we made it to the weekend. good morning and thanks for being here. i'm an ma cabrera in for christi. >> i'm victor blackwell. we begin with breaking news along awaited freedom for u.s. marine reservist after seven months in a mexican jail. we're expecting sergeant andrew tahmooressi to arrive in his hometown not far from westin. he flew out of san diego, you see him here, boarding the plane. this is the new video in to cnn. he's being driven here we see last night to the border post in tijuana, getting out of that white suv and then going out toward the customs buildings, before crossing back to the u.s. into california. tahmooressi was jailed, you may remember, after entering tijuana with three guns in his truck. the veteran insisted he took a wrong turn and accidentallies

crossed the border. national reporter nick valencias has been following this story from the beginning. why was he released at this time? why now? >> it's a months' long ordeal for the family. they had a congressional hearing last month october 1st pleading to the mexican government to release him on humanitarian grounds. he suffers ptsd, that's what he was doing in california, he left florida to get treatment in california that's when he says he accidentally crossed the border. we know from my reporting a couple weeks ago will was wheels in motion in high levels of the mexican government to try to find a way out. next can nationalists on the mexican side of the border don't believe his story. there's a lot of doubt that adds up on their side of the border. some of the u.s. state department also cast some doubt over his story. so there was wheels in motion to try to get him out on humanitarian grounds because of the ptsd. mexico doesn't officially have resources in their prison system for people who had ptsd. >> >> is that what did it or it turned the table? >> that's what did it.

it was never guaranteed. this was a lot of meetings behind closed doors. the family was a little bit caught off guard that mexican government would put out the information. they wanted to release it themselves. the mexican government officially withdrawing their accusation against the marine. he was facing weapons charges more than 20 years ins prison if he was convicted. >> what are we hearing from his family? >> his family has not made a public statement but did release a statement last night. i want to read part of that. obviously very emotional, overjoyed they said f we can get the full screen up. here we go. it is with an overwhelming humbling relief they confirm andrew was released after spending 214 days in a mexican jail. he was released seven months to the day he was arrested. the family goes on to say he is back on american soil and will resume his treatment for both ptsd and the residual effects of months of incarceration which has taken a toll on him far worse than his two tours in

afghanistan. >> how was he faring? do we know anything more about his condition? >> i spoken to him a handful of times over the months he was in prison and each time i spoke to him is was as if he was in more dire straits. the last time i spoke to him he was emotionally distant. you can tell being in the mexican prison system for months had take an toll. at one point he tried to take his own life with a crushed light bulb, allegations of torture, shackled by all fours naked in his prison cell. he suffered a lot according to his family during his time. in fact, i interviewed him, take a listen to what he told me a few months back. >> very good in the beginning for like the first month, things were not that -- not that good at all. i wasn't treated very fairly or nicely. i'm not guilty.

and i'm confident that the judge is going to realize that i'm not a guilty man. >> now we're just hearing from our producers andrew tahmooressi is now in florida in the miami area. so he's back on u.s. soil, according to our reporting. this is really like i said, guys, months and months of work by a variety of people, mun tell williams got on board, a lieutenant commander in the u.s. coast guard retired, he got on board and does a lot of work with ptsd treatment, mental health issues. bill richardson, former governor of new mexico, very instrumental in this release and, of course, the family, tireless efforts from jill tahmooressip. her husband, his father, really stayed out of the limelight throughout all of this. jill has been carrying the torch to get her son released and happy day for the tahmooressi family. all smiles. andrew tahmooressi back on u.s. soil. >> and hopefully we'll get more from the mexican government and u.s. government as well about how this happened and was brought to fruition. nick valencia, following from the very beginning, thank you so

much. >> thank you. >> cnn is keeping up with sergeant tahmooressi's journey back home. we know he is in the miami area. we'll bring you the very latest throughout the morning. >> we're staying on top of another big story. it was supposed to be the next generation of space exploration, perhaps the beginning of space tourism. virgin galactic $500 million spacesh spaceshiptwo. >> investigators are trying to figure out what went horribly wrong during a test flight over the mojave desert. >> one filts dead, a second injured. >> incredible eyewitness photos show the moments the space plane detached from the jet powered mothership it's called, some are calling it. seconds later you see it there, break apart. >> here's where we are today. we know virgin galactic founder richard branson is on his way to the mojave desert. he tweeted, quote, space is hard

but worth it. we will persevere and move forward together. >> so many unanswered questions about what went wrong in the moments during the test flight. cnn's tom foreman has more for us. >> reporter: ground control lost contract with the experimental spacecraft around 10:00 pacific time. the half billion dollar rocket craft could seat six passengers but during the test flight open two pilots were on board. the spaceship is carried into flight beneath an airplane and that launch vehicle returned to the ground safely but not the spacecraft. >> there was a huge explosion. it didn't occur, i didn't see it. >> reporter: the company says the mission was going as planned and even though they were trying a new rocket fuel mix, they had no signs of trouble until the apparently massive failure. >> we're flying a rocket motor today that had been thoroughly tested on the ground and had been through a qualification series and we expected no anomalies with the motor. >> reporter: what went wrong is anyone's guess.

the ship is 60 feet long and designed to fly 62 miles above the earth. and the wreckage in the mojave desert, a test to the ferocity of the explosion. a crumpled parachute could be seen on the ground but authorities say one pilot was killed and another seriously injured. >> it's a large area. the aircraft is in several different pieces. we found one person who had, obviously, was deceased immediately. the other was transported to the hospital and i do not have the condition. when we left here it appeared to be major injuries, but we don't know what that means yet. >> reporter: it's a far cry from the ambitious hopes virgin galactic founder richard branson expressed earlier this year. >> 200 of the best engineers and techniq te in thises -- technicians building them. we're beginning the final stages of test flights in flight.

by the end of this year, we will have actually gone into space. >> reporter: instead, it is another blow to the idea of privatized space travel and it comes only days after a spectacular launch pad explosion in virginia, a blast that involved a spacecraft once again manufactured by a private company. all in, it was a tough week pore the private space industry which has been growing and in so many ways looking pup. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> our thanks to tom. joining us for more is former nasa astronaut michael massmino, veteran of two space flights, four spacewalks and logged 571 hours ins space. he knows a lot about this industry and live in cooperstown, new york. i know this must hit close to home for you. what was your reaction when you first heard about the recent disaster? >> well, you know, these things happen. interestingly enough i was on the phone with another cnn

program yesterday afternoon when the news came in ha people were actually and my heart just sunk. it's terrible. we had the -- the scientists had the cargo ship problem earlier this week but i kept saying the good news there is that we didn't lose anybody. in this case it's a bit different and the reason it hits close to home is because we've had space flight accidents before with nasa where we've lost people and that puts a completely different tone to the whole thing. it's just a nightmare for the friends and family of the people who were lost. >> you know firsthand how risky or how dangerous space exploration can be and for those like yourself who dare to go anyway, what is your mindset before a mission? it has to be a little bit scary? >> it's a little bit. you know that there's a risk, but it's kind of interesting, after the -- after the

"columbia" accident, i became an astronaut in '96, flew one space flight and the "columbia" happened, it was a tragedy but really didn't change the mindset of wanting to go. that's your job, that's your desire to go, and we knew that could happen. you know, it's -- you kind of know in the back of your mind that things are going to -- like this can happen. it hasn't happened with any of the commercial companies yet testing. this is the first time it's happened here. but, you know, this is kind of the nature of the business. i think it will be interesting, too, to see the mindset of the people who have signed up for those flights. my guess is they're still going to want to go. richard branson, you just read, he plans to continue to pursue the opportunity of flying people into space so these things do happen but they're going to need to figure out what happened and do an investigation before they continue. you still need to go. this is just -- these

unfortunately, this is the nature of the business. >> it is very unfortunate, but we do appreciate your time, your insight, and your thoughts this morning. michael massmino, thanks again. make sure -- >> my pleasure. >> stay with us all morning as we wait for sir richard branson to arrive at the crash site in the mojave desert. a heartbreaking update out of washington state his morning, a third teenager has now died after being shot by a friend in marysville at the school shooting last week. her family is speaking out, releasing a statement now. we'll tell you what they're saying. >> we're on top of ebola this morning and the controversy in maine. this nurse rejecting quarantine, says she doesn't want to make people uncomfortable. (vo) you are a business pro. solver of the slice. teacher of the un-teachable. you lower handicaps... and raise hopes. and you...rent from national.

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post" federal investigators lack evidence to support civil rights charges. in business the answer to your question, is this really the best i can get? compared to other countries, americans are paying more for a slower internet. consider this, in asia, ultrafast connections are roughly 1,000 megabytes per second. it costs about 40 bucks a month. well, you can get half that speed in the u.s. but it will cost you $300 a month for it. the average u.s. speed is 9.98 megabytes per second. and in sports this morning, michael jordan never shy about talking smack, he says he has never played golf with the president, but he would. now the comments that are getting some attention come in an on-line interview where he critiqued president obama's golf game, saying he doesn't think much of it. so let the games begin. wearings, parts of the country are getting an early taste of winter this first day of november.

snow already, snow in northern georgia. snow here in georgia. i had to say it three times. >> laugh, i'm from colorado, i'm used to this. >> cnn's jennifer grey joins us. snow in northern georgia? >> the thought of snow in georgia and more importantly atlanta gives me nightmares at fight. it just does. we have seen incredible chill across much of the country. in fact, winds also playing a factor so it's going to feel a lot colder this morning than it actually is. winds right now in chicago have died down. wind speeds at 13. we had a wind gust recorded of almost 60 miles per hour, and that's the second highest wind gust recorded since 1981. cold out there. freeze warnings in effect including those southern states. as far south as mississippi, alabama and yes, northern georgia. here are your high temperatures today. 43 in milwaukee. average high is 53. about ten degrees below. chicago your high temperature today will be in the mid 40s. you are below normal as well. we have been talking about snow.

outside of knoxville some of the higher elevations could get up to a foot of snow and then just outside of kingsport about 4 to 8 inches, guys. >> well that's just lovely. >> yes. >> thank you, jennifer grey. >> all right. portland, oregon, the latest u.s. city dealing with a potential ebola case. a woman who recently arrived in portland from west africa was risked away to providence milwaukee hospital of developing a fever of more than 102 degrees. health officials in portland held a news conference hoping to calm fears. >> we are fully staffed. we actually have 500 -- about 550 employees trained and prepared and those folks voluntarily agreed to be trained and prepared to serve a potential patient in this case. >> and they say she poses no risk right now. she's being held ins isolation. the yor gownen newspaper reports that this woman is from liberia and arrived in portland this

past tuesday. doctors treating her say they still can't be sure if she has ebola or another infection. they're awaiting some test results. all right. now to maine where a nurse who rejected an ebola quarantine is claiming a major victory. >> a judge cited with kaci hickox listing most of those restrictions the state was trying to put on her. alexandria fields is continuing to follow developments from fort kent, maine. >> kaci hickox argued politicians need to make decisions based on fact and science instead of fear when formulating policies for people return from west africa's ebola hot zone. a judge in maine has issued an order which she believes is fair. >> hello, everyone. >> reporter: kaci hickox the nurse who took on the policies of two governors claims a major victory. >> i am humbled today by the

judge's decision. >> reporter: put in an isolation tent at newark university hospital in new jersey and sent to maine where she was told to quarantine at home, she's become the flashpoint in a fiery debate over how to handle the threat of ebola. now a judge has ordered almost all restrictions on hickox lifted. she'll still undergo direct active health monitoring, which means a daily visit from a cdc health official. she'll have to coordinate travel with health officials and immediately notify them if she develops symptoms. >> i think he took a risk, which i would not have taken. >> reporter: maine's governor paul lepage called the ruling unfortunate but added the state will abide by the law. in his order the judge addressed concerns about the spread of the ebola virus saying, quote, whether that fear is rationale or not, it is present and it is real. he added, kaci hickox should guide herself accordingly. >> she can go to the pizza place and get as slice of pizza. she can go to the movie theater tonight.

she can go to the public square and dance and celebrate. >> reporter: a previous order barred hickox from going to work, going to restaurants, getting within three feet of people among other restrictions. >> i've never take an walk with this many people before. >> reporter: she successfully fought for more freedom but she hasn't decided what she'll do with it yet. >> i am taking things minute by minute. i completely underis stand that and i am sensitive. i'm saying this battle isn't over. we need to continue this discussion. we still need to continue educating ourselves and i don't want to make anyone uncomfortable. >> reporter: because the judge has imposed some limited restrictions on kaci hickox she does have the right to a hearing which has been scheduled for tuesday morning. her attorneys say they have no reason to challenge the order. they consider all of this a victory. it's unclear if the state would have a right to challenge this order given the fact that the state requested a judge issue an

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25 minutes after the hour now. this morning we're learning more details about how u.s. marshals captured the accused cop killer, eric frein. >> this morning, he is behind

bars, facing nearly a dozen charges including first-degree murder. he could even face the death penalty. cnn's miguel marquez tells us how one of the fbi's most wanted was taken into custody without a shot being fired. >> reporter: an extraordinary display of murder suspect eric matthew frein, officials here clearly eager to show the world the alleged killer is now fully in their control. >> you wouldn't make it in military. >> reporter: catching him no easy task. for 48 days, frein hit in the thick eastern pennsylvania woods, as law enforcement spent day and night searching on foot and by air. >> he was able to get into cabins, into other -- or other unoccupied structures, find food. in other cases he had things hidden but he was able to get shelter and get in and out of the weather much as we suspected

was accused. >> reporter: authorities say frein prepared for years for kill, then stay on the run. >> we would find like small camp fires. now there's no way to identify who is doing that, but we would think that who else is in the woods at this time and during this manhunt trying to light very small camp fires. >> reporter: for the search, no let up. the entire massive force area was divided into grids, search and then searched again, law enforcement always a step or two behind frein until they caught a break. >> you make your own luck. it's basically just keep pushing him and then the reason that was so important, from his statements and what we believe, eric frein was going to kill again. >> reporter: but a highly rained and equipped team of u.s. marshals discovered frein. he was in the open, no weapons on him, unaware he was being watched. >> how much time are we talking from the time that they identified him to the time that arrest was made? >> it's a short period of time.

i don't have the exact amount of time. >> but quick? >> it was quick. >> reporter: the abandoned airport where eric frein was found is buried deep in the woods behind me. police still going through it trying to gather every scrap of evidence they can to build their case against him, but you can see by how thick these woods are how eric frein was able to evade capture for weeks. searchers also concerned about booby-traps, possible pipe bombs set to explode when a wire was tripped. officials discovered just such a device at a frein hideout. >> having a guy out there, an alleged cop killer was a rifle scope, booby-trapped explosives, it's very difficult to just run in there after somebody. >> reporter: when arrested, frein was put in the handcuffs of corporal bryon dickson the state corporal he killed. frein was transported in the trooper's vehicle. >> why was it so important to cuff him with corporal dickson's handcuffs and put him in corporal dickson's squad car? >> it wasn't important except to

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the miami dade county area. >> shows tahmooressi being driven last night to the border post in tijuana. you see him getting out of his white suv and going in and out of the customs building before arriving back in the u.s. there in california. >> tahmooressi has been detained after he crossed into mexico with three guns in his truck, which is against the law there. national reporter nick valencia, you have been on this from the very beginning following this story for months now. it all began back in march. why this release now? >> it's actually seven months to the day he was arrested there on that border, march 31st. right now we know weeks ago the wheels were in motion, high levels of the mexican government, to try to work out a release. ptsd is what he's suffering from. the family has tried for months now to try to get him released on humanitarian grounds. the mexican government withdrawing their accusations against the u.s. marine reservist saying they don't have the resources to street him for the post-traumatic stress. >> refresh our viewers about

what led up to where he ended up in the jail? what is he saying? >> that day, ana, what he claims, he was at a establishment on the tijuana side of the border after parking his car on the u.s. side. he walks across into tijuana, spends the day with friends, other marines with camp pendleton only to walk back later that night in the united states gets in his car and says things go awry. he gets confused, accidentally makes a wrong turn and he has all these worldly possessions in his car because he's living in san diego with a friend out of his car, which is why he has all his clothes and guns and 400 rounds of ammunition. on the mexican side there are those that maintain his story doesn't add up. a lot of doubt in his story. according to mexican nationalists and the u.s. state department that i've spoken to, they say there's no way he could have accidentally crossed. still tahmooressi claims it was simply an accident, confused, unfamiliar with the border and now he's back home on u.s. soil. >> you mentioned the ptsd and perhaps he wasn't mentally completely there or maybe

emotionally he was going through a lot at the time which makes the discrepancies in the stories. now that he's been released are we hearing anything more from him or his family? >> we saw a tweet from his attorney, it says out of respect for my client no statement shall be issued by his legal counsel auto until after he's home and ready to do the same. we know he's just landed a little while ago in florida and we're expecting to hear from his family spokesman in the 7:00 hour. we'll have our viewers tune in for ha. >> great news for him and his family. good to see you. three days left until tuesday ace midterm elections. candidates are out in full swing. this outcome could tip the balance of power in capitol hill to the republicans. they have the house, maybe they take the senate. they need six seats to win control. let's talk about what could happen on tuesday. we've got jason johnson, professor of political science at hiram college and editor for

"source zz magazine and amy cremor. i want to start with both of you. i love having you together and here. but i want to start with senator mary landrieu in louisiana and what she said about the president's poor ratings in louisiana. she said this to nbc. let's listen and talk on the other side. >> very, very honest with you, in the south, it's not always been the friendliest place for african-americans. it's been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a very positive light as a leader. >> jason, she says she's being very, very honest. is it a gaffe? >> no. it's the truth. and plus, you know the most honest people in the world are those about to lose their job. she knows she's going to lose so she can be candid about what's going on. everyone knows that about the south. 50% of the people who say they're enthusiastic about voting are people who say they're voting against the president. so, you know, there's a racial and policy component. >> and a policy energy and so forth in louisiana.

governor jindal tweeted out maybe she's living in the wrong century. maybe this -- it's not timely, but the wrong century, that seems like a stretch. >> well, i mean, it is a stretch but the fact is that many people are unhappy with the president and not just the president, but democrats in -- because of harry reid. i mean what has the senate done for how many years? nothing. one of the senators, a democratic candidate, just started a petition to fire harry reid. he's running for the senate, this democrat, and he started a petition to get rid of harry reid. they're staying as far away from harry reid and barack obama as they possibly can. >> there is no question that there -- i mean we saw that the president campaigning yesterday up in the far northeast where you really don't need the president to come out for a democrat to win. >> right, right. see here's the thing, obama is going to campaign where he can go and where it's going to make a difference. he's -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> where people want him. he's been calling local radio stations here in atlanta,

calling local radio stations in certain places. he's calling the constituencies that he knows he can galvanize at the last minute. i don't care if you're a republican or democrat you can't run away from the sitting president. the democrats who have been running away interest barack obama it's not going to help them. they need to be honest about what they support and if the voters like it, great, if not they suffer the consequences. >> he said it himself, too, his policies are on the ballot. he may not be on the ballot but his policies are and that speaks volumes. that says it right there. >> there are surprising challenges for republicans here in georgia. you've got david grado and michele nun, and the gubernatorial race between diehl and carter. why is it so difficult in georgia for republicans? >> well, you know, i think michele nun has the name identity because of her father being a former senator, but diehl, i mean look at our unemployment rate. it's the highest in the nation. that's a huge problem. so -- but all these races are

close. they all are. >> do you think he deserves to lose? >> well -- >> that's a tough one. >> come on. >> i mean -- >> i'm going to bail amy out and say when you have the lowest unemployment that's usually time where the voters will want a change. i'll say this, i think anyone can agree, i think republican or democrat, initial money has run an -- michele nun has run an excellent campaign. i think georgia is the one rare place where democrats might get a pick-up. it's going to be a runoff but they think they can get a pick-up. >> i think perdue will win in the end. >> you're pulling for -- >> it was a primary how many candidates, you know, conservatives and it was a hard fought primary. i think we'll go to a runoff and i think he'll win in the end. >> we are awaiting a decision by the grand jury in missouri and we're wondering what the impact of the decision relating to the shooting of michael brown in ferguson will be. there is -- these fliers that are going out across the country, do we have some of the fliers we can put out tying the shooting in ferguson to the

midterm elections. what will be the impact, do you think, jason, of what happens there? >> i can tell you, victor, we were there. i saw what people were talking about in ferguson. we may not see that on the senate level, we may not see that on the gubernatorial level. i know people on the ground are voting locally because of what they saw with mike brown, not just mike brown, but trayvon martin. i'm going to vote for sheriff, state senator, find out who the local states attorney is. i think the bigger impact for the shootings and activism from it people are recognizing down ballot races are just as important as the big ones at the top. >> any impact outside of that area? >> no. i mean, i think that people are going to vote what affects them and from the most part it's the economy. i mean that's what people are focused on. and that's how they vote. i mean that's what drives them to the polls. so -- but i agree with jason, not only are people voting on a local level, but that's where we should be voting. >> exactly. >> we focus so much on a federal

level, really where it's at is on a local and state level. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hope maybe off-line i get the answer to the diehl question. get all your election night coverage on cnn this tuesday beginning at 5:00 p.m. eastern. ana? >> when you live on an island form by a volcano, you might expect some setbacks, potential hazards, but it could still be very hard waiting to find out if your town will simply be wiped out. 25 years after winning the u.s. open boris becker is back on the atp tour. i caught up with him in cincinnati where becker was preparing the world number one novak djokovic. he hired becker to be his head coach at the start of the season. >> somebody that's won so much already, being number one, a very rich man, he really wants

to learn. he wants to get better. he wants to be in the history books of tennis. yet he's very hard headed and very convinced about his way, he should be, so some of the conversations weren't that easy, were not easy, but sometimes i have a different point of view, so it's up to my magic to find a way to convince him. >> you've had such a great tennis career, haven't you, and you are such a competitor. how does it feel now to be right back in it and to wake up every day coaching the man who's the world number one? >> it feels like something i haven't felt in a while.

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families of pahoa on hawaii's big island are feeling the frustration because imagine, it's hard enough being ready to evacuate at a moment's notice, as this hot flowing lava aapproaches your home. >> just when it appeared the time had come for them to flee for good, say good-bye to their homes, the lava has stalled once again. martin savidge has more on what this town is going through. >> good morning, victor, ana. ever since the eruption that is sending the lava down towards this town began, and by the way that began back in june, that lava has been flowing in this direction and kind of bfits and starts. it stops and goes. the authorities admit for a town waiting, for the people that have been evacuated, that is painfully frustrating. >> reporter: in the town of pahoa it's another day of worrying about what the lava will do. >> evacuation advisory for those residents slowed by the flow will continue.

>> reporter: residents really want a glimpse of their possible future, they only need to go about nine miles to the end of the road. this is where the road ends and i brought you here because there's something to see just up this way. this was the town of kalapan, hundreds of people lived here. between 1986 and 1991, lava from the kilauea volcano ran over this, burning and then burying it. in his kitchen as his grandson made dinner 75-year-old robert as he's known counted the number of homes spared. >> two, three, four, five, house. >> the only survivors. >> yeah. from this area. >> reporter: just as in pahoa now, then he says when the lava first came, many thought it would miss them. they were wrong. >> no place you see. >> reporter: before the lava stopped more than 150 homes were

destroyed. this is a postcard of the kalpana beach back then. absolutely gorgeous. no wonder people lived here. where i'm standing now is where the water line used to be. the lava pushed the beach a quarter of a mile away. so is pahoa doomed of the same fate? >> i think it would be premature for us to say that right now, because things can happen with the supply, maybe to starve this. >> reporter: if the worst does happen, uncle robert offers this advice. >> i would say just accept. be open. understanding that we have no control. >> reporter: back in kalpana, there are signs of life. as new residents have begun building new homes, on the old town that lies buried under 85 feet of lava. by the way, may interest you to know there are two types of lava

to be found here in hawaii. the lava that's flowing towards this town is the pahoypa hoy, which geologists will tell you has the habit of flowing and stopping and flowing again. back to you. >> what a story. thank you, to martin savidge. >> we're pushing forward on the breaking news, a marine corps reservist finally back on american soil. sergeant andrew tahmooressi spent seven months in a mexican jail. we'll try to find out why he was finally released and what is next for this war veteran. thoughtfully crafted and intelligently designed.

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cnn breaking news. top of the morning to you and thank you for being here. i'm ana a cabrera in for christie paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. 7:00 on the east coast. breaking news this morning, a u.s. marine corps reservist now back in his home state of florida. we understand he's back in his home after 214 days in a mexican jail. sergeant andrew tahmooressi his plane touched down a short time ago in miami. he flew out early this morning from san diego. but we do have the earlier video, new in to cnn, tahmoorei, we see him here, being driven last night to the border post in tijuana. you see him getting out of this white suv and going into and coming out of the customs building before crossing into california. tahmooressi was jailed in march after crossing the border with three guns in his truck. national reporter nick valencia has the latest.

>> reporter: marine reservist sergeant andrew tahmooressi is back in united states, after seven months in a mexican prison. that's him hugging family and friends at a san diego airport after crossing the border. here's a picture with him and his mother jill and a group shot with some of the people who worked to get him released, including former new mexico governor bill richardson. california congressman ed royce. arizona congressman matt salmon and family friend montel williams. tahmooressi, an afghan war vet, being held on weapons charges, was set free by a mexican court order on friday. congressman royce says he was released because the mexican prisons didn't have the resources to treat his ptsd. >> on that basis, to reunite him with his family with the knowledge that now he's going to get the treatment he needs. >> reporter: he was arrested in march at a tijuana checkpoint after mexican customs agents found three firearms in his truck, a pistol, shot gun and semiautomatic rifle and some ammunition. tahmooressi says he took a wrong turn on the california side of

the border into tijuana and accidentally crossed. tahmooressi's mom said the marine parked in this lot. he made a left, right out of here, completely missing that sign that says mexico only. no usa return. straight on to that on ramp right into mexico. how are you doing, andrew? >> reporter: in may i spoke to him on the phone from the mexican prison he was being helped. >> what have things been like for you there in mexico, andrew? >> not very good in the beginning. for like the first month, things were not that -- not that good at all. >> reporter: and now with the ordeal behind him, tahmooressi is expected to resume his treatment in florida. >> this experience for him in the last seven months, is in a lot of ways has retraumatized him. this is almost like let's call it prison ptsd. they really are going to need a break for just a little bit of time. >> nick valencia is joining us

now. what are we hearing from the mexican government, if anything? >> we're not hearing much. we heard the news initially from the mexican court. they withdrew the accusation. we haven't heard from the highest levels, the president's office, attorney general's office. i want to get to our interview on the phone, joining us exclusively is the spokesman for the tahmooressi family, jonathan franks. thank you so much for taking the time with cnns this morning. how are you? >> good morning. thanks for sticking with us all this time, nick. >> jonathan, this has been a months' long ordeal, weeks of hard work recently there on the ground. a lot of people don't know what it took to get andrew out of prison. take us through it. >> well, i think it was clearly coming to a head over the past ten days. you know, the -- this -- emphasizing this release was consistent with mexican law. their system is predicated on rehabilitation and the -- their

equivalent of the attorney general filed a nonaccusatory conclusion in which they recommended to the judge that the charges essentially be withdrawn and that he be released to seek treatment in the united states, consistent with the opinion of both the prosecution and the defense psychiatrist. so, you know, his mother, the congressman, the governor, mon tell, everybody, has been in san diego for the better part of a week. a lot of false starts along the way and they took a fair amount of kind of work to get to the point where it was. we got word about 3:00 pacific time that the judge had entered his ruling and they got him out of the prison very quickly thereafter. >> jonathan, why now? people are watching this, they've been following this

story, literally seven months to the day he was arrested march 31st on that border. he is now released from the pen tension wary in mexico. why now? >> i think the case had reached a procedural posture where this was possible and the -- you know, his latest attorney did an excellent job of getting it there. certainly the hearing held by the united states congress focused the attention on ptsd and, you know, i think it came to a head. you know, a number of factors pointed to the fact that this could not go on much longer without creating a significant diplomatic rip. >> you talked to andrew, you were on the flight with governor richardson and mon tell williams, jill tahmooressi, what was the mood like there on that plane? how is andrew doing today? >> you know, it's setting in.

i think they need a little bit of time to reconnect as a family. it was unfortunate to see somebody parked up the street jump out of a car and try to videotape what should have been a private moment. you know, i think he's thrilled to get -- it did not become clear to him that this was happening when it was happening. it was very sudden. thrilled to be able to get to reconnect with friends, family, but they're going to feed a little bit of -- need a little bit of time and space. they certainly did not sign up to be in the media spotlight. >> this is an extraordinary moment for the tahmooressi family. a big congratulations to you. all the work that you guys did to get him out of the mexican prison. that's jonathan franks, the spokesman, for the tahmooressi family, thank you so much for taking the time with cnn. >> i would say one of the hallmarks of this ought to be that there were, you know, the chairman -- the republican chairman of the full committee, the republican chairman of the subcommittee, and the former democratic governor of new

mexico, also former u.n. ambassador, this was a very closely coordinated effort over the past four days, and very much a bipartisan one which everyone was working as one, which i think we'll let andrew speak for himself about what believes in the coming time, but it certainly -- that is consistent with what his mother has consistently expressed on facebook about how the family believes that this should have been -- it's not a political issue. it's an issue of a young man that served his country, served it well, and made a wrong turn that he is hardly the only person to make the exact same wrong turn and quite frankly hardly the only one to have done it the way he did and have what he had in the car. so, you know, he's hardly unique in that respect and it's not hards to miss that turn. i drove it this week. so, you know, he's delighted to

be back. there was certainly a lot of smiles. it was a very powerful moment when he got out of the car, and, you know, i think thrilled to be home and hoping to find some semblance of normalcy without necessarily sharing every single waking moment with television cameras as he kind of reacclimates to life. he has, after all, been in custody, in isolation, for seven months with people watching him 24/7. >> jonathan -- >> he just needs a little bit of space and couldn't be any more grateful as he's becoming aware of how many people both in the press and quite frankly the american public stood by hims the whole way. >> thank you so much for taking the time. our best to the tahmooressi family. 214 days in a mexican prison, andrew tahmooressi back at home. victor, ana. >> nick, so many questions still to be answered from the mexican government.

hopefully we get that. understand he needs time to acclimate and exhale in florida. >> happy for him. now to that disaster over the mojave desert. this morning one pilot is dead, another seriously injured after virgin galactic spaceship two designed to take tourists into space had a catastrophic failure during a test flight yesterday. eyewitness photos, you can see here, show the moment the space plane detached from what you could call the mothership and moments later the picture of it breaking apart in the sky. this is what it looked like, and then on the ground. debris scattered all across the desert. this is the second air disaster this week involving the commercial space industry. you might recall on tuesday, this unmanned rocket exploded just after takeoff in virginia. yesterday's accident, a huge blow to space tourism. $500 million space plane was expected to take paying customers, including many celebrities, more than 60 miles above the earth into outer

space, and that was set to start as early as next year. this morning, virgin galactic's owner richard branson we're told is on his way to the mojave, expected to arrive any minute now. he's expressed sympathy to the families of the pilots and tweeted all our thoughts are with the brave pilots and families affected by today's events in mojave. it's unclear exactly what happened but officials with the ntsb and faa are investigating. we're going to be talking with aviation crisis consultant, he is standing by to discuss what this means for the future of the space industry, as soon as we take a quick break. we'll be right back. man: [ laughs ] those look like baby steps now. but they were some pretty good moves. and the best move of all? having the right partner at my side. it's so much better that way. [ male announcer ] have the right partner at your side.

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space tourist spaceship. i'm joined by david. he is the former head of communications for the house transportation committee. david, thanks so much for spending some time with us. a tough week for the space industry, two tragedies in one week. how does this impact the future of american space exploration? >> well, what it really means is that space is hard. it's difficult. and it can also be dangerous. but the commercial space industry is going to per seer veer, it's going to move forward and i think richard branson said very clearly that virgin galactic is going to move forward on this. make no mistake it's a difficult thing to do. >> how long do you think it will be until we know what went wrong in terms of the investigation? >> well, it could either -- we could either know very quickly or it could take a little bit longer. the national transportation safety board is on-site. they're conducting the investigation. they'll bring in the appropriate outside experts they need to look at everything and determine

what happened but they'll come to a conclusion. my guess is quickly. >> i know vir began galactic is calling it a serious anomaly that happened in the sky. we mentioned there was another incident that happened earlier in the week, an unmanned rocket in virginia, that exploded shortly after takeoff. they called that a catastrophic failure. is it just coincidence that we saw these two accidents in one week, do you think? >> space travel is dangerous. it's inherently dangerous. the forces that it takes to break the pull of gravity from the earth is absolutely tremendous. and let's not forget that rockets, they're not like jet engines that you can, you know, ramp up and ramp down. once you light them, they go. it's a tremendous amount of force and sometimes things unfortunately do happen. >> we mentioned that there were about 700 people who had signed up to be among the first space tourists, including several

celebrities, leonardo dicaprio, justin bieber, ashton kutcher. do you think this impact that happened yesterday will impact people's desires to go into space? >> i think for people to go into space on a routine basis as tourists, that the technology is going to have to be proved to be routinely safe and that is a pretty tough bar to achieve. so are people going to cancel their tickets? we'll see. but it is going to be a long road for virgin galactic. >> there still are so many unknowns that i really thought was interesting that virgin founder richard branson told cnn, he said, quote, unless you risk something, the world stays still. so he has every intention of moving forward. david fuscus, thank you for your time this morning. >> a happy to be with you. >> make sure to stay with us all morning as we wait for sir richard branson to arrive at the crash site in the mojave desert. a maine judge eases a nurse's ebola quarantine.

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21 minutes after the hour now. portland, oregon, the latest city in the u.s. dealing with a potential ebola case. a woman who recently arivz there from west africa was whisked to providence milwaukee hospital yesterday after developing a fever of more than 102 degrees. doctors treating her say they still cannot be sure if she has ebola. let's go to maine now where a

nurse who defied an ebola quarantine in a standoff with state officials is claiming victory after a judge ruled in her favor. let's bring in cnn's alexandria field who has been following this story from fort kent. kaci hickox is free to move about now, but how is fort kent reacting to that? >> well, victor, you know that all over the country and right here in fort kent the debate has been incredibly polarizing what to do with people who have returned from the hot zone of west africa. what we've seen here some have voiced the fact that they have some fear and concern but we've seen a tremendous amount of kindness towards kaci hickox, she's a member of this community. people go up to that door, drop off flowers, a pizza. how the community reacts at this point will have to do with how kaci hickox governs herself given her freedom, so to speak. she is able to move about, she could go to work, a restaurant, a movie theater, but we haven't seen her do any of those things. we've seen her take a bike ride, go for a walk, hasn't gone into

town or a public space. when the judge issued this new order which lifted most of the restrictions on kaci hickox he acknowledged the fact that there is a very present fear about the spread of ebola and that it may be irrational but he says it's there and kaci hickox should guide herself accordingly. she came out here, she spoke to the cameras. she has reiterated repeatedly she feels the policies on quarantine should be guided by fact not fear and feels this order is a victory. for what she'll do, she's taking it minute by minute and she has stayed close to home. she really doesn't want to make people feel uncomfortable. she's a health care professional. she doesn't want to scare people. she just wanted to bring this attention to light and again she's claiming this as a win. >> all right. alexandria field in fort kent, thanks. so many legal and ethical questions here. >> and beyond. let's discuss. joining me now, criminal defense attorney and hln legal analyst joey jackson and dr. joseph mccormick with the university

texas school of public health. joey, let's begin with you. we know while she doesn't have to quarantine herself any more she has to abide by a few guidelines, upon tore herself -- monitor herself, notify public health and talk to them in terms of coordinating her travel, continue to monitor and if she does see a symptom needs to let everybody know immediately. would you consider these new guidelines a legal win for kaci hickox? >> good morning, ana. you know look, this is an issue where you have the public's interest and it's immediately in conflict with the individual's interest to move about freely. and the judge did temper his decision in the way you noted. she has to submit to direct monitoring which means her temperature will be taken and they will follow and evaluate her every day to ensure she's okay. of course in addition to that, she'll coordinate the travel with local officials and if she becomes symptomatic, she'll of course know if i them then.

-- notify them. because of the fact that we don't know a lot about ebola, i mean they say we do, but the reality is people are dying and when people are dying i think a 21-day quarantine so as to ensure that the public health is protected, i think is merited and warranted. the judge viewed it differently and therefore issued his order trying to balance those priorities but at the end of the day as long as the public is protected we're all okay. >> dr. mccormick, what about that idea, maybe the people who think, why not be better safe than sorry, why not, you know, go forward with a mandatory quarantine? >> you see that the judge has used some wisdom and some understanding of the recommendations, the new recommendations, of cdc, and moreover the science. i would disagree we couldn't know about ebola. we know a lot about ebola. we know, for example, people who sleep in the same room in africa

with ebola symptomatic ebola patients, don't get infected unless they've had direct contact. we know an awful lot. in this case, the judge has looked at the risk level that miss hickox fits into it, which is some risk as a new cdc guideline describes, and that requires active, direct monitoring. that means somebody goes out to her house, takes her body temperature and asks her about signs and symptoms of ebola and she's been complying with that. the issue, should she be under total quarantine and neither the science nor the recommendations require that. in fact, if you read the new recommendations, they suggest just what the judge has done, which is to negotiate with -- if someone has been consist the and compliant with the active direct monitoring and they're asymptomatic, then negotiate with them about the level of movement, the level of activity in the community.

and in this case, he said look, go out to the community is fine, but stay within -- don't go nearer than three feet in the public area with individuals. and it's a recognition as mr. jackson has suggested that the fear is there irrational though it may be, and so i think this judge has really exercised a lot of wisdom in both understanding the needs of miss hickox and the relatively irrational fears of the community. >> joey, we know the governor still isn't happy with this. could this ruling be reversed? >> you know, there will be an additional hearing and there will be additional information at that time and, of course, her temperature will continue to be taken and if she develops symptoms, then, of course, the ruling could change. but the bigger problem here is that there is no known cure. that, of course, is in the petition. that's in all the supporting documents which this legal argument is based upon.

and, therefore, it's a problem and are we going to be in a position where we're negotiating with people when they come back, stay away from the public, you can stay home, directly monitor. the fact is, what if, after the direct monitoring, you are out, you do develop symptoms, you become symptomatic, and at that point, you vomit or something else and therefore it poses a danger to other people. and so i just think ha we need bright line rules. i'm not one for fear mongering or irrationality but we have to recognize and respect the rights of people who are going over and doing wonderful work in assisting others who have this disease, but we have to protect the public here. >> the conversation certainly continues all around the nation, all around the world. joey jackson and dr. joseph mccormick, thanks. we hope to talk to you soon. >> a pleasure. you be well. >> thank you. >> we're continuing to follow the breaking news this morning. sergeant andrew tahmooressi back in his home in florida free from a mexican jail. there he is, just landed in

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the top story this morning a u.s. marine reservist back in his home state of florida after spending seven months in a mexican jail. that new video here just in to cnn shows sergeant andrew tahmooressi, you see him here, getting off the plane, last hour at open lack ka airport at miami-dade county. the red eye flight arrived from san diego. >> tahmooressi was driven last night from the border post in tijuana where he got out of a white suv there, he went into a customs building, before heading into california and then florida. so a long travel for him. >> long trip. tahmooressi was detained after he crossed into mexico with three guns in his truck. the veteran has insisted he took a wrong turn and accidentally crossed the border. let's talk more about this now. joining us is retired lieutenant colonel bob mcginnis. thank you so much for joining us this morning. president obama, he never really spoke about the case. the highest federal official who really weighed in on this was the secretary of state, john

kerry. should the president have gotten involved and solved this potentially sooner? >> well, that's possible, victor. the reality is that, you know, the young man's free today because there was good diplomatic activity happening behind the scenes. often your president doesn't have to be the front person. i think in this case, the hero or the person that made this happen, of course, is governor -- former governor bill richardson. bill has a great deal of experience, u.n. ambassador, he negotiated for release of people with north koreans and the cubans and iraqis and sudan. he's done a lot of this. of course having been a governor there in new mexico, right next to the mexican border, he understands a lot of the issues there. so i think that it was a combination of economic pressure, keep in mind, mexico is our best trading partner. we have millions of people that cross that common border every

day. and this was becoming somewhat of an embarrassment, i think, for both countries, that, you know, people were saying let this young man go. he's suffering from ptsd. an iraq or rather an afghanistan war veteran. so the mexicans found a way to, i think, save face. they let him goes because ob stensbly they couldn't treat ptsd and, of course, you know, it was beginning perhaps to threaten some of the tourism because it was giving the mexican tourist industry a little bad name, i think, here and, therefore, it kind of backfired a bit on them. >> you talked for just a moment there about the ptsd. we know from his family that he has this unresolved, untreated ptsd there. the reports that he tried to commit suicide with a light bulb while there, being incarcerated. gives us an idea of the treatment and support that sergeant tahmooressi will

receive over the next few days and weeks? >> well, victor, as a lot of americans know that follow the veterans from iraq and afghanistan, the overpressure from ieds, improvised explosive devices, have an impact on your brain and also, you know, create nervousness. we know from tahmooressi's own testimony in his own statements that he felt insecure. that's in part why he carried the weapons and mistakenly went into mexico and got caught. he's going to get psychiatric help, he's going to get the type of encouragement, the type of background assistance that he needs. you know, sitting in an -- incarcerated in a mexican prison is not the best of all circumstances here. >> yeah. >> he will get a lot of attention, perhaps some additional assistance, some drugs that will help him calm his anxieties and the like. that's the sort of thing that he'll get in this country because we understand the veterans dilemma, the veterans

legacy from being in tough places like afghanistan. >> i said days and weeks. it may go on for months and years to try to treat the scars that we cannot see. retired lieutenant colonel bob mcginnis, thank you so much. >> thanks, victor. >> politics, the battle for control of congress is three days away. president obama making a closing pitch to a critical voting block, women. why they could bes the key to which party wins the senate majority on tuesday. s also, will jeb bush run for the white house in 2016? we're getting ahead of ourselves but there is a lot of talk about this this morning. we'll talk about it here. that's ahead. the exhilaration of a new engine. painstakingly engineered without compromise. to be more powerful... and, miraculously, unleash 46 mpg highway. an extravagance reserved for the privileged few. until now. hey josh! new jetta? yeah. introducing lots of new.

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pitch for women voters. >> reporter: president obama making a last-ditch effort to push women to the polls, hoping to keep republicans from controlling the senate. >> we've got to raise our voices to basically do away with policies and politicians that belong to -- in a "mad men" episode. "mad men" is a good show but that's not who we want making decisions about our work place these days. >> reporter: he made the remarks in rhode island where there's no senate election tuesday. he hasn't campaigned in the eight states with the most competitive races. with an approval rating of 45%, republicans are using him to drag down democratsp. >> i'm not on the ballot this fall. michele's pretty happy about that. but make nose -- make no mistake these policies are on the ballot. >> reporter: republicans say

it's president obama's incompetence on the policies, most recently on ebola and the isis threat, driving women away. >> in january, president obama refers to the islamic state as a jv team. days later the armed services committee holds a hearing on new global threats. senator kay hagan, absent. >> mark bagitch pretty much voted with the president on everything. >> reporter: these four democratic women who have spent months distancing themselves from the president, could be key to his last two years in office, especially if michelle nunn in georgia pulls off an upset. this republican woman in iowa. >> i'm joni ernst, i grew up castrating hogs on an iowa farm. >> reporter: the state that catapulted barack obama to the white house and kept him there, could give the gop the upper hand in a final chapter of his presidency. >> and now erin is joining us live from washington this morning. erin, clearly that women voting block is the much coveted prize for either party here.

republicans are saying the war on women quote/unquote is played out? >> that's right. usually democrats poll much higher with women, but this year the republicans have been able to shrink that gap considerably and both parties are finding this year that what has worked for democrats in the past few election cycles, things like suggesting that it's democrats only who can promise access to contraception for women, well that's just not cutting through anymore, ana. >> we've been watching several different race in the past week and things seem to be tightening in some places and widening in others. where are the closest races today some. >> you were just showing the map there and with the three seats the gop is basically certain to pick up, montana, south dakota and west virginia, republicans will then have at least 46 certain seats after the election. most expect mitch mcconnell will win in kentucky on tuesday night. then there are nine toss ups right now. they'll need another five after that for senate control. republican candidates are running ahead in arkansas,

louisiana, and even colorado and iowa, and if they can win all of those, they get control. now alaska is hard to poll and may be later into wednesday before we know the outcome there. then in north carolina we talked abo about that in that piece, kay hagan is keeping close with her republican challenger and in new hampshire that's closing but the democratic incumbent is ahead there. the surprise is that the democrat is polling ahead in georgia. we're looking at kansas, that's a wild card, and the independent there, greg orman, could ultimately threaten republican hopes of gaining control if he upsets pat roberts. of course, louisiana and arkansas as you know could go to runoffs and we may not know who controls the senate for at least a month. >> this could get very interesting what you just pointed out is why every vote counts. cast your ballots. erin mcpike in washington, thanks. >> bush versus clinton, this song a little bit of history

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face off with of course hillary clinton. tim stanley and cnn commentator ben ferguson are with me now. tim, i want to start with something you wrote on cnn.com. the title is why jeb bush shouldn't be president. you say it depresses you that people are talking about jeb bush because, quote, it's that the thought of a third bush in the white house feels distingtdly unamerican. expound for us. >> actually, it's even unbritish, the thing we wouldn't tolerate in our country. for a democracy to really be effective it has to be constantly going through renewal. it has to be throwing up new political personalities. the idea you could have a third bush like this, suggests that there is some kind of stagnancy in american politics that it can't go elsewhere for talent. two stats put that in perspective. if jeb bush ran on the

republican ticket and won that would mean there had not -- that every single successful republican ticket since 1928 had had either a nixon or a bush on it. and secondly, if jeb bush runs and wins, that would mean since 1980, in every single decade, there have been a bush in the white house. that to me suggests that the republican party and american democracy in general is not producing fresh talent if it has to rely on a small number of families to generate its presidents. >> let's go to you. what do you think? you start with a laugh so that gives me something. >> yeah. i love that he's talking about like even in britain 3 wouldn't do this. you guys have a queen for goodness sakes. >> there is a monarchy. >> so i'm not exactly worried about looking at it from that perspective. i will say this. if the american people, they decide they want jeb bush, who by the way, is different than george bush and is different than his dad, look at the

difference in the two bush presidencies. they were drastically different. george bush was more conservative. even foreign policies, how they both dealt with iraq. these are two different people. if jeb wants to run you shouldn't be disqualified which is what democracy is. because of your last name. so, i think the voters, in this country, specifically in america, are smart enough to decide if they want somebody and they are smart enough to actually understand that each person is different and you shouldn't be disqualified because of your last name. that would be unamerican to use one of your terms, unamerican to say only two people from your family could be the president of the united states of america. that would be incredibly unfair so i like that the he might run. >> let me challenge you on that. we heard from barbara bush when she says she doesn't want her son to run. am i the only person who thinks this is a jeddie mind trick.

this is the only way you make this look like a sacrifice and not a birth right. you have the mother saying please don't and jeb bush saying mother, i must for the good of the country. >> you know, i think she said it because i truly believe she's exhausted from the interviews and the bashing that comes when you're a president of the united states of america. you're going to have about 50% of the country that can't stand you. and they write about it every single day. she spernlgsed it with her own husband, with her son and i think it was a lot tough tear watch her kid get beat up than maybe your husband who you're in the same room in. for her, i don't want to deal with it. i can't blame her. she's taken a lot of heat, her family has taken a lot of heat. i cannens where as a mom she says i don't want any part of this again. >> tim, there's some questions how well the republicans will do with the latino vote. we know former governor bush speaks fluent spanish, married to an hispanic woman.

would that demographic help and that would be one of the strongest arguments to nominate jeb bush? >> yeah, that is very important. in 1998, he won the governor's mansion with something like 61% of the hispanic vote. his wife is hispanic, and also george w. proved very good at getting hispanic votes. the bushes are clever at that. but i think it's extraordinary to suggest that it's a triumph of the american dream that the third rich white guy in a row from a family can get in the white house. it really isn't. it's about -- >> don't like him because he is a rich white guy. >> they have all been rich white guys except for one. >> i'm not making a partisan point here. i don't like the fact that hillary clinton might run either. because the idea of bush v clinton suggests that things aren't moving forward. all that promises is another eight years of partisan gridlock. we know what the lines will be,

we know what the script will be a. re-run of the 1990s and the 2000s and you feel like why can america not move on. >> i think that is -- >> i think it's simplistic. >> we have to wrap it there. >> can i say this. >> go ahead. >> i think it's simplistic for you to think because two last names are on a ballot that none of the issues change. read the newspapers. the issues are different than they were even yesterday, much less from the 90s. >> i'll guarantee you this, if the this is a bushes have clinton race you won't see those last names on the campaign signs, it will be hillary v jeb because they don't want people to think we've done this before. thank you both. thanks. >> programming reminder. get all of your election night cover on cnn next tuesday. 5:00 p.m. eastern. >> we'll be there. that's for sure. marine corps reservist finally back on american soil. sergeant andrew tahmooressi spent seven months in a mexican

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good saturday morning to you on a cold, cold morning. temperatures 40 degrees in chicago, 40 degrees in atlanta. doesn't sound that bad on paper f. you walk outside you would think i'm a liar. it is extremely windy and it's causing the wind chills to feel like the 20s, actual temperature at 40, wind chill in chicago, 27 degrees. that's what it feels like outside. it feels like 29 in atlanta. feeling like 25 in cincinnati.

we do have those freeze warnings in effect across, yes, much of the south. as we go through the rest of the morning, so be aware of that. it is going to stay cold today and tomorrow. gradually warming up as we get into the beginning of the week. 52 today in atlanta, high temperature tomorrow 59. that's about 11 to 15 degrees below normal across a lot of the east, bundle up this weekend. by monday temperatures will feel a lot better. >> stay under the covers and watch cnn all day. >> enjoy it. thank you so much. let's press forward on this breaking news this morning. as a u.s. marine reservist takes his first steps home in the state of florida, after seven months in a mexican jail. sergeant andrew tahmooressi you see him here, getting off of a plane that touched down a short time ago in miami. >> also on board as we're seeing there in this video, there was the former new mexico governor bill richardson, also on board

tv and radio host montel williams who helped to secure his release. the afghan war veteran was detained after he crossed into tijuana back in march. he had three guns in his truck. so we're following this story from every angle. thanks for being here with us. i'm ana cabrera. >> 8:00 on the east coast. let's get to nick valencia, he has been on top of this story since the very start. at the top of last hour you had this exclusive interview with the family spokesperson, and we're learning that he just -- i'm paraphrasing, just needs to exhale at home. >> privacy, time to comprehend wa he went through. he was suffering from ptsd before he went into the mexican penitentiary and also in a prison in tijuana as well. now his family spokesman saying it's time for private time with the family. a myriad of reasons led to tahmooressi's release. i spoke to the family spokesman jonathan franks who talked about

how they got here. >> he was clearly coming to a head over the past ten days. it's worth emphasizing this release was consistent with mexican law, their system is predicated on rehabilitation and the equivalent to the attorney general filed a conclusion in which they recommended to the judge that the charge essentially be withdrawn. and that he be released to seek treatment in the united states consistent with the opinions of both the prosecution and the defense psychiatrists. so, you know, his mother, the congressman, the governor, montel, everybody has been in san diego for the better part of a week. a lot of false starts along the

way. and it took a fair amount of kind of work to get it to the point where it was. >> why now? people are watching this, following this story literally seven months to the day he was arrested, march 31 on the border. he is now released from a penitentiary in mexico. why now? >> i think the case had reached a procedural posture where this was possible. and the you know, his latest attorney did an excellent job of getting it there. certainly the hearing held by the united states congress focused attention on ptsd, and you know, i think it came to a head. and a number of factors pointed to the fact that this could not go on much longer. without creating significant diplomatic rift. >> you talked to andrew, you were on the flight with governor richardson and montel

richardson. what was the mood like on that plane? how is andrew doing today? >> you know, it's setting in. i think they need time to reconnect as a family. it was unfortunate to see somebody parked up the street jump out of a car and try to videotape what should have been a private moment. and you know, i think he's thrilled to -- did not become clear to him that this was happening when it was happening. it was very sudden and thrilled. >> 214 days is what andrew tahmooressi spent in that mexican prison. another combat veteran, john hammer, was held nearly five months in a mexican jail on the same weapons charges as tahmooressi. hammer ultimately was released because of pressure from the news media. when tahmooressi was arrested john's mom reached out to his family. she joins me now by phone. thank you for taking the time. how are you? >> i'm fine, thank you for

having me. >> good morning. what made you get involved in this case? >> actually, my son knew someone that worked with andrew's father and they reached out to john and john went over and bet andrew's father and said my family's going to help so they called us. we invited them to the house for dinner and this was about a week and a half after he had been arrested. and you know, sitting at the dinner table and hearing their story we realized that we were sort of the only people on the planet that knew what they were going through. and we're sort of uniquely equipped to help them. so, i told her at that time your only hope here is to go public. that's your only shot. otherwise it's strictly a crap shoot. and so it took them a couple weeks to really believe that. but then that's what happened. >> olivia, your son john hammer was suffering from ptsd, spent five months 18 mexican prison.

what is the rebuilding process going to be like for sergeant andrew tahmooressi? what was it like for your son? >> well, initially, johnny was so physically sick when he got home that we really got a reprieve of about two to three weeks. he was hospitalized a couple of times. and so in some sense that helped us because it gave us a reprieve from sort of the media spotlight. that's going to be really tough on this kid right now. he does need -- he has to decompress. so there's going to be time where i'm sure he's going to do interviews but he is going to need time to really take this all in. i think that you have to remember, he has been oblivious to all of this. he's heard it word of mouth, but it just isn't real to them. they really did not, you know for johnny, he didn't understand the kind of press coverage. we told him but it wasn't until he got home that he really

realized what was going on. >> you know exactly -- >> for someone struggling with ptsd. andrew had one appointment. at the v.a. so he hasn't had any help so far. he's -- all that andrew has gotten to date is prison time. >> you know all -- >> he is going to need help. >> you know all about that what the family is going through. extraordinary circumstances. it's going to be a long road ahead for u.s. marine sergeant andrew tahmooressi. we know you will be there. olivia hammer, thank you for taking the time. we'll send it back to you. >> as she articulated one of the few families or maybe no other families. what they are going through. nick, thank you. we will persevere, those are the sobering worlds from virgin galactic's richard branlsen in the face of the disaster as we look at the wreckage there. we know branson is on his way to the area now after a serious

anomaly during a test flight that killed a pilot and injured another. these eyewitness photos show the moment the spacecraft detached from the mothership that was taking it up 50,000 miles, moments later you can see it break apart. and this is what it looked like on the ground. debris scattered across the desert. this is the second air disaster this week involving the commercial space industry. on tuesday you'll recall a rocket exploded just after take-off in virginia. fortunately it was unmanned. friday's accident presents a major blow to space tourism. this $500 million space plane was expected to take paying customers more than 60 miles above the earth into outer space, as early as next year. branson is expressing sympathy. he tweeted this. all our thoughts are with the brave pilots and families affected by today's events and i should have said it's 50,000 feet in the air at the time. it's unclear exactly what happened.

officials with the ntsb and the faa, they are continuing to investigate. but some people are already taking aim at virgin galactic for being too eager when it comes to space tourism. a friend of both pilots tells cnn the technology doesn't match the enthusiasm. listen. >> engine that exploded today, even if they had had a successful flight, and even if they had not stolen my friend's life, okay. >> right. >> they would not have ever gotten anywhere near space. >> so let's talk more with space historian jonathan mcdow, he is an astro physical assist with the harvard smithsonian center. thanks. first, do you have any idea

based on those pictures, based on what we heard what may have caused this space plane to break apart midair? >> well, you know, it's early days yet. we need to wait for the investigation. there's -- it does seem at some point the nitrous oxide tank may have ruptured. it seems that the rocket engine did ignite. this is only the fourth time the spaceshiptwo ignited. the actual rocket flights are just -- were just starting up. so, we'll have to see, i think, what happened. >> we know that this industry inherently has huge risks but we just heard from a friend of the pilots including the pilot who died who said that this company's technology didn't match their enthusiasm. what's your take on that? do you think virgin galactic maybe jumped the gun and was too eager? >> i wouldn't go quite as strong

as she did, but i do think there has been a lot of concerns in the industry that they are a bit too optimistic. i think the idea that they were going to do passenger travel next year was really unrealistic and maybe responsible. you need -- before you fly passengers you need to have a lot of flights, and you know, they were -- they had not flown near space yet. even this flight i think was only going to go up to about 20 kilometers rather than the 100 they need to get up to to be in space. so, you know, they would first need to do test flights to get up to that height, then they need to do a lot of practice to demonstrate its reliability. and obviously now that's even, if they manage to get the second spaceship two finished and resolve the problems it's going to be a long time before we see them flying passengers. >> put it in perspective for us.

obviously you see these two incidents in one week and i think all of us have our jaws dropping and hearts sinking for this industry and for the families affected. but if you can very, very quickly, you know, in one word can you tell us how big a risk is natural for this industry? is this something that could just be expected to some degree? >> i think you get occasional failures and that is just going to happen. there's a lot of energy involved in these rockets. i think the rocket explosion the other day, they will recover from that pretty quickly. i think this incident with spaceshiptwo is a bigger deal. >> thanks for your time this morning. in three days we're talking elections. the balance of power in the senate could shift. and it is coming down to the wire in at least five states we're watching with candidates that are now separated by less than 3 percentage points. why some are betting on a big

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mo, i want to get to it with you. republicans seem to have a lot of momentum when you look at the polls. what are you predicting come tuesday? >> i'm predicting it's going to be a late night. you're right, there are a lot of races that are way too close to call. races that republicans thought they put away months ago or were close to putting away months ago, we saw late surge by some of the democrats and i think it is going to come down to turnout in a lot of these states. i think we're also going to see a lot of interesting races in governors' races around the country. i'll predicting by the end of the night you'll see more republican governors lose than you'll see democratic senators lose. >> 20th anniversary of the contract with america. we're going to have former house speaker newt gingrich on in the 10:00 eastern hour. one of the reasons that the former speaker says that the republicans had so much success in '94 was because they laid out their plans and they said here

is what we will do and if we don't do this, hold us accountable. can you tell the viewers what the republicans who are running right now are running to accomplish, not just to be the obama alternative. what is the republican positive direction? >> yes. absolutely. speaker baseballer laid our a road map of five things that the house would immediately tackle, improving education, rear forming the tax code, reforming the legal system, regulatory reform, that would all sort of get the economy moving again, restore some certainty to the job market and so then you know, help people with education, both k-12 and then look at making college more affordable when it comes to education. i feel very good about the positive agenda we laid out. at the rnc we laid out what we call american renewals principles a few weeks ago, 11 prince pells that republicans up

and down were campaigning on. we have a positive agenda that candidates whether they are running for mayor or state legislator all the way to congress and governor are talking about that they would enact at their level of government. so that's something that we're very proud of and people should take a look at. >> how much of that has been accomplished, what's the progress on that. to lay it out over the last several months, what progress has been made there at all? >> well, look. the only branch or the only house of the branch of government that we control is the house of representatives, that's all republicans control now. they passed over 330 bills that sat in the senate and haven't been acted on by harry reid and the democrats there. so when it comes to actually getting things done, the only part of government that is actually moving things along is the republican controlled house. and the reason that we're going to take over the senate on tuesday night is because i think the american people recognize that a lot of those bills that

have gotten passed over are bipartisan and by harry reid saying no to everything, not moving bills that snowing getting done. i think once we replace harry reid with mitch mcconnell and have a republican majority we're going to see things get put on the president's desk and a focus put on moving america forward, getting the economy back as the number one focus of this -- of washington. >> i want to give you a chance to respond. >> let's change that. >> shawn is a good friend and good at his job but even he i think has a hard time selling this notion that the republican house is the only branch of government that is working. i think the republican party lost its right to argue that it is a functional party the day it shut the government down. and it cost our country 20 plus billion dollars, copps our economy that. because of an ideological obsession they have. let's be clear. >> you guys control the government. the v.a., the irs, all of that.

>> a chance to finish. >> see, this is a problem with the republican party. shawn is playing right into it. look, there is immigration reform that's sitting in the house that has bipartisan support. it won't even come up for a vote thanks to the republicans. they are not moving on raising the minimum wage, on helping alleviate the student debt burden. democrats are trying to fight for all of these things. mitch mcconnell has said that if and when -- if the republicans take control of the senate, they will continue a lot of these same battles that could lead to another government shutdown, promising more dysfunction if the president tries to move on immigration reform, on this middle class agenda that the american people overwhelmingly support. and so i think trying to argue that you're the only ones that can get anything done has just proven not to be the case at all. >> let me ask you, mo, before we wrap up. we heard from congressman

charlie rangel that there are some republicans who don't believe that slavery is over. what do you make of that comment? >> i've actually -- i had not heard that comment but -- >> you hadn't heard that? i think everybody who is following the races heard that. >> there have been comments about race. >> there's a lot of comments that have been made about race. and i think that democrats are out there trying to motivate folks to vote, republicans are out there trying to motivate people not to vote. >> is that a motivatorsay the republicans believe that slavery is not over. that's a motivator to get people to sflot >> look, i -- >> come on. >> hey, shawn. shawn, i'm not going to -- >> talk to you about -- let me come to you. >> and shawn, i'm not going to get into a debate over tactics given a lot of the despicable stuff we have seen from

republicans around the country that frankly, knowing you as a person i think you yourself would be disgusted with that we're seeing from a lot of your candidates. do i think republican party believes in slavery, no. i don't believe the republican party believes in slavery. i think the republican party is doing a lot -- doing a lot of things that are one, hurting minority communities and two, in terms of its policies and two, is doing a lot to actually suppress the vote and that is something that i think is going to come back and bite the republican party in the behind both in this election and long term because it cannot sustain a system where it continues to suppress the vote and tell people that their voice shouldn't matter. >> how has the republican party reached out to minorities? >> cnn itself documented a lot of the opportunities we've opened offices in detroit, michigan, where we started to go into different communities whether it's the black community t asian communities, hispanic communities, put staffers in, we

made an investment from this party that's never been seen reaching out and putting staffers involving ourselves in community events, going out and touching people. what mo said is false. our entie effort right now is and we've been talking about this is getting out there motivating people to vote, putting messages out. it's false to say we're not. if you look at the democratic party of today and it's well documented by the media they have become a niche party. the war on women, scaring minority voters that they are going to lose their right to vote. in atlanta -- >> women are -- >> hold on. let me finish. you asked me. so what it has become is a question of the democratic party talking about how to scare voters to get out there and do things. we're offering an agenda to move america forward. >> women are a majority. they are not a niche. >> mo, shawn, thank you. of course the programming reminder get your election night coverage here on cnn tuesday. special coverage starts at 5:00

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bottom of the hour. made it to the weekend. thanks for being here. >> a u.s. marine reservist is back in his home state of florida after spending seven months in a mexican jail. we've got new video that shows sergeant tahmooressi landing early this morning in opa-locka airport. he was detained after he crossed into mexico with three guns in his trunk. a veteran of two tours in afghanistan tahmooressi suffers from ptsd. he was released on humanitarian grounds. >> on that basis to reunite him with his family with the knowledge that now he is going to get the treatment he needs.

>> this experience for him is in a lot of ways has retraumatized him and this is almost like what's called prison ptsd. >> we're seeing people speaking out for him. what more are you learning, knick, about this release? it was a myriad of people that helped get -- secure andrew tahmooressi's release. a lot of people saying this is amazing because they weren't expecting this to happen. not this soon if at all. part of what led to this delay if you talk to the family is legal problems, they had three attorneys, two of which they fired, one in may, one in june. poor legal counsel early on. the mother saying andrew had never been to mexico before. we learned that was not true. he crossed at least six times before but said part of the reason that led to this delay was they were given poor counsel early on. attorneys screened by the u.s. state department which is why she went with them.

it took this third attorney who defended the tijuana mayor before, got that case dismissed. there was a lot of optimism when he joined the legal defense team that they were going to be able to release andrew tahmooressi or secure his release, now after 214 days in the mexican prison, seven months to the day he was detained on the u.s./mexico border he is back on u.s. soil. >> anything about treating his ptsd? >> he is going to go into therapy in florida. that's the plan. we don't know how soon. you would assume that starts almost immediately after that sort of reintegration process into the family. we heard from a mother whose son went through the same thing and that rebuilding process is really going to take a lot of time. >> sounds like he was in a very dark place but now a little bit of light. nick, thanks so much. portland, oregon is the latest u.s. city dealing with a potential ebola case. >> we want to emphasize

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what's the reaction from the town to this latest development? >> reporter: good morning. opinion opinions, some why kaci hickox was wanting to fight the state. stopping by the house. but kaci hickox said that while she -- >> the nurse who took on the policies of two governors claims a major victory. >> i am humbled today by the judge's decision. >> put in isolation tent at newark university hospital in new jersey, then sent to maine where she was told to quarantine at home. she's become the flash point in a fiery debate over how to handle the threat of ebola. now a judge has ordered almost all restrictions lifted. she'll still undergo direct active health monitoring which means a daily visit from a cdc health official. she'll have to coordinate travel

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you heard the numbers, the control of the senate coming down to a few races. colorado, kansas, iowa, georgia, north carolina. and with three days left before the midterm elections, polls in those states are showing that the race is tight. all of those races are tight, with both candidates within just three points of one another. can the democrats hold on this tuesday night or will republicans take the senate? and of course everyone's expecting they will keep the house. joining us maria carduena. welcome to both of you. this is going to be fun. >> crystal, i want to start with you. senator rand paul had harsh words about the gop brand. according to the hill, paul said first he started with a question, you remember domino's

pizza they admitted our crust sucks. the republican party brand sucks so people don't want to be a republican and for 80 years african-americans have had nothing to do with the republicans. crystal, does the gop brand suck? >> well, senator paul is correct. black americans have shied away from the party of lincoln for decades upon decades, and i've been critical of my own party and the brand, i don't know if the brand sucks, the brand needs -- is in disrepair. it needs some refurbishing. how about that, victor. really, what we have going for us and the reason you see us making this a tight race in the senate is the republican party as i've always said we have a great message, we don't change our message if you're black or you're a woman or you're a man. we don't engage in these false identity politics and racial politics. what's broken is our messengers, we have too many white men taking the message to the streets. and i got to tell you victor,

i'm a black woman and i'm a conservative, and i -- we need more blacks, women, hispanics taking the message to the streets to the conservatives. it's like coca-cola doesn't just use white people to market its brand, right. because that doesn't sell. cheerios uses minorities in their ads because they know that cheerios is going to sell more when it uses people that represent america. that's what the gop needs to do. rand paul, you know, i don't think it sucks, i think the brand is broken. >> maria? >> i think the gop brand does suck and that's why in these midterms democrats are in the hunt. look, with such a difficult map that democrats were looking at going into these midterm elections and seven months ago, eight months ago republicans were predicting a huge wave, the fact that it is not a done deal that republicans are going to take over the senate three days before the midterm elections, is, i think, a huge reflection

on the fact that the republican party brand not only sucks but that they are not speaking to all of the voters that they need to be speaking to. like women, like african-americans, like latinos, they are not running on anything. the only agenda they are running on right now is fear. and that's why voters -- >> let me ask you, let me get to this question about brand. talking about talking to voters and a brand that sucks. president obama yesterday was campaigning in rhode island and maine as if they really needed the president to be there in rhode island and maine helping the democratic candidates win. so is his brand just as bad as the domino pizza crust and what rand paul thinks the gop brand is. >> republicans would kill for president obama's approval rating so yes, his numbers are down, no question. but they are not nearly as awful and on the floor as the republican brand is. and again, when you have a party

that is running on not even wanting to raise the minimum wage, and two thirds of minimum wage workers are women, you have a party that just wants to deport immigrants and has done nothing to pass comprehensive immigration reform, you have a party that can only focus on passing voter i.d. laws across the country, so minorities are making it harder for them to vote, that is why you are looking at a midterm election where democrats, it's very possible, that we continue to hold the senate in a map that was so difficult. it's because of that republican party. and the fact that democrats are running on what will help middle class families. >> i mean let's try to be honest here. the president obama's brand sucks. alison grimes is running in kentucky against senator mitch mcconnell. she can't even utter the word obama like many other democrats running in the senate. that's why this is a tight race. nobody wants to have anything to do with obama care or president

obama's policies. if republicans had approval ratings like president obama, i mean, we wouldn't be in the situation of about to take over the senate and finally, what i'd like to add is what's really insulting and victor talked about this earlier with mo of the dnc is that you and i both know that black americans are critical to the a lot of these senate races in louisiana, north carolina, georgia. what do you all do? the democratic national committee taking out ads saying you got his back. you got to vote for obama because he's black. that is not a policy. that is racial baiting, it's insulting, it's playing black people for fools. >> we got a minute left. >> republicans don't talk one way, the republicans are ignoring -- >> hold on. hold on. we've got just a minute left. i need maria to respond and then i'll give you 30 to finish up. >> republicans don't clang the message for one group.

>> now it's my turn. those ads that focus on president obama, they are on president obama's policies like helping middle class voters, education, raising the minimum wage, and making sure that women have the right to make their own decisions. that's why democrats are in the hunt and that's why the republican wave right now has not materialized. so again, it's a comparison between which party is going to be fighting -- >> we got to call it. i told you it would be fun. thank you very much. programming remind every. all of the election night coverage tuesday starts at 5:00 eastern. if yand you're talking toevere rheumyour rheumatologiste me, about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage.

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good morning to you. don't forget before you go to bed tonight we fall back. daylight saving time ends and so you get an extra hour of sleep. how does that sound. set your clocks back before you go to bed. reminder to check the batteries in your smoke detectors today as well. guys, when you work a morning show what is this, the best night of the year. >> time to celebrate is what this is. >> thanks, jennifer. before we go here is a look at the top stories we're working on. happy homecoming this morning for a u.s. marine reservist.

sergeant andrew tahmooressi. he is back in his home state of florida after spending 214 days in a mexican jail. seven months to the day. the afghanistan war veteran was detained in tijuana after he drove into mexico with three guns in his truck. he insists he made a wrong turn and crossed by accident. >> investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong in this deadly spacecraft disaster that happened over the mojave desert yesterday. officials say onepy lot died when the virgin galactic spaceship two broke apart. it is unclear what the mishap will mean for the future of space tourism. >> that's it for us this hour. of course we'll see you back here at 10:00 eastern in the cnn newsroom. we are following all of the big races that are so tight as we head into tuesday's midterms. >> hopefully we give you good information. don't go anywhere. "smerconish" starts right now.

hello. welcome to the program. i'm michael smerconish. digging down on key questions, these ebola quarantines, do we need them to protect the public health or need them to quell the public's fear? we'll get into it. the tightest elections we've seen in years. one man about to go out on a limb throwing out the conventional wisdom. then the obesity epidemic. the question nobody wants to talk about. what happens when america gets too fat for sex? one of the greatest rock and roll guitarists ever pours his heart out. joe perry is here and lots more. so stick around.