With Stephen Colbert tonight, acting out and about. Plus, tonight, stephen welcomes Anderson Cooper and musical guest mark foster, featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen you ready to do it . Come on welcome to the late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. It was a beautiful weekend. Warm weather and sunny across the country. What a disaster. Weve all been staying inside for over seven weeks now, and we know we should stay inside, but the beautiful weather was just too tempting. It led to huge nonsocially distanced crowds in new york city parks. I understand, new yorkers. Its so nice out you want to head to the park to watch a squirrel battle a rat over a corn cob. Its not just new york. Down in atlanta, crowds gathered to buy the new Michael Jordan shoes. This latest style is called airborne jordans. While Public Health officials are worried, one person isnt too concerned donald trump. He had a fox news virtual town h
So we will be cooler today, we are down a few degrees for some already. There is patchy fog that will be on the move here pretty soon. Thits grip and still 50s on the attempts to w jose, 65. But there are more 50s, and most locations are 1 to 4 degrees, oakland airport, minus 4. Yesterday was the hottest, no doubt. We will get warm breezes this afternoon and a big temp cooling trend will roll in. Temperatures are 70s, 80s, and 90s. Over to sal now to see if things are picking up on those good morning to you, steve. As a fact we do see traffic that is a little bit slow at the bay bridge toll plaza, we can show you that now. Between and 30 and eight, 830 or so this will probably be gone, this backup, one by 8 00. This is a look at interstate 880, and that traffic is looking good. San mateo crossing the bay, those crossings are doing well, no problems reported on public transit. 7 02 lets go back to the headlines. Reporter thanks, sal, first today Memorial Services for george floyd will b
Hilary and for now i am pleased to introduce tonights author and his new book the fever of 1721. Stephen coss has a bachelors degree in journalism. He has worked as an Advertising Agency copywriter and served wisconsin Election Officials when he is not working or writing. The fever of 1721 tells the history of the worst smallpox epidemic to hit boston. It set the stage for scientific advancement including the controversial but effective smallpox inoculation. The pittsburgh gazette calls this book solidly told and the wall street journal called it a deeply researched account. Please join me in welcoming stephen coss. [applause] stephen i am a wisconsin election official. I am not in wisconsin. They are having an election. I had to vote absentee. I would rather be here right now. The line of fire. Stephen exactly. That is a nonpartisan position. It is a fancy phrase for poll worker. I get to register new voters. Firsttime voters, naturalized citizens. I like it a lot. Thank you very much
Going to go back for discussion of origin points, our favorites light which you are going to be so sick of representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the Civil Rights Movement and we are going back to our topic of origin points again with the objective of troubling it, putting those events in context but also troubling the idea of them as origin points. Last week we discussed brown versus board of education, we discussed the decision, response, the impact but also the legacy. I want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward. But we are not going to do that today. And then on tuesday, we spent time talking about the emmett till case, the lynching of emmett till in august of 1955. We used a mix of secondary and primary sources to consider how ideologies of race, gender and justice impacted that case and impacted the live experience of the people in that case. I want to take a moment to pull out and say that this week, what happened this week that is of significance in re
Its a slow mover. Cold front, area of low pressure that will bring down the rain as early as this evening and then get into some thunderstorm activity for the second half of qulour weekend. 58 in oakland. 57 in richmond. Right now in novato, 54. Cloud cover, temperatures are fairly uniform or mild today by about 1 00, were in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Even warmer than that later in the afternoon. Notice by 6 00, Sonoma County could see a few showers and were talking about the timing and amounts coming up. Liz . Thanks, lisa. Its our next sizeable step in reopening the bay area. Here is where we stand in joining the states stage two modifications, the early part of stage two. San francisco and san mateo counties will join marin county in entering into phase two on monday. Alameda and contra costa counties will join some time next week. Napa and sonoma counties are already in phase two. Only Santa Clara County has yet to determine a date to keep numbers down as the most pop will you say