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minister and the mayor of london. mitt romney has back pedalled and walked back some of the commen comments. in an interview with our own piers morgan, he sidestepped the question and said that london is ready for the games. you have been slightly criticized for knocking the british enthusiasm as if you have not picked up on the enthusiasm, and have you seen it n now? well, i was excited to see the enthusiasm around the torch. last night i watched an entire program on the bbc about the torchf and the millions of people who turned out to the see the torch. that is what you hope to see. reporter: and boris johnson did whip up a crowd of 60,000 people here in london at a p preolympics party and taunting the gop contender about his comments for the readiness of the games, but since then, his office says he has made more positive comments of mitt romney after hearing that the gop conte contender has walked back some of the comments, but meanwhile, mitt romney has a lig ....
what do you think about what he has said so far since he s been there and how is everybody receiving him in your eyes? i think mitt romney came at the perfect time for britain. for the last month all that any brits have been doing is moaning about the olympics, about the traffic, about the security, about everything in fact that mitt romney touched on. he was absolutely right in what he said. it s just a bit like going into somebody s house and saying, i don t like the color paint you ve used. even if they feel that themselves, it s a little bit ill mannered to say that. i think that the feeling is he was a house guest and slightly over did his welcome. but let s put it in perspective. mitt romney told the truth. the security has been a shambles here. and to such an extent the british army had to be brought in to back up the outside group they used. i think that he was being accurate just a little bit insensitive in terms of the. as you can hear it s a bit noisy here. ....
i mean, i don t have anything else to say. it s just the i thought it was he was an odd guy. reporter: kwiatkowsky was a frequent customer at the restaurant that cross owned. crossed there was something odd about him, and he told strange stories. a story about his fiancee dying in a tragic car accident five days before his wedding. of course my reaction was, oh, my god. but he had told stories about his dog having diabetes. reporter: cross is now part of a class action suit against the agency that placed kwiatkowsky at exeter hospital. the agency declined to comment. cross won t know for another month if he has hepatitis. for now, he can just worry and wonder why no one caught him sooner. that this guy could fall through the cracks, or seem to have beat the system, if there is a system. how did this happen? on tuesday, kwiatkowsky declined his right to a federal detention hearing. he is now incarcerated in a county jail in new hampshire. carol? elizabeth ....
games. the olympic torch has finished its final leg on the river thames. next time you ll see its flames it ll be tonight. the big london secret though, the opening ceremony and, better yet, piers morgan is not going to be missing the event. he is on his home turf for goodness sake. lots of secrecy about the opening ceremonies. i know you ve got your sources, my friend. probably family members. clue us in. reporter: i ve been sneaking around. i ve been putting my nose in everywhere it shouldn t be trying to get any information. it s going to be pretty spectacular. probably my favorite detail is they re going to recreate a british countryside scene using real animals, country animals, so pigs, sheep, cows, you name it. they re all going to be in there with muhammed ali, bran-gelina, paul mccartney, an extraordinary mix of animals and people. sounds like the beautiful setting of your wedding. i remember the pictures of the two of you walking through the beautiful fie ....
brit, mitt romney. now i toss over to fredricka whitfield, and good day to you whitfield, and good day to you all. captions by vitac www.vitac.com hello, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux. in this hour, mitt romney manages to make headlines with foot in mouth mments that offended the british prime minister and the mayor of london and other stories that we are following and right to it. people are mopping up and assess ing the damage in parts of the northeast today and a series of severe storms swept through communities in new jersey and pennsylvania and new york and the storms left hundreds of thousands of customers without power. a brooklyn man was killed after lightning hit a church causing a scaffold to fall on him. a falling tree crushed a pennsylvania woman s car. i was coming home from the grocery store and the sky was pitch black and next thing you know the back door swinging open and my son is yelling from the front of the house, ....