i had the great fortune of meeting the stephen colbert -- >> jon batiste!dy central" show -- >> how are you? great to have you here. >> reporter: led to a new partnership on "the late show." and a new platform for batiste's music and message. >> the genius of stephen colbert to put together a show that addresses our time has taught me a lot about how to form an opinion about things that are political. these are times where you can't sit on the sidelines. and i really wanted to say to people that the noise that's happening, all this division, let's shut it out for a second. let's get back to the basics. >> what are the basics? >> there's not a lot of music with space. there's not a lot of music where you can reflect. ♪ >> at the piano, batiste showed me what that meant. >> what space allows you to do is consider what just happened. ♪ nice, but if you put the space -- slow it down. let's think about it for a second. let's breathe and take a minute. then -- ♪ i see trees of green and red roses too ♪ >> you're saying listen to this anew. focus on this -- >> slo

that was the deal. >> jan batiste adkins believes san jose's black history is significant. >> many ofhe history books today may show one or two of the most important civil rights leaders, but they don't understand their immediate community. so young people get a chance to learn about their immediate community in addition to learning about the civil rights leaders. >> the new book by jan batiste adkins will be released next week. she is having a book launch event on february 10th at the san jose museum of art. we have details than event on our website, abc7news.com. we're live in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. >> all right, david, thank you so much. >>> oakland teachers are moving forward with plans for a possible strike after a one-day walkout friday, the union has set a date for teachers to take a strike authorization vote. >> what do we want? >> the vote will be taken over four days, beginning january 29th. the teachers are negotiating with the district over pay and class sizes. they're seeking a 12% pay raise over three years. the district is offering 5% over three years. teach

featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: wooo! good evening! i love it. i love that feeling. welcome. welcome, ladies and gentlemen, one and all, to "the late show." i'm your host stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) it is 32 days in, day 32 of the trump shutdown. i'm getting prepared to never have a government again. i'm prepping myself for absolutely no government at all. i'm licking raw chicken to build up an immunity, and i'm practicing to be my own t.s.a >> jon: oh, yeah. >> stephen: oh, yeah. i'm putting a lot of time into the pat-down. i'm hiding something somewhere. i'm going to find it. looks like we might be inching closer to a compromise. there's the possibility of a compromise, right-- wh becaus this thursday, the senate will vote on two bills that could end the shutdown: one backed by president trump that includes his border wall, and one backed by democrats that would simply extend

featuring jon batiste and stay human., live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: whoo! yeah! all right! please have a seat, welcome one and all, in here, out there, all around the world, mr. and mrs. america, all the ships at sea, welcome to "the late show"! i'm your host stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) welcome. you can feel it. you can feel it in the room, it's midterms eve. ( laughter ) tomorrow is like christmas, if santa was going to leave you either shiny new checks and balances, or your stocking just has a lump of "clean, beautiful coal! ( laughter ) we are-- it's coming back! it's coming back." ( cheers and applause ) we are just hours away from the polls opening, when americans will exercise their sacred right to enrage each other. ( laughter ) we will vote-- and you will vote or i will find you. then, then-- ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) be cool, baby. then we have to wait for election officials to count

plus stephen welcomes michael moore, ken marino and musical guest dermot kennedy, featuring jon batistend "stay human." and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( theme song playing ) >> stephen: whoo! hey, everybody! hey, everybody! thank you so much! nice crowd! nice crowd! ( piano riff ) well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome one and all to "the late show." i'm your host stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) it's day 34 of the government shutdown, which we've entitled "no country 'cuz old men." ( laughter ) hey friendo. and it doesn't look like it's going to end any time soon, because earlier today, as expected, the senate rejected competing republican and democratic plans to end trump's shutdown. but even though both bills lost, the biggest loser here is the president. because the democratic bill got more votes than trump's. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: wow! wow! >> stephen: ha ha, he he -- he has egg on his face. i think it's why it's that color. but anyway, the democratic bill got more votes than trump's.

featuring jon batiste and stay huma ivapom suln th new y ci, colrt! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: wooo! there here we go! here we go! wooo! ladies and gentlemen, what a lovely crowd. welcome, welcome, one and all to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. and i come before you tonight to declare that the state of our union is "i-unno." because nobody, nobody knows if we're going to have a state of the union address. the situation is chaotic and bitter and confusing-- which is actually the state of our union. see, here's how we got here. last week, speaker pelosi sent a very polite letter to the president telling him to stay away because he smells bad and his mother dresses him funny. ( laughter ) subtext. ( laughter ) she also cited security concerns. well, today, the president lettered back, saying he'd checked with the secret service, and, "there are no security concerns. therefore, i will be fulfilling my constitutional duty to deliver important information to the people and congress of the united states of america regarding the stat

featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the li new yor city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: hello! thank you! beautiful! please, set down. thanks very much! thank you. welcome to "the late show," everybody. i'm your host stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) it is day 20 of donald trump's government shutdown. or at least i think it is. the federal bureau of time has been furloughed. ( laughter ) today the president flew down to southern border to... point at the big empty space where a wall would go? (as trump): "you see that place where there's no wall? i'm thinking there." ( laughter ) but before he got on his helicopter, he had a lot to yell about the shutdown. i'll tell you about it in tonight's edition of "chopper talk." ( chee and alause ) what everyone wants to know is: will the president declare a national emergency to build his wall. and he gave a firm "i dunno:" ( laughter ) >> i have the absolute right to declare a national emergency. i hav

stephen welcomes congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez and method man, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( theme song playing ) >> stephen: whoo! nice. welcome one and all. thank you so much. welcome to "the late show," i'm stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) thank you very much, everybody. happy martin luther king day, in which we honor dr. king's dream: 50% off at nordstrom's. ( laughter ) i just want to start off tonight by just saying, in the words of martin luther king, "did y'all see the games last night?" there's no way he didn't say that at some point. he had to have. >> jon: at some point about some game. >> stephen: i'll say one thing about the game last night, i know i seem like a jock -- ( laughter ) that got a quicker laugh than i hoped.( ) but i didn't see the games last night and i still kind of saw the games last night because the number of times i've seen this, saints receiver open in the red zone. annnnnd blammo! rams defender lays him out! blatant pass

night shyamalan featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) woooo! hello! hey! right there. perfect. perfect. thank you, everybody. please, have a seat. it's a nice group of people. what a lovely, lovely group of people. welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) it is-- what are we looking at 25 days? it's day 25 of the government shutdown. which is great news for everyone whose new year's resolution was "lawless anarchy." of course, the shutdown has been hard on government employees, particularly the president. his popularity has taken a nosedive. even the super-republican-leaning rasmussen poll shows trump with his lowest approval rating in a year. he's cratering. by the time the election rolls around, he could lose to the ticket of "chlamydia/ted cruz" 2020. ( laughter ). >> stephen: oh, snap! >> stephen: that's soy nice of him. that's so generous. i can't believe cruze gave the vp spot

plus, stephen welcomes jake gyllenhaal and pete holmes featuring jon batiste and stay human. now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey! how are you? ( cheers and applause ) please, have a seat, everybody. thank you very much! welcome, one and all, ladies and gentlemen, to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) we have now hit day 26 of the government shud, and vital services are being threatened. for instance, i've run out of shutdown jokes. (laughter) we might have to dip into the national reserve at this point. ( laughter ) things have gotten so bad that today, speaker of the house nancy pelosi sent donald trump a letter asking him to "reschedule the state of the union." that's reasonable. that's a reasonable request. >> jon: i think so. >> stephen: i mean, what's he going to do? "the state of our union is the democrats' fault." ( laughter ) so why is she doing this? because she can. he's the president-- he's the president, but she's the speaker. ( cheers a

featuring jon batiste and stay human. now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: come on! wooo! hello! ( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. i can warm my hands by the glow of this audience tonight. unbelievable. y'all are incandescent. welcome to "the late show," ladies and gentlemen. i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) you know how donald trump keeps saying he's going to make america great again? turns out the "great" might be short for "great depression." ( laughter ) because, today the dow dropped 799.36 points. ( audience reacts ) well, at least it wasn't 800. fa-shoo! ( laughter ) fa-fa-fa-shoo! ( piano riff ) here's the thing: it might have been trump's fault... because it was. ( laughter ) on sunday, he announced, he tweeted out he had this great new trade deal with china, tweeting: >> stephen: that's great news. caus could be riding around in a jeep g

jon batiste and stay human right over there! ( cheers and applause ) good lord! good lord!m so worried. i'm so worried. i'm so worried about the good people of chicago. i still have a lot of friends out interest in chicago. here's the thing, i was saying before, we didn't close anything down in chicago back in my day. we just did it. the city that worked. >> jon: the people were strong. >> stephen: exactly. >> jon: pushed through it. >> stephen: it was a different time, jon. what i love about chicago is it's so cold there they elevate the train platforms to put you up in the wind. >> jon: in the windy city. >> stephen: see how much you can take it. >> jon: deal with it. >> stephen: this is true-- when i was in school, we had to change to go down to chicago at a stop called howard in the north end of chicago. how old am i at this point, 21 years old, something like that. this is how i learned to survive in the chicago winter: the adults on the platform, totally bundled up were doing this, they were doing this... and blinking. blinking. >> jon: wow. >> stephen: and doing this

tonight stephen welcomes teem teem and josh hutcherson, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: whoo! eme soying ( cheers and applause ) welcome! please have a seat, everybody! welcome to the late show. i'm stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) thank you very much. let's hear it for my warm up act tonight, donald trump. ( applause ) america's favorite funnyman addressed the nation on all the broadcast and cable news networks, explaining why he shut down the government for his border wall. so, by the time that this is broadcast, we're either in a brand-new state of emergency, or the same one we've been in since november of 2016. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) was this a first? it was trump's first presidential address from the oval office. that feels -- weird. ( laughter ) one of the reasons i was so shaken on election night is that i foresaw things like this coming. you know, it's like when your cousin's staying with you and he br

plus, stephen welcomes john goodman and comediane samantha ruddy featuring jon batiste and stay humanw, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: come on! oh, oh, this way. we're going this way now! >> stephen: oh! oh! oh! hey, everybody! hello! nice. nice. very nice. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, too kind. that's so nice. welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. happy friday, "everybody. got that friday vibe. got that friday vibe, jon. but it's not happy for government workers, though, who today, missed their second consecutive paycheck. things have gotten so bad that the i.r.s. has added a new question to the tax form:"would you like $3 of your federal tax to go to buying us a sandwich?" it's the longest shutdown in u.s. history, and we should have seen this coming, because according to white house officials, after trump made the decision, "there was no game plan for what to do next." that's leadership. (as trump ): "okay guys, huddle up. come on, huddle up. bring it in. let's huddle up

plus, stephen welcomes ethan hawke, jon glaser, and musical guest taylor bennett, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( theme song playing ) >> stephen: whoo! gorgeous! ( cheers and applause ) well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome, one and all, hither and yon, to the "late show." i'm your host stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) i'm excited to be back because tonight i am proud to announce that, after a 17-day shutdown, i am reopening "the late show." ( cheers and applause ) yeah. i held my ground. because i kept my promise and built a wall... of mashed potatoes around my midsection. over the christmas holidays. ( laughter ) the government shutdown, however, is still going strong. day 17. remember, right before the holidays, the senate passed a bill to keep the government open. and even though it didn't fund his border wall, the president said he would sign it... until he saw this stuff. >> you told us that you weren't afraid to shut down the government. that's why we

immediate community in addition to learning about the civil rights leaders. >> the new book by jan batiste adkins will be released next week. she is having a book launch event at the san jose museum of art on february 10th. we have details about that event on our website, abc7news.com. we're live in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. >> thank you, david. >>> thousands of people marched to remember dr. king in sacramento today. some activists criticized city leaders. those leaders have met with members of the african american community. their talks have focused on what may happen when prosecutors decide if police officers will face charges for killing stephon clark last year. clark was unarmed when police opened fire on him. >> let's let the d.a. make her decision, and then let's focus on what to do after that. but until that happens, these meetings to prepare for something that hasn't happened, i just think are unacceptable. and it goes against transparency in every way. >> the sacramento county district attorney began its probe into clark's death a few months ago. >>> it is official. cali

and yvette nicole brown featuring jon batiste and stay human. now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: wooo! hello! is ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: can you feel it? wooo! thank you, everybody. please, have a seat. thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, thank you. thank you. welcome, one and all, to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. i hope everyone-- ( cheers and applause ) i hope everyone watching in the midwest right now is inside, staying warm. record cold, jon, record cold. you know it-- i've said it many times, if you don't bundle up in chicago, your junk will freeze and snap off like a graham cracker. things are so bad-- it's true, it's true-- things are so bad, the governor of wisconsin has declared an emergency. so wisconsinites have sought shelter under a thick layer of melted cheddar. ( laughter ) plus, windchill temperatures are expected to reach "minus 50 in chicago and minus 60 in minneapolis." i tell you-- i'm going to say it

featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: whoo! hey! hi, how are you? hi, everybody! delightful! delightful! ( cheers and applause ) that was right over the plate. please have a seat, everybody! welcome! welcome, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) i want to start out tonight by saying to the people of california, our thoughts are with you. because the golden state is being ravaged by three deadly wildfires in malibu and northern california. there's been a tragic loss of life and an unprecedented loss of property. and we certainly hope everybody there stays safe, including and especially the firefighters who are fighting this on the frontline. and at a time like this, it's hard to know the right thing to say. but for the wrong thing to say, let's check the president's twitter feed. ( laughter ) ( booin

featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: hey! perfect! perfect! come on! come on! oh, that was right over the plate! thank you, everybody! hey! thank you, everybody. welcome to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. and man, we have a great show for you tonight. jon, we have former first lady michelle obama out here tonight, and i am super excited about that. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: yeah! >> stephen: the book "becoming," i've read it, it's a beautiful book. i can't wait to talk about that. but until we get there, in the meantime, folks, the mueller investigation is closing in. ( cheers and applause ) and donald trump has flown to argentina. you know, the country all the good guys flee to. ( laughter ) he's there for the big g20 summit. today, he signed a revised nafta agreement, and he was jazzed. >> we're gathered together this afternoon for a very historic occasi

people could free themselves from michael turning to reaction from lots in america shortly after batiste way was opposition leader who are declared himself the interim president on wednesday i have a full of washington's usual allies came onboard brazil argentina and chile to maybe a few however mexico cuba and bolivia refused to follow suit other countries expressed criticism to external interference their support of the opposition china among them a crucial partner to oil rich business way less in gold mining and energy production well china always maintains the principle of noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries opposing external intervention in venezuelan domestic affairs as russian foreign minister sergei lavrov expressed omar at us talk of a possible military option just as. we can see another intrusions into a sovereign country's politics as you know they have been several attempts to oust nicolas maduro the fact that the u.s. and a number of other countries particularly in the region immediately recognized the this can lead to chaos and a serious destabilizati

activist convicted of murder who has been on the run for most for two years has just landed in rome batiste he was arrested in bolivia on saturday his extradition is a result of cooperation between right wing political leaders in brazil and it's only halted edge and has more. his story reads like a novel he might have penned himself chesser a butty steep revolutionary convicted murderer and writer finally caught after forty years on the run down theone need known solo to be thought funny to many is not only to relatives and to victims but the entire country when multiplied by governments that were protecting a terrorist like but. it all began in the one nine hundred seventy s. when he belonged to an armed leftists group it wanted to bring down the toilet in government and in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine but he was jailed two years later he scaped and was convicted in absentia for the murders of four people including two police officers after living as a fugitive in france he fled to mexico but tiste later became a successful writer of crime novels before heading to brazil in two th

. >> stephen: jon batiste and stay human, everybody. mwah.lause) i love it t i love it. jon, a lot to be excited about tonight. now really excited. tonight we have the lovely james mcavoy on here tonight. always having fun. and tomorrow did you hear thrk is last minute booking, right, senator chrisen gill i grand-- gillibrand. why would she be coming on here, so suddenly, she is coming on to talk to our audience. tomorrow night, i can't imagine why she would be here it is exciting. i said look, i'm going to watch. >> jon: oh yeah. >> stephen: i will definitely be here tomorrow night if she is here because i want to know what she is here to say, say would be the right word, to say something. (laughter) you know, donald trump was so angry about "the washington post" rushar bombshell that he tweetedded about their owner amazon founder and meditation instructor who says he recs are perfectly natural, jeff bezos. bezos is getting a divorce of his wife of 25 years and the "te national enquirer" recently published a series of lascivious text between

plus stephen welcomes curtis "50 cent" jackson and jamie oliver, featuring jon batiste and "stay humannd now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( theme song playing ) >> stephen: whoo! hey, everybody! woo-hoo! woo-hoo! ( cheers and applause ) very nice! ( cheers and applause ) ( audience chanting ) >> stephen: oh, that's nice. mark! ( piano riff ) ( rim shot ) >> stephen: welcome, everybody! thank you so much! down here, out there, all around the world! ladies and gentlemen -- ( cheers and applause ) thanks so much! you're too kind! welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. happy friday. ( cheers and applause ) of course, it's not a happy friday for many government workers because this is the first day they're not getting a paycheck due to the shutdown. in fact, t.s.a. agents have started calling in sick because they aren't getting paid, and now t.s.a. officers are actually quitting over the shutdown. things are so bad that people who spend half their day cupping strangers' testicles were like, "a

government, plus stephen welcomes author of "team of vipers" cliff sims, and paul simon, featuring jon batistestay human." and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! >> stephen: hey! thank you very much! oh, it's a lively bunch tonight! welcome to "the late show," i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) thank you i understand. congratulations, we have a government! ( cheers and applause ) putting us on equal footing with zimbabwe. ( laughter ) on friday, trump announced he was signing a compromise bill to open the government for 21 days that does not include money for a border wall. ah, yes. ( cheers and applause ) ah, yes -- the negotiator-in-chief. "my opening offer: give me wall. in return, you offer nothing? i accept. ( laughter ) a pleasure arting the deal with you." trump was frustrated that, during the stalemate, the dems stuck together, reportedly asking aides, "why are they always so loyal?" "yes, why are they so loyal? do they all have tapes of each other doing pee stuff?" ( laughter ) "why? i don't -- why else?" ( piano

featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: woooo! come on! hey! how are you? beautiful. perfect! perfect! thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you down here, up there. up there. >> audience: stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen. >> stephen: that's nice. can't get better than that. ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: thanks, everybody. thank you, so much. please, have a seat. welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. and it is-- ( cheers and applause ) you can just feel it. you can feel the vibe in this room. it's friday. ( cheers and applause ) it's also day 28 of the government shutdown. if the nation had started a cleanse, it'd be done now. ( laughter ) we had a big week here on "the late show." on tuesday? tuesday. new york senator kirsten gillibrand announced she's running for president right over there in that chair. big night, big night. ( applause ) it's the most historic pres

featuring jon batiste and stay human.and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: c'mon! woo! beautiful, beautiful! oh, yeah! welcome! how could you not feel good. this is it, you're too kind. welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) it is-- day 27 of the government shut down, who would have thought the four horsemen of the apocalypse would be is have been death, famin, pestilence and pooping in national parks t is starting to get ugly and it was never a bitee queen. you might remember yesterday when nancy pelosi asked trump to delay the state of the union address saying that unfunded security agencies weren't he quipped to protect the speech during a government shutdown. that makes sense. you can't have unpaid people guarding our leaders, eagle has entered the building and i need someone to take over my position because i've got to get to my second job at dollar tree. oh my goodnes

featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) thank you very much! how delightful. how delightful. welcome to "the late show," everybody. i'm your host, stephen colbert. and i've got cranberry fever, because it's almost thanksgiving. this afternoon, the president got in the mood at the annual turkey pardoning. every year, the american people get a choice between sparing two birds. and this year, the birds were named "peas" and "carrots." the turkeys disguised themselves as vegetables so trump would not be tempted to eat them. ( laughter ) now, to inform the voters of the choices, the white house published bios of each bird. for instance, peas' favorite music is brad paisley, his favorite pastime is watching planes. ( laughter ) while carrots' favorite music is elvis, and turn-ons include floppy neck skin and getting stuffed. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) we might have made one of those up. did

tonight steven welcome kevin hart and nicole byer, featuring jon batiste and stay human. now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city it's stephen colbert! >> stephen: come on! (cheers and applause). >> stephen: thank you, sir. hey. hey, everybody, please have a seat, welcome to the late show, i am your host, stephen colbert. we are on, what day, what day is this? what day is the shutdown is it? 19? it's 19-- day 19 of the government shutdown which means it is now officially lasted longer than my new year's resolution. i got winded and gave up halfway through the planet fitness application. last night donald trump jumped the border of america's prime time line-up to make his demands. >> and i will say he seemed less than spirited than usual. >> my fellow americans, tonight i am speaking to you because there is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border. (laughter). >> stephen: sorry, the national crisis put me to sleep, i dn't-- why was he so calm if there is a crisis. jim, can we zoom in on him. yeah, tranq dart right in the neck.

ashleyjohn batiste, thank you very much.from the passenger group, transport focus and joins me in the studio now. thank you for being here. first of all, there has been a lot of talk of jam tomorrow from the government and from the network itself. the increases over the years are going to lead to improvements in the service. 2019 could be that time when we see better trained and better capacity? it is true that the investment is welcome both from the government and passengers themselves, it is £10 billion per year and they have been putting it infora number of year and they have been putting it in for a number of years with the promises of improved services and longer trains, and that train is a longer trains, and that train is a long time coming, i think. i suspect many passengers this morning woke up with a sense of deja vu, you probably have a sense of deja vu from the same story this time last year! but it is an ongoing problem, and there comes a point where, we would certainly have supported a fa res would certainly hav

. >> nikki batiste said, why do they keep sending us out in the cold for these shots?rn with your doctor hat on? >> the biggest risk is hypothermia. if your body core temperature falls below 35 degrees celsius, you are at risk. we have a set temperature about 37 degrees celsius. it's really a balance between our heat production through metabolism and what we're losing heatwise from our skin and from our breathing. so we try to mheat. so we shiver to generate heat. our blood vessels will constrict to keep the blood closer to our core, heart, lungs, kidney, vital organs. our adrenal glands will push out hormones. when this system fails, then you're at risk for hypothermia. >> does it take a long time for hypothermia to set in? >> depends how cold it is, what your underlying health conditions are. and you have to be aware of the. it can affect your ment aal thinking, make you sluggish and affect your mental thinking. >> we reported about a gentleman who had a heart attack out shoveling the snow. it happens every year. >> every year we talk about the increase in heart atta