Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a wednesday night, and we begin with that deadly explosion at a school in minneapolis, ripping it in half, trapping people inside. Contractors were working on the gas lines at the time. The blast near a central stairwell that connects all areas of the building. Summer programs were under way. Children, teachers and staff were inside. Rescue crews immediately began searching through the rubble, and tonight there is word coming in now, the name of the first victim. Abcs alex perez on the scene for us in minneapolis. Reporter tonight, a huge section of this private school in minneapolis, reduced to a pile of rubble. We have windows that were blown out, flames and fire and a Building Collapse as well. Reporter the blast triggered by a natural gas leak. Around 10 20am School Administrators and several students inside minnehaha academy, basketball and Cross Country practice just wrapping up, when suddenly a massive explosion entirely gu
Tonight, stephen welcomes Dave Chappelle, james van der beek and joe walsh. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city its stephen colbert. cheers and applause stephen thanks, everybody. Wooo thanks, everybody, please have a seat. Now ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the late show, im your host stephen colbert. And i am applause i got to say, i am really glad my family got here in 1828. Because donald trump just pulled up the immigration ladder behind us. Today the administration announced a harsh new immigration bill. And i got to say, trump is fulfilling at least one key campaign promise. Get them out of here get them out of here get the hell out of here stephen all right, now dont say, dont you dare say hes just cruelly targeting undocumented immigrants, because the bill wants to reduce Legal Immigration to the United States by 50 . Audience boo stephen melania, honey, i got some tough news, only 50 of your parents can c
Course then we move into the flooding phase of this system. You can see the hurricane warnings and flash flood Warnings Issued for the entire coast of texas from houston right downs the brownsville area rock port torts Corpus Christi hard debt hit with this storm making landfall and we could see up to 30 or 40inches of rain in spots through the middle of next week. Closer to home we zoom up toward our area just a few clouds started to pop up this afterno afternoon. Calm and comfortable afternoon outside and you can see temperature wise feeling pretty great i can tell you im wearing long pants and half sleeves here it does not feel hot at all. It feels cool, it feels pleasant. Its a great night to be outsi outside. Its 73 in the city. 66 in millville and 66 degrees in trenton right now. Dew points are low. Were in that awesome range across much of the region. Dew points in the low 50s in the philly. Steamier in south jersey but we expect to be in that awesome range comfort wise over the
United states, and bringing in workers to compete directly against the workers that are either losing their jobs to automation or who cant find work because theres not enough jobs for workers in their own country without education. So particularly go to an American City that has labor force problems. Wherever that may be. Say detroit. Is it fair or right or proper that if, say, you open up a new business in detroit that the unemployed workers of detroit have to compete against an endless flow of unskilled workers for the same jobs, reducing pay and reducing the chance of getting jobs while at the same time skilled workers in the back of the line to get into the country. Makes no sense. The numbers are too large and the number of lowskilled workers in particular is a major detriment to u. S. Workers. The more we have this conversation publicly and ask america who ought to get a green card in this country, the more momentum there will be, the more support theres going to be and our messa
President trump signs the russian sanctions bill into law after waiting six days but issues a stunning statement calling it seriously flawed and unconstitutional. Will he ignore congress determination to push back at putin . And kims money man. He tells cnn how he was able to move tens of billions of dollars into the pockets of kim jongun despite u. S. Sanctions. He has chilling descriptions of mass executions and warns there is only one way to stop a nuclear conflict. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following breaking news. An intense debate in the White House Briefing room as one of the president s top advisers defends a plan to dramatically cut Legal Immigration. The proposed law would remake the current immigration system by weighing the skills of wouldbe immigrants and limiting the family members they could bring with them. Were also following new polls on president trump, including one that shows his Approval Rating falling to only 33 . Thats the lowest number