coughing i just dropped my pen, sorry. I will now take questions about things being perfectly fine. Yes, kaitlyn. Announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight the white house goes viral. Plus, stephen welcomes cnns jake tapper. And musical guest tame impala. Featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert does that make a difference . Stephen it does. You have to hit yourself in the face twice hard enough to regret having done it. laughter welcome to a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Like you, im tired of this weand not once has Mickey Rourke blindfolded me and spooned cherries into my mouth. Im going to ask him to move out of the guest room. But social distancing is the right thing to do. Hotspots are popping up all over the place minnesota, tennessee, nebraska. Theres even an outbreak of the coronavirus inside the white house. Mr. President , the virus is calling from inside the house get out of there seriousl
You can also send us a text this morning, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from, and otherwise catch up with us on social media. That is facebook. Com cspan and cspanwj. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling in now if you are an essential worker in this country. As you are calling in, we show you this map from abc news of the 46 states and washington, d. C. That have enacted policies to close nonessential businesses in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. The exact number of essential by. Oyees, hard to come there is an estimate from the Brookings Institution that relied on department of Homeland Security designations of essential. Atut 7 million employees Grocery Stores, pharmacies, and bigbox stores. When it comes to the state of california, the Public Policy institute of california estimates that in a typical year, roughly one third to one half of californias labor force is employed in essential operations. The standard
And their community. We are very honored to do the work with we do. People what the administration for Community Living does. Guest we have about three dozen different programs. We have a research institute. We offer a number of Community Support services that offer ways adults and people with disabilities can remain healthy in their communities. We provide things like meals, transportation, legal services, independent living assistance, transitions out of facilities, really a wide range of things. Our website is easy to navigate for those who are interested in a deep dive. It is acl. Gov. Those things do and an age of social distancing . As one wouldand expect a lot of our services have been impacted, but we are still doing some remarkable work around some of the core programming. A good example is meals. It is important that older adults and disabled people have an opportunity to have a balanced meal. We continue to deliver those meals. During the course of a normal day, we would ser
Television companies, as a public service, and brought to you by your television provider. Lance robertson is the assistant secretary for aging in the department of health and Human Services and head of the administration for community leave living. Secretary, we all know that older adults are most at risk when it comes to coronavirus. Where have you focus your efforts as secretary for aging . Good morning, great to be with you, happy saturday lance within the department of health and Human Services, we are very proud to have the mission of caring for older adults and people with disabilities. Twoe know, those are our vulnerable and targeted populations of this virus so the work we do has never been more important. Is the programming we offer to help people stay safely at home in their community and that work has been compounded with virus impact. We are able to serve them in a variety of ways and we are honored. What theind People Administration for Community Living does. Guest we hav
Where have you focus your efforts as secretary for aging . Guest good morning, great to be with you, happy saturday morning. Hhs are one of the operating divisions and very proud to have the mission of caring for older adults and people with disabilities. Those are vulnerable and targeted populations with this virus so the work we do has never been more important. Is the programming we offer to help people stay safely at home in their community and that work has been compounded with virus impact. We are able to serve them in a variety of ways and we are honored. What theind People Administration for Community Living does. Guest we have three dozen programs, research institute, we offer a number of Community Support services that offer ways people can remain healthy and vital in their communities. For us, we are talking things like meals, transportation, legal services, independent living assistance, transition out of facilities. A range of things. Thankfully, our website is easy to nav