Danny Meyer on the key takeaway for rescuing restaurants

Hospitality is a central ingredient in the restaurateur's recipe for survival, as is rethinking the business model for one of the nation's largest industries, hard hit by the pandemic

• Jul 26, 2020

Danny Meyer on reviving the restaurant industry

Danny Meyer is one of New York City's most successful and influential restaurateurs. In mid-March he closed all 20 of his restaurants and laid off nearly 2,100 employees. Meyer, and his top executive, Chip Wade, president of the Union Square Hospitality Group, tell correspondent Martha Teichner how they plan to rebuild their business – and how the entire restaurant industry must evolve – in order to survive not only the pandemic, but a changing economy and changing tastes.

• Jul 26, 2020
• 07:51

Honors for John Lewis

This weekend, Representative John Lewis, who died July 17 at the age of 80, will be taken by a horse-drawn carriage one last time across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma, Ala., the same bridge where his peaceful protest for voting rights in 1965 was met with a violence that has become seared in our nation’s collective memory. Later, his body will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C.

• Jul 26, 2020
• 01:58

The state of our Union

With our nation being tested over issues of race and the pandemic, noted political figures and writers discuss government dysfunction, the dangers of the Twitterverse, and the leadership needed to unite these United States

• Jul 26, 2020

Is the U.S. "hitting bottom"?

1968 was a year that saw America tested over issues of race and war. In 2020, the country is being tested over issues of race and the pandemic. "Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel talks with noted political figures and writers — former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Senator Tom Daschle, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writers Kathleen Parker and Anna Quindlen — about government dysfunction; the dangers of the Twitterverse; and the leadership needed to unite these United States.

• Jul 26, 2020
• 09:23

Invasion! The threat from Asian giant hornets

Desperate times call for desperate measures in the ongoing battle against the terrifying insect, recently discovered in the Pacific Northwest, which can swiftly slaughter honeybee colonies and even bite out chunks of a human being's flesh

• Jul 26, 2020

Invasion! Asian giant hornets have arrived

They can grow as large as 2½ inches and can slaughter a colony of thousands of honeybees in a matter of hours. And their sting? It's one of the most painful known to humankind. Vespa mandarinia, dubbed by The New York Times as "murder hornets," are the nation's latest invasive species, and correspondent Luke Burbank talks with entomologists and a beekeeper about the threats these insects pose and what's being done to keep them from establishing themselves in the U.S.

• Jul 26, 2020
• 05:56

Navy vet Christopher David speaks on Portland protests

In this web exclusive for “CBS Sunday Morning,” Christopher David, a Navy veteran who stood up to a beating by camouflage-wearing officers at a Portland Black Lives Matter demonstration earlier this month, talks about why he chose to confront federal forces about violating their oath to the Constitution, and why he thinks the deployment of such forces in American cities is a “slippery slope.”

• Jul 26, 2020
• 03:26

The scarcity of clean water

Mayra Carrillo grew up in California’s Central Valley, in a home that did not have clean water to drink – and neither did her own children. In this web exclusive she talks with correspondent Lee Cowan about when she realized living without access to safe drinking water was not “normal.”

• Jul 26, 2020
• 00:38

One West Virginia food bank's most-requested item: Water

In this web exclusive, Linda McKinney, director of the Five Loaves & Two Fishes Food Bank in Kimball, West Virginia, describes to correspondent Lee Cowan the difficulty people in her community have in accessing a very scarce commodity: clean drinking water.

• Jul 26, 2020
• 00:53

Jimmy Buffett performs “Slack Tide”

The singer-songwriter famed for “Margaritaville” has cancelled his annual summer tour, but fans who are isolating at home can take solace in his new album, “Life on the Flip Side.” In this web exclusive for “CBS Sunday Morning,” Jimmy Buffett performs a song from the album, “Slack Tide.”

• Jul 26, 2020
• 03:36

Danny Meyer on overcoming threats to business success

In this web exclusive, Danny Meyer, whose restaurant business laid off hundreds of employees because of the coronavirus pandemic, explains to correspondent Martha Teichner how his father’s business experience, including two bankruptcies, informed his efforts to survive a wrenching blow to the hospitality industry.

• Jul 26, 2020
• 02:33

From 2005: The iconic Regis Philbin

TV legend Regis Philbin died Friday, July 24 at the age of 88. In this "Sunday Morning" profile originally broadcast December 25, 2005, Charles Osgood visited the set of Philbin's syndicated morning show, "Live with Regis and Kelly," and accompanied him on the piano, as Philbin talked about the hosting jobs, late-night guest appearances and recordings of one of TV's brightest personalities.

• Jul 25, 2020
• 09:42

This week on "Sunday Morning" (July 26)

A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the #1 Sunday morning news program

• Jul 26, 2020

Jim Gaffigan on his first drive-in standup show

For the first time during the pandemic, the comedian took his show on the road – literally, by performing standup for an audience socially distancing in parked cars

• Jul 19, 2020

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