joom hitting the road, president obama sets out today to rally the democrats amid predicts of impending political peril. the wait in chile is almost over but will it be longer? we'll have a report coming up. like father, like son. the son who is likely to replace him. plus, it's a smash hit. a house on the hill and the destructive forces of mother earth. good morning, everyone. i'm alex witt and welcome to "msnbc sunday." precisely 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. on the west coast. let's get to what's happening right now. rescue teams say they will most likely begin pulling tout 33 trapped miners underground on wednesday. first they have to reinforce a few hundred feet of the shaft before the rescue process can

begin. >> the two rescue teams will work in shifts during the rescue process, and two of them should go down to help the miners in the process of entering in through the cage and to help them with any problem that they could have. >> telemundo's angie sandoval is live. good morning. first let's hear about this reinforcement process? is it under way? is it going on right now? >> calle . >> reporter: that is right, alex. for the next three mornings they will line the rescue shaft with 316 feet of metal tubing, that is to reinforce the walls of this rescue chimney. after that they will start putting together the mechanism that will lower the rescue capsule to the men. >> well, that's exciting. so if this rescue process begins on wednesday, angie, how does that play out?

is it literally as simple as just lowering down a capsule, but putting a man in it and bringing them back out, or is there more to it? >> reporter: no, there's nothing simple about it. the men will be winched up one by one. the process will taken an hour. it's very risky. has never been done in this country. this is not a straight drop. you know, there's like little turns. so they're afraid that the capsule might get stuck. so really people here are hoping for the best. >> indeed. how about family members? friends? how are they reacting today now that they're a few days from seeing their loved ones again on the surface? >> alex, i was having some hot tea, south american hot tea with them this morning and we were sharing stories and actually they're very happy but also very nervous. they are very afraid about this last part of the rescue. as i told you, you know, this

rescue has never been done. they're afraid that the capsule might get stuck at some point of this operation. >> well, let's hope that does not happen. we're going to be watching very closely with your help, angie sandoval in copiaco. >> good morning. >> good morning. they'll be talking about the short term and long term impact on the 33 miners in chile. a new poll shows that more voters want democrats to stay in control of congress after november. but when it comes to who's more interested in the race, republicans have a 12-point edge. nbc's brian mooar is in the white house this morning. good morning, brian. this enthusiasm we've been hearing about, what else have we been finding. >> it's starting to look like a bit of a canyon and this ice what president obama is trying

to talk care of as he heads out today to philadelphia. but voters are clearly not happy. bad, bad grades for the government. we could see that the democrats in congress got a c-minus. republicans did a slight bit worse. they got a d-plus, and that was the same grade for the federal government. president obama is the head of the class with a c. now, when we talk about the direction of the nation, 59% of voters believe that this country is on the wrong track, and that is 12 points worse than a decade ago, which was just the beginning of the george w. bush presidency. when we move onto the state of the economy, 63% believe our economy is the same or getting worse. that's 8 points worse than the same time a decade ago. and with 23 days to go until election day, alex, it is clear that incumbents have a lot of cramming to do with the voters to try to get those grades back up. >> and, brian, do you think it's

clear that it's all about the economy? i mean is there anything else that people are really talking about, jobs and the economy together? >> economy is ground zero, and with this latest jobs report, the last before the election looking so bleak, it is clear that tin come bents will have to promise the voters that they're going to do something. the jobs will be job number one here in washington, but a lot of voters have made up their minds. those few undecideds if they get out and vote if they decide this election. >> all right. nbc's brian mooar at the white house. thanks so much. the president is expected to speak at the big rally in philadelphia at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. we're going to bring you that live. a commuter bus smashes into a tree. 70 people were onboard when the bus veered off road. 40 people hospitalized are in critical condition.

one witness experienced a scary experience. >> they were toppling over each other and that's the kind of way we buffered each other. >> had the trees not been there or us on the bus to distribute the weight we would have flipped. >> they're awaiting the results from the blood and alcohol test given to a driver. >> a close call in montana where a huge boulder broke loose and came crashing into the side of a house. one person was hope but fortunately in a dint room. look at that. do you see that home? officials are blaming heavy summer rains for loosening up the rocks on the mountainside. over the week after an american tourist disappeared off a lake in texas detectives have named two suspects. they're named two brothers who live in new guerrero. david hartley was jet skiing on the mexican side of the lake with his wife tiffany. coming up later this hour we're

going to speak live with tiffany hartley. eight suspects are in custody for a brutal antigay hate crime in new york city. police say that nine gang members viciously tortured two teenage irs and a 30-year-old man for hours inside a vacant bronx building. nbc's michelle franzen has more on this most disturbing story. good morning. >> good morning. the suspects could be arraigned as early as today. these crime have outraged residents and community leaders and it's also the latest in a series of antibullying and gay reports asking is it enough to address hate crimes. new york city police say the brutal crimes took place at this vacant bronx apartment. the first of three attacks occurred after members of the latin king goonnys beat and tortured a 17-year-old man they believe was with a 30-year-old man. he was thrown into the wall, made to strip naked, hit in the head with a beer can, cut with a

box cutter anded so onlyized with the wooden handle of a plunger. later they attacked another man, dragged him to the apartment and tortured him for hours. >> these suspects had employed terrible wolf pack odds of nine against one. >> the suspects range from 16 to 23. one turned himself in. but police released the photo of the ninth suspect still at lancht 20-year-old rudy perez. in the bronx they condemn the crimes. >> we will not tolerate it in the city of new york. >> the city has recently seen a rash of antigay violence and bullying cases. in the past week three men reported being attacked, including one at the legendary gay bar stonewall. and rutgers university student tyler clementi jumped to his death off the city bridge after learning his dorm room sexual encounter was streameder of the internet. >> in the last few weeks we've seen far too many examples houf

this hate gets twisted into a weapon and cuts short their promising lives. they must work harder to send a message that hate in any form won't be tolerated. >> new york police say the members went to the house of the 30-year-old man and assault and robbed his brother. >> you know, this is one of these attacks you look at the details as police are reporting it. it is so heinous. i mean it's appalling. i imagine the community is just outraged. >> they are, and certainly the details that came out, as you mentioned, were certainly very graphic and very heinous and even enthe mayor saying it with us a vicious and an attack that made him sick when he heard about the details. >> yeah. very, very disturbing. michelle franzen, thank you for that story. a wildfire that burned 250 acres just outside denver, colorado, is fully detained but officials expect it to smolder for the next few days. the fire burned on land own

birthday i lockheed martin in litt littleton. the cause is under investigation. it is a sure sign of winter and, of course, autumn is not even a month old. but look at that. rockefeller opened its famous ice-skating rink yesterday. they laced up and began cutting their tracks on the ice. more than a quarter million take to the ice each year between october and april. so it's fun for us here who work if the building to check everybody out when they twirl around like that or when they fall. let's look at the sunday forecast to do that. we go to the weather channel. we like the beautiful spins better than the falls. >> i was going to ask you, alex, which one did you prefer? let's go ahead and take a look. today it's going to be a little cooler than yesterday, so maybe a little bit more comfortable out on the ice, but a beautiful day in the northeast. 69 in new york and 66 in boston, 68 in binghamton. a little bit warmer as you head out to western pennsylvania and 88 degrees. once you head south to

washington, d.c., or pittsburgh, you start to get into the record warmth. these were some of the highs yesterday. memphis will probably hit a record today at 93. jackson, mississippi, is at 95. columbus, georgia, may hit a record that will close. in the nashville area. so summer hasn't quite left its grip here yet across the south where it is going to be cooled. pacific will be rainy. hoet in l.a. by the way and a pretty warm day in chicago here where there's a big marathon under way today. alex? >> okay. well, good luck to all those guys. hope no one falls down on the marathon. that's fur sure. with just more than the three weeks before the midterms, president obama heads out to rally the democratic base, but what can he say or do to keep voters in democratic hands? we'll talk about that in a moment here on "msnbc sunday." some models look so mad.

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new speculation today. the virginia tea party wrapped up its two-day meeting with a straw poll of potential candidates. chris christie edged out sarah palin. today's real political test deals add the mitt term elections and which party will be able to turn out the vote. possible set to hold another major rally today in philadelphia. it's part of the white house effort to energize voters with three weeks until election day, 23 days and counts. let's bring in former dnc clairman governor howard dean. governor, good morning. >> glad to have me on. >> the president is hitting the campaign trail pretty hard these days. if you were advising him, what would be your message?

>> first offal all do, what you're doing. he needs to get out there. he's the leader of the party. he ener is,s people. what he's done so far, we've started to come back now. it's mostly -- i think it's mostly because of him. and that is to say this is a choice. this is not a referendum on on the last two years. this is a choice between what you see on the republican side and what you see on the democratic side. that's a willer for us. >> okay. obviously the jobs picture has not gone the way the white house has hoped. has the administration done anything specifically wrong the way the unemployment situation has played out? >> let's be blunt about this. the republicans bear specific responsibility for the jobs picture in the last month. we gained private sector jobs. we lost public sector jobs. the reason we lost public sector jobs is because the republicans have been unwilling to pass any kind of a new stimulus. teachers being laid off, bless getting laid off, jobs lost were

at the public service level. they're attacking the stimulus every single day, that stimulus saved the jobs. now the stimulus is expiring. >> if you were president, what would you have done to get companies to start hiring again? >> well, the first thing i would have done is exactly what the president did. without the stimulus, the congressional budget office estimates that the unploit rate would be two points higher than it is today. it saved a lot of jobs. now it's expiring thanks in part to the republicans. we're seeing a loss of local jobs. the other thing i would do is i would change the tax code. the banks can make a lot of money by passing paper back and forth, credit defaults. that doesn't help anything except the banks. what we need is these big amounts of money in corporations and banks to be invested in things that create wealth. medical discoveries, infrastructure, thicks that create jobs and create real wealth and make things again in

the country and we need to change the tax code for that. >> companies are sitting on a lot of cash. i'm sure you're hearing about the year end bonuses that are expected to be paid out this year in record number. why aren't they hiring? >> well, think they're not hiring frankly because it pays them to be cautious. they even been through a very difficult time. they've reconstructed their balance sheeting to their credit but i think they're not hiring because they're worried about their demand, they're worrying about the tax code doesn't help them invest. think the president's idea of accelerating deappreciation is a very, very good one. i think we ought to drop the capital gains tax, really long-term capital gains, five-year investments or more, and we ought to raise the capital gains tax in the short term. people investing in the stock market don't do anything for the economy. people involved in making things over the five years to do something to help the economy and it doesn't reflect that. former house speaker newt gingrich says republicans could

gain as many as 65 seats. do you think there's a psychology here to further depress the turnout or it's gop hyperbole? >> i think it's both. my own guess is we hold onto the house by four or five because i think things have been moving our way in the last couple of weeks. think they'll continue to move our way because we have, frankly, better candidates thattown republicans do. we ore not extreme. think people are taking a good look at the republicans. i don't think we want the radical right taking over congress in the country. at the end of the day, i think we're going to hold onto some streets. tom pair ella has a better shot than anybody thought. missouri, tom sawyers, a iraq war veteran went out and bought tiffany's products for her constituents, not exactly a good idea in southeastern missouri. think we're going to pick up

seats they didn't expect us to pick up snow you're predicting a win by for our five seats. >> i think we're going to hold only the house by four or five and the senate by four or five. >> i don't think a lot of people would disagree with that. we'll stay democratic. o what is going to be the key to make your prediction come truly? is it all about voter turnout? >> a lot of it is about turnout on the democratic side. and what i have to say to the democrats is, you know, this is the fourth quarter. we're going the have our disagreements and we're going to fight like crazy after the election but that will start november 3. our team has to be the winning team. the president's in charge of that. i thunk he owes doing a good job, and now i think we've got to get out and vote. >> without barack obama on the ballot is it going to be about impossible? >> you never have the turnout in midterm elections that you do in the general election ever.

i can't mack -- i can't think of a single time that's happen. we do need folks to get to the polls. how would like to have the republicans undo the student loan provisions that freed up about an extra $10 billion? that's the kind of thing that's on the republican agenda. how would you like to prove a tiez social security. they keep talking about that. bush tried it. he didn't succeed because the democrats wouldn't let him. how would you like to have that back on the agenda? i think at the end of the day peep aren't going to want that kind of thing. you don't give the keys to the car. we don't want go back there. >> thanks so much. with so much doom and gloom about the economy, wow would think america is no longer the land of the opportunity. we want to show you why the american dream is still alive.

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with the mortgage mess, high unemployment, and increasing poverty, it is really hard to find good news about the economy these days but a report says america is still one of the most vibrant places in the world and people who say the american dream is dead just don't know what they're talking about. i'm joined live now by rick newman, chief correspondent. smile. this is your article. you wrote this. number one myth is america's in its worst shape ever. >> yeah, i don't want to gloss over the problems. it's obviously a very trying time. but i think the headlines are getting a little ahead of the misery. it's obviously a tough time. we've heard about the poverty rate recently. it's 14.3%. it's way too high, there's no doubt about it. but the poverty rate in the late

50s, and early'60s was over 20%. # it gets worse during recess n recessions and gets better when the economy heals. so i'm in no way says this is okay to have 44 million people living in poverty but it owes been worse on a proportion at basis and there's good reason to say it will get bet snore and myth number two, nobody gets ahead in a weak economy. >> absolutely truly. a lot of people are getting ahead. there's been lots of research that convincingly shows that some of the most successful companies in the world have been started during recessions and bare markets and the reason is people get laid off and they say i have to go and do something new. that is happening now. i think we're not seeing the results of this so-called creative destruction yet. we're not seeing the next microsoft. i think there's a good chance in five years we're going to see successful companies that were

stated in tough times right now. here's something i'm seeing all over the place, you're saying myth number three. as the rich get richer, this is the poor get poorer. >> it is a problem. we probably have too big of a gap between the earnings of the most wealthy to the least wealthy, but this creates the perception that we have an inverse robin hood going on. the wealthy are getting money at the expense of the poor. that's not truly. they're simply not taking -- this is not a zero sum game. in a healthy economy wealth is created. everybody gets a little more. the thing that matters most is the people who have the right skills for this chi are the ones who are going to get a bigger share of that. so the point i'm trying to make is not just all the statistical stuff rngs but people can get ahead but it's not going to be automatic as it has been for some people. that's a myth for you. >> right. we've had a rising tide in america.

we've had this huge industrial service boon, you know, since world war ii, and that helped everybody get ahead. we sort of got the idea that it should come naturally. that's what's changing. people are going to have to work for it, the bar for success is higher brks u that doesn't mean you can't get this. >> thank you. the wife of the man believed to have been murdered in mexico is speaking out.

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we'll have more on this in just a moment for you. pakistan has reopened the border crossing that they've been using to shift supplies. i follows a series of attacks on nato forces. and the music world is mourning the loss of singer/song writer solomon burke. he died today at an airport in amster saudi arabian from los angeles. he was 70 years old. those are your five fast headlines. police in mexico have named two suspects in the possible murder of american tourist david hartley on a border lake. police told a mexican newspaper both men are broeshs who live close to where the murder was reported. his wife tiffany said the two were attacked over a week ago while jet skiing on falcon lake. she said pirates fatally shot her husband in the head at which time she fled. tiffany, good morning to you. we're so sorry for your loss. >> thank you, good morning.

>> there are reports that mexican authorities have identified a couple of suspects in this case. have they contacted you about these details? >> yeah. we did find out that they think they have got some suspects. obviously they're not in custody or anything, so we're just kind of hoping that maybe this will be the day that they will, you know, the guys will be able to lead us to david. we're so hopeful that, you know, hopefully this will turn out and we'll get some news. >> tiffany, this story suggests you lived with the worst kind of nightmare. it's been a helluva week plus for you. how are you doing? >> yeah. it's been rough because most people after losing a loved one, a spouse, a son, have time to actually go through this grieving process, and we had a few days, but then, you know, we

hit the media, and it's just been a crazy, crazy week, and, you know, we just haven't really been able to sit and just, you know, kind of reflect smo how are you maintaining your composure? i mean there are a lot of people, myself included who don't know how i'd do it. >> because i'm fighting for david. he would be doing the same thing for me if the roles were switched. i'm just focused on helping find him and making sure that, you know, the mexican authorities are getting pressure they need to get it done so we can just move on. and i know after all this kind of dies down and we do find david, think that's when it's going to start to hit me and i have time alone. it's not going to be easy, i know that. >> tiffany, the story that we've been told is that david was wearing a life jacket while jet skiing and it was through that life jacket that he was shot or was he shot only in the head? because he was wearing a life

jacket, did you see his body floating at all or were you just getting away from bullets yourself? >> when i went back to him, he was floating. he did have the life vest. when i flipped him over when he was face down in the water, the shot to the head was all that i saw. i didn't really check to see if he had been shot more than that. i was just focused on getting him help and getting him out of there. >> was he dead when you came upon him? >> i believe so, yes. i mean there was some signs of when water would get in his mouth, but, no i don't believe he could hear me or anything. i believe it was instant, yeah. >> you were trying to pull him and he looked to be a pretty big guy, a lot bigger than you are. you were trying to pull him on to get help and how was that?

>> i was just in this mode of i've got to get him out of here, and when i was trying to pull him up on my jet ski, i was thinking -- i need god to help me get him up there and i kept hearing you have to go, you have to go and leave him. and i had to make that decision. it was the worst and hardest decision i ever had to make. >> so, tiffany, how did you escape the gun fire? did you literally just speed away? i mean tell us what happened and did the pirates come after you as well? >> yeah. i was -- i was in front of david. he was in between me and the boats. and i did have two shots hit to the left of me in the water, and then when i went back to help david and i had to leave him, i just went as fast as i could. mine you have a jet ski that goes 70 miles an hour plus, and

you only have 100-pound girl on this jet ski, you know, it's going to go fast. it's going to go up to 07 miles an hour. and i could outrun them. so i had to pass through them to get past them. >> you had to pass through the pirates to get to safety. >> yeah, yeah. hayed to pass them in order to get to the united states, yeah. >> how long did it take you to get back to that area where david had been shot and where you found him? >> when i turned back around, he wasn't very far from me. he was just behind me. but going from where i had to leave him to the united states, it was -- i don't know. i can't really tell you how long it took because i just was not focused that. i just was focused getting back and getting help. >> what is the latest on retrieving david's body? what are authorities telling you

about that? that they are searching land, that they are, you know, continuing the search. i don't know really if that's helicopter by, you know, walking the area, by having some dogs out there searching. i don't know. we're just hoping, you know, these two leads will help find him, and also, you know, this has been a tragedy for our family, but we also need to bring awareness to the border, and that has to be secure, and we need some help down there, and they've got to realize that we do need to secure this border. >> tiffany, last question. you have said that you would consider takinge ing ing e ingi needed, however, the sheriff says that's not necessary. what did he tell you about that? >> i really haven't talked to the sheriff, but just heard it's not needed.

i don't think i need to do it either, but like i said before, it's an option. it's an option. but the sheriff doesn't believe i need to, and i don't believe i need, to but it is an option if that comes down to it. we'll think about that. >> tiffany hartley, we thank you for being live with us. our thoughts are with you. what a terrible ordeal you've been through. thanks so much. >> thank you. north korea's heir apparent made his appearance today. king jong-un is the son of kim jong- jong-il. both were live on tv as soldiers towed missiles and weapons right through the streets. our reporter is in pyongyang, north korea, with more. >> reporter: we're here in north korea's capital to see what's been described as the largest show of military might in this country ice history to celebrate 65 years of the bounding of the

party which remains in power he here. the armed forces will soon be ruled by kim jong-un, the third leader in the dynasty. he only remains in power ba us of the support of the military, the armed forces in this country where almost everyone is in uniform. it remains to be seen whether this handover of power in north crey will change anything. history tells us one thing, when there is a handover of power, the new leader will want to make his mark. back to you. >> all right. angus walker, pyongyang. thank you very much for that. the 33 trapped miners in chile may see the light of day for the first time in two

months. they will probably be pulled out of the mine starting on wednesday after the crews reinforce a few hundred feet of the escape shaft. >> during this process, we are going to treat the miners immediately as they are getting out, and if their health condition allow it, they will be, as we say, by a couple of close family members, and then transported by helicopter to the hospital in copiaco. colonel, good morning. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. i'm concerned about the impact of somebody living in a dark environment for over two months. what are they facing heresome. >> well, i think too much could be made of the physical conditions they're in in terms

of their psychological state. people are psychologically very adaptive, so it's not about the darkness. what it's about is loss of control. when the mine collapsed they haven't been in control of their life for 66 days. that is the initial trauma of the collapse. >> when they come up, and, god willing, that's in all kl of days or so, what are the adjustments they're going to have to go through to get back to normal. >> well, it's going to be a reintegration process for sure with their families and the outside world which is going to be challenging because of the interest the world has and their circumstance. but with their families' expectati expectations managed that it will take some time, thing they will be very successful at getting back to their lives. >> how about the relationships they have created with each other? do they need to stay close together after something like

this, or should they actually go on their separate ways as soon as possible? >> well, they should be able to do whatever they want. those relationships have been incredibly valuable as they've been stuck in a mine for them to begin to process and resolve the trauma that they all went through together. so incredibly therapeutic support mechanism down there. i think that as they move forward, some may not stay in close touch, particularly if they decide not to work in the mine anymore. we find when soldiers return they have very close bonds in combat but after they return to the united states they naturally drift apart and it's really unusual to see long-term relationships. >> try to get to a normal place, normal environmental without that kind of stress and pressure, think. >> absolutely. >> what are some worst-case scenarios and best-case scenarios you can envision? >> well, 33 individuals, so we can be all over these. best case, all 33 will recover

in about a week to three weeks after adjusting with their families and moving forward. worst case is really pretty bad. 50% or more of them with post-traumatic symptoms, which could be anything from nightmares to depression, family violence, even suicide. i'm optimistic, however. i think that they'll have a successful reintegration, the vast majority. perhaps a few will have longer-term consequences. >> all right. colonel thomas kolditz, we'll speak with you further. thanks so much. attack ads and the combatants in connecticut are using them in their fierce fight. but are they making a difference? that's next on "msnbc sunday." also a myth. there are several signs of an unhealthy scalp... and the fact is, head & shoulders works on those too. with 7 scalp and hair benefits including relieving dryness, itch, even oiliness.

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playing out in connecticut as the candidates for u.s. senate hit the air waves, and like so many races across this country, the number one issue is the economy. >> can you afford lobbyists to

protect your interests? linda mcnabb paid lobbyists over a million to pay her. they helped kill taxes, and helped avoid safety protection for her workers. >> how do you create a job? >> a job is created and it can be in a variety of ways by a variety of people, but principally by people and businesses in response to demand for products and services and the main point about jobs in connecticut is we can and we should create more than -- >> let's bring in jonathan now, a reporter for powe litvinenko, and christina bellantoni. a good day to both of you. >> good morning. >> hi. >> jonathan, talk about these ads. do you see either candidate as having an edge on the issue of jobs. >> certainly you've got an edge, think for linda mcmahon because she has created private sector

jobs. it's a double-edged sword for her because you saw the ad that blumenthal ran. there was steroid abuse at the time. but at the same time she's created jobs not only for the wresters but the announcers, the people who make crazy costumes, people who put oil on muscles. there are all kinds of jobs. you may have seen the worst answer from blumenthal about the answer to the worst job ever created. as said, this is a race where blumenthal is up by a lot and linda mcmahon still has quite a ways to go to catch him. >> christina, let's talk about the latest poll in the state of connecticut. they give blumenthal a 54% edge. do you think she still does? >> this race has actually been a little bit in flux. you've seen polls where it's been much closer, but for the

majority of them, he does have a double-digit lead. democrats don't want to get too confident here, given what you're seeing in delaware, given what happened in massachusetts in january with scott brown winning that race, surprising the democrats, they thought martha coakley would be the next senator. they want to be careful here, and it's possible this could get more competitive in final days. mcmahon is spending her own money to be on television, pl e blumenthal's got his own problems. >> what about his suggestions that he actually served in vietnam than during veet viet m vietnam, is that impacting the race? >> connecticut, a blue state, a democratic state for a long time that said to the extent that blumenthal can use it to highlight work that he's done for veterans, folks who did serve in vietnam, that's an effective counter to for him, to some extent. saying you were in vietnam when you weren't in vietnam is pretty

bad. it's like the time that i hosted msnbc instead of appearing on it. >> okay. well, you never know, that might not be so bad. let's turn to the state of nevada, a nasty race between harry reid and sharron angle, taking the focus off of the economy and putting somewhere very different. let's watch this. >> here's the kicker, reid actually voted to use taxpayer dollars to pay for viagra, for convicted child molesters and sex offenders. what else could you ever need to know about harry reid? >> she said background checks were an invasion of privacy. sharron angle voted to protect privacy of sex offenders instead of the safety of our kids. >> ideas so extreme, they're dangerous. >> i'm harry reid, and i approve this message. >> really? if you look at state of nevada, one of the highest rate of for closures and unemployment in this nation and tear offends.

is this going to backfire? who is more at risk? >> this is definitely you see a lot of negative ads, particularly twisting of votes, as both candidates are doing. the viagra thing, tpm wrote about this during the health care debate. republicans put up made for tv campaign ad amendments that democrats could not insert into the health care bill because of the whole complicated reconciliation process. everybody knew this was going to happen and sharron angle put this ad on television, making it seem as if reid did something nefarious. but this said, voters say that they get turned off by negative advertising but negative advertising does work. you see it in every campaign. people try to paint their opponent as a total scary person who is going to destroy the state, and that's going to keep happening. >> sharron angle is up by two, in the plus/minus margin of error. react to that, the focus of sex

offenders versus the other. and who do you think's going n. >> you know it's political season when people are accusing each other of child molestation. if you're reid, you've got to be worrie worried, numbers haven't moved up, you spent $20 million trying to destroy sharron angle. you haven't moved anything. incumbents, in the 40s, within a couple of weeks of the election, the track record's not that good. that said, this is an interesting race. sharron angle is an unusual candidate. we haven't seen a lot of candidates like her before this election, so i think there's a lot 0 unfavorability toward her as well in nevada. i'm going to dodge your question on who's going to win and see if christine will answer it. >> you know what? we're out of time. you guys are both safe. thank you. >> take care. the fbi's controversial new powers used gps tracking devices in its investigations and there's a new case raising eyebrows ahead on "msnbc sunday."

top-secret transportation, new reports reveal google has been secretly developing a robotic car. technology uses artificial intelligence software that can sense objects near that car, and mimic human decisions. apparently a human still sits in the driver's seat in case anything go awry. google already tested that on the streets of california. expert say they are years away from mass production. if you haven't checked your calendar, today is 10/10/10. so what's the big deal? we'll take a look at significance of the oddity of the calendar, ahead on "msnbc sunday." interesting grooming.

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