Due to thunderstorm threats, the Democratic National Convention will move President Obama's presidential nomination acceptance speech and the rest of Thursday's events indoors. NBC's Tracie Potts reports.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Democrats' decision to relocate their final convention night's festivities indoors due to weather worries, prompted a new storm of logistical questions, political concerns and disappointment from some of their most loyal supporters.
Those "community" ticketholders, many of whom volunteered for the campaign for the chance to see Obama's speech in person, will instead be invited to a conference call tomorrow afternoon with the president.
Convention organizers called the move "a public safety decision" designed to avoid a scenario in which thousands of attendees -- as well as law enforcement officials, convention volunteers, and scores of reporters -- were endangered by dangerous high winds or lightning.
But Republicans immediately seized on the relocation, with the RNC labeling the move as "a downgrade" due to "lack of enthusiasm" within minutes of the press release formalizing the venue change.
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