no major damage just flooding along the highway. that s why it s closed and already trees and limbs down. expect that to continue to increase as we head throughout the next 24, maybe even 36 hours. paul goodloe, thank you. we ll continue to update the storm throughout this hour and throughout the day on msnbc. with isaac still churning, the republicans have kept open the possibility of a change in the convention schedule if that situation worsens significantly. vice presidential candidate paul ryan headlines tonight. but today, everyone is talking about those two blockbuster speeches last night. new jersey governor chris christie gave the keynote but ann romney spoke from the heart. i read somewhere that mitt and i have a storybook marriage. well, let me tell you something, in the storybooks i read, there never were long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. and those storybooks never seemed to have a chapter called
beginning. getting all of the votes needed to become the republican party nominee. he will accept that thursday night. bring in the panel. mara liasson, national political correspondent of national public radio. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. juan williams, columnist with the hill. bill kristol editor of sandusky. one of thsand weekly standar one of the biggest speeches is ann romney tonight, wife of mitt romney. we just received excerpts. i will read some of this. she will say tonight i want to talk to you about love. it read somewhere that mitt and i have a storybook marriage. well, in the storybooks i read there were never long, long rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once and the storybooks never had chapters called m.s. with breast cancer. storybook marriage? no. what we have a real marriage. she ends by saying i can t tell you what will happen in the next four years but i can stand here as a wife and mother and grandmother and
in the storybooks i read, there never were long, long rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. and those storybooks never seemed to have a chapter called ms or breast cancer. a storybook marriage, nope, not at all. what mitt romney and i have is a real marriage. ann romney also made a strong effort to reach out to women voters. sometimes i think that late at night if we were all silent, for just a few moments and listen carefully, we could hear a collective sigh from the moms and dads across america who made it through another day and know that they ll make it through another one tomorrow. but in the end of that day moment, they just aren t sure how. and if you listen carefully, you ll hear the women sigh a little bit more than the men. it s how it is.