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>> pelley: tonight, deep trouble >> pelley: tonight, deep trouble on the gulf coast. rising waters from isaac force more people and animals to evacuate in louisiana and mississippi. byron pitts and mark strassmann are in the flood zone. norah o'donnell on mitt romney preparing for the most important speech of his political career. we'll talk to his running mate. we hear for the first time from the psychiatrist who treated james holmes just weeks before the colorado massacre. and anthony mason on the obama and romney tax plans and how they would affect the middle class. captioning sponsored by cbs >> thi >> this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley reporting tonight from the republican national convention. >> pelley: good evening. republicans are gathering here for the biggest night of their convention, but we still have an eye on a crisis unfolding along the gulf. floodwaters are rising, the legacy of hurricane isaac. the storm is now a tropical depression moving north.are beig evacuated downstream, including the entire town of kentwood, louisiana. byron pitts is

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from birmingham, michigan. >> pelley: good evening, we're coming to you from the town square in birmingham where we caught up today with mitt romney. more on that in a moment. but we will begin the broadcast tonight with another mass shooting in america-- this time in the heart of new york city. it left two people dead, including the alleged gunman and nine others wounded. elaine quijano has the story. >> reporter: the gunfire erupted just after 9:00 a.m. at the peak of the morning rush. it began when 58-year-old jeffrey johnson walked up to a former coworker around the corner from the empire state building. it ended a few minutes later when police shot johnson dead on fifth avenue. n.y.p.d. commissioner ray kelly. >> during a downsizing at the company about a year ago johnson was laid off. in front of the building, johnson produced a pistol and fired at close range, striking his 41-year-old victim in the head. >> reporter: the victim, steve ercolino, was shot five times. police say johnson walked away, towards fifth ave

>> pelley: tonight, deep trouble on the gulf coast. rising waters from isaac force more people and animals to evacuate in louisiana and mississippi. byron pitts and mark strassmann are in the flood zone. norah o'donnell on mitt romney preparing for the most important speech of his political career. we'll talk to his running mate. we hear for the first time from the psychiatrist who treated james holmes just weeks before the colorado massacre. and anthony mason on the obama and romney tax plans and how they would affect the middle class. captioning sponsored by cbs >> this is the >> this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley reporting tonight from the republican national convention. >> pelley: good evening. republicans are gathering here for the biggest night of their convention, but we still have an eye on a crisis unfolding along the gulf. floodwaters are rising, the legacy of hurricane isaac. the storm is now a tropical depression moving north. the rain it left behind has lakes and rivers overflowing their banks, flooding streets

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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. there is nothing to save syria now. kofi annan, the united nations' peace negotiator quit today, admitting what had become obvious it's syrian dictator is determined to crush the rebellion, and the u.n. is powerless to stop it. this was kofi annan, the former u.n. scenl, in geneva today. >> as an envoy i can't want peace more than the proanists, more than the security council, or the international community, for that matter. >> pelley: the war didn't skip a beat. the dictator's helicopters and jets prownded rebels in syria's largest city. aleppo has been under siege for 13 days. artillery has rained on civilian neighborhoods. many are dead. hundreds of thousands have fled the city that was once home to three million. this may be a decisive moment in the uprising that began a year and a half ago against the 42-year dictator ship of the assad family. syrian forces are trying to keep reporters out and jam communications. they're doing a pretted good job of it, but we got a satellite aud

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>> pelley: >> pelley: a wildfire is raging tonight across spain's costa del sol. plains have been dumping water on the flames in the major tourist destination. the fire has been burning since yesterday. one person was killed and thousands have been evacuated. when the friday night lights shine tonight in texas, no where will they be brighter than in allen, a suburb of dallas. this is opening night for their new $60 million megastadium. it has 18,000 seats and a 38-foot-wide high definition video screen. and just like texas, this is not the home of a pro-team or a college team-- it's the home of the city's high school football team. today also marked the reopening of the reflecting pool in front of the lincoln memorial in washington. for the first time in two years, visitors can stroll the site and take pictures. the pool was closed so workers could fix leaks and stop it from sinking. two old soldiers make a remarkable discovery. "on the road" is next. you know why i sell tools? tools are uncomplicated. nothing complicated about a pair of 10 inch hose clamp pliers.

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. t have just begun the fourth year of what has been a very mempy recovery from the great recession. d thatwe got some indications that better times may be near. for one thing, home prices were up more than 2% in may, and that's the third monthly increase. and americans saw their incomes rise half a percent in june, more than $500 per household on average. trouble is, americans didn't spend any of it. they cut spending back to a tiny fraction, about $11 on average. eeat's the problem, because consumers spending is 70% of our economy. we have three reports tonight, first dean reynolds in chicago on the fear of buying. dean? >> reporter: scott, nobody feels this lull in spending more deeply than the nation's small businessmen, one of whom told us today he is looking for some ly areat the end of this tunnel. 1 july sales definitely are down about 10 or 15%. >> reporter: jeff pape sells athletic gear online and from eis 5,500 square foot store in elmhurst, illinois. >> what we see is that

and it looks bad, scott. >> pelley: bob, thank you. when governor romney accept it is republican nomination scheduled on thursday it will be a moment he has been striving for for six years since he started running in 2007. some republicans wonder whether romney is too moderate for the increasingly conservative party. we talked to romney about that during a campaign stop in michigan. we started with the party's new platform and how it deals with abortion. the platform does not allow for exceptions on abortion with regard to the health of the mother or rape or insist. is that where you are? >> no. my position has been clear throughout this campaign. i'm in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and insist and the health and life of the mother. but recognize this is the decision that will be made by the supreme court. the democrats try and make this a political issue every four years, but this is a matter in the courts. it's been settled for some time in the courts. i've come down on the side of life. i respect people who have

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the cause of autism is one of the great mysteries of medicine, but we found out something new and important today. a report in the medical journal "nature" says that it is the age of the father at the time of conception-- not the age of the mother-- that can raise the risk of autism in a child. with more men becoming fathers later in life, it could help explain the rise in autism in this country. jim axelrod is on the story. >> reporter: the study's senior author-- a scientist in iceland-- writes "conventional wisdom has been to blame the developmental disorders of children on the age of mothers. but it's the age of fathers that appears to be the real culprit." dr. delores maldespina, a sky tryst at new york university finds the research eye opening. >> this study shows new mutations are frequent enough as men age that fathers aging alone can explain the increase in the risk for autism. >> reporter: the study says a father's age could account for 15% to 30% of cases of autism and per

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we're learning tonight that before last month's theater massacre in colorado, officials at the university of colorado invalidated the access key of james holmes so he could no longer enter the buildings of the medical school campus. that was part of what prosecutors revealed in a court hearing today that was attended by holmes. the prosecutors are asking the judge in the case for holmes' records and e-mails from his time as a student at the university where he was studying for a ph.d. in neuroscience. they're hoping to establish a motive in the shooting that killed 12 and wounded 58 others. senior correspondent john miller is joining us. and, john, what else did we learn? >> reporter: well, scott, when prosecutors made their argument that these records are relevant to their case, they said some things we'd never heard before. they said the school records would detail how holmes failed his board exams, his withdrawal from the ph.d. program, that holmes made threats to the university o

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we're learning tonight that before last month's theater massacre in colorado, officials at the university of colorado invalidated the access key of james holmes so he could no longer enter the buildings of the medical school campus. that was part of what prosecutors revealed in a court hearing today that was attended by holmes. the prosecutors are asking the judge for holmes' records and e-mails from his time as a student at the university where he was studying for a ph.d. in neuroscience. they're hoping to establish a motive in the shooting that lled 12 and wounded 58 others. senior correspondent john miller is joining us. and, john, what else did we learn? >> reporter: well, scott, when prosecutors made their argument that these records are relevant to their case, they said some things we'd never heard before. they said the school records would detail how holmes failed his board exams, his withdrawal from the ph.d. program, that holmes made threats to the university of colorado cam

paul ryan, of course, just 42 years old. >> pelley: thank you, norah. mitt romney's speech tomorrow night is a chance to reintroduce himself and with that speech he will accomplish what his father did not. george romney, who ran american motors, also ran for the republican nomination in 1968. before this convention, we asked mitt romney about his plan to cut the federal budget and how a wealthy man relates to the middle-class. you were born into a family that was well off and now you're worth something north of $200 million. what do you say to a single mother who thinks "he doesn't know me?" or to a guy who's 50-years-old and hasn't had a job and thinks "he can't relate to me?" >> you know, i grew up in a home where a mom and a dad taught us some extraordinary lessons. i got a perspective on how my dad was able to handle tough situations and then i, through my life, was able to have the experience of working in settings that required a real turnaround, an uphill battle. and i've learned some of the things that i believe can help get america strong again

republican national convention. >> pelley: and this is a special western edition. good evening. it is a night of two big stories. hurricane isaac made land fall tonight in louisiana. we'll switch to our correspondents there in a moment, but earlier this evening, republicans nominated mitt romney as their candidate for president. romney's six-year quest for the nomination came to a successful end with the votes cast by the delegation from new jersey. >> the garden state, the proud home of tonight's keynote address given by governor chris christie. ( cheers and applause ) proudly casts all 50 of its votes for the next president of the united states governor mitt romney. ( cheers and applause ) >> pelley: and then the delegates nominated buy acclamation congressman paul ryan of wisconsin as the republican vice president shall candidate. more from the convention in a moment. but here is the latest on isaac. the hurricane made land fall a short time ago in plaguemines parish indiana as a category 1 hurricane. winds 80 miles an hour. hurricane warnings are up along the c

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the cause of autism is one of the great mysteries of medicine, but we found out something new and important today. a report in the medical journal "nature" says that it is the age of the father at the time of conception-- not the age of the mother-- that can raise the risk of autism in a child. with more men becoming fathers later in life, it could help explain the rise in autism in this country. jim axelrod is on the story. >> reporter: the study's senior author-- a scientist in iceland- - writes "conventional wisdom has been to blame the developmental disorders of children on the age of mothers. but it's the age of fathers that appears to be the real culprit." dr. delores maldespina, a psychiatrist at new york university finds the research eye opening. >> this study shows new mutations are frequent enough as men age that fathers aging alone can explain the increase in the risk for autism. >> reporter: the study says a father's age could account for 15% to 30% of cases of autism and

. >> pelley: the war didn't skip a beat. the dictator's helicopters and jets prownded rebels in syria's largest city. aleppo has been under siege for 13 days. artillery has rained on civilian neighborhoods. many are dead. hundreds of thousands have fled the city that was once home to three million. this may be a decisive moment in the uprising that began a year and a half ago against the 42-year dictator ship of the assad family. syrian forces are trying to keep reporters out and jam communications. they're doing a pretted good job of it, but we got a satellite audio link with our correspondent charlie d'agata, who witnessed a battle outside aleppo today. >> reporter: we set off before dawn with rebels from their base and they were headed to fight the syrian army in aleppo, which is about an hour's drive away. we had just gotten out of town when suddenly we heard explosions all around us and we saw tracer fire nearby. it appears that the syrian army had begun an assault, surprise attack on the town. they decided, the fighter

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, tonight you are going to hear from one of the navy seals who killed osama bin laden. in may of last year, 24 men from seal team 6 raided bin laden's home in abbottabad, pakistan. none of those men has publicly spoken about the mission until now. the seal you're about to meet has written a book and he has done his only interview for "60 minutes." then you walk into a secure room... he calls himself mark owen, that's not his real name. we've disguised him and will keep his name confidential for his own safety. owen was on the helicopter that crashed in bin laden's compound. he was the second man in the room when bin laden was shot. he took the photographs of the body that have never been released. but owen told us that the story is not about him. he says it's the story of hundreds of americans who spent years gathering intelligence, planning and training. of the seals, owen says, "we just took care of the last 40 minute." we built what we believe is the most accurate model of bin laden

. >> pelley: rebecca, thank you very much. because more jobs were created than expected, wall street took that as a good sign. the dow closed up 217 points, closing above 13,000. with 95 days to go before the election, we wondered about the president's job creation record. so have a look. the great recession was still on when president obama took office in january of 'sub 9. that month the economy lost more than 800,000 jobs, grim days. and it continued to lose jobs for 13 more months. in march of 2010, jobs began to grow. there was another dip, but jobs have been created for 22 months in a row now. still, that growth is too modest to put a dent in the unemployment rate. jobs are the issue likely to decide the race for the white house, and we have two reports tonight. first whitt wit with the romney campaign in las vegas. bill. >> reporter: scott, governor mitt romney came to this city with one of the worst unemployment rate in the country-- 12.1%-- and last president barack obama for today's jobs numbers. >> it's another hamm

. >> pelley: good evening. the race for the white house will be decided by a few key states that could swing to either the president or mitt romney. a new quinnipiac/cbs news/"new york times" poll of likely voters finds that the president is leading in the three biggest of those states. together, those states have one-quarter of the electoral votes needed to win. in florida, president obama leads by six points, 51% to 45. he's ahead by six in ohio as well, 50 to 44. and mr. obama's biggest lead over governor romney is in pennsylvania, an 11-point advantage, 53% to 42. nancy cordes has been doing some reporting today at obama campaign headquarters in chicago, and she's been looking at the numbers. nancy, what story do they tell? >> reporter: well, scott, the numbers were well received at obama headquarters, as you might imagine, though they say they fully expect ups and downs between now and election day. the president himself was in one of those battleground states today, ohio, asking voters to give him more ti

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the race for the white house will be decided by a few key states that could swing to either the president or mitt romney. a new quinnipiac/cbs news/"new york times" poll of likely voters finds that the president is leading in the three biggest of those states. together, those states have one- quarter of the electoral votes needed to win. in florida, president obama leads by six points, 51% to 45. he's ahead by six in ohio as well, 50 to 44. and mr. obama's biggest lead over governor romney is in pennsylvania, an 11-point advantage, 53% to 42. nancy cordes has been doing some reporting today at obama campaign headquarters in chicago, and she's been looking at the numbers. , ncy, what story do they tell? >> reporter: well, scott, the numbers were well received at obama headquarters, as you might imagine, though they say they r those battleground states today, ohio, asking voters to give him more time to fix the economy. >> our first order of business os to recover all the jobs and weal

. >> pelley: rebecca, thank you very much. because more jobs were created than expected, wall street took that as a good sign. the dow closed up 217 points, closing above 13,000. with 95 days to go before the election, we wondered about the president's job creation record. so have a look. the great recession was still on when president obama took office in january of '09. that month the economy lost more than 800,000 jobs-- grim days. and it continued to lose jobs for 13 more months. in march of 2010, jobs began to grow. there was another dip, but jobs have been created for 22 months in a row now. still, that growth is too modest to put a dent in the unemployment rate. jobs are the issue likely to decide the race for the white house, and we have two reports tonight. first, bill whitaker with the romney campaign in las vegas. bill. >> reporter: scott, governor mitt romney came to this city with one of the worst unemployment rates in the country-- 12.1%-- and last blasted president barack obama for today's jobs numbers. >> it's

investigators, scott, are taking a very hard look. >> pelley: thanks, bob. a blown tire caused a deadly bus crash in illinois today. the double-decker plowed into a support pillar along i-55. the bus heading from chicago to st. louis had 64 people on board. one is dead. at least 25 others are injured. a teenager at the center of a tragic death gets a second chance. a program to protect chemical plants has been in place for years, but the man who ran it says it's failing. and the duel in the pool-- phelps versus lochte, when the cbs evening news continues. a party? [ music plays, record skips ] hi, i'm new ensure clear. clear, huh? my nutritional standards are high. i'm not juice or fancy water, i'm different. i've got nine grams of protein. twist my lid. that's three times more than me! twenty-one vitamins and minerals and zero fat! hmmm. you'll bring a lot to the party. [ all ] yay! [ female announcer ] new ensure clear. nine grams protein. zero fat. twenty-one vitamins and minerals. in blueberry/pomegranate and peach. refreshing nutrition in charge! in blu

. >> pelley: nancy, thanks. republicans are talking about the tea party's big victory in texas last night. there was a runoff for the g.o.p. nomination for a u.s. senate seat, and a conservative republican was beaten by an even more conservative tea party candidate. ted cruz will head into the election in november as the virtual shoo-in to be the state's next u.s. senator. he was once the state's chief lawyer and was a law clerk for william rehnquist, the previous chief justice of the united states. we asked sharyl attkisson to catch up with cruz today. >> i think we're seeing a transformation, because i think the republican party is getting back to the principles we should have stood for. >> reporter: ted cruz has never been elected to public office, but the princeton debate champ and harvard law grad is now heavily faifded to replace retiring senator kay bailey hutchison. his primary campaign was viewed we many as a struggle between moderate republicans and the tea party. do you feel as though congress is bett

from tampa, florida, here is scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, from the tampa bay times forum, home ni hockey's tampa bay lightning, and this week home of some republican thunder. earlier this evening, the republican delegates nominated mitt romney to be president of the united states and paul ryan vice president. romney accompanied his wife, anne, to the forum tonight and will watch her address to the convention in just a few minutes. oen governor chris christie of new jersey will try to stir up the crowd with the keynote speech. joining me in our coverage is bob schieffer and at the podium and down on the convention floor, our cbs news campaign 2012 team. but right now, we want to get the latest on the storm that delayed this convention by one day, hurricane isaac made landfall just over two hours ago in louisiana, southeast of new orleans. byron pitts is there. byron. >> reporter: scott, there are already reports of more than 160,000 homes in new orleans without power tonight. the big concerns this evening-- power outages, flooding, and storm surge, especially in low-lying commun

here again, is scott pelley. >> pelley: in just a few minutes, mitt romney's running mate congressman paul ryan of wisconsin will be addressing the convention. bob schieffer, i wonder what you are expecting from that speech tonight. >> well, we keep hearing and we have gotten a few excerpts here, i do not see that he mentioned president obama by name in this speech. i think what is quite interesting about what is going on here, we have heard that president obama's name a lot before we get into prime time at 10:00 o'clock when the networks go on the air, but last night people were very careful not to say barack obama. i just wonder if there is some sort of research or polling that they have done that has told them not to go at the president directly but to talk about his programs, and i am anxious to see just how far paul ryan goes when he lays out this case tonight, maybe he will turn out to be the greatest attack dog in the history of politics, you heard john mccain he said well joe biden is a nice guy but look what he can do. maybe we will see that from paul ryan but i am anxious to

for all of us at cbs news all around the world, i'm scott pelley. i'll see you sunday on "60 minutes." good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> this is 9 news now. >>> tonight a prince george's county police officer facing second degree assault and eight other misdemeanor charges for supposedly trying to cover up a shooting. investigators say he lied about why his gun went off during an arrest six months ago, his claim unraveling because of surveillance footage of the crime scene. kristin fisher has more from hyattsville. respect you would think in this day in age that a police officer of all people would know that video cameras are everywhere, but it seems corporal donald taylor forgot that. these are the charging documents that essentially say taylor wonderfully arrested somebody, fired his weapon in -- wrongfully arrested somebody, fired his weapon in the middle of that arrest and lied about the whole thing. this happened in february in

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. too many unemployed workers chasing too few jobs-- that is the bottom line in today's unemployment report from the labor department. hiring did pick up in july with 163,000 jobs created, more than twice as many as june. but that wasn't enough to keep up with the growing demand, and so the unemployment rate ticked up 0.1% to 8.3%. unemployment has been at 8% or higher for three-and-a-half years. nearly 13 million americans are out of work. rebecca jarvis now on the competition for the new jobs available. >> i applied for seven different jobs just on monday alone. and i haven't heard back on any of them. >> reporter: carol hardon is 62. she lost her job as an office

pelley: good evening. this is the biggest night in mitt romney's six-year quest to become president of the united states. as he accepts the republican nomination and addresses the nation. he has two goals-- convince american voters that he could be president and convince them that he should be president. governor romney arrived here at the forum a short time ago. this moment may be his single best opportunity to make a personal appeal to the voters. bob schieffer, how is he going to do that? >> reporter: well, you know, when i heard orrin hatch say a while ago that he just has to be himself, i thought of a remark that picasso once made when he said, "i had to paint all my life to learn to paint like a child. n-this age of such intense media scrutiny, maybe it's really hard to just be yourself. but i think that's what mitt romney has got to do tonight, and he's got to lay out a coherent vision of where he wants to take this country. >> pelley: the delegates on the floor have just been watching a film about

for scott pelley, i'm bob schieffer. see you right here next week. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> we begin with a storm alert once again on a friday. what's up with friday night? >> we're picking up where we left off now in august. we don't have in severe thunderstorm watches just yet and thankfully no warnings. the problem is the trigger mechanism, the front is still to the west of us. we have a long way to go before we're in the clear. let's start with live doppler 9000. around town you want to walk the dog, you have time. maybe have time to get a quick bite outside the next few hours. we'll zoom to the north and to the west. these storms are pretty heavy earlier. they've now dissipated somewhat as they moved up into southern pennsylvania into caroll county. there's still one mo

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anthony mason, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: that's the news. for scott pelley, i'm bob schieffer, cbs news in new york. see you here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> tonight, we are under a yellow weather alert. there was a tornado warning and a funky waterspout out there. >> everything is quiet. no tornado warnings and we'll show you a picture of this. also go to our website on our facebook page. here's the picture of it. law enforcement saw this waterspout. that's what led to the tornado warning. now waterspout is a tornado over water. in this case, over the river. i don't think it is reaching the ground. i mean, it is pretty well defined, like a rope. but this was courtesy of april nosek. that's what triggered all of the tornado warnings. right now, it's quiet. showers and thunderstorms south of us. and that is

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. there is nothing to save syria avw. kofi annan, the united nations' peace negotiator quit today, onmitting what had become obvious it's syrian dictator is determined to crush the rebellion, and the u.n. is powerless to stop it. this was kofi annan, the former u.n. secretary general, in geneva today. >> as an envoy i can't want peace more than the commagonists, more than the r.curity council, or the international community, for that matter. >> pelley: the war didn't skip a ctat. the dictator's helicopters and sts pounded rebels in syria's largest city. aleppo has been under siege for f days. artillery has rained on civilian neighborhoods. many are dead. hundreds of thousands have fled he city that was once home to ehree million. this may be a decisive moment in

for now, with bob schieffer and our entire campaign 2012 team, i'm scott pelley. good night. . >>> mitt romney just diminished talking, but 9news is just getting starting with coverage unlike any other statements in town. i have a room full of democrats here. we'll find out if any minds were changed. >>> this is 9news now. >>> but first we have some breaking news tonight. five prince george's county firefighters have been injured battling a fire. flames broke out in the 3300-block of huntley square drive. that's in temple hills late tonight. our own ken molestina just arrived on the scene. ken. >> reporter: anita, still a very active scene out here. as you mentioned, this happened along the 3300-block of huntley squared. we're talking about the huntley square condominiums. the first alarm went off after firefighters responded here. a second alarm then went out. we were told the fire broke out in a garden-style apartment. everyone who was inside was rescued. but, again, we're talking about four firefighters now that were sent to the burn unit with minor burns, mino

>> pelley: thank you very much, manuel. the u.s. women's soccer team played a real nail-biter in london today. now, if you do not want to know what happened, you know, go get under the bed or something and close your eyes and ears. if you do want to know, we're going to tell you. the americans came from behind to beat canada in double overtime 4-3. they play japan on thursday and it's worth noting american jen suhr took the gold in the pole vault. this eighth grader is using his athletic skills to do something impressive. that's next. david. we've got to cancel. i've got gas. ooh gas, take an antacid. oh, thanks. good luck. good luck to you. doesn't he know antacids won't help gas? oh, he knows. [ male announcer ] antacids don't relieve gas. gas-x is designed to relieve gas. gas-x. the gas xperts. [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ] if you have yet to master the quiet sneeze... ♪ [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ] you may be an allergy muddler. try zyrtec®. it gives you powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® be

for scott pelley, i'm bob schieffer. see you right here next week. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> teenagers accused of swiping a celebrities lamborghini and now his friends may have tried to pull off a juvenile hall jailbreak. the reason today was the day he wanted to make a break for >> this goes along with his legend >> i don't want to refer to him as a legend, he is in a lot of trouble >> wait until you see one man solution to the heat wave. he built his own home grew air- conditioner. >> mobile 5 is live at candlestick park just two hours from a special cbs five 49ers kickoff. good evening. it is one of the most daring, most sensational heists the bay area has ever seen. in celebrities lamborghini of ripped off allegedly by an aspiring teenage mobster and now another hollywood twist, the birthday jailbreak. >> is it possible that the tories teenager max weighed tried to pull off yet another during caper by trying to get a jail break out of juvenile hall just hours before transfer to this pla

plus, scott pelley, he's a busy guy these days, he'll talk about his interview with the navy seal who took part in the raid that killed osama bin laden and wrote a controversial book on it. >>> a brutal beating of a female driver by lapd cops. john miller will have details on that investigation and a evidence of a link between weight gain and extreme stress. all that coming up later on "cbs this morning." for now, that will do it for the morning news. on this thursday. appreciate you watching. as always, i'm terrell brown. take care everybody. we'll see you back here take care everybody. we'll see you back here tomorrow. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> as it is this tropical storm this morning. what senate and in louisiana and mississippi. it's common acr

. >> pelley: good evening. the race for the white house will be decided by a few key states that could swing to either the president or mitt romney. a new quinnipiac/cbs news/"new york times" poll of lel

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. >> pelley: well, the republican party has scripted every moment of this, except that moment. clint eastwood came out and ad libbed his remarks. he was supposed to speak about five minutes. he was up there for more than 10. bob schieffer, what do you think? you know what, bob, excuse me. it looks like they're just introducing marco rubio. this is the senator from flori florida, part of the emerging generation of the g.o.p. he's 41 years old, a favorite of the tea party, and he will be introducing mitt romney tonight. let's listen to senator marco rubio. >> i think i just drank clint eastwood's water. thank you! thank you so much. thank you so much for having me here today and thank you so much for doing this convention here in florida. un, before i begin, this is-- thank you. before i begin, this is such an

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so in that sense i think he did about as well as you can do on one of these. >> pelley: well, a big, a big finish for this night of the republican national convention. the next big test for paul ryan comes in six weeks when he debates haven't joe biden. tomorrow night we will have the climax of the gop convention, mitt romney's acceptance speech and we will bring that to you live at 10:00 o'clock eastern time. there will be more convention coverage tonight on your local cbs station and on cbsnews.com. for bob schieffer and the rest of our campaign 2012 team, i am scott pelley, we will see you tomorrow on the cbs evening news. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs ca >>> an update on isaac and all the flooding. details at 11:00. >>> an isaac alert. >> 9news has been tracking isaac all day and all night. >> amazing images show record rainfall, dramatic rescues, and a ton of tornadoes. >> now topper says a battered gulf coast is due for even more damaging weather. >>> 24 hours since isaac made landfall, and now it has been downgraded to a tropical storm. >> a significantly weaker huer