the quecreek rescue is one of the greatest rescues ever and we would move for chile to take that banner from us and say they've done one better. ♪ >> not sure how it's going to be for some of the guys coming out. some guys are going to be all right, some guys are not. they just got to do their best, don't quit, just keep on trucking is all you can do. there's no giving up. >> jubilation in chile where rescue drill brings a flood of hope to the miners trapped under ground. first, here are some other stories making headlines right now. police in new york arrest seven gang members in a series of anti-gay hate crimes. the clock is ticking on the midterm elections. we'll have the day's political developments. and the holiday shopping outlook is looking for brighter for people looking for a job.

retailers plan to hire a lot more seasonal workers. there's plenty to celebrate in chile right now. earlier a rescue tunnel reached 33 trapped miners. the dangerous part of this rescue mission is far from over. cnn's carl penhaul is there right now. carl, what needs to be done before they can actually be lifted to the surface? >> reporter: yeah, just to bring you up to date, i don't know if you just heard, we saw two chilean police vehicles and a chilean ambulance just screaming around this curve in the dirt road here and heading off down the hill towards the direction of the main city, which is about 45 minutes drive away.

we don't know what's happened there. we don't know if that is a genuine emergency or part of a practice drill. but we just heard an ambulance head down the hill there. maybe something happened with one of the rescue workers. we don't know yet. but as we get more information, we'll get back to you straight away. in terms of what has to happen now, we saw the joy from the families, absolutely fabulous to see. of course, this only signifies the start of the final countdown. what is happening now where the drill rigs are, the drill hammers have to be drown out of the rescue shaft now. that will take six or eight hours. once they've got a clean hole, the engineers will put a camera down there and check --

with about four pounds of dynamite, they're going to have to blow and widen that rescue shaft in the bottom to create an inverted cone. and that will just make that when the rescue cage, known as the phoenix capsule, is dropped down the rescue shaft, once it gets to the bottom it can swing freely so the miners can be loaded aboard. the other thing that may or may not have to happen is encasing. a series of steel tubes that may have to be put down that shaft to protect it, to make it solid. again, to prevent any possibility of rock falls. but what we understand talking to some of the engineers and also a mining consultant close to this operation is probably only the first 100 yards the shaft will have to be encased

that. can be done in about ten hours. according to the government health minister here, he says that the first miner could be extracted as early as tuesday. brandy? >> all right, carl penhaul for us. thank you very much. appreciate your time. today's joyful exuberance has been a long time coming. the miners have been trapped for 65 days. on august 5th, the main ramp of the san jose mine collapsed, trapping 33 miners. later that month, on august 22nd, rescuers lowered probe 2,300 feet down into that mine. the miners tied a note saying they're alive. then on september 17th, the plan b bore hole reached the miners. it was only 12 inches wide and needed to be widened to accommodate the rest of the capsule. on october 1st, officials revised their own rescue

timeline. instead of november, they announced the miners could be reached by mid october. that estimate appears to be right on the money. the first of the miners could be brought out next week. more than two months underground can take a mental and emotional toll on anyone. in about 25 minutes we'll hear from some mental health experts about what changes the families of the minerks expect when they are rescued. a frightening mass overdose in a small down in the great northwest home to central washington university. police say a party left more than a dozen university students and other teenagers with drug and alcohol overdoses. police were first called to help an assault victim and one possible overdose victim. witnesses say they made a bizarre discovery there. a dozen people, of course, were taken to the hospital. the town is about 90 miles east

of seattle. a series of anti-gay crimes are shaking new york. one of the victims was hit with a chain and sodomized with a baseball bat. susan candiotti has the very latest. >> reporter: new yorkers are stunned about what's being called a vile and disgusting hate crime. some say the worst in recent memory. door-to-door politicians and community leaders took to the streets today in the bronx looking for help. help to find at least two other suspects. so far seven people ranging in age from 17 to 23 are under arrest. on friday, police disclosed the gruesome details. a gang called latin king gunys found out a 17-year-old new recruit was having sex with a new man. so police say nine gang members lured both of them to an apartment, beat them and

sexually assaulted them. commissioner ray kelly talks about the first attack victim, and then the other. >> he was thrown into a wall, made to strip naked, hit in the head with a beer can, cut with a box cutter and sodomized with the wooden handle of a plunger. he was forced to strip to his underwear and then tied to a chair opposite from the teenager. the teenager, at the direction of the assailants, hit the older male in the face and burned him with cigarettes. they also hit the man with their fist and the chair -- chain and sodomized him with a small baseball bat. >> now at today's rally in the bronx, we spoke with david paterson. he said the recent suicide of a gay teenager is in his words

appalling. >> i means the tenor of hatred seems to be rising, as it often does in the midst of an economic downturn and people's angers are fomented at other people. >> and new york city council speaker catherine quinn applauded the bravery of the victim for coming forward. she said if they had not done so, probably they would not have been able to help find the people responsible for this crime. back to you. >> certainly. susan candiotti for us. thank you, susan. the independent swing vote in 2008, they swung to the left. but maybe not this year. we'll climb aboard the cnn election express to bring you all the answers, next. ♪ 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.

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there are now just 24 days until the midterm elections. the economy is still issue number one, especially in states with heated races like nevada, california and pennsylvania. paul steinhauser is in

harrisburg, pennsylvania today. good to see you, paul. >> reporter: a lot of heated races here in pennsylvania. you've got a battle for the governorship, controlled by the democrats. republicans think they can win that back. and there are about four to six house seats the republicans think they can recapture here in pennsylvania. if they take back congress, one of the places they're going to do it is right here in pennsylvania. as you mentioned, the economy, the top issue. the unemployment level is 9.2%, which is slightly lower than the national average of 9.6%, but that is small comfort to people looking for full-time work. take a listen to what they had to say. >> i'm concerned about jobs and the economy as opposed to breaks for big business and tax breaks for big business and the corporate -- i guess i'm more concerned about the little guy, yeah, me. and i'm unemployed myself and i

am temping but i'm looking for full-time work. >> the economy. really the economy and the job losses and it doesn't -- even though they're out of the recession, it doesn't seem to be turning around. so i would say the economy is the number one topic for everyone. >> reporter: no surprise at all. it's been issue number one for americans for three years now. it still is, and will be on november 2nd. >> paul, which way are the independent voters lean thing election, what have you been able to find out there? >> reporter: yeah, they're so crucial. in 2006 when the democrats won back congress and in 2008 when barack obama won the house, independents swung for the democrats. this year it doesn't appear that way. take a look at this survey, along likely independent voters, we asked would you vote for the democrat or republican. you can see by a 2-1 margin they are going for the republicans. that is troubling news for the

democrats as they try to hold on to control of congress. >> paul, keep those polls coming for us. all right? >> reporter: you got it. >> good to see you. here's an important programming note for you. join wolf blitzer for wednesday night's delaware senate debate. our coverage starts at 7:30 p.m. that is right here on cnn. bank of america is halting foreclosures in all 50 states. at issue, questions about the validity of some foreclosure related documents. some banks admitted the person signing off may not have done so in the presence of a notary and may not have fully reviewed all of the information in the documents. it's not known how many loans are affected but the freeze could complicate an already chaotic housing market. martin luther king jr. once described 11:00 a.m. sunday morning the most segregated hour in america. in many communities it's still true 40 years later.

ted rolands looks at one african-american church in california trying to change all that. >> reporter: sunday service at christ our redeemer ame church in orange county, california. the church started 12 years ago by reverend mark whitlock. 3,000 members strong and growing. here they practice something many other black churches do not. integration. >> it's time for us to get away from black church and white church. >> the church is still the most segregated place on sunday in the united states. our goal is do what heaven has accomplished. heaven is fully integrated. >> reporter: african-americans make up 2% of the population in orange county, which makes integration here almost essential for growth. but whitlock argues it should be happening at every church because he says unlike the past, most of the issues that blacks, whites and everybody else

struggle with are the same. >> we have problems with our kids, we have problems with bills, we have problems on the job. >> reporter: but not everybody thinks integrating the black church is such a good idea. michael reel is the co-founder of real urban news.com. >> it's ours. it's the one last place in the world that we have that we can call our own. >> we have whites on our board. they look different than blacks, yeah. they stick out a little more than blacks, yeah. but that means that there's still a sense of freedom, a sense of belonging. >> if other churches are doing it, are they practicing authentic christianity? >> reporter: ted rowlands, cnn, california. fighting the financial chris fr -- crisis from the pulpit. a black in america special is

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here's a check of the top storying. excitements and cheers just a few hours ago in chile. the ordeal for 33 trapped miners may soon be over now that the rescue shaft has reached them. in just days a especially designed capsule will bring them to the surface. a gunman faces six counts of

attempted murder. a 6 and 7-year-old girl received miner injuries. he fired six shots at the school. witnesses say the students were grazed by bullets while they were outside at lunch. the suspect was caught by construction workers near that school. now another village in hungary has been evacuated after monday's toxic sludge spill. there's fear a second wave may spill because a reservoir at the aluminum plant could collapse. this mud is contaminated with chemicals. seven villagers have died since the first spill. 100 others were hurt.

welcome back. we want to share more with you from cnn politics. here's more from brian todd. >> from my cold, dead hands! >> reporter: the iconic image of the nra. hollywood maverick, the late charlton heston brandishes a musket. but, huh? harry reid? the democratic senate majority leader, shown here in a campaign video, has been endorsed by the nra in the past. not this year. he backed the supreme court nominations of justices sotomayor and kagan. but the group is backing 64 democrats running this election cycle, most incumbents. including several who are running for seats viewed as

crucial for winning the majority. >> they're an interest group like any other interest group. >> reporter: tom davis was once chairman of the national republican congressional committee, the party's arm that pushes house campaigns. why is it in the nra's interest to push incumbent democrats? >> they've stood with the nra on a lot of very tough votes, and you have to reward people that are voting for you or they're not going to vote for you in the future. >> reporter: it was democrats who got the obama administration to back away from reinstituting a ban on assault weapons. despite their linkage with the republican party, officials insist they are not a partisan organization. one official said if you're a candidate and you're sincere about fighting for the second amendment, the right to bear arms, you'll get the nra's support. but if you don't, he said, we'll go after you. and if two have earned the same rating, the nra favors the incumbent. if you're a democrat, does the

nra back you -- backing inoculate you? an nra official told me they'll spend $15 to $20 million this election cycle. but tom davis says it's not the money the nra brings that's so crucial, it's the fact this they have people in virtually every district in the country who with bound the beat in favor of or against any candidate. brian candidate, cnn, fairfax, virginia. there are some big names on the big screen this weekend. joanna langfield joins us from new york with today's movie reviewing. good to see you. >> you too, randi. thank you. >> let's start with the comedy "life as we know it." here's a clip. >> i don't know what i'm doing.

>> it's not rocket science. just take the tabs off. >> oh! >> don't do that. >> it's slumdog. she had like two pieces of macaroni. it's like a poop suit. >> don't leave me in here. >> here's a plot. a caterer and sports director, who, after one date, i guess they determined that they dislike each other but they have to live together being named the god parents. >> the parents get killed. it's adorable, isn't it? >> you seen it. have you given it a grade.

>> you just saw it, too. it's all poo-poo. after the parts get killed, what else is there? everybody is adorable, though. and that's really all that matters in this movie is that everybody is adorable and they're sweet and they do the same story we've seen a million times before. i found it frankly annoying. sorry. >> okay. is there a grade you want to share with us, just annoying? >> oh, you want a grade. the actors do the best they can. josh is very compute, catherine is adorable. i love the baby. we'll give it a d. >> okay.

>> what did you think of "secretariat?" >> it doesn't matter if you know about the winning of the triple crown or not, because you sit there and you still find yourself applauding while those races are going on. they do them very well. diane lane plays the woman who winds up just with this terrible situation. her family is not in good shape. both in health wise and certainly financially. and she literally bets the farm on this horse, who winds up to be the fabled secretariat. so it's very inspirational, and it's not a great movie, but it's a feel-good movie and it does what it sets out to do. you've got to give it props for that. if you're talking grades, i'll give it a b. >> that looked like some good stuff there. >> i think so. it's exciting. >> let's talk about "stone."

this is suspense, it has robert denearo and edward norton. >> look, why do you get to walk around free and i don't? >> i wasn't convicted of a crime. >> you never did anything bad, never did anything wrong? >> i never broke the law. >> you never got a speeding ticket, you never backed somebody up in a bar fight, in vietnam, you never killed some kid? how long do you keep judging a person for one bad thing they done? >> that's some good drama. a convicted arsonist looks to manipulate a paroled officer. i don't know, but to me robert diniro and edward norton, that's a pretty good combination there. >> it's a fabulous combination. the script, not so much. but just to see these two guys

go at it, which they do in that scene. edward norton is great, and robert is very solid in it. there's good acting and the wife, she's very good, too. it's the best thing i've seen her do. i just thought the script was the same thing all over again. and unfortunately it doesn't do these three good actors their justice. >> there's something about edward norton behind bars, when you see him in jail with that attitude, it's still fun to watch. >> and those corn rows, don't forget the corn rows. very important. >> joanna, thank you. we'll get to the movies. thanks to much. they have survived months under ground, but what happens when the miners reach the surface? we're going to talk to the experts. ♪ daylight comes [ dogs barking ] ♪ i'm on my way ♪ another day

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joy and relief in chile today. the drill that's been boring a

hole after a mile down to 33 trapped miners broke through to that mine. emergency crews are expected to brace the side of the tunnel that will serve as the rescue shaft over the next couple of days. we could see the first of the miners brought to the surface next week. chile's president chose the moment to reflect on the rescue operation and the support of his country's people. >> translator: what started on august 5th, like a possible tragedy, with the help of god, is ending as a true blessing. the miners, their families, the rescue workers, the government and all the chileans have shown unity, strength of faith, of hope, that is recognized and admired by the whole world. this shows that when chileans unite for great causes, regardless how grand or ambitious they may seem, we are always able to reach our goals and conquer the highest peaks.

>> with today's milestone reached in the rescue effort, many are looking forward to what will happen when they are brought up. each will undergo a series of medical checks. earlier i spoke with dr. kim manning about the medical problems these miners might face. >> i think the first thing to do is think about the scenario we're talking about here. we're talking about a mine that's in one of the driest deserts in the world, 2,300 feet below ground and in a space that's like the size of a dorm room. so there's a lot of confinement there and with that you can't move very well, you can't see very well. then on on of that, you have dehydration, infection and quite a few things. there's no running water. they're all using one little small corridor as the la treen. if you think about what could happen with infection, that's a huge possible medical infection. if there is fecal contamination,

it could be a catastrophe. it would quickly spread amongst all 33 of the miners, and most of those illnesses that are carried lead to diarrhea, which could lead to more dehydration. >> last hour, i spoke with west point science expert colonel tom coldots about the emotional toll it may have. >> the process of reintegration that they will undergo will have many parallels. >> i talked to soldiers that have come back from iraq and afghanistan, and all of a sudden they're tasked with taking out the garbage, after what they've been through, everything else i would imagine is going to seem trivial to them. >> well, it could. 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

add justment. i have a great deal of optimism for these people coming out of the mine. >> it's also about their families. what can their families do today or in the next few days to start preparing for their homecoming? >> there are several things. first of all, the families are the best source of information about how the miners went into the mine. often in difficult experiences how you go in will determine how you come out. 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 may have gone in already feel stress, already dealing with some kind of tragedy or difficulty. >> cnn's jacqui jeras has been keeping a close eye on this today, talking about the rescue operation. i know you've looked at the challenges that some of these rescue and emergency crews will

face in getting these guys up top. >> we have a way to go, two to eight days probably before the first miner comes out through that capsule, and there are going to be some things they're going to have to do to prepare that bore hole. it's not like when you take a drill and you drill a hole flu a piece of wood and it comes out smooth and straight down, okay? this is solid rock that they are drilling through here, and so you can imagine that this doesn't go straight down, there are lots of surves and bumps in here. so if they tried to put a capsule out through this, it would bump and they would be worried it would bump up against the side of this wall and perhaps lodge off a rock or a piece of that wall and it could get stuck. so they're inspecting this hole and trying to determine how much casing they might need. so it has a nice little sleeve to descend through that area. so the first 100 yards is what's

critical. if they do that 100 yards, maybe it's going to be two days before we get them out there. but if they have to put that casing through the entire 2,000 plus feet, that's going to take a little longer. let's talk about some of the other things, this capsule. let's show you this. this is only 21 inches around, only one person can fit in here at a time and it's going to be a tight squeeze as well. let's put this in motion and it will show you some of the things that is going to be in this -- they call it the phoenix, by the way. oxygen supply is going to be there, communication equipment is intoing to be there and the escape hatch. some of these guys are bigger guys, a lot of them have lost a lot of weight, otherwise they wouldn't be able to fit in the capsule. this is all the bigger it is.

snug fit. they've been preparing them by doing exercises to make sure they're physically fit. >> i saw that aerobics each day. >> and they're running down there, as well. they take that drill all the way down, what happens to all the rock and water they're drilling through, it goes down, right? so there's all kinds of rubble and dust down in the mine with them right now and they're shoveling and working to clear that out of there. >> they really seem like they have thought of everything. fingers crossed that this goes off without a hitch, because they seem to have thought of a lot. jacqui, thank you. cnn has been looking at the impact of bullying in our schools all this week. for some children, the torment begins as early as kindergarten and led some young people to contemplate suicide. >> i'm going to start off with david in oregon. he says as a father, he is

learning this starts as early as kindergarten. his daughter has been coming home with stories about what's happening to her classmates. >> one instance involved a good friend of hers having his pants pulled down by another student and another student, a friend of hers, was pushed down the slide and then laughed at while he was on the ground crying. it shocked me but i was told that this things happened already at age 5. >> here's someone else in west palm beach, florida, described his experiences with bullying. >> in elementary school, they would call me chinese boy and in middle school, they would call me a terrorist. >> how were you bullied physically? >> i was sitting at my bus in middle school, and they punched me in my private area. and they were throwing stuff on the back of the bus and they hit

me in the head with a glass bottle and got minor head trauma. >> he didn't even know who these kids were that were bullying him. a group of students in brian, ohio got together and talked about how they have bullied other kids. >> everybody has bullied someone at some point in time, whether it's shoving someone into a locker or calling somebody a name. so yes, i have bullied someone. >> i bullied someone just walking through the hallways. >> we have time for one more. this the a little different here. jason, who is one of our frequent i-reporters, points to the recent suicides of young gay students and he says that he once considered suicide and that he has a message for others out there who are having those thoughts. >> something went off in my head and said the pain of me committing suicide would be so

much worse than what i thought the pain of me being gay would be. i just want to share that message, that in my experience, my family was extremely accepting. >> we encourage you to share your thoughts, your stories, videos, whatever you got. i also want you to know that we have links on facebook and twitter. i've provided you as a list of websites for kids, teens and parents. those pages have now become conversation pages where a lot of people around the country, you're weighing in. tonight, a special town hall features a provocative conversation around what needs to be done to stop bullies. an "ac 360" special report you cannot miss.

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checking top stories for you now. a joyful day in chile where a tunnel has reached 33 trapped miners. now the dangerous work of getting them out of the mine and to the surface is under way. rescue workers and the families of the trapped miners cheered when the drills broke through the final section of earth to the mine. it's expected to take a couple of days before they can bring the miners up to the surface. north korea is celebrating 65 years since the founding of the country's communist workers party. celebrations include a massive military parade. that's tomorrow. north korean officials may declare the handover of power from kim jong-il to his son, kim jong-un, during the three-day celebration. michael bloomberg is trying to stop people from using food stamps to buy soda pop. he and the governor are asking

the usda to give them permission to exclude sugar sweetened beverages from food stamp eligibility in new york for two years to measure the impact on obesity rates. earlier this week, fredricka whitfield talked to dr. sanjay gupta about several topics, including a promising new treatment for a type of brain cancer. >> when we think of cancer, we think of chemo, radiation, but there's a new therapy being developed to fight brain cancer. sounds fascinating but how does it work? >> it is interesting. we're talking about the deadliest form of brain cancer. about 10,000 cases a year. this is a cancer that when you get it, you're told 12 to 14 months to live and those numbers haven't budged. the way it works is they found a particular protein on the surface of the cancer that's

unique to that cancer. it's not present in any other cells in the body. the reason that's important is if you find something unique, it becomes a target for all kinds of medicines. in this case, using the body's immune system to treat the cancer as a foreign body, teaching the body to fight back. this is becoming more and more common, this sort of harvesting of the body's immune system. >> this may be prolonged your situation, but you're not talking about a cure. >> it is not a cure. when you talk about this cancer, the stats are terrible. so survival on average with this in early trials is about double. so instead of 14 months, it's closer to 26 months, some as long as five years. but this is still early. what they've proven is this can work. now they have to figure out can it work in larger populations of people or in other cancers.

the reason we're able to talk about this is when you talk about chemo and radiation, people know those things. >> that's super fantastic. something else that caught our attention, weight and sleep. there's a real correlation here. >> the more you sleep, the less you -- the more weight you can lose. maybe you're not eating as much because you're sleeping. it could have a lot to do with how you take care of yourself overall. there's a couple hormones in the body that change if you're sleeping enough. the stop hormone that tells you not to each as much is activated. so people who sleep better end up eating less and burning more of their weight as fat as opposed to muscle. >> wow. and that's cheap too, right? >> if you can afford to get more sleep, you should. >> now let's talk about everyone does it, they put their laptops

on their lap. that's not a good idea and you feel the heat. >> this may go into the file of, let's use some common sense. there's something known as toasted skin syndrome and dermatologists are talking and this. there was a study showing boys as young as 12 years old putting the laptop on his lap and creating sort of a burn of the skin. the skin became quite modeled. it will go away after a while, but look, if it's -- they generate a lot of people. you're putting it on your lap, and a laptop can cause a problem to your legs. they say don't use a pillow because that reduces the venting anymore, so use a tray or something to allow the laptop to cool itself. >> we just went around the world. >> we did. we got a lot more to do, too. >> i know. dr. sanjay gupta, thanks so much. appreciate that.

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the midterm elections. we are keeping an eye on all the latest headlines. here's what's crossing the ticker right now. one of the stars of the hit show "glee" is getting political this weekend. matthew morrison is hitting the campaign trail today for ohio democratic senate candidate lee fisher. tomorrow, he will appear with ted strickland. "glee" of course, is set in ohio. scott brown is trying to help out a republican, the massachusetts senator is in connecticut today to support republican senate hopeful linda mcmahon. in the latest poll, she was trailing democrat richard blumenthal by 13 points. former president bill clinton is heading out on the trail next week, he'll be in

west virginia to support joe mansion. for the latest political news, cnnpolitics.com is your place. there is a major gathering of republican heavyweights in california today. candidates like sarah palin and mitt romney are there. so are other republicans like newt gingrich and rudy giuliani and dick cheney. i'm randi kaye. don lemon takes over after a break. coming up, remembering john lennon and his legacy on his 70th birthday. plus, what's behind a website called ugly shmucks. have a great evening. ♪ [ engine revs, tires screeching ] we give to you the all-new volkswagen jetta. we have one more surprise for you.

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