>> well, i think the regeneration of stratford, the area that the london olympics is being held, theyave been planning regeneration for a while now, almost just before we won the bid for the games. the olympics just really sped up that process. i think that's been a really long history of olympic says that sort of fiercely build more around more new buildings in the cities where they host the games and yet to really see any kind of long-lasting or powerful legacies of these buildings. when it came to the regeneral railings of the -- you know, the areas in stratford, rather than kind of building upon the sort of facilities already existing in areas, the parks and the buildings were nearly destroyed and demolished and the big business and local communities had no say at all really. no part of it. >> have folks been able to for folks that still have homes that are there, those not a part of the regeneration project, have they been able to go back home, been able to be part at all of some of the festivities taking place in their community? >> not at all. you know, a lot of these like you

. >> this goes back to february when i had been working with wikileaks on the stratford filed., these were the 5 million e-mails that had been hacked from the stratford private intelligence group. i had access to them. in one of the e-mails i found in there was this report from homeland security with the department of homeland security seal. it was a straightforward analysis of the occupy wall street movement, but there are ominous parts of it as we discussed that day when we broke the story including efforts that were monitoring social media, as well as warning law enforcement about the high possibility of violence. so we do the story and we didn't hear much of it until jason leopold filed this freedom of release request. they're sensitive accusations of spying on a domestic political movement. >> cenk: let's talk about the heart of it. they're saying from what i can tell from the e-mails listen, we're just looking at public stuff. that's it. we're looking at public twitter social media yada, yada, yada. they should get off our backs because we're not doing nefarious spying. w

. >> we have 5000 06 thousand olympic spectators, but they are all at stratford.hey are in strafford because they are interested in sports, interested in watching the games. they are not coming here to shop, go to the restaurants, visit the theaters, going to the museum. >> for anyone planning a spontaneous trip to the british capital, there are plenty of vacant rooms, and prices are falling. for operators hope it is business as usual once the olympics are over aretour -- tour operators hope it is business as usual once the olympics are over. >> first investment for mainland china in a foreign sports team includes a a new stadium for the italian first division club to be built by 2017. the investor group is now the second-biggest shareholder. >> the olympic flame is a reminder of ancient greece and its proud legacy as the place where the first games began. >> but these days, the southern european nation is more infamous for its debt woes. >> although athens says it will be able to avert a looming bankruptcy, many fear for their future. >> the budget has been cut s

. >> -- stratford. >> the flame will make its way down, and over the weekend, there will be a big celebration on monday, a holiday in the u.k., so people can go end enjoy some of the events in edinboro and belfast. and -- >> [inaudible] >> the paralympics were born in great britain. from there, it will be a 24 hor trek, through the night, the flames will go to the olympic park and that is where the games begin. so a lot of events from now until the start of the games next week. the lighting of the flames certainly signifies the paralympics are coming. >> and in all respects i'm sure this is a day you will never forget, thank you very much indeed. >> let's move on now to the situation in ethiopia where thousands of people have descended on the capitol to mourn president melse -- meles zenawi, he was 57 years old. a period of national mourning has been announced. joining us is the bbc's peter biles and we're getting a sense of there is a mood descending over the country as a whole but particularly there. >> that's right. ethiopians are observing a week of national mourning, the body of meles ze

gone down like twenty five percent not many people around with enough choice around all staying in stratford and a lot of people walking from that's why it really affected us i had to get rid of one of my staff because it's not that busy. really and what about fellow traders are they all saying a similar thing exactly the same all my neighbors i talk to there and they say they are complaining that it is really quiet at the moment is there anything that can be done i mean i know david cameron now is urging people perhaps to come into the city center to what can be done but. we're just hoping the olympics will finish by the next week so we get back to normal ok well thank you for your time and let's hope things pick up so it has to be said lympics isn't entirely bad news seven billion pounds worth of business related contracts were generated by these games but just like the lympics in sport itself it appears that winners and losers have been created in the economy. probably next hour the only thing is that the u.s. markets are very good so you then just a moment or an r.t. will get of the head

future forecasting intelligence company last year and there's a bunch of communication in there from stratford kind of touting this program is kind of like the be all to end all of big brother like this was this is how we're going to be able to watch everyone in the lake there they're talking like internal communication and least in these e-mails that are allegedly part of the staff or attack there is same pretty much we can do anything at one point actually said in d.c. our capabilities are increasing every single day so a lot really isn't known about it let alone where the money's coming from we do know that d.h.s.s. and the d o d have been having some sort of financial ties to them it's really kind of have to go online and start going through this crazy like wormhole of information on trip wire and you'll be doing it and i should know with wiki leaks you know having this denial of service ok well also that's one thing that we can only speculate on right now with the leaks is being hit by d.d. o. s. attacks for roughly two weeks now and lest we could be less wednesday someone from the wiki l

first chance tried to take the series against the nationalist facing steven stratford.ere is reckless and a steel, replacing milky cabrera. the national's loaded the bases against tim lincecum in the first. jason werth delivers a two run single, two/zero. they're leading the national league in strikeouts, he got seven giants but in the second brandon crawford and cameras to change up to write and the game is tied .. tim lincecum could not hold washington at bay. espinoza blasted one to the deepest part of the art. 4/2 washington, the one 6/4. tim lincecum allows for runs in four innings and picks up his 13th loss. the opposing pitcher got his 14th win in. the news on the field is not nearly as devastating as the news off of the field. milky cabrera, 50 game suspension, here is reaction. >> certainly a kick in the gut of this team. they got just before game time. and after the game, they produced this kind of reaction. >> we are moving on right now. that is all that you can do weather is an injury or something like this. this team will remain focused on trying to win bal

susan stratford reports. >> reporter: it's an act performed tens of thousands of times each year around the world. wildlife entertainment and education incorporated's kachunga alligator show. >> everything was going good the first five minutes. >> reporter: he was recording it on his cell phone. thursday night at the cuyahoga county fair grounds in berow a something happened. >> oh, my god! >> i don't know what went wrong but something happened. >> reporter: one of the seasoned trainers, danny beck, accidentally placed his arm near the gator's mouth. >> and it landed in the alligator's mouth. the gator, obviously, did what it does and clamped down on his arm. >> reporter: thousands of pounds of pressure from the 7 1/2-foot, 180-pound aquatic rep tile. >> he starts crushing down on the bone. muscles start coming out of the arm. bleeding everywhere. oh, my god. i don't know. >> reporter: incredibly, some quick thinking saved his arm and possibly his life. >> the idea that he grabbed a hold of the alligator when he bit him kept him from being able to roll over, which would have caused seve

. >>> investigators are still trying to determine what caused an assisted living center in stratford county to go up in flames. this is what it looked like yesterday afternoon at the facility on whispering pines lane. the fire reduced the building to a smoldering pile of rubble. no one was inside when the fire broke out. >>> this morning, three men are a i live after falling three stories from a church if men were working on a church under construction in evergreen mills -- on evergreen mills road yesterday. they were working on the beams that support the roof when they collapsed. the heavy beams trapped one man. he was flown to the hospital. a second worker also hurt but they are both expected to recover. a third man on the roof actually survived the fall without any injuries at all. >>> this morning some people in culpeper are under a water boil advisory. it's because a 12-inch water main broke near the safe way on blue ridge avenue. if you live in the southern part of town, boil your tap water before drinking or cooking with it. officials hope to resolve the problem by tomorrow. >

picket lines will be set up outside several tube stations, including stratford, the main stop for thelympic park. >>> and here now, a live look at the park this morning where team usa hopes for golden glory on the track again, but it is also a big day in the ring. the u.s. could land the first women's boxing gold in history today, while a tae kwon do athlete is looking to continue a family tradition. nbc's tracie potts joins us live from london this morning with more on these stories. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: hi, aaron, good morning. you know, we talk a lot about the athletes and the medals, but let me tell you about a couple of the stories behind these competitions. 17-year-old -- that's right, 17, high schooler -- clarissa shields could become the first ever women's boxing champion. it's a brand-new sport here, and of the nine women and three women who made up the team, she is the only one left in competition. she is facing the gold medal competition today against a 33-year-old russian, as she's been getting some pretty high-powered advice. laila ali tweeting to her "you'v

picket lines will be set up outside several tube stations, including stratford, the main stop for olympic park. >>> the u.s. women's soccer team hoping to strike the ball well today in hopes of getting some revenge against the new rival. team usa faces japan in the gold medal match today. it comes after a stunning extra-time win over canada on tuesday. the gold medal game is a rematch of last year's world cup final, which japan won in the penalty kick shoot-out. pretty heartbreaking defeat for the u.s. it was also a motivating one. if the u.s. team wins, it will be their third straight olympic gold medal. 5:05 now. three-peats are becoming a theme for team usa, and this morning, the best beach volleyball team in the world is celebrating its third gold medal, plus a track star who has twice played the bridesmaid finally gets her moment in the spotlight. nbc's tracie potts has more on those stories and joins us live from london. such great stories, tracie. >> reporter: absolutely. both of them, misty may-treanor and kerri walsh jennings become the team to beat in beach volleyball. they won

yes the west field stratford city, has nearly 2 million square feet of retail space.the key rule of real estate, location, location, location, westfield mall can't be beat. it's estimated that 70% of all visitors to the olympic park have to walk through this mall. the ceo tells me traffic skyrocketed from an average of 800,000 shoppers per week to more than 2 million as the olympics got under way. but the olympics are only three weeks long. then what? >> we didn't build this building for the olympics. we built this building for the people who live in the area. the east side of london has been really underserved. >> what will happen after the olympics? are you going to see as much traffic? >> no, yes. >> you will? >> yes. there's no doubt about it. >> with stratford city, westfield is trying to instigate a british retail revolution. they're trying to get the brits to shift from shopping on main street, here they call it the high street, and instead spend their pounds at big retail complexes like this one. >> they're trying to change the way the british shop. they're tr

maybe at westfield or stratford. >> you have a lot of suspect rotator, corporate.ifferent trading pattern. ers retaile not surprise. we looked at other olympics and it's a common trend. >> any major efforts to bring people back to the west end. >> we borrowed some tfl to bring people back to the center. >> we'll see if it is working. >> still to come on "worldwide exchange" we expect to one analyst who say investors should buy the standard charted dip. the stock well off 20% in london trade. >> when we come back we'll explain that call. 23% now down over the past week. again about 21% today. >>> hello and welcome to today's edition of worldwide exchange." i'm kelly evans. >> i'm ross westgate. these are your headlines from around the world. . shares of standard chartered sluch in london and hong kong as the new york regulator accuses of them trading with iran. >> the bank comes out fighting saying it strongly rejects the allegation. analysts worn of reputational damage. >> one of the fed's more dovish voices say the fed should keep on buying mortgage bonds and trea

because, you know, westfield and stratford are saying 10% of our traffic and west end saying it's been absolutely dead. >> i think that's the story. westfield did great because you had to get through westfield to go to the olympics so they picked up some traffic there. if you look at the west end the first weekend, the opening ceremony they were talking about traffic down double digits. people were scared out of town and clearly that hit retail. as you went through the olympics the second weekend traffic wasn't as bad, it was probably down low single digits and picked up as people came back into town. we'll still see in august. >> august should be stronger than july. >> it should. and the other thing to think about is the weather. i mean we had two months it's been raining, umbrella sales were up 200% in the last couple of months. so if you think about that, the weather should certainly help clear out those clearance items that we've seen. >> let's keep an eye on what's happening in gilts and sterling. we had upward revisions to the last couple of months to june at least. so there seem