i want to go back. piers morgan tonight from london. good evening and welcome to london where the olympic gameses 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, making sure the games run smoothly. the games, security, world affairs and tony blair, 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 lapped b 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. you bring in a lot of investments. we have cited the olymp
off, a number of puzzling expressions. at times he looked blank. other times groggy. there might have been concern in his eyes. after a couple of minutes he was taken back to solitary confinement without holmes. he s accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others at a midnight showing of the dark knight rises. police say they caught him outside, without a fight. he was wearing a gas mask and body armor from head to toe. jim spellman in aurora for us. he was inside the courtroom when holmes appeared. jim, it was tough to get read on him during the appearance. i don t know if he was nodding off. i was talking to a guest who wrote the book on columbine who said we shouldn t be talking and reading too much into how he looked but how did he appear to you? reporter: you can t help but have this build up to what this guy will look like. we ve only seen a couple of photos. the big question is would his hair be dyed red. we knew some police sources said that but none of the wit
that his staff went back and remembered the name matched this guy who had applied online and they found out that this is indeed the guy who applied online to join their gun range and had this very, very odd message machine at his home. it s just bits and pieces but we now know that james holmes was at least trying or attempting to get to a gun range to practice perhaps with the guns that he was using allegedly to kill all of these people. drew griffin reporting from denver. tomorrow morning this crime moves to the court. suspect james holmes makes his initial court appearance. what are the expectations, ed? reporter: it will be his first court appearance and the judge in this case is allowing a camera into the courtroom. it will be the first glimpse that anyone has gotten of james holmes since he was taken into custody in the early hours of friday morning. in the meantime investigators continue to do their work. they have wrapped up most of their work here. we are just
with the squirrel. look now at a cell phone video that was taken outside of the theater. 12 people were murdered, 10 dies outside that thter, two others at the hospital. 38 hours were wounded, one of whom, a 3-month-old baby. local reports say at least nine of the victims are now in critical condition. here s how one witness describeded the scene. came in and he started lighting a gas can and he threw it into the crowd. at that point he shot his first fire into the celling to scare everybody and everybody started scattering and mass kchaos started to happen. at that point he started shooting people behind me and i had bullets that were on my forehead, burning my forehead and i thought i need to get out of here, i need to get out of here and i crawled on the ground and just curled up into a ball. i said to my friend corbin, as soon as he goes up the stair, we got to crawl, we got to get out of here. a suspect in custody, in dust city right now. he had one shotgun and two h
role. it s a total failure of american leadership. we could bring the assad regime down. and about his controversial running mate sarah palin. i think that she at the end of the day was the right choice. john mccain, ever the maverick. i am the luckiest guy you will ever interview of all the thousands of people that you have interviewed. plus, former army chief of staff george casey. why he says this country can t go it alone in syria. this is piers morgan tonight. in depth with john mccain. i sat down with senator mccain a while ago in the armed services committee hearing room. he was very candid. he disagrees strongly with what justice scalia said about super pacs. about michele bachmann and what he thinks about romney s record at bain. senator, thank you for finally allowing me to interview you. you finally cracked. finally gave in, there you go. looking forward to it. so have i, very much. let s start with we re three months away from the election. you