but the larger point is we don't let somebody get away with someone just throwing something up against the wall to see if it sticks. >> have a great weekend, everybody. "cnn newsroom" is starting right now. blunderful in great britain. mitt romney within 24 hours managed to make headlines with comments that offend. the prime minister, the mayor of london, "the daily mail" saying he is devoid of charm, offensive, and this morning team romney is in damage control. pepsi scare. a hospital technician suspected of infecting at least 30 people. and this morning we talk to one of those people. nearly 1,000 miles of america waking up battered. torrential rain, dark skies. the northeast is battered. >> just outside of the cnn worldwide headquarters at centennial olympic park. we are counting down to london 2012. i'm rob marciano.

i'll have the weather on both sides of the pond. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. and good morning to you. happy friday. thank you for joining us. i'm carol costello. we begin with new details on a man who is accused of being a serial infector of hepatitis c. david kwiatkowsky is accused of infecting many people. one hospital fired him for drug abuse two years ago. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is in boston with more. good morning, elizabeth. >> reporter: carol, let me tell you when what happened in arizona. cnn has learned that david kwiatkowsky was working at a hospital in arizona when his fellow employees found him passed out in the men's locker room. they found syringes on his person. he was in possession of syringes.

they took him to the emergency room to treat him. when they tested him, he tested positi for cocaine and marijuana, and that hospital did report him to arizona authorities. legal authorities, law enforcement i should say. now, of course, as you said, this begs the question, how did he keep working in hospitals? we asked one man who knows him. >> ron cross went in for a heart procedure in february and now he's here at a new hampshire department of health meeting learning about hepatitis c. there's a possibility he might have caught it from this man, david kwiatkowsky, a technician at the hospital he went to. >> that guy was in the room, you know. he was there at my procedure. >> reporter: an fbi affidavit says kwiatkowsky, who has hepatitis c, stole narcotics meant for patients like cross and then gave the patients infected syringes. it's called drug diversion. when cross heard there was a drug diversion at ex-etter hospital, he immediately thought of kwiatkowsky. >> i suspected but i never

thought they would be right. i guess that was the -- >> when you heard about drug diversion, you thought of david? >> almost immediately. >> reporter: why? >> his oddness. i mean, i don't have anything else to say. it's just the -- i thought it was -- he was an odd guy. >> reporter: kwiatkowsky was a frequent customer at the restaurant that cross owned. crossed there was something odd about him, and he told strange stories. >> a story about his fiancee dying in a tragic car accident five days before his wedding. of course my reaction was, oh, my god. but he had told stories about his dog having diabetes. >> reporter: cross is now part of a class action suit against the agency that placed kwiatkowsky at exeter hospital. the agency declined to comment. cross won't know for another month if he has hepatitis. for now, he can just worry and wonder why no one caught him sooner.

>> that this guy could fall through the cracks, or seem to have beat the system, if there a system. how did this happen? >> on tuesday, kwiatkowsky declined his right to a federal detention hearing. he is now incarcerated in a county jail in new hampshire. carol? >> elizabeth cohen reporting live for us this morning. also this morning, mitt romney may be longing for home sweet home. the republican presidential candidate is having to backpedal from several gaffs in a botched goodwill mission to london. and for millions of brits, that famous stiff upper lip turned to a sneer after this photo op meeting with britain's prime minister when romney questioned london's readiness for the summer games. it wasn't just david cameron firing back. "the daily mail" screams this question. who invited party popper romney? request "the sun" called him mitt the twit, and "the daily telegraph" says, mitt romney is perhaps the only politician who could start a trip that was

supposed to be a charm offensive by being utterly devoid of charm and mildly offensive. jim, conservative media is actually downplaying romney's missteps. they say he was merely being honest about the olympic games in london, and britain should understand that. is that romney's view? >> well, honestly, carol, mitt romney has done a couple of interviews. one with cnn's piers morgan and another on "the today show" on nbc and he is not really acknowledging publicly some of the criticism he's gotten here in london since those comments he made to nbc a couple of days ago about the city's readiness for the olympic games. you mentioned those headlines in the london newspapers. i have the one you just mentioned in "the sun," mitt the twit. i think this morning it's safe to say that the romney campaign probably has a new use for the olympic torch, and that is to burn some of these headlines, carol. but let me play for you some of what romney said on piers morgan last night, because piers asked romney about this criticism, and he didn't really seem to acknowledge it.

here's what he had to say. >> you've been slightly criticized on knocking the british enthusiasm. are you feeling it now? >> well, i'm delighted to see the kind of support that has been around the torch, for instance. i watched last night on bbc an entire program about the torch being run across great britain. and the kind of crowds, i guess, millions of people had turned out to see the torch. that's what you hope to see. >> so that's what mitt romney had to say on piers morgan. he did another interview this morning on nbc, and he said in response to questions about the criticism here in london, after being here a couple of days, it looks like london is ready, but it sounds, carol, like london is ready for mitt romney to leave this country and head off to his next leg of the trip, israel. consider boris johnson, the mayor of london, a tory no less, in what he told a crowd of 60,000 people last night here in london. here's a bit of that.

>> there are some people coming from around the world who don't get it about all the preparations we've done to get london ready in the last seven years. i hear there's a guy called mitt romney who wants to know whether or not we're ready. he wants to know whether you're ready. are we ready? [ cheers and applause ] are we ready? [ cheers and applause ] yes, we are! >> so that's not the kind of reaction mitt romney was expecting when he came overseas for this foreign trip. i will tell you, carol, he is expected to attend the opening ceremonies tonight with his wife, ann, and then head off to israel tomorrow morning. michelle obama is also here. she did not touch what happened with mitt romney. she was mainly here for a preolympic events, and then she is headed back to the states. but safe to say this is not the start to the trip that the romney campaign expected, carol. >> jim acosta live from london. the eyes of the world are looking towards london as we get

set for the start of the 2012 games. [ bell ringing ] >> london's famous clock, big ben, chiming for three minutes to ring in the games. and the head of the olympics says it's all systems go. >> we reviewed all the operational items, and i can say with pleasure that london is ready and that we are eagerly waiting for the opening ceremony. >> he doesn't exactly sound that way, but i know he's excited inside, even more so than his demeanor would suggest. zain verjee is live in london. i know that you're going to spill some secrets about the opening ceremonies. so we're ready. >> reporter: good morning to you, carol. let's just get this party started, ok? just a few hours away. we want the suits to come off and the lycra to come on. let me tell you a little bit about what i know with the olympic ceremony.

just a few secretaonds ago, the were practicing "chariots of fire." that's obviously going to be in the production. but there are some really cool things. what they are trying to do is to show britain past, present, and future. so they are going to go through different eras, like the victori victorian era, the industrial era, to the present. we'll see mary poppins floating down into the stadium. we'll see a big olympic rings come up from the ground and light on a dramatic fire. 007, james bond, has a big role in this too. apparently according to reports, daniel craig is going to stop over at buckingham palace, meet the quen, who will dispatch him on a special mission which will be to open the ceremony. we have been seeing people practicing for the past couple of days, parachutes into the olympic stadium. as they recreate the idyllic era with farmers plowing the fields, we'll see live cattle, carol.

sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, geese. we are just missing a partridge in a pear tree. but it's going to be amazing, fantastical. i don't know if you ever read william shakespee's "the tempest," but it's really the isle of wonder where prospero, an italian official, ends up being shipwrecked on this island, and there's a character there called callaban and it's all very surreal. that's the theme they are creating with mary poppins, peter pan, alice in wonderland and lord voldemort as well. tune in to watch that. >> i just can't envision that all fitting together, but i can't wait to see it. >> it does. >> thank you, zain. two of the biggest athletes on the american team, swimmers michael phelps and ryan lochte, they are friends in and out of the pool. they share a suite inside olympic village. but they are also fierce competitors. phelps may have won eight gold medals in beijing, but lochte has been on a hot streak lately.

the quest for gold begins tomorrow at the london aquatic center. phelps and lochte will try to qualify for the 400 meter individual medley. >> my goals are what keep me motivated. and i'm here to swim as fast as i can. and if i do that, then that's all that matters. everything else will fall into place. and i know that. and i've said this before and i'll say it again. the only person i can control is myself. so i'm going to get in the water and race as hard as i can. if a record happens, it happens. >> i'm not really going just to swim to beat michael. there's not -- michael is just one person. there's a bunch of other swimmers across the world that i've got to worry about. so, i mean, i'm just doing what i normally do, and i race. and i'm just going to go up on the blocks and race and have fun. and if michael's right there with me, then he's right there with me. but i can't just rely on just one person. >> this will be michael phelps'

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15 minutes past the hour. checking our top stories now, questions over how a medical technician now accused of infecting people with hepatitis c kept working after an arizona hospital fired him for drug abuse two years ago. people who may have come into contact with david kwiatkowsky came to a town hall meeting last night. he is accused of affecting up to 30,000 people. the michelin company is voluntarily recalling about 841,000 of its bf goodrich and uniroyal tires. they say the belts could separate and cause a blowout. no deaths or injuries are reported, but the condition could increase the risk of a crash. ? weather news, cleanup is underway in the northeast

following powerful storms blamed for at least two deaths. el myra, new york, and brookville, pennsylvania, also had possible storms touching down. storms snapped trees and powerlines and left hundreds of thousands of customers from new york to ohio without power. a spectacular lightning show for new york city. flashes of lightning filled the night sky after it stopped raining. i reporters in new york have been sending us these amazing pictures showing a dramatic lightning strike over the skyline. rob marciano is now you knjoini from centennial park in atlanta. more rough weather tonight? >> yeah, but not quite as bad or as widespread as what we saw last night, carol. to give you an idea of how expansive this system was, look at the radar coming in around between 5:00 and 7:00 last night. it stretched from hartford, connecticut, all the way back to new york city and really to dallas, texas. 1,700 miles of destructive

weather for over 300 wind damage reports from this system. one mention of a tornado. where we expect to see action today, across the ohio valley, the delmarva. isolated tornadoes are possible. but likely some damaging wind and large hail. hopefully it won't be as potent as what we saw last night. it is knocking down some of the heat. that's the good news. mid 90s. cooling down in kansas city. and in memphis. and not getting above 90 for a change of pace in new york city. let's go across the pond in celebration of the london olympics. opening ceremonies tonight. just a slight chance of a spritz or a shower. and we'll get in some more typical england weather here over the next several days. they've had heat the past week. no such thing, temps in the mid 60s with a chance of rain. we are live in centennial olympic park, site of the 1996 olympics here in flaent. one of only five olympics held in the united states. what better way to celebrate. we'll talk more about that in the next hour here, carol. not too shabby weather in

atlanta. high of about 93 degrees. back to you. >> 93? i know you want to run through that fountain, rob. i would. >> oh, yeah. give it another hour. looking good. >> thank you, rob. penn state and jerry sandusky could soon be slapped with a civil lawsuit from one of the boys sandusky was convicted of abusing. listen to a voicemail recording that attorneys say jerry sandusky left for victim number two less than two months before his arrest. victim number two was spotted being abused by sandusky in a penn state locker room, you know, in the shower, in 2001. >> jere. i am probably not going to be able to get a hold of anybody. probably ought to just go forward. i would be very firm and express my feelings and up front. but, you know, there is nothing really to hide, so if you want to give me a call, and you can

call me on my other cell phone or on this one, either one. so all right. take care. love you. hope you get this message. thanks. >> notice how he ends the call with love you. the attorneys say the voicemail shows sandusky trying to exert control over his victims. remember this victim did not participate in the criminal trial, but here is a second recording. >> just calling to see, you know, whether you had any interest in going to the penn state game this saturday. if you could get back to me and let me know, i'd appreciate it. and when you get this message, give me a call. and i hope to talk to you later. thanks. i love you. >> cnn cannot independently confirm the recordings are sandusky's voice. his attorney, carl ronninger, responded saying that victim two's identi was known to the defense and the prosecution prior to trial, and the statements that the individual gave to an fbi trained investigator who worked with the

defense team contradicted what he is now claiming. penn state is not commenting on the pending lawsuits, but just yesterday one of pennsylvania's top officials slammed the school's administration and talked about new laws he's proposing to make the school more accountable. >> we believe we'll make penn state university a more publicly transparent and accountable university. at the top of that list is that there is too much power presently invested in the ceo and the president of the university. >> on the phone now from harrisburg, pennsylvania, cnn contributor sara ganim. good morning, sara. >> good morning. >> let's talk more about these phone calls. victim number two did not testify in jerry sandusky's trial. why was that? >> we don't know the answer to that. but it appears from what carl romminger said yesterday that prosecutors did know the identity of this man.

whether or not they believe that he is victim two or whether he didn't want to testify at trial might have been a hostile witness, maybe he was telling a different story. all of that is speculation. but possible, because he didn't testify. you're right. he didn't testify at trial. and that could have really brought that case -- it could have led to an aquittal in that case, just in the case of victim two, because the defense argument was that this is eight months after jerry sandusky had been arrested. where is this person? if he exists, if he was really molested in that shower, why hasn't he come forward yet? >> well, often victims of sexual abuse don't come forward, and don't want to share their stories. but it does make you wonder, why his attorneys -- like he's now got attorneys, right, victim number two, and those attorneys are now releasing these voicemail messages. >> right. and if he's going to bring a civil suit just like his attorneys say that they're going

to do, i mean, that has a potential to go to trial where he would have to testify. what's interesting about this man is tt he came forward shortly after jerry sandusky was arrested. walked not into the police station, didn't call the hot line. he went to joe amendola's law office. joe amendola is jerry sandusky's attorney. he sat down in his office and he said, look, i think i'm that boy that they're talking about in the shower, but nothing sexual happened. joe amendola in turn told a lot of members of the media the story, and said that he expected this person to testify on jerry's behalf. shortly after that, just days later, he hired an attorney. the attorney sought a court order for amendola to keep his identity private. and then joe amendola started backing away from the statement that he would testify on sandusky's behalf. we really didn't hear anything about this man again for the next eight months. he flew really under the radar until yesterday. >> interesting.

sa sara ganim live for us this morning. thank you. one week later, we're asking where was god in aurora? it's our talk back question today. you know, i have done something worthwhile. when i earned my doctorate through university of phoenix, that pride, that was on my face. i am jocelyn taylor. i'm committed to making a difference in people's lives, and i am a phoenix. visit phoenix.edu to find the program that's right for you. enroll now.

now is your chance to talk baca one of the big stories of the day. the question for you this morning, where was god in aurora? i know, it's not the kind of question you can solve in two minutes but a lot of you feel the need to talk about it, and so do i. we've heard a lot of things about god after the shooting. people praying for god to save them, heroes acting gly after they saved people. one person said that his belief in jesus christ as well as prayer saved him that day, and because of his faith he has forgiven the accused gunman. >> i feel sorrow for him because i can't imagine living that way. and i know there's a chance that people might be angry at me for saying that, you know, for not being angry at him. because i have already forgiven him in my heart. i can honestly say i could sit

across the table from him and look him in the eye and just talk to him. >> this week, we heard many questions about god's role in aurora, like why did he let this happen? or did he? our belief blog posted this question online and got thousands of startling different responses. on twitter, this church leader in colorado wrote, in short, god was in complete control, exercising his will. that riled the trivia jockey who tweeted, if that was god's will, god is definitely not deserving of my worship. i guess it depends on how you view the issue of god's sovereignty versus human free will. and the question, does god have a plan for everything, or does he just let things happen as they happen? so the talk back question today, where was god in aurora? facebook do.com/carolcn facebook.com/carolcnn. i'll read your comments later this hour. but hurry before

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the dow closed up 212 points. but today, investors have something new to consider. one of the singest most important measures of our nation's economy. our business guru christine romans is joining us live from new york to tell us all about it. good morning, christine. >> good morning. well, carol, what this number shows, gdp, it's the sum of all of the economic activity in the country. and it shows the economy grew at 1.5% in the second quarter. they'll look at this a couple of times and revise the number, but this is the first reading. and that means that the economy has slowed from the beginning of the year to now. carol, if you look at that chart there, you can see 4.1% was the growth in the economy at the end of last year. so really the economy has slowed down. the growth has slowed down, been pretty much cut in half, economic growth, over the past couple of quarters. now this number, carol, feeds right into both politician's storylines.

because it's a little bit better than some had feared but still isn't as much as it should be. and what you'll hear the white house and democrats say is that it shows that the president needs more help from congress in getting his jobs package passed. and what you'll hear from the rnc, we heard from them this morning saying this is devastating. an adviser to mitt romney saying this is disappointing and half of what it should be. this number feeds into exactly what we've been hearing from both camps about what's happening in the economy right now, carol. >> christine romans, thanks. >> you're welcome. also happening now, passions rise higher and divisions grow deeper over chick-fil-a's stance over same-sex marriage. a councilman in philadelphia telling the fast food chain it is now longer welcome in their towns. i will talk with the philadelphia councilman at the top of the next hour, about 28 minutes. the company has plenty of supporters, though. more than 250,000 people said they'll give their business to

chick-fil-a next wednesday for a chick-fil-a appreciation day. the northeast facing cleanup after severe storms and possible tornadoes touching down. the storms snapped trees and powerlines and left hundreds of thousands of customers from new york to ohio without power. and big ben in london greets visitors from across the globe. we are just hours away from the opening ceremony of the olympics which will take place over the next 17 days. republican presidential candidate mitt romney has already hit some bumps on his overseas trip. he has rankled many brits over his questioning of whether london was ready to host the olympics, drawing the ire the british newspapers. all of this follows the criticism he took from not only the british prime minister but also london's mayor. mr. romney tried to walk back his criticism of the olympics when he sat down for an exclusive interview with cnn's piers morgan. >> i hear there's a guy called

mitt romney who wants to know whether we're ready. he wants to know whether we're ready. are we ready? [ cheers and applause ] are we ready? [ cheers and applause ] yes, we are! >> you have been slightly criticized for saying there's not much british enthusiasm. have you picked up on it? >> i am delighted to see the excitement that's been around the torch, for instance. last night i watched an entire program on bbc about the crowds. i guess millions of people turned out to see the torch. that's what you hope to see. >> romney has had a rocky start to say the leas but he is talking about more than just the olympics. mr. romney also weighed in on foreign policy matters with fehrs morgan. >> america's had the reputation as being the world's policeman for my lifetime. it's quite a responsibility. is it one that america continues to need to have? do you need to be the world's

policeman? or as you see super powers emerging, china, india, and others, is it time for that responsibility to be spread around a little bit? >> i don't think anyone signs up for the term " -- well, i say anyone, i don't think the leaders of our nation signed up for the idea of america being the policeman of the world. but nonetheless, america has been, and i believe must continue to be, the leader of the free world. and i think the free world needs to be the leader of the entire world. and being a leader of the trfre world means having clear and defined goals and values, sharing them with other nations. i think our nation's leadership has been perhaps the greatest source of a national entity's good that you've seen on the world stage, freeing people from tyrants, spreading free enterprise and lifting people out of poverty even in places like china. a great portion of china's strength today is the free enterprise system, which has been borrowed in some respect

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dr. conrad murray extends an invitation to michael jackson's mother to visit him in prison. hmm. say what? "showbiz tonight's" aj hammer is joining us from new york. really? >> yeah. and i get the feeling, carol, this is the last thing that katherine jackson wants to deal with this month. but conrad murray released this statement. i have been told she has a desire to speak with me before she departs this life.

seeing she is up in age and in questionable health, it would give me great pleasure to sit with her one-on-one and answer any questions she might have. he thinks a meeting between them would put her at peace. saying he is doing it out of love, and doesn't want her to suffer. after thweek that katherine has been dealing with with her family's battles, i'm sure this is not at the top of her list. murray says even though he is not allowed to see the jews in jail, he heard about what was going on with the jackson family and thinks katherine appears to be sad. murray, expected to serve at least two years in a los angeles county jail, said he would put katherine jackson's name on his visitor's list. a representative for katherine says he will present the offer to katherine, but doubts she would accept him. one can sure understand. >> unbelievable. thank you, aj. >> you got it. >> aj will be back with us next

hour with more showbiz headlines, including a bad twist for superstar madonna, booed in paris. and we're learning more details about the u.s. raid on osama bin laden's complex. well, sort of. >> was the mission to capture bin laden or was the mission to kill bin laden? >> that's a great question. i'm not going to answer it. >> our wolf blitzer goes one-on-one with the head of u.s. special operations. i'm freaking out man.

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45 minutes past the hour. checking our top stories, new information about the former lab technician accused of infecting patients with hepatitis c. an arizona hospital tired david kwiatkowy two years ago after he tested positive for cocaine and marijuana. he is charged with infecting 30 patients at a hospital and possibly thousands more across eight states. ford is recalling more than 400,000 escape suvs because of a problem with the cruise control

cable. the cable can get stuck when the gas pedal is pressed almost all the way down, causes unintended acceleration. the recall affects 2001 through 2004 model escapes with v-6 engines and cruise control. in weather news, clean judge up is underway in the northeast. elmira, new york, and brookville, pennsylvania, also reporting possible tornadoes. trees snapped power lines leaving hundreds of customers from new york to ohio without powe it is said to be one of the greatest military defeats in history. and admiral william mccraven talked with cnn's wolf blitzer in his first interview since that raid. he said the overall mission involved many different agencies, all of them playing key roles to get osama bin laden. >> well, first, i will tell you that it was a long process to get there.

and our piece of it, the military piece, of kind of what i look at as kind of free components, was probably the easiest aspect of the entire raid. the two other pieces of this were the cia's role. and i think when the history is finally written, and outlined and exposed on how the cia determined that bin laden was there, it will be one of the great intelligence operations in the history of intelligence organizations. and a tremendous amount of that credit goes to director leon panetta at the time, because he built the right team. he had the right people. he made some very gutsy calls. and he was not concerned about who got the credit. and so when you take a look at how he built that team, which was a military and intelligence team, tremendous amount of credit goes to the agency. and the other piece of this really is the president and his national security team. i've made it very clear to people, again, the military

piece of this, we did i think 11 other raids that evening in afghanistan. now, i don't want to diminish the nature of this raid. it was a little bit more sporting. >> he was a charming guy. we also learned sometimes difficult to get all the answers we want from people who are in the military, but wolf blitzer gave it the old college try on just exactly what the mission was. listen. >> you didn't have 100% knowledge. the president didn't have 100% knowledge that bin laden was holed up in that compound. did you have 80%, 50%? give me a ballpark. how confident were you that a tall guy was hiding out in that compound? >> well, again, i'm not going to address the tactical piece of that. suffice to say we were not sure he was there. and, again, that gets back to some tough decisions that were made. my job was to get him if he was there. if he wasn't there, we would know that pretty quickly, and

our intent was to get up and get out. >> i suspect you're t going to want to with are this question, but i'll ask it anyhow. and as the admiral and i know, we just spent some quality time together, this is the united states of america. we can ask the questions. he doesn't have to answer them. but we can ask the questions. and i think it's an important question that we have all been very, very curious about. was the mission to capture bin laden, or was the mission to kill bin laden? >> yeah, it's a great question. and i'm not going to answer it. >> all right. but there were contingencies this guy would be brought out in a helicopter and brought somewhere? >> do they teach you this, to do this the other way when the question doesn't work? >> just trying to make sure. you don't want to discuss that? >> no. >> i watched the whole interview. it was unbelievable. >> if you want to see more, cnn is the place to go.

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we asked you to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. the question this morning is a tough one. where was god in aurora? this from todd. same place he was in the holocaust. in the hearts of every human being waiting to be listened to. god is pure love. sometimes his children require tough love to teach lessons, to open our eyes to our wrongs and how we've strayed from his teesks. i think aurora was an example of god's tough love. this from amanda. god was not there because god doesn't exist. it's a man made creation to comfort people about things they don't understand or frighten them. from pam if the survivor

believes he survived because he prayed then is he concluding the dead victims failed to pray? perhaps they were not believers so that's the reason they died? god did not cause this to happen. god is good. anything that's bad is not god. why would god do this? read the bible. god loves us. this from rick. i'll tell you where he wasn't -- in the heart of the gunman. god's only act is to love and in doing so to show forth his glory. god was and is crying about that horrible act of human free will along with the rest of us. please keep the conversation going. facebook.com/carol cnn. more of your responses in the next hour of newsroom. every communications provider is different but centurylink is committed to being a different kind of communications company. ♪ we link people and fortune 500 companies nationwide and around the world. and we will continue to free you to do more and focus on what matters.

this just in to cnn. facebook stock tanking on the nasdaq following good news about their earnings. we'll go to the new york stock exchange. why is the stock taking such a hit today? >> good morning, carol. the general sentiment really seems to be good but not good

enough. it's really they did beat a bit but investors and wall street were not satisfied. everyone has really been waiting to see how shares would open and the stock right now is down about 14%. revenues rose 32% beating expectations but facebook's first profit report since going public shows that growth is slowing. now, spending is rising here. facebook says its attempt to make money from mobile phone advertising is starting to pay off, but analysts wanted more details of how it will actually boost revenue. even though the earnings were in line with estimates there are lots of concerns including whether facebook is spending too much money. facebook's expense has nearly quadrupled from a year ago because of major acquisitions. carol, on top of that we often talk about how forward guidance is often just as importance as earnings themselves. the fact that facebook didn't give any is the huge disappointment there. >> thanks. for the fourth time in his

illustrious career roger federer will play in the olympics. it's only fitting that federer returns to london the venue wimbledon. it's a special place for him. just a few weeks ago federer won his seventh title at the all england club, but he says that is not an advantage. >> probably makes it a tiny bit tougher because for those who don't know in wimbledon we play seven matches specific sets. here we play five matches best of three and then the finalist best of five. that puts the margins more closer to each other i believe and if it would have been best of three in wimbledon i'd have lost so it just goes to show that here now a bad five minutes or bad couple points can cost you the tournament. i'm aware of that but i do believe winning wimbledon three weeks ago is going to help me with my confidence and my game to really do well here. >> federer is considered the

favorite to win the gold. last year he lost in the quarterfinals or the last olympics i should say. the next hour of cnn newsroom begins right now. happening now in the newsroom, fast food firestorm, targeting anger and supposing support for chick-fil-a intensifying today. several major cities telling the chain to stay out of town. straight ahead hear from the philadelphia councilman who wrote a letter to the company saying take a hike and your intolerance with you. blunderful in britain. mitt romney within 24 hours manages to make headlines with foot-and-mouth comments that offended the prime minister, london mayor. "the daily mail" says he is devoid of charm. this morning team romney in full damage control. heat wave or global warming? a massive ice melt in greenland not cooling the climate talk this morning. ahead bill nye the science guy on what nasa is calling an unprecedented event. swimming showdown.

michael phelps and ryan lochte. the duel in the pool. hours away from the opening ceremonies. london making last-minute checks as the athletes get ready. team america in red, white, and blue. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning to you. happy friday. thank you for joining us. i'm carol costello. passions rise higher and divisions grow deeper over chick-fil-a's stance against same sex marriage. first it was boston and then chicago. now san francisco is telling chick-fil-a it is not welcome. the city's mayor edwin lee did that via twitter. this is his tweet. he says, very disappointed chick-fil-a doesn't share san francisco's values and strong commitment to equality for everyone. as you know, the controversy started when chick-fil-a's ceo dan cathy said his restaurants honor biblical values and oppose same sex marriage. ever since the battle between conservatives who say cathy has every right to his beliefs and gay rights activists have been

at war. this protest at chick-fil-a's grand opening in laguna beach, california just one example. joining us now by phone philadelphia city councilman james kenny. good morning. >> good morning. how are you? >> good. thank you for joining us. you wrote a letter to dan cathy and said, quote, as an american you are legally entitled to your opinion regardless of how insensitive and intolerant it may be. but as a fellow american and an elected member of philadelphia's city council i am entitled to express my opinion as well, so, please, take a hike and take your intolerance with you. there is no place for this type of hate in our great city of brotherly and sisterly affection. so if chick-fil-a wants to open up new restaurants in your city would you fight to keep them out? >> no. i just want people to understand what mr. cathy's views are, his intolerance, bigotry, and discrimination. they should make a decision, spend their money or not spend their money based on the promulgation of that information. we talked earlier about biblical

definition of marriage. sometimes in this whole debate i feel like i'm in the middle of the wind. this is 2012 and not 1912. i do believe that people should know when an individual company decides to support organizations with their profits that put forth discrimination bigotry and they make a decision based on that information. >> look, there is no evidence chick-fil-a discriminates against gay employees or gay clientele. as you say mr. cathy is entitled to his opinion so why try to destroy his business? >> i'm not trying to destroy his business but inform people of the fact that this kind of discrimination and bigotry is being promoted by a ceo of a major company in this country. he does have a right. i'm not trying to destroy his business. he should not be trying to destroy the civil rights of americans based on their sexual orientation. >> it's not new though that chick-fil-a is owned by a very religious man. they don't open up on sunday. i mean, mr. cathy has made no

secret that he is very religious and very conservative. >> that's his right to be so. i was not aware of the conservativism and the extent of his efforts to discriminate against gay women and men in this country. if you are a human being and a citizen of america you have a right to share in every civil right that every other person shares in. and that includes marital rights. i disagree with him and he has a right to disagree with me, but i have also a responsibility and a right to protect people's civil rights and to inform people when folks are discriminating against them and they can decide to spend their money as they see fit. >> plenty of people have expressed their opposition to gay marriage but not many have caused the outrage that mr. cathy has. why do you suppose that is? why mr. cathy? >> i don't know. sometimes there is one person or a group of people that are the -- kind of the point where things begin to change and we have a discussion. this is not about religion.

i am not asking any religious group to sanction gay marriage. i'm not asking anybody to bless it or to do anything like that. if you are a human being, as i said, if you are a human being in the united states of america, you have the right to share in every full right of every other american. this is about civil rights not religion. >> councilman kenny, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. this morning we also have new details on the man accused of being a serial infector of hepatitis c. david kwiatkowski is linked to 30 caseies of the liver disease at a new hampshire hospital and as a medical technician may have endangered thousands of people in at least eight other states. today new questions about how he kept working as a medical technician after one hospital fired him for drug abuse two years ago. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is in boston with more. >> reporter: carol, that's right. that was in arizona. what we've learned is that while he was working for a hospital in arizona david kwiatkowski was found passed out in the men's locker room. he had syringes and needles on

his person. he tested positive for marijuana and cocaine and that hospital did report him to local law enforcement authorities. it's unclear how he then went on to go work in hospitals in other states for another two years. well, we talked about david kwiatkowski yesterday with the man who knew him in new hampshire. ron cross went in for a heart procedure in february. and now he's here at a new hampshire department of health meeting, learning about hepatitis c. he might have caught it from this man, david kwiatkowski, a technician at the hospital he went to. >> that guy was in the room, you know, he was there at my procedure. >> reporter: an fbi affidavit says kwiatkowski who has hepatitis c sold narcotics meant for patients like cross and then gave the patients infected syringes. it's called drug diversion. when cross heard there was a drug diversion problem at exeter he immediately thought of kwiatkowski. >> i suspected but i never thought i would be right.

i guess that was the biggest -- >> reporter: so when you heard about drug diversion you thought of david. >> almost immediately. >> reporter: why? >> his oddness. i mean, i don't have anything else to say. it's just i thought it was -- he was an odd guy. >> reporter: kwiatkowski was a frequent customer at the restaurant cross owned. cross said there was something odd about him and he told strange stories. >> the story about this fiance dying in a tragic car accident five days before his wedding cautioned -- my reaction was, oh, my god. but he had told stories about his dog hing diabetes. >> reporter: cross is now part of a class action suit against the agency that placed kwiatkowski at exeter hospital. the agency declined to comment. cross won't know for another month if he has hepatitis. for now, he can just worry and wonder why no one caught him

sooner. >> this guy could fall through the cracks or seem to have beat the system. how did this happen? >> cross is in a county jail right now in new hampshire. on tuesday he waived his right to a federal detention hearing. carol? >> elizabeth cohen reporting live in boston. thanks. this hour friends and family are gathering in aurora, colorado, for a.j. boyic's funeral. boik was one of the people killed in last friday's massacre. he was 18 years old and was called the life of the party. a friend gave us this video. that's boik dancing. he was watching "the dark knight rises" that night with his girlfriend when the shooter walked in. she says he saved her life. don lemon is in aurora, colorado. good morning, don. >> reporter: hey, good morning. it's good to see that video of him dancing, right, happier times, carol. so sad. can i tell you, too, that

jonathan blunk who is 26, his body is going to be flown back to reno. he lives in reno, nevada. he served two tours in the persian gulf and he is in the nafy and wanted to reenlist in the navy. 26, father of two. his body will be flown back. then rebecca wingo, full service for her tonight here in aurora. of course, 32 years old, devoted mother of two. she was in the air force. but some of the people, carol, are in the hospital. 45 still have been treated and released. 12 are still in the hospital. of that five are in critical, six are in fair condition. one in serious condition, this community still trying to get back to normal. it's been one week ago since we showed up on the scene here that memorial and that theater there over on the right shoulder, of course you know why we're here and why we've been here for a week. >> i understand some of the hospitals are absorbing some of the costs of treating these people. >> absolutely. some of the hospitals, and that's an interesting angle

because some of the folks here did not have health insurance. so the hospitals are absorbing the cost. people are donating money to -- for their hospital bills. and we're also hearing that the production company behind the -- there is so much shown here -- playing sad music here -- but the production company behind the batman movie also making a huge donation here which is also helping to cover some of the hospital costs, carol. >> wow. a good voice, whoever they are. >> it's music. it's a recording she has in the back of her car over there. >> i understand. the movie theater where this massacre went down, they're trying to decide what to do with it. have you heard anything about that? >> reporter: that's still up in the air. they're trying to figure out whether they should keep the movie theater here, if people will actually go to the theater. i should tell you there was a shooting here almost 20 years

ago at a pizzeria and that pizzeria never oned. they demolished it and built something else. i talked to some people and they said they're still afraid to go. some people are saying, you know, we shouldn't let this guy get the best of us. this accused shooter. we should go back in that theater and go to the movies there. others are saying it's just too sad and really quite frankly too sort of creepy to go back into a movie where so many people died. >> don lemon reporting live from aurora this morning. cleanup under way in the northeast following powerful storms blamed for at least two deaths. possible tornado touchdowns in elmira, new york and brookville, pennsylvania. and check out the spectacular lightening show over new york city. the lightning impress biv as you know it can be deadly. a brooklyn man died after lightning hit a church and caused scaffold to fall on top of him. a falling tree crushed a pennsylvania woman in her car. the storms left hundreds of thousands of customers from new york to ohio without power.

the eyes of the world look toward london as we get set for the olympic games to begin in just six hours. london's famous clock big ben chiming for three minutes to ring in the games. the head of the olympics says london is ready for tonight's opening. in the meantime, mitt romney, who is in london, is creating quite a stir after criticizing preparations for the games and the brits are firing back. several uk tabloids are blasting the republican hopeful. one asking who invited the party popper? another called him mitt the twit. another described romney as devoid of charm and mildly offensive. of course, criticism is nothing new to the presumptive republican nominee or any other presidential nominee. our piers morgan sat down for an exclusive interview with romney and his wife ann.

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16 minutes past the hour. new fallout against the chick-fil-a stance on same sex marriage. a city councilman in philadelphia is joining with the mayors of three cities in telling the fast food chain it is no longer welcomed in their towns. the company also has plenty of supporters. more than 250,000 people have said they will give their business to the company next wednesday for a chick-fil-a appreciation day. new information about the former lab technician accused of

infecting patients with hepatitis c. an arizona hospital fired david kwiatkowski two years ago after he tested positive for cocaine and marijuana. he is now charged with infecting 30 patients at a new hampshire hospital and possibly thousands more across eight states. the michilin company is voluntarily recalling about 841,000 of its b.f. goodrich and uniroyal tires. they say the belts in the tires could separate and cause a blowout. no deaths or injuries are reported but the company says the condition could increase the risk of a crash. in money news, guys, everything you need for your man cave in one spot. a new york grocery store now has a man aisle stocked with things like beer and chips, steak, barbecue sauce, deoderant, soap, and more. the store hopes to open man aisles in other locations. now to politics. this morning mitt romney may be longing for home sweet home. the republican presidential candidate is having to back peddle from several gaffes in a

botched good will mission to london. for millions of brits that famous stiff upper lip turned to a sneer after this photo op meeting with britain's prime minister when romney questioned london's readiness for the summer games. it wasn't just david cameron firing back. "the daily mail" screams this question. "who invited party-pooper romney?" "the sun" was even more blunt and calls him "mitt the twit" and the daily telegraph says mitt romney is perhaps the only politician who could start a trip that was supposed to be a charm offensive by being utterly devoid of charm and mildly offensive. our guest is a republican political consultant and served as the senior strategist to former gop presidential candidate rick santorum and joins us now from washington. good morning. >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> thanks for being here. you are a strategist. you know how campaigns work. how is the romney campaign looking at this trip to london? >> i'm sure this morning or whatever time it is over there five hours' difference, that they're a little disappointed. certainly this time of a

campaign, a presidential campaign is a tough one to get the type of press you want. you pretty much have to wait until the convention. they put this trip together to make romney look very presidential, very international in stature. they're waking up to some very disappointing headlines. i'm not really sure i agree it was romney's fault. all he did was really reiterate a lot of the criticism that was -- the brits were having about themselves. but there was a certain sensitivity. he got beat up for it and so right now i'm sure that a lot of the romney camp are a little bit disappointed and hoping they can turn the trip around. >> you know, visits overseas, you know, they're a rite of passage for presidential candidates meant to burnish foreign policy credentials and it's only been one day. what do you think this trip has done for mitt romney? i mean, is it lasting damage? or is it just a flash in the pan? >> i think this is extremely short term. to be honest with you i can't help but point out sort of an interesting contrast. you have romney sort of getting beat up for being very honest on security issues regarding one of

our allies. just a few months ago you have the president of the united states whispering into the ear privately to one of our adversaries about he is going to be more flexible on missile defense and you don't hear much of a flap at all. and so i do think that this is just something where it makes interesting newspaper copy but i think the american people get it and i think in some sense people think romney at least has the courage to stand up and when he sees a securities concern he is not going to be afraid to talk about it. >> but when you say your opponent is lousy when it comes to foreign policy, don't you have to show up more than up for the job if you're mitt romney? >> well, again, i think what -- there is a certain sensitivity. look, there is no doubt that when you host the olympics that it's a great thing for a country. there's an incredible amount of pride. and probably there should have been more sensitivity to understanding that. you know, i do not think that in any way mitt romney's intent was

to insult. i think it was purely to point out that what he had read has caused him some concerns. i think that it grew into something much bigger than rely it was. >> thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. i appreciate you having me. one week later after prayers and sorrow we're asking where was god in aurora? it's our talk back question today. aveeno nourish+ strengthe. active naturals wheat formulas restore strength for up to 90% less breakage in three washes. for strong, healthy hair with life, new aveeno nourish+ strengthen. take the steps to reach yours, everyowith usgoals. with real advice, for real goals. the us bank wealth management advisor can help you. every step of the way. from big steps, to little steps. since 1863 we've helped guide our clients, so they can take the steps to help grow, preserve, and pass along their wealth. so their footsteps can help the next generation find their own path.

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now is your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. the question for you this morning where was god in aurora? i know. it's not the kind of thing you can solve in two minutes but a lot of you and i felt the need to talk about it. we have a lot of things about god after the colorado shooting. people praying for god to save them. heroes acting godly as they sacrifice themselves to save others. survivor pierce o'farrell told us his belief in god and jesus christ as well as prayers saved him that day and because of his faith he has forgiven the accused gunman. >> i feel sorrow for him because i can't imagine living that way. and i know there's a chance

people might be angry at me for saying that, for not being ainge grate him because i have already forgiven him in my heart. i can honestly say i can sit across the table from him and look him in the eye. and just talk to him. >> this week we heard many questions about god's role in aurora like why did he let this happen? or did he? our belief blog posted this question online and got starkly different responses. on twitter this church leader in bethune, colorado wrote, in short, god was in complete control exercising his will. that riled the trivia jockey who tweeted, if that was god's will, god is definitely not deserving of my worship. i guess it depends on how you view the issue of god's sovereignty versus human free will and the question does god have a plan for everything? or does he just let things happen as they happen? so the talk back question today, where was god in aurora?

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just about 30 minutes past the hour new fallout in chick-fil-a's stance against same sex marriage. protesters gathered outside this new chick-fil-a store in laguna hills, california, so the company sent home fans of the chain who camp out for the prizes that normally accompany the store's grand opening. the company also has plenty of online supporters in its stance. more than 250,000 people have said they will give their business to the company next wednesday for a chick-fil-a appreciation day. in weather news cleanup under way in the northeast following powerful storms blamed for two deaths, elmira, new york and brookville, pennsylvania also reported possible tornadoes touching down. the storm snapped trees and power lines and left hundreds of thousands of customers from new york to ohio without power. big ben in london greets

visitors from across the globe. we're just hours away now from the opening ceremonies of the olympics which will take place over the next 17 days. for the past 11 weeks the olympic flame has been carried all over the united kingdom. later today that journey will end. so who will carry the flame in the opening ceremony? that's a big deal. rob marciano joins us from atlanta centennial olympic park. know anything i don't know? >> reporter: well, i know this, that 8,000 people have already carried the thing. a 70-day journey. it's gone out three times. each of the three times it had to be relit by the mother flame which is carried with it. i think the smart money is on roger bannister, carol, who is an english athlete born in the

'20s and was the first runner to ever break the four-minute mile. you remember back in 1996 muhammed ali lit the calderon in lanta. he was the odds on favorite. >> what's all the screaming going on behind you? >> reporter: well, you know this place. we're right outside -- how many spots, carol, how many networks out there have an olympic park right outside their worldwide headquarters? nobody. all right? nbc's got nothing on us. well the kids, obviously. you know the kids come here in the summer time to enjoy the olympic rings which are the fountains that cool everybody off. so that's the screaming. and an entire bus load more is about to come in. so in the 90s right now here. it's been hot over there in london but now it's finally getting to be more english. take a look at some of the weather they have going over there. not too often i toss you a

satellite photo right over the uk from across the pond. temperatures there tonight will be in the 60s. they had some showers earlier. it probably will be dry tonight and the next few days will be more london like with a chance for showers and temperatures in the 60s. that's your update. back to you. >> it looks like so much fun. i'm going to go out and join them after the show. >> it does. i may have to jump in myself. >> exactly. >> let's head out to london now and check in with zain vergeee in the middle of all the fun. good morning, zain. >> reporter: good morning to you, carol. yeah, it is a lot of fun. the suits are coming off. the lycra is coming on in a few hours. the olympic stadium right behind me. a few little secrets i want to share with you. it's going to be a ceremony about wonderment and something fantastical. you'll see mary poppins floating down and about 30 umbrellas. there will also be 007 there, some kind of a parachuting

appearance. you may like this, carol, there is going to be a lot of live stock running around the olympic stadium -- sheep, cattle, goats. >> sheeps? >> chickens as well. it's supposed to cultivate the idea of an idyllic britain in the past, the farming, they'll go through the industrial era, victorian era and then social media and the crazy modern era. >> i'm glad they're honoring farmers. i grew up on a farm. that's a good thing. i understand you're learning about one of the toughest sports in the olympics. >> yes, rowing. it's about passion and power and most of the olympics sports are really but rowing is one of the toughest ones. i went out with a trainer early yesterday morning just to see how tough it is to work some of those muscles out, some of those glutes athletes need going on when they row. listen to what he had to say. >> allegedly this is the most physically demanding activity of

any sport. all right. we'll do 30 jumping squauts on and off the silver disk. >> because when you're pushing in the boat the first push comes from the glute. >> reporter: well i thought i'd try. i have to work on the core a little bit here. >> wow. >> but 10,500 athletes will be in the stadium behind me all in significantly higher quality shape. but, you know, they look forward to the ceremonies and we're looking forward to the games as well. 60,000 spectators will be there, too. >> i can't believe he made you do 30. he could have said ten. then you would have felt like super woman. >> i know. i know. i'm in pain. don't make me walk. >> thank you, zain. we invite you to get in on the excitement in london. piers morgan will be anchoring cnn newsroom live from the games. it'll start at noon eastern and you can follow the games on twitter, too, or tell us what you thought about the opening ceremonies. just make sure you put cnn

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madonna gets an earful from the french that needs no translation. lots and lots of boos. a.j. hammer joins us. people were throwing bottles on the stage? >> yeah. this was a small, last-minute concert, carol, billed as an intimate event at paris's club and some fans were upset when the show wrapped up after 45 minutes. the crowd did let their feelings be known by throwing things up on stage and chanting for a refund when they realized the show was actually over. some of the concert goers have been venting their frustration on twitter and are complaining that they paid between $80 and 280 euro for the quickie concert.

the show is being rebroadcast today on youtube. every hour on the hour. if you want to see it. not surprisingly the comments section has been disabled with more than 13,000 dislikes as opposed to just 11,000 likes. also not surprisingly, carol, the concert recording that's been posted ends when madonna finishes her performance but before you see the fans getting upset. >> yeah. i can sort of understand that if you're madonna of course. you're also following a potential meeting between conrad murray and michael jackson's mother katherine. >> yeah. we're going to look at this as more of an invitation right now. conrad murray is letting it be known he would be happy to sit down with katherine in prison of course. he released a statement to cnn through his lawyers. he is saying i've been told she has a desire to speak with me before she departs this life. seeing she is up in age and in questionable health and the fact that she is the mother of a very dear departed friend it would give me great pleasure to sit with her one-on-one and answer my questions she might have. well, i don't think katherine jackson is going to be headed to

murray's jail cell any time soon. a representative for katherine tells cnn that he will present the offer to her, carol, but he doubted she would accept. really, after the week the jacksons have had with all the family battles playing out so publicly it's probably the last thing any of them want to hear right now. >> i bet you're right about that, too. a.j. hammer, many thanks. if you want information on everything breaking in the entertainment world, a.j.'s got it tonight on "showbiz tonight" at 11:00 eastern on hln. a bridge in greenland washed away all because of a huge and i mean huge ice melt. conditions not seen like this since the late 1800s. we're tking climate change, next. # in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal.

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of those natural disasters? yet climate change is such a sensitive subject many are loathe to talk about it. but not bill nye. bill nye the science guy is in los angeles. good morning. >> good morning, good morning. >> thanks for being here. bill, we were struck by this image. i'm sure you've seen it. it shows nearly all of greenland's ice sheet melting. nasa was so stunned by these images they thought they made a mistake. help us understand why this is so significant. >> well, the climate models, these are mathematical computer models of what happens to a planet like ours. you expect the poles near the north and south pole to show signs of this kind of warming first or sooner. and i think this is so extraordinary it took everybody off guard a little bit. but greenland always melts a little bit every summer but this year it melted almost completely and that was stunning or

surprising. but what it means to me is that the climate models associated with climate change are true at least at this level and so we should all be very concerned. >> these pictures we're seeing now, this is what resulted from all of that ice melting. there was this bridge in greenland in an area around summit station. nasa says again it hasn't seen this kind of sudden change since 1889, so is this kind of thing likely to continue and can we predict that? >> well, in the world of climate science, people claim that they are predicting it, that this is consistent with the climate models. and it's also worthy of noting that it's a pretty high altitude. you may see snow on top of mountains and so on. even at this high altitude the ice was melting. this is extraordinary and we had tornadoes in the northeast last night and extraordinarily hot temperatures. these things are consistent with

climate models. and our problem has been people point to one fact from 1889 and say that invalidates the whole idea. i don't think that is especially good science. the thing is, this is an opportunity. we could all be addressing this problem. we could be moving forward and be the world leader in new technologies to help us use energy more efficiently and have a better quality of life for everyone. >> but you know, bill, there is zero talk of climate change by our politicians in 2012. of course that's a far cry from what president obama said, you know, back when he phelan 2008. let's listen. >> it's time to refocus our efforts on al qaeda's leadership, on afghanistan, and rallying the world against the common threats of the 21st century, terrorism, and nuclear weapons, climate change and poverty, genocide and disease. that's what change is. >> so we have these raging

wildfires and severe storms, severe droughts. are you disappointed mr. obama has let this issue die? >> well, if i'm disappointed, everybody, it's at you guys. i think if the media asked him, asked both of these people who are running for president of the united states about climate change, they'd have to respond. i look forward to the debate. i think with the proper prompting from the media, from the press, we can get answers to this. i think everybody as a voter and taxpayer, every citizen, should want to know how politicians stand in every office that you vote for, find out where they stand on the environment. the environment is a very, very important issue. i guess if i understand this it's fallen by the wayside for a few months while we talk about the economy. but i hope during -- especially during the presidential debates as the school year revs up again and we get ready to vote in

november, i hope we ask questions of all politicians, how do you feel about the environment? how does it fit into your economic plan in general? i will claim, and i don't think this is extraordinary, when your quality of your environment goes down, your quality of life goes down. and especially the economics. when you can't get water to cool power plants, when you can't get water to water your crops and feed people, it stresses everybody. it makes the economy not do as well. so it was an opportunity. let's find out, let's say when the debates start at the end of the summer we'll find out how everybody stands on the environment and climate change. >> bill nye the science guy, thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you, carol. good morning. mitt romney is hoping to raise his profile on his trip to london but he is also hitting back at people attacking his success. >> dividing america based on who has money and who hasn't, who is

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republican presidential candidate mitt romney is in london to raise cash and to build his foreign policy credentials. today he and his wife ann will watch the olympics' opening ceremony. mr. romney found the time to sit down with piers morgan and talk about his remarkable business success. >> there are people who are trying to attack success and are trying to attack our success. that is not going to be successful. when you attack success you have less of it. that's what we've seen in our economy over the last three years. dividing america based on who has money and who hasn't. who is successful and who is less successful is not the american way. we are a nation -- i heard marco rubio the other day -- he said we were poor living in miami. we saw these big homes across

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our talk back question today where was god in aurora? this from marilyn. the premise of your question is wrong to begin with. there is no god. it has never been proved. the sooner people accept the fact they can move on with their lives without relying on an

unreliable deity in the sky. this from lisa. god loved us so much he gave us free will. free will was what the gunman was exercising when he entered the theater in aurora. people forget that without evil there can be no good. this from mckenzie. god was wheepg. he was looking at the scene and wondering what just happened like the rest of us. this was not god's will or divine plan. this was a solo act of a mad man. from bob i don't care if you believe in a religion or not. it's all about a person's desire to act in a sick and twisted way. people try to over complicate human behavior they bring religion into the mix. from scott what many people seem to be ignoring is the act of forgiveness pierce is displaying. forgiveness in the face of this violence is a step toward healing. keep the conversation going. facebook.com/carol cnn. we had a mass of comments today. just a fascinating line of conversation. i'm carol costello. thank you for