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HEADLINES: Israel-Hamas ceasefire goes into effect in Gaza (Video)
Israel is gripped, waiting for Hamas to beginning releasing hostages under the terms of the new ceasefire agreement, which began early Sunday morning in Gaza. Hamas and some of its supporters celebrated the ceasefire as a victory, but it’s come at a devastating price. Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports.
ALMANAC: January 19 (Video)
“Sunday Morning” looks back at historical events on this date.
President Joe Biden. / Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
COVER STORY: Writing the first draft of President Biden’s legacy | Watch Video
President Biden leaves office this week with significant legislative and policy achievements, the effects of which may not be seen for years. But in spite of those successes, Biden’s legacy likely rests largely in the hands of his successor: Donald Trump. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes talks with Atlantic staff writer Franklin Foer, and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, about how history will remember Joe Biden.
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Franklin Foer, staff writer, The Atlantic”The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future” by Franklin Foer (Penguin Press), in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.orgGovernor Phil Murphy (D-N.J.)
ART: Tamara de Lempicka’s vibrant life and art | Watch Video
Tamara de Lempicka (1894–1980), one of the giants of early 20th century art, is now the subject of the first-ever U.S. retrospective of her works. Correspondent Faith Salie visits the de Young Museum of San Francisco, to learn how Lempicka’s glamorous figurative paintings of the modern woman played an important role in defining the aesthetic of Art Deco, and why Lempicka herself is so little-known compared to other modern masters.
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Exhibition: “Tamara de Lempicka,” at the de Young in San Francisco (through February 5), and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (March 9-May 26)Catalogue: “Tamara de Lempicka” (Yale University Press), available in Hardcover format, via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.orgTamara de Lempicka (Official site)
On the set of the new daytime series
TV: Inside “Beyond the Gates,” TV’s newest soap opera (Video)
In the world of daytime network TV, only a handful of long-running soap operas have survived. But in February, CBS is launching a new one: “Beyond the Gates,” which traces a prominent African American family living in a gated community outside of Washington, D.C. Correspondent Nancy Giles goes behind the scenes of the new series, and talks with the creatives and actors who say you’ve never seen a soap like this.
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“Beyond the Gates” debuts February 24 on CBS and Paramount+
PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including director David Lynch, the visionary behind “Blue Velvet,” “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive”; and Milwaukee Brewers sportscaster and actor Bob Uecker.
Then-Senator John Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy are greeted by hostess Perle Mesta. / Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
BOOKS: Perle Mesta, the renowned social queen of Washington | Watch Video
The widow of a steel magnate, socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., in the 1940s and ’50s, becoming known as “The Hostess with the Mostes’ on the Ball” (after Irving Berlin celebrated her in the musical, “Call Me Madam”). Mesta became one of the most famous women in the world, and her influence – on politics and on the social scene – is examined by Meryl Gordon in her new biography, “The Woman Who Knew Everyone.” CBS News’ Erin Moriarty talks with Gordon; with 99-year-old former journalist Marie Ridder, who attended some of Mesta’s parties; and with Washington insider Sally Quinn, who doubts that any power broker today could pull off what Mesta once did so brilliantly: getting Democrats and Republicans to sit down at a dinner table and see eye-to-eye.
READ AN EXCERPT: “The Woman Who Knew Everyone” by Meryl Gordon
READ AN EXCERPT: “The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining” by Sally Quinn
In her 1997 book, the Washington Post columnist writes about the social imperatives for entertaining, and how the role of host and hostess in the nation’s political capital has remained vitally important.
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“The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington’s Most Famous Hostess” by Meryl Gordon (Grand Central Publishing), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org”The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining” by Sally Quinn (Simoon & Schuster), in Trade Paperback format, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.orgMarie Ridder, Piedmont Environmental Council
A building destroyed by the Eaton Fire, in Altadena, Calif., January 15, 2025. / Credit: Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images
U.S.: Climate scientist: “There’s no place that’s safe” | Watch Video
In 2022, climate scientist Peter Kalmus moved his family out of Altadena, California, to North Carolina, to a place he hoped would be “less fiery.” His old house burned to the ground in last week’s wildfires, while North Carolina suffered the effects of Hurricane Helene last fall. Kalmus tells correspondent Tracy Smith he hopes people are finally listening to warnings about climate change. Smith also talks with amateur meteorologist Edgar McGregor, who warned his fellow Altadena residents to get out as the flames approached; and with John Vaillant, author of “Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World.”
READ AN EXCERPT: “Fire Weather” by John Vaillant
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“Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World” by John Vaillant (Vintage Books), in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.orgClimate scientist Peter KalmusAltadena Weather and Climate Group (Facebook)
Steve Guttenberg, with Lisa Ling, on Sunset Boulevard in Pacific Palisades, where the actor had helped move abandoned cars that were blocking emergency vehicles as the wildfires erupted. / Credit: CBS News
U.S.: Heroes: Steve Guttenberg on assisting during the Palisades wildfire, and caring for his personal hero | Watch Video
As the Palisades Fire exploded, Steve Guttenberg, one of the biggest movie stars of the 1980s and ’90s, was moving abandoned cars so emergency vehicles could get through. Many days later, with much of his hometown reduced to ruins, he was still there to help protect his and his neighbors’ homes. He spoke with CBS News contributor Lisa Ling about the importance of making a difference; and about caring for his late father, Stanley, whom he calls his “anchor,” and whom he writes about in the book “Time to Thank: Caregiving for My Hero.”
READ AN EXCERPT: “Time to Thank: Caregiving for My Hero” by Steve Guttenberg
In his memoir the actor writes of his father and the relationship they shared, through their final years together, when Guttenberg dedicated himself to becoming a caregiver after his dad was diagnosed with kidney failure.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview: Steve Guttenberg (Video)
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“Time to Thank: Caregiving for My Hero” by Steve Guttenberg (Post Hill Press), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
GALLERY: Architectural losses from the L.A. wildfires (Video)
Thousands of structures were destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires, including some architectural and historic landmarks. “Sunday Morning” looks at some of the treasures lost.
On Feb. 3, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to significantly scale back the regulatory system of the financial industry implemented by the Obama administration after the 2008 financial crisis. / Credit: Aude Guerrucci/Pool via Bloomberg
POLITICS: Trump ally says first 100 days will be “shock and awe” | Watch Video
President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House is the culmination of a political comeback that many in both parties believed would never happen. Now, Trump is promising swift action despite paper-thin GOP majorities in Congress. CBS News chief election & campaign correspondent Robert Costa talks with Republican Senator Jim Banks, a staunch Trump ally, and Independent Senator Bernie Sanders about what to expect in the second Trump administration.
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Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.)Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
COMMENTARY: What might President Biden’s legacy be? | Watch Video
Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley looks at the considerable, often heroic achievements of the administration of Joe Biden, and at the mistakes that may color historians’ view of his presidency, as Donald Trump – a man Biden warned is a threat to democracy – re-enters the White House.
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Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley
NATURE: Key deer in Florida (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday morning roaming with Key Deer, at Big Pine Key in Florida.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: David Lynch on Transcendental Meditation (YouTube Video)
Director David Lynch, renowned for such visionary and surreal works as “Blue Velvet,” “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive,” died on January 16, 2025, at age 78. A longtime practitioner of Transcendental Meditation (or TM), and founder of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, he spoke in 2016 with “Sunday Morning” correspondent Mo Rocca about the effects of TM. Rocca also visited a Los Angeles school, where Lynch guided students on the benefits of meditation. [From a report that originally aired January 3, 2016.]
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A visit with “Mr. Baseball” Bob Uecker (Video)
Milwaukee Brewers announcer Bob Uecker died Thursday. January 16, at the age of 90. In this 2024 profile by “60 Minutes” correspondent Jon Wertheim, Uecker talked about his love for baseball, and how it has manifested in his adjacent careers as actor, commercial pitchman, and TV talk show guest.
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White House Middle East envoy says Israel-Hamas ceasefire leaves “nothing to chance”
Incoming National Security Adviser Mike Waltz says “Hamas will never govern Gaza”
Scars on both sides of Middle East conflict as ceasefire takes effect
