Why some schools are change history books. It is friday, august 14th, early today starts right now good morning im frances rivera. Im phillip mena. The United States response to the pandemic is front and center in the race for the white house. In a sharp contrast to president trump, joe biden is calling on every governor to issue a mask mandate for three months Andrea Mitchell has the details. Reporter joe biden and Kamala Harris getting briefed by doctors on the coronavirus today. Every governor should mandate mandatory maskwearing the estimates by the experts are it will save over 40,000 lives in the next three months. Reporter the president did not wear a mask publicly until last month this is america, be a patriot, protect your fellow citizens reporter the president jumped on that joe biden would allow rioters and looters and criminals and millions of illegal aliens to roam free in our country he wants the federal government to issue a sweeping new mandate to lawabiding citizens. R
And the crowd is ordered to be impressed join us next week when the president will attempt to drink a glass of water with one hand. Scuba divers will be standing by to fish his head out of the cup. Announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert tonights rainbow correction. Plus stephen welcomes John Dickerson, and musical guest black pumas, featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen hows it going . Good. Stephen good. Got the hair. Too much of it at this point. Coming dangerously dose to don, jr. Up here. Days it too much product to hold it in geek. Let me cut it. Stephen i offered, i said, would you cut my hair, and you said i dont dare cut your hair. Well, i dont. But what could be worse . What could be worse . Thank you. Thats enough. Welcome to a late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. I dont know if youve noticed, but were living through some extremely dark times. If god submitted the year 2020 to black mirror the
capacity or nearly out of room. they don t have the federal support they need to be able to have resources to help them integrate successfully into their new lives. dana: u.s. mayors begging for the migrant crisis before their meeting at the white house. members of president biden s cabinet sit down with a delegation from mexico. both meetings are looking at the growing border disaster. i m dana perino. good to have you here. bill: it s friday. dana: do you know the mayors are defending biden, though? bill: on this, yeah. they were, anyway. dana: yeah. they are the ones going to the white house. bill: it s friday, be in new hampshire this weekend. u.s. mayors looking for federal aid with a record number of migrants flooding into the country. impact is being felt in cities and towns across the country. you have lawmakers in washington seeking a border deal with the biden white house but some major sticking points remain. how do they get there? do they get there?
school. several mass shootings breaking out across the country over the weekend n oklahoma a 9-year-old was injured, nevada, arizona and tennessee, most shot were teenagers. the gun violence following the supermarket shooting in buffalo, the church shooting in california and, of course, the massacre in uvalde, texas, that killed 19 children and two teachers. today the first of many funeral services will begin there. we will have more on that and the president s visit ahead. people are feeling on edge, in brooklyn an active shooter scare at a boxing match sent folks fleeing the stands and running for their lives. 18 people were injured at the barkley center, turns out it was a loud noise heard on the street that sent crowds rushing for the exits. let s go to cnn s nadia romero live in atlanta with the latest. reporter: you mentioned the shooting that happened in chattanooga, tennessee, where six people were injured and police tell us the majority were either teenagers or
texas with the latest. hello jeff. mike, present joe biden first lady joe biden are doing something many people this community and probably throughout this country are doing today. especially given what just happened a few days ago. they are going to church, they re going to mass as they pray. and trying to make sense of an unthinkable thing that happened. they are greeted by governor greg abbott is a bipartisan group of politicians. went over too robb elementary school where they paid their respects at the memorial site there for the people who died just a few days ago. he, along with first lady joe biden paid their respects and laid a wreath there. there joined by governor greg abbott as well as the mayor of uvalde, texas but we were told their protesters calling for governor abbott to take action on some sort of legislation that might help prevent future tragedies like this from occurring. once a church is over that is when president biden first lady are scheduled to spe