good morning. good to be with you. i m anne-marie green. a wintery snowstorm is hammering the east coast affecting some 70 million people. some places might get up to two feet of snow. so far there are at least two snow related deaths. in pennsylvania, a man was hit by a plow truck and north carolina, a driver died after going off the road. there was a 19-car pile up in new york city last night. at least six people went to the hospital. tom hanson is in new york. the storm has caused a lot of damage. that is correct, this powerful nor easter dumped powerful snow and winds. were expecting more of that as we head into the morning hours. many places like here in new york city, this is the biggest storm we have seen in years. paramedics in western pennsylvania were checking on a minor accident when a truck nearly missed everyone after losing control on the snowy road. the snow knocked out power to thousands and caused accidents for many up and down the east coast. if you don
well, then who will guide your sleigh tonight, santa? announcer: it s a late show with stephen colbert. tonight: snow place like home. plus, stephen welcomes tom hanks and musical guest leslie odom jr. featuring jon batiste and stay homin . and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater office building in new york city, it s stephen colbert! stephen: hey, everybody! good to see you again. welcome to a late show. i am your host, stephen colbert. let s see what s going on here. what s the big story tonight? well, look outside, because depending on where you live, it might not be there. snow is battering the east coast, and over 60 million people are under a winter storm watch. people are being asked to stay home, of all things. can you imagine, just sitting around in your house for days on end, nowhere to go, just watching tv? how will we adjust? now, i m in the new york area, which is expected to get 12-18 inches tonight. it s coming down so hard. le me look
she tells how she skaeb escaped. she s got quite the story to tell. first, it s today s eye opener. it s your world in 90 seconds. first major storm of the season creating chaos up and down the east coast. with that path, the numbers are big, okay? oh, my god, this is crazy. i didn t think it was going to come down this crazy. you put the brights on, you can t see nothing. high winds, snow, sleet, more snow. it made driving conditions awful. as the country stands on the verge of having two vaccines, the u.s. said new daily records for cases, hospitalizations and deaths. our hospitals are under siege. president-elect joe biden is set to receive a vaccine early next week. he plans to do it in a public setting. i want to make sure that we demonstrate to the american people that it is safe to take. it s not a done deal yet. but we are very close. congress nears a deal on a covid relief package. both sides are going to keep working until we get this d
will get worse before it gets better, which may be true, but it s still a weird campaign promise. when asked about former associate of jeffrey epstein and accused sex trafficker ghislaine maxwell at his press conference yesterday, president trump said, quote, i wish her well. and then somewhere an assassin said, that s the code, and started screwing together a plastic rifle. that s right he was asked about accused sex trafficker ghislaine maxwell and said he had met maxwell numerous times over the years and wished her well oh, no, that s going to become a trump rally chant, isn t it? wish her well wish her well! former attorney michael cohen has written a tell-all book about president trump. seriously? harry potter wasn t written about this much. what else is there to know oh, wow oh, it says he s a touch racist. what page oh, all of them. the democratic party recently drafted its 2020 platform, which is 80 pages long and was drafted by a 15-person panel, as opposed t
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