campaign carl cammeron with governor romney today. is he live tonight in new orleans. carl, the governor with a very

team fox coverage now carl cammeron in davenport, iowa where governor romney is headed tomorrow.ling with the president live in columbus. what you can tell us about crashing the convention strategy, ed. >> well, shep, they are basically saying that in this new media environment you cannot leave the stage for five or six days and let the other party frame the message. they're sending down to tampa on monday and going to several other cities on two day swing monday and tuesday. they want him to push back on the republic message. also make the president's case. in fact, i'm also hearing the president is likely to do some sort of campaign travel at least part of the week next week again to make sure they don't vacate the stage all together. in terms breaking tradition the obama camp believes that the romney camp will probably do something like this as well when the democrats are doing their convention if charlotte, shep. >> shepard: ed, students and young folks were a big part of the president's win in 2008. and it looks like he is out there trying to get them back. >> there is some

. >> our carl cammeron. campaign carl confirming this.d been reporting it, and ap had been reporting it. fox news confirms the news from romney, ryan.com. that we have been talking about all morning from as well. but, you know, on this bus tour that they are going to be going on throughout the battleground states, they are really going to be trying to connecting with blue collar workers. how do you think paul ryan able to help mitt romney do this? he is from wisconsin. he reaches out to the american voter. he connects with them and very charismatic in a way that mitt romney can't. he comes off as very charismatic, your every day ordinary man. i think that's really going to be vegdz in terms of mitt romney and paul ryan together. it's going to be very complimentary. >> very complimentary personalities from what i'm told. their wives get along. paul ryan helped play an april fools joke on mitt romney. stylistically, i wilask you, he would are in the media this is what we do. late on friday night. usually reserved for bad news, news dumps. n

whether it's in tampa or somewhere else, shep. >> shepard: carl cammeron live for us this afternoon. thanks. the feds say extremists may try to disrupt both political conventions. the fbi and the homeland security department put out a bulletin to local police now warning that anarchists from new york might be plotting something violent. and that's a quote. possibly using molotov cocktails or eggs filled with acid. the feds say the anarchists cannot get past all the security at the actual convention locations. so according to this bulletin they sent out. they may target nearby buildings or roads or bridges or transit systems. a tennis umpire due to work the u.s. open in new york city coming right up. told cops she thought her husband died from a heart attack and a bad fall. now she is under arrest. the accusation is she murdered him with a coffee cup. that's ahead as the news kins as fox reports live tonight. >> shepard: holes in her story then later discovered injuries to her husband's head. they eventually ruled his death a homicide. issued an arrest warrant just ahead of the u.s. op

campaign carl cammeron live in manchester, new hampshire this evening. carl, some analysts are pointing out for us that foreign policy is a strong suit for the president. governor romney, frankly does not seem to agree. >> well. no he doesn't have the same portfolio as the incumbent president. nor does paul ryan have much of international affairs experience. having focused much of his congressional career on the budget. there was a great deal of discussion about the federal budget is that rinking the size of government at today's town hall. the 100th for mitt romney and first for the republic ticket now just a week away from the convention that will actually officially nominate them. at one point a very conservative state lawmaker up here by the name of jack varnes a president threw a fast ball and they turned it around on afghanistan and made it something of a shot at president obama, watch. >> what are you going to do about this damn mess in afghanistan? >> there are people overseas that are fighting for us who are responding to the call of the commande

end medicare as we know it ed henry is life at the white house and off the bus and it appears carl cammeron when the democrats got ahold of this medicare issue as carl as ryan came into the race, it looked like they were going to run away with it now congressman ryan is like bring on the medicare fight. >> for years thought they had advantage on all medicare, social security, et cetera. it's offensive born out that way at the polls on election day. this time around republicans think it different. it's still a battle and both sides are accusing the other of deception and misleading, running fast and loose with the facts in what is obviously a very very complex issue. and it may be bravado but they both say, in effect, bring it on. listen. >> this is a debate we want to have. this is a debate we need to have. and this is a debate we are going to win. >> this is exactly what we want to be talking about. these are the substantive issues that will be decided for this country and it will have huge impact on this country. >> republics have been on offense. the president and the administration and

carl cammeron streaming live on a bus tonight. omney's running mate congressman paul ryan just wrapped up a rally, carl? >> we're riding the ryan bus here in ohio where he has just wrapped up his event. last night, mitt romney finally sort of gave republics the type of aggressive criticism of barack obama they have been clamoring for. he wrote his own speech. he went after the president. he went after joe biden and democrats. accusing them of a campaign of hate. listen. mr. president, take your campaign, division and anger and hate back to chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting america. his campaign strategy is smash america apart and kabul together 51% of the pieces. >> paul ryan today carried the message for the romney/ryan ticket while the -- while governor romney was fundraising. mr. ryan returned to his alma matter, miami university in ohio where he told the crowd that it's time now for voters to give the republic ticket a mandate in order to make the changes the country needs. listen. >> president obama is out

>> shepard: carl cammeron offering the romney angle. as for the president he is accusing congressman ryan of blocking help for farmers in iowa and dealing with the worst drought in century. today lawmakers left washington for august vacation without passing a new farm bill. >> i am told that governor romney's new running mate, paul ryan, might be around iowa the next few days. [boos] >> he is one of the leaders in congress standing in the way. if you happen to see congressman ryan, tell him how important this farm bill is to iowa and our rural communities. we have got to put politics aside when t comes to doing the right thing for rural america and for iowa. >> romney campaign is spending and here is the quote. paul ryan hails from agriculture state and supported disaster relief. the truth is no one will work harder to defend farmers and ranchers than the romney-ryan ticket. the president announced new help for farmers today hey, ed? >> that's right, shep. he says the agriculture department is going to speed up the purchasing of chicken

campaign carl cammeron with governor romney today. is he live tonight in new orleans. carl, the governor with a very specific goal while he is there. >> sure. one of the things he said he wanted to do by coming here was to bring attention to the situation in order to encourage people to take part in the relief effort through volunteerism and charitable giving. he also wanted to get a briefing and learn and said that repeatedly. he got down here and had a whirlwind two hour race through new orleans. he also went to the town of la feet. the motorcade went through flood zones, neighborhoods, households, seeing businesses and people's homes in 3 to 5 to 6 feet of water. the motorcade rattled past national guard staging operations where they were getting in part for the various different recovery and the work to sort of clean up after all of this. he had an opportunity to speak to bobby jindal the governor of louisiana along with u.s. senator david vitter. his visit did cause consternation to democrats. might be more considerate that the army corps of engineer needs more fun

but romney told carl cammeron there is one person who does know everything about this process and that'sdate's wife ann rom anymore. romney told carl he talks about it with ann every day. back to you. >> shepard: steve centanni live in d.c. a civilian ship yard worker accused of setting fire to a nuclear submarine cannot go out on bail because is he a risk to society. that fire caused $400 million in damage to a subcalled uss miami. when it was in dry dock back in may. prosecutors say this guy set the fire because he was suffering from anxiety. and he set the fire because he didn't want to finish his shift, two reasons. today his lawyer compared his actions to those of a middle school student who pulls a fire alarm to get out of an exam. of course, pulling a fire alarm does not generally cost $400 million in damages. wildfire alert. here is a live look at the scene of the fire that was raging a short while ago. a brush fire broke out around noon local time west coast rural area 60 miles north of san diego. more than 200 acres burned in about 90 minutes. you can see these houses going up.

campaign carl cammeron is live in chicago. romney is going after the president on welfare again, right? >> second day. this time he has got tv ads. videos and surrogates all over the country going up, putting behind it mr. romney is making a tough charge that the president is essentially a big government liberal who wants to bring in more government solutions and a culture of dependency. listen. >> he removed the requirement of work from welfare. it is wrong to make any change that would make america more of a nation of government dependency. we must restore and i will restore work in the welfare. >> well, democrats say mr. romney is distorting the president's position and in fact he is not

the governor was here in new york today and so is campaign carl cammeron who has been following. what else are we learning from these polls, carl? >> mr. romney is trailing and this is significant. mr. obama made headway with all the attacks not only from his own campaign but from some of his supporting super pacs and it's taking a piece of mitt romney. particularly with independent voters. independent voters seem to be growing for barack obama. as a direct consequence of some of these attack ads. not only is it only the second time that he has actually gotten out of the margin of error in leading this, as you said, the first time he has actually been outside the margin since mr. romney clinched the nomination. it's a big shift. romney now is counting on the vice presidential pick to shift the momentum back his way. >> shepard: carl, the polls tell us that governor romney probably won't get delegates in this area but he got money in this area. >> he is raising. >> shepard: i said the president i meant governor romney. >> wishful thinking for him too. is he raising money and awful

carl cammeron is is along with the romney campaign. carl, governor romney really ratcheted up the medicare attacks today. >> he did. for years, republicans have for many minds been something of disadvantage when it comes to medicare reform. entitlement reform. it's often referred to add mediscare. democrats accusing republicans as wanting to scare or end the program as we know it mitt romney, paul ryan and the g.o.p. is going on offense. they are now making the argument that democrats are more guilty than they have ever been. listen. >> did you know that he has taken $716 billion out of the medicare trust fund. he has raided that trust fund. do you know what he did with it? he has use to pay for obama care. a risky, unproven federal government takeover of health care. if i'm president of the united states we're putting the $716 billion back. >> governor romney and his allies in congress, they think that if we just get rid of more regulations on big corporations and give more tax breaks to the wealthiest americans, if we end medicare as

campaign carl cammeron is live in chicago. carl, governor romney is going after the president on welfare again, right? >> second day. this time he has got tv ads. videos and surrogates all over the country going up, putting behind it mr. romney is making a tough charge that the president is essentially a big government liberal who wants to bring in more government solutions and a culture of dependency. listen. >> he removed the requirement of work from welfare. it is wrong to make any change that would make america more of a nation of government dependency. we must restore and i will restore work in the welfare. >> well, democrats say mr. romney is distorting the president's position and in fact he is not gutting it of its work requirement. president clinton the co-author of the welfare work reform bill weighed in saying romney's charges just aren't true. the administration has taken important steps to make sure that the work requirement is retained and that waivers will be granted only if a state can demonstrate that more peop

campaign carl cammeron live in powell, ohio at this hour where the candidates are headed tomorrow, carlroversial comment today. >> he did the. the republic ticket is doing back-to-back public appearance today in mitt romney's native state michigan. he a made big deal homecoming arrival with his running mate on his side. talked about his roots and then he said this. watch. no one has ever asked to see my birth certificate they know this was the place where we were born and raised. >> well, that's a pretty controversial comment meant to tweak obviously a bit of humor in his voice. president obama whose birth certificate has been questioned fairly incessantly by some republicans, particularly last year. mr. romney has acknowledged that he believes the president's birth certificate is authentic. this was meant to be a joke. aides say likely to be more in the future. not at all obama making fun of romney for putting car on dog roof and raised that in humor. having said that the obama campaign is slamming mr. romney saying that has joined the more strident wing of the party and that serious v

>> shepard: carl cammeron. two small planes got close to president obama's fundraiser last night.ilitary reports f-15 fighter jets accepted those planes when they flew into restricted airspace in the president's event in connect couldn't researchers tell us this is at least the seventh time this year that fighter jets have intercepted planes during presidential visits. newly released recordings capture the chaos when a man opened fire on innocent worshipers at a temple and word that suspect's ex-girlfriend is now facing charges after investigators turned up something at her apartment. plus, the woman in this video may look like a nurse. but cops say she was a kidnapper on a mission. we'll tell you what happened. and, later, wild weather giving many folks something they have never been expecting. as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news on fox report. people with a machine. what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if youbank doesn't let you talk to a real perso24/7, you need an ally. hello ? ally bank. no nonsense. just people s