we are still we re still a young nation, and we ve got the greatest diversity of talent and ingenuity that comes from every corner of the globe. nobody knows that better than florida. so no matter what the naysayers tell us, no matter how dark the other side tries to paint the situation, there is not another country on earth that would not gladly trade places with the united states of america. president obama firing up the crowd there, winter park, florida. you heard them chanting, four more years, touting some of the items he has gotten done in the last 3 1/2 years. keep in mind, not too many states away, we had mitt romney speaking in golden, colorado. folks, three more months until those november elections. you can keep watching the president, go to cnn.com/live. and now, roll the open. as we continue hour two, i m brooke baldwin. al qaeda may be plotting new terror, plots from the skies. police in southern spain have arrested these three suspected members of al qaed
a commuter airliner and two other planes dangerously close to one another. it happened at washington s reagan national airport. and in an extraordinary move, the faa administrator and the transportation secretary came out today to talk about what happened. our brian todd is at the airport. brian. reporter: yeah, candy. extraordinary because for the first time we re getting the hard information from america s two top transportation officials that this was really too close a call. they came out in a hastily called news conference to say, yes, it was too close a call. another part of that news conference they really want to brush back on initial media reports saying that these planes were on a collision course. they re saying they would not have collided. that would not have happened. essentially the way they lay it out is this. it all played out pretty much over where i m standing here tuesday afternoon. there was a whole line of planes coming in from that direction toward me
greg louganis and carl lewis. you can t top the first olympics. this is a gold medal edition of piers morgan tonight. good evening from london. the 2012 olympics have been rocked by a huge scandal tonight. eight players from three countries expelled for trying to lose their patches. some are accusing a chinese swimmer of doping. they charge they re not only wrong but racist. i know you as lord coh. thank you. you must be the most excited, relieved man in the world right now. it s all gone so smoothly. i was excited before it started. i m now into that sort of, it s got to work. very, very frafl to hundreds of thousands of brits who have helped us get this far. you know what this area was like. this was desolate. we ve now got a thriving community and sport kicked it all off. we got pride back in the country, which is great. some big stories developing today. one i m very interested to get your take on. one is the badminton farce. i heard you before they got el
simply seizing firearms purchased from mexican drug cartels by so-called straw buyers throughout the southwest. instead, says the report, fast and furious was part of a plan to let those buyers and the guns walk in hopes of identifying and busting entire gun running networks. instead, fast and furious guns began turning up at crime scenes in mexico and here at home, including the killing of u.s. border agent brian terry in 2010 right before christmas. his death came at the end of a long chain of mistakes starting at gun shops it the gun dealers were reassured atf was closely monitoring the transactions and interdicting the weapons. the report focuses sharply on this man. william newell. the republican investigators concluding that agent newell authorized and endorsed fast and furious and let it continue long after atf had the goods on the straw buyers. bill newell had the ability and the duty to end operation fast and furious much sooner than it did. instead, the report state
i m carol costello. we begin with chick-fil-a appreciation day. and what s become depending on who you talk to a fight for religious freedom. today, hundreds of thousands say they ll show support for chick-fil-a s coo dan cathy and his stand against same-sex marriage. that includes evangelicals, including the reverend billy graham, who s in poor health. a staffer will deliver chick-fil-a to his home. george, good morning. reporter: carol, good morning. according to chick-fil-a, today will be business as usual. the company does not officially support this idea that was sparked by a once republican presidential candidate mike huckabee. nor will it support the national same-sex kiss day that is expected to happen on friday. but when you look at huckaby s facebook page, the page he created to ask people to sign up and support chick-fil-a today, you find that more than half a million people will be showing up to these different stores to show their support. that s what we expect