Four confirmed dead at this hour. The cause of this is still unknown. That part of it just beginning. My niece and her husband and her son were on the seventh floor. Im asking everybody to pray for survivors. My nephew was here with his wife and three small children. 2, 6 and 9. You never lose hope. Martha never lose hope. Rachel is among those that are hopeful today as this process continues. Her mom, judy is unaccounted for. Rachel will join us in just a moment. Were watching the minneapolis courtroom team. Chauvin is on the left side of your screen. The former Police Officer convicted in the killing of george floyd is about to find out how many years he will spend behind bars. We may hear from Derek Chauvin for the first time during this process and well watch that live throughout the course of this hour. Thats where we find matt finn. Today is a big day, matt. Martha, Derek Chauvin is looking different. Three members of George Floyds family have given impact statements. The first,
It, protesting is a waste of time, it turns people off, it doesnt accomplish anything. Well you know what . I hope those people are hungry because theyre going to be eating their words because just after two weeks of these protests were already seeing incredible results, both large and small. For example, for decades, americans have been arguing about confederate monuments and other racist statutes littered around this country. The people have said take them down, and government officials have said, oh, well think about it, well study it, well start a commission, well get back to you. Well, this time, the people said take them down, and the government officials responded with, yeah, youre right. There were cheers thursday night at the foot of richmonds richmondss e. Lee statue thats coming down. Mobile removed a confederate statue this morning and in minneapolis this one is coming down. For years, a this statue, they have tried to bring this down. The city is taking it down in the midd
Because its safer for everyone that way, and im still only halfway through my hoodie collection. Now todays not going to be a normal show because nothing is normal right now. For one thing, theres still a Global Pandemic and, as of this weekend, 400,000 people from around the world have tied dyed from croafsz with 110,000 of the people here in the u. S. If youre out there, wearmasks d keep your distance as much as you can. Theres even a bigger story going on about the biggest pandemic of owl, racism, which unlike the croches doesnt go away if you stay in your house for 14 days. Instead, people have been taking to the streets. With the country in turmoil, hundreds of thousands of americans are protesting against systematic racism and Police Brutality chanting no justice no peace tens of thousands of americans protesting peacefully filling cities and towns across the country. In washington, d. C. For eight minutes, 46 seconds, thousands of protesters lined down across the black lives mat
Tonight a bad idea. Plus stephen welcomes secretary Condoleezza Rice, bill skarsgard, and musical guest banks, featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause theme song playing stephen whoo perfect cheers and applause toasty. Right here its toasty. Thanks, everybody, please please, have a seat. Thank you very much, too kind welcome. Welcome in here, out there, all around the world, all of our viewers at sea, welcome to the late show, im your host Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause piano riff the big story tonight, tweet unbeknownst to almost everyone, the Major Taliban leaders and, separately, the president of afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at camp david on sunday. Yes, trump invited the taliban to camp david the weekend before 9 11. Thats like theres nothing thats like that. laughter that is what that is only that. Nothing else is like that. Does trump not know what 9
New jersey, new york, all over. The Philadelphia Police officers were there out in force. They were there for if funeral of wilbert mora. It was officiated by cardinal dolan. Mayor adams, a former nypd officer he was and his Police Commissioners and said we have your backs to the Police Officers of this city. They pledged a partnership to make this city safe once again. This execution devastates a family, rocks the soul of a department, touches heart of a nation. Tests the faith of this city. The nypd stands tall. We always do. We are going to give you the resources to fight this senseless violence. Its New Yorkers Tag killers, and we will not lose. Martha a heart breaking jump in the number of officers killed in the line of duty. Last year, the defund the Police Movement and at that point you had many of these same officers that were out there today, back then they turned their backs on mayor Bill De Blasio in protest because they felt like they didnt have support from the mayor in th