stepping up for a swim-a berth at the world championships at stake, cullen jones was a picture of cooliven his success, you might never guess where jones was 20 years ago. unconscious and dealer drowning at the bottom of an amusement park water slide. >> i vividly remember what the slide looks like and i vividly remember how drowning feels. >> reporter: resuscitated by a life guard but still terrified, five-year-old cullen might never have jumped in a pool again. his dad wouldn't let that happen. >> he felt also, along with my mom, that it was important for me to learn to swim rather than to retreat fra it. >> reporter: his parents insisted on swim lessons, and they're clearly paid off. >> it is cullen jones! >> reporter: he not only won that swim-off... >> american record. >> reporter: but he became the fastest american ever in the 50-meter freestyle, record holder, gold medalist, and lately, role model. where did the idea come from? >> actually, i started right after the oics. >> glor: jones is using his fame to bring a disturbing issue to the surface. neither 60% of african american

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. >> now for a look at the beautiful forecast coming here is meteorologist john cullen. >> we have had but that will catch up with us, but not during the day today. a big area of high pressure keep as high and dry. rain chances to the south, and rain associated with the front out to the west, but will not be coming in during the day to day. this will be tomorrow's weather. for today's forecast, a high in the low 80's. partly cloudy skies. on saturday, a little warmer, a bit more humid with a thunderstorm chance in the afternoon and evening. dry weather sunday. >> thank you for joining us. we will see you for 11 news at noon. noon. - subway. eat fresh! - eat fresh! when you wanna kick it up with zesty chipotle sauce. - eat fresh! - eat fresh! the flavor-fullest sub only subway can offer. - eat fresh! - eat fresh! try the new subway big chipotle cheesesteak. an updated all-time favorite: juicy steak layered with zesty chipotle sauce... and melted cheese, piled high with only... the toppings you love. subway. eat fresh! ah, just installed fios in the whole building. now everyone has the f

already but i really want to get through it as a result of what i've heard directly from william cullen. there is a book coming out this summer entitled myths, allusions and peace: finding a new direction for america and the middle east by dennis ross, the longtime specialist eight middle east envoy working in the obama administration on iran among other subjects and david who is a fellow at the washington institute for near east policy. david and i go way back, we used to work together son interested in what these guys have to say about the arab-israeli conflict as both of them, there were covered and so long so that is another book i'm going to go through. another book is by david sanger of "the new york times" untitled and inheritance: the world obama confronts and the challenges to american power. having read him for years and "the new york times" i know it's a reporter he is and he has now put together was really an important book on what the president of the united states has basically inherited. he has been on my show, he is smart and i think this is going to be in a prayer book

cullen jones, an african-american gold medal swimmer, heads up make a splash foundation, which trains young minority swimmers. >> this is a major step back to see that people are still in the old ways, if you will. >> reporter: bianca solorzano, cbs news, huntingdon valley, pennsylvania. >> joining us now are alethea wright, executive director of the creative steps day camp, and her 11-year-old son marcus, who goes to the camp. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> let me begin with you, miss wright. your 65 campers paid almost $2,000 to join this swim club. tell me what happened on the first day. >> 30 to 35 minutes into our session at the club, the children came running down the hill saying, miss wright, miss wright, there are people making remarks saying they don't want those black kids and what are we doing here? i said, who is saying this? and they pointed towards the top of the hill. so i went up to the top, and i started addressing some of the derogatory comments that were made, and dr. dusla was sitting there as well, and he said, aleth alethea, don't worry about it. i

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