Updated: 4:52 PM Accepting his party's nomination to be president, Republican Mitt Romney says he wants to restore the nation's promise by creating jobs for millions of unemployed Americans

Updated: 11:09 AM FEMA officials traveling with College Station-based Texas Task Force 1 were still waiting to move out from the staging area in Alexandria, Louisiana, Thursday morning.

Posted: 10:57 AM Louisiana officials have ordered evacuation of low-lying, sparsely-populated areas along the Tangipahoa River because an Isaac-hammered dam at a state park lake in southwest Mississippi near the Louisiana border is in danger of failing.

Updated: 10:35 AM Former President George W. Bush will be remembered fondly for his handling of the Sept. 11 attacks, members of the Bush family said in a tribute video shown here Wednesday at the Republican National Convention.

Updated: 8:50 AM FEMA officials with Texas Task Force 1 say they are still staging Thursday morning, waiting on winds to lessen before they are told to move in.

Updated: 8:06 AM The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits was unchanged last week at a seasonally adjusted 374,000, suggesting slow improvement in the job market.

Posted: 11:07 PM Scores of scores of buses, dozens of high-water vehicles and 50 boats are evacuating at least 3,000 people in Louisiana's St. John the Baptist.

Posted: 11:03 PM Paul Ryan has accepted his party's vice-presidential nomination and immediately gone on the offensive against President Barack Obama.

Updated: 12:03 PM Federal health officials say that West Nile virus cases are up 40 percent since last week and are on pace to rival the record years of 2002 and 2003.

Updated: 5:20 PM Twitter's Response to #Isaac

Updated: 8:00 PM Isaac is close to being back at tropical depression strength -- however, continues to foster flooding rains, severe weather and storm surge throughout the Gulf Coast.

Updated: 1:01 PM Brazos Valley This Morning spoke with a resident in Harvey, Louisiana Wednesday morning as Hurricane Isaac made a second landfall.

Updated: 8:54 AM Charlie McDermott with FEMA is embedded with Texas Task Force 1 in Louisiana and spoke with Brazos Valley This Morning Wednesday about the next 24 hours as Hurricane Isaac makes a second landfall.

Posted: 11:05 PM President Barack Obama is telling college students they have the most at stake in November's presidential election and says their generation will determine the nation's path.

Posted: 10:58 PM New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is building the case for a Mitt Romney presidency by saying the GOP nominee will tell voters the "hard truths" they need to hear to grow the economy and create jobs.

Updated: 10:42 PM United Airlines is working to get its flights running on-time again after major computer problems caused delays and cancellations.

Updated: 7:17 AM NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Isaac is lashing New Orleans as it approaches and pushing flood waters over a rural levee south of the city, where authorities believe some people may be trapped.

Updated: 9:36 PM Forecasters say Isaac has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane with 75 mph winds as it makes its way toward Louisiana.

Posted: 10:32 AM His convention speech finished, Republican Mitt Romney planned to outline a "clear vision of a Romney presidency" in an address that will also refer to the storm bearing down on the Gulf Coast.

Updated: 10:28 AM TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The wife of Republican Mitt Romney is opening up with new details about her recently disclosed miscarriage.

Posted: 6:32 AM Authorities say there've been no reports of damage or injuries after a strong magnitude-7.3 earthquake and a second, magnitude-5.4 temblor struck off the coast of El Salvador.

Posted: 12:19 PM The impending hurricane has put a crimp in Republicans' convention plans in Tampa, but the few hundred protesters gathering downtown say they are ready to go, rain or shine.

Posted: 11:24 PM Investigators in New York are trying to piece together what caused a quiet loner laid off from his T-shirt designing job to ambush and kill an apparel company executive outside the Empire State Building.

Posted: 11:19 PM Mitt Romney is promising to promote women-led businesses if he's elected president.

Posted: 11:14 PM President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney has locked himself into "extreme positions" on economic and social issues and would impose them if elected.