weinstein sequel. the disgraced movie mogul returns to los angeles, facing a new sex crimes trial. and later, carly simon s sorrow. the singer pays tribute to her two sisters, both women dying from cancer one day apart. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. we begin tonight with the fast-approaching midterm elections. both parties are pressing hard to show why they deserve your vote. democrats focused on their legislative accomplishments, republicans on the economy and crime. at stake, both houses of congress. votes are already being cast in many states across the country in person and by mail. cbs s christina ruffini leads us off tonight from the white house. christina, good evening. reporter: good evening, jericka. well, after a quiet weekend at home in delaware, president biden will head to pennsylvania this week and florida the next as we come into the home stretch of thi
It’s among the world’s oldest forms of government, but it’s increasingly under threat. These books consider the sources and effects of an alarming global trend.
It’s among the world’s oldest forms of government, but it’s increasingly under threat. These books consider the sources and effects of an alarming global trend.
led journalist stephen marche to write the next civil war. what you see is a deep decline in trust in the thinglike the church, the police, educational institutions, media institutions. and without institutions it s very hard to keep a country running. reporter: in 2020 gabriel sterling, now georgia s interim deputy secretary of state, gave a blunt warning as emotions boiled over. someone s going to get hurt. someone s going to get shot. someone s going to get killed. reporter: and yet he remains an optimist. winston churchill used to always say about americans, they will always do the right thing once they ve exhausted every other option. reporter: in our democracy we settle our differences at the ballot box. no one knows what will happen if that is lost. barry petersen, cbs news, atlanta. still ahead on the cbs weekend news, tapping tomatoes. how the fruit is being transformed into drinking water. transformed into drinking water.
senator rob portman was the reader. and it was fitting that weeks after the insurrection at the capitol, a republican senator was forced to read george washington s warnings about the danger of what political parties could become saying that a party, quote, agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foment occasionally riot and insurrection. george washington got his projected insurrection driven by a political party on january six 2021. and a year later, our political literature is experiencing a sudden surge of consideration of the possibility of the next civil war. that is in fact the title of our next guest s book, the next