and on top of the world england in south africa had to begin their rematch test series during the world's number one ranking . but first the football where russian club. buy their first ever match in the europa league later on thursday they take on hungary and side one vote in the second qualifying round and you have been banned from hosting european matches in dagestan after the way for the crowd the region dangerous so the first leg of the tie is being held in an unused arena in the moscow region the big spending twelve hour appealing to europe's governing body in the hope they'll overturn their decision a giant screen is being wrecked at angie's home ground in march glasgow supporters can watch the game produce hiddink believes the visitors will come into the tie better prepared with two competitive matches under their belts already this season . but elsewhere sweden zlatan able him of it has signed a three year deal with big spending part of your man reports claim the french club paid ac milan around twenty five million dollars for the thirty year old sweden's captain apparently takin

on the top of the world england and south africa prepared to begin their three match test series knowing the world's number one ranking is at stake. on his way to a rapid rise to fame jeremy lin leaves the new york knicks and signed the houston rockets and a deal worth twenty five million dollars. in time russia looks to continue its dominance in synchronized swimming with the london olympics now just over a week away. but first in cricket the top two test teams in the world begin their three match series later on thursday england home south africa at the oval now and defeat would see the tourists leapfrog them into the number one spot in the world rankings a draw however would be good enough to keep andrew strauss his man at top of the pile and he'll be hoping his bowling attack can help inflict south africa's first series defeat on foreign soil in six years the contest pits arguably the world's two best bowling line ups against one another the tourists are spearheaded by the world's top run ball in dale steyn while england can call upon the formidable jimmy anderson and south africa's

on the top of the world england and south africa prepared to begin their rematch test series one of the world's number one ranking is at stake. and on his way to rapid rise to fame jeremy lin leads the new york knicks and science vacation rockets in a deal worth twenty five million dollars. but first to football where rushing to. buy their first ever match in european competition later on thursday they take on hungary inside that in the europa league second qualifying round and see have been banned from hosting european matches in darkest on your way for the client the regent dangerous so the first leg of the tie is being held in an unused arena in the moscow region the big spending club appealing to europe's governing body in the hope they'll overturn that decision a giant screen is being erected at angie's home ground in the supporters can watch the game in countries having believes the visitors will come into the tie better prepared with two competitive matches under that belt already the season. well elsewhere sweden zlatan abraham evictions signed a three year deal with big spendin

now in cricket to rein in briefly delayed the start of the first test between england and south africa at the oval the house won the toss and decided to bottom a short while ago they were twenty one four one captain andrew strauss the man out in the first over the build up to the series has been dominated by talk about their respective bowling attacks two of the best in the world according to many. i think it's a phase but the records of what the the two bali attacks have achieved. but you know we move forward and. we're hoping that they can carry on with that lift off in the past and this new new hires for them to create hopefully you know i'm certainly very excited about i think it will be a good gauge for us is where we are actually the rankings say we're number one but we've got to go out there and prove that now now to boxing where former w.p.a. light welterweight champion i'm a card says he's confident he will return to form after suffering his second straight defeat at the weekend the twenty five year old lost his unification world title fight to danny garcia but it's a quick re

of england. 16 sailors as well as their coaches will be needing what weather gear because the weather is dreadful. one of those sailors apparently told my colleague in the terminal building, "have we arrived at the winter olympics?" 2012 draws near. they are getting very busy. the peak time for at leaped arrivals is expected to be july 24, next tuesday, when over 1000 athletes are expected on that day alone. >> thanks very much. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. there's fighting between opposition groups and government forces for a second day on the outskirts of damascus. it is the worst they have seen in the 17-month conflict. kofi annan travels to russia to discuss moscow's opposition to international military action. john muir is watching developments from beirut. >> getting ever closer into the central damascus and the people of the regime -- seat of the regime's power. people throughout the city could hear explosions and the shooting. it does not mean damascus is about to fall. but many feel the noose is tightening. families have been sent

england accent and that was very difficult to do because we didn't shoot the movie sequentially so it was tough. long hours, no money, the whole thing. >> rose: thanks for coming. >> it is always a pleasure to see you. >> rose: judi dench is here, she is an acting legend from theatre to film. in 1999 she won the tony award for her role in amy's view, that same year she received the oscar for best supporting actress for her performance as queen elizabeth in shakespeare in love, when you talk about judi says sir richard air, the former leader of the national theatre you unpack a suitcase of superlatives there is not a trace of self advertisement about her he is genuinely modest but in my view he is our greatest actress here is a look at just somef her work. >> you remember the time when i tidied everything for you, and you didn't come, and you didn't come, and there was nothing left to make the effort for. i have no place without you. >> i will let you know a secret. i have my eye on your cousin. >> oh, for a character in your novel, ms. lavish. >> the young english girl transfigured by

a cold front moving south from new england will add to the severe storm threat. another cold front, some severe from the upper ohio and mid mississippi valleys into the southern plains. the south will remain hot and humid. the west will stay mostly dry and hot. >>> in sports this morning, it's good -- popular in philadelphia, he'll be staying there a while. the 28-year-old left-hander could have become a free agent this fall. wednesday he signed a $144 million six-year contract with the phils. they'll have three starters making at least $20 million a season. so christmas came early for the phillies who hosted the brewers. in the tenth jimmy rollins, the walk-off rbi single to center. the phils in last place in the national league east won their fourth straight game, 7-6. in st. louis, the dodgers had a new third baseman acquired from the marlins. his first at-bat, ramirez smacked the triple off the center field wall and later hit an rbi single that tied the score at 2 taking the game all wait to the 13th inning. the cards, raphael furcal ended with an rbi single

england's south coast will host the sailing. >> facilities here are fantastic. as a team, we are working hard in this final build up to the olympics to get things right. >> new facilities and historic ones. the men who helped bring the olympics to london have done their work. now, let the games begin. >> all right, let's recap our main story for you -- syrian rebels are reported to have taken control of the country's main border crossing with iraq as well as one of the crossings with turkey. footage posted on the internet suggests that the conflict is entering a new and bloodier stage. >> the fighting in damascus has intensified since three top syrian officials were killed in a bombing on wednesday. >> nearly 20,000 syrian refugees have arrived in neighboring lebanon in the last 24 hours. at the united nations, russia and china have become another draft resolution aiming to impose sanctions on syria. >> that is going to wrap it up for this edition of the "journal." as always, thanks for watching. >> do not forget -- you can find more on our website. that is dw.d

the south didn't have public schools. and again that was one of the continue contributions that dubois pointed out in the article that i cited earlier that in the south there was no public school system, no common schools, primarily because we have slave holders who dominated the politics in the states -- in the southern states and basically they didn't want to spend their tax dollars who were not slave holders. they send their children to the north and overseas and dirt farming upcoming white people weren't of any interest to them. and they didn't want to educate the enslaved african-americans. so i teach african-american history is one of my stories is to tell about robert smalls and his proposing the resolution to create the public school system and match it in texas, an african-american from harrison county proposed the legislation in texas to create the public school system. so indeed, robert smalls, again, he is more intimately involved in creating the public school system down in buford county. >> and i want to add

coast of england. in this video we're seeing the linington reli and they are approaching a catamaran that had an eight-person crew. as they get close, it looks like all eight people are overboard. this was off dern's point. >> were they all wearing life vests? >> it looks like everybody from the crew was wearing a life jacket. this was one of four calls that they had to respond to during the race. keep in mind, they're a volunteer crew. they're out there on their own doing this. they pulled all eight guys onto their raft. >> ready. 1, 2, 3. >> you see them transferring six of these guys to a larger catamaran that responded to the call as well. the remaining two had to be evacuated to yarmouth harbor maybe because they were more concerned with those two than the other six. thitting there withpportive their arms around each other. >> it was summertime but i bet those waters are pretty cold. >> four different calls in one day. accidents happen, but fortunately these guys are there to come to the rescue. >

part of england. i said, i don't think i've been down there. he says, we'll send you down. i went down to london -- down from -- to the southern part of england and found that i was mixed up in a unit that was going to go overseas very shortly. well, that was fun. that was exactly what i wanted. and somebody decided that i was a little questionable and they all looked me over. and reported it into the headquarters of this unit that i was going to travel with. and two of the top people in the wacs came down and we all met in some general's office, i don't remember who, and they all knew me and said, no, she's all right. she was a general. somebody faked sending me pip never found out who did it or what but they got that cleared up. so, we all said good-bye in the sea of france or something like that. we go a trip on a medical unit to pick up some wounded on the plane. we went over and landed on the shore someplace and they loaded up and i came back. and then i guess i did all right on that and thought

and south korea. >> caltrans turns the lights on on the new span of the bay bridge giving drivers a new look at the system that will light the drive. the system will use 48,000 led lights. the system can flood the roadway with light but drivers are not expected to see glare because the lights shine from behind. designers say the lights are like nothing else in the world. >> l.e.d.s which are individually aimed and visored, so you create basically the ability to paint the roadway surface as opposed to just kind of throwing a bunch of light at it, you can be more sophisticated in what you are trying to do. >> pretty cool. the poles on the fixtures also said to be unique, built extra thick to stay standing during an earthquake. if you drive across the bay bridge tonight you'll see the lights going on and off. they are starting lighting tests while crews continue to install this system. >> if you are looking for a job this is good news. a new department store is opening in san francisco, bringing with it 500 new job openings. the place is called unique low. it's going to open one block

but big thunderstorms now in new york state and back into new england. and that is going to be south of the mason dixon line in the immediate areas. so get ready for strong winds possibly and heavy rains with these storms, especially wednesday, tomorrow and also thursday. so muggy warm start. no doubt about that. triple digits are possible again. the record high 103. that seems out of reach at this point. strong storms are possible in the afternoon and then strong storms again on thursday, particularly wednesday night into thursday. we'll keep you posted, and we have gone code yellow for wednesday and thursday. overnight, partly cloudy and muggy. exercise in the morning. 72-80. that's as cool as it's going to get and then temps go flying up. by lunch time, temperature up to 94 by lunch time. partly cloudy. it gets hot almost right away. and then by afternoon, very hot. lower temps a hair. 95-100. scattered thunderstorms. some heavy and some severe. to break it down, we're looking at 72-80 to start. 90-94 by noon. 95 to about 100 for the rush hour. alert

you know, i grew up in a leafy little village on the south coast of england. it's a totally alien concept to me. tell me about what it is like to live in that kind of atmosphere. >> you know, it's a very forbidden place sometimes. it can seem that way, you know. you try to make the most out of it. at the present time, you don't see what's around you, you know. you living in the moment. and you really don't understand, you know, how detrimental it is, you know, to the environment. and, you know, hearing gunshots every night, seeing all forms of violence. you just think it's the norm and -- >> does it desensitize violence? to me, the concept of dog fighting, and we'll come to that, is horrific. but then i was never brought up in a situation where it seemed normal. >> yeah, it make it seem like, you know, violence isn't something that everybody's against, you know, make it seem like it's right, you know, because it's so consistent. night in, night out, you know, day in and day out. so, you know, you start to believe that, you know, there's no consequences behind

he attended town meetings in new england, observed slave markets in the south. he visited indian villages in the michigan territory, voyaged on steam boats that shortly after he disembarked blew up. it was a highly hazardous form of transportation. he traveled by stage coach. he winter to columbia, south carolina. he did not, unfortunately for himself, make it to charleston. tocqueville was an aristocrat whose family suffered during the french revolution. they could trace their heritage back to the norman times, the invasion of william the conquerer. some of his ancestors were part of that army. his great grandfather, a distinguished philosopher and lawyer, who was defense council in the trial of king louis xvi was gill teened after his client. tocqueville's father escaped the gill teen. when he left the prison at age 22 his hair had turned completely white. this was a family that was traumatized by this great event in history, the french revolution. as a child, tocqueville was born 1805, met the restored king louis xviii after the downfill of napoleon. while he

he attended town meetings in new england and observed slave markets in the south. he visited indian villages in the michigan territory waged on steam boats and shortly after he disembarked and he was a tacitous form of transportation and he traveled by stage coach. he went to columbia, south carolina, and he unfortunately, did not make it to charleston. tocqueville was an aristocrat who suffered during the revolution. you can trace him back to the invasion of william, and some of his ancestors were part of that arm pep his great-grandfather, now a distinguished philosopher and lawyer who was defense council in king louis xvi, after the three days before he was scheduled to be guillotined as well and when he left the prison at age 22 his hair turned completely white. this was a family that was traumatized by this great event in history, the french revolution. as a child, tocqueville was born in 1805, met the restored king louis xviii after the downfall of napoleon and while his family thrived under the new king fi philip philippe, the inspector of bloodshed and the

areas of new england, a cost moves to the south. going to be humid. a little less cooler there. in the ohio valley, no relief at all. so let's put a smile on this and say by sunday, the heat wave's over and done. details coming up. >> all right. love that. also coming up interest rates hang in the balance, another blow for barclays, and the new skyscraper that towers over london. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, new details on how kay katy holmes orchestrated her split from tom cruise. >>> nash find as home in hollywood, a wild daid in nhl free agency. and you thing you ate a lot of hot dogs yesterday? think again. you're watching "early today." 4 >>> good morning and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry, and here are some of your top headlines this morning. a hughes report obtained by the "associated press" finds that countrywide got around the law and influenced members of congress. six current and former members of the house and senate who got discounted loans include both democrats and republicans. >>> in mexico election officials

to stifling heat and humidity in the south. we are stuck in that right now through the weekend, but what we are watching right now is this cold front out to the west and there is ferocious thunderstorms that have developed overnight, we were talking tornadoes in parts of north dakota, and this complex of storms will eventually roll in our direction, we are forecasting that to come in as we head into tomorrow, but more so sunday, sunday could be a severe weather app afternoon. well into the 90s to 100 degrees, as we head into tomorrow afternoon, 100 to 101, there could be a spot shower and thunderstorm as we head into tomorrow. 102 guarantee, we are governor technique it's going to be 1 -- guaranteeing it's going to be 100 in city limits. 75, steamy with those isolated storms tonight. and look at tomorrow 102 degrees with that dangerous heat indices approaching 115. 102 for tomorrow, heat and humidity hangs on until sunday. 96 depreciation isolated for -- 96 degrees, and sunday dangerous thunderstorms, we're going to have to fin

and south africa. >> mitt romney went to london to see the olympics and meet with foreign leaders. >> a comment he made to nbc's brian williams questioning whether london was ready kautz add diplomatic stir. >> brian mooar has more for us. this is stirring up a lot of things. >> this is a gold medal gaffe, mitt romney winning the running of the mouth event. look, if you're going to sound off on a city, an olympic city and talk about their security and how you don't think that their immigration people may be ready to deal with labor issues, probably don't do it in the city with 1.2 gagillion newspapers ready to pounce on your every word. that's what mitt romney did and is paying the price. he went to london hoping to watch the olympics, have a nice photo opp, sit down with leaders, but really, add to his foreign policy resume. he is practicing rapid fire diplomacy trying to say of course london is a wonderful city, that they are ready for the olympic games, but london's mayor apparently not a fan. >> i hear there is a guy called mitt romney who wants to know whether we're ready. he wa

a natural history museum in england just unearthed an unpublished 1915 report from south pole explorer george 11et on the sexual habits of penguins followed by 11et's second report, "i'm not a pervert. there just isn't anything else to do at the south pole." the edwarrian adventurure reports the frequency of sexual activity, auto erotic behavior and seemingly aberrant behavior of young unpaired males and females, including necrophilia, sexual coercion, sul and physical abuse of chicks, and homosexual behavior. shocking. that's just the tip of the iceberg. and we all know the tip is the most sensitive part of the iceberg. ( applause ) and so, folks, threat number three-- sicko penguins. ( laughter ) nation, our kids look up to these flightless freaks. mad gas car, surf's up, happy feet. i'm tell you why those feet were happy. somebody was suck on their toes. it won't be long before our kids are carrying lunch boxes with penguins giving a beak-around. "this afternoon i saw a most extraordinary sight-- a penguin actually engaged in sodomy upon the body of a dead white throated bird of its

then it goes northeastward toward new england. we almost had a line that went south of indianapolis all the way to boston. now you see the line start to recharge. we are seeing a violent weather developing in and arced south and west of pittsburgh. for the moment the most intense stuff is right over the district and areas to the east. we have had a strong wind gusts reports of small hail and a lot of rain. and in the district over 1.3 inches. . 6 9 inches of rain and myers vote. -- .69 inches of rain in myerscvi -- myersville. we have a new flash flood warning the runs until a little bit later this evening for the district. portions in southeastern montgomery county and central prince george's county -- some of these areas are producing close to 1 inch of rain very quickly as it moves off to the east that 15-20 miles per hour. not a fast movement for intense thunderstorms. we will watch to those areas too, and areas back to the west as well. we had 101 degrees for a high in washington today. look at what these heavy downpours have

it was in new england earlier today. the line has shifted south. out to the west, we have been watching the storm complex out of indiana and ohio, into the mountains of virginia, breaking up a little bit. intense precipitation south of charleston, headed for virginia in a southeast direction. the most intense rains look like they'll pass to the south of baltimore but there is stuff up near pittsburgh so we might here thunder claps overnight tonight as the system comes through and there's a front in the area, too. another hot and humid one today. 97, the high at the airport. innerharbor hit 101. the record, 103. normal is 87 degrees. we haven't been down there for a while. 73 and 82 are the morning lows this morning and right now it's 84 in annapolis, 81 on the board walk. 80 at edgewood. 76 at parkton. westminster is 81. at oakland, the temperature is 73 degrees, one of the cooler spots around. we look at the satellite imagery combined with the radar, wired view, you see this complex. it was more exact over ohio earlier and looked like it might try

and beyond that 50s over interior new england. that's the cool air on the march towards the south and modifies heading towards the state and we will see the daytime highs into the 80s and two degree guarantee this afternoon for 87 degrees. sunshine and clouds less humid. tonight this could be an isolated bubbleup shower or thunderstorm. that down to the south close enough to allow for storm. but look at overnight lows. nice and comfortable 68. 85 for tomorrow. and afternoon storms developing. 7-day forecast looks like this. and again temperatures will stay steady now. keeping in mind we should be around 85 for the high. so we will be on par for average next several days. 87 today, 85 for tuesday and nice looking day on wednesday 87. but humidity builds back in heading towards friday into next weekend with temperatures into the 80s. roads are wet how are we doing on the roads? i am sure it's going to be a mess later. >> reporter: the rain is leading to a hectic commute. an accident on interstate 70. right on the eastbound lanes a c

you can see the cooler air from new england pushing down. the cooler air is up in the great lakes and cannot push far south enough to pull us down. partly cloudy skies with an isolated shower. the highest chance to be out west. the wind will be south easily from 5 to 10 miles per hour. the futurecast shows all of the action to the south. crop up to thecroppedy west of us. we begin to see a little more action by friday. we do have rain in the forecast for this weekend. upper 80's to near 90 with an isolated thunderstorm chance today. closer to 90 this weekend and the renewed chance comes sen -- and the rain chance comes then. >> a major celebration for a convenience store giant. today, 7-eleven is 7-eleven's 85th birthday. they are planning to give away thousands of slurpees. stores across the country will give away slurpees. many parents worry about their teenage drivers. a new gps device might help keep teenage drivers in check and give their parents a little peace of mind. >> imagine being able to know all about your teenager's driving hab