This week on "Sunday Morning" (Dec. 31)
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COVER STORY: A look ahead at 2018
CBS News correspondents around the world look at what we can expect in 2018, and how the events of 2017 have shaped what is to come.
What's next in Washington? | Watch Video
CBS News National Correspondent Chip Reid on the challenges President Trump and Republicans face in the coming year.
What's next for Russia and the U.K.? | Watch Video
CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer on Putin's upcoming election, and Britain's troublesome "Brexit."
What's next for the Middle East and Europe? | Watch Video
CBS News correspondent Seth Doane on the prospects for diplomacy, and the rise of populist, far-right and separatist movements.
What's next for Asia? | Watch Video
CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy on the North Korean nuclear crisis that looms on the horizon.
THE YEAR IN REVIEW: Top news stories of 2017, month-by-month | Watch Video
Jane Pauley has a recap of some of the year's biggest news stories.
SPIRITS: Distilling vodka from San Francisco's fog | Watch Video
Just in time for a New Year's toast, Lee Cowan tells us about vodka made from fog. Here's to you, San Francisco!
For more info:
- Hangar 1 Vodka, Alameda, Calif.
- Fog Point Vodka
- FogQuest
- Todd Dawson, University of California, Berkeley
- California State Coastal Conservancy
THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The top books of 2017 | Watch Video
SUNDAY PROFILE: "Disaster Artist" star James Franco on finding a work-life balance | Watch Video
Correspondent Tony Dokoupil catches up with the actor, currently starring in the film "The Disaster Artist."
For more info:
- "The Disaster Artist" (Official A24 site)
THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The top music of 2017 | Watch Video
HEALTH: The rise of "gaming disorder" (Video)
The World Health Organization is poised to list "gaming disorder" - the point at which playing video games takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities - as an official human malady. Jane Pauley reports.
THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The top online stats of 2017 | Watch Video
THE YEAR IN REVIEW: Hail and farewell to those we lost in 2017 | Watch Video
Jane Pauley looks back at the lives and accomplishments of the people we lost in the year gone by.
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Thank you to the following for photographs and footage:
- Laughing Stock LLC (For Jerry Lewis and Don Rickles)
- W.M. Keck Observatory (For Jerry Nelson)
- Little League (For Creighton Hale)
- Civil Defense Museum and Bill Geerhart (For Robert Blakeley)
- GI Joe Repair Shop and Museum (For Stan Weston)
- MLB Footage of Don Baylor courtesy of MLB.com
- NHL footage of Mike Schmidt courtesy of NHL Productions
- NFL Films (for Y.A. Tittle)
- Joe Brusky (For Dennis Banks at Standing Rock)
- Rick Smolan, author of "The Good Fight: America's Ongoing Struggle for Justice" (For Dennis Banks at Mt. Rushmore)
- Patrick Garrett, author of "Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, First of the Female War Correspondents" (For Clare Hollingworth)
THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The top movies of 2017 | Watch Video
OPINION: Faith Salie on how art can help shape our New Year's resolutions | Watch Video
At the end of another breathless year, the "Sunday Morning" contributor takes stock in the meaning of mistakes and repairing one's self.
For more info:
THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The top TV of 2017 | Watch Video
NATURE: Sequoias (Video)
We leave you this last Sunday Morning of 2017 in King's Canyon National Park in California ... among towering sequoias many hundreds of years old. Videographer: Jamie McDonald.
WEB EXCLUSIVES:
NATURE UP CLOSE: A Piney Woods Christmas
In southeast Texas, species diversity makes up for lack of a snow at the holidays.
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