​This week on "Sunday Morning" (Oct. 9)

Join us in welcoming Jane Pauley as the new host of “Sunday Morning.”
        

FACEBOOK CHAT: Jane Pauley answers viewers’ questions (VIDEO)

      
HEADLINES: More backlash against Trump for lewd comments (Video)
The GOP nominee for president’s Facebook apology for his lewd comments about sexual assault, recorded in 2005 and released Friday, did little to assuage anger from fellow Republicans, many of whom are now calling on Donald Trump to step aside. Major Garrett reports.

         
HEADLINES: Swath of destruction left behind by Matthew (Video)
Hurricane Matthew swept through the Caribbean and up the Southeastern U.S. coast, proving to be a damaging storm. Aside from hundreds dead in Haiti, more than two million people lost power. Rebuilding will be expensive: by one estimate, damage in the U.S. could reach $6 billion. Mark Strassmann has the latest. 

COVER STORY: Why do placebos work? | Watch Video
A placebo is an inert substance -- usually something like cellulose, starch or sugar -- given in medical trials. But the “placebo effect” goes well beyond the actual pill … and may even include telling the participant that the medication she’s taking isn’t actually medication.

Susan Spencer reports on some of the surprising effects discovered by medical researchers using placebos.

For more info:

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
  
• Ted Kaptchuk, Dept of Global Health & SocialMedicine, Harvard Medical School
  
• Dr. Arthur Barsky, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
  
• Dr. Alberto Espay, UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute, University of Cincinnati
  
• “Placebo Use in Clinical Practice: Report of the American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs,” Journal of Clinical Ethics (2008) (pdf)
  

       
POSTCARD FROM JAPAN: Caring for bonsai (Video)
They can grow for centuries, and are designed to evoke the majesty of nature, in miniature - small wonder that experts will spend a lifetime perfecting their craft to care for a bonsai tree. Seth Doane reports.

SUNDAY PROFILE: Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Her view from the bench | Watch Video
At 5’3”, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is diminutive, but she looms large as a powerful liberal voice on the United States Supreme Court, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993 -- and, along with Elena Kagan and Sonya Sotomayor, one of three women on the bench. Which strikes the Associate Justice as not nearly enough. Jane Pauley reports.

For more info:

• “My Own Words” by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams (Simon & Schuster); Also available in eBook, Unabridged Audio Download and Unabridged Audio CD formats
  

       
PASSAGE: Jane Pauley returns to morning TV (Video)
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the day a young newswoman from Indiana took her place as co-anchor of the “Today” show. And now, almost 40 years to the day, Jane Pauley takes over as host of “CBS Sunday Morning,” following in Charles Osgood’s footsteps.

        
TV: Nick Nolte: "Reality never runs smooth" | Watch Video
The Oscar-winning star of such films as “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” “The Prince of Tides,” “The Thin Red Line” and “Affliction” is now starring in a new TV series, “Graves,” as an ex-president out to fix what his administration had broken, 20 years after leaving office. Lee Cowan reports.

For more info:

• “Graves” (Epix)
  

        
          
STEVE HARTMAN: Tooting his own horn (Video)
David Bilger, a musician with the Philadelphia Orchestra, has been mentoring 17-year-old Baset Azizi, even though Baset lives 7,000 miles away, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The story of how this young trumpet player connected with Bilger is as unlikely as what happened once their lessons, conducted across the Internet, progressed. Steve Hartman reports. 

       
MUSIC: Celine Dion: The real thing | Watch Video
Singer Celine Dion doesn’t need any fairy dust. She’s got talent, stamina, and a catalog that includes some of the biggest hits of the last 20 years.  Her Las Vegas show has drawn more than four million fans since she began playing the Strip in a theater built just for her in 2003. Back then there were doubts. Now, after her record-breaking 1,000th perfomance, Dion is firmly in the pantheon alongside Vegas deities like Elvis and Sinatra. Mo Rocca reports.

For more info:

• celinedion.com
  

ON THE TRAIL: The Old Man of Crater Lake | Watch Video
A mysterious tree stump that bobs in the pristine waters of the collapsed volcano has taken root in the imaginations of park visitors. Conor Knighton continues his yearlong trek through America’s National Parks, at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon.

For more info:

• Crater Lake National Park, Oregon (nps.gov)
  

        
OPINION:  Ben Stein: Trump must go | Watch Video
“Sunday Morning” contributor says GOP nominee’s lewd comments about sexual assault are the last straw.

       
 CALENDAR: Week of October 10 | Watch Video
Jane Pauley takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead.

        
NATURE: Sandhill cranes (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday morning in Indiana, among the sandhill cranes at the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area in Medaryville. Videographer: Jamie McDonald.

       
WEB EXCLUSIVES:

ALMANAC: The calliope (Video)
October 9th, 1855, 161 years ago today, was a day for music lovers to really let off steam. For that was the day the calliope - in which steam forced through pipes created a distinctive sound - was patented by Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass. Jane Pauley reports.

        
THE NEW SEASON: Fall books | Watch Video
If you’re looking for some fictional relief from the ups and downs of the political season, New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman has some fall reading to recommend.

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