good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, august 29, 2012. welcome to the site of the republican national convention. hurricane isaac strikes new orleans and the gulf coast, bringing heavy rain and damaging winds. >> here in tampa, governor chris christie and ann romney try to rally the party faithful. tonight, paul ryan takes center stage. and the final moments of osama bin laden's life revealed in a controversial new book by a navy s.e.a.l. who was there. but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. emergency management officials in plaquemines parish reported overtopping of a levee. >> hurricane isaac plows into the gulf coast. >> the water came up so quick. it looks like we lost everything. >> we are officially in the fight. >> and the city of new orleans

is on the frontlines. >> police are going door-to-door telling people to evacuate in parts of louisiana. >> now the fear is flooding with 20 inches of rain expected. >> giving those rebuilt levees their first major test since katrina hit seven years ago. >> his name is mitt romney, and you should really get to know him. [ applause ] >> last night, it was ann romney's time to shine. she made a very personal, very strong pitch for her husband. >> you can trust mitt. give him that chance. give america that chance. >> if anybody can do better than she did tonight, i want to hear them say it. >> you see, mr. president, real leaders don't follow polls. real leaders change polls. a controversial new book by a navy s.e.a.l. contradicts reports that osama bin laden was reaching for a weapon when he was shot. >> experts tried diffusing it but failed. >> all that --

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last night with topped winds of 80 miles an hour. the slow-moving storm is bringing heavy rains across a wide area. forecasters say the threat of flooding and storm surge will last all day. >> that's right. nearly half a million homes and businesses have lost power in louisiana alone. flooding is reported along the mississippi coast. and officials say water has spilled over one levee southeast of new orleans. so we want to go first to byron pitts, who is in new orleans. byron, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah. we are seeing wind gusts here up to 100 miles per hour as the rain continues to fall in sheets. a little while ago, i was on the phone with the mayor of new orleans who says that 65% of the city is out of electricity. as bad as it is here, it's far worse south in plaquemines parish. overnight, as hurricane isaac

dumped more than an inch of rain every hour, most people in new orleans heeded mayor mitch landrieu's caution. >> we're in the heart of this fight. we're in the hunker down phase. >> reporter: we rode with national guard troops along with new orleans police patrolling the mostly empty streets. a major problem close to half a million people without power across louisiana. >> see that? >> home video captured power lines popping in the storm. low-lying communities south of new orleans like plaquemines parish got the worst of it. parish president billy nungesser called in to our affiliate. >> when is over, we need to check the wind speeds because i lost a good portion of my roof. my fence is down. and water is blowing through the sockets in my house from the back wall. that only happened in katrina. >> hurricane isaac first made landfall in louisiana just before 7:00 p.m. central time. roads looked like lakes. lakes looked like oceans. and before sunset, the curious,

the carefree lined the wild water fronts. >> yeah. that's a little crazy. i will not be doing that in the water. it's too dangerous. i don't know what's out there. >> reporter: but as night fell and the 80 mile per hour winds and rains increased, safety became the city's biggest concern. >> it's a storm. it's a danger. and we will be responsive and wait for this thing top pass an we'll be ready tomorrow morning. >> reporter: a man and his family trapped in their attic in plaquemines parish are still waiting to be rescued. a bit concern this hour is the slow speed of isaac. the longer it sits over southern louisiana the more rain, the more flooding, the more damage. charlie and norah? >> all right, byron. great reporting out there. and just like katrina, isaac is hammering the gulf coast. in mississippi and alabama. so let's go up the coast to gulfport, mississippi, about 80 miles from new orleans. mark strasman is watching the storm from there. good morning, mark. looks like some tough winds there as well. >> reporter: good morning,

norah. very rough conditions here with 60 to 70 mile an hour sustained gusts. sheets of lashing rain that is stinging my face. and an increasing worry about storm surge here. high tide in this part of the gulf is still an hour away. over my left shoulder, you can see the churning gulf of mexico. it does not typically look like that. over my right shoulder, you can see that tree that's bent at a 45-degree angle. it has been struggling to stay rooted for the last couple of hours. also there's u.s. 90 behind me. as the main beach road that runs the length of the mississippi, it is deserted. the cops have been chasing people off the road as they try to go out. if you decided to ride out this hurricane in your house, you'd have to stay there now. and for a 30-mile stretch of this road, it's closed and will be closed perhaps until friday. flooding is an issue. it is just impassable. a couple of other things to note. there are tornado warnings, watches and warnings in effect, in at least five counties here in mississippi.

23,000 folks without power. they're going to stay dark for a while because these conditions are just too dangerous for emergency crews to go out. and there are also a couple thousand folks in shelters. there have been some rescues here today. a 6-month-old baby and her family were rescued from a house boat. and there was also conditions so bad that a firefighter hasn't been able to get out to get to some conditions. in one house fire, by the time the firefighters couldn't get out. but by the time the first responders got there by boat, the house had burned to the ground. so bad conditions here. and potentially getting worse in the next couple of hours. norah, charlie? >> oh, my goodness. incredible pictures there, mark. thank you so much. everybody stay safe. isaac is now slowly moving inland. david bernard, chief meteorologist of our miami station, cbs 4, is watching the path of the hurricane. david, tell us, where do you expect this to go over the next 24 hours? >> it's not going to go very far at all. in fact, let's kind of take a look at the very latest this

morning for our west coast viewers. the storm is about where it was three or four hours ago. 40 miles to the southwest of new orleans. and just drifting to the northwest at around 6 miles per hour. and, again, look at this. by late tonight, it's maybe moved another 50 or 60 miles, and it won't be until tomorrow night and friday that it weakens further to a tropical depression over arkansas. here is the current satellite and radar picture. again, this is the worst part of the storm, the eastern and southern side. that extends all the way back to mobile, alabama. this is going to be a very long duration event. storm surge flooding. heavy rain is going to continue for at least the next 24, possibly 48 hours. our latest rain potential map is indicating locally 15 inches or more of rain over south louisiana. obviously, that is more than enough to cause problems. here is our current wind analysis of the storm this morning. again, the hurricane force winds and gusts are centered right over southeast louisiana right

now. and it's not going to be until tomorrow night and thursday, charlie and norah, that that wind feel will shrink as the storm weakens and moves to the northwest. a lot more flooding, a lot more wind to come to the rest of the day. >> david bernard, thank you. thank you very much. we'll have more on hurricane isaac throughout the morning. we'll go back to new orleans and the gulf coast to check on the conditions there. and our other big story, of course, here in tampa at the republican national convention. it was a night of two very different speeches, although they both seemed to talk about love a lot. the first by ann romney, focusing on the man she fell in love with in high school. then we heard from new jersey governor chris christie. he accused president obama and the democrats of hiding the truth about the future. jan crawford, of course, was here with me on the floor for both of those speeches. what did you think about it, jan? >> i thought obviously they were two very different messages, directed at different audiences, but they both hit on the themes of trust and truth.

ann romney said this is a man you can trust. i know. i know him. he will not fail. chris christie said, we all know the other side has failed, and they are lying about it, and we will tell you the truth. we can make america great again. >> his name is mitt romney, and you should really get to know him. >> reporter: it was a personal introduction. mitt romney, father of five and husband of 43 years. >> i read somewhere that mitt and i have a storybook marriage. well, let me tell you something. in the storybooks i read, there never were long, long rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. [ laughter ] >> and those storybooks never seemed to have a chapter called ms or breast cancer. what mitt romney and i have is a real marriage. [ applause ] >> and she made a direct appeal to women. >> it's the moms who have always had to work a little harder to make everything right. it's the moms of this nation, single, married, widowed, who

really hold this country together. >> reporter: ann romney said she came to talk about love, and the crowd gave her love back, and especially when her husband came onstage after. but then came the keynote. new jersey governor chris christie. and it was a different approach. >> tonight, we're going to do what my mother taught me. tonight, we're going to choose respect over love. >> it was a call to action. >> this is the american way. we have never been victims of destiny. we have always been the masters of our own. [ cheers and applause ] >> i will not be part of the generation that fails that test, and neither will you. [ applause ] >> reporter: and tailor made for a different group of voters, all the independents that think the country is on the wroj track, that the american dream is slipping away. >> i don't know about you. but i don't want my children or grandchildren have to read in the history book to read what it was like to live in an american country.

they believe that the american people don't want to hear the truth about the extent of our fiscal difficulties. they believe the american people need to be coddled by big government. they believe that the american people are content to live the lie with them. >> reporter: now in many ways, christie's speech was pitch perfect. a speech for our time. he talked directly to all those people, charlie and norah, who are worried that our best days are behind us. and he said, you know, we're not going to sugar coat this. he made an indirect hit on president obama saying we're not going to pander to you. we're going to tell you the truth, the hard truth, and get this done. it was never, never give up almost like winston churchill, but also morning in america, reagan, we can get to those better days. >> john crawford, thank you. and as the republicans nominated the romney-ryan ticket, president obama campaigned in iowa and colorado. those were two key swing states. we saw him during a stop at iowa state university, and the president there talked about what has been happening at the

republican convention. >> it should be a pretty entertaining show. i will be -- you know, and they -- i'm sure they'll, you know, have some wonderful things to say about me. but -- but -- but what you won't hear from them is a path forward. that meets the challenges of our time. >> tonight at the convention, congressman paul ryan accepts the republican vice presidential nomination. special speaking just before ryan will be former secretary of state condoleezza rice, who joins us this morning. welcome. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> what is your mission here? what are you going to tell these delegates? >> the mission here is to talk about this country and its leadership. the importance of america to the world. the importance of a clear message from the united states as to what we stand for. and the importance of rebuilding

america at home so that we have a firm foundation from which to lead abroad. >> on the foreign policy side, many people, even conservatives, in journalists and elsewhere, have argued that on foreign policy the president is doing a good job. >> this is about the future of american leadership. what do we need to do? when you look at the world, it looks rather chaotic and dangerous. we have a middle east that is quite clearly in a sense of chaos. even as we look at the promise of the arab spring, there is so much uncertainty. we have a president of egypt going to china, for instance. something that i think would have been unheard of just a few years ago. so this really is a time for the united states needs to assert leadership. >> but is there something different that a president romney would do? >> the president -- a president romney, i think, would understand american exceptionalism. would not be afraid to lead from in front. because the united states has to send strong signals to our friends and to our adversaries

that we know where we think the international system ought to be going. without those strong signals, when the united states somehow makes itself one among many, perhaps in the context of the security council where it's not possible to get firm action, the world is really a pretty dangerous place. and i think that is what governor romney and we would hope president romney would bring. >> we just saw a headline in the "wall street journal" today that republicans are going to blast president obama on foreign policy today, tonight, with you and john mccain and then we hear from paul ryan. can you be specific about where you think president obama has failed on foreign policy? >> what we should do tonight is talk about what a president romney would mean for america. it's not a time to look back. it's a time to look forward. we have real challenges out there in the middle east, in asia, in europe with our allies. >> but if president obama isn't doing anything wrong, why change anything? >> it's a question of what a president romney would do. and there is no doubt that the

united states voice has been muted. and when the united states voice is muted, the world is a more dangerous place. it is -- >> how is it the united states voice muted? >> just look at the situation in syria, for instance. we have a circumstance in which assad is butchering his people. the iranians are helping him to do so. the united states seems to be mired in the security council. the russians and the chinese saying no, no, no, and we don't have an answer. when that is the case, it's a dangerous place. that's when al qaeda and chaos reigns supreme. >> i was just going to say, but i think the president agrees with that as well. having covered the white house, the question is whether you would be willing advocate a president romney would be willing advocate and commit american troops, american lives, in a place like syria right now. >> norah, no one says that we should be treating syria as if it needs american boots on the ground. but that we cannot get a clear message that gets over the

objections of the russians and the chinese. when the president of the united states says assad must go, and then nothing happens to make assad go, our credibility is at stake, and we have a problem. and the region has a problem. >> if mitt romney was in the white house, and let's assume you were national security advisory or secretary of state, two jobs you know something about -- >> she's already done those jobs. >> i have. and it was enough. >> so you will accept no role in a future romney administration? >> i am a very happy professor at stanford. >> is that a no? >> that's a no. >> would you be saying what, that you ought to do, in terms of getting the chinese -- especially the russians -- the russians are what -- what would you do to bring the russians to vote differently in the security council, and what would you be doing in terms of helping the free syrian army? >> you are not going to bring the russians along. they only will come along when

they know assad is aside. what you need to do is work with the opposition to arm them in a way that does not undermine unity of syria in the future. you need to have a strong and clear political plan for a post aside syria. >> with respect, how do you know they are not doing that? >> i don't see any evidence that we have -- >> but the allies are not saying that. there's a full conversation between the national security team of the united states and the allies. >> the conversation is one thing. doing something is quite another. >> all right. >> and the syrian opposition needs to be armed in a way that is in accordance with a political plan. that's not happening in syria. >> a personal question. so you're a teacher at stanford. >> yes. >> you are now about to become a member at augusta. >> yes. >> well, that's a great honor for you, was it not? >> it's a tremendous honor. tremendous honor. >> so you have the game to match the course? >> now that's a good question. i need a better short game. i'm working daily to get one. >> well, congratulations.

a huge honor certainly. and a landmark for women. secretary rice, good to see you. thank you. it is now 7:19 and time for a first check of your local weather.

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>> we're following an accident in oakland, northbound 880. it sounds like one lane is blocked and traffic is actually started to slow. the drive time is 20 minutes between 238 and the maze. elsewhere, west down 580, we are seeing a lot of slow speeds through the livermore area. here is warrants. >> lots of sunshine coming our way, looking good towards mt. diablo. sunny skies all day long. out towards the coast we have a couple of patches of fog. temperature's mainly in the fifties. eighties and nineties in the afternoon. cooling of,,,,,,,,

hurricane isaac has knocked out power across louisiana. 125,000 homes and businesses just in new orleans alone. this morning rising water topped at least one levee near the mississippi delta where the storm first made landfall last night. there is also significant flooding along the coast in mississippi. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> as hurricane isaac moves inland, the slow-moving storm is dumping a huge amount of rain on new orleans an the surrounding dumping a huge amount of rain in new orleans and the surrounding area. forecasters expect more than 15 inches of rain to fall on louisiana before the center of isaac moves all the way up to arkansas.

byron? good morning to you. >> reporter: here in new orleans, we have seen wind gusts north of 80 miles per hour as the rain continues to fall. a little while ago, i got off the phone with the mayor of new orleans who says 65% of the city is now without electricity. as bad as it is in new orleans, it is far worse south of here. some neighborhoods, police are going door to door looking for residents who ignored the request to evacuate. one person called a cbs station early this morning to say he, his wife and a small baby were trapped in their attic. a levee is near his house.

the longer isaac sits over southern louisiana, the more rain and the more flooding all of this is moving north to baton rouge. back to you. >> thank you. we go up the coast to gulf port, mississippi, where mark is standing by. >> reporter: good morning. the weather conditions here got bad a couple of hours ago and have stayed bad. we have 60 mile an hour winds, pelting rain. you can see the churning surf. the conditions will stay bad for at least a couple more hours. high tide is not until 10:00 a.m. local time. any hurricane, the worry here will be storm surge. the low lying areas have already reported four feet of flooding and they are worried that the flooding will get worse. this is u.s. 90, the beach road that runs the length of mississippi for a 30 mile

stretch, the road is closed because the traffic is too dangerous to drive. there are apparently flooding issues as the gulf waters have lapped over on to the highway itself. there are 23,000 people in mississippi without power right now. getting power back to them will take a while because the conditions are too dangerous for crews to get out and restore the power. we have at least 2,000 people in shelters and those people will be hunkered down for some time. >> we turn now to politics and the republican national convention. tomorrow night.row he introduces mitt romney. senator rubio joins us here this morning. >> welcome to florida. welcome back to florida. >> it's good to be in florida. tell me what you think the hard truths are about the republican party. >> the hard truths that america faces, it needs to be involved in telling people a number of things. we have programs that are critical for our future like

medicare and medicaid and social security that are currently structured in a way that in the long-term are not sustainable. people in my generation have to accept that if we want those programs to look the same for our parents and grandparents and also survive for our generation, we have to accept that medicare, for example, will look different for us. i'm not sure how hard those truths are. i think americans have been always able to face the realities of the moment and confront them and solve them. i think that's what governor christie was pointing out last night. >> is this an issue where so many senior citizens live in florida? >> we have 3 million people impacted by it. one of them is my mother, one of them is paul ryan's mother. they clearly understand how important it is to save this program. anyone who is in favor of leaving it as it is now is in favor of bankrupting it. there's a way to fix medicare that doesn't change it at all for people on the medicare or about to enter it. >> we heard about mitt romney the man from ann romney and chris christie talked about

himself and mitt romney conservative principles. we'll hear from paul ryan tonight, somebody who is energized. do you think he'll talk about mitt romney the man or specifically about medicare, spending, more issues? >> if i know paul ryan, we're going to get a policies speech that's also inspiring. that's the unique ability he has, to inspire and inform. i just can't wait for tonight. i think people will get to meet paul ryan the way i've gotten to know him in the time i've been in washington and when i was a candidate. this is a guy in politics for the right reasons. at this time tomorrow, he's going to have a bunch of new fans across this country. >> do you think americans are prepared to take the responsibility of taking money from the government and buying their own health insurance. >> i think americans are prepared to save medicare. there's going to be a debate about what's the best way to do that. the good news is republicans are offering solutions. >> let me get to the point i want to ask you about.

you are a rising star in this party. how is it changing? many people worry that people who are hispanic, african-american and other minorities don't have a a place in this party. you're becoming something that is more narrow rather than outreaching. >> it's not going to be that way and it won't be. we believe -- we're not anti-government. government has a role to play and it needs to play that role. we understand that the less government there is, the more room there is for the private sector. the challenge is how do you take this movement of limited government, free enterprise and apply it to 21st century problems it's changing faster than anything. >> you had talked about the challenges the republican party has courting hispanic voters. president obama has spent 7 to 1 in spending. outspent mitt romney as far as spanish language -- does mitt romney need to do more? >> here's the problem we've had.

it's a quirk in the campaign laws. he hasn't been allowed to spend the money. you can't spend it until he's formally nominated. he couldn't spend the money. now he's going to be able to spend money both in english and spanish to explain to people how his policies will help the economy, small businesses and have the confidence to invest in the future. >> you say he's going to do more? >> until he's formally the nominee, he wasn't allowed to spend the money. >> much of this is about likability and caring. do you think that governor romney needs help on that issue? >> i think governor romney needs to be mitt romney you heard it last night, he's a modest person who doesn't like to brag about. he wants the american people to know who he is. put aside the fact that people might disagree on policies. they get to know him as a husband, father, grandfather --

i think you heard a little bit about it last night. he naturally is a modest person who doesn't like to brag about himself. it's not bragging now. it's informing people of the man who is going to occupy the most important office in the country. this is a unique and special person who really is a role model for younger americans like myself. >> he needs to reveal more of himself is the argument. >> he is doing that. he's a modest person, but we're going to do it for him. thank you, guys. >> thank you. senator marco rubio. it's like salt in the wound in aurora, colorado. family members of the some of the last month's shooting victims say a relief fund has raised millions of dollars. they want to know where it's going. we'll hear from them on "cbs this morning." if you have copd like i do,

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a shot of new orleans with the wind and the rain. anguish turned to anger from the

aurora, colorado massacre. 11 families held a news conference tuesday to question a multimillion dollar fundraising campaign. as john blackstone reports, most of that money has not been handed out and the families want to know why. >> you can't understand the pain that all these families are going through. >> most have not spoken publicly since the theater shooting. but families of the victims described struggling with emotions that have only become stronger as the weeks pass. tom teves' son alex was killed. >> this is awful. this is the worst thing that ever happened in any of our lives. >> they came together to ask why the aurora victims relief fund which collected $5 million has given only $5,000 to each of 70 victims' families. that came only after they started asking questions about what was happening to money raised in their name. >> i have four kids now that will go through the rest of their lives without a dad.

>> gordon left behind four children, their mother melissa cowden. more than a month later. what's it like for them? >> i think it's sad. i have one that can't go to sleep without the overheadlight on. >> without their father, their future has changed in so many ways, including financially. >> i had a friend say the other day, at least your kids will be taken care of. at least out of all this horror, they're going to be taken care of because so much money is being donated. and i don't know where it is. i guess none of us know where it is. >> joshua nowlan still recovering from severe wounds to his arm and leg can't work. disability payments a little more than half his usual salary. >> if we can't take care of ourselves financially, everything kind of crumbles down and things get worse and worse. >> the financial strain is one more burden with families with so many struggles.

deirdre brooks son was wounded. >> every time i have to pack his wound and i'm inflicting pain upon him. >> the stories moved people from across the country to send in donations. but the families say they've been shut out of deciding how that money will be spent. >> we have nothing to gain as families of the murder victims. we have already lost everything. evil started this. good has to finish it. >> the nonprofit that organized the fundraising says it takes time to be sure the money is spent wisely. the colorado governor's office tells cbs news a meeting between the families and those overseeing the fund is set for friday. for "cbs this morning," john blackstone, aurora, colorado

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>> mark strassmann, thank you. in his convention keynote speech last night, governor chris christie rallied republican delegates. that was rudy giuliani's job in 2008. >> we'll ask the former new york mayor about christy's speech and what he believes mitt romney needs to say tomorrow night.

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>> is 756. here is what is happening, a longtime nursery in the arm and then area is destroyed, the result of a three alarm fire overnight. the fire was partly fueled by fertilizer and pesticides which is why firefighters allowed it to burn, concerned that the materials could flow into the guadalupe river nearby. the man accused of kidnapping and killing a morgan hill teenager is due in court today. it is a plea hearing for antolin garcia-torres who is charged in the case of 15 year- old sierra lamar whose body has still not been found,,,,,,,,

>> very slow and go up northbound 880 through the oakland area. out towards the bay bridge, the metering lights have been on since after 6:00 and this is what we're left with, a backup. >> we have a lot of sunshine out there now with a couple of patches of fog sneaking in to the golden gate. throughout the afternoon we will see plenty of sunshine in most spots. ,,,,,,,,

this is gene hodo and you're with your wife and child? >> right now in my attic with my wife and my year and a half old baby. the local police came around about 2:00 in the morning and told us the levee broke and within an hour the water was coming up. i barely got my vehicle to the levee, but the water came up so quick, it looks like we lost everything. if i have to, i'm going to have to shoot a hole in the hat particular to get out on the roof. >> very frightening stuff. for more than 12 hours hurricane isaac has been hitting louisiana hard as you heard. people are suffering there. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning."

i'm gayle king. charlie rose and norah o'donnell are in tampa at the republican national convention. good morning to you two. nice job in florida this morning. >> thank you. good morning to you, gayle. in this hour we'll talk with former new york mayor rudy giuliani. he gave the republican keynote speech four years ago so we'll ask him about governor christie's speech and he'll tell us what governor mitt romney should do to connect with undecided voters. >> we'll hear from some republicans who are getting the red carpet treatment here. that usually doesn't happen from these conventions because they're from massachusetts. one of the bluest states in america. we heard ann romney talk about how blue the state of massachusetts is. >> red carpet treatment normally a good thing. nice to see you two. hurricane isaac has dealt a serious blow south of new orleans this morning. a storm surge has stopped a levee there flooding some of the homes. isaac remains a large category 1 hurricane capable of dumping more than 15 inches of rain.

it's moving north northwest towards arkansas. it's starting to weaken as it moves over land. byron fits is in new orleans which is being battered by new orleans on the seventh anniversary of katrina. byron, i've been watching you all morning blowing in the wind. are you okay? >> reporter: good morning, gayle. i was in new orleans during hurricane katrina. with that said, there's still real problems here. according to the mayor, 65% of new orleans is without electricity. it's far worse further south in places like plaquemines parish. one levee over the top there. they're going door to door to look for people who ignored the warning to evacuate a few days ago. of big concern is the slow speed of the storm. the longer isaac sits over southern louisiana, the more flooding, the more damage. gayle, back to you. >> byron fits in new orleans, hang in there.

thank you. david bernard, chief meteorologist of our miami station cbs 4 is with us again. david, what's happening with isaac now. >> reporter: gayle, this morning the storm is moving very slowly. here's the latest for our west coast viewers. the storm is centered 45 miles to the southwest of new orleans only crawling to the northwest at 6 miles per hour. it still has 75-mile-per-hour winds. here's the problem, we get to thursday morning and it's only gone 100 miles to the north and west. we have to go out to friday until it weakens to a tropical depression. we'll still have very heavy rains over south louisiana and mississippi. this morning flooding is occurring in biloxi, flooding as far east as mobile. all of this weather to the east still has to track across the new orleans area. they are by no means out of the woods yet. this heavy weather is going to continue for the rest. day and probably into the nighttime hours. here's what we're talking about of dramatic rainfall potential map.

in addition to what's already happened overnight, we could cee lo cally 15 inches of rain or more during the next "48 hours." so a very dangerous flood situation. right now the wind field is showing hurricane gusts occurring over the new orleans area and a wide area o of tropil storm force winds extending as far east as the alabama coast line. notice that those will be over the area all day today and tonight and it won't be until we get to thursday morning that the storm actually starts to weaken a little bit and as a result the wind field will contract. the winds will come down, but i'm afraid that heavy rain may go for another 24 hours. gayle? >> thank you, david bernard. we'll check on the conditions along the gulf coast again in just a few min

a highly a highly publicized new book reportedly is offering a new version of how osama bin laden was killed. the book by a navy s.e.a.l. who was on the fatal raid said bin laden wasn't fighting back when he was shot to death. that's according to the associated press. john miller, former deputy director of national intelligence joins us from new york. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> the question is what did we learn from this and did it contradict anything we knew? >> i think we learned from this that this is a typical piece of washington reporting where they are parsing very small details with a bit of a spin. scott pelley from "60 minutes"

and obviously from "cbs evening news" has actually spoken to the navy s.e.a.l. who calls himself mark owen who wrote the book. here's how his account actually goes. he says the point man was coming up the stairs. bin laden poked his head out the door. the point man fired. bin laden was down, still moving. the other two s.e.a.l.s who followed the point man into the room fired more bullets into bin laden to make sure he was dead unaware whether he had a grenade or suicide bomb. yes, an ak-47 was found in the room but not in his hands as well as two pistols. that is the actual account from the actual s.e.a.l. who was the author of the book and the way he tells the story. >> there seems to be, i guess, in some of the early reporting it suggested that bin laden was armed and this navy s.e.a.l. says in fact he wasn't armed. it's a minor detail. i mean, do you see huge inconsistencies between what was reported at the time and what

this navy s.e.a.l. says from his standpoint actually happened? >> what i see is the way information flows in crisis, which is this had just happened. i was actually working for the government that night. i sat through the briefings the next morning, and what happens is you get flash information. here's the early report. >> right. >> that's almost never right down to the detail. and then as you do further interviews with further people and bring the details together, like a mosaic, the picture comes into focus. so what some people who are reporting on this story are doing is, they are comparing the very earliest things that administration officials said on the first day and the second day, unable to speak to the actual participants, with things in a book where somebody has had more than a year to kind of craft that story down to the details and who was also there. so i don't see a real discrepancy. what i see is an attempt to kind of stir up discrepancies in a political season and start these arguments which is, as you know

nora better than anyone, full-time sport in washington. >> john, my understanding is no one is contradicting that the mission was if possible to capture him and not kill him, that this was not a kill mission but a capture mission and if, in fact, that was some possibility that he went for a weapon or they perceived that he might, then the killing was to take place. >> i think that would be a realistically, charlie, i think that would be a mistake. i think the instructions were at the time that if bin laden seeks to surrender and says, take me to your leader, i want to go to federal prison and the united states or guantanamo, i guess you could throw him in the chopper, but every realistic person who looked at that mission knew that there were presidential findings going all the way back to president clinton to two bush administrations and to the obama administration saying if there was a chance to kill bin laden, to do it.

and frankly in a particular particular call situation, you're coming up the stairs, you see him poke his head out the door, you say that's osama bin laden, you're going to take the shot. that's the reality of it. >> john miller, thank you very much. you can see scott pelley's interview on sunday, september 9th, on "60 minutes." >> a must-see interview. politics, undecided voters are likely to decide the presidential race. they are likely to decide the presidential race. we've got new york -- former new york city mayor rudy giuliani with us. he's going to talk to us about what he thinks paul ryan will say tonight, what mitt romney needs to say. what's really the goal of this convention? that's all coming up with the former mayor. get in early for sears labor day mattress spectacular. for the first time ever, get 36-month special financing

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back here in back here in tampa. new jersey governor chris christie gave a rousing speech to the convention delegates last night. >> it is time to end this era of absentee leadership in the oval

office and send the leaders back to the white house. america needs mitt romney and paul ryan and we need them right now! >> four years ago former new york city mayor rudy giuliani was the con vepgs's keynote speaker. he joins us right now. good morning. >> good morning. >> so chris christie's speech, i didn't hear much about president obama. >> in fact, we heard from chris christie barely mention mitt romney. >> well, you know, every keynote speech has a purpose. the convention has to decide what they want you to do. i think in chris's case what they wanted him to do was set out the philosophical divide between the obama administration and the romney/ryan ticket. a philosophical divide that has to do with leadership, confidence in the private sector, confidence in entrepreneurship. i think that's what they wanted him to do so that they can move to the next night with paul ryan laying out exactly what romney wants to do with the economy.

>> for the first 20 minutes he talked about himself. someone tweeted he mentioned i 37 times. he only said mitt romney 7 times. most of the speech was about chris christie. >> what he was talking about was chris christie as a representative of a lot of other governors. he's part of a group of four or five republican governors who excite me. it's as much reform we've had in the country for 20 years. if you agree with it or not, you look at ohio, walker in wiscons wisconsin, mcdonald in virginia, snyder in michigan who doesn't get as much attention but maybe is one of the most effective of all. so all these guys have done exactly what obama hasn't done. they've actually touched the third rail. they've been willing to say, you've got to cut pensions. we' got to cut entitlements. if we don't, we're not going to have it anymore. >> that brings up the question. >> that's what the speech was. the speech was that president obama is not a courageous leader. he gives the impression of being one. he's afraid to do the tough things that need to be done.

medicare is going to go bankrupt unless we fix it. president obama is afraid to say that. >> we just heard he was prepared to do the tough things that need to be done on foreign policy with the osama bin laden mission. >> i admire him for doing osama bin laden, it was terrific. i think he's taken a lot of that credit away with all the darn leaking they've done which is abominable and disgraceful. it's making him a super hero. this is really bad stuff. you shouldn't be doing this. >> some would question whether they're trying to do that to make him -- >> charlie, you're leaking all of this stuff that shouldn't be talked about or discussed. he's only trying to make the president look good on foreign policy. >> now you have a navy s.e.a.l. himself breaking the code of silence and writing about it. it's not the white house cia, you have someone involved in the operation. >> sure. if we analyze president obama by mutual standards, what we would say, bad example set at the top. what would they say about me if a cop did something wrong?

bad example set at the top. >> can we talk about paul ryan tonight? everyone will be tuning in tonight to see this man, paul ryan, virtually unknown a month ago. certainly in conservative circles well liked, well regarded, but in terms of a national profile, this is someone who is deep into wantdom, right? he loves policy. he is at the heart of the ryan budget that is very strict conservative principles and entitlement reform. can the republican party win by taking on issues like entitlement reform in a year like this when the economy and jobs was a number one issue? >> that was a very bold choice that mitt romney made. >> you wanted marco rubio? >> i did. i thought that would be a bold choice also. i thought this was a very, very bold choice. that's the reason for chris's speech last night, because romney made a philosophical choice. we're going to take on medicare. we're going to take on entitlements. we're going to say to the american people, look, they're fooling you. you're not going to have it in

20 years unless you fix it. we'll see how ryan does tonight. >> modify some of ryan's proposals on the budget. >> yes. he's modified them, but they go a heck of a lot further than a president who's never been able to pass a budget. this is astounding. president obama has never passed a budget. >> do you describe yourself as the conservative republican or moderate republican? >> i don't describe myself at all. how people describe me. conservative on foreign policy. conservative on the economy. very conservative on the economy and a moderate on social issues. some think i'm a liberal on social issues. >> a lot of republicans think you're liberal. >> your positions on social issues in the republican party today. >> they haven't thrown me out. i was here last night. >> do you represent a very increasing minority position within the party? >> i guess that's right. i probably do, but i think we're going to grow in time. i think these parties go through cyclical changes. i think it would be ridiculous

for me to leave a party where i agree with about 80% of the party. the other party i agree with 20% of the party. i'm a republican. i'm very proud. i like to tell people i deferred a republican mayor for 15 years. >> mayor, great to have you here this morning. >> thank you. >> rudy giuliani, thanks. we continue to track hurricane isaac this morning. it is hammering the gulf coast with drenching rain and a storm surge reaching more than 11 feet. take a look at some of these pictures. we're going to continue to check on conditions here on "cbs this morning." [ male announcer ] fight pepperoni heartburn and pepperoni breath fast with tums freshers! concentrated relief that goes to work in seconds and freshens breath. ♪ tum...tum...tum...tum... tums! ♪ [ male announcer ] tums freshers. fast relief, fresh breath,

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good morning. in the headlines a garden nursery in san jose burnt down of a night for firefighters had to let the summer winds nursery burn because of dangers fertilizers and pesticides and side. there were concerns the chemical might have washed into the guadalupe river. some people out of the homes and some fiscal this morning were a water main break causing a huge sinkhole and flooded dozens of homes. in the man accused of kidnapping and murdering the 15 year-old sierra is due in court today. a plea hearing scheduled for garcia in san jose last seen in march and investigators think she was murdered and her body has not been found. just ahead traffic and weather.

a lot of slow traffic in the east bay this is been a problem spot much of the morning northbound 880 slow going past the coliseum. 580 not much better with a lot of break lights this morning through the macarthur maes and stop and go all the back from how we 13. in the east bay routes look at

the east shore freeway westbound 8035 minutes from the bridge to the maze typically on a good day it's only 18 minutes. the richmond bridge word of a possible possum possible problem spots. the weather looking great out there with sunshine and the valley and it's going to stay that way. not much of a breeze as the temperatures will soar inland and right now beginning to warm things up with '50s and '60s and patches of coastal fog and by the afternoon lingering cloud cover towards the coast. next couple of days the temperatures will be similar and we quote things down on friday and saturday. ,,,, ,,,,

as you see new orleans still getting hit. welcome back to "cbs this morning." hurricane isaac is bringing torrential rain to the gulf coast this morning and strong winds are starting to reach baton rouge, louisiana. some areas outside of new orleans are reporting wind gusts up to 110 miles an hour. new orleans mayor says the levees are holding up. but 60% of the city has lost power at this hour. forecasters say that the storm could linger for days causing

potentially devastating flooding and a significant storm surge. mark strassmann is in gulfport, mississippi, where he's also been seeing some of the worst weather all morning. mark, i'm glad to see you're still standing. >> still standing, gayle. good morning. i tell you. isaac making a lively morning with winds and rain and deteriorating condition. check out the churning surf behind he moo. the gulf water edge is closed for a 30-mile stretch. there are reports of flooding up to 4 feet in some areas. some other signs of deteriorating conditions, 20,000 mississippians are now without power. a tornado watch is in effect until 4:00 p.m. and at least five mississippi counties. the local curfew, overnight curfew which was was in effect until 7:00 a.m., is extended to 59 a.m.

let's go to to you high and dry in tampa. the political conventions get the best spots on the floor from the delegates -- this morning bill plante says this year's a bit different, right, bill? >> that's right, norah. in most years, being a delegate from massachusetts to the republican convention is kind of a lonely proposition. i mean, hey, the base state is synonymous with democrats, the kennedys. it was the only state to vote for george mcgovern in 1972. this time in tampa, from mitt romney's home state, the delegates have all kinds of perks. >> exhibit 1, the front row seats for the massachusetts delegation, an unobstructed view of the podium. >> where are you usually when you come to a republican convention? >> near the back door for a quick exit. i was in minnesota, we were in the back. same with new york. it's great to be up front. >> the last time that happened

was 88 years ago in 1924. when another massachusetts governor, calvin coolidge got the republican mnomination for president. good seats aren't the only perk. several members get to stay in the luxurious waterfront hotel, the same one mitt romney is using, steps away from the convention center. instead of a motel miles away from the city. >> the massachusetts miracle is really the massachusetts mirage. >> in 1988, a few thousand -- when michael dukakis and john kerry were the democrats' nominees. the mere mention of the state of massachusetts in a gop convention hall brought choruses of derision. >> and no hair has been more wrong, more loudly more often than the two senators from massachusetts, ted kennedy and john kerry. >> in tampa, it's a different

story. >> we're from massachusetts or miss-chews et cetera. >> do you have to explain a lot of -- >> the big question is we get is how did you you like him as governor? what were some of the things impressed by when he was governor? >> the great commonwealth of massachusetts unanimously and proudly casts all 41 of our votes for mitt romney and paul ryan. >> from the massachusetts delegation, they're loving their role here. >> a third of the people don't know him as well as we do. once they do get to know him, you'll see the polls balloon for him. >> this was probably inevitable. the state party chair compares the long wait for a massachusetts nominee to what, waiting for the red sox to win another world series. i am a cub fan. i can sympathize. >> it's not a good year this year. >> i'm a red sox fan, bill. thanks so much. remember in 2008, sarah

palin, the governor of alaska was pretty much unknown to americans. she introduced herself with what was a pretty rousing convention speech as she accepted theroom vice presidential nomination. >> i guess the small town mayor is sort of a like a community organizer except that you have actual responsibilities. you know they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? lipstick. >> tonight the new vice presidential nominee has the same opportunity to define himself in a speech to the convention. john dickerson joins us now. if sarah palin's speech writers are working with paul ryan, do we expect a similar kind of speech? >> sarah palin's job was to excite the room. remember, john mccain was a kind of conservatives had a grudging feeling about john mccain.

sarah palin was the injection that paul ryan has already delivered a little bit. so this is -- think about this in terms of the swing voter at home. what paul ryan has to show is that he's not the frightening person that the obama campaign is trying to make him. he doesn't -- the room is going to be alive when he walks in. but i think his task tonight is really to say i'm a nice guy, pleasant and not going to do all these terrible things. >> he'll define himself first and then attack obama and then build up mitt romney? >> right. the romney piece is really interesting. because, okay, we saw ann romney last night talking about her husband. ryan does a pretty good job of telling the mitt romney story from the competence part. the mr. fix-it part. he's quite good at that on the stump. that's a part, again, of his romney bio that hasn't been filled out. you were in the room. you said it seemed a little down, flat or not?

>> i've covered conventions since 2000. it didn't seem like there was the energy that there's been in past conventions. but this convention was delayed by a day and certainly it didn't seem as crowded as in years past. these conventions sort of build. i actually saw stu stephens, one the mitt romney's top strategist. i said what is your goal. to breakthrough. i think probably to different voters right? >> if you look at the whole campaign this spring and summer, noise. lots of activity, but no one is breaking through. the race in the polls have remained static. does it mean break through the cartoon of mitt romney or to the voters who haven't been paying attention and present a likeable, pleasant version of mitt romney. >> i'm interested in the dialog that people -- maybe people could like mitt romney and mitt romney says i am who i am.

i feel like we're talking about al gore again. why can't al gore be al gore. what's this authenticity? is it the policy that drives it in the long run? >> the authenticity is the last piece to take him over the finish line. >> what's interesting is the whole notion that paul ryan may very welcome out of this, marco rubio and some of the speakers representing where the republican party is going. >> that's the thing. superstars that are on everybody's tongue are ryan, walker and rubio. not so much mitt romney. >> john dickerson, thank you. good to see you. >> thank. john lennon's widow and son found a new cause. they'll show us why they're working together and now speaking out.,,

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>> "the new york times" sean lennon called on new york state officials to reject the drilling process for natural gas called fracking. he's working with his mother, the one and only yoko ono on this very controversial issue. the organization attracted more than 140 other artists and they're both with us this morning. hello and welcome. >> good morning. >> this is the first time you two teamed up together for a specific cause. why this one? who brought who to the table on this? >> independently, he thought this was incredibly important and i thought that too. >> we have a property that she and my father bought before i was even born. i sort of grew up there. that county is where some gas companies came and proposed to drill. that really sort of made me feel compelled to do something because it's my water, my own land. you know, obviously, we grew up in manhattan. manhattan water is affected. >> dirty water. they're going to make it dirty water.

the thing is, upstate new york, the water is very clean. and that's why new york city is getting that too. >> everybody always says in new york city that we can drink the water here out of the tap. earlier this week you wrote an article in "the new york times," an editorial and called it dirty water, dirty energy. what do you mean by that exactly? >> i'm saying that because they're trying to sell it to us as clean energy. like they tried to say about coal. it's a joke. its inherently dirty. there's over 600 chemicals they can inject into the ground. they can't protect the aquifers. if you want to look into it more, we have bullet point of all the reasons it's dirty. >> it's important. the mothers, if you want your children to be healthy, just go with us and make sure that -- don't be fooled. don't be fooled. they're saying it's clean water. of course it's not. >> yoko, when you say don't be fooled. there are emotions on both side.

mayor bloomberg put in 6 million d of his own money. he says when fracking is done safely and responsibly, it's an important step in this country for energy independence. he cites that it can spur economic growth, it creates jobs and it is an alternative. there is another side. >> there is not another side. they're saying that. all in their head. >> go ahead. >> the most important thing is the fact that you cannot do it safely because the pipe breaks and the concrete breaks too. >> i think bloomberg, he is an environmentalist. i know he's worked a lot and funded a lot of the research. i understand the middle path seems the reasonable one at this point. actually the middle path would be to tread carefully and not risk the aquifers. he says he won't put it near reservoirs because it's too dangerous to endanger manhattan's water. that inclines that people in rural populations are

expendable. why can he endanger them and not us? i feel like ultimately, it's an inherently dangerous technology, that's why they don't want it near new york reservoirs and they shouldn't do it at all then. >> governor cuomo is making a decision about it. he says science will dictate the conclusion. there are emotions on both sides. >> there's no way to have an immortal pipeline. eventually it will break. once you drill that deep, it never stops leaking. it's not like after the contract is done the hole disappears. >> to be continued. because the other side isn't here, there are two sides to the issue. i think you're right, people need to educate themselves. sean, it's eerie to me how much you look like your dad. is this a deliberate look for you? >> you could have a buzz cut. yoko does he not? >> very much so. >> i don't want to say that too much. because you know, he has his own independence. but the thing is when -- >> i've never seen my dad in a

bow tie. >> he did. >> i thought maybe it was a tribute. when i look at the two of you side by side. >> he never wore club promoter glasses. he did wear them. i get that. >> mark david chapman was denied parole again for another time. do you ever think it would be okay for him to be released? >> that's so personal, isn't it? >> yeah, yeah. >> the thing is -- >> you can't expect her to not be traumatized. it was traumatizing for us. it never goes away. >> you don't want to answer the question? >> i mean, it changed our lives forever. it's a scary thing. >> i realize that. i realize that. i just wanted your thoughts on it. >> i'm very proud of the fact that he's really doing this thing. he's so passionate about it. that remind me of -- well my husband. he was very passionate about things too. so it's really interesting.

>> i don't really want to be -- i felt like i had to. water is fundamental to our lives, air is fundamental to our lives. it's not like i spend most of my time trying to have causes. >> sean lennon, activism is in your dna. john lennon was your dad. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. technology and social media are changing movies and the way we look at them. rob burnett directed a new movie showing how that's happening. he's joining us at the table to talk about that. big changes in late night ,,

cording to "the new york times," iraq loves american fast food. see? they hate us, but they love our fast food. they like the pizza, they like fried chicken, they like burgers. this is how we work. we force democracy on them. then we sneak in morbid obesity.

that's how we do it. >> the late show's executive producer, rob burnett is the creative force behind a new project. it's about five high school seniors who believe their homemade move o i will make them famous so they ask other students to film them. >> what do we have here? presenting mary, franklin, and leonard. the three biggest tech geeks in the freshman class. each has a live camera that will be rolling all the time. >> rob burnett joins us at the table. >> thanks for having me, gayle. >> i want to talk about your movie but i want people to get a sense of how your brain works. you give us material every day from the david letterman show. you're always on top of everything. >> we appreciate the promotion. >> here you started as an intern at the david letterman show at the age of 22. >> yes. >> 27 years later, did you think, a, you would still be

together and b, doing this? >> it's so rare in television as we all know that something can last for that long. i, like many others, have woven ourselves to david letterman's coattails and paid for all of our college educations thusly. >> there's a little more to it than that. i think it's a great shoutout to internships about how you can start at the bottom of the totem pole and work your way up, which is what you've done. that's a testament to you. >> what you do, when you get there, you start to poison the water but not too much. just so everyone get a little dull. and then suddenly you're the smartest guy there. that's not true. i'm not the smartest guy there. we have five executive producers. three or four used to be interns. that's how we do it. >> i know. i'm always amazed by that. michelle obama is your guest tonight. >> yes. >> late-night tv has become must-see tv in political campaigns. when did that start to happen sh. >> i think maybe it happen when

clinton went on arsenio. >> with the saxophone. >> didn't he once bomb at a convention and went on carson and made fun of himself the next day? i think smart people in politics realize this is a way to show a whole different side of a candidate. dave is such a great interviewer, he's asking questions that sort of an average person can ask, they can show a comedy side to themselves. they have to be real. >> jimmy kimmel coming on board late night. are you quaking in your boots? or are you thinking come on in jimmy? >> i hadn't heard. >> let me be the first to tell you, rob burnett. >> jimmy is great. i know him personally. he's very funny and a great guy. i think he'll do very well. >> we'll see. it's going to be great on late-night tv. can i talk about your movie? >> how dare you. rob, i have to say, i started watching and i thought this is so bad. does rob burnett know this is bad. i didn't read anything at all about the movie.

the premise of the movie is it's supposed to be a bad movie made my teenage kids. once i made that shift, i realized it's well done. that's the trick of the movie. it starts out, these kid are making a horrible movie. it's like a bad version of borat. they try to be edgy. they're not even edgy enough. they're not fearless, they're nothingment but then you start to realize, oh, this movie is about them. as the movie starts to turp and you start to see their stories, which it's really a sweet coming of age movie in a very hopefully interesting package. >> i think it says a lot about you and the cast. may i say congratulations to you, rob burnett, on many things. on many things. we made this movie debuts online september 20th. charlie and norah, great job in tampa. we'll see you tomorrow. >> see you tomorrow, guys.

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good morning. in the headlines overnight pg&e crews are back at this and discuss visitation valley this morning were a water main break yesterday caused a massive sinkhole with dozens of homes and a school flooded. a garden nursery in san jose burned down overnight and firefighters had to let the summer wind and nursery burn because of dangers fertilizers needed there were able to stop the chemicals from entering the guadalupe river. they expect to fix the technical glitch to did problem of skip the edt from deposit money into the book recounts of thousands of unemployed people. a lot of sunshine most

spots with a couple of patches of fog towards the coastline of the west looking good. clear skies and temperatures heating up in a hurry as the high pressure is in the death and southwest. temperatures in the '60s at the coast and low 90s in the interior valleys next couple of days similar to tomorrow and notice big-time changes as we get into friday and saturday and that's when the trough will usher low cloud cover and fog and cool down the temperatures.

the backup still out northbound 880 very heavy from the coliseum and looks like this towards downtown oakland. accident jam up the works although all and to not open it happened for some time. westbound 80 and accidents on the right-hand shoulder and heavy traffic down to richmond and berkeley and accidents across the richmond santa fe bridge mid span clear to the right-hand shoulder. break lights toward merman and downtown san jose.