>> well, suzanne, the weather is starting to increase again.pretty close to the eye, and it is subsiding for a while, but now it is inincreasing again with the winds and the rain picking up. we have been pounded regularly, and due to the length of time of this sustained winds, we are starting to see fatigue and failures and ruin in some of the infrastructure. we have a lot of downed powerlines and probably 16,000 or 17,000 residents out of power. >> it is safe inunder any condition for people to leave their homes if they are faced with flooding? >> suzanne, if people can remain in their homes at this point in time, they are going to be safer than trying to get on the road. or as the weather continues to pick up. >> el tus about the storm surge. i understand it is still push prg the gulf. do we know when that is going to actually peek? are there going to be more buildings to flood? >> yes, we are expecting more flooding and the word from the e eoc is that the storm surge has not peaked and we are seeing an inkre increase in the water gauge of th

suzanne. >> all right. of times you get the incomplete statements from both sides when you are months away, just months away from the vote. thank you for checking it all out for us, tom. our prime time coverage of the republican national convention continues tonight with wolf blitzer at 7:00 p.m. eastern live. and i will be reporting from the democratic national convention next week from charlotte. >>> and now we will take you to the worst of tropical storm isaac. music: "make someone happy" music: "make someone happy" ♪it's so important to make someone happy.♪ it's so important to make meone happy.♪ ♪make just one someone happy ♪and you will be happy too. >>> the full impact of isaac is the far from over. the storm has killed one person in the gulf coast and still dumping rain on a lot of parts of louisiana even as it moves inland over a very slow movement of the storm. i want to bring in ed lavandara who is in grand island, louisiana, who took the brunt of all of the hit of isaac, and ed, you and i were t

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i'm suzanne malveaux. we're taking you inside the violence in sere wra since the civil war began. >>> she was an amerin woman who died fighting for palestinian rights. now israel says its military is not responsible. >>> we begin, of course, with wind and water. isaac intensifying as promised. this storm almost the size of texas is likely to become a hurricane very soon. forecasters have a better idea of where the gulf coast will make a direct hit. i want to bring in our meteorologist jennifer delgoto at the severe weather center tracking isaac and brian todd life from new orleans, monitoring the levee situation. brian, we'll get to you. jennifer, what do we expect of the path of the storm? >> it looks like it's going to be a slow mover. we're not seeing any changes. we had a last advisory roughly an hour and a half ago. the winds right now are still at 70 miles per hour. still not a hurricane. it's not really whether or not it becomes a hurricane. we're really concerned about the storm surge, as well as t

>> i think it did, suzanne.ld look at the crowd in the convention last night, and there were a lot of delegates openly shedding tears through those testimonies. you know, a lot of what makes people skittish about mormonism is the specific doctrines and the beliefs of the religion, but what romney did last night and the other people he knew through church did was to shift the conversation on to life within the mormon church and how noble that life is. so he really connect and succeeded in changing the conversation and opening up a real intimate window into his life and the life of the church that a lot of people will admire. >> dan, good to see you and appreciate your reporting. a tourist hot spot turns into the site of a bloodbath. we will explain the violence in mambazo, kenya. at usaa, we believe honor is not exclusive to the military, and commitment is not limited to one's military oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military are the ones we used to build usaa bank. with our award winning app

suzanne?> and phil, do you believe it made a difference when they were sentenced that they performed the protest inside of the church. would it have played out differently if it had taken place simply on the street? >> no, that was absolutely crucial to this case, suzanne. the charge that they faced was hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, and so that the trial was filled with witnesses who claimed that they had suffered great spiritual suffering as a result of what took place during that brief 30-second performance by pussy riot in the cathedral, and during the judgment today, the judge used the words disrespectful and insensitive in regards to the way that the women had behaved to not just the church, but religious people as well, and so very much in the country over the last five months since they have been arrested there is a great debate over what their punishment should be. many religious people here wanted them to be punished severely and some wanted jail time and some wanted merc

suzanne. >> miguel, thank you. appreciate it. >>> so it about preventing voter fraud or suppressing the voting rights which is the central fight in pennsylvania's new voter i.d. law. today that fight moves to the supreme court, and the groups challenging the law say they will appeal a rule forcing it to go into effect. it is a part of the larger fight playing out across the country. that story from joe johns. >> reporter: the pennsylvania court ruling is another skirmish in the battle over voting right s this election year. more than a dozen states have passed new voter law including the one in the swing state of pennsylvania which is requiring people to show photo i.d. to vote. opponents went to court to try to block the law saying it could disenfranchise 100,000 people and especially minorities and older or sick voters who are more likely not to have acceptable photo identification. and people like 93-year-old vivette applewhite, who is one of the lead plaintiffs in the case. >> it is terrible, because so many pe

suzanne. >> all right.about the gender gap in the 2012 race for the president, and what about the generation gap? more me lin illennials and youne voting for president obama, and the older group is voting for mitt romney. the polling reflects what we saw in the report as well. how wide is the gap, this age gap? >> well, suzanne, it is very wide actually in many ways. and yes, "usa today" has the story today writ talks about the differences in the support between these two very different age groups, the young folks and really the older folks. take a look at the cnn poll from last month that shows how different it is right now among the support for president obama. he gets 62% of the voters aged 18 to 34 while mitt romney only gets 35% of that. let's look at the 65 and older voter voters and see who comes out on top there. as you can see right there, 57% go for mitt romney while only 41% suzanne, go for barack obama. so as you can see, there is a generation gap when it comes to the election. >> and so, mark,

and don't forget, too, suzanne, that the u.s.unds won gold twice in previous olympics. keep the fingers crossed. >> and there is a birdie in the ear saying that gabby actually won, but does she mind being called the flying squirrel and have you got a sense of why she got that name in the first place? the flying squirrel, i don't know how that happened? >> well, i mean, you know, the flng squirrel, it is a compliment and i am sure she does not mind. it mean she's is deft and nibbleable and fanibbl nimble and fast in the air, and to get a great nickname is great. but aly needs one and maybe the magical maneuverer or something. >> how about swimming, michael phelps and anything else that is popping right now? >> well, everyone is just waiting for this epic, this historic, this great rivalry in american swimming. michael phelps versus ryan lochte, part two, and it is must-see tv and you can't see it live, suzanne, but we can in a few hours. really, like a lot of people are just talking about, you know, well, what happened here and wh

suzanne. >> well, i echo that. thank you, rob. i appreciate that. i want the bring in chad myers to talk about the track of the storm and how quickly new orleans and some of the other areas could see what you are talking about the heavy wind s a and the slow churning of the big storm. >> yes, and a surge that is going to push up from the gulf of mexico. it is a salt water surge. and then 20 inches of rainfall north of that, and that is doing the be a freshwater surge that may clash. you have to understand that the people are taking precautions, because they know that a chain is as good as the weakest link and there may be a weak link in there for people who are not thinking about it and you don't understand what the weak link is going to be until it happens. didn't think about it until katrina hit new orleans, but basically the eye missed. it was the flooding that got into the pontchartrain that became the real issue, so something to focus on today because we are not talking too much about florida, but it is pouring down rain in south florida all of

so look at the regime now, suzanne.rime minister has defected, the defense minister was killed and top military officials killed in the attack, and crumbling government around bashar al assad and dozens of defections and large part of the country under the control of the free syrian army. this is a regime more and more encircled, but remember, always, they have the superior firepower right now and still very much the firm backing of iran and russia, their two close allies. >> and you have breaking news, more news about what we understand what happened in the houla massacre, the largest ever in syria with women and children, and what do we know? >> well, the houla massacre was shocking event in syria over the last 17-plus months of the uprising. more than00 civilians and 108 civilians killed and more than half of the civilians and you will see there the burials of some of those people who were killed. half of them women and children, and now the u.n. human rights counsel report which is an independent report is blaming t

>> and that is one of the interesting things, suzanne.i went about my business today and just even here in central loon, here's the question, are things actually more muted and a little bit quieter or is it just because we actually know that the olympics are over? and i couldn't really decide that. on the tube and on the streets, there are still just as many people, but it as if the temperature has been turned down. you know, the lights and the dimmers and it is as if everything has gone a couple of notches lower. we still have the paralympic games to come in a couple of weeks burk for the moment, it seems everybody here is just simply, you know, there was a great quote that i have seen, and that is that the everybody is not saying, woo, didn't we do well in london, but everybody is saying phoof, we did it. >> thank god it is over. you wrote a great article in cnn.com, and you talked about the olympics and you are getting flack, but london says they brought the games back home, and people are saying, that happened in athens, what do you m

>> well, some interesting points, suzanne.ers from the traffickers. that is going to be the first step of the first reason they believe it will work for them and also separating the drugs from marijuana from heroin or cocaine, and the other important point is that they say that the professional farmers growing it on small parts of land will help them to control and have more security in terms of arms and traffic control, and they will have also some sort of system to regulate how many, the amounts of drugs that people buy just like a national regulation system, and also control the thc which is the active ingredient of marijuana and those are like a few one of the reasons that they think it will help them to work. >> and this not the only latin american country, but talking about brazil, and argentina, and why do they believe this is the right direction? >> well, it is a regional debate, and not just uruguay, and the president from guatemala has been talking about this during the america meeting in colombia, he brought it to t

"newsroom international" starts right now with suzanne malveaux. havi havi >>> welcome -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com to newsroom international, i'm suzanne malveaux and we are taking you around the world in 60 minutes. and in 30 years not one execution, but that could change now with gambia with the president vowing to kill all of the country's death row inmates by mid september. and people in a mexican kults are destroying schools they say were built by the devil. >> but first, haiti in the path of the tropical storm isaac expected to make a direct hit on the dominican republic and haiti by tomorrow night. we are talking about strong winds and torrential winds creating extremely dangerous condition. i want to bring in chad meyers who is tracking isaac from the cnn weather center and what do we know about where it is going to hit and how powerfulf? >> the first place it will hit is santo domingo and not foreye, but the high winds and the rain and the flooding, and then it moves over the mountain range and goes to port-au-prince. what is new

suzanne? >> well, has the question been brought up because where you have a whole entourage and group going to a area that has been hit by a hurricane, you can get in the way of the progress to get people on to their homes and lives and is that something that the romney campaign has addressed here, because we know that the president does this kind of thing and he will do it on monday, but do they need to have all of the people in louisiana? >> well, good point. good point. in fact, that is what the obama campaign and the white house is saying that is why they are waiting for monday. they travel larger than the romney campaign. and the romney campaign pointing out that this trip to louisiana is a small one and it is just mitt romney and not paul ryan and they are going with a smaller, smaller group. again though, they say they were invited by jindal, and they did not ask to go, and they say they were invited by jindal, suzanne. >> and interestingly enough, he was invited to go to the rnc and be

. >> that is right, suzanne. mitt romney and paul ryan wrapped up a joint appearance here at the campus of the saint anslem college here in new hampshire. they went after the president on the deficit, taxes, medicare, and undoubtedly, susae the distrack sun of this -- suzanne, undoubtedly the distraction of the day is the congressman akin out in missouri who said that women could not be pregnant by quote, legitimate rape. and his comments have been denounced by almost all republicans this the last 24 hours including paul ryan who said that the comments were inexcusable. when i talked to president ob e about whether or not he should get out of the race, they did not say. they said it is up to representative todd akin, but there are others calling for him to gett of the race and most noticeably scott brown who is running for re-election just to the south here, but no question, suzanne a day when the romney campaign wanted it to be about mitt romney and paul ryan reunited out on the campaign trail one week before th

i'm suzanne malveaux and we are taking you around the world in 60 minutes. two member s s of the punk rock group pussy riot are out of russia. >>> and we will tell you what is being done to stop prosecution in africa. >>> and right now everybody is focusing on tropical storm eisac putting the gulf coast on high alert and massive evacuations from louisiana to florida. and the emergency management agency said they are concerned about storm surge and heavy rainfall. tropical storm isaac passed through south florida sunday and bringing the blustery winds and wet weather, but it is moving over to the gulf of mexico, and the national hurricane center is saying that the storm is now better organized and it looks like isaac will pass well past tampa where the republican national convention has been delayed. i want to go the chad meyers who is tracking all of this. what do we expect? >> we expect this storm to be a hurricane later today. i looked at air force reconnaissance flying through the storm and they found 72 miles per hour, and that is close enough. hurricane

. >> reporter: i'm suzanne pratt in east hampton, new york. still ahead, we'll update you on one summer business that's still warming up. >> tom: the wall street firm at the center of the latest electronic trading problem has lost more of its market value than what it lost due to the glitch. adding to the pressure, knight capital group also may be losing business. >> tom: knight shares are down 70% since it's technology break- down yesterday morning caused huge price swings in almost 150 stocks. the drop has shrunk its market value by more than $700 million. the firm estimates its loss from the trading software problems will be $440 million. knight trading handles billions of dollars of stock trading volume every day, routing buy and sell orders. several customers such as t.d. ameritrade stopped routing trades through knight yesterday after knight asked firms to stop. t.d. ameritrade hasn't returned its business to knight yet. a spokesperson tells n.b.r., "we will make changes once we are certain that there will be no impact on the client expe

>> well, it is this symbolic show, suzanne.act is we may be witnessing the beginning of an historical shift in the balance of between between the military on the one hand and the civilian leadership on the other hand. remember, suzanne, the last 60 years the military was in charge. what mohamed morsi, the new president has been trying to do is assert the power of the presidency, the civilian leadership. this represents a critical moment in egypt's future. we have to wait and see how the balance of power will play itself out in the next few months and years but it is the beginning of they mass can youlation and weakening of the military as an institution, as a political institution that has been unwilling to accept civilian supervision in egypt. >> should morsi be looking over his shoulder at this point and sleeping with one eye open? when you take away and replace the top military brass who have wielded extraordinary power, he might be in some danger. >> well, i mean, that's what i have thought so two days ago when i heard of t

>> suzanne, this mine employs 28,000 workers. it is really just 3,000 who are on strike who have embarked on this illegal wage strike. they are operators who have the most difficult job in the industry, and they want to believe earning more. they are earning $500 u.s. dollars per month and they want three times that much demanding from the company. today, the vice president of the country saying that the 27% that came back to work is significant, because he said for all intents and purposes the mine is not producing anymore, but he is convinced that the maerer jo i of the to workers want to return to work, but they are too scared because of the violence that has engulfed this wage dispute. today, hundreds of striking miners gathered in a open field where 34 of their colleagues were killed by the police. they remain defiant and they say they are not going to go back until they get those increases that they are demanding, suzanne. >> and nkepile, how is this going to play out here? you have a lot of people not returning to the mine

suzanne. >> miguel, thank you. appreciate it. now, two countries that are staring each other down over how to handle the controversial case of julian assange. he is the founder of wikileaks, the website who has released thousands of classified documents and embarrassed people including in the united states andb britain and he is held up n the ek wa dorn embassy in london, and he can't stick his head out, because british police will arrest him and send him to sweden where he is wanted on sex crime charges. so the ecuadorian government agreed to grant him asylum, but here is the rub, if he steps outside of the embassy, he is going to be arrested. but if he can get to ecuador, he will be free from the persecutors. i want to break this down for s us, because it is fascinating because in some ways he is trapped inside of this embassy, but there is a, there's a clearance here for him to actually get asylum, and how does he manage to actually get to ecuador if he can? >> well, this is the big question, and it is what is being disputed a

suzanne. >> all right. david, be safe. i want to go to mississippi, because the storm has essentially washed out the coastal highway, and we are talking about highway 90 in both directions now. we understand that there and see road, and i want to go to john zarrella who is on the phone, and tell us the significance of this and what it looks like. >> yes, suzanne, i am not and was not that far from where david is the at the hotel. you didn't have to go far, and probably about two miles down the road from the hotel here, and we had expected that the westbound lane would be okay, because it was a higher elevation than the eastbound lane which is right down at the water level. david mentioned how you had the wind shift now coming more out of the south which is driving this water right up to the highway. the gulf is essentially gone, and i am sure that the beach will reemerge when the tide subsides, but from a mile or two from here in highway 90, both directions the lower portion of the road and the upper portion which is a lit

suzanne pratt, "n.b.r.," new york. >> tom: next week on "n.b.r." earnings season continues monday, daily deal site groupon reports results. on wednesday, the company who's routers and cables power the internet releases its latest earnings, we will be joined by cisco systems c.e.o. john chambers. and monday, we kick off a series of reports on back to school spending, with a look at the tech stocks that could benefit. >> susie: as we wrap up our week-long look at trust and wall street, we close out with some thoughts on leadership and honesty. here's author and educator, lou heckler. >> what do you look for in a leader? a few years ago authors james kouzes and barry posner posed that question as they prepared a wonderful book called the leadership challenge. of all the traits they listed, these were the top four: a leader must be honest. a leader must be competent. a leader must be forward- looking. a leader must be inspirational. i have smiled as i read the first two again, given that honesty trumped competence. maybe its not surprising. we have had

the suit, alleges a lewd come-on by another high ranking napolitano appointee - ice chief of staff suzannebarr. quote : "at some point during the conversation, i witnessed suzanne barr turn to senior ice employeeááblankááand state, 'you a sexy [expletive deleted]!" she then looked at his crotch and asked a question about his anatomy. several employees laughed nervously."in another affidavit, a second male approaching him with an offer of a sex act. the suit also alleges barr removed the entire contents of the offices of three male employees and put them in the men's bathroom.colwin says: "i know there have been 2 affidavits so far, but we haven't heard anything from defense, and you know there's always two sides to every story, especially in these types of claims, when you have such salacious allegations on what side, you knot there's going to be a serious response on the other." in a statement ice told fox news - quote:"ice has referred these allegations to the dhs office of inspector general and the ice office of professional responsibility for review. ms. barr has voluntarily placed her

suzanne pratt reports. >> reporter: a battle has been brewing lately inside the federal reserve among the very people who set monetary policy for the u.s. economy. some, including boston fed president eric rosengren, want the fed to do more to boost the flagging recovery-- a lot more. rosengren is calling for an open-ended approach to bond- buying and says "you continue to do it until it's clear that you're no longer treading water." for example, future asset purchases might continue until the unemployment falls to 7.5%. >> instead of having to guess each meeting whether or not the fed will be doing more asset purchasing, the market could just form an expectation about what the unemployment rate is and then know what fed policy would be given that unemployment rate. >> reporter: at the other end of the policy spectrum is dallas fed president richard fisher. just yesterday, fisher said more help from the u.s. central bank