good morning to auer vouour in the west. welcome to tampa and the site of the republican national convention where everyone is watching isaac as it gets set to strengthen into a major hurricane. it is now targeting the gulf coast after bringing rain and heavy winds to florida. we've got complete cbs news coverage. in afghanistan two more u.s. troops have been killed by a rogue afghan soldier and rupert murdoch weighs in on the prince harry picture scandal. but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener" your world in 90 seconds. >> there's a lot of uncertainty around this storm. these storms take on their own personalities and isaac doesn't have a great sense of humor or great timing. >> isaac sideswipes florida. >> it was not as bad as i

thought it would be. >> and takes aim at the gulf coast. >> the governors of alabama, mississippi, and louisiana have all declared states of emergency. >> the storm is expected to hit on or around the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina. >> make sure you have a game plan. >> it's going to be an abbreviated republican national convention cut from four days to three days. >> it's an obvious choice, safety first. >> the man who is to be the nominee took a rare day off. >> you accuse the president of running a campaign of hate. >> i think his whole campaign has been about dividing the american people. a developing story from afghanistan where there's been another insider attack on u.s. troops. an afghan soldier opened fire on c coalition forces killing two soldiers. rebel troops shot down a helicopter as it was bombarding a neighborhood. the helicopter engulfed in flames. several earthquakes striking southern california and the largest one a 5.5 mg aagnitude quake.

a woman driving on a missouri interstate's acceler e accelerator got stuck. >> osaka could win it with a swing. and he did. the little league world series championship for japan. >> who? hurricane. >> i have to get out of here. there's a hurricane. no more questions. >> that's what i'm talking about. >> and all that matters. tell me quickly in five seconds what you think is going to be the highlight of the convention? >> mike huckabee and chris wragge ty. >> there you go. >> on cbs "this morning." >> tell them to get the hell off the beach. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." some 15 million people along the gulf coast are bracing for tropical storm isaac. the system could become a

hurricane as early as this afternoon. isaac may make landfall as soon as tomorrow night. the southern louisiana coast including new orleans to the florida panhandle. alabama, mississippi and louisiana have all declared a state of emergency. officials in st. charles parish west of new orleans have told all 53,000 residents to evacuate. >> david barnard, chief meteorologist of our miami station is with us this morning. david, where is isaac heading, and how dangerous could the storm be? here is the latest information on tropical storm isaac. this is the update for our west coast viewers and it's continuing to move through the gulf of mexico. it's a strong tropical storm, the heavy rain bands continue to move over a large part of the florida peninsula and even some of them heading to the florida panhandle. the high sustained winds right now are currently at 65 miles per hour. this puts it at about 400 miles south of new orleans, louisiana, moving to the west/northwest at

14 miles an hour. the current thinking is this could be a category 1 hurricane by the time it reaches southeast louisiana or the mississippi gulf coast tuesday night and early wednesday morning. the forecast now calling for a category 1 hurricane and the highest chance of a significant wind impact, these are winds that can cause damage, is in sou southeast louisiana around new orleans and then continue east over to the biloxi area so, again, the forecast is still for isaac to become a hurricane some time during the day today and we're look iing for a landfall late tuesday night into wednesday morning with the potential for it to get maybe just a little bit stronger. >> david barnard, thank you. here in tampa isaac has forced the republican party to shorten its national convention cramming four days of speeches and events into three. bill whit can kerr aker is abous west of the convention. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. and good morning to our viewers in the west. even though isaac is passing far to the west of here, the storm's

outer bands are dumping quite a bit of rain here on tampa, though the rains have stopped for the moment, the city is still under flood watch and the republican convention is on storm delay. the massive storm is working its way up the gulf coast turning the republican party's best laid plans upside-down. florida governor rick scott was supposed to address the convention, but with isaac whipping past his region, he's now overseeing a statewide state of emergency. he says the decision to push back the convention by a day was the right one. >> they made the same decision for what i made for the state. safety comes first. there's the possibility of bridges closing, wind and rain. the best thing was to postpone. >> reporter: lodging across the bay, if the bridges close down -- are you concerned you might be stranded out here? >> we hope that's not the case. >> reporter: north carolina vice chairman wayne king says the

party isn't worried about wind. it's focused on winning. >> that's what this is about and that's what we're the most concerned about. one day is not going to change that at all. >> reporter: california delegate says isaac can't dampen enthusiasm for governor mitt romney. >> i have been watching this guy for over 16 years now, and he just solves problems, and that's what we do. >> reporter: he's going to solve the problem of the hurricane? >> you know what, one way or the other we will get it done. we will leave this place energized and ready to get on with the campaign. >> reporter: with isaac heading to the gulf coast, the republican governor of alabama has decided to miss the convention and stay at home to monitor the storm. and depending on the path of the storm, republican governor bobby jindal may also miss this convention. mark strassmann is watching the gulf coast prepare for isaac in mobile, alabama. what's happening there? >> reporter: good morning, charlie, and good morning to our

viewers in the west. from west of moerns to florida's panhandle, a hurricane warning is in effect for 300 miles. five metropolitan areas and millions of people are keeping a wary eye on isaac and its path and timing are eerily similar to katrina's. out in the gulf companies including bp and shell have begun evacuating roughly 3,500 oil rigs in isaac's path. many of these rigs were hardened after katrina and can withstand a category 4 or even 5 storm. in fact, much of this coast is more hurricane ready now, levees and flood walls got a $14 billion overhaul after katrina. the city has revamped its evacuation drill. three states, will ylouisiana, mississippi, and alabama are under states of emergency and all three governors have delayed going to the convention in tampa. residents and tourist are getting out or making plans to. by one estimate $36 billion worth of residential property

lies in isaac's path. no hurricane has hit the gulf region for four years now. and now people in four states have a test in store. charlie? >> mark strassmann, thank you. as the gulf coast prepares for isaac, governor mitt romney is getting ready for the most important week of his political life. he's been running for president for most of the last six years and this week, this week, he'll finally accept the nomination of his party for that office. jan crawford is in boston, the headquarters of the romney campaign. good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, charlie. all that planning, all that work, and it goes to show you can't plan for the weather. romney's going to be putting some finishing touches on his speech. and down in tampa if n about four hours, they'll be done for the day. >> any concerns about the hurricane, governor? >> i hope everybody is fine. i'm concerned about the people that will be affected by it. >> reporter: yesterday afternoon in new hampshire romney and his wife, ann, went to a local

school to practice their convention speeches, focusing on come storm or sunshine their introduction to america. ann romney is slated to speak tuesday night with a personal testimonial about romney as a husband and father. two days later romney is scheduled to accept the republican party's nomination for president. >> i feel an enormous responsibility. i don't feel ebullient with aren't i great for having got this? i feel like, wow, a lot of people are counting on me. >> reporter: the convention while focused on romney, the man, and romney, the leader. the corporate ceo who helped build companies like staples who ran the 2002 salt lake city olympics and served as governor of massachusetts. there also will be sharper contrast with president obama, some of which is already evident from romney who mocked the president's acceptance speech at the democratic convention four years ago. >> it's really a brilliant speech. he says marvelous things.

he just hasn't done them. >> reporter: and paul ryan has been defiant in reminding voters about the infamous 2008 criticism of small town america clinging to guns and religion. >> i'm a catholic deer hunter. i am happy to be clinging to my gun and my religion. >> reporter: the convention will portray the gop as the party with solutions looking forward with speeches from marco rubio, governor chris wragge christie. >> as i'm sure you know. down here on a sunday to make sure to tell them to get the hell off the beach. >> reporter: showing that perm side as husband and father, a governor whose program helps women, all that's important but right now there are some women who just don't like mitt romney. we have a new poll out. it shows him down 35 points on the question of whether or not

he understands the issues that are important to women. charlie? >> reince priebus is here. good morning. >> and good morning, charlie. >> so where is governor romney coming into this convention because he wants to be more combative. at the same time he wants to simply say i am who i am. where is he? >> i think we need to do two things and i think this is where he's at. number one, we need to prosecute the president and what he promise promised and what he delivered. we need to tell the american people and remind the american people this is the president that said if we pass a trillion dollar stimulus, we would have unemployment at this point below 6%. we haven't seen this bad of an economy, at least as far as those numbers are concerned, since the great depression. he said he'd cut the deficit in half. didn't do that. going to tackle the debt. didn't do that.

so we need to prosecute the president who seems to be in love with the sound of his own voice but didn't follow through on his promises. we need to tell the mitt romney story and that's more of what you're going to see this week, the mitt romney story. >> why do you think that in the polling it says president obama seems to voters to care more, emphasize care, feel for where we are this terms of the economy and what it's done to us. >> well, i think one of the things he does, at least some people say he does a good job of, is giving speeches. that's like a forensic exercise that the president seems to master illusionary world of barack obama but that's a world that doesn't go very far when you start looking at the reality of where we are in the economy. one of the things that president obama can't escape, which is a total benefit to us, is that he can't escape the truth of where we're at in this economy.

and the truth and the facts are on our side. it's easier to win a case when you have good facts. >> but to many people looking at this campaign say neither candidate has laid out a plan for the future and that's the problem. they all want to look back and say what's wrong with the past but not look to the future. both governor romney and the president haven't done that. >> well, certainly -- and i'm going to be one-sided here but i think we can agree on 0 a couple quick things. one, the president and his party haven't passed a budget in over three years. we've talked about that and talked about it. i think it's important to remember. so they've actually failed as a matter of law to comply with the legal requirements that they have to the american people. it's not just political rhetoric. they haven't complied with the law. but mitt romney's the guy that said that he wants to reduce spending from 25% of gdp meaning 25 cents on every dollar made in america to run the federal government, he wants to reduce

that number are from 25% to 20%. he wants to cut across the board on every income bracket 20%. he wants to reduce from 35% to 25%. mitt romney has been extraordinarily specific with his plan and named him as his running mate. >> that will be an issue. let's talk about the weather here and what it will do in terms of this convention. >> yeah, we had to err on the side of safety today. no one knows how bad the wind and rain is going to get here in tampa and that's important. when the secret service started taking down the tenting outside, which means our guests will be wait i waiting out in driving rain potentially for an hour, the buses couldn't be assured that they could make it across the causeways. we had to err on the side of safety. but we're moving on. we're planning on moving forward. all the speakers will be absorbed into the rest of the week. >> when will ann romney speak? >> tuesday night. >> it should be tuesday night,

before the keynote? >> that's where we're at now. we'll have production meetings today and those specifics will be released by us and the campaign later today. >> is it your sense in terms of tampa the worst of the storm is over? >> i don't know that. i'm sure we'll be having rain bands throughout the day. certainly it's trending away from tampa. we worry and pray for those who might be in the path. >> reince priebus, thank you. cbsnews.com will have continuous coverage of the republican national convention. this morning you can find a preview of some of the most prominent speakers at the convention here in tampa. american soldiers in afghanistan were shot and killed this morning by an afghan soldier. so far this month 12 americans have been killed by the afghan allies. as reported from kabul, this latest shooting happened during an attack by outside forces. >> reporter: this is another so-called insider attack.

it happened this morning in laghman, two u.s. troops were killed he was working with. we understand that the u.s. forces returned fire and the attacker was killed. we don't have too many more details yet. local sources are telling us that the u.s. and afghan troops were on a joint patrol in a fairly remote area. they had a checkpoint when some kind of dispute may have broken out which could have led to the shooting. now we can't verify the details. the incident is still under investigation but the international security forces here in afghanistan tell us that in previous instances, similar incidents, that about 25% have proved to be cases of insider infiltration but otherwise down to personal grievances and stress. of course we have the holy month of ramadan here. working conditions were difficult for troops in the field unable to eat or drink, and security forces, international security forces here believe that may have contributed to some of the

attacks but certainly it does not explain all 32 incidents which have taken part and it certainly doesn't explain why these incidents are continuing after ramadan and elsewhere in the country we are hearing horrific reports of more violence. 17 young people we're hearing were beheaded in the southern province of helmand. they were attending some kind of party with light music. this is something the taliban doesn't approve of. they went ahead and took the law into their own hands executing those young people taking part in the can country and according to the u.n., this is becoming increasingly common now that they are ruining parts of the country and putting their own ethics and laws and morals into place in those places in quite a brutal manner. also in helmand province not far away ten afghan soldiers were killed. the violence certainly continuing here but expect the security forces here says

despite that the mission in afghanistan remains on track. it is now time to show you this morning's headlines. "the new york times" reports on the latest in syria. hundreds were killed in a damascus suburb. activists call it the deadliest short term assault since the uprising began nearly 18 months ago. this morning a syrian military helicopter crashed in damascus after it was apparently hit by gunfire in the latest clashes. "the philadelphia inquirer" want to restore the school's image following the jerry sandusky child sex abuse scandal. the campaign will include a major social media effort. >> "the washington post" looks at a brain scan. supporters argue that mris can show when someone is being defective. the mris cannot be used as

pretrial evidence in his 2006 shooting case. and "the wall street journal" reports hertz has greed to buy dollar/thrifty, the latest consolidation in the u.s. rental car industry bringing the number of major players to three. a swarm of small to moderate earthquakes is shaking california east of san diego and continues this morning. the largest was 5.6 magnitude. more than 300 aftershocks. window have is been shattered and trailer homes knocked off foundations. however, no injuries have been repo

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tropical storm isaac is dominating the news this morning. after bringing heavy rain to florida and forcing a one-day delay in the republican national convention, this dangerous storm is on a path towards the gulf coast. welcome back to "cbs this morning" from tampa. the number one job for republicans this week is to present the candidate to the voters. it may not be so easy with the foik us on the storm. john dickerson and soon to be co-host of "cbs this morning" norah o'donnell has joined me. >> do you notice how he smiled when he said soon to be co-host. >> i think he always smiles when he says your name. >> both are true. let me start with an obvious question. what does governor romney have to do at this convention to have a real shot at making this even more of a good campaign for him?

>> i'll go first. it's a two-part process. i think he needs to make the case for replacing president obama, whisk made for him as one -- it's a big negative ad running every day. i think that's a relatively easy case. then he has to say to people who are unhappy with president obama that he's acceptable. romney, that's a two-part job too. make him somebody that people can connect with. he has to cross a threshold. >> what can he do now that he hasn't done in the long primary campaign sin the selection of paul ryan? >> maybe just tell the story. >> you have a captive audience, millions of americans are watching. we have the convention and we have the debate. those are pivotal moments. the convention, i think it's critical for him. not just presenting himself to the american people who may not have been watching the campaign that closely. but he's got to change the dynamics of this race.

poll after poll shows this race is static. and there's been some movement in the battleground states but romney has to change the trajectory quickly to win the race. >> you do that with a speech or with what? >> that's a good question. i think he does it with a speech. he has to get middle class voters that he cares about issues that they care about. >> cares about? >> cares about. they trust him on the economy more than barack obama. does mitt romney understand the problems that middle class americans are facing enough so that he could solve them? >> trust is the key question. people can't follow all the ins and outs of the budget and medicare much the question too when everything is being figured out, who is on your side. is romney going to have your interests at heart or obama? when they're in a small room carving this up, when the administration is in full swing, that's the question. are people going to feel like when that business of governing is going on that the guy in charge of it has a sense of their lives, isn't going over the line in a way that's going to penalize them.

that's the argument he's trying to get to. >> another face is paul ryan. what does he add to this ticket at this convention? >> i think he adds energy, helps certainly mitt romney with his conservative base. but we've seen he's helped a little bit in states like wisconsin and perhaps ohio. but he adds youth and energy to the ticket. >> we're here at a time when it's rainy and windy and cold. tampa may not get the brunt and new orleans may face that. what do the new demands of this convention, because of this weather? >> conventions are all about a tone. so the tone is now changing. if the weather is hitting parts of the country and we're seeing pictures on one half of the screen about people suffering and about devastation, then what they say in the hall has to be resal br recalibrated. they don't want the screen images snnext to each other.

one of the ideas is we're going to care for people across all of the american experience. they've got to recognize that if there's suffering on one side of the screen, they have to be speaking to that even though that's not the whole picture in terms of the country. >> in terms of the principal swing states, any change there as he comes into this convention week? >> obama largely leads in most of the swing states. however, there was a new poll out in the columbus dispatch over the weekend that shows in ohio that it was very, very close. that's certainly a state that no republican has won the presidency without winning ohio. they've got to win ohio. it looks like, if that poll is to be believed, romney is gaining ground in those states. most people think the race will break in the last three weeks of this campaign. it's going to narrow it. >> both parties -- it will be even until the last three weeks. >> it feels like we're going to get down to the independents, the johnson family on cedar street.

the number of people really up for grabs is getting smaller and smaller. that's what that dispatch poll showed. >> i think the interesting calculation is this interview that mitt romney gave on politico this morning where he said i am who i am. like popeye. he's going to make people eat their spinach and love him. they don't need to like me. they just need to trust me that i can handle the economy better than obama. >> worrying about making this look like a total reinvention. that he's pushing against president obama a little bit. he's saying i'm not a celebrity. i'm just who i am. >> john dickerson, norah o'donnell, thank you. to britai government. we'll be right back. [ elizabeth ] i like to drink orange juice or have lemon in my water...

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the weather outside this convention hall may be more dramatic than anything happening inside right now. both parties want to avoid any surprises when they gather to nominate their presidential candidate. as bill plante reports, it hasn't always been that way. bill, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. it's been decades since there was a convention in either party with either real spends or any questions about the outcome. every single moment of this tampa meeting is scripted, down to the tiniest detail. even though there was a time earlier when it looked as though it might be possibly a brokered convention. >> there very easily could be a brokered convention. >> a few months ago it was all the buzz in the media and from mitt romney's rivals. >> we're going to contest and we'll be in tampa as the nominee in august. >> but none of this year's republican candidates made good on that threat.

the only spends here is what affect isaac will have on these events. >> i need you. >> the last time there was real drama at a party convention was 1980 in new york city senator edward kennedy of massachusetts tried and failed to challenge sitting president jimmy carter for the nomination. reagan almost chose former president gerald ford to be his vice president. that came apart when ford wanted a deal that would have effectively made him co-president. it wasn't the first time the two men clashed. four years earlier in kansas city, reagan came within 117 votes of taking the nomination from then president ford. reagan topped it off with a show stopping speech that stole the evening. >> there is no substitute for victory. mr. president -- >> in 1972, acrimony over delegates and credentials

delayed george mcgovern's acceptance speech until 3:00 a.m., far too late to reach the tv audience. >> i'm happy to join you for this benediction of our friday sunrise service. >> but blow for blow, the most unscripted intense gathering in recent decades was the democrats 1968 chicago convention. >> where are the rules that say we must -- >> inside the hall after two days of angry debate, delegates force and an anti-vietnam war plank into the party platform. not far at the headquarters hotel, police stormed anti-war proteste protesters, firing tear gas. back inside, connecticut senator rieb i cough likened it to -- which prompted richard daley to curse him with an unbroadcastable ethnic slur. >> the last time any convention took more than one ballot to

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it is not such a bad morning in tampa after tropical storm isaac brushed over the coast on the weekend. now it's going to the gulf of mexico where isaac is likely to become a hurricane that could make land fall less than 38 hours from now. we'll hear from charlie rose at the republican convention in tampa in a moment, first, we want to check in with david bernard, chief meteorologist. what's happening right now? >> this is the latest on isaac. it's a little bit stronger than it was last night and hurricane hunters are taking a look at it to see if it's on it's way to becoming a hurricane. heavy rain bands are continuing

to spread across the peninsula and the panhandle and it won't be long before that weather goes to southeast atlanta. with isaac it's about 400 miles southwest of louisiana. on that track, isaac is forecasted to become a category one storm with land fall late tuesday night and early tuesday morning near new orleans or possibly to the east. there is concern it could get stronger and one of the big reasons for it are very warm ocean temperatures and the track of the storm as it moves to the northwest, these are some of the warme warmest areas. right now we're forecasted for a category one, but there's a possibility that isaac could be a little stronger, maybe as strong as a category two. that's a trend we need to watch.

>> thank you, the center of isaac just missed the keys. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, people here in key west are breathing a sigh of relief this morning after weathering tropical storm isaac with only minor flooding and no reports of any major damage. the worst of isaac's winds were on sunday afternoon but were nowhere near the category one winds initially predicted. by nightfall people were out having fun and watching sports. isaac's size wrecked havoc as far away as miami. more than 700 flights were cancelled sunday due to isaac, and some 16,000 people lost

power. key west officials will be out today assessing what damage, if any, was left in the wake. >> let's go to alabama where storm preparations are under way. >> reporter: isaac will be a real gulf for the coast region that thinks of itself as more hurricane ready since katrina hit. isaac's path and timing are very similar to katrina. this region is bracing itself. louisiana has suspended evacuation roots. and in st. charles parish, 53,000 residents have been encouraged to leave. oil companies have evacuated

many rigs. louisiana, mississippi, and alabama all declared states of emergency, and tourist and residents are getting ready to go. they have been hurricane free since 2008 but it appears that isaac is about to change that. it looks like it could be a major weather event and a major test for this region. charlie? >> thank you, tampa is more than the sight of the republican convention, they have voted for the winner in nearly every presidential race in the last 30. some of the voters spoke out on a race that was conducted by frank luntz. >> we'll start with a word or

phrase about mitt romney. >> leader, qualified, bland. >> how does he earn your trust? >> tax records. >> tax records. >> i need to see that he did not outsource all of these positions. >> how about barack obama. >> disappointed, polarizing, narcissistic. >> does he deserve the right to continue with a second term? >> yes -- >> no -- [ talking at once ] >> it's not as negative as people would suggest. but i want to do this, how many of you voted for barack obama in 2008, raise your hands. almost all of you. how many are voting for anymore 2012, raise your hands. look at how few hands go up -- >> how many don't know?

>> that's the point, this is such an important group here. >> what do we take away from what you just saw? >> they wanted to understand what was empowering those last undecided voters at the university of phoenix. barack obama gets credit for making an effort. people don't dislike him. mitt romney has yet to make the case in terms of his own personality. the sense is that barack obama understands you but can't necessarily solve your problems. mitt romney can solve your problems, but he doesn't quite understand you. that's what next 30 days will be about. >> just at this convention, he said coming in i am who i am. i don't want to take you back to my hometown, every nominee had to tell a story. what story does romney have to tell. >> he is coming across as a ceo, and the obama campaign is doing the same thing. he needs to explain why that

experience is more likely to solve the unemployment and spending problem than feeling your pain. he has to prove that his record will have an impact on those first 100 days. and make no mistake. it's about the next generation. people are hurting so badly they want someone to do it now, they don't want to wait. >> so when you look at the important swing states, how do you see them right now? >> i have been living in ohio practically, and i know that romney has a challenge. blue collar workers don't understand him and the attack ads have worked. florida and colorado moved towards mitt romney because they're more middle class states that appreciate his record of accomplishment. this race is so close, and in the end these conventions matter because then you get a chance to see not only a 30 second ad, but you get to really understand them. >> the romney team wants to come

out of this on target, more focused, and more combative. >> i would use colorflairty. voters want to see shirt sleeves rolled up -- >> isn't that what we have been seeing? >> not really, and i give the obama campaign for the way they have gone at the business campaign record? >> not really. i give them credit because of the ryan pick, more ener getic and exciting. >> what are you looking for coming out of this? >> that romney understands and feels how the average american feels. if he demonstrates that he gets their problems, h, he will get t he needs. >> is that something he has shown he can do? >> he publicly rejects it.

he doesn't want to be the candidate that feels, he wants to solve. >> so it might be i feel therefore do i. >> i do because i a few months ago brian baker was a has-been. after a big surprise at months ago, baker was a has been, now he's ready to take on the u.s. open. we'll show you why he is coming back now on "cbs this morning."

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the republic the republican national convention planning a tribute this week no kneto neil armstro. buzz aldrin remembers him starting from the fist time we met. >> he was wearing roller skates and he was skating around in the back driveway, and i thought this guy is a test pilot? very versatile guy, very talented, and whatever he chose

to be a part of. we expected to be assigned to apollo 11. it would be the first opportunity to make a landing on the move. about three minutes into the decent, he says to me i think we're going to be a little long, and we got out of the predicted landing area. the formal announcement was neil's. he said "the eagle has landed." and everybody cheers in mission control. i patted him on the shoulder. he thinks i shook hands with him but i think i patted him on the shoulder. when neil got down to the bottom of the ladder, he said, "that's one small step for man, one

giant leap for man kind." after wards, they asked what he thought about it, and he said i didn't want to waste thinking about it until we were on the ground. >> douglas brinkly got to interview his childhood friend 11 years ago. >> good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> remember this man in your own sense of why he meant so much to you? >> well, i was 8 years old living in ohio and he was down the road. and he was my generation's charles lynnberg. the fact that we were breaking the shackles of earth, an a local ohio boy was going to moon and it was an incredible senation.

my friends and myself would collect everything we could for apollo 11. they were first in aviation, and neil armstrong seemed to enforce that whole value that aifuate matters. >> why do you think he was so reserved about his own achievement and his own sense of wanting to take all of this and in a sense move away from it? >> he was an incredibly modest person, and out of all of the astronauts, he has the best technical superiority in space. he graduated from purdue in engineering, and he was completely no nonsense with the exception of one story he had about a dream floating in space or above the ground as a boy. it was all about service to

country, winning the cold war, and he was everything you would want in a commander. in his whole life, he never through out a wasted adjective or verb. >> did that extend to when you would ask him do you ever go outside and just look up at the moon and just say to yourself that you had been there? >> nasa had me conduct a long oral history with neil armstrong, and it happened just after 9/11, and i thought he would cancel, we sat in a room and i would ask him questions that a young person like myself that looked up to him would, including do you ever just look at the moon and think you'll be there soon or after you came back look at it? and he said no, i don't ever look at the moon. he wasn't being a difficult person to interview, he just really felt the moon was a job.

nobody promoted the idea of men in space flight more than neil armstrong and going to mars. >> he was made when he knew they would not be taking those kind of missions in the future. it is interesting about him also that a hero not just of our time, but all time. >> there is a phrase called sustainable people. armstrong is sustainable, his accomplishment is so real, you can't have a textbook in american history without seeing his name. >> such an important man to remember and we thank you for helping us. seven years ago, brian baker was america's best young tennis player, and now he is coming back in the game. we'll catch up with him at the,,

and headlines police and san francisco are sorting now what happened in officer involved shooting. two suspects are in custody with connection of some sort of a robbery were a female officer suffering an injury to the leg and elementary school in the areas but on lockdown since 7:00 this morning. chevron what it did in the refinery fire from three weeks ago. officials of a briefing at city hall at 10:00 they have officially closed the claim centers that opened after the fire and about 18,000 claims were filed and chevron will continue to maintain and 800 number. the little leaders that captured the attention of the bay area are coming home as winners they beat the team and the world

series consolation game in pennsylvania and the smart boys will be picked up in a limousine at the san francisco airport and what a police escort back to petaluma.

good morning. following breaking news in san francisco there's still heavy

police presence in the area of the shooting a 29 than church history to block that in the area and it's not hurt impacting the mini lines they are able to get through it again some streets may be blocked traffic live tourists a san mateo bridge will were converted a stall westbound 92 near the high-rise they're working to clear if not causing the huge delays headed out of hayward headed toward foster city in the bay bridge like traffic with minor delays. look up, and fog in the bay area with sunshine in the valley looking good job of couple of patches of fog will pick up shortly and here comes the sun the temperatures will wind up into the '80s and into the '60s and '70s around the bay area and '50s and '60s towards the coast line. cooling down as we head toward next weekend.

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♪ and this is crazy ♪ but here's my number so call me maybe ♪ >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." even at the u.s. open, you can't get away from "call me maybe." i like that song still. that's kids day this past saturday. jeff glor has the story of an american who has waited a very long time to play in the

tournament once again. >> a decade ago, he was the number two ranked junior tennis player in the world. and brian bakerdjokovic. baker, then only 19, knocked off the number nine player in the world. >> unbelievable to think that the last time i was on these grounds was seven years ago. >> but the biggest match he ever played almost became his last. >> i knew something was going on. that was the start of the downward spiral. >> not long after the us open in '05, baker was told he needed hip surgery. that was followed by a never-ending list of other medical issues. five major surgery, two more on his hip, a sports hernia, an elbow reconstruction.

he was sidelined for six years. >> was there a point when you said i'm not going to do it anymore, i can't, that's enough? >> never got to that point. maybe close to the point after the tommy john. i'm not going to keep having surgeries. i never got to that one point where i'm throwing in the white towel. i don't want to do this anymore. put so much effort and time into tennis. love the game since i was a little kid. felt like it was taken away from me. felt like i had something to prove. >> as he rehabbed, he taught tennis at belmont university in his hometown of nashville. by last fall, he was finally able to start competing again. this april, he won the savannah challenger in georgia. then came wimbledon. seemingly out of nowhere an unseeded baker made the round of 16 only dropping one set along the way. >> you surprised a ton of people

with what happened at wimbledon. did you surprise yourself? >> yeah, i think i'd be lying if i didn't say i was surprised a little bit to get to the fourth round in my first wimbledon. >> he enters the u.s. open as the 70th ranked player in the world, an up and comer when most are going downhill at the ripe old tennis age of 27. >> so now you're the guy that everybody is talking about. does that make things more stressful and more difficult right now? >> it can if you let it. everybody knows who you are. it's not like you're sneaking up on anybody like i was earlier in the summer. >> you seem confident. >> no, i am. i've always been confident in my abilities that when i play well, i can win a lot of matches in a row. it's awesome to be able to play again. tennis has meant so much to me over my entire life. it was a tough time not being able to do something you love. >> for "cbs this morning," i'm jeff glor, new york.

>> two decades ago cbs sports analyst jim courier was the world's number one tennis player. hello, jim courier. >> hello, gayle. >> i think of the el bow and the hip. are you shocked that he's there. >> we're all shocked. he was asking for wildcards. the total prize money at $10,000. brian baker, where has he been? he's been gone. he was a great hope many years ago. he beat the number nine player in the world at the u.s. open at 19. we hadn't seen him. it's borderline miraculous that he's back playing at the highest level. >> realistically, how high can he go? >> i think he's got top 20 potential. he's got a great head for the game and he coached in the interim. he was an assistant coach at a college for a few years. he's got a great head on his shoulders. we hope his body holds out. >> you know something about the love for this game. >> the thing i like about brian.

he never gave up on it. he was still dreaming about playing but it seemed so far, so unrealistic. to have a chance to be back, not just playing, but the guy is back in the top 100. he's got his highest ranking ever now. i mean, it's really just a new start for him. hopefully, he's got another seven years to go. he's going to be fresh. he's certainly not burned out. he's eager. >> charlie rose is in tampa covering the convention. >> i've done stuff with charlie before. >> charlie, we're here. >> charlie, are you hanging around the hurricane? >> the hurricane has -- we hope it's moved past here. we hope it will be sunny here in tampa and the convention will offer all the drama that we expect. let me turn to the u.s. open. is roger playing at his best now, jim? >> roger federer is playing beautifully, charlie. he played brilliantly in cincinnati beating djokovic in the finals a week ago. he's coming in relaxed. he's back at number one.

rafael nadal, his bet another is out with injury. novak djokovic and andy murray being the big threats to federer. i have djokovic the slight favorite. he won -- >> over federer and andy? >> i think he's the slightest favorite. but that's the kiss of death. i'm a terrible prognosticator. >> gayle has a good point. andy won the olympics. does that mean that finally he's had a big win at a big event that gives him the confidence to win a grand slam? >> i'm thinking, charlie, momentum must be on andy's side too. >> andy murray is a different player than he was three weeks ago. he knows he can push through the tape where he had never done that before in a big tournament. murray is a favorite up there. for some reason, my gut tells me nov novak. >> what happened to him? he had ha year where he was mowing everybody down and then he seems now to have lost some

of that. are you saying he hasn't really lost it? >> i think that the year is long and careers fluctuate a little bit. i think he had a setback earlier this year when he lost his grandfather in the middle of a tournament in monte carlo. that took wind out of his sales. he was a dominant player to that point. the beautiful thing about men's tennis, you have great players at the top. you have everyone else trying to get there. you have the john isner's and american players ranked ten in the world trying to push through. you have so many people trying to get there. but this collection at the top is among the best. we have serena on the women's side is my favorite there too. >> i was wondering who you were picking. kim clijsters was here last week and as far as she's concerned, she said it's serena. you feel as well. >> if serena plays her best tennis. mo one can stand up to her in the moment. clijsters may have one of the better chances. >> her last one. >> she's going to retire after this. >> petra cvoe vitt va'a.

good to see you, jim. and you too, charlie. i know you were planning to be here today. i'm glad you made it there safely. >> i played tennis good. >> you can watch cbs sports coverage of the u.s. open weweekekekenend.d. >> > papawnwnshshopops s hah fofor r ththouousasandnds s s o. ththisis momornrnining,g, p pi for a new class of customers on the internet.

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office, which is much more comfortable. >> so people are looking around the house for things right now. they say, you know, i think this is worth value. they send it to you. >> they go online, fill out a brief application, tell us what you have. we'll send them an offer and tell them what it's worth. if they accept it, they go to the fed ex office and overnight ship it to us. >> what if they get it and it's not as good as it used to be. >> one of the team members discuss, do you have anything else or this is what we can do for you. if they accept it, we'll send them the contract. if they don't, we'll have them ship it back to them. >> how about this, what approximate they send it and it's better than you thought it would be. >> that's great news. >> they get more money. >> how often does that happen? >> that happens about half the time. we deal in jewelry, watches, luxury assets that sometimes people don't know exactly what they're worth. >> so they're sending it to you and you pay the money to them. but if they want it back, they can get it back for a price?

>> exactly. they can get it back within three to six months. about 80% of the people that send us assets for a pawn loan actually get the assets back. >> what if somebody comes in in the meantime and they want to buy it. >> they don't. >> they're safely stored away. they're not displayed for sale. when the customer is ready to get it back, we ship it back to them. on your website, it says it's a fast, quick easy twie get money. >> it is. you can get this transaction down in 24 hours. there's no credit checks or lengthy applications. it's simply an asset that you own and i call it borrowing money against your past instead of leveraging your future. >> i'm fascinated to know that you can get the stuff back. what if somebody made a better offer that would you sell peoples items. >> this is a loan. this is truly a loan. so we're determining the current market value of the asset and we're advancing against that market value and then giving the customer three to six months to pay it back. i mean, these are assets that

have been in the family a long time. there's a huge emotional attachment to these assets. it's not a good time to sell. this is a way for you to get some cash today. solve your problem. go on with your life and then in three months get your asset back. >> what if they can't get it back in three to six months, what happens to their item? >> the asset would be sold at that time. we don't want to sell people's assets. we're truly lenders and we truly just want to help someone through a difficult time and get their asset back to them. >> what makes you think, todd, this is a great idea? so you're sitting at home thinking -- why did you think -- >> everything else has gone to the internet. >> it's true. >> i had been in the brick and mortar industry for 30 years. i felt like that there was a brand new customer out there that the banks couldn't help, the pawnshops couldn't help and they're used to doing business online. i wanted to make it comfortable for them. >> who is coming to pawn-go?

>> we're dealing with hollywood folks. >> give me hollywood names. give me initials from hollywood folks. >> to tulsa, oklahoma, housewives. >> todd hills, congratulations. it seems like you've come up with an idea that hasn't been done before. i like when that happens. >> thank you. >> have you heard of high lining, it's like standing on a trampoline one inch wide. we'll find out how they become one with the line when we come ba ,,,,

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this next story. picture this, you're walking on a tightrope, then you put slack in the rope, throw in a few wind gusts. what happens? that's the sport of high-lining. ben tracy met some devoted daredevils who say there's nothing like it. >> from table mountain in south africa to the totem pole in taz mania, all over the world, people are putting it all on the line. >> great day for a high line. >> it's called high-lining because you walk on a one-inch wide line really high up in the air. >> it's a wild experience. >> this line is 150 feet long and 400 feet off the ground. >> most people would look at this and say this is not normal. >> that's true. >> going for it.

>> it's not a tightrope. the line moves which is why this is also called slack lining. their arms are all they use to balance and they're often fighting the elements as wind gusts blow up from the canyon floor. >> man. >> mike payton and scott rogers met in college and bonded over the highs of this extreme sport. >> so we're heading to those canyons there. >> we hiked through the desert to one of their favorite spots in the canyons outside of moab, utah. setting up the lines is a meticulous process that can take hours. steel bolts anchor the lines into the rock and they do wear a harness in case he fall. >> all right. i want to make sure that everything is phenomenal and safe before i think about walking on this thing. >> somebody hurry up and get on it. >> when they do, they make it all look pretty effortless. even performing high-line yoga.

>> what is the fear factor? >> every high line is still a little bit scary. that's the whole point about it. in this sport, it's all about embracing your fear. it's about diving so deep into your fear that you come out peaceful. that you come out with understanding. >> when you're up on that line, what are you thinking? >> if all is done right, nothing. >> you shouldn't be thinking about anything. you should be completely one with the line. >> it may sound a little granola, but these slack liners are far from slackers. this takes serious focus and skill. >> people think we're all adrenaline junkies. they take one look at us and say look at those crazy yahoos in the canyons. >> i can vouch that you're not yahoos. >> indeed. >> that comes with the territory. >> yeah. >> to fully understand it, you got to get out here in the middle of a line.

i'm about 400 feet in the air. this is the view from up here. east side of the canyon wall is about 70 feet away. i am honestly up here, imagining walking on this one-inch line. >> there's a massive amount of exposure and intense fear and you have to overcome all those feelings in order to calm yourself down enough to do the simple act of walking. >> look straight. >> even on a very low line, this is really hard. >> whoa. >> i can do tricks. >> the low line is where the sport started back in the 1970s. rock climbers used it to practice their balance. it works better barefoot. >> easier. >> but then the slack liners became trick liners. >> does this take more concentration than the high lining? >> it's a different kind of con ten trags. it allows you to focus in 100%

completely. there's nothing like a few hundred or few thousand feet below you. >> to get your pulse racing. >> exactly. >> especially when they fall out of line. >> we fall a lot. we fall all the time. if we're not falling, we're wimps. >> how do you continue to make this harder and harder sm. >> what makes balancing harder, closing your eyes, tucking your arms, all different kinds of tricks. >> that might be the crazy yahoo part. >> yeah. for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, moab, utah. >> the crazy yahoo part is right. i think i'll pass. we'll go back to charlie rose who is safe and sound in tampa, florida. when you were heading down to tampa, i was wondering, was your flight okay going in? >> it was indeed. a little rocky in different places and a little delayed. but i'm glad that we made it here and i'm glad it passed tampa and we pray for the good people in new orleans and surrounding areas that the hurricane misses them.

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good morning. in the headlines a shooting involving a police officer this morning in san francisco shortly after 7 this morning that church and 29th street. when people officer suffered a leg injury into suspects are in custody in connection with some sort of robbery. it's unclear how many victims there are after a small plane crashed near salt lake tahoe the plane went down late saturday night shortly after takeoff from lake tahoe airport burst into flames sparked a 1 a. fire. because of the fire it's difficult to identify and determine the number of victims. some residents in west san jose are worried about coyotes. several weeks ago the heard cut

'40's hauling and a woman found a corpse of a neighbor's cat on her front lawn and now people look keeping their pets and doors. cloud cover in fog in the bay area that will break up slowly. the temperatures will stay cool looking over russian hill toward the golden gate cloud cover and even a little bit of a break and sunshine is making its way through. the pressure off of the west coast will keep numbers cooler than average but not bad by the afternoon. the bay area sunshine and '60s and '70s. the next couple of days a little warmer in to wednesday and cooling down toward next weekend. the traffic coming up.

we still have heavy drive times across the bay area including the east shore freeway was found by 82 the altamont pass. 24 to the town told this problem spot with smaller fender benders from earlier this morning. traffic is still slow from hercules to richmond and you will notice break lights and southbound 683 walnut creek. southbound 683 walnut creek. ,,,,,,,,