I am from florida and i tell you a little bit about myself even if you might care i was born in Fort Lauderdale florida my background is a newspaper journalist i still write a column for the miami herald. That is my excuse for my novels. I dont know anything in the weirdness of florida is my daily reality and everybody is moving to florida and out now which is a lot more material for me. Now he is down there golfing. The material is priceless. I talk about one of the first books i ever wrote with just my name on it was a book called tour season. They were traditional thrillers ripped out of our notebooks. One of the first reporters in beijing. Those were kind of a straight thrillers. We have to sit down and plan and collaborate on fiction and it was a challenge. Bill and i have very different writing styles. We would just each head chapters and characters. They would be facing typewriters like they were pns. And they would rip each other stuff apart. Before there was computers or anyth
Or a 45minute tune about mixing up john adams and john quincy adams. Or a twohour ballad about martin van buren. And many more so order bob dylan sings lengthy songs about u. S. President s to help pass the time during the quarantine. And lets hope this quarantine ends soon, because there are only 45 president s. Announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight the zoom where it happens plus, stephen welcomes Speaker Nancy Pelosi and alicia keys with jon batiste and stay homein. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen hey, everybody. Welcome to a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. I hope youre all doing well out there. Were good here. Though, ive got to say, one of the oddest things about doing the show at home from my little study here is that its starting to feel normal. And that is really weird. I mean, why is my son sitting on the floor wearing a headset talking to my director back in new york . Say hi to jim. Hi, jim. Stephen does he s
South korea for example seem at least according to reports be getting over the hump the infamous curve while other countries. Not so much right United Nations today declaring quote humanity is facing its greatest challenge since world war 2 meanwhile here in the United States as we report to you just a block from where we sit from where the white house is the new prediction for how Many Americans will die is now at 240000 member 100000 then 200000 now its 240000 but i want you to keep something in mind here you know how many people most of them elderly die annually in the United States on average 2800000 people die every year in the United States most of them older people obviously right old ages they say of course the difference is that they die of everything Heart Disease cancer and a lot of other ailments and their deaths are spread out over the entire year some sometimes expected with coronavirus that death toll is going to occur during a shorter period of time and theyre generally
To source around 100000 body bags shortages and overrun facilities in the us where the number of deaths is expected to soar in the coming weeks. Hello this is Art International from moscow has just turned 11 am here this thursday im kevin im going with this 30 minute world news round up for you. And 1st these are the latest figures in the covert 1900 pandemic today the total number of coronavirus cases around the globe is now towards a 1000000 the number of deaths to continues its troubling rise its now more than 47000 with billions under lockdown almost 200000 people though have recovered. So in the headlines the small in france has now surpassed 4000. 00 coronavirus related deaths and almost 57000. 00 registered cases pharmacy workers say that theyre now suffering a surge of violence attacks with a marked increase in street quarantine rules or imposed our system shows a 50 to 60 percent increase in aggressive action against pharmacists since the beginning of the isolation regime comp
Hey, good morning. Welcome back on this saturday, april 11th. And youre right. [music] were seeing some clod cover out a live look outside over wall there. We have a couple low clouds. Net creek. Cloudy skies, but we do have if you are in southern california, you probably saw sunshine ahead. They got some rain. We will be along in just a well, that low pressure system couple minutes with your micro that was churning just to our south is kind of going to climate forecast. Well, burning man is finally trick its way out and canceled for the first time in its leaving us that cloud cover. Its 34 year run. The world famous festival not but here locally, we will see plenty of sunshine. Immune to our health crisis. Temperatures are mild as you i am here to tell you that we look out the window. A look in san jose, 53 degrees will not be collaborating on and current wind speed not a black rock city in the desert. Factor. Very light. And showcasing those clouds as it is in the multiverse. Well. 5