she touched the lives of so many people in so many different ways all over the world. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening from london. day four of the 2012 summer olympics. indeed an historic day for the world and for every single american. michael phelps shows everyone he s the best of all time, swimming his way into the record books. winning not one but two medals it giving him an astonishing 19 olympic medals. quite extraordinary. it comes as a 16-year-old girl from china wins another gold and leaves yet more questions about whether her incredible achievements are more than god given. i m joined now by christine brennan from usa today and dominique dawes who was part of the dream team. the magnificent seven who last won gymnastic gold for america in 1996. let s talk michael phelps. it s the big story today. he s become officially the greatest olympic medal winner in history. what does it mean to any olympic athlete? michael phelps has definitely earned e
marriage, mystique and the legacy of grace kelly. she touched the lives of so many people in so many different ways all over the world. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening from london. day four of the 2012 summer olympics. indeed an historic day for the world and for every single american. michael phelps shows everyone he s the best of all time, swimming his way into the record books. winning not one but two medals it giving him an astonishing 19 olympic medals. quite extraordinary. it comes as a 16-year-old girl from china wins another gold and leaves yet more questions about whether her incredible achievements are more than god given. i m joined now by christine brennan from usa today and dominique dawes who was part of the dream team. the magnificent seven who last won gymnastic gold for america in 1996. let s talk michael phelps. it s the big story today. he s become officially the greatest olympic medal winner in history. what does it mean to any olympic
and you can see the folks poured out there. bec becky, give us a preview of what is happening with the countdown being on at least for the u.s. and other parts of the world to get a chance to see the opening ceremonies. that is right. we are what for hours away and counting now. you can really feel the buzz in london. i m at hyde park, and one of the big zones and one of the four acts that will connect into the opening ceremony which is at the olympic park of course in the east side of london. we have duran duran, and stereophonics and aptly named scot paola paccini who will be playing at the olympic stadium, and quite remarkable to think of what has gone on into the planning for this. they have been practicing months and months and danny boyle, the drek tor of slumdog millionaire has been organizing events and we won t tell you too much about that, because a lot of it is under wraps and when you get piers down, there he will give us more of a sense of what is going on, b
be set right. that s why i want to go back. piers morgan tonight from london. good evening and welcome to london where the olympic games are set to start in two days time. behind me is where the olympics stadium lurks in the east of london. over there is one of the centers of the security operation, hms ocean. security at a premium. making sure the games run smoothly. who better to talk to about this than tony blair who was the british prime minister when the bid was first launched to bring the games to london. tony blair, let s start with the london olympics. you were instrumental in bringing this back to london after so long. why is it important for a country to get it? talk about the economics of it. talk about the impact positively if you land the olympics. well, you are the center of attention. and so for london and for britain, this is an opportunity to be there in front of the whole world to say this is what we re about, say look at the great show we re putting on.
involving the colorado theater massacre. a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation tells cnn police and the fbi have discovered a package in the university of colorado mail room that appears to have been mailed by the suspected shooter, james holmes. cnn s ed lavandera is in aurora for us. ed, what do we know about this package? reporter: well, we re still trying to gather information on what exactly is inside that package, wolf. but as you mentioned that law enforcement official telling cnn that on monday police and fbi discovered a package that was apparent apparently sent by james holmes, the 24-year-old suspected gunman. now it s unclear obviously if this package was indeed sent by him, it was clearly sent before he was taken into custody. it arrived at some point on monday at the university mail room. we ve also been told by hospital officials over the last couple of days this is something we ve been monitoring for some time that there were two packages t