This week on "Sunday Morning" (October 18)
Host: Jane Pauley
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COVER STORY: For many climate change finally hits home | Watch VideoWith record wildfires and hurricanes ravaging the United States, the effects of extreme weather events made worse by climate change are becoming more visible, and costly, to more and more Americans. Correspondent David Pogue talks with experts about whether we can be optimistic about government, societal and corporate efforts to mitigate the destructive effects of greenhouse gas production.
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Cal Fire (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection)Ayana Elizabeth Johnson"All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis," edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson (One World), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available via AmazonDavid Wallace-Wells, New York Magazine"The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells (Tim Duggan Books), in Hardcover, Trade paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon
ART: David Lee Roth's brush with art | Watch VideoIn an interview recorded earlier this summer, singer David Lee Roth, longtime frontman for the group Van Halen, demonstrates how he is making a name for himself as an artist and social commentator trained in sumi-e, the Japanese art of ink painting, doing what he describes as "graphic therapy." But correspondent Tracy Smith finds out there was yet another calling in Roth's life that, he says, made him feel like a rock star.
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davidleeroth.comView David Lee Roth's artwork on his Twitter feed
BOOKS: Alicia Garza on the origin of Black Lives Matter | Watch VideoOakland-based activist Alicia Garza coined the phrase "Black Lives Matter" in 2013, the day George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murdering 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Soon a hashtag was created, and a movement was born. Garza talks with journalist Mark Whitaker about her new book, "The Purpose of Power," and her education in activism; the inequities of America's criminal justice system; and why social change is built not on social media hashtags but on people.
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aliciagarza.com"The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart" by Alicia Garza (One World), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available October 20 via AmazonMarcus Books, OaklandBlack Lives Matter Global Network
HARTMAN: Gift of baseballs, with a catch (Video)In a batting cage in Montgomery, Alabama, Brian Robinson and his son, Carter, found a bucket of balls, and a note left by a stranger that threw them for a curve. Steve Hartman reports on how one generation's treasured pastime scored some extra innings.
MOVIES: Elliott Gould on his unconventional stardom | Watch VideoHe's never been a typical Hollywood star, but the Oscar-nominated actor known for such classics as "MASH" and "The Long Goodbye" has always played characters as unorthodox and distinctive as himself. Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz sits down with Elliott Gould to talk about his acting career, and the "slings and arrows" of his outrageous fortune.
PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including baseball Hall of Famer Joe Morgan and veteran game show host Tom Kennedy.
ELECTION 2020: Winning the votes of suburban women in battleground states | Watch VideoFor decades women have been outvoting men – and it seems this voting bloc has never been more consequential to the outcome of an election than it is now. Erin Moriarty of "48 Hours" talks with suburban women in battleground states (the demographic that helped decide the 2016 election), and with Lauren Leader, head of the non-partisan voter education group All In Together, who says women on both ends of the political spectrum are unusually energized this year – and are being courted heavily by both the Trump and Biden campaigns.
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All In TogetherErika Franklin Fowler, co-director, Wesleyan Media Project, Wesleyan University
COMMENTARY: Splitting hairs – Jim Gaffigan on the debunked image of Vikings | Watch VideoA new study of the DNA of skeletons reveals that the Middle-Age Scandinavian seafarers were not blonde! Comedian Jim Gaffigan, who is not a Viking, wants to know what that means for the popular image of blonde guys like himself.
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jimgaffigan.comFollow @JimGaffigan on Twitter
MUSIC: Christopher Cross on his near-fatal COVID illness | Watch VideoEarlier this year singer-songwriter Christopher Cross contracted the coronavirus, and was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare disease affecting the body's immune system. Hospitalized in the ICU, the Grammy-winner was paralyzed and almost died. In his first television interview since his illness, Cross talks with correspondent Serena Altschul about his near-death experience; being a long-haul COVID survivor; and his return to the recording studio.
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christophercross.comFollow Christopher Cross on Twitter (@ItsMrCross), Facebook and Instagram
HISTORY: A tribute to monumental women | Watch VideoAt a time when many statues of controversial historical figures are coming down, some lofty women are going up. In New York City's Central Park, a monument has been unveiled honoring women's suffrage pioneers Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Correspondent Faith Salie talks with sculptor Meredith Bergmann about the Women's Rights Pioneers Monument marking the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment; and with Rutgers professor Salamishah Tillet about the fraught history of the suffrage movement.
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Women's Rights Pioneers Monument, Central Park ConservancySculptor Meredith BergmannSalamishah Tillet, Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing, Rutgers University, Newark, N.J.Nineteenth Amendment Centennial Committee, Cambridge, Mass.Virginia Women's Monument Commission
ELECTION 2020: The perils of polls | Watch VideoAs we get closer to Election Day, and after millions of Americans have already cast their ballots in early voting, John Dickerson of "60 Minutes" reflects on the uncertainty of political polling, and the danger of relying too heavily on what polls "predict."
NATURE: Colorado forest (Extended Video)"Sunday Morning" witnesses an early snowfall at the San Juan National Forest near Durango, Colorado.
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San Juan National Forest (National Park Service)WEB EXCLUSIVE
"SUNDAY MORNING" MATINEE: A tribute to Irving Berlin (VIDEO)To celebrate the 85th anniversary of Irving Berlin's 1935 musical "Top Hat," Concord Theatricals, in coordination with CLI Studios, debuts a new video series featuring modern renditions and brand-new choreography for Berlin's timeless songs. This performance by The Powder Room of "Isn't This a Lovely Day (To Be Caught in the Rain)?" features dancers Jordan Betscher and Courtney Crain.
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