San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz speaks with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook about the federal response to Hurricane Maria. Source
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Nature: Big horn sheep
We leave you this Sunday Morning among the Big Horn sheep who make Nevada’s Mount Grant their home. Videographer: Derek Reich. Source
Calendar: Week of October 2
From World Teachers Day to the announcement of this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, “Sunday Morning” takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports. Source
A Mark Twain tale is reborn
Thanks to the work of literary scholars and a husband-and-wife team of children’s book illustrators, fragments of an unfinished Samuel Clemens story have been transformed into a new Mark Twain book, “The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine.” Martha Teichner reports on the latest work by the humorist, published just 107 years after his death. Source
Just one of the guys
The Brandywine bulldogs in Wilmington, Delaware, have one of the most unlikely football players in America today – not just because this guy is so little, but because this guy is a girl. Steve Hartman meets 4-foot-8 linebacker Felicia Perez. Source
The evolution of Dan Brown
The author of the popular “Da Vinci Code” has been vilified by the Catholic Church. Though he claims not to be anti-religion, Dan Brown will surely face more controversy with his latest novel featuring Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, “Origin,” in which God Himself is on the edge of extinction. Correspondent Tony Dokoupil visits Brown at home in New Hampshire, where his experiences at the prestigious prep school, Phillips Exeter Academy, shaped his life views. Source
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seize record amount of fentanyl and other opioids
U.S. Customs and Border patrol officials seized a record amount of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids in the fiscal year that ends tonight. Most of the illegal packages were found in the mailroom at New York’s JFK Airport. Tony Dokoupil reports. Source
Yusuf / Cat Stevens revisits his early music in new album
It’s been just over 50 years since a young British singer-songwriter took on the name Cat Stevens and soon found himself topping the charts. Now known as Yusuf, following his conversion to the Muslim faith, his newest album recalls his earliest days – and even features the first song he ever wrote. Anthony Mason reports. Source
Pharmacist in San Juan working to get medication to people in shelters
For Hurricane Maria’s victims in Puerto Rico, medicine is in short supply, in addition to food and water. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook reports on the work to aid the medical crisis in San Juan. Source
Eyewitness describes O.J. Simpson’s behavior post-murders
Chicago attorney Mark Partridge reads from notes he took after sitting next to O.J. Simpson on a flight shortly after he was informed by police that Nicole Brown Simpson had been found dead. Source