"a.c. 360" starts now. thanks very much. good evening. everyone, a lot of politics to cover. first, the breaking news we are following now. new information on tropical storm isaac. we know it may threaten the start of the republican convention in tampa on monday. but it would be a matter of life and death for the people in its path. living in tents in haiti and exposed to elements, wide open to bad weather, and they are some of the first that could be in jeopardy. what do we know from this new data? >> i know you have been to haiti and that situation. i can't imagine 24 hours in. this storm is on its way just to the south f port-au-prince. the worst side of the storm will be there about this time tomorrow night. you have 400,000 people or close to that number living in tents and wind going sideways.

i can't imagine tomorrow night in haiti, absolutely unbearable. the wind, 45 miles an hour a gust of 50. that is up 5 miles an hour from the last update. hurricane hunter aircraft are in it, they're finding it more organized, and that's how it gets to be a hurricane before it hits haiti tomorrow, anderson. >> it could become a hurricane tomorrow? >> i believe so. it's in the very good water now. it's warm. there is not a lot of sheer. there is not wind blowing all over the place and it hits land when it hits land and it breaks apart. and then the hurricane goes away, we are back to ts and over cuba, we are still a tropical storm. as it gets near key west is when it gets to be a hurricane again. and the hurricane center has a category 1 85-mile-per-hour storm in the gulf of mexico. but in the update, they said that may be very conservative. we have to keep watching. >> 400,000 people in haiti lives in tents from the earthquake still.

though tents those tents could be blown away. a lot of people wondering about the impact on the republican national convention monday. what point do you think we will be able to tell if it looks like it may hit tampa in a wig way? >> well, it's 100 miles away in the center line. if it's a hurricane here, you will have close to hurricane force winds in tampa or at least tropical storm winds. and that point in time, though maybe the faa doesn't shut airports down, certainly airlines are going to say we're not flying. and you start canceling plains, that is going to be a big headache on monday. if this thing does -- anderson, we were in tampa waiting for charlie in 2004. and it was going to be a big storm. it turned to the right at the last moment. if it's over here and this storm turns to the right, then tampa is another very big story.

that might be only 24 hours before landfall. that is the real rub about when do you start telling people to stay home or getting out of the way. these things turn right and left quickly. >> we have folks in haiti we are going talk about. chad, thank you very much. heading to tampa. the storm known as congressman and senate todd akin has arrived in florida. he said he is going to skip the convention, leading republicans who wanted him to drop out of the race entirely, of course. and they hope out of the national picture. here is a sign how politically toxic he is. mitt romney doesn't want to be ask a question about akin or abortion. he doesn't want to be asked those question. there was a catch no questions about akin or abortion. the obama campaign sent out on e-mail says women across america

deserve to know the truth about romney/ryan's extreme agenda. that notion is part of an effort to paint the romney/ryan ticket as the romney/ryan/akin ticket. take a look. >> the republican party has now adopted congressman akin's policies as part of their flmple. >> paul ryan and todd akin, like two peas in a pod. >> and now we have a republican party platform that was designed by mitt romney. >> that's the message, that the platform, the republican party platform was designed by mitt romney. keeping them honest, there are truthful ways of making that message and less than truthful ways. i'm going to talk to her in a moment but first he want to show you some of the fund raising letter that she sent out this week. it starts off by saying friend,

here's the republican party's message to women in 2012. no choice. no exceptions. it went on to say, their party just voted to embrace akin's position by including a constitutional ban on all abortions even in cases of rape or incest in their 2012 platform. then the dnc chairwoman calls out romney and ryan saying they don't totally aagree with that platform. but guess what? the los angeles times was wrivern at the direction of romney's campaign. it seems pretty clear, right? keeping them honest, that quote was taken completely out of context. it was ripped in fact out of a sentence. if you put it back into that sentence, here's what it looks like. quote, this is from the l.a. times. delegates for presumptive nominee mitt romney are voting down substantive changes to the

platform language that were written at the direction of romney's campaign. so the dnc takes the last eight words out of that sentence. there are facts that contradict the dnc's claim. first the abortion language in the 2012 platform, it hardly differs from the 2008 language and the 2004 lack wage in the platform. that language obviously wasn't written by the romney campaign. peter hanby was in the room while it was being drafted. he said romney's advisors made any number of suggestions but not on the abortion plank. you've been sending out fund raising appeals that seem to link romney with.

>> i think women need to know the dramatic difference between obama's position as well as the democratic party as well as the republican party. the bottom line is that romney's campaign just directed the republican party platform to include the most restrictive constitutional amendment that would say to women that you would have no opportunity to make your own retrukttive choices under any circumstances, even in the case of rape or incest. >> you're saying his campaign -- >> absolutely silent and makes no exception at all. >> you're saying his campaign directed the writing of the platform and that's the claim you make in your fund -- >> that's the responsibility -- >> but it's not. >> that's the responsibility of a presidential campaign. >> mitt romney did not design in the writing of the republican party platform -- >> i'm sorry, that has been if you look -- >> are you saying that he wrote

in 2000 and 2004 and 2008? because it's the same language -- >> actually. >> people could suggest changes and the romney did suggest changes to a few sections but they didn't say anything about the abortion language and you can fault them for not pushing their position but you can't say they designed the abortion section. >> in fact, we definitely can say it, because even in the previous platform, mitt romney has embraced previous platforms and embraced that language and has said he would be delighted to support a constitutional amendment banning all abortions. but there's no getting around that he has fully embraced a policy -- >> he has for years, you have to acknowledge, he has for years publicly said that he supports abortion in the case of rape, incest or where the life of the mother is at stake. >> i can certainly acknowledge that he says that out loud.

and i think it's very clear that mitt romney talks the talk, certainly doesn't walk the walk. he has fully embraced his party's platform that includes a constitutional amendment banning all forms of abortion. including, with no exception, for rape or incest. >> do you at least acknowledge that the quote that you gave from the "l.a. times" is completely incorrect? >> no. i don't acknowledge that. i know that as what your saying. >> i can read it to you right now. what you said is -- >> anderson what i'm saying is it doesn't matter. >> i think what you say does matter. you're quoting the "l.a. times" and you've misquoted them to back up a position. >> anderson. the point of the e-mail, and there's no getting around that. and i would think you would agree, that there's no way that a presidential candidate can separate themselves from that party's platform. >> he has. >> rape or incest in the human

life amendment. he has insisted that his own party's platform. he he had an opportunity during the drafting of that platform language to make sure that his own view, if that really is his view, is in that party's platform's language. it isn't. he didn't do that. neither did his campaign team. that's why we sent the e-mail. because i want to make sure women know that. >> you sent the e-mail to raise funds and you're misusing a quote and i think accuracy is important and my job is to point out things which are not factually correct. >> the platform was and i quote written at the direction of romney's campaign. that sounds very direct but that's not what they actually said. >> the bottom line message -- >> the bottom line what they said -- >> the bottom line -- >> the platform language that was written at the direction of romney's campaign.

they're just saying specific language that the romney campaign wrote, their is your gates are voting down and abortion language was not part of that. >> anderson, the bottom line message of our e-mail is that "a," women need to know the difference between the two parties and the two presidential candidates on a woman's right to make her own reproductive choices and that mitt romney can say that he's for an exception for rape or incest. his party platform doesn't reflect that. he has previously fully embraced a human life amendment with no exception and said he would be delighted to support it and women need to know the difference. and women need to know that mitt romney is simply saying one thing but not insisting that his party's policies as reflected in their platform reflect his views. and we're not going to let him get away with it. this is an important decision and they need to be informed. >> my only point is, it's my job

is in a fund raising e-mail to misquote something to serve your argument doesn't seem in the long term to serve your argument very well. >> i understand your point, but i think, i mean, the balance of the e-mail makes the case very clearly. and the main thrust of the information we're trying to convey is that mis-romney is disingenuous when it comes to women's rights, and he's extreme and has embraced an extreme position and we women to know that. >> i appreciate you being on. thank you. >> thanks anderson. >> let us know what you think about the discussion right now on twitter. one late note from our senior congressional producer on todd akin, she's learned of a possible threat against him. capital police are working with the fbi on that matter. so let us know what you think, we're on facebook. follow me on twitter we'll be

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should say, we spent a long time trying to come up with a title for john king's segment. might make you sit up more, take notice, when one of the best political minds in the business is coming on. we have not rolled out a title because all of our idea stank. king side download. they are cheesy and lame. john is taking his head. we decide to call it what we think it is. and we made a fancy graphic, the part of the show where john king makes you smarter. john? >> three new battle ground state polls out today in and this race, 75 days before the election and days for the republican convention is about as close as you can get. and all the states, obama states in 2008, wisconsin, ohio, and florida. let's go through them. we look at wisconsin and stretch it out, you see this is the "new york times" polls that is a dead heat. the president with a slight advantage. proof positive the paul ryan pick is giving them a bounce in

wisconsin. it has been a democratic state in presidential politics for a long time. it's a battle ground now. the one up place where you do see evidence of immediate help for romney. when it comes what is often the decisive battle ground, the state of ohio. here you see a slight advantage for the president. some other new polling shows the race a little closer. this is a competitive race and this is a state, it's almost impossible to do romney wins math without the state of ohio. so he needs to improve his standing here. and the state of florida, the home state of the republican convention, weather permitting. but at the moment, as close as they come. the president, a slight advantage here, that is within the margin of error a dead heat in the state of florida. the convention, a chance for romney to move the numbers there. as he tries to do that, and let's look at the key subgroups there.

older voters will be critical in the country, especially if a state like florida. if you look at the age breakdown, the president, winning among younger voters a key part of his coalition in 2008. and look at this, mitt romney in the state of florida a big 13-point advantage. that is better than mccain in 2008 and better than bush in 2004. if romney can hold that, it bodes well for his chances in florida. what does it mean? let's look at how it plays out with the electoral college. if you look, wisconsin, ohio, florida, we have them as ssups. right now, the president, a stronger lean. 237 of the 270 he needs. and romney is a bit behind. 206 of the 270 he needs. if romney can pull out florida, ohio, look at that, he is closing -- he is pasted president, knocking on the door. if he can get wisconsin, he's knocking at the door of being the next president of the united states. he neetds one more big state.

that is if he can all three. what if the president won florida and lost none of the states he has right now? if he wins florida and ohio, to it's game over. that shows you why the three states we are talking about now, especially florida and ohio, are so critical. romney has a tougher map. he needs to win florida, needs ohio and would like to win wisconsin. the three states, florida and ohio, if they are not red come november, very hard to see romney in the white house, anderson. >> john, i want to bring in candy crowley, chief political correspondent. the poll numbers john just outlined, a point of two increase here and there. what do you think is behind that? >> a couple things and the dynamic of the race, like the poll numbers, haven't changed that much. because what you have are countervailing forces. you have the economy, which

really is a drag on president obama. still when you look at the polls. any time you have an economy showing the kind of figures that this economy shows right now, it's a danger zone for the president. on the other hand, you have mitt romney who the american voter has not yet warmed up to. they still have this skepticism about whether he can make things better. some of the early advertising from president obama and folks supporting him has done pretty well at tamping down any kind of expectation that mitt romney would kind of pull ahead in this sort of economy. so you've got these two forces. you've got the economy and the likability of mitt romney, which really he's shown know head way. and that's why when you look at the convention and the upcoming debates it's so important for mitt romney. >> john in the states where romney is showing signs of improvement, how much of that do you think is addition of ryan to the tickets or signs that obama's ads might be working? >> i would say the former more

than the latter. if you look at the new polling if you look at florida, ohio, one of the things that is clear, it has helped among the conservative base. this has helped a little bit. you have a fascinating dynamic now. hundreds of millions are dollars. if you look at the latest polling, in part because of paul ryan, governor romney is rock solid among conservatives and republicans and obama is rock solid. and so it's a bit of paul ryan. the ads have been mostly a wash. both sides and all the super pacs, essentially what they're doing is confusing people. >> in the battle for the undecided for the independents, it doesn't show anything for the akin remarks. because of when this poll was taken. do you think that may have an

impact, just the whole discussion about abortion, abors rights? >> we'll see. i think the romney team is lucky they have the conventions back and they can turn the conversation back to where they want, which is the economy. it doesn't surprise me there is no real switch here, because we know there is a huge gap between the percentage of women intent on voting for obama and those intent on voting for romney. there is already a huge gap there. and to add one thing about what you and john talked about, yes, it's certainly going to be about the swing voters and more than that, this is why we got the ryan pick, it's about getting your voters enthusiastic. and getting them out there. it's a turn-out election more than a message election. >> how much of a bump can a candidate get and how much does that bump last? if you look at in past years, past presidential races, whatever bump, it has faded for a number of candidates. >> they do tend to fade, especially for the candidate

that goes first. and romney is going first. i remember leaving atlanta with michael dukasis and there were 17 points ahead. guess what? he lost 40 states. he would love to boost his number there. and more than a two or three point bounce, they go deeper in the polls. candy is right. the obama people have defined govern or romney in the ving and summer as a rich guy, but they've made the case he doesn't care about the middle class. that's when they have to move. does he care? does he understand? does he get your problems? and governor romney leads among seniors. he needs to boost that number. because when the democratic convention comes down a week later, they are going to hammer romney and ryan on medicare.

so romney needs to boost his standing among all the voters and get to the perception that the obama people needs to paint, he doesn't care about every day americans. >> thank you. an amazing story coming up. a texas county judge is facing calls to resign from his position after saying civil car with break out if obama is re-elected. he is talking about u.n. troops sent to texas. details ahead. [ male announcer ] citi turns 200 this year. in that time there've been some good days. and some difficult ones. but, through it all, we've persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history. so why should our anniversary matter to you? because for 200 years, we've been helping ideas move from ambition to achievement.

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>> what do you think he is going to do in the next term? he is going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the united states to the u.n. what is going to happen? i'm thinking civil unrest, civil disobedience. civil wars. woor 'not we are talking lexington, concord, take up arms and get rid of the guy. >> he says that they are going to bring troops in texas. he actually said that. we're going to play it in a minute. the texas democrats are calling for him to resign. ed lavendera joins me now from dallas. what is the latest on this? >> anderson, if you back up a bit, it's more amazing when you look at the context why all of this started. it had to do with a debate there

in will you be lubbock county where the commissioners were debated to add extra taxes to add funding to the sheriff's department. you wonder, how do you go from debating that to talking like that. >> he is going to send in u.n. troops. i don't -- >> u.n. troops. >> with the little blue beanies. i don't want them in lubbock county. i'm going to stand in front of the personnel carriers and i asked the sheriff, are you going back me? he said yeah i'll back you. i don't want a bunch of rookies back there. i want trained, equipped, veteran officers. >> the local reports went and asked the sheriff about this. the sheriff, anderson, says they talked about the contingencies but none of the talk of civil war has come up.

>> he wants to raise taxes to buy equipment to fend off lubbock, texas, from the u.n. troops that are going to come in after obama has sovereignty to the united nations? >> exactly. he has to be prepared for the worst-case scenario. >> could he face any kind of repercussions for the comments? he's a sitting judge. >> well there's no -- he is an elected official. he's had a great deal of overwhelming support for more than a decade there in lubbock county. there is no way of recalling someone in his position. obviously, many local officials had put out a statement saying judge head's paranoid fantasy of the u.n. invasion has taken over the world. a disease of the mind has taken

control of the republican party. judge head would rather have an imaginary conversation to take over than to do the serious work of preparing the county budget requires. and i spoke with the lone democrat, county commissioner on that court. and i asked, is this something that is typical from a judge head? and i asked, do you feel like he has fit to serve in office? i'm saving this for the end. because i wouldn't be able to stop laughing. but the quote i got back from the commissioner, judge head is a six pack short of a 12 pack of beer, if you know what i mean. >> appreciate the update. remarkable story. a teacher accused of sexually abusing his students, yet the school has to pay him to leave. you say there ought to be a low? ahead, how a law like that was

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welcome back. another report about a bill. that recently died in california's legislature. if there are kids in the room, it might want to have them leave for two or three minutes. the bill was designed to make it easier for public schools to fire teachers who commit sexually abusive or drug related acts with students. the sounds noncontroversial. but it's hard to to fire teachers if they are charged with completely dispickable

crimes against skunts. a sponsor wanted to change that. did money from the state's powerful education you units drive their actions. >> reporter: in the hauls of the california state capital, assembly member carter is not in the mood to talk. >> i want to chat about senate bill 2530. >> she couldn't stop to answer a single question. as silent here as when faced with the bill on sexually abusive children. >> i have no comments on the bill. >> reporter: but a voice is what the parents are demanding. this school in los angeles, where teacher mark burnt blindfolded children and placed reaches on their faces and he spoon filled with his semen near their mouths and forced them to eat cookies.

laced with his bodily fluids. he pleld not guilty and faces trial next year. as disgusting as the acts are, they the beginning of the outrage. despite what the teacher did to his students, the school could not fire him. that's because in california, the process to fire a teacher can take years. so what can they do with burnt? they could have suspended him with pay pending a hearing. but instead they chose to pay him to resign. >> $40,000 to retire. >> reporter: alex padilla said it was a signal the system was broken. so they filed a bill. that would allow a faster way for schools to fire teachers accused of the most heinous crimes against children. >> we are specific to the crimes, sex, drugs, violence involving students. these are no-brainers.

>> the bill looked like a shoo-in. it sailed through the senate with overwhelming bipartisan support. the next stop, the state assembly and there, it died. not just by lawmakers voting no but lawmakers who chose to stay silent. they chose to not vote at all. >> is there a motion on the bill? this is the assembly this year. there are 11 voters, four key members, members of padilla's party, chose not to vote at all. which in california is as good as saying no. their silence killed the bill. that fell one single vote short of being sent to the full state assembly. why do they stay silence? >> out of fear that the campaign dollars will no longer follow their way. >> reporter: it comes down to cash. campaign contributions from special interest groups. gloria romero knows a thing or two about it.

she's a former head of this committee. not voting, she says, a political teflon. they don't look bad to their constituents and the money from the unions keep flowing. >> they voted no because they were tied to the hip thinking nobody would find out that abstain vote. we found out. we're outraged. >> but is it simply about the money? >> dan newman is president of map light. a research group dedicated at looking at money's influence on politics. we looked at teachers unions and committee members from january 2009 to may 2012. >> the money correlates with the vote. >> with the exception of the committee chair, the numbers reveal a pattern. all those voting no or not voting, received money over the years from education unions than those voting yes. >> i don't know what is in the lawmakers' head but lawmakers

who receive more money from the teachers union tended to vote more with that union. what that correlation shows is that the money is having an influence. >> we don't know what is in the lawmaker's head. we went to sacramento to see them. >> can you take the camera out? >> kicked out of one office to another and staffers saying the bosses won't talk. when assembly member carter wouldn't answer our question fos the hall, we followed them to the assembly floor where rules state interviews may be granted if you send a note. can we ask assembly member carter. received more than $7,000s since teacher unions in 2009. ignored the note. mike ang, received 18,000 from

2009, barely glanced at the note. betsy butler, visible reacted to my vote but still ignored the request. assembly member williams. doss williams, received nearly $30,000, walked right over. >> i thought the bill was too much of an overreach. >> an overreach. >> reporter: but he couldn't elaborate what that means nor would he talk about what his decision was to not vote. because he said the assembly was in session. this is the underbelly of how government works, say critics. and laws, they say, are the people who these people are supposed to represent. >> children in a classroom where their teacher has been accused of feeding them semen? these legislators said, we don't want to think about you.

>> that assembly member that you talked to on the floor, he reached out to you after the session. >> he gave me a phone call and he said, he used the word overreach. and what he is trying to say, he felt that bill did too much. there is a process in place and he said it wasn't the campaign dollar doing the talking. when he wasn't talking. he said if there is a new bill drafted with senator padilla, he is hopg to support. >> it's interesting they don't vote know, they abstain and it protects them. what did the teachers unions in california have to say about it? >> yeah, the california teacher's union, perhaps one. the most powerful groups here in california, because they have one of the largest war chests, well, the cta is saying, there is a due process in place. that it simply does work. yes there are bad examples but they feel that overall, the

teaching process, the process there in place with the teachers should not be interviewed with and campaign contributions, they are not going to talk that way. >> taxpayers paid $40,000 to get rid of the teacher is shocking. appreciate the report. breaking news next. gary tuchman is there in port-au-prince with a live report. more than 400,000 people still living in tents.

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breaking news tonight, the people of haiti, many still recovering from 2010's earthquake are in danger of yet another natural disaster. hurricane isaac bringing with it as much as 12 inches of rain. hundreds of,000 still living in tent camps and aide organizations are bracing for the worst. gary, how are people there preparing for the storm? are they? >> reporter: i think what's incredible, anderson, with all the tropical storms and hurricanes i've covered, i've never gone through a city and seen no preparations whatsoever. there's no sign of the imminent arrival of the storm. some wealthier neighbor hoods, there may be. here we're in a section of port

au prince, this is a tent shanty town. there are hundreds of people here we and we had to notify at lowest eight or nine of them that a storm was on its way. they said they're not leaving. they feel if they leave, someone will come and take their place in the only homes they've had for the last years since the earthquake. these people are staying of the we're less than 24 hours from the arrival of a dangerous storm and we haven't seen anyone leave here for shelter whatsoever. they're sticking it out. >> amazing they haven't been notified. it seemed to be a slow moving storm. so flooding is a concern, obviously. >> yeah. this country has suffered so much throughout the decades from mud slides and storms. in 2008, 800 people were killed from four different storms that came through haiti. in 2004 when her cane gene hit, 3,000 people were killed. there hasn't been a tropical

storm or hurricane that hit haiti since the earthquake. so this will be a test. these people have suffered so much. you're talking about 300,000 people who were killed two years ago. nevertheless we've let people know, they're scared but they're not leaving. >> susan hendricks joins us. anderson, a prosecutor says the accused colorado gunman made threats prior to his deadly rage and police knew about them. she says the threats began after he failed exams at the university of colorado. he was barred from campus and allegedly notified. a shocker for lance armstrong, the seven-time tour de france winner tonight. he is ending his fight against doping charges. he says he refuses to participate in a process that is, in his words, so one-sided and unfair.

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ah, yes, it's that time in the program. the riduculist. tonight wore 'talking about add ventures in local news, starting with a voe dab larry lesson. a news anchor in canada learned the hard way that a certain word doesn't mean what he thought it did. >> a lot of them brought their girlfriends out to canoodle or whatever? >> they did. >> it's time to look for your forecast with as trid, maybe we can canoodle before you get into it. >> we're not going to be

canoodling. >> i thought it meant chat? astrid, you're lucky there's a producer in my ear. i would have carried that on and on. canoodling, kissing cuddling. not to confused with noodling. lest you think local news has the market cornered, let us not forget about this moment. >>melons behind you there. >> i'm sorry. >> hey, lady. enough with the innuendo. allow us to raise the maturity level a bit. check out what happens when a local reporter is life on the

air with a super flat u lant rhino. >> she just said pull my finger. >> it smells ripe in here now. let me tell you. that is so funny. >> yeah. how's that working for you? >> now, at this point you may be wondering how can one possibly top a gassy rhino life on the local news? >> 7.2 mag terd -- magnitude earthqua earthquake. magnitude 7.2. it was a very large earthquake. the good thing is, there were no