Ryan Seacrest

Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn surprised and thrilled residents of Plains, Georgia when they took a drive through the annual Plains Peanut Festival. The Carter's outing comes seven months after the former president entered hospice care.

96-year-old George Freeman fronted his first band as a teenager in the mid-1940s before eventually playing along the likes of jazz legends like Billie Holiday. Some eight decades later, Freeman is still performing for crowds with the release of his new album, "The Good Life." NBC's Shaquille Brewster shares Freeman's story in this week's Sunday Spotlight.

Bobby Schiffman, the man who transformed his father's Harlem Apollo Theater into a mecca for rhythm and blues, has died at 94. Schiffman's mission to showcase new talent at the theater became a hub for music stars, politicians, civil rights leaders and athletes and remains a mecca of Black culture. Sunday TODAY's Willie Geist remembers a life well lived.

New Jersey's indicted Democratic Senator Bob Menendez says he has no plans to resign amid mounting pressure from his own party to step down. Federal prosecutors indicted the senator and his wife on charges they took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.

In this week's Sunday Sitdown, TV personality Ryan Seacrest joins Wille Geist to discuss his new gig as the host of "Wheel of Fortune," his journey into becoming a media titan and the opening of a new Seacrest Studios inside a children's hospital.