'Sunday Morning' Lineup: Idaho THC Tests, Tim Curry and a Maine Bowling Alley

CBS News' "Sunday Morning" will air its August 9, 2026, broadcast at 9 a.m. ET, with correspondent Seth Doane serving as guest host. The program also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11 a.m. ET.

The broadcast's reported centerpiece is an investigation produced jointly by "CBS Sunday Morning" and The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Erin Moriarty reports that in Idaho, more than a thousand new mothers have ended up on a child abuse registry after testing positive for THC, the chemical found in marijuana, following childbirth. In other states, the report says, women have been sent to jail. Marijuana is a legal method of relieving pain in more than 40 states. According to CBS, the findings raise questions about who is punished and who is not.

The cover story, reported by Lee Cowan, follows Autumn Mowery, who was 18 when the candlepin bowling alley in Ellsworth, Maine, where she worked was threatened with demolition. She took the business over and, in keeping it open, found a way to help others in need of a safe place.

The Sunday Profile features actor Tim Curry, known for "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," "Clue" and "It," in an interview with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz. Curry discusses his memoir "Vagabond," which CBS describes as "decidedly not a Hollywood tell-all," the stroke he suffered in 2012 and learning to speak again. The segment originally aired October 19, 2025. The book is due October 21 from Grand Central.

Other segments include a nature piece on efforts to save the Venus flytrap, native to the Carolinas and dwindling because of habitat loss, with botanist Julie Moore and Damon Waitt, director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Charles Darwin called the plant the most interesting in the world. That story first aired April 26, 2026.

Luke Burbank visits the Iowa 80 Truckstop in Walcott, Iowa, billed as the world's largest, covering more ground than 150 football fields and housing 24-hour restaurants, maintenance shops, a dentist, a ministry office and a movie theater. Kelefa Sanneh reports on journalist Gay Talese. Steve Hartman's segment is titled "Dog days," and the program's "Passage" remembers notable figures who died this week.