this is a piers morgan tonight fourth of july special. good evening. and happy fourth of july. what better way to celebrate america s independence than by honoring the country s olympic athletes, the pride of america. in just a few weeks they will be on the world stage in london competing for gold with billions watching. in the next hour, we ll hear their stories in their own words. it s revealing, moving, surprising and inspiring. we begin with allison felix, one fastest women in the world. as i found out, a superstar determined to win. she s making headlines for the unexpected way she made the women s 100 meter team. allison and jennifer set off a controversy. the plan fell apart when jennifer pulled out hours before the race, conceding the shot to allison. before that, the signature event, 200 meters at the top of her mind. allison, how are you feeling? primed and ready for the kill? i m feeling good. i m so excited. i just can t wait! is it like being a racehorse.
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citizens where the president took part in a naturalization ceremony for members of the military, and homeland secretary janet napolitano swore them in, and tonight there will be a celebration on the north lawn at the white house. and no power. that is the extremely uncomfortable position that people find themselves in after weekend storms knocked out power from il toile the nation s capital, and the most outages five days after the storms hit, west virginia. 5,000 homes are without air conditioning in the middle of a brutal heat wave. cnn s brian todd is there. fredricka, temperatures are spiking here in west virginia where it is to get up to 95, and well on the way to that right now. power is out for roughly one quarter to a third of the customers in west virginia, but some people in the more rural areas won t get it until the weekend and a key reason for that is right behind me, and this scene played out all throughout west virginia and downed trees are a huge problem f
anthony. now her attorney is back with her side of the story on the first anniversary. also, what kyra phillips says about it all. try going to dinner with and you will be doubled over in pain. i can believe that. tonight, billy baldwin and his new movie. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. we ll get to sam champion on this extraordinary heatwave in a moment but, first, a man fired up about politics and a hot new book and what he has to say about about his brother. taking another fire barehanded? he just didn t listen to me. it s your responsibility. you shouldn t have had him up there in the first place. you burned him, steven. [ bleep ]. don t you look away from me. a lot has happened since then and the life of his famous family. welcome, billy. thank you so much for having me. i m sort of working my way through the baldwins, having stuck the wrong end of my stick with steven. you only had to do it for a couple of weeks. i ve been endurin
dealing with no food. we re live on the ground to find out what s being done. and a state lawmaker accidentally undermining her party and her principles with the press of a button. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first to a dramatic moment on the campaign trail. the presumptive republican presidential nominee, mitt romney, firmly stating his position on the u.s. supreme court s historic ruling up hodding obama care and directly contradicting what his top campaign advisor said earlier in the week. our senior congressional correspondent, dana bash, is covering romney in new hampshire on this july 4th. she caught up with him earlier in the day. how did that go, dana? reporter: very interesting answer. remember, it was a revolt against taxes imposed by the king of england that spurred this day we re celebrating today, independence day. so perhaps it is fitting that whether or not the health care mandate is a tax was the question of the day here on the camp