paula faris. well, it is nearly two weeks, now, since the colorado shooting left 12 dead. and now, there are questions whether warning signs about suspected gunman, james holmes, were ignored. here s abc s mark greenblatt with our exclusive reporting. reporter: abc news has learned that psychiatrist dr. lynne fennton, was a key member of the threat assessment team. these documents that abc uncovered show that fennton wrote the policy on threat assessment. what s more, that by early june, fenton notified other members of the team about concerns about holmes behavior. but on june 10th, three days after holmes bought an assault weapon, he told the university he was quitting. so, the assessment team never had a formal meeting and never inconvened, thinking they had no control over holmes once he left. i think that s a signal that you should intensify your efforts, not walk away. under those circumstances, most well-trained threat assessment teams would have gone into actio
i had a blast with it. it was so much fun. they are all saying it s ok, it s ok. it s not ok. china. two olympic games in a row! a swimmer in massachusetts is recovering from a shark attack off of cape cod. the man was bitten in both legs. the proposal was on the scoreboard at center, but she was off getting beverages. all that did you breast feed? gosh. you re so annoying. barack obama s own story. let me finish. let me finish! don t scream. and all that matters. you cannot control the big dog. he goes where he wants to go and says what he wants to say. are you referring to me or bill clinton? there is nothing like the thrill of seeing team usa triumph in an internet headline, and then waiting to see it confirmed on nbc seven hours later. i mean, the suspense. captioning funded by cbs republican presidential candidate mitt romney heads back to the u.s. today. he made one final speech in poland s capital this morning. critics are still focu
and nbc didn t even use the initial sound bite because it didn t consider it particularly newsworthy. classic, classic michael kinsly gaffe. he said something that everyone else was saying, soming that was the truth. but if a politician says it gets you in trouble. remember, the british press has an outrage machine the likes of which we do not understand in the united states. and they have a hair trigger for the someone from outside of the u.k. offending them. and so, you know, this was a british press this was driven by the british press. i don t think the american press would have picked up on it unless we saw those headlines over there. unless we saw the outrage that the british a the the street generated. let me come back to historical perspective from kelly goff. you saw the coverage, we sought coverage of obama in 08 when he went overseas. it s hard to see the same approach. no, i will say we have to keep in mind that there were specific reasons why t
100-round ammunition clip to kill and wound as many people as he possibly can, our government believes that we should do nothing. are the media inflaming the issue? plus, with the london olympics underway, nbc news pulls out the stops to promote the network s coverage of the games. back here in london with tower bridge lit up so beautifully behind us, with less than 24 hours to go now until the opening ceremony is this promotion in the guise of news? we ll talk about that and more with veteran sports writer frank deford. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. it s becoming standard practice for a presidential candidate to buttress his dippic credentials by meeting with world leaders when candidate obama did it in 2008, all three network anchors flew overseas to interview him. [ applause ] i ll be reporting next week from the middle east. we ll have the first one-on-one interview with senator obama. the coverage of mitt romney s visit to britain, pol
friendship with netanyahu help him. we re learning the alleged colorado shooter was being treated by a psychiatrist. might that play into his defense? good morning, welcome to weekends with alex witt. we begin with news from london and the 30th olympic games, michael phelps and ryan lochte will face off in the 400 individual medley. it is a tough race encompassing all four strokes, qualifying heats began this morning. police arrested more than 100 cyclists near olympic stadium. scotland yard says the procycling rally brow through the security corps done. and 80,000 spectators packed into the olympic stadium for the opening ceremony. there was an unexpected cauldron lighter and appearance by the queen and song by sir paul mccartney. let s go to nbc s michelle kosinski live in london. good day to you, it is an exciting day as we get things going. what s happening today? reporter: hi, alex, you mentioned the swimming heats taking place as we speak and last tonight we ll