and that ferocious will to win. when i step up on the block i am wearing stars and stripes. that s the coolest thing. their word, their stories, america s hope. this is a special edition of piers morgan tonight. good evening. big story tonight, london 2012. it s hard to believe we re fewer than 50 days away from the olympics. the world will be there. for america the best athletes will be hoping to take home the gold. the gym nast nasticks national team is taking place this weekend. the last great contest before the games themselves. i ve talked with star nastia liukin in just a moment. but first let s get to preparations under way back in london. days after the jubilee, the city is working around the clock to get ready. let s start with richard quest, who is at the heart of things. richard? reporter: piers, barely have we got over the excitement of the jubilee and finally dried out. and now get ready for the olympics in 49 days time. 10,500 athletes from more than
good evening, everyone. i m eric burnett. how much will it cost to bail out europe? $1 million. just like dr. evil in austin powers, that s not enough. $100 billion. nope. even a super villain would not ask for a number this big. the final number to bail out europe could be closer to $6 trillion. so take a deep breath. i ll get to the grand total in just a moment. days ahead of the crucial greek elections, spain asked for $125 billion to bail out its banks. and that s just the beginning because spain is only one of several european countries lining up for more money. spain, portugal, ireland, greece, already have asked for $615.5 billion. but does it add up to enough to save them and us from more economic calamity? sources tell outfront, not even close. one of our most reliable sources says that all estimates to date on how much this is going to cost have been wrong. he warns about a domino effect, most notably on france and says we re not even close to stabilizat
a member of president obama s cabinet is under investigation now for hit and run. after allegedly leaving the scene of one collision, then causing another. the white house says health issues were a factor. but there are so many unanswered questions. brian todd has been investigating the story for us. what are you finding out? there are a lot of unanswered questions, wolf. commerce secretary john bryson is now back in washington after the accident over the weekend. the information is still murky. we re told the secretary did have some kind of seizure at some point. the commerce secretary allegedly caused traffic accidents at two different scenes within about five minutes. the sequence started just north of los angeles. at 5:00 p.m. local time on saturday, police say he was driving his lexus southbound and rear ended a car waiting at a rail crossing. at some point after that he got out of the vehicle, made contact with the individuals. for some reason got back in the vehi
some 400 firefighters battling a huge blaze in colorado. this blaze doubled in size overnight. thousands of people were forced from their homes. i cannot imagine that my house is there as close as the fire was, and now i won t have a home. i have no place to go. so far the fires have gone through nearly 37,000 acres, a massive blaze. now the commerce secretary cited in two car accidents over the weekend suffered a seizure. that is the word today from a spokeswoman from the commerce department about the investigation into the accidents involving secretary john bryson are ongoing. brianna keilar joining us live with the latest. brianna, do we know when he had the seizure in relation to when the accidents happened? no, michael, we don t know that. it seems like the implication is that the seizures somehow caused the accident, but the statement coming from the commerce department doesn t exact ly mak that clear. it just says that he was involved in the traffic accidents, an
secretary john bryson is in the hospital after being cited for a felony hit-and-run. he crashed into a stopped car over the weekend twice and left the scene and hit a second car. they found him unconscious behind his wheel. brianna keeler is live at the white house this morning. what exactly happened? reporter: well, this happened in the los angeles area in about the 5:00 local hour on saturday. according to the l.a. sheriff s department, secretary bryson, behind the wheel of a lexus, allegedly hit a car, a buick that was stopped at a railroad crossing. there were three guys in the car. according to this press release, he got out and talked to them and then went on his way. as he did so, hit the buick yet again. at that point the buick tailed him and called 911 and the next time when police did find bryson, he was in his car, this pregs release alleged and unconscious and apparently hit another car, a honda accord. the first accident happening in san gabriel and second in