>>> welcome to the "cnn newsroom" and i'm suzanne malveaux. here is what is happening now sh, the storm has moved on, but for the gulf the disaster is not over yet. we will take you to flood zone. >>> and the democrats are ready to descend on charlotte and ready to roll out their own convention. >>> and now the fight for the white house. mitt romney hits the campaign trail after accepting his party's nomination for president and giving the biggest speech of his life. romney and running mate paul ryan held a rally in lakeland, florida, a short time ago. at the republican national convention last night mitt romney said that president obama's promises have turned to disappointments and division. and brianna keilar is recapping romney's big night. >> this president can ask us to be patient. this president can tell us it is someone else's fault, and this president can tell us that in the next four years he will get it right, but this president cannot tell us that you are better off today tn when he took office. >> the centerpiece of the mitt romney

"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 malveaux is going to take the baton now with newsroom. thank you for watching. >>> i'm suzanne malveaux and this is c"cnn newsroom" and thi is what we are working on right now. tropical storm isaac creeping across the gulf and we are hearing amazing stories of survival. and in a country where foreign media is banned, we will get a look at inside of syria of the violence. and the republican candidates came out swinging. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> paul ryan gets the republicans revved up and setting the stage for mitt romney tonight. the vp nominee fired up the crowd and this is the speech from the republican national convention last night and aggressive attack on president obama. >> these past four years, we have suffered no shortage of words in the white house. what is missing is leadership in the white house. >>> i want to bring in democratic strategist and cnn political contributor donna brazile, and i know you saw that and we were watching and you got a sense of what it was like to listen and get the reaction of the demo

i'm michael holmes in again for suzanne malveaux. we're taking you around the world in 60 minutes. here's what's going on out there. we're going to go to manila first. at least 53 people have been killed in torrential rains, monsoonal rains. now take a look at rescue teams evacuating the philippines' capital or large parts of it. almost 19,000 people displaced in that city of 12 million. and forecasters say the storms won't let up for at least another 24 hours. many there, of course, living in constructed homes, death tolls expected to rise before this is over. >>>s gunman that killed six people at a sikh temple in wisconsin was a frustrated neonazi, how the southern poverty law center describes wade michael page. the organization tracks hate groups and says page was associated with the scariest, most violent skinhead group out there. page was shot and killed by police after he opened fire on the temple. authorities are investigating his ties to white supremacist groups. >>> we're seeing for the very first time video from mars of the "curiosity" rover landing. there it was. it was

i'm michael holmes filling in for suzanne malveaux and here is what is going on in your world. three american troops killed in afghanistan, and another case of an attacker wearing an afghan military uniform. it is happening a lot, and it happened in the southern helmand province. nato says that the victims were special forces operators and meeting with local officials when the gunman opened fire. it is not the only time that week that supposedly a friendly killed a number of u.s. troops in afghanistan and stay there. we will be live from the pentagon in a moment. >> and syrian rebels say they are fighting in new neighborhoods and new tactics in aleppo, and this is following what the rebels call a tactical stronghold by rebels, and they were forced by jets and helicopters and tanks. the opposition activists say that 115 people have been killed just today across the country. many of them in aleppo. >>> the british government meanwhile is planning to increase nonlethal aid to the rebels. >>> so now in the absence of diplomatic progress, the united kingdom will do much more. we wil

i'm fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux. focusing on the economy.from mars. but first, a tennessee mosque that opponents have tried to keep closed is opening for the first time today. the islamic center in murfreesboro has endured two years of court challenges, protests, even a bomb threat and arson attack. opponents claim mosque leaders are trying to spread radical islam. the leaders deny that and say they're ready to put the battle behind them. >> from now on, we're going to look for a brighter fuehrer. we're going to look for a united community, a prosperous community, and the negativity over the last two years will go away in no time. >>> in afghanistan today, three american service members were killed by a gunman wearing an afghan military uniform. it happened here in the unstable helmand province. we heard a few details and about a couple of attacks on coalition forces this week alone. chris lawrence is at the pentagon. chris, what happened today in the helmand province? >> we're told the soldier was part of a coalition force working on stabil

. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i'm zoraida sambolin filling in for suzanne malveaux." life on mars. new live pictures from the mars rover curiosity are expected this hour. let's get right to it. we're waiting for a nasa news conference in california. scientists will explain how they pulled off one of the most complicated interstellar rover landings in history. but for now, all eyes on this. the very first video of the curiosity landing, released today. the grainy video was shot onboard moments before touching down. john zarrella and chad myers join me now for more. so, john, let's start with you. you have been following the story very closely and are live at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in california. tell us about this new video and what exactly are we seeing? >> reporter: well, in fact, zoraida, what we're seeing in this video are images taking from the descent camera, made by space industries down in san diego. and the video shows the curiosity rover as it is descending down through the atmosphere to the touchdown on mars. it was 297 images all put together int

welcome to newsroom international, i'm michael holmes sitting in for suzanne malveaux and we are taking you around the world in 60 minutes. here is what is going on out here is what is going on out there. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> the man who shot and killed six people at a wisconsin sikh temple was an army veteran. we will have more details ahead in a live report. >>> syria's prime minister has fled to jordan. opposition leaders say that ree haw di jihad has fled, and israeli television says he was fired. he is the highest official to have left hasan al assad's regime. >>> and officials in damascus say that several people were injured at a television station, but the station did continue to broadcast. >>> you hear it there, syrian jets have been fire pounding a city of aleppo, as thousands of troops get in position around it. people are fearing a full-scale assault is imminent. >>> a militant attack in a sinai peninsula has killed 15 egyptian soldiers and masked gunmen with weapons mounted on the cars enb tered the checkpoint near egypt and gaza and israel. israel says

i'm michael holmes in for suzanne malveaux once again and we will take you around the world as we do in 60 minutes. here is what is going on out there. [ gun fire ] >> rebels in syria pulling back. fierce air and ground attacks by the military in the city of aleppo forcing the anti-government fighters out of the neighborhood stronghold. for now, the rebels say it is a tactical withdrawal, and that reinforcements are already on the way. and meanwhile, the country has a new prime minister and former health minister who has been name named to replace the prime minister who you will remember defected to jordan four ys ago to join the opposition. >>> a rescue team had just minutes of daylight to get a patient out of one of the harshest places on earth. we told you about this coming up yesterday. australian rescuers flying to antarctica today to evacuate a sick expeditioner as they are called, believed to be an american, and it all started when a distress call went out wednesday from the mcmurdo research facility. the recue team was forced to wait it out in new zealand until today for a na

i i'm michael holmes in for suzanne malveaux, and as usual, we are taking you around the world in 60es dropping more bombs on syria's largest city, and talking about aleppo of course. media sources say that they have taken full control of neighborhoods there, but rebels deny they are retreating from the stronghold. video posted online by the opposition shows extensive damage to neighborhoods. there you can see it for yourself, and that one appearing to show people finding the body of a man crushed in his collapsed home. the opposition says that 20,000 people have now been killed since this uprising began 17 months ago. filipinos got more bad news today. expect torrential rains and flooding to continue. listen to this. manila, the capital, already drown i drowning in water. check out the pictures. 30 inches of rain fell in just 48 hours at one point. water chest deep in some place, and so far the flooding and the landslides have killed at least 11 people. almost 800,000 are out of their homes and some of them on rooftops waiting to be rescued or wading through the deep water through h

. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> welcome to newsroom international, i'm suzanne malveaux where we take you around the world in 60 minutes. atop mountain in kenya where survivors are brought down. >>> and we are going to talk about the healing powers of hip-hop. >>> and back on the c controversial fight here which is heating up in the battle of the immigration law, where governor of arizona jan brewer is taking on immigration rights and pushing back hard that gives children of illegal immigrants the chance to work in the united states for two years without having to worry about being deported. hours after that went into effect, governor brewer issued her own executive order telling the state agencies to deny benefits to applicants. >> we will issue a employment authorization card to those people who apply, but they will not be entitled to a driver's license, nor will they be entitled to any public benefits in response to the public overwhelmingly voting that no public benefits would be extended to illegal aliens in the state of arizona. >> miguel marquez is joining us outside of

. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i'm john berman filling in for suzanne malveaux. we are learning more about the white supremist background of a man who gunned down six members of a sikh temple in wisconsin, and we are hearing from the relatives of the people killed. >> he left this world protecting the people and the world, and now we want to know who is going to protect our hearts from this pain. >> the police say that the gunman ambushed the officers and gunned down people during their sunday services. he was identified as wade michael page, and some sources say he was a army member and discharged because of patterns of misconduct, and the gunman was killed in the rampage. brian todd joins us from oak creek, wisconsin, where moments ago, the police held a news conference and, brian, walk us through what happened. >> ll

>>> welcome to the "newsroom international" i'm suzanne malveaux and we are taking you around the world in 60 minutes. >>> in london, wikileaks founder julian assange breaks his silence. >>> and the jackie-o of china is just handed a life sentence. >>> i want to start with a dictator coming out in public to pray in the middle of a civil war. that is syria, and syria is trying to celebrate eid which marks the end of ramadan and now officials say that fresh fighting has claimed 72 lives. this is video here posted on youtube, and it is said to show a shelling in a damascus suburb, and there is renewed violence in sanaa. and now bashar al assad has made a ra appearance where he showed nup a mshow showed up in a mosque in damascus, and this is the first time we have seen him since a bomb killed his brother and other members of his regim i want to bring in hala gorani to talk about this, but what about the fact that assad is in public and on television and what message is he is trying to send? >> well, there are two things interesting about the video is that number one, it is not the big mosq

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. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i'm suzanne malveaux, and this hour in the "cnn newsroom," a dam in mississippi is in danger of failing because of isaac, and hundreds more are forced from their homes from louisiana today. paul ryan is moving the crowd at the republican national convention, but democrats say that the best lines last night are not true. let me get right to it. authorities are warning people living near new orleans to get out, and while many were prepared for the landfall of hurricane isaac, they have been caught by surprise by the massive amounts of rain, the floodwaters of course, and the aftermath and the search and rescue operations are still under way to make sure nobody is left behind. i want to bring in martin savidge from new orleans. tell us what you are seeing. >> well, suzanne, what you are talking about here as far as the problems, the interesting thing is that they are all located outside of new orleans. seven years ago during katrina, the exact opposite circumstance, so it shows you or it is a testimony to the fact that all of the money that was

i'm suzanne malveaux and we will take you around the world in 60 minutes. rebels striking at the heart of syria, and blowing up a truck outside of the country's capital. >>> smugglers use these tunnels to run everything from guns to food into the gaza strip, but the chaos taking place right there could finally shut those tunnels down. >>> i want to begin with the battle of the border taking place right here at home. we are talking about long lines of people showing up today outside of the consulates and the immigration rights centers all across the country. they are children of illegal immigrants and brought to the united states as kids. now they are getting abopportunityb to stay and work in the country for two years without worrying about being deported. this is part of president obama's immigration policy take effect today. i want to look at the qualifications here. and our cnn's miguel marquez is in los angeles where hundreds of thousands of folks are expected to jump at the chance to legalize their status. >> reporter: 23-year-old boy was brought to th

i'm suzanne malveaux, taking you around the world in 60 minutes. here's what's going on right now. she was being forced to marry a man she didn't love. when she resisted, her parents killed her. this didn't happen in india, pakistan or afghanistan. it happened in the uk. >>> and the euro crisis threatens all of us, so how do you explain it to kids? try a picture book. >>> first, the white house wading deeper into a civil war. president obama issuing his toughest warnings so far to the syrian government. but there has been no letup in the violence threatening the people of syria and journalists now covering this uprising. rebels say 33 people were killing in fighting across the country today. a japanese journalist was killed in a gun battle in aleppo yesterday, and two journalists working for an arab tv station financed by the united states are now missing. jim clancy is joining us. want to start first of all with the president's comments. this was made yesterday about a possible u.s. military response. take a listen. >> we have been very clear to the assad regime, but also to other

i'm suzanne malveaux and we are going around the world in 60 minutes. kofi annan is out. he is quitting his post as the special envoy to syria. the former secretary-general was brought in to be the voice of the united nations and the arab league to try to diplomatically stop the fighting and the killing in syria. nothing worked. he wrote and pushed for a six-point peace plan that existed on paper only. richard roth is with the united nations right now, and first of all, kofi annan is out, and did anybody see this coming? >> well, nobody was talking about it though it is not surprising. it is interesting that it comes on this day when the u.n. security council is to discuss the fate of those u.n. unarmed observers who were sidelined by the increasing violence there, and one aspect of the failure of his mission. one diplomat from the west saying that you can't blame kofi annan for this, and don't blame the man. it is kofi annan's name who was on the six-point peace plan and they did not get to point one, and now he is off of the masthead. and so looking for the successor of

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> welcome to ooh "newsroom international" i'm suzanne malveaux. going around the world in 60 minutes. here is what is going on. desert racing in saudi arabia and the consequences. >>> it is not a honor killing. >> a husband accused of killing his wife for just talking to another man. one activist in pakistan is fighting for justice. but first the civil war is now boiling over, the civil war in syria not confined to syria, not at all. it is spilling over into almost every country that touches syria, and we are talking about iraq and turkey and llebanon an people are dying in street battles and people are caught in the crossfire and arwa damon is in lebanon with that story. >> this is one of the ways that the syria uprising is manifesting in lebanon. along a sunni allawite sectarian street in lebanon with the army trying to pound both sides into submission. some residents choose to move to safer ground and others hang around nervously in doorways and now living on the lower floors. we spent the night under gun fire and we had to eat in the stairway

. >>> suzanne malveaux and welcome to the cnn newsroom.rashing on reagan international airport. we will look at what went wrong, and mitt romney speaking to voters in colorado. we will bring him the speech live, and plus should the rich shoulder the tax burden or should it be spread evenly among all americans? well, that is the battle today as president obama calls out romney on the tax plan. i want to get right to it. >>> three commercial airlines nearly collided in midair over reagan international airport when air traffic controllers were making adjustments in stormy weather and caused what officials call a miscommunication. the faa is looking into exactly what happened. >>> house republicans taking their turn in the back and forth of the bush era tax cuts and they passed a gop plan to extend the tax cuts for everyone for one year, and most democrats want to extend them only for families making $250 a year. well sh well, a senate minority leader nancy pelosi and house speaker john boehner went before the cameras a short time ago and neit

. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i'm suzanne malveaux and in this hour of c"cnn newsroom,"tch and trying not the win. president obama is gaining big ground in battleground states including all-important ohio where he is speaking this next hour. and why tens of thousands of americans are dying every year due to medical mistakes. let's get right to it. the united states is dry, and disastrously dry. more than half of the koun thinks in the nation are designated disaster zones from the ingagriculture department today. the reason is no rain, and creating one of the worst droughts in history. we will pinpoint the hottest spots. and health benefits taking effect today as part of president obama's health care reform law. and it will cover a broad range of early detectioner is viss at no cost. and one of the most controversial parts of the plan is the contraceptive coverage. it is for breast and cervical cancer screenings, and pre- and post-natal care and screenings for gestational diabetes and bres feeding support and supplies. >>> and gore vidal has died. he wrote one of the firs

. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i'm suzanne malveaux and welcome to the "cnn newsroom." as issac unleashes on the gulf coast, the storm has weakened to rains and strong winds expected to last all day and into the evening, and that is because issac is moving so sl s slowsly. the more it hangs around the more pressure on the systems built to protect all tof the flooding taking place. water is pouring over a levee that is in plaquemines parish about 95 miles southeast of new orleans. floodwaters are 14 feet deep and rising in some areas. homes are totally submerged. energy officials say that more than half a million customers are without power in louisiana alone. i want to bring in chad meyers to talk about what is this hurricane doing? where is the path and just how much longer do we have? >> there we go, now i can talk. >> you have the mic there. >> we are switching meteorologists out there, and the storm has not moved much and in fact, it is over homa and right where it made landfall again with our eddie lavendara. and it is not south of new orleans, but about 10 miles s

. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i'm suzanne malveaux, and welcome the newsroom international where we take you around the world in 60 minutes. here is what is happening right now, fighting for their lives in syria. the rebels say they shot down one of the government's jets, but how much longer can they actually hold on? >>> they have the torch, but is rio de janeiro really ready for the next summer olympics? >>> and the romney campaign is reignited by a fresh young place, and we will hear what president obama has to say about the new running mate? that is live this hour. first, hoifr, we awever, we are cairo. president mohamed morsi is shaking it up and the country's strong leadership by replacing two key generals including field marshall mohammed hussein pentawi who is the most powerful man in egypt. he is the defense minister in power after the removal of former leader hosni mew bark and he was given a top medal and sent into retirement. that is right. for more, we are joined by ian lees in cairo. and ian, a lot of people look at this and say, political tsunami and game-cha

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

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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 american 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

. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i'm suzanne malveaux and this hour in the "cnn newsroom," we are focusing on a police shooting in michigan that left a mentally ill man dead. >>> and plus extraordinary measures by u.s. troops to prevent getting shot by afghan police after two more soldiers were killed today. >>> and why millions of baby boomers have to be tested for hepatitis c. >>> right to it. the first story, the video is disturbing. a man was killed with confrontation with police. and this happened in saginaw, michigan. you will see the amateur video here of the shooting that raises a lot of questions about how the police approach suspects who may be mentally disturbed. this is jason carroll. >> a joint investigation is under way into the shooting. an amateur video shows the final moments and i have to warn you that the video is graphic. >> reporter: this amateur video purchased by cnn and not made public until now captured the confrontation of six saginaw police officers and milton hall, a 49-year-old man wo his family says suffered from serious mental health issues. h

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i'm suzanne malveaux and this hour in the newsroom, immigrants dreaming the of becoming american citizens. people are lining up all over consulates around the country. >>> and dozens of wildfires leaving dozens in washington state without homes. >>> and the sweltering heat in arizona. >>> right to it. hundreds of thousands of people living in fear for years feel they don't have to anymore. they are the children of illegal immigrants and brought here to the united states, and they are applying to stay and work in the country for two years without having to worry about being deported. this is part of president obama's new immigration policy that takes effect for the first time today. rafael romo reports on who can apply and who cannot. >> reporter: there are multiple forms to fill and documents to obtain. >> i was scared to get my hopes up. >> reporter: anna ramirez and her sister are applying for deferred action. the obama policy will allow some undocumented immigrants who came to the united states to legally stay here for two years. >> i did not