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>> thanks for joining us. im rachel maddow, msnbc headquarters. reverend al sharpton and chris hayes as well as the mccain/palin team senior strategist from 2008, steve schmidt. lawrence odonnell will join us as well. leading our coverage from tampa is, of course, my colleague and frie is chris matthews. a from a cuss on the floor but with the business of the nomination done, big picture, what else do the republicans need to do with all of this attention and with this big event? >> to get electe...

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. im 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 conventio...

Begin to improve in many areas of the keys and south florida as we go throughout the night. thats the story down there. right now, very close to key west, florida. still a tropical storm. whats going to happen next? we have 48 nervous hours to see how strong isaac can get as it approaches the northern gulf states. we still have a window from port author to beaumont, im including them now, all the way back to pensacola in the target zone possibly with significant impacts for isaac. an inconvenien...

The substance of the comments i agree with. private equity is a good thing in many, many instances. >> not knocking harold ford, but he does work for morgan stanley here. back to you, howard. there is so much marriage, you and i know it through friendships and associations, between people with the ivy league schools and met of guys and went that went into the equity business and made a lot of money, and dont like being in the target zone on equity. why would they go on television and take down, ...

The future for eric holder the attorney general and whether or not he should be held responsible. this is what we found. 34% say he should be fired. almost the same number say dont fire him but reprimand him. a split. whats that tell you? >> well, im sitting here thinking, if i were the president of the united states, i would find a way for eric holder to step down and it would be characterized as a firing and i would move him out of the target zone too because this is focus right on eric holder...

How so if only 53% a slight majority view this the way you do? >> well that is what they know now. as more of this unfolds and i think there is substantially more, you remember that september 19th is kind of the date that bad things happened before elections. that is time democrats spring these things on. i dont think that dare issa is planning a date like that, bill. as this moves forward and im the president of the united states im very worried this comes to crescendo about september 19th of t...

Pass words out to the kids. apple is is going to fight this every which way you can mobile app. market is $17 million market. they are trying to hang on this big time. >> shepard: pretty easy to change your password if kiddy gets it. >> come on, how hard is that? >> shepard: blame apple. >> oh. >> shepard: thats a class action lawsuit. thats what they are trying to do. we will see what happens. see you later. another country now has a long-range missile that can carry a nuclear weapon. wait unti...

us. ted, how hard has it been this morning for kids and teachers to arrive at school? >> reporter: well, as you can imagine, fred, its been a very tough day here. it was a tough day yesterday, too. students came with their parents yesterday to school. they had about 1.5 hours in the school cafeteria, the school classrooms where they could go. there were counselors on hand to talk to. they have changed the school taffe tear yeah. thats where the shooting took place. they changed it in a...

Report their profits as earned income at the high rate. so allow the people in this target zone now for this, what i call penalty tax, are small business job creators. the truth is we have to raise everybodys taxness a fair way. we ought to look at a consumption tax. we have to look at the entitlements. >> if the small business owners could report their income the way the hedge fund guys report their income theyd get a massive tax cut? >> they would. they would. the whole buffet argument is a li...

For that state and federal aid will be very important as people try to piece their lives back together, chris. >> kerry sanders, thank you so much. and if you can believe it, the weather channel says there were more than 150 reports of tornadoes from last thursday through saturday and even more may be on the way. meteorologist bill karins is here. bill, whos in the target zone now? >> yeah, chris, thats the question, is where are we going to see the debris fields tomorrow at this time? because w...