. >> secretary vilsack is joining us from omaha, nebraska. what are you seeing on the ground? >> it is no surprise that depending upon where you are and what field you are standing in, you will see corn that has been very damaged. corn that has been slightly damaged. corn that looks ok. you can be in the same county and one form can be doing well and the other is doing poorly. that is why it is important to mention that we do not know for sure what the yields will be. we just have estimates. interestingly enough, the estimate we have right now is about 10.8 billion bushels of corn, which would be the eighth largest corn crop in history. even as we deal with very serious drought, you have to ask yourself how it is possible we have yields like that come out. part of it has to do with see technology. part of it has to do with when it rains. when you stand in a farm, you will see a lot of different things. what concerns me most is making sure that as we make decisions and as we establish policy and as we respond to this historic drought, that we do it based on the facts. we do it

friend hanna green who spoke with us via skype from maine says katie loves swimming so much it's never been a sacrifice. >> her training schedule leading up to leaving for omaha, it was eat, sleep, train and then eat, pack, sleep, train. >> reporter: and it paid off. just this morning hanna sent katie an e-mail, the reply from katie before her 800-meter freestyle race? a bit uncharacteristic from her normally calm and composed e- mails. >> she sent me an e-mail that said it's go time with like 50 exclamation points. so as you can tell, she was very, very pumped up for this meet today. >> then to get gold it blew me away. >> she definitely will not change as a person. she is so grounded and has such a great head on her shoulders. i look up to her every day. >> katie beat janet evans record set in 1989 and her first major competition, shawn, the olympic tryouts. pretty impressive. >> can you believe that? that's an understatement. thank you. >>> you may remember this story, too, the indian woman who crashed the olympic opening ceremonies. she's apologizing tonight. she's in the red jacket. she snuck into the indian athletes march last week. she was a volunteer

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us. >> just in omaha which confuses me. voter fraud. >> two examples. one is fromfamous republican clerk in wisconsin who forget to report 14,000 votes in that close supreme court race in wisconsin that was going to decide whether walker's reforms remained, that was bureaucratic bungling beyond anything, still in office, should have been bumped or forced to resign. dale franken race, we know 1100 felons voted illegally in that race and the margin was 312 votes. they've prosecuted people, 177 people have been prosecuted and convicted of voting illegally in that election. 66 more in the pipeline, dozens more investigated. we may get to the point in the al franken race more convicted -- >> you don't like to see things expand but isn't the solution to these issues putting more money into this process, hiring better people, more people so there's integrity of the system. >> we need more imagine native approaches. something like 65% of our poll workers over the age of 70. we have to train a new generation, should have high school and college kids encouraged to get credit