there are reports that a letter was found inside of a package apparently sent by holmes. according to the cbs news, the letter talked about shooting people. the package was discovered in the mailroom at the university of colorado. in syria, the city of aleppo is bracing itself for major all out offensive on a rebel strongholstron strongho stronghold, and there are clashes through the country today leaving 91 people dead with 19 of them in aleppo. and then there is lots of excitement as you watch the torch there going through its last route of london. the golden torch making its victory lap so to speak. you are looking here at the millennium bridge. it is one of the iconic sites where the flame is being carried. the torchbearers took a pass through trafalgar square a short time ago and just past the prime min ster's residence at 10 downing street, and then off to big ben and a royal welcome at buckingham palace. mitt romney does damage control after his remarks of the london olympics setting off a little bit of a firestorm rather. romney is on the first trip overseas as part of the presidential campaign, and today, he met with the top british officials including prime minister david cameron, but it is romney's comments questioning whether london is ready for the olympics that is creating quite the buzz right now. here is what he said in an nbc interview. >> you know, it is hard to know just how well it will turn out. there are a few things that were disconcerting, the stories about the private security firm not having enough people, and the supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials and that is obviously not something that is encouraging. >> and just a short time ago romney downplay ed the earlier comments and he had high parade instead for the olympic organizer organizers. >> my experience as an olympic organizer is that there are always a very few small things that end up not going quite right in the first day or so, and those will be ironed out and then the games, themselves begin, the very few mistakes will be overwhelmed by the many things that the athletes carry out that capture the spirit of the games. i also applaud the work of the organizing committee in bringing the olympic experience right into the heart of london to look out of the back side of 10 downing street and see a venue having been constructed, knowing that athletes will be carrying out their come petition almost the backyard of the prime minister is really quite an accomplishment for those who wanted to make sure that the olympics would not be far off where the people could not enjoy it, but instead right in london, itself. >> meanwhile, that torch does continue to make its round there in front of londoners, and big ben in the background. from here, we understand, that the torch right now carried by a 60-something-year-old gentlemen and we don't know more about him, but this torch will make its way down that park, and that route to where buckingham palace. all of this one day before the official start of the olympic games and opening ceremonies tomorrow. controversy aside, the focus is on the games. there was tremendous excitement about the u.s. olympic swim team in particular, and they held a news conference a short time ago. olympic missy franklin said that her heart is with the massacre victims in colorado. >> i saw on cnn tweeted it out, and clicked on the link and read about it and was absolutely horrified. i texted my mom right away, and she was up even though it was 3:00 a.m. there, and i told her and she immediately got on the news and sending me constant updates, but it was absolutely horrible and senseless and you are to wonder why these things happen in the world, but fortunately, there is nothing i can do about it, and i wish there was, but all i can do here is to swim my heart out and make my state proud and give a little bit of fun for the tough summer that colorado has had. >> all right. missy's heart at home, but at the same time focusing on the games and the races ahead. zain verjee is joining us right outside of the olympic venue there, and zain, missy like so many americans expressing how much her heart hurts for what happened in the shooting, but at the same time, is it any way a distraction to her or any of the other swim team members as they focus on the races? >> it would definitely be on her mind because it was such a globally horrify iing story, an it is something that the members of the swim team and the u.s. would have on their minds, but what they are trying to do right now, fred, is to just focus themselves, because this is about winning. it is about the spirit of the olympics as well. they want to make sure that they are focused. now, you know the answer to this question, fred, which american athlete has won the most gold medals ever in the history of the olympics -- >> so far michael phelps who will hopefully repeat some more. okay. >> all right. well done. i was worried there, but well done. he got eight in beijing, and just a short while ago he was right behind me there at the aquatic center and what he basically said was that he was really looking forward to the olympics. it is going to be his last time and he was saving the emotional energy just to focus on winning gold again, but he said that he is not trying to think that this is the last time i will be doing this or that, but he said it is something that he just wants to enjoy. and by the way, one little hiccup that has been going over at the aquatic center is that there are people who have bought ticket tickets and really expensive ones by the way to sit at the top and watch the divers go down and do all of the fabulous stuff, but it is built so high, fredricka, some of them won't be able to see the divers -- >> what! >> -- jumping off of the platform, but they can see them when they make the splash. so that is something that is being addressed. >> and the splash is really important, because we know a good part of that judging, you know, it is based on the splash. but people are spending $300 to $1,000 and more for some of that ticketing even when it is in the so-called ez nosebleed, but they still expect toe soo the whole thing, so they are going to be disappointed. >> yeah, right. they are going to be very disappointed, but there is going to be some way to try to work something out, because it is a little embarrassing, but tickets are really bought by so many people, and the excitement in london is really building up, and central london packed because of the traffic, and we have gotten over the complaining stage, because the games are just a day away. >> yeah, it is all very exciting as richard quest put it earlier, no whining please. no whine with the cheese. >> and different kind of wining and dining. >> yes, that is what the pubs are for, right. >> about time, actually. >> okay. i thought it was tea time, but okay, on to more serious stuff. thank you. i appreciate it. okay. going back to what is happening downtown in london, i guess all of it is really downtown. our becky an dderson is there where you're closest to where the torch is right now. we are looking at the aerial or the bird's-eye view of the torch and where are we? >> it is an absolute scrum around here, let me tell you. i am trying some crowd control, and the torch has just come past what is one of london's most iconic landmarks and if alex pulls away there, you can see that is big ben. tony page running through and a charity workers and 68 years old and one of the 173 torchbeares s today. he is handing off to florence row, i'm told who is 81 and here in london as an 18-year-old during the austerity games in 1948. we have been told that the ban ki-moon potentially picking up the torch and running a short distance just over to the left-hand side in a few minutes' time. it has gone 8,000 miles across the uk. this is day 69, and we are nearly, nearly there. >> oh, my goodness. okay. so then when it makes its way through the beautiful, you know, park and roadway to get to buckingham palace, what happens once it gets to buckingham palace? >> what happens next is that it has gone round here and going to go through buckingham palace where you see the duke and duchess of cambridge and prince harry. they are not involved, but overseeing two torchbearers swapping over, and then that will go on the hyde park. there is a huge concert there this evening in the calderon there that will be lit. that is it for the time being. tomorrow, the torch leaves hampton court, one of the royal palaces up on the glorian, and if you watched the jubilee celebration, it was a beautiful barge n the rain, but it is a beautiful barge set up on the river and we are hoping for a much better day and the forecast is fabulous for tomorrow, and the torch will make its way from the river to where it will be lit, and we are not told by w m whom. and the security here is unbelievable. you may hear the helicopters overhead and of course, that is is maybe because romney is in town as well. >> and sol of the heme of thoses may be taking pictures of ban ki-moon right there as you see the secretary-general of the u.n. making his walk there as it goes throughout london. becky, appreciate that. here is what else we are working ob f ing on for this ho. she is back home and says she is doing fine, but catherine jackson has no longer custody of her son michael jackson's children. we will hear about that ahead. a train comes off of the tracks and roads across the u.s. are cracking. what is causing it all? the heat. and the other mother, they care for kids and love them and spend all day with them. we are talking about the nannies. >> i watched my baby fall in love with another woman, and it was an incredibly powerful experience. >> they are a big part of the kids' lives, but often cut out of the family picture. mine was earned off vietnam in 1968. over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. 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and whoever gets a chance to run it or walk it whatever they choose with the olympic torch, and they will have a chance to see the duke and duchess of cambridge as well as prince harry who will be there at buckingham palace and we understand that it is more likely in the balcony and give it a wave or two as the torch makes its way tomorrow, and then into the olympic stadium into the opening ceremony for the official start of the olympic games and now you can see a few folks there in the procession of people there. all right. we will keep an eye on the olympic torch in london. all right. it is the family feud, in this country with more twists and turns than you can count. catherine jackson, mother of late pop star michael jackson, is back in her california home today. rumors swirled that she had been kidnapped by her children, but in an apparent statement to abc news, she denies that. >> there are rumors going around about me that i have been k kidnapped and held against my will. i am here today to let everybody know that i'm fine and here with my children and my children would never do a thing like that, holding me against my will. it is very stupid for people to think that. >> all right. kareen wynter is joining me now on this from los angeles. and fill us in on this latester in drama and what is at the root of this and prompting catherine jackson to give this statement with her children by her. >> well, big question to tackle, but the question is what is happening behind catherine jackson's california home. sources close to the family say she returned home from arizona where she was staying on doctor's orders to stay away from the legal wrangling unfolding from michael jackson's estate and catherine is the beneficiary, and the departure prompted a letter from randy and janet, and they fired off a letter saying that the estate had been mismanaging things. and then shortly before 1:00, i was told it is emotional and paris jackson and her siblings had not seen their grandmother in so long, and janet jackson in arizona drove back and took the ni nine-hour drive with mom and siblings and she showed catherine jackson handheld video that took place at an altercation when some of the brothers and sisters showed up to try to talk to paris, and this incensed catherine jackson and fired the security team and trent jackson, her caretaker on the spot, and they are still at the property saying they are estate property and are paid by the estate, so no telling what is going on behind the doors and a lot of moving parts. >> well, it seems that paris jackson is pretty prominent in all of this and she is a i have on, i guess, conveying everything on twitter. this is apparently what she most recently said saying that grandma is here, thank god. she is obviously very happy that her mom is back. but i wonder if the family is taking issue with the fact that she is publicizing so much. >> well, that is what they are afraid of and sources close to the family told me that this is the very thing that michael worked so hard as a dad to keep his kids grounded and shield them from the spotlight and look at what is happening here. for the last week, we have seen unprecedented tweets from the children who are protected so heavily with paris sounding off, and prince sending out a tweet s saying he is so hurt, although i'm happy that my grandma is returned i understand how misguided and lied to she was, but we are hearing so much information inside of the jackson family, the children are being used in essence as pawns and really what is at stake here is michael jackson's estate, and a lot of money dealing with right now, and that the poor children are put at the forefront of this and stripped of the childhood and put in a very, very terrible position right now. >> well, it seems humiliating on so many levels for a whole lot of members of the family since all of this is so public right now. kareen wynter, thank you so much. all right. it will take more than 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warp, dismantle, crack. >> yes, exactly. if you think about how a the thermometer works. you put it in your mouth and then the mercury gets bigg and expands, and that is how it goes up the thermometer and gets bigger. that is what happens to concrete as well. when it is hot, the concrete expands like the mercury in a thermometer and when it pushes on another piece of concrete that is also expanding from the other direction, you will get the roads that pop. we have had these now a couple of times. we have even had a couple of times where the tarmac has moved around on some of the airports. we don't want that obviously. you have a little bit more severity going on there. this is happening across 200 to 250 record highs where cities have not been this high on just that date, but any date for any month or any year. and people are not used to that. and things were not built for that. the train tracks, and here is what happens. you get the two pieces of the road to come together and they both expand and then there is no place for them to go, and they have to go up. there is a picture here of a road that made some cars launch as they popped up. >> oh, my goodness. oh, wow. >> you think about that. driving along -- >> look out! >> hoh, my. there was a sign, but not clearly marked well enough for that driver. >> nobody expects that big of a buckle. you don't expect that unless you on a bmx cycle and then you want to jump it. it is the drought a all across the country and drought and no wa ther in the dirt, the dirt can shrink and the dirt can go up or down and then you do get rain, the dirt expands again and so you will have a up and down and freeze-thaw that we used to have in the michigan winters all of the time. >> and it is still high, and we still have august and in some places august is thotest month. >> it can be. it has been a hot summer, and this is going to go down as the hottest summer yet, and we don't know, because it is not over yet, but it is on the way. >> 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