Tonight, earth dazed. Plus, stephen welcomes nathan lane and chef jose andres. Featuring jon batiste and stay homin. and now, live on tape from a safe distance, its stephen colbert. Stephen welcome to a late show. Im steve coalbert. Happy earth day, everyone. Today is a big one, because its the 50th earth day the big 50. And, i gotta say, earths still looking great. Shes just getting hotter every year, even with the receding glaciers and putting on a little water weight around the coastline. And earth is having kind of a moment right now because, with people staying home, the earth is turning wilder and cleaner, with reduced co2, better air quality, and animals roaming city streets. Turns out the best present for earth day is the same as mothers day time away from her children. Just get all the unruly humans out of her hair so mother earth can sit in a bubble bath and watch outlander. Now, while humans stay inside, the worlds cities are getting reclaimed by animals. A puma roamed the s
[applause] now our guest rebecca is the author of more than 20 books including a field guide to getting lost, the faraway nearby, paradise built in hell, river shadows and wonder love, a history of walking, she is also the author of men explain things to me on feminism activism and social change, hope and also the crime it crisis. A product is a California Public Education System from can get into graduate school, shes a regular contributor to the guardian. Leslie jamison is the author of the New York Times bestseller recovery and empathy stands inis the novel. Shes a good tubing writer for New York Times magazine and her work has appeared in publications including in the quarterly review. She directs the graduate Nonfiction Program at columbiaa university. Please help me welcome rebecca and leslie jamison. [applause] before i started im not doing the book signings because its a more Perfect Technology for what people to handle objects and for all the people to handle all the objects a
President s chief economic adviser larry kudlow. Hes going to join us. Thats the question we will ask, when, where and how will some americans be able to get back to work. Now, check out the market. It reopens today after a threeday weekend. Last week was one of the best weeks in decades, with the dow rising 12 . No significant pullback this morning. We are down just maybe 70 odd points for the dow industrials and well above 23,500. How about that. The s p down about. 33 and the nasdaq, same thing, down about. 33 . That is not a significant pullback. Not helping the stock market is a forecast from jpmorgan. They suggest that gdp could fall 40 this quarter and unemployment could reach 20 . Now, that is a dire prediction. Check out the price of oil. The u. S. , russia, saudi arabia and other Oil Producers have announced an agreement that would take 9. 7 Million Barrels of oil a day off the world market. However, that has had very little impact. It may put a floor under the price of oil b
As we start our friday. As we had through the afternoon we will see seasonal daytime highs. Right around where we should be for this time of year. Looking at 60 degrees for a high and San Francisco, 63 in oakland, 68 and then has a and 67 for concord but mostly cloudy skies and peeks of sunshine. Inland you might see a little more sunshine as we had through the day. A warming trend on the way for us. This actually as we look ahead to the weekend with a strong ridge of High Pressure building in. I will let you know what you can expect in your neighborhood coming up. Lets check in with schiano for a look at traffic. Good morning. Getting a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, things moving with no delays, a pretty easy ride out of the east bay into San Francisco. Heads up, we had reports of things being a bit darker than usual between the tunnel and the city. Lights were out at the bay bridge. Not really causing many problems this morning, we are getting reports of an accident on high
Very light at the end of this dark tunnel. Thomas bach spoke to nhk after an ioc Board Meeting confirmed a delay until 2021 for the olympics and paralympics. Bach said travel restrictions imposed across the world were behind the decision. We saw the worldwide spreading of this virus. Then the question was not anymore so much what are the conditions in japan, but the question was more, can the rest of the world participate . The delay was agreed in a teleconference between bach and japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe. Translator we are committed to holding the games in a complete form when we can prove that human beings have overcome illness caused by the new coronavirus. Abe is expected to tell u. S. President donald trump of the postponement by phohone o on wednesday, and inform other g 20 leaders later this week. The governor of the host city had this to say. Translator its significant, but the span of poststponement the goal is set at the summer of 2021. Its especially importanant fo