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
the victims. heartbreaking stories from their families are hitting home with all of us. we ll share some of those stories throughout the morning. let s get right to our poppy harleararlo harlow, though. she is at holmes apartment, at that apartment complex for us this morning. poppy, what is the activity taking place there this hour? reporter: good morning, randi. it s really picking up. what you see behind me, if you can make out those busted windows on the third floor of that complex, that is james holmes apartment on the third floor. i want to play you some video now that we just shot. what i can tell you is that the denver bomb squad has arrived in the past half hour. the arapahoe county bomb squad, as well as the adams county bomb squad, all local here around denver, just arrived, as well as atf. i just spoke with one of the atf members. we re going to the try to get someone on camera right after this. they have just arrived as well, so they re preparing to assess th
an unannounced visit to afghanistan and announcement on troop withdrawal. two great whites threaten the coast of cape cod. now the hunt is on to find them before they claim a human life. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. it is 8:00 on the east coast. 5:00 a.m. out west. thanks for waking up with us. we start this morning with the economy and new jobs report. it wasn t quite what experts had hoped. just 80,000 jobs added in june. that fell below expectations and caused a ripple through the stock market. the dow down 124 points at the close. there was some good news. additions in manufacturing jobs was a highlight for the white house. 14,000 jobs were added in that sector. so how is this all playing on the campaign trail? we ll get into that at the bottom of the hour. there are a number of weather warnings across the country today. it s because it s going to be a scorcher for many of you. take a look at the map with me. if you live in these areas, and i m sure you pro
focus. and later you can t throw a generation of kids away. an icon speaking out on some alarming statistics. we ll tell you what has the grammy winner so fired up. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. it s 8:00 on the east coast. 5:00 a.m. out west. thanks for waking up with us. we start in colorado where firefighters are hoping for a little help from mother nature. the waldo canyon fire has destroyed nearly 350 homes so far and thousands more are threatened. firefighters have been working around the clock to protect those homes. we ll have a live report later this hour. moving to egypt now, an historic day for people there. last hour mohamed morsi was sworn in as the new president. during the inauguration he offered a salute to the people of egypt and promised to promote unity. back in the u.s., newly released e-mails showed penn state knew they had a problem with jerry sandusky long before he was ever charged with a crime. concerns date back to an incident in
president of the muslim brotherhood party. his rival, the former prime minister for ousted president hose nyeny mubarak came up about 1 million votes short. as the results were announced, this was the reaction of the crowd in tahrir square. they were exuberant. cnn s senior international correspondent ben wedeman is standing over tahrir square on a balcony there. crowds are still pretty sizable even with nightfall? reporter: in fact, with nightfall the crowds are only getting bigger. in fact, when the announcement was made, i d say there is maybe one-third of the square was full. now it s absolutely jam-packed and more and more people are coming and i spent this celebration is going to go on well into the night. now it s cool and breezy, so most people if you look at the roads down below, people are pouring in. in fact, fredricka, i have not seen so many people in this square since february 11th, 2011, when of course hosni mubar mubarak, that s the day when hosni mubarak