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SUNSHINE.
IF YOU SEE BAD WEATHER
HAPPENING WHERE YOU LIVE SEND A
PICTURE OR VIDEO TO US.
IT IS A SAD DAY AT CBS.
NEWS MAN MORLEY SAFER HAS DIED.
THE 60 MINUTES CORRESPONDENT
RETIRED LAST WEEKS AFTER
DECADES AT CBS NEWS.
WHAT A CAREER IT WAS.
REPORTER: MORLEY SAFER COVER
THE WORLD FOR OVER HALF A
CENTURY AND IN A WAY THAT NOT
ONLY TOUCHED LIVES, HE CHANGED
THEM.
HIS REPORTING FROM VIETNAM
HELPED SHIFT THE WAY AMERICA
THOUGHT ABOUT THE WAR.
IT 1965 HE SHOWED MARINES
BURNING DOWN A VILLAGE SENDING
TERRIFIED CIVILIANS RUNNING
FROM THEIR HOMELAND.
IT WAS A NEW WAY OF COVERING
WAR.
REALISTIC AND BLEAK.
MORLEY SAFER WAS CANADIAN BUT
HE SETTLED IN NEW YORK AFTER
JOINING 60 MINUTES IN 1970.
IN 1983 HIS REPORT ON AN INMATE
BECAME ONE OF THEIR PROUDEST
MOMENTS.
MORLEY SAFER AND HIS TEAM
UNCOVERED NEW EVIDENCE SHOWING
HE HAD BEEN WRONGLY CONVICTED
OF ARMED ROBBERY IN TEXAS.
SENTENCED TO LIFE, HIS REPORT
LED TO HIS RELEASE.
MORLEY SAFER HAD A TASTE FOR
THE LIGHTER STUFF.
HE TRAVELED THE WORLD COVERING
EVERYTHING FROM A TANGO CRAZE
IN FINLAND TO THE BRITISH
PASSION FOR GARDENING.
HE CHRONICLED GOOD FOOD, FINE
WINE AND GREAT CARS.
IT ONE OF THEIR MOST POPULAR
ADDITIONS HE INTERVIEWED THE
MUPPETS.
HE ALSO TOOK ON THE ART WORLD
TWICE.
FIRST IN THE 90s WHEN HE
QUESTIONED THE VALUE OF MODERN
ART.
AND AGAIN IN 2012.
AND MORLEY SAFER WAS AN ARTIST.
HE CARRIED OUR SUPPLIES WHEN HE
TRAVELED AND SPENT HOURS
PAINTING IN HIS HOTEL ROOMS.
OVER HIS EARS WITH 60 MINUTES
MORLEY SAFER WAS HONORED WITH
DOZENS OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS
AWARDS IN JOURNALISM.
HE ALWAYS SAID THERE WAS NO
BETTER JOB IN THE WORLD.
MORLEY SAFER WAS NOT EXACTLY
BIG ON TWITTER.
HE ONLY TWEETED NINE TIMES BUT
THIS LAST ONE WAS ON SUNDAY
NINE.
60 MINUTES WAS HONORING HER
WITH A SPECIAL GOING OVER HIS
CAREER AND HE SAID IT HAS BEEN
A WONDERFUL RUN AND I WANT TO
THANK THE LANDS OF PEOPLE WHO
HAVE BEEN LOYAL TO OUR
BROADCAST.
THANK YOU.
HIS HOUSE WAS IN DECLINE WITH
HIS RETIREMENT WAS ANNOUNCED.
SUNDAY'S SPECIAL WAS PLANNED
AND HE DID WATCH IT FROM HIS
HOME WHERE HE DIED THIS MORNING.
THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF 60
MINUTES TALKED ABOUT THE LAST
CONVERSATION HE HAD WITH MORLEY
SAFER DURING AN APPEARANCE ON
CBS THIS MORNING.
AND TYPICAL MORLEY SAFER
FASHION HE SAID HE WAS GRATEFUL
FOR EVERYTHING WE HAD DONE FOR
HER.
AND I TOLD HER WE CANNOT DO
ENOUGH FOR YOU CONSIDERING ALL
YOU HAVE DONE FOR US.
HE HAS DONE SO MUCH.
HIS LIFE THAT 60 MINUTES AND
CBS HAS HAD SUCH AN IMPACT ON
ALL OF US AND HOW WE COVER
STORIES IN THE KINDS OF STORIES
WE COVER.
WE REMEMBER MORLEY SAFER.
IT WAS HIS WRITING I THINK THAT
SET HAMMOCK PART.
HE WAS ABLE TO TELL A STORY.
IT DIDN'T MATTER IF IT WAS
ABOUT THE VIETNAM WAR OR A POOL
GAME WITH JACKIE GLEASON, THE
WRITING WAS THE KEY FOR HENMAN
HE WILL BE MISSED.
ALSO HIS ABILITY TO AFFECT