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
now lawmakers are trying to change that. it s our 10:30 talker. we start this hour with the weather. we are all hoping for a break from this oppressive heat. well, sorry, not today. i hate to see all that red on these maps we re about to show you, but those are the heat warnings. and as you can see, it is going to be pretty bad today. the record triple-digit temperatures are being blamed for at least five deaths. and don t forget about the 350,000 people still without power after storms tore through the atlantic states last week. it has been a week with no power and no air conditioning, but in many of those places, cooling centers have opened up to help try to cool people down. now to afghanistan and a commitment from the united states. secretary of state hillary clinton spelled out the partnership that will take the two countries beyond the planned troop withdrawal in 2014. afghanistan is now designated a major non-nato ally. that means the u.s. will keep up defense, s
ahead of next week s pivotal ruling. the ruthless taunting she faced touched the nation. now the dough is rolling in for this school bus monitor. i traveled to her hometown for how it all went down. good morning, everyone. eye randi kaye. we start with jerry sandusky and the guilty verdict. they found him guilty on 45 of 48 counts all related to instances of sexual abuse of ten young boyce. sandusky was immediately taken into custody handcuffed and taken away. joining me is one of his defense attorneys. thank you, carl, for joining us this morning. first of all, what is the latest on his condition this morning? is he indeed on suicide watch? uh, he is in what they call one on one administrative custody, which i think most would call suicide watch. it was done with the purpose in placing him in that kind of restrictive environment, as a prophylactic or safety measure by the court and the warden. i think it s important there s no reason to believe he needs to be on suicid
he s completely out of touch. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the remaining 39,000 u.s. troops in iraq will be out by december, the fulfillment of an obama campaign promise, the end of a war, the beginning of the unknown. i think that they deserve great credit. at the same time, we are now leaving iraq completely which is the number one priority of the iranians. another journey into the unknown is full throttle in libya now, after the brutal death of its brutal dictator, moammar gadhafi. only two days earlier, secretary of state hillary clinton was in libya, pledging support to the transitional government. her reaction to gadhafi s death caught on camera while in afghanistan went viral. wow. we came, we saw, he died. earlier, i spoke with secretary clinton, who was in uzbekistan. secretary clinton, thank you so much for joining us. i want to start with iraq, and clearly the biggest concern here is that with
be part of a possible terror plot against the u.s. planned to coincide with the 9/11 anniversary. government sources say they think two of these three people are american citizens. we will have the very latest in a moment. republicans running for president getting ready for monday night s big debate in tampa. cnn and the tea party express teaming up and sponsoring this event which will feature questions from the audience. we are just minutes away from nasa heading to the moon. a scheduled launch, a new mission, we ll tell you all about it. plus we will show you that launch when it happens live scheduled for about 28 minutes from now. wondering if the weather was going to cooperate there in florida. looks like we re a go for launch today on this saturday, september 10th. i m t.j. holmes. thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. we do start now as the country gets ready to stop and remember the 9/11 events, there is a new terror threat right now that is possib