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boy do we have something for you and perfect for a saturday. we are going to comicon in new york city with a lovely and talented tour guide. hello, i'm don lemon. thank you for joining us. we begin in chile with a developing story where the days in the dark are numbers for the miners trapped. that's a celebration on the surface as a rescue drill finally reaches the men that have been stuck over 2,000 feet under ground for 65 days. it will be a few days before they feel the sunshine, again. we are going to walk through the next steps. carl. >> reporter: first of all, they have to pull the bars out of the rescue shaft. it's where the drill hammers attach. it's going to take six to eight hours. once that is completed, the miners have to place four pounds

of explosives around the base and blast the dynamite. it will create a small, inverted cone at the bottom so when they drop down the rescue cage that's dubbed the phoenix capsule, it will move freely so the miners can actually board it. before that rescue shop gets sent down, they will send a camera down to make sure there's no risk of rock falls. if so, they will have to encase the tubing. they think they can get away with encasing the first 100 yards. what does that mean? the question is when? what day? what time? the chilean government thinks the first miner could be extracted as soon as tuesday. >> we are hearing a lot about camp hope that's been set up

around the mine by their family members. how are they reacting tonight, carl? >> reporter: well, you should have just seen the faces this morning even at 8:05. it's when breakthrough came and we were on hand here. this is where it came out to the families. they erupted in jubilation. they were hugging all around and cheering. a few moments later, it seemed to dawn on them that this really did mean the final countdown had begun. >> as carl was just saying, rescue workers still have decisions to make before they bring the 33 miners to the surface. let's talk to jacqui who has been following this. give us an idea how critical it is. >> yeah. everybody is so optimistic and want to stay focused that way. there's a lot of obstacles. the whole thing started because

the mine was unstable to begin with and we had a collapse. it's a fragile situation. the drill that went down, they went through four bits and a fifth one to go through to give you an idea how hard the material is. when you do that jolting, you are creating cracks and fish sures. they are going to put the camera down there and inspect the walls to see how they are. what would happen, if they put the capsule in right away, it could bang up the walls. it's a curved line that is jagged. it could break off more pieces of the wall. >> send it down into the mine, right? >> right. it's why they were to use this casing. give it an idea. a smooth casing is going to bring it down smoothly. >> it's like you said, on the st. louis arch. going down is like riding the elevator. >> exactly. there's going to be lots of jolts and bumps. any casing is going to make it a

smoother ride for them and create less risk. hopefully, it's going to be okay. the next step is the capsule itself. this is about 21 inches. >> that's flexible. we'll have tye come over and it gives you an idea how tight quarters this is. they will have oxygen and take their heart rate and have communications. it's tight. a lot of miners have lost a lot of weight, 20 to 30 pounds. it's a good thing because apparently nine of them weren't going to be able to get in the capsule. they have been doing exercises. they hire add trainer to come to the surface to talk to them. the healthiest ones will come up first in case something happens, they want them to be calm. that experience will count. thank you very much for that. we return to a developing

story. this is out west. it concerns 12 young people over dosed and a sexual assault is attached as well. police in washington state say it went down where investigators say young women were targeted. this scene was this home. about 50 people gathered. moat were students from washington university. the victims drinks were spiked. investigators went to the house after someone called 911 about an unconscious girl in the parking lot. friends told them to go to the house. >> it wasn't consensual. people feeling more intoxicated and more different than consuming one or two alcoholic beverages. >> why would you get the idea it was sexful in nature? >> caller: what made it sexual, as the officers were sweeping the house for victims, one of the members of the sheriff's

department walked in and observed an individual engaged in sexual activity with a semiunconscious female. it's where the sexual assault occurred. >> that was the only person believed to be sexually assaulted or were the other victims sexually assaulted as well? >> caller: no indication of other situations similar to that, no. >> here is what the chief also tells us. the house belongs to a central washington student's parents. in the last hour, we talked with a spokeswoman from the university. she is the schools director of public affairs. take a listen. >> caller: we'll get all the students together in their residence halls and talk to them about what we do know, talk to them about what our university and state policies are for under age drinking and drug abuse and what the processes are that are available to them here on campus. for students who are upset and

want someone to talk to. >> if it turns out the allegations against the students are true, they did lure young women into the home for sex acts, what happens to the students as far as the university is concerned? >> caller: we have a comprehensive approach to student behavior. we hold students accountable to university behavior standards regardless of if they are on campus or not. what will happen, we will find out the identities of the students involved. each one of those students will have a hearing in front of our student conduct council. the parents of each student may be contacted depending ton severity of the students behavior. the result of that process, it depends on what the student's behavior was. they could be required to take a drug and alcohol education

course. they may have to go to counselors for assessment. if the behavior warrants it, they may be suspended for school. >> or expelled? >> caller: possibly. >> one person remained in the hospital and talking. all the overdose victims were women. police won't say what the substance was in the spiked drinks. we'll follow up on that. the political pressure is rising. 24 days away from midterm elections and there could be changes across the country. a closer look at a police cal shift. don't just sit there. be part of the conversation. go to cnn.com/don. i have asthma. and when my symptoms came back

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the pressure is mounting on political candidates. 24 days and counting until the november elections. they could usher in big political changes. we have interesting new numbers in the latest cnn opinion research poll to tell you about. on the generic ballot, 52% of likely voters say they will vote republican. 45% say they will vote democrat. another potential trouble spot for the democrats, the republicans have a huge lead among independent voters. 62% of independents will support the gop and 31% side with the democrats. what is going on out there? let's go out there and find out. voters are ready to give control

to republicans or are the democrats going to hang on? we have a republican columnist in virginia. linda lake is a pollster and resident of lake research partners. thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you. >> what about that generic congressional ballot that shows 52% of likely voters are going to vote republican. are you worried? >> of course i'm worried. i would say the biggest thing we have to focus on is getting democrats out to vote. part of that gap is because democrats are less enthusiastic in this election than republicans are. i think as the elections near, republicans will -- democrats will understand what's at stake and democrats will understand what the alternative is and that will energize them and i think the numbers will close. >> republicans look confident. sometimes confidence can cause you to stumble.

i'm wondering if anything can cause them to stumble, especially the rules of war, rules of sports and politics. don't under estimate your opponent even when you think you are ahead. >> absolutely. if this were a baseball game, eighth inning and they were up by a couple runs, the biggest thing is get out the vote program. i'm not sure they put enough resources into it. that concerns me a lot. they are very fired up. i was at the tea party convention. they are fired up. i would be worried, but at the same time, i'm concerned about the get out the vote effort across the country. >> get out and vote. i guess because republicans may be seeing on the news and reading on the polls oh, we are ahead, we are ahead and people may feel they don't need to go to the polls, is that what you are saying? >> absolutely. the republicans need to net 10.

if they win, it's likely the republicans will take the senate. my biggest concern is the democrats have advantages that i'm not sure the republicans can overcome at the last minute. >> point taken, ford. i want you to listen to this. i'm going to show you a poll, then talk about it. democrats have big problems among white voters who call themselves blue dollar. 71% of white blue collar will vote republican. that's a block that is usually on the democrat side. >> that's right. it's a real warning to us. the warning is particularly blue collar women. they have shifted away from the democrats. as eleanor roosevelt said, it's up to the women. they are going to determine who wins the election. >> why are they shifting away from democrat? >> they are disappointed in the economic policies of the

democrats. neither party is in touch with their families. they tend to think the kinld of conversation we are having is macro economics instead of kitchen table. they haven't made up their minds yet. they are undecided and tentative in their vote. they are focused. don't focus on god the almighty, focus on the alternative. we need to lay out what the alternative is here. our vision is to help families and small businesses. we have to get that message out. >> lay out the vision. ford, you said don't be overconfident and get people out to the polls. that will help the republicans. >> i would also like to -- >> go ahead. i'll give you a quick last word here. >> it's clear what americans want. the party that does that is the party that's going to win in november. >> thank you both. appreciate your time. >> thank you. anyone looking for work will tell you it's tough out there.

we don't have to tell you that. a lot of you have been looking for work for years now. we'll talk with some people who may be able to help you land a job. it has to do with the way you sit and stand. posing. we'll explain. bank of america is halting foreclosures across the country. did the company move too quickly to take some family's homes? [ j. weissman ] it was 1975. my professor at berkeley asked me if i wanted to change the world. i said "sure." "well, let's grow some algae." and that's what started it. exxonmobil and synthetic genomics

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all right. there you see it, breaking news. we want to go to chile where we understand a press conference just wrapped up with important news. carl, what can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, with the chilean mines, giving the press conference. the headline out of this is he expects the first of the 33 miners to be hoisted back to the surface on wednesday.

let me break it down for you. why wednesday? what is going to happen between now and wednesday? the mines minister said at 4:00 p.m., the miners themselves placed four pounds of explosives around the base of the rescue sharp. that will allow the rescue cage to get down there free without obstructions. also new, engineers lowered down a camera down the entire length to see how solid it was and how sal id the granite walls are. they say it's very good. very few cracks and hence there's very little risk of rock fall. they say the only slightly unstable area is right at the top of the shaft. what they have to do is encase with steel piping about the first 96 yards of that rescue

shaft. it's a process they say could take a day and a half. it's beginning immediately. it's going to begin tonight and 15 yard sections of steel piping will be sent down and welded together to make sure the top area is stable. after that, what they are going to do is move in a wench and pulley system. he estimate that is could take two days to get in place. add all that together and he says that by wednesday, maybe a little earlier, things can move ahead a little bit before. as we have seen throughout the entire rescue operation, time lines have been telescoped as soon as things get on the move. by wednesday, the first of the 33 miners will be hoisted back to the surface. he says that by friday, all 33 will be back on the surface, back with their families, don.

>> according to the chilean mining minister, the first of the 33 men will be pulled out as early as wednesday. thank you very much. we'll update you on the developing story here on cnn. in the meantime, a british aid worker held hostage in afghanistan has been killed by her captors during a rescue attempt. she was held by two taliban commanders who were killed in the raid. she was among five people kidnapped late last month. a terrifying random attack of a child in a long island arcade. a 23-year-old walked up behind an 8-year-old boy and stabbed him five times with a folding knife. the victim's father and another witness held him until police arrived. he suffered a punctured lung and other wounds. bank of america is putting the breaks on foreclosure sales. the bank says it will stop the

sales as part of a widening investigation into flaws in the process. there are reports that some mortgage lenders ceased homes without proper documentation. it's expected to last several weeks. millions of americans are looking for work now. we'll talk with some folks who will tell you how to strike a pose to help you stand out above other applicants. that is serious. their advice, next. everything you need to stretch out on long trips. residence inn. ♪ everything you need to stay balanced on long trips. residence inn.

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remember you'd see people like in bars or whatever and say that guy is such a poser, right? job hunters, listen up. the way you sit before and during an interview can make all the difference. two university researchers say you can pose in certain ways to feel more powerful. just released study found these positions change a chemical output making you feel more assertive and willing to take risks. here to tell us about this study, amy cutty from the harvard business school and dana carney. you are heavy hitters. you believe this stuff to be true. professor cuttey, let's focus on this position. it's the i got it made pose. explain how it makes you feel

more powerful. if you go in and put your feet up on the desk, won't they say come on now? >> yes. this is a classic high-power pose. you can see, she's expanding her body. she's stretching out her limbs. she's taking up more space and these are the signatures of high-power poses in humans and other animals. as we know, we have known for a long time, these poses reflect power. high power individuals do these things. they take on these non-verbal behaviors. the question we want to ask, can it work the other way around. can you use these poses and make people more powerful. it's the question we were asking. for both men and women, you can change their bilogical and psychological profile to match the profile of effective leaders who think quickly, make decisions well -- >> okay. i get you.

i get you, i get you, i get you. that is a typical guy pose with the hands behind the head. it's like a guy pose. if a woman does that, especially with a dress on, someone says what's going on here. >> professor carney, let's look at the low-profile pose. why is this not good to do? >> you can see she's collapsing inward and contracting on herself. when you are in a position where you are in an interview, the interviewers presumably hire power. we know from research, we counter the person we are interacting with. the problem with this is that your testosterone, which is a dominance hor moan is going to drop and cortisol is going to rise. it's not good for you internally nor in terms of performance in

the interview -- >> the key is this is about testosterone, cortisol and chemicals in your body you release. maybe pheromones and the way you sit cause as certain number of them to be released or not released. >> there's a high power pose you call it. show us. the wonder woman pose, can you show us that? >> here you go. i think you have to have the legs spread as well. >> we were doing it in the back room as well. >> it's the hands on the hips. >> listen, some people are saying come on, really. in this job environment, in this environment, any edge you can have over someone elsz, i think i would take it. >> absolutely. i think one of the key points we want to get across is that you don't have to do the high-powered poses while you are in the interview. do them beforehand in preparation to pump yourself up and get yourself ready to do as

well as possible. >> all right. strike a pose. that's all we have time for. >> okay. >> sorry. strike a pose. that's all we have. that's the last piece of advice. strike the right pose. thank you guys. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. it's one of the most closely watched midterm elections and she is one of the most watched candidates. a lot has been said about christine o'donnell and her run for senate in delaware. coming up, hear her in her own words. one of the most unique conventions that you will ever see. look at katie. what is she doing. attendees can dress in costume. i'm talking comic con. it's taking over new york city. we are going to take you there. katie is going to show us arnold. impressive resume. thank you.

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it almost looks like halloween came early in manhattan this weekend. check out the line wrapping around the building for this year's new york comic con. look at that. one of our i reporters snapped

this. katety couldn't pass this up. >> reporter: i planned to attract a lot of geeks, which i'm excited about. this is the mecca of all geeks. >> any of you seen mario. excuse me, have you seen mario? have you seen mario? you have great creations here. >> thank you very much. >> tell me what's going on. >> it's work i have been working on for 12 months. >> we have an anchor, don lemon and it bears a strong resemblance to don. >> it's kurt russell. >> you weren't supposed to say that. >> the man, the legend. >> thank you. >> look at that box. >> forget the box, dude. these muscles are jack up. let's talk about washington. >> okay. >> i feel like somebody like you, a lot of big names come in and think run for senate or run for governor.

is there anything we should be looking for? >> i would rather not be in politics. it's a dirty game. i would rather love all people. >> reporter: lou, i want to break it down for you. if you were in politics, people would listen. if the bill doesn't get passed, you jack somebody up. ♪ just beat it >> reporter: mimic that. mimic that. you won't. oh, my gosh! oh, my gosh! oh, my gosh, listen, i'm with cnn and we have breaking news. mario, the princess is in another castle. >> oh, no. >> don't freak out, we have it under control. don lemon is on the case. we have seen it all here from the interesting to the whacky to the weerld.

we have all made a few friends. >> she's trying to drag me into all this. listen, first question, looks like you had fun. for those of us over 30, barely, what were you dressed as. i didn't know what you were. >> yeah, i was the question box in mario. when you hit it, you get a coin, a flower, a one-up. >> got ya. what was the coolest thing you saw besides lou? >> there's a lot of cool stuff. a lot of people hear comic con and think comics, but there's illustrators. there's announcements. it's going to integrate comics and the web. >> people didn't bat an eye at you when you were walking and asking for mario. that's what it was all about. are you a self-processed geek?

>> yeah. >> are most people there self-processed geeks? >> yeah. you hear about san diego comic con and it's not related to the new york one. it's for us geek-types to get together and appreciate the latest in toy design and illustration and the latest in comics and what's coming out. it's fun and drimpbt and gaining traction, which is awesome. >> katie, i'm going to say to all of you geeks out there. don't send me e-mails saying you don't know about mario and super mario. katie, you look great, even out of, in or out of costume. geek, nerd. see you later. a hard turn here but it's a serious story we have been covering here. we are talking school bullying more than teasing and calling kids names. with computers and social media,

it's having devastating consequences. the heart breaking story of a 13-year-old girl who thought there was no way out. people keeping an eye on delaware's midterm elections. christine o'donnell speaks out on several issues. with frequent heartburn. did you know, with prilosec otc, you can stop frequent heartburn before it starts? heartburn happens when stomach acid refluxes, or backs up into the esophagus. this causes the burning sensation in your chest, known as heartburn. with just one pill a day, prilosec otc treats frequent heartburn for 24 hours, providing all-day and all-night protection. here's how it works -- prilosec otc's unique delayed-release system protects the medicine as it passes through the stomach's tough acid. the medicine then gets absorbed into the body, turning off many acid-producing pumps at the source, so less acid is produced. with just one pill a day, you get 24-hour heartburn protection all day and all night,

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let's talk politics now, shall we? specifically christine o'donnell with 24 days until voters head to the polls, you have no doubt heard about her. she's one of the most talked about candidates in one of the most closely watched races.

a delaware candidate talked to jim acosta in an exclusive interview. her first since she vowed not to speak to the national media. she talked about a number of issues including the controversy about her 1999 appearance on bill maher's show. she said she dabbled in witchcraft. >> have you been embarrassed by the clips? >> i'm not embarrassed. i'm not proud. what they are trying to do is paint a picture of who i was 20 years ago. you know, i have matured in my faith and matured in my policies. today, you have a 40-something woman running for office, not a 20-year-old. that's a big difference. >> isn't repealing health care reform unrealistic? >> that throw in the towel mentality got us to the mess we are in in the first place. repealing obama care is realistic. one out of four democrats are

for full repeal of obama care. >> you think you could get democrats to go on board and override a veto? >> here is what i think is realistic. a couple things. number one, a lot of democrats are coming forward saying we want to come forward and scrap the bill. we made a mistake. we didn't read it. we don't know about the consequences. our first priority needs to be taking care of the most vulnerable in society. we need health care reform, but if the house and the senate passes a bill to fully repeal obama care so we can clear the way to start over with true reform that helps the most vulnerable, then the president goes and vetoes that bill when the will of the people has been made very clear, if barack obama vo t vetoes that the year before his re-election, he's vulnerable. i have seen many hillary for

president ads. >> do you think it should be taught in public schools? >> it has nothing to do with what i would do in congress. my opinion is irrelevant. >> we need to make foreign policy decisions based on their effectiveness. we need to take a serious look at what's going on over there and before we make any decisions, we need to examine whether or not it's weakening our own security. is sarah palin qualified to be president? >> is she running for president? >> i don't know, you tell me. >> hypotheticals. >> i heard you talk on the phone with her. does she advise your campaign in. >> she does not. >> does she give you advice? >> she gives me you go girl at vice, don't listen to them. >> the rise of christine o'donnell is one of the stories this season. it's been a hot topic for "parker spitzer" that airs here

on cnn. >> i think when we look at the substance of what she says, a lot of people are going to say we're not sure she's ready for senate. >> i feel for the girl. she was a sweet girl on the bill maher show. she was 20 years old. she had a lot of personality, spunky and cute. >> i agree with that. i think all that is not only fair to her but accurate. i defending her with the crazy ad, i'm not a witch. she's trying to diffuse a tough situation. there are serious issues here. >> there are a lot of people that are cute and spunky who i don't want running the country. >> be sure to watch christine o'donnell go toe-to-toe with chris koons. you can watch it here on cnn.

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we want to turn now to what can only be described as a national disgrace. school children bullied to the point of suicide. in tampa, florida, a middle school student admittedly made a bad mistake by sending an inappropriate video to her boyfriend. but what followed but relentless, merciless bullying and teasing by most of her classmates. the bullying continued after she

died. >> reporter: hope was a good student, but about a year ago, hope did something so unexpected, so out of character, it changed everything. friends and family say this all started in the spring of 2009 at the end of the school year when hope sexted a picture of her breast to her boyfriend. someone got their hands on that photo and sent it to students in six schools in the area. before she knew it, that photo had gone viral. hope's mother donna said she warned her daughter many times about the dark side of cell phones and computers. >> reporter: after all those conversations, you never imagined that she would sext a photo of herself to someone else. >> splul 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 a slut and a whore and they would sometimes -- sometimes they would call her skanky and just be really cruel to her. >> reporter: school officials knew about the photo, but she never told them about the ridicule and she 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 pulleys created a 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. >> because people would try and combi and hit her or push her into a locker or something. >> reporter: so you walked as a crowd. >> yeah. >> 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 she would always have somebody come with her. >> reporter: her parents did not know what was going on. >> did you see a 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, is when i found her. >> reporter: what happened when you walked in her bedroom? >> i 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 before she died, hope met with a social worker. the social worker was concerned that hope may have been trying to harm herself, so she had her sign what's called a no harm contract, in which she promised to speak to an adult if she was considering hurting herself. her mother says she was never told about that contract, she found it crumpled in the garbage after hope died. the school says they had tried to call the parents but the parents say the school dropped

the ball. after hope's suicide, her sister samantha found more cruel comments posted on hope's myspace page. >> there was people putting comments on there, likes oh, my god, did hope really kill herself? i can't believe that whore did that, just obscene things that i would never expect from a 12-year-old or a 13-year-old. >> reporter: obscene things written by children, so terrible, hope thought there was only one way to escape. randy kay, cnn, tampa, florida. >> this is national bullying prevention month and you can see more of our reports at cnn.com. and tonight an "a.c. 360" special town hall discussion about how to protect your children and stop bullying, that's coming up at the top of the hour right here on cnn so make sure you tune in. disturbing news for an already troubled economy, a new study finds obese workers are creating problems for

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when we catch you up on some of the news you might have missed throughout the week. kenya's ultimate family man has died. known by the nickname danger for his ability to woo women. he reportedly had 100 wives and 160 children. he said the size of his family made it impossible to keep track of them. drivers in the nation's capital now have the option of getting a free hiv test at a dmv branch in southeast washington. and they get $15 if they do it. the pilot program is funded through a $250,000 grant it's aimed at curbing one of the highest hiv rates in the country. that branch was chosen because infection in that area is on the rise. obesity is a big drag on productivity. obesity is costing employers more than $70 billion a year.