was "major league." call governor crist the wild thing. what would harry doil say about that pitch? >> first offering. just a bit outside. >> just a bit outside. just a bit outside. >> just a bit. >> well, programming note. next week north korea planning a major military parade and a series of war games to honor the founding of the work earl's party of korea. alina cho reports inside north korea here. meanwhile, we are going to have our weekend and we'll be back bright and early monday morning. hope you join us. >> good morning, kyra. >> good morning. busy friday here. you will see ear haen how ugly politicking is as the midterms draw closer. whoever said if you can't say something nice don't say anything at all clearly never ran for office.

those miners trapped in chile, their ordeal might be over soon. a dad pushed to the sidelines because of his wheelchair. we're krig foul and naming names. i'm kyra phillips and you're live in "the cnn newsroom." well, we're now just 25 days before the all-important midterm elections. time is short and the tone is ugly. and those bare knuckled tactics can backfire. let's begin with red-faced republicans. the gop pulled this ad. seems to show washington bashing locals in west virginia. >> obama's messing things up. >> spending money we don't have. >> yeah. >> stimulus, obama care. >> know manchin supported it all. >> joe's not bad as govern but with obama -- >> those are actors. here's the problem. they answered an ad in philadelphia seeking, a quote,

hickey blue collar look. may not win votes from the people it offended. speaking of offensive, how about the unscripted conversation about meg whitman, the republican running for governor of california? >> they know whitman will cut a deal but i won't. she's a whore. >> yeah. you heard that word right. really. pretty unscripted moment there. it comes after a conversation within jerry brown's circle. he was somebody there was accusing whitman of selling out to special interests. well, we got a lot of ground to cover. cnn's senior political editor mark preston looking at the gaffes. christine romans with another issue, the jobless numbers fresh in the minds of voters heading to the polls. mark, let's start with you. 25 days before the election. things always get nasty. we'll get to that offensive word

toward meg xwhitman whitman in . first the political ads. what makes them different? >> well, kyra, first off, terribly embarrassing for the republican party, specifically the national republican senatorial committee which paid for that ad. on the front page of the newspaper in west virginia, the headline is gop pulls hickey ad in west virginia. terrible message. the back story on this, though, kyra is that the nrsc subcontracted to try to have this ad made. they didn't use the word "hickey" but it doesn't matter. they're being tarred with it and only gets worse. in fact, in the past 30 days, evan tracy, our political ad consultant tells me 62% of all political ads that have run in the past month or so have been negative and it's only going to get worse. >> all right. now let's get back to the phone conversation, jerry brown and

his staff there in the room. they all thought that this call had ended and then somebody within that group calls whitman an extremely offensive term. what do we know? >> well, we know that it's an unscripted moment on behalf of the jerry brown campaign and very frustrated because it looks like they were trying to get a union to support them but this is exactly what you said. it's extremely offensive. there's only a few words in the english language, kyra, i think really offensive to women and this is one of them and where it could hurt jerry brown is with independent women, women who say, look, jerry brown or campaign stands for one thing and yet he says these things off camera or off mike. that could potentially hurt him. we know the meg whitman campaign is really playing this up. >> i would be curious to know if there's women in the room when that word was used. thanks so much. enough political mudslinging. another factor of the elections,

the economy. last hour, we received the jobless americans. monthly unemployment numbers flat and going to be the last measure voters see before they head to the polls. christine romans has the latest facts an figures. christine? >> well, kyra, 9.6% is unemployment rate. that's flat. didn't get worse as many people thought. many people thought it might be 9.7% but 9.6% is the unemployment rate in the country and the economy lost 95,000 jobs in the month. 95,000 jobs. mostly because of government jobs being shed, those census jobs were lost and 2010 census expiring and local governments are shedding jobs because they have to balance their budgets and they don't have the money. but we are looking at the private sector. the job creation, this is key. are independent companies adding jobs? and they did. modestly. 64,000 jobs added in the private sector in the month. now, that's not enough to absorb

new people into the labor market, people graduating from college, coming to this country, not enough to keep the economy plugging along and to cut into that unemployment rate but it is a little bit of something so that's where we stand right now. no big, dramatic changes for this labor market report. the last labor market report as you point out until the elections. >> got it. mark, while i still have you, these unemployment numbers, how do you think it will play at the polls? >> good news/bad news. nationally did not go to 10%. bad news, in many of the key states, kyra, the unemployment rate is over 10%. what democrats are telling their candidates right now to try to make it a local election. what we are seeing from republicans is they're trying to nationalize the election. in fact, paul steinhauser is handing me paper with a story up on cnn politics in a few moments with the republican reaction to the jobs report.

republicans will try to nationalize this election and trying to tie the democrats to president obama and this bad economic news. >> got it. all right, marck, thanks so muc. christine, thanks. falcon lake between texas and mexico, it's a huge complex and very dangerous crime scene right now as investigators are looking for a missing jet skier. cnn asked his wife what they were doing in such a notoriously dangerous area to begin with. i'm rob marcia no. looking at tropical storm otto and another disturbance potentially and a beautiful fall weekend for most. who's in trouble? weather is coming up. to keep their bodies strong. carnation instant breakfast essentials supplies the nutrients of a balanced breakfast to help build strong muscles and healthy bones. carnation instant breakfast essentials. good nutrition from the start. sometimes i would get rewards, sometimes i wouldn't. this one card i had -- there were all these rules. rules and restrictions. oh, and limits.

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woman claims mexican pirates shot and killed her husband is willing to take a lie detector test if she's asked to do. some doubters aren't sure if the story adds up. namely mexican authorities. they say they can't verify the shooting and so far david hartley's body has not been found. also, gunmen have robbed or threatened boaters on the

mexican side offal can lake at least four times this lake. the hartleys were on jet skis. anderson cooper asked tiffany if they knew what they were getting into. >> we knew that there had been pirates there. we didn't realize they were still, you know, it had been very active in the last couple of months. we hadn't heard anything. we did discuss, you know, that that was a possibility. we didn't really discuss too much about what would happen or what we would do. we figured, you know, we would run and outrun them. our jet skis are super -- i mean, they're fast. they go up to 70, 75 miles per hour but you can't outrun the bullets. >> mexican side of the lake is so dangerous investigators called off the search for hartley because of threats to their lives and asked the drug cartel to turn over the body if they have it. the search is back underway. cnn's gary tucmman went out on the water with texas investigators. >> reporter: it is a horrifying

scenario. a woman and her husband jet skiing on a lake between the united states and mexico. the husband is shot and killed by pirates, the woman escapes with her life. but other than her word, there's no solid evidence a crime occurred but there's no solid evidence a crime did not occur. when's the sta the us of this investigation and what kind of place is this lake? we have an armada of armed protectors. heading out for a short voyage on what may be na n's most dangerous lake. this is the sheriff of zapata county, texas. are you 100% convinced she is telling the truth? >> we can never be convinced 100%. 99.9%, yes. >> reporter: would you be willing to have her take a polygraph test to aid in the investigation, to be 100% sure? >> i cannot force her to do it. >> reporter: would you like her to do it? >> if she wants to do, sure. >> reporter: this is what tiffany hartley said about suggestions by some she's not telling the truth. >> i know what i know. i know what i saw and i can just

tell you what i know. unfortunately, he's not here to, you know, david's not here to verify, yeah, we were chased and we were shot at and so it is hard to be judged. >> reporter: what's the main reason you think that the story's 100% true? >> the story's -- well, i look at it as what is there to indicate it's not true? >> reporter: there's no jet ski or body but saying that blood was found on a life preserver? >> yes, sir. yes, sir. we're working on getting it analyzed. >> reporter: the sheriff's department wants to believe tiffany hartley's story but public officials in this county that don't want to be on camera are doubting it. also, the state police commander and the mexican state across the border also publicly doubting it. it's a tragedy. also quite the puzzle. we're really living yards away from actual war in a country. in a foreign country.

>> reporter: it is your feeling that the mexican half of the lake is not under any authority control? the cartels control the lake? >> it's not just my feeling, sir. it is reality. it's controlled by the mexican drug cartels. >> reporter: the lake is huge. more than 80,000 acres. some of the best bass fishing in north america but on the other side of this border marker where mexico begins is no man's land. the people know who come out on the water that this is the border marker? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: do boaters know? >> yes. they have fished the lick. >> reporter: is there a chance she didn't know she was in mexico? >> no. she knew. >> reporter: why would she do that? >> she is saying that since the threats were in april and may, she is saying she thought the threats were over with. >> reporter: the mexican waters before barren when we were there. the threat is not over with. mexican authorities say they're searching their side of the lake but no so far no sign of the body of david hartley and no sign of his jet ski. gary tuchman, cnn, texas.

turning now to meteorologist rob marciano. looks like it turns out to be a pretty good weekend after the crazy weather all week. >> been nutty this week both on the east and west coast and the weekend looks not too bad. this low bringing the craziness to southern california and arizona and weakening and tornadoes dropped down in southern idaho yesterday. no damage report from that and now just seeing a little bit of snow in the higher country and pacific northwest seeing action this weekend with wet weather and wind both days so that would be the exception of what should turn out to be a decent weekend. big blue hi in control now. temperatures in the lower 70s. tomorrow, 60s. pleasant. warm temperatures across part of the heartland and as far north as the canadian border. temperatures well above normal and if not record breaking. in some of these areas today. could see temps into the 80s and might even see a couple of lower 90s in spots.

let's talk about tropical storm otto. this thing has 70-mile-a-hour winds and not near a land mass. puerto rico and u.s. and british virgin islands getting hammered with rainfall from this and pulling away 14 miles per hour so the rain should come to an end in puerto rico. here's the forecast from the national hurricane center. probably will become a hurricane later on today. winds at about 80 miles per hour, 85. and then, just scooting off to probably western europe on western parts of africa before too long. and then finally, because it is that time of year, we break out the fall foliage forecast with animated falling leaves in tow. aspen's in full bloom here. some ash and sugar maple in the northern tier. upstate new york enjoying their peak of season, as well. carve some pumpkins, too. can't believe it's almost the

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cell phone customers of some bill shock. "the washington post" saying there's a proposal unveiled next week to tell customers of overcharges but advocacy groups tell "the post" that won't help make the bills clearer. chinese dissident won the nobel peace prize. liu xiaobo is the author of calling for political reform and human rights and serving a 11-year prison term.

chilean miners may soon smell fresh air. drillers are less than a football field away from the trapped men and could reach them

tomorrow. cnn's karl penhaul covering the story. he's joining us live with the latest. this is great news. is it true? >> reporter: it certainly is great news and certainly the feeling among family members up here on the surface in this area where think eve been camped out now for 63, 64 days, the area they call camp hope, there's an expectation this really is the beginning of the end. the latest figures we have had from the drill teams is that there are less than 180 feet away from the miners and that means that technically if the current speeds are kept up, the breakthrough could come, in fact, sometime today although officially the mine's minister is saying it will be tomorrow but i've got my suspicions because the chilean first lady will be here in afternoon to meet the families and what a moment that would be if she were here at the same time as

breakthrough happened. but one of my questions to families has been, you know, how are you feeling in these final moments? and also, how is this agonizing wait been? and this is what one of the wives had to say. >> translator: this is an eternal wait but i must be patient. there's only a little while left. >> reporter: when the moment comes, i think i'll forget everything i plan to say. i'll just tell him what i feel in my heart. and the wives, i said, how really have you got through this time? she said, karl, this feels like within of those itches that bothers you every minute of every day. there's nothing you can do about it. he said what i really want to do when my husband comes out of that mine is take him back home and forget that any of this ever happened. kyra? >> so carl, do we know how long

it will take them in this tube to actually get out of the mine? >> reporter: well, there are several issues here. once breakthrough happens and could be as early as today or tomorrow, they may have to encase the whole 2,300-foot rescue shaft and if they have to do that, it could take anything between now and ten days before the miners get out. if they only decide to encase the first few hundred feet to prevent any kind of risk of rk fall, then the miners come out in about two days after breakthrough so that up in the air. as far as the speed of the rescue cage, the rescue cage is dubbed the "phoenix" capsule to bring the miners back the life, sort to speak and once it's down at the mine, once the miner is on board, that capsule's going to move at speeds up to 40 miles

per hour through the rescue shaft and that could mean that the miners are out. if there's no hiccups, each of them, the journey would take about 15 minutes. and you can bet that that is going to be the ride of their lives, kyra. >> probably the longest of their lives. will they all be able to fit into that capsule? i mean, that is a really tight fit. looks about only about 20 inches. so do we know if they will be able to all fit in there and what's the health of all of these miners and how will they decide who comes out first? >> reporter: now, those are questions that have been constant worries for the team of meddings and psychologists here on the surface since the miners were rediscovered. 17 days under ground with no contract from the outside world. nobody knew if they were even alive but since then a personal trainer has been working with them to make sure that these men are shape. because of those first 17 days,

nothing to survive on except cans of tuna, four cans of tuna per man for the entire 17 days. and so many of them lost up to 30 pounds so that was a kind of a natural slimming process. since then, personal trainers have been working with them to get them into shape. they have access to up to about one and a half miles of mine tunnels so some of them we know have been jogging through the tunnels for up to an hour a day to get the weight off. and we now understand that all the miners are slim enough to get into the rescue cage. some of them bit broader shoulders. some are broader shouldered but they feel if think near that position, the rescue position, then they should all fit up okay, kyra. >> wow. we're all waiting for the moment. karl penhaul, we're glad you're there. 25 days until the midterm elections and washington is casting a long shadow on a lot of elections.

>> as governor -- >> when he is with obama -- >> turns into washington joe. >> strong words. but that's not why the ad was actually pulled. we're gong to tell you why some republicans are pretty red faced today. how new is the new edge with myford touch? well you could never do this before. or this. or this. you definitely couldn't do this. play kate's mix. or this. temperature, 72 degrees. say hello to the new edge with myford touch.™ quite possibly the world's smartest crossover.

all right. wall street focused one thing and one thing only. jobs. and just an hour ago the government said the economy lost 95,000 positions just last month. which, well, it's worse than we all expected but the unemployment rate held pretty steady at 9.6. carter evans at the new york stock exchange. put that in perspective, 9.6. >> yeah. 9.6%, so the unemployment rate stays same even though we lost a net of 95,000 jobs and as you said that's worse than expected.

i think the full impact of this is yet to be seen. analysts were expecting the numbers to essentially be flat but, kyra, taking a close look at a report, there's bright spots. the job losses came primarily of government jobs, essentially. 77,000 of those were temporary census jobs and the private sector actually showed a gain of 64,000 jobs and that's essentially in line with expectations. so, the fact that most of these are census jobs and government jobs, i think, is important and something that investors taking into account. when it comes to september's numbers, initially, we saw a negative reaction of investors, it is disappointing that we're still losing jobs overall and appears investors may be relieved that it wasn't worse. this would be a very different story if this report showed the private sector losing jobs but stocks on a good run lately, hitting five-month high this is week. take a look at the numbers now and the dow is actually in positive territory now up about

11 points. nasdaq down two points. s&p 500 up about half a point and investors taking this into account and breathing a sigh of relief this wasn't worse. back to you. >> carter, thanks. well, if you're planning holiday air travel this year, you don't want to wait. now's the time to buy your tickets. industry experts say there will be fewer planes in the area and that means higher demand and prices. today's "a.m. extra," cnn's john roberts talked to fare compare ceo about what to expect. >> what happens is as planes start to fill up, the reservation systems for the airlines automatically kick up the prices higher so they could go up into the 700s and 800s. we have seen it happen a few times with high demand times. people shopping earlier this year because they already realize looking at the prices. you know, the bottom line is that you need to be out there.

you got to be flexible on the days you travel. sunday and monday after thanksgiving are the busiest and most expensive days. >> seaney says that the best time to buy a low-fare airline ticket at tuesdays at 3:00 p.m. after they post their airfare sales for the week. just 25 days before the midterm elections. the tone is ugly. bare-knuckled tactics can backfire. case in point, the red firefighter faced republicans in west virginia. senior congressional correspondent dana bash reports. >> reporter: a gop ad about democratic candidate joe manchin. >> joe's not bad as governor but with obama -- >> he turns into washington joe. >> he does whatever obama wants. >> we better keep here in west virginia. >> reporter: those men are not in west virginia. they're actors 250 miles away in

philadelphia. republicans paid a talent agency to hire them for the ad and the casting call obtained by cnn asks for a hicky blue collar look. these charact earls from west virginia so think coal min miner/trucker looks. they asked for a trucker hat. it says preferably beat up. flannel shirt. check. dickey's type jacket a spokesman for the national republican senatorial committee said they didn't know about the language and pulled the ad. the irony is republicans didn't have to use actors in philadelphia to capture concerns about manchin. we went to this real west virginia diner this week and heard the sentiment unscripted. >> i can see generally pretty happy here in the state. had some people voting for senator, i would be more voting for someone who's just going to straight up proposal on the agenda. >> reporter: no hat, no flannel. in fact, the real foul play with

this ad seems to be stereotyping west virginians. >> somehow they were hicks and rednecks. >> reporter: even democratic ad makers admit they use actors. >> if you have to go to paid actors as a second or a third resort, then, you know, because of tight timelines, you may have to go there. >> reporter: take this democratic senate ad now running against missouri republican roy blunt. >> roy is the life of the party in d.c. >> his wife, great. >> reporter: that woman is an actress. >> and of course, for all the latest political news go to cnnpolitics.com. out of work? struggling to find a job? you won't want to hear this. thousands of dead people getting stimulus checks. we'll explain why. [ female announcer ] introducing splenda®

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as tomorrow. they have less than 200 feet to drill. once they get there, those miners could be lifted to safety within two to ten days.

just 25 days to go until the election that could change the balance of power in congress. senior white house correspondent ed henry tracking the latest for us there at the desk. what you got going, ed? >> reporter: good morning, kyra. it's interesting. told by senior democratic officials going on a major campaign swing out west, the president. party leaders privately decided they think control of the u.s. senate comes down to the fate of

three big incumbents out west so the president's going to seattle for patty murray, san francisco for barbara boxer and then las vegas at the end of the month for harry looed, the senate majority leader. keep a close eye on senator reid in particular. we knew he was in trouble and hearing from party leaders in private they're getting increasingly worried that the poll numbers are stuck in the low to mid-40s. very bad territory for an incumbent a. adviser said they knew it would be a tough campaign for a listening time. still confident he'll win in the end. john boehner giving a major campaign speech of his own in ohio. focused on jobs very timely having a new employment report coming out mixed numbers in some ways saying that unemployment rate unchanged at 9.6%. a good sign that maybe some private sector jobs created but more private sector jobs were lost. so, in the end, we're seeing some problems there, obviously. boehner taking a few swipes at

the president today but the president will have his say. he's going to be at a manufacturing company in maryland also talking about jobs. then finally, my favorite item on the ticker. not just today but for the week. kyra, vice president biden tends to speak his mind. he had an audience, sounded sleepy. he was getting tired of it and yelled at them saying, quote, you are the dullest audience i have ever spoken to. that might have offended to some people but it works it appears. he got the people to pep up, the rest of the speech we're told went pretty well and colleague on the political ticker noting the next stop for the vice president is in seattle where as you know they serve a lot of coffee so maybe the audiences there will be a little bit more calf nated for vice president. >> i yell at you and say you're boring and have a great live shot? >> you can do that. you've probably never had an audience tell you you're boring. just a -- you're awesome. everybody knows that. so you've never had that but i

have had that problem. >> i've been right there with you, pal. don't worry. we'll talk to you in a little bit. next political update, hopefully very exciting and full of energy in an about an hour and a reminder to always go and get the latest political news at cnnpolitics.com. all right. cnn's new prime time show "parker spitzer" takes up the big issues out day every night and last night a french author joined the hosts and dubbed the philosopher as rock star and actually traveled to america often and he's got a great love for our country. he actually challenged a recent poll that suggest that is the president's ratings have fallen. take a listen. >> why do you think as an outsider looking in, why do you think obama has lost his appeal with the american people because his ratings are way down? what do you think it is? >> number one, i'm not so sure he lost his appeal.

we'll see. 2 of november. my bet is that he will win much more than is expected by a lot of american observers and foreign observers today. the game is not over. you will see. i'm not so sure he will lose the senate and the other chamber. now, we live in a strange society with very short-sighted way of considering politics. people in europe like as in america want results immediately. we are in a short-term society. short-term sighted society f. you don't have immediate results, you say, okay, i'm disappointed. where is my dream? come on. politics is long term, long shot. >> for more opinions, ideas and analysis, don't miss the newest show on:"parker spitzer" 8:00 p.m. tonight. all right. heading cross country. first stop, tennessee and the

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tell you what. there should be more dads like this. he's a guy in a wheelchair and doesn't let it interfere with the dad duties or the relationship with his son. he is a coach for his boy's football team and wants to be i wheelchair doesn't mean you can't have a normal or very engaged life but it's a shame that the league is putting limits on him because of his wheelchair. it's a decision i hope they reverse. allen shope brings us both sides of the story. >> reporter: merril staten feels like he's been benched. his wheelchair has been labeled a hazard to the players on the field. >> it's hurt me. >> reporter: the football and cheerleading club of johnson county says it's okay for him to be on the sidelines but has to stay behind the play and another

coach has to be in front of him as a buffer to the players. >> it's a blanket policy about hard, mechanical things. later on in the season when it rains and gets wet and the sidelines get muddy, it's hard for people that are standing there to get out of the way, and it does protect kids, which is one of our primary jobs. >> reporter: staten says he's not being treated like other coaches, and it's not fair. >> i can move faster that a lot of other people on the field. >> reporter: parents agree. >> he's proven to be capable at practice and on the sidelines thus far and my own son never once mentioned that he's in a wheelchair. >> i think there are various rules that need to be set up to keep the kids' safety in mind. i certainly couldn't do what i do without merill's help. >> reporter: he has appealed to the league and will try to get back on the field but asks what message is beinging sent to the

kids he's coaching. >> none of the kids come to me and ask why i'm in a wheelchair. >> reporter: as for this weekend, he'll be right back out there trying to help the team from his designated area. >> you heard what he said. he can move fast in that chair. you saw it right there. he makes another good point. he doesn't think he's anymore of an obstacle than a metal down marker or bench. it's a real shame that the league is putting limits on an involved, engaged dad because of his chair, limiting a guy doing his best to overcome the limits of a neurological disorder. we will follow his appeal and hopefully have good news about it in the next week. let's check in with poppy harlow. >> pretty sour unemployment report this morning. 95,000 jobs lost last month. with so many americans out of work, it feels like no one is hiring. that is not true.

in the next hour, we will introduce you to local businesses that are hiring, and they are looking for workers. they think the economy is turning around. that's in the next hour. >> we just started to get the audio of karl pen haul in chile as we get word the miners might be rescued in the next two to ten days. the midterm elections are 25 days away. the politics of trust looming large. voters are mad at washington, and some recent headlines remind us why. the credibility of the white house may have a lot to do with elections around the country. er? ♪ client comes in and they have a box. and inside that box is their financial life. people wake up and realize i better start doing something. we open up that box. we organize it. and we make decisions.

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some call it sewed dar. others call it pop. look at the top three sources of calories for americans. this is from the american dietetic association. number one, baked goods,

cookies, cakes, pies. no shock there. the runner-up, pizza, pepperoni, sausage, if you're a meat lover, and number three, soda. imagine washing down pizza with free soda refills. new york's mayor is cracking down. michael bloomberg doesn't want people to use food stamps for soda. some people wonder why soda is targeted. why not the baked goods and pizza? >> reporter: if new york gets its way, buying soda or sugar-sweetened drinks with more than ten calories will be banned if you use food stamps. the governor says he's trying to reduce obesity and making his case to the federal government. >> the government can make the decision that that should not include something else that the

experts all tell you is very detrimental to your health, contributing to the number one public health issue remaining in this city and country that's getting worse. it's not unreasonable or picking on anybody. >> reporter: 58% of adults in new york city are either overweight or obese. among public school children, that rate is close to 40%. >> so today is a huge problem. >> reporter: christie lancaster is a nutritionist working to reduce obesity rates in harlem. healthy food is more expensive, leaving people with few options here. soda has more calories, and the more calories you drink you don't compensate as do you when you eat more calories. >> reporter: not all public health doctors are applauding the move to ban soda for people on food stamps. >> even if we could do it and it would work, is it the right thing to do? >> reporter: is it?

>> i'm not so sure. >> reporter: dr. carol harow:cz is working to help reduce diabetes. >> many things are full of processed chemicals that you can't call food. out of all the bucket of food that food stamps covers, why pick out soda? >> reporter: the group overseeing the food stams program will review and consider the proposal. the city wants a two-year ban and says in that time, health officials can study the impacted. we're counting down to the midterm elections. 25 days in washington's balance of power could be at stake. many voters are mad at washington, and all you have to do is look at recent headlines to see why. remember the shirley sherrod debacle, the victim of an internet hack job. that rush to judgment was

embarrassing for the white house even though it claims to have played no role. you will see the e-mails that led to her unjust firing. also, today, the feds have to explain a new screwup. stimulus checks went to 72,000 americans who didn't deserve them because they were dead. we're still trying to unravel that one. the gulf oil disaster, the leak is plugged, but the damage continues, especially at the white house. a panel appointed by the president himself says the obama administration botched its handling by vastly underestimating the scope of that spill, and that disaster zone brings up a question many americans are now asking. >> you know, it's saturday. we're sitting here wanting to believe in our federal government. wanting to believe. we're counting on noaa and all of the monitoring they're supposed to be doing out there, and as we hear things like that, who are we to believe? >> those doubts about trusting

our own government may be critical if enough people carry them to the polls places on november 2nd. ed henry joining us live. ed, a lot of the critics are saying the administration has a serious credibility issue here. >> when you talk about the oil spill, certainly the administration is frustrated that this report has come out. we should say it's a preliminary report just by the staff of this commission investigating the oil spill, what went wrong and trying to prevent another crisis like that. it basically said the administration was hiding information from the public, did not reveal, for example, at the beginning of all of this, that they were hearing information from bp suggesting that oil could be flowing at a rate of, you know, 60,000, 70,000 or 100,000 barrels a day, but the administration said 1,000 to 5,000 barrels a day. the administration is pushing back and saying, look, they haven't had a chance to tell the commission their side of the story.

they're upset it leaked out and think it's only part of the story but, frankly, it's tough for them to push whack when this is not a republican committee up on the hill attacking the white house. it's a commission, as you noted, appointed by the president to investigate this now raising serious questions about how the administration handled that oil spill, kyra. >> let's dive deeper into the e-mails concerning shirley sherrod. for the first time we actually got to read some of these. what do you have with you, and how damaging do you think these are? >> reporter: well, i think there's no smoking gun, is the bottom line. there's nothing that proving shirley sherrod's allegation, you'll remember at the very beginning, that the white house pressured the agriculture department to fire her, but there is a whole lot of stuff here suggesting there were some people inside agriculture initially having concerns that the full context was not being aired here, and yet there was pressure from the agriculture second tom vilsack to push her

out anyway. kristin harden, an ag official saying we need to make sure someone has seen the video and want to make certain it is what it is said to be before i tell the secretary, but within minutes you have others saying, look, quote, you have to take immediate action. the secretary is sick and mad and wants her on administrative leave. another official says concur, she should be fired. this is our first inside look at the sort of the damage control that was being done. here had you some people within agriculture saying, look, let's not rush to judgment, and otherwise saying, secretary wants her out now. that's bad for the administration. not shocking, but this is laying it out in stark detail, kyra. >> for the next 25 days, what's the white house going to do to try to combat this bad publicity? >> reporter: what connects the story is both the oil spill and shirley sherrod took them off message this summer and maybe they thought stoes stories were

done with and they had moved on but this week with the new documents coming out, these two stories are coming back. what are they going to do? stay on message. ever since they got past the oil spill and summer controversies,ed president has stayed on the economy and with the jobs numbers out dark he's going to be speaking at a manufacturing company in maryland about employment in this country. the fact is they are going to try to stay on that and stay away from the side issues which this summer pulled them off message. >> got it. ed henry at the white house, thanks. here's something else the voters will have on their minds as they head to the polls. we learned that the jobless rate stayed flat in september at 9. %. 95,000 americans lost their jobs. the silver lining is that the private sector added 64,000 people to the payrolls. this is the last monthly report that voters will see before they head to the polls. let's take a closer look with

poppy harlow. >> it's interesting. this was an abysmal report. here's something people need to know. 83,000 state and local government jobs were lost last month, the worst on record and also the first time inn all year we had a decline in those noncensus jobs. there is a bit of a bright spot, according to experts, 2.3 million job openings in this country. steep competition. 4.6 applications for every opening. we went out all over new york city to talk to small businesses that 30e69ed help wanted signs to ask them what they're looking for. you know, we know that this economy is still reeling from job losses, but here in new york city, there are small businesses that are hiring. we're starting to see more help wanted signs outside the

businesses. we went in to see what they're looking for, who they are hiring and what else they're dealing with right now. when did you post that hiring sign outside? >> we have had it up and down for a couple months. we are taking our time hiring people because we can. we have a huge stack of resumés we didn't have four months ago. number two, the type of person coming in are more full-time professions out there, like a realtor, because that market has fallen off, bankers that were laid off. >> reporter: what do you think small businesses need the most now? >> financial support but they have to be smart about it. we can't depend on it the government to fix all of our problems. >> reporter: from your perspective as a small business owner, is the economy better now than a year ago? >> i can't say it. i don't think it. >> reporter: it's not better? >> some numbers out there. >> reporter: why are you hiring? >> we don't have enough. >> reporter: what would you tell the administration? >> i need help from the banks.

i don't need the money from the government but i need a way to get loans. >> reporter: so you're actually hiring right now, even given the state of the economy? >> yes, we are. we're always looking for someone with good customer service skills. >> reporter: has the economy turned the corner that it makes you more comfortable to hire as a small business? >> i think so, yes because it seems like business has picked up. it has picked up this past year. we're having a good year. >> reporter: what kind of people are applying for jobs right here now? >> very, very sophisticated people. a lot of people like doctors, teachers. >> reporter: doctors are applying to work here? >> premed that just left school and want to work for a year or two did and go back to school. >> reporter: why are you hiring given the state of the economy right now? are you confident things are getting better? >> things are getting better and you have to make it better.

you have to be in the moment and be hopeful for tomorrow. >> that's good news from people hiring. i will tell you a lot of the employers i talked to say they have people coming in, applying for jobs, getting signed off on their unemployment form that they applied for a job, and when they call back, they say, i'm going to wait for my unemployment benefits to run out before i take a job. there is that problem we have to keep in mind that businesses are facing, that people have continued extensions. retailers, at least, are hiring. >> poppy harlow, thank you very much. we have breaking news to tell you about. i just got off the phone with a source closer than the person himself getting word that jim jones, the national security adviser is going to be stepping down. the announcement is going to come at 1:00 p.m. this afternoon. the president's going to step up to the podium with general jim jones and also his new

replacement. ed henry at the white house right now as well getting this information. so it looks like 1:00 p.m. that announcement's going to come, ed. >> reporter: the replacement is going to be tom donolin, the president's national security adviser. not really a shock. we've known for months that general jones was likely to leave after the midterm elections and that he told the president he only wanted to do two years when he first signed on. he was marine commandant. he had also been secretary-general, and he basically is somebody who is very close to this president in terms of crafting national security policy and somebody who has been influential in some ways, and in other ways you've heard a lot of back-biting from some here at the white house saying he has not been as influential as he might have

been. the significance of donolin is that he was rumored to be a successor for rahm emanuel but in the week or so, he told the president he didn't want to be chief of staff. he wanted to stay in the national security realm. that's one less candidate for chief of staff because donolin wants to stay where he is and move up to national security adviser. >> it was just at the top of the hour you and i were talking about all of the changes within the administration. i mean, we're 25 days before the elections, and we are seeing high-level economic advisers to the president stepping down. we're talking about his closest adviser, rahm emanuel running for mayor in chicago, and now general jim jones as national security adviser going to be stepping down. you have to wonder, what exactly is going on behind closed doors 25 days before these midterm elections. >> reporter: well, look, we saw

this after a midterm election in 2006 where then defense secretary back in the last administration, then defense secretary donald rumsfeld stepped down. that was in part because the war in iraq was not going well, and also because that administration wanted to shake things up a little bit, get new faces in there. there was a lot of criticism of rumsfeld, and i think similarly now, not one person is being criticized but there's a broad brush in this administration, a sense that about two years in now they need to refresh a little bit. i mentioned jim jones -- i think i mangled his title, previously supreme allieded command in europe. he was highly respected. he was expected to step down anyway. after two years of grueling work here at the white house. for some of these folks in the white house have been going at it for four years. that was a two-year presidential campaign, early 2007 when barack obama first ran.

some of these folks are just plain exhausted, and you are right to mention the economic state. we will see a fair amount of turnover but it's pretty normal for administrations in both parities to do this but i think you're right, also, that there's special pressure on this administration as they face a very difficult midterm election, possibility of republicans taking over congress. they have to freshen some things up. >> got it. we'll keep following the developmenting news. in chile, drillers are working around the clock. they could reach those miners tomorrow. we'll take you straight to the scene. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro.

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looks like chilean miners may soon get a chance to kiss their wives, their kids, and smell some fresh air. the rescuers that are drilling could actually reach their chamber by tomorrow, maybe even late tonight. the 33 men have been trapped a half mile below ground since the mine collapsed on august 5th. rescuers have been working on three separate plans, and now one drilling operation is less than 100 yards away. getting the men out is going to be pretty tricky. kaurl pen haul will take us through the most critical part of the rescue. >> reporter: we have the sense that we are at the beginning of end right now, and as of 10:00

p.m. last night, one of the years on the plan b drill was telling us the drill was about 180 feet from breakthrough. they have been drilling all through the night like other nights, that drill now could be in just the final feet before breakthrough. now, officially, the government is still sticking to its plan and saying breakthrough is likely to come saturday, but if you do the math and look at the technical specifications and speed of this drill, we could get breakthrough sometime today. of course, that will be a huge moment of excitement for the families here, but imagine the excitement that there will be for the miners there as well. but there's probably nobody more excited right now than one of the engineers himself. we talked to him last night, and this what he had to say about the operation. you always think that you guys would be the ones to pull this off? >> i felt since we've been here, we had a good chance of it. you can't predict the downtimes,

the breakages, the farm mags issues. i felt since we got here, as long as we had some luck on our side, we would have a real good chance of poking through first. >> reporter: when you break through, what's that like? have you thought about that moment? >> yeah, i thought about that moment quite often. i think it's going to be an absolute overwhelming sensation, and at the same time, i think it's going to be a tremendous release of stress and everything that we've been going through here. i think it's just going to be a huge sigh of relief for everyone on here to know that we've finally made it through whenever that happens. >> reporter: now, that was my colleague patrick altman talking to brandon fisher, and compared to last night, that drill has got to be much closer now, but what happens once breakthrough comes? well, that means that the rescue shaft is then cut through rock, and what the engineers will then have to decide is whether they

encase the whole length, those whole 2,300 feed to prevent rock falls during the extraction operation or whether they say, know, we think that rock and granite is pretty solid and only encase the most unstable part, which is the first 100 yards or so. interestingly, on that point, just a few moments ago, before we came to air, the health minister came out and was passing through camp and made some comments to reporters saying that he believed the extraction process could come as early as tuesday. now, that would tend to suggest, then, that engineers would only encase with steel tubing the first 100 yards, and that will mean that the miners can come home much sooner than later, kyra. >> that's good news. karl, we will be monitoring every minute. thanks. great bass fishing on one side, a potential death sentence on the other.

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the fcc wants to relieve cell phone customers of bill shock. they will propose that carriers have to tell customers of overcharges and sudden increases, but advocacy groups tell the post that won't make puzzling bills any clearer. a woman says she's willing to take a lie detector test. tiffany hartley addressed doubters on anderson cooper 360 last night. >> it's hard being judged and thought of that i might have done something to him, but, like i said, i know what i know, and as long as i know the truth, god knows the truth and other than that, it almost doesn't really matter to me, because i know what happened that day. >> u.s. and mexican authorities are conducts separate searches for the body. bullying is a national conversation, and coming up, we will revisit the story that

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getting out to protest bullying, and that's a good thing, and, of course, it's taken some tragic deaths to make this problem a national rallying cry. veral hundred people turned up last night in ridgewood, new jersey, for a town hall meeting. ridgewood is the hometown of tyl tyler clementi after a sexual encounter with another man was put on the internet. more than 100 people held

candles in st. louis and marched through the streets last night, calling for an end to anti-gay bullying. the suicide of phoebe prince proved to be the initial kickoff for anti-bullying. >> reporter: she had the face of an angel, but behind those eyes, it turns out phoebe prince had demons. >> i think phoebe had a complicated mental health story. it's still sad but different and much more complicated. >> reporter: the story broke in january. when this newcomer from ireland who moved to the u.s. for a fresh start hanged herself in the stairwell of her massachusetts home and then two months later, the bomb shell. >> it appears that phoebe's death on january 14th followed a torturous day for her.

>> reporter: the district attorney criminally charged six of her classmates, accusing them are bullying her so relentlessly prosecutors say it became intolerable for her and she committed suicide. all six pled not guilty. towns people pointed fingers at the kids and town administrators. but until now, few looked into phoebe's past. this writer is the only reporter to see hundreds of secret grand jury documents related to the case before they were sealed. >> the narrative had emerged of a pack of mean kids that had really tormented phoebe prince for months, and that reality doesn't match. >> reporter: the truth is much more complicated? >> exactly. >> reporter: according to the indictments prince was bullied because she was seen as a boyfriend stealer, getting

involved with male defendants who already had girlfriends. now what's emerging is that phoebe prince for years suffered from depression, that she repeatedly cut herself, was taking antidepressants and even tried to kill herself on another occasion and was hospitalized just two months before she died. what's more, prince, who has become a poster child for bullying may have been a bully herself. >> phoebe started at a boarding school in ireland in seventh grade and that fall she became friends with another girl but at sometime that spring, their friendship soured and phoebe was part of a group of girls who really made this other girl's life miserable. >> reporter: that was a big reason why she moved to south hadley. she moved to school officials and asked them to watch over her niece. did that happen? >> they knew and looked the

other way and attempted to sweep it under the rug. what they're doing is hiding the problems, the failures. >> reporter: keeping them honest, we went back to south hadley high school where on this night they held one of their anti-bullying task force meetings. after calls to the school district that went unanswered, we tracked down the school superintendent. nice to see you. a lot of people are saying, had school officials acted sooner, phoebe prince might have been alive today. what do you say about that? >> i don't think that's true. school officials acted promptly when it was reported to us by phoebe on january, i think it was, january 7th, and we acted immediately at that point. >> reporter: but what has changed in the last six months here? >> the programs -- we greatly enhanced the programs. >> reporter: the superintendent says bullying prevention

programs have been implemented at the elementary and middle school levels but not yet at the high school but what has happened at south hadley high is this. >> in front of each of the builds in the school is it a large sign called respect. >> it's mind boggling with the tragedy in this school it hasn't been taken more seriously. >> reporter: susan smith, whose son nick was a pallbearer at prince's funeral is calling for resignations. we talk to principal dan smith six months ago. this was all he would tell us. >> we are working through and revising our procedures and policies, yes. >> reporter: six months later, little has changed. >> reporter: do off second to answer a questiony not even a question about this? about the students? as for those charged in prince's death, the so-called south hadley six, all six have been

suspended indefinitely until the case is resolved. for the family of phoebe prince there may be no resolution but her father says he will ask the court for leniency if the defendants do something they've never done, simply apologize. alina cho, cnn, south hadley, massachusetts. >> adults are even coming out of the woodwork. susan malveaux talked with one you just might recognize. >> reporter: you were teased relentlessly? >> yes. >> reporter: you also admit you were a bully, a mean girl? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: we see this situation with this student particular rutgers taped having sex and killed himself because it was live on the internet. do you think it's a big problem? why do people bully? >> people bully because they want their power back. people bully because they feel powerless and to get that power

you have to take it from somebody else and you have to take it from the easy target. i started as a bully at 7 or 8 years old. 7 to 10 years old i was a bully, and the reason i was a bully was because my brother used to say i was stupid. it was the sibling rivalry. i'm getting bullied at home, so what did i do in school, i got my power back. that flipped on me when i grew six inches and lost 30 pounds. i was the bully that was weighed 90 pounds and was 5'9". my brother went from my bully to being my protecter and made chocolate peanut but irshakes for me. he thought he could pick on me but no one else could. it made me sensitive to young girls and the issues they have with bullying.

the very first episode of "america's top model" is dedicated to bullying. >> suzanne, that's probably one of the last people you would ever think would be a bully, tyra banks. >> reporter: quite surprising during that interview for her to acknowledge that, and one of the things she talks about is so many people on her show, "america's next top model" one being bullied for her sexuality, for being gay, and there's so many different things, whether it's your sexuality, your race, whether it's your size, that there are many different ways and reasons that people are bullied, and tyra banks says, look, you know, even as adults we experience this. we all know people who are bullies in the workplace, and as a young model and young woman she felt she was discriminated against because she was a black girl trying to become a model,

and then a model trying to become a producer and now producer turned businesswoman and there are all kinds of reasons to look at one another and say you're different and pick on you and use it against you. she says one of the things that really inspires her and motivates her -- used to be very frustrating is when people say you can't do something and she defies the odds. it's one of the things she talks about is so important and it's the issue of self-esteem, if you can work on young people's self-esteem early on, they can protect themselves from so many of the things they have to face even as we know, kyra, as adults. >> the more people that speak out from all different walks of life, all different ethnicities and sexual orientation, it's important that we hear these stories because we have to empower our kids that think about bullying, and, of course, kids that are suffering from it. we want them to be able to pull through.

suzanne malveaux, different perspective. different type of interview for you. you are usually at the white house. >> reporter: it was a pleasure, an absolute pleasure. a chance to talk to "fortune" magazine's 50 most powerful women. had a chance to talk to tyra banks, and ceos from corporations and companies. you'll see more of that on our air. >> thanks so much. they're dis, the first self-injectable r.a. medicine you take just once a month. taken with methotrexate, simponi® helps relieve the pain, stiffness and swelling of r.a. with one dose once a month. visit 4simponi.com to see if you qualify for a full year of cost support. simponi® can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious and sometimes fatal events can occur, such as infections, cancer in children and adults, heart failure, nervous system disorders, liver or blood problems, and allergic reactions. before starting simponi®, your doctor should test you for t.b. and assess your risk of infections,

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i'll tell you what, there should be more dads like merle staten. this is a guy in a wheelchair but he doesn't let it interfere with his dad duties or relationship with his son. he's a coach for his boy's football team. he wants to be involved and is showing everyone that a wheelchair doesn't mean you can't have a normal and extremely engaged life so it's a real shame that the league is putting limits on him because of the chair. it's a decision i'm hoping that he reverse. allen shope brings us both sides of the story. >> i don't think there's any difference between me and anybody else on the field.

>> reporter: merle staten feels he's been benched. his wheelchair is labelled a laz zard to the people on the field. they say it's okay for him to be on the sidelines. he's just got to stay behind the play and another coach always has to be in front of him as a buffer to the players. >> it's a blanket policy about hard, mechanical things. later on in the season when it rains and gets wet and the sidelines get muddy, it's hard for people standing there to get out of the way and it does protect kids, which is one of our primary jobs. >> reporter: staten says he's not being treated like other coaches and it's not fair. >> i can move as fast as other people on the feel. >> reporter: parents agree with him. >> he's proven to be completely capable on practice and sidelines thus far and my own son has never even once

mentioned he's in a wheelchair. >> i think there are various rules that need to be set up to keep the kids' safety in mind. i couldn't do what i do without his help. >> reporter: staten has appealed to the sbleeg will meet on monday night with them to try to get back on the field but asks what message is being sent to the kids he's coaching. >> none of these kids come to me and ask me why i'm in a wheelchair. unless you're taught it to be an issue, it's an nonissue. >> reporter: this weekend, he'll be out there trying to help the team from his designated area. >> you heard what merle said. he can move fast in that chair. you saw it for yourself. he doesn't think he's any more of an obstacle than the metal down markers, benches, fences or other equipment out on the feel. it's a real shame that the league is putting limits on an involved engaged dad because of the chair, limiting a guy who is doing his best to overcome the limits of a neurological

disorder. we'll follow his appeal and hopefully have good news about it in a week. it's a story so horrific you may remember it from 20 years ago. a father seemingly condems his infant son to death by injecting him with the aids virus. today that baby is alive and well. >> we can have a testimony and we can have a bright future or we can continue to let the past control us. >> he says he is living proof of the power of faith. you'll see his story next. for those of us who have lactose intolerance,

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at just five months old, brian jackson made national headlines after his father did something almost unimaginable. he intentionally injected his son with hiv. now, two decades later, brian believes that faith and forgiveness are the main reasons he's still alive, and he's making his mark fighting for others who need his help. melanie moon has the story from st. louis. >> reporter: it was a story that shocked the nation. in 1992, when brian jackson was just 11 months old, his lab technician father injected him with hiv tainted blood to avoid paying child support. his father was sentenced to life in prison, and brian was left to fight a disease that at the time was considered fatal.

>> when i was 5, i was diagnosed with full-blown aids. >> reporter: he had 22 oral medications and two injections. one affected his hearing and his speech. >> i think it's about 70%. >> reporter: time and time again, he defied the odds and today is a college freshman, has a girlfriend and a loving family and has gone from aids victim to activist. >> we can have a testimony and a bright future or we can continue to let the past control us, let the past control your environment, and you can stay there forever. you can be a prisoner to that or let it go, give it to god and rise above it and just apply it to something greater. >> reporter: in 2009, he try claimed the act crone him. hiv to be hope is vital. he speaks at schools and other

public events, like this night of giving last week in university city. >> people send to put hiv and aids inside a box and people say let's not talk about that. >> reporter: since brian was a teenager, he lobbied on capitol hill for aids funding and received numerous awards for his activism, including nickelodeon's halo award presented by nick canon. but it's brian's heart that gets the most attention. through his faith, brian has forgiven his father. i pray for him and i just hope the best for him. i hope i can transform his heart somehow, you know, and i pray that he knows that i forgive him. >> reporter: brian says right after he decided to forgive his father, his health began improving. his aids virus is now undetectable in his blood and

he's gone from dozens of pills a day to just four. >> gives me a chance of passing on blessings. god has given me the chance to have kids of my own and be the father that i never had to them. were the last jobs report before the election has just come, and the campaigns are already putting their spin on it. hi. we're ready to switch our car insurance to progressive. today just seemed like a great day to save. oh, it's not just today. with our free loyalty program, you earn great stuff like accident forgiveness and bigger discounts just by staying with us. oh! ooh! so, what you're saying is, it gets even better with age. oh! tell me we're still talking about insurance.

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election, and, you know what, it could change ow political landscape. deputy political director paul steinhauser in washington and at our cnnpolitics.com desk. we got to get excited about this. a lot going on. we have to pump this up. only 25 days. >> you're stuck with me for 25 days. >> could be worse. >> let's talk about a story generating so much buzz on tv. i saw you talking about it last hour and online. in california, an aide to jerry brown, the former governor, the current attorney general, an aide to brown called meg whitman, the former ceo to ebay, he called her a whore in a recorded conversation and implied she was selling out the special interest but used that word and that went viral and is trending everywhere. the whitman campaign called the language appalling and demanded an apology, and brown's campaign

responded and said it was a jumbled and often inaudible conversation. at times our language was salty. we apologize to miss whitman and anyone offended. ing? does whitman bring it up? this is the ballot to succeed arnold schwarzenegger. the jobs report, you talked about it last hour. the last jobs report before the november 2 nld election, staying at 9.6%. it didn't take more than a moment for republicans to slam democrats. michael steele saying after nearly two years of weak leadership and broken promises, the american people will go to the polls in less than a month and reject this administration's economic mismanagement. fighting words from michael steele. we will hear what the president

has to stay a little later this morning. we have brand new cnn research polls coming out in two hours. i'm working with our director, who is crunching the numbers. we'll have the latest on the elections, how the american public thinks that president obama is doing. we have a lot of stuff today, kyra. >> yeah, we do. paul, thanks. the next political update is in about an hour and for the latest political news go to our website cnnpolitics.com. parker spitzer take up the big issues of the day every night. last night a panel got really into it with a pretty heated debate on the tea party. this is only one side of the story here. >> it isn't an emotional movement. it's not about fear or hatred. it's an ideological movement for people who believe in government. they feel that the government is so far removed from its original intentions that they are

marching in the streets. >> for more opinions, ideas and analysis, and the entire debate, you don't want to miss "parker spitzer" tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. ♪ ♪

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thought about being an artist or a rapper. he fought in iraq and signed up to go to afghanistan. as john said, quote, i don't want to leave my boys alone. his platoon members said he always made them laugh. maria had a nickname for her grandson. it was rambo. when he was 12 years old, he showed a sensitive side. he wanted to give maria a mother's day present but he didn't have any money, so he wrote his grandmother this poe many. here's a letter to show you how much i appreciate you. loving and careful, i appreciate everything you do for me. being there when i needed you, and even fights with my brother, reminding me to do my homework, tying my shoes when i was little. you lifted me up when i was little, too. love john. the first letters of each line actually spell out liberty, the english translation for the

spanish word liberti, maria's middle name. here is how you honor your loved ones. go to cnn.com/homeandaway. pull up the profile, send us your foughts, your pictures, and we promise to keep the memory of your hero alive. ♪ soldier on