This week on "Sunday Morning" (August 22)

Guest host: Lee Cowan

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HEADLINES: New England braces for Henri impact (Video)
Dangerous storm surges, flash flooding and power outages are the prospect for New England residents Sunday as Henri approaches. Meteorologist Jeff Berardelli reports the latest from Long Island. 

For more info: 

• National Hurricane Center advisories on Hurricane Henri

       
COVER STORY: 11 days in August – How Afghanistan fell | Watch Video
The rapid fall of the Afghan capital, Kabul, to Taliban fighters last week has shocked the world, most especially the United States, which saw 20 years' worth of blood and treasure collapse in a matter of days. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports on how Islamic militants surged past Afghan security forces and routed the sitting government.

For more info: 

• Special Inspector General Report: What We Need to Learn – Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction

SPORTS: The armless archer (Video)
One of the top-ranked archers in the country is 38-year-old Matt Stutzman of Fairfield, Iowa, who has medaled in a sport that many would have thought beyond his reach: he was born without arms. Lee Cowan finds out how, with a simple bow and arrow, a man who just wanted to provide for his family became an inspiration. (This story was originally broadcast on November 3, 2019.)

For more info:

• Matt Stutzman, Team USA
• Matt Stutzman, worldarchery.org
• Follow @ArmlessArcher on Twitter and Facebook
• The sports documentary "Rising Phoenix" on Netflix

ART: An antique store like no other (Video)
In the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter is a small sign for a store with a big reputation. Owner Bill Rau wants nothing less than for M.S. Rau Antiques to be the best art, antique and jewelry gallery in the world. Correspondent Anna Werner checks out just some of the priceless objects that can be found there.

For more info:

• M.S. Rau Antiques, New Orleans
• Christies, New York City

TECHNOLOGY: The father of the cellphone | Watch Video
In the 1970s Marty Cooper, a former Navy submarine officer, engineer and executive at Motorola, maker of two-way radios, fought against archrival AT&T by proposing a network of transmitters that made possible the explosion in cellphones. Correspondent David Pogue talks with the visionary Cooper, now 92, about the world's first public cellphone call, on April 3, 1973, and about his unbridled optimism for the future.

For more info:

• "Cutting the Cord: The Cell Phone Has Transformed Humanity" by Martin Cooper (Rosetta), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon and Indiebound
• Follow Martin Cooper (@MartyMobile) on Twitter
• dynallc.com

PASSAGE: Remembering artist Chuck Close | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" looks back at the life and work of the portraitist whose pixelated squares illuminated the human face in oversized proportions.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: From 1981: Artist Chuck Close (YouTube)
His paintings – massive photo-realistic renditions of photographs, many of them self-portraits – made Chuck Close one the most celebrated artists of the late 20th century. Close talks about his oversized canvases and the artificiality of art in this report by anchor Charles Kuralt that originally aired on "Sunday Morning" on April 19, 1981.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: From 2007: Painter Chuck Close, up close (YouTube)
Artist Chuck Close died on Thursday, August 19, 2021, at the age of 81. In this "Sunday Morning" report that originally aired on March 11, 2007, Close talked with anchor Charles Osgood about the evolution of his work; the effect on his art from a 1988 injury which severely affected his motor functions; and why – even in spite of his physical limitations – he was one of the happiest artists you would ever meet. 

For more info: 

• chuckclose.com
• Chuck Close artwork © Chuck Close, courtesy of Pace Gallery and Pace Gallery Mosaic.

U.S.: A ghost town's caretaker | Watch Video
Have you been socially-distancing? Not as much as Brent Underwood, who has lived during the COVID lockdown as the sole resident of a ghost town on the edge of Death Valley: the abandoned mining community of Cerro Gordo, California. Correspondent Luke Burbank talks with Underwood, who bought the 380-acre Cerro Gordo in 2018, and has featured it on his YouTube channel, "Ghost Town Living."

For more info:

• Cerro Gordo Mines, Cerro Gordo, Calif.
• Friends of Cerro Gordo (Facebook)
• "Ghost Town Living" (YouTube)
• "Cerro Gordo: Images of America" by Cecile Page Vargo and Roger W. Vargo (Arcadia Publishing), in Trade Paperback, available via Amazon and Indiebound

     
HARTMAN: A 101-year-old lobster lady (Video)
Virginia Oliver has been lobstering on and off since the age of seven – and is now, at 101, Maine's oldest lobster trapper. Three days a week, May through November, she is out working on Penobscot Bay, tackling one of the most hazardous jobs there is, alongside her 78-year-old son, Max. Steve Hartman joined the pair of old salts at sea.       

MOVIES: Composer John Williams (Video)
Composer John Williams is one of America's most celebrated musical talents – the best-known creator of music for films. He has written the scores for such revered classics as "Jaws," "Star Wars," "Superman" and "Schindler's List." In a story originally broadcast September 22, 2019, Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with Williams, and with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, who collaborated with the composer on an album of works for violin and orchestra adapted from his film scores, "Across the Stars."

AUDIO GALLERY: The classic film scores of John Williams
Listen to audio samples of some of the composer's best scores!  

EXTENDED TRANSCRIPT: John Williams on Spielberg, "Star Wars," and the power of music

For more info:

• "Anne-Sophie Mutter and John Williams: Across the Stars" (Deutsche Grammophon), available on CD (Amazon, Barnes & Noble), Vinyl (Amazon, Barnes & Noble), Digital Download (Amazon, Google Play, iTunes) and Streaming (Spotify)
• John Williams' music on CD and downloads:
  - John Williams on iTunes
  - Intrada Records
  - Varese Sarabande Records
• Tanglewood Learning Institute

     
COMMENTARY: Afghanistan wasn't all for nothing, says Army vet | Watch Video
Retired Staff Sgt. Travis Mills, who was severely injured by an IED during his third tour in Afghanistan, sums up the contributions and sacrifices of American and NATO forces in the country over the past two decades: We did good.

For more info:

• travismills.org

MUSIC: The singing doctor | Watch Video
CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook introduces us to Dr. Rich Krueger, a neonatologist who, in his spare time, is an acclaimed singer-songwriter.

For more info:

• richkrueger.com
• Rich Krueger on Spotify
• Follow @rockinkrueger on Twitter
• robertchristgau.com
• "And It Don't Stop" newsletter (Substack)
• Follow Robert Christgau on Twitter
• Thanks to Gallery Cabaret, Chicago

      
NATURE: Wildflower meadows (Extended Video)
"Sunday Morning" visits wildflowers on Mount Rainier in Washington State. Videographer: Mike Griffith.   
     

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