cheering this decision as a bold move by romney that will help energize the base and show voters that romney is really serious about economic change. the two men will appear together for the first time as running mates in norfolk, virginia with the uss wisconsin. the old battleship as a backdrop. then they will begin a bus tour that will take them toward the republican national convention in tampa. that begins in about three weeks. we ll bring you mitt romney s announcement live. we re standing by for that from norfolk, virginia. let s bring in our own jim acosta on the scene in norfolk for us now. you re there. that crowd is getting a bigger and bigger. folks are showing up to hear history unfold. that s right, wolf. i just got confirmation from a senior romney adviser this is not earth shattering. it s obviously a given. paul ryan will be here for the announcement later on this morning. we can also report a new twitter handle has been set up for the wisconsin congressma
hard core fiscal conservative it could dramatically reshape the race. we ll tell you how and find out why some are calling romney s choice a big gamble. first now the actual moment when mitt romney revealed his vice presidential pick. it happened two hours ago in norfolk, virginia, the starting point of a four-day, four-state bus tour for the new ryan/romney team. the presumptive republican nominee announced his choice on the uss wisconsin a retired battleship that s now a museum. he called ryan a man of character and values. paul s upbringing is obvious in how he s conducted himself throughout his life, including his leadership in washington. in a city that s far too often characterized by pettiness and personal attacks, paul ryan is a shining exception. he doesn t demonize his opponents. he understands that honorable people can have honest differences and he appeals to the better angels of our nature. a lot of people in the other party might disagree with paul ryan. i d
killing three soldiers in the country s southern helmand province. cnn s chris lawrence is live from the pentagon. what are your sources telling you about this attack this morning? well, john, they say they are still trying to figure out whether this was actually a true afghan police officer or someone just wearing the uniform. although the taliban is claiming that this was an actual afghan policeman who lured these three soldiers to his residence or to a party and had planned to kill them for some time. u.s. military officials are now confirming that part of the detail. but again, it speaks to a larger issue, which is trust in the fact that if this is a so-called green on blue attack, where afghan troops turn on their american allies, it would be the third time just this week. in fact, in the big picture, there have been more attacks already this year of that kind than all of last year, john. all right, chris lawrence at the pentagon. the story developing at this momen
including that an organization that tracks hate groups has been monitoring wayne michael page for more than ten years now. police are looking into the 40-year-old page s ties to white supremicist. this photo of page in front of a swastika is front of a facebook page that s been taken down. he was the front man for a white power rock band whose music was promoted on a neo-nazi website. i would not have known that was wade. what has changed him i have no idea. and obviously we re never going to know. i m totally devastated. his father is devastated. we re in pretty much in shock. david mattingly is live with us in oak creek, wisconsin. it s the southern poverty law center who said they ve been tracking page since 2000. was law enforcement involved at all? reporter: this man han talking about his believes for quite some time. he may have been off the radar when it comes to law enforcement. but for the people who knew him, they say that his thoughts about racial ideas wer
tackle the victim. six victims dead along with the gunman. david mattingly, what is the latest? reporter: well, here s what we know this morning. we have a law enforcement source who is involved in the investigation telling us that the shooter was an army veteran and at one time it was believed to be a white supremacist. we know the witnesses at the temple describe him as a white male, bald, wearing a t-shirt, dark pants with april tattoo that says 9/11. all of that together, we have a local law enforcement official saying ty were approaching this as a case of domestic terrorism. now late into the night last night, about 5 miles from here, they were searching a house believed to be the home of the shooter. they were approaching it cautiously. i was out there until very late last night watching this going on. the evacuated the houses nearby, the house they were shooting that they were going into. they were also getting the people in nearby streets to stay in their homes. t