This Morning from CBS News, Nov. 10, 2014
New VA
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Robert McDonald, tells "CBS News Evening News" anchor Scott Pelley, reporting for "60 Minutes" that today, the day before Veterans Day, he will announce the largest reorganization in the history of the troubled agency. McDonald says he is making it his personal mission to fix the VA for his fellow vets.
Ebola hot zone
"60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan reports from an Ebola treatment center run by the International Medical Corps in Liberia, where Americans are on the frontline fighting the battle against the deadly disease where it is worst.
Arctic blast
Winter is starting six weeks early in the upper Midwest. The front edge of a gigantic arctic air front is pushing into the region. The cold blast will affect more than 200 million Americans this week. Rachel Slavik of CBS Minneapolis affiliate WCCO reports.
China pollution
Leaders from around the world are meeting in Beijing this week as part at the APEC summit. Their focus is on growing their economies and reducing trade barriers, but climate change is also on the agenda. CBS News correspondent Seth Doane reports China is taking great steps to have a picture-perfect backdrop for the talks.
Changing China
President Obama is one of the leaders in Beijing this morning, seeking to forge even deeper ties with a nation that is changing at a rate even its own leaders are struggling to keep pace with. The pressures are immense as China seeks a new role on the world stage and tries to shoehorn a centuries-old system of governance into a rapidly evolving society. CBS News takes a close look these pressures this week, in our "Changing China" series.
Facing Schieffer
On the 60th anniversary of "Face the Nation," President Obama sat down with the broadcast's anchor of 23 years, Bob Schieffer. He questioned the president on doubling recent U.S. troop levels in Iraq, the punishing midterm elections, and Mr. Obama's feelings about being president.
Bush on Bush
Former President George W. Bush has written a book about his dad, President George Herbert Walker Bush, and Schieffer went to his library in Dallas to talk with him about it. In Part One of that story, on "Sunday Morning," he talked about the elder Bush as afather and in Part Two, on "Face the Nation," he talked a little politics, including the possibility that his brother Jeb may run for president in 2016.
"Face the Nation"
Bob Schieffer looks back at 60 years of interviews with newsmakers on the CBS News Sunday morning staple.
CBS News poll on retirement
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Deadly elevators
Top safety advocates are warning the federal government about a dangerous threat from in-home elevators. They say young children are getting trapped and crushed, and are calling on the Consumer Producer Safety Commission to begin policing the industry. Jan Crawford reports on a Baltimore family's tragic story.
Pod poisonings
A new study links liquid laundry detergent pods to 17,230 emergency calls in 2012-2013. Liquid laundry packets can be mistaken for candy or a teething toy.
DVF
By all accounts, Diane von Furstenberg's life has been the stuff of fairy tales: She married a prince, is a huge name in the glamorous world of fashion and has traveled the planet for both business and pleasure. She chronicles it all in her new memoir, "The Woman I Wanted to Be," published by Simon and Schuster, a division of CBS. "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King visited von Furstenberg's luxurious office above her boutique in Manhattan to learn about the woman known as DVF.
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