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“CBS Sunday Morning” anchor Jane Pauley, documentarian Alex Gibney to receive lifetime Emmy honors
“CBS Sunday Morning” host Jane Pauley and documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney will receive lifetime achievement honors at ceremonies to be held for the 45th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday.
Pauley will be honored at the News ceremony on Wednesday, Sept. 25; Gibney, at the Documentary ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 26.
Adam Sharp, the president and CEO of NATAS, called the two “revered icons” of the industry. “Jane Pauley and Alex Gibney continue to reach viewers while at the same time opening doors for those coming behind them,” said Sharp. “This honor is not only about impressive longevity in a competitive space, but also the broad and sweeping impact each has had on the business, their audiences, and the greater community.”
Pauley’s career as a broadcast journalist spans more than 50 years. She was host of NBC’s “Today” show (1976 to 1989), and was a co-founding anchor of “Dateline NBC.” She also hosted the daytime series “The Jane Pauley Show.” In 2016, Pauley became the third anchor of the long-running “CBS Sunday Morning,” following original anchors Charles Kuralt and Charles Osgood.
Among the most notable of Pauley’s interview subjects while at CBS News were Hillary Rodham Clinton; Prince Harry and Meghan Markle; Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman; the first joint interview with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff; late-night host David Letterman; actor and advocate for Parkinson’s research Michael J. Fox; actress Julia Roberts; author Stephen King; and her husband, “Doonesbury” cartoonist Garry Trudeau.
Pauley previously received four Daytime Emmy Awards, five News & Documentary Emmys, and a Sports Emmy. Her other honors include the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding achievement, and the Gracie Allen Award from the Foundation of American Women in Radio & Television. She is a member of the Broadcast and Cable Hall of Fame.
She is author of two New York Times bestsellers: a memoir, “Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue” (2004), and “Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life” (2014). A longtime spokesperson for mental health. Pauley, who had advocated for children’s health and education, is chair of the Children’s Heath Fund advisory board.
Expressing gratitude for the academy’s recognition, Pauley called the award “the honor of a lifetime. My career has been a shared experience made possible by partnerships with the best in journalism and collaborations with its most inventive minds. Change and opportunity have been the constants. My career has not been a steady ascent but a winding path leading to my crowning achievement as host of ‘CBS News Sunday Morning.'”
Gibney received an Academy Award for best documentary for his 2008 feature “Taxi to the Dark Side.” His other features include “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God,” “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson,” “The Armstrong Lie,” “We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks,” “Steve Jobs: The Man in The Machine,” “Casino Jack and the United States of Money,” “Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown,” “Zero Days,” “Citizen K,” “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” and “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.”
Most recently, Gibney directed the film “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon.”
Gibney’s company, Jigsaw Productions, was also responsible for the series “Dirty Money,” “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,” “The Clinton Affair,” “Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI,” “The New Yorker Presents,” and his two-part feature documentary, “Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker.”
Gibney said that he was “grateful, humbled and deeply honored by this award. While it has my name on it, it is also a powerful recognition of the work of my collaborators over the years, including my producers, cinematographers and, most especially, editors.”
Both ceremonies will take place live at the Palladium Times Square in New York City, and will be streamed live at watch.theemmys.tv, as well as via The Emmys apps for iOS, tvOS, Android, FireTV, and Roku.
Watch this 2015 “Sunday Morning” story in which Alex GIbney is interviewed by Jane Pauley:
Strapped into the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour, three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth early Friday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico to close out an extended 235-day expedition to the International Space Station.
After a high-speed re-entry above Central America and a steep descent to the Gulf, Crew 8 commander Matthew Dominick, co-pilot Michael Barratt, astronaut Jeanette Epps and cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin settled to a gentle, on-target splashdown south of Pensacola, Florida, at 3:29 a.m. EDT.
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A SpaceX team stationed nearby was on the scene within minutes to stabilize the capsule, make sure no toxic propellant fumes were present and then to haul it aboard a nearby recovery ship where NASA flight surgeons and support personnel were standing by to carry the returning station fliers out of the crew cabin.
Despite two hours of exercise per day throughout their stay in orbit, returning station astronauts need about a month or more to regain their “land legs” after months in the weightless environment of space.
As such, Dominick, Barratt, Epps and Grebenkin were expected to be carried out of the Crew Dragon and placed on stretchers before being rolled inside the ship for initial medical checks and calls to family and friends. All four appeared in good spirits, smiling and waving as they were rolled inside.
Mission duration was 235 days three hours and 35 minutes, during which the spacecraft circled the globe 3,776 times covering 100 million miles since launch from the Kennedy Space Center on March 3.
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The crew originally expected to return to Earth in September. But the flight slipped into early October in the wake of a decision to delay the launch of their Crew 9 replacements because of problems with Boeing’s Starliner crew ferry ship.
NASA eventually ruled out bringing Starliner commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and co-pilot Sunita Williams back to Earth aboard the Boeing spacecraft. Instead, the Starliner came down without its crew on September 7 and Crew 9 was launched with just two passengers — Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexander Gobrunov — on Sept. 28.
That freed up two seats aboard the Crew Dragon for Wilmore and Williams to use when they come home next February with Hague and Gorbunov.
Sorting all that out pushed the Crew 8 departure into October. NASA and SpaceX then were repeatedly held up by high winds and rough seas at the approved splashdown sites, much of it related to hurricanes Helene and Milton.
But this week, conditions in the Gulf finally met NASA’s safety guidelines and the crew was cleared to undock and head for home.
With Crew 8 safely back on Earth, the Crew 9 crew will board their own Crew Dragon capsule early Sunday, Nov. 3, undock from the Harmony module’s forward port and then redock at its space-facing port.
The next day, an ISS-bound SpaceX cargo ship is scheduled for launch from the Kennedy Space Center. After an automated rendezvous, the ship will dock at the just vacated forward port on Nov. 5, election day in the United States.
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A 15-year-old boy was charged Thursday with murder in the shooting deaths of his parents and three of his siblings at a home in Fall City, Washington, according to court documents obtained by CBS News.
The teen, whose name is being withheld because he is a juvenile, was charged with five counts of aggravated murder in the slayings of his parents, Mark and Sarah Humiston, two brothers, ages 9 and 13, and his 7-year-old sister, per King County court records.
He was also charged with one count of attempted murder for shooting and wounding his 11-year-old sister, the documents read.
That girl was in “satisfactory condition” at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, hospital spokesperson Susan Gregg told the Associated Press Tuesday.
Autopsies performed by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that all five victims died of gunshot wounds. The handgun used in the shooting was believed to belong to the victim’s father, the court records state.
According to the charging documents, just before 5 a.m. Monday, the suspect called 911 with a false story in which he claimed that his 13-year-old brother “just shot my whole family and committed suicide too” at the family’s home in Fall City, which is a community located near Seattle.
However, at about the same time as that call, 911 dispatchers received a second call from a neighbor who lives about a quarter-mile away. That neighbor said the suspect’s 11-year-old sister had ran to his house and was bleeding from what appeared to be a gunshot wound, the documents said.
The girl said her entire family had been fatally shot and identified her 15-year-old brother as the shooter. The girl told dispatchers she was also shot by her brother and “then described holding her breath and playing dead,” the documents read. The girl later told detectives that she had escaped through a bedroom window.
Deputies responded to the Humiston home, where they found the suspect in the driveway and took him into custody, court records show. The five victims were found dead inside the home.
In a hospital interview with detectives later that day, the suspect’s surviving sister said that she identified the firearm used in the shooting as “her father’s silver Glock handgun,” court documents state.
She said that her father kept the pistol in a small lockbox that “he would sometimes put by the front door so he could bring it to work,” the documents read. She told detectives that the suspect was “the only one who knew the combination to the Glock lockbox.”
Investigators determined that the suspect “systematically murdered” his parents and siblings and “then staged the scene prior to the arrival of first responders to make it appear” that the murders had been committed by his 11-year-old brother, documents read.
The court documents did not speculate on a motive.
The suspect is scheduled to be arraigned Friday afternoon. The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said in a news release Thursday that the suspect is in custody at the Clark Child and Family Justice Center, which is a juvenile facility.
The teen is currently being charged as a juvenile, and prosecutors said a judge will determine whether his case “will be moved to adult court.”
In a statement Tuesday, public defenders representing the suspect said that “our client is a 15-year-old boy who enjoys mountain biking and fishing and has no criminal history.”
