carl lewis joins me for his first live television interview since announcing his candidacy.'s been a battle with whether your name should be on the ballot, where do things stand? >> i'm on the ballot. i won the primary as some people know. what's happening is they are trying to get me back off the ballot. it's within an interesting thing. i was in sports we used to line up on the line, all the people shake hands and go. if i was to line up with no competitors i'd always win the race. really that's what they're trying to do. i've never been in politics, we've got the governor, the secretary of state, the attorney general, the state gop, the county gop and my opponent. i look at it this way, i've put usa on my chest and ran against the world, i can handle new jersey. >> new jersey in some ways is facing similar situations to states across the nation. there's big battles over the budget. the democrats are getting push back because they went along with governor chris christie. they just slashed benefits for state employees. it's got to be a topic that come ups again if you're el

olympic great carl lewis helping unveil the countdown clock at the united nations center in new york. that was this afternoon. but the real action is overseas. n london. the host city, they couldn't be more excited. british prime minister david cameron says everything is on budget and on schedule. that includes the aquatic center, costs more than $440 million to build, a little more than 200,000 pounds i believe. the soccer stadium, wembley stadium. and where are they going to play tennis? take a guess -- wimbledon, of course. >> according to tradition, i invite the athletes of the world to participate in the games of the 30th olympiad in london one year from today. good luck, london. [ cheers ] >> we are excited. especially us here at nbc. the royal horse guards parade, the place where the world watched william and kate ride home on their big wedding day, will host beach volleyball. >>> a lesbian couple filed a complaint with telly parton's dollywood theme park after one of the women was asked by an employee to turn her t-shirt inside out. the t-shirt read, "moirj is so gay." the wom

the secretary-general ban ki- moon was on hand with track and field legend carl lewis.re also celebrating the completion of london's aquatic center which will be one of the main olympic venues. kind of nice. they separate them now? they did that back in the 90s. they used to be every 40 years. now every two years. >> i like the olympics. >> it's fun. >> we don't like to wait. >> i saw that first commercial for the olympics yesterday. i couldn't believe it. i'm not ready for that. we'll see more of that coming. >> absolutely. >> hey, great weather outside. looks like the fog is going to lift and very dense fog at the coastline early on this morning. by the afternoon, plenty of sunshine. it is going to get hot in spots. mid-90s showing up in many valleys even hotter toward tomorrow. and the weekend looking great too as we keep things high and dry. looks like we'll start to cool off a little bit toward monday and tuesday. but you know what? a lot of activities going on this weekend. speaking of hot, how about this? the garlic festival in gilroy. sunny and hot, smoking, abo