that's hugely important, because you've had the obama folks attempt to try to, you know, pigeonhole pau and know him. that will be terrific. >> sean: good to see you all. joe, we agree tonight. >> it's scary. the apocalypse. >> sean: thank you for being with us. let not your heart be troubled. greta is next. we'll see you back here tomorrow night in tampa with a crowd, 9:00 eastern. >> greta: this is a fox news alert. isaac is barreling toward the gulf coast, and it is dangerous. it is expected to make landfall in less than 24 hours as a category 2 hurricane. this storm is huge, so huge that it's targeted a wide stretch of the gulf coast. right now seven years after hurricane katrina hit, new orleans is again in the bull's eye, but four states have declared emergencies already and people are evacuating. rick reichmuth has more.

>> south of louisiana, and we're seeing rain showers back here across parts of florida, now into the carolinas. when you start to feel the impacts of this storm you'll be feeling the impacts for probably at least 36 hours. that means a lot of wind and a lot of rain for a lot of people here across the northern gulf. right now winds right just under hurricane status. the next advisory hopefully we'll have it right at the end of your show, greta. i think good chance we'll see this become a hurricane at that point. the official forecast still brings it to a category 2 hurricane going around the new orleans area tomorrow evening into wednesday. for a long time we'll be dealing with this. a lot of rain across parts of that mississippi river valley. take a look at these wind gusts. this is the time stamp. 7:00 p.m. tomorrow. new orleans, winds around 80 miles an hour. go into midnight. 87 miles an hour. go to the following morning, still tropical storm force. go into wednesday night. we still have winds into the 60s. so if you've got some problems with wind, if you've got trees that are going down, if you've got shingles going off, it is

going to just go for so long. it's going to cause big problems. obviously storm surge continuing to pile up here, but in addition to that a lot of areas that are maybe going to see 18 to 20 inches of rain pile up over the next four to five days. in the next 48 hours, new orleans, 12 inches. biloxi, 13 inches. that's in addition to the storm surge piling in. they'll feel the impacts by i .80-mile-per-hour winds and continuing so many hours. the relentless pounding has the locals a bit concerned. when they changed the forecast from a category 1 to a category 2, the locals seemed to take this a little more seriously. the night before katrina was to

hit in new orleans, there was eye party on bourbon street. it was a normal night. tonight, almost everything is boarded up. we just had dinner around the corner. they closed minutes ago. the evacuations seem to be on. and there are concerns about this amount of water. they have to pump the water out of this city. and the pouches only work so fast. so there are concerns that conce the rains might get ahead of it. but they tell us, they are as ready as they can be and they feel like they are ready. the track of the storm, if it goes exactly as that one model predicts, rick talks about how it looks like it will come straight to new orleans -- of course, they done know. but if it does what they are pricking and goes just west of new orleans, any new orleans resident will tell you, that's woofer-case scenario, the storm is always on the right. and the storm surge, there could be a lot of flooding here.

any meteorologist will tell you, 90% of death in hurricanes happen not in the winds, not in the lightning, but in the flooding. that's their concern here tonight. >> shep, besides new orleans, how about your home state of mississippi? that storm looks awfully big. the target seems to object bull's-eye of new orleans, but that's one big storm t. looks like mississippi will be hit too. >> reporter: it really does. it looks like -- if it goes whe they think it's going to go -- they are not sure. they will tell you, don't pay attention to the exact track, but if it goes around new orleans, the worst of the storm is always on this side, the right-hand side as you look at the map. they thought katrina was going to hit new orleans. it did not. it hit south mississippi, unthinkable, the weather channel is calling the land mass between mobil and new orleans, which -- please. mississippi is what got pounded. that's where the storm went. if this one comes here, the

worst of the storm surge could be in south mississippi. there are great concerns in hancock county, the first county in mississippi, about what's going to happen there now. they have just been beaten up by storms over the years and certainly, beginning with hurricane camille in '64 and hurricane -- hurricane katrina just leveled that coast, enormous concerns with this one. category 2, that's want what they want you to focus on. it's this water and the storm surge thatt can cause so much trouble. the hope is that in some way, it will weaken, but all the storm models indicate that it won't. >> and the hot water to pick up the speed and like withta katrina, whether or not it's slow like katrina and sits and pounds and pounds or whether it keeps moving because that's the better thing. >> reporter: it really is, greta. if we go back 36 hours. we were in tampa 36 hours ago, this storm was moving at 20 miles per hour. that's a fast storm. the longer it sits over water

and spins, the more energy it picks up. the land mass will kill a storm. the water give its energy. this very warm gulf moisture, not as warm as katrina, thankfully are but very warm water. the longer it sits and spin, the worse destruction it can cause. now moving at 9 miles per hour with forward progress, thinking it may slow before it hits the shore, it's a car at the fuel station that keeps pumping and pumping so you can go forever. that's the fear for this storm f. it slows down to 7 -- 5 miles per hour, they don't have any way to know, that could make for a storm that could produce enormous amounts of water. new orleans can handle water, but not enormous amounts. you can only pump so much water out of an area under sea level this. won't cause that sort of damage. the storm surge from katrina was over 30 feet t. won't be like

that. but if it sits and spins and rains and rains and floods, there is only so much this area can take. god bless the people of south mississippi, having to deal with it all over again. >> thank you. we are going to update ow isaac throughout the hour. but right now, we are live from tamp aflorida, where the republican national convention kicked off today. tonight, we have an all-star lineup, reince priebus, and haleigh cummingsy barbure and donald trump. but first, the man who will introduce mitt romney thursday night, marco rubio. >> good evening. >> before the big news about thursday night, i thought you might have a thought on this hurricane. i mean, it has grazed this state, but nonetheless. >> first of all, it's unbelievable on the seventh anniversary of ca-- katrina, we are seeing a repeat.

flor did's been battered by storms in the past. one year, whey five. i think it was 2005. so we know how impactful this can be. we pray for those folks and hope for the best. we will see what happens. >> we have this awkward, trying to do both stories at once and how to balance our time. let me turn to the other story. thursday night, are you ready? >> i think it's an exciting moment for our country. the next three days will be exciting. obviously, with the storm, that's something we are very concerned and that's the first priority, the lives and welfare of the people in the way. but we are having an election in november and we want to talk about the choice and that's what thursday night will be, to make clear that the man i am presenting, the next president of the united states, mitt romney, is an extraordinary person, as i job as a father, a husband, a grandfather, a leader in his church and the community, what he did in the olympics and the community, this is a successful person. >> how do you persuade the

hispanic vote? because that has been historically a democratic vote, i mean, that's a vote that governor romney would love to have? >> that goes to the heart of the election. this election is a decision about what government's role should be in our economy and how prosperity's created. the president thinks prosperity's created when the government spends money. we tried that 3 1/2 years. it's failed every time it's been tried. in fact, it's one of the ideas that people come here to get away from. on the other hand, mitt romney's belief? is that prosperity's created -- >> that may be what he believes, but the hispanics think they have the dream act with president obama with executive order. it may be that -- if you are so convinced that governor romney's so convinced that there is a better way to do it, how do you penetrate them to get the vote? >> that's the immigration issue and that's important and it matters a lot. when you talk to hispanics about immigration, they know people

who are being impacked by this. but there are real economic issues. look at the unemployment rate in the hispanic community, it is significantly higher than in the general position. the hispanic community is as entrepreneurial as any in the country. starting a business is harder under this president. when the president's running for re-election, they are usually bragging about how much better they are than they were 4 years ago. he wants to attack mitt romney. you saw the interview, which was an unbelievable negative assault on mitt romney, as opposed to bragging about his record and his accomplishments. i think that's going to be very clear this week. >> are you a tad bit nervous? >> i don't know about nervous is the right word. certainly, i want to do a good job. it's an honor to be picked and do it in my home state and and in front of friends and supporters, but this convention is not about me. it's about mitt romney and a man who, if elected president, will really change the direction of this country in a positive way.

>> what about congressman paul ryan? what do you think is important for him? >> i hope people get to know paul ryan the way i have got tope -- gotten to know him. he's an exciting person and an exciting figure and an ideas person. i hope that comes across wednesday night. i think when people get to know paul ryan in the 15, 20, 30 minutes on wednesday night, they will be more excited about him as our vice-president and as the second name on the ticket. >> to win florida? >> i think florida is like the rest of the country, people are concerned about the future. they are concerned about the economy. you meet people every day who are supposed to be retiring and had to finds a job or people that thought these were going to be their prime earning years and instead they got laid off. and kid who is finished college and can't find a job in the field they studied for. these are the people we are talking to. it's for them that the free enterprise system is so important. >> medicare? >> it is.

>> across the country, but especially here. >> very important. 3 million people in medicare in florida, one is my mom. anyone who is in favor of leaving it is in favor of bankrupting it. we need a plan and mitt romney and paul ryan have a plan. it says that people in my generation, our medicare will look different. that's something we should be willing to do to keep our parents and grandparents' medicare the same. >> i know you say this about governor rom nerks but isn't there a small part of that you hopes that your fifth grade teacher is watching isn't kids you want to high school with? it's really fun, isn't it? >> they will say, if that guy can make it, anybody can. >> do you write the speech? >> i write my own stuff. always v. very rarely write speeches. i will have an outline. i rarely read if a prepared text. a few months ago, i had a speech

and i forgot the last page, i hope that doesn't happen. >> how much time do you have? >> 15 minutes. so >> you are ready? >> i hope so. >> senator, good luck. we will be watching. i think everybody will be watching. i don't mean to put pressure on you. anyway, senator, thank you. >> thank you. >> tomorrow, the tampa bay times forum will be filled with thousands of people. reince priebus calling the convention to order this afternoon and recessing in less than 2 minutes. how will the g.o.p. get the plan across in three days instead of four? >> chairman, nice to see you, sir. >> happy to be here. >> you have had a surprise today, you gaveled in today. everything is on schedule now? >> everything's on schedule. you know, first day convention was a flawless day. [laughter] >> how long it was? >> 90 seconds. >> that's good. >> we pulled it off. no problem. we gaveled in and recessed. you know, we had to make the

call, gret a. it is want -- running the convention, it is not like waiting for the first pitch to make the call. back on saturday, we had to make the decision when we were told that it was highly likely we were going to have high winds and get buses in clearwater and st. pete, and they may not have been able to cross the brings safely. you can see, they took all the tenting down from around the forum, which meant that we would have guests in about half of the entrances just waiting out in the rain. there was all kinds -- >> i thought you were worried about the media -- >> that too. but we are moving on with tomorrow. we are going to start it at 1:00. we will move through the entire week as planned. >> worst-case scenario, let's say somethingicalitia strophic happens as isaac makes its way and people are struggling to save their lives, fleeing, will

the show still go on here? will there be an abrupt change? or do you call it as it happens? >> what you said at the end is important. there is no conversations i'm having about not going through with the rest of the convention. full days the next three days. if some of these hypotheticals that you have laid out, regrettably, come true, we have to be nimble. i don't know what that mean, other than we need to assess the situation as it comes and make smart decisions. everything we are talking about is a positive message for this country. we believe in the american dreesm we're the party that believes in success and embraces success, not demonizes it. that we think we can do better and provide a better future of america. those are all positive messages for this country. and at the same time, we also have to pray for the safety of those within the path of the hurricane. so it's a balancing act. we know that, we are going to

proceed that way. >> the convention ends, if everything goes as planned, thursday night. everyone talks about thursday night as though it's then. what are your plans for friday? is there something -- i mean, do you plan to go to charlotte, vice-president biden was supposed to come here? >> i was hoping he would. he is our best surrogate in the republican party. we were hoping that joe -- >> you think he's a surrogate for you? >> absolutely. we were going to lay out the red carpet and give him whatever passes and party badges that he needed. >> i don't think he wanted any. >> we would love him to come down and give a speech every day. unfortunately, that's not going to happen. we will have a presence in charlotte. >> like what? >> i can't disclose it. >> is it mischief? >> no. i think it's substance. we are going to draw a contrast between a campaign -- i gotta tell you, i think it's a pretty divisive campaign. we think america wants to talk

about why president obama didn't fulfill his promises and why so many people are out of work. barack obama's policies didn't work. we know that. everything's gotten worse. we want to talk about how to make things better. >> governor chris christie will be the keynote speaker. has he been asked to tone down his usual colorful language? or is he on his own? >> no one talks to chris christie that way. chris christie gets to do what he wants to. i wouldn't want any new jersey attitude on me. chris gets to do what he wants. >> you must be personally excited about congressman paul ryan, as an old friend. >> it will be a very special night, wednesday night and for people from wisconsin, like and you others. i think it's a special night for republicans and democrats back home to see somebody that worked hard, kept his head down, waited on god's timing and, you know, good things happen when have you that attitude. it's a good lesson.

>> president bill clinton's going to speak the night of an nfl game and the problem last time for some nfl games. if the green bay packer game were wednesday night and congressman paul ryan speaks wednesday night, who would get watched in wisconsin? >> you know, i think it would be a split decision. the packers are a pretty big deal. i think paul would prefer people to watch the packer game. he's a big fan. if he was here, he would say, watch the packers and rewind and watch me. paul ryan's a big deal because he doesn't know he's a big deal. in this country, when real people that are just living the mission come around and they're honest and they care and they work hard and they are decent, those people should be rewarded. unfortunately, in politics, there are very few of those folks around. >> chairman, we will be watching the rest of the convention, of

course. >> it's going to be a great week. we can't wait to get it started. >> hope that isaac doesn't cause more trouble itch thank you. >> chairman reince priebus has a special question just for you, go to gretawire tomorrow morning and see his video question to gretawire bloggers. you let us know what you think. go to gretawire.com. >> straight ahead, haley barbour has an unusual tradition. what is it? he's here to tell you. governor scott walker is here. can the wisconsin native paul ryan tip the scales for the g.o.p.? hear from governor walker. and donald trump made big news here in norda. what did he do? wait to see for yourself and hear from donald trump. you don't want to miss that. "on the record" from tampa bay, all week, as we continue our coverage of the republican national convention. our coverae

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>> greta: we're back live in tampa, florida, at the republican national convention. now political conventions are steeped in tradition, but former

mississippi governor haley barbour is keeping up a tradition that's a bit unusual. he's been doing it for every convention for the past 24 years. governor barbour joins us. >> good evening, greta. >> greta: you have a tradition, i now know what it is, but i want you to tell the viewers here, because they're dying to know. >> since the '88 conventions, i wear black tennis shoes, i call them my dress reeboks. nobody notices. they think i have on reg black dress shoes. i've worn them for 24 years. i neveyou stand up all day. this is something that i do. >> greta: is it good luck? is it superstition in or is it just comfortable? >> it's old age. it's comfortable. i tell you, it's comfortable.

it is less uncomfortable. >> greta: all right, good. fair enough. i think it's a good idea. all right, something else you said recently, you said that governor romney can pull a ronald reagan here at this convention. what do you mean by that and what does he do to pull a ronald reagan? >> this is my 12th presidential campaign. i was around in 1980. reagan won the information, presumptive nominee, down 14 points to jimmy carter. by august he was still down nine points to ji jimmy carter. people knew jimmy carter shouldn't be re-elected, but they weren't sure about reagan. at the debates, they said, all the bad stuff they say about reagan, i like him. he seems normal and regular to me. this week mitt romney will have the chance to start doing what ronald reagan did, to disprove all the carpet-bombing that the democrats have done.

i mean, they have said he doesn't care about people like you, he's a bad person, he's a vulture capitalist, he shifts jobs to china, he's a pluto carat, his wife is a known equestrian. the american people want to know the real mitt romney. he starts at convention doing what ronald reagan did in 198 >> this president doesn't deserve re-election. but let me tell you why. >> the independents are really what you want. our party. >> battery is very united, no question about it. >> greta: the undecided, are they going to be watching? is there any way to measure that and watch the -- do they traditional watch the debates? i mean, so you know they're out

there? >> well, pollsters will tell you that they are not paying as much attention as partisan, but pollsters will also tell you that for many of them this is sort of the beginning of the campaign, that they will watch, they particularly want to learn about romney, because they've been told all these terrible things. they're sitting there saying that the country's worse off since obama. we're in a recession. things are going in the wrong direction. so they're looking for somebody else. this is the launch pad. this is not the only thing. i mean, we won't tell you next friday that romney has done it, because the world doesn't work that way. this is the first big step. >> greta: president ronald reagan was smooth in the debates, and good. brook ipresident obama is good t debates, wouldn't you agree? is it almost -- it's quite a challenge for a candidate to do that, quite a challenge for

governor romney. >> well, of course. any presidential campaign is a challenge. but look, the american people know that what's happened in the last 3 1/2 years, they don't want four more years of that. if this is a referendum on obama's record, he's going to lose. it's more than that. this is not only a referendum on obama's failed record, this is people wanting to see what would mitt romney do to turn our country around. it's interesting. here's a guy that all of his career, in business at the olympics, in massachusetts, has taken an enterprise that had real problems, turned it around going the right direction. >> greta: you haven't endorsed him. why didn't you endorse him? >> in '08 i didn't endorse anybody. i think if you don't endorse anybody, way back at the front, why do you endorse them after they've won the nomination? >> greta: like me, too, right? >> yeah. i've done everything i can do to help elect mitt romney. i'll keep doing it. this is hugely important. i tell you, greta, i'm worried

that my children and grandchildren are not going to inherit the same country i inherited. this election is a huge, huge high stakes election. >> greta: governor. thank you. i know your wife is waiting from out of town. appreciate that, too. >> thank you, greta. >> greta: coming up, arizona governor jan brewer is here. she's been battling with president obama over immigration. she even tuck her finger in his chest on the tarmac in front of air force one. she has more to say tonight. governor jan brewer joins us next in tampa. and look out, here comes isaac. he looks very mean. [ male announcer ] it's a golden opportunity to experience the ultimate expression of power...

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top priority has to be the safety of our people. as long as we're in harm's way, i need to be right here doing my job. that's what i'm going to be doing. >> greta: louisiana still represented in tampa. some of the state's delegates are attending the convention, but their thoughts of course are back home with their family and friends. >> it's challenging, because i want to be back home. my house is there. i did bring my family with me. i have family here in tampa. so i don't have that stress that i know a lot of my friends here do. so, you know, all the paths were showing that direction. so you just -- you know, it's hard to be here when your life is over there. >> greta: right now isaac is a slow-moving storm. that's not good news. katrina was a likewise slow storm. it means isaac could batter the

gulf coast line for days. the greatest dangers, flooding from the rainfall and major storm surge. we're going to bring you the latest details on isaac's path in just a few minutes. right now we are live in tampa where the republican national convention is getting ready to kick off its first full day of activities. arizona governor jan brewer is here in tampa. she's been taking on president obama on immigration. how important is immigration as an issue? >> i think immigration is really important. more than that i think about getting our borders secure, are the biggest issue that we need to accomplish. >> greta: one of the things on the republicans' platform, if governor romney is elected, the republican party wants the lawsuit against your state and alabama dropped. i take it you like that. >> i do. i support it. it's outrageous for the

government to sue states for doing the job they won't do. >> greta: how would you secure the border? >> the border is relatively secure in texas and in california. why can't they secure the border in arizona? we need aerial defense, more troops on the border, and we need them to understand that we are the gateway -- we are the gateway for illegal immigration into america. it's not just the aliens that are coming here and looking for work. it's the drug cartels. >> greta: it's interesting, your story, your state's story was all over the news when the sb 1,071st passed, and you got sued. everybody was discussing it, whether you're for or against it, whether you want to secure the border. now that the suit is pending, where there's skirmishes, legal-wise, there's no attention on the issue nationally.

>> it's unfortunate, because we're still living in that environment, which is not healthy. not healthy for arizona. very, very expensive. i don't know if it's completely languishing. you know, we have the issue now of the administration giving backdoor we have the administration giving back to amnest neamerica. i had to issue an executive order... telling my administration they were going to enforce the law in arizona. they took away our 287 key for investigation from law enforcement so they can't track them and on the very same day, what did they do -- it's all political pandering at this point in time to do a hotline, if you believe your civil rights have been abused, that can directly call into the department of justice. there they are, they are supporting the law-breakers, setting everybody up and taking law enforcement and taking their

authority away, which they were sworn to uphold. >> turning to the festivities here, what do you want to hear from governor romney on thursday night? >> i want america and i want to hear his story. i want to hear exactly what it is that he is going to do -- i think i know because i have heard him enough. but i think it's a re-introduction of governor romney america. and that includes republicans and democrats and the independents. i think he has a wonderful story to tell. i think he is going to knock it out of the ballpark. >> singleman ryan, good choice? >> great choice. it's a beautiful balance. i think he's very sensible and i think that the public appreciates him for what he is. i think he's young. and he has a wealth of knowledge and he's brilliant and very, very well respected. i think that he can just be such a helpmate to governor romney. >> last time senator mccain, your state senator, he won arizona.

i guess people expect governor rom ne's going to take arizona, right? >> oh, yes! on my watch! it is not going to turn blue! >> good -- meaning i got a solid answer. a lot of people want to vote in arizona, that's their business. obviously, there are a lot of people excited here and they will be very excited next week in charlotte as we march down to november. nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> up next, wisconsin governor scott walker. his state is a tossup. the wisconsin native, the cheesehead, invites paul ryan, can hee he change all of that in that's next. and big news for donald trump. what did he just do here in florida? see for yourself and hear from donald trump, coming up. ore the most rare and magical fruit. which provided for their every financial need. and then, in one blinding blink of an eye, their tree had given its last.

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>> this is a fox news extreme weather alert. i'm ainsley earhardt t. seems to be no longer a question of if, but when tropical storm isaac becomes a full-blown hurricane. the director of the national hurricane center saying, quote, wherever it is, people are going to be during the storm, they need to get there tonight. government officials inform us that nearly 80% of the oil production in the gulf of mexico is halted. that means a loss of about 1 million barrels of crude per day in the storm threat is over. on monday, fear over reduced gas supplies sent the average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline up to $3.75.

it could hit $3.80 by labor day. the next update from the national hurricane center is scheduled for a little less than an hour from now. we will continue to keep you posted. i'm ainsley earhardt. back to "on the record" with greta. greta. >> greta: it's a tight race in wisconsin. president obama and governor romney running neck and neck in that swing state. will vice presidential candidate and wisconsin native paul ryan help boost the gop ticket in wisconsin? tomorrow wisconsin governor scotts walker will address the republican national convention. we spoke with governor walker here in tampa. governor, nice to see you sir. >> good to be with you. >> greta: it's like a fraternity here. you have representative ryan from wisconsin, reince priebus, and you're from wisconsin. >> it's a cheesehead revolution. we've got the mvp from football and baseball, miss america from wisconsin, we're taking over everything. it's a great time. reince and paul and i grew up

just down the road from each other. >> greta: so it's fun. >> yeah, it is indeed. >> greta: is representative ryan going to carry the state? in 2008, president obama won it by 14 points. it's now neck and neck. will he win the state? >> i think he will. not just because people like paul ryan. his congressional district barack obama carried. paul ryan won by over 60%. blue collar communities could push him over the top. the bigger sense it's not just what it says about paul ryan, but what it says about mitt romney. we knew he had the experience in the private sector, in the olympics, as a governor, to be a good president. when he picked paul ryan to be his running mate, we saw he won't be just good, but the exceptional president because he has the courage and passion to do just that. >> greta: i've been to janesville. that's a democratic area. >> it is. >> greta: the fact that paul ryan has been elected more than once there, so many times, tells me something. i'm not sure what it is, but it certainly says that -- >> people trust him. not only has paul been elected,

but people outside of wisconsin may not realize this, paul just didn't win in a competitive district and continue to win big time after that, the last several elections to prove to his colleagues in the house that you could run and win on his plan to bring fiscal sanity back to washington, he talked ads about it, flyers about it. the voters, the unemployed uaw workers from the gm plant in janesville are the guys inke nora that worked in a factory there that traditionally vote democrat like his candor, think he's a decent guy. >> greta: what will be your message when you speak? >> we turned our state around, we're heading the right direction, and we need that kind of turnaround in america and governor romney is exactly the guy to do that. i'm going to share a little bit of a personal story of someone that benefited from our reforms that i think will benefit from governor romney being the next

president. >> greta: what about the -- obviously your state, there's a lot of passion around you. you've got lovers and haters of governor scott walker. you did win the recall by more than you won the original governor. i recognize that. how does that rather hostile environment to you, how is that going to be reflected in the general election? >> again, in our election, i said this in june, a couple days after my election, even more so since paul ryan is on the ticket, if people look at mitt romney and see him as not just the "r" next to his name standing for republican, but "r" for reformer, that's enough to say independents and dissuade democrats. we need independent swing voters and so-called reagan democrats. mitt romney can appeal to them even more so with paul ryan on the ticket, but he has to talk about reforms, be the clear

contrast. we're hurting in our state like most states are. our unemployment is better than the national average, but still high. 42 consecutive months of unemployment over 8%. that's hurting. >> greta: it's dropped down to 7.3%, 34/10 points less than when you took office. at least that's the right direction. what do you attribute that to? >> in our case we changed the business climate. we understood that people create jobs, not the government. i'm going to stress tomorrow -- i think the current administration under president obama really had this view that success is measured by how many people are dependent on the government, particularly on unemployment benefits. that's not the pathway toward more freedom and prosperity for all of our people across the country. i think if mitt romney and paul ryan are able to make the case that they have a plan, a plan that will help all the people,

all the hard-working taxpayers of our country do better, i think that's a plan that could ultimately win, a plan they have to lay out this week. >> greta: what's the conversation like when it's paul ryan, reince priebus and scott walker hanging around? >> talk a lot about families. paul and i just texted a little bit about ago, i asked him how his departure was from janesville earlier today. he said it was a great response. great folks over at craig high school where you were at just a few weeks ago. we spend most of our time talking about our families. he checked with me during my campaign, made sure i was eating right, praying, doing exercise, which he loves. he's such a positive guy. people will be surprised to see how upbeat he is. maybe because we all came of the age back in the '80s when president reagan was our nation's leader. >> greta: governor, good luck tomorrow night. >> thank you. >> greta: straight ahead, donald trump made it to florida, but what about his big surprise?

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>> let's give a big round of applause to our 2012 statesman of the year award winner, mr. donald trump! >> greta: donald trump honored by the republican party of sarasota county, florida, but did the stormy weather force trump to change his convention plans? we caught up with trump in sarasota. >> first let's talk about the weather. hurricane, tropical storm isaac. what political impact do you think that will have on this convention? >> i don't think it's going to have an impact. it does miss one day. i was a big part of monday. i just got here and find out monday was canceled. i don't think it's going to have a huge impact. i think the message is going to

get out. the message is going to be a message of jobs. it's about jobs. mitt romney is and was a very, very successful person. he knows business. he knows jobs. he knows how to put people to work. you look at our unemployment, it's not 8.3%. it's probably 20% or 21%. 8.3% is fiction. minimum 15% or 16%. mitt romney will put people back to work. >> what's the takeaway romney needs to leave here to the 30 million-plus maybe taking a first look at romney? >> they have to be not be so politically correct. we're a country in tremendous trouble. we have to say it like it is. we don't have to be nice to president obama. we don't have to say he's a wonderful person, because he's probably not a wonderful person. and frankly they cannot be politically correct. they have to say it like it is.

this country is in trouble. our president has done a poor job. we have to put this country back to work. we have to stop other countries from destroying us, whether it's china, opec nations, or any other -- virtually any other country we deal with. you look at the country of colombia. relatively small trading partner. they use the word partner. that's not a partner. but $4 billion deficit with colombia. that's a small one. china's going to be probably close to $400 billion in deficits. we can't do it. we can't afford it. then we go, how do we pay for the deficits? we borrow money from china. mitt romney gets it. he's a great businessman. he'll change things. he's also got heart. he's a wonderful person. his wife is a fantastic person. i think it's going to be an amazing combination. >> you're talking about a shifting of the strategy, the romney campaign. you mentioned he needs to tell it like it is. is he being too soft? does he need to have more donald

trump approach to things? >> he's a good person, a tough person when he has to be. i think he'll show that toughness. i think he has to show the toughness. he's a very smart guy. i just say that you have to say it like it is. the old expression from the great howard cosell, tell it like it is. the country is doing terribly. we're in deep, deep trouble. four more years of obama, we're not going to make it. i'm not sure you can come back if it continues. obamacare is a disaster. it's going to destroy -- it's going to add to -- we'll be up to $17 trillion in deficits very soon. $17 trillion. you never even heard the word trillion. it wasn't in the vocabulary. now it's commonplace. so at $17 trillion, employment at 15%, 16%, 21%, any way you want to cut it, you look at inner city unemployment, and that is a number that's probably

40% to 50%. the country cannot continue to go on like this. so i think mitt is going to get the message across. when he gets it across, people are going to just love the message. >> in paul ryan's message, he's been very good at delivering the topic of medicare, but he's selling romney's vision of it, not the original paul ryan. are they succeeding on medicare in your opinion? >> i think he is. he's saying he's going to save medicare. because if you keep going the obama route, medicare is not going to exist any longer. if you look at what obamacare has done to medicare, they've stolen $716 billion from medicare. so they're destroying medicare. i think paul ryan and mitt romney will save medicare. i know they will. and people are starting to understand it. they're going to be very happy with what's going on, but they're going to be very, very unhappy if obama gets in. i think actually if obama gets in, and if obamacare isn't ended, i really think medicare

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a hurricane. and a good chance at that point tstrengthen quickly. we are dealing with a tropical storm, 24 hours from now, we will have landfall of this storm. it is going to be happening right here, in southeastern louisiana, maybe mississippi, and tell likely be at least a category 1 hurricane or a stronger storm than that. storm surge ising about to be a very big impant here across the mississippi coastline, issue and in lake pontchartrain and here across claque man's parish, towards new orleans. wind and rain will be extreme, tomorrow at prime time, 80-mile-per-hour winds, gusting to 90 miles per hour. the storm -- once you start to get it, it will be a 36-hour event of wind and rain and flooding and the problems that come from that long of a storm that we are going to be dealing with. greta? >> rick, we will be watching it because it certainly is terrifying and spread out. almost everybody, i think