du soleil. jon: let's get you up to speed with what's been happening in the markets. where watching economic headlines -- we are watching economic headlines. oil prices helping out the energy stocks. we have been talking a lot about the omicron wave. painting a picture of an economy that was faring relatively well going into it. you were talking about that existing home sales data increasing for a third straight month. taylor: wanted to talk about all the flips they do of cirque du soleil -- on cirque du soleil. at least here in new york, all home sales has been this migration pattern. with rents rising again and some mortgages so low, not only with the labor and wage dynamics. sort of all of this folds in together. or we can just talk about flips on cirque du soleil. jon: whether it's the jobs mark or the mortgage realities, there has been a lot of demand for that housing. let's get some perspective from jonathan miller. obviously it's a combination of things between employment and mortgage rat

if you thought that zipline was thrilling wait till you see what they let me do with cirque du soleilall headlining their own performances. but no showmanship compares to the spectacular experience that is cirque du soleil whose shows are once again filling theaters every night of the week drawing tourists from all over the globe. how do you describe those feelings, that energy, that excitement that you now get to see back in these theaters? >> well, it's driven by people, right, and it's palpable. you can feel it in the theater. entertainment is synonymous with vegas and so is cirque. >> reporter: cirque gear up to re-open "ka" from the makeup to the costumes, outfitting performers from head to toe. >> these costumes are absolutely gorgeous. they're really reflecting the richness and the detail that cirque du soleil prides itself in in the making of their costumes. >> this is a piece of art. >> yes, it really is. >> i don't think this would fit me but it looks about strahan's size. this theater is a character of its own within the show.r show. >> reporter: with over 1900 seats every

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fast forwards out of cirque du soleil -- the tumbling scardino brothers! the point guard from best buy -- this boom box playing the music you're hearing in the background! and at center, fan favorite dennis rodman's -- dog! ( cheers and applause ) it's tipoff and two minutes into the game -- the score is 138 to 0! rough start for the bulls! and looks like this year's champion is the omicron variant! >> announcer: it's "the late show" with stephen colbert! tonight, house of horrors. and a late show animated christmas special! plus stephen welcomes anderson cooper! 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! whoo! whoo! whoo! whoo! ( cheers and applause ) welcome! oh, my goodness, what a feeling, what a wonderful feeling to be with all these beautiful people here tonight. it's nice to be home with all of you. welcome to "the late show." i am your host stephen colbert. ladies and gentlemen -- ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: breat

>> i mean a diplomatic boycott, i'm going to call that cirque du soleil. it is political theater.s. it means we're not sending over representatives but we're still completing. so what kind of a stand are we really taking? in terms of the business community they should have woken up a long time ago we need to get tough with chinas and rethink our relationship f the last two years have not proven that, for big business i'm not sure what will. at the end of the day china is run by a communist party and they will continue to act like communists that means they are not going to take into account individual rights including human rights. that is something big businesses should be really focused on. charles: i love it. carol, great seeing you. coming up folks, what you need to know ahead of the final hour of trading. also, white house messaging, we kind of talked about it a moment ago. it really is a mess. the mainstream media is making things european worse. why more honest approach is the medicine that americans are craving right now. ♪. new projects means new project managers. you nee

soleil out what is happening.e talking about a global pandemic. >> good to be back with you, amy. the biden administration has pledged to be an arsenal of vaccines for the entire world, with the full recognition -- developing world unvaccinated, the become essentially factories r new variants like omicron. so there is an absolute sense of urgency among public health experts and within the biden administration. however, what happened was even despite gigantic pledge of vaccines, 1.1 billion doses, at is what the biden administration has pledged, startinground this summer i learned from my reporting, health officials inside the biden administration began to realize that they were hang uptake problems in far-flung countries. they were dropping off crates of vaccines on airport tarmac and lo and behold, without more logistical support, without boots on the ground helping to administer those vaccines, it was almost impossible in some countries to turn those donated doses into shots in arms. so i obtained an internal pl