This week on "Sunday Morning" (September 5)
Host: Jane Pauley
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COVER STORY: Help Wanted – The new sign of the times | Watch Video
While customers are back in restaurants and businesses around the country, many employees are not, creating job openings on this Labor Day weekend that few expected. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty talks with former restaurant employees who say the COVID shutdown gave them a rare chance to pursue a new, better-paying career – and with a restaurant owner who says the pandemic may have changed the hospitality business for the better.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Maryland restaurant owner Mark Bucher on surviving the pandemic (YouTube)
For more info:
- Medium Rare, Bethesda, Md.
- Feed the Fridge
- Wendy Edelberg, Brookings Institution
- Per Scholas (computer training non-profit)
ART: Minnesota State Fair butter artist ends her half-century run | Watch Video
Since 1972, artist Linda Christensen has been carving the unique and highly-coveted "butter head" sculptures at the Minnesota State Fair. This year, she's passing the knife to a new generation. Correspondent Ben Tracy reports.
For more info:
- Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul (through September 6)
- Princess Kay of the Milky Way (Midwest Dairy)
U.S.: The unfolding meaning of 9/11 | Watch Video
A day of horror that unleashed a seemingly endless "war on terror" is, to a younger generation, a not-too-distant part of history they never experienced themselves. Correspondent Martha Teichner talks with authors Jewell Parker Rhodes and Elliot Ackerman about 9/11 and the canon of books inspired by that epochal event; and with firefighters honoring those who gave their lives to save others.
For more info:
- 9/11 Tribute Museum, New York City
- The 9/11 Memorial & Museum, New York City
- jewellparkerrhodes.com
- "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Little, Brown), in Hardcover and eBook formats, available via Amazon and Indiebound
- Queen's Grant Community School, Mint Hill, N.C.
- Elliot Ackerman
- "2034: A Novel of the Next World War" by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Penguin Press), in hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon and Indiebound
JOURNALISM: Richard Drew on photographing the "Falling Man" | Watch Video
For veteran photojournalist Richard Drew, getting an important photograph is about recording history. One of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer's most famous images is of a figure falling from the World Trade Center's Twin Towers on 9/11. He tells correspondent John Dickerson that viewers identify with it because they think, "That could be me."
For more info:
- Follow Richard Drew on Instagram
- The 9/11 Memorial & Museum, New York City
PASSAGE: Willard Scott and cameraman Isadore Bleckman (Video)
Jane Pauley remembers two TV news veterans who died this week: longtime "Today" weatherman Willard Scott, and cameraman Isadore "Izzy" Bleckman, whose work was a feature of CBS News reports, including for Charles Kuralt's "On the Road" series, for nearly 40 years.
SPORTS: At your service: Becoming a tennis ball person | Watch Video
It's not just tennis players that display their athleticism at the U.S. Open; tennis ball persons, who retrieve balls during play, must train for an intense, physically-demanding job that can also be dangerous. Correspondent Mo Rocca finds out what it takes to become a Grand Slam ball person, by putting himself through the paces.
For more info:
- U.S. Open
- U.S. Open Ball Person Tryouts
- "Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon" by Elizabeth Wilson (Serpent's Tail), in Trade Paperback and eBook formats, available via Amazon
TELEVISION: Jeff Daniels on why he keeps risking failure | Watch Video
In the new series "American Rust," Jeff Daniels plays the police chief of a Pennsylvania Rust Belt town trying to uncoil a murder mystery. It's a character he's played frequently: the guy with the guts to say what no one else will. Daniels talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about his latest role and direction in his career; his father's inspiration for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird"; and the joy of being a grandfather.
To watch a trailer for "American Rust" click on the video player below:
For more info:
- "American Rust" debuts September 12 on Showtime
- "To Kill a Mockingbird" returns to Broadway October 5, at the Shubert Theatre, New York | Tickets
- Watch a short video written by Aaron Sorkin and narrated by Jeff Daniels about the return to Broadway
HARTMAN: A thank-you to a veteran (Video)
World War II veteran Frank Grasberger, 95, treasures a letter he received back in 2009 from a third-grade student thanking him for his service. When the staff of the Vitalia senior residences in Strongsville, Ohio, did some sleuthing, they found the letter writer, Dashauna Priest, who is now 21 – and a proud service member herself. Steve Hartman reports.
COMMENTARY: Charles M. Blow on when the media gives a platform to hate | Watch Video
The New York Times columnist says exposing evil in the world risks amplifying what may be, to some, an allure.
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NATURE: Dawn in Texas (Extended Video)
"Sunday Morning" takes us to Lake O' The Pines in east Texas at sunrise. Videographer: Scot Miller.
WEB EXCLUSIVE:
ARTS: Tomato Art Fest: Tennessee community's annual bash for the tomato
Every August, something big happens in the small community of East Nashville, Tennessee, that has residents seeing red. It's not the red one sees out of anger; rather the red one sees in love – love for the tomato. Roman Feeser reports.
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