it created a new category that they called forcible rape. why do you need that new category? you need that new category to distinguish that kind of rape from other kinds of rape. to single out a subclass of rape that would allow you to still make a decision on your own pregnancy while victims of other subtypes of rape would not get that privilege in paul ryan's america. paul ryan was an original cosponsor of the bill to redefine rape, to make it harder on rape victims who wanted to get an abortion. as our own kelly o'donnell reported, he attempted to redefine rape a year earlier, offering another piece of legislation that allowed for abortion in limits circumstances, quote, unless the pregnancy is the result of an act of forcible rape or incest. you know, the real kind of rape, not that fake kind of rape. that doesn't qualify. but now, when paul ryan is asked about his own record on this, his own record to redefine what rape is -- >> you sponsored legislation that has the language forcible rape. what is forcible rape? >> rape is rape. rape is rape, period, end of story. >> so

. >> you have got a new category, and this is the first time it has appeared, and it includes a representative from face but. this is a traditionally male- dominated area that has been broken. >> we have 15 women on the technology sector on the list, and it is a male-dominated industry, and it has been positive signs that women are emerging in this category. you have meg whitman at the helm of hp, marissa mayer at yahoo, and they are employing more than 1 million individuals worldwide, but they're also in industries that are profoundly shaping the rest of business moving forward. technology is creating disruption, and it is changing the look of business. >> and, very briefly, the queen is up there again. >> the queen has had a great year. it is heard jubilee. how can you not love a queen who decides at the olympics to jump out of a helicopter, or at least to pretend to do so? >> i know she is wonderful to do so. thank you. staying with the royals, what happens in vegas stays in vegas, or so the saying goes, and today, perhaps prince harry whishes that were true. there are photographs showing p

furthermore, the funds for this new category are now divided 50/50 between a path that goes to mr. perot -- metropolitan planning organization, and the other half goes to the state dot, so the state can opt out of using that money for this purpose and pour it into road construction or maintenance or anything like that, so we will have an advocacy challenge their at the state level present -- preventing the state from opting out because it would be a further hit to the amount of money that is available. at the regional level, i am trust and we will compete very well as usual. there's also a fair bit of reform intended to streamline and reduce the amount of time it takes for projects to clear federal environmental regulations. among those things, the bill has expanded fairly significantly the amount of delegation that the federal government can do to states. there really is kind of a pilot program with the federal government delegates on the state to be the executives, and we're talking now about including a rail, transit, and multiple projects among the projects for which the state

then he should leave the good r t r d has been nominated for an international emmy award in the news category for the network's coverage of the occupy wall street movement which began last year in new york from the start of the movement r.t. was one of the first channels to provide coverage and in-depth analysis of the events. well from coast to coast occupy wall street protesters storming u.s. cities today r.t. has been covering this story from day one we have correspondents in all the movements hot spots around the country to bring us the latest thousands and thousands of people it's unlike anything that i've. kind of circle a bit of hibernation last year the movement marches on today the nation's capital most of the next wave of the ninety nine percent movement as thousands gathered in d.c. as freedom plaza marched to the capitol building calling for an end to the wars and an end to wall street's dominance of our economy right now more than it does it require you're on the streets of los angeles is financial district we can hear the jets of occupy usa but let's not forget the occupy moveme

mention will turn to category i hurricane, spinning 4 hours over the very warm surface temperature thousands of the gulf of mexico. by the time it heads to mobile bay, alabama or new orleans, could become a category 2 hurricane. this is what makes meteorologists nervous the a storm like this over the water two day's time, and high energy environment. not much wind sheer there, which would tear the top off the hurricane and keep intensity down. wind sheer looks to be weak. could give the storm time to strengthen rather rapidly over 36 hours. right now does look like areas from, just east of houston, and, towards the florida panhandle. still pretty wide cone there, projected path for the storm. right now, does look like during the day, by winds day could see landfall close to new orleans. category ii hurricane. watching in the gulf of mexico here over the next couple days. watching that situation very closely along with some changes to our own forecast which include a big warm-up. seven day, have a look in a few minutes diet. ian. >> thank you, rob. >>> the tropical storm is making an impact on the republican national convention in tampa. sensitive to the appearance

sales just keep on growing, and the ceo was on cnbc earlier today saying his firm is creating a new category. on the other side, let me show you a stock really sinking, it's earning also dropping. it did issue weak guidance. let's move away from stocks and look at some of the sectors here and do an end of the month tally here of the winning and losing sectors. they were those with more of a risk on flavor. things like it, financials, materials, and energy. for the losing sectors, the defensive stocks. get the idea, a lowe rotation goig here. and utilities have been down by 5%. those are some of the things going on. >> thank you, there is 49 minutes before the closing bell. >> the market is falling off. >> i would like a triple digit friday. >> the tradition is, going back to 1928, the day before the labor day holiday is usually a very big day for the market. it's up, but it was up more earlier. keep it here because anything could happen as we get started on this special friday edition of "closing bell." >>> coming up, having a sit down. rumors abound that apple is engaging in peace talks wit

at the latest track will take it toward new orleans late tuesday into early wednesday possibly a category 2 storm and new orleans is now under a hurricane warning. we will have much more on the track of the storm and we can expect in our area in the coming weeks. >> the governor of louisiana has issued a state of emergency. even going so far as telling people to get out now. >> we are calling on folks who live in low lying areas and of 15 parishes in a hurricane watch area to go ahead and start voluntary evacuations today. >> the governor is expected to speak at the republican national convention but says he will not leave his state as long as it is threatened by the storm. oil and gas operators of offshore platforms that are potentially in harm's way are evacuating tonight. >> it has been a day full of twists and turns when it comes to a tropical storm isaac. we have been keeping up with all of the changes. >> look at this loss of this storm. growing concerns now about louisiana and the gulf coast. authorities in florida and louisiana have declared states of emergency. you just for the g

that ruined new orleans in 2005. remember a category hurricane named kathryn did not hit new orleans. it hit mississippi and yet new orleans way to the west got a 19 foot storm surge that ruined the city and flooded the big easy and left of the streets of the beautiful town covered exactly senyears ago, that kathryn hit the coast line and new orleans carries the scar. by any account new orleans is better prepared now than it was then with billions of flood control and levy improvement this storm is not as strong but that time, the storm did not hit new orleans. this is it predicted to hit new orleans directly and if that happens, according to those here, all bets are off. they don't know if it is it a category one or two or stronger. they don't know where it will hit but now the best thinking here just on the left of the map of new orleans. if that happens twill be a first and if that happens tis it a worst case sceniario. mayor of new orleans issued a warning to the citizens of this he told them to leave if they feel like it. >> we hav

it initially tried to redefine rape in federal law, creating a new category called forceable rape. what i guess you might think of as real rape, to, what? distinguish it from nonforceable rape, the kind of rape women secretly want and like? republicans upon taking control of the house in their third bill, sought to redefine rape because the old definition of rape apparently included too many things that women wanted to be protected from when we all know they were the kind of rape that are really no big deal. paul ryan, the republican vice presidential nominee, was an original cosponsor of the bill to redefine rape. to make it harder on rape victims who wanted to get an abortion. the bill eventually dropped the redefining rape language, but paul ryan was a sponsor of the bill while the original language was still in there. he was also a sponsor of the federal version of the personhood thing that had failed in colorado twice and in mississippi. because even in mississippi, personhood language that would ban all abortions with no exceptions at all including for rape and incest and wou

this is not so good news as a category 2. they are evacuating and hurricane warnings in effect. >> thank you, top. isaac gaining strength now down in the gulf of mexico. a lot of folks are clearing out of the way. drew has the latest from new orleans. >> reporter: people in louisiana are boarding up their homes as isaac closes in on the gulf coast. there are evacuation orders for low lying areas, including south charles parish. but not everyone is leaving. >> it worries the heck out of me. i think i'm going to stay. >> others are gassing up and getting out of town. >> we went through katrina and had a bad experience with that. >> isaac is expected to make land fall tuesday. the day before the 7th anniversary of hurricane katrina. isaac brushed past the florida keys sunday and is now in the gulf where it is expeed to become a category one hurricane. >> because of the warm waters and the relatively weak wind sheer in the atmosphere, it would be able to strengthen in the day-to-day and a half it has left. >> officials warn isaac

come up with a new category and leap frog technology and you could have unintended conversations sque consequences whereby thinking others to think out of the box. >> apple has obviously had this nice run along with the broader market lately. is apple going to get as tired as this rally appears to be? >> well, it's hard to toy cia. i do think now is a great time to own the stock. you've got the iphone 5 perhaps coming very shortly. over the last few cycles the stock has actually not done a lot about the announcement but my sense is that investors are anticipating at this time. so we have a 740 price objective. we think now is the time to own is t. stock. it's hard to say how it reacts relative to the market. i think now is the time to own apple. >> can you weigh in on two issues. first, whether you believe an apple tv, pure tv device, is coming down the pike? we've had somebody on in the last week or so who says it's not happening and the other stocks what your opinion is there? >> well, on the stocks foot, i guess the stock is that potentially could get apple in the dow. typically i

news there. projected to be a category ii when it hits landfall in new orleans. thank you very much.ing up, thursday night is mitt romney's big night in tampa. what does he want to accomplish yo? you will hear directly from the governor. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> dana: welcome back to "the five." we are here in tampa, florida, where the rnc is having the convention. we talked about three of the main speakers coming up, but we didn't start with the main event. start with paul ryan in the hometown of gainesville, wisconsin, today and had this to say. >> we are not going to try to transform the country to something it was never intended to be. we won't try to replace the founding principles. we'll reapply the founding principles. that is what we're going to do to get the country back on the right track. that is how we preserve the american legacy. >> dana: does it sound like a good principle? like giving a preview of wednesday night speech? >> greg: i think so. the cool kid in the republican camp. he is out there, while he has substance that republicans are no longer just a bunch of old, white guys. t

new orleans. late tonight. as a category one. so some good news there. not a wind storm. kind of a rain and tornado and a storm surge kind of storm. winds are not very impressive with this. but then it goes through new orleans, goes up through louisiana and turns a little bit to the north through arkansas. and we are still talking about winds just below tropical storm force as we get into thursday. and then it turns back to the north and to the east. this could bring some rain. some much-needed rain to the midwest. places like illinois and indiana and even ohio. all right, live look outside brought to you by michael and son. it's nice here. we are getting spoiled. 86 right now. dew point still in the upper 50s. that means it's comfortable. open your windows, take a walk. no worries. winds north, northwest at 10. temperatures, 82 in bethesda. 80 in fairfax. 79 in vienna. 85 in college park. 81 over in bowie. so, your headlines look like this. great for late august. turn off the ac tonight. if not tonight, should do it tomorrow night. you'll need your shades tomorrow, and a

cities like new orleans are preparing for a category two hurricane when it has later this week. more from jay gray. >> isaac's introduction to the u.s. -- slashing winds and driving rain across the florida keys. and through miami. >> have rain, wind, storm surge and the risk of tornadoes. >> if the forecast called, conditions will only get worse. >> a large area at risk. forecasting as strong as category two para >> an area that includes new orleans in southwest louisiana which could see the worst on wednesday. seven years to the day after hurricane katrina off. >> were on high alert. the anxiety level is high. the storm is uncertain. of the abundance of caution we have begun to take these precautions. >> right now, the primary focus is in florida. already feeling the effects of the storm. >> when you live in florida you have to be cautious. >> caution like sand bags if is beginning to stretch across the state. residents are stocking up and boarding up, bracing for impact. >> it is my livelihood. >> protection in tampa includes shifting the events scheduled for monday's opening

you know, the good news that we got from last night is that we're not expecting a category 3. the bad news is that 1 is plenty bad enough to cause an electrical outage, to cause flooding from heavy rain delays, that will come if the storm sits above us, but we have really taken a lot of time to prepare for this. the president called today, the federal, the state and the local authorities are leaning as forward as we possibly can. we feel confident that, given the storm as we know it to be right now, the levees that we have invested $14 billion into the american public helped us with, will hold. however every storm is different. this one particularly is very hard to predict and every one of them brings something that you would not expect. so all of them are very, very dangerous. so we're asking people again to be very vigilant. if you're going to leave, now is the time to leave. after tonight about 11:00 it's going to be a very inopportune time for you to move and then we have to hunker down and ride it out and we've got to be prepared to respond very, very quickly to whatever c

they said the good news, if there is some, we're looking at maybe hitting as a category 1 and i thinkood news but might make people think, oh, well only a category 1 is. are you worried about that? >> well, yeah. it's moving slow so we would expect a lot of heavy rain, localized flooding and potential power outages so make sure you're charging your phones up today. you don't want to get caught short if that storm does impact you. >> a lot of the issues in hurricane katrina which i covered seven years ago in how do you get resources in around a storm and they went in well after the storm hit and that was a big problem. what are you doing different ly today in terms of resources if, in fact, a storm hits and it hits hard and there's lots of damage? >> particularly in louisiana we've been moving stuff to get ready for the impacts but we're also working closely to the states and what their unmet needs are. we don't wait for a storm to get there. the president wants to make sure we have what we need in place before the storm hits. >> i was going to ask you about that briefing with presiden

. >>> hurricane isaac is near new orleans. the category 1 storm made landfall before 8 p.m. eastern at the mouth of the mississippi river. hours before the seventh anniversary of when hurricane katrina roared ashore. the national hurricane center says isaac is now nearly stationary and is expected to drift over the coast before heading inland. the storm's been unleashing heavy wind and rain knocking out power to more than 200,000 customers. rigs and refinery is virtually shut down with 90% of production closed as a precaution. check in on what's happening with crude prices. nymex is off slightly. natural gas is off slightly. they predict those facilities will be undamaged. >>> two key pieces of economic data. second reading of gdp is due at 8:30 eastern. the fed reserves' beige book will provide economic conditions across 12 reserve banks across the united states. as jackson hole summit gets under way, one key player will not be attending, mario draghi says the heavy workload will not allow him to travel to the event. cnbc will have full coverage throughout today and tomorro

it could hit new orleans and the area wednesday as a category 2 storm. >>> officials have issued evacuationers for more than 50,000 people near new orleans. >> the tropical storm threat has shortened the republican convention from four days to three. >>> thunderstorms in the four corners. isaac could trigger tornadoes along the gulf coast. afternoon showers in the or not east. >>> finally from us this morning, a terrifying high-speed chase across two states with police many hot pursuit. >> at the wheel, an iowa mom weaving in and out of traffic. a faulty accelerate sir to blame. >> i'm coming up on a bunch of cars. i'm so scared. i just -- please -- oh, my god. i'm scared to death. >> reporter: it's every driver's worth nightmare. lori in the black suv, speeding down the highway, not able to stop. >> i can't get to it move. >> are you able to hit your brax at all. >> i'm trying everything. >> reporter: her accelerator jammed. trapped on a highway with her speed increasing. >> i'm going 98 miles an hour now. >> reporter: minutes later. >> oh, my god, i'm going 108 miles an hour. >> she's goi

category four strength. it's the same in reaching new orleans as a category 3 hurricane. so the current path for isaac wednesday morning would be a category one storm. but that path does take it right to the louisiana gulf coast. it's possible that isaac could strengthen quite a bit more and bringing storm surge of 10 feet. this is a situation that will be changing rapidly in the next few days. >> all right, thanks a lot, rob. >>> emergency officials are urging people in the path of that storm to make sure they have an evacuation plan in place. nbc's jay grey is in port myers, florida tonight. >> reporter: isaac continues to wreck the caribbean. at least four were killed as high wind and rain ripped apart shelters. >> everybody coming through louisiana over through fla fla needs to be watching this carefully. in ft. myers, that includes sandbags. >> this storm surge is what we're concerned with. we're very anxious about this. >> nerves are on end where preparations continue. but events are scheduled for monday where the first national convention has been pushed back until

we have new commercial, new residential, and one more category. it says a new large commercial interior or major alteration to existing buildings with b m and r occupancies with more than 25 a square feet. basically, we're saying, there are two things. either the first kind of improvements in a building, or some other kind of alteration. first time improvements have to make reading requirements, being certified. when you look to achieve a lead rating for commercial improvements, you do not try to certified the whole building. there's a special program called commercial interiors which focuses on the space that you are in. >> it applies to the options that are most commonly available, said the energy portion tends to be a little more limited than in other standards. other major considerations. >> so they redo the building or change the building overall. >> and you get credit, but there is improvement for being housed, cert. so that bar will actually decrease because the shell building is already going to be affected in the future by these new large

here in new orleans, there is no mandatory evacuation order. the city requires it to be a category 3 for that. in the french quarter, businesses are sandbagging and boarded up. the streets are nearly deserted. all around new orleans, flood walls are up. engineers closed this flood barrier to protect the 9th ward and the french quarter. the big easy is counting on the $14 billion newly rebuilt levee system. the family isn't waiting to find out if it all works. they suffer through hurricane katrina inside the super dome without food and water. >> might as well turn around. say your prayers and keep moving. >> the eye of the storm is expected to make land fall late tonight or early tomorrow morning on the anniversary of katrina. the mayor of new orleans is urging the residents who decided to stay to stay put from here on out, to stay indoors, to stay off the streets. as soon as the brunt of this hurricane has passed, his city will move immediately into search and rescue mode. i'm karen brown, back to you. >> we are hoping there's not much searching and rescuing to be done. though we d

. >> the category one hurricane is slamming new orleans with heavy rain and strong winds. seven years to the day hurricane katrina devastated that city. currently, more than 250,000 homes and business as long the gulf coast are without power and those numbers, of course, are expected to rise. but people in the big easy say they are prepared for it. >> we have a generator, thank god. after crept, that was one of the things we did and -- after katrina, that was one of the things we did. and if we do lose power, we have a generator to get us through the next couple of days. >> massive flooding is also expected in many parts of louisiana and mississippi. this was the scene in lakeshore, mississippi last night where some streets are already sub meshed in water. >> in waveland, water from the gulf of mexico swept down

new orleans as acategory 1 with 90 miles an hour. is expected to make its way onshore, the official hurricane center says it will bring it to a category 2 storm with winds over 100 miles an hour. the gulf coast states need to watch pout for this in new orleans, pensacola, now under hurricane warnings as are the florida keys. this is definitely going to be one storm we will be watching closely for you right here. areas of heavy rain and thunder across area this evening. some of the rain will be on the heavy side. tomorrow if you're sending your kids out to school, 6:00 a.m., 72 degrees, 82 by noon with a few showers. most of the showers will be to the east. tomorrow afternoon, a high temperature of 86 degrees. here's the next couple of days, showing the 82 on tuesday, 84 on wednesday and it does look like temperatures will heat up. could be chances of showers during day tomorrow, too. heads up to that are. >> all right. thanks, doug. >> yep. >>> coming up in sports, the nats getting confused against nats getting confused against the phillie i'm barack obama and i approve this message now mitt romney's attacking the the ppresident on me

new orleans by tomorrow. tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow night. as a category one, then it jumps to a category two, which is troubling, which means it may intensify a little bit and that would cause a larger storm surge and winds as strong as 110 miles per hour. we will come back and tell you where it's going to go after that. there's a silver lining to that track and we'll show you how to track it along with us on an ipad. all that and more. >> sounds good. meantime, folks from the panhandle of florida to southeast louisiana are gearing up for the arrival of isaac. in fact, in the area just south of new orleans, a lot of folks are boarding up their homes. some packed up and gotten out. the state of louisiana did issue evacuation orders for some of the state's low lying areas. >> slow moving nature of this storm means there are parts of this state that have heavier winds or rain fall for several hours. >> it worries the heck out of me. >> we went through katrina and had bad experience with that. >> okay. so the governor, louisiana, mississippi, alabama, and flo

in north america is coming largely from groupon goods, the product sales division which has a new category of direct revenue. the ceo stressed on the call, the company is counting on technology to drive efficiencies and has improved customer acquisition costs and grown the number of transactions on mobile devices by more than a third, in the past year. but wall street investors still don't seem to think groupon's stock is a deal. from cnbc los angeles, i'll julia boorstin. >> alec, how much of an excuse is europe becoming for corporate? >> pretty b we have looked at contentious data. back to the third quarter of '09. strong double digit profit growth. it slowed to 7.5% in the quarter. in the second quarter, 90% of the companies reporting, looking at earnings up less than 1% on a year over year basis. a big slowdown in earnings growth. revenues up 2%, europe the single biggest negative that companies are speaking about. >> what do you make the group i don't know sto-- the groupon st specifically? i am looking at the way ipos have gone this year? >> i think with regard to a lot of these newl