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before the shooting. as chick-fil-a tries to spread its wings some cities want to clip them. we ll talk to one politician that says not in my town. good morning, everyone. i am randi kaye. 8:00 on the east coast, 5 a.m. on the west. thanks for waking up with us. just hours after the opening ceremony a chinese woman has won the first gold medal in the london olympics. she competed in the 10 meter air rifle competition and to recap the highlights queen elizabeth officially opened the 2012 games with an epic journey through the u.k. history. danny boyle was the creative mind behind the $42 million show. what got everyone talking is this skit. boyle used his movie magic to show the queen parachuting into the stadium with actor daniel craig who plays the spy in the franchise but stunt doubles were used. don t worry, the queen was not parachuting in herself. now onto the biggest competition at the olympics today, michael phelps hoping to be the first male swimmer to win the s
bill lacey, vietnam war vet and hero was in the dmz for a number of years and leading a platoon there and bill was with his brother and another fellow rick stewart, owned p.w. s restaurant right there on the same street as the palm here in washington. and he told me the story years ago, but he didn t want me to write it until a couple months ago. i said look, the 40th anniversary of watergate is coming up, let me write the story and he finally agreed to let me write the story about how the cop that was assigned to that squad car 80, assigned to that patrol area which included the watergate hotel, was getting drunk at a bar at about 2:00 in the morning. he couldn t respond. so he called the dispatcher back and said look, i can t look i m low on gas is what he said and so then they called the backups who were the three undercover cops, they show up at the watergate plain clothes in 1972 ford sedan, and the spotter
good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, a greek collapse. literally. the greek finance minister just hours before he was to be sworn into his new role, it s a crucial role, fainted. it was a depressing visual for a country that is trying with a brand-new government to keep its economy from entering a black hole. the greek leader s collapse kept him from going to the highly anticipated euro 2012 soccer match today. greece took a shellacking from germany. germany was favored to win. the bookies only gave greece 17-2 odds. so the outcome was predictable. sort of like the break-up of the eu. italian prime minister mario monty warned today of the apocalypse. saying there is only one week left to save the euro zone. that s after the leaders of germany, france, spain and italy met today, to once again say we re going to do whatever it takes to strengthen our monetary union. the problem is they talk a lot and they don t do much. they have not done that yet. no one expects