we will lead. we won t blame others. we will take responsibility. [ applause ] and we won t replace our founding principles. we will re-apply them. that s what we will do. we can turn this thing around. we can. we can turn this thing around, real solutions can be delivered, but it will take leadership and the courage to tell you the truth. mitt romney is this kind of leader. i m excited for what lies ahead. i am thrilled to be a part of america s comeback team and together we will unite america and get this done! thank you! thank you very much. so where does congressman ryan stand on the issues? he s most known for his conservative budget principles. in july 2009 he proposed the road map for america s future, an economic plan that would end medicare as we know it and privatize social security. at first he got criticism from his own party because republicans worried it would scare away senior voters. former republican house speaker newt gingrich called it right-wing social
hit romney and his newly announced running mate aren t wasting time hitting the campaign trail. just a few hours after introducing wisconsin congressman paul ryan as his vice presidential pick, the presumptive republican ticket is making its case to voters in virginia. romney introduced paul ryan this morning as, quote, an intellecta you will leader of the republican party and a person who will help lead the country to, quote, widespread and shared prosperity and then ryan told his own story and shared his ideals. for the last 14 years i have proudly represented wisconsin in congress. there there i have focused on solving the problems that confront our country, turning ideas into action and action into solutions. i am committed in heart and mind to putting that experience to work in a romney administration. [ applause ] my dad died when with i was young. he was a good and decent man. there are few things he would say that have just always stuck with me. he d say, son, y
have had a loss of life. may god bless our firefighters. they ve been working so hard under very tough circumstances. oh, yea. this heat is unbelievable and to have to fight a fire is unreal to think about. you mentioned the town luther, a small town, but significant. over 1,000 people lived there, and the cool front will maybe knock down temperatures a bit. what are the fire commanders telling you? is that town in danger if the winds shift? the town is still in danger. there are a lot of burning embers even where the fire is going through, and if the winds shift it could push that fire back into the community itself. so they re not out of risk and there s another town that s close by if the fire keeps going in that direction, we ll come up on that town. so we re monitoring the situation. we have a lot of people on the ground. i have doubled our helicopters, our air support today. the challenge is that we had five major fires yesterday and numerous other fires throughout
people driving away from home as smoke and flames engulf nearly everything. listen to evacuees tell what they managed to escape with. everything else can be replaced, but my babies can t be replaced. they just can t. it s my mom s mom s and and these were real important to her, my sister s wedding dress in the back. i have oklahoma s governor on the phone right now. mary fallon who just finished touring some of the hardest-hit areas. what s the toughest challenge that you re incurring right now? well, the toughest challenge, rob, right now is that it s still very, very hot outside. your state was up to 115 in some areas of the state. we, of course, are in the middle of a big drought in our state. we need rain and cool temperatures desperately, but we have all of the resources out working very, very hard. we re coordinating fire command centers, but i don t have a total estimate on the number of acres left, but from what i can best guess we re probably about 60,000 acr
meteorologist steve fertig is here. if it anything like yesterday, day.ave in or a nice memorial maybe an isolated shower and thunderstorm because it s goingú to gettand humid. thht is conddcive for that kind of thing. overall, people could say it s a whole lot worse. no reason to cancel your i would say not, it depend on how goodda cook yoo are. 72 degrees for the temperature right now. it s a warm sttrt, 62 in saliibbry and hagerstown. we re looking at the temperatures climbing into the 80s to neithhr 90 or above in some spots. you see showerssin west virginia -ight now that is wherr they re confined to. there s a possibility for us to see a shower or thunderstorm. this mod looking more this -odel looking more widespread. tomorrow a better chance thht the rest of us with the passing front have to deal with showers and thunderstorms.3 the high pressure builds after an isolated thunderstorm or. afternoon or this evening, a better chance of thunderstorms wednesday w