as the gop nominee to be hoping to win back a state that went for president obama in 2008. and he s hoping hispanics will help him out. our colleague on that story in-depth for us in denver. i mentioned 2008. two thirds of the hispanic vote nationwide went to the democratic ticket but the vote in colorado was closer. does romney see an opening and could that spell a difference, do you think? oh, he definitely seeing an opening. both kand date candidates do. 12% to 14% of the overall voterless here in colorado and both sides are going at them. romney, the second trip since basically becoming the nominee, at least, unofficially to colorado. he is in the far west shoring up the business interests today and the latino voters, the swing voters and late deciders they hope to bring over to their side. a pollster here in colorado breaks it down why both candidates are after hispanics here in colorado, new mexico and in nevada. these candidates are looking at different pathways to
good morning to you. i m carol costello. thank you for joining us this morning. mitt romney is standing by his decision to attend a vegas fund-raiser with donald trump today even though the real estate mogul won t let go of the birther issue. trump is again questioning where president obama was born. he first raised the issue a year ago. you know, back when he was running for president. barack obama should end this. he should provide the public with a birth certificate. if he doesn t do it, he s doing a tremendous disservice to the public. trump harped on the issue for such a long time that for the first time in american history, an american president produced his long form birth certificate. trump still hasn t put the issue to arrest but romney welcomes his support. joining me now is cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein. hi, ron. good morning. the obama campaign is hitting back with a new campaign ad going after romney about this controversy. let s watch a bit
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these beaches had been closed for people to get into the water, and we talked to a life guard just the other day about the strong rip currents that they are concerned about. take a listen. so i see the white caps out there. is that safe for a person to get into the water? no. it is not. the thing is with closing water completely, you let somebody knee deep they want to get waist deep. you let them waist deep they want to go in. reporter: what is a rip current? it s a channel of water pulls out to sea, too much water close to the shore, rip current will pull you out to sea, it s gravity. rip current will pull you out 20 to 150 yards at eight to ten miles an hour. reporter: we saw a lot of people out on the beach yesterday, no one was allowed in the water. the life guards made sure no one got in with the concern about rip currents. george howell for us this morning, thank you. we ll continue to check in with you throughout the morning to get updates. let s go tote rob
to earle i start. and i m zoraida sambolin. let s get started. the. the fallout from tropical storm beryl. it is a tropical depression. guess what, building steam again and it s expected to be a tropical storm before we know it again. the storm is dumping as much as ten inches of rain in northern florida and southern georgia. it s also knocking out power to tens of thousands of people right across that region. now beryl has its eyes on the carolinas. cnn s rob marciano has been tracking the storm from the weather center. cnn s george howell is live in georgia. i m assuming that things are only just starting to get bad out there, george? reporter: ashlee , we are expecting to be to be a real soaker. this is going to be the center of the storm. it will move towards the savannah area. just a few days ago the story here was the wind event. a strong wind event that knocked down trees, knocked down power lines. today we are expecting that sustained rain over this area could p