[ cheers and applause ] announcer from 30 Rockefeller Plaza in new york, its late night with seth meyers. Tonight Allison Williams, from darkest hour, actor ben mendelsohn, music from jacob banks, featuring the 8g band with will dorsey jr. [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. Seth good evening, im seth meyers, this is late night. How is everybody doing tonight . [ cheers and applause ] in that case, lets get to the news. But the news has been pretty rough. So before we do, just one thing [ laughter ] okay. I think im ready for the news now. [ laughter ] well, yesterday we learned why kathie lee and hoda drink. [ audience ohs ] [ laughter ] according to reports, fired today show host matt lauer had a special button in his office that could remotely close the door. And this is cool. His new office does, too. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] according to reports fired today show host matt lauer would ask colleagues to play a game saying who they would sleep with,
Millions of shoppers across the country have headed to the high street today for the traditional boxing day sales. In some places the queues began to form outside stores in the early hours of the morning, with Research Suggesting that one in three people went in search of a bargain today. But some retailers have reported large numbers of people deciding to look for bargains online today instead. And analysts say that footfall in high streets and Shopping Centres across the uk has been lower than expected. Duncan kennedy is in southampton. It is looking rather quiet tonight, duncan. Yes, its around about six oclock, things are starting to wind down but managers in centres like this one are saying they had the high footfall day, in other words there are plenty of people coming into Shopping Centres like this one across the country, but have they been spending . It is raining here in the south and other parts of the country but we are told that has not stopped millions of people coming ou
Welcome to bbc news. A british woman has been sentenced to three years in prison in egypt after being found guilty of smuggling drugs into the country. Laura plummer, whos 33 and from hull, was arrested in october when 300 tablets of the painkiller tramadol were found in her suitcase. Daniela relph reports. Laura plummers family and friends say she is naive, not a criminal. But today the 33 year old shop workerfrom hull is beginning a three year sentence injail in egypt. Her mother, roberta, and her egyptian partner, omar caboo, have been at court to support her during the hearings this week. Laura plummer had been travelling to the red sea resort of hurghada to visit omar in october when she was stopped by the authorities. In her suitcase were 290 tramadol tablets, a painkiller which is legal on prescription in britain, but banned in egypt. She said the tablets were for her partner, who suffers from severe back pain, but she was arrested and has been held since then in a communal cell
Purchased in 1911 to do forestry experiments on. He offered to build his wife eleanor a Little Cottage here because the early 1920s, she was getting very active in political life, and she really needed her own space to bring friends and associates, to have a place for she could talk politics and plan political strategy. Fdr realized the big house really didnt serve Eleanor Roosevelts purposes well, because that was her motherinlaws house and choose she used to say that for years, she was just a visitor 40 there. It was important for her to have her own space where she could really do things that she was interested in and not have to worry about whether or not her motherinlaw had to give her permission to do this or that in her motherinlaws home. So this was her little space. Now the building we are in right now, which later became Eleanor Roosevelts home, was really initially built to be a furniture factory that she started because she was very concerned about young people in her commu
Were thrilled to have you here. If youre not a member, pick up a brochure to see all the wonderful exhibitions and programs we have coming up. So if there is one or two people here, who are not members, please pick up a brochure. Tonights program, alone, britain, churchhill and dunkirk is part of the Bernard Swartz Speaker Series which is heart of public programs. I would like to thank mr. Schwartz for all of his wonderful support which has enabled us to invite so many. [applause] so i because you applauded right away. But, he has done so much for us. We are so thrilled. I would also like to recognize and thank our executive committee chair, rick reese, and trustees, barry barrett, susan danilow, glen louis. Sy sternberg, ira and david and all our Chairmans Council this evening for all of their wonderful support as well. Lets give them a big hand also. [applause] the program tonight will last an hour include a q a session. You should have received a card with a pencil. Ifd not, our Sta