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have a good sense of humor or great timing. >> it's not as bad as i thought it would be. >> and takes aim at the gulf coast. >> the governors of alabama, mississippi and louisiana have declared states of emergency. >> the storm is expected to hit on or around the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina. >> the bottom line is make sure you have a game plan. >> it's going to be an abbreviated national convention cut from four days to three days. >> it's an obvious choice. safety first ziemt mitt romney will be the nominee. >> you've accused the president of running a campaign of hate. >> i think his whole campaign has been about dividing the american people. >> a developing so story in afghanist afghanistan. >> an afghan soldier opened fire on coalition forces killing two soldiers. >> rebel troops shot down a syrian army helicopter as it was bombarding a neighborhood. the helicopter engulfed in flames. >> several earthquakes striking southern california. one a 5.5 magnitude quake. >> thrill seekers at a fair got more than they expected after a rodeo bull got loose. >> it was crazy. >> with a swing. he did it. >> and wins the little league world series championship for japan. >> all that. >> hurricane isaac. >> who? >> hurricane. >> hurricane? >> hurricane. >> i've got to get out of here. there's a hurricane. two more questions. >> that's what i'm talking about. >> and all that matters. >> tell me real quickly in five seconds what you think is going to be the highlight of the convention. >> mike huckabee and chris christ christie. >> there you go. >> on "cbs this morning." >> you got here on sunday. make sure if there's any idiots on the beach, tell them to get make sure if there's any idiots on the beach, tell them to get the hell off the beach. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." some 15 million people along the gulf coast are bracing for tropical storm isaac. the system could become a hurricane as early as this afternoon. isaac may make landfall as soon as tomorrow night. hurricane warnings are up from the southern louisiana coast, including new orleans to the florida panhandle. alabama, mississippi, louisiana have all declared a state of emergency and officials in st. charles parrish, west of new orleans have told all 53,000 residents to evacuate. >> david bernard, chief meteorologist of our miami station, cbs 4, is with us this morning. david, where is isaac heading and how dangerous could the storm be? >> let's take a look at the big picture this morning, gayle. the storm is starting to grow a little bit more in size. this is a satellite and radar depiction. again, taking up most of the eastern gulf of mexico. in fact, florida is still getting very heavy rain as a result of the storm. now, the latest position was about 470 miles southeast of new orleans, louisiana, moving west, northwest at 14. winds are 65 miles per hour. the future track of isaac has not changed much overnight. the anticipation is the movement continues towards the mississippi gulf coast and southeast louisiana with a landfall late tuesday night and wednesday morning. if it takes that type of track, the most significant wind impacts, there's a high chance of wind impacts of significant ones in the new orleans area and anywhere along the mississippi gulf coast. the real key today is going to be how much stronger the storm can get. the good news is, it's moving pretty quick. but if it slows down, it's going to give it a lot mor time to strengthen. that's a trend we'll be watching closely over the next 12 to 18 hours. charlie? >> david bernard, thank you. here in tampa, isaac forced the republican party to shorten its national convention cramming four days of speeches and events into three. bill whitaker is along old tampa bay, about ten miles west of the convention. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. even though isaac is passing west of here, the outer bands are dropping quite a bit of rain on tampa. the rains subsided for now, but the city is still under flood watch and the republican convention is on storm delay. the massive storm is working its way up the gulf coast, turning the republican party's best laid plans upside down. florida governor rick scott was supposed to address the convention but with isaac whipping past his region, he's overseeing a statewide state of emergency. he said the decision to push back the convention a day was the right one. >> they made the same decision for the individuals that they were involved in as the individuals for the state safety comes first. there's the possibility of bridges closing, wind and rain. the best thing was to postpone for a day. >> with a number of delegations lodging across the bay, if the bridges close down -- >> you concerned you might be stranded out here? >> we certainly hope that's not the case. >> north carolina republican vice chairman wayne king says the party isn't worried about wind. it's focused on winning. >> that's what this is about. that's what we're the most concerned about. one day won't change that at all. >> california delegate denise neal son it can't -- >> i have been watching the sky over 16 years now. he solves problems. that's what we do. >> you know what, one way or the other we'll get it done. we'll leave energized and ready to get on with the campaign. >> now, with isaac headed to the gulf coast, the republican governor of alabama says he's going to miss the convention and stay at home to monitor the storm. depending on its path, the republican governor of louisiana, bobby jindal, says he too could miss this convention. charlie? >> bilk thank you. mark strassmann is watching the gulf coast prepare for isaac in mobile, alabama. mark, what's happening there? >> reporter: good morning charlie. from west of new orleans to florida's panhandle, a hurricane warning is now in effect for 300 files. five metropolitan areas and millions of people are keeping a wary eye on isaac and its path and timing are eerily similar to katrina's. out in the gulf, companies, including bp and shell, have begun evacuating roughly 3500 oil rigs in isaac's path. many were hardened and were can withstand a 4 or 5 storm. much of the coast is more hurricane ready now. there was a $14 billion overhaul after katrina. the city revamped the evacuation drill and louisiana suspended in collecting tolls on evacuation routes. three states, louisiana, mississippi and alabama, are under states of emergency and all three governors are leaning toward delaying going to the republican convention in tampa. tens of thousands of residents and tourists are getting out or making plans to. by one estimate, as much as $36 billion worth of residential property lies in isaac's path. no hurricane has hit the gulf region in four years. and now, for people in four states, isaac looks like a real test. charlie? >> mark strassmann, thank you. as the gulf coast prepares for isaac, governor mitt romney is getting ready for the most important week of his political life. been running for president for most of the last six years and this week, this week he'll finally accept the nomination of his party for that office. jan crawford is in boston, head quartsers of the campaign. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. all that planning and work and campaigning and it goes to show you can't plan for the weather. that's kept things in flux at the putting the finishing touches on his speech. they're also ready for any possible changes depending on what happens with isaac. >> anything about the hurricane? >> hope everybody is fine there. concerned about the people that will be affected by it. >> yesterday afternoon in new hampshire, romney and his wife ann went to a local school to practice their convention speeches focusing on come storm or sunshine, their introduction to america. ann romney is slated to speak tuesday night with a personal testimonial about romney as a husband and father. two days later, he's expected to accept the republican nomination for president. >> i feel an enormous responsibility. i don't feel ebullient with aren't i great for having got this. i feel like wow, a lot of people are counting on me. >> the convention will focus on romney the man and the leader. the corporate ceo who helped build companies like staples, ran the salt lake city olympics and served as governor of massachusetts. there will be sharper contrasts with president obama. some of which is already evident from romney who over the weekend mocked the president's acceptance speech four years ago. >> it's really a brilliant speech. he says marvelous things. he just hasn't done them. >> vice presidential candidate paul ryan has been defiant in reminding them of the 2008 criticism of small town americans clinging to guns and religion. >> i'm a catholic deer hunter. i am happy to cling to my guns and my religion. >> the convention will portray the gop as the party with solutions looking forward with speeches from senator marco rubio of florida, governor nikki haley of south carolina and governor chris christie of new jersey. the party favorite who is already in tampa spicing up the proceedings. >> they brought me down here specifically as i'm sure you know. [ laughter ] brought me down here on sunday to make sure if there's any idiots on the beach to get the hell off the beach. >> showing that personal side of romney as husband and father, governor, program helped women in massachusetts, that's important. because right now some women don't like mitt romney. there's a poll that has him down 35 points on the question of whether or not he understands and is in touch with problems facing women. charlie? >> jan crawford, thank you. reins priebus is here. >> good morning charlie. >> where is governor rom i coming into this convention. he wants to be combative, at the same time he wants to simply say i am who i am. where is he sm. >> i think we need to do two things. this is where he's at. number one, we need to prosecute the president -- >> prosecute? >> on what he promised and what he delivered. we need to tell the american people and remind the american people that this is the president that said if we pass a trillion dollar stimulus, we would have unemployment. at this point below 6%. we've been above 8% for 42 months. we haven't seen this bad of an economy since the great depression. said he would cut the deficit in half. didn't do that. going to tackle the debt. didn't do that. we need to prosecute the president who seems to be in love with the sound of his own voice. but didn't falter in his promises. the next piece is we need to tell the mitt romney story. i think that's more of what you're going to see this week. the mitt romney story. >> why do you think that in the polling it says president obama seems to voters to care more, emphasize care, feel for where we are in terms of the economy, what it's done to us? >> i think the president -- one of the things he does, at least some people say he does a good job of giving speeches. that's like a forensics exercise that the president seems to master sort of the illusionary world of barack obama. that's a world that doesn't go far when you look at the reality of this economy. one of the things that president obama can't escape, which is a total benefit to us, is that he can't escape the truth of where we're at in this economy. the truth and the facts are on our side. it's a lot ease krier to win a when you have the facts. >> a lot of people say neither candidate has laid out a plan for the future. that's the problem. they all want to look back and say what's wrong with the past but not look to the future. both governor romney and the president haven't done that. >> certainly -- i'm going to be one-sided here. we can agree on a couple quick things. one, the president and his party haven't passed a budget through congress in three years. we've talked about that and talked about that. i think it's important to remember. they failed as a matter of law to comply with the legal requirements that they have to the american people. i mean, it's not just political rhetoric. they haven't complied with the law. but mitt romney is the guy that says that he wants to reduce spending from 25% of gdp, meaning 25 cents on every dollar made in america to run the federal government, he wants to reduce that number from 25 to 20. he wants to cut across the board on every income bracket, 20%. he wants to reduce small business taxes from 35 to 25. i think mitt romney has been extraordinarily specific with his plans and he named paul ryan as his running mate. how much more specific can we get? >> that will certainly be an issue. let's talk about the weather and what it will do in terms of this convention. >> we had to err on the side of safety today. no one knows how bad the wind and rain is going to get in tampa. that's important. when the secret service started taking down the tenting outside, which means our guests would be waiting out in driving rain potentially for an hour, the buses couldn't be -- we couldn't be assured that they could make it across the causeways. we had to err on the side of safety. but we're moving on. we're planning on moving forward. all the speakers will be absorbed into the rest of the week. >> when will ann rney speak sm. >> tuesday night. >> should be tuesday night before the keynote? >> that's where we're at now. we're going to have production meetings today and those specifics will be released later today. >> in terms of tampa, the worst of the storm is over? >> i don't know that. i'm sure we'll be having rain bands throughout the day. but certainly it's trending away from tampa. but obviously, we worry and pray for those that might be in its path. >> rients priebus, thank you for joining us. >> we'll have continuous coverage of the republican national convention. you can find a preview here in tampa on our website. two american soldiers in afghanistan were shot and killed this morning by an afghan soldier. so far this month, 12 americans have been killed by their afghan allies. as kitty logan reports from kabul, the latest shooting happened during an attack by outside forces. >> this is another so-called insider attack. it happened this morning in eastern province of laghman. it was a member of the afghan army who shot and killed two u.s. troops he was working with. we understand that the u.s. forces returned fire and the attacker was killed. we don't have too many more details yet, but local forces, local sources are telling us that the u.s. and afghan troops were on a joint patrol in a fairly remote area. they set up a checkpoint when some kind of dispute may have broken out which could have led to the shooting. we can't verify the details. the incident is, of course, still under investigation. the international security forces in afghanistan tell us that in previous instances, similar incidents at 25% have proved to be cases of insider infiltration. but otherwise, they were simply to personal grievances and stress. of course, we just had the holy month of ramadan. they were unable to eat or drink. international security forces believe that may have contributed to some of at tax. certainly, it does not explain all incidents and doesn't explain why the incidents are continuing after ramadan. elsewhere in the country, we're hearing horrific reports of more violence. 17 young people, we're hearing, were beheaded by the taliban. young people were attending some kind of party with live music and dancing, which is something that the taliban doesn't approve of. they went ahead and took the law into their own hands, executing those young people taking part. according to the u.n., this is increasingly common now that the taliban are ruling parts of the country and putting their ethics and more or less in place in quite a brutal manner. in helmand province, ten afghan army soldiers were killed. the violence certainly continuing here. a spokesman here says that despite that, their mission in afghanistan remains on track. for "cbs this morning," kitty logan in kabul. it is time now to show you some of the headlines. "the new york times" reports on the latest massacre in syria. massive burials were held. it's the deadliest short term assault since it began. a helicopter crashed in damascus after it was apparently hit gi gunfire in the latest crashes. >> the philadelphia enquirer says trustees at penn state university are going on the offensive. they want to restore the image following the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. it will include a major social media effort. the washington post looks at the debate over using brain scans as lie detectors in court. mris can show when someone is being deceptive. a judge in suburban washington ruled that the mris of a murder suspect cannot be used as pretrial evidence in a 2006 shooting case. and the wall street journal reports hertz has agreed to buy dollar thrifty in a $2.2 billion deal. it brings the number of major players to three. a small but moderate earthquakes is shaking california east of san diego and continues this morning. the largest was a 5.6 magnitude. there have been more than 300 aftershocks. windows have been shattered and trailer homes knocked off their foundations. however, no injuries have been reported there. this national weather report sponsored by famous footwear. victory is yours. mitt romney and the republicans have three days to put out their convention message. and it could be drowned out by hurricane coverage. this morning, we'll look at the challenges for the candidate and the party in tampa. and not long ago, brian baker's promising tennis career seemed to be over. now he's getting a chance to shine at the u.s. open. >> to be able to play again. it was a tough time not doing something you love. >> he talks about his surprising comeback after six years of injuries on "cbs this morning." this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by hershey's drops. a lot of hershey's happiness in a little drop of chocolate. a lot of hershey's happiness in little drops of milk chocolate. and cookies n creme. pure hershey's. let's take a paint project from"that didn't take long". let's break out behr ultra. .. ...the number one selling paint and primer in one, now with stain blocker. each coat works three times harder, priming, covering, and blocking stains. let's go where no paint has gone before, and end up some place beautiful. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. behr ultra. now with advanced stain blocking, only at the home depot, and only $31.98 a gallon. are a sizzling deal, starting at 6 bucks. try our new lunch-size chicken fajitas, sauteed onions and peppers topped with grilled chicken, served with soup or salad. chili's lunch break combos, starting at 6 bucks. 8% every 10 years.age 40, we can start losing muscle -- wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. 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>> i'll go first. it's a two-part process. i think he needs to make the case for replacing president obama, whisk made for him as one -- it's a big negative ad running every day. i think that's a relatively easy case. then he has to say to people who are unhappy with president obama that he's acceptable. romney, that's a two-part job too. make him somebody that people can connect with. he has to cross a threshold. >> what can he do now that he hasn't done in the long primary campaign sin the selection of paul ryan? >> maybe just tell the story. >> you have a captive audience, millions of americans are watching. we have the convention and we have the debate. those are pivotal moments. the convention, i think it's critical for him. not just presenting himself to the american people who may not have been watching the campaign that closely. but he's got to change the dynamics of this race. poll after poll shows this race is static. and there's been some movement in the battleground states but romney has to change the trajectory quickly to win the race. >> you do that with a speech or with what? >> that's a good question. i think he does it with a speech. he has to get middle class voters that he cares about issues that they care about. >> cares about? >> cares about. they trust him on the economy more than barack obama. does mitt romney understand the problems that middle class americans are facing enough so that he could solve them? >> trust is the key question. people can't follow all the ins and outs of the budget and medicare much the question too when everything is being figured out, who is on your side. is romney going to have your interests at heart or obama? when they're in a small room carving this up, when the administration is in full swing, that's the question. are people going to feel like when that business of governing is going on that the guy in charge of it has a sense of their lives, isn't going over the line in a way that's going to penalize them. that's the argument he's trying to get to. >> another face is paul ryan. what does he add to this ticket at this convention? >> i think he adds energy, helps certainly mitt romney with his conservative base. but we've seen he's helped a little bit in states like wisconsin and perhaps ohio. but he adds youth and energy to the ticket. >> we're here at a time when it's rainy and windy and cold. tampa may not get the brunt and new orleans may face that. what do the new demands of this convention, because of this weather? >> conventions are all about a tone. so the tone is now changing. if the weather is hitting parts of the country and we're seeing pictures on one half of the screen about people suffering and about devastation, then what they say in the hall has to be resal br recalibrated. they don't want the screen images snnext to each other. one of the ideas is we're going to care for people across all of the american experience. they've got to recognize that if there's suffering on one side of the screen, they have to be speaking to that even though that's not the whole picture in terms of the country. >> in terms of the principal swing states, any change there as he comes into this convention week? >> obama largely leads in most of the swing states. however, there was a new poll out in the columbus dispatch over the weekend that shows in ohio that it was very, very close. that's certainly a state that no republican has won the presidency without winning ohio. they've got to win ohio. it looks like, if that poll is to be believed, romney is gaining ground in those states. most people think the race will break in the last three weeks of this campaign. it's going to narrow it. >> both parties -- it will be even until the last three weeks. >> it feels like we're going to get down to the independents, the johnson family on cedar street. the number of people really up for grabs is getting smaller and smaller. that's what that dispatch poll showed. >> i think the interesting calculation is this interview that mitt romney gave on politico this morning where he said i am who i am. like popeye. he's going to make people eat their spinach and love him. they don't need to like me. they just need to trust me that i can handle the economy better than obama. >> worrying about making this look like a total reinvention. that he's pushing against president obama a little bit. he's saying i'm not a celebrity. i'm just who i am. >> john dickerson, norah o'donnell, thank you. days after publishing nude photos of prince harry, rupert murdoch speaks out. we'll see if he's trying to send a message to britain's government. we'll be right back. 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[ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time. or your money back. ♪ we don't get fooled again ♪ >> when britain's prince harry got caught buck naked in las vegas, the british media went along with the royal family's wish not to publish the photos until rupert murdoch decided to shake things up. in this report, it could be a message that murdoch is not ready to fade away. >> this is the most humble day of my life. >> more like the most humble year for rupert murdoch. he's apologized to family of a murder victim. >> i have nothing further to say and i apologize. >> he's appeared before a committee where he faced strong criticism and most recently he's been called before lord justice leaf son, the judge looking into press standards. >> i also have to say that i failed. >> when prince harry decided to bear all in a las vegas hotel suite and not a single british newspaper printed the pictures, rupert murdoch decided he was done playing nice. >> he made the phone call and said print it. >> the front page of the tabloid, the sun went from hotel reenactment with an employee named harry on thursday to the real thing. a naked prince harry on friday. against the royal family's wishes. murdock denies making the call himself but said on twitter it was an issue of free press tweeting free, open uncontrollable internet versus shackled newspapers equals no newspapers. let's get real. >> when mr. murdoch realized the british press was self-censoring. he said that's got to end. he said it's time to draw a line in the sandment we can't go on like this. >> they've been under the microscope for more than a year accused of hacking into phones for scoops. it could result in a crackdown on how the press is policed with politicians deciding what's fit to print and what's private. not a single paper has followed mur dochl's lead. for his part, he made clear he has no issue with harry's behavior. only lesson for prince harry, avoid play mates with cameras. unless of course the prince wants to be on another front page. for "cbs this morning," kelly kolbier, london. the second man on the moon refreshes the first. we'll hear buzz aldrin honoring his friend and colleague, neil armstrong. your local news is up next. you're watching "cbs this morning." president clinton: this election to me is about which... candidate is more likely to return us to full employment. this is a clear choice. the republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper-income... people and go back to deregulation. that's what got us in trouble in the first place. president obama has a plan to rebuild america from... the ground up, investing in innovation, education... and job training. it only works if there is a strong middle class. that's what happened when i was president. we need to keep going with his plan. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. it's not such a bad morning in tampa after all. tropical storm isaac -- the focus is turning to the northern gulf of mexico where isaac is likely to become a hurricane. it could make landfall less than 48 hours from now. it is 8:00. morning."ack to "cbs this i'm gayle king. we'll hear from charlie at the republican convention in tampa in a couple of minutes. but first, david bernard, chief meteorologist of cbs 4 in miami has new information on isaac. david, what can you tell us? >> gayle, we just got the 8:00 advisory. from the national hurricane center. these are brand new numbers. the satellite picture as well. these are new images. it's a large storm and taking up about the entire eastern gulf of mexico. the movement on it is about the same as it was before. west/northwest at 14. the winds are holding at 65. but the pressure is beginning to fall a little bit. 988 millibars. that's about 420 miles southeast of new orleans/louisiana that. track forecast, the intensity forecast has not changed. again, we're expecting this movement in to southeast louisiana. the new orleans area, the mississippi gulf coast tuesday night and into wednesday morning. one of the factors that i'm looking at, if this strengthens and gets stronger, it will be in the next 12 hours. it's currently tracking over some of the warmest temperatures in the gulf of mexico. i'm putting that on top of the ocean temperatures. again, that's a lot of hurricane fuel definitely as fuel the fire one way to put it. we've seen a lot of storms over the years go over this part of the gulf of mexico and really explode. the good news is, isaac has been an underperforming storm and let's hope it stays that way. nevertheless, we're preparing for a hurricane on the gulf coast. charlie? >> that's what we like. underperforming storms. dave bernard, thank you. the center of isaac just missed the florida keys on sunday. people took it in stride. manuel bojorquez is there this morning. good morning. >> good morning charlie. people here in key west are breathing a sigh of relief this morning after weathering tropical storm isaac with only minor flooding and so far no reports of any major damage. now the worst of isaac's winds blast key west sunday afternoon. we're nowhere near the 75 mirror category 1 winds predicted. people were on the main strip last night watching sports and having fun. despite the diminished strength, the size wreaked havoc as far away as miami. there was flooding in homestead. an area that saw the worst of hurricane andrew in 1992. some 16,000 people lost power. today, key west officials will be out assessing what damage, if any, was left behind in isaac's wake. gayle? >> manuel, thanks. now let's go to mark strassmann in mobile, alabama, where storm preparations are well under way. mark, what's happening there? >> reporter: good morning, gayle. isaac looks like a test for a gulf region that thinks of itself as much more hurricane ready since katrina hit seven years ago this week. isaac's path as well as it's timing are very, very similar to katrina's with a hurricane warning now in effect for 300 miles from new orleans to florida's panhandle. this region is bracing itself. since then, there's been a $14 billion overhaul of levees and floodwalls. there's a new evacuation plan and louisiana suspended tolls on its evacuation routes. in st. charles parrish along the state's coast, 53,000 residents have been urged to leave. out in the gulf, oil companies, including bp and shell are evacuating 3500 rigs. gas prices could be at risk too. remember, the gulf is where 23% of domestic oil production comes from. louisiana, mississippi and alabama have all declared states of emergency and in communities up and down the gulf, tourists are getting ready to go. this has been a hurricane-free region since 2008. it appears that it's about to change that. isaac looks like it could be a major weather event and also a major test for this region. charlie? >> mark strassmann, thank you. tampa is more than just the site of the republican convention. hillsborough county where tampa is located has voted for the winner nearly every presidential race in the last 30 years. on sunday some local voters spoke out during a focus group conducted by frank luntz, republican pollster. >> we'll sfart withtart with a phrase to describe mitt romney. >> not sure i trust him. >> a leader. qualified. >> bland. >> how does mitt romney earn your trust? >> show his tax records. >> show his tax records. >> i need to see that he did not outsource all these positions that closed the companies that he was running. >> barack obama, word or phrase to describe him? >> disappointing. >> polarizing. >> narcissist. >> still trying and having hope. >> does he deserve the right to continue with a second term? >> yes. no. >> yes. >> no. >> we'll be over the edge by that time. >> let's not give him -- yeah. >> this is not as negative as people would suggest. >> no. >> i want to do this. how many of you voted for barack obama in 2008, raise your hands? almost all of you. how many are voting for him in 2012, raise your hands? so look at how few hands go up and yet the word trying. >> how many don't know? >> that's why you're such an important group here. >> frank luntz joins us now. what do we take away from what you saw? >> it was sponsored by the university of phoenix because they wanted to understand what was empowering the last undecided voters. barack obama does get credit for making an effort. people don't dislike him. number two is that mitt romney has yet to make the case in terms of his own personality. the sense is that barack obama understands you but can't necessarily solve your problems. mitt romney can solve your problems but he doesn't quite understand you and that's what the next 70 days going to be about. >> just as this convention, he has said coming into this, i am who i am. i don't want to be on the couch, i don't want to take it back to my hometown. but every nominee has had to tell a story. what story does romney have to tell? >> he has to explain. he's coming across as a ceo and focusing on the business experience and the obama campaign is doing the same thing with him. he has to explain how it's more likely to solve the spending problem than feeling your pain. he has to prove that his record will have an impact on the first 100 days. charlie, make no mistake, this is about the next generation. people are hurting so badly that they want someone to do it now. they don't want to wait. >> when you look at those important swing states, how do you see them right now? >> ohio is very -- i know that there's a poll showing them tied. i've been living in ohio practically. i know that he has a challenge there. the obama attack ads worked. conversely, florida where we are right now, colorado have moved towards mitt romney because they're more middle class states and they appreciate his record of accomplishment. this race is so close and in the end these conventions matter. because then you get a chance to see them not in a 30-second ad. you get the long form to really understand them. >> there's a report that the romney campaign wants to come out on target, on focus and more combative. >> i would never use the word combative. i would use clarity. they want to draw a greater line, a separation between themselves and obama. the problem is you don't want to look like a traditional politician. if someone dresses like you or me, that doesn't work. voters want to see the shirt sleeves rolled up and see someone -- >> isn't that what we've been seeing of -- >> not really. i give the obama campaign credit for the way that they've gone at romney's business record and i give the romney campaign credit over the last two weeks because of the ryan pick. much more energetic and exciting. what's one thing coming out of the campaign? >> that romney understands and feels how the average american, the hard working taxpayer feels. if he gets their problems, he'll get the balance that he needs. >> is that something he's shown he can do? >> he publicly rejects it. he doesn't want to be the candidate that feels. he wants to be the candidate that solves. >> so the line might be i feel so therefore, i do. >> i do because i feel. >> frank luntz, great to have you here. >> nice to be here. >> it is now time for a check of your local weather. few months ago brian baker was a has-been. after a big surprise at wimbledon, he's ready to take on the u.s. open. we'll show happened to him and why he's coming back now on "cbs this morning." 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very versatile guy. very talented. in whatever he chose to be a part of. we expected to be assigned to apollo 11. it would be given the first opportunity to make a landing on the moon. about three minutes into the descent, neil says to me, he says i think we're going to be a little long. we almost got out of the predicted landing area. and the we touched down with 15 seconds of fuel. the formal announcement was neil's, the commanders and he said -- >> the eagle has landed. >> everybody cheers in mission control. two of us cheered and looked at each other and i pat him on the shoulder. he thinks i shook hands with him. but i think i patted him on the shoulder. the first thing that happened when neil got down to the bottom of the ladder and said -- >> it's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> he sort of said afterwards, when somebody said well when did you think of that? he said well i didn't want to waste thinking about it until we were safely on the ground. >> one of the millions who idolized neil armstrong was a boy to grew up near his home in ohio. douglas brinkley got to interviews his childhood hero 11 years ago. >> good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> remember this man in your own sense of why he meant so much to you. >> well, i was eight years old living in per isburg, ohio. he was down the road and he was my generation's audi murphy or charles lindbergh. the fact that we were breaking the shackles of earth and neil armstrong, the local ohio boy was actually going to the moon was an incredible sensation. my friends and myself, we would collect anything we could about apollo 11. it was a defining moment for our generation. ohio was first in aviation, the home of the wright brothers and the home of john glenn and neil armstrong seemed to reinforce that whole ohio value that aviation mattered. >> why do you think he was so reserved about his own achievements as well as his own sense of wanting to take all of this and, in a sense, move away from it? >> you know, he was an incredible modest person and he was -- out of all the astronauts, he had the best technical superiority in space. he graduated from purdue in engineering. he was completely no nonsense. with the exception of one story about a dream he had floating in space sort of or aboveground as a boy, there was no romanticism to armstrong. he was all about service to country, about winning of the cold war and just about -- he was everything you would want in a commander. and his whole life he never threw an wasted adjective or adverb. he boiled things down to its essence. >> did that extend to him when you would ask him do you ever go outside and look at the moon and say to yourself, i've been there? >> nasa had me conduct a long oral history with neil armstrong. this happened days after 9/11. i thought he would cancel because all the airports were -- he flew in him stove houston and i sat in a room, tape recorders, other people, nasa people there and i would ask him questions that somebody like myself, a young person who looked up to him in the space program would, including do you ever just look at the moon and think you're going to be there soon or even after you came back looked at it and he said no. i don't ever look at the moon. he wasn't being a difficult person to interview. he just really felt the moon was a job. but nobody promoted the idea of men in space. man's space flights more than neil armstrong. also going to mars in the later years. >> he was sad when they thought they would not be taking those kinds of missions in the future. it is interesting about him also that president obama -- he is in the first rank of american heroes outside of government. >> there's a thing called sustainable heroes. we tear a lot of people down. armstrong is sustainable. people will talk about him a thousand years from now. because his accomplishment is so real. you can't have a textbook in american history without seeing the name neil armstrong in the index. >> we thank you for helping us. seven years ago, brian baker was a tennis player. now he's some places i go really aggravate my allergies. so i get claritin clear. ♪ i can see clearly now the rain is gone ♪ look! see that? 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>> never got to that point. maybe close to the point after the tommy john. i'm not going to keep having surgeries. i never got to that one point where i'm throwing in the white towel. i don't want to do this anymore. put so much effort and time into tennis. love the game since i was a little kid. felt like it was taken away from me. felt like i had something to prove. >> as he rehabbed, he taught tennis at belmont university in his hometown of nashville. by last fall, he was finally able to start competing again. this april, he won the savannah challenger in georgia. then came wimbledon. seemingly out of nowhere an unseeded baker made the round of 16 only dropping one set along the way. >> you surprised a ton of people with what happened at wimbledon. did you surprise yourself? >> yeah, i think i'd be lying if i didn't say i was surprised a little bit to get to the fourth round in my first wimbledon. >> he enters the u.s. open as the 70th ranked player in the world, an up and comer when most are going downhill at the ripe old tennis age of 27. >> so now you're the guy that everybody is talking about. does that make things more stressful and more difficult right now? >> it can if you let it. everybody knows who you are. it's not like you're sneaking up on anybody like i was earlier in the summer. >> you seem confident. >> no, i am. i've always been confident in my abilities that when i play well, i can win a lot of matches in a row. it's awesome to be able to play again. tennis has meant so much to me over my entire life. it was a tough time not being able to do something you love. >> for "cbs this morning," i'm jeff glor, new york. >> two decades ago cbs sports analyst jim courier was the world's number one tennis player. hello, jim courier. >> hello, gayle. >> i think of the el bow and the hip. are you shocked that he's there. >> we're all shocked. he was asking for wildcards. the total prize money at $10,000. brian baker, where has he been? he's been gone. he was a great hope many years ago. he beat the number nine player in the world at the u.s. open at 19. we hadn't seen him. it's borderline miraculous that he's back playing at the highest level. >> realistically, how high can he go? >> i think he's got top 20 potential. he's got a great head for the game and he coached in the interim. he was an assistant coach at a college for a few years. he's got a great head on his shoulders. we hope his body holds out. >> you know something about the love for this game. >> the thing i like about brian. he never gave up on it. he was still dreaming about playing but it seemed so far, so unrealistic. to have a chance to be back, not just playing, but the guy is back in the top 100. he's got his highest ranking ever now. i mean, it's really just a new start for him. hopefully, he's got another seven years to go. he's going to be fresh. he's certainly not burned out. he's eager. >> charlie rose is in tampa covering the convention. >> i've done stuff with charlie before. >> charlie, we're here. >> charlie, are you hanging around the hurricane? >> the hurricane has -- we hope it's moved past here. we hope it will be sunny here in tampa and the convention will offer all the drama that we expect. let me turn to the u.s. open. is roger playing at his best now, jim? >> roger federer is playing beautifully, charlie. he played brilliantly in cincinnati beating djokovic in the finals a week ago. he's coming in relaxed. he's back at number one. rafael nadal, his bet another is out with injury. novak djokovic and andy murray being the big threats to federer. i have djokovic the slight favorite. he won -- >> over federer and andy? >> i think he's the slightest favorite. but that's the kiss of death. i'm a terrible prognosticator. >> gayle has a good point. andy won the olympics. does that mean that finally he's had a big win at a big event that gives him the confidence to win a grand slam? >> i'm thinking, charlie, momentum must be on andy's side too. >> andy murray is a different player than he was three weeks ago. he knows he can push through the tape where he had never done that before in a big tournament. murray is a favorite up there. for some reason, my gut tells me nov novak. >> what happened to him? he had ha year where he was mowing everybody down and then he seems now to have lost some of that. are you saying he hasn't really lost it? >> i think that the year is long and careers fluctuate a little bit. i think he had a setback earlier this year when he lost his grandfather in the middle of a tournament in monte carlo. that took wind out of his sales. he was a dominant player to that point. the beautiful thing about men's tennis, you have great players at the top. you have everyone else trying to get there. you have the john isner's and american players ranked ten in the world trying to push through. you have so many people trying to get there. but this collection at the top is among the best. we have serena on the women's side is my favorite there too. >> i was wondering who you were picking. kim clijsters was here last week and as far as she's concerned, she said it's serena. you feel as well. >> if serena plays her best tennis. mo one can stand up to her in the moment. clijsters may have one of the better chances. >> her last one. >> she's going to retire after this. >> petra cvoe vitt va'a. good to see you, jim. and you too, charlie. i know you were planning to be here today. i'm glad you made it there safely. >> i played tennis this weekend too. i feel good. >> feels good, looks good. >> you can watch cbs sports coverage of the u.s. open this weekend. pawnshops have been around for thousands of years. this morning, pioneer pawnbroker will show us how he's looking for a new class of customers on the internet a police dashcam caught an suv out of control in missouri. the driver said the accelerator got stuck. she was going up to 110 miles an hour weaving through traffic. after 35 minutes, she finally managed to stop safely. after the 911 operator told her to lift up the accelerator and push the brake at the very same time. you got to say she's a very good driver weaving in and out of the traffic. there are about 10,000 pawnshops in america and their business booming since the recession. so todd hill decided to bring his pawnshop to your computer. three years ago he recreated a first of its kind website called pawn-go. also known as todd hills joins us at the table. good morning. >> good morning, gayle. >> help me with this. i have to say, when some people think of pawnshops, they think of seed i and sketchy. you're saying no. >> we've taken an industry and brought it to the internet. much more comfortable and safer user experience. >> why do you say safer? >> you can complete the whole transaction right from your home. you don't ever have to leave your house other than go to the fed ex office. sometimes stores can be located in rough neighborhoods. >> right. >> we brought that experience to the computer and now all you have to do is go to the fed ex office, which is much more comfortable. >> so people are looking around the house for things right now. they say, you know, i think this is worth value. they send it to you. >> they go online, fill out a brief application, tell us what you have. we'll send them an offer and tell them what it's worth. if they accept it, they go to the fed ex office and overnight ship it to us. >> what if they get it and it's not as good as it used to be. >> one of the team members discuss, do you have anything else or this is what we can do for you. if they accept it, we'll send them the contract. if they don't, we'll have them ship it back to them. >> how about this, what approximate they send it and it's better than you thought it would be. >> that's great news. >> they get more money. >> how often does that happen? >> that happens about half the time. we deal in jewelry, watches, luxury assets that sometimes people don't know exactly what they're worth. >> so they're sending it to you and you pay the money to them. but if they want it back, they can get it back for a price? >> exactly. they can get it back within three to six months. about 80% of the people that send us assets for a pawn loan actually get the assets back. >> what if somebody comes in in the meantime and they want to buy it. >> they don't. >> they're safely stored away. they're not displayed for sale. when the customer is ready to get it back, we ship it back to them. on your website, it says it's a fast, quick easy twie get money. >> it is. you can get this transaction down in 24 hours. there's no credit checks or lengthy applications. it's simply an asset that you own and i call it borrowing money against your past instead of leveraging your future. >> i'm fascinated to know that you can get the stuff back. what if somebody made a better offer that would you sell peoples items. >> this is a loan. this is truly a loan. so we're determining the current market value of the asset and we're advancing against that market value and then giving the customer three to six months to pay it back. i mean, these are assets that have been in the family a long time. there's a huge emotional attachment to these assets. it's not a good time to sell. this is a way for you to get some cash today. solve your problem. go on with your life and then in three months get your asset back. >> what if they can't get it back in three to six months, what happens to their item? >> the asset would be sold at that time. we don't want to sell people's assets. we're truly lenders and we truly just want to help someone through a difficult time and get their asset back to them. >> what makes you think, todd, this is a great idea? so you're sitting at home thinking -- why did you think -- >> everything else has gone to the internet. >> it's true. >> i had been in the brick and mortar industry for 30 years. i felt like that there was a brand new customer out there that the banks couldn't help, the pawnshops couldn't help and they're used to doing business online. i wanted to make it comfortable for them. >> who is coming to pawn-go? >> we're dealing with hollywood folks. >> give me hollywood names. give me initials from hollywood folks. >> to tulsa, oklahoma, housewives. >> todd hills, congratulations. it seems like you've come up with an idea that hasn't been done before. i like when that happens. >> thank you. >> have you heard of high lining, it's like standing on a trampoline one inch wide. we'll find out how they become one with the line when we come back. you're watching "cbs this morning." t'take a paint project from "that looks hard" to "that didn't take long". les break out behr ultra. .. .t number one selling paint and primer in one, w with stain blocker. ch coat works three times harder, pring, covering, and blocking stains. les wre no paint has gone before, d d up some place beautiful. more saving. more doing. at's the power of the home stain blocking,hr ultrd on athe home depot, and only $31.98 a gallon. very clever music choice for this next story. picture this, you're walking on a tightrope, then you put slack in the rope, throw in a few wind gusts. what happens? that's the sport of high-lining. ben tracy met some devoted daredevils who say there's nothing like it. >> from table mountain in south africa to the totem pole in taz mania, all over the world, people are putting it all on the line. >> great day for a high line. >> it's called high-lining because you walk on a one-inch wide line really high up in the air. >> it's a wild experience. >> this line is 150 feet long and 400 feet off the ground. >> most people would look at this and say this is not normal. >> that's true. >> going for it. >> it's not a tightrope. the line moves which is why this is also called slack lining. their arms are all they use to balance and they're often fighting the elements as wind gusts blow up from the canyon floor. >> man. >> mike payton and scott rogers met in college and bonded over the highs of this extreme sport. >> so we're heading to those canyons there. >> we hiked through the desert to one of their favorite spots in the canyons outside of moab, utah. setting up the lines is a meticulous process that can take hours. steel bolts anchor the lines into the rock and they do wear a harness in case he fall. >> all right. i want to make sure that everything is phenomenal and safe before i think about walking on this thing. >> somebody hurry up and get on it. >> when they do, they make it all look pretty effortless. even performing high-line yoga. >> what is the fear factor? >> every high line is still a little bit scary. that's the whole point about it. in this sport, it's all about embracing your fear. it's about diving so deep into your fear that you come out peaceful. that you come out with understanding. >> when you're up on that line, what are you thinking? >> if all is done right, nothing. >> you shouldn't be thinking about anything. you should be completely one with the line. >> it may sound a little granola, but these slack liners are far from slackers. this takes serious focus and skill. >> people think we're all adrenaline junkies. they take one look at us and say look at those crazy yahoos in the canyons. >> i can vouch that you're not yahoos. >> indeed. >> that comes with the territory. >> yeah. >> to fully understand it, you got to get out here in the middle of a line. i'm about 400 feet in the air. this is the view from up here. east side of the canyon wall is about 70 feet away. i am honestly up here, imagining walking on this one-inch line. >> there's a massive amount of exposure and intense fear and you have to overcome all those feelings in order to calm yourself down enough to do the simple act of walking. >> look straight. >> even on a very low line, this is really hard. >> whoa. >> i can do tricks. >> the low line is where the sport started back in the 1970s. rock climbers used it to practice their balance. it works better barefoot. >> easier. >> but then the slack liners became trick liners. >> does this take more concentration than the high lining? >> it's a different kind of con ten trags. it allows you to focus in 100% completely. there's nothing like a few hundred or few thousand feet below you. >> to get your pulse racing. >> exactly. >> especially when they fall out of line. >> we fall a lot. we fall all the time. if we're not falling, we're wimps. >> how do you continue to make this harder and harder sm. >> what makes balancing harder, closing your eyes, tucking your arms, all different kinds of tricks. >> that might be the crazy yahoo part. >> yeah. for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, moab, utah. >> the crazy yahoo part is right. i think i'll pass. we'll go back to charlie rose who is safe and sound in tampa, florida. when you were heading down to tampa, i was wondering, was your flight okay going in? >> it was indeed. a little rocky in different places and a little delayed. but i'm glad that we made it here and i'm glad it passed tampa and we pray for the good people in new orleans and surrounding areas that the hurricane misses them. that does it for us. up next, your president clinton: this election to me is about which... candidate is more likely to return us to full employment. this is a clear choice. the republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper-income... people and go back to deregulation. that's what got us in trouble in the first place. president obama has a plan to rebuild america from... the ground up, investing in innovation, education... and job training. it only works if there is a strong middle class. that's what happened when i was president. we need to keep going with his plan. president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. i need all the help i can get. that's why i like nutella. mom, what's the capital of west virginia? 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