Terrifying collapse on the football field. Powerful storms slam the South. A leadership crisis in the new Congress. Correspondent Deborah Rodriguez has the CBS World News Roundup for Tuesday, January 3, 2022:
We're talking about another winter storm that could bring heavy snow or tornadoes to millions of Americans this week.
Also, we'll tell you what happened seconds before an NFL player collapsed and what athletic trainers did immediately after, right on the field.
And the newly-elected Congress meets for the first time on Capitol Hill.
Plus, what new laws took effect in the new year, how the world is remembering a former pope and a broadcasting icon, and a national championship game set: how the top two teams in college football made history on the way to the finals.
Those stories and more news to know in around 10 minutes!
Author Tochi Onyebuchi says that a majority of space stories he's come across favor those in power. Rich white people get to escape in spaceships, whereas less affluent Black and brown people are left behind on an increasingly inhabitable Earth. His new science-fiction novel Goliath gets at this power imbalance, and the author spoke to Juana Summers about how it tells us so much about racial and economic disparities right now.
Amanda Holmes reads Lasse Söderberg’s poem “The Fig Tree.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
It’s finally time to return to Pandora: we review Avatar: The Way of Water. James Cameron expands and improves on his otherworldly saga of colonization and resistance in about every conceivable way, including revolutionary whale violence, CRAB MECHS, and competing visions of eternal life, one blessed & one damned. Saddle up your Skimwing and join us once again in this consciousness-raising blockbuster fantasy world of blue guys.
Tickets for the Hell on Earth launch show/party @ Littlefield in NYC 1/20/23 here: https://littlefieldnyc.com/event/?wfea_eb_id=479703214227
Frightening flooding in Northern California. Police try and piece together the actions of the college murders suspect in Idaho. The body of Pope Benedict XVI lies in state at the Vatican. Correspondent Deborah Rodriguez has the CBS World News Roundup for Monday, January 2, 2023: