i m jon scott. and isaac is threatening to rain on their enthusiasm. and we know it s hurricane kansas state. this is what we re looking at. republican leaders are making last minute judgments to the convention schedule. they have cancelled most of monday s program. we are expecting to learn more details and we ll is tell you as soon as we find out. in the meantime, the city of tampa is taking steps to get ready for the storm. john roberts is live at the convention center in a tampa. hi, john. reporter: what we know so far is the welcome party that is going to be a tropicana field, home of the tampa bay rays is going tonight at 5:00 p.m. sadly we have learned that a concerted at another venue has been cancelled. we do know one day of the
that will be nominating officially mitt romney for president of the united states. jon: what about the convention schedule, though any changes. reporter: there actually have been. traditionally the roll call, the actual nomination process happens later in the week. that is going to happen on monday. the campaign says this was done largel to keep the transportation issues at a minimum having to bring people back and forth to the venue. but there was also tossed out by the campaign this fact, that as soon as he is the nominee he can get into the general election funds that they haven t been able to tap into, can t touch those until you are actually the nominee, so roll call monday means he gets access monday night. jon: steve brown reporting live from tampa for us. steve, thanks. reporter: we are continuing to monitor what we now know was a shooting that took place a blockade way from the empire state building. we are waiting for a press conference involving mayor bloomberg from new
romney has released his 2010 tax returns, his senior campaign advisor ed gillespie saying everyone will be able to see 2011 s return by october 15th and all he s planning to release and senator gillespie says that s more than enough. two years of full tax returns, consistent with what john mccain did in 2008. it wasn t an issue in 2008 because president obama wasn t trying to distract from a four year long record of failed policies. meanwhile, mr. romney s wife ann reportedly expected to be named the main headliner, kicking off the republican national convention in florida on november 1st. and that announcement likely tomorrow, as a much larger rollout of the convention schedule. and steve centanni, talking tax returns, what will governor romney s focus be in the final weeks before the convention? he ll sure to try to be focused on the economy and that s been the main focus all along and now doubt he ll be