Until 11 00 this morning. Its been a noisy evening because of the trees rustling. High fire danger continues until 11 00 tomorrow. Moderate risk of heat illness starts at 11 00 today through 00 tomorrow. Tonight will be warmer than this morning. Temperatures 90s everywhere except for the coast. Thank you. Extreme fire conditions forced pg e to cut the power to thousands of people across the bay area. They could be in the dark for the next two days. Jobina fortson is at the live desk with more this morning. Good morning. Pg e is hoping to prevent fires from sparking from damaged power lines or power lines knocked down by high winds. The utilitys website shows who is affected right now. Heres a look at that map. More than 50,000 Northern California customers are impacted. In the bay area, about 22,000 pg e customers are expected to lose power in seven counties. The cruelyoul utility hopes to power by friday. Pg e is stressing this power shutoff is shorter than last years when some custom
Record for bringing in diverse and intellectually challenging and informed speakers. Tonights is no exception, and if you havent heard bill brands before, i think youll be delighted. If you have comments, in the past as i know many of you have, youre in for another treat. Please join me in welcoming my colleague, glees whitney, to introduce our speaker. [ applause ] well, thank you very much, elaine, for that warm introduction. We really treasure our partnership with the ford. Its always a treat. We will continue to bring you excellent programs that stimulate the mind and the heart for Public Service and love of our history. Happy washingtons birthday to our cspan audience and also to the audience here at the fort. Its really neat to be here recognizing washingtons birthday. This is one of the reasons we wanted bill to be here on this special day. Its always a pleasure to host bill brands. Weve had him back to west michigan so many times, ive lost count. But its been enough that he sho
Bill cosby is a really decent person. I really believe that Harvey Weinstein is as good a man as god ever created. Ive spent much of my adult life as part of a team committed to kill somebodys cat. John mccain, and people like him, are not american heroes. The bottom line is Lindsey Graham is the most despicable thing i have seen in my time in politics. And i intend to vote for joe biden. Announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, moment of ruth. Plus stephen welcomes Lieutenant General h. R. Mcmaster and laurence fishburne, featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen thats right thats right h. R. Mcmaster and laurence fishburne, one of those guys was in the matrix. First thing im asking hmm r. Mcmaster, which one was it. Welcome to a late show, im your host, Stephen Colbert. You be me. Thats my wife. You know, life can be hard, but i like to think i can take a lot of
Misinformation could potentially be included in that whether or not its intentional and then the other point of it is how reliable are the tests that were using to the game itself to know that if someones tested positive but if there happens to be i thought to get to a straight im not sure its beneficial and this is certainly just spread information around. Thats been our breakdown of the days top headlines for now thanks for tuning in every maybe. I everybody max kaiser this is the kaiser report oh. They say max this is the last week that i am allowed to wear white according to the Fashion Police so you know when labor day comes up were not supposed to wear white after that. So im going to wear as much white as possible hopefully im not blowing your eyes out you look like the good humor woman. Delivering i scream in the good good humor woman truck thing bill well you know what theres a lot of looting and plunder going on and we have to refer to the quote from frederick that we refer t
Lets get straight to steve liesman. Jay powell testimony before the House Services committee will note improvement in the economy saying Household Spending has recovered three quarters of the decline and say this is in part response to federal spending and higher Unemployment Benefits which is running down he said housing has rebounded and Business Investment showing signs of improvement but overall employment and Business Activity with well below the prepandemic levels an the out light is uncertain. He makes special mention of the feds main Street Lending program, a 600 billion program with a backstop from the troo z treasury hell be speaking tomorrow before the house financial Services Committee with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and this is required testimony about the cares act where they have to quarterly appear before congress and discuss progress with the lending programs. The terminology, highly uncertain, is that different from what the clair has used in the past. This is t