new orleans located now -- creeping west of new orleans located now about 54 miles west of new orleans. wind are 64 miles an hour. let's look at the satellite picture. the red are the color -- the redder the colors, the higher the cloud tops. if you see more orange and blues, it's better. it means it's not increasing in intensity. there is an additional 4 to 8 inches of rain on the way in the track to new orleans. from collapsed buildings to downed power lines, isaac's winds are making their mark. we'll go right now to care rep in new orleans keeping her eye on all -- care-in new orleans keeping her eye on all the -- karen in new orleans keeping her eye on all the developments. officials say the more than $10 million they invested in the levee system africa treen has definitely paid off, but the -- of katrina has definitely paid off, but the

high flooding remains. dozens have been rescued from flooded homes, some of them not able to follow evacuation orders. >> we tried to leave and then we didn't becae we had nowhere to go. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands of people are without power. isaac keeps churning across the region. >> this storm a very slow moving storm. it will be moving through our state. we'll be dealing with this storm through early friday morning. >> reporter: as the center of the storm moves farther inland it could bring over a foot of rain to the region. >> we are very much in this fight of hurricane isaac. we are still under hurricane warnings with the flash flood and tornado watches remaining in effect. >> reporter: new orleans mayor mitch landrieu warned residents to stay prepared. >> in the city of new orleans i would just like to say now is not the time to let your guard down. you have to stay hunkered down and stay inside and you have to stay on task. >> i more damage for this storm than i did for katrina and i

rode out katrina. >> reporter: forecasters predict isaac will weaken as it moves over land the next 48 hours. now 56 parishes have issued emergency declarations and new orleans will be in a dusk till dawn curfew come nightfall. back to you. >> we just saw a couple people walking behind you and we know after katrina the police in new orleans had to deal with a lot of looting. it part of the reason for the curfew is that that's happening again? >> reporter: yes yes, absolutely. there have been some issues. the mayor said if you loot, plan on bearing an orange suit meaning the mandatory three year sentence for looting will definitely be imposed. they are issuing zero tolerance

for anyone being out hindering the work of emergency responders. >> hard to imagine anybody would think about looting in a situation like this. thank you. i'm in the tropic tracking center with more on some of those rescues. a lot of them have been in plaquemines parish just south of new orleans. before the sun rose neighbors were helping neighbors in boats and once the sun was up the national guard and other emergency crews were able to help respond. it all became necessary as the water started to come over a levee. >> but the water came up so quick it looks like we lost everything. if i have to, i'm going to have to shoot the hole in the attic to get pout on our roof. >> that is gene -- out on the roof. >> that is gene otto trapped in the roof with his wife and newborn child. he said the water was over the door frames on the first floor of his house. we're told everyone who needed

rescued in plaquemines parish has been reached tonight. fairfax county's virginia's task force one is standing by to head to the gulf coast. the elite team has been deployed in most of our natural disasters worldwide in the last two decades including haiti, japan and to katrina. fema will make the final decision if the team is sent. we are hearing report highway no. 90 which is the main drag along the gulf and mississippi is washed out near biloxi. that part of the gulf is seeing its own share of flooding. our own scott broom is there live. i've been to biloxi once, but i do remember a lot of fancy casinos down there. >> reporter: this is the end of the road here interstate 110 where it meets hoyt 90 and out there you can see the -- highway 90 and out there you can see the gulf of mexico. that's normally beachfront, a

real testament to the power of isaac as it lingered and ling ired, how much water it pushed -- lingered, how much water it pushed onshore where 140 miles away from the center of the storm we had significant flooding in cities like mobile and biloxi. take a look at some of the pictures. you just mentioned casino row down here. this is the big bo rivage casino, highway 90 you just mentioned. it has been under water much of the day. this is flooding in biloxi, not a lot of wind damage, but there's been a significant at of flooding and not a whole -- amount of flooding and not a whole lot of damage as far as winds are concerned, but highway 90 being washed out like this is a really big problem. the water is beginning to recede as the storms move away. folks in mississippi and alabama are already getting started cleaning up. scott broom, 9 news now. >> what a mess. i hope they can get it cleaned up quickly as possible. you can tune into our digital

channel 9.3 where we've got the live satellite loop of the storm and traffic cameras from along the gulf coast. it's also on comcast channel 203, cox channel 805 and fios is channel 461. vice presidential nominee paul ryan is tonight's headliner at the republican national convention. the congressman will take the stage after other keynote addresses from senator john mccain and former secretary of state condoleezza rice. we're told they will focus on foreign affairs. mitt romney was supposed to appear with senator mccain tonight via video hookup, but convention organizers say they scrapped that plan. we'll check in with bob schieffer coming up at 6:15. at 7:00 i'll go one on one in your show live with aspiring first lady ann romney. >> plus the latest on tropical storm isaac and the dramatic 911 tapes from last week's boat collision in pasadena.

that's at 7:00. still to come this half hour a tanker flips bursting into flames trying to get onto i-95. we'll have the latest on the investigation. up. >> next isaac impact at the gas pump.

tonight we're learning gas prices are headed up. aaa says the natural average for a gallon of regular unleaded jumped a nickel overnight to $3.80. we were a opiniony less in the greater washington area -- a penny less in the greater washington area. you can find the best prices on www.wusa9.com. click on pump patrol. virginia state police are investigating a crash that killed a driver and snarled morning rush hour traffic. a tanker full of gas overturned about 2 a.m. in an exit ramp from the fairfax county parkway to i-95 north. within minutes the truck was literally swallowed by flames. the driver was killed. he's identified as 59-year-old edwin hall of charlestown, west virginia. >>still ahead a cyclist's harrowing tale about her encounter with a truck and how she hopes it will save some

other lives. >> one of the navy seals who killed osama bin laden speaks out about the raid for the first time in a 60 minutes interview. that's tonight on the cbs evening news. president clinton: this election to me is about which... candidate is more likely to return us to full employment. this is a clear choice. the republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper-income... people and go back to deregulation.

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a road bike and a moving van recently collided in bethesda. the driver of the truck fled the scene and the woman on the bike suffered some pretty bad injuriesful it's not certain she'll ever -- injuries. it's not certain she'll ever be able to ride again. this was not your typical in

experienced weekend biker. >> my nose is broken. >> reporter: it's probably fair to say this is what was left of jody grant. >> i have massive lacerations to my face as well. >> reporter: after a collision between her bike and a moving vehicle late last week in bethesda. >> i have a broken back, a broken neck, 12 of my teeth were displaced, cracked and brock. >> reporter: here's all jody grant recalls of the incident. she's on massachusetts avenue on her bike pointing this way toward the district croching cromwell drive. there's a car in the far left lane about to make a left onto cromwell, a second vehicle behind that one. the second vehicle suddenly veers into jody's path instead of waiting. >> i try to keep rethinking in my head what could i have done differently and i think the sad answer is nothing. as you can see, i took quite a beating. >> reporter: shears no amateur weekend rider. jody grant -- she's no amateur

weekend rider. jody grant owns several high end bikes. she rides to work every day, races on weekends. >> this wheel is bent. >> reporter: it's a family thing. nearly 20 bikes between the wife, husband and two daughters. >> we are cyclists. we need to be as aware of our surroundings as possible so we can stay safe. >> reporter: the drive who collided with her friday is still -- the driver who collided with her friday is still out there. >> please come forward. please let's use this to talk about what we can do differently so that this doesn't have to happen to anybody else. >> reporter: jody wants her accident to be the last between a biker and vehicle. the biker always seems to lose. >> i see a lot of texting and talking on the phone. i see a lot of absent-minded lane changes, people making u- turns without signaling. i think we have to be -- everyone has to be more careful out there. >> reporter: bruce johnson, 9 news now. >> we drivers certainly can be. the national highway traffic safety administration says in 2010 there were more than

52,000 injuries from bike and vehicle collisions in the u.s., more than 600 people on the bikes killed. the republican national convention gets back underway in about 45 minutes. joining me now is bob schieffer, chief washington correspondent for cbs news. bob, i guess if mitt romney's challenge is to make people like him, this is supposed to be paul brian's night. does he have to convince people -- paul ryan's night. does he have to convince people he'sen as scary as people say he is and -- he's not as scary as people say is he and the plan from this ticket is one the country can embrace? >> if i understand from the campaign people, paul ryan is going to talk about how scary barack obama is. i couldn't think he's going to talk much about -- i don't think he's going to talk much about himself. a lot of people thought last night governor christie was going to do that. what we saw last night was some good sound political speech

that was by chris christie but kind of pg rated. there's no question they dialed back. the person who stole the show here last night and really just captured the hearts of the people here at the convention was ann romney. she was just -- as speech goes, it was a good one, one of the best i've heard by politicians on either side of the aisle. so tonight is will be paul ryan's turn. he will take the fight to the democrats. then tomorrow night, of course, will be mitt romney's night in the spotlight and you're right. one of the problems they're dealing with here is these polls continue to suggest that people just like the president more than they like mitt romney. i mean the recent cbs poll showed that even people who thought that mitt romney was best qualified to fix the economy, the same poll shows that they still believe that barack obama had a better understanding of their lives,

their problems and what they were going through. so obviously that's going to be part of what we'll hear tomorrow night, but tonight my guess is we're going to hear more about barack obama than we will about governor romney. >> it should be another interesting couple days for sure as this republican convention goes on on one hand and then you've got crazy weather on the other hand. it's certainly going to be an interesting wrapup tonight and tomorrow. bob, thanks. >> absolutely, lesli, and that's one thing we should talk about. people here are anxious about this storm. everybody here has one eye on what's going on down there on the gulf coast. >> as they should. thanks so much. we'll see you on the air tonight. president obama did not catch any of last night's gop convention, so says his press secretary. he's busy concentrating on his own campaign. today president obama rallied the faithful at a pavilion in charlottesville near the uva

campus making a special plea to young people to get out the vote this november. let's go back to top are now for the latest on tropical storm isaac. lots of people watching it, top. >> we still have the track to worry about. it's moving very slowly, maximum winds still 70 miles per hour which makes it a high end tropical storm, again over 74 miles becomes a hurricane, under a tropical storm. it is about 55 miles west of new orleans and look, by 1:00 tomorrow afternoon still a tropical storm. anything over 39 miles per hour is a tropical storm, so still a tropical storm and still in the state of louisiana tomorrow afternoon. after that it will pick up a little steam, go through arkansas, another 24 hours, friday afternoon, and then really begin to pick up speed and turn more northeast as we go through saturday and sunday. by the time we get to sunday some of the moisture, it's going to be right about here sunday, but some of the moisture will get into the metro area sunday and also for labor day. rainfall, they're not done. they're nowhere near done.

heavy bands of rain still affecting mobile, biloxi and pretty much the entire coast of louisiana, almost the entire southeastern part of louisiana. again movement is off to the west, northwest at 6 miles per hour. so it's barely moving anywhere. it's going to be in louisiana another 24 to 36 hours. winds, 46 mile-per-hour wind baton rouge, 48 new orleans and a 43 mile-per-hour wind in biloxi. you can see where the storm is right now between morgan city and new orleans, 53 mile-per- hour wind just west of morgan city and a 41 mile-per-hour wind over in lake charles. winds are still a factor. rain is the big keith an additional 4 to 10 inches of -- big key. an additional 4 to 10 inches of rain possible on the gulf coast. for us flip a switch, live look outside looking out towards tysons brought to you by michael and son, fantastic really, 86, dew point in the 50s. that's great. comfortal, not very humid. i can open my windows tonight,

turn off the air, currently 83 arlington, 85 college park, even a sprinkling of 70s, 79 vienna, 78 in reston, still 84 in manassas. so great night for football, no doubt about. that maybe you want a light jacket for the game, probably upper 60s, low 70s before the game is over. rest the ac, warmer thursday, hot finish to the week, but humidity remains in check through friday. next three days keep it code green, fantastic tomorrow 88, 94 friday, hot but not humid and then 91 saturday, isolated thunderstorm possible, temperature still around 90. next seven days we get into sunday and labor day i've got isaac there and some of the remnants could throw us some moisture, showers and storms possible the second half of sunday, most of labor day back in the 80s, a leftover storm tuesday 91, partly cloudy next wednesday and 90.

the unofficial end of summer, warm, temperatures in the 80s. i think we'll have to dance around a few storms. we've got some good football weather tonight, you've done your part. kristen berset is happy to hear she's not going to be standing outside with tropical storm winds and rain on the sideline. >> reporter: it's gorgeous here right now with the sun going down. a big game for a lot of those bubble players, a lot of position battles playing out tonight, one of those guys trying to show his former team they should not have released him. we'll have that plus county nats stop the skid? we'll -- can the nats stop the skid? we'll take a look. sports is next.

say. anita brikman with this health alert. it's time to cut back on radiation exposure and kids. that's the message from the fda which says only do ct scans and other x-rays when necessary. research shows even a few brain scans in childhood could increase the risk brain tumors or leukemia later in life.

now 9 sports with kristen berset, the best sports in town. >> reporter: welcome back. we are live at fedex field, redskins taking on the buccaneers for their preseason finale. of course, the starters sit, but there's lots of position battles on the field tonight. on defense linebacker and secondary, but on the offense one of the most competitive at wide receiver, a handful of guys competing for one or two spots. veteran receiver desmond bristow gets to play against his former team and for the first time in preseason will get some time on special teams. briscoe knows tonight he needs a very special night. >> a whole lot, you know, just want to go down there. well, they come up here and the coaches who actually let me go there i'm a player because i made their team to, go out and

contribute. >> reporter: and like it or not, football fans, the replacement referees are sticking around a little while longer. the nfl notified teams today that the replacements will start week one of the regular season. to the high school game, don't forget to vote in our toyota game of the week poll. we'll announce the winner tomorrow night go. to usatodayhighschoolsports.com/dc to vote for your favorite team. nationals taking on miami tonight wrapping up their two- game series and trying to stop the skid. nats lost five straight now. stephen strasburg couldn't get it done last night. he gave up a career high seven runs in five innings mustering just three strikeouts. he handed them their fifth straight loss. tonight the job will be up to ross detwiler. he took a loss in his last outing against the braves going 5 1/2 innings. hopefully he can stop the skid

before the nats return home. for the marlins jacob turner acquired last month is making his home debut for miami. back live now the teams on the field warming up. there's some action behind me. the starters will sit tonight, but it's still going to be exciting. kirk cousins will get to start and probably may about 3/4 of the game. we'll see how -- play about 3/4 of the game. we'll see how all those position battles fall out. we'll have highlights tonight at 11:00. life at fedex field i'm kristen berset, back to you in the studio. >> i hope they get a few more people out there. >> picture perfect weather. we'll talk about at 7:00 school cool facts about the hurricanes and tropical storms and if it's going to affect our holiday weekend. >> everybody wants to know about that. stay with us. cbs evening news is next. >> topper, derek and lesli will be back at 7:00. have a great night.