Games in a major metropolitan area. what they have done that i find so impressive is they took the venues and put them right in the city. and not long after that in fact, he experienced some of the problems. he had intended to go by motorcade to visit the irish prime minister at the irish embassy here in london. the traffic was bad. a taxi strike was underway so he had to walk it. perhaps like an awful lot of folks dealing with the congestion and the chaos that is a city hosting the olympics, jon. jon: he did some fundraising there, i understand. he did. a fundraiser last night in london with americans living abroad raised some $2 million. for many romney has a lot of opportunity to pick up new support in europe because just as in the u.s., a lot of folks, moderates and democrats are a little bit disaffected with president obama. is he not raise as much money or support as he did four years ago. that s the same overseas. so romney is trying to tap that aggressively. a fundraiser coming up this weekend when he visits jerusalem in israel raising
Note shortly before cops found him at a motel room. metro west daily news. also states that the man was intoxicated when officers first encountered him and several prescription drugs turned up inside that hotel room. police arrested him a few days later. investigators say he injected himself with drugs meant for patients and left the con tan contaminated needles to be used by others. public forum new hampshire had delay a new round of patient testing. there is a fair amount of staff, there is a fair amount of logistics, the supplies that needed to come in. so we just wanted to make sure that trying to pull it all together in a very short period of time. that technician worked at hospitals in seven additional states hospital officials in each of those states are investigating. governor mitt romney says it looks like london is ready for the olympics, good thing since they are officially underway.
Which controls your tv and let s you watch shows from anywhere in your house. the price? 120 bucks a month for both internet and cable. one downside it does not carry some channels including espn and hobb. hbo. for now it s available only in the kansas city area. twitter reports a data center problem. not a surge in the traffic from the olympics sparked a major outage yesterday. the microblogging sight went down for more than an hour for users or four continents. second major outages in six weeks. twitter s vice president of engineering has apologized and said the company is working to prevent the site from going down in the future. thousands of taxi drivers in the streets but nobody is getting a ride. our top story as we go around the world in 80 around the world in 80 seconds. spain. drivers clogged traffic in madrid to protest new laws that would loosen industry regulation. one long time cabby claims the
Money as well as politics, jon. jon: mrs. romney is staying behind for the olympics? she is staying back here because her house is participating in the tournament of the olympics. mr. romney will be going on to continue his trip. meaning mrs. romney will stay here. listen. i would love to be there. because this is kind of a busy time for me. [ laughter ] i m not going to be. i give him a pass when it comes to my horses. now, it s interesting because mrs. romney will be here until the 8th or 9th which is long after mr. romney will have returned to the united states. don t look for a vice presidential pick until she is back state side next to her husband, jon? jon: carl cammeron in london, thanks. the details of those opening ceremonies have been top secret until now. straight ahead the look at the royalty and rock stars helping kick off what could be the very last american games for american swimmer michael phelps. he is on the brink of making history. controversy over his work atlantic threatens to steal some of the spotlight. that s next as fox reports
Village. watch what happened today when britain sport insisted london is ready for eiting olympics. yes. oh, my goodness, are you all right? yeah. terrible health and safety. are you okay? there we are. disaster. jon: that bell hit a publicist in the leg and the publicist we re happy to report is just fine. president obama just signed off on millions of dollars in new military aid for israel. and the white house insists that has nothing to do with the fact that governor mitt romney is about to visit israel. we re live in jerusalem. plus, google is taking on cable. we have new details about its internet tv combo. wait until you hear about the remote. and, the women who just parachuted their way into the record books more of that spectacular video next on the fox report. done even more to move us. because vitamin d3 helps bones absorb calcium,