was someone else's fault. this president can tell us that the next four years will get it right. but this president cannot tell us that you're better off today than when he took office. [ applause ] america's been patient. americans have supported this president in good faith. but today the time has come to turn the page. today the time has come for us to put the disappointments of the last four years behind us, to put aside the divisiveness and the recriminations. to forget about what might have been and to look ahead to what can be. now is a time to restore the promise of america. [ applause ] many americans have given up on

this president but they haven't ever thought about giving up, not on themselves, not on each other and not on america. what is needed in our country today is not complicated or profound. it doesn't take a special government commission to tell us what america needs. what america needs is jobs, lots of jobs. [ applause ] in the richest country in the history of the world, this obama economy has crushed the middle class. family income has fallen by $4,000. but health insurance premiums are higher. food prices are higher. utility bills are higher and gasoline prices, they've doubled. today more americans wake up in poverty than ever before. nearly one out of six americans is living in poverty. look around you. these aren't strangers.

these are our brothers and sisters, our fellow americans. his policies have not helped create jobs. they've depressed them. and this, i can tell you about where president obama would take america. his plan to raise taxes on small business won't add jobs. it would eliminate them. [ applause ] his assault on coal and gas and oil will send energy and manufacturing jobs to china. [ applause ] his trillion-dollar cuts to our military will eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs and also put our security at greater risk. his $716 billion cut to medicare to finance obama care will both hurt today's seniors and depress innovation in jobs and medicine.

his trillion-dollar deficits, they slow our economy, restrain employment and cause wages to stall. to the majority of americans who now believe that the future will not be better than the past, ki guarantee you this -- if barack obama is reelected, you'll be right. i'm running for president to help create a better future, a future where everyone who wants a job can find a job. where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. an america where every parent knows their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon. and unlike the president, i have a plan to create 12 million new jobs.

[ applause ]3 f1 paul ryan and i have five steps. first, b2020north erica wille energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil, our coal, our gas, and our renewables. [ applause ] second, we'll give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. when it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice and every child should have a chance. [ applause ] third, we'll make trade work for america by forging new trade agreements. and when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable

consequences. [ applause ] and fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in america will not vanish as have those in greece. we will cut the deficit and put america on track to a balanced budget. [ applause ]3 f1 and fifth, we will champion small businesses, america's engine of job growth. that means reducing tax on business, not raising them. it means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. and it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of health care by repealing and replacing obama care.

[ applause ]3 f1 today women are more likely than men to start a business. they need a president who respects and understands what they do. and let me make this very clear -- unlike president obama, i will not raise taxes on the middle class of america. [ applause ] as president, i'll protect the sanctity of life. i'll honor the institution of marriage. [ applause ]

and i will guarantee america's first liberty, the freedom of religion. [ applause ] president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans. [ laughter ] and to heal the planet. my promise is to help you and your family.

[ applause ] i will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. president obama began his presidency with an apology tour. america, he said, dictated to other nations. no, mr. president, america has freed other nations from dictators. [ applause ]3 f2 naciones le dicten que hacer, si every american --

[ crowd chanting usa ] every american was relieved the day president obama gave the order and s.e.a.l. team 6 took out osama bin laden. [ applause ] on another front, every american is less secure today because he has failed to slow iran's nuclear threat. in his first tv interview as president, he said, we should talk to iran. we're still talking and iran's centrifuges are still spinning. president obama has thrown allies like israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on castro's cuba. he abandoned our friends in poland by walking away from our missile defense commitments. but he's eager to give russia's president putin the flexibility he desires after the election. under my administration, our friends will see more loyalty

and mr. putin will see a little less flexibility and more backbone. [ applause ]3 f1 we will honor america's democratic ideals because a free world is a more peaceful world. this is the bipartisan foreign policy legacy of truman and reagan. and under my presidency, will he retu -- we will return to it once again. [ applause ] you might have asked yourself if these last years are really the america we want.

the america that was won for us by the greatest generation. does the america we want borrow $1 trillion from china? does it fail to find the jobs that are needed for 23 million people and for half the kids graduating from college? are those schools lagging behind the rest of the developed world? and does america that we want succumb to resentment and division among americans? the america we all know has been a story of the many becoming one. united to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness. everywhere i go in america, there are monuments that list those who have given their lives for america. there's no mention of their race, their party affiliation or what they did for a living.

[ applause ] they lived and died under a single flag fighting for a single purpose. they pledged allegiance to the united states of america. that america, that united america can unleash an economy that will put americans back to work. it will once again lead the world with innovation and productivity and will restore every father and mother's confidence that their children's future is brighter even than the past. that america, that united america will preserve a military so strong no nation would ever dare to test it. [ applause ]3 f1 that america, that america, that

united america will uphold the constellation of rights that were endowed by our creator and codified in our constitution. [ applause ] that united america will care for the poor and the sick, will honor and respect the elderly and will give a helping hand to those in need. that america is the best within each of us. that america we want for our children, if i'm elected president of these united states, i will work with all my energy and soul to restore that america, to lift our eyes to a better future. that future is our destiny. that future is out there. it is waiting for us. our children deserve it. our nation depends on it. the peace and freedom of the world require it. and with your help, we will deliver it. let us begin that future for america tonight. thank you so very much. may god bless you. may god bless the american people. and may god bless the united states of america.

[ applause ] ♪ >> mitt romney is the nominee of the republican party going forward. tom brokaw, what did you make of the speech? >> well, what i thought was, brian, that it was more of a checklist than i expected. i thought maybe we would have a more eloquent statement tonight, kind of fanatic about what he is. but obviously they're concerned about women. lots of references to women. he raised the idea of taxes again, medicare. he obviously thinks that congressman ryan is a big asset to him. it came up repeatedly. there they are on the stage. i did think from a staging point of view that we had those powerful testimonials from the mormon families earlier in the evening.

and then they were followed by clint eastwood and what can only be described as a rambling appearance, which is getting a lot of attention. i think it took something away from the message that mitt romney wanted to make tonight. i can take care of your family. the best line i think in the speech was the one in which he said, president obama wants to slow the growth of the oceans. i want to help you and your family. that pretty much summarized what he hoped to get across. >> joined now by their spouses on stage. you're going to see the beginnings of 120,000 balloons falling down on this crowd. the other number, david gregory, was we asked this morning, campaign aides, how many romneys would join them on the stage. we were told the number would be north of 20, maybe 30. there's going to be a lot of family members on that stage. >> and you know what, i think that mitt romney spoke very tenderly and most personally about being a dad and being a husband. i think critics might say he

spoke very conventionally so. but this is a picture that i think he very much wants america to see. this is who he is. and his faith is a big part of that as well. and i think that's a big part of the vision that he wants to project to the country. it's what i think too many americans do not yet understand about him. >> andrea mitchell? >> he did fill in the biography. he talked about his mom who ran for the senate. he talked about his dad putting a flower on her pillow at her bedside every night. that was very touching. and he defended bain capital because he's been hammered by all the money that's been spent on that advertising to describe his business experience in a different fashion. so he did fill in the biography. and the pictures of the children and the family now are so touching. but i do think that they got off to a late start because of the clint eastwood rambling appearance. >> i felt for some time that his personal story is irreputable in terms of the quality of it.

how he raised his family, his relationship with his wife and he paid tribute to her again tonight, the relationship he had with his dad, i happen to have spent some time covering his father and he was a remarkable man of great integrity who fought within this party to make it more moderate and to make it less extreme and to make it more inclusive. and the evolution of mitt romney, the son, has gone from being a moderate to being much more conservative. the other thing that was quite striking to me tonight, the centerpiece of what's possible for this country was putting a man on the moon. there had been fewer larger government projects than that. and it did spin off a lot of private enterprise. but it was an enormous public government investment that made that extraordinary achievement possible. and then as i said earlier, it also spawned lots of scientific achievement across this country that was transferred to the private sector. >> about his business

experience, going into this, they knew this was a significant area of strength for him. and that, i thought, is what really excited the hall as well when he talked about business success and not attacking business success. people got excited about it. >> chuck todd down on the floor. chuck? >> i have to tell you, i keep coming up with a two-word theme to this speech. i called it optimistic nostalgia. i was struck by the number of phrases you heard of "return to" or "restore." it actually reminded me a lot of dole's '96 speech, which was well received and then the clinton folks were able to turn it on a dime and say, look, they're going backwards, we're going forward. i think the obama folks are going to be responsive to that. >> as promised, the hall is filling with balloons. the stage is full of romneys. and the republican party has their nominee. we'll be back at this from charlotte starting next tuesday

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faith and his vision for the future. >> reporter: hey, there. absolutely right. he did everything that mitt romney needed to do in making this convention speech. it was a very measured delivery that he gave and he hit on all of the points that people say he needed to talk about. he talked about women, he talked about his family, he talked about his faith. he talked about why he feels his country was not better off when president obama took office and he says now is time to turn the page. he took the time to run down a five-point list that he said he would need to have to turn the page for the country. and then he also made sure that he took some time to rebuke president obama's themes in the last election, the themes of hope and change. we've got some highlights from what mit romney had to say tonight. take a listen. >> if you felt that excitement when you voted for barack obama, shouldn't you feel that way now

that he's president obama? you know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him. in america, we celebrate success. we don't apologize for success. steve jobs was fired at apple. and then he capabme back and changed the world. it's the genius of the american free enterprise system to har bs the talent of the american people with a system that's dedicated to tomorrow's prosperity. not try to redistribute today's. >> you've got a speech that talked about the economy, it talked about foreign policy and went off president obama and all the issues he has failed on. i want to bring in julie carey.

i would imagine they played well? >> yeah, i spent most of the evening on the floor. that virginia delegation, that very important group to him is seated in the very front row right next to the station that also happened to be lucky enough tonight to be seated along the aisle. so mitt romney greeted them as he made his way to the stage. you can see romney shaking hands. it is a state he has already visited frequently and says he intends to win. the delegates, you could see, clearly thrilled with the chance to meet the party's presidential nominee. >> this is fantastic. it's wonderful when he walked down in the crowd and connected and shook hands. >> yeah, the contrast is great. i think so far he's outlined what young americans are feeling which is disappointment in president obama. >> and that second delegate you

heard from is just 17. he's the youngest delegate at this fashl convention. he's going to have quite a college essay to write after this convention. >> julie, thank you for that. appreciate it. we want to share one other video. the consensus has been a bit awkward. that mystery guest, clint eastwood. >> you're the best in the world. whether democrat or whether you're republican or whether you're a libertarian or whatever, you're the west. we should not forget that. when somebody does not do the job, we've got to let them go. >> reporter: clint eastwood had a chair on stage and said president obama was interviewing him in some way. if you look out on social media, people were not kind to clint eastwood and there was some talk to see if that hurt what mitt romney had to say.

but if you look at the floor behind me, people would say no. tomorrow, mitt romney, paul rooinl, they will be in virginia. they'll be campaigning about 1:00 in richmond. that is the situation live in tampa. >> tonight, a crowd of protesters marched in d.c. against romney. that group said this was their chance to respond for the republican's nomination speech. your message is to stop out sourcie ining jobs, stop tax br for the rich. people from across the district marched to the reeves center in northwest as part of their demonstration. >> we have breaking news out of temple hill's maryland. several firefighters have been injured. they were trying to save people who were trapped inside a burning apartment building. shamari stone joins us live on the phone. >> reporter: right now, fire officials told me that the huntly square condominiums in

temple hill. right now, five firefighters are injured. four had minor burns. one was overcome by the heavy smoke. we're hearing he was actually trying to help a woman. he took off his mask to give her some oxygen and was overcome by smoke, as well. the red cross is on the scene. they're helping them with temporary food and housing vouchers. well, they told me that the fire started in the kitchen and quickly spread. we'll have more information tomorrow morning on news 4. >> crimes of opportunity caught on tape. tonight, metro is releasing video of officers taking down suspected bike thieves. the story you'll see only on news 4. >> the surveillance video shows metro transit cops they said was caught in the act of stealing a

bike tuesday night. >> this was not a sting. it was sort of the right place at the right time in terms of where our plain clothes.officer was. that officer was able to catch one juvenile before he could ride away on the hot wheels. the theft happened right here at these bike racks right next to the met ro transit guard rack. more people are riding bikes in the city. there's been a bump in bike thefts including 20 in a two-year period this week alone. >> i had a bike locked up outside of my house and someone used a mechanical saw to take it off in the middle of the night. >> at city bikes, they sell sturdy "u" locks. >> auchb tioftentimes, just lik

encouragement to use adequate protection, they will skimp on that one expense and end up usually paying for it. >> friday morning, metro cops will be at the metro station handing out fliers and the club-type bike locks. >> turning now to isaac's aftermath, that system has now been downgraded to a tropical depression. but heavy rains causing problems all along the gulf coast. and more than 50,000 people were evacuated today as officials warn that had a dam on the mississippi-louisiana border could give way. isaac is responsible for at least one death in mississippi. >> a tornado spawned by isaac was captured on camera this morning in mississippi. that tornado destroyed a home. an elderly couple was inside that house but they survived. several other buildings were

damaged. >> another posz tpossible tornao was caught on the dash cam. you can see the winds pick up and throw debris to the cruiser. storm team four is back from the crescent city. welcome back, doug. >> a lot of people seeing a ton of rain from this storm. anywhere between 10 and 20 inches of rain. you could still see louisiana stuck in some of the feeder bans here. very heavy rain continuing in this area. also, many areas in the gulf coast seeing that tornado tlout. and that threat will continue tomorrow. the center of the storm now moving into arkansas. and, yes, it is e venl sventualg to start to move our way. they need to see some rain out

there and i think we're still dry on saturdays. tropical shower starting on sunday and then we run into labor day. have that labor day forecast coming up. we're not done with the tropics. >> major power outage at tyson's galle galleryia tonight. an underground switch failed and left all 107 businesses in the dark. restaurants had to close early. crews were able to restore power to most of them. however, 33 stores are still wow power. >> former uva lacross player delivered a message to the victim's family. he addressed yardly love's mother and her sister in the

courtroom. he said, "i am sorry for your loss. and i hope you find peace". a judge gave him 23 years in prison. that's three years less than the punishment that the jury had recommended. the ralawyers say they will repl that conviction and that sentence. >> today, in court, we learned that james holmes had called the university of colorado switchboard nine minutes before the rampage. the psychiatrist that holmes had been meeting with said she warned campus police about him and considered holding him for 72 hours. >> late tonight, the pent gone warned a former navy seal that it could take all of his royalties from his book. the book is called "no easy

day". it was written about the seals' experience during that raid. the book is set to be released next week. the defense department says the author has violated nondisclosure agreements. not to reveal classified information. >> still ahead, it was once under water. now, more than a year later, some of georgetown's most popular waterfront restaurants are back in business. >> and another prize hike at

news 4 got an exclusive look today at two of the regs rants along the georgetown