concluded, what those charges could be. our justice correspondent, pete williams, here with us in our d.c. newsroom with more on this presumably, we are talking about s ....
in many parts of the country, spawning those demonstrations we have seen since saturday night and tonight, opinions are split about whether justice was done. though race rarely surfaced in george zimmerman s five-week prosecution, suddenly, issues of race are front and center after saturday s acquittal. it could happen to anybody s son and we need to stand up to young black males. reporter: marches starting over the weekend, many modest in size and mostly peaceful, meander from new york to chicago to los angeles, where notoriously clogged traffic briefly came to a halt on the i-10 freeway. in sanford, they prayed for continued calm. we, the jury, find george zimmerman, not guilty. reporter: all-woman jury verdict acquitted the 29-year-old zimmerman, who says he killed martin in self-defense after being attacked. obviously, we are ecstatic with the results. george zimmerman was never guilty of anything except protecting himself in self-defense. i m glad that th ....
trayvon martin immediately called for peace and calm in his name. both sides in this case have, in fact, along with public officials from coast to coast. and while there is anger and while there have been outbursts, the talk continues about all the issues central to the case, and that includes race. but after a long and public trial, a jury has pronounced george zimmerman not guilty, and now, the legal conversation and that public conversation still go on. it s where we begin tonight with nbc s ron mott, who covered the trial in sanford, florida, from start to finish. ron, good evening. reporter: brian, good evening to you. this verdict landed with a thud in many parts of the country, spawning those demonstrations we have seen since saturday night and tonight, opinions are split about whether justice was done. though race rarely surfaced in george zimmerman s five-week prosecution not one more! suddenly, issues of race are front and center after saturday s acq ....