ryan lochte face off with michael phelps, his teammate and rival right now. that individual medley, 400 meter event, michael phelps set the record in 2002 and broke his own record in 2008. that record still stands so he is now back. americans cannot wait to see him swim tonight but he has ryan lochte on his heels now. there's also a women's swimming event today, women's freestyle event where we'll see missy franklin in her first olympics. cycling today, as we speak we're mentioning the men's cycling road race, with bradley wig gins, less than a week ago he won the tour de france. all eyes are on him hoping for olympic gold in cycling. >> the brits were so happy and proud of him. tell me for you watching the

opening ceremonies, what was the biggest thing that stood out to you? what was most exciting to see? >> reporter: it was incredible. it's hard to believe this was four hours longs, it had the hollywood pace that each segment didn't seem to last that long. talk about something for everyone, alex. yes, there were live farm animals, they were at the beginning, make the most low key the ceremony actually. then we had elements of james bond, harry potter, mary poppins, mr. bean, all of these touching at times and other times hilarious aspects of british culture and history. i don't know too many people who watched the ceremony that weren't misty eyed at some points. in fact when the camera would focus on certain people in the audience, you would see them too obviously feeling the same way. i think camilla and charles at one point, you could see them with tears in their eyes.

the queen even looked like sheefs tearing up at one point. for me at least and for many, seeing the queen involved in this film they made was jaw dropping. we've never seen anything like that before. brief though it was and i must say very tastefully done as we expected. then there was the music, incorporating the beatles, pink floyd, the young athletes and the fact that a group of young athletes lit the cauldron exposed of copper leaves. it was spectacular is the best word for it. a lot of people were thinking after beijing and the cast of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, how could you really top that? and there was some worry that maybe this one would be a little bit disappointing after beijing. but it was incredible to see that it wasn't any of that. it really did in many ways you could say top beijing.

it was extremely touching, alex. >> i absolutely agree. i think the good thing is they didn't try to repeat what they did in beijing, they did their own thing and that's what made it so memorable. one of my favorite moments, those gold rings when they lit up and you had gold sparks, it gave me chills, it was beautiful. thanks for recapping it all, have a good one. domestics politics, that's gone overseas, first lady michelle obama is in london. and mitt romney may be happy to leave london behind. duncan, good morning to you. >> good morning, alex, the overriding aim for mits romney will be to show he's a good friend to israel though he probably won't see why he's overseas, the message he'll be a better friend and staunchal lie than president obama.

it's no secret it's been a difficult relationship between president obama and prime minister netanyahu. mitt romney has repeatedly criticized obama for putting too much pressure on israel and being too weak on iran. those are both messages israeli government wants to hear. the white house would point out that yesterday the president signed off on $17 million of military aid for israel. back to mitt romney, there is a personal relationship between him and netanyahu, they first met when they worked at the boston consulting group. barring any missteps will ensure he has a smoother ride in israel than he did here in london. >> we'll wait to see about that. first off though, duncan, what can you tell us about first lady's meeting with samantha cameron. what's scheduled on that front? >> well, i actually have little

information on this because quite rarely, they are billing this as a private meeting. this morning i spoke to downing street and they said it was closed to the media. unlike the lady's first interest in health and fitness is not a cause cameron has taken up. as women trying to raise young children and pursue their own courses they have no doubt lots to talk about and they have met before in downing street. so there is that person rapport. >> thank you very much for that live report. let's get to the weather now in jolly old england as well as the states. bill karins is here to talk about things on both sides of the pond. >> good saturday morning. looks nice behind michelle kosinski, there were rain showers right before the opening certificaemony and everyone on r was like oh, no and the rain

held off. they are heading towards the noon hour so it looks like the events will be just fine. if you're watching on msnbc or nbc properties, forecast looks absolutely perfect, cooler than it's been. it was mid 80s but this is nice and comfortable for the fans, cooler, light wind. very slight chance of a shower. in case you're wondering, this is london, gets cloudy and rainy periods. looks like sunday, tomorrow we'll have a chance of rain and also possibly tuesday into wednesday but doesn't look like any washouts. let's turn our attention back here to our states in the lower 48. areas of red on this map shows where the drought is the worst. we go from the intermountain west, the areas that don't need much rain, new england and the east coast. of course, guess who has the best chance of rain? the eastern seaboard. we may get thunderstorms to cool you off and also provide wet weather from iowa down to st. louis. as far as the worst weather this morning, areas from buffalo to

syracuse, dealing with thunderstorms, also down through central pennsylvania and all of this mess heading through new england throughout your saturday. your forecast not the best out there from boston down to d.c., a good chance of afternoon storms in new england. look at the middle of the country. we go from 96 today in kansas city to 100 in dallas and 104 in kansas city, one of the hottest julys on record. it doesn't end and no rain either. >> i know, they need such the break. >> they are saying it's too late for the corn cropses. >> that is why we'll have so much higher prices at the grocery store. you can catch women's soccer this morning. sweden plays japan at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. and the networks of nbc universal, the exclusive home of the london olympics, we'll air more than 5,000 hours of coverage. get comfortable. to watch the games live online, you can go to nbc olympics.com.

in other news this morning, new court documents show a psychiatrist was treating accused colorado sthooter james holmes. the papers reference a package holmes reportedly sent to that doctor. the motion did not reveal when holmes began seeing the doctor nor whether he was being treated for a mental illness. he is scheduled to be arraigned on monday. illinois congressman jesse jackson announced he is entering the mayo clinic for evaluation of depression and gastrointestinal issues. rumors have swirled whi he took a leave of absence last month. his family has only said they are there to love and support him. in just a moment, mitt romney's olympics gaffe, how much will it matter to undecided voters here at home. what's the news that couldn't help president obama's re-election hopes. stay with us. ♪

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the november election. as the confrontation between president obama and mitt romney heats up. mr. romney has been trying to back away from the remarks he made about the london reports. >> i read the same reports a lot of people did about the challenges being faced by the organizing committee. after being here a couple of days it looks like london is ready and it is hard to put on games in a major metropolitan area. what they've done that i find so impressive, they took the venues and put them right in the city. >> in his radio address, president obama pushed congress to pass the bill for tax cuts saying if 218 members of the house vote the right way, 98% of american families and 97% of small business owners will have the certainty of knowing that their income taxes will not go up next year. white house reporter for the "washington post" joins me now.

thanks for getting up early. >> thanks for having me. >> the white house released its revised budget late yesterday and came on a friday. mid summer, usually when you want to bury some news. is that because it readvised downward its previous forecast? >> alex, a couple of interesting numbers. yes, the headline is that over this year and next year the budget deficit will be about a trillion dollars, this year more than that. that's assuming next year that congress goes ahead and acts the policies that the president is asking for will increase short-term spending. that is not something a lot of people want to hear, a big number like a trillion dollars. another interesting number is that the white house is predicting unemployment to drop to under 8% by around the election time. i'm not sure economists see that the same way. that's sort of a magic number getting below 8%, something the president promised back pushing for the stimulus, if that happens, it could be good news.

but we have a long way to go with the problems in europe that could be a stretch. >> listen, fingers crossed it goes there, however the numbers showing economic growth at its worst since the third quarter of 2011. first quarter growth was revised up slightly. so is the white house framing this economic news in some way to their advantage? >> what the white house has been saying and this is consistent with the message each first friday of each month when the jobs numbers come out and they haven't been so good the last couple of months, let's take the long-term view. we've got 12 consecutive quarters of positive growth. that's the story they try to tell. and they couple that with the president took over during a real deep recession, that the likes of which we haven't seen in a long time. on the other hand, the republicans are seizing on it saying the economy is struggling and what's the president going to do? he's going to continue to say, pass the tax cuts you talked about moments ago for middle

class and enak my jobs proposals because we need to get this economy going. you'll see the debate continue to play out. >> let's switch to mitt romney heading to israel today. that gaffe that we played earlier criticizing britain's preparation for the games, how does that happen? and do you think it has long hitch term impact? >> it's a big story line now and kind of embarrassing for mitt romney with a trip designed to showcase him as a credible commander in chief and someone who could be a credible alternative to president obama. and to go over there and say something that offends your host is not the way to start out. what strikes me is this is somebody who ran the utah olympic games, salt lake city games in 2002, kindly would not take kindly to someone saying is salt lake city and casting doubt. i have that moment that was inadvertent probably and set them back on wrong foot.

now they are going to israel and looking for a big breakout moment there to rebound. i'm not sure it's going to be a storyline that continues to play out. once he comes back and the conventions come and there's more talk about the domestic economy, that's really going to take over. >> i think you're right. many thanks, appreciate it. >> thanks, alex, boom or boost, what's at stake for great britain's pocketbook in these olympics. >> we'll take you back to london for today's battles for gold. you're watching "weekends with alex witt." ahhh, now that's a clean mouth. i wish i could keep it this way. [ dentist ] you see, even after a dental cleaning... plaque quickly starts to grow back. but new crest pro-health clinical plaque control toothpaste can help. it not only reduces plaque... it's also clinically proven... to help keep plaque from coming back. plus, it works in these other areas dentists check most.

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than 80,000 spectators and 10,000 athletes packed the olympic stadium, including the queen there. this morning's newspaper splashed images of the dazzling ceremony on the front pages. many britains called it the greatest show on earth. that was particularly spectacular when those golden olympic rings. queen elizabeth is taking an active role, she appeared in a video with daniel craig before her body doubles parachuted into the stadium. nbc kevin tibbles is live with more. if you would have heard me laughing at the tv when that happened. i thought that was hysterical. she's got a good sense of humor. >> reporter: first off, alex, i'm going to fire my personal trainer and my tailor after the way daniel craig walked in like that last night. they have a bit of an identity

problem with the royal family. a lot of people have been so down on them over the past few years. but the royal family and the olympics and way things are taking place here, it really appears as if they are having a real renaissance in the public's eye with her jubilee just a few months ago and now the olympic games. she was everywhere last night. she stayed until the very end. must have gotten home quite late because everyone else did when it was all over. first thing this morning, here she is going up the tower behind me here, the orbit, which it's called, i've heard it called a few other things, some of them i can't say on television. another name is a squished up roller coaster, whatever it is, it is a signature start of sculpt stur at the event. the same guy who made the eye or mo mo mo moonscape in chicago. it's true that the royal family was out in force last evening. they seem to be enjoying themselves and i think that

britton bri bri brittons are enjoying seeing their queen. she's going to the swimming venue. the athletes village just behind me here as well and she's going to be moving around. >> she is remarkable, her stamina puts us considerably younger to shame i must say. what about food? people have asked me about what's going on with food there? any kind of food interesting things that americans are being talking about? >> well, there's a lot. the english eat all kinds of wonderful and bizarre and strange things. i'll start first with the athletes village. they serve between 35 and 40,000 meals a day in there and you can get everything for every sort of ethnic diet, religious diet and the kids are all in there enjoying that. when you get outside of the park, that is when you have to go hard core into the british

world, things like participated april cornish pasty or chip but ty, a sandwich made with french fries in the middle and you squish it like that and that's how you end up not looking like daniel craig. >> have you tried marmite, if you haven't, stay away? >> reporter: marmite is disgusting but i enjoy twiglet, like a pretzel like concoction that is covered in marmite, it's kind of salty also and kind of gross but they seem to like that. >> thanks for sharing, people haven't had breakfast yet. thank you very much. here's our twitter question for the day, which olympic sport are

you most excited about watching. my handle is at alex witt and we'll be reading through your comments. you can catch women's soccer this morning. sweden plays japan at 7:00 a.m. eastern time and the networks of nbc universal is the exclusive home for the london olympics, we'll air more than 5,000 hours of coverage. for all of the games to watch online live go nbc olympics.com. let's go to politics now, tomorrow marking 100 days to the presidential election. it appears to be a dead heat by most moesh measures, here's the latest gallup poll. the person with the lead in the poll 100 days out historically wins the election. that happens nine out of ten times, joining me now main murray, with a good morning to you. good to see you. any way to calculate which candidate's better position given the dead heat poll? >> alex, most of the polls out

there, national and important battle ground states show president obama with a slightly but below that all important 50% threshold. so it is really anyone's game right now. the way i'm almost thinking about it since we're in full olympics mode. this is the end of a second quarter in a basketball ga and president obama has a very small lead but it's anybody's game. >> okay, how about what -- i know you've see there are three key events between now and election day. i want to go through them with you as we do it quickly. mitt romney's vice presidential pick. when do you think that could come and who has the inside track? >> that could come any time when mitt romney arrives back in the united states after his overseas trips up until the republican convention. the early front uners are rob portman and as well as minnesota governor tim pawlenty and bobby jindal as well as south dakota

senator john thune. does president obama have an advantage since the democratic convention is after the gop, does that mean he could have a more sustained bounce? >> i do think it gives a little advantage but both romney and president obama have two different messages for mitt romney, it's introducing himself to the american public to make the sale maybe he's more than a businessman and more than a caricature you're seeing in tv tiz. s and for president obama, it's to get his base fired up. some segments were as enthusiastic as 2008. they are using the convention to get the base ready to go. >> you talk about mitt romney to introduce himself to the american public yet this is a guy we've known for some time. he made a run for the presidency the last time. >> it really is striking. and it came up in an interview he gave to brian williams a couple of days ago, why doesn't the american public know you

better? romney said there's going to be plenty of time, we have debates and conventions. as we pointed out in first read earlier this week, when you're having to say, there's plenty of time for people to get to know me better, that means you haven't made the sale yet and that's why the convention will be very important. i wouldn't be surprised if ann romney, his wife, plays a major role in trying to sell mitt romney. >> you mentioned the debates. is there either candidate, do you think who has proven himself to be a better debater? >> mitt romney was able to participate in some 20 debates during this republican season. of course president obama back in 2008 participated in so many debates, particularly when he was going head to head with hillary clinton for several months. it's hard to say who actually has an advantage although given the fact that president obama has been in general election debates once before, he might have a small edge. but i can say given all of the events, the veep pick, convention, debates, it could come down to the debates

deciding this very close election. >> okay, i want to thank you very much. mark murray, good to see you. >> thanks, alex. >> let's go to this week's three big money headlines. economic gold? mixed bag and high and dry. let's go to london and retail economist heatha good morning. >> i'm well, how are you? >> i should say good day to you. that was my failed attempt at a london accent there. do you see it as helping or hurting the british economy? >> well, alex i just came from heathrow airport and saw the crowded streets, there's a bike race going on and everyone is out. what analysts are saying in the short term, it's going to help the british economy but in the long term maybe not. this is the second quarter the british economy has seen a dip. what they are saying, yes, we'll see a little spike short term. there are a lot of people spending a lot.

but long term that remains to be seen. >> okay. back stateside, hitha, there were gdp earnings. >> only growing at 1.5%, the reason why here is unemployment is still ram pant in the united states and as well as the fact that housing is still while we're seeing a little spike with housing, it's not at the levels we were seeing back in 2002. so that's definitely having an impact on the gdp growth there. >> based on what you're telling me, why does the stock market surge then? the dow closes above 13,000 yesterday. how does that happen? >> right, alex, that is the magic of merkel. she said she is going to make every concerted effort to protect the eurozone and she came out with a statement along

with the president of france that said that they are going to make this concerted effort. and that's why we saw the big spike in the dow yesterday. >> i was talking with bill karins with weather and the impact of the drought with by the way no rain coming in sight for the midwest. it looks like it will take a big financial toll. >> right, the drought really is having a huge impact, they are estimating about $12 billion loss just from the drought alone and expecting this to be almost as big as the drought that the losses i guess i should say as big as they were in 1988, which estimated back then about $40 billion. so yes, this is really going to have a huge impact and we're really going to see the impact are beef prices long term. as we see in november and december, we're going to see the beef prices spike between 4 to 5%. even in food prices too, we're expecting an increase of about 2 to 3%. right now food inflation is at 2.8%. we're really going to see that

price of food spike there because of this drought that's happening. >> okay. thank you very much for heading street here from heathrow. i hope you catch some games action and see great events. >> we're going to try tomorrow definitely. >> go for it. >> thanks so much, hitha. almost a billion dollars spent on security at the london olympics. does all of that spending keep the games safe? [ cellphone rings ] the wife. hey, babe. got the jetta. i wiped the floor with the guy! not really. i would've been fine with 0% for 36 months, but i demanded 60. no...i didn't do that. it was like taking candy from a baby. you're a grown man. alright, see you at home. [ male announcer ] the volkswagen autobahn for all event. we good? we're good. [ male announcer ] at 0% apr for 60 months, no one needs to know how easy it was to get your new volkswagen. that's the power of german engineering.

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security undertaking it's almost impossible to offer guarantees for this type of thing, isn't it? >> it is impossible to offer guarantees and it is an enormous undertaking this involves security in the air, on the land. the water. with venues scattered all over the country, thousands of upon thousands of visitors, it is very difficult to provide security to all of these locations but i think the british have really done an impressive job thus far. so far so good. >> thankfully. for this kind of undertaking, does u.k. intelligence michael work with the u.s. and agencies from other countries to try to gather information and intelligence and from what you know if that's true, have there been specific types of threats to these games? >> the british and u.s. intelligence organizationses always work closely together along with some other allies like the canadians and australians. for these olympics that

relationship gets that much tighter. going up into the games there was lots of nervousness, obviously s u.k. has seen one serious terrorist attack every year since 9/11. in the months leading up to the event there hasn't been a specific threat that has concerned u.k. or u.s. officials. that's good news. >> we cannot forget what happened the day after the announcement came that london was awarded the olympics this year, when they had that transportation underground and buses all of that attacked by home grown terrorists. do you see that, michael, as being the greatest concern there? >> that certainly is for the british officials. as you noted, that killed 52 people, three trains, one bus, just the day after they got the olympics in july of 2005. since then, u.k. officials have focused ever more on the homegrown or self-starter threat. that is certainly what is most concerning, not just because it raises the specter of what they

said in 2005 but because it is the most difficult one to dete h detect. because of that british officials have a quick trigger finger on trying to disrupt anything they say that might potentially manifest itself as a threat during the olympics. >> michael leiter, many thanks. >> my pleasure. thanks, alex. a new revelation about the suspect in the colorado theater rampage and how will it affect his chances of an insanity defense? you're watching "weekends with alex witt. [ male announcer ] this is sheldon, whose long dy setting up the news

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right now, prosecutors in colorado are preparing to formally charge the colorado shooting suspect, james holmes is scheduled to be arraigned on monday. he's being kept right now isolated from inmates inside the county jail. defense attorney and former prosecutor karen desoto is here to talk about what's coming up. good morning, we've learned that holmes is seeing a psychiatrist

who specializes in schizophrenia. if we don't know that he's been treated for this, can you use this as a defense? or if you do know it now, how does that work in it? >> that's very interesting and from the beginning i've said there's obviously he's xiz identify or schizophrenic or some other cluster a. i don't know if he was actually seeing somebody. there's been reports that the school psychiatrist received a package from him -- >> which school, college? >> from college, right. he received a package and it sat there for a month but nobody knows if this was a person who was actually treating him or if he was just sending him his notes. >> is this the package that we've heard about that has some crude stick figures and talking about killing people. >> talking about killing and obviously from a defense standpoint, all of this stuff is good for the defense because again, you're talking about multiple murders so your defense is probably going to be insanity. obviously this would corroborate

the fact he was out of his mind and had a break with reality. >> what do you think is going to happen on monday in terms of the charges? >> they asked for the extra week to get it all together. >> i'm sure it will be a nice, big, thick, assault murder attempted murder, lots of weapons charges. i mean at the end of the day he's going to go away for a very, very long time. the question is, are they going to go for the death penalty? is he going to be deemed competent, because there's competency to stand trial, to testify? >> do different things. >> two different levels of kpency and you handle them differently as an attorney. he'll be going through a battery of evaluations. >> in terms of death penalty. how do they decide it. i did hear the da saying we're going to talk with family members. how much does their i am put weigh on the decision. >> there's always going to be one parent or one family member who says you better kill them no matter what you do -- >> victim's families you're

talking about. >> they are never going to come to a consensus on this. it does weigh heavily. if everyone is in agreement, it is used sparingly in colorado, only three people on death row right now, one is a woman. so it's not something -- they take it very, very seriously. if there is a consensus and also whether or not he's mentally ill will have a huge impact. if he's diagnosed schizophrenic, you can't do the death penalty to begin with. we don't know if he can stand trial or if he knows where he is, he was dressed as the joker for goodness sakes. >> is there anything that brings to your mind the possibility of a plea deal at some point? >> no because obviously if you're going for the insanity plea, maybe, there's always a possibility, save all of the taxpayers the money. he's going to go away no matter what. obviously his familiar is going to argue he should be in a hospital and he's very sick, maybe, maybe not. maybe he will plead and we don't

have to put all of those victims and family and colorado through further trauma. that would be great. >> we'll see and get a start on things monday morning. thank you so much as always. >> next up a look at the day's weather for you plus michael phelps could achieve something today no other male swimmer has ever done. let's take a paint project from "that looks hard" to "that didn't take long". let's break out behr ultra... ...the number one selling paint and primer in one, now with stain blocker. each coat works three times harder, priming, covering, and blocking stains. let's go where no paint has gone before, and end up some place beautiful. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. behr ultra. now with advanced stain blocking, only at the home depot, and only $31.98 a gallon.

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thunderstorms erupting already this morning trying to head towards the syracuse area. from rochester southward, that's where the worst of it is traveling on the new york state thruway. in the northeast numerous showers and thunderstorms, eastern seaboard continues to see afternoon storms. the rest of the country looks very dry and continues very hot this weekend. dallas should be 100 today, 102 tomorrow, oklahoma city could be warm as 106 this weekend. alex, a very warm weekend out there. i was watching nbc sports network and nbc just caught a huge break. michael phelps almost didn't make the final for together. he got the eighth spot and beat the guy head of him by a fingertip. it was a close call. >> i've been watching stuff online trying to anchor and watch at the same time, that's how excited i am. >> we're only if the first full day of olympic games and there's much more exciting and dramatic

competition head. rob simmelkjaer has an update on that. sometimes the athletes think they are not going to push it all in the qualifying rounds but michael phelps, so close to not making it. >> thgs first look of whether we'll see the 2008 michael phelps in london or a watered down version if you will of michael phelps, the 400 meter individual medley, the race he just swam, he hadn't swum this race for the last few years. he just got back into swimming it earlier this year and beaten by ryan lochte at the us trials and ends up barely qualifying, swimming in lane one, which is not a good position to be in. he won't b able to see where lochte is or the other good swimmers. he did win his heat this morning and he was in a slow field. a very poor time, it's not going to put him in a good position against lochte who is now the odds on favorite to win the gold medal in the 400 im. >> we talk about the rivalry,

are they friends or not so much? >> not one really knows except the two of them, right? everything you see seems to indicate it's a friendly rivalry, they spend time together. they don't train a lot together but there's never been any tension. it's a friendly rivalry and like a lot of other rivalries where two athletes are trying to achieve things, sometimes it's aukward i'm said. >> i think a friendly one between jo and the flying squirrel in ladies gymnastics. >> that's going to be fun to see as well because gabby douglas has come up in the trial. strong in the all-around has a good chance to win the all-around gold medal but jordyn wieber thinks she's going to do it. >> that would be awesome. overall. >> we've got swimming you've

talked about. when does gymnastics start? >> mens gymnastics starts today. the mens team trying to win a gold medal for only the second time ever has a good shot. they are expected to medal somewhere in the top three, whether they can win a gold will be tough but the mens start today. the womens start later on. what about overall, is the u.s. expected to come home with a lot of gold and silver and bronze? >> if you look at the overall medal count where the u.s. is strong, we'll be in the top three. the chinese bring an extremely strong team. the chinese do well in events we don't even compete in like table tennis and badminton and things like that. there are medals we don't get a shot at. you look at china, the u.s. and germany, those will probably be the top three and great britain will do better than they normally do and they should be in the top five. >> rob simmelkjaer, come back and see us again. >> we will. >> that's a wrap of our special early edition of "weekends withalwitt."

up next, women's soccer, the 2012 olympic games on msnbc start now. good morning, everyone, and welcome to our nbc olympic headquarters in new york. i'm kelly tilghman, and on this, the morning after the sptacular pageantry of the opening ceremony, it is indeed time for the games to begin. a busy day one here on msnbc features a crosssection of olympic action with our first taste of table tennis, fencing, beach volleyball and badminton. and we kick it off with live women's soccer as reigning world cup champion japan battles sweden. j.p. della camera and pete mar graph provide the commentary. >> jakobsson is on the ball, on the turn. ball set in toward the box,

missing there. today's women's olympic match between japan and swede women comes to you from sweden, coventry, england. broadcasting from olympic headquarters in new york city, along with three-time olympian kate m kate, it's japan in blue, sweden in the blue, played up by number 2, sjogran. and japan will let that go out. their throw-in. kinga. play in the last two world cups in the last olympics. sweden will take it back. berglund. over the top. japan defends that well.