Items the late show with with Stephen Colbert tonights are you die and former director of the and aubrey plaza, featuring jeanbaptiste, and now live on ed sullivan theatre, Office Building in new york city, it is Stephen Colbert stephen i am right here. You can point at me all you want. I stand on my argument. Hello. Welcome to a late show. Im sorry about that. I am your host Stephen Colbert, if you are watching this at home right now, thank you. Please stay there. Because the pandemic is worse than ever. And i will tell you all about it in tonights installment of catch camp. Catch a third wave endless bummer. Hey, everybody. Get out, get out experts warned us this would be a dark winter and experts were right because yesterday american covid19 deaths and hospitalizations set records. This is a time to try mens souls, but if we can just get through it, we can get back to setting fun records like worlds biggest pancake, most old ladies stuffed in a bouncy castle, or most flammable banjo
Burning statewide. And the Toronto Raptors defense of their nba title officially begins this afternoon. They are among eight teams playing on the opening day of the pandemicdelayed playoffs in orlando. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 17th. Thank you so much for joining us on this monday. Happy to have will reeve here, as well. Glad to be here. We begin the half hour with the Postal Service crisis in a dramatic move by House Speaker nancy pelosi. She is calling for the house to get back to work. Critics say those costcutting delivery of mail, medical prescriptions and paychecks and they could have a huge impact in november. Abcs got more. Reporter the battle over mailin ballots in the u. S. Postal service intensifying. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, cutting the august recess short to deal with the unfolding crisis. We have to do everything that we can to get rid of the new postmaster general who is a Campaign Contributor for trump trying to undermine the Postal Ser
Misconduct by five former faculty members and a former high. Stop number two, wouldnt this be a nice place to be . The resort at squaw creek, coach. One of those faculty members has since passed away, but the other instead of ski weather yerk it is pool weather. Five names are being shared with look at that view down there in the Center Bottom of the screen. Local law enforcement. Presentation high has also announced it is removing the 75 degrees. And then well bring you back to the bay area and the best sunset names of two former leaders from any public spaces at the view right now appropriately in the outer sunset. Allgirls school. Former School Board President currently 61 degrees and fogfree conditions there. Mary miller and former school i do think as we head through president mary miller and board tomorrow morning we will see some patchy areas of fog right chair marian spuchi were accused near the immediate coastline and of failing to adequately deal some cool 50s to 60s by the a
Fatal shooting of rayshard brooks. Another charged with aggravated assault after the 27yearold was shot in the back during a struggle in a wendys parking lot. What Brooks Family is saying this morning. This as the mayor of atlanta pleads with cops not to call out sick in protest. On the rise, an alarming increase in coronavirus cases. Hospitalizations rising in 15 states. Texas seeing the most in a single day since the pandemic began. Arizona cases doubling in the last month. One father, a cancer survivor, dying from covid after going back to work at a casino. The virus not slowing down in florida. The governor not hesitating about the state reopening. No, were not shutting down. But now miamis mayor considering shutting down the city again. Wildfires raging in the west. The giant bush fire in arizona. The largest fire in the country this year, almost doubling in size overnight. Evacuations under way amid the states spike in coronavirus cases. And the new fires breaking out in californ
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