Cheers and applause announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight dow in the dumps. Plus, stephen welcomes John Turturro. Charlamagne tha god. And musical guest kaleo. 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 whoo cheers and applause welcome welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause piano riff thank you. Im glad youre all in a good mood because i, for one, am not panicking. laughter i have these burned. Then burn the person who burned them. laughter now, some people are panicking. Namely, wall street. In the first three days of this week, the dow lost 2,000 points, but last night, donald trump held a press conference to reassure investors, and today it bounced back by plunging almost 1,200 points, the largest single day drop in history. That must be so hard for the guys on wall street. Only aess to some sort of drugt them feel
Night two at the jersey shore inside you can rent it for the right price. Early today starts right now good friday morning. We begin with the threat of the coronavirus, here at home. A seriously ill patient in california has experts concerned. She is perhaps the first u. S. Case that is community spread, meaning doctors dont know how or where she got sick. That suggests that the virus is out there in the community, and that means pretty much that everybody is at risk we dont know who might be carrying it or who we could get it from. The uncertainty has been rocking the tom. Our reporter has more. Reporter a dramatic drop, nearly 1200 points, the most ever in a single day for the dow. In coronavirus crash mode. On pace for its worst week since 2008 just ugly, ugly all around janet yellen warning of a potential recession, adding there is risk, but basically i think the u. S. Outlook looks pretty good. Reporter Vice President pence with a show of force at the health depth we want all hand
Disgrace for warning undocumented immigrants about possible i. C. E. Arrests. To me thats obstruction of justice. And in january of this year, mr. Trump lashed out at speaker nancy pelosi, tweeting clean up the streets in San Francisco. They are disgusting. City leaders have always acknowledged that the homeless situation has been one of the citys most challenging problems. Needles and human waste have tarnished the citys image. We stopped to ask a city worker who collects garbage, and, yes, needles, if he has seen a change. Has it gotten worse, better, more, less . Less. Reporter less . Less than before. Than last year. A lot. Reporter it appears he may be right. Numbers from the Health Department show that in 2018, more than 3,825,000 needles were collected. This year, through april 30th, nearly 1,083,000 needles were disposed of. Again, those are only partial numbers. I cant begin to pretend as if i know whats going on in the president s head. I then asked the cochairman of the San
A microphone right over here thats for the audience qanda. When it gets to that time, i encourage anybody that has a question, whoever you are, to just go up to the microphone there, why not and we will try to get as many questions as possible within the time we have. And with that, im very excited to introduce tonights event. Travis reeder, the author tonight, has channeled a background in philosophy into his current role on the faculty at the john hopkins Berman Institute for bioethics where he serves as the director for the program and also assistant director for education initiatives. As a person leading the program in the field associated with medicine and Public Health, he was obviously be one of the best people to talk to in order to understand what people should know about the current ways of opioid dependencies sweeping across the vast swaths of the american landscape. As you will see in his book, he comes to the topic from his own struggles against that very dependency. After
Politics prose. Com. He everything confirmed for the next three months youll fine there, and if you have not already purchased tonights book, i encourage you to do. So we have bunch behind the registers for sale. There will be a signing afterward to table and the line will go from the register up to here, and if you can help by folding up the chairs when tea talk is over and leaning then against something solid that would be great. If you can silence your cellphones just to keep everybody focused on the room and theres a camera. Cspan is recording the talk tonight and you dont want to be the person whose phone goes off in the middle of a broadcast. Also, for that reason, we have microphones. Thats for the audience q a. I encourage anybody who has question, whoever you are, to just good up 0 he microphone there line up and well try to get to as men questions as possible within the time we have. With that, i am very excited to introduce tonights event. Travis rieder, our author, as chann