>>> on our broadcast tonight from new orleans, hard hit. isaac has moved out but it's brought a wave of misery to millions of people here along the gulf coast. tonight the death toll is rising. entire neighborhoods are still under water. for the most part new orleans passed the most important post katrina test. we will talk to the mayor about what went right and what went wrong. and about last night, in tampa mitt romney's big moment. a more personal side of the candidate than audiences have seen before but did clint eastwood's opening act steal the show? eastwood's opening act steal the show? "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. what a couple days it's been, from the gop convention to the hurricane here along the gulf coast, and so after wrapping up our convention coverage we wanted to come here to new orleans to check on what the storm did and did not do to the city and region starting with this number. about 500,000 people here in louisiana are going to be heading into another night t

no way we could have recovered the city without his hand being involved in it. >> the story of new orleans's recovery still being written. a new report estimated 8,000 properties repaired or rebuilt from september 2010-march 2011. for the first time in seven years, the city no longer tops the list of the most blighted in america. >> we are still dealing with our struggles. for the most part, we are pretty much back. >> many bright spots to new orleans recovery, there are still dark spots, and the rebuilding in the lower ninth ward. fred looter is the preacher at this church. it took two years to rebuild his church home. however back in the lower ninth ward, overgrown trees cover the lot where looter's childhood home once stood. naggin stays away from the city. he is greatful for its most unalmosted visitor, hurricane katrina. >> it strengthened me in my faith. i prayed even more during katrina and the aftermath. it sustained me to this day. >> efrem graham, cbn news, new orleans, louisiana. >> incredible story of how he used nehemia. >> he was looking everywhere else and taublging to the exp

why the connection to new orleans? >> i just want to say this.your jaws that people have katrina fatigue? oh, poor you! oh, what a shame! i'm so sorry. how did you actually acquire this fatigue? what is it about? i mean, unpack that for a second, tavis. what makes people fatigued? is it the fact that they don't want to reach out perhaps? because that was one of the thrilling things about our shooting down there was to see these waves of young american students and these are the ones that actually are the kind of the same generation we're talking about. i think they were the kind of front runner of the occupy generation, which i still think is a very thrilling thing for america, the first real energized kind of old-fashioned neil young style social response. but all these volunteers kept going down there and they don't have katrina fatigue. they keep going back. you know, they met these extraordinary people. these are the american heroes to me, you know, of the 21st century. they're giant figures. they don't think that way themselves, but they dar

and months to recover. >>> get protected new orleans, therefore made everything else here, st. james parish st. john parish >>> the army corps of engineers investigators declined insurance company's total losses it is estimated they could pay $2 billion. when the water first began rising residents use boats to come in and out but what seems to be a good sign of recovery, the water is now too low for that happen. >>> let me ask you, we see people trying to clean up what is the big picture for the area of recovery? >>> what makes it difficult so many communities have and get in many different ways this is an area and that did not flood in katrina or in the 2008 storms, they are dealing with severe flooding at this point and some communities like new orleans they have avoided severe flooding but what they're dealing with massive power outages 92,000 people in new orleans without power it could be a week before the power is back on. a lot of problems and coastal louisiana. people are waiting for the water to leave their homes if you go further back that is not the case. >>> drivers

the water from new orleans pushed here >>> army corps of engineers investigates the klan and gov. government officials vowed to make it right >>> insurance companies estimate it will cost $2 billion to help the gulf coast recover. >>> in alabama the aggressive serve from ties it under an old ship buried in sand some locals say the mystery ship dates back to civil war era, others believe it was used to smuggle liquor during prohibition hurricane set uncovered the shipwreck several times and historians had not identified it. in mountain deal of thought into a prevent human cases of west nile virus. fogged in is scheduled for tuesday at 11:00 p.m. vector control says the process will take several hours to complete. brian hackney here to tell us if the weather cooperates >>> we are looking at a nice weekend for the bay area temperatures warm up the numbers will quan tomorrow it will be one hot labor day. that will change eventually by midweek we cool down let's update you with isaac the remnants of what was a category one hurricane spinning over southern illinois, always the potential

how does new orleans grow in this season?ying to do is follow the actual history. we think it's allegorical. the reason to do the story is not just to tell a story of new orleans but we think it's allegorical for where the country is at. in the same way the basic infrastructure of new orleans was wut to the test and found to be vulnerable in 2005 when katrina happened, the same thing sort of happened to the rest of the country as a whole three years later. if you think about it. our presumptions about our own sense of what was right and wrong, of who had our backs, of what political leadership was capable of. new orleans took a big bite of that apple three years before the rest of the country. so now we're in the third year since katrina, and you're starting to see people come to the realization that if anything is going to change or if anything is going to be restored or created, it's kind of up to them. they're on their own, and i think as americans we've all sort of felt that a little bit in the last four or five years. >>

the storm damage there what was governor romney doing today. >> they are quick to say he was in new orleans on thursday and met with bobby jindal but he was up at the lake in new hampshire at the family lake vacation house. took a spin with his boat. got wife ann a rented jet ski for a little while and for mr. romney he too is sort of trying to take a step back concentrate on debate prep and let paul ryan and others surround the democratic debate with republic rhetoric. the latest polls from the associated press talked a little bit about how people are doing. fully 36% say they are doing worse now than they were four years ago. 36% say there hasn't been an improvement. it's about the same. only 28% say things are better. that to republicans 2 to 1 people think they were pretty much as they were four years ago or worse. another reason they say to get rid of barack obama at the end of the process. 9 weeks until election day. >> shepard: carl cammeron in north carolina. ratings are in for the republic get together. 80 million people watched governor romney's prime time speech thursday night. n

new orleans mayor, mitch landrieu, met with the president and is joining us now from new orleans.>> good morning, soledad. >> i know you have lost power, and outside of new orleans i know there's been lots of flooding. i spent a lot of time in plaquemines parish. how is it doing as of right now? >> 97% of the power is restored, and we expect to get the other 3% up really soon. in new orleans proper, we're doing fine. i think the big story is, number one, president obama's team has really been fantastic. the white house has been involved from day one. secretary napolitano has been on it. greg fugate. and the cooperation between the state and federal agencies has been really good. and the levees held. that is the big story. they held as they were designed. and that's been a good part of the story. but every one of these storms brings something that you didn't expect. plaquemines parish, as you know, which is a little ways south of new orleans, and st. john the baptist parish were hurt really hard. and one tight levee system outside of the city of orleans was hit here. so a cat 3 som

if you have to pick one loser this week you pick the redskins in new orleans. that just fuels us. >> reporter: mike and andrea, one thing that helped out was the amount of redskins fans that were down there in new orleans for this game. i actually saw a picture of bourbon street during the game, and it was full of burgundy and gold. i didn't expect to see that many redskins fans down there, but they certainly did not want to miss this big debut. i'll have more from rg iii, coach shanahan and the rest of his teammates. back to you. >> they love going to new orleans and treated them well this sunday. we'll look for more reaction as fans start getting on the metro. >>> coming up now, a violent weekend at a northeast dc pharmacy. this is not the first time that gunfire has erupted there. a customer walked into the rite aid and shot an employee in the leg. they are still looking for the shooter. back in april an employee was shot and paralyzed during an attempted robbery then. >>> a massive clean up effort is underway in reston, virginia. one of the worst areas is n

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new orleans east right here. you have the lower ninth ward right here in st.rd parish and you see this yellow line that's appearing right along there, folks, that right there is the surge barrier that everyone's talking about right at lake bourne. there's a piece of this project that's over to the west of it over an area called sea brook bridge that's appearing over there, and by far, the biggest project was right here. this is the largest surge barrier of its kind in the entire world and what i can do is take you inside of it. let's go to that video and you'll be able to see how this was created and what was done to help protect new orleans and the first thing that you're seeing here is that this trench was dug, basically, a deeper foundation that sand was dug at the bottom and then you have the concrete blocks and it was put in 100 feet down and in order to keep that up you have this ground and you also have these that were placed against it. so concrete piles and these piles reaching down 200 feet. a concrete wall on top of that and then that, folks, is wha

nbc's gabe gutierrez joins us once again from new orleans. gabe, good evening. >> reporter: lester, there's late word tonight that st. tammany parish is evacuating 1200 homes because of concerns that a boat lock on a river could fail. all this as crews scramble to restore power to the gulf coast. in parts of louisiana, the waters are receding, but so is the patience. >> this is the first time i've seen trucks in this neighborhood. >> reporter: thousands of line crews are on the move as the gulf coast struggles to recover from isaac, the slow-moving hurricane knocked out power to more than a million customers in louisiana, mississippi and arkansas. tonight almost 400,000 homes and businesses are still in the dark. the vast majority in louisiana. outside new orleans, beth goddard was desperate for shade after losing power four days ago. >> it's 95 degrees inside my house. so you're really not sleeping, not eating a whole lot. >> reporter: this family-owned grocery store just got power this afternoon. >> how much inventory do you think you lost?

pilots and reaction from new orleans. >> robert griffin iii was sensational. for the first time in a long was not the best quarterback here. was 19 of 26 or 320 o touchdowns and he some defensive help. it did not take long for robert iii to usher in a new era, and he did it with style. >> ran across the middle, caught high, and did a good job finishing the plight. commend him for that. s the ball for that touchdown. he gave it to me. first touchdown in the nfl. >> looked on the screen a couple of times. i am glad. >> then griffin went on cruise a scoringopping off with robertson. >> you can see why we were excited to get him. deep deep throat to -- lance moore. with a few seconds left, and is thrown and intercepted. -- a hail mary was thrown an interception. -- and intercepted. ed good football. it takes 46 guys playing hard to victory.ith a >> we are excited. we believed in each other. talent.had a lot of had to show everybody. rg3 averaged 10 points per quarter. rookieer starting the leak combined for 10 interceptions. rg3 did not have any. in new orleans, a

this is my second goaround. >> reporter: much of nearby new orleans is still without power. billion levee system, it was spared most of the water. some locals outside of the new orleans metro area believe the safety of the big easy came at a cost to them. for folks on the outskirts of the city it could take weeks to get their electricity turned back on and months to recover from the flooding. >> i believe the levee protection it did what it was supposed to do. protect new orleans but therefore made everything else spill into other places like partly la place, here, st. james parish, st.'s parish. >> reporter: the army corps of engineering is investigating the claim while insurance companies total up the losses. it's estimated to be up to $2 billion, bigad shaban, cbs news, la place, louisiana. >> energy companies reoccupied nearly 400 of the production platforms in the gulf of mexico. that were abandoned in advance of hurricane isaac. though offshore, all oil production still remains almost entirely shut down. again, getting back to here it was hot today after we had a repri

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as the redskins prepare in new orleans, more bad news for the skins. robert griffin is chomping at the bid. they're thrilled to open in new orleans. he is excited of the buildup to his career and the privilege to the season. he is ready to go for real but he has worked all his life for this moment. >> it is every kid's dream to play in the nfl. we made it through the preseason. all these guys working extremely hard to make the team and we will move forward from there. i am excited about the opportunity to go to new orleans and play and move on from there. >> the since continue to work through their offseason problems and suspension. the head coach was suspended for the season. aaron cromer is set. >> what a guy has a gap, he fills public debt. as long as the guys are doing their job obviously with a lot of attention on this, it will be big to stop him but if everybody is doing their jobs, things do not change. >> for tennis fans maria had everyone's attention. she had to come from behind and rally past hot hot and " the grand slam winner goes on to the

the president tour flood-damaged neighborhoods west of new orleans yesterday. residents there are very angry. they insist the new federal levees that protected too well redirected floodwaters into their communities instead. the president promised to check into those claims. >>> and today is the day. despite warnings from the pentagon the book "no easy day" about the raid that killed osama bin laden will hit shelves today. it's already number one on amazon's best seller list, beating out "fifty shades of grey". the release date was moved up from 9/11. they said he violated an agreement not to divulge military secrets. >>> prancer in the pool. a family in colorado finds a deer in their backyard taking a dip and struggling to get out of the water. the owner called 911 for help. police couldn't help either. firefighters showed up and built a ramp. it took coaxing. look at that. they finally lured the deer out but not before it caused $2500 in damage to the pool. >>> coming up, one man's will to live. >> i really thought that i was going to die. >> a hiker trapped al

the storm didn't hit tampa and didn't hit new orleans like katrina hit new orleans for sure. and peggy noonen's blog they debuted it how the republican convention went from nervousness and fear the first couple of days to a much happier outcome by wednesday or thursday. >> andrea mitchell mentioned the photo of president bush flying over and not landing in new orleans during katrina. he later said look, anytime a president goes anywhere you have to have all kinds of motorcade coverage, you have to police, and emt's and it's just a logistical nightmare and that's why i stayed away, but that doesn't get covered. >> welcome, i think it is being covered because president obama has just made, had the same decision with respect to a visit down there. >> he's going there monday. >> he's going there on monday. >> and says he wants to give things a chance to cool, to settle down. exactly, and i think that people do understand though at the time, it was not the fact that president bush flew over that disaster area, as much as the fact that it was such a disaster earlier because fema an

the most highly recommended bed in america. >>> new orleans escaped the worst of hurricane isaac withom a massive new flood protection system that cost more than $14 billion. most of it paid by taxpayers all over the country. our josh levs is here to show us where that money went and how effective it appeared to be. >> fred, i want to tell you what we've been seeing in recent days is billions of taxpayer dollars at work and that's what we saw in new orleans. last hour i was telling you about the biggest project to protect this city and folks, this right here is the biggest project on the west side to protect the city. this has called the west closure complex that allows this to be closed and what i want to do is take you to a map. let's go to that because i want you to see how significant this is for the entire country and for new orleans. here's the key for the massive complex that cost $1 million. what we have here is harvey canal and algiers canal that come together. this was an area that was flooded during hurricane katrina and right below where they come together you have the wes

kristen welker is traveling with the president and joins us from new orleans. good evening, kristen. >> reporter: good evening, kate. we are in new orleans where president obama took a detour from the campaign trail to meet with those affected by hurricane isaac and to survey the most heavily impacted areas. louisiana is a republican stronghold. he has no chance of winning this state in november but if the lessons of katrina taught this administration anything it's that mishandling this type of crisis could be politically damaging especially two months before election day. >> i want to commend everyone here for the extraordinary work they've done in making sure lives were saved, that although there was tremendous property damage people were in a position to get out quickly and as you can see folks are on the ground already clearing out the debris and making sure that they're able to recover as rapidly as possible. i want to particularly thank fema and the state and local authorities because sometimes in the past we haven't seen the kind of coordination that is

new orleans new $14 billion levee system kept the city dry but at least 12 surrounding parishes experienced flooding. two of them severe. >> we faced hurricane katrina and even hurricane isaac t was the lord who stood by our side. >> reporter: at greater liberty baptist church in new orleans ninth ward pastor call win wood-- calvin woods led his parishes through a sunday service without electricity. >> reporter: how many people in your congregation are affected by isaac right now. >> well, all of them, one way or the other. >> reporter: but none more than pastor woods. when hurricane katrina flooded his new orleans home, he laughed and started over 30 miles west in laplace. >> some time my street would flood a little bit but never like this. >> reporter: his new house took on five feet of water. those floodwaters are receding but he hasn't been back. he says he's needed here. >> the lord has taught me a long time ago you can cry but after you cry you still got to do what you got to do. >> reporter: have you had your cry. >> oh, yeah, i had my cry, i had my cry, i shook it off and we've got

back frustrated and feeling abandoned their and outside of the federal levee system that protected new orleans karen brown cbs news >>> the clouds parted so we could capture the second full month in august the first was august 1st the second one comes tonight you get a good glimpse as we call a blue moon during we have areas of low clouds and fog parting just enough to capture the c-net view. the next time we see a bemoaned july 2015, currently with partly cloudy conditions we topped at 60 in san francisco. currently 58 degrees here. overnight some autumn in the air. mid 50s man view. some fog and drizzle over nine hours whacking at two warmer saturday extended forecast calls for temperatures to pop in the inland areas. future cast take a look at the clouds of a way to the sacramento valley they begin to trail off towards the lunch hour, only partial clearing their no clearing if you go statewide to eureka smoke in the vicinity of redding mid to high '80s throughout the central valley. pristine conditions in lake tahoe. '60s and '70s peninsula. mid '80s in brentwood 79 in wine country and napa

are you still living down there in new orleans? the super bowl. >> you want to go around the corner and get you some tiger on a stick. [laughter] craig: there is a lady in here right now who -- tigers are an adanger species. it is a beautiful animal. >> i'm hip. craig: you're what? >> i'm hip. [laughter] craig: what the hell do you mean by that? >> i'm hip to tigers. craig: i'm hip too. that's a hell of a town, new orleans. i'm going back. >> i love it. craig: it is very nice. it is a party town, though. >> it used to be. craig: it still is. >> there is sections of the town reserved for partying. it is laid back. let the good times roll. craig: i don't speak the fancy french. i like it down there. i also like it in new orleans. [laughter] >> i saw -- craig: you see what i did? i sneaked it in. just lail one right there. what are you doing with your hand there? i'm kind of thinking you're going to touch my ass. >> i'm getting ready. i saw that orange speedo guy. craig: that guy did finger pistols. i didn't ask him to do finger pisto

president obama stops off in ohio and new orleans before tomorrow's dnc kickoff. >>> mystery ship. isaac's pounding surf washes up what could be a civil war-era vessel. >>> and, royal seat. england's prince andrew goes to great heights for a good cause. >> this is "early today" for monday, september 3rd, 2012. >> hello and very good morning to you. i'm veronica de la cruz. we begin with labor day on the campaign trail. while much of the country has the day off, president obama will be hard at work before heading to the democratic national convention tomorrow. nbc's tracie potts joins us live from charlotte with the details. traci, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. i'm standing in front of the stadium where we will see president obama speak here in charlotte later in the week. today he'll be in ohio and storm-ravaged louisiana. but first, take a look. the president in boulder, colorado, on sunday talking about the republicans' convention last week. as the president put it, there were hard truths but nobody told us what they were. and while mitt romney was in new ham

talked about new orleans and atlanta, the a.f.c. west, all the focus is on denver and peyton but philip rivers and matt ryan may be having the best two seasons of any quarterback in the national football league. matt ryan has the highest quarterback rating than anybody in the national football league. when you look at these two teams, i still think that the san diego chargers, i like what they did. robert meacham, eddie royal in the off-season. i like the way philip rivers has come out and play. i think san diego finds a way to go 3-0 and is a little bit under the radar season so far. dan: pittsburgh at oakland. you look at their defense and they've been impressive against a team. oakland is struggling offensively. polamalu is not going to be in the game. but carson palmer, when your back, mcfadden is your receiver, you know knost not a lot of big plays there. rashard mendenhall is going to be out but they're going to be able to run the ball. jonathan dwyer, very good young player. and isaac redmond, a lot of good young players. the

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they are standing by live in new orleans.y where memories was katrina remain fresh, johnathon. >> that's right, uma. they learned a lot of lessons from katrina . army corp of engineers shoring up the levees that held up well in the city of new orleans in the storm. you can see the sun is out now and that is causing problems for people without electricity. power remains a big concern. it is getting hot and muggy with all of the moisture that hurricane isaac left in its wake . some residents tell us that they are sleeping in the cars so they can run a air conditioning system overnight. and outside of the federal levees of new orleans. some parishes have suffered flooding where storm waters have overstopped the local levees and crews came in with emergency supplies and ice and water and mre's that they are delivering to storm victims. many of those victims are waiting for flood waters to recede before they return to their homes, listen. >> i have all of my clothes and scrubs that i got to wear before i go to work and ipad and ch

kristen welker is traveling with the president and joins us from new orleans. good evening, kristen. >> reporter: good evening, kate. we are in new orleans where president obama took a detour from the campaign trail to meet with those affected by hurricane isaac and to survey the most heavily impacted areas. louisiana is a republican stronghold. he has no chance of winning this state in november but if the lessons of katrina taught this administration anything it's that mishandling this type of crisis could be politically damaging especially two months before election day. now, earlier today president obama spoke at a labor day rally in the must win swing state of ohio. >> after the convention governor romney came here to ohio and he said he's going to be the coach that leads america to a winning season. the problem is, everybody has already seen his economic playbook. and i've got one piece of advice for you about the romney/ryan game plan, ohio. punt it away. >> now, president obama will spend the evening at the white house then tomorrow he heads down to anot

nbc's gabe gutierrez is in new orleans with the latest. gabe, good morning. >> reporter: jenna, good morning. the army corps of engineers now says it will check whether the upgrayed levee system here may have contributed to more flooding outside the city. meanwhile, much of downtown new orleans is back in business with power. not everyone's so fortunate. in parts of louisiana, water levels are dropping. but frustration is mounting. >> everybody's saying there's trucks sitting around in parking lots, hundreds, 50 of them here, 50 there, and all the workers are there but nobody's doing anything. >> reporter: thousands of line crews are on the move as the gulf coast recovers from isaac. the slow-moving hurricane knocked out power to more than a million customers in louisiana, mississippi, and arkansas. today that number is less than 400,000. but for them, patience is wearing thin. outside new orleans, beth gotter was desperate for shade after losing power on tuesday. >> it's just so hot. it's 95 degrees inside my house, and it's very hard to