our report from nbc's michelle kosinski in london. >> reporter: it all began here in the london club,dle class teenagers with a passion for the blues. their first gig 50 years ago, for which they were paid about $50. >> we went down really well. everyone loved us. we could see, well, if it happens to us on sunday in this rather sleepy -- >> what about monday? >> tuesday even. >> reporter: in six months the rolling stones had a following. not long after, stardom. they played "the ed sullivan show," famously having to clean up their lyrics from "let's spend the night together" to -- ♪ let's spend time together >> reporter: and eventually entertained full stadiums. they have sold hundreds of millions of records, played live more than any band in history, and still moving like this. ♪ starting me up >> i'm still young. i know lots of people that can't even walk at my age. poor things. ♪ what a drag it is getting old ♪ >> reporter: well, they somehow didn't. was there a point at which you could really foresee or feel that you would be doing this forever basically? >> no, no, i didn't expec

matt. >> michelle kosinski, also here in london. michelle, thank you very much. >>> one of the highlights we are all looking forward to is the showdown at the aquatic center between ryan lochte and michael phelpsnd our ryan for the games is over at club speedo this morning. ryan, good morning to you. >> good morning, guys. club speedo right outside olympic stadium where it's in the low 80s. it's like southern california here. >> ryan, hi. >> sorry, we thought we lost you. >> we're going to blame jet lag. matt has no excuse but that's our excuse. we're covered. >> so talk a little about club speedo. what goes on there? what do you expect there? >> in a little bit we'll chat with michael phelps and the u.s. swim team. they are all sort of here having some lunch. michael is excited, i think, to get the action started. he's very excited about saturday night, which i think a lot of people are as well. so we're going to chat with them about what's on their minds and get into these games. it's my first olympics so i'm taking it all in. >> a

nbc's michelle kosinski is there. michelle, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ryan.zing to think of king henry viii at some point standing right where we are now. and he loved sports. he probably would have insisted on getting on a bike himself. relishing that the olympic cycling time trials will take place right outside his door. the races will start at his driveway. what an entrance it is. the handsome court to english history. even beyond the almost unimaginably rich painting, tapestries and glass, carves, sculptures, seems to breathe majesty into vaulted chambers. it has been the seat of aristocracy for a millennium. >> this is supposed to be the palace of pleasure and parties and honeymoons. >> reporter: the palace itself covers more than six acres, a quarter of which are kitchens. >> so, this is the actual kitchen where they prepared meals here. >> yeah. this is the great kitchen of henry the viii, and this fire, still lit today, is the one that cooked food for his court. nothing has changed and we still use it today. >> reporter: how better to get a bird's or

nbc's michelle kosinski has more on her majesty's cameo. good morning, michelle. >> hi, al.en and her corgies would be up for this. her first role in a bond film -- which stole the show -- is getting rave reviews. it started simply enough with benign scenes of london, but then in strode bond. shaking and stirring some corgies up a bit and you just knew there sat some famous actress. >> good evening, mr. bond. [ cheers and applause ] >> good evening, your majesty. >> reporter: whoa. not so. not so at all. and the planet's collective jaw dropped. even the corgie can't believe she's doing it. >> is that the queen? was that the queen? >> hilarious. >> wonderful. >> gold medal for the queen. >> when i saw the guy who escorted james bond in i thought, that's strange. he's real. then it was obvious it would be the queen's first starring role in a bond film. ♪ >> so out of character. but brilliantly performed. >> reporter: the corgies, too. good sports. when they approached her, the queen agreed, even insisting on using her own dogs. >> she was very helpful and very sharp. very shar

let's go to nbc's michelle kosinski live in london. good day to you, it is an exciting day as we get things going. what's happening today? >> reporter: hi, alex, you mentioned the swimming heats taking place as we speak and last tonight we'll get to see 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 m

michelle kosinski is in london in the heart of it all. michelle, what's the vibe in london right now? >> hi, toure. so many questions, so many facets of the vibe right now but it is extremely positive. brits are sometimes known for their very calm, steady demeanor, making everything understated and there is an aspect of that, absolutely. and people have been making jokes about how brits even now are not getting too terribly excited. can you really feel the national pride. and especially over the last 70 days we've been watching the torch make an 8,000 mile run around the u.k. the emotion that it's generated even in the stoic brits has been truly touching. it's always fun to see that video of what the latest kind of event is and the brits are really getting a chance to showcase their national pride and showcase the history here. all of the amazing things that make this country what it is. even though this is the third time that england is hosting an olympics, 1908 it jumped in at the last minute to substitute for rome which had a volcanic e

let's go to nbc's michelle kosinski live in london.ood day to you, it is an exciting day as we get things going. what's happening today? >> reporter: hi, alex, you mentioned the swimming heats taking place as we speak and last

as michelle kosinski tells us, the prish military is being deployed. >> reporter: checking bags, guarding athletes is now being done by soldiers and police scrambled from around the u.k. because the security company g4s, the world's third largest private employer, just figured out it cannot meet its target. of the 10,400 guards g4s agreed to provide, it admits to only having half that number ready. british lawmakers let the ceo have it. >> a fiasco and a shavrms. >> it's simply inexcusable. >> it's a humiliating shambles, isn't it? >> it's not where we want to be. >> reporter: the ceo says he only learned july 3rd that g4s will fall well short. in june an internal memo talks about a symptom called just in time phasing saying it would have been an advantage to have everyone trained months in advance but that was neither practical nor cost effective. we didn't hear back for months. olympic organizers emphasized they were confident. >> this has not nor will it impact the safety and security of these games. >> the bigger question, how many g4s guards will show up tomorrow. >> you cannot guara

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nbc's michelle kosinski has details on this this morning. michelle, good morning. >> reporter: hi, matt. you may have noticed the ship is still here. salvagers have been working carefully to eventually tow it away. the captain, remember him, just released from house arrest. he spoke last night to italy's channel 5 tv and apologized. and he said when the wreck happened, just as with so many car crashes, that he was distracted on the phone. the captain faced his angry countrymen, the questions on channel 5 tough. do you not feel the need to say sorry to someone. he answered them. it is normal that i should say sorry, that i should apologize. he became emotional, reminded of 5-year-old diana, the youngest of the victims. this question definite states me, it's terrible. let's leave it, please. he does not accept full blame for the immense wreck. he does admit he was distracted by a phone call. the retired captain was in the process of saluting on the island when it happened, said the navigation at that moment was under another officer's control.

nbc's michelle kosinski is at buckingham palace to explain that. >> progressfrogs and princes has gone honor is a big one. early and countess. you can always tell how formal the occasion by the hats and formal robes. this is a big one. the queens and dignitaries, prince william made a anytime in the most ancient order of the thistle. not bad for a guy out of the 20s. kate carrying a tartan scarf. >> he's stepping up royal duties. i think it's a wave of the future. >> scotland, despite a movement there to leave the united kingdom has always meant much to the queen and family. balmoral, her treasured estate where she and william and harry stayed quietly after princess diana's death. kate and william met in college, in the land of scott, upon the marriage given by the queen scottish titles, early and countess. for prince charles this week, a much different honor. after he let school children camp outside his home raising awareness of the rain forest, a cause dear to charles's heart, he had this little character named after him. a rare ecuadorial stream frog. it loves waterfalls. very touc

michelle kosinski has the latest olympic news. >> the game has begun. in order to fit all the soccer in, it needs to start early. women's match vez been held in scotland and wales giving the u.s. its first win of this olympics. in london tens of thousands again streamed into olympic stadium for another rehearsal of the opening ceremony. >> one person said trying to pull details out was tougher than locating the lost city of atlantis. and the torch was carried at one point by diana gold, 100 years old. at another, by prince charles and camilla, while athletes keep coming. and the u.s. wraps up a victory over france. britain's first national team ever also managed to win but the north korean team walked off the field at first, outraged they were introduced with a giant south korean flag. they returned once the correct flag was sewn and they won. a top runner suspended from the game after allegedly testing positive for a diuretic. >> and this greek athlete apologized for statements she tweeted saying she's ashamed. >> and muhammad ali took gold at the 1960

michelle kosinski caught up with them 50 years after their first live performance. rs. >> reporter: i know, savannah. this was the heart of the scene. today it's a tad touristy, but the rolling stones are still going. ♪ i can't get no satisfaction >> reporter: somewhere in the rolling stones rollicking quest for satisfaction, they obviously found the fountain of youth. on tour just a few years ago. and now milk jagger turns 70 next year, sparkly shoes, shades, hair styles, every bit the rock star not of yesterday but today. >> you can still walk around. i know most people can't even walk at my age. >> reporter: fifty years ago the teenagers played their first gig earning 50 bucks. nervously excited. >> we went down really well. everyone loved us. we could see -- >> reporter: they even outlasted the club, now a bank. appropriate maybe for a group that sold hundreds of millions of records, played for more than any other people than any band in history. irrepressible bad boy magic, mick quit the school of finance. >> you were going to be a banker? >> i wanted temperatur

michelle kosinski is on giglio island. michelle, good morning. >> reporter: hey, willie. capital schettino sat down and spoke for an hour and a half, he's accused of manslaughter, abandoning ship. he says he's willing to take some, but not all the responsibility for this disaster, calling it a really bad day in his life. >> no one can ever imagine the pain that you may experience. simply sorry is not enough. >> captain schettino accepts responsibility for the january crash of the "costa concordia" that sent more than 4,000 people scrambling to get off, 32 of whom did not make it. >> i'm not blaming nobody. i'm clear with my conscious. >> reporter: calling the disaster a chain of unfortunate errors. he said they didn't intend to pass as close to the island as they did, pointing to possible technical problems. >> something went wrong. the rock was marked on the chart, but the depth of the water on the chart was more than in reality is. >> reporter: again insisting his turning the ship closer to land saved lives. >> we would collide straight with the bottom side of the rock

nbc's michelle kosinski is in london with this story. michelle, good morning to you. >> reporter: hi, savannah. you might think what could be more important than security for olympics once you have the venues. for this to come up now, this security company only has half the number of guards ready forces the government to fill that troubling gap. guarding athletes now being done by soldiers and police scrambled from around the uk because the security company g4s, third largest employer just figured out it cannot meet the target. of the guard they agreed to provide, they admit to having only half that number ready. tuesday 300 were needed and the company turned up 38. british lawmakers let the ceo have it. >> a fiasco and shambles. >> inexcusable. >> a shambles isn't it? >> it's a humiliating shambles for the company, yes or no? >> i cannot disagree with you. >> ceo says he only learned july 3rd that g4s will fall way short. what happened? >> it was an incredibly logistically challenging. >> in june they talked about a system called just in

michelle kosinski in london for us this morning. , good morning. >> reporter: we haven't heard much on the grad student's condition. his parents asked for privacy. now experts are giving more details on why this might have happened and showing pictures from the operating room of the chimp that attacked him. american student andrew oberle severely mauled by two chimpanzees wasn't the only patient rushed to johannesburg's top medical center, so was one of his attackers, nicky, the chimp. 17 years old, recovering from being shot in the stomach as he charged rescuers trying to save andrew. the team of trauma surgeons operated on nicky four hours with a veterinarian. he's resting at a zoo on valium. the head of the jane goodall institute described nicky second in command to alpha chimp. he turned when he went into a restricted area in an enclosure to remove a rock, worried he might throw it. it was territorial behavior and the chimp's traumatic early life. both lost their parents to the illegal bush meat trade. nicky was raised like a hum

michelle kosinski is in london in the heart of it all. y questions, so many facets of the vibe right now but it is extremely positive. brits are sometimes known for their very calm, steady demeanor, making everything understated and there is an aspect of that, absolutely. and people have been making jokes about how brits even now are not getting too terribly excited. can you really feel the national pride. and especially over the last 70 days we've been watching the torch make an 8,000 mile run around the u.k. the emotion that it's generated even in the stoic brits has been truly touching. it's always fun to see that video of what the latest kind of event is and the brits are really getting a chance to showcase their national pride and showcase the history here. all of the amazing things that make this country what it is. even though this is the third time that england is hosting an olympics, 1908 it jumped in at the last minute to substitute for rome which had a volcanic eruption and 1942, that was the austerity games. it's fun to hear th

michelle kosinski reports. >> reporter: you can always tell the important of an occasion by how fancy the hats and ceremonial robes. yes, this is a big one, set to drums in the scottish mist, the queen and dignitaries referent. it was prince william being made a knight in the most ancient and order of the thistle. kate, carrying a tar tan scarf, her care twisted and curled to match her hat. >> it seems he's stepping up his royal duties, and i think it shows the way for the future. >> reporter: scotland, despite a movement to try to leave the united kingdom, has alwaysment of much to the queen and the family. prince wrm is also in the order of the garter, around since the 1300s, but he's also in a modern-day order called the air force. the royal watchers say he may kneel to scale back sometime soon to focus more on his royal duties. back to you. >>> well, we all hear horror stories about costly, nasty divorces, but now there's a new hotel helping unhappy couples move on quickly. divorce hotel opened in the netherlands about a year ago. the website says it can put an end to your marriag

nbc's michelle kosinski has the latest. >> reporter: checking bags, guarding athletes now being done by soldiers and police scrambled from under the u.k., because the security company g4s, the world's third largest private employer just figured out it cannot meet its target. of the 10,400 guards they were going to provide, it admits only having half that number ready. >> a fiasco and a shambles. it's inexcusable. >> it's a humiliating shambles, isn't it? >> it's not where we'd want to be. >> reporter: the ceo says he learned july 3rd that they will fall well short n june, an internal memo talked about a system called just in time phase-in saying it would have been an advantage to have everyone fland advance but that was neither practical nor cost effective. many people who wanted to work at the olympics complained they went through interviews and training and didn't hear back for months. >> this has not, nor will it, impact the safety and security of these games. >> reporter: the bigger question, how much g4s guards will show up at all. will more military be needed. >> you cannot gua

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

nbc's michelle kosinski in london, thank you very much. can you catch all the games on the networks of nbc, including your favorite station, msnbc. and due to the olympics, we're going on hiatus for two weeks. we want to bring the two best economic minds we know in a week early for their predictions. peter, let me start with you. do you see any hints or what hints do you see that would give you a clue as to what numbers we're going to see next friday? >> well, retail sales have been flagging for the last three months in a row. my feelings just the numbers can't be much better than they were last month. consensus was 100,000, last month was 80,000. i think we're coming in at 80,000 again. >> peter it was reported the gdp grew at a dismal 1.5 clip, businesses are slowing investing, consumers are slowing spending. what action or activity do you expect to see over the summer and leading up to the election? >> i don't expect the economyo get much better. i do expect the fed to do something. i don't know that it will have much effect. interest r

events in london, that's where we find michelle kosinski.dea what the opening ceremony will be like? it's starting very shortly. >> less than two hours now. it has been a well-kept secret with tens of thousands of people this week having watched rehearsals. a lot of speculation about that. we know a little bit about it. it is supposed to be very british, including the hughes of live farm animals like sheep. that's raised plenty of eyebrows. we've seen the excitement building over the last 70 days really as the olympic flame has made an 8,000 mile journey around the u.k. with the final leg being today as it was rode down the thames. officials are keeping it a secret of how exactly they'll transport it here to the limb peacekeeper stadium. it will be used to light the olympic calderon by another mystery, who has been chosen to light it? there are plenty of david beckham fans out there hoping he is chosen as he was not chosen for the olympic team. at least 1 billion people around the world, andrea, a seventh of the planet's population. >> count

>> no. >> michelle kosinski.y. next week, we are doing "way too early" there. that's exciting. >> any problems getting around london? >> my personal detail is intact. >> that so is anchored by you, right? >> it is. >> you will be in london? >> some days, it is. i will actually be there, yes. >> awesome. [ lane ] your anti-wrinkle cream is gone. but what about your wrinkles. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. it has the fastest retinol formula available. it's clinically proven to visibly reduce wrinkles in just one week. "why wait if you don't have to." rapid wrinkle repair. neutrogena®. recommended most by dermatologists. neutrogena®. this is new york state. we built the first railway and the first trade route to the west. we built the tallest skyscrapers, the greatest empires. we pushed the country forward. then, some said, we lost our edge. we couldn't match the pace of the new business world. well today, there's a new new york state. one that's working to attract businesses and create jobs. build energy highway

michelle kosinski, thank you. > good morning, breaking news at 8:26. firefighters are battling the flames in burtensville. you can see firefighters still dousing the flames with water right now. it looks like part of that fire is under control. here's what it looked like a little while ago, though. investigators tell us that crews rescued eight people from inside the building. no one else is inside right now and, fortunately, they say, no one was hurt. we do have a news 4 crew on the scene. look for the very latest on look for the very latest on "news 4 it's the perfect match for the perfect moment -- oreo the dunkin' way. introducing the new oreo coffee coolatta and new oreo vanilla bean coolatta. taste the fun today. america runs on dunkin'. hurry in to dunkin' and try the new oreo coolatta and donuts today. >>> good morning. cloudy and comfortable now. still not very humid. temperatures in the low and mid-70s and an isolated sprinkle this morning or this evening and then over the weekend, hot and humid. afternoo

nbc's michelle kosinski has the details on that. michelle, good morning to you. >> reporter: hi. here at hallowed wimbledon, the hosts won onfor the first time in 70 years to make it into the finals. the williams sisters. high drama in the cold english summer. the wimbledon crowd was down right rowdy. every match a hard fought battle. players on this rain-slicked world stage, roger federer holding the record, olympic gold medalist. andy murray, the first british player to make it to a wimbledon final since 1976. the pressure, flag flown over downing street, and disbelief. >> eddy murray in the finals at wimbledon. what more could you ask for. >> wonderful. >> reporter: people camped out overnight in the rain to get a better view from the lawn outside the match. >> it was wetter inside the tent than outside. >> under the bridge. >> it's really cold. >> reporter: watching closely court side, the prime minister, the london mayor, rupert murdoch, ronnie wood, murray's girlfriend, federer's twin, pippa and kate, who has been following and feeling every tense moment of the action. >> i

michelle kosinski joins us. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. the games have begun. in order to fit all the soccer in, it needs to start early. even ahead of the opening ceremony, women's matches have been held in scotland and wales, which has given the u.s. its first win of this olympics. >> mlondon, tens of thousands streamed in for the opening of the ceremonies. and the torch continued its run, at one point carried by 100-year-old diana gould. and at another, greeted by prince charles and camilla. while athletes keep on coming to the capital. women's soccer revved up in scotland and in wales. a u.s. victory over france. britain's first national women's team ever also managed to win. >> great britain has the lead! >> but the north korean team walked off the field at first, outraged this were introduced with a giant south korean flag. they returned once the correct flag was shown and they won. for a few athlete, olympic dreams ended before even touching their fields of play. moroccan runner and top medal winder suspended from the games after al

>> michelle kosinski in london for us, thank you. >>> 7:20. here's willie. >>> now to the texas graduate student who was attacked by chimps at a wildfire life sanctuary in south africa. this morning he's being moved to a new hospital in johannesburg. nbc is there. >> reporter: good morning to you, willie. the student is being checked into a new facility here in johannesburg, a city with an american consulate and perhaps a little more support for andrew and for his parents. still sedated, andrew left the hospital where he's been treated for the last week. he was driven by ambulance to an airfield nearby to be flown to johannesburg. a step closer to home and perhaps closer to the recovery his doctors are confident that he can make. >> on behalf of the staff and the doctors, we wish him a very speedy recovery and to his parents as well. >> reporter: he's been taken to one of the most highly regarded hospitals in africa. it is where nelson mandela was treated when he fell ill in january last year and it is where andrew will now be treated for the

nbc's michelle kosinski has the details on that. michelle, good morning to you. >> reporter: hi there. yeah. here at hallowed wimbledon, the nation's hopes were on the first countryman to make it into the final. the americans, the william sisters in top form. >> high drama at the height of the cold english summer. the wimbledon crowd was down right rowdy. this one. every point, a hard-fought battle. players on this rain-slicked world stage, roger federer holding the record in men's grand slam titles, and owe lick pick gold medalist and andy murray, the first british player to make it to a wimbledon final since 1976. the pressure, the flag of the scottish homeland flown over his homeland, and disbelief. >> eddy murray in the finals at wimbledon. what more could you ask for. >> wonderful. so delighted. >> reporter: people camped out overnight in the rain to get a better view from the lawn outside the match. >> it was wetter inside the tent than outside. we got under a bridge. >> it's really cold. >> reporter: watching closely courtside

let's get the latest olympic news from michelle kosinski over at tower bridge with a wrap-up. lochte will go for his second gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle. he got the games off with a bang besting michael phelps. for the first time in 12 years competed in an olympic event without winning a medal. >> it is france which wins gold. >> reporter: france beat the u.s. sunday in the men's 400-meter relay. a disappointment for both michael phelps and ryan lochte, with the u.s. taking silver. just the opposite of beijing where the u.s. team beat france for gold. >> we knew it was going to be tough. you know, the french swam well. being able to be on the medal stand isn't too bad, though. >> he just raced tough. we came up a little short. >> reporter: in one of the most talked about rivalries of the games -- >> so far these swimming games belong to ryan lochte. >> reporter: lochte beat phelps saturday in the men's 400-meter freestyle. >> phelps tries to get on the podium. but not today. >> reporter: phelps finished fourth. >> i have a lot of races. the biggest thing now is to put