Republican Convention takeaways: Sharing stage with crises

Republican are proceeding with the third night of their national convention, but many Americans — particularly those in the path of Hurricane Laura — are focusing on more immediate concerns. A political convention is the most scripted, tightly controllable of events, especially when it is mostly virtual and much of it is prerecorded. As Republicans gathered for the third day of a convention to renominate President Donald Trump, a massive hurricane was taking aim at the Gulf Coast, wildfires continued to scorch California and the National Guard was being deployed to a city in the battleground state of Wisconsin after a white police officer shot a Black man.