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The Domino Effect | Out of Thin Air | An American Down Under

TV Flash files “The Domino Effect | Out of Thin Air | An American Down Under” as hour 670 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 55, episode 28, aired 2023-04-30, 60 min.

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This leaf is S55E28: listed hour 670 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 28 of 31 in season 55. It aired 2023-04-30 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Healing and Hope | Who is Ray Epps | Nicolas Cage” (S55E27). Next is “This Ancient Atrocity | Lithium Valley | James Nachtwey” (S55E29). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — The Domino Effect | Out of Thin Air | An American Down Under (S55E28)

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The Domino Effect – The United States is in the middle of a maternal health crisis – a woman in the U.S. is twice as likely to die from pregnancy today than her mother was a generation ago. Sharyn Alfonsi reports on the country's troubling state of maternal healthcare. She visits Louisiana, where women already facing some of the country's highest maternal mortality rates are dealing with new maternal care hurdles imposed by the state's abortion ban.  Out of Thin Air – According to a 2023 UN climate report, the heat-trapping effects of carbon dioxide are more severe than anyone expected, as oil and gas emissions reached record highs. Bill Whitaker travels to Iceland to see the world's first commercial direct air capture plant in operation. This potential climate solution vacuums carbon dioxide out of thin air and locks it away deep underground. Can this new industry grow fast enough to avoid a climate catastrophe?  An American Down Under – Correspondent Jon Wertheim reports on the unlikely star of Australian rules football and the only American in the league, Mason Cox. Standing at nearly seven feet, Cox grew up in Texas with no knowledge of the sport of footy but has quickly become an Aussie celebrity as he's mastered the game as a player for the storied Collingwood Magpies.

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Where does The Domino Effect | Out of Thin Air | An American Down Under sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S55E28 is listed hour 670 of 767 — hour 28 of 31 in season 55, season 55 episode 28.

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The Domino Effect | Out of Thin Air | An American Down Under aired 2023-04-30 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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The grammar is the same: multi-segment hour, stopwatch motif, investigations plus profiles. In the 1980s it frequently outrated sitcoms — proof news could dominate prime time.

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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

The template of TV newsmagazine power — for the craft of the package and the history of broadcast investigation. Hewitt's stopwatch, Wallace's ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes: Sunday night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Appointment news before the infinite scroll. Tick, tick, tick.

Tick, tick, tick — not a theme song, a weapon. CBS's 60 Minutes, Don Hewitt's stopwatch since 1968, was an 1980s Nielsen bully that outrated sitcoms on Sunday night: investigative pieces, profiles, commentator segments, correspondent star power. Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley, Diane Sawyer, Andy Rooney's endnotes. **Ambush interviews and gotcha lore made Wallace a fearsome brand.** The museum guard wants the package as civic virtue. The flash is the ambush. Appointment news before the…

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