This week on "Sunday Morning" (April 19)
WATCH: Facebook Chat with Conor Knighton!
Conor Knighton answers viewer questions in a virtual book tour for "Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park." You can watch the archived video in the link above at CBS Sunday Morning's Facebook page.
BOOK + AUDIO EXCERPT: Conor Knighton's "Leave Only Footprints"
The "Sunday Morning" correspondent introduces his account of a year-long trek through America's National Parks.
Host: Jane Pauley
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COVER STORY: On the trail of COVID-19 – contact tracing the virus | Watch Video
Contact tracing – being able to trace everyone with whom a contagious person has been in touch – is a fundamental part of managing infectious diseases. David Pogue reports on a historic new collaboration between two rival tech giants, Apple and Google, to develop a means by which smartphones will allow us to receive anonymous notifications when we've been exposed.
For more info:
- Apple
- Dr. Louise Ivers, director, Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Partners in Health, Boston
- Danny Weitzner, MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CHARITY: The increasing demands upon food banks | Watch Video
Food banks are struggling to find new ways to help record numbers of Americans who are out of work during the pandemic, adding to the millions who already experience food insecurity. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger talks with food pantries whose work in their communities is being strained – by increased demand, costlier supplies, and a reduced workforce – and yet has never been more valuable.
For more info:
- Feeding America | Donate
- Long Island Cares, New York | Donate
- Trinity Jubilee Center, Lewiston, Maine | Donate
- St. Mary's Nutrition Center, Lewiston, Maine | Donate
- Second Harvest Food Bank, Irvine, Calif. | Donate
COMMERCE: Drive-thru diagnostics: How car culture facilitates COVID-19 testing | Watch Video
The drive-thru, that symbol of American excess, or efficiency (or laziness), is now the means by which many are being tested for the novel coronavirus. Correspondent Tracy Smith looks at the history of car-culture commerce with Adam Chandler, author of "Drive-Thru Dreams"; and visits a southern California parking lot that is now a drive-thru doctor's office, where Dr. Matthew Abinante tests for COVID-19 infections.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Drive-thru America (Video)
Correspondent Bill Geist explores the commercial opportunities that allow drivers to never get out of their cars, from drive-thru dry cleaners, wedding chapels and bars, to funeral homes. This report originally aired on the "CBS Evening News" on June 21, 1996.
For more info:
- Dr. Matthew Abinante, Elevated Health, Huntington Beach, Calif. | COVID-19 Testing
- "Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom" by Adam Chandler (Flatiron Books), in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon
SUNDAY PROFILE: Randy Newman has a message: "Stay Away" | Watch Video
The Oscar-winning singer-songwriter's new coronavirus-themed composition is a love song of sorts, perfect for a time of isolation. John Blackstone "visits" with Newman and his wife, Gretchen Preece.
For more info:
- randynewman.com
- "Stay Away" by Randy Newman (stream or download)
- Donate to the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, New Orleans
CORRECTIONS: The COVID-19 crisis behind bars | Watch Video
Jails and prisons can be toxic breeding grounds for COVID-19. And because prison staff is as vulnerable, if not more so, than the incarcerated, an outbreak behind prison walls will likely spread to the community beyond. With confinement and social distancing mostly incompatible, "Sunday Morning" Special Contributor Ted Koppel talks with former inmates and social justice advocates about addressing the pandemic crisis inside the nation's correctional facilities.
For more info:
- "Ear Hustle" podcast by Earlonne Woods
- Adnan Khan, executive director, Re:Store Justice
- piperkerman.com
COMMENTARY: Jason Rosenthal on life after loss | Watch Video
Jason Rosenthal, the subject of a viral 2017 New York Times column titled "You May Want to Marry My Husband," written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal as she was dying from ovarian cancer, talks about the grieving process, and how to overcome the isolation and sense of tremendous loss that have become familiar states during the pandemic.
See also:
- "Modern Love: You May Want to Marry My Husband" by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (New York Times)
For more info:
- "My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me: A Memoir" by Jason B. Rosenthal (HarperCollins), in Hardcover, eBook, Large Print and Audio formats, available April 21 via Amazon
- Amy Krouse Rosenthal Foundation
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK: Life in New Orleans during coronavirus (Video)
"Sunday Morning" presents a snapshot of life in a time of pandemic, featuring the work of photojournalist Chris Granger of the Times-Picayune newspaper.
GALLERY: Pandemic: A snapshot of life in New Orleans
Photojournalist Chris Granger captures a moment in time in the Big Easy, when the city became subsumed by the coronavirus pandemic.
GALLERY: New Orleans, before and after lockdown
Photographer Sophia Germer, of The Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate, offers a view of the effect of coronavirus on the Big Easy.
COMMUNICATION: Background report: What does Zoom reveal about your house? (Video)
Correspondent Mo Rocca looks at how video conferencing has pulled back the curtain on our private lives, offering everyone a peek into our homes.
For more info:
COMMENTARY: Jim Gaffigan: Kids, quarantine and sanity are not compatible | Watch Video
We get a status report on the comedian's quarantine with his wife and five children.
See also:
- Week 1: Family life under lockdown
- Week 2: Life in quarantine is like a sitcom
- Week 3: Spring arrives!
- Week 4: Lessons from "distance learning"
For more info:
- jimgaffigan.com
- Follow @JimGaffigan on Twitter
- Watch "Dinner with the Gaffigans" on YouTube
TELEVISION: "Mrs. America" and the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment | Watch Video
Correspondent Erin Moriarty meets the all-star cast of "Mrs. America," a new series about the women who fought for, and against, the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, including Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Uzo Aduba, Tracy Ullman, Sarah Paulson, Elizabeth Banks, John Slattery and Margo Martindale.
WEB EXTRA VIDEO: John Slattery on playing Phyllis Schlafly's "secret feminist" husband
In the new TV series "Mrs. America," Cate Blanchett and John Slattery star as the conservative, anti-ERA advocate Phyllis Schlafly and her husband, Fred Schlafly. Correspondent Erin Moriarty talked with Slattery about how he saw his character, who'd allowed his wife tremendous freedom to campaign against women's liberation.
To watch a trailer for "Mrs. America" click on the video player below:
For more info:
- "Mrs. America" is streaming now on FX on Hulu
- ERA Coalition
HARTMAN: A nurse's duty (Video)
As the coronavirus outbreak spread throughout New York City's hospitals, 47-year-old Bevin Strickland, of High Point, North Carolina, got up off her couch and put herself on the frontlines to help. Steve Hartman talked with a woman who is no ordinary hero.
ART: Artist Kadir Nelson's evocative response to pandemic | Watch Video
Painters often take moments in history and capture them on canvas, and the current COVID-19 crisis is no exception. The paint is barely dry on one work by artist Kadir Nelson, who revealed his painting "After the Storm," a celebration of the strength of the human spirit, to correspondent Lee Cowan.
For more info:
- kadirnelson.com
- Photos by Dr. Jungmiwha Bullock
IN MEMORIAM: Some ... of many: Those we've lost to coronavirus | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" remembers victims of the pandemic.
Photo credits:
- John Horton Conway: Princeton University, Office of Communications/Denise Applewhite
- John Driscoll: Kris Graves
NATURE: Bear with cubs (Extended Video)
"Sunday Morning" takes us to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, where spring has sprung for a bear and her cubs. Videographer: Scot Miller.
WEB EXCLUSIVES:
"SUNDAY MORNING" MATINEE: "A Chorus Line in Quarantine" | Watch Video
44 cast members from the 2006 Broadway revival of "A Chorus Line" – each living in lockdown – perform the show's opening dance, cut together into "one singular sensation."
"SUNDAY MORNING" MATINEE: "Mrs. Doubtfire: The Musical" (VIDEO)
The coronavirus pandemic has closed Broadway shows, including a new musical based on the Robin Williams comedy "Mrs. Doubtfire," which was still in previews when theatres in New York were shut down. But that didn't stop star Rob McClure and the cast from performing (while social distancing!) the song "As Long As There Is Love," presented here for homebound lovers of musical theater.
For more info:
- "Mrs. Doubtfire: The Musical" at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, New York
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Brian Dennehy on the best part of acting | Watch Video
Two-time Tony Award-winning actor Brian Dennehy died on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at the age of 81. In this interview originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" on June 10, 2007, Dennehy talked with correspondent Martha Teichner about his remarkable career, from playing Macbeth as a 13-year-old, to his roles in such popular films as "First Blood" and "Cocoon," to his acclaimed work as one of the stage's leading interpreters of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller.
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