Show with Stephen Colbert. Tonights covid. Plus stephen welcomes Sacha Baron Cohen and jeff tweedy, featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now live on tape at the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen hey, everybody welcome to a late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. Im here from the lovely ed sullivan Theater Office building. My lady joins me over there. Hello. Stephen we are eight days from the election and excitement is spreading across the country if by excitement you mean coronavirus. cause, uh, yeah. They said the fall would get bad, and they was right. We are eight months into the pandemic, and were all tired of it. Ive already watched everything on netflix, everything on hulu and, if anyone asks, everything on cbs all access. But even though were tired of the virus, its still super interested in us. On friday, the u. S. Hit an alltime high in new coronavirus cases. Its april all over again. Were talking about tiger king, were lea
Over to you. Thank you, mike. Breaking news out of turkey where a 7. 0 earthquake has reduced some buildings to rubble. It construction about an hour ago southeast of ismere off the coast of turkey. This video of a building just came toppling down, layer upon layer, so much debris. Images of crumbled buildings and smoke are flooding twitter this morning. The governor of the city says the city suffered extensive damage. The video is said to be some of the hardest hit neighborhoods there. So far we dont know of any injuries to report but you imagine there must be some with these buildings reduced to rubble. Well continue to monitor everything going on there. 6 01. Now moving on to decision 2020 just four days to go until election day. A record 82 Million People have already cast their ballots and this morning we have live Team Coverage. Cierra johnson with some of that early voting. The final push on the campaign trail, tracie, its really all about the midwest today. Reporter right, marc
Will likely affect what healthcare will look like for her and millions of others. This election is one of the most important in my lifetime. And sorry, a little emotional. But i really feel like this is the soul of our country. Im not done fighting. Reporter she dropped off her ballot at the warriors chase center. Its one of the busiest ballot dropoff spots in San Francisco. Workers told me they selected 1,400 ballots yesterday. Sometimes people decided to vote one way or the other, but weve had an honest and open dialogue. Reporter they say they divided the propositions to research and a zoom call would talk about how they plan to vote on each issue. They plan to make it feel more of a communal experience, this whole election season has felt some sort of alienating. No matter how people vote, democracy works when people speak up. He and his wife greeted voters, handing out stickers to those dropping off ballots. Speaking of the injustices that have gone on in this world and in order t
Here in the bay area county registrars are busy processing ballots, but theres also a growing sense of anxiety from many voters. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana reports in San Francisco on voter turnout and voter stress. Reporter just two days till polls close on election 2020, and county registrars offices across the bay area are already busy processing ballots. But for some voters there is still a pretty high level of anxiety. I am anxious in the sense that in light of the new voting, you know, vote by mail, we wont know whats going to happen till much later than tuesday. It becomes contested, violence, unrest, things like that. Reporter however you decided to keep track of the election, whether watching the news around the clock or checking updates, psychologists agree on one this can. Voters from all parties have been reporting high stress levels because of the election. Its been at times divisive and at other times bizarre. There are boundaries around how much of the conversations y
Story. Reporter this is part of an online form hosted by the Silicon Valley leadership group. The conversation lasted 45 minutes. Invest time the moderator and dr. Fauci covered a lot of ground. Which means we should be able to get an inkling of whether or not we have a safe and effective vaccine. Sometime in middle to end of november. Beginning of december. Reporter dr. Fauci the nations top Infectious Disease expert told Silicon Valley leaders in an online forum by the end of the year we will know more about a covid 19 vaccine. Im optimistic based on preliminary data from the phase 1 study. That we will in fact have a safe and effective vaccine. If we are successful we will be able to start administering vaccine doses by the end of this calendar year or more likely in the beginning of 2021. For dr. Faucis at the process of getting americans back to take 4 to 6 months. Clinics and medical provider should start planning logistics now. He acknowledged skepticism about the safety of a co