>> good morning everyone, it's sunday, it's august 26th. yep, it's sunday. i'm gretchen charleson. thanks for sharing part of your day today. postponed is the headline. the republican national convention delayed due to tropical storm isaac, we'll have a live report from tampa minutes away. >> isaac is on the move after drenching haiti and cuba overnight. next stop, florida and the panhandle and the gulf coast, we will have the latest on the storm's passing. plus, live reports from florida. yes, and a true american hero, neil armstrong made the one giant leap for mankind passed away at age 82.

"fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ . . very fancy. >> woo yahoo! all right. the start of the shebang, it's the news, the start of the national convention delayed as tropical storm isaac set its sights on florida. expected today. >> and the very latest on the changes made to the program. steve, what do you know? >> we know that monday is not going to happen. that's largely what we know. when it comes to, brian, gretchen and steve, when it comes to storms, hurricanes, floridians are very familiar with these and prepare like they always prepare. they go out and do as governor

rick scott suggests and three day's worth of food and water and batteries and have an escape route plan in case really bad weather comes their way. the rnc has been forced to get a better understanding of that and the convention hall is dressed up with nowhere to goment final touches put on it yesterday and rnc dwred admitted openly talking about the possibility of having to postpone or shift the schedule. and the announcement of the ranked chairman. have a listen. >> due to severe weather reports for the tampa bay area, the republican national convention is going to convene on monday, august 27th and then immediately recess until tuesday afternoon, august 28th. and the exact time of that begins -- that start time on tuesday will come in the near

future. i'm sure you understand the first priority is the safety of our delegates, members and guests and media attending the rnc convention. >> and the soon to be nominee tweeting this, the safety of those in isaac's path is utmost importance. i applaud those in tampa making appropriate schedule changes. >> and the roll call on tuesday, the same night as ann romney's speech was last scheduled and shuffling around of the schedule and try to keep folks posted as soon as those are made officials. >> all right. isaac is coming, we can see the flags blowing behind you. you're looking the a the storm that delayed the republican kickoff in 2008. gustave. >> i recognize it. >> and our next guest has knowledge. gretchen read the rest?

>> why not. and joining us live from d.c., nick, good to see you. >> a monsoon of knowledge, that's great. >> we can't take credit for at that writing. our prestigious writers came up with that, but since you have the monsoon of knowledge, what can you tell us about the comparison? seems like we were doing this four years ago, right. >> that's the problem with having the convention in the south in late august, you run into weather problems, fortunately or unfortunately, i don't think it's that big of a deal in the sense that conventions have changed the last 30 to 40 years and unscripted moments where in fact in 1936 gerald ford wasn't the nominee until the convention and now conventions have become the overproduced stage performances, scripted, i don't think one day means that much. >> and you wonder this time around, which speakers are

taking out. marco rubio says could be me, and chris christie is the keynote speaker and the governor-- >> they're going to try to get it, and nobody wants to be seen as a sore loser. at the end of the day, the only speech that matters is mitt romney, a chance to reintroduce himself to the american public and people don't know his back story and personal story and one thing that the convention does, allows the candidate to tell a story directly to the american people without the filter of the media and ann romney's speech as well. those mean a lot as well. >> there have been memorable moments and nick, a montage of your favorite moments, let's

look at 57 seconds of nick's highlights. >> and that extremism and the liberty is no vice. >> congress will put me to raise taxes and i'll say no and they'll push and i'll say no. and they'll push again and i'll say to them, read my lips, no new.... >> there is the religious war going on in this can country. it is a cultural war, whatever else history may say about me when i'm gone, i hope it will record that i appeal to your best hopes not your worst fears. in politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. and then, there are those like john mccain, who use their careers to promote change. >> and nick, all big moments from big nights past, you

expect some of those this time? >> i mean, i hope so, it really is rare when a convention speech delivers like that. goldwater's got trounced and gave to ronald reagan and george bush came back it haunt him. and a curtain call, just amazing moments, i hope that mitt romney delivers something similar. >> sand by, everybody will see it on fox. >> always a pleasure and thank you for coming up this sunday morning there in washington. >> now an extreme weather alert. in the caribbean. isaac blamed for at least four deaths in haiti. and you can see the villages underwater. and perhaps a preview of what we could see in florida later today. folks there under an official state of emergency. and meteorologist janice dean

is in again today and following the storm's track. good morning, janice. >> good morning, yeah, a little bit of scary news because the storm is expected to become a category two storm kpossibly category 3 and northern gulf coast and all eyes are on florida into a state of emergency, the northern gulf coast including new orleans, i need you to be on alert. and the storm is stronger 65 miles per hour sustained winds 74 miles per hour makes it a hurricane and we believe it's going to become a hurricane within the next 24 hours. the outer rain bands and heavy rain upwards of 6 to 10 inches and gusty winds all along the west coast and the east coast of florida and tornado watches issued throughout the day today and some. all along the florida coast line. here is it the latest track as of 5 a.m. and i just want to point your attention really closely to the northern gulf as we are further 0 ut in time.

moving close to south florida and the keys over top of the keys, probably as a category 1 storm, overnight tonight into monday. into tuesday, we're watching the storm, you can see tampa is out of the cone of uncertainty, but we're going to feel the tropical storm force winds. headed into wednesday, very, very close to new orleans, very close to a category 3 and in the new advisory they stress that this could be a much longer, stronger storm system that could affect the northern gulf coast into next week. a very serious situation, guys, we're focused on florida, but the northern gulf coast needs to be on alert the next several days. >> millions of people are in the way of that storm we just don't know where. >> we have a fox news alert and the world is remembering to keep in mind, too, a true american hero this morning, neil armstrong made the giant leap for mankind as the first person on the moon has passed away. >> the astronaut's family saying yesterday the

82-year-old suffered complications from heart bypass surgery he had earlier this month. >> jon scott takes a look at his life. >> the eagle has landed. >> i think the final descent to the lunar surface it was challenging, unknowns, for a pilot a wonderful experience. >> on july 16th, 1969, apollo 11 commander neil armstrong blasted off to the moon and his voyage would take him where no man had landed before. travelling with him were lunar module pilot buzz aldrin and michael collins. >> and after landing we had hours to stand 15 feet above the surface, so long before we actually got out on the surface, we had a pretty good appreciation for what the moon was like. >> that's one small step for

man, one giant leap for mankind. >> armstrong made world history when he stepped off the eagle and set foot on the moon on july 20th. hundreds of millions of people gathered in front of television the around the globe to witness this monumental feat. the men of apollo 11 became national heros, and praised them. >> hello, neil and buzz talking to you by telephone from the oval room of the white house. >> neil armstrong born 1930, at 16 years of age he had his student pilots license before he drove a car, joined the navy and tender age of 20, flew 78 missions over korea, graduated pr per -- from purdue, and four years later got his first taste of

space as commander of gemini 8. in this mission two vehicles were successfully docked in space at the first time, however, ran into complications and armstrong man the decision to gain reentry early and risks were always part of space explorati exploration, nearly to the launch of apollo 11 he was nearly killed landing in a module. and looks like he only got a few swings in the parachute before he hit the ground. >> and he retired from nasa in 1971 and accepted a teaching position in university of cincinnati. air so space engineering until 1979 and then a spokesman for a handful of u.s. businesses and served on the boards of several companies. in 1994, he stopped signing autographs after finding out his signed memorabilia were selling for large amounts of

moan. unlike some other astronauts, he shied away from the limelight. >> anything to do with razzmatazz or show business, neil armstrong passes. nobody would recognize him. he hasn't put his face out there. >> and probably a 500 years from now, we maybe known as living in the age of armstrong just like the age of columbus. >> we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work. >> jon scott, fox news. >> he had the right stuff. what a guy. >> as we put it. and coming up on "fox & friends," remember this ad, saying that paul ryan's medicare is like pushing granny off a cliff. are there hidden dangers more people should worried about. >> there she goes. >> that's our music. >> in that wheelchair. ♪

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that's smarter power today. >> who could forget the brilliant acting in this ad, as paul ryan, a look alike of paul ryan pushing a grandma or a look alike for a grandma off a cliff that looked like a cliff. some democrats are using ads like this scaring everyone into thinking if they vote republican everyone will day and quote, end of medicare will be upon us, that's worse. >> but is obama care the plan that puts granny at risk. >> gretchen: the joining us the recipient of the medal of freedom, a former guest on "fox & friends," good morning to you, doctor. >> good morning. >> gretchen: when you see that ad, i don't know if you can see it on the screen there, you've probably seen it before.

>> yes. >> gretchen: is this what it's going to be about, the next 70 days, pushing granny off the cliff? >> i think some people are going to try to make it about that. but it's actually quite clear what's going on here. the current administration is trying to demonize the only really responsible alternative. you know, medicare and medicaid are going to go off the cliff, not granny, if we don't do something about it. and you know, mr. ryan and mr. romney have addressed that. are actually being realist tech about it, with are as our people are sticking their heads in the sand and trying to create a bunch of fear. >>. doctor carson, what they've tried to do, if you currently enjoy medicare you're not going to get it anymore, but with the romney-ryan plan it's clear, if you're 55 or older, nothing is going to change for you. >> exactly.

>> as you look who is going to pay for the price of medicare cuts we've got a graphic that says the study shows that it could cut patient death rates and less money to spend on staffing means viewer nurses per bed and another thing is, and the president has taken 716 billion dollars without of medicare for obama care. you take all that money out, it just makes sense that the quality is going down? >> yeah, one of the keys here is that with the president's plan, they're going to be cuts to hospitals and cuts to providers. now, you already have the substantial number of providers who don't accept medicare, because reimbursements are so low. it's not that these people are greedy, they are small business people, they are trying to run a business and if it costs you more to take care of a patient, then you're going to receive, you obviously can't do that. so these are things that really need to be highlighted.

and i think, unfortunately, for about obama, a lot of seniors are a lot smarter than you think they are and they actually can see this and understand that they are not being affected by the romney-ryan plan, but they are being affected almost immediately by the president's plan because they won't be able to get care. you throw another 30 million people into the mix and you already have so much pressure, particularly on the primary care positions, it's not going to be a very good situation, long waits, poor quality, this is not what we want in america. >> gretchen: it's interesting though, because the messaging seems to be so important in this debate and when you continue to see a commercial like that, granary going over the cliff, if a lot of people going over the cliff, if they don't look at the details, that's what they see. doctor, thank you, back to your sunday. >> encouraging news in a poll, winning the debate in florida and ohio, metro detroit care and who you trust.

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>> well, one maryland plan is fired up after a trip to the gun change. the company's ladies day promotion, allowing ladies free on monday, is reverse sexism and he's suing. >> two ladies came up behind me he told they were free. i asked him why do i have to pay to use the range and they didn't. just because i'm a man doesn't mean i should have to pay more. >> is this lawsuit a misfire or right on target. jing me now for a fair and

balanced debate. lis wiehl and tad nelson. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: tad, you're going to be depending the gentleman suing. it's a private business, is it discrimination? >> absolutely. there's a law in maryland and a handful of states that have the law that don't allow discrimination. eliminated ladies nights at bars. and they have the law and by letting the women come in and use the range without paying, that's allowing a man to not have an advantage that a woman has and that's breaking the law, it's that simple. >> what you're saying any club, any discount at all for senior citizens for children, that should not be allowed? we're not-- they're not discriminating against anyone coming in, on certain nights some people get an advantage, not saying anyone can't come in, just saying may have you have to

pay about $15. don't you think having to sue for $200,000 is kind of out of range, so to speak? >> here is the interesting thing, wait, i want to bring this up because i think it could be important for viewers to figure which side of the fence they're on with this. apparently a guy sued a nail place discrimination, with the same attorney, i don't know maybe he wanted to get a pedicure and women are usually paying more than men. >> that's the point. >> gretchen: that's the reverse, how do you respond to that, tad? >> well, the bottom line, mr. hunter and his lawyer, jimmy bell, they've danced this dance before, this isn't their first rodeo. the bottom line, the law does not allow you to treat mep and women different. >> even if it's a private business? >> doesn't matter. like the lunch counters in the 50's when you told the african-americans-- >> that's not the same thing.

>> what they're saying you get a discount one night a week, a certain category, one woman. a discount. not saying nobody else can come in different from what you're saying and by the way, the federal law in most states are against maryland law. >> so, ted aren't men actually-- >> and i've got to say, aren't men disappointed that ladies night won't exist at bars anymore. >> absolutely, down here in texas that would never, never work, we're still going to have our ladies nights down here in texas, but the law is there in maryland and yeah, i think it's ridiculous myself, but the actual law is tried and true. >> no, no, it's not tried and true, called something like the appellate court where it will go now and this is the-- >> but they'll rule on it twice. >> no, they haven't, not the abelt level. let's leave it up to our viewers to decide where they stand on this, and e-mail us

and we'll continue to call it a court battle and see where it ends up. have a good rest of your sunday. >> thanks, gretchen, bye, bye. >> listening to complainers and stop, turning your brain to mush. do negative people make positive people sick? and next, keeping an eye on isaac, who is supposed to speak, with more on the convention's shifting schedule. good morning. [ mrs. hutchison ] friday night has always been all fun and games

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>> 31 minutes after the top of the hour on this sunday. we have an extreme weather alert. it's all about the swirl right there in the caribbean. tropical storm currently isaac setting its sights on florida, we have team fox coverage, including a report from key largo, from screen right. in a couple of minutes. right now let's go to janice dean. sunday duty with the big storm that we still don't know where it's going. >> yeah, very serious warnings across the northern gulf of mexico, steve, including the city of new orleans, needs to be on alert. and of course, this storm is not a hurricane yet, but we are expecting within the next 24 hours this could become a hurricane and then perhaps an even stronger one as it moves towards the northern gulf. so, there's the storm right now, it's not looking very good on satellite, that's the good news, however, the center of it's north of cuba here,

it's not interacting with a lot of land. that's very bad news, it means an if it's not interacting with land it has the possibility of strengthening, and there's warm weather as the storm continues to move westward. and we're talking 90 degrees, sea surface temperatures and that's the fuel that the storm will need. the track at 5 a.m. continues to move through the florida keys and keep a watch for tropical storm force winds at the least, potential for flooding and potential for tornados. evernight tonight, off the coast of florida as a cat 1. as we go into tuesday, still a cat 1, but strengthening because the waters are form. wednesday, cat 2. florida man tanl and mississippi and alabama a possibility it could be a major hurricane as at water is very warm here and the national hurricane center says

indeed, this could become a major hurricane and conservative and want to make sure that people all along the coast want to be monitoring this and the latest from the fox extreme weather center, steve, brian, gretchen, back to you. >> thank you. >> and let's go live now to adegree anna hopkins, a moment ago in key largo, one of the areas bracing for an impact. what kind of preps are underway and what are they telling you the impact will occur. >> sunrise, sunrise is telling us the weather will start detee rating in terms of prep. people who live here know what to do. but the emergency road commissioner are saying if you can get out, pack your bags. 10 seconds ago, i promise you, it was raining, nothing too heavy, but just a steady light rain. as you can see right now, that

rain has stopped this morning, that's what we're dealing with, gusty winds and spurts of rain, much different today than it was yesterday. yesterday, at this time, it was dealing with occasional squalls, through the major thunderstorms being with them. heavy rains, gusting winds and lightning and thunder, this morning, much different. i am grabbing my hat because it might blow off and i did a wind gust earlier this morning, and the same right now. but again, right now, all we're dealing with is very, very gusty wind and a little bit of rain. and talked to quite a two people visiting, taking the last days of summer vacation in the keys and trying to enjoy themselves. we talked to a family from boston, used to the storms, not used to the storms down here, but yesterday at 11;00 or so, those squalls stopped. the weather it didn't clear up, but just overcast, nice and cool and we saw that

family frolicking at the beach here off the main drag and there was a wedding and we saw people carrying the wedding cakes and preps enside because they thought they would have to have their destination wedding inside. but come to find out last night. because the weather did clear up. overcast, but not raining, no squalls, they were able to have that wedding outside so they never really had cold feet not getting married or postponing the wedding instead it worked out for them. again, right now, this morning, gusting winds, we're expecting this weather to deteriorate throughout the morning, and as it does, we'll hear from you. >> and degree anna hopkins. >> there's a hurricane warning if in the keys. sunup when it's going to start deteriorating. >> thank you, travelling with multiple hats in situations like this. >> gretchen: while residents across florida brace for isaac, everyone participating in the rnc is anxiously

awaiting isaac. >> brian: our next guest. >> steve: one of the speakers originally supposed to talk tomorrow night. will they now? and joining us is utah congressman jason chavitz, preview of his convention speech and tomorrow has been crossed out. when are you going to talk? >> i don't know, for now we're going to get a good game of twister and get with that wisconsin delegation in our hotel and play twister, that's the only thing we can do right now. >> really. >> gretchen: i just woke up, okay? and i just woke up because i heard about those games of twister. no pun intended because there might be swirling winds. >> no pun intended. look, we're -- right now it's the calm before the storm and don't know what the schedule will be on monday about you they've canceled the speeches and what not. that's the right thing to do.

the preponderance of evidence shows severe weather and want to keep everybody safe and i'm sure it's the right call. >> and scramble with the lineup, three-day lienup plan and two day lineup plan and four years ago able to crap the first day and president bush went on tape and dick cheney says many' not going to do it. and in terms of what this is going to produce at least five points will be good. in kind points in the popularity are you looking for in order to label this a successful convention. >> i try not to look at the polls, but this is where ann romney and mitt romney introduce themselves to the country. and for him to share his message and introduce his family and talk about jobs in the economy and paul ryan as well. that's the goal here and it's the kickoff or the last 70-some odd days, it's an

important time for the national investigation audience. >> sure, congressmen for so many people who live in the battle ground states, they're just seeing pro obama ads and anti-romney ads and only seen mr. romney in little 30 second sound bites and he's awful if you watch those, this will be the first chaps that the country has listened to the guy. >> yeah, when you get an opportunity to spend nearly an hour introducing yourself, and talking about your vision for america, you know, i've been on the campaign trail well over a year with governor romney and seen him in state after state across the land here and he's amazing in person. and when you hear, see and feel the message he's sharing it's inspirational. there's a reason he became the nominee, a chance for the bulk of america to see and feel that to a national television audience. i think he's a totally different guy since he named his number two, i think together, i think they help each other. >> yeah, look, i'm on the house budget committee with paul ryan and i cannot say

enough good things about him. he's the right person at the right time. by far the smartest guy with budget and appropriations, a beautiful, wonderful family, principled and a great compliment to governor romney ready to lead on day one and again, a chance for the country to get to know paul ryan the way i know him, the way i know governor romney and it's just a great opportunity, but hopefully, the weather will cooperate to some degree. >> you know what, still be able to give your speech. let us know. >> that's the least of the worries. >> and it would be nice if you could actually do it. >> forget about the-- >> and twister is problematic down in tampa, may i suggest scrabble, can't get in trouble with scrabble. >> i'm a words with friends, we could do it remotely if we have to. >> you might. >> congressman chavetz. >> and alec baldwin off the

rails on that airline. >> gretchen: let's get to headlines, and the first man on the moon and speaking exclusively to fox news about the loss of his good friend, neil armstrong. >> to what he believed in, and didn't have to go around with a sign around his neck, hey, world, i'm the first man to call the moon home. >> and he's proud of what he did, no question about it, but his modesty overcame his-- almost overcame his strong desire to make it happen and that is significantly important. >> gretchen: he planned to see armstrong two weeks ago on the annual fishing trip to alaska and neil had to cancel because of another commitment. the 82-year-old died of complications. >> and going airborne to get

their hands on air jordan, accused of breaking into a foot action store to steal the sneakers, cut a hole into the roof of the small and stole 16 pairs for $175 each. and they arrested grant and a second teen at the scene and a lone suspect got away and i suspect the mode of operation was saw-sal. >> gretchen: and what i suggested for lebron james'. >> steve: cut into a mall. >> i feel a draft, let's change. >> get out of here. >> frank, i'm cold. >> order a hot deserish. >> why can't we sit over there? >> that's not a booth! >> complainers, wait until you see the whole episode. >> bad news for complainers, bad for your brain.

your brain works more like a muscle. so if you're pinned into a corner for too long listening to somebody to complain you're more likely to be negative as well. even worse, be exposed to more than 30 minutes of complaining can actually make your dumber. research shows that it damaging in yourens in the part of the brain involved in problem solving. so, complainers and whiners, beware. and the people around them. >> right. >> coming up on "fox & friends," the world will be watching the republican national convention, including reporters from the middle east. so, what is their perception of mitt romney's foreign policy. they'll go to the middle east expert to ask him about that next. >> and the debt clock is ticking closer and closer to 16 trillion dollars. and we're going to meet the behind behind it coming up straight ahead. ♪ hello?

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not happy with what's happening in syria. tens of thousands have been killed and what's happening in north africa the muslim brotherhood are on the rise. the administration, and therefore they have an interest interest in knowing there's a ult alternative to this administration. >> brian: you think they want to hear more from romney, you say the middle east is too broad. what about saudi arabia, lebanon, israel, do you think they are happy there? >> there are 21 views in the middle east, 21 countries. in the beginning of the obama speech mandate, there was hope and because of the arab spring, what's, the saudis are worried about the eye rainu iranians. what would he do in syria? he will be making a statement about that so that's what they're expecting from the romney group so far. so mitt romney, let's take a look at that one more time. there's a headline there we

should share, what does romney want in middle east, confront iran, something that israel could be doing in a matter of weeks, correct? >> that's true, but look, this is basically a front page out of an arab magazine out of egypt. so they're looking at governor romney as an alternative to stop the iranian penetration of iraq with syria and hezbollah and threatening saudi arabia, so there is an opportunity for governor romney here to make sure that he has a different policy than the one of president obama. >> brian: quickly, when it comes afghanistan, we understand that the obama administration could be green lighting the release of four taliban terrorists that worked with al-qaeda and what can we do to stop that. >> if they are released, they'll be in the battlefield and seen it elsewhere. >> if people express outrage,

could be the only thing to stop it. >> only thing, yes. >> brian: thanks very much. remembering the fuhrs man on the moon. and the national debt inching closer to 16 trillion dollars as within campaign raising a red flag in the form of billboards like this one. we'll meet the woman behind the campaign next. road trip buddy. let's put some music on.

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>> a full fledged campaign targeting the national debt is using 56 billboards in ten different states like this one to raise a red flag and grab the attention of voters and lawmakers alike.

>> gretchen: and joining us for the goal behind the billboard campaign and the leader of the big board campaign. good morning. >> good morning. >> gretchen: what do you hope to get out of the billboards? what's the message? >> we want the national debate back to the main issues facing our country, the economy, jobs and government spending, which is basically holding the economy back. so, we've been talking a lot about gas, we've been talking a lot about issues that really aren't what this election is about and these billboards are meant to drive that conversation back by building intrigue amongst the voters and educating them on the matter and hopefully having thm drive that debate back to the main issue of government spending. >> sure, as we come up on-- as your billboards not so sweet 16 trillion dollars, you know, gretchen, i think the problem is we see so many big numbers these days, you don't have a handle on what a trillion dollars is, if people knew that 1 trillion dollars,

if you spent a million dollars a day since the day that jesus was born up to today, you still would not have spent 1 trillion and yet, we're approaching 16 trillion. >> and that's absolutely right. it's hard to fathom what this amount of money looks like, but people understand the consequences to it and they understand that there are personal consequences to them, their family and the economy, this morning, public notice, the. >> 0 that i'm a part of, is releasing a poll where it says the majority of voters are concerned about the debt and number one issues, of course, the government or economy and jobs, number two issue is government spending, but the majority of them do not believe prime minister has a plan to fix it and the plurality believes that romney does. well, the interesting thing was, there was a plan, at least to start trying to fix it from the debt commission which was completely ignored. >> well, there's been plan after plan. you have to look back at 2010 when they, that commission was formed.

basically set up for failure, as it was just something to point to that they were trying to get something done on the debt, that it was an election year, they didn't want anyone to have to take a vote that they didn't want to take, so they said, you know what, we'll take the debt commission and make the report after the election and guess what, it's not going to come up with anything, it was a political ploy basically. >> and your billboards are political, what, quickly, has been the reaction to them? >> we've got a great reaction to them and the american people understands this issue better than anyone, they know their family is hurt by this issue shall the daily living to go up and they know it's a worst future for their children if this doesn't change. we've had a great reaction and looking forward to carrying this message out through the rest of the year. >> that backpack is one big one on that child's back, i think that's really effective. that particular billboard. gretchen hamel, thanks much for your time. >> thank you. >> gretchen: coming up on "fox

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sunday starts. ♪ >> good morning, everyone, it's sunday, but your monday through friday crew is here today as we kick off our convention coverage and big news this morning, the start of the republican national convention now delayed as tropical storm isaac sets its sights on florida. the storm expected to reach hurricane status as early as today. >> steve brown is live at the convention site in tampa. steve, it looks nice now. >> nice now, tomorrow, probably not as nice. brian, gretchen, steve, floridians are very familiar with these kinds of storms, and they've seen them before and they do what they're supposed to do. get to the store, buy water, buy food, buy battery and

gasoline and put plywood up over the windows. for the important business of nominating someone for the white house, well, it's a different set of circumstances and yes, they knew that the state of florida had issued an emergency order yesterday, just getting everything ready. and the storm is not set to hit here, but it will impact the area with driving rains, blown by 50 miles per hour winds. so, yesterday they decided to pull the plug on monday, and here is the official announcement. >> severe weather reports for the tampa pay area and the republican national convention is going to convene on monday, august 27th and then immediately recess until tuesday afternoon, august 28th. the exact time of that start time on tuesday will come in the near future. i'm sure you understand our first priority is ensuring the safety of our delegates and guests, members of the media, attending the rnc convention.

>> and this from the soon to be republican nominee, mitt romney. >> the safety of those in isaac's path is of the utmost important. i applaud those in at that many pa making appropriate schedule changes and the big monday event, the roll call is going to get moved to tuesday. everything else is currently rescheduled and try and imagine holding one of these huge events and trying to make room for a bevy of different speakers and having to cut by 25% and doing it on the fly. that's essentially a task that the rnc as soon as we have the schedule changes. we will pass them along, back to you in new york. >> they want to open it up on monday and everyone is going home. does that allow the money to be released for the general election for mitt romney. >> not until you get the roll call done. the nominee is the nominee and depends onto it, monday, that wouldn't release the cash, not in theory anyway.

>> all right, steve brown live in tampa, with are in florida they're getting ready and we know what that's like, last year about this time. hurricane irene made her way to new york city. >> with as it irene or somebody else. >> it was irene. >> yeah, it was, mitt romney is out of money until they release the money, everyone else is picking up the check. >> running on fumes for a while. >> amazing, he'll be happy once he officially has the nomination, while the rnc deals with schedule changes, the rest of the sunshine state not so sunshiny. this is brand new video of the damage in the caribbean, isaac blamed for at least four deaths in haiti and entire vegs there underwater and haiti had it tough already, perhaps a preview of what we could see later today. folks there under an official state of emergency, mlgs janice dean is following the storm's track, in addition to the wind and the rain, the storm surge is what the folks in florida on the west coast have to worry about. >> folks in tampa could see a

surge three to five feet and could put things underwater a little bit. we're concerned about florida, but i'm very concerned about the northern gulf coast, including the city of new orleans because more and more of the computer models is moving westward. more of the northern gulf coast is in the bulls eye for possibly a major hurricane in the next couple of days, so, you know, i just want to make folks alert. florida yes, certainly, you need to be on alert the next 24 to 48 who urts and the northern gulf coast you could be impacted by a category 3 storm into tuesday. let's quickly look at the track as we go further out in time. over top of the keys, overnight tonight, as a category 1, people of course are battening down the hatches off the coast of florida, monday into tuesday, bulls eye for portions of mississippi, alabama, florida panhandle and parts of louisiana, a category 2 storm, that's a strong cat 2 and some language out from the

national earthquake had center saying that this could be stronger and we could be dealing with a major hurricane and as we go into thursday, a tropical storm. just real quick, here is one of our computer models, what we are forecasting in terms of rain. and so, certainly, over a foot perhaps for south florida, but look at this, guys, over ten inches or parts of louisiana, including new orleans, that water could pile up into lake ponchartrain and this could be a very bad situation so i need folks to really prepare if you live anywhere along the northern gulf, including new orleans, you need to be paying very, very close attentions to the latest advisories, back to you. >> gretchen: if you for the update. >> brian: they say a one small step for mankind-- one giant leap for mankind i should say. and the death of neil armstrong at age 82. and the announcement caught us

by surprise, i didn't know he was going in for surgery. >> steve: the former attitude, sky walking, an astronaut's memoir, joins us from spartansburg. >> good morning. >> steve: a sad day for the astronaut corps, he's a legend. >> it's a shock, i was not expecting this news, he had surgery a couple weeks back and everyone thought he was recovering, and the astronaut corps and i think the nation is just grieving at his loss. he is he's icon, a figure of the apollo astronauts prepared the most intrepid test pilot and reticent in terms of public attention and a role model for me growing up and meeting him professionally later on in my career, it was just a dream come true. so, missing him, missing his voice and telling us about the

future of space flight what the country can do will be sorely missed. >> one of the interesting things, a lot of people who knew him well, you had the chance to know him professionally, knew he was a very private person, he did not like the limelight that came with being one of america's top heroes, correct? >> well, after apollo, 11, gretchen, the crew went around the world on a goodwill trip and they saw the incredible media attention coming to these three individuals and i think, neil at that point, 43 years ago, decided he didn't want a part of that for the rest of his life and a deliberate choice to stay out of the limelight and speak professionally at national air and space museums and other groups, he did that occasionally, but he was out of the autograph frenzy and i think that's the way he kept his sanity over the years. >> tom, how much did you study what he experienced? and what he'd done before and afterwards everyone would follow in his wake. what would he mean in studies

and preparing to go into space? >> neil meant a tremendous amount to me, he was just the role model of what an astronaut should be. i used to click on every newspaper article about his crew been his missions and i have the scrap books from those days and that's the kind of path that he lived, steered me to flying in the air force and studying space science and wanted to follow in his footsteps. >> as a pilot, they say that he's the most unbelievable pilot he's with. and we couldn't tell, if someone tries to pilot an aircraft on to the moon. what could you tell us about his skill? >> well, he was faced with flying a face craft in no atmosphere, no wings is what he was familiar with in the past, down to the airless surface of the moon. 1/6 gravity and an autopilot was helping him do the job, but taking him into a bolder field crater. arm strong went a minute left

and steered past that crater to a safe and smooth landing site and when he touched down, he had less than 30 seconds of fuel left and he knew exactly how much he had to work with and used all of it to get the lunar module down safely with buzz aldrin and himself. that's good driving. and the family time released a statement. next time you see the moon smiling down at you, think of neil armstrong and give him a wink. >> very appropriate advice and i think all of us when we look at the moon should remember the skill and dedication that he and his crew brought to the apollo program and set the course for the later exploration of the moon and hope we can equal the achievements that neil and his crew brought to the country. >> thank you so much for remembering neil armstrong today. thank you, sir. >> good morning, folks, you bet. >> gretchen: now your headline for sunday, the taliban denying reports that the commander for a powerful militant network was killed by a drunk in pakistan and claims the commander is alive and

well despite the reports from another pakistani leader. the commander in question was in charge of the militant's day-to-day operations and his death a major blow to his organization. the gunman who killed his former boss outside the empire state building was being evicted from his new york city apartment. the new york post is reporting that 58-year-old jeffrey johnson pictured here bird watching in central park two months ago, couldn't make rent after being tired from his job. it's believed that johnson blamed his victim for his money problems, and the two were said to have a long time feud, even about of johnson was laid off. nine people were hurt before the shootout. johnson shot that man in the head in broad daylight and johnson was killed moments later by police. things overheating in nascar. take a look at tony stewart. and his racing helmet at a passing driver matt kenseth. blaming him in the motor

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>> that's not stopping. nation's unemployment rate may be 8.3%, but that's not stopping president obama's deputy campaign manager from making this claim. >> the president coming in and seeing 800,000 jobs lost on the day that the president was being sworn in and seeing the president moving pretty quickly to stem that to turn the economy around and over the past 27 months, 4.5 million private sector jobs and that's more jobs than, in the bush recovery, in the reagan recovery and obviously more that we need to do. >> oh, more jobs than the reagan recovery? that's terrific, if it's true. here with the fact check is cato institute senior fellow daniel mitchell and joins us. good morning, daniel. >> good morning. >> there you have stephanie cutter out on the morning show

saying that the obama administration created more jobs than the reagan recovery, is that accurate? >> maybe some intern deep in the bowels of the white house, left-handed capricorn, live on the apartment buildings better job performance than reagan, but here is what everyone in the audience should do, the minneapolis federal reserve bank maintains a website, where you can look at every business cycle since the world of world war ii and directly compare reagan nommics and obamanomics and the differences are shocking in terms of job numbers and basically see steeply rising increase under the reagan recovery, but under the tepid obama recovery, more like a very flat line slowly creeping up. we're way, way behind the pace and i'm j us frankly, i'm an economist, not a politician or political scientist, i'm

shocked that the white house is actually dumb enough to start inviting people to make a comparison between reagannommics, and obamanomi obamanomics, no comparison. >> steve: that's the reason that the president doesn't want to talk about job growth and go back a couple of years, the white house made it clear, pass stimulus, unemployment would be below, and we're north of 8% and the president is trying something desperate all eyes on something other than the economy. >> the administration made a mistake politically back when they were taking office, threats' squander a trillion dollars on various special interest groups and magic of keynesian economics we'll drive it below in the middle of 20. we're what, 43 or 44 state months of unemployment above

8%, the worst performance since the great depression and i is a this. >> steve: sure. >> as someone willing to give obama a free pass the first year. no doubt when he came in the first year, he had a mess, it was in the ditch and republicans had their share of blame. but then after he got his policies in place, he bears responsibility for the economy. whether we're looking at weak numbers for middle class income or lost wealth for middle income households or high unemployment numbers. here is what it boils down to. if we follow the big government, higher taxes, more intervention, regulation, red tape, why are we surprised, we're getting european economic results. >> before you go quickly, if the president is reelected, is there any hope that things will turn around? >> the economy historically, always bounces back from an economic down turn, the question is, how fast does it

bounce back? do we recover the lost output by having several years like happened under reagan of above average growth or slowly claim our way back to maybe a modest mediocre level of growth. if you look at countries like italy or france, long run growth 1 to 2%, those are behind over time. and strong opportunities, especially for young people aren't as high and that's the most important thing, look around the world, it's a natural laboratory, we should be more like singapore and hong kong and 5 to 6% growth in small business rather than europe, why copy greece? >> no kidding. daniel mitchell, senior fellow at the cato institute. thank you for joining us live. now, 20 minutes after the top of the hour. department of homeland security secretary janet napolitano says are you kidding me, no way, it's a mess.

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>> this administration is committed to making sure that we have a southern border that's safe, that is secure, that is open for business. we are more than two years into our southwest border initiative and based on previous benchmarks set by the congress, it's clear additional manpower, technology and infrastructure are work. >> brian: she should know, she was former governor of arizona. and homeland security secretary janet napolitano

says they are? says no way, our border is a mess and rules are to blame. joining us is the sheriff cochis arizona joining us. >> she was saying the same thing we're saying today. when she became homeland security she all of a sudden changed her tune and nothing has changed of any significance in that period of time. i want to clarify if i can right upfront, this discussion about unions being to blame. in the context of the discussion i was having with the journalist, we were talking about the constraints we have to consider on this side of the border in our law enforcement efforts, such as fair labor standards act. sometimes union contracts and agreements and right to work laws and all of that. that do have an impact and

effect on certain things that we're able to do and not able to do, but, the union, contrary to what the report said and somewhere in the editorializing of that came out. absolutely has no control or direct influence over scheduling in shifts and how those resources are deployed. again, speaking in general terms. >> yeah. >> as to the contrast with the cartels, have none of those considerations and they sit and watch, they watch us move, they watch our shift change, they know when we go to lunch. they watch all of that stuff, and as soon as there's a hole, created sometimes through the routine-- >> and you're saying when you go into unions and talk to the unions and say, hey, they're figuring us out. is there a lack of mobility? are they not listening to you? do they not understand we have the same objective?

>> no, i've sat at the same table with the council, leadership, in front of congress on many occasions, fighting for the same thing, more resources for their personnel for their people that they represent, a better understanding by congress and what the problems are. >> what do they come back with? >> well, they're-- you know, they're right on. they know what they need. they're very vocal about the fact that the secretary and upper management and leadership, really, are the problem here, and it's not the guys on the ground that are trying to get the job done, it's the fact that they have their hands tied as well, so-- >> and sheriff what do you say to people that say that traffic is down, therefore the secretary is right? the apprehensions are down, therefore the secretary is right? >> those are interesting numbers and they're always interesting. they're up, down, they're side ways and the fact is that nobody knows. >> and i use this analogy and this metaphor all the time.

if you fit-- say, telling people and showing people how many-- how many fish you have in your kreel does not in any way, shape or form measure the number in the stream that got away and the fact is, they have no way of measuring and knowing how many got away, but we know that there are tens and hundreds of thousands who continue to come across the border, the effort and the methods are much more. >> od and sophisticated than they've ever been. and if you want to talk safer than they've ever been or more secure than they've ever been, the cartels are much more successful and ruthless. >> i understand. >> and they don't have the union issues or ethics issues. >> well, and they're much more ruthless and the border is much more dangerous place than it's ever been because of that. >> sheriff, thank you so much. >> the reality on the ground rather than somebody in washington talking about what's happening on the ground in their perspective or from their perspective.

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an american hero astronaut neil armstrong dead at age 82. nearly a quarter miles from earth, he stepped foot on the moon. looking back at this legends. >> the eagle has landed. >> he think perhaps the final descent to the lunar surface was the highlight, it was very challenging. a lot of unknowns. for a pilot, it was a wonderful experience. >> on july 16th, 1969, apollo, 11 commander, neil armstrong blasted off to the moon and the voyage took him where no man had ever landed before. travelling with him were lunar module pilot, buzz aldrin and-- >> after landing, they had powers to stand there a mere 15 feet above the surface, so, long before we actually got

out on the surface, we already had a pretty good appreciation for what the moon was like. >> that's one small step for man, and o-- one giant leap for mankind. >> armstrong made history when he stepped off the eagle and landed on the moon july 20th. hundreds of millions gathered in front of televisions around the globe to witness the monumental feat. and the men became heroes and the president praised their heroics with a special long distance call. >> hello, neil and buzz i'm talking to you by telephone at the oval room at the white house. >> neil armstrong was born in 1930 in ohio and he had a pilots license before he drove a car and tender age of 20 floo you 78 combat missions over korea and graduated in

purdue 1965 with a bachelor of science in aeronautical engineering. 1962 joined the astronaut program and four years later first taste of space as commander of gemini 8th. two vehicles were successfully docked for the first time and man into coombscations and armstrong began reentry early. risks were part of exploration. prior to apollo 11 armstrong was nearly killed in a lunar test vehicle. when he decided to eject. it looks likes he had only a few swings in the parachute before he hit the ground there. apollo 11 was armstrong's last mission in space and retired in 1971 and accepted a teaching position at the university of cincinnati and taught aerospace engineering until 1979 and then a spokeman for a handful of u.s. businesses and also served on

the boards of several companies. in 1994, he stopped signing autographs. after finding out that his signed memorabilia were selling for large amounts of money. and unlike some other astronauts, he shied away from the limelight. >> if it's anything to do with razzmatazz and joe business, neil armstrong passes. nobody recognizes him. he hasn't put his face out there. probably 500 years from now we may be known as living in the age of armstrong just like when they talk about the age of columbus. >> we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work. >> jon scott, fox news. >> brian: what an american hero. >> we played a little clip of the president of the united states talking to the astronauts on the moon. that hookup was the first time ever that a television hookup had ever been done between earth and another entity out

there in space and it was produced by a young producer named roger ailes and went on one day to start the fox news channel. >> gretchen: i didn't know that piece of his history as well. and let's talk a little about the weather this morning, unformer we have an extreme weather alert and isaac taking aim at the gulf coast, with the florida keys expected to take the direct hit first. florida governor rick scott already declaring a state of emergency. >> the goal again, is every citizen in the state and every citizen to get prepared. have three days of water, three days of food. get your medicines, mr. ante of gas in the car. talk to your neighbors and family and friends, if there's standing water ent don't go et into the water. downed power lines, call, don't do something yourself. and if you have damage with your trees, be very cautious. if you're cutting down any trees because a lot of times, a lot of our injuries and problems happen after the

fact. the form itself doesn't cause problems, et cetera-- it's afterwards. >> as you can see, i'm looking at the weather folks and your winds right now have the northeast at 33, gusting to 45. and isaac is headed your way? >> isaac is heading our way. i'm holding my hat to make sure it doesn't blow off. it's really windy. we haven't seen something for the past 24 hours and that's a break in the clouds. we're actually seeing some blue skies. this is much different today than yesterday. yesterday, we were dealing with a lot of squalls that kept coming through every 15 to 20 minutes and the major thunderstorms, bringing heavy rain and heavy wind with it. and also, we want to show you yesterday what happened after 10:00 in the morning. it cleared up and take a look at this video.

we met a couple down here at the key largo pay resort, the marriott in key largo and planned a destination wedding for a while and thought they would have to move the wedding inside, but the uninvited guests, isaac, he wasn't so rude. he cut some slack and really, stopped raining for them and they were able to get married outside as they were planning, and have that destination wedding that they had hoped for. we talked to them ap said they never wanted to call it off. thought they'd move it outside-- inside, excuse me, and they were able to have it outside and it was a beautiful day. back out here live, you can see blue skies, we heard a theater ban move through, and it should be rain-free the next hour and everything is supposed to deteriorate from there. we'll be here live all morning, reporting live. adriana hopkins. >> gretchen: it's a denver weather pattern, blue skies and the storm is coming. >> i'm looking at the

satellite. a big blob, but meanwhile, officials in florida have been preparing for hurricane season for months simulating what i am pa kt isaac would have on the rnc. joining us right now is the director of florida's division of emergency management, brian coon. welcome, brian. >> good morning. >> brian: brian, first off. the convention center, is that a safe place to be should this thing kick in? >> oh, yes, yeah, the convention center and the tampa bay sometimes forum are extremely well built buildings, the delegates down there for the convention are well protected, yeah. >> gretchen: let's talk about what some of the problems could be for the tampa area. wouldn't it be storm surge, that would be the main thing that you would be concerned about? >> we are concerned with storm surge and we have been talking closely with the national earthquake had center as well as the local national weather

service offices and the emergency management officials down there, though. we've got a pretty good idea what that storm surge is going to look like, we've analyzed the i am fact, the impact could be to the beach front hotels where many visitors have been staying and taking a look at impact to the bridges and roads there. we think it's going to be a level that it's not going to have significant impact. we may see some beach and issues on the beach, but i think we're going to be okay at this point with the storm surge. we're concerned with winds, it's going to be gusty winds, sustained winds, in the tropical storm force area and the 40 mile per hour ranges and they think also be a fair amount of range, three to six inches as the storm passes that wayhich could lead to some flooding, some road flooding and river flooding. so those are the issues we're looking at in the tampa bay area. you have tested the emergency preparedness system down there in the tampa bay area for a year and a half and you've been planning for this.

what's interesting, we have a graphic on this program on friday, that the tampa bay area is more vulnerable to storm surge and hurricanes than even extraordinarily new orleans and has to do with the way that the bay is laid out, right? >> that's correct. all that water can kind of pile up in the north end of tampa bay there, the water and waves continue to push it northward. if you've got a storm there, the right intensity with the right track, you can have significant storm surge in the tampa bay area, luckily this does not appear to be one to generate that level of flooding. >> real quick, what are you hearing? when do you think it's going to hit tampa if at all. >> the latest thing we have. we anticipate that they're going to start getting tropical storm force winds late tonight. in the overnight hours, and that most of the day tomorrow, there will be again, tropical storm force winds in the 40 miles per hour range with some

heavier gusts, but by the time everybody wakes up on tuesday morning, the storm is going to be some siding, and tuesday, wednesday and thursday, lined up for pretty good weather down there. as long as we get through monday, the rest of the week should be pretty good. >> the director of the florida division of emergency managementment and thanks very much for your time and looking out for everyone there. >> tampa won't take a direct hit, but some places along the gulf coast will. that's what janice dean is going to update us on 15 minutes from now. >> is it possible to predict creams when they happen? that's what they're doing at the rnc. special look behind the scenes how they're doing that. >> are we all born liberal? our next guest says yes, we should be thankful for liberals for saving. >> steve: did you go et right into the teleprompter. >> he did. alan colmes, we're excited to have him in the studio. ♪ last time i was at a sleepover my parents

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we were founded on the magna carta to protect individuals in the monarchy, we don't have a monarchy, we went way beyond english common-law. >> brian: maybe your definition is different. >> this is not republican gers democrat. some of the things the republicans did, they were the forefront of the civil rights. a higher percentage of the republicans passed the civil rights act and voting act of 1965 than the democrats. >> i'm glad you remind people of that. a lot of people say it's not the case. this is not about republicans versus democrats, but progressives and we have a liberal mindset in this country. >> and what do you hope to accomplish with the book. >> get a couple of books and get on fox. >> a capitalist. >> i'm a liberal capitalist, what's wrong with at that? >> the prime minister,

egalitarian and-- >> no one even liberals aren't using that term now of the it's now progressive. >> i use them interchangeable. and i call the other regressive, wanting to take us to the other century. and libber means free and conservatives say liberty and freedom, these are liberal concepts the fact that we have our rights coming from not government, but god or nature and-- >> and the other side says that one of the problems is, with the liberal side, progressive side, you know, you come up with so many laws, so many regulations that it's burdensome to business, and individual liberty? >> well, i'm not sure -- you've got to have some regulation. >> some is good, right. and for instance, the tax code or the affordable care act, any of that. >> and king ford in my grill anymore. >> i'm not sure, it was explained to the people.

>> i think the message could have been better on the side of liberals and democrats, but no lifetime caps and you get coverage until you're age 26. you know, the republicans have said if they get rid of obama care, those popular things, they would continue. >> that's what they say, but on the other hand, you had romney and ryan say we would overturn every part of obama care, what are they going to replace it with. >> you're finding it impossible to implement this plan. >> no, i'm not finding that. >> it's amazing i've not found this. >> you have found this book, congratulations on it. your radio show a fantastic as well. and work in the same studio and clean up better. >> thank the liberals for saving america, and alan colmes, thank you very much. >> nice to meet you. all right. we're going to take a quick timeout more in just a minute. [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where you don't back down from a challenge.

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>> surveillance software that predicts crime by analyzing people and objects. it sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie. and believe it or not it's the latest as part of the security measures and here to explain how it works, is the former secret service agent, good to he zoo see you, john. >> nice to be here. >> gretchen: it's sky phi, you set up cameras and they do what? >> they're designed to collect data over a course of time. it's built on a frame work, as it's collected the system has the ability to analyze the data and provide data to security personnel. >> it's been set up in tampa the last several months, it's on a street corner and observes normal flow of traffic and people and something obscure were to happen, it would do what?

>> that's right, it's able to identify unusual behavioral activity as a result of the tranced learning capabilities. it can detect the wide variety of different types of behaviors and suspicious activity and present that information to command center personnel. >> so they would be alerted and take a look at it and determine if there was something happened that needed attention. i want to show you the pieces of video and explain what the software is doing in this case, should we roll the video? video? >> yeah, so in this particular customer deployment. this is an example of where our system has learned these camera field of views, collected knowledge over the course of time, processed that information within our complex artificial intelligence frame work and able to identify these activities as suspicious or anomalous and this information is what is presented to security personnel. >> so in this case with this woman by the car, that was

suspicious, seeing this person by a car hovering down? >> that's exactly right. if you look at the video for several minutes leading up to this particular incident, you'll see the individual basically casing the parking lot and that's something our system had not seen before so it's issue an alarm to the security personnel. >> gretchen: as this loop continues, there's a package left at a train station, the red box eventually goes around and that box right there, right? >> that's right, often times in a security environment, security professors want it know when various objects are discarded or left behind, they could be potentially explosive devices, in this system, they were able to eva instance where a package was left in a place where perhaps security personnel might want to look at. >> very interesting technology, it's used downtown in tampa at the g.o.p. convention. >> thank you. >> gretchen: more "fox & friends" straight ahead,

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>> good morning, everyone, it's sunday, it's august 26th. i'm gretchen charleson. thanks for spending part of your sunday with us today. we start with a fox news alert. tropical storm isaac closer to florida or leaving thousands in the dark in miami and things are expected to get worse, already forcing changes to the national republican convention in tampa. woo he'll have a live report from tampa straight ahead. >> normally only joins us on monday mornings, but we're here on a sunday, but we thought we'd wake up donald trump so he didn't feel left out. >> and donald trump is live and a big announcement that you'll hear first right here in about ten minutes. >> a huge honor in sarasota. first, alan west punching an old woman and kids are used to attack him. how, representative west is

responding like only he can. and that story coming up. "fox & friends" hour three starts now. ♪ good morning, everyone, it's monday through friday crew with you today as we kick off convention coverage. unfortunately we're kicking off this fox news alert about the weather because we're now on a hurricane watch as isaac continues to pick up steam and forcing changes for the republican national convention, we have live fox news team coverage and we start first with janice dean in the weather center, tracking the storm for us. >> janice: hi, gretchen, yes, the latest 8 a.m. advisory updating us on the wind and still 65 miles per hour. the center of the storm is over water and we're expecting it to strengthen into a hurricane within the next 24 to 48 hours. there is the center right there.

not looking great on the satellite image, but we expect it to pass over the very warm water of the florida straits within the next 24 hours and yes, very possibly become a hurricane and this actually could become a major hurricane in the days ahead. just showing you the radar across south florida and the keys and already seeing the outer band moving and this is a very large storm, tropical storm force winds 200 miles from the center of the storm and effects are across the gulf. it doesn't matter if you're going to take a direct hit. strong waves, certainly some flooding issues, tropical storm force winds and the threat of tornados, including tampa, throughout the day today. and into tomorrow. so, that's going to be another concern. storm surge, three to five feet and we could see the possibility for flooding and tornados through the day. so, quick, i just want to show you the track as we go further out in time. a category one as it goes over the keys and headed to tuesday and wednesday, and a strong category 2 making land fall along the panhandle of

florida, mississippi, alabama, new orleans we cannot rule you out. because the latest forecast models are showing the system moving just to the right of new orleans, a storm surge flooding could devastate in this area, and i need you to be on alert the next 48 hours because we're really, really concerned about this region across the gulf coast. steve, gretchen, brian, back to you. >> absolutely, jd. a 100 mile per hour storm is going to hit along the gulf coast and we'll be watching. meanwhile, as we heard a moment ago, they've already lost power in south florida and canceled school for many floridian children and over to tampa where steve brown is at the site of the convention. steve, it doesn't look too windy there. they've canceled the festivities for tomorrow. does that mean that everything gets started one day later? >> yes, but then comes the problem of okay, now what? how is it, after weeks and months of preparation for a four day event with the

calendar packed full of events. how do you trim that by 25% and fit everything in? not an easy task and the folks over at the rnc say they're working on it. >> tomorrow afternoon it's our hope that we'll be able to release a revised schedule. so, i think most of, you know, it's going to be a compressed schedule and some changes are going to have to be made, but we'll still have a great convention and look forward to everybody getting down here and nominating mitt romney and paul ryan and watching them with the general election. >> now, a couple of days ago, we told you that ann romney's speech set for monday which no longer has a calendar date for events is on tuesday, the role call, the voting for the nomination of mitt romney to be the party standard bearer, that will be happening on tuesday as well. interestingly, the protest schedule for monday, some 5,000 protesters say that they will be here in poe protest and that's going tomorrow.

and rains are side ways and blowing 50 miles per hour. it will be an interesting day here, weather-wise and out on the streets around the venue, back to you in new york. >> indeed, it will be. steve brown downtown in tampa. we'll be there seeing steve brown later, this afternoon. >> with the slickers and rain boots and everything else. >> and a time to bring in chris wallace and seems like we just talked to you, we did on friday and there you are. >> and yeah, we did, we got in on friday, and i've got to tell you, this situation is very dicey right now. obviously, the human side of it and what happens in terms of the storm, and its impact on real people is the biggest deal, but there's also a political impact, yes, they have canceled monday, but tuesday is not a sure thing. let me make that point. because as you just heard in the weather center, this, this storm may be past tampa, but bearing down on the gulf coast, louisiana, alabama, the florida panhandle on tuesday, now, four years ago, if you remember, when the republicans were holding their convention

in minnesota, that canceled the day of the convention because they didn't want to be seen as partying and politicking, while a lot of americans were in real danger, real trouble. so, what happens if we get to tuesday, and this is a serious hurricane, or a serious tropical storm? will they go ahead and hold a tuesday session? if you get to three days, i think, isn't a big deal for the republicans, but if it gets to two days, it's going it hurt them getting out their message. >> sure. chris, the major networks were only going to cover three days of the republican convention anyway. even though they had four days to put them on par with the democrats, so, what are they going to do? are they going to take four days worth of stuff and cram it into three days or is somebody going to get the hook? >> well, we don't know exactly. my guess is, you know, there is the literal hook and the practical hook and my guess, there will be a lot of people who will speak, but people speaking in prime time when we're going to be covering it when the broadcast networks are going to be covering it,

may be speaking at four in the afternoon and yes, able to speak to the people in the hall here, but the outside world won't hear them. so, and i think most of those politician are smart enough to know when the tree calls falls in the forest and nobody hears it. so, so, you know, it will be interesting, it seems what they do, again, three days, i don't think they're going to have a big problem getting their major messages out. monday night was supposed to be contrast nightment and that was the night when they were going to have republicans come in and say, hey, look, obama says i need more time. no, he's had his chance and four more years of what he's going to offer you isn't going to be good. in fact, it's going to be more trouble for you. now, will they get that in in the rest of the convention, yes. the whole night was going to be devoted to that. it's now going to be put forth in a truncated fashion. >> so far look at the race itself, and it seems that romney is about to step, but in the polls since he added

ryan, chris. and going into full play as we know that there's about seven states where there's ne discernible leader. what do you think he's going to change for the next 70 days? >> well, i think a couple of things, and you know, that's why this convention is so important and from the republicans point of view that they get as many days here to deliver their message to american voters and particularly to those undecided voters in the key swing states. first of all, they want to humanize romney. some people wonder whether he understands what they're going through, and feels their pain. they want to humanize romney. more important, they want to make the contrast, just saying at that obama had four years and his economic record isn't good isn't enough. they have to make this a contrast election and thinks that paul ryan helps them do that to say, here is what obama would offer over the next four years, and you've seen it and it's going to be

more, if not even a more pronounced version of the same. here is very different vision that we have for the country. and i think a little tougher in their contrast. for instance, you saw paul ryan in michigan on friday talking again, reminding people of obama's comment about gods and guns and people clinging to them and i just want to say as a catholic hunter. >> deer hunter. >> i plead guilty. they want to make that contrast sharply for working class voters. >> gretchen: and part of romney right now, the interview with them. you sat down with mitt romney and ann romney, what did you see, the human side he's trying to get out? >> yeah, look, no question they're on a charm offensive and invited me up. and first time they've opened their new hampshire vacation home, which is lovely, to cameras during this campaign cycle and you know, we not only saw the romneys, we saw

their eldest son tag, his wife and their six kids. playing for cameras, but remarkably informal. i think you get a human and warmer view of mitt romney and this is why you say, mrs. romney, the ann romney speech is a big deal. she's their secret weapon. one, she's terrifically appealing, very human. if he's all head and logic, she's heart and warmth and i think that she makes him look better. in addition when they're together, he loosens up. and we not only see them in the home, but together, talking, joking, laughing, she makes fun of him. it's a side of the romneys, you've never seen before. >> amazing how hungry, making nine pancakes? you have a fork in your hand. they were good pancakes, what can i say, brian. >> from scratch.

>> we've got a clip from your interview that's going to run on fox news sunday. here you are talking to mr. romney about his father. >> good. >> have you been thinking a lot about your dad recently? and what would he say? >> i always think about my dad, and my mom for that matter. i think a lot about them. and you know, i'm crafting a convention speech and thinking about the kinds of things my dad would say if he had the chance to offer that speech. >> what do you think he would say about you having taken this step that he was unable to in being the republican nominee? >> be bold. don't worry about what people think. just be bold. get the job done. that's the advice he'd give me. >> and chris, over the next couple of days, people are going to start to, in many cases, get their first real look at mitt romney. >> you know, there's a theory in politics called the open window theory, and that is that there are only a few times in a campaign, i mean, we political junkies soak it all in. but real people with real

lives, they only open their window to follow politics, a couple of times in the campaign. this, the acceptance speech and if they cancel everything, if gets an hour, hour and a half uninterrupted to talk to 35 or 40 million americans, and to define who he is and explane who he is, and the contrast between what he would offer and barack obama would offer, that's the key. obviously, the debates, but those are the real open windows in in campaign. so, this week is important, but the acceptance speech is vital. >> gretchen: all right. chris wallace, we'll see you down in tampa and we'll be watching fox news sunday today for your exclusive interview. >> i hope you guys are going to get down today. the weather is lousy tomorrow. >> we'll try. >> gretchen: trying to get there this afternoon. >> and leaving our daily planners wide open for lunch with wallace, waiting for you to take a day. >> how serious this it is, they were handing out full body parkas. >> ponchos, not--

>> a poncho. >> it's florida, not minnesota. >> gretchen: that's okay, i understood what you meant, being from minnesota. all right, chris, see you down there. >> see you guys. >> meanwhile, straight ahead, skipping the rnc, donald trump headed to florida and about to reveal his big surprise. we'll check in with him exclusively next. >> that's great. tributes or pouring in for neil armstrong, a look back at the life of the american hero. . >> one small step for man, . one giant leap for mankind. great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole. see the seam? more pcessed flakes look nothing like natural grains. i'm eating what i kn is better nutrition. mmmm. great grains. search great grains and see for yourself.

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>> well, good morning, and i saw you working and i felt very, very guilty because i'm supposed to be with you tomorrow and because of the hurricane, i guess i'm not going to go to tampa. i'm going, however, to sarasota tonight, we're going to have an amazing event, the republican party, and it's going to be really great and i'm being honored so i didn't know if that was going to be canceled, also, but i just heard that it's not going to be canceled. so i'm getting on a plane at about 12:00 and going to sarasota. >> good, the republican party of sarasota county is going to be honoring you as statesman of the year, that's got to feel good. >> it does. great people, amazing people and the most successful event they've ever had and i thought despite the weather, i'm going to do it. and i'm very honored about it. >> so, donald, i understand that you were talking about the surprise and it was all said, no one could get you to break.

monday is canceled and are' not going to do it. >> it was a big monday surprise, i haven't spoken, but we had a big thing planned on monday, it would have been wild, i think it would have been very, very interesting for a lot of people and i just don't know whether or not they're going to do it. i know that after sarasota, i'm coming back to new york and supposed to do your show tomorrow morning and be in studio with you guys, i assume you're headed down there, i'll be in new york, maybe i'll call in or night before. you can't tell us about the surprise then? >> i won't be able to, soon i will. i just don't know what they want to do with it and with me. it was all set for monday and unfortunately, monday was canceled. we g canceled by a little hurricane. >> sure. how does the big storm change things if at all? >> i don't think it will. i was listening to chris, it's interesting, because if there's trouble in new orleans or wherever it may be headed, it's tough to be putting out a message, but i think probably it's going to miss one day,

and the one day will be, you know, you're losing, 20, 25% of your convention, you want to put out as much message as possible. so it's certainly not a positive, but there's nothing you can do when it comes to nature. >> so, we had ten weeks now before election day. and neither party can say that they have 270 electoral votes within reach. donald, interest mitt romney's perspectives, you don't know president obama's perspective, but from his perspective. what does he have to do? >> well, i think he's doing really well. i believe that paul ryan has energized the party and the base and they're doing nicely and polls are starting to come out. i saw a fox poll, mitt is actually up by a point and he was a little bit down and nows' up. it's close to election and it's a very, very close race. i really think he's going to pull ahead and maybe substantially pull ahead. what's happening with jobs and

the economy is terrible. what's going on with the rest of the world the way they treat us and laugh at us is terrible. so, i really think, i don't want to say this to anybody, i think he's going to win easily, but i don't want to say that because i want everybody to go out and vote. >> so when you look at some of the polls then, how do you rationalize that in your mind, that a lot of them are in a dead heat if the economy is where it is. >> i'm surprised by some of the polls, i think he's about eter than some of the polls are showing. some polls are showing that mitt romney is leading and that's a good thing. it's going to be a very tight race and i believe that the republicans are going to win, i believe in the form of mitt romn romney. >> steve: and donald trump joining us, and he's got to fly to sarasota honored as statesman of the year. >> have a good time there. >> steve: and knowing we couldn't do monday, he does

sunday. >> gretchen: is the obama administration booking the books with immigration numbers. >> and he was thrown out of a moving car. how you can help that dog coming up.

. >> brian: now it's time for the news by the numbers, 45,000, how many 2012 chevy sonics are recalled because of problems with the wiper fluid system. >> steve: is that our recall music? next, 20 million dollars, how much american idol reportedly offered katy perry to be one of the new judges, but sources say she turned down the offer. and finally, 1,000% how big of a tip they left for the

waitress, $500 on a $42 check and told her to keep the change. way to go. all right, over to you. >> the obama administration is being accused of quote, cooking the books to show record high deportation numbers. >> 397,000 deportations were reported. according to internal documents, the real number should be 360,000, so, how does something like that happen? >> joining us right now. former doj official, hans, how does something like this happen? >> well, what they did, without telling anyone, they are the sta started including the deportation numbers, the people stopped at the border by the border patrol. that is entirely different things, those are people shoved back across the border. that's not the same as deportations of illegal aliens inside the country and have been here for a while. >> gretchen: and you also say that you have information that

immigration judges are ruling about deportations that are not actually carried through by this administration. what do you know? >> yes, i have someone i used to work with, in the department of justice, a former immigration judge, he says the number of unenforced deportation orders is over 1.1 million. so, these are people who immigration judges have said have no right to be in the country, but the department of homeland security is not enforcing those orders and picking them up and deporting them. >> brian: that's fantastic. and the other thing, that new executive order is not making anything easierment the question is, do they want these numbers? because the hispanic community is up in arms because the deportations are so high. do you think they'll run from the numbers soon and say that hans guy on "fox & friends" weekends is right? >> well, what they've been trying to do, this administration, assure hispanic groups, look, we're extending a general amnesty

and going after states that are trying to enforce immigration laws, but at the same time, they put out what are basically false numbers to tell people, oh, no, no, we really are being rigorous in our immigration enforcement. they're playing a two edged game here. >> that's interesting, because we've done so many segments about obama operatives will say that he has deported more illegals than any other president before, but you're saying they're playing both sides of the fence. >> let's look at the numbers by ice. they reflect the success of the administration's strategy, and are attributable in part to the unprecedented support ice is providing to the border patrol and combined efforts is most in recent history and that's what i'm talking about there, hans. they're proponents of the fact they'll deported more illegals than any other administration. >> the new numbers show that the numbers have been dropping since 2008 and if they're doing such a good job, why

have all of these ice agents now sued them because they're saying, they're told not to enforce the law. >> good point. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> coming up straight head. he took one giant leap for mankind. this morning, tributes for neil arm strong, a look back at the life of this american hero. >> brian: and ice, apparently not the only thing dm dammeni dammening. there will be mrel fireworks. road trip buddy. let's put some music on. [ woman ] welcome to learning spanish in the car. you've got to be kidding me. this is good. vamanos. vamanos. vamanos. gracias. gracias. gracias. ♪ trece horas en el carro sin parar y no traes musica. mira entra y comprame unas papitas.

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sunday morning on the summer in south beach, this beach would already be crowded with tourists, there's absolutely no one out here now except for avid exercisers and lifeguards are not patrolling the beaches in miami. they will not be in the towers and moved everything off the beach. they're driving around making sure nobody is out in the water. it's very dangerous conditions out there. the officials are begging people not to even get on the beach, slip and fall not to get in the water and swim. the rip currents are very dangerous and this storm they say is headed for key west late this afternoon or perhaps tonight and picked up strength overnight and expected to hit either at a tropical storm or a category 1 storm and the feeder bands are already pelting school board and key west and there's no school in broward or miami-dade counties and canceled schools and businesses and universities and the palm trees blowing already and just expect today

deteriorate and get worse, we're expecting a lot of rain as the day increases, probably about six inches or so, so, of course, that flash flood watch is in effect in this area as well. with a back to you in new york. >> thank you for the live report in south beach. >> and it's not just mother nature impacting the rnc. president obama and hess supporters will be out there, is there a ploy to steal the g.o.p.'s political thunder? author mike gallagher and from the howard dean's presidential campaign and also john edwards. wrote the book forth coming called "50 things liberals ha hate". first off, joe, to you, are your people down here in tampa in force, to put a fly in the ointment? >> of course they are.

this is a big chance for romney to introduce himself to the american people and he wasn't able to do that during the primaries, us because of the primary fight and kept him off balance and having to answer things throughout the summer and they're not going to give him clear air now, that would be a mistake and by the way, brian, in 2008, both mitt romney and rudy guiliani showed up to take some of the-- create some noise during the obama denver convention, so it's not unusual, but i think it's a little bit more planned this time. >> i understand the vice-president will not be coming now. mike, you say it's not unusual, but you think that it shows desperation, why? >> i'm just disappointed the vice-president won't be coming, brian. i would give him an honored guest status here at the republican national convention. i mean, the more people can see the difference between joe biden and paul ryan, the better it is for the republicans. you know, this is intense, brian and there's no question

that these guys have thrown everything, but the kitchen sink at governor romney. if you're going to call the guy, you know, a tax cheating felon to killed a cancer victim, you know, i mean, all bets are off. you know they're going to be here in droves and not enough that a hurricane is here, bring it on. the more we can see of these guys at rnc, a better reminder of the stark differences between this year's republicans and this year's democrats. >> another example, combative in florida. i want you to see an ad running against alan west, in his district that's been redistricted. listen to this. >> you are not a lady, you're the most vile. >> vile, despicable, member of the communist, communist party. >> and get that seat out of the united states. >> all right. so, listen to this. >> and against allen west. don't you think that's over the line, using children, joe? >> well, look it, a lot of

times in focus groups and things that he have a he done, people reject use of children and read into it and think you're trying to-- have the kids deliver a message. in this case, what's interesting about this spot, i think it's something that we need to learn, children are hearing all of the stuff that allen west and our political leaders are saying. i think it might get through that these are the kind of things he's saying and that children shouldn't be hearing them. >> i mean, i think that's sort of what the point may be here. >> and the congressman's response the president and the democratic party is serving a crap sandwich with a smile. >> precisely. brian, you might accuse me of making a shameless plug for my book, 50 things liberals height, coming out tuesday, liberals hate black republicans and seen what they've done. michael steel had oreo cookies

thrown at him and herman cain said i've left that a long team ago. and to use kids are ridiculous, they're not repeating that they have a hey heard, they're repeating what adults told him to say. >> and calling women sluts and-- >> calling george bush hitler, right? >> absolutely, no, no, and i think -- no, no, i think that's a point here that we should be taking from this, that our political leaders need to be better examples, including allen west. >> isn't it fair to say that let's let have adults have the debate rather than throw out kids and manipulate them for a tv commercial. >> that's what i'm saying, mike, in focus groups, people have the points you're making. not trying to make both points, but-- >> i like it.

>> i could get a transcript of this entire conversation and give it to children and it's okay, and children could-- >> and my book. >> absolutely. no tripe and mike gallagher, thanks for being so adult-like for this conversation and see you in tampa. meanwhile, i'm going to toss over to my colleague, gretchen carlson something important to read. >> gretchen: that would be the headlines, thank you, brian. we start with a fox news alert. he's been known as a hero, neil armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, he died yesterday after suffering complications from heart surgery. tom jones paid tribute to his childhood hero. he was probably the most intrepid test pilot and the most r reticent. when all of us look at the moon, we should remember the

skill that he and his crew brought for apollo, and i hope that we can equal that the achievements, neil and his team brought to this country. >> gretchen: he was 82 years old. >> steve: a gunman who can illed his former boss outside the empire state building on friday, was being evicted from his new york apartment. jeffrey johnson pictured bird watching in central park a km of months ago, couldn't make rent from being fired from his job. and he blamed that man, who he shot dead, that former boss, and the two were said to have a long time feud even before johnson was laid off. nine people were hurt after the shootout and cops say that johnson shot the guy in the head and killed moments later after turning his gun on officers. a crazy scene. >> lance arm strong back in his bike in a 36 mile race in

california. appearing publicly since the decision was made to strip him of the seven tour de france titles. we're not sure if that's happened. that decision has to be ratified and armstrong finished in second behind a 16-year-old kid. >> a south carolina mother gets a tweet-- sweet surprise from her son back from afghanistan. >> oh, oh! wow. staff sergeant tray murphy finished the tour, and he wanted to surprise his mom and she was speaking for the uso and he suited up as a player and surprised her mid snatch and his brother was surprised and dad was in on the secret. >> and he pitched a no-hitter. >> wouldn't that be something, roger clemens, sapitched only

50. >> three innings. >> and strikeouts. >> and he's playing for the skeeters. and we get him an agent. and 18 after the hour on this sunday. and let them lead a christian group? a band new documentary. >> making people leave or change their beliefs is it opposite of the class of ideas that the college and institution is supposed to represent. >> hear from the group behind that coming up next. >> gretchen: and he's just a puppy, but this little guy apparently has nine lives after he survived being tossed from a moving car when he was only three months old and found him in a bag crying. how you can help joey next. at usaa, we believe honor is not

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test for vanderbilt university's policy. allowing faith based groups, atheists to hold positions and a documentary looks at this new controversial policy. >> i believe if the policy is not reversed, that we'll see more and more universities adopting similar policies. it's important to let institutions know, even private institutions, that you expect them to honor and respect our constitution. >> gretchen: joining us now is the president of the foundation for individual rights and education. the group behind the documentary called "exiled from vanderbilt", nice to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> gretchen: what was the reason you wanted to get behind doing this documentary. >> something i've learned from defending student rights on campus. if you'd told me i'd be doing it ten years. and the evangelists on campus,

and vanderbilt is another example. >> gretchen: you are not an evangelist, you're a nonreligious person. >> right. >> gretchen: a lot of people would think you would be an evangelist christian. >> and it was heart breaking, they were told that they couldn't have bible study meetings in their own time if they were ra's. we were on the case, i with as on npr in wisconsin you of course must be an evangelical christian. i said no, freedom of conscience is going that we should all value. >> gretchen: if case people have not covered this, what do they call it. >> all comers policy. >> gretchen: if there was a christian group on campus you would have to allow that nonchristian person meet that group. >> they're saying that believe

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>> this is a story that's going to tug on your heart strings and just a warning, it may be hard for some people to hear. a three month old puppy was found severely injured and scarred in a plastic bag on the side of a road here in new york state, after being thrown out of a car. luckily, he was found in time and little joey, pictured right there. has been on a steady path to recovery the past two weeks, joining us now are the two people aiding in joey's rescue, the chief from the

spca. >> good morning to you sir. >> good morning. >> and dr. linda louden of the veterinary medical center of long island. >> good morning. >> a couple of weeks ago, somebody called you and said we've got a dog and we found it in a bag and we think it was thrown out of a car? >> yeah, yeah, it was awful. and he was brought in, in a lot of pain, screaming, and we knew he had severe injuries because he couldn't move any of his feet. couldn't move any of his legs. >> now, and given the nature of his injuries, aside from being thrown out of a car, he had some bite wounds and some other things going on, right? >> yeah, he had infected bite wounds underneath his neck and they were very severe and that tells us, they happened a bit of time before this incident. >> so, what you think, doctor, you think that joey here was used by professional dog fighters as essentially bait. >> i do, i do. i think that he was 0 either used as bait or they were trying to fight him and he wasn't good enough so they discarded him.

>> out of a moving car? >> and that just stinks. >> it's unbelievable, 28 years of investigating animal cruelty cases in suffolk county, something sticks in your mind. something like this, a three month old puppy, an innocent animal like that, to put it in a garbage bag and toss it out of a moving car is just something that's -- i don't even know any words what really to say, that somebody could do such a heinous act of animal cruelty to such a young people. >> it was somebody who was involved in dog fights and little joey was so hurt that he couldn't be bait any more and trying to get rid of the evidence. >> exactly we've soon it before, with a dog that doesn't turn out. they use the term turnout and didn't fight. but he's only three month old and may have tried to train him for dog fighting and may

not have turned out and use him as a bait dog. sometimes they use a cat, a dog or a rabbit for the other dogs to get a taste of blood. because of this you guys have put together a reward $27,000, for whoever threw the dog out of the car. >> and it was $2,000 started, and somebody i'm sure knew this. >> steve: they saw that dog. >> they're asking begin who has information to come forward. all calls are confidential. 631-382-7722, spa. again, kept confidential and we've done this before and we've captured the individuals and they serve prison time and this is something that is not acceptable and especially in a civilized society that something like this would still occur. >> gretchen: so well put, chief. by the way, if you want more

information, go to our website, fox and friends.com. and we'll have it on the website. doctor, how is joey going to do. >> joey is going to do better than expected and he's already walk, i didn't expect for another four weeks if at all. i think he's going to do great. >> a complete recovery? >> i don't know complete. you know? i know he'll walk again because we can see he's already almost there. i don't know that he'll ever walk normally, but full potential for a great, full life. >> are you looking for a family to adopt him? >> we are, we are taking a lot of applications. there are-- we're up to about 60 people now, just through the hospital. >> well, it's great work that you guys do and we thank you very much for coming on board ap telling us the story of joey. >> thank you. >> and we figure out who did this, that's just rough. >> yeah. >> and speaking of rough. all eyes on the rough weather

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>> good morning, everyone, it is sunday, august 26th, i'm gretchen karlsson, thanks for sharing part of your day with us today. we start with a "fox news alert." because, all eyes are a guy named isaac, the tropical storm actually, is continuing to pick up strength, and headed now for the mainland, already leaving thousands in the dark around miami and delaying the republican national convention, we are tracking the storm straight ahead. >> clayton: and we are remembering neil armstrong the first man to set foot on the moon dead at the age of 82. >> steve: we look back at the life of a true american hero, with a man who followed in his footsteps. and, an astronaut by the name of walt cunningham. >> fox and friends, hour 4 for

this sunday, starts now... ♪ >> tropical storm isaac already knocking out power, this morning, to thousands of people in the miami area and things are expected to get worse as the storm is strengthening and moving across the sunshine state, towards the gulf coast. >> phil keating joining us from key west, one of the areas expected to be hit first late this afternoon as it turns into a hurricane. phil, did people get the advice and get out of town? >> reporter: a lot of people did, steve. it's not a mandatory evacuation order but a strong recommendation from the state as well as monroe county and as we drove in yesterday, there were a lot of cars heading up towards north miami, northbound. and minimal traffic coming into key west and here's duvall street and the plywood is up on a lot of these bars and

restaurants and stores. it is just a dead zone now and it was a dead zone last night. very few people out and about. which is quite unusual, for a saturday night, in the summertime. as far as boarding up businesses from key west up to marathon, up to isla maratta, taking advantage of yesterday's -- well, breaks in the rain, but, put up a lot of plywood and a lot of residents moved out, 200 in shelters and a lot of businesses, actually, are closed throughout the keys and earlier this morning, miami had a pretty bad squall go through with palm trees looking sideways and the rain coming in pretty good. the center of the storm is supposed to come down to key west, possibly or maybe a little bit upper keys, like maybe marathon, sometime around 8:00 tonight. and, because of the track, the trajectory, it is taking it all the way up the gulf of mexico and right alongside the western

coast of florida. governor rick scott yesterday announced first that he would cancel his monday evening speech at the r.n.c. in tampa. because he said he's governor and is responsible for 19 million people's lives. so, he did not want to detract his job, as governor, and give that speech. then the chairman of the r.n.c. actually postponed all monday activities -- basically cancelled them and they'll meet early monday morning and table everything and reconvene tuesday morning and the republican national convention will be a three-day convention, shortened. at least that is the plan, right now, so far it could be a category-2 by the time it slams, somewhere around the florida panhandle, maybe as far west as new orleans. but, we'll be covering the storm as it marches all saturday, and, into the week. steve? >> steve: all right, phil keating live in key west, thank you very much. meanwhile, before making landfall in florida, isaac already forcing changes at the

r.n. r.n.c., the wing dang down in tampa. >> to give us an update is the communication director for the republican national convention, james davis. good morning, james. >> good morning, gretchen, good morning, steve. welcome to tampa. >> we're not there yet, we hope to get there this afternoon, but, what a way to upset the planning, pretty? james, i can only imagine how much work you put into this event. months and months of planning and now you have to make these last-minute changes. will there be more changes? >> we have been here a little over a year-and-a-half, almost two years planning this event and this part of planning an event like this is planning for contingencies and we have great relationships with governor scott's office. and all of the emergency management officials. and, the local officials, and, you know, those relationships really paid off in a time -- at a time like this where we need to make changes and preserve the safety of all of the delegates and, the media and the guests and friends and family that will be here, as well as the residents of florida. so, that is our chief priority

and we made the move yesterday, to postpone monday's events. we'll convene on monday. and then we'll go to an immediate recess. the program elements for monday, we're going to roll into the rest of the week, and, you know, we are cautiously optimistic that we'll be able to do so, and start -- starting on tuesday and look forward to an exciting event. >> steve: sure, james, on tuesday, though, it sounds like the category-2 storm could be impacting somewhere along the florida panhandle or up in alabama or mississippi or even towards louisiana. right now, i know you pared it down from a four day to a three-day event. if the storm is really, you know, kicking up its heels, up along the gulf coast, is there a possibility you might pare it down to a two-day event? >> well, we are going to continue to monitor and track the storm. and, we are going to look and see what the emergency management officials have to offer, as far as their recommendations, and advice. first and foremost is the safety

of all of the residents, and, not only -- in not only florida and the convention goers but the gulf state and we'll make sure we maintain that safety and hopefully we'll be able to announce some updates to our program schedule later today and we look forward to doing so. >> what happens to all of the speakers who were supposed to be on the docket for monday night? will they move to tuesday and just start in the afternoon or what will happen? >> our primetime speakers we'll move into the remainder of the week. how that is done, exactly, is still being worked out, but, we hope to make those updates available later today. >> clayton: -- >> steve: is anybody getting the axe. >> we are trying to make sure we get all of the speakers into the program and we'll continue to work on that and, like i said, that update, hopefully, will be coming later today. >> earlier today -- this morning, we had donald trump on, because he was supposed to have a big surprise there tomorrow. now, he wouldn't let the cat out of the bag to us about what the

surprise was and he said maybe you still want to do the surprise. do you want to tell us what the surprise was? >> i can't let the cat out of the bag, either. you have to stay tuned for that one. >> okay. >> steve: james davis with the r.n.c., thank you very much for joining us live from tampa. >> thank you, sir. thank you for the opportunity. >> also, this morning, americans are mourning the loss of a real american hero, neil armstrong the first man to walk on the moon passed away, leaving behind an amazing legacy. >> steve: joining us is an apollo 7 astronaut and the second who followed in the steps of neil armstrong and is the author of "the all an american bo -- "the all american boys." thanks for joining us. >> thank you, but the circumstances are sad. >> steve: an icon and hero. what don't we know about neil armstrong. he has been a quiet guy, once he left the public eye, we don't know much about him at all. >> well, it is interesting, because, neil was in a very

unique position. neil always acknowledged, recognized there was a team effort that got us to the moon back in the 1960s, and, an accomplishment, my personal opinion is 500 years from now that is all they'll remember about the 20th century, man first set foot on the moon, and he was a team player and recognized as astronauts we got the glory but the entire team really caused the success. and that means the operations people, the engineering folks, in fact, even management in those days played a significant role in how we got there when we did. >> since you followed in the footsteps of neil armstrong, you are of the same era, as far as going to the moon... did you stay in touch with neil armstrong, after all of these years? >> well, we all had a -- i would say a rather close personal -- excuse me, is not a personal relationship so much as a business relationship.

we all shared the same tasks and duties but were frequently assigned with things that would keep us apart. neil had an office next to mine and we'd talk together at the pilots meetings an occasionally would fly together but he pursued his things and we all pursued ours but we were all on the same team. i think maybe, probably, what the public doesn't recognize today, they look back and see it as a singular accomplishment and we all felt like we were doing this, not for any personal aggrandizement so much as we were doing it for the country. that was a period overtime when everybody in america wanted to be the best at whatever it was and i hope that hasn't been lost as time goes on. >> steve: and, before you go, just to show you what a selfless guy neil armstrong was, i heard a story yesterday that apparently all of the apollo badges have the names of the crewmembers except neil armstrong's flight, right?

>> well, i can't speak personally about his badges on that. but, there will never be anyone else that can handle the kind of fame and notoriety that came with landing on the moon for the first time, like neil. neil was a unique individual about that. he shared the glory the best way he could but nobody from our team would do as well with that. >> steve: and when he did it a quarter of the entire planet was watching the television as he stepped off and said those words that will live forever. all right, walt cunningham, thank you so much for remembering neil armstrong with us today. >> thank you very much. sad time. >> steve: it is sad. all right. thank you. >> let's get now to your headlines for sunday: the taliban denying reports the commander for a powerful militant network was killed by a drone in pakistan and the statement claims the commander is still alive and well despite reports from another taliban

leader and pakistani intelligence that he was killed on tuesday. the commander in question is in charge of the militant network's day-to-day operation and his death would be a major blow to his organization. three houston teens going airborne to get their hands on air ordance, this man, 19-year-old john grant and two other teens accused of bringing into a foot action store to steel the sneakers and cops say they cut a hole in the roof of the mall to get them and stole 16 pairs, worth $175 each. cops arrested grant and the second teen at the scene but one suspect got away and is still at large. and things overheating in nascar, watch the video. this is tony stewart. flinging his racing helmet at the passing car of matt kenseth, blaming him for a crash. the two tangled before and stewart said after the race he'd get revenge and he got some of it there when he threw the helmet at the car. well, do you hate it when people are always complaining?

>> i feel a draft, let's change tables. >> get out of here. we have a booth. >> frank, i'm cold! >> order a hot dish. [laughter]. >> why can't we sit over there? >> that is not a booth! >> who says we have to sit in a booth! >> turns out there is a good reason. it is bad for your brain, a study finds your brain works more like a muscle and if you are pinned in a corner listening to somebody complain too long you are more likely to also be negative and even worse, exposed to more than 30 minutes of it can make you dumber. research shows that it damages neurons in the part of your brain involved in problem-solving. so be positive. it will make you smarter. >> steve: walk away from that person, walk away! straight ahead, ahead of the convention, mitt romney and president barack obama are running neck and neck in the polls. is it a preview to november? will it be this tight the first tuesday in november in larry sabato takes a look into his

crystal ball, coming up. >> and, rather than helping solve the financial crisis in greece the president decided to wait until after the election. stuart varney knows why and he's here on a sunday as well to tell us. >> steve: and we're tracking tropical storm isaac as it gets closer to becoming a hurricane. and making landfall, in florida. those are live images. where is it going? the details, the latest, next. ♪ the one and only, cheerios ♪

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>> steve: looking at the crystal ball, they are running neck and neck in the polls, the latest "gallup poll" shows a dead heat between president obama and mitt romney, tied at 46%, just as of the convention. how does it compare to past elections at exactly the same time, in august, in the race? joining us now, is a guy who looks at a lot of numbers and figures this kind of stuff out, for a living, a professor of political science at university of virginia, larry sabato. good morning to you.

>> good morning, steve. >> steve: they say the past is prologue and let's go ahead and look at the infamous kennedy versus nixon challenge back in 1960. at this point in the race, they were tied at 47% apiece. and then what happened? >> and then nothing changed, all the way to november. they ended up in what is arguably the closest call in the popular vote since 1880. there was 119,000 votes, worth of difference between kennedy and nixon out of over 60 million votes cast. so they stayed tied the entire general election, and that could happen again this year, we have to see. >> steve: or could it possibly be like what happened 1976, a race between carter and ford and at this point in the race, you can see carter was ahead, 51-36. and, then, what happened? >> and then gerald ford caught up and we have a squeaker of an election, a two-point election,

carter went from 16 points up to just two points up on election day and it was actually closer than that in the electoral college. things can change in a general election. >> steve: surely. and i've heard a number of commentators on the radio saying that they think that there is a possibility of a landslide in the favor of mitt romney. and, perhaps, they are thinking of reagan versus carter. back in 1980. at this point, in the race, it was a dead heat. carter at 39%, ronald reagan had 38% and, folks look at the column on the right. eventually reagan went onto get 489 electoral votes and jimmy carter squeaked by with 49. what happened? >> this is a reminder that you can never project november from the end of the summer. from the convention period. because, a lot can happen in the general election that no one foresees in advance, whether it is a debate performance like ronald reagan had at the end of

the campaign against jimmy carter or the collapse of the negotiations, with the iranians about the american hostages in iran and that con period wispir bad economy to give ronald reagan a win. never judge from the numbers at the convention time, because strange things happen in the general election. that two-month period is fascinating. >> steve: fasten your seatbelts. you do expect mitt romney and paul ryan to get a bounce, coming out of the convention but you don't expect barack obama and joe biden to get a bounce out of their convention. why? >> or not much of one. they are well-known, steve. i can't imagine there are too many people who will vote that have not already made a decision one way or another about president obama. whereas, even though mitt romney has been running for president for five years, surprisingly, a large percentage of people don't know him well. and, of course, paul ryan was just introduced to the country as a whole, a few weeks ago. so, when you put that together,

my guess is that people are going to learn a lot more from the republican convention, assuming they can actually have it... than they are going to learn from the democratic convention. >> steve: that's right, a little weather involved with a hurricane heading through, just to the west of tampa. larry, i hope to see you tomorrow. i hope all of our airplanes land later this afternoon. >> fingers crossed. >> steve: all right, thank you, sir, always a pleasure. new warnings on this monday, rather -- this sunday, if congress doesn't act soon we could be headed into another recession. jay carney says the president is doing everything he can. really? is that true? we'll talk to steve forbes, pictured right there, about that, coming up next. plus... a presidential forum citing a lack of civility in the campaign, was pastor rick warren right to pull his event and live in the tampa convention center, they are already and just need a bunch of republicans to start nominating!

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>> gretchen: here's a good question for your sunday morning: is the political climate just too toxic? a presidential forum planned pie high profile pastor rick warren has now been cancelled. he says, quote, it would be hypocritical to have civility one evening only to have the name-calling return the next day, joining me is fox news religion contributor father jonathan morris with his thoughts. good morning. >> full disclosure, i'm a friend of pastor rick warren, he's a very good man, i think and i think it is great he has come

out and said, clearly, that this is not about me, it is very easy to imagine a pastor holding a presidential forum and that is a big, high profile thing and he said, actually, it is not about me, it is about bringing together these candidates, just as he did with john mccain and president obama. >> gretchen: i remember it. >> made big news there but he said it was all about civility and dialoguing about important values and issues and if they are going at each other so hard, he didn't say who it was that was doing that necessarily but, such negative campaigning to come together and pretend like they are being civil and go back the next day and beat each other up that badly, he wasn't interested. >> gretchen: but there is another part to the story, the campaigns -- both campaigns saying they never officially rsvp-ed as a yes. and some people said he had no other choice but to cancel. i'm disappointed they are not going to do it. i remember the one of john

mccain and barack obama from four years ago and a lot of people wanted them to talk to you religion. >> and he was able to get them to talk about things in an open way the debates were not able to and the great moment in which john mccain was -- in my opinion, because it was transparent, he was asked about when does life begin and he said, at conception. and, president obama said, well, i can't say when human life begins because that is above my pay grade. where scientists are pretty clear about that. so, i'm disappointed as well. >> gretchen: let's talk about another somewhat controversial issue regarding cardinal dolan here in new york city and you also know him well, he'll be giving the benediction at the republican national convention and he hoped he'd be invited to the democratic national convention. what happened. >> it is not that he was looking for an invitation to go speak. he's plenty busy but when the republican national convention invited him, he said well, i'm a priest, a pastor, someone asks me to pray, that is good for the

country, i'll go but it wasn't because it was the republican national convention, he was hoping at the same time that if the republicans would invite him, he'd certainly want to express his openness at the democratic national convention and the reason why he accepted, from what i can gather, from what he said publicly, is that he sees that religion and faith should very much be part of our public forum and society. and we get rid of that and when we say we'll do something as important as elect a president but we are not going to pray, that is a very negative thing and of course you have to be careful of getting politics, you know, into religion and religion into politics in a way that they are not deal with their specific areas of interest, but, yes, faith should be very much part of our society and that is why he's going. >> gretchen: i want to read the statement from timothy cardinal dolan he wanted them to know it is not a partisan act on his part and he'd be just as happy and grateful to accept an

invitation from the democrats, as he would to have received one from the republicans, and that is from his spokesperson, essentially what you said. >> billy graham, he was able to work with presidents, both republican and democrat and really bring god into the conversation and values into the conversation. cardinal timothy dolan right now is very much becoming that type of spokesman, national spokesman for faith and for god. >> gretchen: all right, well a lot of people are upset that they will not be able to see the candidates talk openly about their faith, father jonathan morris, have a great sunday! good to see you. one of the best parts about coming into work today, getting to see you. >> thanks, gretchen. >> gretchen: coming up, rather than helping to solve the financial crisis in greece the president decided to wait until after the election and stuart varney says he knows why and he is here to tell us. and in the past our, power outages from tropical storm isaac doubling. what is in store for florida and the rest of the gulf coast?

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>> steve: we're back with a fox news extreme weather alert. tropical storm isaac, gaining strength as it barrels toward the gulf coast, florida already feeling the effects, the number of power outages in the miami area, doubling, in just one hour. now, over 4,000 people don't

have juice this morning. >> gretchen: so we have team fox coverage including meteorologist janice dean with the latest on isaac's path. first, let's go to liz, live for us in miami beach. hi, liz. >> reporter: hey there, conditions have really deteriorated over the past hour and very quickly. even in the past 15-20 minutes or so. when i talked to you guys an hour ago i was being pelted with wind and sand and now we have added rain to the mix and let me show you something, the sand is so packed down from all of the wet rain we have gotten in just the last 20 minutes to a half-hour, they are starting to get puddles on top of the beach and the sand and there are a few officials out here patrolling the beach. making sure nobody is out here. specifically making sure nobody is in the water. you can see the white caps on those waves. a very, very rough surf and what is beneath it, lifeguards and officials say is even more dangerous and they don't want any swimmers or surfers out there, in the atlantic, the rip

currents are dangerous and the conditions are only expected to get worse the next 8 to 10 hours. they expect a lot of flooding in the miami beach area. it is prone to flood and they've asked people to move their cars to higher ground, because they are expecting to get floods here, like you mentioned power already out. the wind doubled in the the past hour or so. now up to 40 to 45 miles per hour. so, we are really starting to feel the outer effects of the bands of tropical storm isaac. again, just expected to get even worse, with winds... up to 6 to 8 inches of rain over the next 8 to 10 hours, that is the latest here on miami beach, back to you guys in new york. >> steve: liz, thanks very much. as the beach patrol cruises by, behind you, to make sure people don't do the stupid stuff they do, where they hop into the water. janice dean, how many times have we seen that, a rough surf and the guys with the surf boards go out there, tempting fate? >> yes. we really don't need to dough

tha -- to see that. dire warnings in the keys and a tornado warning in effect for miami beach where we saw the reporter, hopefully she's in shelter. the tornado watches will be issued into the overnight and tomorrow, much of florida, as the outer band continue to move counterclockwise across land. the storm is expected to strengthen as it moves across the florida straits. waters are like a hot tub here, 90-degree temperatures and we expect to it strengthen rather quickly and as we go further out in time, this is going to travel a lot of gulf of mexico water and the waters are warm, so we could see a category-2, possibly a major category-3 hurricane as it brusheses up across the coast, wednesday into thursday and i just want to make mention that a lot of the computer models are trending westward and our new advisory comes out at 11:00 and i think new orleans we'll be cautioning you. if the storm comes anywhere near you, near the coast the water is going to pile up and move into lake ponchartrain and it could be, really, a terrible

situation. just a quick look at our future radar, there is tampa monday and the bulk of the storm will be offshore. but, we are still going to see heavy rain, high surf, the potential for 3-5 feet of surge into tampa pay. the worst of the storm will be offshore. as we head into tuesday, this is a computer model and it is a strong category-2, possibly category-3 storm, there is pence coal land mobile, gulfport, new orleans there and i want to make mention the computer models are trending more towards the west. so the next advisories are really crucial. the northern gulf, you need to be on alert. we already have hurricane watches for the northern and eastern gulf for the next 36 hours, they'll start to see hurricane conditions. back to you. >> steve: we'll keep folks posted, jd, thank you. >> gretchen: steve forbes attended several conventions and is our guest right now. you were not making the trip down here, this time, right?

maybe that is a good thing. >> i was counting on you guys. >> steve: you will have the best seat in the house, mr. forbes. in reading the materials that you have prepared, looking at the convention, you think this pick of paul ryan is really going to energize not only the republican base, but get people interested in the ticket in general? >> well, because paul ryan is about issues and that means that the romney-ryan ticket will be about major issues. what direction will the country take? is it going to be big government? or is it going to be about freedom and free markets? and ryan has very good proposals on the table -- >> but he's the one, steve who wants to throw grandma off the cliff. >> this is where the convention is important. because it introduces the whole nation, tens of millions of people to paul ryan and to mitt romney. in a way they haven't had before. and, part of the challenge for the democrats is, when people see romney and ryan they'll realize these are not devils,

these are not people who take glee in throwing grandma off the cliff. and what they'll realize, in terms of skoefk and en tiocial enticements, you are not affected by the proposals they make for younger people. >> gretchen: and that is a message he has not trouble getting out. maybe the convention will help get that message out. the president had an allegation he believes romney, specifically paul ryan is an extremist. listen to this: >> president barack obama: i can't speak to governor romney's motivations. what i can say is that he has signed up for positions, extreme positions, that are very consistent with the positions that a number of house republicans have taken. and whether he actually believes in those or not, i have no doubt that he would carry forward some of the things that he's talked about. >> gretchen: sort of a vague statement, but, is he putting the two together, house

republicans, so paul ryan, being a house republican, and, that romney and ryan are both extreme? >> well, this is the only thing they can run on. they certainly can't run on the record and to portray the guys as extremists the way the democrats and jimmy carter did in 1980, a right wing nut from california, can't trust him, though i have a lousy record you cannot trust ronald reagan. it will not work, one, because mitt romney has a great record in terms of entrepreneurship and ryan a fantastic record working with others and coming up with innovative, positive, pro-growth proposals in terms of moving the economy ahead and so they are desperate. >> and the white house didn't get good news this past week where the congressional budget office, nonpartisan, reported back that unless, essentially, there is an extension of the george bush-era tax cuts and also we don't have the gigantic cuts to federal spending, the sequestration at the end of the year, we'll go into recession. jay carney was asked about it, a couple of days ago, and he said this: >> here's the question, do you

think the president is showing as much economic leadership on this issue as he could be? >> yes. and i think that what i talked about in answer to an earlier question, is that, look, we recognize that there is an enormous debate, a big conflict between the president and the republican leadership in particular, over whether or not we need to extend in some plans -- and in some plans give even greater tax cuts to the top 2% of american earners. >> steve: well, if the president is doing such a good job in the leadership department what is his plan? >> well, that is the thing. he really does not have a plan and the real poll that is the big one, not the tie between romney and obama but in terms of economic leadership, 2-1 against this president and people don't feel that this economy is going in the right direction. that is why they have all of these diversionary tactics. >> gretchen: one of the things we'll talk about at these conventions, no doubt, is the difference in ideology, when it comes to small business.

and freedom. that happens to be what your book is about, your new book, "freedom manifesto." do i have the thesis right. >> you have it absolutely right. about cronyism, versus aristocracy, and insulsolyndra s apple and we are talking about big government, not small-g government and it is about individual responsibility and in the free society you learn, you take responsibility and you learn new skills and you make mistakes like steve jobs did but you learn from them and make yourself a better person whereas big government is about dependence, look at solyndra, and that is about currying favor with politician, steve jobs does well, apple does well, society does well. >> gretchen: and you talked about the government, getting bigger and bigger... >> big government tries to occupy the high moral ground by saying we may be inefficient but we are here to help the people and help the weak and it is the

opposite, they are out for their own special interest and you see it in education. we have real problems with k-12. and, what do they focus on? more and more benefits for union bosses. that is an absolute corruption of what their basic -- they are supposed to do, and it is about free markets and optimism and about cooperation and working for the future and that is the kind of contrast mitt romney and ryan should make, optimism versus pessimism, freedom and empowerment versus dependency and passivity. >> gretchen: clear choice. >> gretchen: steve forbes has written a new book, "freedom manifesto". >> and freedommanifesto.us, you can learn more, and we have a facebook page, also. >> gretchen: what happens if greece exits the your zone? apparently we have to wait until after the election to find out, stu varney says it is part of president obama's plan, he'll explain it to us. >> steve: and once the republican convention gets underway we'll be hearing from key g.o.p. leaders, up next we'll find out why there is a

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from a top republican who is involve in making these decisions and basically their attitude is they are not terribly concerned, they are probably going to ask the speakers who are still on the schedule for tuesday, wednesday and thursday to shorten their speeches a bit so they can accommodate some of the other people who were bumped from monday night but they think they can fit everybody in and are not terribly concerned about the fallout. >> steve: what is interesting is, the broadcast networks, steven, were only going to be broadcasting one hour, for three nights. even though the republicans -- the democrats only had three nights. so, it was great for them but the republicans had four nights. now, at least they -- there will be parity. so i know initially they talked about ann romney was going to speak on monday and let's move her to tuesday. well nobody will be speaking on monday now. no right. yea -- >> yeah, right, the hoped to take ann romney's speech monday night and, i heard from the

network, it was always more likely to be coverage, just on those three nights, tuesday, wednesday and thursday, and they had to make changes to accommodate ann romney to make sure she is seen in primetime, in that hour, that the networks take, because, they -- the romney campaign thinks of her as a major asset, someone who can sell her husband as a potential president and who can provide sort of a different view of mitt romney, than the one that people see, on a day-to-day base. >> steve: right, there was some suggestion that maybe, because they've got a whole night less, maybe marco rubio from the great state of florida wouldn't speak but the mitt romney camp came out and issued a statement, senator rubio will remain the last speaker on thursday night before governor romney accepts the nomination, and in many ways represents the future of the republican party and he's in the ink on the line-up, and of the many speakers, steven, which one of them do you think, man, that guy is going to stir up the base

like nobody else? >> well, i would expect chris christie, given everything we know about him and all the arguments he makes and when he talks extemporaneously and gives his speeches will give a stem-winder of a speech, an indictment of president obama and the obama administration and people will be looking forward to that. >> steve: steven hayes, of "the weekly standard," down in tampa already, sir, thanks so much and we'll see you this week. up next, rather than help solve the financial crisis in greece, now, our president is apparently waiting until after the election. stuart varney, who is standing about five feet away from me, right now, knows why and he'll fill us in, in a minute, aren't you, stuart? >> yes, sir. >> steve: okay.

♪ >> gretchen: the obama administration may push to keep greece in the eurozone until

after the election. can the financial crisis afford to wait? is the president just trying to boost his chances in november? >> steve: he's not waiting. he's the host of varney and company on fox business network. and apparently the message is clear, not only has he told the israelis, okay, wait until after the election to do something with iran, you say, he is saying, okay, let's wait until after the election, before greece exits the your zone. which a lot of people thought they'd do anyway. >> greece is going to crash, sooner or later and president obama will move heaven and earth to make sure it is later. after the election. no matter what. after the election, please. on october the 8th, what is that, four weeks before the election, the europeans have to decide, are we going to give greece more money and more time to repay their massive debt? they have to make the decision at that point. president obama is weighing in, big-time, he's really pressing hard to make sure they give them more money and more time so they

don't crash before the election. >> gretchen: they want out of the euro because if they go back to their own currency they can print money to help them out of the crisis. >> their government does not want them out of the euro, it wants them in the euro. >> gretchen: oh, in, why? >> but it wants more time to conform with the terms of the repayment of the loan. why do they want to stay in? if they leave and at some point, believe me, they will leave, they crash. what happens to an economy when suddenly your money is different? it changed? you crash. fuel shortages, everything crashes... >> gretchen: the point has been, if you print your own money you can get out of the crisis. >> in the long term, you can, my suggest, when greece exits the euro, you will have a crash but it is short-term, intense pain, the way out is clear. you print drachma. >> steve: and one thing the leaders of the eu, like angela merkel of germany said, you know, look, greece, you are spending money you don't have.

sounds familiar... and what they say is you have to have an austerity program that is significant but now i was reading yesterday, the leaders of greece are saying to germany, okay. well we're going to go along with your plan but do we have to really be so austere, right now? >> they want two more years to conform with the austerity plan, two more years to reform their economy. let me ask you this: there are 11 million people in greece. currently, they owe $330 billion. that is more than twice the size of their economy. do you think they can ever repay? it will just get worse. >> of course they can't repay and what they want is to kick the can down the road and president obama is encouraging, please, please, kick the can down the road. don't crash before the election. >> gretchen: who is he speaking to, to say that? who does he have power over to push it off. >> conference call last week with british prime minister cameron. and he sent his treasury secretary geithner over to europe to say, don't crash

before the election, put money in there and it would be american dollars via the imf. >> steve: and if it crashes before the election, we've heard the president say one of the reece we're in the deep hole now, is because of what is going on in europe. >> it would be a rotten headline, wouldn't it, world financial crisis four weeks before the election and the president failed to stop it. >> gretchen: stuart varney was nice enough to come in on a sunday and is usually here every weekday and he does his own show on fox business network, monday through night, and, here he is on a sunday. >> i'll be here on a curvy couch, any time i can. >> gretchen: especially matching me. more "fox & friends," just minutes away. that has changed the modern world... would define you as an innovator. to hold more than one patent of this caliber... would define you as a true leader. to hold over 80,000... well, that would make you... the creato of the 2012 mercedes-benz e-class...

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>> steve: you can hear on the microphone down there in miami beach, winds gusting up to 40, 45 miles per hour. as we look south. join us tomorrow, we hope, live, from tampa. >> gretchen: we hope we can get e,