. . From the mountains. To the beaches. The piedmont. To the sandhills. North carolina is possessed of spectacular natural beauty. Run . . . I dont feel like im falling . . Im up against the sky . . I said id taken it all in . . To make the good life . . And i dont feel like im falling . Because were only borrowing it from our children. . . Well, we are halfway through the work week but it is starting to get hot again. Is going to be 90 degrees to the next couple of days. Just or thunderstorms. It will be around 100 for the two minutes, stephen. Stephen thanks, mark. laughter popping sound laughter popping sound . . . Tonight, stephen welcomes uzo aduba. Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse tyson. And a musical performance by adia victoria. Featuring jon batiste and stay and now its time for the late show with Stephen Colbert cheers and applause captioning sponsored by cbs stephen thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Hey hey, whats goin nice to see you. Hey thank you very much. Welcome. Welcome to
And now its time for the late show with Stephen Colbert cheers and applause captioning sponsored by cbs stephen thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Hey hey, whats going nice to see you. Hey thank you very much. Welcome. Welcome to the late show. Im Stephen Colbert. Weve got to get to the big story thats happening right now, might still be happening as i say this. Have you guys heard about this . Representatives, democrats have staged a sitin to force action on gun control. cheers and applause join in. Why not . Why not, ill do that. Ill do that. After all, theyre fighting for two things 90 of americans are in favor of stopping terrorists from getting guns and sitting down. laughter we all like it. I dont know why i dont have a chair out here actually. This feels unnatural, un american, certainly, to stand now in response and this is true republicans shut off cspans cameras booing which really upset cspans viewer. applause laughter in their defense, cspan then over the u. S. House tv camer
Read . Look, i like anything that Steven Ambrose wrote. He was really a lot of range in in writing. Very good, obviously, john John Mccollough is an excellent historian. It have focused on british history and, you know, these were not all all, you know, histories but, boy, churchill was always worth reading whether its memoirs, whether he had a wonderful little book called great contemporaries written in the 20s which nexton did a follow on kind of book himself. I like to read Richard Nixon stuff. I like to read about Richard Nixon. Fascinating politician of my life and i thought the things that he wrote were really quite good. Did your reading help you in your work as a congressman . It does. History in particular provides a lot of context, a lot of analogies, frankly a lot of understanding because most people when they get to congress they sort of think history begins with them, but youre really stepping into the flow and if you read particularly contemporary history, a lot of intere
Was briefed by intelligence officials. Cloud of controversy, despite a public outcry spraying for zika carrying mosquitos begins in miami beach this morning as a new report shows 84 pregnant women in florida have now tested positive for that virus. And super show downs, the nfl season kicks off with a super bowl rematch between the broncos and the panthers that came down to the wire. And the kick is and a shocker on the court, Serena Williams is out of the u. S. Open. Today, friday, september 9th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning everyone, welcome to today on a friday morning. Something tells me our night. Thats right. I was watching the serena match, what a shocker and you were watching the Home Shopping network again. Exactly. Theres the tennis match. Boy, the end of that Football Game was exciting. We will talk more about both of those things. On this friday morning we have to
Eduardo began his career in journalism over 20 years ago as a financial reporter and since then he has written for many parts of the globe including mexico and brazil, japan and the United Kingdom and further. More recently he served as a member of the times Editorial Board on related matters and today he writes back of that economic, for the time. Atwaters background help explain his unique analytics skills and he has a degree in physics and quantum field and fundamental forces. I have no idea what that means, but ive always been very impressed by it. So, welcome jim and eduardo. [applause]. Thank you for those kind introductions. As, i think, you just heard, my book deals with five topics, any one of which could be a lecture of this length, but only one of them sits the purpose of list and only one if its the time allotted to nine, so tonight im going to talk about one of the five topics im really interested in and that is inequality, so ours is an exceptional society, admirable for