it is thursday, august 30, 2012. welcome to the site of the republican national convention. isaac thrashes the gulf coast for a second day, forcing thousands of evacuations and massive power outages. here in tampa, paul ryan fires up the delegates by going on the attack against president obama. while tonight, mitt romney gives the most important speech of his life. scott pelley talks with a navy seal at the center of the bin laden raid controversy. we begin with a look at today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> try to leave and then we didn't. because we had nowhere to go. >> thousands forced from their homes as isaac's floodwaters

continue to rise. >> president obama signed federal disaster declarations for louisiana and mississippi. >> the pounding of this strong city for so long is something like we've never seen before. >> let's give this effort everything we have. let's see this thing all the way through. let's get this done. >> paul ryan gets a rock star reception as he officially accepts the republican vice presidential nomination in tampa. >> the president is throwing away money. he's pretty experienced at that. >> i would say ryan is no sarah palin. the navy seal who took part in the raid on osama bin laden's compound speaks publicly for the first time. >> are you guys ready? can you guys pull this off? i am pretty sure to a man, we all said yes, absolutely. in los angeles, surveillance video shows police knocking a woman down to the ground and they did it twice. >> that's a bat flying through

the studios. producers jumped and screamed when they saw it. yikes. >> the kids could not believe what were or who was inside. >> daddy! >> all that. >> and it's mostly beer. these people really don't like the dailey show. >> some people are allowed to say dumb things. >> some guys are. >> all that matters. >> some mystery speaker slated to speak at the rnc on thursday. who will it be? >> maybe a hologram of ronald reagan. >> on "cbs this morning." >> the cool part is he's going to perform a duet with tupac. >> the cool part is he's going to perform a duet with tupac. yeah. captioning funded by cbs well come "cbs this morning." tropical storm isaac is weakening, but this immense slow-moving system is still pounding louisiana and

mississippi. most states have been declared disaster areas by president obama. isaac is blamed for one death so far. more than 700,000 homes and businesses are without power this morning. national guard troops are helping storm victims in losiana and mississippi. >> in new orleans, officials say the levees that were built after hurricane katrina are holding up. other areas have been hit with severe flooding forcing thousands of emergency evacuations. byron pitts is in new orleans. good morning, pie ron. >> good morning. the big push will be restoring electricity here. authorities believe they wrapped up their rescue efforts ovnight. when national guard troops arrived in la place, many were surprised by what they saw, men, women and children, some trembling in the early evening chill, all of them homeless. >> woke up, it was fine. next minute it was just like all over the place. everything underwater,

everything. >> close to 100 people forced to evacuate when isaac's floodwaters overwhelmed their subdivision. >> it's a nightmare. >> it's pouring over now. >> 50 miles to the south, residents in plaquemines parish had a similar story to tell after water overtopped the small of a levee. 70-year-old leslie ignored the mandatory evacuation order because he had no other option. >> this is home. where you going to go? this is home. >> with water still trapped between two floodwalls, officials are considering making cuts in the levee. ten to 15-foot wide holes would allow the standing water to drain back into the mississippi river and the marshland. in new orleans, the city's newly upgraded levee system kept flooding to a minimum. the bigger problem was electricity. many are not expected to get it back for at least four days. rachel peoples wishes she had such problems. she lost her home in hurricane

rita and again in katrina. now isaac left her homeless once more. >> it made me feel sad because i had no place to go. and my grandkids, i have no home. i lost everything, my clothes, everything. >> about 50 people were evacuated from slidell, louisiana, sitting east of new orleans. charlie and norah, we've seen work crews out this morning with the worst of isaac moving further north, they're hoping to begin their efforts, cleaning, removing debris and restoring electricity later today. >> byron pitts, thank you so much. this morning the center of isaac is inching its way north into louisiana. manuel bojorquez is there in baker, louisiana, which is just outside baton rouge. manuel, how are the conditions there this morning? >> reporter: good morning, norah. still some rain and wind. i'm actually standing in front of the city hall auditorium for baker.

this building housed 200 people for nearly months after hurricane katrina, but it's a very good thing that no one sought shelter here last night, because isaac tore part of the roof off the structure. it came through baton rouge and the surrounding area as a strong tropical storm winds at 50 miles per hour. i just spoke with the folks at the emergency management team on the ground. they say 117,000 homes in this area are without power this morning. and as you might imagine, with a storm like this, there are reports of trees down throughout the state capitol. the mayor of baton rouge says unlike katrina where the challenge was getting people through, evacuees, getting them into shelters and managing resources, this presents a unique weather challenge. isaac did. with even tornado warnings and the potential for flooding that they were dealing with. here is some good news though for baton rouge and this area. the western part of the storm which was expected to linger throughout the day, it started to deteriorate early this morning.

so conditions are actually starting to improve instead of eight to ten expected inches of rainfall, right now they've gotten 3.5 to 35 inches. charlie and norah. when i go to david bernard, chief meteorologist for cbs 4. david, what's happening with isaac? >> well, it's slowly moving and it is weakening a little bit more. but let's take a look at the satellite and radar combination, charlie. we can still see these strong feeder bands that are coming up on the east side of the storm. as a result, this flood threat is going to remain very high for the new orleans area, the mississippi gulf coast and really even places like baton rouge near where manuel was. it appears that the heavy rain threat is there through the next couple of days. >> where is the fear most today in terms of the storm? what are people most worried about? >> well, i think it's the

rainfall. and it's not going to be just today, but it's going to be over the next five days. there may be a silver lining in all this. the headline this summer has been sere drought across the midwest and also the plains and e can see iowa, missouri, arkansas still in that extreme to exceptional drought. look at the forecast track of what's left of isaac over the next five days and the total -- the rain totals could exceed 18 to 30 inches in south louisiana, but in the drought-stricken areas, around missouri and illinois, we could see 6 to 12 inches of rain and that could put a dent in the drought and it might also go and help alleviate the situation along the mississippi river that has been so dangerously low. maybe a little silver lining in all this bad news. >> all right, david bernard, thank you. our other big story is here in tampa where the republican national convention ends tonight as mitt romney accepts his party's presidential nomination. last night his running mate,

paul ryan, took the spotlight delivering a scathing critique of president obama's policies. jan crawford is here with all of the highlights. jan, i know you watched it. we mentioned people are build -- they're building this new stage for mitt romney as he's going to address everybody. >> last night, informs a speech that went over very well, as you can imagine in this convention hall. the delegates that we were around, literally, their faces were euphoric as they screamed at the attack lines he delivered. what was most interesting is this was a speech, it was a speech, that appealed to the brain and the heart. it had one message to president obama. bring it on. >> with all the attack ads, the president is just throwing away money. and he's pretty experienced at that. >> it was a frontal assault on president obama. the most direct attack of the convention and a msage to disaffected voters, it doesn't have to be this way. >> if you're feeling left out or passed by, you have not failed. your leaders have failed you.

>> it was a speech full of vivid images, some aimed at a young generation. >> college graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms staring up at fading obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. >> also with a message to seniors, defending his controversial medicare reform proposals to offer a voucher-like system for private insurance. but pointing to the president's health care plan. >> the obligation to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. the greatest threat to medicare is obama care and we're going to stop it. >> ryan actually reported similar reductions -- romney would not. the speech was also ryan's personal story. the father of three and the wisconsin boy who mowed lawns

and waited tables after, at age 16, his father died. >> i live on the same block where i grew up. we belong to the same parish where i was baptized. >> he also managed to humanize romney, making him seem like the responsible dad by teasing him about his taste in music. >> there are the songs on his ipod which i've heard on the campaign bus. and i've heard it on many hotel elevators. >> major garrett is also with us. >> good morning. >> you both have sources within the romney camp. expecting surprises tonight beyond the -- >> i'm not expecting a lot of surprises. i don't think mitt romney wants to go far beyond who he's been on the campaign trail. reconstructing himself with a difficult task fraught with peril. i think tonight he'll be what he's been. i've been told by many people who look back on the speech in hampshire, many regard as the

best speech he's given in the campaign. they expect it to be somewhat similar to that. >> he's got a really tall order after that speech last night. we heard condoleeza rice giving another really hard-sell. but smart, tough speech and then of course, this all started when ann romney made the case that he's got the character and the heart to fix america's problems. then comes chris christie, he's got the guts to do it. paul ryan, he's got the ideas, the plan. we're going to take a different path. tonight, mitt romney has to stand up on that stage and own that. he's got to say that's right and i've got the heart to do it and the brains to do it. i think that's going to be his challenge. >> i want to dig deeper into paul ryan last night. everybody liked him because he is a substantive guy, the knows the details, can defend the policy proposals that they've put forward. he's been accused this morning of stretching the facts on a number of issues. major, didn't he go there on a couple of issues, talking approximate that gm plant that he suggested obama closed by

saying obama raided medicare. were there some issues where he went there? >> sure. fact checkers like us will hold us to account. in some ways he said president obama let them down. it closed in december of 2008. >> before obama took office. >> of course. on medicare, he didn't say the same cuts were in my budget until i got this ticket. he didn't say he opposed the simpson bowls commission. he didn't endorse it either. he left things on the table. that's not out of bounds for the rhetorical device a speech for a running mate is. it is a place where you draw sharp contrast with a sitting president. he clearly did that. but there's also a buoyancy of being on the stage with him. people not only like what they heard, but they liked who told it to them very very much. >> here's the thing. paul ryan went out and skewered president obama, laid it on him. you saw some of the clips in the

piece. the faded obama posters in your bedroom when you've graduated from college and can't get a job. he's so gosh darn nice looking, so earnest, it doesn't sound like he's being mean. that is a very difficult thing for a politician to pull off. >> an attack dog? >> he's already been that on the campaign trail, charlie. i've been covering them since he's been on the ticket, gone to the rallies. nef a nice chemistry together. paul ryan comes out with mitt romney standing there and uses these attack lines at the president but gets big applauses and the crowd laughs. he oozes earnestness when he says it. he will, i think, be very effective. what about that debate coming up with vice presiden biden. i can't wait for that. >> the structural thing for -- i think mitt romney will do it tonight. they said it's going to be a choice not a referendum. i think mitt romney will declare it tonight. go ahead, let's make it a choice. we thinkt's referendum, but we'll take you on in both

counts. we're not afraid of either one of those debates. >> what's interesting to me, they've appeared to be offensive on the budget and medicare. there's proposal -- >> it's a deliberate campaign strategy. they believed this was going to be an issue no matter what. let's go on the offensive. they're not going to play defense on this. paul ryan think they can win on this. my resources say not a lot. if they can fight the medicare issue to a draw and tie it to the president. >> this is a proxy to the health care law, not what the future of medicare looks like ten years from now. paul ryan did not talk about that and i don't think mitt romney will talk about that. vouchers versus premium support and the weedy details. the central part of ryan's approach to medicare. it's a proxy war over the president's -- >> on the stage. president -- >> jan, you talked about the

energy in this room. when former secretary of state condoleeza rice got up, this crowd went to its feet. it was a soaring speech, it was a visionary speech. do you guys think after watching that, that there's something more for politics in her future? that's my sense. >> look what she said about the education being -- you can see a cabinet level position for her. they were talking about she should have been the vice presidential nominee in the way she delivered that speech last night. you could see her in the oval office. >> without a prompter. >> the reaction on the floor was absolutely sensational. not too many people have seen her or heard her before, the new governor of new mexico. she was a breakout star. it wasn't like obama in 2004, but it was the closest i've seen from a republican at a national convention. >> thank you very much. pleasure to have you here. the first visit by an egyptian leader to iran. quickly turned tense when the

egyptian president criticized syria's government. margaret brennan is following the developments. >> today was supposed to be iran's coming out party. the biggest gathering of international leaders since the islamic revolution that brought the ayatollahs to power. iran put its agenda center stage but not all of the guests stuck to that script. egypt's new president mohamed morsi shocked the conference and his iranian hosts by criticizing syria. iran's chief ally in the region. >> he said, our solidarity with the struggle of the syrian people against an oppressive regime that has lost its legitimacy is an ethical duty at that point the syrian delegation walked out. morsi went on and called the opposition to unify and in fact advocating for the overthrow of syrian president bashar all as d

sad. >> the man who really runs the country, the ayatollah stuck to script. he said nuclear energy for all, nuclear arms for none. for "cbs this morning," margaret brennan, tehran. >> margaret thank this national weather report sponsored by big lots. big savings.

an ex-navy seal tells "60 minutes" his book about the osama bin laden raid is about a successful mission, not party politics. >> no. these kcrazies on either side o the aisle want to make it political, shame on them. >> the man calling himself mark owen is telling his story now. and jeb bush knows his home state of florida is a must-win for mitt romney. we'll ask the former governor

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a razor's edge. >> there's pouting. it depends on how determined your kid is to make your life miserable. [ laughter ] there is that. p>> i think my son signed a pledge to make my life miserable. >> you would know that as a parent. >> exactly. with three kids, it's that fine line of discipline. that was the first lady, michelle obama talking about parenting with david letterman last night. we've also got another story this morning. that's a big story about a navy seal who took part in the raid that killed osama bin laden. and now he's written a book about it. well, he's speaking out publicly for the first time and he sat down with scott pelley to set the record straight about why he wrote the book. >> this morning, scott talks with us this morning about that interview and the firestorm that his book has caused. your local news is next. president clinton: this election to me is about which...

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♪ >> the full force of hurricane isaac hit new orleans seven years after hurricane katrina. the city had to cancel wednesday's events honoring katrina's victims. some 18 hub people died in the 2005 disaster. so far only one person has died because of isaac. good morning. welcome back to "cbs this morning." 16 months ago a navy seal team raided osama bin laden's. they killed the leader and no one has spoken publicly about the mission until now. "cbs evening news" anchor scott pelley stoke with the man who has written this book about the raid. >> good morning, charlie, norah, great to be with you.

mark owen, who has written this book called "no easy day" talked to us in tampa. this book is getting a lot of attention. in his one and only interview on "60 minutes," the author insists he has no hidden agenda. >> then you walk into a secure room. >> he calls himself mark owen. that's not his real name. we've disguised him and will keep his name confidential for his own safety. owen was on the helicopter that crashed in bin laden's compound. he was the second man in the room when bin laden was shot. he took the photographs of the body that have never been released. but owen told us that the story is not about him. he says it's the story of hundreds of americans who spent years gathering intelligence, planning and training. of the seals, owen says, he we just took care of the last 40 minutes. we built what we believed was the most accurate model of the compound ever constructed.

owen told us that before the mission a full-sized replica of the compound was built in the united states for training and there was a dress rehearsal for the top brass, including the chairman of the joint chiefs, admiral mike mullen and admiral eric olson, head of special operations command. >> how did that rehearsal go? >> it was fine. i mean, this is nothing new to us. the part that was new, all the vips sitting there watching. one of the things that i liked after the fact, i remember admiral mullen kept coming by and talking to each one of us and admiral olson as well. they walked by, shook our hands and said are you guys ready, can you guys pull this off? i'm pretty sure we all said yes, absolutely. >> how long was it before you got the call to go? >> we had a week off in virginia beach. when i say off, it wasn't completely. but we had a week off at home. conducted one more rehearsal day

of training on the life-size mockup and then we got the word that we were going. >> owen's book was to be released on the anniversary of 9/11, but the release date has been moved up to next week. there has been criticism that the book is timed to influence the election. >> my worry from the beginning is it's a political season, this book is not political whatsoever. there's no bad-mouth to either party and we specifically chose september 11th to keep it out of politics. these crazies on either side of the aisle want to make it political, shame on them. this is a book about september 11th and it needs to rest on september 11th. not be brought into the political arena. because this has nothing do with politics. >> i can't wait to see this, by the way. >> it's a heck of a story, charlie. >> my understanding, he's retired? >> that's right. >> so what's his motivation.

if he says he has no agenda to tell this story. is the pentagon happy or not happy that he's telling it? >> the pentagon really has not had much to say about all of this officially. there are a number of people in the pentagon who are annoyed that one of the seals would come out with a story. on the other hand, there are a lot of people who are very proud of what happened and they're happy to see the record set straight. you asked about the motivation. i think his primary motivation was to set the record straight. a lot of what we have heard about the raid isn't exactly right. >> like what? >> all kinds of things. charlie, for example, all the details about the helicopter crash. a lot of people will remember that as the seals were approaching bin laden's compound, one of the two helicopters went down. he was on that helicopter. and explains to us what happened in that moment. also, the details around the killing of bin laden. it's actually quite different

than what we've heard and all of those details will be in the "60 minutes" story. one of the things he said, charlie and norah, was he wanted to set the record straight so the american people could have the history correct and he also wanted to shower credit on all of the people, the hundreds of people who were involved in the intelligence, the planning, training for this mission. he gives enormous credit to the two helicopter pilots who managed to bring that helicopter down in one piece and save all the seals who were on that helicopter. >> mark owen, of course, is not his real name. yet, we see him on camera in this piece. that's not what he looks like in person, right? >> norah, you would be astounded. it's not anything like what he looks like. we hired some of the best mikeup people who do all of the big hollywood movies and special effects. to tell you the truth, i had hours and hours of meetings with this man over the last many

weeks. when he walked on the set to shoot the interview, i didn't recognize him. in fact, for a split second, i thought, wait a minute who is this guy, why is he here? somebody walked up and said hey, this is mark. it's an astounding transformation. doesn't look anything like he really looks. >> he is not the guy that first killed bin laden or got the first shot in. he was immediately behind that other team 6 member? >> he was second in what the seals call the stracack, which the line of men going up the stairwell. he was over the shoulder of that man, that's right. >> do we know what the mission was? was it to take him alive or to kill him? >> it is clear and this comes out in the briefings that the seals had before they went on the mission. that the idea was to capture bin laden if at all possible. but it was always very clear to the seals that if they felt that they were in danger, that they

should do whatever they would have to do to neutralize that threat. one of the things that you find out when he tells his story is is that they were in danger from the very beginning. they took fire right at the top and everybody they encountered going up the stairwell was armed and ready o kill them. >> you can see scott's entire interview on sunday, september 9th. "60 minutes," scott pelley interviewed this extraordinary man involved in this story. right here on cbs. former florida governor jeb bush says the republican party must change its tone. this morning, we'll ask him what he plans to say to the convention tonight and what mitt romney should say. we'll be right back from tampa. you're watching "cbs this morning." like to drink orange je but the acidic levels in some foods can cause acid erosion. the enamel starts to wear down, and you can't grow your enamel back. my dentist recommended that i use pronamel, because it helps to strengthen the enamel.

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the republican national convention is taking place in a key swing state of florida. one man who knows the politics florida governor, jeb bush. he will speak to the convention tonight.

welcome. >> thank you all. >> it's good to be in tampa. what does the nominee have to say tonight? what is his task? >> i think first it's to connect on an emotional level, kind of like ann romney, but different. and then to lay out a compelling alternative to where we are today. i think the convention has been effective at pointing out the failures of the obama economic policy and i think most people know that we're in difficult times. what mitt romney now has the opportunity to do is to speak for a while about what it will be like when he's president and why he will be better. that's a huge opportunity because politics is about give and take. this is a chance to have a direct view. >> understanding your state, what does he have to do to win florida in the election in november? >> floridians come from everywhere. i don't think there's anything special. there's no localized issues that

matter? >> not medicare? >> in the sense of telling the truth about medicare and persuading people there's a better way is hugely important. and they've started that. if you look at the polls in florida, it's interesting that governor romney has a double-digit lead among elder voters over 65. i think he's maintained that even though the attacks have started that somehow granny is going to be thrown off a cliff. >> you talked about the goal for mitt romney tonight to connect with vote ergs. you can see a lot of people moving around behind us. they're rebuilding the stage so he can be out amongst most of the delegates. why is it that mitt romney has not connected with voters and do you think that he is speaking to voters that are outside the traditional base of the republican party, hispanics, younger voters, single women? >> i think he's begun to do that. the primary process was really orientated to a base group of voters. now i think he's begun to shift his focus. not change what he believes but shift his focus.

and he's a private guy. i mean, he's just reserved. he's not comfortable -- >> you can be a private guy and be president. >> you can be an effective leader without spilling your guts. there are a lot of great presidents in american history who didn't feel compelled to get on a couch and psychoanalyze themselves. what he has to do better and i think he's more than prepared to do this, is to connect with other people's aspirations and their hopes. not so much -- the need isn't to show who you are as much as to connect with other people's feelings and concerns. >> we talked a lot about congressman ryan wowing this crowd. what about condi rice last night? >> it's a nice mix. it shows the diversity of the appeal of the republican party. condi rice was just spectacular, clear on foreign policy and on immigration policy and on education policy. and paul ryan was the guy that i know he is, which is a hopeful optimistic, young, energetic

leader for our parity. >> i don't know if this struck you. she didn't mention barack obama by name. she talked about a compassionate -- she's one of the few speakers at the republican convention that i've heard talk about education which is a huge priority of yours. she talked about education as the civil rights of our time. >> yeah. we can do all the things that people want our candidates do. but if we have a third of our kids that aren't college ready for career bround by the end of their high school experience, we're doomed. we're doomed as a nation. we'll define ourselves by our flaws rather than our greatness. i was -- i'm going to speak about that a little bit tonight. it was gratifying to hear condi tie this together. that our national security interests and the role of america and the world is tied to how we do at home. >> let me talk about something you said in the miami herald. the pew turf our party is to reach out consistently to have a tone that is open and hospitable to people who share values, the

conservative cause would be the governing fill os at this as far as the eye could see. that's doable if we stop acting stupid. >> it's stupid to threaten to put kerosene on your head and a match in this hand and if you don't change how you are, i'm going to light it. the demography is destiny in america. ten years from now, hispanic voters will be not only the deciding vote in swing states but increasingly in a lot of other states. so if our tone is one of we want your vote, of course, but really can't join our team, even though we share values, that's foolhardy. this convention, i think, has begun to change that a little bit. there are great hispanic leaders, all of whom have spoken. they're great emerging leaders in their states. i'm more optimistic today about that tone issue than i was, say, three months ago. >> the party in your judgment is prepared to come out of here with more of an outreach policy and program to minorities than it has before? >> yes. there's no question about it.

again -- >> really? what specifically have you heard they're going to do? >> it's smart politics. i'm not suggesting change your views. i think american politics has been pushed down to very low common denominator n on the twitter age. you got to say it in three sentences. we have to persuade people. i think there's a growing awareness if we do that -- >> are you disappointed your brother is not here? >> no. my brother is smart not to be here. he's a target of the -- he'll be more at the charlotte convention. [ laughter ] >> we'll play a video. >> last night he did. he was well-received with my dad. it was great. >> nice to see you.

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the big gossip now is that there's going to be a mystery speaker tomorrow night and apparently republicans have a mystery speaker lined up, someone they say will embarrass president obama. oh, my god. they got joe biden. oh, my god. >> ouch, jay. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. ever since the rodney king beating, los angeles police have been trying to change their image. now an incident caught on tape is raising those same old issues. we'll take a closer look at that this morning. we'll talk with former lapd insider john miller. of course, charlie rose and norah o'donnell are in tampa at the republican convention. i have to say, i hope you're enjoying covering the story as

much as you look because the interviews are stellar. >> thank you, gayle. look forward to seeing you soon. >> thank you, gayle. >> you guys are doing great. >> thank you. in a few minutes, former republican chairman haley barbour will give us his reaction to paul ryan's speech last night and we'll find out what he expects from mitt romney tonight. >> first, tropical storm isaac is weakening this morning. but it's in no hurry to leave the gulf coast where it continues to dump heavy rain. isaac could leave more than 2 feet of rain in some areas. last night president obama declared federal emergencies in parts of mississippi and louisiana. byron pitts has been water logged for the past several days in new orleans and doing great reporting there. byron, i see at least the rain has stopped. >> reporter: that's right. good morning, norah, good morning guys. the mississippi river is calmer this morning than it was this time yesterday. the big push today, restoring electricity. there were a number of rescue efforts yesterday.

in the small town of la place, west of new orleans, 300 people were evacuated. their homes flooded. many of them spent the night in a local church. it was a far more dramatic scene south of new orleans in plaquemines parish. there, rescue teams and boats plucked people off of rooftops. the floodwaters were 10 to 14-feet deep after a municipal levee was breached. in new orleans, the city's upgraded $14.6 billion levee system appeared to work. flooding was minimum. the bigger issue, the loss of electricity. according to the city's mayor, 65% of new orleans lost electricity. now that the worst ofke i -- what's left of isaac, excuse me, has moved further north, the push today will be removing debris and restoring electricity. guys, authorities tell us many people here, though, will go without power for at least another three days.

>> byron pitts, thank you. one man who is watching the storm at and the convention closely is former mississippi governor haley barbour. he was as you know chairman of the republican national convention in the 1990s. we're pleased to have him here. just a moment about the storm and mississippi because you were there. what's the damage to mississippi and how is mississippi handling it? >> it's been a large storm, mostly a rain event. the winds haven't been that bad. a little flooding in low areas. but i predict charlie, a month from now, we'll look back and the biggest damage will be crop damage. if we get 20 inches of rain in mississippi larks la and arkansas, it will be a multibillion dollar crop damage because there's huge soybean crop in the field. there's a cotton crop in the field. that's going to be the biggest economic damage, i fear. >> bringing you back to the convention, what's the highlight for you so farr?

paul ryan after condoleeza rice wowed the crowd with a sort of red meat that you expect may be his role? >> i thought he was very good and there was red meat in the speech and it was also a lot of substance in the speech. i thought people got a look at a guy who is clearly bright, serious, focused. not afraid to tell the truth and not afraid to act on it. the sequencing of ann romney and chris christie and then coming up to ryan through condoleeza rice, i've been very, very pleased. of course, tonight is the big night. >> the democrats, deputy campaign manager, stephanie cutter said of paul ryan's speech said attack dog, he's not bad but no meat on the bone. >> you know, maybe she wanted us to pick a guy like me. i got plenty of meat on the bone. i don't think that's a guess. >> that is true, literally, paul ryan does not have much meat on

the bone. since he is such a fitness buff. what about his comments last night, do you see him as sort of the next group of republican leaders? that's the front page of the usa today. that this is the young guns, as he has been called in the past. >> it's not just paul ryan. you look at these young governors, you look at these young members of the house, marco rubio. our party really made the generational change later than the democrats. they had dukakis in 1988. every republican nominee for president from eisenhower to bob dole was a world war ii veteran. our young guns are coming forward in statehouses and legislatures. you see it. old guys like me aren't being pushed over the side but we're graduating for these guys to take over and they're really, really attractive to guys and gals too. some super women. >> what do you think is emerging as where this campaign and this

convention will be decided? is it on these budget proposals that the president has versus the budget proposals and how they see the priorities in the budget? >> no, it's growth. it's economic growth. we can't solve our budget problems unless we have economic growth. economic growth alone will not solve our budget problems. you cannot just cut cut cut. you have got to have a growing economy and you're going to hear -- >> now you sound like a democrat. >> no, i'm not. their idea of growing an economy is bigger government. when government sucks all the money out of the economy, the private sector can't grow. we're seeing it in this economy. charlie, you know this. the fed put a trillion and a half dollars into the money supply and used it all to buy u.s. treasuries and mortgage-backed securities. >> can i ask you, we heard governor chris christie first on monday night and he said mitt romney will deliver the hard truth. we're going to hear from mitt romney tonight. this is his big night here.

do you think he will give the hard truths or is that a bunch of rhetoric in terms of he's made some bold promises which is that he will balance the budget in eight years, increase defense spending, give everybody a tax cut, but he's not been specific about where everybody should take a haircut in terms of specific deductions and loopholes that he'll close. >> norah, i don't think he'll present his 59-page plan he had at the beginning of the campaign to -- he trusts the american people enough to tell them the truth. the american people know things are not good. you look at any poll. our country has been going backwards, not only in terms of the economy, but the state of the government finance. our standing in the world. the ability of government to help solve problems. i think he'll address that in a very straightforward way and as this campaign goes forward, the american people will see that the choice is, here's a guy that admits what the problems are and offers you, here's what we're

going to do about it, here's why. >> the alternatives, don't you have to say what your plan is? >> he's just been talking about energy, about the budget. about trade. he started off with a 59-point plan. >> we know more about ryan's plan than romney's plan. >> when the election comes, that won't be the case. >> thank you. good see you. we're going to bring you governor romney's speech tonight. cbs news will have continuing coverage of the republican national convention beginn

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this morning a los angeles police department faces new charges of brutality over an incident caught on tape last week. a police captain has lost his command post and two officers could face criminal charges. as john blackstone reports, it's a familiar problem for a department with a history of rough tactics. >> it started as a routine traffic stop. 34-year-old michelle jordan, a 5'2", mother and registered nurse, was pulled over for driving while talking on a cell phone, which is against the law in california. two lapd officers stopped her in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant. its surveillance camera captured these images. >> at some point she was pulled out of her vehicle, thrown to the ground, handcuffed. brought back to the police cruiser and then hip tossed to the ground very violently while in handcuffs. >> after being thrown to the

ground once while handcuffed, she had cuts and bruises on her face, shoulder and upper body, particularly outrageous to jordan and her attorneys, after she was put back in the police car, the officers appeared to fist bump each other. >> as if to say, job well done today. they're patting each other on the back. that, to me, was the most disturbing part of this video, of course, other than the violence itself. police chief charlie becca dressed it head on. >> i immediately removed the officers from field duties and assigned one of the officers to home. additionally, i have directed internal affairs group to initiate a criminal and an administrative investigation into this incident. this as seriously as its citizenry takes it. >> chief beck seems to be doing that. he's demoting the commander in charge of the two officers. he's also ordered the video shown in roll call meetings as a teaching tool. jordan's lawyers will file legal

action against the lapd by the end of the week. for "cbs this morning," john blackstone, los angeles. senior correspondent john miller, a former lapd deputy commissioner. john, good to see you. >> good to be here. >> she's a mom in a sun dress with automatically sets an interesting dynamic. what really happened here? >> this is an -- i worked in the lapd for three years. >> i know you did. >> this is a classic case of what we call contempt of cop. meaning there was no real threat to the officers at this point. this is a thing where the officer felt his authority was being challenged. he said stay in the car, she got out of the car. he said get back in the car. she pushes back and then you see this disproportionate use of force. there were a number of other ways to handle this. one of the things that's striking here is how you see a -- gayle, the officer who is throwing her on the ground is the training officer. he's the 22-year veteran that

the rookie officer with ten months, he's supposed to watch this guy -- >> learn from him. >> take his cues. something is off the rails here. here's what worked. since the rodney king incident, the consent decree, all of these rules are in place. what happened is, she said i want to make a complaint. they said we have use of force. they called the sergeant, the sergeant came to the scene. he took a personnel complaint against the two officers from her, he then canvassed the area for eyewitnesses and he found the videotape at the dell taco store and put that in the report much the back end of the process worked fine. the question here is, between the new lapd culture, which is to be more community oriented and an old lapd culture which is a bit more authoritarian. which officers are on what end of that spectrum? >> you know what i find interesting, everybody knows there's video cameras everywhere, it's in the police officer's car, i'm surprised we get to see this video. officers know they're being

recorded at all times. >> that's true. yet, that should not be the reason for good conduct. >> that's right. >> you shouldn't have one set of conduct when you think you're being recorded. remember, the occupy wall street demo at l.a. city hall. those police took untold amounts of abuse from the demonstrators and were very restrained. >> handled it well. >> of course, the whole world was watching. sometimes you see flashes of police officers who have a problem show who they really are. now, i want to underline that's a very tiny percentage of police officers. i think what the chief did, that officer will face administrative and criminal sanctions that sends a signal to every officer, that could happen to me. the real signal, what charlie beck did, by telling every captain, you have to heat eat a piece of this, play this at roll call and say is that who we want to look like and demoting the captain. that's the big message here. >> let's hopeless son learned.

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." this is brait wait, louisiana. southeast of new orleans where people and their pets had to evacuate because of tropical storm isaac. we've seen thousands of people in louisiana forced out of their homes by the rising water. we continue our coverage of isaac, we wanted to check in with mark strassmann. he's watching the storm damage in gulfport, mississippi, along the coast. mark, hello. what can you tell us?

>> reporter: the latest here in -- good morning. good morning, gayle. how are you? this is a mess here in gulfport, mississippi. the winds and the rains just keep coming. we may have up to 2 feet of rain tomorrow in gulfport. and that is, of course, very worrisome here. we've had our first reported fatality in mississippi. a tow truck driver was out on a call and a treetop ld on his truck and killed him. that is the reason why so many of the 60,000 mississippi customers who are without power this morning may stay in the dark for a while. conditions here are just too hazardous between the winds and the rainsnd of course, the flooded streets. now, that it is first light, we are also going to get a better sense of just how much of a mess this area is. particularly the flooded roads. storm surge is the big worry

here. roads were impassable yesterday. now that it's light, people are going to get a better sense of okay, what do we have to do and how long is this crisis going to go on and how long is it before people are going to be able to get back in their homes? that is the latest here in gulfport. let's go to charlie and norah, now in tampa. >> mark strassmann, thanks. when governor mitt romney speaks tonight here in tampa, his words will have been carefully chosen and tested. it's not just the republican presidential nominee who is trying to send a very specific message. >> as bill plante reports, all speeches are coordinated these days. >> bill? >> that's absolute lly right. it's all about the message. from the decorated walls and the slogans to the very words used in the key speeches. >> at the republican convention, every day brings a new theme. yesterday it was the phrase we can change it. the speakers stayed on point.

>> through your vote this fall, you can change the leadership of this country. >> if we don't change the direction of our nation, it will be an extraordinary chain. >> republicans went with the slogan, we did build it and the word jobs was a go-to. >> people, not governments create job. >> we deserve a president who won't sacrifice american jobs. >> someone who has created jobs in the private sector. >> another favorite that day, the word business. >> that was our business and we did build that. >> people that criticize folks in business just simply don't et it. >> it's all part of a carefully scripted event organized by the romney campaign. selecting specific words and phrases to build the republican brand. and to make their case that president obama is bad for the economy and that mitt romney can fix it. democrats do the same thing. >> both sides employ wordsmiths to test and try to figure out what is the key phrase that really grabs at the heartstrings

of the public. >> frank luntz is a republican pollster and author of the book, "words that work." >> give me a sample of what words do well with republicans. >> republicans want to hear about freedom. with democrats they want to hear about fairness. republicans want to hear about small business. democrats want to hear about the working men and women. >> when campaigns want to see if they're connecting with possible voters, they can turn to twitter where feedback is immediate. >> the convention people, the republicans want to know what is causing the most reaction, right? >> absolutely. and it allows them to see who are the people, what are the moments, what are the messages that are resonating with twitter users at home. >> the most tweeted about words last night were those with which paul ryan concluded his speech. >> join mitt romney and me. let's give this effort everything we have. let's see this thing all the way through. let's get this done. >> that camera is the window into the soul of america.

so these people up on stage, they're not playing to this hall. they're playing to the entire country. trying to motivate the last undecided voters to make the right decision and words matter. visuals matter. this whole show matters. >> so tonight, when mitt romney makes the most important speech of his campaign, listen for the key words. change, jobs, freedom, business. he will be making it on a platform that is being rebuilt for him, which also has something to do with the message that they're trying to push. it's pushing him out to where the delegates are. what words should describe mitt romney to the delegates? >> it's fascinating. pew research people have been looking at this over a number of months. a while ago, say, four, five months, the word that people use to describe romney was rich and also no. but in the last couple of months, the words used to

describe mitt romney are rich still, but also honest and business. now, he can probably capitalize on that, so to speak. >> certainly going to try to bleak through tonight with the speech about his biography. we have construction going on behind us. bill plante, thanks so much. >> good to see you. >> pleasure. millions of older people need help every day with their activities. assisted living facilities can be the answer. this morning, we're going to show you five things you should know about

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offered, if you're looking at assisted living, a basic strategy or all-inclusive strategy. that all-inclusive can range in much higher prices. when you're looking at facilities, know what the maximum amount is. ask what the maximum amount, all-inclusive could cost you. >> how do you determine who is providing good service? because there doesn't seem to be a lot of record keeping on the matter. how can you tell who is good? >> this is incredible. you want to get a haircut or go out for chinese food, you can look online and find the ratings. in new york city, you can walk up to a restaurant and see their rating right in the window. >> right. >> it is not that simple with assisted living facilities. you have to actually go to them and request that they tell you what fines and violations they have received over the years. that will give you a sense for where they stand. also, go to the state. the states keep track of the licensing on these and they can change from time to time. so you want to go back to your state and ask them, how does

this company rate? >> why would i give you information when i've got done a good job? >> you're -- you legally must give that information out, gayle. >> i understand it's a for-profit pa silt, most of them. >> 82%. many are public companies can. maximizing profits is part of their business model. that's not to suggest they don't also want to give good care. ultimately, like corporate america, it's had to cut costs and do more with less. many assisted living facilities have had to. you want to know when you're going, how well-trained is the staff, what are your requirements for hiring people what is the ratio, is the staff mostly volunteers or nurses. what's the composition? >> do you have to pay a lot of extra charges? >> those are the things and the a la carte services that could end up making you pay more along

the way. >> do medicaid and medicare programs pay for them? >> medicare, no. medicaid, in some cases yes. according to the american health association, they get paid less in reimbursements for medicaid. some of them will limit the number of people who can be paid for by medicaid. in most cases, you have to find a way to pay for it your self-. long-term care insurance, veterans benefits, these are some of the things you should look into for paying for that. >> i always hear in life, everything is negotiable. is that true? >> i agree 100%. that is firmly true here. what you should do if looking at assisted living. one of the things is that they were overbuilt just like housing was overbuilt. they were overbuilt. that gives you a point to negotiate from. try to negotiate down the rent in the beginning. get a signed agreement. see if they can strip away some fees. do whatever it takes to find the place that's right for you and find the money to pay for it, but make sure that they're

taking care of you. because you are ultimately the customer here. >> good advice regardless of your age. right now, this is good advice. need to know basis. thank you, rebecca jarvis. my yam balance i can was a child star in beaches and blossom. remember that? she's smart, grown up and in the big bang theory. we'll talk approximate her emmy nominated role and see how she's doing after a serious car accident two weeks ago. oh, no. she joins us after the break. you're watching "cbs this morning."

look he bought this. >> jewelry. >> you are sure the most transparent. it's a tiara. i have a tiara. of course, i'm a prisoner to my tiara. don't we all want to be a princess with a tiara. smee just got an emmy nomination for play on the hit cbs show the big bang theory. she started acting 25 years ago. you remember that. she has a ph.d. like her character. she's still recovering from a recent car accident. we're glad to have you. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> it was reported that you lost a finger. no. they're all here. all my fingers are there. they all work. >> what happened? >> someone made an illegal left

in front of me. i was on a healthy green light. i like to save the medical details for the plastic surgeons who put me back together. it will be a little more recovery and good heighting of it on big bang. >> you're okay? >> thank god, i am okay. i will be okay. >> after the accident, you were already tweeting. your husband was tweeting for you. you were tweeting. >> first of all, i was in shock. i didn't take any drugs until they knocked me out for surgery. i was in shock, i'm a very type a person. from the e.r. and i said to him, here's the list of things you need to can sem. here's the things you immediate to do. we wanted to shut down the rumor. it was a gross scene. but we wanted to shut down any rumors, so yeah, that's why we had him tweet with his working fingers. >> is it true that it happened on your son's birthday? >> my son was turning four. i was meeting them at our

favorite vegan place. >> how did you explain? all they know is it's your birthday. >> he had his birthday party a few days before. the seven-year-old was a little more concerned about what was going on. that's why i didn't want to be in narcotics. i want aed them to see them, show them i'm okay. mommy has to have surgery and -- >> mama went back to work quickly. >> partly as a tribute to how much i love my cast, our crew and our staff. i' very well-taken care of. jim parsons and melissa roush are my buddies. i wanted to be with them. i wanted the writers to give them an opportunity to see is this going to work. is this something we need to write in? >> are they going to? >> we've been able to hide it. we've hid it successfully. >> let's talk about your character for a second. i love her name. dr. amy farrah fowler. get it straight. it was going to be a little role. but you came in there and

knocked it out of the park. people said hey -- >> it was a guest spot, possible recurring. i had two young kids and started auditioning. i like to say i do the best imitation i can of -- i'm saying the whole character, i imitate him. >> mirror image. >> no one can be as amazing as jim parsons. >> you know what, it changed the show with the words will you be my girlfriend. what's so endearing about your character, she's awkward and uncertain and so unsure. but so relatable to so many people. >> i'm a woman in science. i like to present different kinds of female scientists and i think there's a lot of different kinds of women, period. i think it's really sweet that we're showing this relationship that has brought back the art of slow courtship. we don't talk about their physical appearances. they have a meeting of the mind, she's fascinated with him. he thinks she's incredibly intelligent. it's kind of sweet but that's

what a lot of good relationships can be about. >> it's not that you're a woman in science. you have a doctorate, you're a ph.d. thank you very much. >> i do. after blossom, i took a bunch of years off and i was inspired by one amazing tutor in my blossom days. that's what led me to get my ph.d. in neuroscience. i do work also to try to -- i work with texas instruments. it's not just being a tv personality. i teach and it's still a huge part of my life. to try and be a positive influence especially to young girls in science. >> you do that very well. do you kids know that you're blossom? >> no. my kids have never seen blossom or big bang theory. >> hi blossom. >> pretty much. do you not want hem to see you on tv? >> i feel when they're closer to the age that i was, it will be more socially appropriate for them. they don't have a huge tv life. they don't regularly watch . they don't see movies. >> ha do they think you do?

>> they think i make my hair look really wired and i don't look like mama and i go to work and come back and i tell them to clean their room. they see me as a mom. that's what i am. i think that there's a lot -- it's not that i'm keeping a secret. i want to keep parts of my professional life private. >> i first met you on beaches. continued success to you. congratulations on your emmy -- >> nomination. >> emmy nomination. thank you very much. the new season of the big bang theory premieres thursday, september 27th at 8:00, 7:00 central of course here on cbs. norah and charlie, can we see you one more time before we say goodbye for today. >> before -- go ahead, gayle. >> this is really the exciting night tonight which we've all been anticipating. how will this man who gets something that he has sought for so long and having lost in 2008 changed, had to come to dprips with who he wanted to be and now

this evening he gets part of the prize that he wanted, moving forward from this convention. it's an exciting night. >> very exciting. >> you both know people in the camp. i was wondering the pressure he must feel. they say it's the biggest speech of your life. we'll be watching tonight. good to see you. >> see you soon. >> we'll see you tomorrow. >> next is your local news. we'll see you tomorrow on "cbs >> next is your local news. we'll see you tomorrow on "cbs this morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com