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it s 11:00 on the east coast, 8:00 out west. a doctor, father, and authority on near death experiences in children stands accused of water boarding his own daughter. that story is it ahead. also, a hot dry summer translates to pain in farmer s fields and supermarkets. check out supermarket lanes all over the world. and curiosity is out of this world, way out of this world, but it is keeping in touch via tweets. much of that coming up. first, a very tough story. accusations of water boarding not against a prisoner of war but against an 11-year-old american girl. the man arrested, the rl s father who is a pediatrician in delaware. this is a mug shot we re showing you here of dr. melvin morris. his daughter accuses him of holding her face under a running faucet and told police he called it water boarding. dr. morris has written several books including two that deal with near death experiences in children. he is also been interviewed on various national talk shows includi ....
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 ....
racist tweet. let s go straight to london. zane, you just told me this happened. we got you up top. what did it say? who are we talking about? reporter: hi, kyra. this is the first olympic casualty. she is a champion triple jumper from greece voula papachristo and is believed to have said on twitter, with so many africans in greece at least the west nile mosquito will eat home made food. the reaction to that was very quick and very angry. her tweet was deleted. she apologized shortly after that on her facebook page saying she was really sorry for her tasteless comment and that i respect all people and all races. she went on to say she really believes in the values and meaning of the olympics. now, this athlete is only 23 years old. this was to be her first ever olympic games. she is not even here yet, kyra. she was in athens on her way to london in the next couple days but was booted out almost instantly from the team after she posted that tweet. i m standing outside ....
went bankrupt. opposition activists said 62,000 people were killed in the country. this video posted on youtube appears to show members of the free syrian army in the back of a pickup truck engaged in a heavy gun fight with government forces in homs. cnn cannot independently confirm the authenticity of this video. special ensloi, kofi annan, called for an immediate end to the violence. he warned against external military intervention. iran s ambassador said his country is ready to re-engage with the nuclear watchdog agency. his comment comes as western powers say they are ready to resume talks on iran s nuclear program without preconditions, but the ambassador says iran will never give up its nuclear program. those are the headlines from cnn. i m juanita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning. from cnn london, i m charles hodson. and a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. the top st ....
candidates looked to score of course some last-minute points. they took part in two debates in less than 12 hours. the person who should represent our party running against president obama is not someone who called him a remarkable leader and went to be his ambassador in china. this nation is divided, david, because of attitudes like that. [ applause ] we want someone when the time gets tough, and it will in this election, we want someone who is going to stand up and fight for the conservative principles, not bail out and not run, and not run to the left of ted kennedy. can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? you have been running consistently for years and years and years. so this idea that suddenly citizenship showed up in your mind. just level with the american people. you have been running at least since the 1990s. well, mitt romney is trying to seal the deal. he is out rallying supporters in new hampshire, trying to win over last-minute converts. c ....