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plus, a young woman who pulls a car off of her father saving his life. like a scene out of superman. you have to see this. pretty incredible. up first, the golden girls. of course, everyone still talking about the magical night for the u.s. women s gymnastics team. they routed the russians and everyone else on their way to the gold medal in the team competition. take a look, folks. michael phelps cementing his legacy. he is now the most decorated olympian of all time. winning his record breaking 19th medal and adding another gold just for fun to his all-time mark. amanda davies is live in london. amanda, the debate is raging this morning. also here, mr. john berman and i have been debating this. is michael phelps the best olympian ever? reporter: morning. i ll tell you, there s no debate about the fact it was stars and stripes all the way here at the olympics last night. but it s a really difficult question to answer that. it is the topic of conversation across brea ....
in the north and central part of the state. officials say there are no reports of serious injuries or fatalities. back here on the east coast, the national hurricane center says a new sub-tropical system is forming in the atlantic. we ll check in with meterologist bonnie schneider, a lot of wild weather out there. how is all this going to impact memorial day travel, do you think? definitely going to be impactful, we re expecting airport delays across the country from minneapolis to denver, salt lake city, some due to thunderstorms, other to winds, but look for afternoon thunderstorms, once again in miami, that is something to keep in mind as we go through the day today, we ll watch for that through a good portion of the day, randi. it s interesting we also have activity in the tropics. going back to those wild fires, though, bonnie in, michigan, how does the weather look, will we see improvements? i think we will see better weather for the michigan fires. less w ....
shall be valid or recognized in this state. cnn political editor paul steinhauser is live in washington, d.c., this morning. boy, has this been playing out. we first heard the vice president joe biden. he says that he endorsed marriage equality and he is a roman catholic. how is this going to play out politically in washington? it puts president obama, in a way, in a bind because vice president biden and other top members of the administration has come out in favor of same-sex marriages. he does not. he supports domestic unions. but he does not support an amendment like the one in north carolina, which would prohibit rights for same-sex couples. what happens in north carolina now? this could have wide ranging impacts, and not just on same-sex couples but on male and female couples as well because it will prevent domestic partnerships in the future and any attempt at civil unions. north carolina also a battle ground state, a state that president obama won four years a ....
hospitalized, we ll have the latest on the 93-year-old s condition. a scene that reminds many of black friday, these people are running for a bargain, i ll explain the frenzy. from the cnn center, this is cnn saturday morning. we begin with breaking news out of afghanistan, two u.s. officers have been killed, possibly in response to nato troops burning qurans. it happened at the afghan interior ministry in kabul. let s go to nick paton walsh, nick, what are you learning? reporter: a lot that is unclear, what we do know is two americans were shot dead in the interior ministry here in kabul. that should be one of the safest places, frankly, for them in the country. we do also know the taliban have claimed responsibility for this attack. naming the man they refer to as their holy warrior, saying he shot four american personnel, obviously at times they tend to exaggerate their claims of their acts here. unclear at this point from a senior security source, exactly wh ....