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RECAP: DECEMBER 31

      
COVER STORY: 
A look ahead at 2018
CBS News correspondents around the world look at what we can expect in 2018, and how the events of 2017 have shaped what is to come.

What's next in Washington? | Watch Video
CBS News National Correspondent Chip Reid on the challenges President Trump and Republicans face in the coming year.

What's next for Russia and the U.K.? | Watch Video
CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer on Putin's upcoming election, and Britain's troublesome "Brexit."

What's next for the Middle East and Europe? | Watch Video
CBS News correspondent Seth Doane on the prospects for diplomacy, and the rise of populist, far-right and separatist movements.

What's next for Asia? | Watch Video
CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy on the North Korean nuclear crisis that looms on the horizon.

      
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Top news stories of 2017, month-by-month | Watch Video
Jane Pauley has a recap of some of the year's biggest news stories.

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The makers of Hangar 1's Fog Point Vodka literally coax water out of thin air. CBS News

SPIRITS: Distilling vodka from San Francisco's fog | Watch Video
Just in time for a New Year's toast, Lee Cowan tells us about vodka made from fog. Here's to you, San Francisco!

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW
The top books of 2017 | Watch Video

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James Franco with correspondent Tony Dokoupil. CBS News

SUNDAY PROFILE: "Disaster Artist" star James Franco on finding a work-life balance | Watch Video
Correspondent Tony Dokoupil catches up with the actor, currently starring in the film "The Disaster Artist."

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW
The top music of 2017 | Watch Video

      
HEALTH: The rise of "gaming disorder" (Video)
The World Health Organization is poised to list "gaming disorder" - the point at which playing video games takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities - as an official human malady. Jane Pauley reports.     

        
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
The top online stats of 2017 | Watch Video

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THE YEAR IN REVIEWHail and farewell to those we lost in 2017 | Watch VideoJane Pauley looks back at the lives and accomplishments of the people we lost in the year gone by.

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW
The top movies of 2017 | Watch Video

      
OPINION:
 Faith Salie on how art can help shape our New Year's resolutions | Watch Video
At the end of another breathless year, the "Sunday Morning" contributor takes stock in the meaning of mistakes and repairing one's self.

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW
The top TV of 2017 | Watch Video

      
NATURE: 
Sequoias (Video)
We leave you this last Sunday Morning of 2017 in King's Canyon National Park in California ... among towering sequoias many hundreds of years old. Videographer: Jamie McDonald.

    


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NATURE UP CLOSE: 
A Piney Woods Christmas
In southeast Texas, species diversity makes up for lack of a snow at the holidays.  

RECAP: DECEMBER 24

     

 
COVER STORY:
 The healing, and persistent, power of kindness | Watch Video
Kindness is not simply an act of compassion; it also produces a hormone that has a healthful effect on the heart's arteries. Lee Cowan talks with author David Hamilton, who teaches about the physical and biochemical benefits of kindness; to a couple who set out to do one small act of kindness every day for an entire year, and spread the news on social media; and to the founder of Think Kindness, a program to teach schoolkids that no kind act is too small. 

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ALMANAC:
 The West Point Eggnog Riot of 1826 | Watch Video
On December 24, 1826, cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point rebelled against an alcohol ban, smuggling in whiskey to reinforce their eggnog mutiny. The situation deteriorated after that. Jane Pauley reports. 

      
DINNER WEAR:
 Restaurants serving up style | Watch Video
Correspondent Rita Braver takes a look at how fashion has given a hip edge to what food servers wear in restaurants, and why the classic look will never go out of style. 

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MOVIES: "Dear Donna Reed": Wartime letters to the Hollywood star | Watch Video
Martha Teichner reports on how Hollywood star Donna Reed contributed to the war effort during World War II, by sharing letters with American troops and entertaining service members at the fabled Hollywood Canteen, and how her messages from the homefront -- lovingly preserved treasures -- are being remembered today.

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New York City Ballet dancers prepare their pointe shoes.  CBS News

DANCE: On your toes: The making of ballet shoes | Watch Video
In the world of ballet, Christmas means one thing: "The Nutcracker"! Stages across the country fill with twirling snowflakes, leaping candy canes, and lots and lots of pointe shoes.  Faith Salie goes backstage at the New York City Ballet, and visits a leading ballet shoe maker in London, to find out what goes into those shoes aside from very talented feet. 

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YULETIDE:
 When Santa spends his summers (Video)
Christmas in July may sound like a foreign concept, but it happens in Branson, Mo., where the annual Discover Santa Convention takes place. It's an unofficial celebration of St. Nick and everything he represents. More than 800 Santas and Mrs. Clauses showed up this year - and so did "Sunday Morning" correspondent Luke Burbank. (This story was originally broadcast on August 28, 2016.)

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HARTMAN: 
Music out of Alzheimer's (Video)
While Alzheimer's may be stealing the memory of 68-year-old Steve Goodwin, he refuses to let the disease steal his music. The cruelest part of the disease was the toll it was taking on the songs he composed for his wife and could no longer remember - until a family friend and professional pianist took note with a rescue mission. Steve Hartman first reported on Goodwin's musical reports last August, and has an update about music that's taken a life of its own. 

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SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Petula Clark: Still "Living for Today" | Watch Video
The British pop singer, who hit it big in the '60s with "Downtown" and "Don't Sleep in the Subway," is making her first U.S. tour in decades, tied to her latest album release, "Living for Today."  Michelle Miller reports.

To hear Petula Clark perform the title track of her new album, "Living for Today," click on the video player below.

Petula Clark - Living For Today (Official Audio) by Petula Clark on YouTube

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PASSAGE: Dick Enberg (Video)
"Oh, my!" "Sunday Morning" remembers the career of legendary sportscaster Dick Enberg, a one-time teacher whose broadcasting career spanned six decades. Jane Pauley reports.

      
MOVIES:
 Holiday season at the multiplex: Which movies are naughty or nice? | Watch Video
David Edelstein discusses the latest flicks at the multiplex this holiday season – do any filmmakers get coal in their stockings?  

        
MUSIC:
 "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Video)
'Tis the season for a little Christmas music, courtesy of Charles Osgood, our anchor emeritus, and the Young People's Chorus of New York City.

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CALENDAR
 Week of December 25 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

      
NATURE: 
Snow in Rhode Island (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning of Christmas Eve at a snowy Pawtuxet River Valley in Rhode Island. Videographer: Richard Boghasian. 

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NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Filming wildlife in one's backyard
Photographer Roy Neher got some telling advice from his father about observing nature: "Sit down, shut up, quit moving and just watch."      


RECAP: DECEMBER 17

      

COVER STORY: Toymaker opens up about the season's hot new toy | Watch Video
Inspired by YouTube unboxing videos, L.O.L. Surprise takes the act of unwrapping to a new level. John Blackstone reports on the unorthodox methods that went into creating and marketing this year's hottest toy.

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ALMANAC:
 Tiny Tim marries Miss Vicki | Watch Video
On December 17, 1969, the novelty singer married Miss Vicki on "The Tonight Show," drawing than 21 million viewers. Jane Pauley reports.

          
'TIS THE SEASON:
 Gift ideas from Techno Claus | Watch Video
It's that time of year!  David Pogue, disguised as a jolly man in red, emerges from the fireplace to deliver some gift suggestions for those on your list who love gadgets.

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Actor Christoph Waltz. CBS News

SUNDAY PROFILE: Christoph Waltz | Watch Video
Seth Doane sits down with the Oscar-winning actor, who made a big impression in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," and who now has a small part (literally!) in the sci-fi comedy "Downsizing," about humans who are miniaturized, and is taking his love of music to the opera stage, directing an Antwerp production of Verdi's "Falstaff."

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MOVIES: 
"Saturday Night Fever" turns 40 | Watch Video
The iconic John Travolta movie captured the 1970s disco era like no other film. Michelle Miller pays a visit to Tony Manero's old neighborhood -- Bensonhurst, in Brooklyn, N.Y. -- where "Saturday Night Fever" was set. 

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'TIS THE SEASON: 
Chestnuts (Video)
On the streets of Beijing, just about the time Jack Frost starts nipping at your nose, you can smell the chestnuts roasting on open fires, as many street corner vendors do a brisk business. Ben Tracy reports.

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HARTMAN:
 Secret Santa pays a visit to Harvey-ravaged Texas (Video)
Four months after Tropical Storm Harvey flooded Beaumont, Texas, hundreds are still virtually homeless for the holidays. Which is why Secret Santa - an anonymous businessman who travels the country each year giving out hundred-dollar bills to random strangers - made Beaumont his first stop this year, deputizing Beaumont police officers as elves to share some needed Christmas cheer. Steve Hartman reports.

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Michael McDonald at the piano with correspondent Jim Axelrod.  CBS News

FOR THE RECORD: Michael McDonald is back with "Wide Open" | Watch Video
Jim Axelrod profiles the singer-songwriter and former member of the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, who has just released his ninth solo studio album, "Wide Open."

To hear Michael McDonald perform "Hail Mary," from his album "Wide Open," click on the video player below.

Michael McDonald - Hail Mary (Official Audio) by Michael McDonald on YouTube

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Madrid, New Mexico, was a coal mining town that electrified visitors in the 1930s with its Christmas light displays. CBS News

'TIS THE SEASON: A ghost town's Christmas past | Watch Video
Once upon a time the merriest Christmas in the Southwest came courtesy of some lumps of coal. An electrified Christmas wonderland was built in the mining town of Madrid, New Mexico, and that tradition is continued today, in a community that hosts an off-beat Christmas parade, funky shops and boutiques, and twinkling Yuletide lights. Conor Knighton reports.

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'TIS THE SEASON: White House ornaments | Watch Video
In the 1980s first lady Nancy Reagan launched the idea of selling White House Christmas Ornaments. 

The first was a simple Angel. But then the Association started honoring each president, sequentially, beginning with a dove copied from the weather vane at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate.

Rita Braver examines the history of this White House tradition, and checks out this year's ornament, honoring President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Senator-elect Doug Jones, Democrat of Alabama. CBS News

         
Q&A:
 Doug Jones | Watch Video
Manuel Bojorquez talks with the newly-elected Senator from Alabama, a Democrat and former prosecutor. 

         
CALENDAR:
 Week of December 18 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

        
NATURE:
 Autumn in Oklahoma (Extended Video)
We leave you this last Sunday Morning of autumn at Beavers Bend State Park in Oklahoma. Videographer: Roy Neher.

WEB EXCLUSIVES:


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Adam Greenberg conducts the P177Q school's iPad band. CBS News

EDUCATION: Students with autism make music with iPads (Video)
For years Adam Goldberg, a classical pianist who teaches music at P177Q in Queens, New York, struggled to break through to his students who have serious learning disabilities, such as autism … until he started using instruments virtually anyone can play: an iPad. Their iPad band is more than just a musical collective; the experience has helped students speak and communicate who never had before. Tracy Smith reports. 

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OPINION:
 Kurt Andersen on truth, lies and facts | Watch Video
The author says that in a political environment where "truthiness," lies and reckless opinions muddy the waters, a founding father's faith in facts may be what saves us.

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RECAP: DECEMBER 10

       
HEADLINES: 
Six wildfires rage in Southern California (Video)
Some 8,500 firefighters in southern California are slowly gaining ground on six wildfires raging from Santa Barbara to San Diego - catching a break Friday when the warm Santa Ana winds died down. But they're blowing again today. Carter Evans is there with the latest.

        

COVER STORY: Rehab that puts alcoholic pilots back in the cockpit | Watch Video
A drinking problem is not necessarily the end of a pilot's career. In fact, for decades, the FAA has been quietly sending pilots diagnosed as substance abusers back to work. It's called the Human Intervention Motivation Study (or HIMS). And, before you panic, consider this: it's one of the most successful rehab programs ever. Tony Dokoupil reports.

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ALMANAC:
 Dodge cars | Watch Video
On December 10, 1920, auto pioneer Horace Dodge died at the age of 52, just a few years after introducing the car that bears his name. Jane Pauley reports. 

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ART: The divine creations of Michelangelo | Watch Video
"Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer," a new exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, features more than 130 drawings, along with sculptures, paintings and models, that show the stunning range of the Renaissance artist's genius. Martha Teichner reports.

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BROADWAY:
 The triumphant reign of Broadway's "The Lion King" | Watch Video
The live stage production of the blockbuster animated feature turns 20 -- still roaring after all these years. Mo Rocca reports.

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TRENDING:
 HQ, the trivia game app | Watch Video
HQ is the fast-growing trivia game for smartphones that's arguably the perfect app for anyone seeking more challenging fare than cat videos. Answer 12 questions correctly and you can share a cash prize. But be sharp -- you'll be competing against at least 200,000 other contestants. 

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  • HQ Live Trivia Game Show - Download app for iPhone; coming soon to Android

   
'TIS THE SEASON:
 A "Christmas Carol" with its own little miracle | Watch Video
Lee Cowan meets the first female Tiny Tim in a Chicago production of "A Christmas Carol" -- a miracle herself who survived a brain tumor at just four months old.

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HARTMAN: Soul sisters (Video)
Miami preschoolers Jia Sarnicola and Zuri Copeland say they are closer than best friends, closer than sisters, even. In fact, Jia and Zuri truly believe they're twins -- not because they share the same skin color (they don't) but because they share the same soul. Steve Hartman reports.

     
SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Judd Apatow: Pretty serious about comedy | Watch Video
Tracy Smith sits down with the producer and comedian returning to stand-up comedy.

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MUSIC:
 Logic says "Be happy to be you" | Watch Video
With his hit "1-800-273-8255," named for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, the 27-year-old rapper Logic tackles a difficult subject in song. His positive message was born partly from a troubled childhood. The artist, whose given name is Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, was raised by his white mother who suffered from mental illness and addiction while his African-American father was incarcerated. Michelle Miller reports.

To hear Logic's Grammy-nominated "1-800-273-8255," featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid, click on the video player below.

Logic - 1-800-273-8255 ft. Alessia Cara, Khalid by LogicVEVO on YouTube

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Logic vs. Rubik's Cube
The rap artist astonishes correspondent Michelle Miller by quickly solving a Rubik's Cube puzzle.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: How Logic solves Rubik's Cube
The rap artist explains to correspondent Michelle Miller how he uses algorithms to conquer the Rubik's Cube. Follow along, if you can!

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Logic on finding happiness
Logic talks with correspondent Michelle Miller about making the leap - finding success despite the fear of failure.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Logic on setting goals
The rap artist returns to Reggie's in Chicago, where his first sold-out show was held, and talks about setting goals for his career.

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OPINION:
 Faith Salie on the firestorm of sexual harassment allegations | Watch Video
Like a wildfire, sexual harassment allegations will leave burn scars on our culture, but also make room for fertile new growth.

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CALENDAR:
 Week of December 11 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

      
NATURE:
 Snow geese (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning with the sights and sounds of snow geese at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. Videographer: Judith Lehmberg.

    
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MOVIES: 
From heroes to cads: David Edelstein on the surge in movie biopics | Watch Video
It's awards season, which means it's time for a staggering number of dramatizations about the lives of real-life people.

     
NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Morning at Bosque del Apache
A visit to a New Mexico national wildlife refuge where sandhill cranes take up residence.

    

    


RECAP: DECEMBER 3


COVER STORY: 
An "unknown sailor" no more | Watch Video
David Martin marks the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor with a report on a long-unsung hero of that day: Boatswain's Mate Second Class Joseph L. George, whose actions saved the lives of six crewmen from the flaming hulk of the USS Arizona.

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ALMANAC: The infinity symbol | Watch Video
On December 3, 1616, John Wallis, the mathematician credited with creating a symbol to represent an unending concept (∞), was born. Jane Pauley reports.

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Carmen de Lavallade, an innovative pioneer of modern dance and a Kennedy Center Honoree, has been shattering barriers all her life. CBS News

KENNEDY CENTER HONORS: Carmen de Lavallade on a life well danced | Watch Video
The legendary ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher, who is among the honorees being feted for their illustrious careers by the Kennedy Center on Sunday night, is profiled by Rita Braver.

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STAGE: 
"SpongeBob SquarePants" out to make a splash on Broadway | Watch Video
The charm and humor of the Nickelodeon cartoon set in the undersea world of Bikini Bottom is now live on stage. David Pogue reports. 

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PASSAGE:
 Remembering Jim Nabors (Video)
The actor beloved as the perennially innocent Gomer Pyle, who died this past week at age 87, was also a talented baritone. Jane Pauley looks back at the career of entertainer Jim Nabors.

     
FASHION: 
Ashley Graham, a supermodel turning heads as a role model | Watch Video
Ashley Graham says she was told early on she didn't fit into a modeling world known for stick-thin women. She tells "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King that agents told her she would never be on the cover of a magazine -- that she was "too fat." Instead, she became the first curvy model to appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Ashley Graham on girls' aspirations
Ashley Graham talks to CBS News' Gayle King about the advice she gives to girls who ask about pursuing a career in modeling.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Ashley Graham on her Sports Illustrated cover
Model Ashley Graham talks to CBS News' Gayle King about appearing on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and what it represented for curvy women.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Ashley Graham on proudly displaying her cellulite
The curvy model talks to CBS News' Gayle King about the teasing she got in school, and how she came to embrace her size.

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HARTMAN: Tough love, and a lasting friendship (Video)
As a drug treatment court judge in Shakopee, Minn., the Honorable Chris Wilton has seen some pretty desperate cases, but none moreso than the heroin addict who first appeared before him in the spring of 2014 named Jennifer Jensen. Steve Hartman reports on a judge whose toughness resulted in an ending that would soften any heart.

     
SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Lessons from Warren Buffett | Watch Video
Jane Pauley profiles the "Oracle of Omaha," the chairman of the board, president and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, the world's third-largest public company, who may be the most successful investor in history.  And to hear the second-wealthiest man in the world tell it, Warren Buffett is having nothing but fun.

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DESSERTS:
 Turkish delights: Sweets from the Ottoman Empire | Watch Video
Some of the traditions that live on in Istanbul include sugary treats such as baklava and kunefe. Holly Williams takes a tour of delicacies.

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OPINION: 
2017's contenders for "Word of the Year" | Watch Video
Contributor Faith Salie has a few words to say about this year's contenders for the word that best says "2017."

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CALENDAR:
 Week of December 4 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE:
 Montana mountains (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning with an early taste of winter, in the mountains near Anaconda, Montana. Videographer: Brad Markel.

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NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Morning at Bosque del Apache
A visit to a New Mexico national wildlife refuge where sandhill cranes take up residence.

    

RECAP: NOVEMBER 26

        

          
COVER STORY:
 Clearing the air about COPD | Watch Video
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD, is the nation's third-biggest killer, after heart disease and cancer. About 150,000 Americans die of COPD each year. Among women, it is more deadly than breast and ovarian cancers combined.

"Sunday Morning" Senior Contributor Ted Koppel interviews his wife, Grace Anne, who was given only a few years to live when she was diagnosed with COPD 16 years ago. Today, the couple advocates for more research into prevention and treatment.

PREVIEW: Ted Koppel and wife Grace Anne on living with COPD ("CBS This Morning")

INFO: COPD Facts from the COPD Foundation

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ALMANAC:
 Bat Masterson | Watch Video
On November 26, 1853, the Wild West scout, gunslinger and gambler known for his dapper appearance was born. Jane Pauley reports.

     
FRUIT:
 Was Johnny Appleseed for real? | Watch Video
Where did apples originate? Did a tin pot-wearing frontiersman actually plant orchards across the Midwest? And how do horticulturists develop better and better varieties of the fruit? Mo Rocca goes in search of the history of apples, including a new apple - The Cosmic Crisp - coming soon to a produce market near you.

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Journalist Ronan Farrow. CBS News

NEWS: Ronan Farrow on how the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke open | Watch Video
At 29, Ronan Farrow wasn't even born when Harvey Weinstein is alleged to have begun sexually harassing and assaulting women. Yet Farrow was able to stand up to the movie producer's powerful legal and PR machine, publishing explosive exposes about Weinstein in The New Yorker. Erin Moriarty talks with the journalist to find out why the accusations against Weinstein -- and so many other public figures of late -- are coming out now.

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BY THE NUMBERS: Holiday shopping (Video)
Time to take the wraps off this weekend's holiday sales with "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley.

           
HARTMAN: 
So no student eats alone (Video)
Last March, we were introduced to Denis Estimon, a high school student in Boca Raton, Florida, who knew all too well the isolation kids face during lunch period when they find themselves eating alone. So he started a club called We Dine Together, dedicated to making sure no student is starved for company. Steve Hartman catches up with Estimon and his mission. 

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FASHION: Stella McCartney: Fashion with a conscience | Watch Video
One of the world's top fashion designers, Stella McCartney, just happens to be the daughter of former Beatle Paul and the late photographer Linda McCartney. But Stella succeeded after years of training and hard work, as she tells contributor Alina Cho.

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PASSAGE: 
Della Reese and David Cassidy | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" looks back at the careers of two talented entertainers who died this past week: jazz and gospel singer Della Reese, whose second career as an actress included a starring role in the series "Touched by an Angel"; and singer David Cassidy, who became a star (and a teen heartthrob) in the 1970s musical series "The Partridge Family." Jane Pauley reports. 

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Singer-songwriter Noel Gallagher with correspondent Anthony Mason. CBS News

FOR THE RECORD: Noel Gallagher | Watch Video
In 1994 the album "Definitely Maybe," by the group Oasis, was the fastest-selling debut in British history. They followed that with a worldwide smash, "What's the Story Morning Glory." Noel Gallagher, the band's Svengali songwriter, quit Oasis in 2009 and formed his own band, the High Flying Birds. They've just released their third album, "Who Built the Moon?" Correspondent Anthony Mason reports. 

To hear Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds perform "It's a Beautiful World" click on the video player below.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - It's A Beautiful World (Official Lyric Video) by NoelGallagherVEVO on YouTube

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NATURE: Providence Canyon (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning at Providence Canyon in Georgia. Videographer: Tom Cosgrove.  

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CALENDAR:
 Week of November 27 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.  

        
NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Preservation with a camera
Scot Miller follows the tradition of photographers and artists whose images have helped advocate for the protection of wild spaces.     

  

RECAP: NOVEMBER 19, "THE "FOOD ISSUE"

      
EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY: 
This week "Sunday Morning" presents the "Food Issue," our annual holiday broadcast devoted to all things epicurean. 

Thanks to Suite NY of New York City for the furniture and table settings used on Sunday's broadcast.

RECIPES: 2017 "Food Issue" recipe index
Delicious menu suggestions from top chefs, cookbook authors, celebrity chefs, and the editors of Food & Wine magazine.


EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY: This week "Sunday Morning" presents the "Food Issue," our annual holiday broadcast devoted to all things epicurean. 

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Host Jane Pauley invites you to "eat, drink & be merry." CBS News

Thanks to Suite NY of New York City for the furniture and table settings used on Sunday's broadcast.

RECIPES: 2017 "Food Issue" recipe index
Delicious menu suggestions from top chefs, cookbook authors, celebrity chefs, and the editors of Food & Wine magazine.


      
COVER STORY:
 Feeding the need: Expanding school lunch programs | Watch Video
Today more than 30 million schoolchildren benefit from the National School Lunch Act, signed by President Truman in 1946. For many students, it may be the only nutritional meal they get -- and some kids are still being denied a hot meal because their parents can't afford it. Lee Cowan visits a school district in Indiana where an innovative approach to feeding schoolchildren means no one gets turned away. He also meets a New Mexico legislator who backed a bill to fight "lunch shaming."

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ARTISTRY: Creating the bite-sized foods of "Tiny Kitchen" | Watch Video
Anna Werner meets the chefs who create food so tiny it could fit in a dollhouse -- created in a kitchen that is actually in a dollhouse.

GALLERY: Creating tiny food for "Tiny Kitchen"

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COOKERY:
 Multi-Cookers: The kitchen gadget that's all the rage | Watch Video
Multi Cookers look like slow cookers and cook like pressure cookers -- and they're all the rage. Martha Teichner checks out the kitchen gadget of the moment: The Instant Pot.

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TODAY'S SPECIAL #1: Pumpkin spice | Watch Video
Susan Spencer tells us what's hot in the culinary world, with three pieces on food fads. Her first brings us the very spice of life.

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CONDIMENT: Ketchup, a sweet and sour love story | Watch Video
There's a lot you don't know about ketchup. Luke Burbank fills you in.

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POSTCARD FROM ENGLAND: A visit to the Black Swan, the Best Restaurant in the World | Watch Video
Tommy Banks' little family-run pub in Yorkshire, called The Black Swan at Oldstead, has been named by Trip Advisor the "Best Restaurant in the World," based on posted customer reviews.  The honor has had even more impact on business than the Michelin star that Banks earned years ago. Mark Phillips checks out the menu.

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TODAY'S SPECIAL #2:
 How veggies impersonate other foodsWatch Video
Susan Spencer tells us what's hot in the culinary world, with three pieces on food fads. Her second touches on the rise in vegetarian and vegan dishes.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Martha & Snoop, an unlikely pairing | Watch Video
She is the head of a lifestyle empire. He is a rapper. Their unlikely pairing is at the heart of the VH1 series "Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party." Tracy Smith joins Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg in the kitchen to find out their special recipe for success.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: 
A Houston chef that's living the dream | Watch Video
Michelle Miller visits the Houston hotspot Hugo's, and meets the chef and owner, Hugo Ortega, whose story of success is as flavorful as his Mexican dishes. 

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LIQUOR: Whisky from the Land of the Rising Sun | Watch Video
Mo Rocca is in Japan to sample the whisky everyone's talking about.

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NOSTALGIA: Childhood memories preserved at the Lunchbox Museum | Watch Video
Chances are as a youngster you carted your lunch to school in a lunchbox. Nancy Giles takes us to the Lunchbox Museum in Columbus, Ga.

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BEVERAGE: Reintroducing Yemeni coffee to America | Watch Video
Yemenis were the first to cultivate coffee, which has been heralded as the best in the world, but years of conflict have prevented Yemeni farmers from growing and exporting their crop. John Blackstone meets importer Mokhtar Alkhanshali, whose journey to Yemen to aid coffee growers there has resulted in a most delicious -- and expensive -- cup.  

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TODAY'S SPECIAL #3: The hot new dessert: Rolled ice cream | Watch Video
Susan Spencer tells us what's hot in the culinary world, with three pieces on food fads. Her third dishes up the latest scoop in desserts.

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NATURE: 
Wild turkeys (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning before Thanksgiving with wild turkeys living it up near Elma, New York. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.

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ADVICE: Talking turkey (Video)
"Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley takes us to the classroom at Butterball University, where students learn how to help when you call the hotline with turkey problems.

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BEHIND THE SCENES: Filming bats
"Sunday Morning" videographer Carl Mrozek on the difficult process of capturing bats on camera.

RECAP: NOVEMBER 12

        
COVER STORY:
 The Ungers: Righting a miscarriage of justice | Watch Video
Ted Koppel reports on the efforts to free 250 people convicted and imprisoned for decades in Maryland as a result of a faulty jury instruction.

     
ALMANAC:
  The first flying trapeze act | Watch Video
On November 12, 1859, Jules Leotard astonished a Paris audience by defying gravity. Jane Pauley reports.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: School of Circus Arts (VIDEO)
In this report originally broadcast on "CBS This Morning" on November 26, 1996, correspondent Hattie Kauffman tests her mettle with acrobatics and the flying trapeze, at San Francisco's School of Circus Arts, where everything is literally up in the air.

         
MOVIES:
 Here's looking at you, "Casablanca" | Watch Video
Manuel Bojorquez on the 75th anniversary of the Humphrey Bogart-Ingrid Bergman classic.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Ben Mankiewicz on how "Casablanca" might not have been
Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz discusses the classic wartime romance "Casablanca," and how luck factored into its becoming one of the most beloved films of the Hollywood studios' Golden Age.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Ben Mankiewicz on screening "Casablanca"
Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz talks about the wartime classic "Casablanca" and how it has endured.

Here's Looking At You, Kid - Casablanca (5/6) Movie CLIP (1942) HD by Movieclips on YouTube

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HURRICANE MARIA:
 Lin-Manuel Miranda brings help, hope to Puerto Rico | Watch Video
David Begnaud joins Lin-Manuel Miranda on a trip to his grandparents' home in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. The creator of the Broadway musical "Hamilton" has been leading relief efforts to the island, which is still suffering nearly two months after Hurricane Maria decimated critical infrastructure, water and power supplies.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Lin-Manuel Miranda on "Almost Like Praying"
"Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda talks with correspondent David Begnaud about writing and recording the song "Almost Like Praying" during the "terrible silence" after Puerto Rico was struck by Hurricane Maria. He also sings the names of all 50 states in alphabetical order.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Lin-Manuel Miranda and fan sing "In the Heights"
While visiting the hurricane-stricken island of Puerto Rico, Lin-Manuel Miranda met a fan at Jose Andres' relief kitchen in Isla Verde, a neighborhood of San Juan, who joined him in singing a selection from Miranda's musical, "In the Heights."

To watch Lin-Manuel Miranda's video "Almost Like Praying" click on the video player below:

Lin-Manuel Miranda - Almost Like Praying feat Artists for Puerto Rico [Music Video] by Atlantic Records on YouTube

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Magazine editor Tina Brown with correspondent Tony Dokoupil. CBS News

PRESS: Tina Brown on gossip, Weinstein and Trump | Watch Video
In her new book, "The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992," legendary editor Tina Brown remembers what it took to revive a magazine in decline. Tony Dokoupil asks Brown about her cover stories that made news headlines around the world, as well as blowback from her magazine's coverage of then-real estate magnate Donald Trump, and about her later partnership with now-disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Tina Brown on how fate played out for Harvey Weinstein
The former Vanity Fair editor talks with Tony Dokoupil about her partnership with Harvey Weinstein on the short-lived magazine Talk. She describes the "very persuasive" Weinstein (now the subject of explosive allegations about his sexual misconduct with a large number of women over many years) and how the relationship resulted in PTSD.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Tina Brown on Princess Diana
The magazine editor talks with Tony Dokoupil about her 1985 Vanity Fair cover story, "The Mouse That Roared," which exposed problems in the marriage between Princess Diana and Prince Charles, and how Di influenced the royal family before and after her tragic death.

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HARTMAN:
 A new chapter for "The Book Thing" (Video)
For more than 17 years Russell Wattenberg has catered to thousands of hungry minds. He runs a Baltimore outfit called The Book Thing, which is not a library or store. People can just take whatever books they want, for free. A fire destroyed the non-profit in March 2016, but a new page has turned: The Book Thing has bounced back. Steve Hartman reports. 

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Country stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill with correspondent Tracy Smith. CBS News

MUSIC: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, in harmony | Watch Video
Tracy Smith sits down with the husband-and-wife country music stars.

To watch Tim McGraw and Faith Hill perform "The Rest of Our Life" click on the video player below.

Tim McGraw, Faith Hill - The Rest of Our Life by TimandFaithVEVO on YouTube

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In Philadelphia one of the nation's top-rated restaurants is partnering with a local ministry to provide free meals to the homeless. CBS News

CHARITY: A place at the table | Watch Video
In Philadelphia, the "City of Brotherly Love," a new restaurant called Rooster Soup opened earlier this year, and it has a lot to crow about already. It's been named one of America's "Top Ten New Restaurants" by both Food & Wine and GQ magazines. Rooster Soup is also doing well in another way: it gives away every penny of its profits, providing hot meals for the homeless.

Nancy Giles talked with chef Mike Solomonov, his business partner Steve Cook, and Mike Dahl, executive director of Broad Street Ministry, about the "radical hospitality" that is being provided to thousands of those in need.

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Cartoonist George Booth, whose panoply of pets has made many a pet owner chuckle for decades.  CBS News

HUMOR: New Yorker cartoonist George Booth (Video)
Faith Salie introduces us to the 91-year-old humorist, being honored with a career retrospective in New York City.

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CALENDAR:
 Week of November 13 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

    
NATURE:
 Walden Pond (Video)
We leave you this autumnal Sunday at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Videographer: Scot Miller.

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MOVIES: David Edelstein on Louis C.K.'s film you probably won't see | Watch Video
The comedian's feature film directorial debut, "I Love You, Daddy," was pulled following reports of his sexual misconduct.

             
BEHIND THE SCENES: 
Filming bats
"Sunday Morning" videographer Carl Mrozek on the difficult process of capturing bats on camera.

    
NATURE UP CLOSE: 
The evolution of "good enough"
Pelicans show that that survival isn't necessarily only for the "fittest."


RECAP: NOVEMBER 5

   

     
COVER STORY:
 Jann Wenner on Rolling Stone at 50 | Watch Video
As Rolling Stone Magazine turns 50, Anthony Mason talks with founding father Jann Wenner.

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ALMANAC:
 "The Father of Streamlining" | Watch Video
Industrial designer Raymond Loewy transformed locomotives, automobiles and household appliances into objects of unparalleled beauty. Jane Pauley reports.

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KEEPSAKES: Paul Newman's record-breaking watch | Watch Video
Serena Altschul has the tale of a wristwatch once owned by Paul Newman and recently auctioned for a record amount.

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MOVIES:
 A return trip aboard "Murder on the Orient Express" | Watch Video
Agatha Christie's classic tale of murder is getting a new star-filled adaptation by Kenneth Branagh. Seth Doane talks with the director about Christie's legacy and about the challenges of bringing her beloved mystery story to the screen; and joins Christie's great-grandson James Pritchard for a not-as-fatal train ride aboard some vintage 1920s railway carriages.

To watch a trailer for Kenneth Branagh's "Murder on the Orient Express" click on the video player below.

Murder on the Orient Express | Official Trailer 2 [HD] | 20th Century FOX by 20th Century Fox on YouTube

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AVIATION: The 747 flies into the sunset | Watch Video
Kris Van Cleave looks back at the 747 as it takes its final flights in commercial passenger service for United Airlines, once one of Boeing's largest customers for the jumbo jet.

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HARTMAN:
 A veteran's car, and a son's keepsake (Video)
In 2003 Army 1st Lt. Jonathan Rozier died in Iraq. His son, Justin, was nine months old. Today, 15-year-old Justin cherishes anything that used to belong to his dad, which is why he thought it would be so cool to have a car he owned, like the '99 Toyota Celica convertible his mom had to sell after Jonathan's death. Steve Hartman reports the heartwarming story about where the search for Justin's dad's car ended up.

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MUSIC:
 Art Garfunkel: Life is a surprise | Watch Video
A grade-school friendship between two Queens, N.Y., teenagers would lead to one of the most popular duos in American musical history, and one of the most complicated. Singer Art Garfunkel talks with Rita Braver about stepping out of the shadow of Paul Simon, and his new memoir, "What Is It All but Luminous."

WEB EXTRA: Read an excerpt from "What It Is All but Luminous"

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Art Garfunkel on his teaming with Paul Simon
Singer Art Garfunkel reads a passage from his new memoir, "What Is It All but Luminous," in which he frames his historic partnership with singer-songwriter Paul Simon.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Art Garfunkel on his voice
Art Garfunkel talks with correspondent Rita Braver about how he lost his Queens accent, and about the high standards to which he sets himself when performing.

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POSTCARD FROM JAPAN: Flower artist Makoto Azuma's stunning arrangements | Watch Video
The Tokyo studio of Makoto Azuma looks more like a laboratory. Azuma's focus is unbroken as his fingers perfect each petal until his creation is complete. And he's always looking for interesting locations to plant his work, captured with stunning photography in deserts, oceans and even outer space. Ben Tracy talks with the florist who destroys any preconceived notions of what that word even means.

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BOOKS: The essential Ta-Nehisi Coates | Watch Video
Ta-Nahesi Coates, a mild-mannered, even shy writer for The Atlantic, has become a celebrity intellectual as his books about race have become bestsellers. The recipient of a National Book Award and a so-called MacArthur "Genius Grant," Coates talks to correspondent Martha Teichner about his latest book, "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy"; about white supremacism; and about writing of today's conflicted America without offering the comfort of happy endings.

PREVIEW: Ta-Nehisi Coates wants readers to be "haunted" by his work

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Barack Obama
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates ("Between the World and Me") talks of being summoned to the White House to meet with President Barack Obama, and of his mixed feelings over the first African-American president of a nation still suffering the pains of racism.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the writing process
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates ("We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy") talks with correspondent Martha Teichner about his calling, how the music of Marvin Gaye influences the language of his writing, and how he chooses the words to characterize President Donald Trump's rise to power.

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CALENDAR:
 Week of November 6 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

     
NATURE:
 Pelicans (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the company of American white pelicans in Marin County, California, north of San Francisco. Videographer: Lee McEachern.

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Pallid bat. Verne Lehmberg

NATURE UP CLOSE: Bats, misunderstood but valuable
In general, the cuter their face, the worse their echolocation abilities.


RECAP: OCTOBER 29

    

 
COVER STORY:
 Hocus pocus: Making age-old magic new again | Watch Video
What's new in the world of magic (and misdirection)? Nancy Giles talks to some of today's leading illusionists.

WEB EXTRA: Blind magician Richard Turner on manipulating cards (Video)
Expert card manipulator Richard Turner - who is blind - demonstrates for correspondent Nancy Giles how to deal the queen of hearts.

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ALMANAC:
 The Salem witch trials | Watch Video
On October 29th, 1692 the governor of colonial Massachusetts disbanded the special court used to try suspected witches. Jane Pauley reports. 

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FUNERALS:
 Mortician Caitlin Doughty on a "good death" | Watch Video
In the spirit of the spooky season, correspondent Luke Burbank meets with an unusual undertaker who wants you to re-think everything you think you know about death. Caitlin Doughty, author of the New York Times bestsellers "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and her latest, "From Here to Eternity," and who hosts the YouTube channel "Ask a Mortician," believes that the sooner we make peace with the end of our lives, the more we can enjoy our time living.

BOOK EXCERPT: Read a chapter from Caitlin Doughty's "From Here to Eternity"

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FOR THE RECORD: Miley Cyrus feels "Younger Now" | Watch Video
The pop star has eclipsed the child star, as her latest album shows new sides of the 24-year-old singer. Anthony Mason reports.

To watch Miley Cyrus perform "Younger Now" from her latest album, click on the video player below.

Miley Cyrus - Younger Now (Official Video) by MileyCyrusVEVO on YouTube

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Miley Cyrus on her very first songs
Miley Cyrus talks about the very first songs she wrote as a child, including one about her "evil mother" after she'd been grounded.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Miley Cyrus on "Hannah Montana"
Miley Cyrus talks about being in the Disney universe as star of the show "Hannah Montana," and offers some wise words to kids.

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PASSAGE:
  Fats Domino | Watch Video

MOVIES: Master of horror John Carpenter | Watch Video
The filmmaker who is king of things that go bump in the night is a musical master of horror as well. Lee Cowan talks with director-composer John Carpenter, whose next film is a "real" sequel to his classic 1978 horror film "Halloween," with returning star Jamie Lee Curtis.

GALLERY: The films of horror master John Carpenter

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"Halloween" 1978 Original Movie Trailer (HD) by Miguel Olivas on YouTube

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HARTMAN: Remembering Charles Kuralt (Video)
Fifty years ago Charles Kuralt set out "On The Road" to find news of a different stripe. Steve Hartman looks back at the man behind countless unforgettable stories, and talks with Izzy Bleckman, Kuralt's cameraman, who also drove the RV that brought cameras to parts of America that were rarely seen on TV.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Michael J. Fox on working towards a Parkinson's cure | Watch Video
Actor Michael J. Fox is known to millions around the world for his work in the "Back to the Future" films, the TV series "Family Ties" and "Spin City," and more. But for the past two decades it's been his battle with Parkinson's disease, and his search for a cure, that may have generated the most attention. Fox, 56, started noticing symptoms when he was 29, and was diagnosed with early onset of the disease when he was 30. Looking back, he tells anchor Jane Pauley that sharing his battle publicly and joining with others to raise money has been a gift.

Fox opens up to Pauley about learning of his diagnosis; how he deals with the symptoms on a daily basis; and the work he's done through his Fox Foundation to raise nearly a billion dollars to fund Parkinson's research.

PREVIEW: Michael J. Fox: Working towards Parkinson's cure has been "one of the great gifts of my life"

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COMEDY:
 Joan Rivers' treasure trove (Video)
Joan Rivers may not have had everything she wanted, but whatever she had, she kept. Tucked away in midtown Manhattan in a nondescript high-rise, her office looks just as it did when she was alive, packed with mementos of a long career - jokes, scrapbooks and photos - as well as every thank-you note, every airline ticket, every scrap of paper back to her grade school days. Tracy Smith talks with Joan's daughter, Melissa Rivers, about her mother's paper trail obsession. 

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FINAL RESTING PLACE:
 The ghostly beauty of Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery | Watch Video
Martha Teichner visits the stately, sultry, and slightly spooky Savannah, Ga., graveyard made famous by the bestseller "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."

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CALENDAR:
 Week of October 30 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

     
NATURE:
 Bats (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the company of grey bats, but in a cave near Park City, Kentucky. Videographer: Carl Mrozek

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HALLOWEEN: 
"Sunday Morning" Jack O'Lantern (Video)
Time-lapse video captures "Sunday Morning" associate producer Young Kim carving a Jack O'Lantern for this year's Halloween broadcast.

        
MOVIES: 
David Edelstein's horror film picks are like manna from hell | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" critic explores the recent flood of restored, re-released horror movies as well as the latest uncanny tales to chill your bones.

       
NATURE UP CLOSE:
 A career shooting outdoors
How Doug Jensen combined a love of photography and nature with a personal business model.



RECAP: OCTOBER 22

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COVER STORY: The heart of "The Cloud" is in Virginia | Watch Video
Have you wondered where "the cloud" is? David Pogue of Yahoo Finance visits Loudoun County in Virginia, where data centers handle up to 70% of the world's internet traffic every day.

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ALMANAC:
 The first high-altitude jump | Watch Video
On October 22, 1797, Andre-Jacques Garnerin cut loose from a balloon 3,000 feet above Paris and drifted down to Earth using a homemade parachute. Jane Pauley reports.

  
BOOKS:
 New York Times bestsellers

ART: Courtroom sketch artists: Documenting history where cameras aren't allowed | Watch Video
Lee Cowan introduces us to the artists who capture the famous and the infamous in the courtroom with pencil, ink and pastels.

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WORD OF THE WEEK: 
"Spurious"

      
MUSIC:
 Darius Rucker walks a country mile to a new stardom | Watch Video
Jan Crawford profiles a former frontman for the rock band Hootie and the Blowfish, who has found a different kind of success as a solo country music artist.

To hear Darius Rucker perform "For the First Time," from his album "When Was the Last Time," click on the video player below: 

Darius Rucker - For The First Time by DariusRuckerVEVO on YouTube

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SPORTS:
 Maria Sharapova: Back on court | Watch Video
Tracy Smith joins the tennis great on the court where, after a 15-month suspension from play owing to use of a banned drug, Maria Sharapova has returned to her winning ways.

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HARTMAN: 
Remembering Chris Rosati (Video)
"Sunday Morning" first met Chris Rosati, of Durham, N.C., in 2013 after learning of his plot to steal a Krispy Kreme donut truck in order to give away donuts to kids. Rosati, who suffered from ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), inspired countless others with his passion to perform random acts of kindness. Steve Hartman remembers Rosati, who died this past week at age 46. 

Condolences: Viewers who would like to get in touch with the Rosati family may write to the address below: 

1821 Hillandale Rd., Suite 1B
Durham, N.C. 27705

TELEVISION: "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski | Watch Video
For the past 10 years Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough have been engaging viewers with an early morning jolt of smart political conversation on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Now they are engaged to each other -- while also engaged in a tweet war with President Donald Trump.  Lesley Stahl of "60 Minutes" reports. 

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MOVIES:
 The scene that changed film forever | Watch Video
David Edelstein reviews a new documentary, "78/52," that examines in minute detail a revolutionary cinematic event: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho."

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Janet Leigh on filming "Psycho" (Video)
In this story from "Eye to Eye," originally broadcast on June 1, 1995, actress Janet Leigh looks back at the 1960 production of the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Psycho," and talks with correspondent Bill Lagattuta about her subsequent fear of showers. Lagattuta also talks with Leigh's daughter, actress Jamie Lee Curtis; Berry Perkins, widow of Anthony Perkins, who played Norman Bates; and Hitchcock's daughter, Pat Hitchcock. He also pays a visit to a real-life Bates Motel, in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho.

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ON THE TRAIL: 
Caribou hunting in Alaska | Watch Video
At Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve, in a wild and remote stretch of the Last Frontier, locals survive with subsistence hunting of the largest caribou herd in the U.S. Conor Knighton reports.

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CALENDAR: Week of October 23 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

         
NATURE:
 Beavers (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning at a beaver pond in Princeton, Massachusetts. Videographer: Doug Jensen.

      

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NATURE UP CLOSE:
 The American Bison
Yellowstone National Park currently holds the largest numbers of a species once decimated by wholesale hunting.



RECAP: OCTOBER 15

       
COVER STORY:
 The genius of Leonardo da Vinci | Watch Video
Leonardo da Vinci produced two of the most famous paintings in art history: "The Last Supper" and the "Mona Lisa." But he was also passionate about medical discoveries and military inventions, some of which were centuries ahead of their time.

Walter Isaacson, author of best-selling biographies of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, has written a new book about Leonardo, and he tells Dr. Jon LaPook why the artist's mind and curiosity were so extraordinary.

BOOK EXCERPT: Read a chapter from Isaacson's "Leonardo da Vinci"

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Leonardo da Vinci, the scientist
Biographer Walter Isaacson talks with Dr. Jon LaPook about the Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci, and his curiosity and unique gifts as an observer of the world around him.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance man
Walter Isaacson talks with Dr. Jon LaPook about the rise of the "Renaissance Man" in Florence.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Leonardo da Vinci and Renaissance painting
Walter Isaacson talks with Dr. Jon LaPook about the "augmented reality" of Renaissance artwork such as da Vinci's, and why the eyes in paintings like the Mona Lisa appear to follow the viewer.

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ALMANAC: Abraham Lincoln's beard | Watch Video
On October 15, 1860, an 11-year-old girl's letter urged the presidential candidate to "let your whiskers grow." Jane Pauley reports.

    
ART:
  Ai Weiwei's "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" | Watch Video
Rita Braver catches up with Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, whose latest exhibit is his largest undertaking yet.

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BOOKS:
 Tom Hanks: Actor, typist | Watch Video
Typewriters are Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks' vice, his not-so-guilty pleasure.  He has a personal collection of more than a hundred -- nearly every style, make and year. They intrigue him so much, Hanks even made typewriters the supporting characters in his very first book, a collection of short stories fittingly titled "Uncommon Type." He talked with Lee Cowan about his affection for typewriters, and how he found his writer's voice.

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PASSAGE:
 America's oldest hardware store closes shop (Video)
The oldest hardware store in America is closing. Jane Pauley reports on Elwood Adams Hardware Store in Worcester, Mass., in business since 1782, which will soon shut its doors for good.

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BY THE NUMBERS: Puerto Rico and Maria (Video)
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at the data behind the disaster, as Puerto Rico continues to struggle weeks after Hurricane Maria slammed into the island. Jane Pauley reports.

        
HARTMAN:
 A young boy's yardwork (Video)
While five-year-old Brian Kelly's dad was on overseas deployment with the Air Force, Brian enjoyed doing yardwork with a surrogate dad, his neighbor, Dean Cravens. Steve Hartman returns to the young boy he met in June for a happy followup.

      
TELEVISION:
 Jimmy Kimmel speaks his mind | Watch Video
He might be walking in the footsteps of giants, but late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has found a way to stand out. He was always the lovable frat boy at 11:30, often more playful than political. But Kimmel put comedy on hold when his on-air story about his son's fight for life became a call to action on healthcare; and following the Las Vegas massacre, his monologue turned into an emotional call for sanity … and gun control.

Kimmel talked with correspondent Tracy Smith about his road to late-night, and why he's not so bothered if viewers are upset by his heartfelt monologues: "I don't say, 'I don't mind.' I'd love for everyone -- I want everyone with a television to watch the show. But if they're so turned off by my opinion on healthcare and gun violence, then I don't know. I probably won't wanna have a conversation with them anyway." 

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OPINION:
 Gretchen Carlson on sexual harassment | Watch Video
The former Fox News host offers her perspective on sexual harassment in the workplace.

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MUSIC: Harry Styles goes in a new direction | Watch Video
He was just 17 years old when Harry Styles and his bandmates in One Direction hit it big early. Their debut album, "Up All Night," opened atop the Billboard charts, something even The Beatles didn't do. And One Direction's concert tours rank among the highest-grossing ever. Styles is now out with an eponymous solo album, and he tells Tony Dokoupil that his music has a different sound than what One Direction fans have come to expect.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Harry Styles on the origin of One Direction
British singer Harry Styles talks to Tony Dokoupil about how an audition for the TV competition series "The X Factor" led to the formation of the hit boy band One Direction.

To watch Harry Styles perform "Sign of the Times," from the album, "Harry Styles," click on the video player below. 

Harry Styles - Sign of the Times by HarryStylesVEVO on YouTube

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CALENDAR:
 Week of October 16 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports. 

         
NATURE:
 Bison at Yellowstone National Park (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning among the bison at Yellowstone National Park. Videographer: David Bhagat.

WEB EXCLUSIVES: 

NATURE UP CLOSE: Filming nature
Meet Mauricio Handler, whose underwater and on-land photography has been featured on "Sunday Morning."        

      


RECAP: OCTOBER 8

       

    
HEADLINES: 
Hurricane Nate makes landfall (Video)
Hurricane Nate made landfall as a category one hurricane in southeast Louisiana Saturday night, and then again this morning, outside Biloxi, Miss. It has since weakened to a tropical storm. Mark Strassmann, in Biloxi, and Michelle Miller, in New Orleans, report.

  
HEADLINES: 
Latest on Tropical Storm Nate (Video)
Eric Fisher, chief Meteorologist at CBS Station WBZ, reports.

        
COVER STORY:
 Pulitzer-winning photographers teach how to capture the moment | Watch Video
Can someone be taught to take a great photograph? Three decades ago, Pulitzer Prize-winner Eddie Adams and his wife, Alyssa, created a workshop at their barn in upstate New York, where veterans could teach emerging photographers how to take better pictures.

Maurice DuBois attends a workshop session and speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winners Caroline Cole, John Filo, Carol Guzy and John H. White about what they hope to pass on to their students. The 30th anniversary session takes place this weekend.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: John Filo on photographing the Kent State shootings
Photographer John Filo was a journalism major on May 4, 1970, when he documented an anti-Vietnam War demonstration on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. In this web exclusive he talked with correspondent Maurice DuBois about capturing an iconic photo of the era - a picture that earned him a Pulitzer Prize.

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ALMANAC:
 The Dodgers leave Brooklyn | Watch Video
On October 7, 1957, the Dodgers announced that they were departing New York City and moving west to L.A.  Jane Pauley reports. 

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ART:
 The art of making globes (Video)
In the era of Google Maps who makes a living out of creating globes - by hand? Peter Bellerby, of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, for one. Headquartered in London, he talks with Martha Teichner about how a desire to purchase a globe led to him becoming one of the masters of the craft.

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MUSIC:
 The many shades of Pink | Watch Video
The seasoned rocker knows how to work an arena, blending aerial performance art and songs about self-acceptance, with lyrics both salty and sweet. Pink talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about her latest album, "Beautiful Trauma"; about her turbulent childhood and the outlet she found in music; and what she wants to teach her children. 

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Pink on her concert acrobatics
The singer explains to correspondent Tracy Smith why she began incorporating aerial dances into her concert performances, and her trainer's very particular way of preparing her for the strenuous routines.

To watch Pink perform "What About Us" click on the video player below.

P!nk - What About Us (Official Video) by PinkVEVO on YouTube

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PASSAGE:
 Harvey Weinstein's mea culpa (Video)
Hollywood is reeling from allegations of sexual harassment leveled at Harvey Weinstein, one of the most powerful men in the movie business. Tony Dokoupil has the latest. 

  
VIOLENCE: 
A mass shooting survivor's story | Watch Video
For all the horrific tales we've heard since the horror that played out in Las Vegas last weekend, those who have survived mass shootings before know that life does go on -- often with a renewed sense of purpose.

Kristina Anderson was 19 years old when she was carried out of her French class at Virginia Tech in April 2007, after having been shot three times by a troubled student who killed 32 and wounded 16 others. She used money tucked inside get well cards to start a foundation, and now criss-crosses the country speaking about school and workplace safety. 

Anderson talks with Lee Cowan about the physical and mental healing required after a mass shooting, and what victims of last weekend's deadly attack might anticipate during a long and difficult recovery.

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HARTMAN:
 Mass shooting treadmill: When words fail (Video)
Steve Hartman responds to last weekend's mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in U.S. history (but horrifically common nonetheless), and asks what funeral will mark the last straw before something is done to address the violence. 

      
SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Andrew Garfield | Watch Video
Seth Doane interviews the actor ("The Social Network," "The Amazing Spider-Man") about his latest film, "Breathe," a biopic about Robin Cavendish, an advocate for the disabled after being stricken with polio.

To watch the trailer for "Breathe" click on the video player below.

BREATHE | Official Trailer by Bleecker Street on YouTube

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  • "Breathe" (Official site), opening October 13 from Bleecker Street

AN APPRECIATION: Remembering rock legend Tom Petty | Watch Video
Bill Flanagan remembers the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and member of the Traveling Wilburys, who died this week at the age of 66.  

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SUNDAY PROFILE:
 "First Ex" Ivana Trump on parenting and the president's tweets | Watch Video
The "First Ex" talks with Jim Axelrod about her life before and after she and the president divorced; what he is like as a father; her thoughts about Trump's second wife, Marla Maples, and his third, first lady Melania Trump; and other topics that she addresses in her new book, "Raising Trump," an advice book with tips for parents.

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CALENDAR:
 Week of October 9 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.  

                  
NATURE:
 Maine (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning with a glimpse of Fall at Acadia National Park in Maine. Videographer: Mauricio Handler

WEB EXCLUSIVES: 

      

NATURE UP CLOSE: Whooping cranes
Perilously close to extinction decades ago, tremendous efforts by naturalists have resulted in the saving of a magnificent bird.


RECAP: OCTOBER 1

        

      
HEADLINES: 
O.J. Simpson released from Nevada prison (Video)
O.J. Simpson is a free man. He was released early this morning from a Nevada prison after serving nine years for armed robbery. John Blackstone reports. 

       
COVER STORY:
 Creating a new blueprint for America's construction trades | Watch Video
The 2008 recession hit homeowners -- and homebuilders -- hard.  More than 1.5 million residential construction workers left the industry; some changed careers, others retired, and many immigrant workers left the U.S. and did not return. Add it all up, and since the Great Recession, the industry has recovered just fewer than half of those jobs.

And few young people are looking to careers in construction, plumbing, welding, and other skilled trades.

Mark Strassmann looks at the shortage of skilled labor -- desperately needed to build or repair housing in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria -- and talks with "This Old House" veteran Norm Abram and Mike Rowe, former host of the series "Dirty Jobs," about reconstituting America's blue-collar work ethic.

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ALMANAC:
 "In God We Trust" | Watch Video
On October 1st, 1957, a familiar phrase truly gained currency, as the words "In God We Trust" first appeared on America's paper money. Jane Pauley reports.

ART: The art of Piet Mondrian | Watch Video
One hundred years ago modern art took a decisively linear turn with the paintings of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, whose early, conventional "Dutch Masters"-style landscape paintings morphed into a body of work comprised of red, yellow and blue rectangles with black stripes. Mark Phillips reports from The Hague.

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BOOKS: To "Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown, success is no riddle | Watch Video
The author of the popular "Da Vinci Code" has been vilified by the Catholic Church. Though he claims not to be anti-religion, Dan Brown will surely face more controversy with his latest novel featuring Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, "Origin," in which God Himself is on the edge of extinction.

Correspondent Tony Dokoupil visits Brown at home in New Hampshire, where his experiences at the prestigious prep school, Phillips Exeter Academy, shaped his life views.

BOOK EXCERPT: Read the prologue and opening chapter of "Origin"

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COMMENTARY: 
Hugh Hefner's complicated legacy | Watch Video
Faith Salie on the Playboy founder who both celebrated the power of women and commodified their beauty.

  
TV: 
Sofia Vergara: The accent is on business | Watch Video
The "Modern Family" actress is also a marketing powerhouse - and a force behind helping fund micro-loans to women trying to start their own small businesses

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HARTMAN:
 Just one of the guys (Video)
The Brandywine bulldogs in Wilmington, Delaware, have one of the most unlikely football players in America today - not just because this guy is so little, but because this guy is a girl. Steve Hartman meets 4-foot-8 linebacker Felicia Perez. 

  
SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Bill Murray sings | Watch Video
In a rare television interview the comic star -- whose many "Saturday Night Live" characters included a formidable lounge singer -- talks with anchor Jane Pauley about venturing back into music. Murray is selling out concert halls as a member of "New Worlds," a stage production that mixes serious chamber music with spoken word performances.

The production, which features Murray, cellist Jan Vogler, violinist Mira Wang, and pianist Vanessa Perez, stems from a chance conversation Murray had with Vogler a few years back when they happened to be seated in the same row during a trans-Atlantic flight. They became friends, and that friendship turned into the collaboration on stage.

"I really do appreciate the live performance," Murray tells Pauley. "We get to a certain point in the show, we look around and go, like, 'Watch this: Now we're gonna kill 'em!'"

WEB EXTRA: Read an extended transcript of Bill Murray on music, poetry, and Huck Finn's conscience

You can stream the album "New Worlds" by clicking on the embed below (Free Spotify registration required to hear full tracks):

      

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SCOTUS: Justice Antonin Scalia speaks | Watch Video
A new book collects speeches by the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, whose originalist views were both polarizing and colored with humor. Mo Rocca talks with Scalia's wife and youngest son, and with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, about "Nino" and his passionate arguments on and off the bench.

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BOOKS:
 The newest story from Mark Twain | Watch Video
Fragments of an unfinished Samuel Clemens story have been transformed into a children's book, the latest work by Mark Twain, published just 107 years after Clemens' death. Martha Teichner reports.

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CALENDAR:
 Week of October 2 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

          
NATURE:
 Big horn sheep (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning among the Big Horn sheep who make Nevada's Mount Grant their home. Videographer: Derek Reich.

WEB EXCLUSIVES: 

      
NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Whooping cranes
Perilously close to extinction decades ago, tremendous efforts by naturalists have resulted in the saving of a magnificent bird


NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Waikamoi Preserve
The 8,900-acre preserve on the Hawaiian island of Maui is protected by The Nature Conservancy.


RECAP: SEPTEMBER 24

       
COVER STORY: 
What's in a name? Plenty | Watch Video
A correspondent by the name of Susan Spencer explores why more and more parents today are gifting their babies with less-traditional names, from North West to Moxie Crimefighter Jilette. She talks with Michael Ayer, whose 16-year-old son is named Billion Ayer. 

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ALMANAC: 
Debut of "60 Minutes" (Video)
On September 24th, 1968, Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace introduced the revolutionary TV series "60 Minutes," created by long-time executive producer Don Hewitt. Jane Pauley looks back at the debut of the newsmagazine that has featured countless memorable moments over the last half-century.

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THE NEW SEASON: 
Art | Watch Video
Anna Werner presents a preview of current and upcoming exhibitions at museums across the country.

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ART:
 A museum-worthy collection of trash (Video)
Over more than three decades, former NYC sanitation worker Nelson Molina collected items from the trash that he saw as treasures. It's become a collection worthy of a museum. Serena Altschul took a tour of his remarkable gallery of salvaged collectibles.   

       
THE NEW SEASON:
 Movies | Watch Video
Critic David Edelstein previews the best of the upcoming films this fall. 

        
THE NEW SEASON: 
Music | Watch Video
Bill Flanagan highlights some of the Fall's most anticipated new music releases, from pop to classical and jazz.

MUSIC: Shania Twain on finding her voice again | Watch Video
After a rocky end to her marriage with her longtime collaborator, the bestselling female country music singer ever is back with her first studio album in 15 years.

PREVIEW: Shania Twain on her songwriting: "I just sort of wrote myself out of my misery"
In preview of interview airing on "Sunday Morning" the country music superstar opens up about music following her divorce, her childhood, and more.

To watch Shania Twain perform "Life's About to Get Good," from her new album "Now," click on the video player below.

Shania Twain - Life's About To Get Good by ShaniaTwainVEVO on YouTube

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TV: 
"Young Sheldon" | Watch Video
Tracy Smith talks with Iain Armitage, the young star of the new "Big Bang Theory" spin-off.

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HARTMAN: 
And the band member played on (VIDEO)
Reading teacher Dawn West, 52, says the very happiest days of her life were the ones spent as a member of the West Virginia University marching band. What's amazing is, she never left, attending classes just to remain a member of the band. Steve Hartman meets the woman who may be America's only lifetime college student.

THE NEW SEASON: Theater | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" previews some of fall's most anticipated shows on and off-Broadway

      
THEATER: 
Harry Potter brings his magic to the stage | Watch Video
Mark Phillips talks with Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling about the sensation of the London stage (and coming soon to Broadway): "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."

WEB EXTRA: Extended transcript: J.K. Rowling and the creative team behind "Cursed Child"
The creator of Harry Potter, playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany talk about developing the award-winning continuation of the wizard's family story

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THE NEW SEASON: 
Books | Watch Video
New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul previews some of the Fall's most anticipated titles.


BOOKS: 
Ann Patchett: Writer, and purveyor, of books | Watch Video
Ann Patchett doesn't just write books, like her latest bestseller, "Commonwealth"; she sells them, at Parnassus Books in Nashville, her very own bookstore. As you might expect from a novelist, there's a good story behind Parnassus Books, and it's one that's bigger than just one bookstore. Lesley Stahl of "60 Minutes" reports.

EXCERPT: Ann Patchett's "Commonwealth"
In the author's most recent novel, the story of two interconnected families becomes grist for a bestselling book

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NATURE: Whooping cranes (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning with an encore of our very first Nature endpiece: Whooping cranes in South Texas, which aired on February 25th, 1979.

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CALENDAR: 
Week of September 25 Watch Video
From a Broadway musical landmark to National Coffee Day, "Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead.Jane Pauley reports.  


RECAP: SEPTEMBER 17

   

COVER STORY: Madonna's song of hope for Malawi's children | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" visited Blantyre, Malawi, with megastar Madonna as she opened a state-of-the-art pediatric care facility this summer -- the first-ever of its kind in the country's history.  In a wide-ranging interview with correspondent Tracy Smith, Madonna talked about her charity, Raising Malawi; her life with her four adopted Malawian children; the influences that brought her to this point; and the challenges of opening and running a desperately-needed children's hospital in one of the poorest countries on Earth. 

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ALMANAC:
 The discovery of bacteria | Watch Video
On September 17, 1683, Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek announced his discovery of single-cell organisms in human dental plaque. Jane Pauley reports.

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MONUMENT:
 Honoring the chief carver of Mount Rushmore | Watch Video
Jim Axelrod takes us to the national memorial in South Dakota, where this weekend the monument's chief carver, Luigi Del Bianco, is being honored.

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SPORTS:
 Tom Brady at 40, and still beating the clock | Watch Video
Five-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady turned 40 last month.  Just don't tell him that. "I would say I'm faster now and quicker now than, you know, when I first started playing football," he told "CBS This Morning" co-anchor Norah O'Donnell. The quarterback opens up about concussions, his training and diet program, playing football past 40, and his new book, "The TB12 Method," which is published by Simon & Schuster (a division of CBS). He also talks about what life is like at home with his wife, supermodel Gisele Bündchen.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Tom Brady on Colin Kaepernick
New England Patriots star Tom Brady talks with Norah O'Donnell about former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who sparked controversy for his protests during the playing of the national anthem, and is now a free agent.

RECIPE: Tom Brady's Brady Bowl

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TECHNOLOGY:
 Buying into the evolution of smartphones | Watch Video
David Pogue of Yahoo Finance has some thoughts on the latest smartphones. 

       
SPORTS:
 Billie Jean King's victories, on and off the court | Watch Video
Lee Cowan catches up with the tennis great and social justice advocate, whose 1973 exhibition match against Bobby Riggs was promoted as the "Battle of the Sexes" (and is now dramatized in a new film). 

To watch a trailer for "Battle of the Sexes," in select theatres September 22, click on the video player below.

BATTLE OF THE SEXES I Official Trailer | FOX Searchlight by FoxSearchlight on YouTube

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HARTMAN:
 A life-changing letter, and a new friend (Video)
When Marleen Brooks, of Park Hills, Mo., opened her mailbox, she was never expecting the letter she received, from someone she'd never met: a lonely, 90-year-old woman who lived across the street. Her reply: a friendship that has grown to helping others reach out to isolated seniors. Steve Hartman reports.  

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MOVIES:
 Jake Gyllenhaal on "Stronger" | Watch Video
Serena Altschul sits down with the Oscar-nominated actor to talk about his life, his career, and his latest film, "Stronger," in which he plays a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing.   

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Jake Gyllenhaal on actors he admires
The Oscar-nominated actor talks with correspondent Serena Altschul about actors who impress him and why.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Jake Gyllenhaal talks acting on stage vs. film
The Oscar-nominated actor explains why he prefers performing in live theater versus the movies.

To watch a trailer for "Stronger," in theatres September 22, click on the video player below.

Stronger Official Trailer #1 (2017) Jake Gyllenhaal Biography Movie HD by Zero Media on YouTube

      

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OPINION:
 Mark Bowden on Vietnam War's "tragic and meaningless waste" | Watch Video
The journalist and author of "Hue 1968" remembers the heroism and losses expended for a cause that, he says, was misguided from the beginning.

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BOOKS:
 The man behind "Captain Underpants" | Watch Video
Rita Braver talks with author and illustrator Dav Pilkey, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the first book in his long-running series. 

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CALENDAR:
 Week of Sept. 18Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE:
 Hawaiian rainforest (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning at the Waikamoi Preserve on the Hawaiian island of Maui - a tropical rainforest that's home for rare plants and colorful birds. Videographer: Jamie McDonald.


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NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Arches National Park
The writer and passionate naturalist Edward Abbey was inspired by his years as a ranger in the starkly beautiful Utah landscape              

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RECAP: SEPTEMBER 10

        
HURRICANE IRMA:
 Irma batters Caribbean (Video)
Hurricane Irma smashed into southern Florida after leaving a path of destruction across the Caribbean. Tony Dokoupil in Puerto Rico has the story of Paradise Lost.

HURRICANE IRMA: Hurricane Irma takes aim at Tampa, St. Petersburg (Video)
The southeast of Florida was prepared for the worst of Hurricane Irma but with the storm's shift to the Gulf coast, places like Tampa and St. Petersburg are more vulnerable. Correspondents Jeff Glor and Jonathan Vigliotti and meteorologist Eric Fisher give us the latest update.

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This Sept. 7, 2017 photo provided by the Dutch Defense Ministry shows storm damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, in St. Maarten.  GERBEN VAN ES / AP

HURRICANE HARVEY: Wake of the storm (Video)
Hurricane Harvey has displaced thousands of residents in Texas. Torrential rain and flooding caused homeowners to discard heaps of trash, which may take weeks to clean up. Omar Villafranca reports on the aftermath of the storm.  

       
INDEX:
 Hurricane facts (Video)
What is the difference between a hurricane, a cyclone and a typhoon? Here are some hurricane facts.                             

        
HISTORY:
 Is it time to tear down monuments to the Confederacy? | Watch Video
Mo Rocca reports on controversy over removing Civil War memorials.  

         
BUSINESS: 
Buyer beware | Watch Video
Erin Moriarty speaks with Richard Cordray, the embattled director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. 

        
SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Hillary Clinton on why she lost and "the most important" mistake she made | Watch Video
Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton sits down with "CBS Sunday Morning" anchor Jane Pauley for her first TV interview about her new book, a memoir entitled "What Happened," published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS.

Pauley will interview the former first lady to discuss Clinton's ill-fated White House campaign, her thoughts on President Donald Trump, Russian hacking, former FBI Director James Comey's effect on the race, and her life since Election Day 2016. 

"What Happened" will be available for purchase at major retailers and online on Sept. 12. 

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Hillary Clinton on losing the election
Hillary Clinton talks about factors that influenced her general election prospects, and losing the 2016 vote. 

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Hillary Clinton on Bernie Sanders
Hillary Clinton says she was disappointed in her primary opponent, Bernie Sanders, after winning the primary election.                     

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Hillary Clinton on Trump and North Korea: "I don't see a plan"
Hillary Clinton criticizes President Trump's handling of the situation with North Korea.  

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Hillary Clinton on Vladimir Putin
Hillary Clinton reveals to Jane Pauley what she thinks of the Russian president.  

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Hillary Clinton joins "Sunday Morning" to talk about her new book.  CBS Sunday Morning

HARTMAN: High school football team makes big comeback after Harvey (Video)
It's not hard to find a high school football team practicing in Texas. But what amazed Steve Hartman was to find one in storm-ravaged Rockport, Texas.  

CALENDAR: Week of September 11th (Video)
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.    

ALMANAC: Remembering Charles Kuralt | Watch Video
On September 10, 1934, Charles Bishop Kuralt was born. Kuralt grew to become an American journalist who was well-known for his long career with CBS News. Jane Pauley reports.

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Host Charles Kuralt on the set of "Sunday Morning," on the show's very first broadcast, January 28, 1979. CBS News

NATURE: Arches National Park (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning far from America's storm-swept South, at Arches National Park in Utah. Videographer: Mike Hernandez.


RECAP: SEPTEMBER 3

     

GUEST HOST: Lee Cowan

    

HEADLINES: Hurricane Harvey: Trump meets with storm victims (Video)
President Donald Trump visited evacuees from Hurricane Harvey in Houston Saturday, promising financial aid to the region. But it may be a drop in the bucket compared with what Texas officials are requesting. David Begnaud reports. 

       
HURRICANE HARVEY:
 The wrath of Hurricane Harvey | Watch Video
Mark Strassmann reports from Texas on the damage left by Hurricane Harvey and the road to recovery.

        
COVER STORY:
 Best intentions: When disaster relief brings anything but relief | Watch Video
When natural or man-made disasters strike, well-meaning people often rush to send bottled water, household goods, clothing -- literally the shirts off their backs. But sometimes the vast amounts of good will that people send do more harm than good, clogging airport runways and causing unnecessary logistical hardships for relief workers. 

NPR's Scott Simon joins us for a look at disaster relief that might be no relief at all. (An earlier version of this story was originally broadcast on April 24, 2016.)

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Felt food items for sale at the 8 'Till Late pop-up art installation by British artist Lucy Sparrow.  CBS News

ART: Pop-up art exhibits you may have missed | Watch Video
This Summer saw some intriguing and even transient offerings in the art world. Lee Cowan reports.

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ENTERTAINMENT:
 Movies of Summer | Watch Video
A rundown of the most popular films of the season.

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Every employee at the Marvin Window and Door Company in the small town of Warroad, Minn., is treated as a friend and neighbor - because they are. CBS News

BUSINESS: A window company's clear vision | Watch Video
Every product at the Marvin Window and Door Company is made to order, and so is their creed: they treat every employee as if they were friends and neighbors -- because, in the tiny town of Warroad, Minnesota, they are.

Conor Knighton visits Warroad to find out what sets Marvin apart from many other firms, even when the company has faced difficult times.

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Debbie Harry of Blondie (right), with correspondent Tracy Smith. CBS News

MUSIC: The platinum brilliance of Debbie Harry | Watch Video
It's been more than 40 years since Blondie first appeared on the New York punk rock scene, but when she sings, it's the 1970s all over again. Tracy Smith reports.

GALLERY: Photos from the early years of Blondie

You can stream Blondie's latest album, "Pollinator," by clicking on the embed below (Free Spotify registration required to hear full tracks):

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ENTERTAINMENT:
 Songs of Summer | Watch Video
A rundown of the most popular music of the season.

      
PASSAGE:
 Contagious yawning: Resistance is futile | Watch Video
A study finds subjects told to resist contagious yawning will be more likely to succumb. Lee Cowan reports. 

      
HARTMAN:
 When human nature surmounts Mother Nature (Video)
This past week we saw what trillions of gallons of water can cover when Hurricane Harvey struck southeast Texas. But more importantly, we saw what it can uncover, as volunteers helped rescue stranded neighbors, and thoughts of division were set aside in a collective effort that united a nation. Steve Hartman looks at how, when Mother Nature is at its worst, human nature is at its best.

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In an interview with "Sunday Morning" the actor talks about his "SNL" spoofs of the president and his new autobiography, "Nevertheless." CBS News

SUNDAY PROFILE: Alec Baldwin on politics, sobriety and playing Donald Trump | Watch Video
The 59-year-old Oscar-nominated actor has won two Emmy Awards and three Golden Globes for "30 Rock." And with his gift for mimicry, Baldwin has made a huge impression with his appearances as President Trump on "Saturday Night Live." The biggest thing Baldwin learned from writing his new book, "Nevertheless," is that "the past is the past. … I'm truly going to bury my past with this book." And as he explains to correspondent Rita Braver, he's not afraid of making enemies with his writing, adding that, "I try to, you know, kiss and slap in equal measure!" (This story was originally broadcast on April 2, 2017.)

WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Alec Baldwin: "I thought I was a genius" about substance abuse
The actor (who has just published a new memoir, "Nevertheless") opens up to "Sunday Morning" correspondent Rita Braver about his attitude in the 1980s when he abused drugs and alcohol until a near-fatal incident led to his sobriety at age 26.

WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Alec Baldwin on "Streetcar Named Desire"
In 1992 Alan Baldwin starred in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," playing the volatile Stanley Kowalski. He tells "Sunday Morning" correspondent Rita Braver about the painful fallout from an on-stage injury, and the acting lessons he got from Broadway stagehands as a result.

WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Alec Baldwin on the paparazzi
Actor Alec Baldwin talks with Rita Braver about his run-ins with tabloid photographers, including his decision to "take the law into my own hands."

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BY THE NUMBERS:
 Harvey (Video)
"Sunday Morning" looks into the data from one of the most catastrophic and costly natural disasters in U.S. history. Lee Cowan reports. 

     
ACTIVISM:
 Power to the people: Founding the Black Panthers | Watch Video
Lee Cowan looks back at the Black Panther Party, started 50 years ago, and talks to one of its founders, Bobby Seale.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The Black Panthers' fortified headquarters
Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, talks with Lee Cowan about the organization went about defending its Oakland headquarters after the head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, called the Black Panthers a threat to America's internal security.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The legacy of the Black Panthers
Bobby Seale, who co-founded the Black Panther Party 50 years ago, talks with correspondent Lee Cowan about what the organization accomplished.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: After the Black Panthers: The continuing revolution
Elaine Brown, former chairwoman of the Black Panther Party, talks with correspondent Lee Cowan about an urban farm in Oakland, an off-shoot of the social programs the Panthers instituted 50 years ago - and for Brown, a symbol of the continuing struggle for social justice.

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CALENDAR:
 Week of September 4 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Lee Cowan reports.

      
NATURE:
 Bison (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning among the bison at the American Prairie Reserve in northeastern Montana. 

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RECAP: AUGUST 27, "BY DESIGN"

On August 27 we present a rebroadcast of our special annual issue featuring a wealth of stories touching on all aspects of design. The broadcast comes to you from Amsterdam, where host Jane Pauley reports on the Netherlands' rich history of art, architecture, and more. 

HEADLINES: Houston a "series of islands" following Harvey (Video)
A flood emergency order is in effect in Houston, as the city is expected to receive a year's worth of rain from Harvey, now downgraded to a tropical storm but bringing torrential rain for the next few days. Mark Strassmann reports.

HEADLINES: "Catastrophic flooding" from Hurricane Harvey (Video)
Six counties have been declared disaster areas in Texas after Hurricane Harvey slammed into the state, bringing torrential rains that are expected to last for days. At least two people are confirmed dead and a quarter-million customers are without power. DeMarco Morgan reports from Dickinson, Texas, a town 30 miles east of Houston which is completely under water.

HEADLINES: Tropical Storm Harvey: Latest forecast (Video)
Scott Padget, chief meteorologist at CBS Station KTVT in Dallas/Fort Worth, brings us the latest on the devastating storm that has ushered in torrential rainfall to the Houston area - rain that will be measured in feet, not inches.

HEADLINES: Rockport, Texas devastated by Hurricane Harvey (Video)
The coastal city of 10,000 is reeling Sunday, a day after Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas Gulf Coast. Homes and businesses in Rockport were destroyed. And the area could see up to an astonishing 60 inches of rain in the next few days. Correspondent David Begnaud reports.

HEADLINES: At least 2 dead from Hurricane Harvey (Video)
Hurricane Harvey has been downgraded to a tropical storm after slamming into the Texas coast, bringing torrential rains that are expected to last for days. At least two people are confirmed dead and a quarter-million customers are without power. Mark Strassmann has the latest from Houston.


      
TOUR:
 Amsterdam, first city of the modern age, first city of the modern age | Watch Video
Jane Pauley takes in the sights of the Dutch city -- its historic canals, architecture and museums -- with Russell Shorto, author of a bestselling history of Amsterdam.

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WATER:
 Sea change: How the Dutch confront the rise of the oceans | Watch Video
Holland's innovative strategies for managing water may benefit other countries preparing for the fallout of climate change. Martha Teichner reports.

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ART:
 Dutch Master paints with packing tape | Watch Video
Dutch artist Max Zorn has become a star in the art world with his moody, elaborate portraits and cityscapes made with nothing but packing tape and a scalpel. Jane Pauley reports on Zorn's evocative works, which he hangs on lamp posts of Amsterdam, each one sure to send the street art scene into a frenzy.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Tape artist Max Zorn creates a "Sunday Morning" sun

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FASHION:
 Jessica Simpson and her empire | Watch Video
If all you know about Jessica Simpson is that she's a singer, you might be surprised that Tracy Smith is talking with her about design. And people may be surprised to hear that the Jessica Simpson Collection -- products ranging from clothes to accessories to home -- is a billion-dollar-a-year business.

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STYLE:
 Viva Vespa! | Watch Video
The Vespa, the sporty Italian motorbike, is as much a fashion accessory as it is a set of wheels.  Seth Doane visits the Vespa factory in Pontedera, Italy, and takes a trip through Rome with Annie Ojile, an American expat who started a Vespa tour company, Scooteroma.

GALLERY: The style of Vespa

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FLOWERS:
 Keeping Holland's fabled tulips alive | Watch Video
Hidden in the shadow of a church in the Dutch town of Limmen is Hortus Bulborum, established in the 1920s by tulip enthusiast Peter Boschman. He bought old and rare types of tulips and planted them, determined to not let them become extinct. Today Hortus Bulborum keeps alive rare varieties of one of Holland's most recognizable hallmarks. Jane Pauley reports.

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INVENTIONS:
 Making a big splash with the Super Soaker (Video)
When inventor Lonnie Johnson took a simple squirt gun and ramped it way up, he had no idea what a splash it would make. Since the Super Soaker hit toy store shelves in the early '90s, it's racked up more than $1 billion in sales. Mo Rocca reports.

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BROADWAY:
 The divine Bette Midler returns in "Hello, Dolly!" | Watch Video
"CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King sits down with actress Bette Midler, a Tony-winner in a re-designed Broadway production of "Hello, Dolly!"

GALLERY: The Divine Miss M.

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LIVING:
 Living on water: Welcome to Freedom Cove | Watch Video
Artists Wayne Adams and Catherine King have constructed a floating island they call Freedom Cove, a multicolored floating refuge tucked away in rugged Clayoquot Sound off the west coast of British Columbia's Vancouver Island. Built from salvaged materials over the past 25 years, the couple takes living off the grid to a new level, as they show correspondent Lee Cowan.

        

AUTOMOTIVE: BMW's Art Cars: A blend of art and speed | Watch Video
In 1975 Herve Poulain, a racing enthusiast and art lover, persuaded artist Alexander Calder to paint German automaker BMW's entry at Le Mans. The idea took off. The most recent entry in BMW's Art Car series was painted by conceptual artist John Baldessari, who showed Anthony Mason how to create some very fast art.

GALLERY: BMW's Art Cars

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TRADITIONS: 
 Cheese and clogs: Manufacturing Dutch icons | Watch Video
On the outskirts of Amsterdam, life starts early at the Clara Maria Farm, where every day since he was a boy, Kees-Jan van Wees has milked the cows in a 160-year-old building. Just hours later, he'll turn that milk into a Dutch product beloved around the world: Gouda cheese. Jane Pauley reports on a farm where centuries-old Dutch traditions have continued, and been embraced by Kees-Jan's American-born wife, Katrina.

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NATURE:
 Tulips (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning tip-toeing through the tulips at the Keukenhof Garden outside Amsterdam. Videographer: Joan Martelli.

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NATURE UP CLOSE: Dragonflies


RECAP: AUGUST 20

        

       
COVER STORY:
 Internet shaming: When mob justice goes virtual | Watch Video
David Pogue of Yahoo Finance reports on how those who exhibit "bad" behavior are getting their comeuppance online. But sometimes the victims of this new form of cyberbullying are innocent victims of misidentification. 

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ALMANAC:
 Dogs in space | Watch Video
On August 20, 1960, canine cosmonauts Belka and Strelka became the first dogs to survive an orbital space flight. Jane Pauley reports.

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PASSAGE:
 Remembering Dick Gregory (Video)
Humorist and activist Dick Gregory passed away yesterday in Washington at age 84. The comedian long used his act to attack racism, and proudly proclaimed his role as an "agitator" for social change. Jane Pauley reports. 

       
WORLD RECORDS:
 A small town dreams big | Watch Video
Conor Knighton visits Casey, Illinois, home to the World's Largest Rocking Chair, World's Largest Golf Tee, World's Largest Pitchfork, and World's Largest Wind Chime, among many other over-sized objects. It's a collection that has helped the tiny town halfway between St. Louis and Indianapolis loom large on the map of world records.

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TELEVISION:
 "Stranger Things" to once again go bump in the night | Watch Video
Mark Strassmann goes behind the scenes of the hit Netflix series.

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PASSAGE: 
Jane's summer vacation (Video)
What did Jane Pauley see and do during her time off?  She shares some pictures.  

      
SEAFOOD: 
Aw, shucks! A renaissance period for oysters | Watch Video
Faith Salie discovers an oyster renaissance, and finds that oystermen (and women) can't keep up with demand.

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HARTMAN:
 The secrets of a long marriage (Video)
Is there a sure-fire formula for married couples to stay together "happily ever after"? Steve Hartman traveled deep within the cornfields of Knox County, Indiana, to meet eight siblings who collectively have been married for 449 years. 

      
MOVIES:
 Robert Pattinson: Revelling in the freedom of chaos | Watch Video
Actor Robert Pattinson shot to superstardom as vampire Edward Cullen in the smash hit "Twilight" series.  But he's been trying to shake that type ever since. He stars as a gruff bank robber in the new film, "Good Time." Michelle Miller reports.

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Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso. CBS News

ART: Artist Françoise Gilot, on life with and after Picasso | Watch Video
It was in 1943, during the German occupation of Paris, that Françoise Gilot met Pablo Picasso. She was 21; he was 61. Gilot would later write, "It was a catastrophe I didn't want to avoid." 

Now 95, Gilot talked with Anthony Mason about her life as an artist, and as a muse and partner to one of the most famous and controversial painters in history.

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COMMENTARY:
 Bill Nye on the 2017 solar eclipse | Watch Video
The Science Guy celebrates humankind's ability to observe this rare celestial phenomenon, as well as to understand the cosmos and our place within it.

Complete CBSNews.com coverage: Great American Eclipse

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NATURE:
 Dragonflies (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in a bog in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, with dragonflies all around. Videographer: Jeff Reisly.

       
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CALENDAR:
 Week of August 21Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.        

        
NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Merritt Island

        


RECAP: AUGUST 13

GUEST HOST: Steve Hartman

       

HEADLINES: Reactions to deadly Charlottesville violence (Video)
At least three people are dead and dozens injured after hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members clashed with counter-protesters in historic Charlottesville, Va. Correspondent David Begnaud reports on reactions to the tragedy.

       
COVER STORY:
  Unequal justice under the law | Watch Video
The Constitution guarantees that those who stand trial for a crime must have the "assistance of counsel," and so those who cannot afford an attorney will have one appointed to them by the court. But as Lee Cowan discovered, for many facing charges, being represented by a public defender often means no defense at all.

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ALMANAC:
 Don Ho | Watch Video
On August 13, 1930, the singer and musician -- and Hawaii's informal goodwill ambassador -- was born. Steve Hartman reports.

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SUNDAY JOURNAL:
 Where will Trump and Kim's nuclear brinkmanship lead? | Watch Video
National security correspondent David Martin explains the threat of nuclear attack by North Korea, and what the U.S. response could be, with Admiral James Winnefeld, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Obama Administration.

      
Q&A:
 Jeremy Renner's surprising sideline | Watch Video
The two-time Academy Award-nominee talks with John Blackstone about his struggle to make it as an actor, and about his sideline business: house-flipping.

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SPECTACLE: Preparing for the Great American Solar Eclipse | Watch Video
It's been referred to as "the Super Bowl of the sky" -- the total solar eclipse on August 21 that will allow people across the continental United States to witness a rare and spectacular celestial event. Martha Teichner meets with retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak (known as "Mr. Eclipse") and with other "umbraphiles" whose love of eclipses outshines all else.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Martha Teichner talks with CBSN on eclipse preparation

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TEST: George Hartman's Facebook Space Quiz (Video)
Steve Hartman shares his nine-year-old son's test of space knowledge. How well do YOU do?   

       
HARTMAN:
 Song for an Alzheimer's patient (Video)
While Alzheimer's may be stealing the memory of 67-year-old Steve Goodwin, he refuses to let the disease steal his music. The cruelest part of the disease was the toll it was taking on the songs he composed for his wife and could no longer remember -- until a family friend and professional pianist took note with a rescue mission.  Steve Hartman reports. 

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SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Everybody loves Ray Romano | Watch Video
Tracy Smith catches up with actor-comedian Ray Romano, now starring in the series "Get Shorty."

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Ray Romano on the worst communicators
The actor and comedian has made a career of making fun of spousal communications. In a recent standup act at NYC's Comedy Cellar, Romano put any criticism about his own communication skills in perspective.

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POSTCARD FROM ENGLAND:
 Everything old is new again: Thatched roofs | Watch Video
It's hard to get more retro than a house covered with straw, but in England, thatched roofs - a tradition of days gone by - have become a cool, desirable home amenity. Mark Phillips meets a fourth-generation thatcher, for whom business has never been better.

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OPINION:
 Faith Salie has her say on "mansplaining" | Watch Video
If you don't know what mansplaining is, or manterrupting or manspread, then you're probably a guy. Women, meanwhile, have been putting up with these patronizing attitudes and oafish behavior for years. Contributor Faith Salie explains what some men would probably be all too happy to explain FOR her.

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NATURE:
 Merritt Island (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning among the birds of many colors at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. 

       
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CALENDAR:
 Week of August 14 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Steve Hartman reports.  


        


RECAP: AUGUST 6, "THE MONEY ISSUE"

Our annual "Money Issue" digs into the world of money -- the various ways people generate income, how they save or spend it, and how technology and social media are changing our economy. CBS News Financial Contributor Mellody Hobson anchors this special edition of "Sunday Morning," portions of which were originally broadcast on April 9, 2017.

      
COVER STORY: 
What jobs will be left in a robotic nation? | Watch Video
As autonomous machines become cheaper and computers smarter, David Pogue of Yahoo Finance explores the ramifications for human employment in a post-robot economy.

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FREQUENT BUYERS:
 Getting to the point with rewards cards | Watch Video
Accruing points or miles can save clever shoppers thousands of dollars on travel, but experts warn there are hazards. Anna Werner reports.

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SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
Susan Spencer explores three unusual business models.

TRIPTYCH #1: Something silly | Watch Video
It's not your grandfather's Silly Putty; Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty comes in a variety of colors, and can even be magnetized.

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SHOPPING:
 Many happy returns | Watch Video
Some retailers and online shopping sites have very liberal return policies -- even taking back merchandise they can't sell again -- in order to satisfy their customers. Tracy Smith examines why companies' return policies count on psychology to make them pay off.

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SOCIAL MEDIA:
 Turning viral videos into money machines | Watch Video
Jukin Media markets the wild, funny and absurd moments captured on video, making international stars of Chewbacca Mom and Pizza Rat. Barry Petersen reports.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: "Pizza Rat" videographer on going viral
Aspiring actor and comedian Matt Little talks with correspondent Barry Petersen about how he captured a quintessential New York City scene - a rat dragging a whole slice of pizza down the stairs of a subway station - that became an online sensation. 

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TRIPTYCH #2:
 Rags to riches | Watch Video
Thrifters are turning clothes found at second-hand stores and the backs of closets into careers.

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CANDY:
 Japan really loves Kit Kat bars | Watch Video
Kit Kat candy is exceedingly popular in Japan, where there are dozens more varieties and flavors of the chocolate snack than the single flavor available in the U.S. Mo Rocca reports.

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SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Jaclyn Smith fashions an empire | Watch Video
The former Charlie's Angel took her love of design and created a brand, encompassing clothing lines, home decor, and now skin care products. John Blackstone reports.

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PHOTO ALBUM: 
Living on one dollar a day | Watch Video
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Renée Byer captures the faces of extreme poverty. Tony Dokoupil reports.

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TRIPTYCH #3:
 Hater, the dating app for what you hate | Watch Video
Instead of matching people based on shared likes, Hater will fix you up with someone who hates what you do.

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CORNER STORE: Bodegas, the life blood of New York City neighborhoods | Watch Video
From the outside, it looks like a nothing-special corner grocery. But a bodega -- a real New York City bodega -- is so much more. Maria Hinojosa visits a few of the 10,000 family-run businesses that dot the city.

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CURRENCY: 
Creating new wealth on Sardinia, without cash | Watch Video
On the island of Sardinia, thousands of firms are not using traditional money to buy, sell, or pay salaries. They use Sardex, a virtual currency that allows businesses to earn and spend without relying on the euro, or on banks that wouldn't lend. Seth Doane reports on how the Mediterranean island is creating a new kind of wealth. 

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NATURE:
 Sharks (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning off the Bahamas … where sharks patrol the waters!  Videographer: Mauricio Handler.

       
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COMMENTARY: 
Mellody Hobson on our ballooning debt | Watch Video
According to the credit rating agency Equifax, credit card companies issued more than 10 million cards to subprime borrowers last year; that's up 25% from 2014. And it isn't just credit card debt that's growing.

      

RECAP: JULY 30, "SUNDAY AT THE SHORE"

Jane Pauley hosts our special summer fun broadcast, featuring stories on the ways we enjoy the season.   

       
SUMMER ESCAPE:
 A grand landscape from the Gilded Age | Watch Video
Jane Pauley visits Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park, in Oyster Bay, N.Y., a 400-acre park featuring gardens, greenhouses, trees and pathways, centered around a stately historic mansion known as Coe Hall.

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Caroline Masullo spends the Friday of her work week far from work, thanks to her company's policy of Summer Fridays. CBS News

COVER STORY: Summer Fridays: Getting the weekend off to a flying start | Watch Video
Two years ago, about 20 percent of companies offered their staff Summer Fridays, where employees would work a little later on Monday through Thursday before taking a three-day weekend. Now, more than 40 percent of companies offer this summer perk. And it's not just out of the goodness of their hearts - companies find that the gift of time and an improved work/life balance builds loyalty and makes employees more committed to their organization. Conor Knighton reports on how some workers are spending their Summer Fridays far from work. 

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Roller coaster critic Arthur Levine takes Faith Salie for a ride. CBS News

SUMMER RIDES: Amusement parks: The ride of a lifetime | Watch Video
From the smells of fried sugar to stomach-churning rides, there is just something about amusement parks that brings out the kid in us. And is there anything more fun than a roller coaster ride? Faith Salie talks with Arthur Levine, a roller coaster critic, and amusement park historian Jim Futrell; and she visits Bakken, in Denmark, the world's oldest amusement park, which opened in 1583.

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Making a lobster roll sandwich. CBS News

A TASTE OF SUMMER: Lobster rolls: Americans dig in | Watch Video
Once reviled as a crustacean fit only to feed prisoners, lobster has now gone viral, thanks in part to a New England tradition, the lobster roll - lobster meat in a sandwich. Mo Rocca checks in with lobster roll connoisseurs from Maine and Connecticut to California, and even land-locked Minneapolis, where lobster rolls sell like hotcakes.

RECIPE: Red's Eats Lobster Roll

RECIPE: Lobster Roll from L.A.'s Hinoki and the Bird

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Dick Cavett at the recreation of his historic Hamptons home, with correspondent Lee Cowan. CBS News

SUNDAY GETAWAY: Out of the ashes: Dick Cavett on rebuilding his Montauk mansion | Watch Video
The historic oceanfront getaway in Montauk, Long Island, was one of the Hamptons' "Seven Sisters," a group of country homes designed back in the 1880s by none other than architect Stanford White. Purchased in the 1960s by comedy writer and talk show host Dick Cavett, the house had a sparkling history, until 1997, when it was destroyed by a fire. Like a phoenix, the house has arisen again, completely rebuilt by Cavett. And now his treasure is for sale. Lee Cowan reports.

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SUMMER THREATS:
 Bugs: Suffering stings for science | Watch Video
You could say biologist Justin Schmidt has been bitten by the bug. In his quest to understand pain he's been stung up to 2,000 times, and has created the Schmidt Scale of Pain, rating the stings from 84 different insects on a scale from 1 to 4. Schmidt talked with correspondent Serena Altschul about his study of pain, and offered advice on what to do if a summer picnic is interrupted by a stinging visitor.

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A TASTE OF SUMMER:
 Everything's coming up rosé | Watch Video
Hard to believe that not long ago rosé wine had a reputation as lightweight as its color. Yet the wine has a surprisingly rich history as the favorite of kings, tsars and popes. And today, rosé is for everybody, with sales growing in 2015 by 60%. Mo Rocca checks out the pink stuff at the nation's only vineyard dedicated exclusively to rosé; talks with Katherine Cole, author of "Rosé All Day: The Essential Guide to Your New Favorite Wine"; and meets the founders of White Girl Rosé and its sister wine, Babe, which comes in a can. 

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SUMMER HEAT:
 The art of Japanese fans (Video)
On a sweltering summer afternoon, Japanese beat the heat the way their ancestors have done for centuries: head for the waterfront for some cooling breezes, put on a casual yukata kimono, and pack their hand fans. While flat, round fans, or uchiwa, originated in China, Japanese are credited with inventing folding fans over 1,000 years ago. Known here as ogi, folding fans come in a staggering variety of sizes, uses and styles, making for a cool fashion statement. Lucy Craft reports.

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Carlos Santana performs with the Isley Brothers. CBS News

SUMMER SONG: The Isley Brothers and Santana | Watch Video
About five years ago guitarist Carlos Santana ran into a singer he has revered since hearing the original version of "Twist and Shout" in 1962: Ron Isley, of the legendary Isley Brothers. That meeting resulted in the new album, "Power of Peace." Maurice DuBois went to St. Louis to talk with the stars of the new album: Ron Isley and his wife, Kandy Johnson Isley; Ernie Isley and his wife, Tracy; and Carlos and Cindy Blackman Santana.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The Isley Brothers on hiring Jimi Hendrix
Ernie and Ron Isley talk with Maurice DuBois about discovering a young guitarist named Jimi Hendrix.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Ernie Isley on sleeping with his guitar
Ernie Isley, of the legendary Isley Brothers, talks with Maurice DuBois about his specially-designed Fender Guitar, named Zeal, and his reported habit of sleeping with "her." His wife, Tracy, chimes in on whether that's OK with her.

To hear the single "I Remember" from "Power of Peace" click on the player below.

The Isley Brothers, Santana - I Remember (Audio) by SantanaVEVO on YouTube

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COMMENTARY:
 Jim Gaffigan: What's the big deal about owning a boat? | Watch Video
The comedian and "Sunday Morning" contributor doesn't get the fascination with keeping a boat, just to "take it out" and eat soggy sandwiches from a cooler.

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Jeannette Walls, author of the memoir "The Glass Castle," with correspondent Martha Teichner. CBS News

SUMMER READS: Jeannette Walls on writing "The Glass Castle" | Watch Video
Her upbringing in Welch, W. Va., was anything but conventional, but after moving to New York and establishing herself as a high society columnist, Jeannette Walls confronted her past upon spotting her mother, a squatter, rooting through a dumpster for food. Her bestselling memoir, "The Glass Castle," is now a film starring Brie Larson, Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson. Martha Teichner talked with Walls about her unique life journey.

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Milwaukeeans love their frozen custard. CBS News

A TASTE OF SUMMER: Frozen custard: Summer's hottest snack | Watch Video
No one is quite sure why, but Milwaukee has the highest concentration of frozen custard shops in the world! To be specific, frozen custard is not ice cream, but the creamy experience has been popular here since it was invented at New York's Coney Island in 1919. Mo Rocca took a tour of some of Milwaukee's frozen custard hot spots.

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NATURE:
 Planting Fields Arboretum (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday at the Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, Long Island. Videographer: Kenton Young.

         

         

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NATURE UP CLOSE:
 The American dipper


RECAP: JULY 23

This week: "Beyond Cancer"
We present a rebroadcast of our special edition, hosted by Dr. Jon LaPook, with the latest news on cancer research, diagnosis, treatments, and stories of survivors. (An earlier version was originally broadcast on March 12, 2017.)


POLL: CBS News poll: Majority of U.S. families touched by cancer

        
BOOKS:
 The history of cancer | Watch Video
Physician and scientist Siddhartha Mukherjee calls cancer "The Emperor of All Maladies" in his Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the disease.  He and anchor Jane Pauley discuss its milestones and breakthroughs. 

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COVER STORY:
 Immunotherapy, the next frontier in cancer treatment | Watch Video
Dr. Jon LaPook introduces us to the next frontier of cancer treatment: immunotherapy, using the body's own immune system to fight cancer.

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ON THE HORIZON:  Scorpion venom as cancer treatment | Watch Video
Researchers have discovered that synthetic scorpion venom, when combined with fluorescent dye and injected into a patient's bloodstream, will stick to cancer cells (and NOT normal cells), and light up tumors on scans, so that surgeons can see clearly where (and where not) to cut. Susan Spencer reports.

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STUDIES:
 Cancer clusters: The hunt for a killer | Watch Video
Anna Werner looks at the myths vs. reality of the alarming subject of "cancer clusters" across the Americas. 

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SURVIVORS: A matter of choice: Mastectomies without reconstruction | Watch Video
Some women who have lost breasts to cancer have chosen to deal with their loss in a fashion that is sparking conversation, and controversy. 

They call it "going flat." Instead of reconstructing their bodies with surgical implants, they are embracing their scars, even baring them publicly on websites like Flat and Fabulous and Flat Friends. 

Erin Moriarty reports.

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ON THE HORIZON: 
How dogs may help fight bone cancer | Watch Video
Comparative oncology, a rapidly-growing field of cancer research, pairs veterinarians with human doctors in the fight against cancer.  Apparently, certain cancers in dogs and people share striking similarities.  The hope is that a new treatment for dogs, if successful, could be applied to people, too. Susan Spencer reports.

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CHILDREN:
 Pediatric cancer: Miracles in small packages | Watch Video
Thousands of kids are diagnosed with cancer every year, but their odds of beating it have never been better. Tracy Smith reports.

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FOOD:
 Food for thought: Your diet and cancer | Watch Video
Correspondent Martha Teichner looks at the relationship between food and cancer. Can what you eat make a difference in prevention and during cancer treatment itself?

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SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Sheryl Crow, survivor | Watch Video
When Sheryl Crow was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 amid personal turmoil, she was devastated. But more than ten years later, she's more poised and centered than ever, balancing the demands of a young family and a new album and clothing line. Rita Braver reports.

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To watch the music video from Sheryl Crow's "Halfway There," from Be Myself," click on the video player below. 

Sheryl Crow - Halfway There (Official Animated Video) by Sherylcrow on YouTube

        
OPINION: 
HPV Vaccine: Why aren't children getting it? | Watch Video
The most underutilized immunization for children can also prevent many forms of cancer. Dr. Tara Narula reports. 

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RESEARCH:
 Glioblastoma: New tools against brain cancer | Watch Video
There are new therapies on the horizon for the very aggressive form of cancer afflicting Senator John McCain. Dr. Jon LaPook reports.

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STORYTELLING:
 That Dragon, Cancer: A game for Joel | Watch Video
Joel Green was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2010 when he was just one year old. The tumors left him partially blind and unable to speak. But at first the treatment was working.

Ryan Green, a video game developer, and his wife, Amy, decided to tell their story in an unlikely way: through a video game. That Dragon, Cancer is an impressionistic game that chronicles Joel's battle with cancer and the emotional ups and downs of caring for him. Ben Tracy reports.

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NATURE: Kings Canyon National Park (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning at the dawn of a new day at California's Kings Canyon National Park. Videographer: Scot Miller.  

         

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NATURE UP CLOSE:
 Under the sea at Mombasa


RECAP: JULY 16

       
GUEST HOST: Lee Cowan

       
COVER STORY: 
Al Gore's crusade | Watch Video
Lee Cowan interviews the former Veep and Nobel Prize-winner on his second career as an advocate against climate change (and against climate change deniers), about his new documentary, "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power," and about his efforts to sway President Donald Trump to maintain America's participation in the Paris Climate Agreement.

EXTENDED TRANSCRIPT: Al Gore on environmentalism, Trump, and solving the climate crisis
In this expanded interview, the former Vice President talks about how he came to preach the dangers of a warming planet, and why he is optimistic about change.

READ A BOOK EXCERPT: Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power"

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ALMANAC:
 John Kennedy Jr. | Watch Video
On July 16, 1999, the son of the former president, along with his wife and sister-in-law, died in the crash of the small plane he was piloting. Lee Cowan looks back.

GALLERY: John F. Kennedy Jr.

     
HISTORY:
 Memories unearthed from the Lodz Ghetto | Watch Video
The ghetto in Lodz, Poland, was one of hundreds created by the Nazis across Europe, used to temporarily separate Jews from the rest of the population. Most residents would be sent to killing centers, if disease or starvation did not kill them first.

The Lodz Ghetto is now the subject of a photography exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Called "Memory Unearthed," it features photos by Henryk Ross, a Polish Jew who lived inside the ghetto, and who buried his negatives in order to protect them from the Nazis. Chip Reid reports on the photographer who used his camera as a weapon of resistance.

GALLERY: Pictures from inside a Nazi-controlled ghetto

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BOOKS: 
Linda Fairstein: Living the dream, one murder at a time | Watch Video
As a prosecutor in Manhattan's District Attorney's Office, Linda Fairstein pioneered the use of DNA evidence in cases against sexual offenders. She was even the inspiration for some of the tough prosecutors you see on TV. But Fairstein has made a second career for herself as an award-winning writer of crime novels, including 19 books featuring prosecutor Alexandra Cooper. Lesley Stahl talks with Fairstein about the truth behind her fiction.

BOOK EXCERPT: Read the opening chapter from Fairstein's latest Alex Cooper mystery, "Deadfall"

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FOOD: 
The sweet taste of victory at the National Pie Championships | Watch Video
As American as apple pie, the competition pits bakers from across the U.S. in a showdown that is definitely not easy as pie. Conor Knighton reports.

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PASSAGE:
  The life of Henry David Thoreau | Watch Video
This past week marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of the naturalist and writer, who made Walden Pond a place of pilgrimage. Lee Cowan reports. 

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HARTMAN:
 Yard work: More than just blowing leaves (Video)
Five-year-old Brian Kelly misses doing yard work with his dad, Air Force Captain Dan Kelly, who last month was sent overseas. Brian's neighbor, a father-figure with a yard of his own, has been only too happy to oblige. Steve Hartman reports. 

      
FOR THE RECORD:
 For Willie Nelson, the autumn of life is colorful | Watch Video
Now 84, country singer-songwriter Willie Nelson is on the road again -- performing, writing music, and releasing a new album. "God's Problem Child" is his 110th, give or take, with songs like "Still Not Dead."  

"There's a theme here," said Bob Schieffer. "This is about the autumn of your life. Is that hard for you to think about?"

"No," Nelson replied. "You remember one of those deep thinkers, a guy named Seneca? He said you should look at death and comedy with the same countenance. And I believe that."

To hear Willie Nelson perform "Old Timer" from "God's Problem Child," click on the video player below:

Willie Nelson - Old Timer by WillieNelsonVEVO on YouTube

        
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HISTORY: Detroit 1967: When a city erupted | Watch Video
Michelle Miller looks back at the riot 50 years ago against police actions in Detroit, dramatized in the new Kathryn Bigelow movie, "Detroit."

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CALENDAR: Week of July 17Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Lee Cowan reports.

          
NATURE:
 Mombasa (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning with a dive into the Indian Ocean at Kenya's Mombasa Marine National Park. Videographer: Ziggy Livnat.

           
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SUMMER: National Ice Cream Day (Video)
It's "Sundae Morning"! Lee Cowan takes a break from "Sunday Morning" hosting duties to celebrate National Ice Cream Day.

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NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Bees

NATURE UP CLOSE: The Grand Canyon


RECAP: JULY 9

         

COVER STORY: All hail the Erie Canal | Watch Video
Two hundreds years ago, construction began on a 363-mile canal linking the Great Lakes to the Hudson River and New York City -- an engineering and commercial triumph as revolutionary as the Internet. But the Erie Canal was dismissed at first. New York politician DeWitt Clinton spent 10 years fighting to sell the project to a deeply skeptical public, and Presidents Jefferson and Madison refused to help fund it. Yet the canal quickly changed the geography and commerce of the young nation. Richard Schlesinger reports on the history of the Erie Canal, still celebrated in song as an example of American ingenuity.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: "The Erie Canal Song"
"I've got an old mule and her name is Sal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal..." It's a treasured melody that celebrates life on a canal boat in the 19th century. Singer Dave Ruch performs "Low Bridge - Everybody Down" (a.k.a. "The Erie Canal Song"), by songwriter Thomas S. Allen. 

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ALMANAC:
 A better doughnut hole | Watch Video
On July 9, 1872, John F. Blondel won a patent for his spring-loaded device to punch out the center of a doughnut. Jane Pauley dunks in honor of him.

     
SPORTS:
 Fast and furious: The world of competitive cup stacking | Watch Video
P.J. Ball and Jordan Green are masters in Sport Stacking -- a contest to stack cups in formation as quickly as humanly possible without knocking them over. Luke Burbank reports from the Junior Olympics of Sports Stacking. Originally broadcast February 5, 2017.

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MUSIC:
 Jack Antonoff: Hit man | Watch Video
The singer-songwriter-producer, and the heart of the indie pop group Bleachers, has collaborated with some of the biggest artists of the day. Tracy Smith talks with Jack Antonoff, who has turned personal heartache into something close to joy.

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MAILBAG:
 Letters to "Sunday Morning" (Video)
Jane Pauley digs into the mailbag for some correspondence from our viewers. 

       

BEAUTY: Manscaping: When body hair just has to go (Video)
Be it trimming, waxing, or body hair removal, personal grooming for men -- a.k.a. manscaping -- has become more popular than ever. Mo Rocca looks into the before-and-after effects. Originally broadcast July 28, 2013.

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HARTMAN:
 Court of dreams (Video)
"If you build it, they will come." In the case of one tennis-obsessed fan who built a replica of Wimbledon's center court on his Iowa farm, people have come from around the world to his All-Iowa Lawn Tennis Club, to play on his court of dreams. Steve Hartman reports.

      
SUNDAY PROFILE:
 The sparkling Christie Brinkley | Watch Video
The supermodel and actress has launched her own line of sparking wines. Mark Phillips reports. Originally broadcast November 20, 2016.

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OPINION:
 Who's the snowflake? A chilly riposte to political insultsWatch Video
Faith Salie on the jab du jour that has critics on the right and left seeing white.

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BOOKS:
 Louise Penny: How writing became her solace | Watch Video
Louise Penny's immersive murder mysteries, set in her home province of Quebec, have drawn a large and loyal fan base. But writing came as a second career for the New York Times bestselling author, a former broadcaster who faced a debilitating struggle with alcoholism before taking up fiction. Martha Teichner visits Penny in the small town of Knowlton, which could be a stand-in for her fictional town of Three Pines, where too often there is murder afoot.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Louise Penny on creating Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
Louise Penny explains to correspondent Martha Teichner the qualities that went into her development of the character of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, the central figure in her successful series of murder mysteries which began with her 2005 novel "Still Life."

WEB EXTRA: Read an excerpt from Penny's latest novel, "Glass Houses"

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CALENDAR:
 Week of July 10 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE:
 Honeybees (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning with an up-close (and sting-free) look at honeybees in Hollywood, Florida. Videographer: Charles Schultz.

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EDUCATION:
 Stephen Sondheim celebrates the power of teachers | Watch Video
Broadway musical legend Stephen Sondheim treasures the role that teachers have played in his life, and today helps honor educators with the annual Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards. In this web exclusive, Mo Rocca talks with Sondheim about the teachers who have inspired him, and visits with a recent award recipient, Tracey Rains of Gatlinburg-Pittman High School in Tennessee, whose selfless mentoring of student Chelsea Hayes was nothing short of life-altering.


RECAP: JULY 2

        

GUEST HOST: Lee Cowan

        

COVER STORY: Storm chasing couple's whirlwind life | Watch Video
In Oklahoma, where tornado warnings can mean the difference between life and death, there are no bigger names in storm-chasing than Val and Amy Castor, a husband-and-wife team who serve as a mobile early warning system for approaching storms.

The Castors are part of a network of storm chasers who broadcast live for Oklahoma City's CBS station, getting as close as possible to pinpoint a tornado's path. Manuel Bojorquez reports on the couple who have saved lives and challenged death together for 25 years.

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ALMANAC:
 Statuary Hall | Watch Video
On July 2, 1864, Congress approved the creation of a gallery at the U.S. Capitol to honor illustrious figures from every state. Lee Cowan reports.

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FLOWERS: 
Tombstone's Shady LadyWatch Video

The Old West city of Tombstone, Ariz., is famous not just for the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral but also for the world's oldest rose bush.  The Lady Banksia Rose Bush, planted in the back of a boarding house in 1885, was declared by "Ripley's Believe It or Not" the largest rose bush in the world in the 1930s.

Today, almost nine decades later, the folks at Guinness World Records say the rose bush (nicknamed the Shady Lady) is still the largest -- at last measurement, its canopy of white blossoms covers more than 8,000 square feet! Lee Cowan reports.

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BOOKS: Herman Wouk: Remembrances | Watch Video
The bestselling author ("The Caine Mutiny," "The Winds of War," War and Remembrance") who recently turned 102. Though reclusive, Wouk invited Tracy Smith to his Palm Springs home, and talked about a career conjuring fiction from real life.

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FOOD: 
Return of an heirloom watermelon | Watch Video
More than a century ago, the Bradford Watermelon was the sweetest, juiciest watermelon around; now, thanks to the latest generation of the Bradford family in South Carolina, they're back. Martha Teichner reports.

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POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO:
 Why are there goats in the trees? (Video)
The nut of the argan tree, which grows in the Moroccan countryside of Essaouira, contains a valuable oil known for its anti-aging properties, that is popping up in everything from shampoo and body lotion to food products. But nowhere on the labels will you find the remarkable story behind how this oil was born - and the role goats' digestive tracts play in its harvesting. Jonathan Vigliotti reports. (Originally broadcast on May 15, 2016.)

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SUNDAY PROFILE:
 John Mellencamp: Life goes on | Watch Video
Jane Pauley profiles the rocker and fellow Hoosier who has just released his 23rd studio album, "Sad Clowns & Hillbillies." Mellencamp explains why he is driven to make music and also to paint portraits.  

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Read an extended transcript of Jane Pauley's interview with John Mellencamp

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: John Mellencamp on panic attacks and creativity
The singer-songwriter talks to Jane Pauley about how he has suffered throughout his life, to varying degrees, from panic attacks. He also discusses creativity, from his painting, to how his gift for songwriting has evolved over time.

To watch the music video of John Mellencamp's "Grandview" (featuring Martina McBride), from his new album, "Sad Clowns & Hillbillies," click on the video player below. 

John Mellencamp - Grandview ft. Martina McBride by JohnMellencampVEVO on YouTube

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OPINION:
 Jim Gaffigan on storage units | Watch Video
The comedian and "Sunday Morning" contributor reminds us what all Americans have in common: keeping our stuff in storage containers.

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ON THE TRAIL: 
The "Parkitecture" of Grand Canyon National Park | Watch Video
Mary Colter was the visionary designer behind Grand Canyon's most recognizable buildings. Drawing on ancient Native American structures for inspiration, Colter (one of only a handful of female architects in her day) created structures that blended in with their settings physically and culturally, spawning an architectural movement -- National Park Rustic -- on display at parks across the country. Conor Knighton reports.  

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PASSAGE:
 A storybook romance's final chapter (Video)
Childhood sweethearts Dale and Alice Rockey were married for a remarkable 81 years, making them the Longest Married Couple when "Sunday Morning" visited them in Olathe, Kansas, back in 2015. Lee Cowan reports on the final chapter of a remarkable love story.

       
CALENDAR:
 Week of July 3 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Lee Cowan reports.

      
NATURE:
 Grand Canyon (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning with stunning views of Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Videographer: Phil Giriodi.

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NATURE UP CLOSE:
 Shorebirds and horseshoe crabs

       
MOVIES: 
David Edelstein on "Baby Driver," "The Beguiled," "The Little Hours" | Watch Video
The "Sunday Morning" film critic reviews new films for the holiday weekend -- a car-chase thriller, a Civil War-era drama of seduction, and a raunchy comedy about medieval nuns. Happy 4th!


RECAP: JUNE 25

HOST: Jane Pauley 

       
COVER STORY:
 It had us at "Hello": The iPhone turns 10 | Watch Video
In June 2007 Apple released the very first iPhone -- an iPod, phone and Internet connection all in one, operated via touchscreen and as futuristic-looking as a sci-fi gizmo.  The earliest iPhone didn't have all the features or apps it has today, but it was revolutionary nonetheless. 

David Pogue, tech critic for Yahoo Finance, who was one of the very first journalists to play with the iPhone before its release, reports on the history of the personal device that changed the world.

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ALMANAC: Jacques Cousteau | Watch Video
On June 25, 1997, the great ocean explorer and advocate died at the age of 87. Jane Pauley reports.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Jacques Cousteau (Video)
French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997) was a trailblazer in exploring the oceans and bringing the wonders of the sea to audiences around the world through his documentaries and books. In this story originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" on June 26, 1994, correspondent Terence Smith talks with Cousteau about his tireless efforts as an advocate for the health of the oceans and aquatic life, and his fight to protect Earth's most precious resource for future generations.

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ART:
 Murano, a Mecca of glass | Watch Video
Glassmaking techniques were once a state secret in Venice, where, on the island of Murano, generations of glass makers have concocted exquisite works of art from a molten sand mixture. Today, the process may be common knowledge, but the craftsmanship and know-how of this Mecca of glass sets Murano an island apart. Seth Doane reports.

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COMEDY:
 Dick Gregory: Serious about humor | Watch Video
The standup comic used humor as part of his activism -- and taught his children by walking the walk as well as talking the talk. Erin Moriarty reports.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: When Dick Gregory's face appeared on the dollar bill
Dick Gregory recalls to Susan Spencer the time in 1968 when the comedian and activist - then running for president - passed out dollar bills that featured his face. He had a curious argument that kept the feds at bay.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Barack Obama's debt to Dick Gregory
Christian Gregory, son of Dick Gregory, explains to Susan Spencer how the comedian and activist, who ran for president in 1968, helped set a precedent for the first black man to actually become president of the United States.

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PASSAGE:
 Prince Harry on the royals' future | Watch Video
In an interview with Newsweek, the fifth in line to the British throne offered some intriguing insights into the younger generation of the House of Windsor. Jane Pauley reports.   

GALLERY: Prince Harry

     
MEDICINE: 
Heart to heart | Watch Video
At age 24 Amy Silverstein developed a life-threatening condition and received a heart transplant. She survived with that heart, and wrote an acclaimed book, "Sick Girl," but 25 years later it, too, began to fail.

She is now on her third heart, and has written a moving new book, "My Glory Was I Had Such Friends," about how her family and friends' support kept her alive. Lee Cowan reports.

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HARTMAN: Helping tick off mom's bucket list (Video)
As a kid, Sian Pierre Regis said, he didn't really appreciate all that his mother, Rebecca, a single mom, had sacrificed for her kids. But when she lost her job as a housekeeper at a Boston hotel at age 75, Sian Pierre started showing his gratitude in the sweetest possible way: He took her bucket list, and together they started ticking off items one by one. Steve Hartman reports on the mother-and-son adventure of a lifetime.

     
SUNDAY PROFILE: 
John McEnroe: Seriously | Watch Video
The tennis star whose temper tantrums on the court were as virtuosic as his athleticism talks about taking it to the line, always. Susan Spencer reports. 

BOOK EXCERPT: Read a selection from "But Seriously" by John McEnroe

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: John McEnroe on teaching young players
At the John McEnroe Tennis Academy, the former champion talks with Susan Spencer about the valuable advice he gives young tennis players - and how he himself was with accepting others' advice as a novice. 

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: John McEnroe and Andy Warhol
Touring the John McEnroe Gallery in New York City, tennis great (and modern art enthusiast) John McEnroe shows correspondent Susan Spencer one of his Andy Warhol artworks.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: John McEnroe and Patty Smyth
Tennis great John McEnroe (never a shrinking violet on the court) and his wife, rock singer Patty Smyth, talk with correspondent Susan Spencer about McEnroe's number one priority these days: to become a better person. He also explains his family's divergent opinion on how that's progressing.

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OPINION:
 Why quality of life can bring equality | Watch Video
Singer, songwriter and LGBT activist Cyndi Lauper offers a life lesson.

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MUSIC: 
The Beatles classic "All You Need Is Love" turns 50 (Video)
On June 25, 1967, The Beatles joined "Our World," a live global television production broadcast in 25 countries, to perform their new song, "All You Need Is Love." Jane Pauley looks back 50 years ago to the debut of a classic.   

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CALENDAR: 
Week of June 26 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE:
 Horseshoe crabs (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning on the New Jersey shore of Delaware Bay, where horseshoe crabs make their home. Videographer: Jeff Reisly

         
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NATURE UP CLOSE:
 Feral animals


RECAP: JUNE 18

       

       
LAW: 
Bill Cosby trial: Trying "America's TV dad" (Video)
Jurors were unable to reach a unanimous vote in the Bill Cosby trial, in which accuser Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, claimed the comedian once known as "America's TV dad" drugged and sexually assaulted her at his home in 2004. Correspondent DeMarco Morgan talks with University of Pennsylvania criminal law professor David Rudovsky about the difficulties both Constand and Cosby faced on the stand.  

       
LAW:
 A look inside Michelle Carter's conviction (Video)
A young Massachusetts woman was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Friday for sending her boyfriend dozens of text messages urging him to kill himself when they were teenagers. Erin Moriarty reports on Michelle Carter's trial, which was closely watched in legal circles, and a hot topic on social media. 

       
COVER STORY:
 The great divide: The media war over Trump | Watch Video
Despite a brief moment of unity across party lines this week, after the mass shooting in which a Republican Congressman was critically wounded, the media wars surrounding coverage of President Donald Trump have been getting louder by the day.

Pat Buchanan will tell you it's been building for almost 50 years: "That sort of really began in earnest in November of 1969 when Nixon, after he gave his famous great 'Silent Majority' speech, was attacked by the networks immediately."

Senior Contributor Ted Koppel talks with Buchanan, and with Harvard professor Yochai Benkler, about the battle between presidents and the press, what news Americans are consuming, and the media war over hearts and minds.

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ALMANAC:
 Atlantic City's Steel Pier | Watch Video
On June 18, 1898, the Jersey Shore's famed amusement venue opened, with sharpshooter Annie Oakley as the main attraction. Jane Pauley reports.

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FATHER'S DAY:
 Daddy's home: Millennial fathers amp up parenting | Watch Video
Simon Isaacs is leading the charge to the playground. With his website Fatherly, he wants to change how fathers across the country approach parenting. And he's not alone: The largest group of new dads in this country are now millennials. Tony Dokoupil reports on the changing role of fatherhood and how modern dads differ from fathers of previous generations.

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MUSIC: 
Lang Lang: Center stage | Watch Video
The renowned Chinese pianist, who brings his emotional, dramatic style to audiences across the globe, returns home. Seth Doane reports.

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PASSAGE: 
North Korea frees American student (Video)
Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia student who spent almost a year-and-a-half in captivity in North Korea, was released and returned to his family in the U.S. this week. Doctors said Warmbier, who was comatose, suffered severe brain damage while in detention. Jane Pauley reports. 

        
HARTMAN:
  Sportsmanlike conduct in Congress (Video)
When a shocking act of political violence occurred last week, Congress threw a curveball to those expecting politicians to pile on to the mudslinging. As Steve Hartman suggests, a baseball game between Republicans and Democrats demonstrated how lessons learned in Little League -- about sportsmanship and respect -- just might have a role in the way Congress goes about its work in the "big leagues" of power.   

     
MUSIC: 
Monterey at 50: When rock festivals were born | Watch Video
In 1967 the Monterey County Fairgrounds in California was the site of a three-day celebration of music that ushered in the "Summer of Love." Anthony Mason reports.

WEB EXTRA: "Monterey Pop" 50th anniversary re-release (Video)
Filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captured the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, featuring such immortal acts as Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, in a landmark documentary, "Monterey Pop." Now, 50 years after the "Summer of Love" music celebration, the recently-restored film is being re-released in theatres.   

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COMMENTARY:
 Jim Gaffigan's love letter to his beard | Watch Video
On Father's Day the comedian expresses appreciation for the only accessory a man really needs.

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HISTORY:
 Custer's Last Stand | Watch Video
The Civil War hero -- brave, reckless and vain -- met an ignoble end at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. And every year, re-enactors recreate the last day that sealed Gen. Custer's legend forever.  Mo Rocca reports.

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CALENDAR:
 Week of June 19 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

     
NATURE:
 Burros (Extended Video)
We leave you this Father's Day morning in the Black Mountains of Arizona -- a home to wild burros, a few dads among them.     

         
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NATURE UP CLOSE:
 Cattle egrets, masters of emigration


RECAP: JUNE 11      

      
COVER STORY: 
Lost at sea: A harrowing tale of survival | Watch Video
On the night of July 24, 2013, 40 miles off the coast of Long Island, John Aldridge was working on the fishing boat Anna Mary when an accident sent him overboard. Alone and with no life preserver, Aldridge used his boots as flotation devices as he fought to stay alive, until his rescue 12 hours later. His remarkable story of survival is now a book, with a movie in the offing. He tells his tale, and what he credits to being alive today, to Jim Axelrod.

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ALMANAC:
 The Franklin stove | Watch Video
On June 11, 1742, the Founding Father invented the cast-iron creation that came to bear his name. Jane Pauley reports.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Glass music (Video)
French master glass musician Jean-Claude Chapuis, who performs music specially written for instruments made from glass, continues a tradition championed by Ben Franklin, inventor of a mechanized glass armonica. David Turecamo reports. Originally broadcast January 15, 2006.

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ON BROADWAY: 
"Annie" at 40: The stars reunite | Watch Video
It's one of the most beloved musicals in theater history -- and the title role a shining moment for many young actresses. Forty years after "Annie" debuted, Nancy Giles attends a reunion of all the women who played the title role on Broadway (including Andrea McArdle, Sarah Jessica Parker, Shelley Bruce, Allison Smith and Alyson Kirk), as well as the original Annie, Kristen Vigard, who lost the role while the show was in tryouts. Giles also talks with director-lyricist Martin Charnin about what it takes to succeed at playing the little orphan girl, and meets a young actress taking on the role in a high school production in Greenwich, Conn.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The legacy of the song "Tomorrow"
Nancy Giles talks with actresses who as children played the lead role in the musical "Annie," including Sarah Jessica Parker, Andrea McArdle, Kristen Vigard and Shelley Bruce (along with Allison Smith and Alyson Kirk) about what the show's signature song, "Tomorrow," has meant to them and their careers.

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WEB EXTRA: Broadway's Annies: Where are they now?

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ON STAGE:
 Off-Off Broadway: Tommy Tune in Japan | Watch Video
Song and dance man Tommy Tune is known to theater lovers the world over for his long list of Broadway hits, his 10 Tony Awards, and that long, lanky frame. Throughout his career, he's made it his mission to deliver Broadway to people wherever they live, including Japan, where Mo Rocca visited to watch Tune direct a new production of the musical "Grand Hotel" for the Takarazuka Revue, a 100-year-old, all-female theater troupe.

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ART:  
Broadway's own street artist (Video)
Elise Engler has painted the streetscapes of Broadway -- all 13 miles of it. "Sunday Morning" joins her as she goes about capturing the bright lights and façades of New York City's most famous avenue.

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MUSIC:
 Lorde returns to the "crazy environment" | Watch Video
One of the most anticipated albums of the year had its inspiration underground, in the New York City subway. That is where the 20-year-old New Zealand-born singer Lorde, usually unrecognized, worked on the words and music for "Melodrama," the album she'll finally release this week. She talked with Anthony Mason about the pressure of following up her first hit, "Royals," which earned her two Grammys, and of returning to the "crazy environment" of live performance.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Lorde discusses her synesthesia
The sensitivity and intensity of singer-songwriter Lorde's music may stem in part from her synesthesia, a neurological condition in which sounds conjure colors and textures in her mind. In this web exclusive, she discusses her synesthesia and how it affects her music with Anthony Mason.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Lorde on the creative process
The New Zealand-born singer-songwriter talks with Anthony Mason about her creative process.

To hear Lorde perform "Perfect Places," from her album "Melodrama," click on the video player below.

Lorde - Perfect Places by LordeVEVO on YouTube

     
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HARTMAN:
 A pied piper of patriotism (Video)
Eleven-year-old Preston Sharp was upset when he realized, while visiting his grandpa's grave in Redding, Calif., that not every veteran in the cemetery had a flag. So he took on odd jobs and solicited donations to buy flags and flowers for every veteran in his grandpa's cemetery. And Preston didn't just stop at that one cemetery. Steve Hartman reports on the young man's contagious efforts. 

       
PASSAGE:
 "Batman" star Adam West (Video)
"Sunday Morning" remembers the actor who gained fame as the Caped Crusader in the 1960s TV series "Batman." Jane Pauley reports. 

GALLERY: Adam West 1928-2017

      
COMIC BOOKS:
 Wonder Woman's origin story | Watch Video
The immortal comic book heroine's real superpower is the power to inspire. Faith Salie explores the history of Wonder Woman, now center-stage in the most popular movie in America, and talks with Lynda Carter, made immortal by playing the Amazonian on TV in the 1970s. Originally broadcast on March 26, 2017.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Meet the stunt double of "Wonder Woman" (Video)
Jeannie Epper was born to be a Hollywood stuntwoman - her father, mother and siblings were all stunt people, too. In this CBS News profile first broadcast on May 3, 1979, Dan Rather interviewed Eppers about the hazards of her profession.

GALLERY: Wonder Woman through the years

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OPINION:
 Jim Gaffigan turns a cold shoulder to massage | Watch Video
The comedian wants to know why we pay for the chance to make ourselves completely vulnerable to strangers.

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STAGE: 
The Yale Rep: A treasure of live theater | Watch Video
"The Rep" -- what insiders call the Yale Repertory Theatre -- is a unique entity on the American theater scene, a place where graduate students at the Yale Drama School work side-by-side with experts in every aspect of theater. Now celebrating its 50th year, it has been the launching pad for many a fabled career, from Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver to playwright Christopher Durang. 

Rita Braver looks back at the company's history with Streep, artistic director James Bundy, and actor James Earl Jones, who appeared with then-Yale grad student Courtney B. Vance in the Yale Rep-produced premiere of August Wilson's "Fences" in 1985.

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NATURE:
 Waterfowl (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning with a front row seat as Egrets, Herons, and Ibises strut their stuff at a rookery in Dallas. Videographer: Scot Miller.

         
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CALENDAR: Week of June 12 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.          

      
NATURE UP CLOSE:
 Mount Rainier's deadly beauty
          


RECAP: JUNE 4

      

    

HEADLINES: London attacks (Video)
Last night's terror attacks on and near London Bridge, in which seven people were killed, was the third attack in the U.K. in three months. British Prime Minister Theresa May condemned the violence, saying, "It's time to say, enough is enough." Elizabeth Palmer and Charlie D'Agata have the latest.

         
COVER STORY:
  36 years and counting: AIDS in America | Watch Video
In 1981 an infectious disease researcher at the National institutes of Health started noticing reports that clusters of gay men were being diagnosed with infections that were highly unusual in younger people. It would take a few years before the medical community identified HIV which, left unchecked, can develop into the deadly syndrome known as AIDS.

Today, treatments and preventive measures have changed expectations about the disease -- and, in the eyes of some, caused undue casualness about prevention. Rita Braver reports.

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ALMANAC:
 The first shopping cart | Watch Video
On June 4, 1937, Sylvan Goldman rolled out a wheeled device for customers at an Oklahoma City supermarket. Jane Pauley reports.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Charles Kuralt on shopping carts (Video)
Charles Kuralt went "On the Road" to Oklahoma City, where he met Sylvan Goldman, famed for having invented the ubiquitous grocery store shopping cart in 1937. Originally broadcast on CBS News' "Who's Who" on January 11, 1977.

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BOOKS:
 This week's New York Times bestsellers

      
ART:
 Kerry James Marshall | Watch Video
Kerry James Marshall's trademark style has catapulted him into the stratosphere of the art world. A 35-year retrospective featuring 72 of his works is now at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. His figures aren't just black; they are jet black -- bold, proud, undeniably black. And while his work may deal with grief, injustice and loss, for the most part Marshall focuses on everyday life: picnics and street scenes, daily rituals, and quiet moments -- a window into a world rarely represented in fine art.

"We're used to hearing narratives of trauma, tragedy, disenfranchisement, pain, suffering," Marshall told correspondent Alex Wagner. "Few of the stories that normalize the everyday life of people who are not always experiencing trauma 24/7. And I think those things need to be represented as well as anything else that we read about in the newspaper or we see on the news."

GALLERY: The art of Kerry James Marshall

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ON BROADWAY:
 "A Doll's House, Part 2" | Watch Video
When last we left off with Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's landmark 1879 drama, "A Doll's House," she had had an awakening -- and exited her marriage and family with the slam of a door. Now she's back, in the Tony-nominated "A Doll's House, Part 2."  Mo Rocca talks with playwright Lucas Hnath and the cast (including Laurie Metcalf, Chris Cooper and Jayne Houdyshell) about this continuation of the story of a woman awakened, and the mess she left behind in her journey toward self-discovery.

WEB EXTRA: Laurie Metcalf on "A Doll's House, Part 2" (Video)
Mo Rocca talks with the Tony Award-nominated star and director of "A Doll's House, Part 2" - Laurie Metcalf and Sam Gold - about her performance in the sequel to the Henrik Ibsen classic.

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THIS AND THAT:
 Legal cookies and more (Video)
"Sunday Morning" follows up on recent stories and viewer mail - from a recent court decision about a Wisconsin law that prevented home bakers from selling homemade cookies, to reaction to our recent "Almanac" on author Ian Fleming. Jane Pauley reports.

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SPORTS:
 The Race to Alaska | Watch Video
Luke Burbank checks out a celebrated 750-mile race featuring human-powered sailing vessels.

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HARTMAN:
 A 99-year-old usher (Video)
Phil Coyne may be a bigger celebrity than anybody on the field at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. The 99-year-usher has been working Pirates games since he was a kid, and is not about to stop any time soon, as Steve Hartman reports.

     
COMEDY:
 Golden Boys | Watch Video
Comedy titans Norman Lear, Carl Reiner and Dick Van Dyke are a collective 280 years old, earning them starring roles in the new HBO documentary, "If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast." Tracy Smith reports.

WEB EXTRA: Norman Lear on casting Archie Bunker (Video)
In this web exclusive, legendary TV producer Norman Lear tells Tracy Smith about what happened when, during his search for an actor to star in his classic sitcom "All in the Family," he came up with the idea of Mickey Rooney.

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COMMENTARY:
 Too many exclamation points!!! | Watch Video!!!
"Sunday Morning" contributor Faith Salie says the escalation in exclamation needs to be taken down a notch. Period.  

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MUSIC:
 Roger Waters: Still tearing down walls | Watch Video
The former member of the rock group Pink Floyd kicked off his latest solo tour this week. The "Us + Them Tour" is as spectacular and technically challenging as his previous concerts -- and it may be the 73-year-old musician's last lap.

Roger Waters talks with correspondent Anthony Mason about his history with Pink Floyd, going solo, and the value of protest music.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: "Another Brick in the Wall"
Performed at the start of Waters' "Us + Them Tour" in Kansas City, May 26.  

To hear "Déjà vu," from Waters' new album, "Is This the Life We Really Want?," click on the video player below.

Roger Waters - Déjà Vu (Audio) by rogerwatersVEVO on YouTube

        
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CALENDAR: Week of June 5Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.      

        
NATURE UP CLOSE:
 Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument


RECAP: MAY 28

       
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FROM THE ARCHIVES:
 Ambush (Video)
In this "CBS Evening News" report from November 11, 1982, correspondent Bruce Morton talks with three Vietnam War veterans who journeyed to Washington, D.C., to pay tribute to friends who died while serving with them in 1967.

      
COVER STORY:
 The lost platoon: Aftermath | Watch Video
Kenny Barker sat at home in Texas sifting through things he gathered as a 20-year-old soldier in Vietnam. Among them are the newspaper clippings noting that he was one of the few who wasn't killed in an ambush by North Vietnamese soldiers. Twenty-two of his comrades were lost.

John Blackstone reports on how that battle shaped the lives of the survivors, and how some of them spent the anniversary, fifty years later.

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ALMANAC:
 Ian Fleming | Watch Video
On May 28, 1908, 109 years ago today, the creator of Secret Agent 007, James Bond, was born in London. Jane Pauley reports.

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TECHNOLOGY: The Brooklyn Navy Yard, reborn as a high-tech center | Watch Video
Part of the old Brooklyn Navy Yard has been converted into a hub for innovation. Jim Axelrod reports.

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REMEMBRANCE:
 Gregg Allman | Watch Video
The singer-songwriter died Saturday at age 69. By way of tribute, we take another look at the remarkable portrait Chip Reid painted of Allman back in 2011. 

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Gregg Allman recollects his first guitar

FOOD: The CIA's recipe for success | Watch Video
The Culinary Institute of America started as a trade school for GIs returning from World War II. It would go on to change how chefs were taught. Serena Altschul explores the trade secrets, and occupational hazards, of one of the top culinary colleges in the world.

CIA RECIPE: Good Morning Coffee
CIA RECIPE: Lemon Chickpea Muffins
CIA RECIPE: Fried Rice with Chinese Sausage
CIA RECIPE: Wrapped Shrimp with Asian Barbecue Sauce
CIA RECIPE: Coffee Truffles

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COMEDY: Kevin Hart: What's so funny | Watch Video
In a wide-ranging interview, standup comedian and actor Kevin Hart talks with Tracy Smith about his childhood in Philadelphia, what he learned from his parents about life, and the most important part about being a father.

PREVIEW: Kevin Hart: Growing up, being "the funny guy" kept me out of fights, but hurt with women

READ A BOOK EXCERPT: "I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons" by Kevin Hart

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HARTMAN:
 Mr. Rogers, a true neighbor (Video)
Entertainment Weekly senior writer Anthony Breznican shares with Steve Hartman a story of inspiration, about how watching "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" at a particularly vulnerable time in his life helped him - but not nearly as much as running into Fred Rogers in an elevator just a few days later.

POLITICS: Al Franken on humor in a politically "grim" time | Watch Video
Lately the Minnesota Senator and former "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer has been coming to grips with the tension between politics and comedy. He talked to Chip Reid about the pressures of being not funny when engaged in the serious business of Congress, and how his tough questioning during Senate hearings have got Franken noticed for more than his humor.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: How does Al Franken really feel about Ted Cruz?
Minnesota Senator Al Franken tells correspondent Chip Reid about his opinion of Texas Senator Ted Cruz.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Al Franken on forbidden words in the Senate
Minnesota Senator Al Franken discusses protocols which preclude him from using certain language in the Senate about his fellow Senators, such as Ted Cruz of Texas. But as becomes obvious, he and Chip Reid are not IN the Senate.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Al Franken's killer gay Republicans joke
Senator Al Franken reveals to Chip Reid the internal struggle he suffered when contemplating telling a joke during a Senate hearing on employment discrimination at the expense of his absent Republican colleagues.

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BY THE NUMBERS:
 Summer vacation (Video)
As we head into summer, "Sunday Morning" anchor Jane Pauley takes a look at the data behind Americans who take off from work (or choose not to).

ON THE TRAIL: Decoration Day | Watch Video
In the South, Decoration Day is marked by placing flowers on the headstones of ancestors. There are songs, sandwiches, even a bit of scripture. Conor Knighton took part in a Decoration Day ceremony that takes place in a very remote place: on top of a mountain inside of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Long trek to a cemetery (Video)
In the 1940s residents in Swain County, North Carolina were uprooted by the federal government, when their land was taken for a dam project. More than three decades later, they were allowed to make the arduous trek to the Bone Valley Cemetery, where their loved ones were buried. Correspondent Bruce Hall reports. Originally broadcast on the "CBS Evening News" on August 26, 1978.

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CALENDAR:
 Week of May 29 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE:
 Maine (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning at one of our newest parks: the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine, established just last August. Videographer: Scot Miller.

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REVIEWS: David Edelstein on "Pirates," "Alien: Covenant" and David Lynch | Watch Video
The "Sunday Morning" film critic reviews the latest entries in two popular movie franchises, as well as the return of the surreal TV cult series "Twin Peaks."

        
NATURE UP CLOSE:
 Tulips
       


RECAP: MAY 21, "BY DESIGN:

Jane Pauley anchors our annual special issue featuring a wealth of stories touching on all aspects of design. The broadcast comes to you from Amsterdam, where Pauley reports on the Netherlands' rich history of art, architecture, and more. 

     
TOUR:
 Amsterdam, first city of the modern age, first city of the modern age | Watch Video
Jane Pauley takes in the sights of the Dutch city -- its historic canals, architecture and museums -- with Russell Shorto, author of a bestselling history of Amsterdam.

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WATER:
 Sea change: How the Dutch confront the rise of the oceans | Watch Video
Holland's innovative strategies for managing water may benefit other countries preparing for the fallout of climate change. Martha Teichner reports.

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Max Zorn at work. CBS News

ART: Dutch Master paints with packing tape | Watch Video
Dutch artist Max Zorn has become a star in the art world with his moody, elaborate portraits and cityscapes made with nothing but packing tape and a scalpel. Jane Pauley reports on Zorn's evocative works, which he hangs on lamp posts of Amsterdam, each one sure to send the street art scene into a frenzy.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Tape artist Max Zorn creates a "Sunday Morning" sun

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FASHION: Jessica Simpson and her empire | Watch Video
If all you know about Jessica Simpson is that she's a singer, you might be surprised that Tracy Smith is talking with her about design. And people may be surprised to hear that the Jessica Simpson Collection -- products ranging from clothes to accessories to home -- is a billion-dollar-a-year business.

PREVIEW: Jessica Simpson: "People are shocked that they like my brand"

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Annie Ojile and Seth Doane dodge Roman traffic on a Vespa.  CBS News

STYLE: Viva Vespa! | Watch Video
The Vespa, the sporty Italian motorbike, is as much a fashion accessory as it is a set of wheels.  Seth Doane visits the Vespa factory in Pontedera, Italy, and takes a trip through Rome with Annie Ojile, an American expat who started a Vespa tour company, Scooteroma.

GALLERY: The style of Vespa

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FLOWERS:
 Keeping Holland's fabled tulips alive Watch Video
Hidden in the shadow of a church in the Dutch town of Limmen is Hortus Bulborum, established in the 1920s by tulip enthusiast Peter Boschman. He bought old and rare types of tulips and planted them, determined to not let them become extinct. Today Hortus Bulborum keeps alive rare varieties of one of Holland's most recognizable hallmarks. Jane Pauley reports.

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INVENTIONS:
 Making a big splash with the Super Soaker (Video)
When inventor Lonnie Johnson took a simple squirt gun and ramped it way up, he had no idea what a splash it would make. Since the Super Soaker hit toy store shelves in the early '90s, it's racked up more than $1 billion in sales. Mo Rocca reports.

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BROADWAY: The divine Bette Midler returns in "Hello, Dolly!" | Watch Video
"CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King sits down with Tony-nominated actress Bette Midler, who is now in a re-designed Broadway production of "Hello, Dolly!"

GALLERY: The Divine Miss M.

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LIVING: Living on water: Welcome to Freedom Cove | Watch Video
Artists Wayne Adams and Catherine King have constructed a floating island they call Freedom Cove, a multicolored floating refuge tucked away in rugged Clayoquot Sound off the west coast of British Columbia's Vancouver Island. Built from salvaged materials over the past 25 years, the couple takes living off the grid to a new level, as they show correspondent Lee Cowan.

        

AUTOMOTIVE: BMW's Art Cars: A blend of art and speed | Watch Video
In 1975 Herve Poulain, a racing enthusiast and art lover, persuaded artist Alexander Calder to paint German automaker BMW's entry at Le Mans. The idea took off. The most recent entry in BMW's Art Car series was painted by conceptual artist John Baldessari, who showed Anthony Mason how to create some very fast art.

GALLERY: BMW's Art Cars

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TRADITIONS: 
 Cheese and clogs: Manufacturing Dutch icons | Watch Video
On the outskirts of Amsterdam, life starts early at the Clara Maria Farm, where every day since he was a boy, Kees-Jan van Wees has milked the cows in a 160-year-old building. Just hours later, he'll turn that milk into a Dutch product beloved around the world: Gouda cheese. Jane Pauley reports on a farm where centuries-old Dutch traditions have continued, and been embraced by Kees-Jan's American-born wife, Katrina.

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NATURE:
 Tulips (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning tip-toeing through the tulips at the Keukenhof Garden outside Amsterdam. Videographer: Joan Martelli.

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NATURE UP CLOSE:
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RECAP: MAY 14

      

      
COVER STORY:
 Aftermath: A family's recovery | Watch Video
"The last thing I remember before the blast was my mom laughing," said Kiyanni. That blast was a suitcase bomb in Brussels Airport last year, just as Air Force Lt. Col. Kato Martinez, his wife and children were checking in for a trip to Disney World in Florida. The explosion killed Martinez's wife, Gail, and seriously injured two of their children.

Now they are recovering their wounds, though only some of the scars are visible. David Martin met with the Martinez family at their home outside of San Antonio to take the measure of how a communications officer who worked with Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan adjusts to becoming a single parent, and how they have found strength together.

       
ALMANAC:
 The dishwasher | Watch Video
On May 14, 1850, Joel Houghton received a patent for a hand-cranked device that promised to simplify washing dishes. Jane Pauley reports.

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HOBBY:
 Scrapbooking: Opening a page on the past | Watch Video
For avid scrapbookers, creating books means passing down memories to their children -- a record of their lives. Correspondent Jennifer Mayerle reports on a handcrafted tradition that has preserved history for families and communities for generations.

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MUSIC: Johnny Mathis: Wonderful! Wonderful! | Watch Video
Chances are, if you're Johnny Mathis, you've been revealing your feelings for a long time -- since 1957, when he recorded his first #1 hit. The legendary singer, who has a new album of the "Great New American Songbook," produced by Babyface, talks with a misty Nancy Giles about his wonderful, wonderful six-decade career.

GALLERY: Portraits of Johnny Mathis

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Johnny Mathis on coming out
The legendary singer talks about his controversial 1982 magazine interview in which he stated that homosexuality was "a way of life that I've grown accustomed to." He tells Nancy Giles why he wasn't concerned about the potential impact on his career, despite receiving death threats. "It bothered me that it bothered people!" he laughed.

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COMMENTARY: Jim Gaffigan: Grateful on Mother's Day | Watch Video
After his wife survives a health scare, the comedian offers the mother of his children extra love -- and reconsiders his place in the spousal argument universe.

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ON BROADWAY: "War Paint," the ugly fight over the business of beauty | Watch Video
"War Paint," the new Broadway musical about cosmetic doyennes Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, earned four Tony nominations, including for its stars, Christine Ebersole and Patti LuPone. Richard Schlesinger interviews the actresses, along with author Lindy Woodhead, in a behind-the-scenes story of the competitive beauty magnates.

PREVIEW VIDEO: Tony-nominated "War Paint"

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Christine Ebersole, Patti LuPone on "War Paint" inspirations
The Tony-nominated stars of the Broadway musical "War Paint," Christine Ebersole and Patti LuPone, talk with correspondent Richard Schlesinger about their real-life characters, cosmetic icons Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, and about the high theatrics of the business magnates' lives.

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HARTMAN:
 A cryptic phone message from Mom (Video)
In what he calls the strangest story of his career, correspondent Steve Hartman meets up with an old colleague, veteran investigative reporter Brad Brown, who had a bizarre tale to tell, involving Brown's mother, Janet, and the apparent message that showed up on his iPhone three days after she died.

SUNDAY PROFILE:  Comedic star Goldie Hawn, in all seriousness | Watch Video
The actress who built a career playing a ditzy blonde is now all about kid's brains. Goldie Hawn spent years working with psychologists to create MindUP, a 15-lesson plan to help kids be more mindful, to calm the stressors of modern-day youth. It's currently being practiced by about two million students in nine countries.

Lee Cowan catches up with the actress, who is now back on screen for the first time in 15 years, playing the mother of Amy Schumer in the comedy, "Snatched."

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Howie and Laurel embrace in the bedroom of their home in Chappaqua, N.Y., as they face the daily struggles of illness in their own lives while also caring for each other. From "The Family Imprint." Nancy Borowick

PHOTOGRAPHY: Nancy Borowick's portrait of a family | Watch Video
What began as a way to be closer with her parents and to cope with their illness, grew into something bigger. For two years, as Howie and Laurel Borowick fought stage IV cancer, side by side, Nancy Borowick documented their close bond. Anthony Mason talks with the photographer, whose new book, "The Family Imprint," chronicles her parents' lives and deaths.

GALLERY: Cancer family: Joined in illness

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COMMENTARY:
 Faith Salie on Mother's Day without a mother | Watch Video
The "Sunday Morning" contributor on the lessons of motherhood that can be learned only after having become a mom herself.

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BY THE NUMBERS:
 Maternity leave (Video)
Jane Pauley presents a Mother's Day look at the data on maternity leave, including how the United States stacks up to other developed countries with regards to guaranteed paid maternity leave for new mothers. 

       
NATURE:
 Horses (Video)
We leave you this Mother's Day morning at Arizona's Music Mountains, where mares and their foals run free. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.
      

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CALENDAR: Week of May 15Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.  

        
NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Red River Gorge, Kentucky

      
REVIEWS:
 David Edelstein on "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" and May's "must-sees" | Watch Video
The "Sunday Morning" film critic reviews the newest addition to the Marvel Comics Universe, and a few gems in theaters and on streaming services this month.
      


RECAP: MAY 7 

      

      
COVER STORY:
 Caught in the life: The business of prostitution | Watch Video
According to advocates fighting prostitution (which they call modern-day slavery), authorities in Seattle and other cities have taken an enlightened, modern approach to addressing the issue, by adopting a  "buyer beware" model -- arresting customers instead of sex workers. The aim: to reduce sex trafficking by cutting off demand.

Other advocates have called for the decriminalization of consensual sex work, saying laws against it force women into the shadows, compromising their safety.

But most cities still practice a zero-tolerance approach to prostitution. Lee Cowan reports on the divide over an enterprise usually kept in the shadows.

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ALMANAC:
 A clean business | Watch Video
On May 7, 1925, William Lever, one of the soap-making siblings that founded Lever Brothers, died at age 73. Jane Pauley reports.

ART: How music influenced the art of Marc Chagall | Watch Video
A new exhibition explores the ways music was the muse of the Russian-French painter, from the canvas to the stage. Rita Braver reports.

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TV: The evolution of Lucy Liu | Watch Video
For "Elementary," CBS' take on Sherlock Holmes, Watson is a woman, played by Lucy Liu, and she's not the dutiful notetaker Watson has been in other Holmesian incarnations.

It's been a definite change from the rock-'em-sock-'em roles she's played in films like "Payback," "Charlie's Angels" and "Kill Bill." But Liu has also evolved into a director, helming several episodes of the series, and a mother.

Mo Rocca visits with Liu, an actress, artist and advocate who says life today for her is much more rich and bold.

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PASSAGE:
 Prince Philip retires from public life (Video)
Keep Calm and Carry On: Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday that Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth's 95-year-old husband, will no longer carry out public engagements as of this autumn. Jane Pauley reports. 

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TV: Norway's Slow TV: Fascinating viewers for hours or days at a time | Watch Video
It's television's version of taking a deep breath … a very long, very slow, deep breath. It's called "Slow TV," and it's a surprise smash-hit in Norway, where live, unedited broadcasts of train journeys, ferry boat rides, or firewood burning can last for hours or days at a time. Millions tune in to watch people knit for 13 hours, or witness reindeer on a days-long migration. 

As Rune Moklebust, who helped conceive of Slow TV, explains to Seth Doane, the broadcasts simply reflect life: "Much of life itself is boring. But in-between, there are some exciting moments, and you just have to wait for them." 

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HARTMAN:
 Elementary school robotics team beats the odds (Video)
Pleasant Run Elementary in Indianapolis launched a competitive robotics team last fall. In the beginning, there were a few successes and a lot of failures. But a demoralizing, racist taunt fired them up, channeling that insult into victory. Steve Hartman reports.

MOVIES: Diane Lane and her "pretty good gig" | Watch Video
A working actress since age six, the Oscar-nominee returns to the Coppola film family for her new movie, "Paris Can Wait." Anthony Mason reports.

GALLERY: Diane Lane

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BOOKS: Condoleezza Rice on Russia, Putin and Trump | Watch Video
Condoleezza Rice, who served as a National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, talks with Jane Pauley about her long fascination with the Soviet Union, and about Russia's interference in the U.S. election.

She also discusses growing up in Alabama during the Civil Rights movement, and her new book, "Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom."

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Condi Rice on 2016 election, "Hamilton"
Jane Pauley asks former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to define the seminal events that have stirred the political consciousness of today's youth.

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OPINION:
 JFK at 100: Secrets of Camelot, hiding in plain sight | Watch Video
Journalist Thomas Oliphant on the stories still being uncovered from archives about the campaign and presidency of John F. Kennedy.

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CALENDAR: Week of May 8 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

      
NATURE:
 Red River Gorge (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning of Kentucky Derby weekend at the Bluegrass State's Red River Gorge.

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REVIEWS:
 David Edelstein on "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" and May's "must-sees" | Watch Video
The "Sunday Morning" film critic reviews the newest addition to the Marvel Comics Universe, and a few gems in theaters and on streaming services this month.



        

RECAP: APRIL 30

Guest host: Lee Cowan

       

COVER STORY: The "Greatest Show on Earth" folds its tent | Watch Video
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus proved to be a balancing act that couldn't balance the bottom line. After 146 years, the circus is putting on its final performances this spring, ending what has been a remarkable entertainment institution.  

Lee Cowan visits Baraboo, Wisconsin, where Ringling's long run first started, and visits with Big Top performers and fans whose connections to the circus span decades.

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ALMANAC:
 The Eastern Shuttle | Watch Video
On April 30, 1961, one of America's oldest and biggest airlines launched hourly Northeast Corridor flights. Lee Cowan looks back.

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TV:
 The real Einstein | Watch Video
In scientific circles, stars don't get much bigger than Albert Einstein. He was the first great scientific celebrity -- pretty odd for a theoretical physicist.

The "Genius" is the subject (and title) of a new TV series on the National Geographic channel based on Walter Isaacson's biography. It stars Geoffrey Rush as Einstein, and Johnny Flynn as a young Einstein. Together they portray the man of science as a heartthrob and heart-breaker. Faith Salie reports.

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POSTCARD FROM ENGLAND: Bell tolls for historic bell maker | Watch Video
A visit to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London, the oldest manufacturer in all of England, is a trip back in time. For about half a millennium, they have been producing bells for churches, cathedrals and city halls, as well as the original Liberty Bell. But sadly, this old-school shop will be closing for good. Jim Axelrod reports.

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SCIENCE: Neil deGrasse Tyson, our joyful guide to the stars  | Watch Video
Neil deGrasse Tyson was awed when he visited the Hayden Planetarium in New York City for the first time at the age of nine; since 1996, he's run it. 

The astrophysicist-rock star, who has 7.2 million Twitter followers, can fill a theater with people eager to hear him talk science. And his latest book, "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry," offers a shortcut to scientific literacy -- a goal Tyson pursues constantly and cleverly. Martha Teichner reports.

BOOK EXCERPT: Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry"

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Neil deGrasse Tyson on God
Correspondent Martha Teichner asks the acclaimed astrophysicist, as he examines the universe, whether he believes in an all-powerful creator.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Neil deGrasse Tyson's family on how he inspires
Correspondent Martha Teichner talks with Toni Tyson, the mother of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Neil's sister, Lynn, on how he has succeeded at demystifying science for his audience.

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MOVIES: In remembrance: Director Jonathan Demme | Watch Video
The Academy Award-winning director behind the chills of "The Silence of the Lambs," the humanity of "Melvin and Howard" and "Philadelphia," and the musical energy of "Stop Making Sense," Jonathan Demme, died this week at age 73.  Critic David Edelstein pays homage to the filmmaker whose fiction, documentaries and concert films always showed human beings in their most brilliant light.

      
HARTMAN:
 Grandpa builds personal theme park for granddaughter (Video)
A lot of grandparents complain that they don't see their grandkids enough, but Jimmy White of Decatur, Texas doesn't have that problem. He's built the ultimate enticement for his granddaughter: her own amusement park. Steve Hartman reports.

MUSIC: Daryl Hall and John Oates | Watch Video
At a recent rehearsal, hitmakers Daryl Hall and John Oates ran through their greatest hits, gearing up for their latest tour, while looking back at a decades' old partnership.

The duo has sold more than 80 million albums, and have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame -- all for a partnership (they tell correspondent Serena Altschul) they did not expect to last. 

PREVIEW VIDEO: Daryl Hall and John Oates on "Rich Girl"
In this preview of a profile to air on "Sunday Morning," the team of Daryl Hall and John Oates discuss with Serena Altschul the creation of one of their biggest hits of the 1970s, "Rich Girl."

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HISTORY: Revisiting the "Reign of Terror" on the Osage Nation | Watch Video
In the early 20th century, an oil rush in the Osage Nation, located in a corner of Oklahoma, produced a torrent of oil revenues for the Native American tribe, making them the richest people per capita in the world -- "the Kuwaitis of the 1920s," one writer observed.

But their wealth invited greed, exploitation and murder on the part of white "guardians" who came to control the Osage's money, and would lead to the first major investigation by the FBI.

David Grann, author of the bestseller "The Lost City of Z," talks with correspondent Lee Cowan about the Osage Reign of Terror, as recounted in his new book, "Killers of the Flower Moon."

BOOK EXCERPT: "Killers of the Flower Moon"

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POLITICS:
 Dissecting Donald Trump's first 100 days | Watch Video
The traditional "100 Days" benchmark of a new presidency was once a timeline touted by Candidate Donald Trump as a signpost of his agenda, and is now referred to by President Donald Trump as "ridiculous." CBS News White House correspondent Major Garrett reports on the measure of the president's achievements since January 20. 

     
NATURE:
 Manatees (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning swimming with the manatees at Florida's Three Sisters Springs. Videographer: Tom Cosgrove.

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CALENDAR: 
Week of May 1 | Watch Video
From Tony Award nominations to Cinco de Mayo, "Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead.

NATURE UP CLOSE: Redwood Magic
There are still some properties about these majestic giants that scientists haven't been able to explain.


RECAP: APRIL 23

     

     
COVER STORY:
 For art's sake: When funding the NEA is in jeopardy | Watch Video
President Trump has announced plans to end government support of the National Endowment for the Arts and other organizations, such as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, that have supported America's cultural life for decades. Erin Moriarty reports on how arts programs that have nurtured new artists and preserved small town life may suffer from ending the NEA.

WEB EXTRA: Lin-Manuel Miranda on the importance of federal funding for the arts | Watch Video
The award-winning creator of "Hamilton" says government support for arts education is crucial to our children's future.

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ALMANAC:
 Shakespeare's birth, and death | Watch Video
April 23, 1564 was the day traditionally given for the birthdate of the great English playwright, while April 23, 1616 found the Bard of Avon "passing through nature to eternity." Jane Pauley reports.

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COVER STORY:
 Recording the sounds of nature's quietest places (Video)
Gordon Hempton, who calls himself the Sound Tracker, is an "acoustic ecologist" who has traveled the world recording the sounds of nature, from birdsong and rainfall to babbling brooks and the rustling of leaves. But the noise we humans make is making it harder to find those quiet places -- and, he says, it's having real consequences for wildlife as well. "Nature's music is an endangered species," he tells Lee Cowan.

Bernie Krause, a musician and sound recordist, has become an audio anthropologist, documenting the sounds of nature. He also has noticed dramatic changes in some areas, such as in a Costa Rican rain forest. He helps Cowan -- and us -- listen to the difference.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: The Sound Tracker (Video)
Sound recordist Gordon Hempton is an "acoustic ecologist" who has traveled the world recording the sounds of nature, from birdsong to babbling brooks. "Sunday Morning" visited with Hempton for this report, first broadcast on November 18, 1990, in which he describes the process of capturing the natural world, and searches for the optimal position at which to best hear the sound of the ocean's waves.

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Q&A: 
Sheryl Sandberg on living "Option B" | Watch Video
On May 1, 2015, while vacationing in Mexico, the husband of Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, died suddenly while exercising. Dave Goldberg was just 47. An autopsy, Sandberg says, showed that he died of coronary heart disease and had a cardiac arrhythmia.

Then known for her bestselling 2013 book "Lean In," which urged women in the workplace to stand up for themselves, Sandberg unexpectedly found herself confronting her toughest challenge, as a single mother of two young children.

In an emotional and wide-ranging interview, Sandberg talks with "CBS This Morning" co-anchor Norah O'Donnell about breaking the news of their father's death to her children and how they worked together to move forward after the loss. 

She also talks about coping with grief and other life lessons she explores in her new book, "Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy," co-written with friend and psychologist Adam Grant.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Sheryl Sandberg and Dave Goldberg in 2013 ("60 Minutes")

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BY THE NUMBERS:
 Bill O'Reilly (Video)
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at the Fox News host whose career took a stunning turn following accusations of sexual harassment. Jane Pauley reports.  

     
BUSINESS: 
Be kind, rewind: Blockbuster video stores kept open in Alaska | Watch Video
The first Blockbuster video rental store opened in 1985, and at its peak the company had 9,000 stores worldwide. But that was before Netflix. Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010, but not every store closed their doors. In fact, there are 12 Blockbusters still open in the U.S., including several in the far reaches of Alaska. Conor Knighton checked them out. 

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HARTMAN:
 One young boy's hoop dreams (Video)
Thirteen-year-old Jamarion Styles, of Boca Raton, Florida, lost his hands, and most of his arms, as an infant due to a rare bacterial infection. But that didn't stop him from dreaming of playing on his middle school basketball team. Steve Hartman reports on an unlikely sports hero.  

     
BOOKS:
 "The Outsiders," a teen classic, turns 50 | Watch Video
Published in 1967, "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton, centered on the emotional challenges of competing factions of teenagers, is considered a classic, and a pioneer in the young adult fiction category. The book has sold more than 10 million copies, been translated into dozens of languages, and is part of the core curriculum in schools across the country.

Serena Altschul talks with Hinton, who started writing when she was 15, about how her novel became a touchstone for young readers; and to actor Rob Lowe, who turned 18 on the set of the 1983 film. Lowe says he was ready to give up on the prospect of an acting career until being hired by director Francis Ford Coppola, becoming part of a legendary cast that also included Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise and Patrick Swayze.

To watch the trailer for the film "The Outsiders" click on the video player below.

The Outsiders - Original Theatrical Trailer by Warner bros. on YouTube

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NON-FICTION:
 The real story of documentary queen Sheila Nevins | Watch Video
In the land of non-fiction film, one woman rules: Sheila Nevins, who for more than three decades has been in charge of documentaries for HBO.  She has overseen films that have shined a bright light on everything from Syria to Scientology, the environment to Alzheimer's.

At the age of 78, she's still in the screening room most days, and has just completed a memoir, "You Don't Look Your Age ... and Other Fairy Tales" (Flatiron). Lesley Stahl reports.

BOOK EXCERPT: Read (and listen to) an excerpt from "You Don't Look Your Age"

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COMMENTARY:
 Scott Simon on "My Cubs" | Watch Video
The host of NPR's "Weekend Edition" -- and a lifelong Cubs fan -- talks about his team (long a collection of hapless losers), and how an iconic Norman Rockwell painting depicting the dugout at Wrigley Field has a special connection for him. 

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Read an excerpt from Scott Simon's "My Cubs" on Chicago's history of curses

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NATURE:
 Redwoods (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning after Earth Day in a grove of towering Redwoods in California. Videographer: Jamie McDonald.  

           
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CALENDAR: 
Week of April 24Watch Video
From a birthday celebration for Barbra Streisand to the NFL Draft, "Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.      

    
NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Rocky Mountain Spring
A look at the wildflowers now blooming across the more than 16 million acres of public land in Colorado.
      


RECAP: APRIL 16

      
COVER STORY:
 Inside the Vatican | Watch Video
Vatican City is the smallest independent state in the world -- just 110 acres in area, with fewer than 1,000 residents. But it draws more than six million visitors each year to the monumental St. Peter's Square, the magnificent Vatican museums and, at its heart, one of the holiest sites in the world: Saint Peter's Basilica.

Mo Rocca visits along with New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan, and meets with art historians and restorers working at the Vatican museums.

GALLERY: National Geographic's "Pope Francis and the New Vatican"

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ART: Hats off to Degas and the millinery trade | Watch Video
Artist Edgar Degas is probably best known for his scenes depicting dancers. But the Impressionist painter was also interested in fashion and its place in Parisian society at the turn of the century. A new exhibition of works by Degas and others on the theme of millinery, currently at the St. Louis Art Museum, captures the artistry of hats and their function in the newly-burgeoning middle class, in France and abroad. Rita Braver reports.

GALLERY: Hats in Impressionist art

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ROYALTY: Principessa Rita: A fairytale life | Watch Video
Just over half a mile from the Trevi Fountain, in the center of Rome, is Villa Aurora. Built in 1570, it is currently presided over by a princess born in … San Antonio, Texas?

The former Rita Jenrette, now Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi, Principessa di Piombino, gives Mo Rocca a tour of her art-filled home, and of her life, which wound from her marriage to a Congressman whose career ended in scandal, to posing in Playboy, to her marriage to an Italian aristocrat.

       
PASSAGE:
 David Letterman's Mom (Video)
A life-long resident of small-town Indiana, Dorothy Mengering brought a bit of understated small-town humor to her memorable appearances on her son's late-night show. Mengering, who died last Tuesday was 95. Jane Pauley reports, and also recognizes the passing of personal computer and Internet pioneer Robert Taylor. 

EASTER: Chocolate Easter eggs: Candy treasures | Watch Video
Chocolate Easter eggs are a big deal in Italy – and a major export for companies such as Perugina, which will produce 50,000 eggs a day to meet the holiday demand. Seth Doane visits the Perugina chocolate factory near Perugia, Italy, and also meets with Italian artisans who create luxury chocolate eggs that can cost hundreds of dollars apiece.

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HARTMAN:
 Heart to heart (Video)
They only met once: the baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew, and the starry-eyed young boy who would grow up to become a pro football player himself. But when Konrad Reuland died following an aneurysm, his organ donation made the two athletes inseparable. Steve Hartman reports. 

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Ricky Martin on performing, coming out, and fatherhood | Watch Video
Tracy Smith visits with Ricky Martin during rehearsals of his new Las Vegas show, and learns why the music superstar is no longer living "La Vida Loca."

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Ricky Martin: How I find peace
Singer Ricky Martin admits that, despite reveling in euphoric shows ("They must be really loud!"), he finds a cleansing spirituality through a daily practice of retreating into silence. He also discusses his "favorite project in life": becoming a father.

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EASTER:
 St. Francis + Pope Francis | Watch Video
When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires chose his papal name, he took that of the founder of the Franciscan order. Mo Rocca looks into the history of St. Francis and how his teachings shaped the papacy of Pope Francis.

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POLITICS: Sen. Elizabeth Warren: The fighter | Watch Video
A fierce critic of Wall Street and a crusader for the underdog, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is a senator with a message you've probably heard before: the system is rigged. She admits to correspondent Chip Reid that she may sound like a broken record on that score, but says, "It truly is my life's work."

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CALENDAR:
 Week of April 17 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE:
 Colorado Rockies (Extended Video)
We leave you this Easter Sunday Morning in the Colorado Rockies, where Spring is in bloom. Videographer: Phil Giriodi.

           
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COMMENTARY: 
When the Word is put to music | Watch Video
Contributor Bill Flanagan on how artists like Jessi Colter turn the poetry of Bible verse into lyrics that speak beyond cultures and faith,

NATURE UP CLOSE: Sharks
These predators - key to maintaining balance in marine ecosystems - are being hunted in staggering numbers.


RECAP: APRIL 9

Our annual "Money Issue" digs into the world of money -- the various ways people generate income, how they save or spend it, and how technology and social media are changing our economy. CBS News Financial Contributor Mellody Hobson anchors this special edition of "Sunday Morning."

    
COVER STORY: 
When the robots take over, will there be jobs left for us? | Watch Video
As autonomous machines become cheaper and computers smarter, David Pogue of Yahoo Finance explores the ramifications for human employment in a post-robot economy.

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FREQUENT BUYERS: Getting to the point with rewards cards | Watch Video
Accruing points or miles can save clever shoppers thousands of dollars on travel, but experts warn there are hazards. Anna Werner reports.

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SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
Susan Spencer explores three unusual business models.

TRIPTYCH #1: Something silly | Watch Video
It's not your grandfather's Silly Putty; Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty comes in a variety of colors, and can even be magnetized.

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SHOPPING:
 Many happy returns | Watch Video
Some retailers and online shopping sites have very liberal return policies -- even taking back merchandise they can't sell again -- in order to satisfy their customers. Tracy Smith examines why companies' return policies count on psychology to make them pay off.

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SOCIAL MEDIA:
 Turning viral videos into money machines | Watch Video
Jukin Media markets the wild, funny and absurd moments captured on video, making international stars of Chewbacca Mom and Pizza Rat. Barry Petersen reports.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: "Pizza Rat" videographer on going viral
In this web exclusive, aspiring actor and comedian Matt Little talks with correspondent Barry Petersen about how he captured a quintessential New York City scene - a rat dragging a whole slice of pizza down the stairs of a subway station - that became an online sensation. 

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TRIPTYCH #2:
 Rags to riches | Watch Video
Thrifters are turning clothes found at second-hand stores and the backs of closets into careers.

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CANDY: Japan really loves Kit Kat bars | Watch Video
Kit Kat candy is exceedingly popular in Japan, where there are dozens more varieties and flavors of the chocolate snack than the single flavor available in the U.S. Mo Rocca reports.

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SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Jaclyn Smith fashions an empire | Watch Video
The former Charlie's Angel took her love of design and created a brand, encompassing clothing lines, home decor, and now skin care products. John Blackstone reports.

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HOME COOKING:
 In Wisconsin, selling cookies can land you in jail | Watch Video
In Wisconsin, selling home-baked cookies can land you in jail. Dean Reynolds reports on a suit challenging a state law that prevents home cooks from making a profit off of goods baked in home kitchens.

Check out these recipes! 

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CORNER STORE: Bodegas, the life blood of New York City neighborhoods | Watch Video
From the outside, it looks like a nothing-special corner grocery. But a bodega -- a real New York City bodega -- is so much more. Maria Hinojosa visits a few of the 10,000 family-run businesses that dot the city.

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TRIPTYCH #3: Hater, the dating app for what you hate | Watch Video
Instead of matching people based on shared likes, Hater will fix you up with someone who hates what you do.

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PHOTO ALBUM: Living on one dollar a day | Watch Video
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Renée Byer captures the faces of extreme poverty. Tony Dokoupil reports.

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WEB EXCLUSIVE: Mellody Hobson on our ballooning debt | Watch Video
According to the credit rating agency Equifax, credit card companies issued more than 10 million cards to subprime borrowers last year; that's up 25% from 2014. And it isn't just credit card debt that's growing.

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NATURE:
 Sharks (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning off the Bahamas... where sharks patrol the waters! Videographer: Mauricio Handler.       

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NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Bryce Canyon National Park

NATURE UP CLOSE: Steelhead trout          


RECAP: APRIL 2

      
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HEADLINES: 
Search for survivors from Colombia mudslide (Video)
There's a frantic search for survivors in Colombia after an avalanche of mud and water swept through the city of Mocoa, sparing few in its path. More than 200 are reported dead. Manuel Teodoro reports from Bogota.

      
COVER STORY:
 The Doomsday Vault: Humanity's salvation? | Watch Video
Deep beneath the barren surface of the Arctic tundra, about half-way between Oslo and the North Pole, lies the largest concentration of agricultural diversity anywhere on Earth -- an international effort to safeguard the sources of the world's food supply forever. 

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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in Norway. The complex, built underneath the Arctic tundra, holds more than half a billion seeds. Tim E White, Getty Images/Cultura Exclusive

There are 1,700 seed banks worldwide of varied size and state of repair. But this one in Norway is known as the "Doomsday Vault" -- a back-up for the whole system, designed to last for thousands of years, protecting humanity should natural disaster or war imperil mankind's food supply. 

So when a typhoon tore through a seed bank in the Philippines, or when war destroyed seed banks in Iraq and Syria, all was not lost. 

Seth Doane reports from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

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ALMANAC:
 The Fountain of Youth | Watch Video
On April 2, 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon first arrived in what is now Florida -- the start of a quest for a miraculous spring whose waters could reverse aging. Jane Pauley reports.

    
BOOKS:
 Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense | Watch Video
The New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, who has more than 50 books to her name, from suspense and historical novels to short stories, children books and a memoir, talks with Erin Moriarty.

READ AN EXCERPT: From "All By Myself, Alone"

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PASSAGE:
 Two distinctive artists | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" remembers Gilbert Baker, creator of the rainbow banner of the gay rights movement, and New Yorker cartoonist Jack Ziegler.

    
SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Actor and memoirist Alec Baldwin is having the time of his life | Watch Video
The 59-year-old Oscar-nominated actor has won two Emmy Awards and three Golden Globes for "30 Rock." And with his gift for mimicry, Baldwin has made a huge impression with his appearances as President Trump on "Saturday Night Live."

The biggest thing Baldwin learned from writing his new book, "Nevertheless," is that "the past is the past. … I'm truly going to bury my past with this book." And as he explains to correspondent Rita Braver, he's not afraid of making enemies with his writing, adding that, "I try to, you know, kiss and slap in equal measure!"

WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Alec Baldwin: "I thought I was a genius" about substance abuse
In this web exclusive, the actor (who has just published a new memoir, "Nevertheless") opens up to "Sunday Morning" correspondent Rita Braver about his attitude in the 1980s when he abused drugs and alcohol until a near-fatal incident led to his sobriety at age 26.

WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Alec Baldwin on "Streetcar Named Desire"
In 1992 Alan Baldwin starred in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," playing the volatile Stanley Kowalski. In this web exclusive, he tells "Sunday Morning" correspondent Rita Braver about the painful fallout from an on-stage injury, and the acting lessons he got from Broadway stagehands as a result.

WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Alec Baldwin on the paparazzi
In this web exclusive, actor Alec Baldwin talks with Rita Braver about his run-ins with tabloid photographers, including his decision to "take the law into my own hands."

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POSTCARD FROM WINE COUNTRY:
 Falcons: A vineyard's winged protectors | Watch Video
If henhouses have foxes to worry about, Northern California vineyards have starlings, an invasive species that first appeared in the area in the 1930s.

At first, Rams Gate Winery in Sonoma tried traditional methods like noise makers, colored tape and netting to ward off starlings attracted to juicy grapes. None of them worked well. So they brought in reinforcements: falcons, which have also been put to work at airports and golf courses that have bird problems.

John Blackstone reports on what happens when nature is used against nature.

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HARTMAN:
 The worst place to live in America? (Video)
Washington Post writer Chris Ingraham got into hot water when he wrote an article in 2015 concluding that Red Lake County in Northern Minnesota was "the absolute worst place to live in America." It drew a lot of hate mail from Minnesotans, but also an invitation to Ingraham to come see the place for himself. And as Steve Hartman learned, the reception that Ingraham received was nothing like he expected. 

      
WORLD WAR II:
 A German U-boat's watery grave off North Carolina | Watch Video
In 1942, in a little-known chapter of World War II history, the war came right into America's backyard, as German U-boats dominated the East Coast's shipping lanes. More than 80 cargo ships were sunk, and 1,600 lives lost, in the waters off North Carolina alone.

Mark Strassmann rides the submersible Nomad 715 feet down to the ocean floor, just 35 miles from Cape Hatteras, to the wreckage of U-576 -- unseen by human eyes in 74 years.

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Singer-songwriter Willie Nelson, with Bob Schieffer. CBS News

FOR THE RECORD: Willie Nelson is, as the song goes, "Still Not Dead" | Watch Video
Closing in on his 84th birthday, country singer-songwriter Willie Nelson is on the road again -- performing, writing music, and releasing a new album. "God's Problem Child" is his 110th, give or take, with songs like "Still Not Dead."  

"There's a theme here," said Bob Schieffer. "This is about the autumn of your life. Is that hard for you to think about?"

"No," Nelson replied. "You remember one of those deep thinkers, a guy named Seneca? He said you should look at death and comedy with the same countenance. And I believe that."

To hear Willie Nelson perform "Old Timer" from "God's Problem Child," click on the video player below:

Willie Nelson - Old Timer by WillieNelsonVEVO on YouTube

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CALENDAR:
 Week of April 3 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

        
NATURE:
 Bryce Canyon (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning at Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah. Videographer: Judith Lehmberg.  

       


RECAP: MARCH 26

       
COVER STORY:
 The great divide: Politics in the Age of Trump | Watch Video
Increasingly, we Americans occupy alternate universes, with very little common ground -- only battling perceptions of reality. A Pew study finds 81% of voters say they cannot agree with the other side on basic facts, and in this age of the Internet and cable TV, very little is out of bounds. It is hard to think of anyone effectively drawing the nation together.

Ted Koppel talks with Fox News host Sean Hannity, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet, and White House Spokesperson Sean Spicer about the state of political discourse today.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Sean Hannity on his brand
Is journalism dead? And might opinionated cable TV news hosts be to blame? In this web exclusive, Fox News' Sean Hannity talks to Ted Koppel about his own particular brand of conservative political reporting, and about the state of journalism today.

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ALMANAC: 
Super glue | Watch Video
On March 26, 2011, Harry Coover, a chemist who discovered the adhesive qualities of cyanoacrylate, died at the age of 94. Jane Pauley reports.

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ART:
 Rock stars: Mined masterpieces | Watch Video
Richard Berger has spent his life amassing a monumental collection of crystals, some the size of a car. Tracy Smith reports.

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The immortal comic book heroine's real superpower is the power to inspire. DC Comics

COMIC BOOKS: The enduring strength of Wonder Woman | Watch Video
The immortal comic book heroine's real superpower is the power to inspire. Faith Salie explores the history of Wonder Woman, and talks with Lynda Carter, made immortal by playing the Amazonian on TV in the 1970s.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Meet the stunt double of "Wonder Woman" (Video)
From the archives: Jeannie Epper was born to be a Hollywood stuntwoman - her father, mother and siblings were all stunt people, too. In this CBS News profile first broadcast on May 3, 1979, Dan Rather interviewed Eppers about the hazards of her profession.

GALLERY: Wonder Woman through the years

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PASSAGE:
 In memoriam (Video)
"Sunday Morning" remembers newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin, banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller, and "Gong Show" creator Chuck Barris.   

      
TECHNOLOGY:
 Last call for the phone booth? | Watch Video
Yes, there's nothing like reaching out and touching someone from a phone booth. They used to be everywhere, but are now rare coin-operated curiosities. Our phones got so smart they put pay phones out of business.

Mo Rocca looks into the history of the once-ubiquitous phone booth, and of the wi-fi kiosks that are now replacing them in New York City.

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HARTMAN:
 Starved for company (Video)
When the lunch bell rings at Boca High in Boca Raton, Florida, someone always sits alone. That's why some students started a club called We Dine Together, whose mission is to make sure no one is starving for company. Steve Hartman reports.

    
ON BROADWAY:
 Danny DeVito, the scene-stealer | Watch Video
The beloved TV and movie actor is now making his Broadway debut in Arthur Miller's "The Price." Martha Teichner reports.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Danny DeVito on being short
In this web exclusive, actor Danny DeVito talks to Martha Teichner about how it's not really size that matters.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Danny DeVito on Quentin Tarantino
Actor Danny DeVito tells Martha Teichner how he came to be a producer on one of Quentin Tarantino's most acclaimed films.

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ART: John McLaughlin's long-overdue show | Watch Video
The post-war modernist painter, a late-bloomer who never received widespread recognition during his lifetime, gets a long-overdue retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Ben Tracy reports. 

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Veteran CBS Sports announcer Verne Lundquist with correspondent Jim Axelrod. CBS News

SPORTS: Verne Lundquist: Calling the shots | Watch Video
In a 50-plus-year career, CBS Sports announcer Verne Lundquist has made some of the most memorable calls spanning a variety of sports, from football to figure skating. Lundquist talks with Jim Axelrod about some of the thrilling highlights of his career; about his life away from sports; and how he and his wife Nancy share a love for symphonic music in the community they call home, Steamboat Springs, Colo.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: CBS Sports' Sean McManus on Verne Lundquist
Sean McManus, the chairman of CBS Sports, talks about veteran sportscaster Verne Lundquist, whom he hails as lion of the industry.      

        
CALENDAR:
 Week of March 27Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

        
NATURE:
 Trout (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning watching steelhead trout swimming through Lagunitas Creek at Samuel T. Taylor State Park in northern California. Videographer: Lance Milbrand.

       
WEB EXCLUSIVES: 

      
NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument


RECAP: MARCH 19      

        
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MUSIC:
 Remembering Chuck Berry: A rock 'n' roll pioneer | Watch Video
The godfather of rock 'n' roll played on into his 90th year, and his influence never aged. Anthony Mason offers an appreciation of Chuck Berry, who died Saturday.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: From 1972: Chuck Berry on his first hit, "Maybellene"
In 1972 CBS News' Charles Osgood asked Chuck Berry about how the rock legend first got into the business with Chess Records in the 1950s with his first hit, "Maybellene," the influences on his music, and his influence on other musicians.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Chuck Berry on retirement: "There's no such thing"
Rock legend Chuck Berry, who died on Saturday at age 90, was performing up until the end. In 1972 CBS News' Charles Osgood asked Berry about the prospects of his retiring, and the origin of his trademark "duck walk."

    
COVER STORY: 
Welcome to the happiest country on Earth | Watch Video
And no, it's not the United States. In fact, large portions of the happiest nation also suffer from alcoholism and depression. Faith Salie reports on the measures used to determine a society's level of happiness.

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ALMANAC:
 The Falklands War | Watch Video
On March 19, 1982, a small group of Argentine civilians planted their country's flag on a South Atlantic Island, sparking a battle over the remote British territory. Jane Pauley reports.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: CBS News coverage of the end of the Falklands War (Video)

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A few of the stars of the city's Golden Age of neon, long since gone from the Strip, have been preserved, as Las Vegas' Neon Museum. CBS News

SIN CITY: The Neon Museum: Saving the bright lights of Las Vegas | Watch Video
A few stars of the city's Golden Age of neon, long since gone from the Strip, have been preserved. Lee Cowan reports.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The ever-changing Vegas Strip (VIDEO)
The brilliant lights of Sin City have marked an oasis in the Nevada Desert since the 1930s, when Las Vegas first became synonymous with gambling, entertainment and nightlife. Correspondent Larry Bowen talks with architectural historian Alan Hess and casino owner Steve Wynn about the city that never stops reinventing (and rebuilding) itself. Originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" on December 24, 1993.

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FASHION:
 Betsey Johnson: Fashion's free spirit | Watch Video
A Betsey Johnson fashion show can seem a bit like a three-ring circus with as much action behind-the-scenes as there is on the runway. And every show concludes with Johnson's signature move: A cartwheel on the runway.

It's no small feat for the 74-year-old designer. Since the 1960s, the maniacally free-spirited New York designer's clothes have been the uniform for folks that didn't want to look like everyone else. Serena Altschul gets a glimpse into Johnson's world.

GALLERY: Betsey Johnson on the runway

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POSTCARD FROM TOKYO: Marie Kondo is cleaning up | Watch Video
It's time for spring cleaning! And who better to instruct us than New York Times bestselling author Marie Kondo, internationally renowned for lessons on how to "de-clutter" your life? 

Lucy Craft meets up with one very tidy lady.

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HARTMAN:
 Generous restaurateur receives a priceless gift (Video)
For years Anaheim restaurant owner Bruno Serato has helped feed poor kids at the local Boys and Girls Club, even practically going broke in the process. He may have thought his generosity was ended when his White House Restaurant burned down, but then he received a surprise. Steve Hartman, who first interviewed Serato back in 2010, returned to discover another lesson in compassion.

       
SUNDAY PROFILE: 
Mario Andretti: "Without adrenaline I'd die" | Watch Video
The 77-year-old veteran race car driver hasn't let a thing like age get in the way of his thirst for speed.

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OPINION:
 Jim Gaffigan on awkward winter sportsWatch Video
'Tis the season for misery masquerading as sport, according to the comedian and "Sunday Morning" contributor.

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ST. PATRICK'S DAY: A food revolution in Ireland | Watch Video
She's renowned as the "Julia Child of Ireland." Cookbook author and teacher Darina Allen, founder of the Ballymaloe Cookery School in County Cork, is a proponent of the "slow food movement." She offers some pointers to Martha Teichner. 

RECIPES: Variations on Irish soda bread and scones from Darina Allen's Ballymaloe Cookery School

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CALENDAR: 
Week of March 20 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

      
NATURE:
  Cactus (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southwestern Arizona. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.

       
WEB EXCLUSIVES: 

PASSAGE: Two soaring spirits
"Sunday Morning" remembers architect Hugh Hardy and blues harmonica player James Cotton.  

      
NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Texas wildflowers


RECAP: MARCH 12, "BEYOND CANCER"

Dr. Jon LaPook anchors a special broadcast with the latest news on research, diagnosis and treatments, and stories of survivors.

TO WATCH THE FULL MARCH 12 EPISODE CLICK HERE.

       
POLL: 
CBS News poll: Majority of U.S. families touched by cancer

        
BOOKS:
 The history of cancer | Watch Video
Physician and scientist Siddhartha Mukherjee calls cancer "The Emperor of All Maladies" in his Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the disease.  He and anchor Jane Pauley discuss its milestones and breakthroughs. 

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COVER STORY:
 Immunotherapy, the next frontier in cancer treatment | Watch Video
Dr. Jon LaPook introduces us to the next frontier of cancer treatment: immunotherapy, using the body's own immune system to fight cancer.

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CANCER TRIPTYCH
Our three triptych pieces from Susan Spencer focus on promising cancer research, including:

TRIPTYCH #1:  Scorpion venom as cancer treatment | Watch Video
Researchers have discovered that synthetic scorpion venom, when combined with fluorescent dye and injected into a patient's bloodstream, will stick to cancer cells (and NOT normal cells), and light up tumors on scans, so that surgeons can see clearly where (and where not) to cut.

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STUDIES:
 Cancer clusters: The hunt for a killer | Watch Video
Anna Werner looks at the myths vs. reality of the alarming subject of "cancer clusters" across the Americas. 

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From Miana Jun

SURVIVORS: A matter of choice: Mastectomies without reconstruction | Watch Video
Some women who have lost breasts to cancer have chosen to deal with their loss in a fashion that is sparking conversation, and controversy. 

They call it "going flat." Instead of reconstructing their bodies with surgical implants, they are embracing their scars, even baring them publicly on websites like Flat and Fabulous and Flat Friends. 

Erin Moriarty reports.

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TRIPTYCH #2: 
How dogs may help fight bone cancer | Watch Video
Comparative oncology, a rapidly-growing field of cancer research, pairs veterinarians with human doctors in the fight against cancer.  Apparently, certain cancers in dogs and people share striking similarities.  The hope is that a new treatment for dogs, if successful, could be applied to people, too.

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CHILDREN:
 Pediatric cancer: Miracles in small packages | Watch Video
Thousands of kids are diagnosed with cancer every year, but their odds of beating it have never been better. Tracy Smith reports.

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FOOD:
 Food for thought: Your diet and cancer | Watch Video
Correspondent Martha Teichner looks at the relationship between food and cancer. Can what you eat make a difference in prevention and during cancer treatment itself?

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Sheryl Crow in the examination room. CBS News

SUNDAY PROFILE: Sheryl Crow, survivor | Watch Video
When Sheryl Crow was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 amid personal turmoil, she was devastated. But more than ten years later, she's more poised and centered than ever, balancing the demands of a young family and a new album and clothing line. Rita Braver reports.

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To watch the music video from Sheryl Crow's "Halfway There," from Be Myself," click on the video player below. 

Sheryl Crow - Halfway There (Official Animated Video) by Sherylcrow on YouTube

         
STORYTELLING:
 That Dragon, Cancer: A game for Joel | Watch Video
Joel Green was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2010 when he was just one year old. The tumors left him partially blind and unable to speak. But at first the treatment was working.

Ryan Green, a video game developer, and his wife, Amy, decided to tell their story in an unlikely way: through a video game. That Dragon, Cancer is an impressionistic game that chronicles Joel's battle with cancer and the emotional ups and downs of caring for him. Ben Tracy reports.

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TREATMENTS:
 When is it OK not to treat cancer? | Watch Video
No one wants to hear that six-letter word, and if you have it, you just want to get rid of it as quickly as possible. The desire for aggressive treatment is understandable. However, when it comes to how we treat cancer, the pendulum is swinging, with an increasing number of medical professionals now saying we over-diagnose -- and consequently over-treat -- patients. Barry Petersen reports.

      
TRIPTYCH #3:
 The cancer breath test | Watch Video
Researchers have learned that certain cancers alter human breath. Now they are exploring the possibility of using a breath test as a simple diagnostic tool for cancer.

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NATURE: 
Spring flowers (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in a field of spring flowers near Llano, Texas. Videographer: Scot Miller.


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NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Shorebirds
          


RECAP: MARCH 5

Host: Jane Pauley

      
Q&A:
 Melinda Gates on making a successful life | Watch Video
Jane Pauley interviews the philanthropist who, through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, brings data -- and tens of billions of dollars -- to her commitment to improve global public health.  

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ALMANAC:
 Mesmerism | Watch Video
On March 5, 1815, Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, whose controversial methods were the forerunner of modern hypnotism, died at age 80. Jane Pauley reports.

      
OUR MAN IN PARIS:
 Hats off to the beret! | Watch Video
In the south of France is a small museum dedicated to a hat … the beret, that French cap which originated in the Pyrenees about 400 years ago. Making one today draws on the same techniques that have been used for centuries, and yet it's never gone out of style. David Turecamo reports.

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FOR THE RECORD:
 Ed Sheeran: Reinventing pop music | Watch Video
The English singer-songwriter is one of the most successful artists of his time, and an idol to millions around the world. His most recent songs off his newest album, "Divide (÷)," have been sitting on top of the Billboard charts.

Sheeran talks with correspondent Mark Phillips about his career and the music business; his early days producing and distributing his own music; and why he stayed out of the limelight for a year.

Phillips also goes with Sheeran to the singer's favorite fish and chips shop and some of the places in his hometown that have made their way into his songs (like "Castle on the Hill"). 

To watch the music video of Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You," from his album "Divide (÷)," click on the video player below. 

Ed Sheeran - Shape of You [Official Video] by Ed sheeran on YouTube

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PASSAGE:
  Judge Wapner (Video)
It happened this past week - the death of TV judge Joseph Wapner, who for years dispensed justice from the bench of "The People's Court." Jane Pauley reports. 

       
TRANSPORTATION:
 Renovation nation: The prospects for repairing America's infrastructure | Watch Video
The country's roads, bridges and airports are in dire need of work -- but where will the money come from? Correspondent Kris Van Cleave examines how city, state and federal governments are debating how to pay for improvements in our transportation infrastructure, from raising gasoline taxes to using private money to build costly-to-drive toll roads.

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HARTMAN:
 How faith helped one young basketball player succeed (Video)
Sophomore Caleb Swanigan, of Purdue University, may be the most talented college basketball player in the country, but he is also the most unlikely. Steve Hartman tells of Swanigan's remarkable story, and of the former professional athlete and mentor who inspired him with an unshakable faith. 

      
SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Kellyanne Conway: Counselor and target | Watch Video
The controversial White House senior adviser opens up to CBS News' Norah O'Donnell about the pressures of working in the male-dominated world of politics.

PREVIEW: Kellyanne Conway says you need "bile in your throat" to run for office

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The chef with Nacho, a Maine Coon of exceptional size. CBS News


COMMENTARY:
 The cat's meow | Watch Video
Chef Bobby Flay rediscovers the joys of feline companionship.

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CALENDAR:
 Week of March 6 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead.

        
NATURE:
 Sandpipers (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the company of sandpipers scurrying along a beach on the east coast of Florida. Videographer: Charles Schultz.

            
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NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Keystone species


RECAP: FEBRUARY 26

      
Host: Jane Pauley

       
COVER STORY:
 Giving credit: The creators of movie title sequences | Watch Video
The beautifully designed, visually dynamic or hilarious openings for movies and TV shows can be like miniature films themselves, welcoming us to the characters' worlds. Lee Cowan introduces us to the creatives who conjure title sequences for movies and TV.

WEB EXTRA: Watch 25 stunning movie title sequences
Click through our gallery to play some of the most memorable, innovative and entertaining opening title sequences in film history.

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ALMANAC:
 Natural color comes to movies | Watch Video
On February 26, 1909, "Woman Draped in Patterned Handkerchiefs," shot in a process called Kinemacolor, was shown in public for the first time. Jane Pauley reports.

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Models walk the runway for the Christian Siriano collection during New York Fashion Week at The Plaza Hotel, February 11, 2017 in New York City. Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images

FASHION: Christian Siriano's perfect fit | Watch Video
The designer's red carpet reputation has been built on creating fashions for all shapes, sizes and colors of women. Serena Altschul reports.

GALLERY: Christian Siriano's red carpet looks

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POSTCARD FROM MONACO:
 Remembering Princess Grace | Watch Video
Rita Braver travels to Monaco, the tiny principality where Hollywood royalty, Grace Kelly, became a princess, and talks to Prince Albert about the Princess Grace Foundation created to honor his mother.

GALLERY: Grace Kelly

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ANIMATED SHORT:
 Pixar's "Piper" (Video)
A tradition at "Sunday Morning" continues, as we present one of the five films nominated for the Academy Award this year for Best Animated Short Subject.

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Writer-director Simon Fitzmaurice, who has ALS, on the set of Facebook

BEHIND THE CAMERA: Through a director's eyes | Watch Video
Irish filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice shepherded his passion project, "My Name Is Emily," despite his diagnosis of ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. Elizabeth Palmer reports.

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COMMENTARY:
 Why do people love to quote movies? (Video)
Faith Salie has some thoughts about people who eagerly quote from movies in everyday conversation.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Sally Field's Oscar memories | Watch Video
Jane Pauley catches up with the Oscar-winning actress.

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The late actor Peter Cushing (left, as Grand Moff Tarkin in Lucasfilm

BEHIND THE SCENES: Digital doubles: Bringing actors back to life | Watch Video
Actors who are no longer with us are returning to the screen, thanks to computer-generated imagery. David Pogue of Yahoo Tech reports on "digital doubles" and the technologies being used to bring actors back to life, such as Peter Cushing, who died in 1994, but who makes a return appearance as Grand Moff Tarkin in the "Star Wars" film, "Rogue One."

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ACADEMY AWARDS:
 David Edelstein's Oscar picks | Watch Video
In a year that is momentously political, it may be hard to dodge politics when the Academy Award winners are announced. Our film critic offers his predictions.

      
NATURE:
 California starfish (Extended Video)
On this Oscar Sunday, we leave you in the company of stars - starfish on the California coast, ready for their close-up. Videographer: Jamie McDonald.

            
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CALENDAR: Week of February 27 (Video)
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead, from International Polar Bear Day to the National Day of Unplugging. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Snow and ice


RECAP: FEBRUARY 19

      
Host: Jane Pauley

WATCH THE FULL EPISODE (2/19)

       
COVER STORY:
 A world beyond passwords | Watch Video
A CBS News poll found that roughly one in four people has to reset a computer password at least once a month. And so the password process often goes -- reset it, and forget it (again).

With security breaches more common than ever before, Susan Spencer goes in search of what makes passwords unhackable, and learns about new technologies that may make passwords (even those spelled p@$$wØrd) obsolete.  

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ALMANAC:
 Cracker Jack | Watch Video
On February 19, 1912, a prize was first added to boxes of the ballpark treat. Jane Pauley reports.

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An example of Jim Bachor's pothole art. Jim Bachor

ART: Pothole mosaics: Street art that fills a need | Watch Video
Jim Bachor's artwork has been filling the streets of Chicago … literally! Dozens of his mosaics have been appearing around the city, dotting the roads where potholes used to exist. Lee Cowan goes with Bachor as he adds color to Chicago's thoroughfares.

GALLERY: Street art: Jim Bachor's pothole mosaics

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BOOKS:
 Gay Talese's sense of wonder | Watch Video
He's considered a leader of a movement known as "New Journalism" -- writers who tried to break the boundaries of traditional reporting in the mid- to late-20th century. Now 85, and working on a new book about his long marriage, Gay Talese talks to Rita Braver about some of his most memorable stories, and of a new anthology of his magazine pieces, called "High Notes."

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PASSAGE:
  The name behind Roe v. Wade | Watch Video
Under the pseudonym "Jane Roe," Norma McCorvey became involved in one of the most far-reaching lawsuits of the 20th century. Jane Pauley reports.

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Chasing a world record, the New York Times crossword editor has played table tennis every day for more than four years. CBS News

GAMES: Puzzle master Will Shortz's other passion: Ping pong | Watch Video
Will Shortz's passion is crossword puzzles, and he's world class -- editing the daily puzzle in The New York Times, and authoring or editing more than 500 crossword puzzle books. His success has him constantly in demand, traveling the world as the renowned "Puzzle Master." So it should be enough to fill every hour of his every day.  But there is another passion: Shortz might describe it as two words, eight letters. Barry Petersen reports.

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HARTMAN:
 Girl Scout makes honesty her policy for cookie sales (Video)
Charlotte McCourt, 11, felt compelled to follow Girl Scout law while selling the famous cookies: "I will do my best to be honest." As Steve Hartman reports, her honesty turned out to be the best policy.

       
TV:
 Damian Lewis and the big picture | Watch Video
At this point in his career, it's no surprise Damian Lewis has created another indelible character: an American billionaire on the Showtime series "Billions," which premieres its second season on Sunday. Yet the former star of "Band of Brothers" and "Homeland" is actually an upper-crust Brit. "Oddly, the irony is that coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!" he laughed.

Jim Axelrod visits with Lewis in London, where he will soon appear on stage in Edward Albee's "The Goat."

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OPINION:
 Faith Salie with tips on that dreaded "Reply All" | Watch Video
Some advice on email etiquette, including when (and when not) to use cc: instead of reply all.

        
IMMIGRATION:
 Canada welcomes Syrian refugeesWatch Video
Nearly 7 out of 10 Canadians support their government's acceptance of Syrian refugees. One such Good Samaritan is Jim Estill, a prominent Canadian entrepreneur and businessman. He has put up C$1.5 million to resettle 58 Syrian families -- 250 people in all -- in Guelph, a small university city west of Toronto. Why? Because he was haunted by pictures on television of Syrian cities reduced to rubble, and Syrian people dying as they tried to escape.

"My thought is, what can I do to help?" Estill told Martha Teichner. "You don't want to grow old and say you stood by and did nothing. And it's the right thing to do."

        
CALENDAR:
 Week of February 20Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE:
 Ice caves (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the Eben Ice Caves in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Videographer: Jamie McDonald.

            
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NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Boreal chorus frogs




RECAP: FEBRUARY 12

COVER STORY: Read my lips: The art of lip syncing
Lip-sync -- that is, miming the lyrics to a pre-recorded song -- has become a national pastime. The question is not so much who lip-syncs but, as correspondent Tracy Smith reports, who doesn't?  

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ALMANAC:
 Fossil hunter Barnum Brown | Watch Video
On February 12, 1873, the man who would discover the skeleton of the previously-unknown Tyrannosaurus Rex was born. Jane Pauley reports.

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BOOKS:
 The seductive allure of romance novels | Watch Video
To her students at New York's Fordham University, she is professor Mary Bly. But to legions of readers, she's author Eloisa James, a reigning queen of romance fiction.

Faith Salie discusses the English scholar's surprising double life, as she explores the sex, love, empowerment and HEAs (the "happily ever afters") of romance novels.

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FASHION:
 Michael Kors: Still on the cutting edge | Watch Video
It seems hard to imagine, but at one time, Michael Kors almost lost it all. The fashion designer who showed his first season when he was 21 years old was forced to rebuild his brand in the 1990s. He would also go on to appear for 10 years on the reality series "Project Runway."

Today, at 57, with couture and lower-priced lines and an empire of nearly 800 stores, Kors is worth an estimated $1 billion. He talks with Rita Braver about his most valuable life lesson: stick to your guts and stay focused.

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PASSAGE:
 Professor Irwin Corey | Watch Video
The disheveled comic was renowned as the "world's foremost authority" (according to himself). Jane Pauley reports.

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AMUSEMENTS:
 Pinball in back and running full tilt (Video)
Anyone who's ever played pinball knows it takes skill, and a little luck. Now the blast from the past is catching on with a new generation. Ben Tracy delivers his hands-on report.

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MO ROCCA:
 Embracing the bro hug (Video)
At the NFL Draft these past few years, you may have noticed players and officials trading more than handshakes. It's a hybrid handshake-hug, called the "bro hug." Mo Rocca meets with some young men who have fully embraced this expression of male bonding, and explores other forms of male interpersonal communication, such as dapping.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Hugging at the office?
In a conversation with professors Mark Morman and Kory Floyd, experts in interpersonal communication, correspondent Mo Rocca explains why he is against hugging his colleagues at work. (We won't take it personally.)

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The secret of dapping
Photographer LaMont Hamilton and choreographer André Zakery - old hands at dapping - explain the meaning behind the greeting popular among African American males.

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HARTMAN: 
Couple's second chance shows how love outlasts death (Video)
Joe Leifken's dying wish was to take his wife out to dinner at her favorite restaurant one more time. Steve Hartman reports on how he pulled it off, cheating death.

"THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE…": Emma Stone: Dancing among the stars, firmly planted on Earth | Watch Video
With an Oscar nomination for the musical "La La Land," the actress mixes drive and determination with homespun gratitude. Lee Cowan reports.

WEB EXTRA: Extended interview transcript with Emma Stone

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TAKE NOTE:
 Lori McKenna, a Yankee at home in country music's capital | Watch Video
Singer-songwriter Lori McKenna is a Yankee -- born, raised and still living in the Boston suburb of Stoughton, a long way from the Grand Ole Opry. Yet she is one of the most successful writers of country and folk hits for such artists as Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Reba McEntire, Keith Urban and Little Big Town.

Mark Strassmann sits down with McKenna, who is up for four Grammy Awards Sunday, including Best Country Song (for McGraw's "Humble and Kind").

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NATURE:
 Frogs (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning serenaded by boreal chorus frogs, on the shores of Yellowstone Lake in Wyoming. Videographer: Judy Lehmberg.

            
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CALENDAR:
 Week of February 13 | Watch Video
Jane Pauley takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead.  

       
NATURE UP CLOSE: 
Cathedral Caverns

RECAP: FEBRUARY 5

Host: Jane Pauley

       
COVER STORY:
 A Gilded Age throwback: Palm Beach, home of Mar-a-Lago | Watch Video
The first thing you should know about Palm Beach is that it's an island (unto itself) -- the most exclusive town in America, and (according to writer Laurence Leamer) America's first "gated community."

Mo Rocca takes a tour of the city that rose from Florida's tropical wilderness, which today features one of the richest commercial strips in America, and is home to Mar-a-Lago, the "Winter White House" resort of President Donald Trump.

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ALMANAC:
 The Smothers Brothers
On February 5, 1967, the comic folksingers debuted their TV variety show, poking fun at presidents, current events, and even their own network. Jane Pauley reports.

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FASHION:
 Custom cowboy boots: A dying art | Watch Video
Dave Wheeler, owner of the Wheeler Boot Company in Houston, Texas, has been making custom boots for more than 50 years. It's not just what he makes in his rustic and simple workshop -- it's how he makes it, using the same machines his dad used. Kristine Johnson reports.

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Growing up in Nashville, Sarah Heath (right) was unaware she had an identical twin until, at college, she was mistaken for another girl - Celena Kopinski, who'd grown up in New York City. CBS News

FAMILIES: Just alike: Twins separated at birth | Watch Video
Evie Hanlon-Moores and Eva Chia, born in China 11 years ago and adopted by families in England and Australia, are identical twins. Though raised apart, there's no question in Eva's mind about just how similar they are: "We're basically the same person."

They are just one set of twins who are being studied by researchers seeking answers to an age-old question: how much of who we are comes from nature, and how much from nurture?  Erin Moriarty reports.

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Luke Burbank tries his hand at cup stacking.  CBS News

SPORTS: Fast and furious: The world of competitive cup stackingWatch Video
P.J. Ball and Jordan Green are masters in Sport Stacking -- a contest to stack cups in formation as quickly as humanly possible without knocking them over. Luke Burbank reports from the Junior Olympics of Sports Stacking.

Oh yeah, you think YOU could stack cups? Watch this and weep…

Little Big Shots: PJ the Sport Stacker || STEVE HARVEY by Steve harvey on YouTube

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HARTMAN:
 The bookish football star (Video)
When Steve Hartman first met Malcolm Mitchell three years ago, the wide receiver - then playing for the University of Georgia - had been invited to join a book club. He was the only man in the club, and by far the youngest. But he was proud to be called a nerd. Today, Mitchell is playing for the New England Patriots, and he's taken his love of reading to a new level: writing a children's book, "The Magician's Hat."

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MUSIC:
 Lady Gaga on fame, family and football | Watch Video
The theatrical pop diva predicts a "fantastic" Super Bowl halftime show, but she tells Lee Cowan she still measures success by those closest to her heart.

An earlier version of this story was broadcast on November 27, 2016.

GALLERY: Lady Gaga performs

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COMMENTARY:
 Mellody Hobson: Your Super Bowl party, brought to you by global trade | Watch Video
The Super Bowl is as American as Mom and Apple Pie, and so are Super Bowl parties -- or are they? Contributor Mellody Hobson looks into the economics of our Game Day celebrations.

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SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Steve Young's mental struggle off the playing field | Watch Video
During 15 NFL seasons, he redefined the position of quarterback, but fans never saw the battle Steve Young fought just to get himself on the gridiron. Armen Keteyian reports.

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NATURE:
 Cathedral Caverns (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the depths of Cathedral Caverns in northern Alabama. Videographer: Tom Cosgrove. 

            
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CALENDAR:
 Week of February 6 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.  

      
NATURE UP CLOSE:
 Wildlife in the Teton Range


RECAP: JANUARY 29

Host: Jane Pauley

    
HEADLINES: 
Trump's ban on refugees hits snag in court (Video)
Federal judges in New York, Virginia and two other states issued rulings that, for now, halt major parts of President Trump's just-announced ban on refugees and travelers coming from several mostly Muslim countries. Kenneth Craig reports on the protests and the fallout.

      
DEFENSE:
 USS Zumwalt: The next generation destroyer | Watch Video
If Batman had a warship, it would look like the $4 billion, technologically-advanced vessel the Navy is bringing to its fleet. David Martin reports.

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ALMANAC:
 Seeing eye dogs | Watch Video
On January 29, 1929, an organization that trains guide dogs for their blind companions was founded. Jane Pauley reports.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Training seeing eye dogs (Video)
Correspondent Marlo Bendau visits the Seeing Eye in Morristown, N.J., where puppies are raised and trained to serve as assistant animals for the blind. Originally broadcast on "CBS Morning News" on January 10, 1983.

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Try finding your way around a ski resort without this man, artist James Niehues - or his maps. CBS News


ART:
 A trailblazing artist | Watch Video
If you've ever relied on a trail map to get you down a mountain, chances are you have James Niehues to thank. Serena Altschul hits the ski slopes of Colorado with the artist who creates trail maps used by skiers at resorts everywhere.

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"THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE…":
 The glow of "Moonlight" | Watch Video
It's one of the season's most-honored films, winner of the Golden Globe for Best Picture-Drama, and now nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The independent film "Moonlight" tells three chapters in the life of a young boy growing up in Florida, addressing issues of family, parenthood, self-awareness and sexuality.

Nancy Giles interviews writer-director Barry Jenkins, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, and stars Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris and 12-year-old Alex Hibbert about the movie of the moment.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Mahershala Ali on the vibe of "Moonlight"
Actor Mahershala Ali, an Oscar-nominee for "Moonlight," talks with Nancy Giles about working with his young co-star Alex Hibbert.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Naomie Harris: Why she resisted playing a crack addict
The actress, an Academy Award-nominee for her performance in "Moonlight," talks to Nancy Giles about how her own mother, a driven single mother, has inspired her, and why she was hesitant to take on the role of a crack-addicted single mom.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: 12-year-old Alex Hibbert on "Moonlight"
He's only 12 years old, but Alex Hibbert, who had never acted in a film before, became the emotional lynchpin for the new movie "Moonlight," which is now up for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. In this web extra, Hibbert talked with Nancy Giles about his audition process and what it was like to play his character.

         
COMMENTARY:
 Mary Tyler Moore: An appreciation | Watch Video
Critic David Edelstein on the actress and her legacy.  

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CALIFORNIA:
 Palm Springs: Preserving the Rat Pack era | Watch Video
Margaret Brennan cruises around the California desert oasis, where the architecture of the 1950s and '60s brings back the era of the Rat Pack.

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HARTMAN:
 An NHL dream comes true
It is one of the least glamorous jobs in the National Hockey League, and yet Carolina Hurricanes equipment manager Jorge Alves says there is nowhere else he'd rather be. Steve Hartman reports on a man whose childhood dreams of being a pro athlete took a remarkable turn. 

     
SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Dennis Quaid: Optimism and luck in abundance | Watch Video
Tracy Smith catches up with the actor, currently starring in the film "A Dog's Purpose."

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OPINION:
 I was Mary Richards | Watch Video
In memory of Mary Tyler Moore, who died this week, correspondent Rita Braver talks about her early years in journalism and how they compared to the character Moore played on her classic sitcom, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

     
SCIENCE:
 Making a better battery | Watch Video
More and more of our gadgets, including our vehicles, are powered by batteries. As our reliance upon renewable sources of energy expands because of climate change, David Pogue of Yahoo Tech, and host of the "Nova" special "Search for the Super Battery," explores the technological challenges of making more powerful and longer-lasting batteries that could change, and charge, our world. 

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TRIBUTE: 
Jane Pauley honors Mary Tyler Moore, Tom Brokaw (Video)
This week journalists nationwide are paying homage to a pair of influential people who made an impact in the field of TV news. Jane Pauley reflects on what effect Mary Tyler Moore had on her career, and she celebrates a milestone attained by her former "Today" colleague Tom Brokaw.

      
NATURE:
 Jackson Hole (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning among the big horn sheep of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Videographer: Scot Miller.  

      
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CALENDAR:
 Week of January 30 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.  

      
NATURE UP CLOSE:
 Short-eared owls




RECAP: JANUARY 22

Host: Jane Pauley

        
COVER STORIES:
 The Next Chapter
As a new administration takes power in our nation, "Sunday Morning" looks at two events this week that show the difficult road ahead -- for the 45th president, and for a public concerned about the state of the union as laid bare by a divisive and corrosive campaign season:

THE OPPOSITION: Women's March on Washington | Watch Video
Hundreds of thousands of protesters in the capital, and thousands more in cities across the U.S. and around the world, are demonstrating Saturday against the attitudes expressed by President Donald Trump and his supporters during the campaign and through his transition period. Rita Braver reports.

GALLERY: Trump inauguration protests

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THE NEW PRESIDENT:
 Donald Trump's first day in office | Watch Video
A real estate entrepreneur and reality TV host who has never held political office and who promised to shake up the Washington establishment has been sworn in as our nation's president -- and must now lead the free world. Chip Reid reports.

GALLERY: The inauguration of Donald J. Trump

GALLERY: Trump inauguration balls and parties

GALLERY: Trump and family

        
ALMANAC:
 Sam Cooke
On January 22, 1931, the singer-songwriter known for such hits as "You Send Me" and "A Change Is Gonna Come" was born. Jane Pauley reports.

        
ART:
 The visual delights of camera obscura (Video)
By utilizing a basic principle of optics once used by Renaissance artists like Canaletto and Wermeer, photographer Abelardo Morell builds a "camera obscura" with which to capture landscapes and architectural wonders. Morell's photographs bring the outside in. Serena Altschul reports. 

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MOVIES:
 The real "Founder" | Watch Video
A new movie dramatizes how a visionary milk shake mixer salesman turned the McDonald brothers' fast-food restaurant into a franchise powerhouse. Ben Tracy interviews Michael Keaton and John Lee Hancock, the star and director of "The Founder."

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OPINION:
  Ben Stein on the greatness of America | Watch Video
It is the peaceful, respectful transition of power that sets our nation apart from those that change leaders with tanks and cannons, says our contributor.

       
PORTLAND:
 A nonprofit pub that's good for what ales you | Watch Video
The Oregon Public House in Portland claims to be the country's first pub to give away its profits. Luke Burbank reports.

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HARTMAN:
 No ordinary field trip at inauguration (Video)
Students from Immokalee High School in Florida who got a chance to attend the inauguration of President Donald Trump found themselves conflicted. Immokalee is a town of field workers - some in this country legally, some not - and many of their children, "Dreamers," are the very people President Trump has threatened to evict. Steve Hartman talked to the student who not only experienced a civics lesson in Washington, but also taught us all a lesson as well.

         
SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Happy days are here again for Henry Winkler | Watch Video
As the Fonz on the classic TV comedy "Happy Days, Henry Winkler played America's most famous teenager. A little-known fact about Winkler is that he was dyslexic -- so dyslexic he could barely read. Now at 71, Winkler is co-creator of a popular series of children's books featuring a fourth-grader who similarly has trouble reading. Mo Rocca talks with Henry Winkler and his wife, Stacey, and also joins them in a pastime that has got them both hooked: fly-fishing.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Henry Winkler on his dyslexia
The actor talks with Mo Rocca about how dyslexia affected his performance as the Fonz on the classic 1970s sitcom "Happy Days."

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FOOD:
 Truffles: Secrets of a fragrant delicacy | Watch Video
To appreciate why truffles, a mushroom-like fungus, can be so pricey, it's necessary to see how they're found. In Italy, Seth Doane joins Natale and Giorgio Romagnolo, fifth-generation truffle-hunting brothers, and their dog, Brio, and meets with Michelin-starred chef Damiano Nigro, for some lessons in a fragrant delicacy.

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MOVIES:
 Who will receive Oscar nominations? | Watch Video
On Tuesday the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce this year's Academy Award nominations. Our critic David Edelstein offers his take on who should be in the running.

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CALENDAR:
 Week of January 23 | Watch Video
From Oscar nominations to Chinese New Year, "Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

      
NATURE:
 Short-eared owls (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the company of short-eared owls near the town of New Hudson, in the new president's home state of New York. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.

      
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NATURE UP CLOSE:
Water molecules

RECAP: JANUARY 15

       
COVER STORY:
 President Obama: a look back | Watch Video
Martha Teichner explores eight extraordinary and turbulent years in our nation's history, with the rise to office of our nation's first African American chief executive, his dynamic and progressive agenda, his contentious relationship with the opposing party, and his legacy.

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THE WHITE HOUSE: A lens trained on history | Watch Video
Bill Plante talks with Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza.

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ADMINISTRATION:
 A final salute to Eric Fanning | Watch Video
Faith Salie profiles Eric Fanning, the outgoing Secretary of the Army, and the first openly gay leader of a U.S. military service.

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FASHION:
 Michelle Obama: An appreciation | Watch Video
Washington Post fashion critic Robin Givhan on the outgoing, trendsetting first lady.

GALLERY: Michelle Obama's best outfits

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ART:
 Dollhouses as history, and therapyWatch Video
From beautiful to therapeutic to frivolous fun, dollhouses appeal to the voyeur in all of us -- even noted sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, who still plays with dollhouses. And they have a special appeal to her that stretches back to Nazi Germany.

Chip Reid reports on an exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, where miniature houses make a big impression.

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SUNDAY PROFILE:
 Viola Davis pulls no punches | Watch Video
You know you've made it as an actress when Meryl Streep sings your praises.  "The thing that Viola can't do is be invisible," Streep said. "She can't fade away. She can't recede. She can't be forgettable."

It's a drive that has been with Viola Davis since she was a little girl in Central Falls, Rhode Island, where money was so tight, she would dream about having food in the refrigerator.

And that hungry little girl, she tells Lee Cowan, is still with her today: "Totally. Completely. Still with me."

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HISTORY:
 Dressed to thrill: Inaugural ball gowns | Watch Video
One of the most popular exhibitions at the Smithsonian's National History of American History in Washington, D.C., is its collection of fashion and memorabilia from our nation's first ladies, documenting their contributions to American life. Rita Braver reports.

GALLERY: Smithsonian's "First Ladies" collection

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TAKE NOTE:
 Jackie Evancho and sister Juliet on bonds and bullying | Watch Video
Next Friday, a little girl with a big voice will step up to the microphone and sing her heart out, for all of us. At 16 Jackie Evancho is fast becoming an international star. 

But when Jackie agreed to perform at the Trump/Pence inauguration, critics accused her of betrayal, by giving tacit approval to an incoming administration they believe will be intolerant of people like her sister, Juliet, who is transgender. Michelle Miller reports.

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HISTORY: St. Paul's Chapel: Witness to history | Watch Video
Our first president, George Washington, set precedents with everything he did, including his Inauguration. Mo Rocca visits St. Paul's Chapel, the oldest surviving church in New York City, where Washington prayed on the day of assuming office in 1789.

        
OPINION:
 Peggy Noonan on inaugural addresses | Watch Video
The columnist and speechwriter discusses the weight of history on presidential speeches.

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NATURE:
 Swans (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, in the company of whistling swans. Videographer: Jeff Reisly.  

      
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ALMANAC: Boston's Great Molasses Flood | Watch Video
On January 15, 1919, a sticky tsunami flattened entire blocks of the city's North End. Jane Pauley reports. 

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PASSAGE:
 Lord Snowdon (Video)
He's been called a womanizer, but that didn't stop Anthony Armstrong-Jones from wooing a Royal. He was a dapper photographer, who caught the eye of Princess Margaret. Their romance led to marriage, and would lead to a new title for Armstrong-Jones: Lord Snowdon. He died last week at the age of 86.

       
CALENDAR:
 Week of January 16 (Video)
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

        
NATURE UP CLOSE:
 Sierra Nevada, Death Valley and the rain shadow effect


RECAP: JANUARY 8

         
COVER STORY:
 Virtual reality check | Watch Video
Virtual reality headsets were all the rage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this past week, allowing viewers to enter a virtual world. Also hot: augmented reality headsets, which layer computer graphics onto our view of the real world. And with so many of these goggles on the market, companies are racing to come up with software for them, so that users can "attend" concerts and sporting events.

David Pogue of Yahoo Tech reports on the reality of where we stand on virtual reality.

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ALMANAC: 
The inventor of bubble gum
On January 8, 1998, Walter Diemer, creator of the POP!ular candy, died at age 93. Jane Pauley reports.

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ART:
 Artist Tyrus Wong's remarkable life | Watch Video
For decades, artist Tyrus Wong and his fantastic kites were a fixture on and above Santa Monica Beach. And while you might not recognize his name, a certain deer named Bambi has Wong to thank for the exquisite settings of the 1942 Walt Disney film.

Wong, who died last month at age 106, was a Disney legend. Tracy Smith explores the artist's immortal work, in movies and greeting cards.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Tyrus Wong's kites
CBS News visited the artist in March 2016 at Santa Monica Beach, where Wong and his daughter, Kim, sent several of his creations airborne.    

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ARCHAEOLOGY:
 Curse of the "Lost City of the Monkey God"? | Watch Video
Some called it the White City, a great metropolis in the mountains of Mesoamerica that was lost to time.  Others called it the City of the Monkey God. Its possible existence has tantalized adventure-seekers since the 1500s -- including explorer Steve Elkins, who's been obsessed with finding the city for decades.

With laser-mapping technology he and other experts scanned hundreds of square miles of the Honduran jungle.

Lee Cowan talks with Elkins, writer Doug Preston (author of "The Lost City of the Monkey God") and documentary filmmaker Bill Benenson about their journey, and what they found.

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BUDDIES: 
An old horse and his friend | Watch Video
January 1st is considered the universal birthday for all racehorses in the Northern Hemisphere. Tony Dokoupil travels to a farm in Vermont where he meets a 40-year-old horse and his best friend.

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MUSIC:
 Iggy Pop: Still the "godfather of punk" | Watch Video
On stage, Iggy Pop has always lived on the edge. He's a rock provocateur, a restless and reckless front man who has excited and offended: "I'm still not sure what the civilized world wants to do about me!" he laughed.

With his latest Grammy-nominated album, "Post Pop Depression" (his highest charting album ever), the artist often called the "Godfather of punk" has made a belated bid for respectability. Anthony Mason reports.

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HARTMAN: Couple thankful for repo man who took their car (Video)
After Pat and Stan Kipping fell behind on their car payments, an unexpected guardian angel helped them get their wheels back. Steve Hartman reports.

        
SUNDAY PROFILE:
 The outspoken Lee Daniels | Watch Video
Critically-acclaimed filmmaker Lee Daniel has been outspoken over complaints that Hollywood is unfair when it comes to race. The force behind the films "Monster's Ball," "Precious," "The Butler" and the TV series "Empire" doesn't deny there are problems with the system -- big ones – but he's not letting those problems stop him, nor (he says) should they stop anyone else.

In addition to his take on Hollywood, Daniels talks with Mo Rocca about his sometimes-challenging path to success; his new TV series "Star"; and growing up with a father who struggled to accept that his son was gay.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Lee Daniels on directing Oprah Winfrey
In this web exclusive clip, the director of "The Butler" talks with Mo Rocca about how he got Oprah Winfrey to work with a washing machine.

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OPINION: 
 Faith Salie on a life well curated | Watch Video
Nowadays everyone's a curator of their favorite things. Contributor Faith Salie lists the ways curation has changed our lives.

          
ART:
 Matisse and Diebenkorn, side by side | Watch Video
The French Post-Impressionist master was a vital influence on the American artist; a new exhibit highlights the parallels in their work. Rita Braver reports.

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NATURE:
 Wintry woods (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in a forest near Craley, Pennsylvania.

      
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CALENDAR: 
Week of January 9 | Watch Video
From National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day to Friday the 13th, "Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

      
NATURE UP CLOSE:
 Sierra Nevada, Death Valley and the rain shadow effect



RECAP: JANUARY 1

Guest host: Bill Whitaker

       
HEADLINES: 
Search for gunman in Istanbul nightclub attack (Video)
Police in Istanbul are searching for a gunman who opened fire during New Year's celebrations, killing 39 and wounding scores more. Elizabeth Palmer reports.

       
COVER STORY:
 Atlas Obscura: Mapping the world's hidden wonders | Watch Video
The website and bestselling book revealing weird and wondrous places are travel guides like no other. Serena Altschul reports.

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LOOK BACK:
 Top news stories of 2016 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" reviews some of the year's biggest stories from home and abroad over the last 12 months.

BABIES: One doctor's special deliveries | Watch Video
Parents in Virginia treasure Dr. Edward Wolanski, who has brought more than 10,000 babies into the world. Martha Teichner reports.

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LOOK BACK: 
The year's top books (Video)

       
IN MEMORIAM:
 Mother & daughter | Watch Video
Mo Rocca remembers the influence and careers of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. Mother and daughter died this past week within a day of each other.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Carrie Fisher's open book (2004)

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Debbie Reynolds, ever and always a trouper (2013)

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The "Unsinkable" Debbie Reynolds (1994)

GALLERY: A New Orleans tribute to Princess Leia

            
LOOK BACK: 
The year's top songs (Video)

       
STEVE HARTMAN:
 A chance encounter brings a new purpose in life (Video)
Correspondent Steve Hartman shows us how an 82-year-old widower in Georgia was touched by an innocent question from a little girl in the canned food aisle of a grocery store - and how it changed his life when he needed it most.  

      
LOOK BACK:
 The year online (Video)

       
IN MEMORIAM: 
Hail and farewell to those we lost in 2016 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" pays tribute to the admirable and amazing men and women who made our world a little brighter for their being here. Jane Pauley reports.

         
LOOK BACK:
 The year's top movies (Video)

       
ON THE TRAIL:
  A year on the trail | Watch Video
Conor Knighton looks back at his 12-month trek through all of America's National Parks.

Click on the video player below to hear Conor Knighton sing "America the Beautiful" in EVERY National Park!

Singing America the Beautiful in EVERY National Park by conorknighton on YouTube

     
LOOK BACK:
 The year's top TV (Video)

     
NATURE:
 Monarch butterflies (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning marking New Year's among the Monarch butterflies at Lighthouse Field State Beach in Santa Cruz, California. Videographer: Lance Milbrand.

      
WEB EXCLUSIVES: 

      
NATURE UP CLOSE:
 Adélie Penguins


       


For links to features broadcast in 2016, click here.

For links to features broadcast in 2015, click here.

For links to features broadcast in 2014, click here.

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