Archives: 2018

Faith Salie on threat of mass shootings: Do something

What to say about last week’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida? We asked for the opinion of “Sunday Morning” Contributor Faith Salie: It seems like the same horrific story: another school, another man with a gun, innocent children slaughtered. We’d like to call it unthinkable, but after Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, and now a…

Fla. school shooting survivor David Hogg says: Speak out

What to say about last week’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida? We asked for the opinion of senior David Hogg, the head of the student TV station there: I was in my environmental science class when the first gunshot echoed through the hallways. We never had an active shooter drill at my school, and though…

Faith Salie on Florida school shooting

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Student David Hogg on Florida school shooting

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Postcard from Spain: Doing tapas

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“Wish You Were Here”

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A portrait of artist Amy Sherald

Now on display in Washington: the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama. The story of the artist who painted the former first lady is the story Alex Wagner has to tell:  Last week, Amy Sherald went from being a virtual unknown to one of the most talked-about artists in the world. On Monday her painting of Michelle Obama was…

Andrew Johnson: The impeached president

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Andrew Johnson: The unfortunate president

A question on this Presidents’ Day weekend: Which of our former Chief Executives was the worst ever? Presidential historians have been making a list … and our Mo Rocca may have the winner:  No survey of forgotten presidents (such as James Buchanan, Chester A. Arthur or Millard Fillmore) would be complete without our 17th president, Andrew Johnson.  His presidency would…

Cheating hearts

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Almanac: Vanna White

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Infidelity: Why the oldest taboo continues to be broken

CHEATING HEARTS… it’s a side of romance less-spoken-of. And they’re more plentiful, it seems, than we might like to think. Our Cover Story is reported by Tony Dokoupil:  It’s a subject as old as marriage… and usually more taboo than divorce.  “It is the only commandment repeated twice in the Bible, right? Once for doing it, and once for thinking…

Plane crash in Iran kills all 66 on board

TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian commercial plane crashed on Sunday in a foggy, mountainous region of southern Iran, killing all 66 people on board, state media reported. An Aseman Airlines ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop used for short-distance regional flying, went down near its destination of the southern Iranian city of Yasuj, some 485 miles south of the Iranian capital, Tehran. …

Weinstein Company fires president after N.Y. suit

The Weinstein Company Chief Operating Officer David Glasser, John Thomson, General Manager, Global Branding Department, Lexus International, The Weinstein Company Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein, and director Phillip Noyce attend the 2nd annual Lexus Short Films “Life Is Amazing” presented by The Weinstein Company and Lexus at LA Live on July 30, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.  Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images…

Rodney Alcala: The Killing Game

Produced by Gayane Keshishyan Mendez and Tom Seligson   When “48 Hours” first investigated the case of  Rodney Alcala, he had been convicted of the murder of five California women.  But it wasn’t over; he would be tied to other cold cases.  A series of photos that Alcala had taken and posted online by “48 Hours,” would lead to one…

Funeral held for soldier who died saving others in NYC fire

Emmanuel Mensah, 28, died in the Bronx fire, his father said. CBS New York NEW YORK — A funeral was held Saturday in New York City for 28-year-old Emmanuel Mensah, whom the U.S. government honored by posthumously awarding him two military valor medals after he died rescuing some of more than a dozen people trapped in the deadliest fire in the…

“If you are a law-abiding citizen, then we can sell you that gun”: How easy is it to buy an AR-15?

PARKLAND, Florida — Police said Nikolas Cruz, the suspected shooter in Parkland, Florida, used an AR-15 when he opened fire on his teachers and classmates at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday. Seventeen people were killed.  There is a gun store is a mile from the school.  “Let me give my condolences to all the victims and their families,”…