Stephen colbert. Togh hng rttom. Plus, stephen welcomes deusus and mero and musical guest jake isaac featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen thank you, friendly announcer lady. I never say thank you to her. Thats on me. Im sorry. Its been years now. Thank you, friendly announcer lady. I hope we meet some day. Welcome to a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. It will be a while because we cant meet anybody right now. Too bad, we cant go for a walk. Happy first day of fall. Theres a crispness in the air, the leaves are changing, our nation is ravaged by a preventable disease due to our president s criminal negligence. So happy is a relative term. Its a mixed bag. But despite his historic shanking of the coronavirus response, yesterday in ohio, our Pumpkin Spice potus put a positive spin on things. We now know the disease. We didnt know it. Now we know it. It affects elderly
Zoo says no animals are missing. Calling out nicki minaj over her tweets. Are there artists tweeting into the fray . Today, wednesday, july 22nd, 2015. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone, welcome on a wednesday morning. Lets ask the guys in the control room to put the images up of a massive warehouse complex fire in north brunswick, 40 miles from manhattan. It has grown to five alarms. Well have much more on that story coming up. But on this wednesday morning, lets start with another breaking story overnight. A United Airlines crew reported being the target of lasers at a new york area airport. This after a dozen similar incidents there last week. Nbcs tom costello covers aviation. What can you tell us . This problem has been growing worse over the past few years. Laser pointers start out with a small light but as the distance grows, that beam of light grows bigger and bigger. So big it can light up a cockpit and blind the pilots. This morning, the police
Re floridians almost our inn tire lives but they re glad they don t have to deal with snow but one teacher put her pledge for a snow day through song. Her rendition of a nadele hit coming up adele hit coming up. And of course, adele huge success. Dan she doesn t call much more anymore. Justin doesn t call now . Dan no. We had the fog and saw a spot of sunshine and warmed it up and then it rained last night and some areas like orlando about. 22 of an inch of rain and the much needed rain keeping forest fires down. Now here comes the drama. We ll change the temperatures. Not today so much. However you are going to notice some big time changes. That s going to be in the form of a win. Wind is going to pick up this afternoon and push through and i think 10, 20 mph and gusts up to 25 mph. We re not totally done with the rain. It s still lingering in the st. It continues to transverse across the state, it could brush by areas like that and by noontime i m done. And it s a fifth of an inch of
Studies is your host for this event also i want to welcome the cspan audience in those who are also watching Live Streaming later through the archives. We are here to discuss religious liberty as it may or may not be exercised in the context of the modern Business Corporation pursuant to statutory and constitutional law. Immediately were here to mark the publication of a new book on that subject religious liberties for corporations . And i note that the title and with day question mark. Is in the book are the two main speakers ilya shapiro and david gans who provide comprehensive analysis indicates burwell v. Hobby lobby the blockbuster decision of the Supreme Court handed down at the end of last term which rejected the obamacare regulation of the Employer Sponsored Health care plans that require them to provide free contraception and coverage. The book is based on a series of debates that took place earlier this year at the National Constitution center in philadelphia moderated by Jef
is taking all of its products off the shelves in a massive recall that s happening. this amid heightened concerns of possible listeria contamination and initially limited recall came last month when several deaths were connected to ice cream contaminations, but as nbc s craig melvin reports, further testing found more contaminated samples. reporter: the blue bell creameries nationwide recall includes ice cream, sher bert and frozen snacks distributed in 23 states and international locations. monday s decision was prompted by tests that proved the half gallons produced on march 17th and march 27th contained listeria. the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention showed tests showed products from tests in texas and oklahoma were the source of the listeria outbreak that infected five adults in kansas, three of whom died and has sickened another three adults in texas. blue bell s chief executive and