normandy while there for the 75th anniversary robbins thought he would never see her again. pete: never too late. jedediah: a movie made o after it. that is a good story. yogi berra cultural icon not just a baseball icon. his fame transcended the game. yogi is such as it anti-biotic over until it s over when you come to a fork in the road take it. a nickel ain t worth a dime anymore. so many of them. they found their way into the american lexicon. jedediah: new memoir yogee s son writes about growing up with the my dad yogi. pete s pete former baseball player himself dale berra joins us now. thank you for having me. happy father s day, everybody. pete: special one for you with the release of this book. why did you decide to write this memoir. this book is a tribute to my dad what an amazing man
. i m page hopkins and here s what s happening. the execution of georgia inmate kelly renee gissendaner was set to go ahead at this hour as planned despite a last-minute appeal for clemency and a plea from the pope. she was convicted of planning to kill her husband. there s still no word whether that execution has been carried out. tropical storm joaquin wicod become a hurricane tomorrow before heading towards the east coast. friends and family attended a private funeral earlier for baseball icon yogi berra. he died last week at the age of 90. now back to hardball. welcome back to hardball. after months of making himself scarce, form president bill
meanwhile, the los angeles dodgers, they put on a show not far from hollywood opening day. magic johnson on the mound to throw out the ceremonial first pitch when skipper don mattingly came out, gave him the hook, and instead went with the dodger legend and baseball icon sandy koufax. however, it was current dodger ace pitcher clayton kershaw carrying the day. kershaw hit his first career home run in the eighth giving the dodgers a lead. he followed that up with a complete-game shutout of the san francisco giants. no one has thrown a shutout and hit a homer on opening day since cleveland s bob lemon in 1953. and guys, bryce harper unbelievable talent. he is a beast when he swings that bat. i mean that in a good way. as we said on pace to hit 324 home runs this season after two on opening day. he may slow down during the season. all right, thanks so much. so far who is undebeated? the boston red sox. so far. still ahead this morning on starting point
unfolding right now over chick-fil-a. the issue, same sex marriage. i m wolf blitzer in aspen, colorado. you re in the situation room. they re not the headlines mitt romney s campaign was hoping to see as the candidate met britain s prime minister today. romney sparked an uproar with remas about london s readiness for the olympic games and promptedprompt ed pointed rebuke against himself. jim acosta is in london traveling with romney right now. what s going on with the republican candidate? what happened? reporter: wolf, earlier today mitt romney told british leaders he s hoping to take in an olympic swimming event during his time here in london. but with no pool in sight he s making some waves of his own. as mitt romney chatted up the olympics in meeting after meeting with former and current british leaders, the london media were already off to the races with comments the gop contender made about the city s preparations for the games. you know, it s hard to know just
could affect all of us, including our own mail delivery. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. jtsdzer. it all begins in iowa. right now many of the republican presidential candidates are in that state, a state that holds the lead-off contest in 2012. they re working the crowds at the state fair before tomorrow s pivotal iowa straw poll. and they re taking direct aim at president obama s handling of the debt crisis and the u.s. economy. listen to some of the republican hopefuls, including sarah palin, who insists she still hasn t decided whether to run. i think the question should be asked, is the president responsible for the down grade? i would say yes. from the top, that leadership starts from the top. look what happened two weeks ago. when barack obama s back was against the wall. what did he do to try to scare americans to call their members of congress? he threatened social security recipients that their money wouldn t be there. he threatened medicare