New this morning, a key endorsement in the race for president that could shake up the race in south carolina. Plus, a new plan to prevent head injuries in youth soccer. And the new social media experiment that proves seeing isnt believing when its online. Good tuesday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We begin with that breaking news overnight in the fight against the new coronavirus. Weve learned the white house will be requesting billions of dollars in emergency funds to respond to the outbreak. It comes just hours after the stock market saw the worst drop in two years with investors growing more worried about the virus spreading through asia and europe. Italy is taking new precautions while the cdc is now warning americans to avoid traveling to south korea and new cases inside iran are raising concern about a massive outbreak there. Abcs Serena Marshall has the latest from washington where Health Officials will be briefing senators today. Good morning, serena. Reporter ke
Apparently he just found out g7 doesnt mean you get to play seven rounds of golf [ laughter ] thats right President Trump will no longer hold the upcoming g7 summit at his golf resort in florida yeah, i guess it is a bad idea to commit an Impeachable Offense when youre already being impeached. [ laughter ] that would be like stabbing the bailiff at your murder trial [ laughter and applause House Speaker nancy pelosi today distributed a fact sheet outlining what she feels are President Trumps abuses of power. Even more impressive, getting it down to a sheet. [ laughter and applause [ cheers and applause politico has published a new article about the Campaign Expenses of the top democratic president ial candidates and found that former Vice President joe biden has spent nearly 4,000 on ice cream since july [ light laughter ] that would explain all the brain freezes. [ laughter and applause senator senator mitt romney admitted last night to having a secret twitter account in addition to h
If you cant hear it, it didnt happen. Blaaaablaaaablaaaa its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight mission impeachable plus, stephen welcomes tim robbins. And journalist Nicolle Wallace. 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 stephen hello thanks, everybody. Thank you so much. Wonderful to have you all here. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Well applause its finally arrived, the first day of live impeachment hearings. cheers and applause its what weve been praying for since the beginning of the Trump Presidency the end of the Trump Presidency. laughter now, lets not get ahead of ourselves here. Washington being what it is, who knows whats going to happen. But ill tell you all about it in tonights very special edition of don and the giant impeach. Oh, please stephen i like that one. I like that one a lot. Todays live testimony was as dramatic as it wa
Its interesting. They talked a lot about earthquakes today. I forgot, what an earthquake actually is, its technical, but basically an earthquake is when the planet sneezes and a tsunami is when the world pees a little after sneezing. So try to avoid them both. Hey, speaking of shakeouts, another member of the Trump Administration is on his way out. Secretary of energy, rick perry reportedly informed the president today that he plans to resign. He did not explain why, although i think we have a pretty good idea. Perrys been secretary of energy since the beginning. But soon, like all the others, hell be gone. When ben carson wakes up, hell be like, where the hell is everybody . The president reportedly blamed rick perry for getting him on that now infamous call to in this story, the president and his admirers have been insisting there was no quid pro quo involving the call about the bidens. Mulvaney went before reporters and blatantly admitted that there was. The demand for an investigat
Theres an effort to turn lights back on at san morin high school. The disputes for land will be Affordable Housing thanks to facebook. In San Francisco, the practices its Emergency Alert system. It didnt go exactly as planned. Abc7news starts right now. And that braking news is a wildfire in lake county that has shut down highway 29 near spruce crew road. The fire is curveball at seven to ten acres. Cal fire ordered mandatory evacuations for a while but theyve since been lifted. The ohio 101 was closed. The dwrichbd fire has grown to 443 acres. Its 20 contained. The el capitan area had ad ad the highway has since reopened. More than 200 firefighters are on scene. 30 years ago today, the earthquake devastated the bay area. 63 were killed. More than 3700 injured and up to a mem and coverup dam drills. San francisco tested the Emergency Alert system but didnt go as planned. Manny del castillo is live. Amanda . Reporter the citys office of Emergency Management said todayshour lock play is