carol alt!ess. >> steve: how are you? >> carol: i'm good, thank you for having me. >> brian: gretchen is away, you have the last hour all to yourself. we'll try to make it as nato as possible. you matched steve's tie. a little insulting. >> carol: i'm sorry, brian. but i do like yellow. >> steve: this is kind of like a first date. let's talk a little bit about your past history. your dad was fire chief? >> carol: a fire chief in the south bronks. so i am all new york. >> steve: of course, you were probably the very first super model. >> carol: yes. but i was talking to wayne rogers back stage, and i said to him, you were an actor, economist, historian. >> he said, could like to be categorized. and neither do i. >> brian: this is why we don't let wayne talk to our guests. he messes everything up. we want to learn more about you. you didn't set out to be a model. correct? >> carol: no, i was in the army. i was studying law through army rotc and i was doing this for a summer job. trying to get mone

i said, this is carol dodge, angie's mom. she said, angie's been found dead. >> reporter: just over the phone? >> i remember saying, god, no, please, no. this can't be real. >> reporter: happened it turned out the night before, in the tiny second floor walkup where the independent 18-year-old had just started to build her life. stabbed to death, her throat cut, and carol was haunted by a conversation she had with angie that very week. >> that's what she said to me, you know, mom, i've done something really stupid. >> reporter: did you say to her, what did you do? >> no, i didn't want to pry. >> reporter: what could it have been, that something stupid? could it lead to murder? idaho falls, idaho, big blue heaven above, dazzling white mormon temple below to anchor the town, and signal like a beacon its moral core of american virtue. fine place to raise a family, three dodge boys and one girl named angie, whose birth occasion brother brent remembers, the biggest celebration of all. >> that was great for my parents to have a baby

carol? >> rob marciano, thanks. >>> just a couple of months ago, gabby douglas' coaches thought she lacked the concentration and confidence to be an olympic medalist. did she prove them wrong. the 4'11" teenager with the winning smile captured the individual all-around event at last night's gymnastics competition. that follows her gold in the team event. this rising star can count on two families, her parents in virginia, and a family in iowa that took her in for two years while she was training. a feature from proctor & gamble tells the story. >> letting go of gabrielle was one of the hardest things i've ever done in my life. but it's now one of the most rewarding things that i've ever got to experience in my life. because there's no greater joy than for a parent to see their child reach their dream. i've raised an olympian. wow, that's a powerful statement right there. >> she's fun to watch. gabby's mom is a single mother. she couldn't afford to send her child to iowa for, you know, there'

carol? >> so is it going to affect the southeastern portion of the united states more than in other parts of the country? >> well, again, you know, this is -- refinery production, 40%, is in the gulf area. so that's impacting not just the southeast but the entire country. the one bit of bright news i do want to share, carol, is that with summer coming to an end here, refineries will stop ending up making what's called summer blend of gasoline, which ends up costing more. so hopefully we'll see some relief at least with that at the pump. >> maribel aber from the new york stock exchange, thank you. >>> you can get the latest information on hurricane isaac including satellite imagery, the forecast track, and more at cnn.com/hurricane. if you've been in theath of hurricane isaac or felt its effects, we invite you to share your photos, video, and experience at cnnireport.com. >>> ann romney gave one of the biggest speeches of the republican national convention last night. it was all about her hus

i'm carol costello. right now, we're going to take a look at the double trouble looming over the republican national convention. just a few days before its kickoff, will a storm named isaac crash the grand old party? or is the greater threat manmade? this morning, florida is scrambling, and bracing for the unknown. >> isaac is a unique storm in this regard. it has the potential to threaten a major convention, designated a special national security event. and that's why i have convened local, state, federal, and convention officials for a twice daily briefing. the goal is to make sure everyone has the best information available. a complete picture of the situation. everything needed to make a good decision. these officials have been working together to plan the convention for the past 18 months. the possibility for a hurricane has been part of that planning process. all that's required for those plans to be activated is there to be a hurricane, and hopefully that will not happen. >> because if it does, as

carol? >> i just can't believe it's already sending pictures back. when will we get to see more pictures and where can we see th them? >> reporter: well, you'll see them on cnn throughout the course of the day. but in about three hours we expect to get at least one image back taken from the mars reconnaissance orbiter that was flying overhead as curiosity was landing and that image, i'm told, is stunning that shows curiosity's parachute as it's coming through the atmosphere descending. and then later this afternoon images from the descent camera, again, much like the apollo images when we saw apollo landing and the dust coming up and the vehicle moving closer to the ground. they have thousands of those images. they are just tickled with the sensational images that they are going to start giving us over the course of the next few days. carol? >> just fascinating. thanks, john. >>> more new details emerging this morning on a big defection in syria. the opposition says the prime minister, one o

i'm carol costello. we begin with the good, the bad, and the bizarre. of the republican national convention. on the party's biggest night in four years, mitt romney accepts the nomination and delivers the most important speech of his lifetime. but a hollywood icon goes off script and steals the show. clint eastwood raises eyebrows and sets the internet ablaze when he talks to an empty chair representing invisible obama. you'll want to hear some of those lines. more on that in just a couple of minutes. >>> but first, let's focus on mitt romney and his primetime opportunity to win your vote. romney says he'll revitalize the nation and economy held hostage by a failed presidency. before we listen, a heads up. we're going to take a break from the short excerpts of sound you're used to hearing on television and run longer chunks of what mr. romney had to say. >> how many days have you woken up feeling that something really and was happening in america? many of you felt that way on election day four years ago.

i'm carol costello. we begin with the republican party's biggest night in four years. just hours from now, mitt romney will accept the presidential nomination and deliver the most important speech of his life. setting the stage, romney's running mate, paul ryan. and he may be a hard act to follow. last night, he energized the crowd, promising to deliver a new america and exercise the demons of a failed presidency. a head's up. we'll take a break from the usual short excerpts and run longer chunks of sound to give you a better sense of exactly what paul ryan said. >> obama care, as much as anything else, explains why a presidency that began with such anticipation now comes to such a disappointing close. it began with a financial crisis. it ends with a job crisis. it began with a housing crisis they alone didn't cause. and it ends with a housing crisis they didn't correct. [ applause ] >> it began with a perfect aaa credit rate for the united states. it ends with a downgraded america. >> boo! >> it all sta

carol?what i do, though. let's talk about your 401(k). because the government is going to require all those hidden fees that people probably didn't even know about to be listed. tell us about that. >> exactly. and that's the thing. it's like a big surprise. surprise that you know that you do pay fees when you have a 401(k). so what's going to happen is you're going to get this new information about these fees in two phases. so if you're in a 401(k) you're going to get an annual. and you'll get a quarterly statement about your investments. the first statement should show up in your mailbox at the end of this month. and what's going to be on it will include details about how your plan is structured. plus a current list of investment options. also, you'll get some performance data with comparisons to how the broader market performed. now phase two will come in october. that's when the quarterly statements come. and what these are going to have is actually going to lay out all the administrative

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carol? >> just so sad. casey wian reporting live this morning. >>> another case of some kind of in-flight problem with a passenger. this time on a jetblue flight 677 from new york to l.a. the airline won't say what exactly happened that forced the pilot to divert to denver. they took the passenger into custody. charges are pending. the flight hen continued then c the west coast. >>> a 76-year-old man has become the latest victim of the worst west nile outbreak in years. nearly 700 cases reported over 32 states. at least 26 people have now died. texas has been the state hardest hit. in dallas spraying continued overnight. mayor mike rawlings says they are making progress. >> last night we almost got a quarter of a million acres done. we have four planes up and we were able to cover all the areas we targeted. tonight we go back at it. we have a fifth plane and by that time we should have everybody done this time tomorrow morning twice. >> according to the cdc west nile infections occur from ju

>> reporter: sure is, carol. just eight weeks ago, tropical storm debby hit near here, and this area just to my left, bay shore boulevard in downtown tampa was under a few feet of water. just a couple of blocks from here is the convention center. the area where the convention will be held. the forum just around the corner. and you can see the water behind me. it's a low-lying area. storm surge is a hooj problem here. that was a problem during tropical storm debby eight weeks ago, and it could be a problem if isaac comes anywhere near here as a tropical storm or as a hurricane. tampa bay is kind of a funnel. it brings water up from the gulf right into this area. it has nowhere to go. once it hits right about here, other than to maybe flood these areas. we talked to dan noah about the potential for storm surge right where we're standing. >> one thing about tampa bay is once the water gets into the bay, it piles up. and right where we are standing is where it piles up. ri >> reporter: so that's always a worry here.

i'm carol costello. we begin this morning in oak creek, wisconsin, the site of the weekend massacre at that sikh temple. for the third straight night, the community has bonded in its grief. and the vigil keeps growing larger. the police department is also on edge. the fear white supremacists might retaliate for the death of the temple gunman. cnn's brian todd is in oak creek, wisconsin. you witnessed the depths of those concerns first hand. describe that for us. >> reporter: well, carol, yesterday we had gotten the name of the officer who took down the shooter on sunday. we've gotten the name and the address of that person. we went to his house. we knocked on his door to see if he might want to talk to us. he declined, citing the investigation. but essentially when i got back to our car, our photo journalist and my producer were in the car. we had taken no footage of anything. they were sitting there. i got in the car. and as soon as they happened, we were directly confronted by police and surrounded. fi

carol, we should also note that politifact have rated the ad pants on fire, carol. >> does that really matter? you showed the headline in iowa this morning. does it really matter if it's untrue or not? it's out there. >> reporter: well, you know, it doesn't matter from a tactical standpoint for the romney campaign. that's right. the public is talking about it. the press is talking about it. we're talking about it right now and that's what they want. but keep in mind, carol this is what both sides are doing these days. it almost seems as if you need a new rating system for some of these ads. perhaps we should combine politifacts with "the new york post" and do four biknock pi ks on fire. >> at least maybe some of the ads will be partially true if you're lucky. >> good point. >> jim acosta, we'll let you know. i know you're waiting for -- >> reporter: you bet. >> we're waiting for romney to speak. thank you, jim. mitt romney will speak in des moines, iowa, maybe in 10 minutes or so. when he begins speaking, of course, we'll bring that to you live. >>> a security scare in russia this morn

carol? >>> to syria now. where after a 16-month crackdown that the u.n. says has killed nearly 17,000 people, syrian rebels are set to receive help from the united states. officials telling cnn that president obama approved giving clandestine support, secret support by the cia and other agencies. the order comes after a failure by the u.n. security council to approve tougher sanctions o the regime of syrian president bashir al assad. mohammed jamjoom is in abu dh i dhabi. the order is secret, but we are getting details. first off, when did the president authorize this action? >> reporter: well, carol, u.s. officials say that president obama signed this action within the last several months. but it is still unclear as to exactly what type of aid is being specified here. now, the obama administration has ruled out arming the rebels so far. the u.s. administration has said on many occasions that they don't want to further militarize this conflict, that they don't want to be arming the rebels an

good morning. >> reporter: come on, carol.d snooki has been out there tweeting about this. the fact she is not getting any sleep, it looks like nicole "snooki" is immersed in motherhood. a rep does tell us the "jersey shore" star gave birth to a healthy 6 pound, 5 ounce baby boy in a new jersey hospital. snooki was there on twitter, no big surprise. she was sending out the details to her twitter followers including his name. here is what she wrote. i am so in love with my son lorenzo dominick. i had my little man last night, healthy at 6 pounds. he's my world. that's lorenzo dominick lavalle, the baby's father, back in march when she announced her pregnancy, snooki said they were engaged to celebrate the happy occasion mtv took the opportunity to tell fans if they want to know more about the last months of snooki's pregnancy they can tune in to the sixth season of "jersey shore." you may not be tuning in but nothing like a pregnancy to stir up publicity. >> i'm italian-american. it's difficult. it's very difficult. but i try.

welcome, carol. >> thank you, carol.o be here. >> when you look at what's been the republican platform, support for a human life amendment to the constitution, do you see that as a hard-fought victory? >> no. no, the republican party since 1976 has supported a human life amendment or effort to pass a human life amendment. and unlike what is being reported around the country, this is not going to ban all abortions. the platform does not call for any specific exceptions. it does not get into the weeds as to what should be legal or not. it says we have a general principle. we think unborn children should be protected and we'll support efforts to do that. >> mitt romney, he supports abortion rights when it comes to rape or incest, do you support mitt romney? >> oh, absolutely. mitt romney is a wonderful, strongly pro-life candidate and we will do everything we can to get him elected. >> -- under certain circumstances. in light of the akin controversy, do you worry at all about backlash? >> no. no, the american public would s

carol? >> it has begun. david mattingly reporting live from gulfport, mississippi, this morning. >>> mitt romney is expected to arrive in tampa in just about two hours at the replubican national convention's first full day. the convention reconvenes this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. a few hours later, romney will be formally nominated as the republican party's presidential candidate. and then tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern, former presidential candidate rick santorum will take the podium. he'll be followed two hours later by senate candidate ted cruz out of texas. and south carolina governor nikki haley will also speak. and then at 10:00 p.m. eastern, right in primetime, mitt romney's wife, ann romney, will speak. she will be followed by the keynote speaker, new jersey governor chris christie. brook baldwin is at the replubican national convention in tampa. i see the excitement to hear chris christie's speech is at fever pitch. >> well, the plum of the plum of speaking roles. you think of chris christi

carol dodge was there too, two of her sons also. >> they got a lot at stake.ris tapp walks free, then what? then it is who is the killer? >> reporter: the prosecution would rely on the word of former detective and current idaho falls mayor jared fuhriman. fuhriman ran the police interviews, and said chris tapp was never technically in custody. >> was chris tapp free to leave? >> yes. >> reporter: that's funny, chris lawyers argued when it was their turn, how could a 20-year-old who had been arrested twice and watched as the door was barred during some of his interviews, how could that young man who had been questioned on and off for nearly a month, who spent more than a week at that time actually locked up in jail, who had watched as immunity deals were offered and then later torn up, how could that kid, the lawyer asked, be expected to believe he could leave whenever he wanted? >> did you think that if you decided not to talk to the police that you were going to be able to go home? >> no, i would not have been allowed to go home. >> reporter: but tapp had to

i'm carol costello. we begin with new details of heroism emerging this morning from that deadly shooting rampage near milwaukee. satwan singh was president of the sikh temple, and he died trying to protect his fellow worshippers. he was armed but only with a butter knife. police say he saved lives by delaying the killer just long enough for others to escape. and this is lieutenant brian murphy, the first police officer to arrive on the scene. the gunman was waiting as murphy attended to a victim, the killer walked up and shot him nine times, even critically wounded murphy's greatest concern was for the other victims. when his fellow officers finally reached him. >> and as they approached him, he waved them off. he had been shot nine times. one of them very serious in the neck area. and he waved them off and told them to go into the temple to assist those in there. >> david mattingly is in oak creek, wisconsin. so david, how is officer murphy doing this morning? >> reporter: as of the last update we got f

i'm carol costello.ght now in the newsroom, several members of penn state's board of trustees have filed an appeal with the ncaa. they're contesting sanctions handed down in the wake of the jerry sandusky scandal. they claim penn state's president did not have proper legal authority to sign the agreement without the board's approval. >>> gibson guitar corporation agrees to pay a $300,000 penalty for illegally importing exotic wood from madagascar and india. their deal with the justice department allows them to avoid criminal charges. gibson will also make a $50,000 community service payment to the u.s. fish and wildlife foundation. >>> the psychiatrist who was treating the aurora, colorado, shooting suspect, james holmes, contacted university police six weeks before the july 20th movie theater massacre. that's according to cnn affiliate kmgh which also says dr. lynn fenton requested a background check on her patient and had contacted the university threat assessment team. >>> in just a few hours, we'll k

we will hear first from carol. >> i am carol berman from west palm beach, florida. mine is a sad but not very unique story. before moving to florida i lived in ohio and while there my husband became incapacitated with alzheimer's. for two years i managed a full-time job getting assistance with specialized day care programs and an occasional paid care giver. to make ends meet, i sold our modest home and moved us to a small apartment. soon after my husband broke his hip when he was in day care and even after surgery and some rehabilitation he could no longer walk. i was forced to place him in a long-term care facility. the average cost per month ran $4,000 to $5,000 depending on medication and extra services such as laundry. and each and every month i was forced to sell something else of value just to get by. for two more years i managed by cashing in all of our assets except for my own individual 401(k) which sins i was not yet eligible for social security was all that i had left. and when it became clear that our funds would not last much longer and my financial fut

carol we're out of time here but you made your point and you did so very eloquently thanks for being with us and thank you. so the next time you're in a job interview and you get to the end of it the interviewer asks you if you have any questions about him or her about the company here's what you should probably think about asking what are your company's politics now that might sound like an odd question and maybe not the sort of impression you want to make it a job interview but it could save you a lot of problems farther down the road that's because according to a group of commissioners in the federal election commission corporations your employer can force you to campaign for certain politicians whether you like it or not they can even fire you if you choose not to in other words a corporation can force you to spend your day phone banking for say missouri senate candidate todd akin or cam a scene around the neighborhood for i don't know michele bachmann were standing on the side of the street with a sign telling people to vote for david duke. said it's crazy that we as employees h

years later they were murdered they wanted to have children they were sterilized are you suggesting carol that this is some variation on eugenics that there's a racial component of this is absolutely so we have a black president who is trying to trying to reduce the population of black people in or you know that's true we both know it's true yes i think so because he cooperates well and current goods agenda and it's burger much an agenda to get rid of certain populations it may not just be black people and hispanics but also people and ninety nine percent of what planned parenthood does is things like mammograms and app tests i was that how is that eugenics. they don't do mammograms and they don't they do breast exams they don't do mammograms so that's already been proven but the thing is they have bomb administration well that's not their pre-born children the stir last ation so that young women would not be able to have children or been truly services to the elderly they are at war with human life they're so concerned about the carbon footprint that they're doing everything they can to

live from ralph wilson stadium, carol maloney. back to you guys. >>> coming up, a new battle in court in colorado. the man accused of one of the worst mass murders in u.s. history faces a judge again. >>> not everyone is ready to gamble on a plan to bring a vegas-style casino to prince georges county. but we're getting a better idea of which maryland lawmakers are ready to roll the dice. >>> google is ready to pay up big time for secretly tracking consumers on the internet. >>> and a woman fell into a manhole and then made the call for help trapped seven feet below. >> are you injured? >> i think i scraped myself a little bit. i got the chance to start my own business. i know what it's like to hire people and to make ends meet. from those experiences, i had the chance of running the olympics. the games were in real trouble. there'd been way too much spending. and in massachusetts i found a budget that was badly out of balance. our legislature was 85% democrat. and every one of the four years i was governor, we balanced the budget.

now the cool story behind this is mike and carol have seen these bears before.ars on their patio. in fact. they kept some bird feeders on their patio. it's a beautiful place for bird feeders, look at this view. >> they kept them on purpose, so the bears would come on their patio? >> no, they kept them for the birds, but the bears figured out they'd have a free meal. the last time mama bear was at the house she figured out she would just pull the rope to pull down the bird feeder. s she thought the rope would lead her to food. >> she's teaching the baby, come on, cubs. can the little bear, come on along. >> oh, there goes the screen door. >> no, rips the screen door. >> she is one smart mama bear. >> she's brilliant. >> i keep telling you, animals are evolving. doesn't did bother people that she's using a heavy-gauge door to climb up to get the bird feed centre. >> when she remembers the code for the security system? we're done as humans. >> what's amazing is mike and carol get to see it rather often. they have another video of bears in their area, and in this pa

carole simpson also.hink for any woman who is a journalist. >> can i give candy any advice? >> you know what? i'm out of time so you guys -- you're friends. i'm sure you can just call her later. >> i'll call her then. >> you know, she doesn't need any advice. she said last minute, the light goes on, she'll say good evening and it will all come to her. >> yeah. call her on your dime. >> thank you. >>> still ahead on "starting point," you know him and love him from his show, "man versus food." adam richman stops by to taste test some of the best sandwiches in america. real fruit pieces. 12 grams of whole grains and a creamy yogurt flavored coating. quaker yogurt granola bars. treat yourself good. quaker yogurt granola bars. male spirit present.trong it's the priceline negotiator. >>what? >>sorry. he wants you to know about priceline's new express deals. it's a faster way to get a great tel deal without bidding. pick one with a pool, a gym, a great guest rating. >>and save big. >>thanks negotiator. wherever

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you mentioned voter registration drive that benefits -- >> carol when she first runs in 92. >> to put obama in context of washington, as carol moseley braun, and then maybe particularly how his relationship with independent black politics, coalition black politics transformed as he begins from that city and local stage to the national convention. >> there's a lot going on there. you know, he runs for congress against bobby rush who is a community center black nationalist, and gets squashed. doesn't win. he talks about political need to build the coalition which is true. overwhelmingly black congressional district. and a racially polarized city. and so you have that, but there's also some other as a talk about, because it's just not where he sits among the independents can which i think is important, but there's a guy, a fellow who was president of the illinois senate. he's been in the trenches, comes out, you know, i personally met him because i did some redistricting work for the illinois senate. as a consultant. he is a great guy. he's sort of chain smoker, you know, wheeler and dea