that did not stop her from winning a gold medal in swimming. victoria arlen is a proud paralympic athlete. i'll talk to her live later this hour. "newsroom" begins now. >>> good morning and thank you so much for being with us. i'm carol costello. we begin with mitt romney and remarks he never wanted you to hear. they come from a hidden camera at a closed-door meeting with big wealthy donors. romney rips nearly half of all americans saying they're in the bag for obama because they rely on government handouts. listen. >> they are victims who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they're entitled to health care, to food, to housing, you name it. it's an entitlement. and think government should give it to them. and they will vote for this president no matter what. i mean, the president starts off with 48, 49, he starts off with a huge number. these are people who pay no income tax. 47% of americans pay no income tax. so our message of low taxes doesn't connect. so he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. i mean, that's what they

angel moses singing their summer hit "come to the sea." and heroes of olympics and paralympics are -- reggidge -- richard, how was the ceremony? who showed up? >> well, first of all, i think the important thing is this was not just -- i mean, obviously its reason was to honor the medal winners. 700 of them who came through on buses tloo central london. was britain sort of putting the finishing touches to what has been a summer of sport from the olympics and the paraolympic games and wrapping it up in one big thought that says the country done good. the athletes done good. all -- and crucially, all those nasty little prognosis of problems with rail and problems with transport, problems with infrastructure, problems with this and problem -- >> all right. >> it didn't happen. >> all right. you're a little proud of yourself there, and london should be proud too, gut give us a sense of the flavor. who was there? the closing ceremony at the paraolympics last night, i understand you had a lot of major hit? >> rihanna. loads of people were. jayzee also there. that was unlike the olympics.

gold and third in the paralympics and now tonight's evening newspaper in london. it's called "the evening standard" as you can see. grand slam murray stoet make 100 million mint. when i woke up this morning listening to the radio, it was all murray, murray, murray. everywhere you looked, murray, murray, murray because frankly 76 years fred perry was the last one, i don't remember it, sure someone at cnn remembers it. but 76 years since the brit won a grand slam. >> you know that's cool. and i'm not hating on you at all. i actually really congratulating you. i'm giving you your props richard. all right. thank you. congratulations again. >> thank you very much. >> see you soon. >>> israelis who are tired of war, tired of the way their country is threatening iran. going take you into the middle of a new movement in israel. g a. i was spotting, but i had already gone through menopause. these symptoms may be nothing... but they could be early warning signs of a gynecologic cancer, such as cervical, ovarian, or uterine cancer. feeling bloated for no reason. that's what i remember. seein

something that can very much be overcome. of course we've got the paralympics going on at the moment, the athletes competing in london receiving the most amount of attention that paraians ever have. these two here are demonstrating you can really come back from these injuries. ryan mcintosh the guy that was in afghanistan and lost his leg has been talking to us about how he finds it bng out here. he was really saying you know what? having been through what i've been through fighting in war this is nothing. >> kind of like a ball person. what is that? and so i went to a tryout and at the clinic they were like all right. can you throw a tennis ball? that's when i ed the word, you know, i have thrown a hand grenade so i think i can handle a tennis ball. >> you've got to remain cool under fire when you're a ball girl or ball boy. remember you are very much on display in front of 15,000 fans. you have to run out on to the court and grab the ball. you don't want to run into anyone or trip up and make a fool of yourself so i think he has a lot of experience and that will stand him in very g