Talk show host Regis Philbin, who held the Guinness World Record for most hours on TV, died Friday, July 24 at the age of 88. “Sunday Morning” takes a look back at a perennially winning television personality. Source
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A summer song: Jimmy Buffett
The “Margaritaville” singer who’s provided a summer soundtrack for decades, and who has a new album out (“Life on the Flip Side”), has canceled his annual summer tour because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But despite the dour news and shuttered concert scene, Jimmy Buffett is one to turn lemons into lemonade, by performing online concerts for first responders. Correspondent Tracy Smith catches up with the singer about making music that meets the challenge of the times. Source
Jimmy Buffett: “Everybody needs to take a little breath”
The “Margaritaville” singer, who canceled his annual summer tour, is making lemonade out of lemons, performing online concerts for first responders and longing for the day he’ll once again put on “one hell of a show” Source
Danny Meyer on the key takeaway for rescuing restaurants
Hospitality is a central ingredient in the restaurateur’s recipe for survival, as is rethinking the business model for one of the nation’s largest industries, hard hit by the pandemic Source
The state of our Union
With our nation being tested over issues of race and the pandemic, noted political figures and writers discuss government dysfunction, the dangers of the Twitterverse, and the leadership needed to unite these United States Source
Is the United States “hitting bottom”?
1968 was a year that saw America tested over issues of race and war. In 2020, the country is being tested over issues of race and the pandemic. “Sunday Morning” senior contributor Ted Koppel talks with noted political figures and writers – former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Senator Tom Daschle, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writers Kathleen Parker and Anna Quindlen – about government dysfunction; the dangers of the Twitterverse; and the leadership needed to unite these United States. Source
Invasion! Asian giant hornets have arrived
They can grow as large as two-and-a-half inches and can slaughter a colony of thousands of honeybees in a matter of hours. And their sting? It’s one of the most painful known to humankind. Vespa mandarinia, dubbed by The New York Times as “murder hornets,” are the nation’s latest invasive species, and correspondent Luke Burbank talks with entomologists and a beekeeper about the threats these insects pose and what’s being done to keep them from establishing themselves in the United States. Source
Navy vet Christopher David speaks on Portland protests
In this web exclusive for “CBS Sunday Morning,” Christopher David, a Navy veteran who stood up to a beating by camouflage-wearing officers at a Portland Black Lives Matter demonstration earlier this month, talks about why he chose to confront federal forces about violating their oath to the Constitution, and why he thinks the deployment of such forces in American cities is a “slippery slope.” Source
Invasion! The threat from Asian giant hornets
Desperate times call for desperate measures in the ongoing battle against the terrifying insect, recently discovered in the Pacific Northwest, which can swiftly slaughter honeybee colonies and even bite out chunks of a human being’s flesh Source
Jimmy Buffett performs “Slack Tide”
The singer-songwriter famed for “Margaritaville” has cancelled his annual summer tour, but fans who are isolating at home can take solace in his new album, “Life on the Flip Side.” In this web exclusive for “CBS Sunday Morning,” Jimmy Buffett performs a song from the album, “Slack Tide.” Source