ken romney appeal to those types of people >>> new details emerged from the deadly plane crash in losangeles the pilot knew he was in danger. >>> you need more binders pence, newspaper newspaper and all that stuff >>> happy time for students may be as well as,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> the pilot of a small plant reported an emergency before crashing in a loss angeles neighborhood yesterday the pilot was killed and not identified yet, no one on the ground was hurt, the plane trying to return to santa monica airport it went down 3 mi. east of the runway. this is the time of year that brings a range of emotions from students it is increasingly costly for parents. retailers' cash in on the back- to-school craziness lisa washington shows us cool shopping turns into a multibillion-dollar industry. >>> jennifer will go to ninth grade and a couple of weeks. >>> i've never been to a school where there's a lot of people i'm nervous of get used to it. >>> today she shops with her mom to get the supply she needs she's not sure of the cost but expects it will be more than last year >>> more minders, more p

christie's speech tomorrow they will begin their first full day with a full vote to nominate mitt romney. ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >> ken will be reporting live all week long, including tonight on the 10:00 p.m. news. >>> the newly -- archbishop- elect afallogized -- apologized after he was arrested over the weekend for dui. reverend salvatore cordileone was arrested in san diego saturday morning near san diego state university. >> he was released on bail that morning at 11:59 a.m. and bail was $2,500. >> in a statement released before 5:00 p.m. tonight reverend salvatore cordileone said he was ashamed of what he called a error in judgment and plans to pay his debt to society. he is scheduled to be installed as the archbishop on october 4, 5 days before his first court date. >>> a jury today acquitted a man on dui charges. he was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in march. the jury did not reach a verdict on a second count of driving with a blood alcohol of .08 which is the minimal level. he maintained throughout the trial he was not drunk. >>> judge modified the sentence of a

and ken porter. romney supporter has spent an awful lot on his ads. why has he spent so little compared to the president? >> thanks to a couple court decisions in 2010, are able to accept unlimited funds from people, corporations, even unions, though we see that more on the left, to air really hard-hitting ads attacking president obama. we've seen these groups give mitt romney air cover. bombarding the president with negative ads. while mitt romney sort of sits back and stockpiles funds. just waiting for the opportunity which is probably nearing for him to come out with his own advertising campaign. it's a huge advantage that democrats have been scrambling to try to offset by dispatching some of their stars to get their biggest donors to get money to outside groups set up on the left. but so far they have yet to come off the sidelines in a way that matches what republicans have done. >> hilary, let me ask you a question. in all fairness here, i know you're behind the president 100%. i know you've decried the influence of all these outside groups. but

romney's own aides are calling his most important speech ever. we're live inside the republican national convention hall in tampa, florida, where the excitement is really building for the nominee's acceptance speech. ken >> reporter: shortly before mr. romney's acceptance speemp, we'll hear from actor cling eastwood. he was a mystery speaker until that mystery was revealed late this afternoon. many in this hall will be wanting to hear from him as well. here is mitt romney a few hours ago looking very relaxed as he took a campaign photo with his staff in front of the stage on this historic day. before his speech tonight, big name musicians will perform such as taler hicks and to show their support for mitt romney a group of olympic tale tales will speak tonight. in one of the first speeches of tonight's primetime hour, clintd eastwood will address the thousands of delegates. all of that is a warm-up to the most important speech mitt romney has delivered. >> right now what's keep thing race close is that voters are not sure they know who he is and not sure they like him. >> it is clear after three days of the convention that the party is united behind mitt romney. it's the undecided or swing voters that

how close does brooks' parody get to people's actual doubts and suspicions about mitt romney, ken? erals are trying to put him in that frame and i think they've had some success. we see prominent figures in the republican party from karl rove to haley barbour saying mitt romney has not done a good job, his campaign has not done a good job offsetting these stereotypes being applied to him. you heard haley barbour saying many americans know he's a wealthy pluto adequate married to a known equestrian. some of the top minds expressing those concerns, i think they are legitimate, they are things the romney campaign has to worry about, however they're limited here. they're going to try to reroll out the candidate as every presidential campaign does at their convention. but they haven't shown an ability to personalize him. some of that probably comes back to him. it's a real challenge for hem and for his campaign. >> susan, a rich pluto adequate married to an equestrian? >> not the best description you want to be known as. they've had time. they did not change in the last eight years. so t

reporter: tomorrow is a full day, that is when they will vote to nominate mitt romney as their choice as their candidate choice. ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >> meg whitman has no plans to accept a white house position in a potential mitt romney administration. he said he regards meg whitmans with the perfect person for his cabinet. she might be interested in a advisory role and she is committed to staying at hewlett- packard. the wife of mitt romney is getting secret service protection. as of friday she now has agents assigned to her. it is a standard practice. mitt romney had it since the fink of the year. ktvu channel 2 news' coverage continues, ktvu's ken pritchett will be there live. >>> the san jose police department ordered six schools to be locked down after a bank robbery. robbersed up a -- robbers held up a wells fargo bank. the robbers took off towards the schools and that is when they imposed the lock down. they arrested one suspect and the second suspect at 2:30 p.m. >>> firefighters took an hour to put out a fire this afternoon. flames broke out at 2:30 p.m. in a building on jersey street in no

mitt romney completed the speech by saying that now is the time to restore america. we go to tampa florida where ken pritchett watched the romney speech from inside the convention hall. >> reporter: governor romney delivered an almost 40 minute speech. mr.romney had this crowd cheering many times on their feet from beginning to ends. it was through the audience that governor romney entered a convention hall, a two minute stroll through to the podium. >> mr. chairman and delegates i accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> reporter: it was a speech much about him, his family life, his wise as a successful businessman and his opponent. >> you know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him. >> reporter: mr. romney tried to paint a sense of buyers remorse with multiple jabs at president obama. >> president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet, my promise is to help you and your family. >> reporter: it was a speech that reached out to key voters blocks such a

mitt romney completed the speech by saying that now is the time to restore america. we go to tampa florida where ken pritchett watched the romney speech from inside the convention hall. >> reporter: governor romney delivered an almost 40 minute speech. mr.romney had this crowd cheering many times on their feet from beginning to ends. it was through the audience that governor romney entered a convention hall, a two minute stroll through to the podium. >> mr. chairman and delegates i accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> reporter: it was a speech much about him, his family life, his wise as a successful businessman and his opponent. >> you know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him. >> reporter: mr. romney tried to paint a sense of buyers remorse with multiple jabs at president obama. >> president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet, my promise is to help you and your family. >> reporter: it was a speech that reached out to key voters blocks such a

mitt romney announces his running mate in paul ryan hits the campaign trail running. good evening, i'm ken wayne heather holmes is off tonight. after weeks of speculation mitt romney app announced wisconsin congressman paul ryan is his running mate. in our election 2012 coverage, jennifer davis joins us live from washington, d.c. on details on why ryan's background will bring the economy front and center in the campaign, jennifer. >> reporter: hi, ken, after the end of this first full day of campaigning between romney and ryan, the duo said it was a really good day, a high-energy day, full of big crowds and certainly things are changing for congressman paul ryan right now, who is going to be spending less time on capitol hill and a lot more time on the campaign trail. day one on the republican ticket for congressman paul ryan started in front of the u.s.s. wisconsin an ode to his home state. >> real solutions can be delivered, but it will take leadership and the courage to tell you the truth. >> reporter: raucous and rejoicing crowds met the duo at the key battleground state of virginia. >

it's like taking a ken doll and turning him into flat romney. [ laughter ] which i guess has its advantages, i guess. if you want to send a message to iran, get yourself o no no, ah, help me, help me! flip out president romney into an envelope pretty soon ak din jad -- ak ahmadinejad is like, oh, a letter for me. problem solved. what kind of republican do you get to round out ticket? >> i won't characterize qualifications for vice president. >> jon: of course you won't. i think we can rule out one ticket. we'l'l r r we asked over 3,000 doctors to review 5-hour energy and what they said is amazing. over 73 percent who reviewed 5-hour energy said they would recommend a low calorie energy supplement to their healthy patients who use energy supplements. seventy-three percent. 5-hour energy has four calories and it's used over nine million times a week. is 5-hour energy right for you? ask yodoctor. we already asked 3,000. [cheers and applause] george welcome back. we ernld -- >> jon: we learned about -- his refusal has been a delicious all you can eat buffet for democrats. sadly as with one buff

it's like taking a ken doll and turning him into flat romney. [ laughter ] which i guess has its advantages, i guess. if you want to send a message to iran, get yourself o no no, ah, help me, help me! flip out president romney into an envelope pretty soon ak din jad -- ak ahmadinejad is like, oh, a letter for me. problem solved. what kind of republican do you get to round out ticket? >> i won't characterize qualifications for vice president. >> jon: of course you won't. i think we can rule out one ticket. >> welcome back. [cheers and applause] george welcome back. we ernld -- >> jon: we learned about -- his refusal has been a delicious all you can eat buffet for democrats. sadly as with one buffet there's one guy that doesn't know what to stop eating. >> senator reid said he spoke with a bane insider who told him, quote, harry he didn't pay any taxes for ten years. reid recounted the person saying, he didn't pay taxes for ten years. now do i know that that is true? well, i'm not certain said reid. [ laughter ] >> jon: here say rule of thumb if you have to follow your claim with the words, i

our coverage will continue on thursday when mitt romney speaks to the delegates. ken pritchett will be there live and we'll livestream the convention at ktvu.com including mobile ktvu.com. starting at 12:0 right after this newscast. >>> president obama is reaching out to -- 12:30 right after this newscast. >>> president obama is reaching out to an audience in iowa. then it's on to colorado state university. the obama campaign views college students and voters a crucial voting block. 50% of the voters under 35 said they would be voting for president obama, compared to the 38% who said they would be voting for mitt romney. >>> the fdic says lending to consumers has increased and revenue rose 21% in the second quarter to 31 billion up from 28 billion a few years ago. >>> a small but noisy group of protests expressed anger at a bank opening in oakland. it's a chase of -- it's a branch of chase bank at 14th and broadway. the protesters were were -- it's not clear why they were protests. >>> a second visitor to yosemite park has died from the hantavirus. all four visitors s

congressman paul ryan's turn and in excerpts of the speech, he says he and mitt romney will solve this nation's economic's problem. ktvu's ken pritchett will have a live report on paul ryan's speech tonight on the 10:00 p.m. news and a programming note, ktvu channel 2 news will air mitt romney's speech tomorrow night, he is expected to speak at 10:00 p.m. so the raiders game will be aired on tv 36. >>> demolition will begin next week on the bart station. starting next week crews expected to start tearing down building to make way for the new line. >>> a school struggles to recover after this bursts, floods the neighborhoodb and cause as sink hole -- neighborhood and causes a sink hole. >> the work that is catching a lot of attention. >>> flames destroyed a south bay nursery over night. the fire broke out before midnight that summer winds nursery on almaden expressway and branham road. firefighters had to led the fertilizers and pesticides inside to burn off to keep toxins from getting into the river. the building was a total loss, the owner plans to reopen as soon as possible. >>> we got a look at the flooding caused by a wa

ken wayne, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> yahoo fired its washington bureau chief over remarks he made about mitt romney and the republican national convention. a microphone picked up comments by david chalian as he waited to get ready for coverage. he said they were happy to have a party with black people drowning. a reference to the hurricane that was hitting new orleans. yahoo and david chalian apologized apologized for the remarks. >>> at uc davis, break through technology to save a dog's life. >> it warmed up today, especially inland but the fog will return, i will let you know how it will have an impact on the forecast for the next couple of days. >>> happening now a gas leak in napa has residents sheltering in place. a construction crew ruptured a natural gas line. there are no evacuations right now and pg&e expects to have the area back open by 7:00 p.m. tonight. >>> at uc davis today veterinarians saved a dug's life. ktvu's health and science editor john fowler explains how it may help humans. >> reporter: this is a big advance that uses the bodies ability to regrown bone, in this case jawbone.

>> i'm sorry, i have the image in my head of mitt romney as a ken doll. it's just too much. e've always known, mitt romney doesn't do this part of presidential politics very well. he's not very comfortable in his own skin. and it goes back to what we've talking about over and over and over again. he's not comfortable in his own skin, because he's not comfortable who he is, who he really is. i think joe scarborough put it very brilliantly last week on "morning joe," when he said, mitt romney has three problems, and they all begin with "m." money, massachusetts -- money, massachusetts, and mormon. those three things. >> what about mitt?! >> we thought you could add that. >> all three of these things make up mitt romney, who he is, to his core. and he won't talk about them. so you get situations where phil rucker, my colleague from "the washington post" asking him, governor, what did you get, and he just looks and says, "uh, hardware stuff." >> yeah, hardware stuff. now, we're laughing about buckets and greek yogurt, because those are funny things. >> together, especially. >> to

our coverage will continue through thursday when gop candidate mitt romney speaks to the delegates. ken will be there live when it begins. the former navy seal who wrote a book about the osama bin laden raid is no longer anonymous. the book was written under a different name and purports to be a first hand account of the killing of the leader in may of last year. fox news and other organizations are identifying the author as a 36-year-old man from alaska. he could face prosecution if the book contains classified information. >>> petalooma's little league team is celebrating a win that secured them a place there. they beat the texas team last night 11-1, the slaughter rule in 5 innings. it puts them in the championship game tomorrow there. [ cheers ] >> -- tennessee. a lot of people are expected to pack -- [ cheers ] >> -- little leaguers. >> i think they are doing great. last night was an amazing game -- >> -- no voice left. >> i -- it is. it is speechless of me. >> it is unbelievable. i went to to the movie theater and did that and it is so great it is almost unbelievable. >> the winne

romney. and what ken cuccinelli, the attorney general said fine. bring it on. the nomination is going to be in a convention and he is confident that he could be in a primary or in a convention and that the governor has a prerogative he is backing bowling. it would make no difference in cuccinelli said i have 30 points more name recognition than the lieutenant governor. so he felt very smug, really, about his chances whatever bob mcdonnell did. >> mark, that race for the virginia governor's office is already shaping up to be a big one. we have mark, fox 5 political analyst live in tampa tonight at the republican national convention. as you heard mark say there just a moment ago, ann romney speaking tonight. governor chris cristie of new jersey later on with the keynote address. so we have much more to come this evening as we continue, shawn. >> thank you, tom. >>> still ahead, a crucial clue released in the case of a man brutally beaten on capitol hill. we'll show you the clue, plus the victim's wife is now speaking out. also ahead. >> for the time being, will b

look at the tweet, love the romney's. and kenorado, vote for me i don't wear high heels, mr. ban all abortions with no exception for rape or incest, he's still around, an attorney making scary videos about how he'll defend the country from you know who in black helicopters trying to take our guns away. >> we don't need foreign governments or the obama administration keeping tabs on who owns guns. >> and sharon engle who said conservatives would return to second amendment remedies to take things back. she wants you to know she never stops fighting. here is what she tweeted today. weight leftinging to, my weekly workout routine to stay healthy and escape the obama care death panel. can we to do more? can we to do more. there is so much to do done. there's also a fascinating character on the democratic side. rev alvin green? the democratic senate nomination. got the democratic senate nomination without actively campaigning for it in an apparent and embarrassing fit of voter problems. it's unclear, but there's a graphic novel about h

look at the tweet, love the romney's. and ken colorado, vote for me i don't wear high heels, mr. ban all abortions with no exception for rape or incest, ken buck is still around. he's a county district attorney in colorado now making scary videos about how he will defend the country from you know who in black helicopters trying to take our guns away. >> we don't need foreign gornments or the obama administration keeping tabs on who owns guns. >> and remember nevada's sharron angle who said if she didn't beat harry read in november, conservatives would return to second amendment remedies to get their way. she wants you to know she never stops fighting. here is what she tweeted today. weightlifting today, my weekly workout routine to stay healthy and escape the obama care death panel. can we to do more? can we to do more. there is so much to be to done. there's also a fascinating character on the democratic side. remember south carolina's alvin greene? got the democratic senate nomination there without actively campaigning for it i

and a big mitt romney supporters but ken langone is critical of paul ryan. we'll get to that.e look forward to seeing you at the top of the hour from here at new york stock exchange. back to the "street signs" gang. mandy? >> thank you. >>> disaster in the city. today's disaster du jour is urban trends. down on a big miss. the market cop now down to $169 million. that's a 18% drop there. >>> priceline 307ing on news that william shatner's priceline negotiator is resurrected. the spot doesn't address how the negotiator survived but it does pick up with the shatner character on a beach with a surfboard. stig around to see it, i guess. >>> from the sunshine stock to the drought's drain on sunny-d. yes, the drink. formerly known as sunny delight. sweeteners will go up. the ceo says it could slam mom and pop at the cash register. let's bring in billy sear. he is's part of the young president's organization, chief executive network. billy, how much are your costs going up? >> they're going quite a bit. the impact of the drought is big. it happened incredibly quickly and the impact o

. >>> welcome back, ken landgon, a supporter of mitt romney, may have questions about romney's new running mate, congress paul ryan. speaking a month ago, he raised concerns about his tenure in congress. i asked him where he was in the six years we were spending money like drunken sailors. ken joins me to talk about that. good to see you. >> nice to see you. >> so how do you feel about paul ryan as the pick? >> i'm excited. the record has to be answered and it will be. i think as you watch this man present his knowledge of the budget, of the deficit, of all the moving parts, it's clear he will be able to address those issues because hopefully the democrats will raise the level of the discourse to more than what they're doing right now. i think he will be able to point out his record and knowledge and more importantly, the things he thinks we need to do to get this country going again, and we need to get this country going again. >> it certainly feels like deficit reduction will be the centerpiece of this ticket. >> yes, it is. the first thing you have to do is be realistic. in the eight ye

romney accept it is party nomination. stick with ktvu for continuing gop coverage. ken pritchett will bring us more live reports from tampa both tomorrow and thursday. >>> president obama hit the campaign trail today for a three state tour of college towns in swing states. his first stop, iowa state university where he tried to energize young voters. in years past candidates have typically stayed out of the spotlight during the other party's convention but not this time. >> governor romney promised that sometime between taking the oath of office and going to the inaugural ball he would sit down with a pen and knock college kids off their parents insurance. >>> and crews are working on a sink hole that opened up in sunny vale. >> reporter: the water company told me the goal is to get water restored. it just finished putting up 20 to 25 people up in hotels for the night. you can see that work is still going on over the hole tonight. you see the backhoe there. we now know there were actually two pipes that broke but finding out what caused this could take a while. >> repor

romney accept it is party nomination. stick with ktvu for continuing gop coverage. ken pritchett will bring us more live reports from tampa both tomorrow and thursday. >>> president obama hit the campaign trail today for a three state tour of college towns in swing states. his first stop, iowa state university where he tried to energize young voters. in years past candidates have typically stayed out of the spotlight during the other party's convention but not this time. >> governor romney promised that sometime between taking the oath of office and going to the inaugural ball he would sit down with a pen and knock college kids off their parents insurance. >>> and crews are working on a sink hole that opened up in sunny vale. >> reporter: the water company told me the goal is to get water restored. it just finished putting up 20 to 25 people up in hotels for the night. you can see that work is still going on over the hole tonight. you see the backhoe there. we now know there were actually two pipes that broke but finding out what caused this could take a while. >> repor

romney campaign. a lot of others were thrown out there today, but this will be interesting to see where all of this goes. >>> ken, thanks a lot for that. >>> paul ryan is a virtual unknown in virginia. sue rae chin has answers. >> reporter: experts have said romney has few path to his victory without winning virginia. he may not have a large impact on the commonwealth but ryan will appeal to fiscal conservatives because he knows the country's budget inside and out. some are calling him the antipalin pick. >> reporter: george mason's political analyst says romney's vp choice was a smart move. but one that may not win virginia. >> virginia republicans, few of them are going shucks, we could have had a slightly easier november. ryan is not a governor, he is not mcdonell or eric cantor. i don't think there is a big virginia impact. what the pick of paul ryan is that romney wants to run on big ideas. >> reporter: independent voters have mixed feelings. >> it is time to exercise some restraint and i think paul ryan's plan seems to be a good idea. >> reporter: what is your reaction? >> really? that was the best he coul

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the coverage of the convention will continue through thursday when romney is scheduled right now to address the delegates. ken pritchett will be there live with reports all week long. . >> in homes of stopping massive flood ahead of isaac new orleans is reinforcing the levi system. they piled ton of sand on the wall that surround the low lying areas of that estimate the storm is expected to become a hurricane by tomorrow and could bring a 12-foot storm surge in some areas. >> many areas, mandatory evacuations for those targeted areas that are expected to get hurricane level winds. >> fema has officially activated its response center. the agency covers eight southeast states and it's ready to go into whichever the storm hits. flying in and out of new orleans is out of the question tonight. all airlines that serve the airport stopped operations at the end of their schedule today and there are no flights scheduled for tomorrow. all of the cancellations add up to hundreds of flights and thousands of passengers are now grounded and rushing to make other arrangements. >> and isaac is still a storm, it looked like i

the coverage of the convention will continue through thursday when romney is scheduled right now to address the delegates. ken pritchett will be there live with reports all week long. . >> in homes of stopping massive flood ahead of isaac new orleans is reinforcing the levi system. they piled ton of sand on the wall that surround the low lying areas of that estimate the storm is expected to become a hurricane by tomorrow and could bring a 12-foot storm surge in some areas. >> many areas, mandatory evacuations for those targeted areas that are expected to get hurricane level winds. >> fema has officially activated its response center. the agency covers eight southeast states and it's ready to go into whichever the storm hits. flying in and out of new orleans is out of the question tonight. all airlines that serve the airport stopped operations at the end of their schedule today and there are no flights scheduled for tomorrow. all of the cancellations add up to hundreds of flights and thousands of passengers are now grounded and rushing to make other arrangements. >> and isaac is still a storm, it looked like i

our coverage will continue through nurse when gop candidate mitt romney speaks to the delegates. ktvu's ken will be there live when the gop convention begins. >>> only days after his controversial comments about rape, missouri congressman todd akin is the target of of threats. akin's office said there are threats of rape to his wife and others. the fbi and capitol police are investigating. sources say the threats came through twitter and by phone. akin has apologized for suggesting a woman's body can prevent pregnancy, due to what he called legitimate rape. >>> regulation over health insurance rates in california is headed to the november 2014 ballot. today, the secretary of state's office announced that the initiative had enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. it is sponsored by consumer watchdog, and gives state insurance givers to deny certain premium increases. the health insurance has vowed to spend 10s of millions of dollars to avoid that study. >>> a new study finds older men are more likely to father children with autism, or schizophrenia. their children have more and more gen

our coverage will continue through nurse when gop candidate mitt romney speaks to the delegates. ktvu's ken pritchett will be there live when the gop convention begins. >>> only days after his controversial comments about rape, missouri congressman todd akin is the target of of threats. akin's office said there are threats of rape to his wife and others. the fbi and capitol police are investigating. sources say the threats came through twitter and by phone. akin has apologized for suggesting a woman's body can prevent pregnancy, due to what he called legitimate rape. >>> regulation over health insurance rates in california is headed to the november 2014 ballot. today, the secretary of state's office announced that the initiative had enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. it is sponsored by consumer watchdog, and gives state insurance givers to deny certain premium increases. the health insurance has vowed to spend 10s of millions of dollars to avoid that study. >>> a new study finds older men are more likely to father children with autism, or schizophrenia. their children have more an

we talked to ken cuccinelli, virginia's attorney general about what kind of strategy he thought mitt romney should take. >> you shouldn't change to get votes. you should tell people why you believe what you believe and why it matters to them in their lives as voters. that's what i've done. >> so there was a bit of a demonstration from ron paul delegates. they were screaming and shouting here. but the folks here say there's no questions that republicans will go out of this convention united in the effort to defeat barack obama. derek. >> and hoping to be united and energized. bruce leshan live at the convention in tampa. thank you. >>> now president obama is heading to some colleges in swing states during the republican convention. today he was at iowa state university. tomorrow he heads to the university of virginia in charlottesville. and on friday, he'll be at colorado state university. >>> well, a soldier has copped a plea and will now testify against three fellow soldiers. they are accused of killing two people to protect a secret militia group bent on killing president obama and over t

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romney. >> coming up at 7:15, we'll go live to tampa where ken pritchett is getting row action from california delegates and a look at changes taking place. >>> continuing coverage on isaac. the first fatality from the storm is being reported in mississippi. a tow truck driver was struck boy a falling tree. elizabeth pramm joins us live from new orleans where isaac is forcing thousands from their homes. good morning, elizabeth p.m. >> -- good morning, elizabeth? >> reporter: good morning. people were evacuated from east of lake pontchartrain. they wanted to get those people to higher ground because the floodwaters really continue to rise. the storm is 125 miles north and east of our location and that water only has one place to go and that's down south. the homes in the low-lying areas are completely submerged. louisiana's plaquemines parish is one of the hardest hit by isaac. the storm caused severe flooding. officials were forced to rescue dozens of people by boat after they became stranded. >> national guard working with private citizens, sheriff deputy and they've reported at least 35 peop

one of the challenges for romney is good looking guy, got a lot of money, got a pretty wife. people say, is that kennd barbie? do they have any problems where people can understand? in a poll last week, we showed that by a margin of more than 2-1, americans said that barack obama, mitt romney rather understands the problems of average people. the health challenges she faced, challenges of raising children. those are things every family can relate to. that's why they moved it from monday night to broadcast network tv to tonight. >> i think her illness is also very important part of this story. and of course, her husband stayed with her, i don't mean stayed with her, but stayed with her and helped nurse her and be with her constantly. i think that also is something that a lot of americans understand. people have been sick, through bloody hell, so i think this is just a really important speech. chris christie will be very interesting, but i'm up for ann romney. >> what do you expect to hear from him? how important is that going to be in terms of getting the crowd going as you mex mentioned? >> what i g

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romney and i approve this message. a csx train derailed in main street in ellicott city. two people are dead. ken almann joins us on the phone. good morning to you. >> tell us first. we have reports of people having died as a result of this derailment. bring us up to speed first on the deaths in this incident. >> yes. there are two victims. police investigation is continuing. there are two victims who are up on the train bridge. we are now waiting for additional csx cranes to move train cars that flipped over on to automobiles to be able to pull those off to search the automobiles for any additional victims. >> so this train derailed and hit other vehicles, is that right? >> well, there's a county-owned parking lot that many folks use to go to bars and restaurants in the historic main street nell cot city. this is about midnight on a monday night. so there were a number of vehicles in that parking lot. when the train derailed, about 21 train cars derailed off the tracks right in the heart historic main street ellicott city. they flipped on to this parking lot adjacent to the rail bridge and crush