good morning, it's wednesday, august 29, 2012. welcome to the site of the republican national convention. hurricane isaac strikes new orleans and along the gulf coast bringing heavy rain and damaging winds. >> here in tampa, governor chris christie and ann romney try to rally the crowd. osama bin laden's life revealed in a controversial new book by a navy seal 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 -- hurricane isaac plows into the gulf coast

bringing serious winds and a big storm surge with it. we're officially in the fight. 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. >> the rebuilt levees are getting a first major test since katrina hit seven years ago. his name is mitt romney and you should really get to know him. 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, i want to hear them say it. >> real leaders don't follow polls, real leelders change polls. >> a controversial new book by a navy seal contradicts reports that osama bin laden was reaching for a weapon when he was shot.

>> discovering a bomb in central munich. experts tried to defuse it, but failed. >> and he was there to catch it. >> oh, my. >> you have a normal productive father/son relationship. >> i wouldn't go that far, dave. >> the oldest registered user of facebook is a 101-year-old woman named florence. you can friend her, but trust me, you don't want to see her spring break photos. >> all that matters. >> thursday night, florida senator marco rubio will be introducing mitt romney to the nation. >> on "cbs this morning." >> where do you think you're going to go? have you thought about anything? i got some stuff i've written down. i got some stuff i've written down. >> give it to me. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." seven years to the day after hurricane katrina, another

hurricane is pounding new orleans. isaac hit the louisiana coast last night with top winds of 80 miles an hour. the slow-moving storm is bringing heavy rains across a wide area. tornado warnings are up from southern louisiana to alabama. >> and more than 400,000 people have lost power in louisiana alone. flooding is reported along the mississippi coast and water spilled over one levee southeast of new orleans. we want to go to byron pitts in new orleans first. good morning, byron. >> good morning. here in new orleans we've seen wind gusts north of 80 miles per hour. trees are down, streets are flooded, power outages widespread. all to be expected. as bad as it is here, it's worse further south. police officers are out in these weather conditions going door to door looking for people who

declined their order to evacuate. overnight as hurricane isaac dumped more than an inch of year 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. >> we rode with national guard troops who along with new orleans police patrolled the mostly empty streets. a major problem? more than 350,000 without power across louisiana. >> see that. >> home video captured power lines popping in the storm. low-lying communities south of new orleans like plaquemine's pearish got the worse of it. >> when this 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. before sunset shall the curious, the carefree lined the wat fronts. >> that's a little crazy. i would not be doing that in the water. it's too dangerous. i don't know what's out there. >> the 80 mile per hour winds and rain increased, safety became the biggest concern. >> it's a storm. it's a danger. we'll be responsive and wait for this thing to pass and we'll be ready tomorrow morning. >> authorities won't be able to make a widespread damage assessment until the wind dies down several hours from now. as for the people who lost electricity, many will be without until at least thursday. charlie, nor after, back to you. >> byron pitts. like katrina, it's hammering the gulf coast. let's go to gulfport, mississippi, 80 miles from new orleans. mark strassmann is watching the storm from there. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning,

norah, i'm standing 30 yards in front of the gulf of mexico. pelting rain behind me and winds have intensified. remember, all of mississippi faces the northeast quadrant of isaac which is the most powerful and potentially punishing side. 60 mile an hour winds are blowing, sheets of rain horizontally across the area. many roads are undrivable. bad news if you're a hurricane holdout with regret. i-95 runs the length of the mississippi coast lined and has been shut down from the biloxi bay bridge to the bay st. louis bridge. it may not reopen again until friday. by the time they got to a house fire by boat, the vacant house had burned down to the stilts. so today, right now the real worry going to be storm surge and nearby towns reported storm surge. high time is not until 10:00 a.m. local time.

norah, and charlie, is could get worse. >> mark strassmann, thank you. we want to check on the southern louisiana coast where isaac made landfall last night. manuel bojorquez is in houma, louisiana, northwest of new orleans. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. here in houma, 55 miles southwest of new orleans, strong winds of 80 miles per hour have left nearly 10,000 people without power and in surrounding parishes nearly 300,000 homes without electricity this morning. already, there are reports of damage coming in from the coastal communities of terrebonne parish. at one point it stalled out over louisiana with no chance of relief from the pounding rain and wind storms. at the fastest point, it was traveling at 22 miles per hour as it made its way towards the

gulf coast. last night it slowed to 7 miles per hour. while a slower speed might sound for giving, it dumps more rain while leaving locals and cleanup crews at a standstill with no clear sign of when the storm will clear up or out. i also want to point out, right now we're standing next to the houma navigation canal. with all that water being churned up in the gulf right now by isaac, the concern here is that this will flood at 6 feet and a flood gate designed to prevent that from happening is still under construction and will not be complete until next hurricane season. charlie and norah? >> that's a big concern. manuel bojorquez, thank you so much. isaac is slowly moving inland. david bernard, chief meteorologist of our miami station, cbs 4, is watching the path of this hurricane. david, tell us what you expect as we watch this over the next 24 hours. >> well, one thing i can tell you, norah, is where manuel is in houma, it's about to get

worse. it's about to arrive in terrebonne parish. you see the strong bands over biloxi and -- those are tracking to the west. it's only going to get worse in these areas. it's going to last for about the entire day. the latest position as of about five minutes ago is 50 miles southwest of new orleans or centered directly over houma, louisiana. only moving northwest at 6. by late tonight and early tomorrow morning, it's going to be across central louisiana. these winds are going to blow all day long and it's not really going to be until we get into early friday morning that it begins to finally weaken. here's the wind field now with the hurricane-force winds and gusts over southeast louisiana. notice how the tropical storm the southern part of the state all day today and tonight. not until we get into early tomorrow morning does that wind field begin to contract and shrink as the storm finally begins to weaken. that is going to mean a

continued push of east winds, storm surge, heavy rain and more power outages are going to be likely as the day goes along. it's going to last a long time. a lot of people on twitter talking about is it ever going to end. it's going to blow for another good 6 to 12 hours. >> david bernard, thank you. we'll have much more on hurricane isaac throughout the morning. we'll go back to new orleans and the gulf coast to check on conditions there. >> our other big story, of course, is 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, there were two very different messages directed at different audiences but they both hit on trust and

truth. ann romney says this is a man you can trust. i know him. he will not fail. chris christie said we all know the other side has filed failed and they're lying about it. we're telling you we can make america great again. >> his name is mitt romney and you should really get to know him. >> 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. and those story books never seemed to have a chapter called m.s. or breast cancer. what mitt romney and i have is a real marriage. [ applause ] >> 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 hold this country together. >> ann romney came to talk about love and the crowd gave her love back, especially when her husband came on stage after. but then came the keynote. new jersey governor chris christie. 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. [ applause ] >> i will not be part of the generation that fails that test and neither will you. >> a tailor made for a different group of voters, all those independents who think the country is on the wrong track, that the american dream is slipping away. >> i don't know about you. but i don't want my children and grandchildren to have to read the history book, what it was like to live in an american century. >> christy said the president's

ideas failed and he wasn't being straight about it. >> they believe the american people don't want to hear the truth. they believe the american people need to be coddled by big government. they believe america is content to live the lie with them. >> he was pitch perfect, a speech for our time. he talked directly to all those people, charlie and norah who are worried our best days are behind us. he made an indirect hit on president obama and said 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. like morning in america, reagan, we can get to those better days. >> jan crawford, thank you. the republicans nominated the romney-ryan ticket. and the president was in iowa and colorado. we saw him during a stop in iowa state university. the president talked about

what's been happening at the republican convention. >> it should be a pretty entertaining show. and i'm sure they'll have some wonderful things to say about me. 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 and speaking just before ryan will be former secretary of state condoleeza rice who joins us this morning. welcome. >> good morning. >> what's your mission here? what are you going to tell mees 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, 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 chaotic and dangerous. we have a middle east that's quite clearly in a sense of chaos. even as we look for the promise of the arab screen, there's so much uncertainty. the president of egypt going to china. something that would have been unheard of just a few years ago. this really is a time where the united states needs -- >> is there not guilty different that a president romney would do? >> 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 the strong signals, when the united states somehow makes itself one among many, perhaps in the context of a security council where it's not possible to get firm action, the world is really a pretty dangerous place. i think that is what governor romney, we hope president romney would bring. >> we just saw the headline in the wall street journal that republicans are going to blast president obama on foreign policies today. tonight, it's you, john mccain, 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 to 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. >> president obama isn't doing anything wrong -- >> there is no doubt that the united states' voice has been

muted. when the united states voice is muted, the world is more dangerous place. there's no -- >> how is the united states voice muted? >> 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 say no, no, no and the chinese. we don't have an answer. when that is the case, it's a dangerous place. that's when al qaeda and chaos -- >> i think the president agrees with that as well. having covered the white house. the question is whether you'd be willing to advocate a president romney wobbling to commit american troops and american lives in a place like syria right now. >> no one says we should treat syria as if it needs american boots on the ground. 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. the region has a problem. >> let's assume you were national security adviser or secretary of state, two jobs you know about. >> she's already done those jobs. >> so you will accept no role in a future romney administration -- >> i am very happy professor at sanford. >> is that a no? >> that's a no. i'm a very happy professor at stanford. >> would you be saying what that you ought to do in terms of getting the -- effectively the russians. what could 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 will only come --

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

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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 area. forecasters say they expect more than 15 inches of rain to fall on much of louisiana before the center of isaac moves up to arkansas. let's go back to byron pitts who

has been in new orleans. good morning to you, byron. >> good morning norah. as the sun slowly comes over, we're getting a better sense of the damage here. at one point the rain was falling in sheets, up to 2 to 3 inches an hour. trees are down, power outages widespread. there is some flooding in the city. overnight, we took a ride-along with members of the louisiana national guard to get a better assessment of what was going on in neighborhoods. despite warning from in the streets.ere were people as bad as it is here in new orleans, it's much worse further south in plaquemines parish. the parish president tells us at least one levee is over the top and in one neighborhood, police are in the weather conditions walking door to door looking for people to fail to heed warnings to evacuate a few days ago. they won't be able to make a

widespread damage assessment until the wind dies down much, much later today. as for the households that lost electricity, they shouldn't expect power back until sometime on thursday. norah, charlie, back to you. >> when you go up the coast of gulfport, mississippi where mark strassmann is standing by. mark? >> good morning, charlie. in the last half hour, conditions have really gone south with pelting rain and 60 mile an hour winds. also the first signs of debris that's blowing in front of us. there are a couple of trees bending at a 45-degree angle behind us. struggling to stay in the ground. this will keep going as conditions continue to get worse. also hearing about moments of drama. a 6-month-old infant was riding out the storm in a houseboat. rescued, the baby is absolutely fine. it's on the

louisiana/mississippi line. the town was obliterated during katrina, only two homes standing and it's getting smacked around by isaac. 4,000 mississippians without power, 2,000 mississippians. 20 feet above sea level right now. katrina, 26-foot storm surge. that is the worry here today. high tide is not for another few hours. charlie, norah. >> mark strassmann, thanks. we turn to politics and the republican national convention. florida senator marco rubio will be in the spotlight tomorrow night. 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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younger and smaller trees that are bending, not breaking. they're struggling to stay rooted into the ground. we're seeing emergency officials try to adapt. the local curfew here has been extended with 7:00 p.m. 7:00 a.m. and extended to 9:00 a.m. because of the conditions. there's also a tornado watch in effect. hurricanes often spawn tornado. a tornado watch in effect in at least five mississippi counties until 4:00 p.m. today. another worrisome to watch for folks here. there's nobody on the road here except emergency officials are shooing people inside. norah, charlie, back to you. >> 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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this is geno toe in plaquemines parish. you're with your wife and child. >> right now i'm in my attic with my wife and my baby. the local police came around about 2:00 in the morning, told us the levee broke and within an hour the water was coming up. 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 attic to get out on the roof. >> very frightening stuff. for more than 12 hours hurricane isaac has been hitting louisiana

hard as you just 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. we'll ask him about about governor christie's speech and what mitt romney should do -- >> ep steps away from us. there are some republicans getting the red carpet treatment here. that usually doesn't happen at these conventions because they're from massachusetts. one of the bluest states, of course, in america. we even 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 topped a levee there flooding some of the homes. it remains a large category 1

hurricane capable of dumping more than 15 inches of rain. it's moving north, northwest towards arkansas and starting to weaken as it moves over land. byron pitts is in new orleans whisk battered by isaac on the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina. i've been watching you blowing in the wind. are you okay? >> i'm doing fine. thank you so much. i was in new orleans during hurricane katrina and trust me, isaac is no katrina. with that said, there are serious problems here. close to a half million people in louisiana are without power. you've heard the one harrowing story of one man in plaquemines parish south of new orleans. he called wwl station to say that he and his wife -- >> you expect that to happen when you do a live shot with the winds barreling down. byron pitts in new orleans. we'll try to get pack to him

later on. david bernard is our chief meteorologist over in miami. that would be cbs 4. david is joining us once again. david, what is happening with isaac right now? >> the bad thing, gayle, is that the storm is not moving that quickly. so those conditions that byron is in in nor lien right now, they're not going to improve for almost the entire day. we're looking at a long duration hurricane event in southeast louisiana. and again, it's just crawling northwest at 6. by late tonight, early thursday morning weakening to a tropical storm over central louisiana and into a tropical depression by the time we get into early friday morning. look at the satellite and radar composite. it is on the wrong side of this storm. it is producing strong winds out of the south and east. that is raising the tidal levels. byron was getting ready to talk about a leaf eave breach in this area in break away.

the situation is not going to get any better. the east side of that storm is where they're at. the heavy rains will continue just about for the entire day into tonight. in fact, on top of what has already fallen locally, another 15 inches of rain is possible over the next 48 hours. again, it's this track and that's going to keep the significant wind impacts across all of south louisiana, also including the new orleans area. gayle, just not a good situation this morning. the track of this storm is really the worst case scenario for southeast louisiana and new orleans. it just keeps that east wind piling into those levees. the levees are doing fine in new orleans. but it's below new orleans, again in plaquemines parish where there have been a lot of problem. >> we can see that very clearly. thank you, david bernard. we'll check on the conditions along the gulf coast in just a few minutes for you. right

a highly publicized new book reportedly is offering a new version of how osama bin laden was killed. the book by navy seal who was on the -- says bin laden wasn't fighting back according to the associate press. john miller, former deputy director of nasa intelligence joins us now from new york. john, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> the question is, what do we learn from in and does it contradict anything we knew? >> i think we learned from this that this is a difficult piece of washington reporting where

they're parsing small details with a bit of a spin. scott pelley from 60 minute and from "cbs evening news" has spoken to the navy seal who calls himself mark owen and here's how his account actually goes. he says the point man was coming up the stairs, bin laden poked his head out of the door, the point man fired twice. they went into the room, bin laden was down but still moving. that the other two seals who followed the point man into the room fired more bullets into bin laden to make sure he was dead. unaware of whether he had a grenade for a suicide bomb. yes an ak 47 was found in the room, not in bin laden's hands, as well as two pistols. that is the actual account from the actual seal who was the author of the book and the way he tells the story. >> there seems to be in the early reporting suggested that bin laden was armed and this navy seal says in fact, he wasn't armed. it's a minor detail.

do you see huge inconsistencies between what was reported at the time and what this navy seal 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. what happens is you get flash information. here's the early report. that's almost never right down to the details. and then as you do further interviews with further people and bring the details together, like a mosaic, the picture comes into focus. what some people who are reporting on the 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 crack that story down to the details. and who was also there. i don't see real discrepancies. what i see is an attempt to kind

of stirrup discrepancies in a political season and start these arguments, which is as you know, norah, better than anyone, full-time sport in washington. >> john, my understanding is that no one is contradicting that the mission was, if possible, to company tur him and not kill him. this was not a kill mission but a capture mission and if that was some possibility that he went for a weapon and 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, if bin laden seeks to surrender and says take me to your leader, i want to go to federal prison in the united states or guantanamo, i guess you could throw him in the chopper. but every realistic person who looked at that mission knew there were presidential findings going all the way back to president clinton through to two bush administrations and to the

obama administration saying if there was a chance to kill bin laden, to do it. frankly, in a tactical 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 that shot. that's the reality of it. >> john miller, thank you very much. you can see scott pelley's interview with mark owen, the pseudonym on sunday, september 9th on cbs "60 minutes." >> that is a must-see interview. also talking about politics now. undecided voters are likely to decide the presidential race. i should say they are likely to decide the presidential race. we've got 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 coming up with the former mayor.

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back here in tampa, new jersey governor chris christie gave a rousing keynote speech to the republican national convention delegate last night.

>> it is time to end this era of absentee leadership in the oval office and send real leaders back to the white house. america needs mitt romney and paul ryan. we need them right now. >> four years ago, former new york city mayor rudy giuliani was the keynote speaker at the convention. he joins us now. welcome. >> good morning. >> chris christie's speech. i didn't hear much about president obama. >> in fact, we heard from chris christie who barely mentioned mitt romney. >> you know, every keynote speech has a purpose much the convention has to decide what they want to you do. i think what think wanted him to do is set out the philosophical divide between the obama administration and the romney-ryan ticket. a philosophical divide between leadership shall confidence in the private sector, confidence in entrepreneurship. i think that's what they wanted him to do.

so they can move to the next night with paul ryan laying out what mitt romney wants to do. >> he really talked about himself. i think someone tweeted he said "i" 37 times. most of the speech was about himself. >> he was talking about chris christie as a representative of a lot of other governors. chris christie is part of a group of four or five republican governors who really excite me. about as much reform as we've had in the last 20 to 30 years. if you agree with it or not, you look at kasich in ohio, walker in wisconsin, mcdonnell in virginia, snyder in michigan who doesn't get as much attention. maybe one of the most effective of all. all these guys have done what obama hasn't done. they've actually touched a third rail and been willing to say we've got to cut pensions and entitlements. if we don't, we won't have it anymore. >> that's what his speech was. his speech was that president obama is not a courageous

leader. he gives the impression of being one. but 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 about the tough things on foreign policy on 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're doing which is abominable and disgraceful. it's making president obama like a superhero. this is like really bad stuff. you shouldn't be doing this. >> some who question whether they're trying to do that. >> whether you talk about the stuff you shouldn't talk about or discuss, you're trying to make the president look good. >> now you have a navy seal sort of breaking the code of silence and writing a book about it. it's not just the white house and cia. you have someone involved in the operation. >> and if we analyze president

obama, we'd say bad example, set up a topic. what they said about me bad example, set at the top. >> everybody is going to be tuning in tonight to see this man, paul ryan, virtually unknown a month ago. certainly a conservative circles well-liked, well-regarded. in terms of a national profile, this is someone who is deep into wonk-dom, he loves policy. he's got 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 with the number one issue. >> that was a bold choice that mitt romney made. >> you wanted marco rubio. >> i thought that would have been a bold choice also. i thought this was a very, very bold choice. that's the reason for chris' speech last night. romney made a philosophical choice, we're going to take on medicare, entitlement.

we're going to say to the american people, they're fooling you. we're not going to have it unless you fix it. we'll see how ryan does tonight. >> he's modified them but they go a heck of a lot further than a president who has never been able to pass a budget will do. this is astounding. president obama has never passed a budget. that's crazy. >> do you describe yourself as a conservative republican or moderate? >> i don't describe myself as anything. conservative on policy, conservative on the economy and moderate on social issues. some people think i'm a liberal on social issues. >> a lot of republicans think you're liberal on social issues. >> your position -- in the republican party today. >> they haven't thrown me out. >> 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 80% of the party. the other party i agree with about 20% of the party. i'm a republican, very proud. i'd like to tell people, as the first republican mayor in 50 years and the first one to remain a public in 75. >> all right. mayor, great to have you here this morning. rudy giuliani, thanks. e continue to track 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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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 spea

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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 tv. that's

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,

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