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has been deteriorating since the toppling of hosni mubarak last year. it is seen as a lawless and dangerous area. well, we now know the name of the man that police say shot six people to death at a sikh temple in wisconsin. but we are not sure why he did it. the police identify the gunman as 40-year-old wade michael page. he may have been a white supremacist, because according to a report, he left the army service at april 199 1998, and was discharged for patterns of misconduct. at the temple in a milwaukee suburb, members were getting ready for a sunday service, and the gunman was shot and killed in the rampage and today in
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india, the birthplace of the sikh religion, there were expressions of shock and sad ness over the massacre. in the statement, india's prime minister said that senseless acts of violence to be targeted at a place of worship is particul particularly painful. india stands in solidaire by all of the opeace-loving americans who have condemned this violence. and now we are joined by our reporter in mummumbai, and ther was a message as marchers were in new delhi and what is the message? >> reporter: the message is that the community is feeling let down and they should have been better protected and need to be better protected. that is what they are demanding, they want police protection for themselves or the temples of
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warship, and to say that is important to the community, because it has happened too many times since september 11th, that the sikhs have been mistaken to be muslims because of the clothes they wear and the turbans and the long beard, and because of that, they are wrongfully targeted. it was said after a couple of days after the september 11th attacks, a sikh gas station owner was gunned down in revenge for the attack, but they want to educate people about their culture and religion so that another attack does not happen like this, but what is crucial is more safety for themselves and their community and theirm temples. michael? >> well, it is extraordinary of such a mistake made in the past,
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but what sort of protection are they asking for? >> well, the more security at the temples, and one thing coming s coming up is the issue of gun control, and give them to the sikh community which is a peaceful community and very responsible community and law abiding community and the fact that somebody could take a gun into the place of worship into the temple is unfathomable for them. they are calling for the u.s. to have much stricter gun control. really to people in india the con set of being able to walk into the place of worship with a gun is something that people here cannot think of. and so the issue of gun control and the u.s. should have tighter regulations has come up today and a key, key concern for this community, michael. >> yes. thank you, mallika kapur there in india. and another defection in syria, and this time the prime minister is the highest ranking official to abandon the al assad
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regime so far. and plus, argentina was the first country in latin america to legalize gay marriage and now two gay men are to become parents. >> at the beginning, when we met, we didn't think that this society was ready for a gay couple to have a kid. also, coming up, they are happy to be a part of one of the greatest rifles in american history. with are talking about ryan lochte and michael phelps, and we will hear from both of the olympians this hour. stay with us. this is $100,000.
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welcome back, everyone. several new developments in syria over the last 24 hours or so. not the least of them being the continued battle for aleppo, a crucial city in syria. our ben wedeman is there and joins us on the phone. ben, i know you have been able to get around the troubled city for a while. tell us what you have seen. >> well, i can tell you, michael, within the last ten minutes, we have watched as an aircraft from the syrian army has circled over the western part of the city, and a very
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crowded and heavily populated part of the city and dropped two bombs on what we are told is a neighborhood. this has been going on much of the day, and you will hear a explosion and sometimes from the aircraft and the mortars and the rocket-propelled grenades and parts of the city are very much in a state of height because of this fighting. other parts of the city are oddly normal. now i just got back to the current location from walking around one of the areas under the control of the sectarian army, and it was quite incon grew ye incongruent because of a barbershop and a cart where a man was selling tomatoes, but at the same time in these areas where there are relatively few
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fighter s fighters in the syrian army and mostly civilians, you can see where the large barack obamas have been dropped and we saw one house where two people were killed in the day before yesterday and clearly hit by a large bomb dropped by an aircraft, and now i'm seeing an ambulance in the area, and we are told that by one of the insiders here that several people were injured in this bombing. they juhave done this in the la few minutes, michael. >> and ben, people may not know about how crucial this city of alegal poe is in -- city of aleppo is in the conflict and explain why. >> it is the largest city of syria, and over 1 million people living in it, and it is the middle of the agricultural heartland and much of the manufacturing in syria takes
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place. if you want to compare it to the united states, it is a little bit like the difference of new york, the financial capital of the united states, and the outskirts of washington the political capital. so there is a very much a feeling that if somehow this syrian army can take control of aleppo, then the, really, the days are numbered for the syrian regime. michael. >> ben, thank you so much for the reporting from aleppo, and ben wedeman, senior national correspondent managing to get into the city as the violence continues. a battle for aleppo crucial one in the overall conflict. meanwhile n other conflicts, the leaders say that the prime minister has defected and headed for jordan and maybe qatar, but the state television says he was fired. hala gorani joining us from washington. it is tough to get to the truth, because of the difficulties of reporting inside of syria despite ben managing to get
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inside of aleppo, but this is the highest profile person the defect and perhaps another big sunni director from the capital, but what is the signal, another major event or just erosion? >> well, operationally i don't know if it makes a difference, but this is symbolically a blow to the assad regime. he was named agriculture minister after the uprising started last year. he is a sunni muslim, and he is from a part of the country that is very active in the forces against bashar al assad and now you have this man who defected to jordan. there is confusion, because we don't know that, because a spokesperson in jordan denied that. but the spokesperson for this
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man he is in a neighboring country to syria, and then going to qatar, and then some say, he didn't defect, he was fired. that will remind you what the administration said about a man from iraq who said he was fired, and he did not defect. it is how you spin the news in case, but either way symbolically, silg nif can't, michael. >> and another sunni from the inner circle if you like. this is coming amid news of attack on syrian state television, and of course, not many casualties, but again, extraordinary access to the inside of the cabinet. and what is this saying about the opposition forces are better organized. >> they are getting better organized. this is not the first attack on a television station that is a s supporter of the regime. you will remember that on june 27th that there was and attackn
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another television station, and that attack killed three sdwrour journalists and four security guards and this is looking like the aftermath of a explosion on the state television building in damascus and no deaths, but symbolically striking at the heart of the regime's communications machine, if you will. so h this is going to contribute to the erosion of sort of the regime's ability to convince syria and the world that it is still in control, and i wanted to also read to you something from the white house, because the white house has reacted to the reported defection of riyadh hee jab, and jay carney the white house press secretary said that this is a sign that assad's grip on power is loosening and that the momentum is with the opposition and with the syrian people, and this is coming from the white house today. >> all right.
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ha hala, thank you for your reporting. we sit down with michael phelps and ryan lochte and one is ready to hang up the swim trunks, but the other is getting started. and empty streets and deserted places which is not the boom you would expect in the olympics, is it? this is actually starting to feel real now. [ ross ] this is the perfect place to test the ats's advanced aerodynamics. [ derek ] we've got crosswinds, tailwinds, headwinds. aerodynamics is all about keeping the car planted on the road. you are going to get hit by stuff, so don't freak out. [ screaming with excitement ] and move out now. ♪ [ male announcer ] the all-new cadillac ats. ♪
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welcome back, everyone, to newsroom international where we take you around the world in 60 minutes. and here's what the folks in my native australia are listening to. ♪ ♪ london miami and girling slamming and the body goes boom boom boom from riyadh to mumbai ♪ >> and that is a seven-member hip-hop crew with their tune
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"boom boom" and i just got back from australia and i didn't hear it once. i must have been listening to the wrong station. all right. even if you have been staying on top of all of the highlights from the olympics, there are some victories that you may have missed. and you should know about them. guatemala winning the first olympic medal in history when eric berunda won the gold in the walk. and italy's balatine vezzali won six gold medals in fencing. that is the highest fencing gold medals overall. now they have the most over france who failed to take home a fencing medal for the first time
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since 1960. and a lot of you are talking about this double amputee oscar pistorius and you see him there in the back of the field who is an amazing inspiration. after the men's 400 meter s semifinals you see that karani switched bibs with him who finished last in the event. it is a sign of respect of the reigning world champion that he has for pass tistorius, and it nice moment. and now 1 million people with olympic fever have poured into the city of london, but the people who make a living on t r tourism are struggling, believe it or not, and awe eyes on the games and the visitors have the whole city to themselves. here is a lonely report. >> reporter: with my journey l
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relatively stress-free, and despite the weather, i'm ready for being a tourist. anyone who comes here to see d madame tussaud would have to come to the cue around here. but there are none here. and madame tussauds doesn'tn't release any numbers, but it is obvious that not as many have been here. >> and i hope to sell all of the london sweatshirts and t-shirts, but we don't have any customers, so it is difficult to sale anything. and the mayor decided to shoo away london and tell everybody to keep away so we have design a downturn of 50 to 60%. it is utterly dead. >> reporter: and now i continue with the bus tour. a handful of olympic tourists
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hop on and off as we go around the landmarks of london. oh, there they are. no one is around. >> i thought gridlock with the transportation system, but it has been very, very smooth, so we are enjoying ourselves. >> reporter: for a london er, this is the perfect time to enjoy and explore the city. >> lion king! >> it is quiet i think. bliss. absolute bliss. we are going to the "lion king" with the children, and they said they have tickets to sell. so that the theaters are suffering. >> reporter: since the sun of the olympic games the "lion king" has been selling 1,000 tickets a day, and not as many as 2,000 pre-olympics. so it is supposed to be easy to get the tickets so i will see if i can get four tickets for matinee. >> tourists realize that the
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streets are not as congested as expected and lndon may get to get the olympic flag flying again. >> richard quest, that is looking odd and counter intuitive and nobody lined up. does the city expect this? >> absolutely. if you look at some of the companies like british airways in the results earlier in the year, they said that the summer they expected to have demand dampened down and they expected things to be slower, and during the olympics because people are slowing down and michael, you will know this, there is nothing new or revolutionary about this, and it happened in athens, and it happened in sydney in 2000 and in barcelona, the number of tourists coming to the olympics are invariably lower than people expect and they scare away the tourists, but i can tell you that this morning i was with the
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mayor's office and they are saying that there is an increase of numbers and more people are here and they believe an interesting statistic that the traffic tor the tourism numbers and the foot fall numbers is expected to go up. >> yes, in athens, it was easy to go around and you are a life-long londoner and i lived there for four or five years in the '80s and i could not stand the traffic. and you must be loving this. >> for goodness sakes, the late '80s and since then swe have spent $10 billion on the subways. but it is quiet and my journey from here to home takes a significant amount of time, but the cars are not as full, but i have to say that i was out on london's west end on friday and saturday evening, and it was packed. yesterday, on saturday, the london tube had the most number
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of passengers in its history. a daily total of 4.4 million. so, the tourists are here sh, ai suspect that more are arriving as the games come to an end to leave after the games, and it is just one of those things. the whiners and the winders will always find something to come plain about. >> well, i enjoy you. i wish i was there. good to see you, my friend, richard quest, in london. >> yes. >> nobody knows london like him. and a terrific amount of focus has been on miami dolphieen on ryan lochte, and they have gotten along with the swim matt and rival, a we will hear from both of the those olympians in a little while. and hillary clinton's journey through south africa leads her to an icon, nelson
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it is a place few have ventured to and we are talking about a small village southeast of johannesburg and the home of the revered south african icon nelson mandela. secretary of state hillary clinton made the trek to meet with the 94-year-old and his wife at their rural home. cnn's reporter joins us from johannesburg with more on the meeting. and ka pelley, you know that nelson mandela did not speak in the presence of reporters and do we know what was discussed at the meeting? >> yes, you are right, michael. these meetings with nelson mandela are tightly control and unfortunate unfortunately, we don't know much about what was discussed, but the secretary of state will be holding a press conference torl, and i am sure they will be asking her what she discussed with nelson mandela and as you can imagine the man is 94 yeerlyeerlars old, and she had a picture of
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herself and himself to jog his m memory that the family and the nelson mandela foundation have reduced the number of visits that the former president gets, and also the number of photo opportunities that we can get. normally, you are not even allowed to have a video camera around mr. mandela, and today was no different. today, a photographer to take pictures of him, and mrs. clinton met with him for an hour and we don't know what was discussed and no other media was allowed and everything done to protect his dignity and image, michael. >> yes, he is frail these days and the health is an important topic of discussionk and mrs. clinton and let e's talk about her, because she is on the halfway point of the tour of africa, and where is she now and what is the focus of the visit in and china taking a massive economic role there, and that must bother the u.s. there? >> well, that is the what everybody is speaking about
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here. if you speak to people at the u.s. embassy here in south africa, they will tell you that, you know, africa has so many needs that even if countries that do well economically, if they are all having to invest in africa, it would be still a gap, and the americans are saying they will cut china's involvement in africa, but the secretary of state here in south africa talking about growing the business links between south africa and the united states. you will know, michael, that south africans are the biggest consumers of goods on this continent, and mrs. clinton will want more of the business. she has brought with her a couple of big names and big business names in the united states to show them the opportunities that are here in south africa, michael. >> yeah. china has a massive, massive share of what is go nong south
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afric aft -- going on in south africa, and it is so good to speak to you there in johannesburg. it is the largest religion of the world, and hundreds of thousands of sikhs live in the united states. we will talk about their philosophies and beliefs. stay with us. hi, i'm phil mickelson. i've been fortunate to win on golf's biggest stages. but when joint pain and stiffness from psoriatic arthritis hit, even the smallest things became difficult. i finally understood what serious joint pain is like. i talked to my rheumatologist and he prescribed enbrel. enbrel can help relieve pain, stiffness, and stop joint damage. because enbrel, etanercept, suppresses your immune system,
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sometimes a tragedy can lead to enlightenment as the horror was unfolding in wisconsin yesterday, social media lit up with questions about the sikh religion and the hundreds of thousands of sikhs in america. we are seeing a new picture by the way of wade michael page, the man suspected of taking the lives of those who showed up just to worship on a sunday morning. the sikh coalition released a statement mourning the loss of live lives and asking for support. it said in part, quote, we encourage your continued support of the sikh americans who are
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both grieving this great loss and are faref fearful of family members in places of worship. and i am joined by the chairman of the sikh coalition, and personal condolences to you, but as well, your friends and family and members of the organization, what are they saying to you this morning? how are they processing this? >> i think that first and foremost all of the community is thinking about the families of the victims in wisconsin who lost their lives, including the families off those still injure and the police officers whose bravely clearly saved many more lives from this tragedy. that is the first thing that folk folks are thinking about in holding them in their prayers, and from that, we want people to understand more about who sikhs are, and what sikhs contributions of the ecosystem of diversity and then we want to finally make sure that we take
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this opportunity to think about the broader context of why that affects not just sikhs, but other minorities and other groups who can also experience the potential for hate crimes. >> it does seem extraordinary and it is not shown yet exactly if h is tthis is the case, and is a mix-up, and people have been talking about being confused with muslims somehow, and seems extraordinary, but it has happened and can you give people who have had experience with sikhism about the religion, and whether it happened to sikhs and muslims and whether this happ happened, and it is incredibly a broader dialogue. >> sikh religion was found in pakistan and india and has 25 million followers around the world and estimated of 500 and
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700,000 people in the united states and greater numbers across north america. the first tenet is to make an honest living and pay tribute to the kree creator and be a part e society and not separate of it. secondly, it is important to share what we have been given with others. that is an important part to remember that the gifts we are given to share them with others, and then finally to think, remember and have god in our actions are the core tenets, but the founding of the religion on equality between men and women and rejection of the caste system and a responsibilities to fight for social jus fis for everyone, and not just sikhs. >> it is interesting the name singh oof course is most sikhs have that name. and tell me why that is, but a it is all part of the religious philosophy. >> yes. so there's a number of concepts in sikhism that push equality and all sikh men have the last name singh and all sikh women
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have the last name kor and it represents lion and lion ness, and eliminated the caste system as a which to push equality. other piece and we heard about it in the shooting coverage is t the day of sitting together, king and queen and people, is to have a notion of equality, and again, part of the respondability not only for zach -- for sikhs, but everybody to look after the welfare of others. >> yes, and the looking after the homeless and others as part of the tenets that you discussed there. we appreciate the chairman of the sikh coalition joining me this morning. again, our condolences.
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>> thank you for your support, michael. one couple in argentina has put them in the history books, and when we come back, we will tell you how. and also a pool rivalry, and michael phelps and ryan lochte talk about the tough competition and what is going to happen to both of them after the olympic games roefr. çtoooowl
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welcome back, everyone. for the first time in history,
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two gay men have become parents in argentina without having to seek a court order first. this happened in buenos aires, and rafael romo has the story. >> reporter: they left the civil registry office in buenos aires, argentina pushing a stroller with their baby boy. the dream had come true, and they are the proud parents off a 1-month-old child. >> we are not caring about society's opinion in this matter, and our family and our every friend is happen of course. >> carlos dermgard and his partner are believed to be the first couple of gay men in latin america to be legally recognized as the fathers of a baby. >> we have been together for ten years, and we thought about the idea of having a family with children, but at the beginning, when we were h met we didn't
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think that the society was ready for a gay couple to have a kid. >> reporter: they named the baby tobias, and he was officially regist registered as their son last week. they had a woman carry their egg fertilized by one of them. >> and biologically speaking, he is the son of obl only the son one of us, but we are both parents. >> reporter: congress gave transvestites and transgendered people to report that on legal documents. the opposition remains strong. they say they have been the target targets of criticism and insuts in the quest to become parents. >> i think that argentinian
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society is ready to accept this even though we know that for example, some of course religious people and some others may not be as, may not like what we have done. >> reporter: the new fathers say they realize they will have a lot of explaining to do when tobias is old enough to understand his unique situation. they both say their only hope is that tobias will realize one day that their main motivation was love. >> and rafael romo is here to talk more about this. what has been the reaction in south america to this? >> there is still a lot of opposition to gay marriage and gay relationships in general. in chilchile, another south amen country, there are attacks against gay men in the last several months, and so it is not like this happened and it was very easy for them. they had to go through a lot of procedures and paperwork and a big portion of argentina is still very much opposes this.
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>> and the story behind how they came to be fathers of this particular child is an interesting one. walk us through it briefly. >> well, it is really interesting. first of all, one of them is only the biological father, and obviously, medically, it is impossible to have them both be the fathers, and they have found the woman in canada who, and she was hired basically, and she was the egg donor, and also carried the baby for the full term. for medical and legal reasons, they decided to go the india, and the baby was born in new delhi on june 29th, and they don't know who the actual biological father is, and they did it on purpose, and they want it to remain that way. >> interesting. and argentina is leading the way for gay rights as you have indicated and the past bill a allowing transvestites and transgendered bills to allow them to determine how that will
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be reported on documents. tell us more about that. >> well, argentina became the first country to approve gay marriage, but mexico city, and only the city and not the country approved gay marriage last year so it is the second place in latin america, but like i said before, we still see a lot of discrimination against gay people and i was mentioning cases in chile and peru and other parts of south america, it is a big problem. >> and thank you, rafael romo, for that story that is both happy and sad. thank you, my friend. well, michael phelps says he is d-o-n-e, done, but ryan lochte says he is just getting started. both of the gold medalists will tell us their plans for after the games after the break. >>what? >>sorry. he wants you to know about priceline's new express deals. it's a faster way to get a great hotel deal without bidding.
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he's quitting while he's on top of the world and on top of the sport. we are talking of course about the most decorated olympian of all time, u.s. swimmer michael phelps. check out what he told our becky anderson. >> i'm done. i mean, i don't know if people really believe me, but i am actu actually finished. i'm retired. >> reporter: d-o-n-e. >> yes. >> and let's bring in alex thomas now live from london, and phelps he has nothing to prove, right? more medals than any other olympian olympians and is that why he is done despite his mom wants him to go to rio. >> it was a fairly emphatic denial of any such suggestion that he might perform a u-turn on the decision, michael. and think of all of the commitment he has put in. we have seen him in olympic action for a dozen years and he has been in debut iing in sydne
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pliks, your homeland, but no medals, but a hint of what to come in london and beijing and london and 22 medals in total, and 18 of them gold, and combination of more than say, india a country of 1.3 billion have ef won. and india has won one more medal over the course of 108 years of olympic history or smshomething and puts his achievement in perspective and for my opinion, he is the greatest of all time, and i realize it is open to debate. but look at the hours of training you would have to put in, and at rio he would be 31 years of age and yes, in the water is slight sli less stress on the joints than track and field athlete, but there is no -- it does not necessarily mean he will win any gold medals at rio de janeiro, and he was presented at a special award at
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the end of the events here and we want to remember him as thee >> if he went to rio everybody would be down on him, and i have to use the figure here, but he is the 14th most winning country in the world or something like that anyway. it is a huge number of medals and he talked about the chinese swimmer ye shiwen who was accused with suggestions of doping and listen to that. >> it is sad that people have a great swim, and this is the first thing they say. you nknow, people who work hard it shows. and you know, there are people who just jump to that conclusion sometimes, and it is not right. >> yes, alex, is that the overall reaction in london following the allegations tor suggestions, weren't they? it did seem a little bit of sour grapes. >> yes, i am with michael phelps on that. because ye shiwen was producing
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astonishing performance, but when she swam the final 50 meters of the medley race, and they mix in all four strokes was faster than ryan lochte, the other american who has emerged from michael phelps' shadow at the games. but we have seen other impressive performances like america's 17-year-old missy franklin trying for seven golds and kale out with three or four of them, and she did incredibly well, and 15-year-old from lithuania who won geld old in t swimming events, and not the same accusations launched against them. michael phelps has a youth foundation where he helps youth. >> and now what about his teammate and rivalry ryan
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lochte. >> he has emerged from phelps' shadow in some degree and picked up a few gold medals and not quite the golden boy, but it was nice to see lochte get more exposure as phelps' career wound down. we can hear an interview that cnn had earlier today. >> if i had to give a grade skill, and i feel like i'm an a-student so i would give myself an a-minus. >> and a an a-minus for his performance in london 2012 and that is what he is marking here, and minor celebrity and piers morgan was saying how many girlfriends he wants to have and if he wants to settle down, which is admirable, right, mike? >> and lady's man and a bit like yourself, alex. always fun to have a chat. alex there joining us from london and the olympics. well, it is not the typical wedding, and yes, it is a
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you know, several stories caught our attention today and photographs, too, so let's take a look. a photographer and bride and groom, check, and throw in a few fishes, just part of the wedding checklist for this couple sharing a kiss during their underwater wedding at the sea aquarium in spain. and in japan, a boy releases a paper lantern into the river to honor the people of the hiroshima atomic bombing in world war ii and 70,000 people died instantly, and today is the 67th anniversary. the next hour of the the next hour of the newsroom starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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i'm john berman filling in for suzanne malveaux. and this hour, we are learning more about the white supremist background of a man who gunned down six members of a sikh temple in wisconsin, and we are hearing from the relatives of the people killed. >> he left this world protecting the people and the world, and now we want to know who is going to protect our hearts from this pain. >> the police say that the gunman ambushed the officers and gunned down people during their sunday services. he was identified as wade michael page, and some sources say he was a army member and discharged because of patterns of misconduct, and the gunman was killed in the rampage. brian todd joins us from oak creek, wisconsin, where moments ago, the police held a news conference and, brian, walk us through what happened. >> ll

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