This week on “Sunday Morning”: The Cash Problem (Aug. 2)

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This week we current a rebroadcast of “The Cash Problem,” our annual particular broadcast hosted by Jane Pauley devoted to the various methods by which cash underscores the best way we stay. 

COVER STORY: Homebuyers chase the American Dream (Video)
A rising variety of younger individuals see themselves as “eternally renters” as a result of they cannot afford to purchase a house, attributable to quick provide, increased mortgage charges, and incomes that have not stored up with rising house costs. Correspondent Jo Ling Kent examines the difficulties of immediately’s housing market, and checks out one Midwestern metropolis’s program aimed toward attracting homebuyers from out-of-state.

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ARTS: Artwork made of cash (Video)
Philadelphia-based artist Stacey Lee Webber has invested small cash and payments into her sculptures and jewellery – artwork made completely of cash. Correspondent Nancy Giles talks with the money-making artist whose creations can price a reasonably penny.

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AUTOMOTIVE: Chinese language EVs pull into the lead (Video)
Final 12 months the Chinese language automobile firm BYD (which stands for Construct Your Desires) overtook Tesla because the world’s high vendor of totally electrical automobiles, regardless of the U.S. market being just about closed to them. Correspondent Seth Doane seems at how China’s long-term investments in innovation are paying off in EVs – and the way protecting tariffs might find yourself hurting American automakers down the street. 

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GAMES: Bingo! New spins on an previous favourite (Video)
From American Legion halls to church basements, the simplicity of Bingo and its skill to let giant teams play directly is why the sport raises billions of {dollars} for charities and non-profits. Correspondent Luke Burbank seems on the historical past of this fashionable numbers sport.

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HEALTH: Combating well being care insurers (Video)
With medical health insurance firms regularly denying protection for medically-requested procedures, 73 p.c of Individuals surveyed say healthcare delays and denials are a serious downside. Now, an organization referred to as Sheer Well being says they may combat insurance coverage battles on behalf of their purchasers. Correspondent Susan Spencer seems at how a type of insurance coverage in opposition to well being care denials might profit customers.

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AMUSEMENTS: A brand new excessive for curler coasters (Video)
Correspondent Lee Cowan reviews on how the ups-and-downs of immediately’s amusement park trade are being ridden through new applied sciences in curler coaster design, together with the New Texas Large (a hybrid wooden-and-steel curler coaster), and the Tormenta Rampaging Run (a “giga dive” coaster), at Six Flags Over Texas.

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TECH: Does your telephone snoop on you?
When adverts pop up in your telephone for merchandise after you have occurred to say them, is it a sign that advertisers are eavesdropping on you? Correspondent David Pogue checks out the details about highly-targeted promoting, and why it typically will get weirdly particular.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Scarlett Johansson, skincare mogul
Actress Scarlett Johansson has performed many roles in her profession – and now, the Tony-winner and two-time Oscar-nominee has taken on one other: launching her new line of merchandise, referred to as The Outset, designed for individuals with delicate pores and skin (like hers). She talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about her pores and skin struggles, and the way husband Colin Jost has been a “guinea pig” for her merchandise.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Prolonged interview – Scarlett Johansson (Video)

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TECH: Resistance grows nationwide in opposition to AI knowledge heart growth
To gasoline their synthetic intelligence initiatives, tech firms are constructing huge numbers of AI knowledge facilities, with greater than 4,000 in operation throughout the nation. However some communities, cautious of the environmental and monetary implications of such services of their backyards, are combating again. “Sunday Morning” nationwide correspondent Robert Costa examines the drive to assemble AI knowledge facilities, and the talk between opponents and AI advocates.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Prolonged interview – Sen. Dave McCormick on AI (Video)
On this internet unique, Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) talks with Robert Costa about how vitality and the rise in synthetic intelligence go hand-in-hand; America’s rivalry with China over AI; and nuclear energy.

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TOYS: American Lady: Celebrating woman energy
Based in 1986, American Lady has created dolls, books and equipment that inform the tales of younger ladies in each American period. On the toy’s fortieth anniversary, correspondent Religion Salie explores how making historical past come alive can also be creating timeless bonds between generations that commemorate girlhood.

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NATURE: Trying to find sand {dollars}
In Florida, correspondent Martha Teichner goes trying to find sand {dollars} – cousins of sea urchins and sea stars – with naturalist Kristen Williams (a.ok.a. The Seashell Mermaid). She additionally goes to the California Academy of Sciences’ Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco to be taught what makes these sea creatures so particular.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: “As soon as” songwriter Glen Hansard (Video)
Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, an Oscar-winner for “As soon as” (which turned a Tony Award-winning musical), died July 29, 2026 at age 56. On this March 17, 2013 “Sunday Morning” profile, Hansard talked with Anthony Mason about rising up as a road performer in Dublin, and his meteoric rise to fame as a member of the rock band The Frames and (with Markéta Irglová) half of the duo The Swell Season. Additionally: An internet further that includes Hansard busking on the streets of New York Metropolis.

GALLERY: Notable deaths of 2026
A glance again on the esteemed personalities who left us this 12 months, who touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Spider-Man creator Stan Lee (Video)
The creator of such superheroes as Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Avengers and the Improbable 4, Stan Lee (1922-2018) was a comic book ebook genius whose characters made him a superhero himself to legions of followers. On this report that initially aired Jan. 17, 2016, Lee talked with “Sunday Morning” correspondent Lee Cowan about his marvelous life story that, fittingly, was revealed in comic-book type.

MARATHON: Swimming with sharks (YouTube Video)
Dive into ocean waters with this “CBS Sunday Morning” marathon all about sharks. That includes: 

• Blue sharks off Rhode Island
• The notorious 1916 shark assaults that impressed “Jaws”
• Whale sharks feast on tuna eggs off Isla Mujeres
• Sharks patrol the Bahamas
• Sharks in Fiji
• Nice white sharks close to Guadalupe Island
• Whale sharks off Cancun  

GALLERY: Summer season music highlights of 2026
Summer season is the time to get pleasure from stay music, indoors and out. Scroll via our gallery of a few of 2026’s main musical acts, that includes photographs by CBS Information photojournalist Jake Barlow and photographers Ed Spinelli and Kirstine Walton.

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