this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from birmingham, michigan. >> pelley: good evening, we're coming to you from the town square in birmingham where we caught up today with mitt romney. more on that in a moment. but we will begin the broadcast tonight with another mass shooting in america-- this time in the heart of new york city. it left two people dead, including the alleged gunman and nine others wounded. elaine quijano has the story. >> reporter: the gunfire erupted just after 9:00 a.m. at the peak of the morning rush. it began when 58-year-old jeffrey johnson walked up to a former coworker around the corner from the empire state building. it ended a few minutes later when police shot johnson dead on fifth avenue. n.y.p.d. commissioner ray kelly. >> during a downsizing at the company about a year ago johnson was laid off. in front of the building, johnson produced a pistol and fired at close range, striking his 41-year-old victim in the head. >> reporter: the victim, steve ercolino, was shot five times. police say johnson walked away, towards fifth ave

plus, scott pelley, he's a busy guy these days, he'll talk about his interview with the navy seal who took part in the raid that killed osama bin laden and wrote a controversial book on it. >>> a brutal beating of a female driver by lapd cops. john miller will have details on that investigation and a evidence of a link between weight gain and extreme stress. all that coming up later on "cbs this morning." for now, that will do it for the morning news. on this thursday. appreciate you watching. as always, i'm terrell brown. take care everybody. we'll see you back here take care everybody. we'll see you back here tomorrow. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> as it is this tropical storm this morning. what senate and in louisiana and mississippi. it's common acr

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. reporting tonight from tampa. >> pelley: good evening, isaac is not a hurricane yet but soon will be. the tropical storm is slowing down, gaining strength, and seems headed for the moment toward new orleans. the center of isaac is over the gulf of mexico, about 300 miles southeast of the mouth of the mississippi river. it's expected to become a hurricane by tomorrow. watches and warnings affecting five million people are up all along the northern gulf coast from florida to louisiana. from space, isaac is wide. tropical storm winds under 74 miles an hour extend more than 200 miles from the center. we have a team of correspondents covering the storm, but first, let's go to cbs news hurricane consultant david bernard in miami. david, where is this headed? >> good evening, scott. i think new orleans is the destination and, you're right, isaac is getting stronger tonight. the very latest has it as a strong tropical storm, 70 miles per hour, moving northwest at 12. that slower movement is go

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. too many unemployed workers chasing too few jobs-- that is the bottom line in today's unemployment report from the labor department. hiring did pick up in july with 163,000 jobs created, more than twice as many as june. but that wasn't enough to keep up with the growing demand, and so the unemployment rate ticked up 0.1% to 8.3%. unemployment has been at 8% or higher for three-and-a-half years. nearly 13 million americans are out of work. rebecca jarvis now on the competition for the new jobs available. >> i applied for seven different jobs just on monday alone. and i haven't heard back on any of them. >> reporter: carol hardon is 62. she lost her job as an office

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening, scott is off tonight, i'm bob schieffer. hardly a day passes that we don't show you pictures of the great drought of 2012. but the government put out a report today that brings home just how severe it really is, and it's not just farmers and stockmen who are affected. it's going to mean higher priceses for everyone. nearly one quarter of the country is now in extreme or exceptional drought. today for the second month in a row the agriculture department said that means corn and soybean production will be down again. corn down 13%, soybean production down 12%. beef production will also be down 4%. what this means, of course, is that as food production goes down, food prices go up. anthony mason is covering this story. >> reporter: the worst drought in half a century sent corn prices to a record high on the floor of the chicago board of trade today. >> this is not inflation. we don't have any. >> reporter: trader scott shall diof the tri i don't know group is famous on the floor for his

sponsored by cbs veaptioning sponsored by cbs with scott pelle this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening, scott's off tonight, i'm bob schieffer. why? it's the question we all ask when congresswoman gabrielle 'sffords was shot last year it's the question we asked after the aglorado shooting two weeks ago. it is the question being asked estionafter the shooting at the it is the sikh temple in wisconsin yesterday that left six dead and a lawman and two other people why?ically wounded. why? why would someone walk up to innocent people and just start shooting? this is the man police say did it: 40-year-old wade page. elaine quijano is in oak creek, wisconsin, tonight, the site of this latest tragedy. elaine? >> reporter: well, bob, police are not giving a motive for why wade michael page targeted that temple, but they are starting to piece together the details of what happened.

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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, tonight you are going to hear from one of the navy seals who killed osama bin laden. in may of last year, 24 men from seal team 6 raided bin laden's home in abbottabad, pakistan. none of those men has publicly spoken about the mission until now. the seal you're about to meet has written a book and he has done his only interview for "60 minutes." then you walk into a secure room... he calls himself mark owen, that's not his real name. we've disguised him and will keep his name confidential for his own safety. owen was on the helicopter that crashed in bin laden's compound. he was the second man in the room when bin laden was shot. he took the photographs of the body that have never been released. but owen told us that the story is not about him. he says it's the story of hundreds of americans who spent years gathering intelligence, planning and training. of the seals, owen says, "we just took care of the last 40 minute." we built what we believe is the most accurate model of bin laden

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening, scott's off tonight, i'm bob schieffer. why? it's the question we all ask when congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot last year it's the question we asked after the colorado shooting two weeks ago. it's the question being asked today after the shooting at the sikh temple in wisconsin yesterday that left six dead and a lawman and two other people critically wounded. why? why would someone walk up to innocent people and just start shooting? this is the man police say did it: 40-year-old wade page. elaine quijano is in oak creek, wisconsin, tonight, the site of this latest tragedy. elaine? >> reporter: well, bob, police are not giving a motive for why wade michael page targeted that temple, but they are starting to piece together the details of what happened. page parked his s.u.v. in the temple parking lot and walked into the lobby armed with a 9 millimeter handgun and multiple clips of ammunition. he began shooting the people gathered there. >> reports of gunshots. >> reporter: dis

romney of aligning himself with extreme elements instead of standing up to them run the also told scott pelley is willing to send troops to syria if needed to prevent the spread of chemical weapons he says the u.s. must take action necessary to ensure weapons of mass destruction do not fall into wrong hands. >>> republicans gear up for a national convention in florida next week grace lee on the behind-the-scenes competition for prime-time face time. >>> it is time to rally republican stop this year 2200 delegates and 2000 alternates converge for the 40th national convention an exciting time says strategist bob gardner >>> important for a couple of reasons, it rallies the base, and rallies the faithful >>> the keynote speaker new jersey gov. chris christie who was at a prominent role senator john mccain clinch the nomination in 2008. he will take a large role in helping sell mitt romney story speaking at this year's convention. to humanize romney his wife sketch of the kid got events monday now organizers one year in a more prominent role when there is more media coverage and could possibly don

much more ahead on the cbs evening news with scott pelley. job are up and so is the unemployment rate. how president obama and mitt romney,, >> pelley: tonight, a surprise in the job market. there's a jump in jobs. >> those are our neighbors, family members finding work. >> pelley: but it doesn't put a dent in the unemployment rate. >> it's very clear the president's policies have not worked the way he said they would. >> pelley: report reports from rebecca jarvis, bill whitaker, and nancy cordes. as new images of the suffering in syria come in, our charlie d'agata slips past the syrian army to find the families torn apart by a dictator's war. nasa gets ready to drop in on the neighbors. john blackstone on a daring mission to mars. and elaine quijano goes to the hometown of gabby douglas. >> it makes meantime to push myself harder. >> pelley: the history-making powerhouse of gymnastics. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. too many unemployed workers chasing too few jobs-- that

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from the republican national convention. >> pelley: good evening. it is a night of two big stories. moments ago, republicans nominated mitt romney as their candidate for president. but while delegates were counting the votes, six million people on the gulf coast were counting the hours before hurricane isaac makes land fall. romney's six-year quest for the nomination came to a successful end with the votes cast by the delegation from new jersey. >> the garden state, the proud home of tonight's keynote address given by governor chris christie. ( applause ) proudly casts all 50 of its votes for the next president of the united states governor mitt romney. ( cheers and applause ) >> pelley: and then the delegates nominated by acola maition congressman paul ryan of wisconsin as the republican vice president shall candidate. more from the convention in just a moment. but here's the latest on isaac. it became a category one hurricane today with winds of 80 miles an hour. the eye is 100 miles southea

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captioning sponsored by cbs >> this is the >> this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley reporting tonight from the republican national convention. >> pelley: good evening. republicans are gathering here for the biggest night of their convention, but we still have an eye on a crisis unfolding along the gulf. floodwaters are rising, the legacy of hurricane isaac. the storm is now a tropical depression moving north. the rain it left behind has lakes and rivers overflowing their banks, flooding streets and homes. a dam in southern mississippi is at risk of imminent failure. 60,000 people are being evacuated downstream, including the entire town of kentwood, louisiana. byron pitts is there. byron. >> reporter: well, scott, firefighters and deputies drove through neighborhoods here. they spoke on loud speakers. they gave clear and simple directions-- "you have 90 minutes. pack what you can and go." kim garmillion and her husband thought they were done running when they moved here from new orleans. they were wrong. >> i think it's crazy. we move here after katrina, and we're just praying

such a burning desire to grow captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. food. >> schieffer: and good evening. scott's off tonight. i'm bob schieffer. lawyers for james holmes, the man charged in the "batman" movie massacre said today holmes is mentally ill. the disclosure came when the lawyers appeared with holmes at a colorado court hearing in the attack that left 12 dead and 58 wounded, an attack that has left holmes facing multiple murder charges that carry the death penalty. john blackstone is at the courthouse in centennial, colorado. john. >> reporter: bob, it was a one-hour, 20-minute hearing in which james holmes did not seem to be engaged in any way. he sat with his hand shackled, folded in his lap, often just staring at the courthouse ceiling. when james holmes first appeared in court july 23, his demeanor and expression raised questions about his mental state. in court today, he seemed little changed. as holmes stared wide-eyed around the courtroom, defense attorney daniel king referred to him as mentally ill. he told the judge, "we cannot beg

i wanted to talk to scott pelley too.ctive speech and perhaps hurt himself a bit because there's some debate, certainly him with fact checkers about the plant closing and some other issues. is there much talk within the political community that ryan should have none better than to do that? >> charlie, if you're asking me -- >> rose: i am asking you. scott hasn't joined us. >> the crowd here in tampa could have cared less about it. i thought it was just an unnecessary miscalculation on his part. why say, why blame barack obama which is what he really did about a planted closing that took place when george bush was president. that was unnecessary. there were all sorts of other examples. a lot of plants have closed over the last three and-a-half years. to try to embrace that when it was his home town was incorrect. i don't think it was a big deal, i don't think it made much difference. people aren't going to remember in. >> rose: it doesn't hurt paul ryan. >> i don't think it hurts paul ryan. yes it does and i think it was j

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening, scott is off tonight, i'm bob schieffer. well, the election is now just 90 days away and new polls out today are giving us a better picture of how it's looking right now. with 270 electoral votes needed to win the white house, our cbs news election team estimates 212 are likely to go to president obama or they are leaning toward him. for mitt romney it is 191. so it will all come down to the 135 electoral votes that we estimate are up for grabs. those votes are in 11 states that could swing to either candidate electoral vote so thal concentrate tonight. last week we told you the president is leading in three of them-- florida, ohio, and pennsylvania-- today a new quinnipiac/cbs news/"new york times" poll of likely voters shows the president also leading in wisconsin by six points and he has a four-point lead in virginia. but mitt romney is ahead by five points in colorado, a state the president won the last time. the president's campaigning there today and our nancy cordes is with hi

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening, scott is off tonight, i'm bob schieffer. well, we may be headed for the worst summer ever for wildfires, and there is a huge new fire burning tonight east of seattle. about 40,000 fires so far this year have burned up more than 6 million acres. that's a million more than average. there are more than 60 large firf control tonight. the fire east of slate swept across a 26,000 acre patch in a matter of hours. ben tracy is there tonight. ben? >> reporter: as you can see, the smoke is darkening the hillsides in western washington state and the wind isn't helping firefighters. they've been trying to battle the blaze for a day and a half now and they're doing all they can just to keep up. overnight the fire exploded driven by nearly 40 mile per hour winds. >> this is one of the home wes saw over there that's clearly on fire. >> reporter: at least 60 homes in and around this town have been swallowed by walls of flame. 500 people have been forced to leave their homes. >> i think it's very fri

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. >> (cackles) captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> o'donnell: good evening, scott's on assignment, i'm norah o'donnell. until today, few people outside of missouri had ever heard of todd akin, the republican candidate for senate there. but akin's remarks about rape have put him and the abortion issue in the national spotlight. reblicans and democrats alike-- including mitt romney and president obama-- have condemned his comments. and members of akin's own party are pressuring him to drop out as they battle to win back control of the senate. wyatt andrews begins our coverage. >> reporter: todd akin's comments have been called "insulting, wildly offensive" and "just plain wrong." and that's the reaction from republicans. the question he faced was simple: should abortion be legal in the case of rape? >> from what i understand from doctors, that's really rare. if it's a legitimate rape the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. >> reporter: those two suggestions-- that women might spontaneously prevent conception and that some r

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. there is nothing to save syria now. kofi annan, the united nations' peace negotiator quit today, admitting what had become obvious it's syrian dictator is determined to crush the rebellion, and the u.n. is powerless to stop it. this was kofi annan, the former u.n. scenl, in geneva today. >> as an envoy i can't want peace more than the proanists, more than the security council, or the international community, for that matter. >> pelley: the war didn't skip a beat. the dictator's helicopters and jets prownded rebels in syria's largest city. aleppo has been under siege for 13 days. artillery has rained on civilian neighborhoods. many are dead. hundreds of thousands have fled the city that was once home to three million. this may be a decisive moment in the uprising that began a year and a half ago against the 42-year dictator ship of the assad family. syrian forces are trying to keep reporters out and jam communications. they're doing a pretted good job of it, but we got a satellite aud

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. there is nothing to save syria avw. kofi annan, the united nations' peace negotiator quit today, onmitting what had become obvious it's syrian dictator is determined to crush the rebellion, and the u.n. is powerless to stop it. this was kofi annan, the former u.n. secretary general, in geneva today. >> as an envoy i can't want peace more than the commagonists, more than the r.curity council, or the international community, for that matter. >> pelley: the war didn't skip a ctat. the dictator's helicopters and sts pounded rebels in syria's largest city. aleppo has been under siege for f days. artillery has rained on civilian neighborhoods. many are dead. hundreds of thousands have fled he city that was once home to ehree million. this may be a decisive moment in

in an interview with scott pelley, romney was asked if he agrees with the republican platform banning all abortions. >> my position has been clear throughout this campaign -- i'm in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest and the health and life of the mother. but recognize, this is the decision that will be made by the supreme court. the democrats try and make this a political issue every four years, but this is a matter in the court. >> when romney ran for senate in massachusetts, he backed abortion rights. now he says the decision to legalize abortion, roe versus wade, should be reversed. >>> meanwhile, another republican senate candidate raised eyebrows with his comments on abortion. tom smith, who is running for the u.s. senate in pennsylvania, opposes all abortion. during a broadcast interview monday, smith was asked, what would he say to a family member who had been raped and became pregnant? >> i lived something similar to that with my own family. she chose life and i commend her for that. in my view, fortunately for me, i didn't have to teach those the wa

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good eveningscott's off tonight. i'm bob schieffer. well, it was the picture that once you saw it you could not forget it. jared lee loughner, the 23-year-old college dropout who gravely wounded congresswoman gabrielle giffords in an inexplicable shooting spree last year that left six dead and 13 wounded. today a federal judge in arizona ruledded that loughner was competent to understand the charges against him, allowed him to plead guilty and he will spend the rest of his life behind bars. bill whitaker's at the federal courthouse in tucson. bill? >> reporter: bob, judge larry burns, who has presided over this case since the beginning, said he saw a different jared loughner today. loughner, who shouted and ranted at a hearing last year today was quiet and subdued and spoke with a slurred but understandable voice. for most of the two-hour hearing, loughner sat calmly by his lawyer's side as his court appointed psychiatrist described his slow dissent into schizophrenia. he smiled just once when she

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we're learning tonight that before last month's theater massacre in colorado, officials at the university of colorado invalidated the access key of james holmes so he could no longer enter the buildings of the medical school campus. that was part of what prosecutors revealed in a court hearing today that was attended by holmes. the prosecutors are asking the judge in the case for holmes' records and e-mails from his time as a student at the university where he was studying for a ph.d. in neuroscience. they're hoping to establish a motive in the shooting that killed 12 and wounded 58 others. senior correspondent john miller is joining us. and, john, what else did we learn? >> reporter: well, scott, when prosecutors made their argument that these records are relevant to their case, they said some things we'd never heard before. they said the school records would detail how holmes failed his board exams, his withdrawal from the ph.d. program, that holmes made threats to the university o

the "cbsing sponsored by cbs ews" with scott pelley. this is the "cbs evening news" ng.th scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening. scott's off tonight, i'm bob schieffer. well, it's happened again-- two american military men were anlled in afghanistan today by an afghan policeman. it happened in a village in st wanistan's far west where u.s. troops have been teaching the afghans to take over their own security. this is just the latest attack by afghans who are supposed to be our allies. they took the lives of 12 americans in 2010. last year that number doubled and already this year there have been 25 who have been killed. david martin has more on today's shooting and this troubling trend. orter: iter: it happened at a caduation ceremony like this. villagers trained by americans canserve as a local police force. librand new policeman stepped forward to receive his weapon diatelmediately turned it on his trainers killing two members of cis. special forces. ic's a kick in the gut of the u.s. strategy of training afghans to take over the a

for all of us at cbs news all around the world, i'm scott pelley. you sunday on "60 minutes." good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> this is 9 news now. >>> tonight a prince george's county police officer facing second degree assault and eight other misdemeanor charges for supposedly trying to cover up a shooting. investigators say he lied about why his gun went off during an arrest six months ago, his claim unraveling because of surveillance footage of the crime scene. kristin fisher has more from hyattsville. respect you would think in this day in age that a police officer of all people would know that video cameras are everywhere, but it seems corporal donald taylor forgot that. these are the charging documents that essentially say taylor wonderfully arrested somebody, fired his weapon in -- wrongfully arrested somebody, fired his weapon in the middle of that arrest and lied about the whole thing. this happened in february in

for scott pelley, i'm bob schieffer. see you right here next week.oning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> teenagers accused of swiping a celebrities lamborghini and now his friends may have tried to pull off a juvenile hall jailbreak. the reason today was the day he wanted to make a break for >> this goes along with his legend >> i don't want to refer to him as a legend, he is in a lot of trouble >> wait until you see one man solution to the heat wave. he built his own home grew air- conditioner. >> mobile 5 is live at candlestick park just two hours from a special cbs five 49ers kickoff. good evening. it is one of the most daring, most sensational heists the bay area has ever seen. in celebrities lamborghini of ripped off allegedly by an aspiring teenage mobster and now another hollywood twist, the birthday jailbreak. >> is it possible that the tories teenager max weighed tried to pull off yet another during caper by trying to get a jail break out of juvenile hall just hours before transfer to this place, th

just keep dishonesty within b captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley>> pelley: good evening. the race for the white house will be decided by a few key states that could swing to either the president or mitt romney. a new quinnipiac/cbs news/"new york times" poll of lel

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the cause of autism is one of the great mysteries of medicine, but we found out something new and important today. a report in the medical journal "nature" says that it is the age of the father at the time of conception-- not the age of the mother-- that can raise the risk of autism in a child. with more men becoming fathers later in life, it could help explain the rise in autism in this country. jim axelrod is on the story. >> reporter: the study's senior author-- a scientist in iceland- - writes "conventional wisdom has been to blame the developmental disorders of children on the age of mothers. but it's the age of fathers that appears to be the real culprit." dr. delores maldespina, a psychiatrist at new york university finds the research eye opening. >> this study shows new mutations are frequent enough as men age that fathers aging alone can explain the increase in the risk for autism. >> reporter: the study says a father's age could account for 15% to 30% of cases of autism and

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here again, is scott pelley. >> pelley: in just a few minutes, mitt romney's running mate congressman ryan of wisconsin will be addressing the convention. bob schieffer, i wonder what you are expecting from that speech tonight. >> well, we keep hearing and we have gotten a few excerpts here, i do not see that he mentioned president obama by name in this speech. i think what is quite interesting about what is going on here, we have heard that president obama's name a lot before we get into prime time at 10:00 o'clock when the networks go on the air, but last night people were very careful not to say barack obama. i just wonder if there is some sort of research or polling that they have done that has told them not to go at the president directly but to talk about his programs, and i am anxious to see just how far paul ryan goes when he lays out this case tonight, maybe he will turn out to be the greatest attack dog in the history of politics, you heard john mccain he said well joe biden is a nice guy but look what he can do. maybe we will see that from paul ryan but i am anxious to see

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. t have just begun the fourth year of what has been a very mempy recovery from the great recession. d thatwe got some indications that better times may be near. for one thing, home prices were up more than 2% in may, and that's the third monthly increase. and americans saw their incomes rise half a percent in june, more than $500 per household on average. trouble is, americans didn't spend any of it. they cut spending back to a tiny fraction, about $11 on average. eeat's the problem, because consumers spending is 70% of our economy. we have three reports tonight, first dean reynolds in chicago on the fear of buying. dean? >> reporter: scott, nobody feels this lull in spending more deeply than the nation's small businessmen, one of whom told us today he is looking for some ly areat the end of this tunnel. 1 july sales definitely are down about 10 or 15%. >> reporter: jeff pape sells athletic gear online and from eis 5,500 square foot store in elmhurst, illinois. >> what we see is that

just keep dishonesty within b captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the race for the white house will be decided by a few key states that could swing to either the president or mitt romney. a new quinnipiac/cbs news/"new york times" poll of likely voters finds that the president is leading in the three biggest of those states. together, those states have one-quarter of the electoral votes needed to win. in florida, president obama leads by six points, 51% to 45. he's ahead by six in ohio as well, 50 to 44. and mr. obama's biggest lead over governor romney is in pennsylvania, an 11-point advantage, 53% to 42. nancy cordes has been doing some reporting today at obama campaign headquarters in chicago, and she's been looking at the numbers. nancy, what story do they tell? >> reporter: well, scott, the numbers were well received at obama headquarters, as you might imagine, though they say they fully expect ups and downs between now and election day. the president himself was in one of those battleground states today, ohio, asking

captioning sponsored by cbs >> this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, the storm cleared over the gulf coast today and the full impact of hurricane katrina is now becoming clear. the first hurricane to hit the u.s. this season left at least five people dead. more than 20 inches of rain combined with the storm surge left whole neighborhoods underwater in louisiana. the power is still out for more than half a million homes and businesses and the damage could top $2 billion. our mark strassmann has been talking with some of the people who have lost nearly everything. >> reporter: for the first time today we were able to look from the air at the abandoned neighborhoods in plaquemines parish, swamped by five feet of isaac's storm surge. crews have begun cutting as many as 10 holes in its levees east and west banks to drain the water and in brathwaite, 19 miles south of norlts, residents are frustrated just as they were after katrina. a flood wall as high as 35 feet built after katrina protects new orleans and it worked-- for new orleans. but the new flood wa

. >>> scott pelley talks with a navy seal at the center of the bin laden raid controversy. >>> we begin with a look at today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> try to leave and then we didn't. because we had nowhere to go. >> thousands forced from their homes as isaac's floodwaters continue to rise. >> president obama signed federal disaster declarations for louisiana and mississippi. >> the pounding of this strong city for so long is something like we've never seen before. >> let's give this effort everything we have. let's see this thing all the way through. let's get this done. >> paul ryan gets a rock star reception as he officially accepts the republican vice presidential nomination in tampa. >> the president is throwing away money. he's pretty experienced at that. >> i would say ryan is no sarah palin. >>> the navy seal who took part in the raid on osama bin laden's compound speaks publicly for the first time. >> are you guys ready? can you guys pull this off? i am pretty sure to a man, we all said yes, absolutely. >>> in los angeles, surveillance video shows police knocki