After a shooting outside. The president returning moments later. Were live with what happened. Class is in, but as some schools reopen today, masks are out. Walking into the school i didnt see a lot of mask wearing. The parents and teachers voicing concern this morning. New hot spots emerging in the u. S. As cases hit 20 million worldwide. And overnight, Vladimir Putin with a bold claim that russia has the vaccine. Sacked . The leaders of College Football holding emergency talks today on whether to cancel the season as star players and coaches say game on. We want to play no matter who it is or where it is, so well see how those chips fall. Just ahead, dan patrick on the sports uncertain future. Those stories, plus in the air. The youtube stars hearing that phil collins classic for the very first time. And it sends the song to the top of the charts four declads later. Oh, lord. Today, tuesday, august 11th, announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live
Santa claus is coming too fast, the naughty elf about an elf on a shelf watching you have sex on a sink. And a threesome for christmas, but the women dont kiss. Time to get your sugar plums off and your nuts cracked. Hallmark after dark. We realize weve gone too far, but were panicking over here. Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, stephen welcomes aaron paul and musical guest idina menzel, 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 theme song playing stephen hey how are ya . Beautiful cheers and applause lovely hey hello, jon happy monday whats going on, lewis, jon audience chanting stephen come on come on cheers and applause just keep going piano riff whats up . Welcome one and all to the late show. Welcome, everybody. Im your host Stephen Colbert. It is december already, i cant believe it. Its december 16th. The holidays are bearing down on us like a pack of
The Business Owner is offering a 5,000 reward for any information leading to that suspects capture. Months before andrew lucks stunning retirement, patriots star Rob Gronkowski said goodbye to the nfl. And hes now speaking out about his decision to step away in march just before he turned 30. Gronkowski said a string of injuries took away the fun. A quad injury in his final game, super bowl liii in february, was the final straw. I needed to recover. I was not in a good place. Football was bringing me down. And i didnt like it. And i was losing that joy in life. Like the joy. Im sorry right now, but oh, dang. Let me oh. I really was. And i was fighting through it. And i knew what i signed up for, and i knew what i was fighting through. And i knew id just have to fix myself. Oh, you can see him get emotional there. Gronkowski says he could barely walk after the super bowl win. He now plans to advocate for players to be allowed to use products containing cbd to relieve pain. Gronk will be
Welcome. Thank you. Thanks, everybody. Hi, im jimmy. I am the host of the show. Thank you for watching. Thank you for coming. Im glad you made it. You made it, right . How many of you are visiting from out of the country . From far away, a foreign land . Okay, quite a few quiet handraisers here in our audience. [ laughter ] well, you got here just in time because this morning the faa had to ground every flight leaving the united states. Basically, the faa fed everyone in the a, eh . [ laughter ] their system went down, resulting in an awful morning for travelers, and a great one for southwest airlines. [ laughter ] they were like, wasnt our fault this time. More than 8,000 flights were delayed, another 1,200 were canceled. After the outage, senator ted cruz released a furious statement calling the situation unacceptable and, of course, blaming the biden administration. [ laughter ] ted has a bug up his butt because the outage made him unable to flee to cancun. As he does every winter.
Exactly did it come to this. Do you believe you know the way to get things done for the American People so that we dont have another shutdown of the government . There is a very simple way of doing this, which is, the Senate Passed a budget and the house passed a budget. Maybe youre not old enough to remember schoolhouse rock im just a bill, yes, im only a bill and im sitting here on capitol Hill Reporter in the notsodistant past it worked like this the president presents a budget, the house passes its budget, the Senate Passes its budget, they get together in a Compromise Committee and hammer out a compromise. Well, now im stuck in committee and ill sit here and wait while a few key congressmen discuss and debate reporter but in 2011, the newly emboldened tea partyinfused republican majority in the house of representatives held the debt ceiling hostage as leverage for implementing austerity. On our broadcast tonight, deal or default . Whats it going to be . Reporter the normal budgeta