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the region from haiti, to cuba to the gulf coast of the u.s. isaac already thrashed haiti earlier today. high wind and rain slammed haiti's tent cities where about 300,000 people still live following that 2010 earthquake. isaac now turning the force of its wind and rain on cuba and that's where cnn's patrick upman is. he's live from havana. so give us an idea of what that city of havana is experiencing right now, patrick? >> reporter: you know, it's been on and off all day, fredericka. right now the rain's gone away for the meantime and people are in cuba, in august, as you can believe, just enjoying the breeze. it's a brutally hot month and all of a sudden it's gotten a lot cooler and you're seeing people coming out and sort of enjoying the windy, breezy day. that battering blow that isaac delivered to haiti is really more of a glancing blow here.

officials are saying that while there's been some storm surge and some flooding east of cuba, so far there hasn't been much damage reported and where i am right now in the center of havana, behind me is the bay and the entrance to havana harbor and in times past where there have been serious hurricanes, this whole area where i'm standing has been completely flooded and it seems isaac is moving away from cuba and it hasn't gotten caught up in the mountains of cuba and we could have stalled out and been much more of a flooding event and that's really good news for cuba and that's bad news for the united states as isaac moves into the warm waters behind me and the straits of florida, where they're expected to pick up steam and head to florida later -- later in the week or early next week. so, cuba, it seems will make out well with this, fredericka. florida, we'll just have to wait and see. >> we'll, indeed. thanks so much, patrick upman from havana.

so the big question about isaac. how strong will it get, potentially and where will it hit next. i want to bring in meteorologist jennifer delgado. so, jennifer, isaac now brushing and kind of hugging the coast of cuba right now, but then what? >> it is hugging the coastline. yesterday we were worried about isaac actually moving right across land. if it did that we would see actually, possibly a weaker storm, but right now it's hugging the coastline. the center of circulation located just to the east, 40 miles east of guantanamo bay. you can see a lot of the rain and i know patrick is coming out of havana. that is another low that's been bringing heavier rainfall, but all of this moisture has to go up toward the north and as it does, of course, you'll see some strengthening and right now the wensd at 60 miles per hour. i want to point out to you, we still have a warming? place for key west as well as southern florida. anywhere you're seeing in the pink shading and notice up toward sebastian, we're talking

a tropical storm warning and that means as we go through tomorrow morning conditions will start to get worse down toward southern parts of florida, and of course, we're expecting potentially hurricane conditions as we go later into the day. as we track this for you, this is sunday 8:00 a.m., and notice by the evening of sunday when 75 miles per hour just at really won over hurricane strength and it moves on to the west and as it does moves through the florida straits and then to the gulf of mexico and very warm water. we're talking temperatures roughly in the 80s and the bad news is this will allow it to get stronger and forecasting potentially a category 2 and with the category 2, of course, we're talking winds of 100 miles per hour and weakening eventually into an area of low pressure and if you notice with that cone there is a bit of uncertainty there and this could go as far west to new orleans and of course, the western coastline of florida, so everybody needs to be paying close attention to the potential

track of tropical storm isaac as we go through the next couple of days. i also want to point out to you, fredericka, we are hearing reports that key west is the international airport is offering extra flights out with airtran and delta to get residents out of the area and that's certainly a good idea because weather conditions will be going down very quickly across that region. >> that's less than 24 hours after the governor had said he was not going to order evacuations out of the keys, but now it looks like a change of pace. all right. as we look at that spaghetti of tracks there, you know, what is glaringly obvious, too, is that tampa while the republican national convention about to begin on monday, big concerns about whether wind and rain -- >> absolutely. >> diminish things -- we are. now they'll get the outer bands? >> right now, it looks leak it, but the track looks uncertain. we'll be dealing with storm surge as well as potentially tropical storm-force wind ands

of course, very heavy rainfall could lead to flooding and we all know if we get in some of those areas along the western parts of florida we could be looking at serious problems. 10 to 20 inches in some locations. >> that's pretty significant. >> i know you'll keep us posted later on as well. >> right now let's try and zero in if we can on haiti and any damage assessments. just tack a look at the damage isaac has already done to haiti. cnn's martin savage is in the city of jokmel and trees are down and hundreds of thousands braving the storm just like that, in tent cities. >> reporter: fred, there's a little bit of it. at least the winds have begun to subside in the southern part of haiti, but the rain continues to come down and it was feared the rain was a little danger. they continued that way until 10:00 this morning, whipping the trees into a frenzy, bringing down branches and power lines

have been brought down in certain areas and there is no power here except that which is being produced by a generator. cell phone communication has been in and out and it's the flooding that is the real concern and always has been for haiti. haiti is mountainous and the trees and brush, and they're using it for construction and the truth is that water and it depends how much water and it's been projected anywhere from a foot or more could come crashing down and that triggers one or two events and one flash flooding which is a very real possibility and the other are landslides and those are dangerous, whether it's here or port-au-prince. >> we have not heard of that happening and you have to remember, emergency communication and emergency response in this particular country is weak, at best and probably almost nonexistent. we have not seen traffic in the streets and we've seen people out and about and there is structural damage or tree damage. it is hard to give you an

estimate and hopefully no fatalities and how extensive the damage is. >> isaac delivered a battering blow to at least the southern part of haiti. port-au-prince would have been spared somewhat, but the reality is we probably won't know for some time, and meanwhile, the rain continues to fall. fred? >> thanks so much, martin savage there, and we'll check in with the national hurricane center to get the latest update on the track of that storm. all right. we are now learning a bit more about the shooting near the empire state building. ray kelly says all nine people injured in yesterday's shooting were wounded by police gun fire. >> we have recovered bullets, whole bullets from two of the -- two of the victims. actually, we think a total of three out of the nine victims were strucwith bullets. the rest were struck with fragments of some sort. >> police say it all started when gunman, 58-year-old jeffrey

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i want to remind you of this programming note for the republican national convention, our live coverage beginning monday night 7:00 p.m. eastern time. >> all right. a major tropicastorm and anarchist extremist both threatening to disrupt the republican national convention in tampa next week. cnn's brian todd is at the convention site. brian, let's begin with the storm threat right now. it looks beautiful where you are, but everyone knows that this tropical storm isaac could wobble any which way, direction, so meantime, what do are event organizers doing to prepare for

the worst? >> reporter: fredericka, communication is key. the way they're preparing is they're trying to get word out to the delegates and all of the out of town vitors trying to hit home a couple of points to th them. number one, parts of it need to be evacuated and they'll coordinate that with management officials and pay officials to get the word to the delegates to know where they need to be. the city officials do have specific plans in place to move the delegates by bus and by other means to higher ground or have them shelter in place and they're not giving specifics about their plans because of security concerns, but they do have those plans in place and they're trying to communicate to the delegates themselves and to the visitors, where you need to go, if that call has to be made. they do not anticipate having to make that call right now, but they're trying to get that communication out to the out of town visitors. second thing to communicate to emthem is know how to behave during a tropical storm or storm

surge. a lot of people come from out of town haven't been to florida before, and haven't experienced a tropical storm before. don't go necessarily near the waterfront areas and if you're curious about the storm and want to look at it, it may be a better idea to stay away because it could be deceiving just how quickly the storm surge can move in. they're trying to promote some awareness as well. >> and that's the unexpected or planning for the unexpected and now there's another kind of planning under way for what is expected, but they're not quite sure how it will go and we're talking about some protesters that are planning to converge there at the convention. what can law enforcement officials actually prepare for? >> reporter: you know, that's almost as unpredictable as the storm. >> sure is. >> reporter: what they're concerned about, fredericka, are the anarchists. the anarchist groups converged in st. paul in 2008 and there were a lot of clashes in the streets. they disrupted some things and

events there and they're concerned they could try to do that again. the to be and the department of homeland security expressed concerns that the anarchists might try to disrupt traffic on bridges and might use improvised explosive devices, but they could try to do those things and the mayor of tampa, bob buckhorn told me a couple of days ago they have information that anarchist groups are on the ground here. they're monitoring them so they know they're here and they're trying to figure out who they are because they often blend in and they create their own havoc once they're within these crowds and that's the unpredictable factor here. >> interesting stuff. thanks so much. brian todd, keep us posted throughout the weekend. meantime, mitt romney's wife ann is scheduled to sak at the convention on tuesday instead of monday. the camp decided to delay her

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you want them. scoot your butt off and you can kind of walk your feet out to get your hips away from the bench and this is a good starting position. some people starting off may only get down an inch, which is fine and as you progress you can go down lower. you look like that's a little easy for you and put your leg up and that makes it harder. >> my arms are feeling it a little bit, desiree. after you've done that workout, and once you've committed to the workout, a lot of people feel like, you know what? i want to tone and lose weight. so that means i want to cut back on what i'm eating. you say it's really just the opposite. >> correct. you want to be fueling the body throughout the day. so from the moment you wake up, give or take whatever you node to do in the morning, but from the moment you wake up, you want to have breakfast and break the fast and from then on you want to be eating every three hours throughout the day. >> a lot of folks have trouble

figuring out how do i break down the caloric intake. if i'm taking in about 2,000 calories a day, what should be the proportion of carbs to protein to fat? how do i do that? >> as far as a general recommendation, 45% to 65% of your calories should be from carbohydrates and 10% to 35% of your calories should be from protein and 20% to 35% should be from fat. >> you should feel that your appetite is increased if you're working out more, if you're doing the exercises whether it be at the bench or walking and you need to respond to that as opposed to trying to suppress your appetite. >> exactly, because your calories need to increase as you do your activity. desiree, thanks so much. look forward to the next workout. >> yes! i'm excited, too. >> she's good. >> i find out a lot more about exercises and other fitness tips on desiree's website.

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all right, lance armstrong. facing the loss of his seven tour de france titles, but his live strong foundation is intact. an event today benefits his foundation and it's actually in columbia, maryland and athena jones is there. what kind of reaction are you getting from people participating in the fact that he'll be banned from cycling and banned from triathlons worldwide? >> reporter: hi, fred. the 24-hour bike ride where people are coming out to raise money for cancer research. we've talked to organizers and riders. they all say that to support lance armstrong's decision to stop fighting the illegal doping

charges, but they also believe him. he's been tested multiple times and they believe he's been clean the entire time and they believe this is a distraction from the important thing which is the cancer research. one question we had was whether or not all of this news would affect the amount of money that they're able to raise. let's listen to what one of the organizers had to say. >> once we heard the news we received so many messages from people that the resolve to fight was even greater to fight cancer and that's what he's inspired people to do, to get on a bike and raise funds to help those who need it, who need the advocacy and the patient services. so i think it's something that on our end we'll see people getting more engaged. over the last 24 hours there were $25,0 in donations that we've received. >> reporter: and so you heard the organizer speak about $25,000 just here at this event. lance armstrong himself tweeted yesterday that between thursday

and friday donations had gone up 25 times since the news. so certainly it would appear that they're not too concerned that this is going to affect their fund-raising. certainly there are people here who plan to ride, maybe not for all 24 hours and 22 of them, some of them will cover 300 miles. fred. >> thanks so much, athena jones. lance armstrong saying while he may be giving up his fight, you saw the doping agency says he's still in the fight for his children, for his family and still wants to become the most fit 40-year-old on the planet, he says. >> stories that we're watching right now. the coast guard is trying to figure out why a ferry ran aground in boston harbor and it didn't take on water and there weren't any leaks. the passengers were transferred safely to another ferry. no injuries have been reported. >> you know that cool finger scrolling feeature on your iphoe

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what can you tell us about the intensity or lack thereof of isaac? it doesn't seem that it's on track to peck up steam. >> it has been losing its strength last night and during the day today because of the interaction with hispaniola and cuba. i want to point out that it's still dumping heavy rains in hispaniola, even though the center of circulation here is off the northern coast of eastern cuba, the rains behind that are still funneling in you for the dominican republic and still very concerned about the potential for flash floods and mud slides there and it is a large circulation. we have tropical storm warnings in effect for much of the -- for all of the bahamas and still down in hispaniola and the eastern two-thirds of cuba, but the center of circulation is still pretty close to land. it's a matter of how much it can get clear from cuba over the next day or so and tap into the warm waters as it approaches the florida straits. we think gradual strengthening is what we're going to see, but

we can't guarantee that it's going to reach hurricane strength by the time it reaches southern florida or the florida keys, but that's what we're forecasting and what we want people to prepare for in the hurricane area. >> folks would like it if it were to remain more tropical storm and because of the warm waters in the gulf of mexico that can help churn things up and would most likely turn that tropical storm into a hurricane, wouldn't it? >> sure. a lot of the models that we're looking at, even if they suggest to us that it's not going to strengthen rapidly between now and south florida, florida keys, the environment that it would get into in the eastern gulf of mexico appears to be very supportive and it could have a significant hurricane in the eastern gulf early to mid next week and we're forecasting category 2 here by tuesday morning and that has uncertainties when you're talking three days out, but something stronger than cat 2 not out of the question and tremendous amount of wind and storm surge.

it's not just a wind machine, but a storm surge from the ocean can impact the gulf of mexico, everyone from louisiana to florida needs to be preparing preliminaril preliminarily. >> it gives people the time to prepare and get a plan in place. dr. rich knabb, thank you very much for that. let's talk about the storm has done thus far and early assessments out of haiti showing that there has been widespread damage because of what was tropical storm isaac when it hit land there. ted kemp as you're seeing right here. home to hundreds of thousands of people and still left homeless two years ago and now there are big concerns with the threat of waterborne illnesses and the trouble, all that, and it is haiti's director for the rescue committee and she's joining us on the phone from port-au-prince. first of all, miriam, i understand you have had a chance

to survey some of the damage and some of those tent cities and what have you seen? >> yes. we needed to go this morning to do some assessment for the damage and unfortunately, they're not very pretty. there is considerable damage done and some sanitation facilities disappeared. so we're working on the response that we're going to give to the people in the cam. >> so talk to me about the standing water. you said some tanks were flattened. the standing water can help produce other illnesses and then at the same time, i guess more immediately, have you seen any injuries of people? how are people doing after all of this. for the moment, we only have the report of one person who died in

this department. one of the things that has to be commented on is people have remained calm. it's a shelter that's available and the people who have lost their tents are in the main provisionary or temporary emergency shelters that have become available in the last 24 hours. >> now tell us about the concerns about the standing water and what kind of illnesses that you're fearful of now that e brunt of the storm has passed. >> that was one of the concerns and we were providing people with the sanitation facilities and we have a hygiene promotion messages so they continue to practice good hygiene so that there is no risk of disease.

unfortunately, they're large concentrations of people and it's difficult to retain. however, we are going to be providing the services and we're trying to maintain the services that the people need. >> miriam castaneda, thanks so much with the international rescue committee joining us from port-au-prince. all of the best and good luck with your rescue and assistance efforts. just two days before the republican national convention, mitt romney and paul ryan try to get the campaign back on message. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line,

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convention in charlotte. >> people will stop and say, but how will you do something different than last time? they've experienced the last four years. they know if they'll reelect him they'll get four more years of the same. it is not his words that people have to listen to. it is his action and his record and if they look at that they'll take him out of the office and put people into the office that will actually get america going again. >> outside of the rally about 20 or 25 protesters going after paul ryan. they were chanting hands o our medicare in reference to paul ryan's controversial plans to partially privatize medicare. they also said ryan go home. mitt ryan did make a joke at their expense in front of the crowd and they loved it. there was no talk, as you can imagine of the birther issue followed by yesterday's comments in michigan about the birth certificate which sparked uproar in the media. this is probably the last time we'll see mitt romney and paul ryan together until monday when they team up at the republican convention when mitt romney is

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whether you want to go out or stay in this weekend, there are pretty great movie options for you. "premium rush" is opening in theaters and it stars a young bike messenger who picks up a very dangerous package, but perhaps you'd rather curl up on the couch with a good movie say "bernie," a movie about a very unusual friendship, that's out

on dvd. so here to help you decide is grey drake, senior editor at rottentomatoes.com back in l.a. we had the pleasure of having you in studio. we're having grey withdrawals, but here you're back by way of satellite so we're happy about that. let's begin with premium rush and it is about this bike messenger and it's kind of adventurous and it's fast and the editing is cool so let's take a quick peek. >> give me the envelope! >> no! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> whoa! >> hey! hey! hey! slow down! ♪ ♪ >> oh, yea. that's the young guy that was in "third rock from the sun." grey, who was after him? what's going on here? >> when i first saw the trailer for this movie i thought that

joseph gordon lovett signed on to do it just because he wanted to ride around on his bike, but this movie is filled with such a crazy kinetic energy that you barely have time to realize that it is so random and weird that it almost makes no sense. it is so much fun, i was so shocked. >> the digitization, you know what i mean. it looked pretty funky and cool. >> it is. everything about it is funky and cool. my favorite part about this is the chinese gaming is recognized for the first time since the "joy luck club" because michael shannon plays a crooked cop that has a mahjeong gambling problem and it makes next to no sense, but i loved it. i couldn't believe how all of these things added up to such a fantastic mess.

it was great. >> it's reminded me of the will smith movie way back in the day, but it's different. not to get the producers upset with me, but anyway, what did you rate it on your tomato meter? >> well, critics are loving this movie and it is absolutely doing well. 75% otto nato meter. that say crazy high number for a move they kind of came out of nowhere. >> really? okay. we'll be looking for that one. >> say you want to stay at home and have your little staycation movie event. you can get a dvd and the latest one is bernie. what's bernie about? >> oh, jack black plays bernie who is a much-loved man in his small town in texas and he develops a friendship with the lady in town that everybody hates. not bernie, though. he takes a chance and he befriends her and then this movie takes a sharp left turn and becomes a murder mystery.

oh, hence the blood spat or the first page. was that matthew mcconaughey and shirley mclane? >> yes. >> what's great about this film is that -- >> matthew has his shirt on -- just saying. go ahead. >> you know, matthew mcconaughey has left his shirt on in the past couple of movies and i'm not even angry about him because he's so darn good. >> cool! >> there's so much to love in this movie and jack black is spectacular. reach art link letter directed it and it's a great mix of re-enactment versus actual documentary and the best part about bernie is that people telling this real-life story are the actual people in texas. i'm from texas, and let me tell you that we love to gossip, y'all, and so this is the best movie. it is so much fun and jack black is as good as you have never seen him and mcconaughey lives

in texas, so there is another texan connection. fresh or rotten on your meter? >> so fresh. this movie is so fresh it is at 91% which means everyone has to see it not only for the great performances by the actors, but by matthew mcconaughey's real-life mom and he gets his personality from somewhere. >> of this these do better on dvd than in the theater. with that 91% fresh rating, it's bound to do really well. thanks so much. gray drake. thanks so much. good to see you. always, you can get all of grey's movie gradesa the rottentomatoes.com. a school superintendent in connecticut says he's had enough of students skipping school and now he wants parents to cough up cash every time they do it. ♪ [ male announcer ] its lightweight construction makes it nimble... ♪ its road gripping performance

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in new britain, connecticut, a school superintendent wants to start fining parents $75 for every day their kids skip school. people have mixed feelings about that. >> it's not fair $75 for every team that these kids don't want to go to school. some of these mothers barely have a car to take them to school. >> they're outside, they're buying drugs or stopping cars in the mid evaluate street and riding their bikes around and they should be in school. >> the policy still has to go in front of city council, but city officials say truanc