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adorable video on wednesday, twin babies dancing to their ♪ i feel like i'm on top ofth y dad's guitar music. >> ready? ♪ ♪ ♪ but can we really get them to do ♪ it on command live today or will our producers be throwing a tantrum today? it's thursday, august 30, 2012. >> cher lloyd, thank you. and look who i have here joining >> announcer: from nbc news, me. this is a special edition of coming up in the 9:00 hour, me. >> i'm so excited to be here! k "today: the aftermath of hurricane isaac" with matt brewster." but she's all and lauer, live from tampa, florida she'll be here in the next hour. and savannah guthrie, live from first your local news and weather. studio 1a in rockefeller center. >> good morning, i'm savannah guthrie. >> and i'm matt lauer in tampa. paul ryan had delegates in the convention hall doing a lot of

cheering last night. baltimore. former governor jeb bush joins us live. by the way he, he doesn't think >> good morning. the thing with the twin babies is going to work out all that i am mindy basara. well. >> none of us are all that sure. a judge will sentence of >> first let's get to a serious uva subject. the images out of louisiana and huguely today. second-degree murder and grand mississippi, emergency cws are going door to door trying to larceny and the arey love of co. rescue people trapped in homes. >> we want to get to the latest lowell melser is in charlottesville and will have on this storm. enjoy the overage isaac is drenching the region with more heavy rain, adding to those problems and spawning at least one tornadoes, power out to more than 40,000 people across the region and late last night president obama declared federal emergencies in both louisiana and mississippi. al roker and lester holt are in louisiana this morning. lester, good morning to you. >> i think people are just weary

now. this storm has been agonizingly slow in its pace, still slowly moving out of town. sheets of rain fell, adding to the worries. residents still facing evacuation as the waters continue to rise. behind me is a flood gate as part of that multi-billion dollar system, it did its job. on the other side, however, is a rural community in plaquemines parish underwater today. >> rooftops stood out like islands in a sea of floodwaters. >> i ain't never soon water like this. >> reporter: dan mason never expected to leave his house through an upstairs window, the price of his underestimating isaac. >> by the time i realized water was coming in, it was almost halfway up the flight of steps.

so it was quick. >> reporter: in plaquemines and st. bernard parish, dozens had to be rescued by boatfter the storm surge sent waters over the top of an earthen levee. among them, this 73-year-old dialysis patient. >> they got me out before the water came to the attic. >> reporter: rainfall and driving winds made landfall in plaquemines parish. its levees are not part of the federally financed and built system. still, the man in charge here is stunned by what isaac has done. >> this wasn't supposed to be a katrina. it's turning out for the east bank to be as bad if not worse. we have areas on the east bank that flooded for this event that never flooded for katrina. >> reporter: to the north new orleans was hard hit but escaped a repeat of its fate seven years ago. the post-katrina upgrade of its

levees and pumps by the army corporation of engineers paid off. >> it's operating as designed beep have no reason to believe the system will be compromised. >> still, the big easy had big problems with localized flooding, roads, a ballpark. there were lots of downed trees and power lines, too. three quarters of a million people lost power and is in no hurry to leave. in bay st. louis, mississippi, they navigated parts of streets that had been turned into rivers. parts of biloxi and gulfport underwater. later tornadoes tore down this pair of homes.

this man made it out alive. now comes the hard part. >> start all over again. >> and to the north of new orleans communities around lake pontchartrain now still feeling rising floodwaters. they brought in buses to move people out of their homes there that are starting to see water gather around. you can probably tell still pretty windy around here. they're hoping to get wind to a level they can get the cherry pickers out and start strengthistrengtinging the miles and miles of power lines. >> al is in new orleans. good morning to you. >> reporter: we're on the shores of lake pontchartrain, savannah. the banks are back that way. in fact, the city of slidel, louisiana, we're getting reports that there's as much as eight feet of water in old town

slidel, that's just to the north here of lake pontchartrain. the latest on tropical storm isaac right now, it currently is dumping more rein so far, audubon park, 20 inches of rain, gulfport mississippi, 9 inches of rain, new orleans coming close to 10 inches, biloxi over 8 inches of rain. the latest, it's 55 miles south of alexandria, 48 miles an hour moving and by early sunday morning it's in central illinois bringing drenching rains, unfortunately too late for drought-ravaged farmers. we also have tornado watches in effect. as can you see on the live radar, we've already had reports of tornadoes early this morning throughout parts of florida and mississippi. rainfall over the next 72 hours anywhere from 3 to 10" of rain. and as i said, for the formearm

hoping for rain earlier in the season, this rein comes at the wrong time as they try to ha harvest their drought-stricken crops. >> thank you, al. let's go back to matt and tampa. >> paul ryan delivered an impassioned speech here last night as he officially accepted the vice presidential nomination. tonight mitt romney gets his turn. peter alexander is here with more on last night's speech and what to look forward to today. good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, to be very clear this is the most important moment of mitt romney's political life. the stage is certainly set here, or to be fair, you may hear it behind us, the stage is being physically set. they're rebuilding it for tonight. this room was more electric last night than so far paul ryan going on the attack saying the president has squandered his

opportunity and promising a romney/ryan ticket will not duck the responsibilities. the 4 2-year-old conservative quickly assumed the role of attack dog. >> these past four years we have suffered no shortage of words in the white house. what is missing is leadership in the white house. >> reporter: the pride of janesville, wisconsin, ryan tried to appeal to a wide audience, including tea party conservatives. as well as younger voters. >> college graduates should not have to spend their 20s in their childhood bedrooms staring up at faded obama posters.

the greatest threat to medicare is obama care and we're going to stop it. >> reporter: ryan also poked fun at his running mate, 23 years his senior. >> there are the songs on his ipod, which i heard in the campaign bus and i also heard in the elevator. he urged me to play some and i said my starts with acdc and ends with led zeplin. >> we can get the economy growing again! >> reporter: the night also touted two fellow republican party heavyweight ps. >> we do not have a choice. we cannot be reluctant to lead

and you cannot lead from behind. >> we must return to our best traditions of american leadership and support those who face down the brutal tierney of their oppressors and our enemies. >> reporter: notably absent, presidents george w. and george h.w. bush. >> dad and i know what it takes to be a president and there's no doubt in our minds that mitt romney will be a great president. >> he's a great man. >> reporter: he offered his own many pregs -- impression of dan carvey. >> gotta do it. >> reporter: tonight it's important to note he'll be introduced not just by the florida senator marco rubio but

by a mystery guest causing a lot of buzz here in tampa. some of the names being floated around this morning, nancy reagan and clint eastwood. >> peter alexander just below us on the floor of the convention here. jeb bush is the former governor of the state of florida. thanks for coming in. you watched the speech last night. did paul ryan do what he had to do? >> first of all, he introduced himself to the american voters. he's from the heartland of our country, comes from a background many can relate to. he's been extraordinarily successful. i love his mom. i love the whole package. >> most of the reviews were pretty strong in terms ofighe m 40 minutes of vitriol.

>> i thought it was a good speech. normally they submit budgets and have ideas and present them to the congress. the only guys who have has substantive plans to deal wit president's economic policy. that's fair . paul ryan. he tacklked about that and talk about the failures of the president's economic policy. that's fair game. >> one of the things he ryan fa mention he served on that same debt commission and as the gop's ranking member of the house budget committee, he ultimately voted against the same recommendation. where is the truth in that? why is he barking up that tree? >> i don't think you've ever heard barack obama say simpson-bowles in the same sentence. he didn't say if it was good or simpson-bowles in the same sentence. he didn't say if it was good or bad. he never acknowledged its

existence. paul ryan didn't deal with it because it didn't deal with entitlement reform. >> let's talk about women. they are going to be key to this election. governor romney has chipped away at the gender gap. it was about 25 points in the advantage of president obama. it's down to about 10 or 12. but some worry about the addition of paul ryan and bringing him him his staunchly conservative views on issues like abortion it will slow that bringing him him his staunchly ironervative views on issues likepeopbortio w pursue their owdreams mont?t>>he repub if you create an environment where people can p pro-life ands can win. >> social issues will play that big a factor in your opinion? >> i'm pro-life and i know paul ryan is. these are deeply held views. but that's not going to create a job for someone who is laid off. >> remember in 2008 that

somewhat favorite hillary clinton ad about the 3:00 a.m. phone call and was barack obama prepared to answer it? voters decided he was. now he's had four years to work with foreign policy and national security. governor romney and congressman ryan don't have that same experience. are they prepared to answer that 3:00 an phone call? >> absolutely. absolutely. the president gets pretty good marks for foreign policy efforts but it's because his economic policy is so bad. rit.ared to that it looks all i think if you had a debate about not just is he capable of being president, of course he is. the president has served but his politics have been week. i love conde rice's respectful description of a weak foreign policy and i think mitt romney will restore a sense that the united states has a powerful moral role in the world. >> you talked about this election and said "this probably was my time" and it struck me. are you having second thoughts about not running? >> there was a comma there and

it said "and i'm completely comfortable with my decision." >> no second thoughts? >> no second thoughts. >> they call it rnc 2012, the road to 2016. does it make you laugh or make you think about 2016? >> it makes me laugh as much as these twins. i'm going to stick around to see these twins perform. >> we're happy we could provide a little laughter for you. you can see mitt romney's acceptance speech on tonight's coverage of the republican national convention right here on nbc. coming up, we'll talk to the always interesting bill o'reilly. for now let's head back to natalie. >> good morning, everyone. another deadly day in afghanistan as two nato service members have been killed this morning in a helicopter crash in the country's south just a day after three nato troops were

killed in an insider attack when a man in uniform turned his weapon on coalition forces. >> the west nile virus shows no sign of slowing down as cases nationwide are up 40% from last week. at least 66 people have died. the cdc is warning this could become the worst year on record for the mosquito-borne virus. >> a 100-year-old driver who backed his car into a crowd of school children have police vetting was the accident a case of bad brakes or bad judgment? >> reporter: it was a low-speed accident but still terrifying. police say preston carter, 101 next week, had backed out of a parking space into a crowd on the sidewalk near south l.a.'s main street elementary school. >> it was a cadillac down the street was backing out of one of work tdo you the parking stalls. he misjudged the street and

backed up into the sidewalk where the kid and parents were standing. >> reporter: carter, who had a valid driver's license and was not cited for any infraction said his brakes failed. >> one thing i want to say is thisi have sympathy and love for each family. it was on no purpose. >> reporter: in 2003 an 86-year-old driver hit the gassin stegas instead of the break and plowed into an open air market killing 10 and injuring 63. as for carter, his own daughter, rose jenkins, said she'd long worried about his driving. >> i'm very concerned about it. i wanted him to stop driving for the last year. i think this is a wake-up call for him and i don't think he'll be driving anymore. >> reporter: several children were pinned under his cadillac while others pounded on his

window to get his attention. while there's no legal reason he shouldn't have been driving, friends and family whether there's another question that should have kept him from getting behind the wheel. >> and courtney reagan is at the nasdaq for us this morning. >> investors will see retail numbers this morning. and elsewhere isaac continues to be the focus for the energy market as investors and traders alike pay attention to those refinery shutdowns along the gulf coast. prices at the pum many already up 5 cents this week to a national average of $3.80 a gallon. natalie? >> thank you. and a practice that seemed like pure dollars and cents to a popular mexican feud chain is getting some customers fired up. chipotle foundation had been

rounding customers' tabs up to the nearest nickel. they say it helps keep lines down and think say they'll stop rounding up. >> and bill rancic took to twitter to announce the arrival of edward duke rancic. a huge congratulations to them. we cannot wait to meet little edward. it is now 7:20. back offer to savannah. >> like the name, too. sounds very regal. >> edward duke, yes. >> now back to al in new orleans and get the rest of his forecast. hey, al. >> reporter: hey, savannah. maybe it was a tribute to john

way. you never know. let look at your forecast around the rest of the country. new york city today fantastic, sunshine, 85 degrees. risk of strong storms in the lower mississippi river valley as tropical storm isaac makes its way up. look for more heat in the southwest. high surf advisories along the southern california coast. we've got a beautiful day in beautiful miami. partly cloudy sky, partly sunny and a high of 89 degrees. >> good morning.nant rain from we will see mostly sunny skies. it will be a little bit warmer than yesterday.

>> and, savannah, i know i'm standing in what's outside of lake pontchartrain. we've actually had fish. a couple of local guys tell me they're called mullet. you of course about mullet. >> the mullet i'm familiar with is a little bit different. al, thank you for the education. appreciate it. see you later. >> and just ahead, prince harry apologizes to the queen for the las vegas party pictures. as william and kate step out at last night's opening of the paraolympic games. we're live with the details.

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>> this is wbal-tv 11 news in baltimore. >> good morning. i am stan stovall. the search continues for the boater who went missing on tuesday. sky team 11 was over the scene, where a 52-year-old man jumped into the water to rescue two stranded swimmers. the swimmers were ok but the man who tried to help them has not been seen since. crews called off the search on

wednesday but say they will continue until the man's body has been recovered. here is sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. >> we have some accidents and at the grand prix closures in the city. this one is now clear. west nursery road is getting back to normal. southbound 795, getting rid of the beltway. -- getting word of the beltway. watch for crash in the city. another one at loch raven boulevard. eastbound i-70 towards 29. ellicott city and old frederick, watch for a crash. continued closures on southbound 395. pratt street is closed at pact are, along with other roadways due to the grand prix. this back up is growing by the minute. we will switch over to a live view and see what it looks like. 95 and caton avenue, not picking up northbound delays

yet. you can go to our website for more on the grand prix closures. over to you, tony. >> nice start for us this thursday. 64 at the airport, 60 in taneytown, 62 in jarrettsville. a little warmer than yesterday, but comfortable. going to get warmer tomorrow, but it will stay dry. 91 on friday. scattered thunderstor

7:30 on this thursday morning, 30th of august. take a look at the crowd back at rockefeller plaza. they're gathered to see one of the hottest new names in music, cher lloyd. she's a british sensation and she'll take the stage in our 8:30 hour. i'm matt lauer in tampa, florida, savannah guthrie is in new york. a man who never shies away from sharing his opinion, bill o'reilly is here and we'll ask him what he thought of paul ryan's speech and what he wants to hear from mitt romney. >> also ahead, a 3-year-old deaf boy whose parents say he was

told to chang the way he signed his name at schoo because they say school officials say it looked like a gun sign. we'll have an exclusive live interview with his family. >> and, go ahead, we dare you not to smile with when we see this video of 1-year-old 2010s jamming out to their dads guitar. the question is will we be smiling when we try to get them to jam live. what could possibly go wrong? >> you know how i feel about most of these viral videos. they make me feel like i a haha virus. this one makes me laugh. >> the royal family, some of. this attended the paralympic games while prince harry prepared for his first outing since the trip to las vegas. we go to buckingham palace.

>> reporter: last night several members of the royal family were out for the paralympics. prince harry was not expected to attend and he didn't. very soon we'll see him back in the public eye. the whole family wanting to put, no doubt, last week well behind them. >> i declare open the london 2012 paralympic games. >> reporter: another global sporting celebration, another night for london to shine. as well as the royal family. the queen, prince edward, princess ann and william and kate back in the olympic stadium supporting the paralympians. no prince harry. ever since the embarrassing party pics, he has stayed far away from cameras. >> prince harry is currently

back in scotland. he did spend some quality time with his father, prince charles, up there. and of course he went to make a formal apology to her majesty queen, very much a strong telling off from granny, i can imagine. >> reporter: after her own somewhat difficult year, kate's sister pippa just released her new book. harry had been a star lately representing the firm, good work and military service. even his more laid-back antics made him the guy everybody seemed to want to laugh with. the stunned reaction has been how could he or anyone around him let this all go public? still plenty are defending him with humor. tens of thousands have liked his fabook page called support prince harry with a naked salute and soldiers of all stripes have, male and female fully armed the full monty, the

mankini. >> he would like to go back out there and forget exactly what's just happened. of course if he does good deeds and comes backs commended, then hopefully people will forget. >> reporter: harry's good deed will begin at home. next week he'll be at the paralympics. there are certain to be some changes to his security detail. >> michelle kosinski in london, thank you. >> al is in new orleans. hey, al. >> savannah, how are you doing? we're standing just outside of lake pontchartrain. can you see the horizon but it has overflowed its banks. it is slowly receding. the good news is the winds are coming in this direction so

they'll be pushing that water back into the banks of lake pontchartrain. the latest on isaac it is now a tropical storm. it is slowly making its way to the north. it's 55 miles southeast of alexandria louisiana, winds out of the northwest at 8 miles an hour. it makes its way, the path of the storm, by early friday morning. it is just a remnant low into arkansas, eventually moving into missouri by saturday morning and then by sunday morning it's a low pressure system bringing rain to central illinois and indiana. rainfall amounts are going to be the next big story out of this system. we're talking about 7 to 10 inches of rain as f >> good morning. we're off to a nice start on this thursday appeared comfortable as far as the

humidity. high temperature in the mid to and that's your latest weather. matt? >> the republican national convention wraps up here in tampa tonight with mitt romney's acceptance speech. so what should we expect? bill o'reilly is the host of "the o'reilly factor" on fox news and he has a book "lincoln's last days." you got here yesterday but you've been watching this. what do you think so far? >> it's the usual. nothing different than the other 1,500 conventions that i covered. the republicans are -- they're a little bit energized. i think they think they have a pretty good shot to defeat

barack obama. i think they're a little more optimistic than they were four years ago with john mccain. >> this is supposed to be mitt romney's coming out party. they say there seems to be more enthusiasm for some of the younger faces. talk to delegates and they're more likely to talk about chris christie and they point enthusiast click to paul ryan. is this mitt romney's convention or a new face of the party? >> most people who do this kind of a thing, travel on political ventures are conservative people or liberal people as you'll see next week in charlotte. they're not the mainstream votvote voter. they're very committed and id ideologic ideological. it's conservatives are going to go for the conservatives. it's not a big revelation. >> when you talk about the conservatives and we talk about the gender gap and how important

women are, do you think this convention is reaching out to the people who are going to decide this election, independents, moderates and women? >> yeah, it does because what ryan said last night, what romney's going to say tonight gets on the internet and the internet dominates now. so they get their applause lines, they get at least some kind of visibility to people who aren't paying that close of attention. 20 million people watched some part of the convention had year. there's 320 million people in the country. so political candidates have to get their word out. this is the only way to really do it. >> what do you have make of chris christie? he gave a speech that got a lot of mixed attention. some people thought he talked more about himself and what was happening in new jersey and not enough about mitt romney. what do you think about chris christie? >> today i saw the word narcissistic attached to christie. i didn't think it was that bad. i think he said this is what i

have what i've done in my state, smaller challenges. maybe he should have worn a romney t-shirt, "like mitt" but i didn't think it was that bad. >> when you look at what's gone on and what will go on here tonight, are conventions necessary anymore? >> two days, not four. this is like one of those marathon dances they had in the 20s where you never stop dancing until you collapse. hope bloviating can you take? two days? one night for the vice president, one for the presidential nominee. and it's going to be worse in charlotte. what are they going to be talking about there? what? >> when i saw you here, i thought you came here to see me. >> in is a children's book,

matt. >> children. >> as you said very eloquently, which i wrote by the way, it's an adaptation of "killing lincoln," the adults book. it was so popular, 2 million people have read it, we should kid should really get it. we put a lot of pictures in there, big print and some adults will probably like this children eaves book as well. we got to get the kids back involved back with their country. they think the united states of america lives on the internet. we've got to get them involved. >> when it comes to politics, don't you think one of the big problems getting kids involved is all of the negativity in. >> kids like negativity. >> but when they hear all the negativity -- >> that's way too pin headed. it's boring. that's why they don't like it. we make it exciting in "lincoln's last days." if these guys would make it a

little more, sighting here, less predictable, less scripted, more people would watch. people think politics is boring because it is. >> are you now going to go from the 16th president right down to current day? are you going to do one of these president as year for the next 40 years? >> we have "killing kennedy" coming out october 2nd. we're going to hire somebody to read it to lauer. >> just put it on tape. i'll read it in the car. >> do i have to get someone to put the tape in and push a button for you? >> and if could you provide head phones, that would be good, too. >> coming up, twin babies. they like to rock out to their dad's guitar but will they do it on television? we'll find out right after this. [ elizabeth ] i like to drink orange juice

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back now at 7:45 with one of the cutest things we have ever seen. we showed you this video on wednesday, identical 1-year-old twin girls rocking out to their dad's guitar. >> are you ready? ♪ ♪ >> and this morning we brought chloe and alexis here. they are already dancing. they're here with their parents, dan and ashley. we're going to see if we can get them to do it live in a moment.

you came from kansas, it's your first visit to new york city. all do you it post a video on youtube and now it's a sensation. >> it's kind of crazy. >> it's unexpected. >> are you overwhelmed by the reaction? i'm sure you guys find these little girls adorable. did you know america would? >> no, not like this. didn't see this coming. >> in fact, there's even i believe a parody of this. they've taken what the girls did and play it now to "the night at the roxbury." the song is a song you composed. do you girls just love music? >> they do. they love all kinds of music. we kind of emphasize all genres of music. they appreciate it all. >> are there other songs they like? are you doing "free bird"? >> i play nianything i can thin

of, britney spears, pearl jam. >> and you seem to play at meal time so it's a way to get them to eat their green peas? >> it's working. >> what people love about the video is the way they check each other out right before as if to say okay, let's get this party started. are they in sync a lot? >> yeah, since they're identical, a lot of stuff they do is the same. >> kind of like there's our theme song, let's go. so cute. what has the reaction been in. you put the video up. how did it become a viral video? >> we had no idea. ellen had it on her twitter page and facebook page and all of a sudden millions of views. >> do we have stars in our future? are you thinking maybe they'll be on a commercial or something someday?

no, she doesn't like that idea. okay, i'm sorry. don't be mad, alexis. >> did you drop something? >> oh, no. well, she didn't like the commercial idea. she's like, i'm only 1 years old. what do you think -- >> should we go ahead and give this a shot and have dad get the guitar going? >> i know it's hard to play guitar on national tv but it's okay. do your best. >> oh, look, daddy's going to play for you. >> maybe we'll work that out for you, daddy. >> here's your cheerio. >> honey -- >> poor girl. >> you know, earlier in the green room we did this very experiment and they did great. we should show the video.

this was a little bit earlier and they were dancing right on cue. the poor girls have flown all night. they didn't really get a chance. they're probably really tired. this just proves why we don't do live experiments with little babies but, alexis, you're right. it's early, we all feel like crying. >> radner family, thank you so much. chloe and alexis, we really appreciate it. if the girls want to stick around, we have cher lloyd, very popular with the kids. they can dance to that on our concert stage. thank you very much. you want to play us out to commercial? >> sure. >> great to have you here by the way. and we're back in a few minutes. stay refreshed! . hey boys, i have an idea. [ female announcer ] new lipton tea & honey. sweetened with honey, made from real tea leaves and real fruit flavors. mmm...that is so good.

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>> this is wbal-tv 11 news in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. here is sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. >> motorists cannot get a break. we have an accident on northbound 95 and russell street. becoming a mass in that area. we will get in live view in a moment. two accidents on southbound 795. owings mills and ballfield road, watch for crash. if you are traveling in westminster, there is an accident. the usual volume-related delays, but the biggest delays are in the city around the grand prix

closures. go to our website, wbaltv.com, for them because there are so many to mention. it is ams leading up to 395. delays on stretch back to this far, but a little bit further north, the backup begins. over to you, tony. >> with a bang as nice and quiet. a warmer today than yesterday. dew points are running in the upper 50's and low 60's. 63 in westminster. we have a little high, thin cloud cover. mostly sunny skies. high temperatures climb into the mid-to-of-80's. it will get a little warmer and more humid tomorrow. scattered hit and miss thunderstorms are possible on the holiday weekend. the moisture from isaac is

coming through. temperatures in the mid-80's.

♪ 8:00 now on a thursday morning, it's august 30, 2012. our crowd is filled with brats this morning, that's what music sensation cher lloyd call her fans. in fact, some of these guys have been here since wednesday. cher stopped by and gave them a big thrill. in a few moments she'll be here to perform live on our stage. i'm savannah guthrie in new york. matt is in tampa covering the national convention. >> we'll look forward to the music coming up in the next half hour. here mitt romney will take the stage behind me tonight to delivery guess you'd have to say would be the most important

speech of his campaign. they're rebuilding part of the stage this morning so it will have a slightly different look when mitt romney and his wife and family take to the stage tonight. there is ongoing buzz over the possible mystery guest, with guesses from clint eastwood to tim tebow pip ran into the owner of the new york jets on the floor yesterday morning and asked him about the possibility that tebow would be here tonight. heap said considering the jets are playing in philadelphia tonight he doubts he can get tim tebow here in time p. you might crossed that one off the list. meanwhile we'll look ahead to next week's democratic national convention. you're going to be doing the honors in charlott >> i will. maybe we should get the identical wins come and perform on demand. it worked so well for us. >> i think you may want to let

that one lay. >> yes. a little 3-year-old boy who is deaf, his parents say the school asked him not to sign his name the way he does because according to the parents, the school told him it looks like a sign for a weapon. we're going to talk to this family live. the school denies it, by the way. and another story to catch your attention, a grandmother is about to give birth to her own grandchild. she's serving as a surrogate for her daughter. let's get a check of the day's other top stories. we have natalie morales at the newsdesk. >> good morning, everyone. evacuations still under way for gulf coast residents stranded by isaac, which is moving inland as a tropical storm. president obama declared federal emergencies in louisiana and mississippi. kate snow is in new orleans with the look at the damage there. kate, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to

you, natalie. this was a real test for new orleans, seven years to the day after hurricane katrina. and while isaac was not nearly as strong a storm, it did linger over this city. the damage looks nothing like katrina damage but the wind and the rain did take a toll. the wind has died down but nearly 24 hours since isaac roared ashore here. look at the rain. it's still coming down. we're going to go down in our car to see what kind of damage we see in new orleans. this is probably why 75% of new orleans doesn't have power right now. these could be live wires so we're not going to get out of the car. you think they've been out of that house since katrina probably? >> there's been nobody in that house. somebody is actually living there. they have a little roof left on top there. >> no, that's bad. this is the canopy that used to be over the pump. it's completely upside down. look at this.

there's a couple cars in here flooded out. despite sporadic flooding and damage, the mayor says the billions spent to protect this city worked. >> the most important thing is the levees that were completely rebuilt, they acted exactly like they should and protected the city like they were supposed to. we have a huge amount of rain, power lines down, sporadic flooding. nothing came close to what katrina offered. >> reporter: that said, they won't let their guard down. >> humility is the better part of valor. it's the start of hurricane season. if this had been a 3, 4 or 5, you and i may be having a different discussion today. >> reporter: that green grass back there, that's a levee. it keeping the waterom standing in from getting into the city of new orleans. mayor tells me this morning it's all about clean up. they really want businesses and stores to reopen this morning,

natalie, so people can get out and start getting food and supplies. the power company will be out, utility workers out this morning trying to restore power. natalie? >> kate snow in new orleans. thanks, kate. mitt romney accepts his party's nomination for president tonight at the republican national convention in tampa. paul ryan accepted the vice presidential nomination last night. he pledged that he and romney will turn the economy around. you can watch mitt romney's acceptance speech tonight of the republican national convention at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific time. and what's trending today? venus has a face that's divided right down the middle, black with the green eye on one side and the brown with the blue eye

on the other. >> and iconic disney characters have been stretched and slimmed down for the new holiday store campaign. people are complaining the new runway ready mini is too skinny. and jennifer lopez has been banned from a restaurant over n an -- and lindsay lohan has been banned from a restaurant and an unpaid $46 tab. lindsay said she thought the producers were paying. and gaga tweeted, um, are those

my earrings?" that joke may be too soon. >> just north in lake pontchartrain, the old town section is underwater. they have evacuations going on right now. here's the latest on the positioning of isaac. it's a tropical storm 35 miles southeast of luouisiana, the pah of the storm bring it is up as a tropical storm through northern louisiana. then by friday afternoon it's a tropical remnant low becoming a depression and then a low pressure system by sunday morning into illinois and then on into indiana. we do have tornado watches in effect for parts of louisiana, mississippi and alabama through this afternoon and rainfall amounts still going to be kind of heavy. we're talking about anywhere from 5 to about 12 inches of additional rain from new orleans all the way on up into central >> good morning.

we will see mostly sunny skies. it will be a little bit warmer than yesterday. >> and that's your latest weather. savannah? >> al, thank you. coming up next, a touching and rather unusual story. a grandmother set to deliver her own grandchild today. >> and then a bit later, a live concert from cher lloyd. but first these messages. si zzli

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>> right before surgery, emily received even more shocking news from her doctor -- she was pregnant. >> i can't describe what that was like. >> though they couldn't save the fetus, emily's doctors assured her they would try to save her ovaries so she could produce eggs. >> it's not necessary to remove the ovaries. the decision was made to take out the uterus alone and leave the ovaries in place. >> after the surgery, they used in vitro fertilization but they needed a surrogate to carry the baby to term. help came from an unlikely candidate. emily's mom, 52 at the time, wand too give her daughter a gift, a grandchild for her, a child for them. >> the thought of emily and mike not being able to have children and share that piece of their lives with someone just broke my

heart. >> mike and i were both pretty much like i don't think you could do that. >> but dr. helen kim, an in vitro specialist, told them it was possible. >> when women get older, sometimes their uterus develops abnormalities that make it difficult to carry a pregnancy but her mom's uterus was perfect. >> this month 49-year-old linda serious gave birth to her own grandson, acting as a surrogate for her daughter who has a heart condition that made pregnancy danger for her. and in 200856-year-old jackie gave birth to her daughter's triplets. she smoke to meredith vieria. >> it's amazing but i'd do it again. >> now almost at term, cindy admits she had some concerns but

says it was worth it. >> i worried about the physical ramifications of being pregnant at this age because i had no idea what to expect. the end result of this is that two wonderful people are going to get to raise their baby. >> a bond between mother and daughter now sem engtcemented ad on to a new generation. >> this is a continuation of everything she's done in her entire life, which is to make sure i have the best life possible. this just reaffirms everything that i know about her and love about her. >> and as we mentioned, cindy is set to undergo a scheduled c-section today. good luck to all of them. dr. nancy snyderman, we just saw three women giving birth to their grandchildren. how common is this? >> it's not common. because it's scientifically possible, we're seeing it on an

increase. one, people may be infertile. healthy grandmothers can step in. >> what does it take for a grandmother to be successfully a surrogate? >> i think one of the things you really saw in this piece was how healthy grandma looks. she's fit, she's not heavy, obviously not a smoker. she's really taken good care of her body. so it requires her to go see the doctor, make sure she's physically fit, it means she's going to have to be on hormones to plump up the lining of the uterus, like any other surrogate that gets ready and from a psychiatric standpoint, the surrogate has to remember you're the vessel, you're not mom. and then the long-term problems. older moms can go into labor earlier. that's why these moms get sectioned. and if they get implanted with too many embreyoembryos, they r

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