later it's women's basketball, usa versus china is on at 11:30. at 3:30, catch women's volleyball, usa versus turkey and a programming alert. prime time coverage starts at 7:00 tonight. will usain bolt be crowned fastest man in the world? you have to watch to find out. also springboard diving and misty may treanor and kerri walsh jennings. >> will the weather hold out in london? >> we hope so. meteorologist kim martucci joins us both here and abroad. >> guess what the high will be in london today? >> go for it. i don't know. >> 21. >> yes. celsius, right? >> celsius. around 70. around here, no doing. we'll be steamy once again. we're already off and running. look at this temperature. 80 degrees at reagan national. the sun will be up soon. the sticky necessary in the air, we'll feel that. especially as 90s come into town. closer to home, 81 in college park. and widening out the view, cumberland at 70. this afternoon, we're going to take you up to 94 in d.c. partly sunny most of the time. in the afternoon, 1:00 off to the west the thunderstorms devel

and china is 87 total with 38 golds and dozens more events happening. and of course, the usa versusold medal at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. remember that the u.s. beat spain in the 2008 olympics and spain's team also has nba players. >>> for this morning's faces of faith, we look at the inspiration for the olympics and how olympians inspire us to be more god-like. just think michael phelps does look a little bit like the greek god apollo, and the ancient greeks thought when athletes won glory they stood in the presence of gods and this mentality is part of christianity, as well, desire of hard work and virtue to bring us closer to god. our next guest wrote about this for our website cnn.com. joseph laconti is expert of and author of the new book "the searchers", and good morning, joe. >> thank you so much for having me. >> are the olympians really the closest thing that we will ever see to greek gods do you think? >> well, i'm not sure the closest things, but the greeks were on to something. the games were a wash in religion, and religious belief, a ped they dedicated the games to zeus