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Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and George Takei on getting through a national crisis

For millions of Americans, these are challenging times. For some insight into resilience from a generation that survived a depression and world war, Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz turns to funnymen Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. Via cyberchat, the two comedy writers, who first met in the 1950s ("Call it laugh at first sight"), talk about enduring World War II and coming out on top. Mankiewicz also talks with "Star Trek" actor and activist George Takei (who as a child was detained in a Japanese-American internment camp in the 1940s) about what Americans look for when facing an uncertain future.

• Apr 5, 2020
• 06:27

Spring comes to Jim Gaffigan's quarantine

The new season is a time for renewal. Flowers are blooming! Baby birds are tweeting! And Jim Gaffigan remains in "double-secret-lockdown-quarantine" in his New York apartment with his wife and five children.

• Apr 5, 2020
• 02:44

Social Q's for the age of coronavirus

New York Times columnist Philip Galanes, who writes the paper’s “Social Q’s” column that helps readers resolve social dilemmas, talks about aiding those wrestling with new kinds of conflicts created by the pandemic, and explains to correspondent Erin Moriarty why he's an optimist about the current crisis.

• Apr 5, 2020
• 07:36

A warning from Italy on coronavirus

Italian doctors who fought the pandemic of COVID-19 and have seen its devastating toll talk with Seth Doane about the imperative for Americans to prepare, and how time wasted has left their country, and ours, scrambling to respond.

• Apr 5, 2020
• 04:31

Teletherapy: Aiding patients while social distancing

The coronavirus pandemic has meant that Mosaic, a Bronx, N.Y. non-profit mental health center, had no choice but to close its doors to in-person visits. To address the needs of its patients, Mosaic's staff of counselors and therapists took drastic measures, switching all mental health counseling to teletherapy – therapeutic sessions conducted over the phone. Susan Spencer reports on the altered dynamics of teletherapy, and how patients whose feelings of helplessness and anxiety are being compounded by a catastrophically anxious time are getting help.

• Apr 5, 2020
• 07:09

"Victory Gardens" for the pandemic

With spring in the air, people are looking to plant gardens. But the coronavirus pandemic and the challenging times facing those in lockdown have brought to mind among some green thumbs the victory gardens of World War II. Tracy Smith reports on how nurseries are now selling out, not of flower bulbs, but of vegetables, and how online tutorials about growing your own food are sprouting up everywhere.

• Apr 5, 2020
• 03:43

The outlook for record unemployment numbers

CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger talks with Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff for a historical perspective of this week’s 6.6 million new jobless figures.

• Apr 5, 2020
• 03:02

Crowding the internet

With so many people working from home nowadays, there has been a dramatic rise – as much as 50% – in internet traffic on residential networks that weren't built for data-heavy two-way video conference calls. Will the internet be able to handle it all? David Pogue reports.

• Apr 5, 2020
• 05:06

America shows its gratitude for Dr. Anthony Fauci

The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has become the face of the nation's pandemic response. Lee Cowan talks about how Dr. Anthony Fauci, the most-trusted voice in the administration's efforts to stem the spread of the coronavirus, has earned plenty of admirers — and some good-natured displays of appreciation.

• Apr 5, 2020
• 02:03

From 2004: The Marsalis family’s musical legacy

New Orleans jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis passed away on April 1, 2020 at the age of 85. In this “Sunday Morning” feature which originally aired on May 2, 2004, Ellis talked about the musical traditions and love for jazz that he passed down to sons Wynton, Jason, Delfeayo and Branford Marsalis, musicians all.

• Apr 3, 2020
• 02:31