raj mathias joining us live right now in london. raj, a sunny outlook for american swimming and gymnastics. what a night it was. >> reporter: it was an amazing night. actually forget what a night, what an amazing we hours of the morning. did everybody stay up past-month. it's that time of the day when you wake up and you're going to school or going to work and you are dead tired but it was well worth it. an amazing night for the americans. first thing that happened this morning, jordyn wieber part of the fab five, she got on her twitter page and you know what she said?

raj mathias joins us live from london with the details. od morning, raj. >> reporter: good morning to you. good afternoon for us here in london. ate big development within the last 30 minutes eight olympians have been disqualified from these london games. they are all badminton players. let's tell you why. this is not doping. this is about intentionally losing matches or trying to lose matches. why would you try to lose a match? they are trying to get a more favorable draw in terms of badminton bracket. they were hitting into the net and trying to lose. they were reviewed by the committee and within the last 30 minutes eight players all female players have been disqualified. they represent indonesia, china and south korea. so eight badminton players are being sent home. now to the more positive story. all about michael phelps. yes, two medals yesterday. number 18 and number 19 of his career and now he's number one of all time, the most decorated olympian. really the story is just as compelling outside of the swimming pool. you'll recall mic

let's go to raj mathias in london with the details. good morning, raj. >> reporter: good morning. good afternoon. it's a strange one. usually we talk about doping or drugs but this time suspensions for trying to lose a match. now in terms of what's happening here eight female players all doubles badminton players from various countries, indonesia, china and south korea have been asked to leave the olympic games and go home. they have been disqualified. they were intentionally trying to lose their matches to get a more favorable position in terms of the badminton draw. that's against most spirits of any sports and especially the ioc. the international olympic committee has definitely opened the way and they are now gone, leaving these olympic games. on a much more positive note we're talking about michael phelps. everyone waking up in the bay area to some history. what we saw yesterday was simply amazing. number 18 and number 19 in terms of his career olympic medals and that's number one of all time and here's something we don't talk about too often gold medals equals a gold mind.

raj mathias continues to northern our coverage. >> reporter: good afternoon.he big beach volleyball is later on tonight. the volleyball court is down that road. you know what's on the other side? guess what? the historic buckingham palace. amazing. the queen is not in redense today. you know why? we look atop the palace and only the british flag is flying and not the royal flag. if the royal flag is flying we know the queen is here. when we talk about the royal family all sorts of things. by design they are increasing their profile around the world. it started with the royal wedding last year. prince william and kate middleton. then earlier this year the queen's jubilee and the last couple of weeks here at the olympics and the royal family have been to a lot of events around town really enjoying the games. we sat down for some insight with the british ambassador to the united states. >> i think what the royal family has done is in a rather seamless way, modernized itself. the reality is that from the days when she herself was a great innovator, for example, in