Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers. John cleese, star of a. P. Bio, actor Glenn Howerton an allnew closer look. Featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now seth meyers. Seth hey, everyone its day two back in an empty studio and while things arent normal, they are getting closer. For example, today two different tourists asked me if jimmy fallon was as nice as he seems. So, lets get to the news. According to audiotapes from a series of interviews with Journalist Bob Woodward released today, President Trump said six months ago that the coronavirus was airborne and, quote, more dangerous than even your strenuous flu, and that he intended to play it down listen to this i wanted to always play it down i still like playing it down yes because i dont want to create a panic seth well, good job with that this countrys never been more chill. A lot of people arent even moving americas as cool as a cucumber right now. Sure, were stealing toilet paper every time we go into a starb
The next president ial debate. The white house still refuses to release key details on the president s health as President Trump returns to the oval office calling his illness a blessing, touting that experimental antibody cocktail for helping him beat the virus and now says he wants everyone in the country to get access to it. All of this as the seriousness of the white house outbreak escalates. A new report that white house staffers may have exposed thousands of people to the virus. Sounding the alarm. Dr. Faucis urgent warning that the number of american lives lost to the virus could double if things dont improve. Plus, a former cdc director calls the Trump Administrations handling of the pandemic a slaughter as hot spots surge across the country. Wisconsin forced to prepare a Field Hospital as their Emergency Rooms overflow. Hurricane emergency. Overnight delta strengthening in the gulf after wreaking havoc in mexico. Now louisiana, mississippi and texas all bracing for the powerfu
Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers. John cleese, star of a. P. Bio, actor Glenn Howerton an allnew closer look. Featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now seth meyers. Seth hey, everyone its day two back in an empty studio and while things arent normal, they are getting closer. For example, today two different tourists asked me if jimmy fallon was as nice as he seems. So, lets get to the news. According to audiotapes from a series of interviews with Journalist Bob Woodward released today, President Trump said six months ago that the coronavirus was airborne and, quote, more dangerous than even your strenuous flu, and that he intended to play it down listen to this i wanted to always play it down i still like playing it down yes because i dont want to create a panic seth well, good job with that this countrys never been more chill. A lot of people arent even moving americas as cool as a cucumber right now. Sure, were stealing toilet paper every time we go into a starb
Now its a deal that lasts only a week but u. S. Officials say if its a success it could lead to the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan the taliban american negotiators have agreed to a proposal for a reduction of violence in the country the announcement is the result of ongoing peace talks and qatar a senior u. S. Official says if this deal holds it could be followed by a more permanent accord well the u. N. Secretary general spokesman has welcomed the agreement he says its important to curb violence thats harming civilians in afghanistan. If this were to succeed it would obviously be a notable step in bringing peace to the country. And the dialogue is a vital pe is of is vital to paving forward the constructive in traffic and negotiations on peace i think its very important. To find ways to reduce the levels of violence in afghanistan is specially the violence that is harming civilians while correspondent Deborah Townsend joins us live now from washington d. C. She had this does so
Sri lanka where farmers and elephants are fighting for survival. Fellow the number of People Killed by the corona virus has risen to over 1500 with 143 more deaths reported on friday almost all of the 66000 cases are in china province but all fortys are saying that the number of new infections has halved from the previous day lets get an update from a germ brown hes joining us from. Beijing adrian so what more are authorities there saying about the drop in the number of new cases and also the management of this epidemic. Well im actually in hong kong but as you rightly point out in your introduction during the death rate it was again quite high on friday but there is a crumb of comfort here because the death rate was 27 up on the previous day now its hard to talk about positive developments when people are dying and still being infected but i think we can take a crumb of comfort i sense from the fact that the rate of infections is now so much lower than it had been the day before and r