in just a matter of seconds, this is how those 33 trapped miners will get the first glimpse of daylight in two months, their families eagerly awaiting. the countdown is on. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. some are doubting the wife who says pirates shot her husband on a border lake. so will tiffany hartley take a lie detector test? >> i know what i saw. >> her answer. plus, friends, family, demanding mexico do more. we'll take you to their rally live. an explosive report. many of the security guards hired to protect u.s. bases in afghanistan allegedly are linked to the taliban. oh, and guess who's paying them. american taxpayers. plus, wait until you hear why aquentin tarn continuo movie plays a role in all of this. guys, want to earn more money? pack on the pounds. ladies, lose them. this stunning new study on our

paycheck. and it's kind of tough to jout run a plane but this little guy sure wants to try. could it be, could today possibly be the day in chile? hi, i'm brooke baldwin. happy friday. here we go. all eyes this hour on that mine down in chile where those attempted rescues have been going on of those 33 miners now officially nearing this climax. now, the latest word we have is the american manned drill boring the tunnel barely the length of a football field. just imagine, i'm talking just over 100 feet. rather, less than a football feet, 120 feet until they reach the miners. we have this whole story covered with cnn's karl penhaul. karl, straight to the time line issue. is it true? could these guys be getting out of there here within days?

>> reporter: absolutely, brooke, because as you say 120 feet, that was the latest fig that the experts have given us, the distance between the drill and the roof of the tunnel where the miners are holed up. what's then going to take place? what goes on in a time line after that, after the breakthrough is the engineers then decide over the space of about 24 hours whether they've got to encase, put steel encasing the whole lengths of that rescue shaft. now, that would be to prevent rock falls. but talking to some of the technicians back and forth who have been around this area, they say they think they're only going to have to encase the first 100 yards. and that will mean that the miners could be coming out of that hole between two and eight days after that rescue shaft is finally drilled and that will certainly be good news for the miners of course but also for the families who have had such an anxious wait. brooke. >> between two and eight days

from when that drill finally makes its way through. karl, here's a question a couple of us had. how do they let the miners know? programs the miners just hear it and know to clear out of the way. but how do they let the miners know when and where that drill will be boring through? >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. these miners know very well because since this rescue operation began, they've been hearing these drills going day and night. in fact, the reverse happens. when they don't hear drills, they send up messages to the surface. hey, guys, what's going on? we can't hear anything going on. but of course remember that plan "b" is going through in the final diameter of 28 inches -- that's the 28-inch rescue hole. but before -- about three weeks ago, i guess now, the first hole was drilled at a diameter of 12 1/2 inches. so that's just been widened in a sense. so the miners know very well where it is going into.

it is going into the roof of the mine workshop. and that is on level 135. so they know that very well. they've also got some scoops and backhoes down there and any rock that falls through, they're scooping it up and clearing it out of the way, brooke. >> it's amazing how they have been communicating. karl, i just want to point out to the viewers, you see the bottom right-hand side of the screen, we've been working hard on this all day. this is the first time you're seeing pictures. these are the pictures of these 33 miners who have been trapped underground for 64 days. first time you're seeing these pictures. we'll be going through each and every one of the 33 miners. meantime, karl, another question from the twitter word board. robert, let's roll over here because here's a question about the sedation. we hear they'll get shots and be sedated. how is the last man, the 33rd man is to get into the cage if sedation is needed? howe would that work? >> reporter: there had been talk about sedation.

there have been rumors about sedation. but the last time i talked to the health minister, he completely ruled out sedation. he said, no, we're not going to sedate these miners. we believe they are used to working and being in claustrophobic and confined spaces. they're working hard to make sure that that winch can pull up the rescue cage dubbed the phoenix capsule in just 15 minutes. that he says hopes will reduce the trauma. in fact, he said after two months undergrounds, i bet they will find that ride pretty comfortable. i'm betting the same, brooke. >> pretty comfortable as they'll be ready for freedom but i have my trusty tape measure and if i can quickly just to show people if you're curious, we're talking about 21 inches. here we go. this is as wide as this is. six feet tall, 21 inches tall. here i am. we know some of these guys have lost 20 to 30 pounds because they brought this trainer down to fit in this capsule.

another question from the twitter board. robert, over this way. is regard to their eyes. the question is, will the sunlight damage the eyes of the miners who have been in darkness for weeks when they're rescued. karl, what do they plan to do when they get out of there and see the sun? >> reporter: there's been a couple of things going on there. this was with the help of the nasa experts who came to the mines some time ago. the chilean experts set up a system of night and daylighting down there. >> oh, did we lose karl, guys? lost a shot. i have more questions. the good news is we're going to have him back most definitely in the next hour. keep those questions coming. you can always tweet me at brooke b. cnn. keep the questions coming and we'll see karl within the next couple of hours. meantime, should the widow who says her husband was killed by mexican pirates take a lie

detector test? now, we've explained this the past couple of days. look, there are some doubters, some people poking holes in her story, but also some very vocal supporters. i'm going to be talking with one of them coming up next. also this. >> ladies and gentlemen, your government has not been listening. your government is disrespecting you, your family, your job, your children. your government is out of control. do you have to accept it? do you have to take it? hell, no, you don't. >> hell no, you don't, you hear him. this is john boehner. this is a side of him maybe we don't see too often. what got the house minority leader so riled up today? that's ahead. who have lactose intolerance, let's raise a glass to cookies just out of the oven. to the morning bowl of cereal. and to lactaid® milk. easy to digest and with all the calcium and vitamin d of regular milk. [ female announcer ] lactaid®. the original lactose-free milk.

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we have got some incredible video, new video that's just in to cnn. i want to tell you what happened here. this is florida. look at this guy. these are rescuers next to this water tower. this is hollywood, florida. the guy obviously in the stretcher was working on this water tower. he is one of two men who fell about 30 feet into the bowl of this water tower when their scaffolding broke. talk about worst-case scenario. so they are lowering this one guy down. apparently he had some sort of leg injury. paramedics working on him right now on the ground, taking him off to the hospital. and there is one other gentleman who we believe is hopefully getting rescued, will be almost all the way down but incredible

pictures. hollywood, florida, scaffolding just broke. unreal. also, friends and relatives here of an american man reported shot and killed in mexico. they're gathering this hour, right now. they're in fact outside of the mexican consulate in denver, colorado. and they are angry at what they see as the mexican government's slow movement in the case of david hartley. you remember this is the texas man whose wife says she witnessed men in boats. there were those three boats. they saw some of these men kill her husband -- shot him in the head on a lake that straddles the texas/mexico border. we're going to have more of the rally in just a second but first i'm going to talk to a good friend of david hartley's who is there right now. first, i want you to listen to tiffany hartley. this is the wife. this is what she told hln's jane velez-mitchell just last night. she says she's sick and tired of the mexican government's lack of cooperation. she's frustrated and has this

message for the president of mexico. >> i would just plea that you have bring in the navy, the military, anybody who has the power to come and have, you know -- have more than what the cartel can do and let's just get his body back. let's just finds him. cause all we want is just him back so we can go on with our lives and get this border secured. but for the mexican side, we really need them to start stepping up and get the navy and the military there so they are covered with any battle that might happen. >> now, tiffany hartley's story is this. she and her husband, they're out on this lake falcon lake riding their sea-doos on the u.s./mexican border. men in three boats approached them, shot her husband, killed him. then they were on the mexican side. she hopped on her sea-doo and had to make the tough decision to leave her husband and save her life and flee to the

american side. still no sign many days late desh this is last thursday. no sign of david hartley's body and no arrest of any suspects in mexico. the mexican government has responded specifically addressing this investigation. i'm going to read you just a portion of that statement in just a second but i want to get right now to talk to mariny vinson. she was a childhood friend with david hartley more than 20 years and is in denver today trying to catch the notice of the mexican government. marnie, i am sorry about your friend. we spoke with his mother earlier. she was obviously in tears talking to me. she was devastated. if you can, explain to me why you're in denver at the mexican consula consulate. what are you hoping to accomplish? >> we're just trying to get the word out there is crime going on there and we want to bring david's body home. today has been a heartbreaking day. we had 150 show up to the rally. it's heartbreaking. it's so hard to see the family

going through this now. >> we have pictures now. i'm seeing about a dozen, maybe two dozen people out there standing with posters. they are clearly frustrated with the mexican government, as are you, as is tiffany hartley. she said she wants her husband's body back and wants to move on with her life. let me read you what i have from the mexican government and then i want you to respond, marni. this is what they are saying. that the search and rescue for mr. hartley started the day of the incident and intensified this week with additional officers. it goes on to say, the operation includes the thorough inspection of the region by air, land, as well as the banks of the rio grande. so they clearly are saying they're helping. what's your reaction? >> they are currently helping, as far as we know they're looking. but it took them over a week to decide that it wasn't tiffany and they had a witness and it took them a week to even start looking and they're not -- they're still scared of the cartel over there, so they're

not going to go further than that. they're scared of their own people. and it's crazy that that he can't do something. it's their country and they need to protect it as well. that's what we're fighting for, to get those people off the water. not only for this story. there's robberies that happen over and over. time to do something about it. >> i talked to the zapada county sheriff and he said this is a deadly cartel one against the other and the pirates are just boys, just teens out there robbing people. >> yeah. i mean, they're robbing americans. they're robbing their own people. it's so sad to see and it's come to murder now. and that's what we're saying is that -- not taking care of this issue, look what has happened now. it's gotten out of control. it's time to do something and we are going to fight for that. that's why all of us family and friends have gathered today.

over 150 have shown up at our rally all over. people that don't know david are here supporting him. >> marni vincent, thank you very much. still no body, no life vest and no sea-doo yet recovered at falcon lake. apparently johnny depp does read his fan mail and he's even willing to pay those fans a visit. really? what do you have to do to get captain jack sparrow to swing by maybe your school? that is ahead. also the job market took another hit in some of the numbers that were released today. president obama is ready with an explanation and a plan. but think about this. will it make a difference to you, the voters, come midterms? jessica yellin has that. and john boehner's defiant reaction. wow, we'll talk about that next.

want to show you a guy we could be seeing a whole heck of a lot more. republican john boehner. after the coming election in just 25 days, he could very well become the speaker of the u.s. house. boehner spoke today in his native state of ohio. this was billed as a major address with national implications. john boehner, you're about to see, fired up. >> your government has not been listening. your government is disrespecting you, your family, your job, your children. your government is out of corol. do you have to accept it? do you have to take it? hell no, you don't!

>> whoo, here is one of the reasons boehner is so fired up. going into the midterm elections, look at these numbers with me. likely voters clearly favor boehner's republicans over the ruling democrats. and this poll of likely voters, by the way, this is fresh. this is just out today. 52 % favor republicans running for congress to 45% who favor a democrat. jessica yellin is in washington. jessica, is the path clear for boehner and the republicans to take control of the house? >> reporter: well, nothing is a forgone conclusion. and you have to acknowledge that it is hard to win 40 seats and lose none. that is what the republicans have to do to win. but that said, clearly there's enormous enthusiasm and momentum on the republican side. the new job numbers that came out today only help republicans holding firm at 9.6% under the democrats. not helpful for the president's party. one thing i can tell you is i'm talking to some of the outside

groups that will be pumping money into republican races these last weeks. one of the ways they plan to help the republicans win is to spread out the playing field. so they want to put money into many more than the 40 districts they need to win which have forced democrats to spend in more places and draw down resources. and i'm sure wearing more plaid shirts will help. >> so interesting how both sides, republicans and democrats, are using the economy to their advantage, it depends on the perspective. john boehner devoted much of his speech to the economy but so did the president. play a little more of both. first let's begin here is boehner. >> the truth of matter is this. our economy is built on freedom and you don't get to prosperity by taking freedom away from the people who create jobs. you achieve prosperity by getting government out of their way. ladies and gentlemen, this is not what americans asked for

when they sent then senator obama to be our president in the oval office. and the pink slips shouldn't be going to workers here in ohio. they should be going to the members of president obama's economic team. >> these continuing layoffs by state and local governments of teachers and police officers and firefighters and the like would have been even worse without the federal help that we provided the states over the last 20 months, help that the republicans in congress have consistently opposed. i think the republican position doesn't make much sense. >> so we hear both sides, jessica. you've been out and about a couple of different states talking to voters. which do you think would resonate most with americans? >> reporter: welt, right now the republicans are winning on the economy message. that's clear in the poll numbers because they're promising change from the status quo and the status kuo isn't working. but as much as we all say all races are local, the message

from republicans is pretty consistent across the nation. that's a sign that they think there's is a winning one. taxes, spending, health care, that's it. as long as they're attacking the democrats, they seem to be doing well on the economy issue. if you break down their numbers, some polls show that voters don't necessarily like the republicans 'plans for the economy. so when they stay on the attack against democrats, it seems to resonate much more successfully. but again, this is a change election. and change from the democrats and the economy is what republicans are promising. >> and if you remember back over the speech, i think it was cleveland last months when the president was talking about the car that the republicans drove into the ditch and the president sort of made boehner out to be this republican bogeyman if you will. do you think this attack tactic on behalf of the president is working? talk to me strategy-wise here. >> reporter: sure. that helps energize his own base and that car in the ditch line began in his own presidential

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deal! my money. my choice. my meineke. a couple of things developing this hour. want to get you updated here. first the official word from chile. not today or tomorrow but possibly monday at the earliest. that is the optimistic time line to begin hauling out those 33 miners trapped 2,000 feet below ground since early august. now, we're told this rescue drill is close, could maybe reach these guys by tomorrow. it's making a huge hole wide enough for a pipe and this rescue capsule. there it is. once everything is in place it will take 24 to 36 hours to get all of these men to the surface. also today personnel changes at the white house. jim jones announcing today he's going to step down as national security adviser. a number of -- the number of people actually surprised by this is zero.

jones is a retired marine, four star general who we're told never intended to stay in the job longer than two years. we already know president obama's choice to replace general jones. that is tom donellan. this is liu xiaobo, announced today as the 2010 winner of the nobel peace prize. but he will not be present to receive the award. why you ask? liu is in prison in china sent there for human rights and embracing democracy. 11 years for inciting sub version of state power. he doesn't know it yet but liu's wife will give him the news when she's escorted in to see him by chinese police. the chinese government not so thrilled with the nobel committee's decision. they call it blasphemy against the peace prize. shirley sherrod, back in the

news today. you remember her career, that story, a meltdown because of that piece of videotape. actually several pieces. it was edited together to make it sound as if she was racist. what went on at the white house during that pr crisis. let me tell you, you may be surprised by some of the just-released e. mails that we're looking at. also this. >> what i said or did on a comedy show, you know, over a decade ago, is not relevant to this election. >> candidate christine o'donnell from delaware stopped doing high profile interviews after her witchcraft comments came back to haunt her, if you will. but she changed her mind when cnn called her. o'donnell in her own words. don't miss it. that is next. we need directions to go to... pearblossom highway? it's just outside of lancaster. sure, i can download directions for you now. we got it. thank you very much! onstar ready. call home. hi, daddy! i'm on my way.

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welcome back to cnn on this friday. delaware gop senate nominee christine o'donnell is letting everyone know she's matured in both her faith and her policies. in fact, yesterday oonnell talked to cnn's jim acosta and tried to clarify some of her past comments she's made. past comments that led her to release this political ad. >> i'm not a witch. i'm nothing you've heard. i'm you. >> you remember that one. we were talking about that just a couple of days ago, the "i'm not a witch" campaign ad. jim acosta caught up with her yesterday and got this exclusive interview. he asked her a little bit about her past and exactly what it's like here moving forward in such a race that is very much so talked about. here's jim acosta.

meantime, let's move on here. being trapped underground for months is hard, but it's been traumatic for the families waiting above ground. now we're getting some word that the rescue could be complete in a matter of days. that is ahead. and what does gossip girl know about fighting bullies? i'm going to talk to brittney snow, star of "gossip girl," "hairspray" and other hits. bold. daring. capable of moving your soul. ♪ and that's even before you drop your foot on the pedal. ♪ the new 2011 cts coupe from cadillac. the new standard of the world. rheumatoid arthritis going? they're discovering simponi®,

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a couple minutes ago, i because talking about delaware senate nominee tea party backed christine o'donnell.

we've got that tape cued up. jim acosta as i said sat down with her, big exclusive with christine o'donnell yesterday and asked her to explain her past and what kind of message she's trying to get across to voters. it's cued up. take a listen. >> reporter: your latest ad says, i'm you. >> right. >> reporter: it's as if you're trying to reintroduce yourself to voters. >> yes, yes. >> why is that? is that what you're trying to do? >> absolutely. my goal since the primary is to meet as many voters as possible so they can get to know me and i can get to know them. i've got to hear what's on their minds so i can know how to help in washington, d.c. my goal, my whole candidacy is about putting the political process back into the hands of the people. i'm not a career politician. i'm not someone who has been groomed for office. i'm not someone who has been hand picked by her party elite, by the party bosses, obviously. i'm an average american citizen. i'm an average delawarean. i want to go to washington, d.c.

and do what most delawareans would do. i would not have voted for obama care. i would not have voted for the bailouts. i would not have voted for more of the spending bills that are putting us into bankruptcy. and neither would you. that's what my message "i'm you" means. i want to do what you would do in washington, d.c. >> let me ask you one more thing about the video clips that have surfaced. have you been embarrassed by those clips? >> no. i haven't been embarrassed. i'm not saying that i'm proud. it's -- obviously, what they're trying to do is paint a picture of who i was 20 years ago. i've matured in my faith. i've matured in my policies. today you have a 40-something woman running for office, not a 20-year-old. so that's a big difference. and i think most people -- >> just having fun back then? is that basically your message? >> well, i think back then, as i said on hannity's show, a lot of what i said, i had a new found

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this is dr. alfredo hinojosa. they call him dr. q. here taking out a life-threatening brain tumor. this is quite an operating room. got all your scans up, intraoperative ct scanners. >> one of the finest hospitals in the world. this is your room? >> this is my room. they built this specifically for our service. >> reporter: at 42 dr. q. is at the top of his game. but life wasn't always like this. in fact, it's been a long journey from his hometown in mexicali, mexico. he started working at the age of a at his father's gas station. his family was poor and things got worse when the business collapsed. in 1987, young quinones headed north to the border.

>> that became one choice i knew i had to make and i hopped the fence. i jumped the fence. i climbed the fence between mexico and the united states at age 19. >> reporter: his first job, pulling weeds in california's central valley. >> i remember -- i tell you, dr. gupta, my hands, the very same hands that now due brain surgery, right around that time they had scars everywhere from pulling weed. they were bloody. >> reporter: this trailer was his home. but quinones knew he could do better. he worked for the railroad and got a job as a welder. that paid for night school. he got a scholarship to the university of berkeley and from there to harvard medical school. did you ever think to yourself i don't belong here? >> yes, many times. but i think that that's also what has kept me on the top of my game. back then when i was in medical school i remember look at my

classmates. you had some who train at the best prep schools in the country, who came from the most distinguished families in the united states from tradition of education and there was me, who barely had an education. but i was eager to learn. and i had -- i always knew that i had something that others didn't have and that was that fire in my belly that keeps me going. there is my girl right there. >> reporter: the fire still burns today. as dr. q. takes out brain tumors and does research that he hopes will lead to better treatments. you guys ever sit around you and your wife and just pinch yourselves? i mean, your wife has literally seen you go from a migrant farm worker to being here. >> yes. i do. we think about it. but i feel very blessed that every day when i walked out of the operating room, of this operating room and go and give the patients the news that everything went well in surgery and they hug me, it's just the most rewarding moment that i can

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real quickly before we move on, update on the situation in hollywood, florida. big massive water tower. two guys fell 30 feet in. we have the update from the affiliate down there. first victim on the ground transported to the local hospital. second victim is out but not lowered off the tower. that's out of florida. now listen to this. >> i'm brittney snow. when i was in middle school and high school, i was picked on daily by a bully. i was mistreated and disrespected. it led me to feel alone and

hopeless. after years of struggle, i finally overcame it, became stronger and now i know that love is louder. >> you recognize her. this is actress brittney snow. you may know her from "gossip girl" and you will soon know her from her upcoming show "harry's law." snow was touched by the recent headlines of all these teens who have committed suicide after they were bullied and wanted to do something about it. so she didn't want it to, though, come across as bully-bashing. she wanted a more positive message. so here's what she has done. she has started the love is louder campaign. it's a social networking project to help teens out there cope with what she's calling the isolation and hopelessness that can result from bullying. and snow has joined forces with mtv and the jed foundation and as you see there on this facebook page as we're scrolling through it here there are all kinds of people joining,

becoming friends and fans and joining the conversation there on facebook. actress brittney snow is there in los angeles to have a very real and honest conversation about all of this with me. i thank you for being on with me. >> of course. >> i'd like to begin with what i heard in that love is louder video. you talk about how you were once a victim when you were much younger. i look at you. you're this gorgeous, confident tv actress. but if you can, share that experience. >> yeah. i mean, i think a lot of people can probably relate to being picked on, being bullied in middle school and high school. i'm not the only person who has been through that. i was bullied daily by a particular person. and it led me to just have many other problems down the line. and i think what people don't realize is that bullying does really affect you long term and some kids just don't take the

severity of that into a factor. so i went through it. and i know what it's like to feel hopeless and alone. and recently when all these -- the suicides tragically happened, i decided that i wanted to stand up and do what i could and what little voice i thought i had. >> that's the love is louder. love is louder than what? tell me about it. >> love is louder is a movement of people who believe that love is louder than hate, love is louder than pain, love is louder than shame. it's really you can -- you can put it towards whatever it is that you're going through. and it's a movement of people partnered with other campaigns and other charities that are raising the volume on bullying, suicide prevention, depression,

and really putting a positive message out there that, you know, we need to treat each other with respect and love and that's what's most important. >> speaking of raising the volume, we're looking at pictures. this is boston. i think within 24 hours, right, brittney, you'll be launching this love is louder, a bunch of kids got together and shouting love is louder in boston. we know a couple of celebrities, drake and tre leaving messages of support for your campaign. let's listen to what they're saying. >> i want to let you know that love is louder than anybody's negative voice. keep doing you. >> this is tre songz. love is louder than anything. hate, jealousy. it can conquer all. if you learn love you can live a better love. i encourage you to do so. >> what kind of feedback have you gotten so far? >> the feedback has been amazing. i'm so honored and touched and

grateful that people are responding in such a positive way. i couldn't have asked for -- i mean, i -- you know, my friend courtney knowles from the jud foundation and i had this little idea to just put a positive message out there. and now, you know, there's rallies with love now there's rallies with "love is louder" being chanted and celebrities are coming forward and lending their voice as well. it's been -- it's been above and beyond where i thought. but i'm so glad people are supporting such a positive message. >> we want to make sure we let all our viewers know you have a facebook page, hop on twitter. love is louder. thank you for that. we'll make sure we tweet that out so you can learn more about love is louder. also, this explosive report. have you heard this? exposes links between american subcontractors in afghanistan and the taliban. how the hit movie -- did you see

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punctuation on this story. this is the second guy, hollywood, florida way up high on the water tower. he's been lowered down to the ground. out of miami, victim number two will be transported to the hospital. so both of those guys hopefully down safe and sound on the ground. also, take a look at this here. just 25 days until election day. cnn has all of the latest news at the political desk. happy friday to you, wolf? >> thanks very much. happy friday to you. more importantly, happy friday to all of our viewers. we've got some aye tems on the cnn politics website. the political ticker. let's go through some of them. sarah palin, the former alaskan governor is now openfully sly s she's going to run for

i'll run if the american people want me to. she's saying so in florida right now. a lot of people would be following this. she would be formidable in the iowa caucuses, a year after the elections or so. a year before the iowa caucuses, she would be a formidable candidate in iowa if she decides to run. speaking of running, the former president bill clinton is going to be visiting west virginia. he's going to support the governor who's running for the u.s. senate. clinton is popular in a lot of the states right now, especially in getting out the democratic base, encouraging them to go out and vote. joe manchen needs help. right now, he's been a popular governor. but in this current political environment, he could face some problems. on issue one, jobs, jobs, jobs, the economy. john boehner, the republican leader in the house of representatives walking around in a flannel shirt and being very, very tough in blasting obama administration for the

economy, he's rather animated. your government has not been listening. your government is disrespecting you, your family, your job, your children. your government is out of control. you uh have to accept it, you have to take it. he goes on and on. nancy pelosi put out a statement saying leader boehner failed to offer any plan for america. instead like other republican leaders he once again showed he would return to the same discredited policies that drove america's economy to the ditch. a little more than three weeks to go, the rhetoric, quite intense, brooke, all around. boehner was fired up. sarah palin said she'll run if the american people want her to. just a quick update. a political update for you in a half an hour. if you need to get your fix before then, hop on to the internet and go to cnnpolitics.com where they tweet@political ticker.

here we go, the top of the hour, welcome the women and the men watching us right now. the american forces network all around the world. hi there, we're going to hit you fast and furious this hour. see if you can keep up with me. let's go. family and friend of the man believed to have been killed by pirates demanding mexico step up the efforts to find his body. take a look at this -- this is denver. the people rallying and the police presence -- holding the signs you can hear them -- bring david home. investigators in mexico still searching for david hartley's body. and his wife, tiffany, said pirates shot him on that lake straddling the texas-mexico border. now his sister begging mexico for closure. tiffany hartley, the wife, by the way. said she may take a polygraph test to prove she's not lying about the story. take a look at this video. this is dash cam video from the morning of the instrument. this is what it shows with the

two sea-dos in the back? police pulled him over for expired tags hours before hartley called it 911. >> next, developing all foreclosures in all 50 states. bank of america said the freeze will help make sure all decisions on foreclosures are right and legal. this is huge, huge news, huge deal. this comes after two days after j.p. morgan chase announced they signed off on foreclosure sales prematurely without reviewing the paperwork. widening the net to whether banks may have done the same thing. a shake-up at the white house. this one happening today. president obama announcing the national security advisor is taking a step down. general james jones only signed up for two years. cnn was told he didn't mesh well with other members of the president's inner circle. that is what we're getting. still, though, president obama

giving him a nice sendoff. >> jim has always been a steady voice in situation room sessions, daily briefings, and in meetings with foreign leaders. also representing our country abroad with allies and partners in every region of the world. >> general jones' current deputy tom donnelly will be the one taking over. and if you're keeping count here, folks, the fifth person in the past couple of months to announcer their leaving or to leave the president's inner circle. that includes two economic advisors, a senior advisor, and, of course, rahm emmanuel who quit his chief of staff job last week. next, this one raising some eyebrows. the government sent nearly 90,000 stimulus checks to dead people. also, to inmates. that's according to a new watchdog report on president obama's $814 billion stimulus program from last year. keep in mind, each check worth

$250, do the math. all told, the government incorrectly spent $18 million. here's something interesting. more than half of those payments have been returned. >> oh next, a heart breaking story out of kentucky. let me explain. this woman dies after saving her five children from their burning apartment. take a look with me. crews said the flames broke out on the first floor so the only way out through the second floor window, the mom helped each of her three kids and two others jump out that window. listen to how onlookers are describing how they caught them all on the ground as they fell. >> i looked up and saw the kid hanging out of the window. so, and the paperman ran up just as i was running up. i told the paperman -- the paper man was like, jump. if you jump, one of us will catch you. >> i caught him, put him down. then, kept asking the lady who lived there, she -- how many more kids of there. she said two more.

>> firefighters say the woman collapsed and died after her children got to safety. by the way, we are told that all of the children are fine. that's amazing courage. next, i want to show you this amazing video. this is the bionics company in california introducing what they're calling e legs. this is battery powered -- a system designed to help paraplegics walk like this woman. she was paralyzed in a skiing accident. she started crying because this is the first time in 18 years she has placed her foot on the ground. the company wants to use the legs in rehab clinics next year. when will it be ready for personal use? maybe, maybe the year 2013. wow. next -- so which politician has thrown -- has the thrown worst first pitch of all time? well, we can add a new contender to the list. take a look with me. game two, tampa bay rays and texas rangers.

florida governor -- oh, florida governor charlie crist. you saw it, high to the right. worst part about it in college, guess what we found out? he played quarterback at wake forest. quarterback, not, obviously, the pitcher. next, finally, do you know what sunday is? check your calendars. october 10, 2010. 10/10/10. a once in a lifetime date. so what are people doing to celebrate? they're getting hitched, of course. an estimated 32,000 weddings are planned across the country. and according to the knot and the wedding channel websites. for context, only 5,000 weddings were planned on the same sunday in october of last year. all of the luck you can get, 10/10/10. now, watch this. i found possessed land mines and large amounts of ammunition and were determined by the u.s. military to be in league with the taliban. >> what is he talking about?

this is a scathing study -- the military hired contractors to protect u.s. bases in afghanistan. but many of the contractors were, in fact, war lords and insurgents. can you guess who footed the bill for this? that's coming up. also, the clock is ticking in chile. and as the drill gets closer and closer to those 33 trapped miners, man, their families, they're waiting, waiting for them. the suspense is building. we're going to tell you how close they are to seeing daylight. that's next. stay there.

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we're waiting for a live report from chile from the seen of the miners' rescue. again, it's been more than two months now. the american man drove, what they're calling plan b. tunnelling towards the miners, trapped for 64 days. they know they're counting, last report here at cnn, last report to mirror 120 feet from where the miners are located, about 2 1/2 miles underground. a live update from carl pinhall once again. meantime, carl has this piece where he's showing this round-the-clock vigil being kept by all of the miners' families. >> day fades into another night. but at last, the anguished wait may be drawing to a close for

families of the 32 trapped miners. waiting is like a bad itch that bofters you every minute of every day. you get a knot in your stomach thinking this is the final phase. the only thing i want to do is take my husband home and forget this ever happened, she said. she's baiting for veteran miner, mario gomez, the oldest of the 33. close by, jessica mounts a vigil for her husband-to-be,est van rojas. >> all this time i feel i've been dreaming. when i wake up. i see it all reality. my stomach hurts and my head hurts thinking i have no choice but to carry on waiting, she says. the roll call of all 33 names is printed on this rock. the families of miners have

huddled here every night for two months to sprinkle the embers with sugar. a ritual to bring them luck. this is an eternal wait but i must be patient. there's only a little while left, she says. the rescue may be just days away. and alberto segovia is not sure he can find the words to welcome his brother home. when the moment comes, i think i'll forget everything i planned to say. i'll just tell him what i feel in my heart, he says. but jessica knows there are two things that cannot go unsaid.

the first thing i will tellest van is that i love him and that he must never go back down to the mine, she says. there are many ways to earn a living without killing yourself. cnn at the san jose mine in northern chile. a reminder we'll talk to carl within the hour and talk about the capsule. a quick reminder. about 21 inches across. see this. these guys will have to fit in the capsule. how the process will work, what the families are saying. coming up a little later. meantime, on this explosive report that alleges americans -- links between american subcontractors and the taliban break it all down for you, tell you how this hit movie -- remember quentin tarantino's reservoir dogs? what does this have to do with this? we'll explain stand by. sleep on those brand new clouds. ask me what it feels like to be comforted by a cloud.

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we're getting some disturbing news about who is guarding u.s. bases in afghanistan. all according to the new report. this is from the senate armed services committee -- tribal war lords with ties to the taliban were paid with american tax dollars to act as guards. the pentagon catching heat for this. the lack of oversight has put u.s. troops at grave risk. pentagon correspondent chris lawrence looks at this investigation. >> reporter: security contracting in afghanistan comes off as some sort of gangster movie in this scathing senate report. one example, armor group hired a series of ward lords and gave

them code names to hide their identity. >> this is the company's naming of these war lords, mr. pink, mr. white, mr. white ii. >> sound familiar. they took it right off of quintin tarantino's reservoir