Items the late show with with Stephen Colbert tonights are you die and former director of the and aubrey plaza, featuring jeanbaptiste, and now live on ed sullivan theatre, Office Building in new york city, it is Stephen Colbert stephen i am right here. You can point at me all you want. I stand on my argument. Hello. Welcome to a late show. Im sorry about that. I am your host Stephen Colbert, if you are watching this at home right now, thank you. Please stay there. Because the pandemic is worse than ever. And i will tell you all about it in tonights installment of catch camp. Catch a third wave endless bummer. Hey, everybody. Get out, get out experts warned us this would be a dark winter and experts were right because yesterday american covid19 deaths and hospitalizations set records. This is a time to try mens souls, but if we can just get through it, we can get back to setting fun records like worlds biggest pancake, most old ladies stuffed in a bouncy castle, or most flammable banjo
Survive that pandemic. They opened this cross fit 15 years ago. And now there are roughly 15,000 cross fit gyms in the world. It is really sad, you know, we have been here for 15 years. As you can see, you know, there is a Huge Community of people around us. Its a sad day. Reporter they pry themselves as a Small Business. Membership has gone down by 70 . Yet at their location, they remain high. And massive amount of money every month, no end in sight. The first wave of store closures back in april and may. Dozens of businesses shut down for good. We saw an early wave of early business closures. Thats because, you know, the margin for some of the businesses, they were really thin. What you saw is the sort of second wave that people have been able to manage to hold off on this point. The second wave could shut down Small Businesses. They will have a retail store and wholesale. And grocery stores, hotels, then were down to maybe 170 customers per delivery and they are all basically closed
November alone about one quarter of all us cases since the pandemic began. More than 256,000 people have awesome that died from this virus. The virus is spreading all across the country, including here in the bay area. Local Health Departments now reporting 185 new cases of covid19. Nearly 139,000 cases have been reported in 1900 deaths have been recorded here in the bay area since the start of the pandemic california seeing 14,000 new cases today. The states Positivity Rate over the past 2 weeks has now jumped to more than 5 . With cases skyrocketing all across america tonight, the centers for Disease Control and prevention. Now strongly warning folks not to travel for the holidays. The cdc says the safest way to celebrate thanksgiving is to celebrate at home with the people that you live with yet the tsa says friday and saturday. Where the busiest day since the pandemic brought air travel to a near halt in march and wednesday and sunday are expected to be the busiest travel days of t
Warning that the county is very close to hitting this mark. Some businesses are especially concerned about that curfew bars like the sycamore in the mission say they depend on those late night customers for their bottom line. The workers there say if theyre forced to close at 10 oclock and set of their regular time at midnight. It will hurt even more. As jeremy. Our business is already down closing early or would it bring us even further down its terrible, however i get it its its a good thing i just wish people stan cider. Can be saved. It would have to go through this again. So under the curfew folks will still be able to do a central activities like walk your dog. Pick up takeout or do some Grocery Shopping as well. Now we have seen more than 3 million new cases in just the month of november alone about one quarter of all the u. S. Cases since the pandemic began more than 256,000 people have also died from this virus. The virus is spreading all across the country, including here in
President ial race. Thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis boy tight is son under lets go and get. Right to it the results in georgia the state of North Carolina pennsylvania and nevada will determine whether Democrat Joe Biden or President Donald Trump wins the waiting game will be over soon grant is at the big wall to break it all down for us, heres where things stand right now the 2 states have you had to pick 2 that everybodys focus on right now over on the east coast pennsylvania, and georgia. Both states have poll workers diligently counting votes as we speak well start with georgia click in their zoom in here and slide over 16 electoral votes are at stake and donald trump right now is clinging to a lead that is now fewer than 2000 votes. You see the numbers right here, 99 of the vote has been counted so his trend hes been chipping away chipping away at trumps lead there that if he wins georgia. That ends it. He gets it to 71st eclipse