high academic standards. he regrets saying this group was upset because children weren t, quote, as brilliant as they thought according to common core. every demographic has room for improvement. they have done it again, senate republicans blocking another one of president obama s nominees to serve on a key federal court. robert wilkins was six shy. republicans say there just isn t enough work for three additional judges. democrats say the republicans want to stop the president from filling the vacancies because they want to keep the courts conserve leanings. princeton university has decided to take drastic measures to combat a potentially deadly meningitis outbreak on campus. the university will provide students with a vaccine that is not approved in the u.s., but the cdc asked for permission to bring the vaccine in to specifically fight this outbreak. students should be able to get the first doses next month. quite a sight this morning on day 44 of the olympic torch
millions at stake. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. it is 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west. thanks so much for starting your day with us. we start in london, where the olympic games are under way right now. a 23-year-old chinese woman nicknamed shooting beauty competing in the 10-meter air rifle competition has won the first gold medal in london. meantime, u.s. swimmer michael phelps will compete against ryan lochte in the 400 individual medley tonight, but phelps narrowly qualified after a slow finish this morning. but it was queen elizabeth who almost certainly stole the show during last night s opening ceremony. take a look. good evening. good evening. the creative mind behind the ceremony, danny boyle, used his movie magic to show the queen teaming up with james bond actor daniel craig. in the scene, stunt doubles, not actually the queen, jumped from a helicopter portraying the two parachuting into the olympic stadium. mitt romney got to see an
actually see myself pummeling him to death, enjoying the ensags of each and every shot. michael was the court-appointed lawyer for rob and nancy s children. there is no question there was a lot of anger. divorcees are bad. certainly if it s your own children and you re getting divorced, it s a bad situation. in this case, these children didn t have to be in the situation. they could have been in a much more stable environment. there was a pattern of behavior there that clearly indicated a very stressful home, and that clearly indicated i think to any reasoned person that the interest of the children weren t served by being in that home. andrew s sister jane agreed. she petitioned for and was granted custody of the three children. she went so far as to make andrew and hayley s feud a matter of public record. andrew in retaliation left a message on his sister s answering machine. jane, it is your ex-brother, you re famous, on the front page of the new york times.
that s just one of them. michael was the court appointed lawyer for the children. there was a pattern of and if it s your own children it s in a bad situation, but these children didn t need to be in the environment. there was a pattern of behavior there that clearly indicated a very stressful home, and that clearly indicated i think to any reasoned person that the interest of the children weren t served by being in that home. andrew s sister jane agreed. she petitioned for and was granted custody of the three children. she went so far as to make andrew and hayley s feud a matter of public record. andrew in retaliation left a message on his sister s answering machine. jane, it is your ex-brother, you re famous, on the front page of the new york times. you should get it as you are
let s play reporter roulette. george how, let s begin with you. we heard that verdict read not even an hour ago. it sounded like a pretty emotional jury foreman, as well. tell us the verdict. guilty but mentally ill. that is the decision of this jury. as you mentioned, that sounded like a very difficult decision for the jury to reach. we will see hemy neuman go to prison but he will get mental illness treatment in prison. this was a case that happened in november of 2010 when hemy neuman admits to pulling the trigger killing rusty schneiderman after he dropped off his child to daycare. hemy neuman alleged he heard voices, that he heard voices from barry white and olivia newton-john encouraging him to pull the trigger. there s one thing that s really interesting. defense attorneys made this case. i ll quote the defense attorneys saying the gun in this case was in hemy s hand but the trigger i suggest was pulled by andrea sneiderma, implicating the wife of the victim and bo