Jane Pauley will present a wide-ranging edition of CBS News Sunday Morning on November 8, with reports examining chronic pain, the aftermath of the US midterm elections and the fate of the SS United States.
The programme’s main report will investigate treatments for chronic pain, which affects about one in four American adults and is defined as lasting for more than three months. Dr Jon LaPook will explore approaches including medication, surgery, nerve stimulation, biofeedback and self-hypnosis.
The SS United States’ final voyage
Correspondent Lee Cowan will look back at the history of the SS United States, once the fastest ocean liner in the world and widely regarded as America’s flagship.
The ship carried four presidents, celebrities and tens of thousands of passengers during almost two decades in service. After the arrival of the jet age, it was withdrawn and remained docked at a Philadelphia berth for nearly 30 years. It is now scheduled to sink off the Florida coast, where it will become the world’s largest artificial reef.
The programme will also revisit a 2013 report on the vessel’s glamorous past and its long stay in Philadelphia.
National correspondent Robert Costa will report on the fallout from Tuesday’s midterm elections, in which Democrats regained control of both houses of Congress. Historian Jon Meacham will consider the result in a commentary on equality, dignity, fair play, the rule of law and what he describes as America’s “better angels”.
In the arts, Martha Teichner will meet artist Rick Lowe, whose latest exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art translates socio-economic data about Black American progress into artwork. The report will also examine Lowe’s own life and upward trajectory.
Actress Julia Garner will discuss her role as Caroline Ellison in the new Netflix series The Altruists. In an interview with Anthony Mason, the three-time Emmy Award-winner will talk about playing what she calls “the most unhinged people” and about the hope she finds in watching films.
Dame Judi Dench, 91, will speak to Seth Doane about her career, her declining eyesight and her memoir, Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?, written with fellow actor Brendan O’Hea. The programme will also remember notable figures who died during the week.
Music correspondent Luke Burbank will visit Utah to talk to Brandon Flowers, frontman of The Killers, about his third solo album, Thrasher. The country-influenced record draws on the musical traditions loved by Flowers’s father and reflects on storytelling, family and success.
Other features will include images from the week, a report on the death of conductor Herbert Blomstedt at 99, and a look at the wildlife crossing being built near Los Angeles. The programme will close with autumn scenes from the Lost Maples State Natural Area in Texas.
