This Morning from CBS News, Jan. 17, 2017
Round two
One week of confirmation hearings is down -- and there are just a few days to go before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in. Another round of Mr. Trump’s top Cabinet nominees are to undergo confirmation hearings in the Senate this week. We’ve prepared a guide to when the next confirmation hearings will take place, and what to expect as they do.
Fearing the unknown
President-elect Donald Trump has said he’s nearly done with a health insurance plan to replace Obamacare -- but he’s not giving any details yet -- and that has a lot of Americans worried. We meet a woman who survived liver cancer as a child, but worries now that insurance companies will reject her based on the pre-existing condition.
Waiting game
America’s long-time friends and foes are grappling with the incoming American leader’s rhetoric. Russia is expecting a new level of dialogue on some key issues, while European leaders appear to be holding back for now -- waiting to see beyond President-elect Donald Trump’s words, to his actions as president.
Testing boundaries
China is deeply unhappy that President-elect Donald Trump wants to negotiate the status of Taiwan. The island of 23 million people has been self-ruled since 1949, but Beijing still considers Taiwan part of China. We take a look at how the rising tension is already having an economic impact on Taiwan.
Military families
Some military families believe oil tanks below Laurel Bay military housing in South Carolina caused cancer in their children. They say at least 15 children who lived on or near the housing community now have cancer. We see how two moms’ sleuth work helped expose environmental contamination.
The richest
The apparently inexorable advance of the rich-get-richer economy has boiled down to this startling fact: just a handful of individuals control as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population, roughly 3.6 billion people. We look at the eight men who have more money than the poorest half of humanity.
Moon-shooting
Beancounters at Google are insisting that sky-high-minded enterprises that burn through millions of the famously profligate company’s cash reserves, like solar-powered drones and Internet-linked home thermostats, must pull their own financial weight.
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