inside of a crater. it sent back its first pictures showing its shadows. later, we should get some color photographs. i guess they were excited. they were initially describing it as seven minutes of terror. they made it work. i m sarah simmons. i m a wisdom martin. no two days of terror on the weekend. we got a little bit. let s check in with tucker barnes. good morning. let s do hd radar real quick. cold front is moving through as we speak. it is a slow mover. the humidity is still out there this morning. the warm temperatures. today will be a gradual improvement over yesterday. i think later today, our high temperatures are only expected to be in the upper 80s to about 90 so about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. a few showers pushing into prince george s county and a few more out to the west towards winchester. that is about it. a little less huge you had by afternoon as well with high temperatures again about 88 here in washington. better looking start to our
after team doing the same thing, do you have any power to actually do something? no, not as an organizing committee. that power is vested entirely with the international federation, the international federation hit it hard this morning. they got rid of the eight players. and i think the international olympic committee were watching or would have watched very closely. the international federation made exactly the right call on it. one of the other big stories super swimmer. interesting what you said about china having now staged the beijing olympics, maybe changed their own thinking about these things, the credibility factor being much more important. i m always loathe to suddenly look askance and suspiciously at an extraordinary performance in sport. you know, as a teenager, i took four seconds off my 100-meter time in one race. what people tend to forget, of course, even at the age of 19, i d been doing that for the best part of seven or eight years. so we tend to, you
good evening from london, where the 2012 olympics have been rocked by a huge scandal tonight. eight players from three countries disqualified after trying to lose their matches. an extraordinary move and one that s shocking everybody here. at the same time, the controversy s mounting over ye shiwen, smashing records and raising eyebrows. some accuse her of doping, and chinese blast that it s not only wrong, but racist. joining me tonight for tonight s big story is london olympics chief, lord coe, or sebastian coe. i know you as lord coe. thank you. it s the right way to address you. you can call me sir. you must be feeling like, i don t know, the most excited, relieved man in the world right now. it s all gone so smoothly. i was excited before it started, i m now into that sort of, it s got to work. very, very grateful to the well, hundreds of thousands of brits that have helped us get this far. and what i never fail to be proud about is that, you know, you know w