Steve from Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon tonight join jimmy and his guests Anthony Anderson, senator Elizabeth Warren, musical guest big boi and sleepy brown featuring killer mike and big rube, and the legendary roots crew and now heres your host, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause jimmy thank you very much, everybody. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. Hello oh, my goodness, thank you so much, everyone and welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show and the week that Everyone Wants to go away seriously, can we just skip this week . I mean no one wants this week. If 2020 was a week, this would be it, we dont want this week lets get to the news and jokes. Well guys, were almost there. We made it to the night before the election seriously, havent felt this stressed out since literally every day since march. [ laughter ] thats right its election eve, and everyone is nervous, President Trump is going to spend all night waiti
Protests and demonstrations that at times have gotten violent and destructive. Local Police Departments say theyre worried the violence might surface again on Election Night regardless of the outcome bay area businesses are either boarding up again or simply staying boarded up kron fours dan thorn is live in berkeley tonight, he joins us with more on what police have plan and what the residents are expecting to dan. Well ken and pam some bay area Police Departments say they are increasing staffing on election day and the following days and theyre also canceling any discretionary time off its been said before that this is likely going to be an election unlike any other and police are not taking any chances. Businesses throughout the bay area are boarding up or are continuing to stay that way as election day nears depending on which way the elections go police in Berkeley Oakland and San Francisco are also preparing for potential unrest by increasing staffing to help keep the peace open
Calm. You know hell do it calm, the polls have biden ahead. Dont tell me about polls. The polls had hillary ahead. How did that go . Calm, calm buzzer couple calm calm calm screw calm vote vote votes announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, should we joe . Plus stephen welcomes john oliver, cher and musical guest jojo, featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen welcome to a late show. Im Stephen Colbert. I stake exception to the way we announce cher tonight. John oliver, cher. No, its john oliver, cher did cher do something to our announcer . Cher cher im so excited about cher. John olivers price nys. John olivers nice. We are only 23 minutes away from november 3, the day weve all been hopedreading while laughscreaming at our doomscrolling. Tomorrow night we will be live on showtime at 11 00 p. M. For our Election Night special. If you dont have showtime, just sign
Numbers. More than 8 million votes have already been cast here in california and across the u. S. More than a 3rd of americas registered voters have already cast their ballot and the south bay in fact the sorting verifying and counting of ballots has begun. And almost half of the ballots that were mailed out to voters have already been returned. Offers rob fladeboe joins us now live from the register voters in san jose with the latest numbers, rob thats right vicki and grant else and again 5 days to go in election is already into record territory as you say a Million People registered to vote here in Santa Clara County almost half of those ballots have already been returned im here outside the Registrars Office in san jose been watching and talking with people as they come by to drop off their ballots and so has the registrar of voters here who says its all systems go for this record breaking historic voter turnout. Heres a closer look. Again no youre good 3 can i just make sure you sh
Richmond city hall on october 12th. After the online tracking system showed their ballots were not received, many of them reached out to local election officials, trigger an investigation. We have identified about 40 people who said they dropped their ballot off that day, and we have not yet received it. We have called and emailed each one of them. Many of them most of them actually weve already reissued them a second ballot so they can have the opportunity to vote. The assistant registrar of voters says its possible there are more missing ballots. However, he says 84 other ballots dropped off at that same ballot box in richmond the same day were received. He says it does not appear the box was tampered with. Instead they suspect its a handling error. Today several concerned voters who had planned to use the Richmond City hall drop box drove their ballots to the registrar of Voters Office in martinez instead. Lets get to the campaign trail. Tonight the focus is florida. President trump