days away. the count down has begun. the olympic torch has arrived in london and so have we today, monday, july 23rd, 2012. announcer: from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, countdown to the olympic games with matt lauer, live from olympic park in london, england, and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning and welcome to a special split edition of today monday morning. i m matt lauer in london s olympic park. good morning, everyone. i m savannah guthrie in studio 1a. matt, it looks beautiful there. how is it going so far? it is nice. let me give awe lay of the land. i m in olympic park. behind me you can see olympic stadium. by its side you see the viewing tower a lot of people love and a lot of people hate. just below that you see some of the aquatic center and that will be the source of the scene of an awful lot of action over the next several weeks, savannah. i ll tell you, we re expecting your arrival on wednes
in the car eye walked up there to i walked up there. the driver, 21-year-old tavon frisbee and his friend cameron shields excelled at football. it was like someone shot me in the chest. i wasn t prepared for this. kids always come back in the summertime. i always have kids who will get a lift in in the weight room. sometimes you don t see them for awhile and they show up and get a lift. that s a good surprise. when you hear something like that, that s bad. reporter: they were outstanding athletes but their contributions to the school extended well beyond sport poos cameron was involved in our weight training program. he was just a great person, great individual. a smile could light up a room, really hard working. tavon one of the most outgoing persons, really involved in student government, student athlete. it s just an awful shame when you lose two kids who could be leaders. it s an awful situation. reporter: in baltimore county, jeff hager, abc2 news. police
scientist. here described as a soccer loving, aspiring scientist whose dream one day is to own a slurpee machine. what better game than rock, paper, scissors. apparently, rock, paper, scissors is a professional sport. meanwhile, a lot of new information coming out about the investigation. we know that holmes is being held in isolation, away from other prisoners, and that while police are interviewing people who know holmes, they insist that he acted alone. also this morning, police say they have safely removed all of the 30 separate explosive devices from his apartment. and last night they detonated some of them up out of harm s way. and let s not forget this, the faces of the victims. all the names have now been released, and this morning we re going to tell you about their lives. so let s get right out to colorado where abc anchor david muir is leading our coverage. good morning, david. reporter: good morning, bianna and dan. and there were two major developments he
the torch is here. the olympic fever is contagious. we will take you on a tour of this area. in our next half hour, who will be the next michael phelps? we will look at the break outstars. of course, english is the official language here, but you need to know what people are talking about. we will explain that coming up. jenna. back here. new hope for the girls missing for more than a week. they are cousins who vanished. the police say there is an indication that they may be alive. and michael jackson s mother may be missing. paris jackson sent a tweet saying she doesn t know where she is and jermaine says she is just fine. we will have more on that. jenna. first jlo and now maraih? we will talk about the possible new idols in the buzz. america and the british alike here are following the tragic events in colorado. that is right, lester. president obama is heading to colorado to comfort the distraught families of the victims. this comes as federal law enforcement of
captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, everyone. welcome to a special edition of today on this sunday morning. i m lester holt in london. my colleague is holding down the for the fort in new york. good to see you. we ll get to the latest on aurora, colorado in a bit. with the london olympics five days away, i have to imagine, lester, people there are getting super excited about the games. they re really getting excited about the sunshine. it stopped raining. it is a gorgeous day. people picnicking along the thames behind me. london is buzzing about the olympics. the torch is here. the olympic fever is contagious. we ll take you on a tour of this area. in the next half hour, who will be the next michael phelps? we ll look at the potential great lak breakout star for the summer games. english is the official language here. you may need help to figure out what some folks are talking about.coming up in a bit. back here, new hope for two little g