>> her name is carrie johnson and she's fit, as you would imagine. a sprint kayaker.ted in the last couple olympics while battling a disease that causes fatigue, pain, and weight loss. they will have to keep that at bay again if he's going to have a shot at gold. >> reporter: carrie johnson starts graduate school this fall to become a veterinarian, but before she hits the books, she's hitting the water. sprint kayaking in her third and final olympics she'll race in both the 200 and 500 meter sprints. johnson has yet to earn a medal but she's determined to finish strongly. >> every athlete is lining up on that start line, you know, with the goal and the dream of winning an olympic gold medal, but i think if you can paddle away and say i did absolutely everything i could do, then you would have to be satisfied with that. >> johnson won gold in the 2011 pan am games but her success hasn't come without struggle. she has crohn's disease, an incurable intestinal ailment that also causes fatigue. >> when i have the harder days, i have a real appreciation for just being able

. >>> michael juneson carried the o -- johnson carried the olympic torch through stonehenge and still holds the 400-meter record. he jogged the torch around the large stone at the famous site and that is making its way 8,000 miles across great britain before the olympics begin in london this month. >>> last year, they were perfect in capturing the title. tonight, the washington caps return to -- castles return for their home opening match. next on the edge. >> a sneaky shark stole one woman's fries off of her reel. the woman was fishing near myrtle beach when a giant shark jumped through the water and took her fish. you can see everyone was surprised. even though the woman lost her catch, she continued to celebrate the rare event. the first time i saw fios it t was absolutely amazing. for years and years we had to put up with cable. once we got fios it was like somebody like took our computer and shook all the junk out of it. [ male announcer ] don't settle for the same old cable technology. switch to a verizon fios triple play and upgrade your entertainment equipment with our 100% fi

this morning american sprinter michael johnson carried the torch at stonehedge. a sight to see as the gold medal winner walked through the iconic site while the sun was rising over it. johnson called it an incredible experience. >>> history is already being made at the london olympics. two weeks before they even begin. for the first time, saudi arabia will be sending women athletes to the games. two women, a judo competitor and 800-meter runner were invited to participate. it also means that every country competing will have women athletes taking part for the first time in olympic history. female participation in sports is extremely controversial in saudi arabia where some clerics denounce women for exercising. >>> you may see a lot of britain's military guarding london's olympic venues. 3,500 more troops are being added to security forces because of private company says they might not have enough guards. g 4s a security firm says they're having trouble recruiting and training more than 14,000 guards they committed to providing. 11,000 troops will now help provide

this morning, american sprinter michael johnson carried the torch at stonehenge. it was quite a sight to see, as the four-time gold medal winner walked through the iconic site while the sun was rising over stonehenge. beautiful images. johnson called it an incredible experience. wow. >>> well, history is already being made before the olympic games even begin. for the first time, saudi arabia will be sending women athletes to the games. olympic officials tell the "ap" that two saudi women have been invited to compete in london. female participation in sports is extremely controversial in saudi arabia, where some clerics denounce women for exercising. >>> and you may see a lot of britain's military guarding london's olympic venues. 3,500 more troops are being added to security forces because a private company says that it might not have enough guards. g-4s, a security firm, says they are having trouble recruiting and training more than 13,000 guards they committed to providing. 11,000 troops will help provide security, as will about 3,000 unpaid volunteers. >>> tonig

and johnson, he's yanked out of the car by the secret service agents and run with four secret service agents around them and an agent behind them carrying an automatic rifle looking fair secure place in the hospital. they family put him in a little cubicle in the bk of the-- it's called the minor medical section of parkland hospital-- and that's where johnson is standing for the next 40 minutes. he doesn't know what's happened to kennedy. >> rose: nobody is coming in and out? >> he can't get any information. everyone is saying, "the doctors are working on president kennedy. of so lady bird would talk about how for approximately 40 minutes, they stood there. johnson is standing against back wall. in front of him is the secret service agent. there's a little room between him and the corridor, andwo moregents are there. another agent is outside at the door and yarborough has said, "don't let anyone in this room unless i know his face." after 40 minutes of rumor, jawness offense doesn't know what's happening, kenny o'donnell, who was very close to kennedy, a friend as well as an aide, walks in and lady bird wrote in her diary, "seeing the s

indiana, that -- indiana hadn't been carried by a democrat since lyndon johnson and the president carriedolina. when you start adding those up, you are almost to the number. it is five states that are very much in [ inaudible ], virginia is another one. and it will be tough. and then you down to one state. and as it could be as little as new hampshire's four votes, which right now is tied. here is the kicker folks, the kicker is that there is no way -- and this i will predict. i'll go out on a big limb year. no matter what barack obama is going to win the popular vote. >> okay. >> probably by 8 million votes. >> uh-huh. >> the only way he loses is it will be in the electoral college. we're looking at a 19th century device to decide a 21st century election.already. >> it happened with gore. >> well, it happened with gore but that assumes he didn't win florida, and i am not saying i'm willing to stipulate. >> that's right. david so far this is more depressing than the star wars sequences combined -- >> i brought in just the buzz kill of the morning, but everyone has a job. >> no. no. no. bu

four years ago the last time the democrats carried a president in an election was lyndon baines johnson and won by seven points. northern virginia is key for the democrats. it's 1/3 of the vote and prince william county and loudoun county are really bellwethers. i talked to jim moran and he said don't pay attention to 2009 when bob mcdonnell won northern virginia or 2010 where they took control of the state senate. what you should really concentrate on is this much larger turnout every four years that helps with the core constituencies, young people, african americans and most of all, an emerging group, hispanic voters who overwhelmly favor obama, but you're right. it's kind of dicey. somewhere obama is popular in northern virginia but maybe in the rest of the state allen will appeal and then he'll make the case that look, tim kaine even if he's not attached to barack obama, you wouldn't independent voice. he can't -- want an independent voice and he can't be an independent voice. >> i found it rather interesting tim kaine will attend the democratic convention and george allen will not

he became the first democrat to carry since lyndon johnson in the '60s. jessica yellin is joining us now. she's keeping tabs on the president's travels. jessica, he's doing a lot of traveling. >> reporter: he is increasingly, wolf. and the most recent polling shows that the president in virginia is ahead of romney in the state by five points, but that doesn't necessarily mean all that much for the obama campaign. because the same poll shows that 6% of voters there are still undecided. that means that state is up for grabs. and today the president went after that state's military vote. last time president obama won virginia by six points. >> when we win virginia, we're going to have won the election. >> reporter: this time he'll have to fight just as hard. >> i am going to need you more than ever in 2012. >> reporter: at least 12% of virginians have ties to the military, and the president is targeting their vote. >> we have gone after al qaeda, decimated their leadership ranks, taken out osama bin laden. [ cheers and applause ] so now i think it's a good t

johnson. >> fail there along the way helped. and getting a little bit of a rhythm last year. carrying the momentum into this year.a lot of the success i have is from the guys in the clubhouse that pitched before me that scores the runs. a lot of it is a reflection on the team. >> it is nice to see him get rewarded. adam had a great first half. >> darius webb has yet to reach the pro bowl. he has a contract extension. he put his focus on raising money for his foundation. turning -- raising thousands and giving everyone a chance. i asked him about critics that say ravens are on the decline. >> that is how we play football. we're doing a great job of drafting guys to step up and take the place of other guys. we believe in ozzie and the people in the locker room. we have other guys who will step up and make a name for themselves. >> a [ male announcer ] now at your neighborhood subway: the new santa fe steak melts. get extra grande flavor with the santa fe steak & bacon melt. juicy steak, crispy bacon, and melted cheese with creamy santa fe caesar. or try adding egg for a santa fe steak, bacon & egg melt -- a favorit

johnson. the study includes patients who carry a gene which gives people a higher risk of developing alzheimer's. pfizer says it's hoping for better results in a study that it's conducting with patients without the gene. >>> time for weather and traffic on the 1s. meteorologist tom kierein here to show us how the day is going to shape up. it's a humid start so far. >> what do you say, tom? >> but it's comfortably cool around the region under a clear sky. here's the view from space. we've got a clear sky around the region after a few scattered storms yesterday and this morning temperatures are pleasant, right around the metro area we're in the low to mid-70s. that includes montgomery, fairfax, arlington, prince george's counties. mid-70s in washington and right near the chesapeake bay, much of southern maryland, northern neck, eastern shore, low to mid-70s. near 70s shenandoah valley, but further west, some of the highlands in the mountains have reached the low to mid-80s already, and some of that hot air aloft is going to be coming our way here later today as we hit the mid and upper 90s. here's

it was 22 miles away across the hills and a friend of lyndon johnson told me how he used on to saturdays ride those 22 miles carrying a dozen eggs in the basket in front of him, carrying them like this so that they wouldn't break. 2 miles like that to get a dime. and i came to realize that being from new york, i simply wasn't understanding. i came back and i told him one night, i'm not understanding these people and i'm not understanding this country, therefore, i'm not understanding lyndon johnson. would you mind if we moved here. iena, of course, said okay and for three years we rented a house up in the hill country, and i would spend day after day, driving around, interviewing these people. every interview seemed to be 180 miles from the one before. interviewing these people who grew up with lyndon johnson and went to college with lyndon johnson or were members of his first political machine. when you move to a world that opens up to you in ways that you can't imagine and one thing i've heard and we all heard, if you read about lyndon johnson, you cite a wonderful journalist for "time" magazine has a poignant sce

carried two states instead of one. >> bill moyers, what was it like to just work for lyndon johnson? >> had you to run just to stay up when he was walking. he was, he was, he never stopped. he was consuming in his passions and in his objectives and demanding. but he never asked more of us than he gave himself. it took 12 of us, ten of us i think there were in white house to just keep up with him. he was 13 as i've said before, the most interesting and complicated men i have ever met. and playing his moods and reading them and trying to integrate them and advance an agenda that all of us had a part of, was really a demanding task. it was exhilarating, it was exhausting. it was rewarding and it was sometimes punishing. but you always were satisfied that the result made the effort worthwhile. >> evan, how did he know so much? he i mean he seemed to know everything about everybody. >> well, j. edgar hoover helped him. he was a sponge of political intelligence. today big controversy over these political intelligence firms that look through the intelligence. lyndon johnson got it in the no

carrying sunny williams and okiyoshimo. >> there she is taking off from kazakhstan, and suni is a fitness junkie, and last week we showed you my visit to the johnsoner, and suni has challenged me to a fitness triathlon. and between now and the 16th, we will see how her training is going on. good luck, suni. >>> you know, "chasing life" today i want to talk about bad reactions to certain foods, foods with gluten. the olympic games start next weekend and some of the big events start in the pool. today, one of the top gold medal contenders forrer the united states is also sensitive to gluten. for years, it was holding her back and the thing is that she didn't even know it. >> reporter: dana volmer will be racing in the olympics. and it is a bitter comeback after she failed to qualify for the olympic trials. >> it seemed like in my career, i always had something. >> reporter: at one point there was a heart condition, an acl injury and shoulder pain and back pain and also mysterious stomach aches. >> i had been to the emergency room three times at meets for stomach aches. >> reporter: doctors at first could not figure out what was wrong. turns out voll

and carrie ann beard from children's national medical center. and reverend dwayne johnsonr at metropolitan community church. well to you all. big week. thanks for coming in to viewpoint. reverend, if you could give us a big picture, it's been since 1985 that we have hosted the conference in town. a lot has changed since then. where are we now in the fight against hiv/aids? >> well, a lot has changed since then. i can remember when the first word came out about the disease, literally stopping in my tracks and knowing that this was going to be big. a lot of people minimized it at the time. early on, people were at a real loss about where to find support, what to do and how to engage. since then, there's been incredible advances in medical research, incredible advances in treatment. the thing is a stigma is definitely still there and there's so much work still to do around the stigma. and our own nation there was the stigma up until the lifting of the travel ban in 2009. there's one of the reasons why the conference was not held here for over 20 years. so this is a big step,

carried out by whomever is in office. >>> and after a corruption scandal by former prince george's county executive jack johnson, currenthern baker is looking to expand the county ethics office. the proposed bill would include hiring an expert to head the office, two investigators and whistle-blower tip line. former executive jack johnson and his wife are both in prison now for widespread pay-for-play scheme. the county council will have to approve the expansion of the ethics office this fall. >>> maryland governor martin o'malley wants to find a way to cut down on power outages in his state. he's ordered a study to find ways of improving maryland's electric distribution system. his energy adviser is leading that effort. the governor wants a list of changes within 60 days that he and the rest of the executive branch can implement. >>> washington gas customers in virginia will get a small refund because of a lower-than-expected tax hike -- a rate hike, that is. the state corporation commission approved a $20.5 million increase yesterday. washington gas requested a rate hike of $28.5 million in total. customers have been

johnson in 1964 was the last democrat to win here before barack obama did in 2008. senator obama drew 80,000 people at the final rally at the fairgrounds and he carried the county with of the vote. for state office election. prince william county historically voted republican. front and center today in the campaign is the issue of taxes. president obama says he wants to give the middle class a cut. opponents say that is just spin. masking a tax hike in a bad economy. senior white house foreign affairs correspondent wendell goler sorts it out for us tonight. >> insisting the one area of the tax policy both parties agree on, president al-balaw oba called for one-year extension of the tax cut for families making less than $150,000 a year. >> let's not hold the economy hostage while we debate merits of another tax out. for the wealthy. >> in a written statement, presumptive nominee mitt romney said of the tax hike that would result for wealthier americans it proves again that the president doesn't have a clue how to get america working again a help the middle class. republicans note the economy is growing slower than it was two years ago. they persuaded mr. obama that a

johnson says while there is more diversity on the runway, not enough has changed. she reveals how modeling gave her a warped sense of body image that she still carries to this day. >>riend, wow, she needs to eat. but secretly, i'm saying, i would like to look like that. that's how crazy that industry has made me as far as weight goes. >> reporter: for "good morning america," juju chang. >> so many in the film talk about how to stay relevant. they feel women need to see the beauty in growing orlando. > older. >>> coming up on "good morning america," jeremy renner and rach rachel weisz join us. >>> what happens when snooki and >>> good morning i'm eric thomas. more traffic delays around union square starting today whoa stockton street is closed to all cars between geary and ellis. crews have been relocating utility projects underground. part of grant between geary and sutter was converted to two-way traffic saturday. the closure is expected to remain in effect until 2017 except during the holiday shopping period. >>> the damage is done at the bay bridge couple of earlier accidents at the toll stalled on the incline traffic backed beyond the macarthur maze. accident e

johnson says while there is more diversity on the runway, not enough has changed. she reveals how modeling gave her a warped sense of body image that she still carries to this day. >>lfriend, wow, she needs to eat. but secretly, i'm saying, i would like to look like that. that's how crazy that industry has made me as far as weight goes. >> reporter: for "good morning america," juju chang. >> so many in the film talk about how to stay relevant. they feel women need to see the beauty in growing orlando. > older. >>> coming up on "good morning america," jeremy renner and rach rachel weisz join us. >>> what happens when snooki and >> live and in hd, this is an abc 7 news update. >> the time is a declared 27 on this monday morning. police may have been included in search for a sexual assault suspect. a man attacked a woman along the capital crescent trial last monday. that area is normally safe. if you have any information about the suspect, please contact d.c. police. normal operations have resumed fire in avernight haz-mat situation. one person was directly exposed but it is not clear to anybody else was a affected. newschannel it will have an in- report coming up in

johnson says while there is more diversity on the runway, not enough has changed. she reveals how modeling gave her a warped sense of body image that she still carries to this day. >>lfriend, wow, she needs to eat. but secretly, i'm saying, i would like to look like that. that's how crazy that industry has made me as far as weight goes. >> reporter: for "good morning america," juju chang. >> so many in the film talk about how to stay relevant. they feel women need to see the beauty in growing orlando. > older. >>> coming up on "good morning america," jeremy renner and rach rachel weisz join us. >>> what happens when snooki and j.woww come to >>> good morning, everyone. it's monday, we have a shower sliding off towards the east. it's around baltimore and dundalk. light in nature. we have a chance for more isolated showers to pop up in to the afternoon. temperatures, good morning, centerville 76 degrees. 75 jessup. 76 annapolis. throughout the day, temperatures will be seasonable. enjoy it. we do have a little bit of reduced visibility this morning and look at the hour by hour forecast. by lunchtime, temperature right around 84 degrees. 87, the seasonable temperature

beverly johnson, carol alt and kim alexis joi >>> i love these shoes, as long as i don't have to walk. they'll just have to carry. you do live in a bubble where everyone tells you how beautiful you are all the time, and they run and get you coffee or whatever you want. i was the first african-american to grace the cover of "vogue" in august 1974. wow, that's a long time. >> wow, but that was big. that clip from a new hbo documentary. it's called "about face." it's supermodels then and now. it's a look at the lives and the careers of some of the best-known women to ever walk a runway, and we're lucky because we've got three of them here live and in color this morning. hello, beverly johnson. >> hello! >> carol alt. >> good morning. >> and kim alexis. >> hello. >> welcome, girls, welcome. i love there's a part in the documentary where i think it's paulina who said what 15-year-old girl doesn't want to be told she's beautiful? so, when did each of you know that when you walked in a room, men and women started to say, wow? there was a point where you have to go, yeah, i am, i'm beautiful. when was that, beverly? >>