golden gate quartet, josh white, leadbelly, my wife was dancing, i sang one song very amateurish way a smattering of applause, and then woody took over and entranced everybody not only with this singing but with his storytelling. i come from oklahoma. if. lead, we've got it in oklahoma. if you want coal, go on down a hole and get you some coal. then he would sing a song. >> in 1940, woody guthrie appeared on the new york review program featuring the folk singer leadbelly. >> folks songs and america featuring that great negro folk singer of louisiana leadbelly. he has with him today the dusty as dust bowl of the mall, woody guthrie of oklahoma. >> i think now we are going to sing a song that has to do with a book and some pictures that came out, "the grapes of wrath." john steinbeck went out to see what was happening with the it turnsn the u.s. and did s out that he made a jackpot. i did not read the book but i seen the picture three times. i come home and i wrote a little piece about it. the name of this is the balance of tom jones. ♪ after four long years on a man killing charge geo

to chicago where the twins josh willingham hit two home runs against the white sox.only minnesota player that did anything, sox win big, 11-4. in london, team usa played their final exhibition game before the olympics. got off to a slow start against spain but carmelo anthony knocks down five three-pointers and finishes with 27 points. the americans pull away in the third quarter off the turnover. lebron james flies in for the dunk, the dream team wins 100-78, their first game of the olympics is sunday versus france. here's what they'll be playing for, the medals were unveiled yesterday, there will be about 2100 medals awarded, each with the emblem of the london games. the olympics start this friday with the opening ceremony on nbc. >>> that's your "first look" at sports, i'm mario solis. >>> for another look at the weather, here's nbc meteorologist bill karins. he has the weather channel forecast, for the east coast it is looking lovely i looked at the huge monitor standing behind me. >> you can go somewhere else for your weather. >> maybe sometimes i cheat kwon lin

principal deputy white house secretary josh earnist today shot down the report. >> it's an utter fabricationms clear that doesn't know what he is talking about. miss jarret was not on the operation on the mission against usama bin laden. >> reporter: the mission was reportedly scrapped the day before it was successfully carried out because of weather. but attain report narse day showed ideal condition. bret? >> bret: shannon, thank you. the american government wasted more than $200 million of your tax dollars to train iraqi police that iraqis say they neither need nor want pay cording to an auditor's report. says iraqi political leaders never embraced the effort, centerpiece of the american training effort of that country. syria's top diplomat in london is the latest to defect over the civil war. united nations says fighting fig in the syria largest city led 200,000 syrians to flee in the last ten days. france is calling for urgent meeting of the u.n. security council. is there a fashion double standard for candidates' wives? and nancy pelosi means what she says, or does she? the grapevine i

. >>> to chicago where the twins' josh williams hit not one but two home runs against the white sox.nfortunately he was the only minnesota play their did anything. sox win big, 11-4. >>> to london where team usa played their final exhibition game before the olympics. got off to another slow start against spain. carmelo anthony sparks it. finishing with 27 points. the americans pull away in the third quarter off the turnover. lebron james flies in for the dunk. the dream team wins, 100-78. their first game of the olympics is sunday versus france. he's what they'll be playing for. the medals of the 2012 olympic games were unveiled yesterday. there will be 212 awarded each with the emblem of the london games. the olympics starts this friday with the opening ceremony on nbc. that's your look at sports on "early today." i'm mario solis. >>> well, the latest rumors on "american idol" judges. >>> and kate gosselin ready for love and a new tv show. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, a week ago he was on the red carpet for the premiere of his latest film.

in washington today, white house spokesman josh earnest said the issue should be left to final status negotiations >> i'd remind you that that's a position that's been held by previous administrations both democratic and republican. so, you know, if mr. romney disagrees with that position he's also disagreeing with the position taken by presidents like bill clinton and ronald reagan. >> woodruff: during his middle east visit romney did speak with the palestinian prime minister. but not with president abbas. and he conferred with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. the two have been friends since working together as business consultants in the 1970s. the 36-hour stop in israel was designed to help romney broaden his support with jewish-american voters. a gallup poll released last month found president obama leading 64 to 29% in that part of the electorate. that was down from mr. obama's 78 to 21% advantage over john mccain in the 2008 election. >> i think we got to really... woodruff: the slide in the president's jewish support surfaced during a recent reporting trip by the news

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white children. that's why we started the josh project.te families about the importance of being water safe. many parents don't though how to swim. >> he was the first in my family to learn how to swim and he's come a long way from not liking water in his face to getting back under. >> i'm so happy to see that so many of them have learned how to swim. good job. that's one life we saved. it takes me back to josh and how a tragedy was turned in to triumph and it makes me happy. >> and remember all of our heros come from your nominations. so if you have someone you'd like to tell us about, go to cnnheros.com. >>> a mom faces a devastating health risk, but instead of falling apart, she help wills others in need. man: there's a cattle guard, take a right. do you have any idea where you're going ? wherever the wind takes me. this is so off course. nature can surprise you sometimes... next time, you drive. next time, signal your turn. ...that's why we got a subaru. love wherever the road takes you. what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks

we had two employees at the white house. josh was the keeper of the president's papers. for 200 days, we tried to get info from the white house. they stonewalled it. once in and month out, the chairman of the committee and i and our leadership said, keep trying. we did not want to bring this to the floor again. we want to exhaust every remedy. that is not what is being done here. it is a railroading of a resolution. it is based on a false premise. it came to the floor of the house in a manner of less than two weeks for when we spent 200 days try to get word one from the bush administration. these people have gotten thousands of pages of documents. the documentation is from the attorney general. >> will you be walking off? >> i am just saying, there is an attitude in our caucus that we should not on a process that is coming to the floor. i myself and then to stay long enough to vote no and then i will see what many in our caucus thinks we should do. i will honor the wish of my caucus. but i will be there long enough to make sure that the record is straight on what is going

i will ask you the question that was bandied about at the -- in the white house press gaggle a few moments ago. josht saying it does seem odd to me that house republicans would be taking budget advice from somebody who famously declared that deficits don't matter. the president has a different view. what is dick cheney doing on the hill today? >> it's interesting. first and foremost he's going to meet with the gop leadership as you mentioned but then he will meet with gop whip mccarthy's whip team which is essentially about 35 or so house republicans that are in charge of counting votes and getting members on board with a plan. now, republicans in the past have been able to sort of say all right, we're not going to have this sequestration go in effect, let's create more spending cuts in programs that liberals hold near and dear. what dick cheney is going to do is apparently go to these authorize whip team and tell them just how dreadful these cuts would be to dod. i asked the same question you posed to the gop leadership and they said quote, the former vice president and secretary of defense obvious

it is impressive, josh, i think, the way the narrative has really -- they have, the white house with obama re-election campaign shifted the narrative to tax fairness and the subset of that is mitt romney's questionable tax practices, if you will. >> yeah. there's two components here. one obviously is the power of the bully pulpit and ability when you're president to say something and set the agenda. the other factor here is romney has been pretty terrible at defending this stuff. and he must have known that this was coming. the thrust of a lot of his defenses has not been, hey, look, they're mischaracterizing my record, what i did at bain was good and admirable and necessary for capitalism, something you as voters should want in the white house. it's been, oh, no, no, no, i left to do the olympics, i left in 1999 and these terrible things happened in 2000 and we have new documents, new big "boston globe" arguments saying, no, in fact, he was ceo on into the early 2000s. he's a mess. >> the ad the romney campaign put out this morning is very much in defense of that. let's take a look

their dad reached out to grab the string to pull the light, josh grabbed him and they were wrestling downstairs. sounds like a black and white950s or '60s sitcom. everybody gets along like a beaver cleaver family. that's the intent they have, show folks their dad is a real guy, a nice guy, raised a good family and can have some fun. >> and what did you learn as well about the pressures of the campaign on the family, their mom, who's had her challenges with illness, and how they're coping as a family. >> i think about their mom's challenge. one of the questions i asked them was the simple fact that a family that has as much money as they do and is as privileged as they are, a lot of people believe it's impossible for them to be in touch. i said, are you out of touch with the american people's needs? and they say that while financially, obviously, they're in very unique positions, they say they have challenges, too. they talk a lot about ann romney's multiple sclerosis and impact that's had on them and how tight it's made them as a family. one of the stories i thought was interesting came from tag's daughter, ali. we see her o

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josh, thank you. >>> we go to the race for the white house now. "your voice, your vote."itt romney in london this morning. meeting with the british prime minister during his first stop on a big trip overseas. david muir is our man on the romney campaign. david, romney says he's not going attack president obama on this trip, but he has had to answer a british tabloid report that suggests his campaign is doing just that. >> reporter: absolutely right. mitt romney landing to the controversial headline, his alleged criticism of the anglo-saxon relationship. word from advisers quoted in a newspaper here without their names being quoted, but this, of course, comes as romney hopes to invite people to look at his olympic resume and trying to look presidential on stage. in london this morning, mitt romney meeting with former british prime minister tony blair. just the beginning of many high-level meetings. on his first trip overseas as the presumptive republican nominee. he arrived here to the headline in "the telegraph" saying -- we are part of an anglo-saxon heritage, and he fee

josh hamilton. he was among seven ragthe range next week. robinson cano will be in kansas city next today. no one has been hitting the ball better, crushing another home run against the white sox. he has nine in the last 14 games. yankees won 4-2. the dodgers clayton kershaw is an all-star pitching like one yesterday. one earned over seven and get this, the dodgers actually scored some runs, snapping a seven-game losing streak with an 8-3 win. >>> golf, tiger woods is getting back to his old form, winning the at&t national in washington. he drains a birdie to take the lead and never looks back. it's his 74th career pga win. moving him past jack nicholas for second place. >>> spain cementing themselves as the best soccer team in the world and quite possibly the best of all time. fernando torres scored a goal and added an assist. spain wins back-to-back euro championships. they beat italy, 4-0. >>> finally, it would have taken a miracle for nastia liukin to make the u.s. gymnastics team. the darling of the beijing games had a tough weekend and it only got worse on the uneven bars. couldn't find her drip, took a major spill. thankfully she was okay. a heart breaking moment fo

white children. that's why we started the josh project, to educate families about the importance of being water safe.he victim. >> many parents don't know how to swim. >> he was afraid of the water. he was the first in my family to learn how to swim. and he's come a long way from not liking water in his face to getting ducked under. >> do you like it? all right. >> i'm so happy to see that so many of them have learned how to swim. good job! that's one life we saved. it takes me back to josh and how the tragedy was turned into triumph and it makes me happy. >> the josh project! >>> coming up next, pro golfer phil mickelson will join us. that's next. >> lefty. what is that? it's you! it's me? alright emma, i know it's not your favorite but it's time for your medicine, okay? you ready? one, two, three. [ both ] ♪ emma, emma bo-bemma ♪ banana-fana-fo-femma ♪ fee-fi-fo-femma ♪ em-ma very good sweety, how do you feel? good. yeah? you did a really good job, okay? [ female announcer ] to nurses everywhere, thank you, from johnson & johnson. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] you've been years in the making. and there ar

marching in step in the battle for the white house as younger, slightly more at ease stand-ins for the candidate. >> please give a warm welcome to ben, matt, craig, tag and joshe day we met them, the brothers ventured on the late night tv with an appearance on conan. >> are you sure this is it? are there more backstage? >> you never know. >> it's part of an orchestrated effort. the campaign released this father's day video last month with clips from the boys' childhood, to highlight romney, the family man. >> today he's accomplished something very great. >> i remembered my name. >> by now his sons are campaign veterans on the trail since their dad first ran for senate nearly 20 years ago. but this time around romney's second bid for the presidency, when he asked his family, four of the boys didn't want him to run. why didn't you? >> that's true. i didn't want him to run again. i really didn't. i thought, you gave it your best shot in 2008. you felt like you had to do it and go and give back to the country and you tried, and they didn't take you. so let's move on. >> matt and the others eventually came around. for a candidate who at times has struggled to conn

white crosses, one for each of the dead. robin? >> david, thank you very much. >>> we turn to josh elliott for the other top stoi stories. >>> we bringou the penn state community. they're bracing for yet another major ploe today. one day after the statue of former coach joe paterno was taken down, the university is about to hear about its punishment for turning an institutional blind eye to the abuse charges against jerry sandusky. jim avila has more. >> reporter: that ugly blue tarp-covered fence is all that's left of the joe paterno statue. another sad day here. perhaps joe pa would not have wanted to see what the ncaa is about to do to his beloved football program any way. 900 pounds of bronze was not enough to overcome the penn state sex abuse scandal. joe paterno's statue was removed from outside the football stadium. for now, hidden in an undisclosed location. penn state's president said the statue is a source of division and an obstacle to healing in the university and beyond. not everyone agrees. >> i'm disappointed at the university. i feel like instead of stepping up and making their own decision, they were pressured. >> re

white and dark chocolate chip cookies. and ann romney's monster cookies. taste? >> tie. >> it can't be a tie, josh.amilycircle.com/cookievote. >> they're both delicious. >> it can't be a tie. >> it's america. i can vote twice. come on. >> i don't know what it is. >> there's butter in there. >>> something else i want to show you. it's a game that's taking off. disney has a mobile app called where's my water. it's just about the most popular game out there. i can't stop playing it right now. i just found out about it yesterday. it follows the adventure of swampy, the alligator. here's a twist for "gma" viewers. take a look. it's the mobile game that has millions around the world tapping on their touch-screens. and made swampy the alligator, into a new disney icon. use your fingers to direct water through sewers to help swampy take a shower. >> one of the challenges for the developers was trying to make a game that's easy to play. and fits the way people use their mobile devices. >> reporter: this similar game about washing an alligator has cleaned up. it's reached the top of the mobile app charts in

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josh. the bomb squad looking for an explosive device that turned a jumbo jet around after takeoff from new york city. terror in the sky? or another case of airplane jitters? it was another white-knuckle moment in the sky. about an hour into the flight, the pilot told passengers he was turning the plane around due to mechanical problems. but it was really for something for sinister. >> we think, she's the one that's supposed to be the decoy, that keeps looking at the gentleman that was playing with the possible explosive device in the lavatory. >> reporter: that's the pilot of the delta jumbo jet that just took off from jfk airport, headed to madrid, spain. requesting assistance from air traffic control after a device was found and a passenger was acting suspiciously. >> so, if she gets off the aircraft, we need her escorted by police also. >> i understand you want her off at this time? is that correct? >> that would be correct. >> reporter: a u.s. marshal on delta flight 126 found the recorded explosive device in the bathroom. it's described as wires in two pieces of drinking straws about an inch and a half long. the wires were running through each. >> at that point, they led

white. the grand total is, $36,300 a year. take note. kate makes it look so easy. but it doesn't come cheap. for "good morning america," lama hasan, abc news, london. >> sam and joshnow, to a real-life "grey's anatomy." a stunning series that follows doctors and nurses at one of new york's top hospitals. "new york med" premieres tonight. we're going to talk to our friend, dr. mehmet oz. but first, let's take a look. what do you think? >> let's do it. >> all right. >> oh, my god. >> we have a pulse. >> he's alive. >> reporter: abc news cameras have the kind of access to new york presbyterian hospital and lutheran medical center, that viewers rarely see. the result is a heart racing portrait of doctors and nurses saving lives, one patient at a time. >> get me home. >> we'll get you home to them. don't worry. >> reporter: and one of the doctors cameras captured, was, guess who? >> it's sort of like being the mayor, i think. you have to say hi to everybody. >> reporter: dr. oz, who spends part of each week, doing complex heart surgeries. >> a lot of folks don't realize i still practice medicine. you can't afford to waste time in heart surgery. every second that you're