>> not about affective at her opponent, i'm not christine o'donnell. more effective. >> well, good luck, christine o'donnell, and thank you for watching today. remember, stay engaged. think for yourself and have a great weekend. i'm pete dominick. we'll see you next week. celebrations in chile as crews get one step closer to rescuing 33 miners trapped underground. more in a moment. first other headlines -- acollege party out of control in washington state. when police arrived they found multiple students and other teens suffering from overdoses. they were all taken to the hospital. in afghanistan, a rescue mission with a tragic ending. a british aid worker killed by her captors as u.s. troops

closed in. two taliban commanders also died in that raid. you're in the "cnn newsroom," where the news unfolds live on this saturday, october 9th. i'm randi kaye in your fredricka whitfield. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com a jubilant day in chile where a rescue tunnel has finally reached 33 trapped miners. now the dangerous work of getting the men out of the mine and to the surface begins. cnn's karl penhaul has been in chile since first discovered the trapped men were actually alive. karl what work fleeds to be done now and just how dangerous is all this going to be? >> reporter: -- this essentially is a breakthrough today. you saw the great pictures of that, the families celebrating. just looking at the pictures really does say it all. doesn't it? but now after this breakthrough what has to happen is that

engineers will be putting a camera down that rescue shaft which is 28 inches wide as we know, and they will be checking what they call the integrity of that rescue shot. checking to see if the drill hole through that granite rock is solid enough or if there may be a risk of rock fall. if they think there is rock fall, a solution. put steel piping all the way down to the tunnel where the miners are and then once that is in place, then the rescue cage known as the phoenix capsule will be brought slowly to the surface with the miners onboard one by one. but that, if they decide to go for that option, that could take anything up to ten days before the miners are back here on the surface. but what engineers are hoping and a mining consultant i was speaking to this morning, he says he believes that the first 100 yards is the critical area of that rescue shaft. they might encase just 100 yards of this shaft and then drop the

phoenix capsule down into the depths of the earth to be able to bring those miners back. of course, the question on everybody's lips, how soon could that be? well, the health minister just told us that that could begin on tuesday. and, again, it's a process that will take many hours to bring the 33 back to the surface, but as i say, could begin as soon as tuesday, randi. >> such a complicated operation. karl penhaul for us watching it all unfold there in chile. thank you. these men, as you know, have been trapped deep inside the earth since august 5th. that's more than two months without direct sunlight or fresh air. you have to wonder, what kind of shape are they in? our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta talked with cnn's t.j. holmes earlier today. >> you think about the obvious things first. with regard to the oxygen, for example that was down there. they were pumping in, for example, 22% oxygen. not 100% oxygen because the air

we're breathing in right now, t.j., is about 22% oxygen. they look at obviously the food. the water supply. they tried to make sure all of those things were available in a way that would allow them to be more easily rescued, and, again, approximately what they were going to see when they get back on the ground. something that wouldn't shock their bodies. they have skin infections from being in that sort of humid conditions for some time. might sound like a minor issue but could be major depending ow severe those infection, and just thing like exposure to sunlight. obviously, that's something that just -- the effect on the eyes, amount of vitamin d production in their bodies. how brittle their bones might be as a result of not having had that vitamin d. again, all things that maybe people wouldn't think of intuitively but become important in a situation like this. >> the miners mental and emotion well-being is also a big concern. joining us live from new york,

colonel tom, the head of beat havl sciences department at west point and colonel, you're an expert on the psychological impacts of life and death situations. you actually say that parallels can be drawn between the experiences of the chilean miners and soldiers coming back from active duty? >> that's absolutely true. our soldier whose come back from active duty have a time being when they have to reintegrate with their families and the process of reintegration we anticipate these miners will undergo will have many parallels between that and soldiers. >> i've talked to some soldiers that have come back from iraq ath afghanistan, and all of a sudden they're tanked with taking out the garbage and things like that. after what they've been through, everything else, i imagine, is going to seem pretty trivial to them? >> well it could. and the process of their reintegration and moving forward into the bright futures that they have will take some time.

but over time, they'll make that adjustment, and i have a great deal of optimism for these 33 people coming out of the mine. >> and it's not just about these miners. it's also about their families. what can their families do today, nor the next few days to start preparing for their homecoming? >> well, there are several things. first of all, their families are our best source of information about how the miners went into the mine. and often in traumatic and difficult experiences, how you go in will help you determine how you come out. and so i would think the families would be a tremendous source of information for psychologists and others about who among the miners might be challenged more by this? who might have gone in already feeling stress, already dealing with some kind of tragedy or difficulty. then when the miners do come out, the families are going to be their source of support as they accomplish the process of

reintegration, and that process includes both some emotional down time, where they can process what they've done and come to understand it, and it also includes just putting one foot in front of the other and moving foed wir their lives. it will be that back and forth in that process that will allow them to adjust and get back to the lives that they want to have. >> we talked so much about the trauma and negative impact. i imagine there has to be some positive impact here. if they all survive this and come out of this, they're going to be a lot more resilient as a result. >> absolutely. never underestimate the resilience of the human spirit, and in this case, very interesting circumstance whereif for a number of days their futures were very uncertain, an then after that, some hope, and at the same time, their isolation has been muted by the fact that they are with 33 individuals together.

so for the group, they've been very isolated. but as individuals, they've actually had a tremendous amount of social support in that mine over time, and i think that's going to build their resilience and make it much more likely they'll have a suggestions 238 reintegration. >> and established a leader in the group early on. how important is that and what does that tell you about how they've been dealing with this down below? >> well, it's tremendously important. leaders are dealers in hope. and they give groups like that purpose and direction, which helps them feel like there's some degree of control. one of the biggest challenges they'll have emotionally is that they haven't had much control over their lives for the past 65 days. but leaders can give them projects. leaders can focus activities in constructive ways, and introduce feeling of hope into that group long before they're able to resurface. so the leader plays a critical

role there. >> colonel, i think you've given all of us a lot of hope these guys will be okay. thank you so much for your insight today. focusing on key battles in the midterm elections. coming up, pennsylvania. the balance ever power is in play. ♪ ♪ [ engine revs, tires screeching ] we give to you the all-new volkswagen jetta. we have one more surprise for you.

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women, are you counting? there are now just 24 days until midterm elections. pennsylvania is one of the big battleground states to determine the next balance of power in the next congress. that's made it a must stop for president obama. paul steinhauser is aboard the cnn election express in harrisburg, pennsylvania today. what is on the president's schedule, paul? tell us. >> reporter: you're right. coming three pennsylvania tomorrow. we're in harrisburg in the central part of the state. tomorrow the president and vice president at rally in philadelphia. the eastern part of the state. a democratic stronghold. the whole idea here is for the president and vice president to try to excite and energize democratic voters to get out and the go to the polls come november 2ened pd. such an important state for democrats and republicans,

because the senate race here, joe sestak, trying to hold on to the senate seat. republicans feel they were win it back. pat toomey and others, their nominee. democrats worry about a bunch of house seats. republicans think maybe four to six house seats currently controlled by the democrats could go the republican way in the mid-terms. if that happens here in pennsylvania and elsewhere, republicans have a good shot at taking back the howuse and possibly the senate. >> let's talk about the enthusiasm gap, as it's called, between the democrats and republicans. lots of enthusiasm out there. how does it break down? how big is this gap? >> reporter: well, great point. exactly why the president is coming here tomorrow to a democratic area, because the democrats trail when it comes to enthusiasm according to a lot of recent polls. look at ours. out yesterday. from the cnn opinion research corporation. a national survey. we asked republican and democratic voters, extremely enthusiastic about voting?

republicans are a lot more excited to vote. democrats are trying to close the gap before election day. if not, a lot of trouble for democrats. >> a lot of enthusiasm for sure. thank you. the three-way senate race in florida is getting more interesting after a report one of the candidates was dropping out. that would be democrat kendrick meek. that's him on the right there. to be fair, the most recent cnn time opinion research poll has meek running third behind republican front-runner mark rubio and charlie crist. meek says he's not going anywhere and definitely not endorsing crist. >> reporter: sounds like you wanted to go full throttle ahead. wall street reports you're dropping out the rafe? >> 2 wasn't necessarily a publication that was on the side of democrats or independents or even identified with florida. you know. i don't know who they think i am. probably think i'm carole crist. >> reporter: not dropping out and backing carole chaefl crist.

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top stories now. cheers and hugging in chile a few hours ago. a rescue shaft reached 33 miners trapped half a mile down since early august. a specially designed capsule will bring them to the surface perhaps as early as tuesday. until then, the rescue shaft must be widened and reinforced to accommodate the capsule. a wild party went jooverboard. a party attended by central washington university students and other teenagers. more than a dozen needed treatment. one in critical but stable condition. they also interrupt add possible sexual assault. in afghanistan a british aid worker held hostage killed by

captor, during a rescue attempt. she was kimed by her captors yesterday as u.s. troops were closing in. one programming note, cnn's larry king will have exclusive interview with hamid karzai monday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. some call it soda. others call it pop. many dietitians think it's more like obesity in a can. look at the top three sources of calories for americans. this is from the journal ever the american dietetic association. coming in at number one, there it is. baked goods. cookies, cakes, pies. no shock there. the runner-up, well, pizza. gooey cheese, buttery crust. pepperoni and sausage. if you're a mayes loveat lover, big shock. number three, soda. imagine washing all that down with free soda refills. serious calories. zero nutritional value. that's why new york's mayor is cracking down. he doesn't want people using food stamps for soda. why is soda being singled out?

why not the baked goods or that pizza? both sides now from cnn's mary snow. >> reporter: if new york gets its way, buying soda or sugar sweetened drinks with more than 10 calories will be banned if you use food stamps. new york's mayor around state governor are trying to reduce obesity and making their case to the federal government which administers the food stamp program. and currently only bans alcohol and cigarette sales. >> for the government to make the decision that should not include something else that the experts all tell you is very debt pra meant toll your health, contributing to the number one public health issue remaining in this city and in this country that's getting worse. it's not unreasonable and it's not picking on anybody. >> reporter: the city's health department reports 58% of adults in new york city are either overweight or obese. among public school children, that rate is close to 40%. soda is a huge problem. kristy lancaster, a nutritionist working to reduce high obesity

rates in harlem. one big problem she says, healthier food tend to be more expensive. leaving people with less options. soda doesn't help. >> the more calories, you don't compensate the same with as when you eat more calories. >> reporter: not all public health doctors applause 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 sow sure about that. >> reporter: the doctor has been working in harlem to reduce diabetes, associated with obesity. >> food stamps till pays for a bucket of jung food and a bucket of high calorie food. things full of processed chemicals you couldn't even call them food. out of this whole bucket of things that food stamps covers, why are we picking out one thing? why are we picking out soda? >> reporter: the u.s. department of agriculture, which oversees the food stamp program, says it will review and consider new york's proposal. the city wants a two-year ban,

and in that time it says, health officials can studiy the impact. mary snow, cnn, new york. now that the drill has made its way down to the trapped miners in chile, what's next? jacqui jeras is going to join us way look at the challenges the rescue team faces before any of the miners are brought back to the surface. our ar insurance. great! at progressive, you can compare rates side by side, so you get the same coverage, often for less. wow! that is huge! [ disco playing ] and this is to remind you that you could save hundreds! yeah, that'll certainly stick with me. we'll take it. go, big money! i mean, go. it's your break, honey. same coverage, more savings. now, that's progressive. call or click today. you do? your medicare card. [ laughing ] but don't let me or anyone see it except your doctor or their staff. and don't tell anyone your card or social security number over the phone. guard your card.

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excitement and relief at the san jose mine in chile today when the rescue drill broke through to the mine. it's expected to take several more days before the first of the 33 trapped miners is brought 209 surface meaning we could begin to see rescues on tuesday. one member the rescue team says it's miners have been busy doing their part to help underground. >> they've been very helpful. one of the sections made early

on, that we would not get the cuttings to surface. we would drill and drop the planks to the bottom. cleaning out the bottom with machinery, and also providing us with information on the cutting sizes, what was being cut, if anything fell down there. we put water through the hole to prevent from any dusts to invade them. they worked very well. on communication every day i think they're happy. they're in good shape. therapy cheerful obviously and i can't wait to see the first one to come out. >> today's joyful exuberance has been a long time coming. the miners have been trapped underground for 65 days. on august 5th the main ramp of the san jose mine collapsed trapping 33 miners half a mile underground. no one knew if they were alive or dead. later that month, august

22eneden, rescuers lower probed 2,300 feet down. the miners tied a note to it, telling everybody the good news. they were alive. their families overjoyed. then september 17th, the plan b bore hole reaches the miners. one of three shafts the chilean government was drilling, only 12 inches wide and needed to be widened to accommodate the rescue capsule. error this month, october 1st revised their own timeline, instead of november, possibly by mid-october. that estimate appears to be right on the money. the first of the miners could be brought out next week. now i want to bring in cnn's jacqui jeras, waging this rescue effort. celebrating the happening today. still so much work to be done. you can see the guys above -- until we see the guys above ground. >> you want to be cautious about it, put it in perspective. it's not sure thing. there are a lot of risks and still a lot of challenges to look forward to. the good news is, right, we were

able to drill on through here. get down 2,000-plus feet. the animation. the one that worked through. drilled all the way down and made it into the mine. match than? such a small space, to be able to bore through all of this rock. keep in mind, this is not like drilling through something that is smooth. this is really tough rock, and it's so tough, in fact, it took five drill bits to get through. it broke four. to give you an idea how solid and hard this rock material is. you bore through it, you don't get a nice smooth line. not like a water slide going down to the bottom. bumps, rocks, doesn't go straight down. goes through curves and bumps. a capsule. stop the animation. see the capsule they're expected to put in here. the miners will receive instructions. using explosives to make it bigger to give them a little more room. then they're going to inspect this hole and they're going to try an determine just how much of this lining they're going to need to put it through there.

it's like a little capsule, like a sheet kind of a thing that will protect it so when the capsule comes in, smoother on the way down. every time you'll feel the bumps, and it's going to put pressure other than this. this is a look what the capsule looks like. this thing is only 21 inches around. they're calling it the phoenix, and they're going to put oxygen supplies and communication equipment with that, to give you an idea. it's going to take them probably expecting maybe an hour each. probably take anywhere between 24 and 36 hours to get all of these guys out. and that is after they get that seal in there. i want to walk and put it in perspective, give people and idea of how small this is. now, a lot of those miners lost weights since being down there. >> haven't been eating very much. >> about 20 pounds. that's a good thing. look at this. this is it. can you see it? this is all the bigger this is. i'm not a small girl. >> 24 inches or so. >> really tight quarters, and it's a long ride up there. going to be probably the longest

hour of their life trying to go up there. in all of those conditions. >> actual lay good thing. getting nutrition, but if they were really eating well they might not be able to fit in the capsule and up that shaft. >> nine of the miners would not have fit in this capsule when all of this started, 65 days ago. >> helps put it in perspective. >> it does. >> yeah. claustrophobic down in that place as it is, and very dark and so -- going to be in tight quarters again on in a ride on up. >> looking forward to, what, maybe tuesday when they might start getting them up? >> the best case scenario. depending on the casing. the first 100 yards the most critical. if they can get that encased they'll decide if they need to do it all wait up to the top or not. >> jacqui, great explainer. thank you. harassment from classmates and a suicide. just ahead a tragic story of a middle school student named hope. i used to see the puddles,

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cnn has been taking an in-depth look at bullying. i want to tell you about a case i investigated as part of our special series of reports "bullying: no escape." the story starts with a photograph and ends with a death of a 13-year-old girl.

>> reporter: hope witzel was a good student. about a year ago she did something that changed everything. friends and family say it started in the spring of 2009 at the end of the school year when hope sexed a picture of her breast to her boyfriend. another friend got their hands on that photo and sent it to photos at six different schools in the area before hope could do anything about it. that photo had gone viral. >> just loved everybody. >> reporter: hope's mother donna warned her many times about the dark side of cell phones and computers. >> so after all of those conversations, you never imagined she would sext a foet oaf herself to someone? >> no, no. no. absolutely not. >> reporter: the photo made hope a target. she was in middle school. 11, 12 and 13-year-olds, and suddenly bullies everywhere. >> they would walk up to her and

call her the slut and whore and, like, they would sometimes they would, like, call her skank and like just be really, like, cruel to her. >> reporter: hope was in pain. she never told them about the ridicule and couldn't escape it. online, friends say bullies wrote horrible things about hope. on a myspace page called "the shield's middle school burn book" anonymous bullies create add hope hater page to taunt her. >> every time i see it i think back to hope and what people were saying about her. >> reporter: and it got worse. in school, friends formed a human shield for her. >> people would try to come by and hit her. >> reporter: you walked as a crowd? >> yes. >> reporter: protecting her? >> she was afraid to walk alone. because she was afraid somebody was going to do something to

her. like, verbally attack her. so we always -- she would always have somebody come with her. >> reporter: her parents did not know what was going on. >> reporter: did you see change in her behavior? could you tell something wasn't quite right? i. could tell that she was struggling to overcome this mistake that she made. >> reporter: on a saturday as school was starting last year, hope helped her dad mow the lawn. ate dinner with her parents and then went upstairs to her room. her parents turned on a tv show. >> when we had finished watching the program, and i went upstairs to go in her room and kiss her good night, like i always do, that's when i found her. >> reporter: what happened when you walked in her bedroom? >> my -- screamed for my husband

as i was putting her on the bed, and doing cpr. >> reporter: it was too late. hope was already dead. the 13-year-old hanged herself from her canopy bed. she used her favorite scarves. the day before she died, hope met with a social worker at school. a spokesperson for the school said the social worker was concerned that hope may have been trying to harm herself. so she had he sign what's called a no-harm contract. in which hope promised to speak to an adult if she was considering hurting herself. her mother told me she was never told about that contract. she found it crumpled in the garbage in hope's bedroom after she had died. the school told us that the social worker had tried calling hope's parents. but the parents say, the school dropped the ball. and still, incredibly, the bullying was not over.

after hope's suicide, her sister samantha found more cruel comments posted on hope's myspace page. >> people putting comments on there like, oh, my god, did hope really kill herself? i can't believe that whero did that. obscene things i would never expect from a 12-year-old or 13-year-old. >> reporter: obscene things written by children, so terrible, hope witzel thought there was only one way to escape. >> this is national bullying prevention month. you can see more of our reports at cnn.com and tonight an "a.c. 360" town hall discussion about how to protect your children and stop bullying at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. checking top stories now -- there's jubilation in chile where a rescue drill has broken through the roof of a mine where 33 men have been trapped for 65 days.

pulling the men to safety is several days away. first officials must determine if the rescue shaft needs to be reinforced. a monumental job ahead. new toxic sludge fears in hungary. authorities ordered more evacuations after finding new cracks in the aluminum plant reservoir that ruptured earlier in the week. thousands of tons of toxic sludge inundated three villages monday. seven people killed. more than 100 others injured. the sludge has reached the danube river raising fears of wider contamination downstream. a new mexico teenager who admitted to killing his family when he was 14 got out of prison today. cody posy sentenced as a juvenile offender in 2004. he turned 21 winning his release. he add police to killing his father, stepmother and stepsister and burying their bodies in a pile of manure. had tapped on a ranch owned by newsman sam donaldson.

and the world's first and only communist dynasty is celebrating the accession of its new heir apparent. kim jong un is expected to succeed his ailing father. until last week practically nobody had heard of him. who is he? gordon clang is an expert on north korea. he's in our new york bureau. good to see you. how much do we know about kim, really about kim jong un? nobody's really, from what i understand, been able to determine how old he is what his education has been? >> reporter: we think that he's 27, but he could be 28. we know that he's the youngest of kim jong-il's three acknowledged sons. he went to school in switzerland, as you pointed out, but he was there as the son of the driver of the north korean embassy, not as it's son of the leader of north korea. he idolizes michael jordan, just like his dad, but the one thing we truly do know is that he is

as ruthless and cal grating as his father. he's the one son who's got the dick ka dictator gene. >> interesting. do you think he would rule the same, or will rule the same way as his father? >> reporter: i think he probably would, because first of all, it's the north korean system that's important. not so much the person who is on the throne. kim jong un has been exposed to the west. he likes things that are western, but so did his dad, and his dad is one of the most ruthless and most horrible tyrants at this time. i think the problem is that the north korean regime has its own logic. he's going to be in that regime and in the beginning he's not going to be very powerful, because he's just only 27, and there are a lot of older people. got to remember that the north korean regime is a snake pit, and this kid is a hamster. he's not going to have that much affect on the way the regime goes. >> some have referred to him, though, what i've read, a "nobody." has he even accomplished

anything? >> reporter: oh, he's not accomplished anything. i mean, two weeks ago he was a civilian. now he's a four-star general because they gave it to him? he's a top party leader. really, this is just a kid out of school. and the problem for him is that in the north korean regime, there are a lot of people who want to sit on the throne. and he has not had time to consolidate his position. kim il-sung, the founder of north korea, took two decades to prepare for the current leader. kim jong-il, only two years to prepare for the succession of kim jong un. only because he had a stroke in august 2008. so this is one of a haphazard planning for a transfer of power. probably not going to work. >> you describe him as ruthless, but i'm curious. what is the general feeling among north koreans about this power transfer? because some reports say that they're unhappy, but then i've also head some say they have

neither fear nor respect for him. >> reporter: well, kim jong-il is not revered in north korea. and he'll be able to at least pass power to his son. at least for a little bit of time, but we also know that the north korean people, although they don't really have the means to resist the regime, are extremely unhappy with the way things are going, and we saw this, because of the protests, demonstrations and riots that occurred in december of last year when the regime tried to demontize the currency and bomped it. a lot of latent discontent. it may not show itself at any one particular moment, but i don't think that the regime is really that stable. it's extremely fragile and we've got to remember one man regimes like north korea are always most vulnerable at a time transfer of power such as this one. >> so what does all of this mean, this change in leadership? what does it mean for the u.s.? >> reporter: well, you know, you think of north korea as this

destitute state, but it also has nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. it can destabilize north asia. it can harm american allies, japan and south korea, and it could also draw that whole region into turmoil. such as it did in march when it sank a south korean frigate with the loss of 46 lives. north korean regime is extremely dangerous, and now at a time when you have uncertainty in pyongyang the capital, even more so. this involves the united states, because we are very much a part of north asia. >> and why kim jong un? what was wrong with the other two sons? he's the third son. why did he pick this son? >> reporter: that's a great question. kim jong ong, the eldest son, caught going into japan under a fake dominican passport. that delegitimized him not only in the eyes of his father, also the generals who are very important in north korea.

and the second son, kim jong chol once a favorite for at least six months, is said to be quite a feminine and not fit to be the head of a terrible regime like north korea. kim jong un is there, i guess, almost by process of elimination, but he does share those traits of his father, even though she the youngest. and so you know, i guess in a sense the generals who are very powerful in pyongyang would feel more comfortable with the youngest son than with the other two. >> all right. gordon, we finally got answers from you on just who kim jong un is. thank you so much. >> thank you. 24 days until midterm elections and washington is casting a long shadow on a lot of local races. >> governor, but when he's with obama. >> he turns into washington joe. >> then washington joe does whatever obama wants. >> well, we better keep joe right here in west virginia. >> strong words, but that's not why the ad was pulled.

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the midterm elections. we're keeping an eye on the latest headlines. here's what's crossing the ticker right now. scott brown is trying to help out another northeast republican. the massachusetts senator is in connecticut today to support linda mcmahon. in the latest cnn poll, she was trailing richard blumenthal by 13 points. california gubernatorial candidate jerry brown is getting a key endorsement, the national organization for women will back the attorney general in his race against former ebay ceo meg whitman. former president bill clinton is heading out on the campaign trail next week in weather virginia to support joe mansion. mansion is in a tight battle to fill the senate seat left vacant by the death of robert byrd. time is short and the tone is ugly. as we all know bare knuckle tactics can backfire. correspondent dana bash reports.

>> reporter: a gop ad aimed at west virginia concerns. >> joe is not bad as governor. but when he's with obama -- >> he turns into washington joe. >> we better keep joe mansion right here in west virginia. >> reporter: but get this, those men are not in west virginia. they're actors 250 miles away in philadelphia. republicans paid a talent agency to hire them and the casting call obtained by cnn asks for a "hicky blue collar look." these kashgrers are from west virginia, so think coal miner, trucker looks. flannel shirts, check. and a t-shirt underneath. here's the t-shirt. a spokesman for the national republican senatorial committee says they did not know about the casting call language and pulled

the ad. the irony is republicans didn't have to use actors in philadelphia to capture concerns about mansion. we went to this real west virginia diner this week and heard the sentiment unscripted. >> i would be voting someone who is going to oppose obama's agenda. >> somehow they were hicks and rednecks. >> reporter: even democratic ad makers admit both parties use actors. >> if you have to go to paid actors as a second or a third resort, then 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. his wife, great. >> that woman is an actress. >> and that was dana bash reporting. of course, for all the latest

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with excitement building over the impending rescue of the trapped miners in chile, a survivor of another mining disaster is speaking out. he's one of the nine miners rescued in pennsylvania more than eight years ago. listen to the advice and the encouragement he has for the miners in chile. >> wednesday night in 2002, when

the accident happened, an engineer showed up on the farm very late at night with flashlights and i came up to see what was going on and he said there's been an accident in the mine and nine guys are missing and we think they're trapped under your farm. >> we were there the day we heard the drilling. i mean, that was our ticket right there we knew we was going to make it. but then the water kept coming up and we didn't know if we was going to make it or not. >> i can remember it was very uneasy the whole time through the rescue. we had so many factors in this rescue, that were not in our favor. we were fighting water. we were fighting air conditions. we were fighting extreme cold. we were fighting the fact we had no communications with the men. so we had a lot of things not working in our favor that they do have working in their favor in chile. >> these guys over there has a little different situation. they've got a big room.

it's 85 degrees there. ours was 55 degrees and we were soaking wet. i mean, it was hell. we just wanted to try to keep warm. i was about 50 feet away from it when it broke. best day of my life. just like being risen again. i mean, we came out, took us maybe 10, 15 minutes to get out, each one of us. i mean, you just came out and the lights were everywhere. they got us out and pus ut on a stretcher. >> with the chile mine rescue, there was enough time that they had to drill down, there was enough time that they could build a specialized capsule for that kind of rescue. they built a capsule they're calling the phoenix, and hopefully that will be used to bring 33 men