New Season, Demi Moore, Mary Bara

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It's one of the iconic brands of American business, General Motors, an auto company dating back to the early 1900s. But GM CEO Mary Barra has her eyes set squarely on the future, an electric future at that. This morning, she shares her vision with our Chris Van Cleave. Today is the autumnal equinox, the day we say goodbye to summer and hello to fall.

We'll be turning over a new leaf as well, because today marks the start of our 47th season of Sunday Morning, which means that throughout the morning, we'll be previewing what to expect in music, movies, books, and more. In Hollywood. This is Donald Trump from Mr. Cohen.

Thank you so much. Donald who? On television. Who are you? Madeline Matlock. I savor every moment. What a mess. At the nation's museums. The curtains going up on the new season.

A user's guide coming up. Demi Moore has starred in any number of Hollywood hits, including Ghost, Indecent Proposal, A Few Good Men. In our Sunday profile, she tells Tracy Smith all about the ups and downs she's faced on the road to stardom. Demi Moore always looked flawless on screen, but she'd often put herself through hell to get there.

So someone might have told you, hey, you need to lose some weight, but it's the way that you responded to that. I think I held it as almost like life or death, like my career would be over if I didn't measure up. And now she's playing a woman hell bent on being flawless once again.

Demi Moore on the rocky path to perfection ahead on Sunday morning. Pearl Jam was one of the defining bands of the early 90s grunge era with a sound that first rocked Seattle and then the world. More than three decades on, they're still going strong, as they tell Anthony Mason. How do you typically write?

You just kind of put up an antenna. Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam have been making music together for nearly 35 years now. Pretty much everything I've ever written, it's always started off a paper napkin, now cloth napkins because we're nicer hotels. From David Martin, we'll get a status report on the fighting in Ukraine, plus Lee Cowan on the Middle East, a story from Steve Hartman and more on this first day of fall Sunday, September 22nd, 2024.

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I can have my own. Hands off the wheel. Hands off the wheel, feet off the pedals, but you have to be looking forward. Mary Barra knows a thing or two about the need to look forward. During her 10 years as CEO of General Motors, Barra has made big investments in software and driverless cars. At General Motors, our vision for the future is a world with zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion. The key to unlock that vision is electrification. But it was her promise three years ago to stop selling gas-powered vehicles by 2035 and GM's ability to live up to it that will likely define her legacy. Is GM still looking to be all electric by 2035? For our light duty vehicles, yes. And we'll be guided by the consumer, but the plans that we have in place will get us there. Are you concerned with the way that EV sales have slowed?

Well, I don't think we ever thought it was going to be linear. Wall Street darling Tesla still dominates the market with nearly half of the EVs on the road in the U.S., but their market share is shrinking. And with nine all electric cars and trucks currently available and four more on the way, GM seems determined to catch up.

And I think this represents the ultimate in luxury. We are the first to drive GM's highly anticipated and soon to be released electric Cadillac Escalade IQ, starting around $130,000 with a range of at least 460 miles per charge. It includes features like semi-autonomous Super Cruise, which allows hands-free driving on many roads. It's a big leap of faith letting me drive you around the track in a car. Well, really, Super Cruise is driving.

Super Cruise is now driving, yeah. For a peek at what else is around the corner, GM invited us for a rare look inside its century-old Milford Proving Ground. The Proving Ground at Milford, Michigan, is the nucleus of an elaborate engineering test and evaluation network. A 45-minute drive from the company's headquarters in Detroit, the Proving Ground has long been a hub for automotive innovation. Motor cars from all over the world are brought here to be tested. GM conducted the industry's first rollover test and the first crash test with those famous dummies, all right here. Today, the 4,000-acre site is home to more than 140 miles of every kind of test track imaginable. From off-road to brick road, even an honest-to-goodness racetrack.

You ready? Yeah. Tony Roma is the executive chief engineer for Corvette. He took us for a spin in the new ZR1 with 1,064 horsepower and a top speed over 200 miles per hour. It's the fastest Corvette ever. So is this a normal day at work for you? Yeah, I wish, right?

On this day, we managed to hit 170. With all of the computer modeling you guys do now, why is any of this necessary? Yeah, you still need to stress the components to correlate the model. Every detail of the ZR1 is being perfected here at Milford from the handling to that signature Corvette sound. We put a lot of effort into the sound, the startup sound, the sound when it's accelerating.

We'll do 50 or 60 different iterations. It's like tuning an instrument, you know. On some level, does a Corvette always need to be a gas-powered vehicle?

I mean, can you have that sound and that feel? We talk about this a lot. I talk about this with enthusiasts, my friends, other engineers. Last year, GM's introduction of its hybrid Corvette, the E-ring, was met with some initial skepticism. But that has not dampened speculation, fueled in part by President Biden. I want to say publicly, I have a commitment from Mary, when they make the first electric Corvette, I get to drive it. Right, Mary? You think I'm kidding.

I'm not kidding. That an all-electric Corvette isn't far behind. We're not going to apply electrification just for the sake of it or, you know, we don't put technology on just for technology's sake. So it kind of has to earn its way in, has to make the car better in some way that our customers are going to respond to. Most Americans have so far been reluctant to plug in and make the switch. My own concern is the range.

Where do I find a charger? Last year, electric vehicles made up only about 8 percent of new car sales. And government subsidies aimed at speeding the transition have become a contentious issue on the campaign trail. And what the deal with this thing with the all-electric cars by, in six years from now? It's ridiculous, you know, and... Did it surprise you that EVs have become, like, a political issue?

It did surprise me. I never thought the propulsion system on a vehicle would be. Again, I think one of the strengths of General Motors is we're giving people choice.

We're not telling you what you have to have. We're saying, if you want this, we have it. Adoption of EVs is happening fast in other countries, and most analysts believe it will eventually catch up here, leaving Detroit in a lurch if they aren't ready to compete. Can the legacy carmakers move fast enough? I believe yes.

I absolutely believe yes, we can, and I think yes, we are. Our workforce is quite young. Most of our technical talent has been with the company less than five years. And so, I would say for about 40 percent, they're joining because they want to be part of a company that is going to change and lead in the move to electric vehicles. So, too soon to ask you about your legacy is what I'm hearing.

Well, you know, I think legacy is what someone else writes. I mean, I just... I hope everybody knows I love this company. I believe in the team. Barra is GM's second longest-serving CEO, but she's showing no sign of slowing down.

And for good reason. The future of this iconic American company is riding on whether or not she's right about the road ahead. I think this is one of the most exciting times in our industry.

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And talking with Anthony Mason for the record. On the road with Pearl Jam, this night in Missoula, Montana. Does this all travel with you?

It does. It's all the comforts of home. In lead singer Eddie Vedder's dressing room. Oh, you got a dart board in the corner.

Give me a little focus before we run out. You'll find a dart board, a Chicago Bears football jersey. Walter Payton?

Walter Payton. Tell me about this photograph. And a picture of the great Hawaiian surfer, Duke Kahanamoku.

It goes with you everywhere. Exactly. Yeah.

Vedder, who loves to paddle out. Likens songwriting to surfing. You put these building blocks together so you can kind of, let's say, shape the perfect wave. Yeah. You know, that has a couple turns and then a barrel and then the lyrics come. Yeah. Because then the lyrics come from surfing that wave.

Earl Jam's latest wave, Dark Matter, is the 12th studio album from a band that's been playing together for nearly 35 years now. Pretty much everything I've ever written, it's always started off of paper napkins, now cloth napkins because we're nicer hotels. You were 12 when your mom gave you your first guitar? Yeah. My birthday is December 23rd, so I begged to have the two gifts put together to afford something as extravagant as an electric guitar, which I think was $115. That was a big gift. I walked Christmas morning and I could see the silhouette of it and my heart dropped and then the lights came on and it was a vacuum. Ha! No, really?

Yeah. Then everybody finished opening their presents and I'm getting little chills. They said, oh, one more and they pulled out a guitar case, so that was nice. That's kind of cruel. Well, I don't think they meant to.

How about my mom getting lucky and getting a vacuum for Christmas? Vedder's record collection included the Jackson 5, James Brown, and The Who. When did you find The Who?

We had a babysitter bring over Who's Next and left it there. I didn't see the sun for about two weeks. What was music giving you then?

I mean, it's always just felt like a lifeline. Records like Quadrophenia gave me the knowledge and hope and antidote to despair knowing that somebody else was going through what I was going through. In 1990, Vedder was living in San Diego when he heard a group of Seattle musicians was looking for a singer. They sent a cassette of instrumental songs. He wrote lyrics to them while surfing.

I was doing those midnight shifts security, so when I went for surf in the morning, I remember it being super foggy and one of those days where you think maybe I won't go out, but I had the music in my head, the instrumental, and just kind of wrote it, and then I was still wet when I hit record. Oh, I, I feel alive When you heard what he sent back, what did you think? I listened to it, and then I remember I left and went and got a coffee, and then I came back and I listened to it again, and then I remember calling Stone and I said, Do you need to come over here right now? Bassist Jeff Ament and guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready flew Vedder up to Seattle to audition. It was just, it was like you felt it, like you were like, Oh, this is what it is.

Yeah. I was like, this is heaven. Pearl Jam's debut album, Ten, would be one of the biggest selling rock records ever, staying on the Billboard chart for nearly five years. The sudden success was overwhelming. It was an avalanche that hit us at the front end of all of that.

So we were just digging out, trying to survive and sort of regain control, you know, sort of feel like we were in control of our destiny. They fought with their label, refused to make videos, and sued Ticketmaster. And I remember those tickets coming out, and the tickets would say $28 Pearl Jam, but then we'd be like, Wait a minute, we're charging $16.

You know, you just felt this corporate, you know, fingerprints on you, and you wanted to... To break free of it. Break free and rebel and claim your music for yourself and your crowd. Pearl Jam and its crowd have long been deeply loyal to each other. This is a hometown show for you. Yeah.

Yeah. It's like a lot of history and family and old, old friends. In Missoula, where Ament has lived since he went to the University of Montana, he hosts a fanfare with local nonprofits before the gig. You just want to help people.

You just want to do more for your community. You played Missoula a lot before. On tour, Vetter labors over every set list. And then there's your list of all the songs you have to choose from. That's a lot of songs.

Well, there's a lot of covers and things that we played once. And how long does that process typically take you? Sometimes in a ridiculously long amount of time. He writes up his set lists in calligraphy, which he learned to pass the time on the road. It keeps me focused and entertained.

Do you still enjoy being on the road? Wrong question. When several band members got seriously ill this summer, Pearl Jam had to cancel three dates. This was like a Euro bronchial with pneumonia on top of it. You described it on stage as almost like a near-death experience. A near-awful death experience. I don't necessarily mind dying. Vetter turns 60 this December.

Ament is 61. You obviously must have a lot of trust that if you all get together something's going to happen. Well, it does. Why do you think this is still working for all this time?

It's miraculous in some ways that we made it through it, and then also it's just a testament to our friendship. I was going to say good, clean living. Thank you. Make this new school year an opportunity for your kids to learn important life skills with Greenlight. Greenlight is a debit card and money app for families.

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It's wow. Israel has not officially claimed responsibility, although Matthew Levitt has little doubt. Hezbollah, he says, poses a threat much bigger than Hamas ever could.

They have what they believe is a directive from God, and they're going to follow through if they have the capabilities. There's a former FBI counterterrorism analyst, now at the Washington Institute, who's written extensively about Hezbollah and its ties to Iran. Tactically, what Israel has done has been brilliant. They have severely degraded Hezbollah's capabilities. They've severely degraded Hezbollah's ability to respond to Israeli things. They're really hoping that, strategically, Hezbollah gets the message, stop firing rockets into our country. Hezbollah has been firing those rockets on nearly a daily basis, ever since it joined in solidarity with Hamas in the wake of the deadly October 7th attacks. The 11-month barrage has forced more than 70,000 Israelis to abandon their homes and businesses. They have been very, very clear that they will forcibly move Hezbollah from the border, because one way or another, they've got to reclaim their territory, get their people back into their homes.

That's not a surprise. It's not the first time Israel has targeted communication devices. In 1972, as part of its revenge on the Palestine Liberation Organization's massacre of 11 of its athletes at the Munich Olympics, Eight Palestinian commandos burst into the Israeli team's quarters. Israeli operatives planted explosives in the base of a telephone of a Palestinian diplomat in France. As dramatized in the movie Munich, it was his last phone call. Decades later, in 1996, Israel's internal security agency targeted a Hamas operative with an explosive detonated in his telephone as well.

It's old-school, old-style tradecraft. Still exploding pagers and walkie-talkies on the scale that we saw this past week, killing dozens and injuring thousands, including children, some viewed as a deception one step too far. The United Nations labeled the operation a violation of international law. And it's raised some eyebrows here at home, too. The ability to be able to place an explosive in technology that is very prevalent these days and turn it into a war of terror, really, a war of terror.

This is something new. Is it terrorism? I don't think there's any question that it's a form of terrorism. Former Defense Secretary and former Director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, wasted no words in describing what he fears may be the result of letting this particular genie out of the box. This has gone right into the supply chain. Right into the supply chain.

And when you have terror going into the supply chain, it makes people ask the question, what the hell is next? It sounds like you're genuinely worried about this. I am.

I am. This is a tactic that has repercussions. And we really don't know what those repercussions are going to be. At the very least, he's worried Israel's tactical decision has made the prospect of a wider war in the region closer than it's ever been. The forces of war are largely in control right now of what's going on.

Do you think there should be condemnation for it? Should other nations step in, including us? I think it's going to be very important for the nations of the world to have a serious discussion about whether or not this isn't an area that everybody has to focus on.

Because if they don't try to deal with it now, mark my word, it is the battlefield of the future. Shop GameDay faves on Instacart and enjoy $0 delivery fees on your first three grocery orders. Offer valid for a limited time.

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I can't stand. I was panicking, and I have to get myself on the floor, and I was crying. You were crying?

Yeah. Hey, guys, get him up. He's okay. He was laid out, flat on the pavement, crying, tears of joy. The trail of these happy tears starts here with a group of sophomore football players. The boys used to chat with Francis outside their weight room. These are my people. Eventually, those conversations led to friendships. God bless you guys all.

With students like Bennett Hishman, Nick Tyberthopoulos, and Logan Georgelis. He's always just such a nice person. If we were to have a bad day, he'd be the first guy. I'd be like, hey, are you okay? And we're like, let's do something nice for him. No one else is going to. And that's when they asked Francis.

If you could have one splurge, what would you buy? I said, what? What do you want to know? Did you answer their question? Yeah. What did you tell them? I told them that my heart desire is a Jeep Wrangler. A Jeep Wrangler?

Yes. That's why I try to work hard. Francis sends money to his relatives in Ghana.

He's squeezed for cash. Getting that car was nothing but a pipe dream. So the boys started a fundraising campaign. All on their own they did this.

And within just four months, they raised $22,000. Enough for a nice 2015 Jeep Wrangler. Francis was so surprised to see those wheels, he started rolling.

That's your car, man. It got a little to the point where it was like, is he okay? Making sure he's okay and we helped him up. And then we finally got him in the car and he's just in disbelief. It was incredible. I will never, ever forget today.

Not because of the car, he says, but because of the kids. I can't believe this in America. Only America. Only in America. America is a great country. May God bless America. And God bless the Jeep Wrangler. Exactly.

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Well, not now. It's the new season on Sunday morning, and here again is Jane Pauley. That's Demi Moore with Patrick Swayze in the movie Ghost, a performance that earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Moore would go on to become one of Hollywood's most successful and highest-paid actors.

But as she tells our Tracy Smith, her rise to stardom was anything but easy. How long have you lived here? Since 2005. It's had some interesting incarnations.

I had a house with three kids, and now it's just me and my silly pack of dogs. It's hard to think of Demi Moore as a grandmother who lives alone, but here she is, and doing what some are calling the best work of her career. Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? Her latest film, The Substance, is about an aging TV star who finds a sinister-looking potion that can give her a younger, more perfect version of herself, but at a terrible price. The story is pure fiction, but Moore says the issue of women putting themselves through hell to look perfect is real, and one that she's grappled with for much of her life. I'm fine. Everything's fine. You've talked about how when you were younger, early on, you felt that idea of my value is in my attractiveness. I put so much pressure on myself, and I did have experiences of being told to lose weight, and all of those, while they may have been embarrassing and humiliating, it's what I did to myself because of that. Well, some things aren't for sale. Such as?

Well, you can't buy people. For example, when she was shooting 1993's Indecent Proposal, she would ride a bike every day from her home in Malibu to Paramount Studios in Hollywood. That's around 30 miles each way. And you were nursing a baby?

I think she was like five or six months old when we were shooting that, so I was feeding her through the night, getting up in the dark with a trainer, with a headlamp, biking all the way to Paramount, wherever, even on location where we were shooting, then shooting a full day, which is usually a 12-hour day, and then starting all over again. Oh, my goodness. Even just the idea of what I did to my body, it's so crazy, so ridiculous. But you thought it was what was required at the time. Yeah, but you look back and you kind of go, did it really matter that much?

Probably not, but at the time, I made it mean everything. Kevin, I'm curious. You know all those nights we stayed up talking?

How come you never made a pass at me? Demi Moore's been in the spotlight since the 80s, a talented and, at the time, troubled member of Hollywood's so-called Brat Pack. On screen, she sparkled. Off screen, she struggled with self-esteem. When you look at St. Emma's fire or about last night, what do you think?

What do you see? I just have a lot of compassion for what a scared little girl I actually really was, even though I didn't let anybody see that. Even though you came across as so confident. And if I could go back, I would give her a hug and say, it's okay. It's okay.

It was okay. Moore went on to become the highest paid woman in the business, and she lifted other women as well. When she got a record $12.5 million for the 1996 movie Strip Tease, other women in Hollywood demanded and got bigger paychecks themselves. She also challenged the notion of things like whether a 40-year-old woman should wear a bikini. And after shaving her head for 1997's G.I. Jane, how long a woman's hair should be when she reached a certain age. Now, at 61, her hair hangs to her waist.

After I shaved my head, I think I just started to let my hair grow with the idea that you can have long hair if that's what you want. Who says that it's not okay? And I've heard it many times. Really? Yeah. If I didn't think I liked how I looked, then I would cut it, but it's really like, I don't know. Is there a problem? No, it's perfect.

You're a good candidate. And in the substance, she's once again asking, why do we think this way? Okay, what's next?

What's next? I want to talk about this scene where you're going out for a date and you keep looking in the mirror. What was the process like shooting that? It was difficult. Emotionally, that idea that I think many of us have been where we're trying to make something better and then we just keep making it worse.

For me, it's one of the most heart-wrenching moments in the whole film. It was at least 15 takes each time, so by the end, my face was raw. What do you do after a day like that? You go fall apart. You just go fall into your bed. For you personally, today when you look in the mirror, what do you think?

It fluctuates. Some days I look and I'm like, wow, that's pretty good. And some days I catch myself dissecting, hyper-focusing on things that I don't like.

The difference is now I can catch myself. I can go, yep, I don't like that loose skin, but it is what it is. So I'm going to make the best of what is as opposed to chasing what isn't. Give me an example of that, something that maybe you chased that in retrospect you lost something. It's like this idea where I go, oh, I used to think, oh, my face, it's so chubby, I have no angles, I have nothing.

And then you're like, yeah, but now it's loose. I would mind some of that chubbiness back in the right places. So today is the day that you usually go visit Bruce?

When I'm in town, I try to go over every week. Moore has three grown children with ex-husband Bruce Willis, who's now living with dementia. The important thing is just to meet him where he's at as opposed to being attached to who he was, how he was, because, again, that only just puts you in a place of loss versus being in the present, meeting him where he's at and finding the joy and the loving of just all that is where he is. It seems to me Moore has found peace with the things that are beyond her control, a wisdom and a freedom that, if we're lucky enough, come naturally in a long and interesting life. I think that I'm sitting in a different place in my life than I've ever been. I have the most autonomy, my children are grown, I have my most independence that I've ever had. And so I just am really trying to focus on what really brings me joy. I don't like to project and say, well, this is where I want to be because I don't know, I don't know where I'm going to be.

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Let's fruit stuff up. It was a twist in the war almost no one saw coming. Ukraine's surprise offensive into Russian territory.

David Martin has a Sunday Journal. Ukraine's surprise thrust into Russia. The armored columns slicing through unprepared defenses, seizing towns and settlements is perhaps the most audacious gamble in more than two years of war. There's a big psychological blow here to the Russian mindset, specifically Putin, where you have a Ukrainian penetration of Russian territory, first time since World War II. But former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley points out, the 500-square-mile bulge is barely a dot on the map of Russia and is with considerable risk. It's exposed.

It has three exposed flanks. And the Russians could, mass forces, cut them off and overrun the Ukrainians. Do you expect Putin to mount a major counteroffensive to take it back?

That's at least one of the possibilities that could very well happen in the coming months. Russian President Putin is pursuing a long war strategy, relying on sheer weight of numbers to slowly grind down Ukraine. President Zelensky is trying to shorten the war by bringing it home to Russian soil. This week, a weapons depot 300 miles inside Russia went up in a massive fireball after being hit by Ukrainian drones. And Zelensky is pushing hard for permission to use American-made long-range missiles against targets in Russia. We need to have this long-range capability so that Russia is motivated to seek peace. Ukraine has already used the missiles, known as ATACMS, with devastating effect against Russian targets in occupied Crimea. You can shoot out your boat, I think it's 300 kilometers or so, 190 miles.

You can shoot basically from Washington, D.C. to New York City. ATACMS is guided by GPS and carries a 500-pound warhead. It will clearly have impact wherever it hits. But it's not going to destroy an entire depot. It's not going to destroy a brigade or a division of troops. Zelensky says he needs them to counter glide bomb attacks, which are launched from bases inside Russia.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says it's too late for that. We know that the Russians have actually moved their aircraft that are using the glide bombers beyond the range of ATACMS. There are other Russian military targets still within range of ATACMS, but Putin has warned that striking them would bring NATO and the U.S. directly into conflict with Russia. He's making a clear, unambiguous threat publicly against NATO.

How could he respond? You could easily have missiles, Russian missiles, strike into, say, Poland. If one of those missiles or two of those missiles struck an area where there's U.S. forces there, killing American soldiers, you're going to have a major league international crisis on your hands at that point. It's a high-stakes moment for a war that already has cost an estimated total on both sides of 1 million casualties and is mired in stalemate. The probability of Russia militarily overrunning Ukraine is very unlikely, but the probability of Ukraine militarily compelling the withdrawal of a couple hundred thousand Russian troops is also highly unlikely. Zelensky is betting his already stretched defensive lines in Ukraine will hold while he opens a new front inside Russia. He took a calculated risk in order to put himself into a position of strength for what he perceives could be the coming of some sort of negotiation perhaps next year. Part of the risk is whether the U.S., with its deeply divided politics, will continue sending Ukraine enough weapons to stave off Russian assaults. Funding for those weapons is set to expire at the end of this month. If somehow that aid gets cut off, if somehow Europe or the United States does not support Ukraine, then I think it gets very problematic for Ukraine to sustain that fight. Thank you for listening.

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