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Peter has our top stories. >> reporter: the polling data so far suggests that mitt romney only got a modest bounce from the convention, the most favorable are from rasmussen, showing him ahead by 3 points. now the pressure will be on the president to score some points at his own convention. israel's prim prime isurning the international community to get tougher on iran. the prime minister benjamin netanyahu told his cabinet without, quote, a clear red line, tehran will not halt its nuclear ambition. israel has threatened to attack iran over its dispute the nuclear program. the 17-year-old goir...

one person has been killed. officials say things are looking better than they thought, though. but at this point, the fire has not been contained. and florida and the federal government are suing each other over an effort to purge the state's voting rolls of ineligible voters. the justice department says purge violates federal voting rights laws. now governor rick scott says florida is suing the government. he says the state needs access to a database that will help identify people who should be removed from the voting rolls. >> the homeland security has been stone walling to give ...

an appeal which is very unusual. rulings in britain are usually final. justice a landmark sentence for convicted war criminal and former president of liberia, charles taylor. he's been sentenced to 50 years in prison by a special international court. he's convicted of supporting rebels in sierra leon who slaughtered thousands of people during the country's 11-year civil war. taylor armed rebels in exchange for so-called blood diamonds. mitt romney unofficialing clinching the rop nomination for president. he won last night's texas primary putting him over the number of 1,144 deleg...

>> let me give issue perspective. put aside the unemployment rate for a a while because there are lots of reasons why that's not the most effective way to look at this. the most effective way is job growth, the number of jobs lost or added in a given month. let's go back to january of 2011. you can see all through 2011, we gain jobs. off to a strong start and then we started talking about a double dip recession, issues in europe became more serious. our debt crisis became an issue, the debt ceiling debook kell that we had, the downgrade, all that happened in the late summer and compa...

going to make this a make or break. we saw it on the faa when they shut down the federal aviation administration, we're seeing it now on this debate about fema, we should be able to have a legitimate debate about emergency aid. why link that into a government shutdown or not. >> i'll give the senate democratic leader most of the credit. he manufactured a crisis all week. about disaster when there's no crisis. everybody knows we're going to pay for every single penny of disaster aid that the president declares. >> u.s. lawmakers are supposed to be in recess this week, but senate major...