i am from los angeles tonight with a coalition to march on the rnc. we understand that during this current the ministration, we denounce the deportations, but the point out the republican national convention has a history of discrimination and racism, especially targeting immigrants come from california, to arizona, to alabama. republicans have introduced racist anti-in red legislation. arizona has been a leader in introducing sb 1070. alabama, a anti-immigrant legislation such as english- only. we also had the anti at the studies that specifically targets immigrants, mexican americans. we are here in unity. we are going to march, rain or shine, demanding equality and peace. an especially good jobs, health care, and affordable public education for all. we know immigrants suffer and all those categories. >> we have several lenders. >> for all the activists who have been mobilizing here in tampa and also coming from around the country, the message is resistance to a right wing and racist program that has been put forth by the republican party but is chal

senate nominee todd akin is totally not invited to the rnc. ally and publicly not invited to the party's convention. today, democratic groups are pointing out that the rnc has invited to the convention the guy who has become perhaps todd akin's biggest defender and advblth, not to mention a fellow force rape victims to bear the child of their rapist policy enthusiast. i'm talking about mike huckabee. he has a primetime headline speaking assignment, and he's not only rushing to todd akin's defense this week, he's helping him raise money. he sent a blast e-mail to his friends and supporters saying, quote, is this what the party thinks of principled pro life advocates. i'm waiting from the apology from the genius who thought it wise to shoot our wounded and run over him with tanks and trucks and feed his body to the liberal wolves. i will join todd as often as i can in our fight for party's pro life policies. if they can't help us get to the majority, we'll do it without them. todd akin who has basically been expunged from the party while trying t

minimal problems for the rnc. ess briefing and i imagine it's going to be pretty positive. they are going to be very pleased with how things turned out. guys? >> gretchen: all right. josh i that much for that live report. >> steve: meanwhile, the city of tampa can take pride for a job well done hosting the republican national convention this week. thanks in no small part to ken jones, he's president and chief executive officer of the host committee for the 2012 republican convention. he joins us live here in tampa. good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you doing? >> steve: doing great. thank you very much. this is not your first time at the rodeo. you've done five conventions? >> i was a volunteer in '96 when i was a law student. then i came back in 2000. my wife is from the twin cities. and this is my hometown and they said when we got it, you can be the temporary ceo and here we are. i never left. >> brian: how did tampa do? >> i think on a scale of 1 to 10, probably a 12. it's the best convention i've ev

page two the chairman of the rnc. he gavelled in the convention today they get started full steam ahead. shocked young republicans in illinois works out with paul ryan will be joining us. laura ingram michelle bachmann mike huckabee the oak ridge boys. we get started right now on "the fox news channel. he>> 7 minutes to the top of the hour. a new study shows belly fat is more deadly than being obese. people with belly fat even if they are not technically over weight have a higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. it is associated with insulin resistance. >>> in the next # months or so they will be deciding which electronic devices could be used during flights. don't get your hopes occupy that will not include phone calls. >> oo libertarians could play a much bigger part come november leaving many to wonder if they might siphon off the crucial swing state votes mitt romney needs to win the white house. james rosen has more. >> i give to you the guy that is my hero, my father, ron paul. >> the 7,000 libertarians

that is in the purview of the rnc. but all of us would react the same way. it was not a likely scenario evacuation hasn't been considered or pulling the plug on the convention was never considered. it is it a tropical storm or a category one storm in allly hundred miles off of the coast of tampa, there will be wind and rain on monday, but after that, it is going to be a great three days. >> neil: you are a heck of a salesman, because the republicans are in tampa during hurricane season. somehow you sold them on that being a good idea and here we are. and there they are. in thented, how do you think it will go? >> i think it will go fine. i think out of this will be a nominee and the democratic process will work and tampa will shine and there will be inconveniences and protestors and the world will meet tampa like never before. when it is all said and done, my goal it is to be the republican national commito favorite mayor and city. >> neil: so far they agree with that. the good thing about the rain, is it might keep pro

. >> the rnc starts monday. katie, i'm going to start with you. what are the most important issues, do you think, to youth voters right now? >> they are so excited about the republican national convention. we are focused on jobs and the economy this fall. we are excited about what the romney/ryan ticket has to say about it. >> what does it offer you, do you think? >> romney and ryan are focused on a progrowth economic policy. youth, such a as myself, including young republicans are excited about what they have to say. >> what do you think is the most important issue? >> for us, we have been talking to students across the country. we believe the economy is the heart of what most are talking about. an issue like the economy, it's easy to talk to the people about the president's accomplishments. we have seen 29 months of job growth. young americans feel comfortable entering a job market after graduation. that message is honing in when we talk to young students, college students. we are excited to talk about that at the upcoming convention where we are

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we will talk more about the rnc. but we know all of this is in the shadow of the monster storm, tropical storm isaac. let me go to julie martin. she is actually in florida, harbor island, florida, right outside of tampa. what is the latest on the track, julie? >> yeah. it is not looking good for the gulf coast anywhere from new orleans over through, say, biloxi, mississippi. kind of right in that target zone for a category 1 land fall with some of that storm surge upwards of 6 to 8 feet, tam ron, in areas of course hit very hard by katrina almost seven years to the date. i'm in tampa, just outside the convention center, the forum behind me. so far, isaac has played fairly nice with the republicans. aside from delaying activity from the dee, making it a three-day instead of four-day convention, we really have gotten just wind and rain. none of the widespread flooding we were fearing, because look how low the facilities are on the water. it really doesn't take much, just a couple of feet of water rise to create a huge p

we will hear from him but first marco rubio hit on the theme of the rnc celebrate cing success. >> many nights growing up i would hear my father's keys jingling at the door as he came home after a 16 hour day. many days i would wake up as my mother got home from the over night shift at kmart. when you are young and in a hurry the meaning of moments like this escape me. as my children get older i understand it better. my dad used to tell us... (speaking spanish). in this country you are going to be able to accomplish all of the things we never could. a few years ago during a speech i noticed the bartender behind a portable bar in the back of the ballroom. i remember my father who worked for many years as a bartender. he was grateful for the work he had but that's not the life he wanted for us. you see, he stood behind a bar in the back of a room all those years so one day i could stand behind a podium in the front of a room. >> that was just one of several times the audience came to their feet. another instant when clint eastwood taking on the crowd. >> i remember three and a half years

including as we've talked about tampa the site of the rnc just days from now. let's turn to the weather channel's hurricane specialist bryan norcross with the latest. >> the issue in tampa is twofold. first of all bad weather. monday is the real bad weather day. tuesday is the potential flooding day. it's a two-day problem they've got and the only question really is how bad it's going to be. let's start with where the storm is right now. you see a 60-mile-per-hour tropical storm but on the strengthening direction now. it's up to 60. i wouldn't be surprised if it goes to 65 or 70 before it comes ashore later on today in haiti. here you see the center is actually up in here just below the dominican republic there and it's heading, unfortunately, right in the direction of those poor folks in haiti but it's a lot of circulation. it's a big circulation so puerto rico is getting very bad weather and there is flooding going on there now. so in terms of time frames, cuba gets it on saturday and then it heads up toward south florida. so south florida, miami, and the keys

tampa is wrapping up, and there's ne day fulllday left for republicans to sell their candidate at the rnceer schaller from our sister station wpec explains why insiders say the responsibility of uniting republicans behinddthe campaign is now up to the top of the ticket. ticket. >> >> pkg>> >> < peter schaller/tampa > off the top > >> < uniting the republican party/tampa > < 15 to 20 >>> < al cardenas/american conservative union > < 46 to 50 >>> < michael steele/former rnc chairmmn > < 1:02 to 1:07 > >> < peter schaller/tampa > < looklive in < runs: >>> < it's not just democrats marching against the rnc here in tampa.. its republicans too. tonighh gop leaders tell me,, when it comes to uniting the party, there's a lot riding on mitt romney's speech thursday 36:50 to :56 >>> < it's a - complex new world aad its going to be here toostay so the first party to master it will be the winner in november. >>> > uninon workers protest nats>>>>>> another night of protesting in downtown tampa, many in this crowd support pressdent obama. >> but its not this croww concerning ggp insiderr.>> >> ron paul

this is sort of the espanol portion of the rnc. then i want to make a point about the naacp after that. >> my dad used to tell us. [ speaking in spanish ] in this country, you're going to be able to accomplish all the things we never could. >> that actually was just marco rubio. i'm sorry. i teased that with a spanish role. i think your point is actually a really good one, karen. this is as much for white sort of independent voters who don't want to feel like the republican party is shutting out minorities as it actually is for hispanic voters. much like mitt romney going to naacp, had nothing to do with him actually thinking he was going to get the african-american vote but the optics of hey, i'm the republican that goes to speak to the naacp. >> also, remember karl rove said this to his donors, and romney's line as much as i hated it about obama said he was going to slow the rising of the oceans and i'm here for you and your family, they understand that if they're going to get those one in four voters that are up for grabs, you ca

>> yes, those are things that we have talked about with the rnc. and some of the canvas has been taken off of the smaller tents, but the structures have been secured with sand barrels. and the larger tents are able to sustain winds higher than 40 miles an hour. so those tents, the larger ones, are going to stay up unless the forecast changes. and then the smaller tents have been -- some of those have been taken down. >> what kind of chal hedlenges that create? >> that doesn't create a challenge for us. the weather overall or the tent issue? >> the tent issue and the high winds. >> no, the high winds -- you know, we are going to do exactly what the governor said, ensure that everyone is safe. now, this is something that everyone from florida deals with this time of year every year. and there are a lot of visitors that aren't used to dealing with this, and so it's our job to communicate with them and provide them all of the information that's not necessarily the sustained winds, it's the gusts as well and the rain at some points will be driving. so th

there will be no evens in the rnc. >> this is not the first time it happened. in 2008 hurricane gustav caused difficulties. >>ine thote rnc was scheduled up in st. pall, they did delay by a day. it was in 2008 coming in the gulf area and the nominee then senator john mccane made a trip to mississippi and did time there with the governor and showed concern what was happening the rnc was going to put things on hold this time the name is isaac. >> thank you very much on the breaking story. we appreciate it more about isaac. >> it will go in the book as a killer. three people died in haiti and more on that in a moment and more on that with the storm gang strength. and putting isaac on track to hit the gulf coast. some people taking advantage of the sunny weekend weather to stock up on supplies. and the victims in haiti, where isaac blew through. a mom and child in one part of the country and a 10 year old girl died in another part and thousands under evacuation as severe flooding takes over. we'll go to chief meterologist rick in the weather center. >> there is more

eastern with the rnc chairman. ill take a look at the schedule ahead and also a view from the floor. that starts at 5:00 p.m. eastern. the rnc convention begins monday. anne romney will appear tuesday night. you can check everything out on our convention hub. send your thoughts our way using the has tacked #cspanrnc. you can also visit c- span.org/campaign2012. it can also check out past rnc speeches. he accepted the nomination and ran with republican presidential nominee richard nixon. ♪ >> mr. chairman, ladies and gentlemen, before i make these few remarks i would like to introduce my wife judy and half of my children, my oldest daughter and my middle daughter. pamela and sue agnew. mr. chairman and my fellow republicans and my fellow americans, i stand here with a deep improbability of this moment. last night when i faced these microphones to place the nomination, one of the truly great americans of our time, richard nixon, i honestly had no idea whatsoever that i would be back on this platform to accept this nom

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there were a number of zingers from the podium here at the rnc last night. up of them. >> four long years, barak obama's been running from the nation's problems. he hasn't been working to earn reelection. he's been working to earn a spot on the pga store. >> at the other party's convention, you'll hear another chant. their chant will be, four more years. four more years. folks, we can not afford four more years. >> we're a full generation apart, governor romney and i. in some ways we're different. there are the songs in his ipod which i've heard on the campaign bus and i've heard it on many hotel elevators. [ laughter ] he actually urged me to play some of these songs at campaign rallies. i said, look, i hope it's not a deal breaker, mitt, but my play list starts with ac/dc and ends with zeppelin. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: they heard that about paul ryan. when he works out so diligently, that he likes to listen to hard rock. i happen to love ac/dc as well. it's interesting how he's pointing out, i hope taas not a deal breaker with mitt romney. i hope it's a g

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sandra: rich edson, thank you for joining us live from the rnc. vid: well isaac, remember that storm? it is slowly weakening over central louisiana but still it is producing heavy rains, over two feet in some places. high water levels along the northern gulf coast. what's for the future of isaac? we're live in slidell, louisiana. sandra: i went to school there. have to say it is slidell, louisiana, david. a documentary on obama beat out hollywood blockbusters at the movies. mandalay entearment ceo, peter guber talks about why the film did so well. david: you had to get that in there. you had to get that in there. [ male announcer ] let's say you need to take care of legal matters. wouldn't it be nice if there was an easier, less-expensive option than using a traditional lawyer? well, legalzoom came up with a better way. we took the best of the old and combined it with modern technology. together you get quality services on your terms, with total customer support. legalzoom documents have been accepted in all 50 states, and they're backed by a 100%

our coverage of the rnc begins once again at 7:00. our live coverage is covering the democratic convention next week. >>> now to the latest on isaac, the storm moving on but it's now been downgraded to a tropical depression. the impact just being understood now. nearly one mill wren people are without power and now officials are intentionally going to breach a levee in mississippi. jay gray is in the storm zone. he joins us now. jay, how are people dealing with all of this water? >> reporter: obviously a tough go. you talk about all of the water. look behind me and around me. the water you see here, hundreds of yards already over its banks. and like so many of the water across this region getting into areas it's not supposed to be. as the winds and rain finally begin to ease, it's the first chance for many in south louisiana to see what isaac left behind. >> for jesse and his wife suzanne, the only way back to their home is by boat. pushing away remnants, water splashing against rooftops and scattering debris in a neighborhood swallowe

. >> the city of tampa and the rnc have been in lockstep together. we'll not make a decision without each other. so all of the players involved in this will be looking at the same data at the same time and make appropriate decision together. >> the final call on whether to suspend any events or the convention itself, where does that come from? >> the rnc. >> reporter: the storm may also affect security plans. 3500 law enforcement officers from across the state are expected in tampa to help, but, scott, they may need to stay in their own towns to help with the hurricane. >> pelley: the rnc, the republican national committee. manuel, thanks very much. one of the navy seals involved in the killing of osama bin laden was compromised today when his identity was revealed by a cable television network. it is the first time anyone on that mission has been exposed publicly. the man is a recently retired member of seal team 6 who has written the first, first-person account in a book to be published next month. the book, called "no easy day" was written under th

now put aside the rnc convention for a moment. perience dealing with hurricanes. we're going to be prepared for isaac in the event it does impact our state, in the event it does become a hurricane. florida's emergency response officials protect 19 million residents who live and work here, and as you know, we have 87 million tourists that come visit here. so we'll have on any given day hundreds of thousands of visitors to our state's beaches, theme parks, and other attractions. preparation is key to success. that includes emergency preparations by state and local officials, and individuals and families have to be prepared. every family has to have a plan. they need to be vigilant. they need to heed emergency warnings and instructions. every family should be prepared to sustain themselves for up to 72 hours. for more information on that, you can go to www.floridadisaster.org. now, isaac is a unique storm in this regard. it has the potential to threaten a major convention, designated a special national security event. that's why i hav

do you expect any sort of bounce in the rnc this time? >> yes. cause ryan is so little known and believe it or not, to a lot of viewers, mitt romney is relatively unknown. they know who he is. they don't know a lot about him. the more people learn and the more they have their partisanship reinforced by key speakers like chris christie at the republican convention or bill clinton for the democratic convention, then probably a bounce will show up. remember, it might disappear in a few weeks, too. that's what normally happens with polling bounces. >> eric: and very quickly, the rnc announced the focus of their first day was going to be we built this. seems to be a very popular moniker on the right, at least among conservatives. >> yes. it might be reinforced if there is a hurricane. the hurricane tearing things down and the republican theme of we built it. but yeah. you want to pick themes that will have an impact on a broad audience. i think that's one that will have an impact on the republican leaning audience that's probably likely to tune in. >>

we are in full preparation mode for the rnc. excited and have been training for it for a year and a half. it's going to be tampa's time to tell its story to the entire world. we couldn't be more excited. the good thing about being a floridian is you're used to this kind of stuff. >> but there was a quote from you yesterday saying you would not hesitate to evacuate tampa if the weather does not improve and we get the worst case scenario. was it an accurate quote? >> absolutely. i have an obligation to protect the citizens and the guests and the visitors that are here. that was a hypothetical question involving a much more serious storm than what we're looking at right now. i mean, if you had a cat 3, cat 4, cat 5 storm i think everyone would come to the same conclusion but that's not the situation we find ourselves in now. this storm looks as though it is going to be heading off into the gulf of mexico. we may have one day of some rain and some wind but a category 1 storm, 100 miles off the coast of tampa is really not cause for a

there you can see is the debt clock in the rnc. minding people we have a problem here in the country. >> gretchen: i believe when prebuous hits the gavele down it will start. >> brian: republicans are responsible for that, too. a lot of people saying what is it like being behind the scenes >> chris: yeah, fantastic. >> brian: look at where we are so far. this is where we are keeping isaac where the hurricane is. and the reason why we are not outside. get back here, chris. you are losingation. this is what it is behind. >> steve: you can't see. >> brian: i want you to see the inec quitty of the building. look at steve and ketchin's promiterb. and look at brian's prompter. let's get over here . where you spend time as a camera man . in is the area in which we will interview the romney kid and do all of the panels and what greven demands. i will come to tampa but give me a bar. this is more secrets coming up in the week. and this is the news room. >> steve: very ce. >> brian: all of the grid and that's where the news gathering is going

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i wouldn't fwif the rnc any advice. second of all, let's see what happens. o knows what may happen. they may postpone the whole thing. they may have no trouble getting all the news in. you have got chris kristy speaking. you have nikki haley speaking. mitt romney will give the most important political speech of his life. up to 70 million people may watch this. 5 romney is closing the gap nationwide. he may get a large bump if he can get it done thursday night. that's what we will be covering. it will be very exciting. >> is there any concern regarding the agenda itself when we begin to introduce mainstream and independent voters. you are you concerned that the independent voter is scared away? >> i don't think that's going to to be much of an issue. i favored the commission. we had one back in 1981, 1982. it never went anywhere. i am perfectly happy to have a sound money commission. it doesn't mean anything yet. it would have to be legislative. it's not going to mean anything here. why is the employment situation so bad? and most importantly, the growth messa

we'll go through the night at the rnc with john heilman in just a moment. we begin this morning with hurricane isaac, the storm that spared tampa for the most part but is whipping the gulf coast as we speak. at this moment, isaac is a category 1 hurricane with top sustained winds of 80 miles an hour. it made landfall yesterday then backed off a bit and now has made a second landfall. right now a mandatory evacuation order is in place for parts of plaquemines parish in louisiana after water topped several miles of a levee there. officials now going door to door this morning telling people to get to higher ground. again, that's in plaquemines parish. bill karins has new information on the storm's path. first let's start this morning with the weather channel's paul goodloe live in gulfport, mississippi. paul, what does it look like this morning? >> reporter: i tell you what, willie, this morning the wind has been howling. i have my hand-held anemometer wind gauge. easily over 25 miles an hour but a lot of gusts in the 30s and 40s. once you get above 30, it star