Welcome to the show. Welcome to the late show. Thanks so much, everybody. cheers and applause welcome to can the late show, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much, thank you so much. Im your host, stephen colbert, and you are here on a very special night. A little later i will be sitting down with Bruce Springsteen. cheers and applause jon the boss. Stephen obviously. Well see if we can get to it. Everyone is talking about this donald trump guy, and i do mean everyone. Yesterday, the dalai lama appeared on a british morning show and said this have you met donald trump . Never. What do you think of him . I dont know. Sometimes when you see him, the the way his hair Something Like that. And his mouth, small. Stephen thats a pretty good impression. Thought you said you never met him. Because his hair is like this, and his mouth is like. Jon oh, man stephen i wonder how that feels. How does that feel . Imagine being trashtalked by the dalai lama. Jon thats serious. Stephen i have to wonde
I do not know what governor kuroda can do. Watch. re on the parity the much stronger yen goes over into everything else, including lower german you. Francine i had a call this morning by 103. Lets see if we have 100. In syria, fighters backed by the u. S. And russia have an on opposing sides. There are now zeroing in on the islamic state. Theyre trying to cut the supply routes between iraq and syria. British forces supported by the u. S. Are moving closer to the selfproclaimed capital of rock. Kurdish forces supported by the u. S. Are moving closer to the selfproclaimed capital of rocca. Is coming in two months before the u. K. Vote and germany, a turnaround from last year when mainstream politicians wanted to kick grease out of the euro. Now they expect to reach a deal to unlock more bailout money. The demands that they take part in the aid program. Were hearing from the founder of the Panamanian Law Firm at the center of the tax controversy. Did nothingfirm wrong and he will make a f
Bar band into beatle mania. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. A deadly storm system is punishing half as to states tonight from eastern texas to Southern Illinois with well over a foot of rain so far and a lot more to come. Texas, louisiana and arkansas are under flash flood warnings with the flood risks extending into mississippi and north into missouri and illinois. The Severe Weather has left at least two people dead. Its forced evacuations and left thousands without power. Nbcs Janet Shamlian reports tonight from haughton, louisiana. Reporter a community under water tonight. In louisiana near lafayette, more than a foot of rain in a matter of hours. Most of it coming in the dark of night. Cassidy anderson says they were taken by surprise. Yeah, i mean, its is now. Reporter more than 100 homes under water. Some submerged three or four feet. Most of the residents left here or
Rain with help from technology. They have a web camera whereby we can actually visually online monitor them, for the most part. Then we have alerts that will let us know the minute it rises a little bit too high fr our tastes. Reporter in Sonoma County crews are on call for the weekend. Officials say they dont expect scenes like this from earlier this year anticipating the Russian River will get close but wont crest. The most important thing to remember when a big storm is headed your way is just to be prepared. Here in marin county you can see live updates from web cams on the water levels as well as get other important storm information. Reporting live in san anselmo, im kim yonenaka. This redtagged Apartment Building in pacifica escaping its fate for another day. It will remain standing for at least another week, in fact. Crews were set to demolish this building tomorrow, but with more rain headed our way, that work has been postponed. It has been teetering on the edge of this cliff
President ial library to smu where i teach. President bush said he wanted not a think tank but an action tank to read wants action. Lets come up with ideas and put them into action. We can make bad jokes about this, but what are we going to do . What are the europeans going to do . The dublin system is broken. It has not worked for decades. What is the new policy going to look like . If you were asked to design it for the commission can build a consensus, what would it be . That is a different question. I would say that europe should do try to sit down and develop an asylum and refugee welcoming and policy that is equally distributed according to some parameters that have to be developed. At the end of the day, the refugees would not have the right to decide in which countries your she is going to be countries they are going to reside. At the end of the day, every refugee could be sure even if he is sent to estonia or portugal, he would have a decent living any circumstances. That woul