shannon: even though tampa is not in the direct path of the tropical storm, more cancellations can be could be on the way. peter doocy has more. reporter: the convention will be gaveled into session tomorrow, but events lbs cancelled until tuesday. they hope to begin laying out a revised schedule today. but there is a potential that a direct hit by this hurricane, up the gulf coast could prompt more cancellations. as romney gets ready to take center stage this week, president obama is not pull anything punches. in an interview with the sorked press, obama said that romney has locked himself into, quote, extreme positions on economic and social issues and would impose them if elected. and vice-president biden cancelled plans to campaign in florida tomorrow. according to authorities, all nine of the bystanders wounded friday near the empire state building were hit by bullet ors
plaq plaquemines parish and maria molina is live in the weather center. isaac could hit new orleans, hard to believe. exactly to the day seven years after katrina hit. and another interesting fact in 2001, seven of the last i-named storms have been retired, due to deaths they ve caused or how much damage they ve caused, so this is something eerie and coincidences and right now we have the isaac system that s basically already moved out of the keys and now producing heavy rain across, just open water in the gulf of mexico, but the water out here is very warm. temperatures are well into the 80 s, across the gulf of mexico, so, we re forecasting that it should intensify, unfortunately before making landfall somewhere along the northern gulf of mexico, along the gulf coast, again, tropical storm isaac maximum
to scale back on the g.o.p. convention and on fox news sunday, the sale will go on. and we re going to nominate mitt romney and paul ryan and have a great time in tampa and done under the abundance of cautions or our delegates in tampa. and john roberts live for us in tampa, john, i got a peek at it, an impressive amount in a short period of time. it s very much like 2008 when hurricane gustav hit in mississippi and it s compressed into three days and it s matching now, what the democrats will be doing and they ve managed to get the headliners back in and i don t think if they ve dropped some of the smaller people, but the headlinesers are there, including chris christie there tuesday night at 10:30. as the storm tranning moves further westward, it looks likes we re going to get out of the main part are the of the storm and bob buck horn, the mayor of tampa, says he
shannon: a hurricane watch extended to include the new orleans metro area as tropical storm isaac crawls toward the u.s. the watch now stretches from louisiana to the florida panhandle as far as we are talking about now a direct hit. the outer wands are lashing the florida keys where it is expected to move in later today. isaac is gaining strength and could become a category the 2 hurricane before hitting on the northern gulf coast late tuesday or early wednesday. this week s gop convention expected to be the most latino focused convention in the party s history. gop leaders hoping to convince hispanic voters they have nor offer. according to a recent poll they have a whole lot of ground to make up in the meantime. puerto rico s governor who has endorsed governor romney will speak at the convention on wednesday and joins us to talk about how governor romney can
why was he in st. louis? and how did he get grabbed from what should be a secure area? those are all good questions. he was in st. louis because he s on a transplant list for a heart defect. he suffers from a hardening and thickening of heart muscles. we re told by family members that he s got a leaky valve, too. he was admitted into the hospital in st. louis on friday because he had fluid in his lungs, hence his presence at barnes hot. his father then visited several days later, i believe it was on monday when he made a visit to the hospital. that is not confirmed, but it was several days after his mom and 35-year-old porter got admitted to the hospital that his father got there. and yesterday, his father went there to take him and go to the pharmacy to get prescriptions. when his father made a call to tiffany stone, which is porter s mom and said i m leaving with him. so a scary situation given the fact that he should have never, according to family members been able to l