>> similar, but less than doctors and lawyers, but the rule basically is if it is very confidential and clearly something that would be revealed only in the marital relationship, they cannot force your spouse to testify against you. >> bottom line on this segment, my friend, don't commit crimes. there, how's that. >> or as lawyers would say, be careful who you talk to after you commit the crime. >> i would not. thank you, paul callan. nice to have you with us, and hope you have a nice long weekend. newsroom is next with suzanne newsroom is next with suzanne malveaux. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com welcome to the "cnn newsroom" and i'm suzanne malveaux. here is what is happening now sh, the storm has moved on, but for the gulf the disaster is not over yet. we will take you to flood zone. and the democrats are ready to descend on charlotte and ready to roll out their own convention. and now the fight for the white house. mitt romney hits the campaign trail after accepting his party's nomination for president and giving the biggest speech of

his life. romney and running mate paul ryan held a rally in lakeland, florida, a short time ago. at the republican national convention last night mitt romney said that president obama's promises have turned to disappointments and division. and brianna keilar is recapping romney's big night. >> this president can ask us to be patient. this president can tell us it is someone else's fault, and this president can tell us that in the next four years he will get it right, but this president cannot tell us that you are better off today tn when he took office. >> the centerpiece of the mitt romney's acceptance speech, an attack on president obama's economic record. >> does the america we want borrow $1 trillion from china? >> no. >> does it fail to find jobs for 23 million people and for over half of the kids graduating from college? >> no. >> reporter: romney laid out a five-point plan to create jobs and become energy independent by 2020 and cut deficits, but he fell short on the details and

the republican nominee did not shy away from the experience at bain capital. >> that business we started with 10 people has grown into a great american success story. some of the companies we helped start are names you know from and you have heard from tonight. a office company called staples where i'm pleased to see that the obama campaign has been shopping. he had almost no experience working in a business. jobs to him are about government. >> reporter: for a candidate who is trying to downplay the mormon faith and sometimes avoiding the word mormon, he pivoted with personal anecdotes. >> we were mormons and growing up in michigan that may seem unusual or out of place, but i don't remember it that way. my friends cared more about what sports teams we followed than what church we went to. >> reporter: and voters saying that they believe more president obama understands them, romney tried to turn the page.

>> president obama has promised to slow the rise of the oceans -- and to heal the planet. my promise is to help you and your family. >> reporter: romney recast ronald reagan's classic election question. >> are you better off than you were four years ago? >> reporter: telling the voters. >> you know that the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him for president. and dana bash, one of the last reporters standing there and we appreciate your being there. tell us whether or not the republicans and romney believed they got done what they needed

to at the convention. >> i think that big picture they feel pretty good about that speech that brianna did a report on, and particularly the last part. the theme that president obama was the guy that maybe if you are talking about this as a relationship that really wooed you and courted you and thought that your relationship was going to be wonderful and make your life fabulous and then a couple of years into the relationship you thought, this is not the guy i fell in love with is the exactly the kind of connection that he was trying to make vis-a-vis the president. but as you well know, when a challenger is trying to unseat an incumbent president, they have to make it not just firing the guy, but why you should hire mitt romney, and he did more than ever before have a platform and stage and connection about who he is personally, the father and grandfather, and husband. and also as a business guy, and really tried to explain his business and embraced it more than running away from it than

he has in the past. >> and dana, they are moving on from the convention and they certa certainly hope that people are talking about it, but all of the talk is really over clint eastwood's conversation with this empty chair that we saw pretending to talk to president obama. i want to play a clip here. >> what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that. he can't do that to himself. you are crazy. you are absolutely crazy. you are getting as bad as biden. >> dana, clearly a lot of people thought it was funny the audience, but twitter has been blowing up and lot of people felt it was very disrespectful to the president, and does the campaign have any regrets bringing him on like that? >> if they do, they are not saying so at least publicly. i will tell you that i was in

the room, and i was on the floor as you said and there were a lot of people there who laughed at that one particular moment which was a cringe worthy moment across the board. our jim acosta was head on with the romney family and they sat stone-faced and they did not laugh at all. i mean, look, they brought in clint eastwood because they thought that he would have been somebody who would have connected with americans that might not otherwise be watching politics and be kind of an affirmation about mitt romney, but he ended up, you know, kind of doing a schtick that was surprising. but i have to tell you that this is obviously very unscientific and i'm at a college campus here in tampa and i bumped into a couple of kids walking by and they are independent voters and i asked them what did you think of clint eastwood? and so they thought it was funny. so he was out of touch with the age and gender, and it is unscientific, so we will see how they play out. >> yes, in the next couple of

months. and we know that romney is going to go to virginia and stop in louisiana to get a look at the storm damage and president obama is heading to the louisiana as well. kind of a competition here to see who really feels their pain when it comes to trying to relate to folks here? >> oh, of course. look, i mean, it's for mitt romney, it is looking presidential, but it is also trying to carry on the theme that he tried to put out there in the convention which is to try to overcome the empathy deficit that he has in the polls. there's no question that this is the next step in trying to do that. >> all right. dana, you have put in some long, long hours and take a break if you can, and perhaps we will see you just in a couple of days at the dnc. good to see you, dana. >> see you in charlotte, suzanne. >> and mitt romney's convention speech was a chance to connect to americans and try to sway the undecided and the independent voters as dana said, and our tom foreman watched a group of folks who are undecided and using a

set of dial monitors and here is a report on what connected and what didn't. >> it was fascinating to watch the reaction from the 28 undecided voters around here who lean republican, but democrats in the crowd, too, and mainly independents, and watch in particular how they responded to the highest point of the night for this group when mitt romney talked about his dad and mom and how they related to his mom's aspirations. >> when my mom ran for the senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. i could still see her saying in her beautiful voice "why should women have any less say than men about the great decisions facing our nation?" [ applause ] >> a massive cheer from the crowd there and a big reaction from the women here also when he said about his mom running for senate and dad supporting her, and why did that make you feel good?

>> it just kind of humanized him that he has parents and he has a warm loving family that he has come from and he understands what we are going through as parents in bringing up our own children. >> even if that makes you feel that way, does it move you closer to wanting to vote for him? >> i'm still undecided. >> even after hearing that. it made a difference, but not a big difference? >> not a big difference. >> one things that was interesting in all of this is the reaction of all of you to the attacks. when the attacks began interestingly enough, the women here liked them much more than the men did. watch what happened on this. the women are the pink line and the men are the blue. and watch how they respond in this attack on the obama record. >> but tonight, i'd ask a simple question. if you felt that excitement when you voted for barack obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he is president obama?

[ applause ] you know there is something wrong with the kind of ojob he has done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him. >> reporter: why do you think that men here did not seem to like the attacks as much as women? >> i mean, for me, personally, it doesn't do anything for me. it is not informative, so it does not cater to my decision-making at all. >> reporter: you don't really care about that. and here is a woman who thought that the attacks were good thing, and you had to be here, because you are registering that way. who liked the attacks? >> a little bit? i thought it was a fair question to ask are we better off than we were four years ago. >> reporter: that is all it came down to a fair and decent question to ask at that time? >> well, it is fair to look at the record what has obama done in the last four years? and he had a right to ask that. >> let me move to the back here and ask a couple more questions. did anything happen tonight that changed your mind?

because the overall impact seemed not particularly strong throughout the speech. >> well, it did not actually change my opinion at all. i wish there was something that would have shocked me or persuaded me to, you know,ote that way, but i just kind of was still even-keeled. >> reporter: ready for it, but didn't get it. and how about over here, anything that moved you at all n in this? >> well, i like what he said, but i wish that there was a better alternative. he sounds better than obama, but i don't give up the hope. >> reporter: well, this is a group as i said from the beginning undecided voters, and they all tend a little bit more republican, but mainly they are independents, and when you watch the dials tonight, i am telling you that there was not a tremendous amount of movement. so is that's the thing that mitt romney probably most has to worry about, because these are the voters that he has to get all over the country, the undecideds and the independents. they will decide it. and there are not any

official lls out to gauge the reaction of the convention speech, but a cnn opinion poll asked if it changed opinions of romney, and here is what we is so far. 39% are more supportive of him after the speech, and 34% less supportive and 27% said the speech did not change their opinion one way or another. the democratic national convention is kicking off tuesday and i will be there live in charlotte, north carolina, to kocover the parties and the speakers and the high profile guests and of course, all politics. if you ask ann romney, her husband might have changed some minds last night. >> those who may not have voted for republican in the past are coming up to tell me this that enough is enough. >> but is it enough to turn her into the next first lady? [ male announcer ] this is rudy.

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>> romney's speech getting mixed reaction reactions. we are joined by larry sabato joining us from charlottesville, and tell us a little bit about your response and reaction afterwards. when i listen ed ed to and this afterwards we had republican analysts alex castellanos summing it up as very good, and david gergen saying a lot of heart, but needed soul. what did you think? >> it is workman-like, and you have to take the speech in the context of what the republicans were able to do in the convention. and yes, that i were able to humanize him, and warm him up and the wife helped to do that and so did some of other speakers. is this speech going to live in history? no. they are not to get gettysburg

address. >> of course, he is taking the show on the road now, and he said he does have a specific plan for jobs. >> what is needed in our country today is not complicated or profound. it does not take a special government commission to tell us what america needs. what america needs is jobs, lots of jobs. unlike the president, i have a plan to create 12 million new jobs. >> all right. larry, he did not explain how he would do that and i don't know if people really specifically were looking for that prescription right now, but certainly in the weeks to come, they are going to be looking for more details now, and what does he have to do? >> well, he certainly is right to focus on the jobs, because the only way he can be possibly elected is as a mr. fix-it who presents himself not as the warm next door neighbor that you want to have a beer with, but rather as somebody who has the experience to fix the economy and provides jobs.

did he give a specific plan last night, no. they say it is all on the website, but of course, people want more, and i guess they will have to deliver more. but we are also into the dreamland phase of the campaign. it is when candidates simply throw out phrases and slogans and we often don't get to the specifics. >> larry, is there something specifically that the dnc has to counter after watching the rnc convention? >> they have to get back into their mode of present iing this election as a choice rather than as a referendum on president obama. they have to make voters comparatively shop. and i'm sure that they will be doing that not just on the economy, but also on the social issues, and that is where republicans are vul nnerable wi groups they'd like to have including women and young people. >> and, you know, obviously, it was romney's night to shine, but we have been all been talking about the clint eastwood

situation, actually stealing the show and talking to the empty chair and that represented president obama and you sent out a tweet saying that i would feel better if i knew for sure that clint does not see anyone in the chair. do you think that there is a certain lack of dignity or lack of respect for this president when you have someone like clint eastwood looking to the chair and saying, you know, well, you -- don't tell him that, you can't do that to yourself and we know what that means. >> in a word, suzanne, yes. it was a clintastrophy, and it reflects more on clint eastwood than mitt romney. i'm mystified why they didn't provide him with the text. i thought that is what the actors did, read scripts and if anybody needed a tell prompter it was maybe 82-year-old clint eastwood, but will it affect votes in november, no. was it one of the great low

points of not only this convention, but any of the 19 i have attended, yeah, it was a low point. >> all right. larry sa bshgssabto, thank you joining us. and my twitter blew up after the bit, and roger ebert said, clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. he didn't need to do that to himself. it's unworthy of him. this one, i like eastwood, but that was utterly disrespectful, and now people are tweeting empty chairs and even president obama tweet ed with this seat i taken. they had to swim for their lives to avoid isaac. >> it kempt coming and coming ad eventually swept us both off into the water. questions?

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now, the latest on isaac, and the storm has weakened into the ark, and that is where the flood waters are expected in arkansas and missouri and

illinois which is a relief to a lot of the farmers in th midwest because they are in the middle of the worst drought in 50 years. but back along the gulf coast, the disaster is not over, because more homes and businesses have no power. many of them for the third day in a row. flooding from the storm surge is still having some of the comm e communities under water. rob marciano caught up with a couple from plaquemines parish who barely, barely escaped. they were trying to evacuate wednesday at the height of the storm when water started pouring into their truck. here is what happened next. >> the coast guard choppers continued the work of rescuing victims of hurricane isaac. >> we were directed by the sheriff's department to evacuate, but we could not get too far down the road before we were taken. >> reporter: they were caught by the storm surge in plaquemines parish. >> the wear the was rising inside of the vehicle and the dogs were anxious and needless to say, so were we, and we called 911, and they said to stay with the vehicle and we

tried to do that, but the water was coming over and over and started to crack the front windshield, so i felt that the best thing was to try to get out. >> reporter: melanie's declining health made it difficult to evacuate before the storm, and more treacherous during the storm. >> i had her wheelchair in the back of the bed of the truck, and so we were able to crawl through the back window and i broke it out and i set her up on the wheelchair getting her elevated and the water kept coming and kept coming until eventually swept us both off, and we were both in the water estima estimated 10 to 12-feet deep. >> reporter: joe is a retired marine colonel, a strong swimmer helping his disabled wife stay afloat. >> shenot going to make it, i'm not going to make it, and i said, yes, you are. we were only a couple hundred yards from the levee where we saw cattle on. >> and they were looking for

something to latch on to. >> she was shivering and obviously close to hyperthermia, so i tried to stabilize her as best i could on a toll phone -- on a telephone pole and try to leave there and y to get over the levee. >> reporter: and have to leave her to go for help was the worst decision of his life. >> reporter: but he was able to return. >> considering the lapses of mobility, and the paralysis and the ability to withstand the severity that we went through. >> reporter: what are you most thankful for? >> that we are here talking to you. >> reporter: rob marciano, cnn. it was a rare moment for the campaign putting mitt romney's faith on diplay. >> it is the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and if you understand the amount of commitment and volunteerism that goes into it, it is an amazing

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politics and religion are in the spotlight h after mitt romney opened up about his faith in his speech at the republican national convention, and sometimes romney avoids using the word mormon, but not last night. >> we were mormons and growing up in michigan, and that might have seemed unusual or out of place, but i don't really remember it that way. my friends cared more about what sports teams we followed than what church we went to. >> i want to bring in dan gilgoff, because he is the editor of the belief blog, and dan, first of all, some people may have been surprise ed thd t was so open about his faith and religion, and why is this so important to bring it up now? >> yes, suzanne, we are not accustomed to hearing mitt romney utter the "m" word so last night was a departure from

what he has been doing, and it is is important for the campaign now. he is reintroducing himself to the american public and one of the big stumbling blocks is that he he has not been able to h humanize himself and that is because he can't talk about the fundamental aspect of who he is, his mormonism, and he started to pivot on that and goes some way to humanize him as he reintroduces himself to the voters. >> dan, it was interesting to watch the convention, because you testimony of some of the people in the mormon church and particularly very moving is one couple who talked about how romney met their 14-year-old son diagnosed with lymphoma and the experience with that young boy. listen. >> how many men do you know would take the time out of their busy lives to visit a terminally ill 14-year-old and help him settle his affairs? david also helped us plan his

funeral. he wanted to be buried in his boy scout uniform. he wanted mitt to pronounce his eulogy. and mitt was there to honor that request. we will be ever grateful to mitt for his love and concern. >> dan, it's well known that mitt romney really doesn't like to talk a lot about some of the things that he has done in terms of helping people. do you think that this really made an impact, that people are, that he is more likable type of person, and that this will actually have some weight when people think about him as somebody in the polls? >> i think it did, suzanne. you could look at the crowd in the convention last night, and there were a lot of delegates openly shedding tears through those testimonies. you know, a lot of what makes people skittish about mormonism is the specific doctrines and the beliefs of the religion, but what romney did last night and the other people he knew through church did was to shift the

conversation on to life within the mormon church and how noble that life is. so he really connect and succeeded in changing the conversation and opening up a real intimate window into his life and the life of the church that a lot of people will admire. >> dan, good to see you and appreciate your reporting. a tourist hot spot turns into the site of a bloodbath. we will explain the violence in mambazo, kenya. at usaa, we believe honor is not

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>> normally a tourist hot spot, but right now the kenyan city of mombassa is under fire. our reporter spoke exclusively to one of the long-time confidents, and i have to warn you that the images are graphic. >> reporter: the evidence of a driveby shooting in mombassa, kenya, and this is clearly an orchestrated hit. some family members, some still

wounded are in shock. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: slumped over the target, the prominent cleric blacklisted by the u.n. he is accused of recruiting kenyans to fight and revolt, and the response to his killing? chaos. days of rioting in mombassa, kenyan's sickest city, and three police men were killed in the attack. amongst the youth in mombassa, the support for the shaikh ran deep, and the situation is still ten tense. they brought the shaikh's body right after he was killed and took it away from the police and brought it to the mosque just down the street, and what is striking is this area is nearly completely dested. you have paramilitary police stopping anyone coming in or out

in vehicles, and here you see the burnt remains of tires. this neighborhood is angry, and this place is all but deserted. one of the long-time confidants has agreed to meet us. he has been hiding for days. he say the kenyan police have killed him and he could be next. >> if a policeman comes to arrest me, i have to go to with him. if i go, i am dead. i have to stay in any house, because if they come for me, i am going to be killed. >> reporter: he is on the same blacklist for supporting al shabab. >> i prefer to go back the somalia to live with al shabab and i will have peace there and live a normal life. >> reporter: the police have dismissed claims that they killed the shaikh, but in mombassa, the same claims that many feel unforgotten by the state, and some have fallen under the influence of a

militant influence. >> it is a democracy and islam and whoever opposes democracy with islam gets killed. what is happening in kenya is going to affect the peace in kenya. if they are going to kill us like this, we have to fight back. >> reporter: ominous words in a country where sectarian violence is an ever-present danger. >> bringing in david mckenzie from mombassa, and i have been there several times and it is so strange to see this picture, because it is a tourist place and looks like things are falling apart there. how do you explain this, what is taking place there, and this is a group of a fringe group or are they actually gaining power in that tourist city? >> well, suzanne, authorities here say they are a fringe group, but if you talk to the radical muslim leaders here in mombassa, they say they are gaining traction, and the especially amongst the youth

feeling disaffected, because the actions here have affect ed the people here which is normally calm. today, it is calm, suzanne, but the feeling is that with the killings of the killing like this muslim cleric could spark up again at any point, and in those underlying tensions remain. s suzanne. >> david, kenya depends on mombassa for the tourist industry, and it has a high muslim and indian population there, and it is obviously on the water. a lot of people come there specifically to spend money and to see the country, and have people basically scattered? >> well, there is a feeling that the tourism is already down here in mombassa and i don't think that necessarily if this does continue, we will have a long-term effect, but along the

coast, it is long problems not dealt with in kennia, and another thing that the muslim leaders are telling us are that the actions of the police in the riots have fueled the tension even further. the kenyan police have been frequently accused of taking extrajudicial killings, meaning to take the law into their own hands. the aikh on that ambush was on the u.s. terror watch list and as well as awaiting trial for terror charges here, but the fact that he was killed in broad daylight with the family some 16 to 18 bullet holes very near a police station here in mombassa and people are asking how this was done and not done in the court of law is making many here, particularly the youth, angry. >> thank you, david mckenzie. they were standing in line waiting for bread, and a human rights group says that what happens next is evidence of a massacre in syria. [ male announcer ] if you stash tissues

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we are hearing about new fighting in syria's largest city aleppo and activists say that 38 soldiers have been killed in battles with rebel fighters and in homs we are seeing scenes like this. syrian state tv says that government forces have inflicted quote big losses and also a raid on what the regime calls a

terrorist den in homs province. human rights agency says that these people were waiting in line for food when they were attacked by their own government. and now mohammed jamjoon shows what is happening in syria. i have to warn you, you might find this quite disturbing. >> reporter: the horrific aftermath of a strike in aleppo, a and the chaos, and the wounded covered in dust and smoke, and it seems this is no random strike. according to the human rights watch, this attack happened on august 21st. witnesses said that a helicopter had been circling overhead hours before the bakery opened. a cue of 200 people had form and a bomb was dropped on a adjacent building putting shrapnel and debris all over the victims.

>> on at least 10 occasions, government forces have attacked bread lines using the artillery helicopters and fighter jets and some of these attacks killed and wounded dozens of civilians. >> reporter: human rights watch says that of all of the cases the government forces attack the bakery when the local residents were waiting in line, and that they gave no warning. the bakeries were in neighborhoods or towns where no fighting was taking place. these repeated attacks are either deliberate on civilians or reckless indiscriminate attacks, both of which are war crimes. they are one part of the deadliest month yet in syria's conflict. just last week the brutality seemed to reach new depths with opposition activists reporting that over 200 bodies had been found in dayara. and hundreds of civilians have fled the districts around the

capital amid intensified artillery attacks. after 18 months of protests against the president bashar al assad, the war in syria is a war of attrition, and the rebels grabbing more weapons, but the security forces still possessing an overwhelming advantage. amid the insurgency, a growing humanitarian crisis as syrians flee out of the war torn land in record numbers and neighboring countries worry about coping with the influx. and bashar hle a assad says that the battle for syria is a battle of persistence, and there are few options for intervening. mohammed jamjoon, cnn. he is a wounded warrior who lost a limb on the battlefield, but that is not holding him back at london's pair olympics. don't have them. questions about treatment

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. >> it is the second day of the paralympics in london and a glitzy opening ceremony, steven hawkings challenged the athletes to look to the stars as they compete for gold. now more than 164 couries are taking part, and over 4,280 athletes. and some of them participating are veterans of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. >> i was injured in iraq by bombs. i happened to be in the wrong

place at the wrong time. i lost my left arm and resulted in an am pew tigs. -- amputation. >> reporter: for this athlete, it has been agonizing journey from battlefield to racetrack. his injuries were so horrific he spent 12 months in rehab and only finding sport after intensive therapy. and now he is double world champion and his sights are firmly on paralympic gold. >> it came after the explosion, and after i came back and after i was introduced to sports and tried some different sports out, i just got into the cycling, and thought that sounds good. >> reporter: it is a sobering thought, but there are more military veterans injured in battle competing in the paralympics than have been for

years. if it weren't for wars in afghanistan and iraq, people like john allen butterworth would have had different lives. and each has a remarkable story of survival. this man now a gold hopeful in the discus had his legs blown off in afghanistan. he said he was being zipped into a body bag when army medics noticed that he still had a pulse. samantha bowen, a artillery gunner was so badly injured in iraq, that she said her comrades could not recognize her and now she is a key member of the british sitting volleyball team. and captain nick bayton lost his legs in afghanistan and hoping for a medal in rowing. former soldier that was also injure injured in afghanistan, he says this sport has restored his self-respect. >> we just don't want to, you know, sit on the corner and

hide. we just want to come forward and just do what we want to do and that's the goal of the athlete. >> reporter: what is amazing they don't live in regret. >> the best thing is that i have met new people and learn new things about sports and doing things that i have never done before and i have kind of changed since losing my arm, but it is only for the better. >> reporter: it is a testament that sport can change lives for the better, and even lives shattered by war. matthew chance, cnn, london. legendary astronaut neil armstrong is being memorialized in a private service in ohio. the first man to walk the moon die died last weekend and he was 82 years old and it seems that even the moon is paying tribute, because if you look there will be a rare lunar eclipse tonight. it is a blue moon, and it happens only when two full moons

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trying to get out and you may not think about what it takes to get some of the amazing shots. our rob marciano takes a look behind the scenes. >> the city limits have been significantly improved. they are much more protect ed nw than they were seven years ago. >> we see the barrier that is essentially a souped up seawall that goes two miles across. i was surprised by how new everything looked. and i mean i know it went right up in a hurry, but everything looked fresh out of the box. it never looked weathered, and we got a great ride from the coast guard, and we are going to like going up in the chopper, right, john? >> right. >> and he thinks it is coming in this way, so we don't want to be here. >> we might want to just tuck right over here.

>> yes, i do. do you hear me? >> do you want the move? i don't know how much tether you have. >> well, this is a -- trying to tuck in here. >> this is what we do to remember all of the work that we do. we take these ridiculous things and we send them to our significant others, like our kids. i look rough. this is what 36 hours on the clock will do to you. >> you get so wet and so wet that you can't remember that you could get this wet. and every time you try to dry off, there is no point to try to dry off after a while. it just, just wet. >> and the worst part is the waiting. get out there and get ready. and wait. and we'll be right to you. we are coming to you next. oh, no, somy