Thats it get a grip get a grip. You better tell us something or youre going to have to deal with my partner here, alexa, and then its going to be lights out. Lights out. Alexis, lights on oh, my god, hes been murder its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, stephen welcomes cuba gooding jr. Rupert friend. And comedian gary gulman. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in y nework city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen wooo wooo hows it going . Thanks, everybody welcome to the late show. Hey, chris, whats going on. I am your host Stephen Colbert. The last 24 hours have seen more highlevel intelligence meetings on capitol hill, and there is a growing consensus that Russian Hackers worked to influence the election in favor of donald trump, and that is disturbing to everyone, except to some folks who are weirdly okay with it. The New York Times talked to some of the president elects supporters about the russian hack a
The ridesharing debate in Hillsborough County just took a slight detour. The Public Transportation commission . Did vote on some rule changes wednesday. But they also made some concessions. And the battle. Is still far from over. walter the ptc voted to have ridesharing drivers get mandatory background checks. Their cars also cant be older than ten years. And the companies and drivers must have car insurance. And annual inspections. The ptc also got rid of the most controversial requirements. Asking drivers to wait seven minutes call. And having a minimum fare of seven dollars. Uber and lyft threaten to leave the area if the changes go through. The ptc will still have to hold a public hearing on the changes next month. And if they pass again. Uber and lyft could require another meeting, with . State officials. Port richey is the first city in pasco county to decriminalize small amounts of pot. If someone is caught with less than 20 grams. Officers can choose to richey city leaders made
Ohio. Governor postponing todays primary there because of this Public Health emergency. Florida, arizona, and illinois will still proceed with their primaries today despite the threat. So joining us now is ohios secretary of state frank la rose. Secretary, thank you so much for being here. Can you tell us why you took this step late last night at literally the 11th hour . Well, what happened is that the governor and the doctor who heads up the Ohio Department of health judged that it was unof a for ohioans to gather at the polls and it was unsafe for poll workers. Imagine a scenario where the administration is saying that gatherings of over ten people are unauthorized and that ohioans over 65 should remain in their homes. It was simply untenable for us to continue telling ohioans go to the poll. He made a difficult and right decision. I followed that up with an order saying we would comply with that and the ohioans will have their voice heard in the 11 weeks ahead. I like your confiden
Meant the airport wasnt really having increased operations. Now today we already talked to a few pilots on the way to the airport. They believe theyll get some planes out of there. But there should be some delays. Check ahead before getting to the airport. The real concern is on the streets. Weve seen, across the country, with some of the fastmoving falling snow there have been accidents. We want everyone to pack their patience and to remember to try to have a full tank of gas as youre out there. As weve seen already, sometimes the conditions here can get you stuck in the road for quite a few hours. Well say there have been a lot of crews on the streets working overtime to make sure the streets are clear. That is good. That is going to be important. Thank you very much. Stay warm. For more on the worrisome forecast for the thanksgiving holiday, meteorologist chad myers has been watching it all morning for us. Whats the latest, chad . Were looking at the balloons here in new york. Well
Breaking numbers. I keep waiting and waiting wondering when are joe biden and Elizabeth Warrens numbers going to come out. I think youre right about that. No doubt. Were waiting on those numbers from Elizabeth Warren and joe biden but youd be hard pressed to imagine theyre going to top the number that Bernie Sanders has posted this morning. This is the Fourth Quarter total for Bernie Sanders. 34. 5 million. Compare that to Pete Buttigiegs 24. 7 million. Almost 10 million more for sanders and his campaign. If you look at the trend line, sanders has continued to bring in big, big fundraising numbers each quarter. Back in the third quarter, sanders brought in 25. 2 million and buttigieg 19. 1 million. Its important to keep in mind when we talk about sanders fundraising. He hold nos no highdollar fundraisers. This is an online, masmalldoll donation. The average donation in the average of 18 bucks and 99. 9 of his donors could still continue to donate to his campaign meaning they havent rea