This Morning from CBS News: Sept. 24, 2014
Obama at U.N.
President Obama will stress to world leaders at the United Nations today that the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (also known as ISIS, or ISIL) is the burden of the whole free world. In addition to addressing the General Assembly, Mr. Obama will lead a meeting of the Security Council -- marking only the second time in history that a U.S. president will chair such a meeting.
ISIS refugees
From where CBS News correspondent Holly Williams stood on the Syrian border, one could see the black flags of ISIS. One man warned the CBS News team to not cross over, saying if they were not Sunni Muslims, the militants would kill them. Sixty miles away was Raqqa - the capital of what ISIS calls its "Islamic state" - and the target of U.S. air strikes Monday night. But on the border, many believe the American-led strikes are too little - and have come too late.
Rouhani speaks
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in New York for the General Assembly session, tells "CBS This Morning" co-host Charlie Rose that he will sit down for talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron -- but not President Obama.
Crunching numbers
CBSNews.com begins a recurring series that takes you behind the scenes with the pollsters and number-crunchers shaping our politics and policy today. CBS News Elections Director Anthony Salvanto gets them out of the office, away from the computers and formulas -- and tries to make sense of it all. In this first installment - Can Congress Change? - we chat with targeting guru Mark Gersh, a CBS News consultant, on why midterms elections, despite unhappiness in the electorate, don't produce a "massive wave" of turnovers - even as Americans' disapproval of Washington hits record highs.
Football injuries
There were striking figures that came out of a legal settlement between the NFL and thousands of former players. At least 25 percent of retired players can expect to develop some type of dementia -- and much younger than those who did not play.
Black market i-Phones
Customers in China have typically had to wait three months for new iPhones to be released there, but the release of the iPhone 6, which was supposed to hit stores there last week, has been delayed. In the meantime, one analyst told us as many as 5-million iPhone-6s may make it to mainland China anyway. CBS News correspondent Seth Doane took a hidden camera to a Beijing shopping center and found half a dozen smugglers selling iPhones outside an Apple store.
Winter blues
With the official arrival of fall this week, the days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer, and the "winter blues" may be creeping up on people who suffer from seasonal depression. The condition known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a form of depression that sets in during the fall and winter, and typically lifts by spring. In the U.S., it affects about half a million people.
Virtually you
One of the highest paid female CEOs in the world started her life as a man, but that's only the beginning of the story. Martine Rothblatt is taking on the biggest challenge of all -- the limits of human life. She explains to CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod her plan to clone the human mind, creating a version of a person's "digital consciousness" that will remain long after the person is gone.
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