st. augustine, florida.course we will bring you some of his remarks live once he begins. >>> and later today he'll address a crowd in miami. his running mate, paul ryan, makes his first so lo appearance. president obama in the heartland, his fifth trip to iowa making seven stops over three days. and vice president joe biden stumps in durham, north carolina. >>> well, mitt romney's pick of paul ryan to be his running mate is being described as bold but risky. ryan is likely to firm up battle lines in large part because of his controversial budget plan. let's talk about how that could play out. joel goldstein is a vice presidential scholar from the school of law. welcome, joe. you studied vice presidential choices through the years. has there ever been a running mate like ryan who is more like ly to define the presidential platform than in some respects the other way around? >> deb, i don't recall that we've ever had quite this situation before. the ideas identified with representative ryan a seem to be the on

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st. augustine's parish where she runs the church's hunger center. >> who fixed your hair so pretty? >> these people that come into this hunger center, i love each and every single one of them, and they know that. and they'll often come to me and say, "can i have a hug today? i need a hug." because they need somebody to let them know that they are loved. and i found out the hard way that a touch is really important for so many of these people. i had a gentleman that came down into the hunger center and i gave him a huge hug and just, you know, thanked him for coming. one of the homeless men came up to me and he tapped me on the shoulder and he says, "you know what?" he said, "sister, i'm angry with you." i said, "well, why? why are you angry with me?" he says, "you know, i've been coming to eat here for three years and never once did you receive me the way you received him." and i couldn't. this gentleman had lice in his hair, his nose was on his beard, he was just a mess. he had at least five to seven coats on, and he stunk to high heaven. i just said to him, "jimmy, one of these da

st. augustine romney charged obama did that. >> it was to cut it by $700 billion. that's not the right answer. we want to make sure that we preserve and protect medicare. >> reporter: under obama health care, medicare payments to doctors and drug companies will drop, not the benefits to seniors. under ryan's proposal, seniors would get vouchers for private insurance, ending medicare as a government entitlement. >> he is an articulate spokesman for governor romney but that vision is one i fundamentally disagreewith. >> reporter: i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. >>> elsewhere in politics chris christie will be giving the key note speech at the republican national convention. he says he plans to make what he calls an emphatic speech making what he calls for electing mitt romney and ryan. he said he's grinding away on the fourth draft of his speech and he'll be offering some, quote, very direct and hard truths to people in the country about the trouble that we're in. >>> well, a policeman and two others are dead this morning after a gunman opened fire near t

st. augustine before he heads to miami later this afternoon. we're live in washington. i'm claire leka. >>> thank you. syrian activists and rebels are trying to counter bashar al assad's increasingly strong air attacks. secretary of state hillary clinton discussed with turkey a number of options to aid the syrian opposition, including a no fly zone, however, no decisions were made. this as syrian jets attacked areas in and around aleppo, the country's largest city on sunday. meanwhile, two bomb attacks were reported in damascus. >>> egypt's new president has forced out top officials. president mohammed morsi made the surprise news yesterday to order the retirement of the defense minister and the chief of staff and the commanders of the navy, air defense, and air force. he canceled a military declared constitutional amendment that gave top generals wide powers. morsi also swore in a new defense minister in a brief ceremony yesterday and appointed a pro reform judge as his new vice president. >>> a u.s. navy ship is at a port in dubai after colliding with an oil tanker in

st. augustine on tuesday. that is not happening.paign says, of course, because of the hurricane. basically, listen, the most important thing now is the safety of the people down here. politics takes second place. >> so obviously the republicans have had a hard time staying on message with all that's been happening. does this throw just another wrench into that? >> reporter: i guess you could say it's another distraction. at the same time maybe it brings more attention to the convention, as well. but again, politics is not the most important thing now. the most important thing is the safety of people here in tampa and across florida and the gulf coast. >> yeah. safety first. all right. paul steinhauser in tampa. thank you. >>> in other headlines that we're watching this morning, a grizzly bear has killed a backpacker in alaska's denali national park. hikers alerted rangers after finding an abandoned backpack and signs of a struggle. rangers later found the victim's remains and at least one grizzly bear during an aerial search. the fi

st. augustine, romney charged the president did that. >> the president's idea for medicare was to cut it by $700 billion. that's not the right answer, we want to make sure we preserve and protect medicare. >> reporter: under obama health care, medicare payments to doctors and drug companies with ill drop, not the benefits to seniors. under ryan's proposal, seniors would get vouchers for private insurance, ending medicare as a government entitlement. >> he is an articulate spokesman for governor romney's vision. but the problem is the vision is one that i fundamentally disagree with. >> reporter: i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. >> last night on the "rachel maddow show" journalist told rachel that ryan's plan for medicare may hurt the ticket in florida. >> rightly or wrongly, he's perceived as someone out to kill medicare and medicaid and for that matter, doesn't feel all that good about social security. now, this is toxic in florida. i'm not saying romney will lose florida, i'm saying as of today, he has less chance of carrying it than he had before, which is one reason he wen

st. augustine before heading to orlando at lunch time, then miami later in the afternoon.laire lakea, nbc news, washington. >> absolutely. it is 4:47. a look at our weather arriving. right on time. >> checking those details. there is a fire burning. not sure if the you know about this but to our north and we do have viewers up in the clear lake region. thanks for waking up with us. let's get to it. high fire danger persists just about all week long. 53 in san francisco, we're at 67 degrees this morning in livermore. and as you can recall the past couple months have been so mild, there were several days when it only hit 67 degrees in livermore, even in july. throughout this month it's been hotter than average and it maintains hotter than average just about every single day this week. but what i can tell you is there is a gradual cooldown on the way. satellite imagery tells the story of the day. look at all of that moisture. it's actually churning clockwise, that's high pressure and that stirred up severe weather in southern california yesterday so you want to keep that in m

st. augustine, he'll head to miami later this afternoon. we're live in washington, i'm claire leka. mara, back to you. >> though word slipped out early, the romney campaign pulled off quite a feat, keeping this election's biggest political secrete under wraps for more than a week. peter alexander has details on how they did it. >> reporter: to ensure the announcement made a dramatic splash, the romney campaign went to extraordinary lengths to avoid any leaks. the four-month vp vetting process involved only a handful of top aides, supervised by both myers. myers explained the painstaking process, several years of tax returns were locked in a safe inside romney's boston headquarters each night. myers says romney made his decision august 1st and wanted to offer paul ryan the job in person, but how to get them together instead of flying directly into boston sure to raise reporters' eyebrows, the campaign booked him on a flight to hartford, two hours away where the wisconsin congressmen was picked up in an suv by myers' 19-year-old son. rye yachb went undetected the entire why. why was i

st. augustine in a short time. romney campaign said they sent him there in the first solo debut to bracket president obama's three-day stint in the hawkeye state. mr. romney canceled an event here in florida in orlando to rest up after a grueling campaign week. last night in waukesha was a moment. mr. romney choked up as he did his wife ann when paul ryan began to set a tear on the stage there. a number of poignant moments where he was fighting back tears not to let himself be choked up. he got down to business and began criticizing obama administration and its failure to create a budget and deal with the nation's budget crisis as well as economic doldrums. here is a little bit of it. >> here is our choice. do we want the opportunity society with safety net, land of upward mobility where people make the most of their lives up with they can get ahead and or go down the path of debt, doubt and despair. do we want to copy europe? no. >> reporter: romney took the stage shortly thereafter. at one point his remarks were

st. augustine, florida.omney campaign is making a shift from the running mate to the runner-ups you might say this morning. paul ryan is off to iowa. mitt romney is here in florida but will be joined on stage behind me in a few moments from now by marco rubio who is said to have been very high on that vice presidential selection list for the romney campaign. he'll also be with mitt romney later on today in little havana down in miami. i will tell you that the romney campaign is facing some questions this morning about the ryan budget plan that i know you've been talking about all morning long. the obama campaign has put out a web video going after that budget and a video that features florida seniors saying that they're not going to do well if mitt romney becomes president and that ryan budget plan is put into action. i will tell you that after the romney campaign said yesterday that mitt romney is at the top of this ticket it, in reference to that ryan budget plan, they have said in the last 24 hours that i

st. augustine on tuesday. that now has been canceled. the obama campaign says it's been canceled because of the storm. >> like the academy awards. they'll have to start bringing up the music, get the speeches done, people off the stage. i think we're on to something -- >> reporter: pick up the pace. exactly. >> see you -- sncnn political editor paul steinhauser. >>> remembering neil armstrong. we'll have more on his legacy and mission to the moon. >> hello neil and buzz. i'm talking to you by telephone from the oval room at the white house. and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made. i just can't tell you how proud we all are. mom: ready to go to work? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ every mom needs a little helper. that's why i got a subaru. announcer: love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. for fastidious librarian emily skinner, each day was fueled by thorough preparation for events to come. well somewhere along the way, emily went right on living. but you see, with the help of her raymond james financial advisor, she had plann

st. augustine and his new running mate visited the iowa state fair. >> as it happens, the president was not far away furious he was also and i am getting a firsthand look at drought damage. he called ran a good man but also blamed him for being one of the republicans blocking the farm bill. >> i am told that paul ryan might be arriving in the next few days. as one of the leaders in congress standing in a way. >> as they debate his impact in this campaign most agree he will appeal to the republicans face. as ryan, the first campaign appearance was not without some drama. in two women began heckling him. causes of small >> at texas police say a man being served with an eviction notice grabbed a gun and opened fire. they say he killed two people before he was killed. one of the victims was a law enforcement officer. the other was a 65 for old man. if it happened at home near texas a&m university. house republicans are asking a federal court to force the attorney general to produce records related to a bundle contracting operation. eric holder has refused requests by a house panel to hand over

st. augustine. peter, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning to you and welcome back to new york city. here in florida mitt romney will be arriving shortly but he made big headlines over the course of this weekend with his vice presidential pick paul ryan. to republicans ryan is viewed as a conservative, a courageous and visionary conservative. to democrats his views are seen as extreme. ryan today will be competing with president obama. they host dueling rallies in iowa. romney is in florida where the new pick could set the terms of the debate going forward. >> for the new vice president al pick paul ryan back in wisconsin alongside mitt romney. it was a heroic and emotional homecoming sunday night. >> thank you, wisconsin. it is good to be home. >> reporter: relishing his new role he blasted the president's record on the economy. >> the worst economic recovery in 70 years, the largest deficits and biggest government since world war ii. nearly one in six americans are in poverty today

st. augustine. john, good morning. >> john, to begin with, democrats and seniors excited about the pick of ryan as republicans. how tough a job do you think mitt romney has in framing his choice as a positive here? >> one of them has to be wrong. the challenge for romney is that ryan is not well-known in these battleground states. so there's a real race here for romney to define ryan and ryan to help define himself in a positive sense as an idea's man, someone with a plan for the future. the battle then is again for the obama campaign to get very specific, to look at what ryan proposed over the course of his career and argue why that shreds the social safety net. that's their view in the obama campaign. and why, as we've been discussing it harms medicare. >> john, where do you see ryan hlping romney the most? >> the immediate help is with the republican base. people will say, but those republicans were going to vote against barack obama anyway. but the enthusiasm that we've seen in the last couple o

st. augustine, obama care did that. >> >> it was to cut it by $700 billion. that's not the right answer. we want to make sure we preserve and protect medicare. >> medicare payments to doctors and drug companies will drop, not the benefits to seniors. under ryan's proposals, seniors would get vouchers for private insurance, ending medicare as a government entitlement. >> he is an articulate spokesman, but the problem is that visit is one that i fundamentally disagree with. >> reuters/ips opt s poll out today finds so far ryan is not raising the approval numbers. i'm steve handelsman, news4. >>> today house republicans filed a lawsuit asking a federal course to enforce a subpoena against attorney general eric holder. that subpoena demands internal documents connected to failed gun tracking operations known as fast and furious. president obama has asserted executive privilege to prevent the forced disclosure of the documents. the house lawsuit asks the court to reject the president's claim and order the attorney general to produce the records. >>> now to a devel

st. augustine romney charged obama care did that. >> to cut it. that's not the right answer. we want to make sure we preserve and protect medicare. >> until obama health care, medicare payments to doctors and drug companies will drop, not the benefits to seniors. up ryan's proposal, seniors would get vouchers for private insurance, ending medicare as a government entitlement. >> he is an articulate spokesman for governor romney's vision, but the problem is that vision is one that i fundamentally disagree. >> a reuters/ipsos poll finds that so far ryan on the ticket has not raised the approval numbers. i'm steve handelsman, news4. >>> a second poll by "the washington post" and abc news find that 38% of the people polled have a positive reaction to paul ryan, while 33% have a negative reaction. >>> let's turn to the forecast now. what a beaut out there. this may be the best day of the week. >> heavy winds and storms may be headed our way. veronica has the latest. >> that's right, jim and pat. it has been a gorgeous day today. that nice weather continuing off the sunday. take a

st. augustine that was scheduled for tuesday, and he wants to assure emergency management officials can focus on the storm and not on his trip. >> david gregory joined us today to talk about the republican national convention and he says it's essential for mitt romney to reinvent himself for voters. >> this is a convention overall are romney has an opportunity and a huge challenge to try to reach people with a real vision for the country and fill in parts of his biography that have been battered by the obama team and offer a real road map of how he wants to get things done in washington. >> former florida governor, jeb bush, and arizona senator john mccain will join david, and dnc chairwoman, and arizona governor, jan brewer. >>> we will have a live look at the tampa convention center there. aaron gilchrist will have the latest and we will have live coverage of the democratic national convention in charlotte next month. >> and staf obama's speech will most likely be the highlight of the convention, and lines wrapped around an obama campaign office in charlotte as staffers handed out nearly 6,

st. augustine where governor romney will be campaigning later today. jan, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning anthony and rebecca and to everyone in the west. that new ticket, romney and ryan, hits new swing states, north carolina and wisconsin. but this one, florida, well, this woun could decide it all. it was an emotional homecoming for paul ryan, a wisconsin congressman wiped away tears as thousands cheered the native son, now the republican nominee for vice president. >> my veins runs with cheese, bratwurst, and a little spot of miller. >> reporter: but it wasn't just in wisconsin. at every stop the rommneromney/ team overmroed. >> i guess you think i made the right decision, the right choice. [ applause ] yeah, i know i did. >> reporter: ryan's nomination refocused the race on substance and brought out a new energy in romney. >> mr. president, take your campaign out of the gutter. let's talk about the real issues that america faces. >> reporter: for his part the president welcomed ryan to the race and then returned fire. >> my opponent a

st. augustine and miami. >>> 93-year-old evangelist billy graham is hospitalized this morning. >> we'll have an update on his condition. one week after the sikh temple shooting in wisconsin, a huge gathering outside the white house to honor the victims. fox 5 morning news is back in just a moment.  in the people, businesses, and organizations that call greater washington home. whether it's funding an organization that provides new citizens with job training, working with an anacostia school that promotes academic excellence, or supporting an organization that serves 5,000 meals a day across d.c., what's important to the people of greater washington is important to us, and we're proud to work with all those who are making our communities stronger. >>> welcome back. making headline this morning, a shocking scene in new york city. police shot and killed a suspect in the middle of busy times square on saturday. cell phone video shows a 51- year-old man waving a knife at police. witnesses say officers repeat lid tried to get him to put it down but he continued swinging a knife wh

st. augustine have some importance which i am not blind in taking georgia and literalists of carolina, and i go into some detail on the lack of a small boat force of the kind of felt we ought to have on the inland waterways that would have helped protect savanna impleader charleston and st. mary's list trans essentially involved in that. when i went to st. mary's, i was hoping to find more, but not really about the navy. spec what evidence have you found how washington would have used the navy for the battles? stat as far as the media that i'm talking about is none. washington of course xl the when the french enter the war and 1788 she knew how exactly to use them. this smaller navy of gunboats and smaller craft a defensive force that could operate on the inland waterways no, he wasn't aware that this could be useful to him. although at various points he solid examples of it being used on a smaller scale in boston, in new york and the metal from a philadelphia. but he never -- he would have loved to of the navy under his control but he never thought about coordinating the navy with the arm

st. augustine. >> i'm delighted to announce as my running mate paul ryan. to find common ground, bring people together, he's brought ideas together, the president's idea for medicare was to cut it by $700 billion. >> president obama barnstorming iowa today with seven stops planned in the hawkeye state. the newest man in the race is hot on his heels. congressman ryan making his first solo stump today at the iowa state fair. there is accusation that he's trying to end medicare as we know it. >> you're going to have to do a little selling. >> our point is, we need to preserve their benefits because government promises that they've organized retirements around. in order to make sure we can do that, you must reform for those of us that are younger. >> ron mott is in iowa. ryan is going to head to florida next weekend but today he's where the president is, in iowa, which is a large concentration of americans over the age of 65. ryan will need to go on defense on those proposals out of the gate today? >> reporter: you've got to go to a state fair or two. it's a gr

st. augustine in southeastern sections of cecil county. heading right toward middletown, delaware.oved up to the north. and now it's beginning to head out to the southeast. it's going to be sitting there. and that's why they've had heavy rain in that area. and that's why that warning continues. so a little while longer, over southeast portions of cecil county. the rest of the area, can't find any rain anywhere else in the state at this moment. right now, 91 at the airport because it cleared out. 91 easton. 82 ocean city. and locally, temperatures generally still around the 90- degree mark. it's kind of hard to believe. westminster just up to 94. we just got a report out of parkton with the shower they had, they're down to 79 degrees. which really does cool things down. south winds in the region. southeast winds have kept us in that warm, moist flow. and that will continue all weekend long. quite a bit of activity across the tennessee valley, from kentucky into portions of kansas. and these folks need the rain. they've had just the most ridiculously hot and dry summer. there's also

st. augustine on tuesday to counter republicans' message during the national convention. campaign officials wouldn't say if biden would reschedule his stop in tampa. we're going to have complete coverage of the republican national convention. aaron gilchrist and julie carey will bring you complete coverage from florida and coverage from the democratic national convention in charlotte next month. >>> nasa is once again forced to scrub the launch of an unmanned spacecraft. bad weather will postpone the launch until tomorrow morning. the atlas 5 rocket will send two spacecrafts to study radiation around earth. the two probes will try to solve the mystery of how energy is created. nasa will try to launch the spacecrafts at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow. >>> a traffic alert for drivers in northern virginia. expect some big delays this weekend on two of the area's most heavily traveled roads. last night crews shut down several lanes on i-66 at the beltway. some lanes on exit ramps leading to 66 west have also been closed. starting tomorrow night, the southbound 495 ramp to 66 west will be

st. augustine, florida, today. >> now, as you know about four years ago candidate obama was speaking in denver to the democratic convention, and he got up there and made a lot of promises and he did it in front of those greek columns. i don't think he'll be standing in front of greek columns at this year's convention. he won't want to remind people of greece because that's where he's taking our country if we don't get off the road we're on. >> with me now are two of the top analysts on msnbc, "the huffington post's" howard fineman and "time" magazine's mark halperin. let's get to the heart of this thing. i'm surprised because i thought romney had some spine in picking ryan at the very act of doing so. because ryan has stuck his neck out on a very, very tough, perhaps draconian budget which includes cuts against groups that don't like to be cut, like seniors, and great advantages to people at the top, of course. but then again on sundayight out of nowhere on "60 minutes" he comes out and says, well, really i have my own plan. i'm not really with the ryan plan. does he already lose points? polli

st. augustine, florida, the republican presidential hopeful praised ryan as "a great leader." >> a man whothat he knows how to solve problems. he did not just go to washington, d.c. and become involved in public service to try and make a name for himself; he instead went to make things better for the american people. >> holman: ryan, 42, is married and has three school-age children. he was a protege of former republican congressman and vice presidential candidate jack kemp. ryan first was elected to congress in 1998 and now is serving his seventh term. he became chair of the house budget committee last year after republicans took control following the 2010 midterm elections. in that role, ryan authored a buet that would require sweeping cs in federal spending, repeal the president's health care law, and impose changes for future medicare recipients to hold down costs. democrats say his proposals would gut medicare, but romney assured his audience in florida today that the republican ticket will "preserve and protect medicare." and in an interview sunday with cbs news' "60 minutes", he insi

st. augustine and then head to miami later in the afternoon. we're live on capitol hill.ack to you. >> claire, thank you. >>> we will not hear from sarah palin at the republican national convention later this month. the 2008 gop vt shul candidate says she won't speak at the convention in tampa. she has not said whether she will actually be there but she says she is looking forward to hearing from this year's candidates. palin says she supports mitt romney and paul ryan and will focus on grass root efforts to get them leselected. >>> news 4 will be at the republican national convention. aaron gilchrist and julie will be filing reports starting sunday night august 26th at news 4 at 11:00. >>> starting today, vdot will begin taking down dozens of trees in freight gals today. trying to prevent accidents like this one last month that killed a driver. a decayed oak tree fell on a moving car on georgetown pike. vdot says all of the trees being renovembmoved are dead or close dead. 25 of them along riverbend road. the project is expected to take three weeks. >>> police are invest

st. augustine, orlando, and fort lauderdale. mr. romney as a campaign rally -- has a campaign -- mr. romney has a campaign rally coming up with marco rubio. the democrats hold their convention after labor day. we will have live coverage of every speech, every minute of both of them here on c-span. there will be three presidential debates in october. the first on oct. 3rd. it will focus on domestic policies. october 16, a town hall debate monitored -- moderated by candy crowley of cnn. the third will focus on foreign policy. for more on this election, this is from "washington journal." host: it has been two days, what is the bomb on the gop ticket so far. guest: -- bump on the gop ticket so far? guest: this was going to be litigated over the plans for medicare. we saw lots of numbers about that. i do not think it is any surprise and it does not cold not well. there was not a lot of national polling about paul ryan. there is some polling that has been going on in the months leading up to this. it shows you that the country does not really know him all that well. high-information voters

st. augustine, and florida is a important battlegroundstate, and obama administration saying those have been cancelled because of isaac. >> thank you paul steinhauser. stay with cnn for complete coverage of the republican national convention. today, we have a special look at mitt romney followed by a preview of the convention and stay with cnn all week for the convention, itself. >>> a last political note now, and remember former south carolina governor mark sanford who famously disappeared a few years ago and then revealed he was in argentina with his mistrez? well, here he is now, and that is the former mistress who is now his fiancee apparently and he announced the engagement. sanford and his wife are now divorced. >>> and the carnage in syria, and we will tell you about the grim record set this weekend. chase scene netflix coming soon extra butter tickets swoon penguin journey junior mints movie phone evil prince bollywood 3d shark attack ned the head 5% cashback signup for 5% cashback on movies through september. it pays to discover. homicide of young people in america has an impact on