CBS News Sunday Morning to examine immigration courts, truck crashes, Earth Day tech

Immigration courts, deadly truck crashes and Earth Day technology will anchor a Sunday hour that feels tuned to a country pulled between concern and curiosity. The April 19, 2026 edition of CBS News Sunday Morning is scheduled as a 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. ET broadcast, with Jane Pauley hosting and the program streaming later that day on the CBS News app at 11:00 a.m. ET.

The lineup is steeped in the pressures of the moment. Ted Koppel will examine former immigration judges who have been fired, forced out or retired from Department of Justice immigration courts, a story that lands amid the fallout from more than 200 judges leaving the system. Jim Axelrod will then turn to the rising toll of deadly truck accidents and a company seeking U.S. Supreme Court protection from crash-related lawsuits. Together, those reports point to a public mood defined by unease over institutions that are supposed to protect order, from the immigration courts to the highways.

The hour also makes room for a different strain of national feeling: attachment to memory and craft. Mo Rocca will visit Nakashima Woodworkers in New Hope, Pennsylvania, the historic studio founded by George Nakashima after he had been held in a World War II internment camp. Nakashima, who lived from 1905 to 1990, became a giant of 20th-century furniture design and a leader of the American craft movement. His daughter, Mira Nakashima, now runs the company, continuing both his designs and her own. The segment gives the broadcast a quieter counterpoint, linking wartime history, family continuity and the persistence of handmade work.

David Pogue will mark Earth Day with a report on three companies developing new technologies aimed at improving the environment, including a wave-energy concept for sea-based data centers. That forward-looking piece fits a broader concern running through the program: how to build systems that are less wasteful, more durable and better suited to the pressures ahead.

The rest of the broadcast leans into public curiosity and cultural performance. Martha Teichner will profile portrait artist Michael Shane Neal, whose latest subject is former President Joe Biden. Luke Burbank will talk with Andrew Hiers, an opera singer who also sells cars in Melbourne, Florida. Tracy Smith will sit down with Don Cheadle and Ayo Edebiri, stars of the Broadway production of Proof. The April 19 almanac segment will also look back at historical events on this date, including the 1775 fighting at Lexington and Concord, another reminder that Sunday Morning often uses the past to frame the present. The broadcast is subject to change.