ker kerri strug will join us this morning. "starting point" begins right now. >> welcome back, our starting point this morning, mitt romney on his way to poland after his welcome strip welcome trip to israel. here's what he said. >> we must not delude ourselves into thinking containment is an option. we must lead the effort to prevent iran from building and possessing nuclear weapons capability. we should employ any and all measures to dissuade the iranian regime from its nuclear course. no option should be excluded. we recognize israel's right to defend itself and that it is right for america to stand with you. >> mitt romney trailing in polls when they are asked which candidate would handle foreign policy better. it's a critical time for him to recover from what some say were big gaffes made in britain. michelle is the co-chair of the obama campaign's national security committee and former defense secretary under president obama and in the situation room during the osama bin laden raid. nice to see you. thank you for talking

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ker kerri strug will join us this morning.starting point this morning, mitt romney on his way to poland after his welcome strip welcome trip to israel. here's what he said. >> we must not delude ourselves into thinking containment is an option. we must lead the effort to prevent iran from building and possessing nuclear weapons capability. we should employ any and all measures to dissuade the iranian regime from its nuclear course. no option should be excluded. we recognize israel's right to defend itself and that it is right for america to stand with you. >> mitt romney trailing in polls when they are asked which candidate would handle foreign policy better. it's a critical time for him to recover from what some say were big gaffes made in britain. michelle is the co-chair of the obama campaign's national security committee and former defense secretary under president obama and in the situation room during the osama bin laden raid. nice to see you. thank you for talking us with this morning. do you see a big difference betwee

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as people struggle to cool homes without power, businesses are strug struggling, too, from a.t.m.'to grocery stores, it's hard to operate without electricity. >> we're set up outside of the eddie's in rowland park across from the library and b.g.e. is around the corner working on downed power lines in the area. earlier, we saw this closed sign saying they had no power. the lights are back on and hopefully restoration will be underway momentarily. if you need ice to refrigerator, in in deep do-do, more or less. >> it's an inconvenience dennis dedrick has experienced firsthand since losing power after the storm. >> i went to the store and it's closed because it's out of power. >> the grocery store has had to turn customers away because it doesn't have power. >> it's a killer. you can't do business. you have no registers, we have no power. >> in the meantime, eddie's is trying to salvage whatever food it can by transferring some to but have to throw some perishable items away. >> it's definitely a rough situation. we've gone through it several times in the past but nothing this bad be

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student and get information and listen to your peers in the classroom and work collaboratively, i strug well an online -- struggle with an online substitute if you didn't get it first time around. those are the things talking about credit recovery, what does that credit recovery look like? again, i want to thank the youth mission. they brought it up. yes, those same courses for our immigrant population cho w.h.o. are just struggling to master many of the a to g course requirements, particularly that have a language component and they need to be able to master that to move on to the more advanced courses. it doesn't help them in any way if they are getti minimum passi move on to the more rigorous courses. it's a foundation that's very shaky and we want it to be solid. those are the things i wanted to mention. also f. we even imagine our students would get out of sfusd and happen to move on to the community college, the city college and a lot -- csu, they're not doing remediation classes anymore. they said that. they can't afford it. our students lead us with nowhere to go to get the cour

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today's best advice comes from former olympian kerri strug. >> my best advice, follow your dreams, it took perseverance and drive and i stayed true to following my dreams and i was able to succeed. >> that is great advice, endurns, perseverance. >> and always stick the landing like kerri strug. >> that's it for "early start." "starting point" with christine romans starts right now. >>> good friday morning, i'm christine romans in for soledad. our starting point, violent storms tear through the northeast, thousands without power after suspected tornadoes, high winds and heavy rain turned deadly overnight. this morning, more is on the way. >>> mitt romney's diplomatic blunder, this morning it's damage contr mode after offending the british on the eve of the olympics. >> i hear there's a guy called mitt romney who wants to know whether we're ready. he wants to know whether we're ready. are we ready? are we ready?

. >> this is a team that is supposed to be better even than the '96 team with kerri strug.knows name jordyn wieber. she is something special. look out for jordyn wieber and look out for gabby douglas. there is a reason why they call her a flying squirrel. she is a tremendous story. >> a lot of fun to watch. we have to talk about track. i did this story for "rock center." we talk about usain bolt, but his buddy beat him in the trials. >> that will be a big story. usain bolt is only 25 years old. he is trying to become the first ever repeat olympic 100-meter and 200-meter. blake has beaten him in both. >> we have more to talk about, but we're out of time. >> it will be great. i'm glad i'm here. >> we're out of time. you have some great adventures in the prime time coverage. it will be a fun olympics. the olympics start on friday night, 7:30 eastern time. jenna. >>> time now for the week in buzz. from rumors about the next "american idol" judge to others. we have chuck nice and alicia quarrels with us. >> hi. i tried to sneak one in. difficult to be sitting here talking. it is

his poetic lyrics epitomize the daily strugs of a working class life. his legendary concerts continue to fill stadiums worldwide. over the years he has evolved far beyond his new jersey roots. much of his music is a statement against the growing gap between the american dream and reality. he and his e street band have been playing together for decades. they're currently on tour for the latest album "wrecking ball." here's a look at one of their recent performances. ♪ the evening skies the storms for which we die ♪ no dictator were climbing ♪ i woke on a quiet night, i never heard sound ♪ but the law was raided in the dark and brought death to my hometown ♪ brought death to my hometown >> rose: dade remnick of the "new yorker" magazine followed him on tour. his profile the in this week's magazine. it is called "we are live: bruce springsteen at 62." i'm pleased to have david remnick at this table. >> can you believe he's 62? >> well, i do because i've known of him for that long. >> when i turn 27 i want to look like that. >> rose: the cover of thyme and

. >> females are always strug sxlg they always put us in the front. they always want us to lead.p to that standard. you know, when you're tired you have to dig deep and say i'm trying to go home. i have to do this. >> to help themselves and each other. >> among the activities in impact's regime is a conflict resolution exercise called community group in which members of a platoon can openly confront each other and air their grievances. >> since you been the platoon leader, i feel like you only looking out for yourself. you're not worried about the platoon. and i feel like being in this platoon you can't do that. >> i mean you've got to start talking and communicating with people instead of just giving this attitude like you don't care what's going on with them. we're a family. we got to make it through this one way or another. >> it's theresa's turn in community group. >> you act like you so high on the pedestal, like you so much better than everybody. you know, you got to realize that, you know, you be in the class. like you the big show, you know. you running everything. that a

big businesses like small businesses are strugging with massive amounts of uncertainty, a tax code thatither competitive and is overly complex, a regulatory structure that is almost impossible to understand, and yes, obama care is yet another -- >> uncertainty. >> blanket of uncertainty on top of companies -- >> this is part of the republican mantra. big business doesn't know where tax reform is going. they don't know how much new regulation is going to cost them, what kind of infrastructure they'll have to put in, so they're sitting on all this money and not hiring so it becomes this self perpetuating thing where the job rate stays where it is because they're afraid to spend the money they clearly have. i want to play for you because i want to get into the health care. this came from congressman gringry after upholding health care. >> i got a smile on my face because i think this is going to elect mitt romney the 45th president of the united states. >> this being the constitutionality of obama care. >> yeah, good luck to the republicans. especially mitt romney in campaigning about taki

this is a team that is supposed to be better even than the '96 team, the magnificent seven, kerri strugell and won team gold. this for the first time, it seems, bella karolyi, working with us on nbc, says it is an embarrassment of riches. jordyn wieber is 17 years old, incredible focus. she's been doing this her whole life. she is something very, very special. look out for jordyn wieber and look out for gabby douglas, only 16 years old. there is a reason why they call her the flying squirrel. she does things only a cat is supposed to be able to do. she is a tremendous story. >> a lot of fun to watch. we got to talk about track. the jamaican sprinters, i did this story for "rock center" and usain bolt is a name we keep mentioning but his buddy beat him recently. >> beat him in the trials, in his favorite event. that's a big story. usain bolt, only 25 years old, he still has a lot of running ahead of him. but he's trying to become the first ever repeat olympic 100 and 200 meter champion. as you said, though, yohan blake has beaten him in both events, just recently in the trials. that will

the strug. we seem to all have is where the inflection point is, how we make the tough decision, how we transit from lots of government money into no government money and higher taxes. >> we especially don't want to do it all at once. the fiscal cff is crazy. on the other hand, it's not a free lunch just expanding, digging ditches. you need to have, you know, things that you're spending on that make sense. there's a lot of things congress could do but doesn't do. and that is simplifying the tax system would help a lot and making it fair at the same time. we could improve the infrastructure. we have this incredible bonanza from energy, from the gas revolution, that might make us an oil exporter for a little while. we could bring manufacturing back. but everything sort of frozen at the moment because the government is so paralyzed. >> but everything is frozen. all of the measures that ken talk about, broad agreement needs to be done. with all due respect, they're not abstract. these are problems t

i think there is a potential strug 8 between two visions of islamism in the arab world. one is possibly supported by tour ceer. even though they wouldn't say it. and the ere one is the gulf version, and closer to the trend. the struggle is undecided in a place like egypt or tunisia and potentially could play a major role in syria as well. >> and the -- this leadership role that turks are seen trying to play, where does it fit into the debate about sue nighs and -- during the arab springs and what role, again, that creates the relationship between turkey and iran. >> well, the arab spring was only in countries where there were sunni regimes and with the exception of this. to turkey's credit he went there and i think it was march of 2011, and offered his help in mediating the conflict between the regime and the opposition rising up there, and sort of i diluting the whole she hide nature of that. he was rebuffed. he was sent to shut the door and he left the same day as far as i remember. that was it. so, you know, the and that's the only other place in iraq there was no ara

what kind of bloody reprisal killing wes might see or a power strug that might go on on the ground between the various groups as they try to battle it out for control of the country. >> from london, thank you very much. >>> americans won two more gold medals at the summer olympics yesterday but the u.s. replay team came up short in the pool and the top ranked gymnast jordyn wieber stumbles. mark phillips has the latest. it wasn't a good weekend for some of the marquee names? >> reporter: that's why they play the games. gymnastics and swim twog of the glamour towards and u.s. performance is always a measure of americans success or not. at these games seems they have to make way for new heroes. if everyone won who was supposed to win there would be no point holding the games. gymnast jordyn wieber already a world champion, supposed to be a hot favorite for olympic gold as well but dramatically failed to qualify. beaten up by two teammates. aly raisman and gabby douglas, supposed to be behind her on the depth chart. >> from the beginning, looking very strong. i knew would be close between the

kerri strug has done it. >> reporter: heroically vaulting the team usa to the gold it was the last timewe were there in 1996, and i remember that feeling in the arena when those young women took home the gold. it's been missed opportunities ever since. >> here are the women of team usa. >> reporter: 16 years later, the american women are hoping to reclaim that glory and make their mark on olympic history. >> this time around, they are going in as the defending world champions and absolutely this gold medal is theirs to lose. >> reporter: dubbed the fab five, they're still reeling from sunday's dramatic qualifying. >> stepped out of bounds. >> reporter: after several uncharacteristic slip-ups sunday -- >> she was well off to the side on the landing. >> reporter: -- team leader and world champion jordyn wieber didn't qualify for the individual all-around. >> jordyn wieber is out of the all-around. >> reporter: wieber's emotional setback has some worrying if she can regroup in time for tonight's team final. >> it's a little bit of a disappointment, you know, in my mind to compete and at th

there is an organic process to strug ming against your enemy that brings people together. you look at the major nation builders of the middle east saudi arabia, et. cetera and israel, most almost all of them were at war for ten years before they became leaders of the country. nay became national figures because they defeated, because they unified their country and produced an army that would back them up. in syria there is no person like that. there may emerge out of this bottle, one would hope if you give syrians time, a leadership will merge and you're seeing a whole new civil society being created at the whole place in syria. out of a desert in a sense you have the new committees being formed. you have the coordinating committee. you have the compile groups, you have aid committees, a new civil society is emerging. and it's beginning to coordinate not just on the village level but between level. .. you then do leaders will emerge because the will be successful on the above obra and need alliances and set up a hundred militias we see today will get eventually stuck into

the cayman accounts will be a huge strug struggle. he says how do you locate clients when there's no file. exhibit 32 is a july 2008 e-mail noting that hbm x discovered, quote, significant u.s. dollar remintenses being made by a number of hbm x cayman customers to a u.s. customers to be supplied of aircraft drug cartels. that's exhibit 32. later e-mail november 2008, which is exhibit 34 describes cayman accounts as having, frozen, quote, due to massive misuse of them by organized crime. so first of all, did you though that cayman branch was a fictitious, just a shell? >> it's what called is cat b. license i believe. >> did you know it was a shell company? there was no employees there. no office. were you aware of that. >> i know that's, sir. >> did you know about the problems with the cayman account in this case read. >> mr. chairman, no i didn't during the time i was there. i'm reading your report, i was really angry to find there had been an audit report on these in the previous year. but it will ever had been closed off with no act

have you seen that video of kerri strug? that wonderful jim is in -- gymnast in atlanta. on her first fault she took a bad landing and tore her ankle perishable leave that for the u.s. to win the team medal in gymnastics, it was essential for her to vault again. she runs down the course to that vault, leaps up, goes upside down and then does one of those stick landings, primarily on one leg. you have seen that, perhaps. i have seen it time and again. that is with the video and typically. the other night, i saw the video after those frames. she falls to the ground and roles in a ball of pain, west in -- grasping her leg. kerri said when i landed that landing and ran down that track, i felt pain 100 times more severe than i had ever felt at any time in my life. i look at kerri and i think millions of young people in the world look at her and see someone who is a model of sacrifice, of dedication, of commitment to restore, commitment to herself, a commitment to her teammates and to our country. these kinds of olympic moments lift as as a nation, let us as a world. i do not k

on the ground with syria's rebels and has an immediate and intimate feel for the dynamics of that strug where it may be headed in the coming weeks and months. perhaps even more important, david has very direct experience and knowledge of the rebels themselves and can perhaps shed some light at least on the $64,000 question that's bedeviled analysts and policymakers alike for the better part of the last year and a half. and without question has served as one of the biggest obstacles and constraints less charitable people might say excuses on u.s. decision making towards this crisis, and that's the question of who are these people? what do they believe? what kind of syria do they want to see? and what will likely happen if they get control of the state, and what will it mean for u.s. interests? of course, even if i'm right and in the immortal words of frank sinatra, that great historian of middle east despots, assad is about to start singing the opening lines to "my way." you all know it, you can sing along. and now the end is near, and so i face the final cur curtain. the fact is no one

have you seen that video of kerri strug? that wonderful jim is in atlanta. and tore her ankle perishable leave that for the u.s. to win the team dal in gymnastics, it was essential for her to vault again. she runs down the course to that vault, leaps up, goespside down and then does one of those stick landings, primarily on one leg. you have seen that, perhaps. i have seen it time and again. that is with the video and typically. the other night, i saw the video after those frames. she falls to the ground and roles in a ball of pain, west in her leg. kerri said when i landed that landing and ran down that track, i felt pain 100 times more severe than i had ever felt at any time in my life. i look at kerri and i think millions of young people in the world look at her and see someone who is a model of sacrifice, of dedication, of commitment to restore, commitme to herself, a commitment to he teammates and to our country. these kinds of olympic moments lift as as a nation, let us as a world. i do not know if anyone in this room was aware of what was going on dur