after the show he said, do more of that. >> i've watched johnny carson, and you are no johnny carson. >> sometimes we had a bigger audience than "the tonight show." then he started a routine with you where he would talk to you during the show. >> yeah. >> hal? hal? good lord, hal. hal? >> hilarious and innovativinnov. everyone was along for the ride. there was guest cams and monkey c cam. >> they had a 360-degree show once where the show slowly over the course of the hour rotated. that was ridiculous. >> we had achieved 180 degrees. >> they did a show on a plane. i felt almost like it was somehow for me, like the heavens had opened up. >> letterman fan boy yijimmy kimmel. >> there's a picture of your 18th birthday. >> the cake was late night by letterman. my mom had a letterman jacket made for me. i played no sports, yet i wore a letterman jacket to high school every day. my license plate said l8 nite. it was the most formidable thing in my young life. >> thank you. >> i just remember like dave walking all the way down the hall with one camera following him, and it's live. >> don't ge

carson, and you are no johnny carson. >> sometimes we had a bigger audience than the tonight show. >> and then he started a routine with you where he would talk to you during the show. >> hal? hal? >> hilarious innovative. everyone was along for the ride. there was guest cam and monkey cam. >> they had a 360 degree show where the show slowly over the course of the hour rotated. >> we have a16 -- achieved 180 degrees. >> i felt like the heavens had opened up. >> and fan boy. >> there was a cake that you had? >> a fan boy david letterman cake. i had a license plate that said l 8 night. it seemed like such a waste of late night television. they started a new kind of humor. >> and here is one of the smaller offices right there. >> carson had some rules that we weren't suppose to break and the request was they shouldn't talk to an announcer and do an opening mon or log. i remember thinking that is it? that is all we don't have to do. well that leaves everything. >> writer merill markoe was the brains behind so much. they were involved professionally and romantically for more than a decade

do more of that. >> i watched johnny carson. and you are no johnny carson. >> sometimes we had a bigger audience than "the tonight show." >> here started a routine with you where he would talk to you during the show. >> hal! hal! >> hilarious and innovative. everyone was along for the ride. there was guest camp and monkey camp. >> they had a 360 degree camp where the show slowly over the course of the hour rotated. that was ridiculous. >> we achieved 180 degrees. >> they did a show on a plane and i felt like it was somehow for me. the heavens had opened up. >> letterman fan boy, jimmy kimmel. >> there was a picture from your 18th birthday? what was the cake? >> late night. my mom had a letterman jacket made for me like ones they had on the show. i played no sports and i wore a letterman jacket. they said l 8 nite. >> please clear the hall way. beat it, will you? thank you. >> just remember save balking all the way down the hall with one camera following him. it's live. >> don't get on that elevator. >> it seemed like such a wast

charlie: and then you did johnny. david: the johnny carson show, a couple of times. it went pretty well, but it was no real surprise because i had four or five years, and i had 20 minutes of material. i had it divided into four "tonight show" shots. charlie: and you've memorized it. david: everything. i knew the first one would go pretty well, and it did go pretty well. to me that was, and is the biggest thrill i've had since i've been doing television. charlie: what did he say to you when you sat down? david: i have no idea. i can't remember at the time i was sitting there. i left indianapolis in 1975. in 1978, i'm sitting next to johnny carson. it wasn't rich little. johnny was there that night. it was not hugh downs filling in for johnny, it was johnny. forgive me if it is clumsily articulated, but my reaction was, all your life you see a five dollar bill. and then suddenly you see lincoln. oh, my god, it's honest abe. that was the reaction. i was just completely wired for days and days after that. that was for me the single most important, but also the single mos

after the show, he said, do more of that. >> i watched johnny carson, and you are no johnny carson. >> sometimes we had a bigger audience than the tonight show. >> and then he started a routine with you where he would talk to you during the show. >> hal? hal? >> hilarious and innovative. everyone was along for the ride. there was guest cam and monkey cam. >> they had a 360 degree show once where the show slowly, over the course of the hour, rotated. that was ridiculous. >> we have achieved 180 degrees. >> they did the show on a plane. and i felt almost like it was somehow for me, like the heavens had opened up. >> letterman fan boy, jimmy kimmel. >> there is a picture i have seen from your 18th birthday. what was the cake? >> late night with david letterman. my mom made the cake. my mom had a letterman letterman jacket made for me. i played no sports. i had a letterman jacket i wore to school every day. my license plate says l8night. it seemed like such a waste of network television time. i loved it. they started a new kind of humor. >> get off the elevator.. i'm serious. and here is

and we would be watching johnny carson. and johnnie was like oh jeez, you know i love my dad but johnny is a little hipper than my dad. and so johnny kind of became a guy, an this is what you do if you are a guy. >> when is the last time you saw him alive. >> it was years ago. he and his wife were in town on their boat. and they invited me and my wife to have dinner with them. and we sailed up and down the hudson. we went under the george washington bridge turned around and came up and back past the lower-- looked right at the statue of liberty and then up the east river, turned around and came back. and it was all at sunset. it was magical. >> rose: he walked a which from it. could you walk away from it? >> yeah yeah. >> rose: you think so? >> yeah, i think you would always, i know johnny missed it. because like six months after he retired somebody had a big party for him in new york. and he had won some sort of an award. and people got up and did material and i had to get up and do material. and that damn ted koppel was t

i felt sorry for him, because he loved johnny carson and just like johnny he's a terrific host. on a show like this you know. so it was too bad but, hey, listen maybe it worked out just great for cbs and for him that he didn't follow johnny at his desk you know. >> because he was able to forge his own path in a way that he wanted to do it. >> he knows this business he knows this business inside out. i think he's going to be great and i hope he continues. i don't like to see him quit. he's in his 60s, he's still young, great, all put together. his heart is working. i mean come on. one night a week he is going to need that believe me don, he's going to want to come back. >> yeah. and i think he will in some form or fashion. he'll do it on his own terms, much as he has his entire career. so finally, steven cobear is going to replace dave in september. how will he stack up to your friend? >> i think it's going to be a different way to go. you know what i haven't seen that much of steven but he is playing another person isn't he? >> yes, he's playing a character on his show or he did

he paid tribute to carson first. what was it in the end that johnny carson did? david: he had a weight of listening. what i call, and deep listening. you have that as well. you know where something is interesting and where i should leave it alone. it is rare. you had that, johnny had that. jonny had it for comedy. he knows where to go with a comedian or author who is funny. be able to pull back. he would wait and wait and just give you one line that would be funnier than anything anyone said. charlie: talent and experience and timing. david: also what you love. people get to know you from watching you. know who you care about and who you did not. johnny was wide open about that. he was fun. people talk about the dark so he might have had and all that. i keep saying, if you see a guy for 20 years every night for an hour, don't you think you know him pretty well? who could hide that much? he had his favorites. newhart, he loved newhart and me when we failed. he would laugh the hardest at anything i said when it was not working. charlie: he laughed at it because he

carson. >> your father was in the competition and appeared on the tonight show with johnny carson in 1982. i believe we have a photograph of that event. >> what are they doing now? they're old enough to have kids who are on the show again. >> that's your dad. >> oh, my god. >> look at that. >> i think all of us who have gone on the show just agree he made everybody people completely at ease. >> it's the caribbean flamingo. >> he loves going on the show. you got recognized in grand central station. >> i get e-mails every year from people around the world who are curious about what we do and why and how. >> this is really crazy. >> they've just been so generous to us. >> beautiful. good luck getting in anywhere. come on, let's everybody come out here. >> that's piedmont on a regular night. tonight on letterman oakland native tom hanks and eddie vetter. >>> paul, it's chilly outside. when is the warmth coming back? >> not any time soon. the fire danger is down because the relative humidity is up. it is a cloudy humid night in san francisco. we're running well below average for the month

a rare and candid dave letterman as he >>> he was heir apparent to johnny carson, but when carson retired in 1992, the job went to jay leno. letterman left for cbs late night, and the rest is history. for nearly 22 years letterman has made us laugh with the top 10 and stupid pet tricks and lots of gas and one-liners in between. every celebrity, big and soon to become big, has stopped by the ed sullivan theater to talk to dave. today in his first one-on-one interview about retiring, dave letterman gives us a rare glimpse of what the journey has been like, and where it might go from here. dave letterman had talked about his alcohol history before, but there was always a joke to follow. not in this interview. >> you've talked about alcoholism. >> yeah. oh, man. >> is that for real? you're not talking about just, i drank a lot, but you were, or are an alcohol snake. >> i guess you're always an alcoholic. i drank right through until i was 34, and i had the show at nbc, and i said to myself, you're a fool, you're a dumb fool, you can't do this. they just don't give these shows to everybody. you

. >> steve allen, jack parr, johnny carson. now one of the late great talk shows, david letterman. only three nights left. monday's guests tom hanks and eddie vedder. >> we are trying to guess who might be his last guest. you made an interesting point about the johnny carson show. >> his friends in the audience, but it was female announcer: it's posturepedic vs. beautyrest with up to $400 off. serta icomfort and tempur-pedic go head-to-head with three years interest-free financing. mattress price wars are on now at sleep train. ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ oh, come on, melissa. how long are you gonna keep punishing me for this? okay, okay uh, once again you want to catch me up? alan: melissa, are you gonna let me talk? well, you know alan was nailing his receptionist, right? yeah. apparently, she caught him in bed with her mother. are you gonna let me talk? what do you know? i've been calling him that for years and now he's up and done it. i was stoned out of my mind. you know, that excuse has never once worked for me. me, either. cops or boyfriends. no. hey, hey,

but on "the tonight show with johnny carson" is a different story. look, here's you doing stand up. >> yeah, that's -- >> jimmy: with johnny carson. >> see, people of this generation wouldn't understand. but for a comic back then that was mt. everest. if johnny liked you. >> jimmy: yeah. >> you know, and so what you would do, and they would tell you before, you didn't know if you were coming to the chair. cause you would perform. and they said if johnny doesn't like you he'll clap, and if he likes you he'll give you, you know, a good job. >> jimmy: no good. >> and if he loves you he will wave you over to the chair. so you get to the end of the six minutes, you've been doing 500 shows a year, you know. and you're scared to look because it's like caesar, you know, does he live or does he die? [ laughter ] and so, yeah -- >> jimmy: you didn't talk to him before the show. >> no, you never met, you walk through the curtain and looked and went, oh my god there's johnny. you know. >> jimmy: yeah. >> so as you're -- and as you're doing, you think he's kind o

. >> and obviously his hero was johnny carson. and everybody believed that letterman was going to replace johnny carson. and of course jay when know did well for this network financially. but, you know, it's so interesting thatwhen know did well for this network financially. but, you know, it's so interesting that while johnny carson was huge and massive and had great influence and i loved him, it's ironic that johnny carson comes second in terms of influence to what david letterman has done to the comity landscape since 1982. >> i think there is no doubt about that. the cut churlture is so different and has been during most of dave's run at cbs that he really symbolizes there is a distance to him, an irony to him that is so just wrapped up in who we are as a culture today. it's really interesting. but he is so great. he is so great. >> so did you end up lyinging the "mad men" finale? >> yes i did. >> did you like it? >> i did. i've been a mad"mad men" fan since the show aired. so it's the end of an era literally and figuratively.

>> please say hello to johnny carson. >> i've watched johnny carson and you are no johnny carson. >> lots of laughs and, of course you know speaking of carson letterman really is the last late night host from that era, right, brian? so this is a real change of a guard. >> could you say from the "mad men" era seeing a baby boomer leave the stage. it really is generational change and all of the comedian on late night now from fallon to kimmel and all the rest they owe a lot to david letterman. >> oh my gosh and i think jimmy kimmel in fact says he is not going to have his show on that last night, really to pay homage to david letterman, he says he owes so much to david letterman and sew wants to show respect and won't have his show but sean pierre we saw bill murray among those, the first, you know on his show. and he apparently is going to be among the last on his show, given he has been on the show so many times, something like 40 times? >> bill murray will be back tom hanks will be back and eddie vedder will also be performing there as well. the big question is will jay leno come ba

johnny carson introduced the topical monologue but not necessarily political. he would do a joke about the president. people say carson people say carson daly. >> it is true. very depressing. >> but johnny's first joke was about richard nixon in 1962 his very first joke. when jay came on he loved politics so much we had the 24 hour news cycles we got so much material and we had bill clinton as president who was a multidimensional character, gave you many things to have jokes about. nowadays with jay gone it is spread out more. to get attention, people want to go viral. that's not necessarily a political joke. >> i was going to say what does he think of -- what does jay think of what social media has done to political comedy good and bad. >> i really don't know. i mean i suspect that you, like me you long for the old days you long for the days when -- >> you say that right? >> i understand. and what jimmy fallon does is great. his bits go viral. >> i feel like the show is almost designed that way. >> it is. >> it is not about putting together a one hour show it

i couldn't get a show now. >> for years letterman was the heir-apparent to his idol, johnny carson. >> there were rumors that you were going to fire bomb nbc. >> i ain't waiting in line. >> letterman publicly wounded moved to cbs. >> i was disappointed. but to my way of thinking it was not bitter. >> this morning, i wake up and next to me in bed is the head of a peacock. i don't know. >> he turned the late show into a comedic laboratory. >> this is it. this is my tv show. >> there was top ten list. >> i still wear those under wants for risky >> the stupid pet tricks. the television's most reliably irreverent personality is feeling that stall lick. >> when i'm down here during band numbers or commercial breaks i will go to various places and try to memorize what it looks like and how i feel and look at the audience and get the scale of things. because even though i've done it for so long, i don't ever want to be without a fairly accurate, fairly vivid impression of this experience. >> by any measure david letterman took his craft to new heights. his comic genius recognized by everyone.

actually, you remember carson. but johnny carson was extraordinary. dave somehow managed to be more influential. >> to your point carson was prolific, but he didn't change the map of the country. letterman was our voice for a generation. just his cynical but yet still at the same time he was establishment and anti-establishment, which is kind of what the boomers are. and he was more than anybody the voice of the boomer generation. >> and to position how bigthink how big he stayed when media broke into a million pieces. carson had his turf, but it was a much small are playing field. >> johnny carson had a monopoly. dave did not. and yet i love the tina fey line that every guy she ever dated had some of dave's personality in him. guys learned how to joke how to talk, how to act from watching dave letterman at night. certainly the humor side of things. >> he made irony a national way of speaking about culture and politics and everything else. >> let's toss to some of the moments from last night. >> i want to thank my own family, my wife, regina and my so

but he paid tribute to carson first. what was it in the end that johnny did? >> well, he had a way of listening. >> rose: listening. >> yeah. it's what i call deep listening am you have that instinct as well. you request-- you know where something is going to be interesting and where i should just leave it alone. it's rare. you have that johnny has that. but johnny has it for comedy. so he knows where how far to go with a comedian or how far to go within uh-huh thor who is funny and be able to pull back. and then he would wait and wait and wait and just give you one line that would be funnier than anything anyone said. >> rose: oh wow. and that is sus talent and experience and timing and all of that. >> yes, and also what you lover. in other words, people get to know you from watching you. they get to know who you care about, and who you don't care. >> rose: your passions. >> where your passions are. and johnny was just wide open about that. and he was fun you know. people keep on talking about the dark soul that he might have had, and all that. >> rose: there

there was johnny carson's "tonight show." and "arsenio" had been around for a while, but i think he had maybe two years left to go. it felt like it was johnny and it was dave, and in there is "nightline," and that is it. nbc had locked down a monopoly on the whole thing. it was a built-in audience. i can't tell you how many shows there are now. i have lost track. i think there might be 35 late-night shows. there's a ton of them. charlie: i see how many people are on at 11:00. you, me, a lot of people. conan: there's a ton of these shows, the technology changed with cable, then the internet comes along. tivo comes along, and the ability to watch things out of sequence. the late-night show, it started to become -- i often know that 11:00 or 11:30 at night, my choice would be to catch up on some of the shows i have missed earlier in the week. my natural inclination would not be -- i would not watch a late-night talkshow anyway just because it's not -- i would watch your show before a late-night comedy show. i can't relax watchin

different than johnny carson. similar to johnny carson. think what he created, top ten list, stupid pet tricks. throwing things off the roof of buildings. just really a staple in so many people's lives for so long. and that's why you are seeing amazing ges come on. bill murray his final guest. lot of surprises for the final show. just all the guests leading up, george clooney handcuffed himself to david letterman on the show last week he didn't want him to leave. i think that really is the sentiment so many people have. >> yeah, going to be interesting watching that. of course talking final shows, "mad men" just finished. so a sad day of course for all those fans out there. let's look at the show's huge cultural impact. and why it is ending now. >> oh, yeah, you know, raise your hand if you spent the weekend watching the amc marathon of "mad men." because if you turned it on, on, whenever it started friday, thursday, just you could not tear your self away from it. watching what this show really accomplished. and what really we saw througho

i got pregonged and didn't get on. >> jimmy: you got gonged if they are johnny carson impression? >> idiots. >> jimmy: who gonged you? >> i auditioned and didn't get on the show. >> jimmy: did you get in "tiger beat" magazine. >> i don't think so because look i look like humphrey bogart. >> jimmy: sinatra bogart thing going on. you are saying that is not what the teens were eating up in 1979. >> little did they know they could have had an exclusive. way back then. >> jimmy: that magazine would probable still be around to this day. >> that's right. >> jimmy: you had your revenge for sure. >> that's right. "tiger beat" -- >> jimmy: you are going back. >> finger of shame. >> jimmy: oh, yeah. when you turn to the camera somebody dies. >> someone get jimmy some coffee. >> jimmy: yeah, somebody get me a little cup. congratulations. you are so fantastic. you are great in it as always. "house of cards" is on netflix. kevin spacey, everybody. we will be right back with ioan gruffudd. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ bacopeachugulascuit. ♪ avochickarachascuit. ♪ all it takes is just thre

. >>> of course, we know dave's hero is johnny carson's. johnny's send off was under stated affair. it should be fun. >> it will be fun. you cannot wait to see who shows up f that woman stays outside the theater with her board. >> we will see if she gets herman. you do not want to miss davies big finally tonight lots of surprises, memorable moments dave's final top ten list, and you final late show at 11:35 right here on cbs-3 immediately following "eyewitness news" at 11:00 o'clock. all day long, all week long, people have been sharing their love for david letterman on social media hash tag letterman has been receiving 400 posts per minute on twitter, people paying tributes sharing their own memories as dave wraps up 33 years of entertaining us. so many of us have your own favorite letterman homes what are yours. connect with us on the cbs philly facebook page or tweet us at cbs philly and use that hash tag cbs-3 chat. >>> keeping that jacket handy it will be a chilly spring night. meteorologist kathy orr live on the sky deck now tracking these dropping temperatures and then a chan

. >> i've watched johnny carson. and you are no johnny carson. improviseing with a guy on the level of david letterman is really an honor, nobody gets to do that. >> reporter: the seasoned musician is also famous for his musical puns. >> it's paul "just play along" schaefer. >> reporter: like playing a spin doctor song for former white house press secretary jay carney or nirvana's qul all "all apologies" for mitt romney. >> i had a repertoire of songs in common with our audience. so when i picked a song to make a point, people would get it because we had this repertoire in common. it was a lot of fun. >> reporter: not just fun for schaefer but for viewers and guests as well. >> 80% of the guests probably don't know what paul is referring to. he fills gaps that need to be filled. he always has kind of the perfect reaction. >> are you paying attention? >> yes, i am. >> reporter: shaffer and letterman are also good friends, bonding over holidays spent away from the spotlight, performing in war zones. >> first year in afghanistan and christmas eves i

reporter: carl sagan brought the idea to the masses on the johnny carson show in 1976. the human race is only five years into experiments. the first to fly was japan's icarus in 2010 for about $60 million. nasa has invested 25 million over the last two decades, to prove space defendant in 2010. they try to follow with son jammer. that mission had to be scrapped. this is welcome news. johnson was excited for two reasons. >> it will eventually let us go to the stars. we don't have to worry about bringing everything with us. reporter: following the path of science fiction from star wars to star trek. they might take us across the solar system in the next hundred years. emily: coming up, we are putting pebble's newest smart watch to the test to see how it stacks up next to the apple watch. ♪ emily: it is time for the daily bite, one number that tells a whole lot. this is the number of hours of original scripted tv that aired last year. if you wanted to watch every minute, you would have to be watching for 24 straight hours for at least eight months. that is a ton of origi

carson. >> your father was in the competition and appeared on the tonight show with johnny carson in 1982, is that correct? >> that's right. >> i believe we have a photograph of that event. there he is right there. >> kids who went on, what are they doing now, they are old enough to have kids who are on the show again. >> that's your dad. >> oh, my gosh. >> look at that. >> i think all of us agree he made us feel at ease. >> caribbean flamingo. >> we loved the show and we got recognized in grand central station. [ bird calls ] >> i get emails every year from people all around the world who are curious about what we do and why and how we do it. [ bird calls ] >> it was crazy. [ screaming ] >> they have just been so generous. >> good luck getting in anywhere. [ laughter ] >> pretty cool. tonight on the late show dave's first-ever guest bill murray also music legend bob dylan. should be a good show immediately after kpix 5 news at 11. >> liz were you saying you wanted to go to piedmont high just to be a bird caller. >> but i didn't grow up in piedmont. i was in the next town over. >> do

and he appeared on the tonight show with johnny carson in 1982, is that correct? >> that's right. >> i believe we have a photograph of that event. there he is right there. [ applause ] >> what are they doing now? they are old enough to have children on the show again. >> that's your dad! oh, my gosh! >> look at that. [ bird calls ] >> all of us who went on the show just agree he had everybody feel completely at ease. >> the caribbean flamingo. take it away, guys. >> it was an amazing trip. we loved the show. we got recognized in grand central station. >> i get emails every year from people all around the world are curious about what we do, why we do it how we do it. [ bird calling ] >> it was crazy. >> good luck getting in anywhere. [ laughter ] >> come on, let's everybody come out here! >> lots of fun there. tonight on the late show, letterman's first-ever guest on his nbc and cbs shows bill murray. also, musical guest bob dylan. it can be seen tonight at 11:35 right here on kpix 5. and no guest announced for tomorrow night's finale. >> back to the bird calling.

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johnny carson's jokes really went downhill, totally lame and mostly frat house gags. it started out with a little pitter of laughter from a little pitter of laughter from the audience and then the next time he told a joke that was awful they were silent and by the end they were actually booed him on the air. in just over a year nasa's selection and sally's conduct had transformed it to a headline. just before she flew i i said do you feel under any pressure as the first american woman. she said yes i do i feel pressure not to mess up. that's all she said but i knew what she meant. meant. she didn't want to mess up for the crew or the mission for nasa for the united states or for the future of human spaceflight. spaceflight. all of these things were terribly important to her. mostly she didn't want to mess up for other women. she understood that if she messed up it would be interpreted that no woman whatever fly is an astronaut. if she did well that door would be wide open for everybody. listen to what another astronaut from another generation said about sally's flight

speaking of johnny carson. when he left in may of '92 he said, you know, i don't know what i will do next. i will figure it out and i will be back. he never really did anything else. do we have any idea if he will do anything else? has he said anything? >> reporter: well, i don't think he will be able to sit still for long. in "rolling stone" he stpr-fs viewed and that was view -- it was brought up. he said he floated an idea to jerry seinfeld, interviewing comedians on horses but he has not heard back. he is itching to do something else. we are not saying good-bye forever to dave. thank goodness. >> all right, suzanne, thank you for your report. you made it fun and we look forward to the next three nights. >> thank you, guys. >>> again, there are just three late night shows left. join david letterman tomorrow night when the guests will be tom hanks and the singer of pearl jam. all at 11:35 tomorrow night righ >>> a scare for visitors at the word trade center. vice tors were erbs vac waited after many started t

because johnny carson's jokes really went downhill, totally lame. mostly frat house gags. and they started out with a little at this timer of -- titer of audience. next time he told a joke that was awful, they kind of, next time they were silent, by the end they actually booed him. on the air. in just over a year, nasa's selection and sally's conduct transformed female astronauts from a punch line to a matter of national pride. the entire nation was riding with her. when i had my one-on-one interview with sally right before she flew, i said look, do you feel under any pressure as the first american woman to go up? she said yes i do feel pressure, she said, not to mess up. so all sally said but i knew just what she meant. she didn't want to mess up for the crew. she didn't want to mess up for the mission for nasa for the united states, for future of human spaceflight. all of these things were terribly important to her. but mostly i think she didn't want to mess up for other women. she understood that if she messed up it would be interpreted that no woman could ever fly as a

he made a pitch for his solar sail to johnny carson in 1976. the sail uses sunlight to propel it through space. in theory it can build enough momentum to travel at incredible speeds. a group has developed thelight sail and could be launched into spacespace next spring. >>> thousandses of beauty salons and barber shops are serving alcohol illegally in california but a new bill would allow the becomeses to serve without a liquor license. >> this is one of the stupidest and most dangerous bills i've seen in a long time. >> beauty and booze. the effort to deregulate alcohol across the state. tonight at 11:00 on abc7 news. >>> coming up next at 6:00, these women are homeless but not forgotten on this mother's day. >>> a look at your monday morning forecast. meteorologist drew tuma is up next. >> in sports, as if steve kerr did not he enough to deal with. the warriors lose a big man heading into game four. the giants finishing up their female announcer: the mattress price wars are on at sleep train! we challenged the manufacturers to offer even lower

sagan made a pitch for his solar sail to johnny carson in 1976. the sail uses sunlight to propel it through space. in theory, it can build up enough momentum to travel at incredible speeds. now a group has developed the light sail using a space age fabric. it will be tested may 20 and could be launched into space next spring. >>> do you like to sip while your hair gets snipped? there's a new push to allow beauty salons and barbershops in california to serve alcohol without a liquor license. but not everyone is onboard. >> we have licenses because this is a question of public safety and public health. >> the fight to get booze out of these businesses, tonight at 11:00 on abc 7 news. >>> in honor of asian pacific american heritage month we're using our abc 7 news instagram feed to highlight the people who are making a difference where you live. we are recognizing this mother of three, beautiful kids. she says she feels blessed not only for her children but also for her own mother. more information on our instagram feed. >>> coming up next on abc 7 n

there was the johnny carson's tonight show, that was it. and arsenio had been around for a while but i think he had maybe two years left to go. but he was around. but it was really -- i felt like it was johnny and it was dave, and then there's "nightline" and that's it. and nbc had kind of locked down a monopoly on the whole thing so it was a built-in audience. i can't tell you how many shows there are now. i've lost track and i'm in the business. i think there might be 35 late night shows. >> rose: a ton of them. a whole bunch of people are on at 11:00 you, me a bunch of other people. >> there's a ton of these shows. the technology changed with cable and then the internet comes along and what's happening is that -- and tiv0 comes along and the ability to watch things out of sequence. so the late night show it started to become -- i mean i often know that at 11:00 or 11:30 at night my choice would be to catch up on some of the shows i missed earlier in the week, so my natural inclination would not be -- i mean, i wouldn't watch a late-night

he made a pitch for his solar sail to johnny carson in 1976. the sail uses sunlight to propel it through space. in theory it can build enough momentum to travel at incredible speeds. a group has developed thelight sail and could be launched into spacespace next spring. >>> thousandses of beauty salons and barber shops are serving alcohol illegally in california but a new bill would allow the becomeses to serve without a liquor license. >> this is one of the stupidest and most dangerous bills i've seen in a long time. >> beauty and booze. the effort to deregulate alcohol across the state. tonight at 11:00 on abc7 news. >>> coming up next at 6:00, these women are homeless but not forgotten on this mother's day. >>> a look at your monday morning forecast. meteorologist drew tuma is up next. >> in sports, as if steve kerr did not he enough to deal with. the warriors lose a big man heading into game four. the giants finishing u you used to sleep like a champ. then boom... what happened? stress, fun, bad habits kids, now what? let's build a new, smar

his meanting johnny carson. >> no comedian owes more than to letterman than ray romano. >> if i get emotional punk me. >> reporter: it led to the hit series "everybody loves raymond." >> without dave i don't know where i am without him. >> reporter: letterman made 31 appearances here on "the late show." richard lewis was one of dave's favorite guests. >> we just had this wonderful crazy relationship. >> reporter: lewis said it's because of letterman he doesn't do stand-up on television. >> i was too physical. the camera was right here. running around like a guy escaped from a hospital. he said i don't want you to sit down. i want you to squirm and be crazy. >> reporter: he paved the way for him and many others. david spade said he and his comedian friends always wanted to make david letterman laugh the most because he's the hardest to please. reporting live in new york i'm suzanne marquette, cbs news. >> bill murray the first ever "late show" guest sits down for one last time. and bob dylan is the musical guest. and tomorrow night is the end of the line. the final "late show" with d