my guests are mary j. blige and cookbook author alison roman, but when we come back, it's "meanwhile"! stick around. >> announcer: "the late show with stephen colbert," sponsored by mcdonald's. ♪ ♪ >> stephen: hey! give it up for louis cato and "the late show" band. [laughter] i love that. have a seat. we were talking during the break. you guys can't hear the band playing during the break but you are really cranking out i asked louis, were you playing the opening of "live and let die" by paul mccartney and wings. and he said no. >> louis: it is a "the late show" band original song, combination of led zeppelin and red blakely. >> stephen: i love it. we are going to talk about beautiful music, mary j. blige will be out here. what goes better with beautiful music than a beautiful meal? chef alison roman will be out here to cook and a little while. maybe we make enough of these people. maybe we'll make enough food for these people here. folks, i spend most of my time right over there, harvesting the day's finest sto

when we come back, we're going one-on-one with the one, the only, mary j. blige. blige. >> this morning, she's adding another accolade, children's book author. >> it is an awesome book. willie and i have read it. it's called "mary can." it is about overcoming discouragement and negativity to make your dreams come true. how are you? you look ravishing and incredible. >> thank you. >> i love the message of this book. this is so you. the reason you are sitting here today is because you did not take no for an answer, which is the premise of this book. tell us about that. >> exactly. i mean, i have come through a lot of things. i have been through a lot of negative things. and the keyword, i've been through. when i got through, all of the negative things i took, the darkness i was living in, and i turned it into light. we sharing my experiences with kids all over the world, letting them know that something was telling me no and letting them know they can. they can. they can. if mary can, you can. >> so what's the message, mary, to kids that are experiencing some of the

. >>> and plus mary j. blige the guest on the tonight show with stephen colbert. >>> the driver of a >>> a driver of a stolen police cruiser jumped out while police were chasing him. there is new video showing the moment the car was stolen. it started on the five just outside the santa clarita. it was unlocked. he had crashed the other car he was in on the freeway. the chase ended though about 30 miles away, and he jumped out of the moving car and the cruiser kept on going. we're freezing that video there. it is very graphic. eventually the car smashed into the pole and the suspect later died at the hospital. >>> all right, now to first alert weather. an interesting affect in some of san francisco's tallest buildings, it has been cracking. sometimes falling glass from skyscrapers. today a high-rise window crashed on mission street near fremont, closed for hours. thankfully nobody got hurt. but this has happened a few times this month. just this week, glass rained down from a high-rise along california street, now

. >> the queen of hip hop herself, mary j. blige.t off with hollywood's superstar chris pratt. >> it's a good week. >> it will be a huge week. >> let's get to the news. the u.s. launching air strikes against iranian-linked targets overnight. a swift response to a deadly attack on americans in that country. chief white house correspondent u.s. military, has come under rocket fire. a u.s. official telling me it was totally ineffective and nobody was hurt. >>> just released data from the cdc that shows more children than ever are being diagnosed with autism. joining us with details and take-aways for parents watching and listening this morning. dr. john torres, i found this eye-opening. 20 years ago, 1 in 150 kids had autism in this country. that number is now 1 in 36 children. do we know what's driving the increase? >> it looks like the majority of increase is because of increased awareness and screening. that's happening right now. as a matter of fact, the american academy of pediatrics didn't recommend screening until 2008. now they