immediate future with chuck todd and later we revisit one of our sunday favorite sit downs with david letterman. his netflix series and what life has been like in the four years since he left the air. >> since i stopped being on the air, people are really, really nice to me >> were they not previously? >> there used to be a lot of there he is, get him get him. >> our special two-part sunday sit down with david letterman and harry smith and a life well lived. >> let's begin with breaking news overnight isis is claiming responsibility for a bomb detonated at a wedding killing 63 including women and children the taliban condemned the attack this comes as the united states is working on a deal with the taliban. we approach 18 years of war in afghanistan following the attacks of 9/11. this morning, the mayor of portland is praising his police force forei ensuring a stand of did not turn into a violent scene like other cities have seen in the past joining us now from portland good morning, steve. >> reporter: for weeks, this was essentially a planned and promoted clash that could have easily gone int

the person who deserved to get it was david letterman.y nbc entertainment president warren littlefield, still has a bruised ego about the way the network wavered in its support for him. >> when we found out that leno was going to get ""the tonight show,"" we were all obviously depressed. we felt like we were being punished for making fun of them and not cooperating and not being as collaborative as we could have been. and we also felt like we were being disrespected because we did 11 years of great shows. >> just how pissed off are you? [ laughter and applause ] >> by all rights, david letterman should have taken over for johnny carson, but his agent took a very, very aggressive stand. we're going to really control all of late night. it's going to cost you a fortune. and they put our backs to the wall. >> i can only tell you that it has been an honor and a privilege to come into your homes all these years and entertain you. and i hope when i find something i want to do and i think you will like and come back, that you will be as gracious

. >> is it is the david letterman factor. >>> kpix5 news starts right now. >>> what is being done to protect californians, well, we will show the work underway right now in contra costa county camera. >>> the physical and emotional toll of the garlic festival shooting. >> i hope i feel a sense of general trust towards humidity because right now, i really don't. >>> the bay area father the first chance to visit his son locked up in an italian jail. you details on what happened, the night and telling police officer was killed. >>> kpix5 news at six starts right now. we begin with a close call in a contra costa neighborhood, shown a grass fire that burned right after or right up to some homes in the hills of lafayette. you can see it sending up gray smoke near the valley road. this fire broke out about 3:15, firefighters rushed into contain the flames and protect nearby homes. a plane flew over the area several times but it did not need to drop any water or fire retardant. crews are still unseen mopping up. >>> despite this afternoon's close call, fire season in the bay area is off to a

a raur one on one lend himself david letterman. life after late night and the state of comedy and how he would handle president trump if he was on the air still and we fly fish, and do not do it well. the latest news and politics on sunday today for now, we will go back to you, francis and philip and see you on sunday morning. >> thanks, we will be watching that is bucket list stuff right there. letterman. >> a new jersey family is back home after surviving an attack in canada. they were asleep when a wolf tore through their tent, nearly dragging the father in the woods. here is miguel almagair, the attack happened in canada's national park. not far from where theuntains ms the family from new jersey was sleeping in their tent when a 78 pound wolf, suddenly attacked >> when i arrived the tent had been collapsed and there was a back half of the wolf sticking out the front. >> he startled in the nearby trent by the sounds of a life and death struggle, ran over to help instinct, leading him to can kick the wolf. the wolf popped out a

. >> david letterman originally had a one-hour daytime show, and nbc, after like 13 weeks, decided tovegas -- [ booing ] have these people been frisked? >> it was a dismal failure in terms of the ratings, but not in terms of introducing us to letterman. >> david, thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you very much for having me, i appreciate it. >> in spite of all this nonsense that goes around in the background, stay with it, don't give up. stay with us here in new york. >> dave is back in new york. you're going to host a late-night television program that premieres monday night. what are critics likely to say tuesday morning? >> i don't much care because i found a way to deal with that, pills and whiskey. >> david, you're on. >> oh, i'm on? i'm sorry. >> proceed. >> i'm enjoying listening to you snort. >> they gave him "the late night show" after "the tonight show." and at the time, people thought who's going to watch television at 12:30 at night? who's up? i'll tell you who's up. young people. college people. >> is it going well? i know this is the first show and i think th

we all remember that hilarious bit on the david letterman show when he had donald trump on before hesed all the sourcing of the president's goods, and the president said something on the order of, oh, well, you know, they got to have jobs over there, too. >> even better than that -- and i have the letterman bit, but i want to play another one. this was on cnn. then i'm going to rachel on this. this was donald trump back in 2015 as he's starting to run for president defending the fact that he does so much business with china. here it is. >> i talk about my ties in speeches. i'm open. i say, my ties many times are made in china -- not all of them, by the way, but a lot of them are made in china. because they've manipulated their currency to such a point that it's impossible for our companies to compete. it's very, very hard to have anything in apparel made in this country. >> so, then, rachel, you delighted a lot of people with your tweet of your data that shows donald trump on track to probably not win the election in 2020 which is why he would be having a panic attack. would somethin

david letterman came on and i said this is the kitchen, now we're going up to the bedroom, how do younother dimension. when somebody's at your home, they take in your life, and it was like that with the old place. >> stephen: there's judgment there. >> it's fine because the new house is pretty. the other was sad. bruce stern, the great bruce stern is 83. now here's the new problem of what i'm dealing with is there are stairs. he's 83. he's a pretty spree 83 but he recently had a little hip problem, so there are stairs coming into the house which he was having a hard time with. right out of the gate, i was, like, this is going to be a problem. i don't know if i get bruce up the stairs. we get him up the stairs. we helped him up, me person, and then we get him into the room, it's a great interview. but i have a moment where i think, he's going to have to live here now. ( laughter ) because how am i going to get him down the stairs? he's already in the bedroom. >> stephen: lie down. i'll tell your daughter you're here and if you've got to do a movie we'll get a car for you. >> stephen: w

. >> stephen: i know you're a big fan of david letterman, as am i. >> yes. >> stephen: you went on witht time i went on, as i'm sure it was with you -- >> stephen: sure. >> like, it is a major life event. i remember every second. >> stephen: absolutely. >> the smells. i mean, here it was freezing. >> stephen: dave smelled amazing, by the way. >> he had a very, very, very nice smell. >> stephen: like wintergreen. >> yes. >> stephen: welcome back to the ed sullivan theater. >> thank you. >> stephen: nice to have you. >> thank you. >> stephen: we met briefly before. this is kind of our first real conversation. we met at a party or something like that. >> yeah, and our first real conversation is televised as it should be. >> stephen: all the best ones are. >> absolutely. >> stephen: i understand, i just found out, you were-- besides being an actor, from a very young age, you were a huge film fan, a huge film buff. how did that manifest for you? was that embraced by your friends or was it odd to them? >> it was tolerated. in high school i would direct plays and fancied myself kind of a high

next week we revisit the classic sunday sit-down with david letterman. of comedy. what he's been up to since he left the air and we did a little fly >>> we've got a foggy start, not just in san francisco. take a look at our fog map right now. we've got limited visibility in through santa rosa, as well as the santa cruz mountains, so if you're driving anywhere near napa town to about two miles, make sure to use your regular headlights and drive carefully. microclimate highs expecting a warmup in through the hot interior valleys especially concord, antioch and livermore, talking upper 80s or low 90s. mid 80s through the south bay. next on "sunday today," a question many have asked many times in the wake of mass shootings. will something finally change? a group of politicians at the local level is not waiting for washington. we are bacin 60 seconds. k this is not just a headache. this is not just a fever. this is not just the flu. it's meningitis b... and you're not there to help. while meningitis b is uncommon... once symptoms appear, they can progress qui

in 2015 he inherited the coveted late night spot on cbs where david letterman reigned for more than 20 years. all eyes and pressure were on colbert as he stopped playing a character and started being himself. after the 2016 election, he really hit his stride as his show tried to make sense of the often nonsensical world of politics. the audience has responded and stephen colbert is now number one in late night television. there is a lot though you probably don't know about stephen colbert. his high of and what he's been through. he is as intellectual and interesting as he is funny. over the next hour, you'll hear our in depth interview. stephen opens up about his life, his losses, his comedy and his faith. so there's a bunch i want to talk to you about. >> some of the gotchas. >> yeah. >> the gotcha questions. >> ken cuccinelli. >> oh, my god! i blame you for ken cuccinelli. >> he was on cnn. >> he was on a lot. i didn't watch much when he was on. i love your show. every night i come home. my wife and i have a glass of wine, a handful of nuts, watch a little anderson and go to bed. tha

played an ultra conservative host n 2015, he inherited the coveted late night spot on cbs where david letterman had reigned for more than 20 years. all eyes and pressure were on colbert as he stopped playing a character and started being himself. after the 2016 elections, stephen colbert hit his stride. he tried to make sense of the none sensical world of politics. and now stephen colbert is number one in late-night television. there is a lot you don't know about stephen colbert, his life and what he's been through. he is as interlent you'll and interesting as he is funny. he opens up about his life, losses, comedy, and his faith. >> there's a bunch i want to talk to you about. >> the main screen media gotcha questions. >> let me just ask you about the stuff in the news. ken kuchaneli. >> oh, my god. i blame you for him. >> he was on cnn. >> a lochlt. >> i love your show. my wife and i come home and have a glass of wine and have a handful of nuts. tlaen are a few panelists i have to skip over. i have to skip over some of them. he is one of them. >> if any other person in an administration in a

. >> how much goes into a david letterman appearance? >> a lot. i would send in 20 pages to the. second produ because i felt scoring on letterman was the ppiest yo could feel for the next month. >> after letter mawnl you had the ritual going outs with paul schaeffer. >> we must go out to the thr t hippest most fabulous place in new york. >> as a work cot uple, you spa lot of time in new york, who would -- >> i would s steve. if i prepare for a talk show ori for some reasm off or the host is off and we don't connect, i feel there is nothing we could have dong more and then i people fine. >> i'm the opposite. if it doesn't go down i get kinf epresslike what happened and try to analyze it. realize that for to be tense, i'd see myself back on something and i thii'nk not helping myself. so i willed anxiety away. my brother died when i was 12. my mother died when i was7. my father at 20. when you go through those tough experiences you're either empowered by it or victimized by it and somehow i think i was empowered by it. tting my hair up on a point i didn't really care. >> know, you w

played an ultra conservative host n 2015, he inherited the coveted late night spot on cbs where david lettermanan 20 years. all eyes and pressure were on colbert as he stopped playing a character and started being himself. after the 2016 elections, stephen colbert hit his stride. he tried to make sense o

in 2015 he inherited the coveted late night spot on cbs where david letterman reigned for more than 20 pressure were on colbert as he stopped playing a character and started being himself. after the 2016 election, he re

tomorrow, a classic sitdown with the one and only david letterman to talk about the state of comedy and air with a little bit of fly fishing in between. >> and olympic superstar lindsey vonn, her life going at super speed since she left the game and somehow she is helping the next generation of female athletes. >> coming up on monday, on the third hour of "today." u,ank yo >>> good morning. coming up next on today in the bay, she was one of the first people shot in the gilroy garlic festival shooting and now she's telling her story of that day, including the split second action she took that may have saved lives. >>> there is a cool down under way with some areas seeing as much as a 20-degree drop by the end of this weekend. >>> also it's our annual event. we hope you can help us clear the shelters. lots of adorable shelter dogs and cats waiting for you to take them home. >>> good morning. it is saturday, august 17th. we're starting you out with a live look of downtown san jose. looking pretty nice this morning as the sun comes up. thank you so much for joining us. i'm ali wolf. ey

number 3, this is kind of like david letterman reverse order.ibrand. first thing she will do after she is elected president. >> the first thing that i'm going to do when i'm president is i'm going to clorox the oval office. [laughter] brian: right. you know the question, the question was basically about the new green new deal which she endorsed. that made no sense. ainsley: she planned that well in advance is that because bill clinton had that office at one time. brian: that's what george bush said give if a good cleaning when i take over. bush 43. steve: i think when george bush was going into the office they did such a good cleaning there at the white house they took all the ws off the word processor. brian: that was classy. they wrecked the place. steve: here is the number two most tweeted moment of the night where tulsi gashed gabbard takes on kamala harris. >> senator harris says she is proud of her record as a prosecutor and she will be a prosecutor president. i'm deeply concerned about this record there are too many examples to site but s