personal like that and to call them sop. what he has done is he has now made this partisan, political, and there are probably people who would ve never taken any who are going to take a knee. now it doesn t just have to do with black lives matter, it has to do with donald trump. in a way didn t do himself a favor. i m pretty upset by it. you sat down with him. your first show was about the president. were you surprised? or does this fit into the president that you know? there is a bigger discussion here, but i m not sure i know the man that i m seeing now because it s different from the person i knew before. tell us about the show, there s a pretty unique concept behind it. the idea rick, is that we take objects that people choose to keep over a lifetime, from childhood on,
at a time. i was hell-bent on being honest as a comedian from the get-go, and i was. but it wasn t until i admitted that i was a drurnk and an alcoholic and a sex addict you name it, you could be addicted to anything, really. when i got clean and sober is when my comedy really took off for me personally, because then i was really myself on stage. i always thought i was myself. i mean, i had success and i usually tried to watch myself, which was my rationalization. like i did carnegie hall, i did two and a half hours. it was so loud and it was a great night, but i would have maybe half a glass of wine at noon before the show, so i was sober, but then after the show to celebrate the success, i got hammered and when i went down to the party of like 300 friends from childhood on, i made a complete fool of myself. so in real life, i was a total
we had a couple of from detroit, a skating pair that won the gold. meryl davis and charlie white winning the first gold for the u.s. in ice dancing and a great news on a number of levels, given where they are from and also they were pitch perfect. you can tell they knew at the end, you know? 17 years working together from childhood on. with the performance of their lives at the olympics in sochi. let s get to the news. a lot to cover, including some really, really dark and difficult stories out of north korea. we are going to get your piece in a moment, andrea. first, it s been five years now since president obama signed his 800 billion dollar stimulus plan to jump-start the american economy. remember that plan that joe talked about a lot? he had a certain term for it. the white house celebrated the anniversary releasing a report touting the plan s successes.
specific damage to buildings around the city. no damage to water crossings, the river structure not affected and also that amtrak was suspended 30 minutes but is now operating normally. all the airports have resumed. he accepted, however, it has been a stressful afternoon, but suggested that 911 calls are now back to their normal level and the people should only use that emergency service if there s a genuine emergency. i m joined now by peter alexander, my colleague, who s down in midtown manhattan. peter, what s the latest down where you are? reporter: martin, what s interesting, a gap between the east coast and west coast when it comes to an earthquake. a lot of people here in midtown manhattan raced for exits trying to get out of buildings. people on west coast, where i m from, commenting from e-mail and twitter saying people on the east coast have been doing exactly what you re not supposed to do in situations like this. from childhood on, in the west coast, these earthquake cen
this will be his first opportunity. and i ve got to tell you, i am not going to miss it. i want to be there to see this. i m going to go there shortly to see this. again, it s saying there are so many things we can do to make things accessible and to open our society for people with disabilities. we ve come a long way. to think back what it was like before 1990, just seemed like a long time ago. it s made america, i think, a better and fairer and i think a richer country. and your sensibility from childhood on was very sharply in key with this because of your brother who is deaf. that s right. i learned from him as i was growing up how people with disabilities were discriminated against. they might not have been able to do one thing, but they could do a lot of other things. as my brother said to me, the only thing i can t do is i can t hear, but there are a lot of other things he can do.