Concede last nights special Senate Election in alabama telling his supporters, quote, god is always in control. Unless moores on his horse in which case no ones in control. [ laughter ] [ laughter ] seth thats right. Last night the people of alabama made the apparently very difficult decision of choosing a democrat over a guy who was banned from a mall. [ light laughter ] i know were all tired of mall jokes, so let me just say one thing very seriously. Sure, roy moore was the hot topic for a while but americas not a Banana Republic and the voters made that claires. The voters said ugg and they were able to chanel their energy and send that fossil off on some new journeys. [ laughter ] i guess [ cheers and applause ] i guess they said enough of this gamestop. [ laughter ] and while well have to keep swatch, it seems like democracy is back in the pink and thats the most important thing tome. [ laughter ] according to a new Monmouth University poll, only 32 of people approve of the job Pr
Yeah its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, no moore plus, stephen welcomes nick jonas Dennis Rodman and musical guest jeezy, featuring tory laynze. 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 stephen look what just happened. Hey, everybody. Please, have a seat. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. If youll excuse me, im a little shaky tonight because my heart has been hurting all day due to a condition my doctor calls hope. laughter i hope im pronouncing that correctly. I havent i havent been saying that word that much this year because its been a rough year. We have buried under an avalanche of bad news, but through the rubble of 2017, there was a glimmer of light, because last night, roy moore lost to doug jones in alabama. cheers and applause yeah. I mean its a good country. It just just need a little something. Just
Smiley over sexual allegations. Morgan spurlock confesses to his own inappropriate behavior. And salma hayek calls Harvey Weinstein a monster. The new statement from weinstein just ahead. Those stories plus a dramatic Armed Robbery at a donut shop. A worker shot in the neck. The suspect is on the run. The email that had these students exploding with joy. Bravo, charlie. After 15 incredible months, were saying goodbye to our puppy with a purpose, today, thursday, december 14th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Thank you for joining us on a thursday morning. We have to say goodbye to charlie. Are you going to be all right . Charlie, come here. Come here. Come on you mean we cant do that anymore . You know what . What . Charlie is going somewhere for a good cause. Yes, he is. Stacy, his veteran he is going to be with. We cant wait to send him off in the style he deserves. Itll be a tearjerker day
Molette green. And im erika gonzalez. We begin with weather alert day. Absolutely. Snow making the way into the area. Enough to make howard schools close 90 minutes early. Meteorology Sheena Parveen is in the weather center. Sheena, getting home this afternoon could be a trek, huh is this. Heres the thing, i think ts more of a headache and a noi ance than anything else. Our temperatures are notarizing too much. We are going to keep rising that too but we have a weather alert for the d. C. Metro area and maryland. So not for everybody, just those areas. After lunchtime light snowfall developing over the area, causing low advisability. But most of those treated roads will be wet. Look at the temperatures. We havent seen Much Movement with these numbers. We are still below freezing at or below freezing right now. In the upper 20s. Heres Winter Weather advisory. Around d. C. And also maryland. Thats why we are talking about these areas having the advisory. Radar is trying to pick up on may
The solemnity of this time right now. You talk about the fact there are a lot of people who want to pay their respects. It is amazing to outline all of the people that we have seen today from former mayor willie brown, nancy pelosi expected in the next 10 or 15 minutes. The people who worked with ed lee in various different capacities from housing to neighborhood organizations in china town to people who worked at city hall for a number of years but had very little personal interaction with mayor lee, to people who knew him for decades. Weve kind of seen the entire gamut out here right now. Im going to show you the scene. These are folks waiting to stand in line. It snakes down the steps here and goes all the way around the block and out there towards m l mcalister. The capacity is 3,000. Right now there are several hundred out here, as chris our photographer shows you the setup, you seat the American Flag foisted above two ladders here to show just the importance of this event, but it