This Week: The pandemic job market, how 9/11 is unfolding as history, and actor Jeff Daniels

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This Week: The pandemic job market, how 9/11 is unfolding as history, and actor Jeff Daniels

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September 5, 2021

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Help Wanted: The new sign of the times

While customers are back in restaurants and businesses around the country, many employees are not, creating job openings on this Labor Day weekend that few expected. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty talks with former restaurant employees who say the COVID shutdown gave them a rare chance to pursue a new, better-paying career – and with a restaurant owner who says the pandemic may have changed the hospitality business for the better.

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The unfolding meaning of 9/11

A day of horror that unleashed a seemingly endless "War on Terror" is, to a younger generation, a not-too-distant part of history they never experienced themselves. Correspondent Martha Teichner talks with authors Jewell Parker Rhodes and Elliot Ackerman about 9/11 and the canon of books inspired by that epochal event; and with firefighters honoring those who gave their lives to save others.

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Jeff Daniels on why he keeps risking failure

In the new series "American Rust," Jeff Daniels plays the police chief of a Pennsylvania Rust Belt town trying to uncoil a murder mystery. It's a character he's played frequently: the guy with the guts to say what no one else will. Daniels talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about his latest role and direction in his career; his father's inspiration for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird"; and the joy of being a grandfather.

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Minn. State Fair butter sculptor ends 50-year run

Since 1972, artist Linda Christensen has been carving the unique and highly-coveted "butter head" sculptures at the Minnesota State Fair. This year, she's passing the knife to the next generation. Correspondent Ben Tracy reports.

Richard Drew on photographing the "Falling Man" on 9/11

For veteran photojournalist Richard Drew, getting an important photograph is about recording history. One of the Pulitzer Prize-winner's most famous images is of a figure falling from the World Trade Center's Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. He tells correspondent John Dickerson that viewers identify with it because they think, "That could be me."

At your service: Becoming a tennis ball person

It's not just tennis players that display their athleticism at the U.S. Open; tennis ball persons, who retrieve balls during play, must train for an intense, physically-demanding job that can also be treacherous. Correspondent Mo Rocca finds out what it takes to become a Grand Slam ball person, by putting himself through the paces.

A thank-you to a veteran

World War II veteran Frank Grasberger, 95, treasures a letter he received back in 2009 from a third-grade student thanking him for his service. When the staff of the Vitalia senior residences in Strongsville, Ohio, did some sleuthing, they found the letter writer, Dashauna Priest, who is now 21 – and a proud service member herself. Steve Hartman reports.

Charles M. Blow on when the media gives a platform to hate

The New York Times columnist says exposing evil in the world risks amplifying what may be, to some, an allure.

Passage: Willard Scott and cameraman Isadore Bleckman

Jane Pauley remembers two TV news veterans who died this week: longtime "Today" weatherman Willard Scott, and cameraman Isadore "Izzy" Bleckman, whose work was a feature of CBS News reports, including for Charles Kuralt's "On the Road" series, for nearly 40 years.