A good morning to all. We begin with hurricane marias destructive path. 125mileanhour winds and airlines plan to resume flights to puerto rico as early as today after the island was left without power. 95 of the islands cell sites are out of service. Fema is sending help there in the form of generators, water and portable shelters and two other island chains are preparing for it. This morning maria is gaining strength once again packing winds up of to 125 miles per hour. Its now hitting turks and caicos and the bahamas after causing widespread damage in the dominican republic. In the resort town of punta cana locals banded together to remove fallen palm trees from this busy highway. In the puerto rico the damage is catastrophic. Homes flooded. The entire island without power and millions of trees are obliterated along the storms path. Rob marciano made it to where the hurricane made landfall. Im seeing digit that looks like a tornado came through. Clearly this is the path of the eye wh
A good chance you will. Dawn of the bill, rated r for really, this thing again . Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, stephen welcomes jeff bridges. Senator jeff flake. And musical guest miguel. 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 hey, whats going on hey, everybody. Please have a seat, ladies and gentlemen. Youre too kind. Welcome. Welcome, one and all, to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause folks, this week this week, those of you who watch the news, this week in washington, d. C. , the thinkable happened. Republicans are trying to repeal and replace obamacare, again. This is beyond beating a dead horse. This is getting damn close to beastiality, okay. I hope that horse has a safe word. Pumpkin patch is what i recommend. You might remember, back in july, republicans tried a plan called the better care reconciliation
This is ben simmoneau. Juliet i am juliet huddy. We missed you. Nice to see you been. Lets talk about the weather pattern here for today. We had a little bit of a change from yesterday. Now its temperature readings in the 40s. We have the same number in bridgeport in islip. 46 in poughkeepsie and monticello checking in at 360. Its really about the wind. They pick up yesterday afternoon and its just like you predicted. The last tonight and they go right into this morning. We expect us to up to 50 sustained wind is running at 20 30 mph on average. Is predominately out of the northwest. Combine that with the current temperature in its feeling like 30s. Feeling like 380 towards montauk and 25 is what it feels like in marcello. Its relatively quiet in rain showers came through yesterday that were out of here by the afternoon. It made for a very nice afternoon. This morning we wake up with thin clouds across the area but overall is looking pretty quiet across the tristate. More in the way of
Albeit with regret. That the sort of rhetoric republicans adopted long ago is now tainting the democratic contest. Are you qualified to be president of the United States when youre raising millions of dollars from wall street and greed, recklessness and illegal behavior helped destroy our economy . Look, let me be clear. This is not the type of politicings. I know its what the media loves. Its not the type of politics i want to get in. Let me also be very clear. If secretary clinton thinks ive just come from the small state of vermont and were not used to it, well get used to it fast. We will fight back. Well, secretary clinton, she, this morning, laughed off any of that criticism from senator sanders, adding she will continue to point out contrasts between herself and the senator from vermont. I understand Bernie Sanders says youre not qualified . Well, its kind of a silly thing to say, but im going to trust the voters of new york who know me and have voted for me three times, twice f
Manhattan: I’m writing in regard to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s April 5 guest essay (“Americans should age with dignity & prosperity,” op-ed), which reads more like a campaign speech. Yes, she does refer to some serious social issues, but her five points are extremely vague and broad, not saying enough or anything specific.