republican candidates like rehberg moving away from the vice presidential's budget plan. >> they cann't hide. this is one instance where i'm going to have to agree with that philosopher newt gingrich. he called the romney/ryan plan right wing social engineering. he's 100% right which is why those republican candidates are going to try to run from it. but of course we're going to expose them to the truth. and i think that voters in the heartland and throughout the country are going to appreciate that this is not the kind of leadership that we need here in the white house. >> great philosopher newt gingrich. i don't know if you took philosophy in school. patrick gaspar, thank you for your time. we'll be back. [ lenner if take n. geic onte wi cor you have a plan? first we're gonna check our bags for free, thanks to our explorer card. then, the united club. my mother was so wrong about you. next, we get priority boarding on our flight i booked with miles. all because of the card. and me. okay, what's the plan? plan? mm-hmm. we're on vacation. this is no plan. really? [ male announcer ] t

rehberg and they try to go after that early.y're going to be talking about the wolf population and the pipeline that would run through montana. thei think we're going to be fighting those fights in montana more than the national healthcare stimulus, that kind of thing. >> eliot: all politics is local. the unemployment rate in montana being incredibly low. we'll want you to come back in weeks ahead. this will control the senate which will matter a whole lot. thank you once again for your insight. >> thank you. >> eliot: nasa makes it to the dale lay show. the viewfinder is coming up next. [ charles ] when you can make a person smile when they taste the food that you cooked, it does something to your heart. i think what people like most about the grilled food is the taste. the flavor comes from that oak wood. the shrimp, the fresh fish the steaks. it locks in the flavor it seals in the juices so that when you put the fork in it, it just goes through it like butter. it's beautiful. [ laughs ] i'm proud to be a grill master. i love

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just people sense. >>> i'm milissa rehberger and she what is happening.ropical storm isaac is moving north and gaining strength. hurricane warnings are extended into the northern gulf of mexico and including new orleans. the winds are 60 miles per hour, and about 600 miles wide. the governors of louisiana and mississippi have declared a it is the of emergency, and the storm is expected to hit the gulf coast late tuesday or early wednesday. the rnc convention in tampa is pushed back to tuesday so that the storm can pass. now back to "caught on camera." >>> welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. a dashboard camera is a powerful witness, its record can back up an officer's testimony, saving court time and keeping everyone honest. but, in our next story, some officers forget the camera is on while they engage in what appears to be a shocking distortion of the truth. it's a drama straight from hollywood. hollywood, florida, that is. >> andre, come here a minute. >> heard on camera, four police officers and a civilian staffer appear to conspir

d hewninhe coem >>> i'm milissa rehberger.ropical storm isaac is turning towards the northern gulf coast. it's past the keys and is expected to gain strength over the warm waters of the gulf of mexico. isaac is expected to make landfall as a category two hurricane between new orleans and the florida panhandle. we're expecting the latest update from the national hurricane center at the top of the hour. now back to "predator raw." >>> hey. are you out there? >> hey. >> i'm brushing my teeth real fast, okay? >> what happened? >> i have crap stuck in my teeth. >> your teeth? >> we were watching from the next room on the monitor, as robert lyons came into the backyard and started to open the sliding door to come into the kitchen. >> just hang out at the kitchen counter for a second, okay? >> what happened? >> do you want a drink or something? >> no, that's okay. >> all right, hang out at the counter. i got to go get my shirt on? >> i'm sorry? >> sit down at the counter for a second. i got to go get my shirt on. >> he was leery, sus

. >> and rehberg refused to support a republican budget plan that cou harm the medicare program. >> reporter: as for romney, who has voiced support for ryan's plan, he distanced himself from it last night. >> well, i have my budget plan and that's the budget plan that we're going to run on. >> reporter: brian, the romney campaign is most concerned about the impact of the medicare issue in florida of course, not just an important battleground but the battleground state with the largest share of voters over the age of 65. brian, ryan gets his first test of defending his plan in florida when he comes there alone campaigning this weekend. >> chuck todd rounding out our political coverage from d.c. tonight. chuck, thanks. >>> a grisly bulletin arrived from texas today. a gunman had killed two people including a local county constable and wounded two police officers before being fatally shot today near the campus of texas a&m. that constable identified as brian bachmann was serving eviction papers at a home in college station, texas, when the shooting occurred. police who responded were also fired

. >> denny rehberg, is different, an independent thinker. he refused to support a republican budget plan that could harm the medicare plan so many montana seniors rely on. >> in massachusetts rhode island, connecticut, they have all distanced flails paul ryan this week. democrat candidates are not letting this golden opportunity pass either. massachusetts senate candidate elizabeth warren came out swinging yesterday hammering her republican scott brown for marching to paul ryan's looney tune. >> scott brown has said there is no one he trusts more on the economy than mitt romney. and mitt romney has picked paul ryan. but, you know, i think the point to remember here is that the romney-ryan part of this is something republican had already started and scott brown is deeply tied in to. >> this is just the beginning. you think this distancing is bad? just wait until people get a load of ryan's extreme positions on privatizing social security and other social issues. buckle your seat belts, folks. the monster that mitt has created cannot be stoppe

.] >>> i'm milissa rehberger.is campaign plans for monday after checking his daughter bella into the hospital friday. bella sufferers from a rare genetic disorder. no word on her condition. >>> the navy wants to know what caused one of its fighter jets to crash into a virginia beach apartment complex yesterday. fortunately everyone hurt including the pilots who ejected from the plane have been treated and released. >>> now back to "lockup." >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> prisons like the santa rosa correction institution in florida can be dirty places. blood, sweat, feces and urine are part of the fabric of life here. the task of cleaning that fabric, the inmates, falls squarely on 18 inmates who work in the laundry taft. among them is michael james. >> we operate eight to ten hours a day. different things. fight, stabbings, a lot of stuff goes on here in santa rosa. it's a level 6 facility. >> some of the worst laundry comes from the los management units. >> violent inmates ba

>>> i'm milissa rehberger with the latest on tropical storm isaac. for the latest forecast let's turn to weather channel forecaster jeff morrow. >> we have a brand new advisory out from the national hurricane center. let's go right to it. we have winds here now at 65 miles an hour. they really haven't changed. and we're talking about basically the pressure having risen maybe a millibar or two. it's holding its own. movement is west/northwest here at about 14 miles an hour. as you can see behind me still a lot of rain falling across parts of south florida. some of those bands of rain have winds gusting upwards of 50 and 60 miles an hour. some power outages have been reported and even some tornado warnings have come out. no tornadoes confirmed yet. movement here to the northwest taking it up to the northern gulf coast by late tuesday, early wednesday. >> thanks jeff. back to "lockup." >>> msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons to a world of chaos and danger, now the scenes you've never seen, "lockup: raw." >> every time we

i'm milissa rehberger. special cleansing was held at the sikh temple where the shooting was. >>> after two days of campaigning on the gop ticket, mitt romney and paul ryan will go their separate ways tomorrow campaigning in different states. now back to "predator raw." >>> you talk about sex acts with a dog. >> i have a psychiatrist i'm seeing now. >> joe wonderler was a guy who clearly had a problem. i mean, this guy actually wanted to involve a dog in the sex act with the young girl. and he was very graphic about how he wanted this whole process to go. you even see him when he comes in sort of reference to himself, where's the dog? >> how you doing? >> how you doing? >> why don't you have a seat right over there? just have a seat. what's happening? >> not much. >> what are you here for? >> just come to talk. >> come to talk to who? >> with her. >> you seem a little nervous. >> i am. >> why are you so nervous? >> i just get nervous. i was just coming to talk. that's all. >> talk to who? >> i was coming to

. >>> i'm melissa rehberger.dent obama says today's employment report shows many americans are finding work. he touted the private sector's 172,000 new jobs, but he admits that many americans are still out there looking. meanwhile, mitt romney called the uptick in the unemployment rate a hammer blow to the middle class. >>> and tropical storm ernesto is expected to become a hurricane by monday. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> san quentin is a deteriorated penitentiary whose obsolete design is putting officers at risk and causing enormous inefficiency. but for the thousands of inmates incarcerated there, san quentin is home. it's where long days are spent in a small cell, where survival is as much a mental challenge as it is a physical one. >> there's a nine by six cell. now i can put my hand from here to here. and i can't even stretch my arms all the way up. >> you might say this is what criminals deserve, after all, this is prison. but for cellmates, russell johnson and christ

jie i'm melissa rehberger. here's what's happening. welcome to the race.nt obama's advice to new vice-presidential candidate paul ryan. president obama says paul ryan is a decent man but he fundamentally disagrees with his vision for america. >>> the ticket is in ryan owes state of wisconsin before they split up and head on the campaign trail. now back to "caught on camera," triathlon, two athletes face off in the battle of wills, as they both lose control of their muscles within feet of the finish line. >> i just couldn't do what i wanted to do. stand up and just walk across the line. my body just wouldn't do it. >> i'm like, okay, stand up, go. stand up, go. but my body couldn't respond to what i was telling it to do. >> you can will yourself but it was like at that point there was nothing left. >> the iron man triathlon world championship is an epic race. 2.4 miles of swimming followed by a 112-mile bike ride and a 26-mile marathon run. it's the ultimate st of physical and mental endurance. in the end, for some, the sweet taste of victory. for others, t

. >>> i'm milissa rehberger here's what's happening. a dozen wildfires are burning across oklahoma right now. an arsonist is suspected of setting one of those. more than 20 homes and one building have been dee stroid. >>> and dangerous weather in chicago forced organizers of the lollapalooza festival to force tens of thousands of people from grant park. the concert is back on now, but nearly 90,000 of people in chicago are without power. now back to "caught on camera." >>> welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. it's not unusual for a suspect to flee from police, but it's not always a well thought out plan. you're about to meet two suspects who make downright foolish attempts to escape from authorities, and another guy who goes to extremes to turn himself in. a suspect leaps to escape police custody. not so unusual until you realize he's leaping out of a moving police cruiser, and it's all caught on camera. january 22nd, 2011, sandy city, utah. police officer gavin white is transporting 20-year-old nicholas duffy to the

. >>> i'm milissa rehberger. here's what's happening.e first man to walk on the moon, has died today at age 82. on july 20, 1969, he uttered the phrase "that is one small step for man, one giant leap for m mankind." >> and tropical storm isaac has pushed its way over cuba after causing three deaths in haiti. now back to "city in fear." >>> once again, john siegenthaler. >> in early october 2002, people are stunned by the news that there is a sniper. he's already shot and killed six people when he targets a teenage boy. with only bullet fragments and a mysterious message as evidence, police are desperate to find him before he takes another life. >> now, not only do people think the kids are at risk, people know the kids are at risk. people know children are targets. >> because parents feel like they can protect their kids, walk them to school and be okay. we, the police, feel like we can protect people. at this point, those that are normal will in some sort of protection role can't protect anyone. it is a feeling of helplessness and fear

. >>> i'm milissa rehberger a heend is what is happening.cane warnings up from louisiana to the florida panhandle as tropical storm isaac makes its way up the gulf coast. isaac is expected to make landfall late monday or tuesday. and so far, they have escaped the worst after the storm took a turn to the west. now back to "caught on camera." >>> a railroad crossing in maple ridge, british columbia, a canadian logging town about an hour outside of vancouver is a known danger zone for truckers. >> i am going to say there are probably four or five hits since i have worked here for the last 25 years. >> he works for a lumber company right near the rail crossing where 20 commuter and freight trains barrel through each day. >> mostf of the trains are going between 80 and 100 kilometers an hour, which is between 50 and 60 miles an hour. >> on july 25th, 2008, one of walden's security cameras captures a tractor-trailer pulling up to the railroad crossing just as the gates are going down. >> i could see the train coming around the corner and the train

. >>> i'm milissa rehberger. here's what's happening. more than a hundred u.n.bers voted earlier to condemn the syrian government for the crisis there. but russia called the measure harmful. >>> temperatures are searing in oklahoma where six wildfires are burning near the site of the slaughterville fire. >>> as chris mentioned a moment ago, stocks surged. the dow up 217 points, the s&p 26, nasdaq 58. back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." swing states are being hammered with political ads this summer. if you look at the past month, the pro-romney forces the campaign and the super pacs are outspending the obama people. the koch groups, america for prosperity plans a ad buy to begin next week. should the obama campaign be worried? it seems despite all those republican dollars spent, romney isn't inching up in the polls. let's bring in our strategists who are ad makers. the ad men i must call them. democrat steve mcmahon and republican todd harris. you are both gentlemen. this campaign right now, with your dirt money you're not getting pay dirt on the

. >>> i'm milissa rehberger. here's what's happening. tropical storm isaac gets closer.he storm is packing 60 mile-per-hour winds with high gusts. >>> concerns over isaac has forced the gop to delay the start of the convention to tuesday. joe biden decided to cancel his plans to campaign in florida. >>> and neil armstrong died from complications after heart surgery. now back to "lockup." >>> all y'all [ bleep ] going to see this out there. anybody out there, all y'all, anybody that's got somebody in their family or friends that's in prison, man, i want to tell you the most important thing. y'all have got to do. be there for them. i'm telling you, [ bleep ] get hard, man. gets hard when people don't get no letters, people can't call their family. it gets hard. so all y'all listening [ bleep ], watching, remember your loved ones, man. >> while a lengthy prison sentence can represent a black hole that consumes years of life, some inmates insist the experience motivates them to become better people. >> that's my ultimate goal. i want to be a better man. i have the opportunit

." >>> i'm milissa rehberger. shooting at a sikh temple and federal agents are surrounding a home at a milwaukee suburb. we don't know if that's the suspect's home or not. a federal law enforcement official tells pete williams that the suspect used a single gunman. he was born in 1971. president obama was briefed on the shooting and released a statement offering his condolences. mitt romney also released a similar statement. more ahead throughout the night. now back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." swing states are being ham bettered with political ads. the pro romney forces and applied super pacs are consistently outspending the obama people. it's likely to continue as the coke brother group continues a month-long ad said to begin next week. should the obama campaign be worried? despite the money being spent, mitt romney isn't inching up in the polls. in fact, he looks down in the latest poll that i saw. strategists that are both political ad makers, steve macmahon, this campaign, look at the differ

in montana, the republican candidate for senate, congressman denny rehberg, is also trying to distance himself from paul ryan and his budget. >> he refused to support a republican budget plan that could harm the medicare program so many of montana's seniors rely on. >> what does this all mean? down in florida, congressman connie mack, running for the senate, called the ryan budget a joke. he missed the vote on it, in fact. yet his office said he would have voted for it if he had been present. and in the state of north dakota, one of the richest members of the united states congress, republican rick berg, is embracing, he is embracing and standing with the ryan plan wholeheartedly. interesting move. burg voted for the ryan plan but democrats believe most north dakotans don't agree with ryan's vision for america. it is an aging population in north dakota, and medicare means an awful lot to those folks. let's turn to heidi heitkamp, democratic candidate for the senate. great to have you with us. you have been very involved in your entire career when it comes to health care and the health

. >>> i'm milissa rehberger. here's what's happening.ok his new trip on the newly refurbished air force one. >>> jared loughner is due in court tomorrow where he is expected to plead guilty to the 2011 shooting rampage in tucson. the shooting left six people dead and nearly killed congresswoman gabby giffords. >>> the dow stands at 21 and the nasdaq is up 22. back to "hardball." >>> balding male with glasses may have gone inside with a gun and there were shots fired. >> subject down! we have one officer shot. >> can you get any further instructions if there is an additional shooter. they took a shot at 845. >> welcome back to "hardball." the shooter there described in that frightening 911 call left six people killed. at a sikh temple in wisconsin yesterday. the gunman was killed himself in a shootout. the civil rights organization monitors hate groups and had wade michael page on its radar. the splc described page this way. a member of two racist skin head bands, end apathy and define hate. and they report in the year 2000 page attempted

>>> i'm milissa rehberger. here's what's happening. returns. >>> two u.s. troops were gunned down earlier by a member of the afghan police force in farah province. >>> and gas prices are up 39 cents since early july. so the obama administration is reportedly considering a release from the strategic petroleum reserve. now back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." a new organization opsec is going after the president for one of the biggest achievements of the obama administration. the capture and death of osama bin laden. the group has a mission to go after all politicians w leak classified information for political purposes, but in their new documentary, they charge the president with taking the sole credit. take a look. >> they didn't -- this administration didn't capture or kill or eliminate bin laden or anybody else. there's a whole lot of folks in the military and the intelligence community who have been working on this for a long time. >> mr. president, you did not kill osama bin laden. america did. the work the american

>>> hello, i'm milissa rehberger.a rally today in virginia. >>> president obama hasn't publicly commented on the ryan pick, but his campaign says the republican ticket would help the wealthy and hurt the middle class. >>> and in iran, the reported death toll from two strong earthquakes today has now reached 180. back to "lockup" after this break. most efficient line of luxury hybrids on the road, including the all-new esh. ♪ while many automakers are just beginning to dabble with the idea of hybrid technology... ♪ ...it's already ingrained in our dna. during the golden opportunity sales event, get great values on some of our newest models. this is the pursuit of perfection. who are these guys? oh, that's just my buds. bacon, donuts. -my taste buds. -[ taste buds ] waffles. how about we try this new kind of fiber one cereal? you think you're going to slip some fiber by us? rookie. okay. ♪ nutty clusters and almonds, ♪ ♪ almonds. ♪ fiber one is gonna make you smile. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing new fiber one nutty c

>>> i'm milissa rehberger with the latest on tropical storm isaac. let's get the latest from meteorologist jeff morrow. >> brand new advisory from the national hurricane center. right to the details. and we're looking at still a 60-mile-an-hour tropical storm. it has not strengthened here during this afternoon, the pressure is pretty much stayed the same, usually when the pressure goes down, that means the winds go up, but we have not seen that as of yet. so still a tropical storm. but this is a broad storm here, i'm going to basically show you that it is about 600 miles wide some of this is a very, very large system as it's plowing its way down there through the keys right now. this is a radar image, the center, if you will, is right here. moving off to the west/northwest, but within these spiral bands we're looking at here where we're getting gusty winds for south florida and the keys, and key west has had a wind gust to 52 miles an hour. up where the republican convention is being held, already some rain coming in, but no really strong winds at th

. >>> i'm milissa rehberger. here's what's happening. least 15 people during a funeral today in yemen. nearly 25 others were wounded. the bomber allegedly targeted tribesmen who fought alongside the yemeni army during a recent al qaeda offensive. >>> severe weather in chicago forced tens of thousands of fans to be evacuated from the lollapalooza music festival today. nearly 90,000 people were sent to shelter sites in underground garages. thousands of area restaurants are still without power. >>> several wildfires are burning throughout oklahoma tonight. firefighters have contained at least one blaze that is suspected to be the work of arsonist arsonists. the fire burned through dozens of homes. police are searching for a suspect who witnesses say tossed a lit newspaper out of a vehicle on friday. >>> and happy birthday to president obama. the president celebrated his 51st birthday today with a round of golf and a trip to camp david. he will be back on the campaign trail next week. back to "lockup." >>> miami-dade corrections, the sixth l

. >>> i'm mms >>> i'm melissa rehberger. here's what's happening.fter it wraps up, mitt romney will go it alone to florida on his bus tour while ryan campaigns in iowa. >>> and swurn has some explaining to do after a u.s. navy destroyer collided with an oil tanker. today's collision near the strait of hormuz didn't hurt anyone, it didn't leak any fuel, but it did leave a big gash in the side of the "uss porter." now back to "caught on camera." >>> welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. we've seen sports brawls, dirty dancing police officers and children fighting in a cage. but our next story is more than just out of line. it's nearly fatal. a driver mows down a crowd of people. >> i turn around and just see the car coming. pow. >> then takes off, leaving bloody victims in her wake. >> get her license plate, man! >> i was scared. i thought the people was really dead. >> april 19th, 2011, national hiring day at mcdonald's and thousands of people flood restaurants across the country looking for employment. nigel motley recently quit h

. >>> i'm milissa rehberger. here's what's happening.onsin congressman paul ryan as his vice presidential running mate. tomorrow they head to north carolina and wisconsin. >>> and president obama is meeting with his campaign team in chicago tonight. he hasn't publicly commented on the ryan pick with, but his campaign says the ticket would help the wealthy and hurt the middle class. that is the news. now back to "lockup." >>> the vast majority of prisons we visited over the years have been male institutions. but when we've taken our cameras inside women's prisons, we've met inmates living by a very different convict code. >> the biggest difference between male and female inmates and how they get along with each other is basically looked at in two ways. one, male inmates tend to find gangs to get involved with. it's their kind of security blanket and protection. on the other hand, females find it through interpersonal relationships. there is much more drama. there's much more bonding in the sense of establishing kind of almost marriages. >

. >>> i'm milissa rehberger. here's what's happening. prepare for a direct hit from tropical storm issac. get out early to be safe. >>> there was panic outside the empire state building when a laid off worker opened fire killing his former boss. police then killed the man. the s&p is up nine and the nasdaq gained 18. back to "hardball." >>> when the pennsylvania governor introduced the new photo voter i.d. law, his office said that 99% of el visible voters already had an acceptable form of i.d. but a comparison between the list of registered voters, the most common form of i.d. to vote showed a wider gap, 9% of the electorate. three quarters of a million people don't have i.d. it's a widespread problem, but not an evenly spread problem. the vast majority live in philadelphia county to the east and allegheny county, pittsburgh to the west. and the funny thing about those two counties, they prove to be democratic strongholds in the '08 election. so if your goal was to limit democratic voter turnout this election, how would you go about it?

. >>> i'm melissa rehberger.aac is whipping up winds and water in the dominican republic. mississippi and florida residents are being warned they are next. >>> investigators say the gunman who killed his former boss outside the empire state building likely did not fire on police. nine bystanders were hurt. samsung was just ordered to pay apple a billion dollars after a jury ruled its galaxy phone ripped off iphone technology. now back to the making of a candidate". ♪ >> mitt romney came to politics fairly late in life after graduating from harvard with a combined law and mba degree in 1975, he decides not to practice law the usual profession for politicians. instead, he becomes a business management consultant. first at the boston consulting group. that's where he makes the an quantitience of benjamin netanyahu who goes on to become prime minister of israel. in 1977 he takes a position at bain & company, another consulting firm. after a few years, the company's ceo and under toer bill bain asks romney to head up

in a very partisan town, denny rehberg stands out and that's good for montana. >> that's about as hard. i think they realize the toxicity of this and don't want to be attached to anything that has a voucherized system. and then to attack obama. you see adds from a conservative health care organization saying it was actually obama that changed and ended medicare as we know it. so there's a two-pronged attack they're using. one is to run away and the other is to accuse obama of doing exactly what they've done. >> and the house has actually, obviously, taken an organized response to it. what about on the senate side. how much worry is there on the senate side for republican candidates? >> well, i think it's a worry across the board to the extent that democrats can nationalize this. i talked to steve israel, the democratic campaign chair for house races, and he says, listen, by choosing paul ryan, you can nationalize the issue, you can make it a senate and a house thing. we think we can run on that. i think it applies across the board. obviously, in certain states, it's more than others. i

. >>> i'm milissa rehberger. here's what's happening.s recover from flooding trigger by hurricane isaac, other states are feeling the wrath. heavy bands of rain stretch from arkansas into missouri. >>> authorities looking for a motive after an ex-marine opened fire at a supermarket in new jersey. >>> a railroad worker claimed the multimillion dollar power ball jackpot in michigan. shows the lump sum cash option of $224 million. back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." until last night, these may have been the lines clint eastwood was most well known for. let's listen. >> get off my lawn. >> go ahead, make my day. >> well, at last night's republican convention, eastwood broke new ground. in a performance timed to air in the new york primetime just after 10:00 eastern leading up to romney giving his speech. he added improve. >> i've got mr. obama sitting here. what? what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that. can't do that to himself. you're crazy. you're absolutely crazy. all right. i'll start it, you finis

vote against it have been touting as loudly as they can that they voted no on paul ryan from denny rehberg in montana to chris collins in new york state, to scott brown in massachusetts, linda mcmahon in connecticut, all republicans all saying they are against paul ryan on the medicare issue. this is all just the first week of his roll-out as the vice presidential nominee. this is the honeymoon. and then he himself started talking to the press, and he handled it roughly as well as he handled the hekkerhekker a aahe speech. he tried to get away with saying he never requested stimulus money. he said, i never asked for stimulus. yeah, yeah, you did. after he got called out for lying about that, the new vice presidential nominee had to backtrack, saying actually he just hadn't recalled and it was a mistake when he did ask for the stimulus money, and oh, yeah, then he took the courageous stance of blaming it on his staff. the boston globe nailed him again today, finding another federal program he had attacked and called wasteful even while he was getting funds from it for his own district. we'l

>>> i'm melisilissa rehberger, have the latest on tropical storm isaac. it's lashing the florida keys with high winds and rain. reynolds wolf is in miami. >> i'm coming to you from bay side marina, conditions are improving quite a bit. the storm continues to lift to the north, northeast, out toward the gulf of mexico. we did have heavy rain, certainly had strong winds, we now have drier air moving in. with it, conditions should begin to really improve. however, the wind is expected to remain very strong, with that, we may see more power outages, more because already we've got plenty. thousands without power across miami-dade and also into parts of broward county. that's the latest, let's send it back to you in the studio. >>> for the latest forecast, let's turn to nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> isaac about to cross the florida keys. for the first time be away from land, exiting areas of cuba too, and has warm water out ahead of it. the big question, how much will the storm intensify in the next 48 hours before landfall, in the northern gulf. red clouds

. >>> mime millissa rehberger.to have the massive taylor bridge wildfire in washington state contained by sunday. it has burned more than 22,000 acres. iranian president ahmadinejad says israel insults. >>> now back to lockup. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> in a few days, the hillsborough county jail in tampa will welcome its newest team member. one whose job will be to help stop illegal drug use and smuggling inside the walls. >> the dog's coming monday night. 10:24. dog's coming on the red eye. >> elmo is a german shepard who will work as a drug detection dog in the jail. 11 deputies have gone through the application process to become her handler. now colonel jim previtera and his senior staff must decide who will be chosen for the most -- much coveted job. >> these people need to truly understand -- >> this is your life. >> -- what is going to be expected of them and what they're going to have to do. >> imagine all the dog hair. >> they're going to have to be dedicated in thi

. >>> i'm melissa rehberger.army private who converted to islam was sentenced to two life terms in prison for plotting to kill soldiers near ft. hood. jason abdo was arrested last summer at a hotel with bomb making material. aviation officials say two planes clipped each other at dulles earlier. the incident occurred on a ta taxiway. three u.s. marines were killed in helmand province. now back to lockup. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> there you go. >> to the inmate in san quentin, it may seem like just another day on the yard. but the investigative services unit has something else in mind. and it could mean a bad day for inmates holding contraband. >> these guys can resist us. if they've got weapons on them, obviously we want to get to the weapon before they get to the weapon. we try to control their hands. we always watch their hands. they hide weapons in their mouths, you know, in their bodies. >> give us ten seconds. >> so, you know, you've got to pay attention. you've