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a suspected mass drugging. a college aged party ends with a dozen people in the hospital, police say someone dropped drugs in their drinks, but there's more. and good sunday morning to all of you. i'm alex witt. we'll have all of that, plus the excitement over today's date, 10/10/10, if you haven't noticed yet. we'll get to that. first up, a suspected mass drugging. that is what police in washington state discovers at a college-aged party that went terribly wrong. a dozen young people were sent to the hospital. michelle franzen is joining me here in studios. >> investigators are sorting through the details but here's what we know right now. 11 of the 12 people sickened were women, they were all drinking at a house party in rose lynn, washington, friday. there were 50 people at the house reported there in total, and most were students from central washington university. at some point, things got out of hand, police say. officials received a report of a young woman at a nearby grocery store who apparently overdosed and possibly assaulted.

the police chief says when he spoke to the alleged victim and her friends they appeared to be severely intoxicated though they insisted they had one or two drinks tops. when they arrived they found 11 partygoers barely conscious. police suspect a drug may have been slipped into the victims' drinks. right now they're awaiting toxicology results. >> officers called in about every ambulance service that we have in the county. we certainly have seen those time of drugs in our communities before. what makes this unique, we haven't seen it on a mass scale that we have. >> 11 of the victims have been released from the hospital, and the 12th is said to be in good condition. >> any idea when they're going to get results of things tocologist tests to figure out what this is? >> they're hoping as soon as possible, the blood and urine toxicology report should be back to give them an indication of what type of drugs they have in their system. >> michelle franzen, thank you.

no love for washington now as the nation gears up to decide midterm elections. both parties are fighting for every vote. americans don't like what they see. democrats score a c minus. republicans rank worse, squeaking by with a d plus, the same grade for the government overall. for obama, he scores a "c." brian morris at the white house this morning. bri brian, good morning. with grades like this, you can see why candidates are working so hard to turn out the vote. which party is believed to have the edge. >> reporter: does it make much of a difference if you're doing kind of poorly or not so well? it's really not a good report card, obviously. look at who is talking about the government doing poorly, you can get a real feel for the pulse of the electorate now. registered voters, 47% at this point, prefer democratic control of congress. 43% prefer republican control. but if you margin in the factor

of error, they're just about even. if you look at very interested voters, using president obama's words, those were fired up and ready to go, that's not even close. 40% would like to see democrats in control of congress, 52% are standing behind the republicans. look at the nation's direction, 59% say we are on the wrong track, and that is 12 points worse than a decade ago at this time. if you look at the state of the economy, 63% believe that we are going in the wrong direction, that we're same or getting worse. that's eight points down from the year 2000. so, alex, certainly no gold stars on this report card. >> you said it. thank you, brian mooar. new predictions from a top democrat this morning on how his party will fare in the med term elections. i spoke with howard dean, and he offered his forecast for the upcoming elections along with a sharp message to his fellow

democrats. >> my own guess that is we hold on to the house by four or five, because things have been moving our way, i think they'll continue to move our way because we have better candidates than the republicans and we're not as extreme. people are starting take a look at republicans and who they're nominating. i don't think we want the radical right taking over congress. what i have to say to the democrats is, you know, this is the fourth quarter. we're going to have our disagreements and we're going to fight like crazy after the election, but that will start november 3s. we've got to have the team, and our team has to be the winning team. we've got to get out and vote. >> the former governor predicted that democrats will keep control of the senate by about four or five seats. we have a lot more ahead on the upcoming midterms later this hour. we'll hear from air rihanna huffington. in chile, rescue teams are busy working to work on an escape shaft to free the 33 miners who have been trapped.

once the process is complete, they will begin lifting men out one by one. >> with this task ahead, we are planning the process of rescue to start around this wednesday. this process, the process of rescue, should last for two days. nbc's kerry sanders live in copiapo, chile. with a good day to you, what is this reinforcement entail? how long is it supposed to go on? >> reporter: well, the need is to put in a sleeve, as it were, the hole goes down and for the first 315 feet of the 2,000-plus feet of this shaft, they're going to put a half inch steel pipe, and that pipe will go down and keep rocks from falling in, as the escape capsule transits up and down. they thought about this on the front end.

they decided, yes, let's do this. i'm going it sort of pain a picture of what's going on here. we're go fing to pull out real wide first. to the side here, there's a reporter from great britain, this is the bbc reporting. and the reason repoint that out, we go from him to the crowd here at the gates, leading up to where the mine is, everybody you see here is a journalist. there are journalists from 180 nations who are here, and from places that you might not believe, from the czech republic, from poland, from china, from russia. you name a country, the world's eyes are here waiting for that moment, the moment when they actually bring the miners out. as you can imagine, with that many recorders here, that many cameras here what they've decided to do is they've selected one organization, chilean tv station, that's going to have the camera there, and distribute it to everybody else. we're going to come over here. as we come down here, you can see, here are some of the family

members that are holding vigil. they're with some of the red cross folks who have been helping them deal with this for two-plus months. making their lives as comfortable as possible. but this morning, it's still very cold. often the sun burns off and it warms up, but it's chilly. we're shrouded in fog here. alex, anticipation, you can taste it right now, the family members will get their opportunity today, as they do once a week to go up to the mine, where they will actually have a teleconference with their loved ones down below, it lasts for about eight minutes. two a tee, every one of the family members has said they hope this is the last time they have that conversation over the teleconference. next, they hope they see them face-to-face. you know, there's still some danger here. there's still some processes that have to take place, but there's a lot of confidence that this is about to end. >> but, kerry it won't happen any time before wednesday, that is confirms? that's the earliest we could see one of the miners pulled out?

>> reporter: we heard lawrence goldblum say wednesday but that's a target date. it may happen earlier. it all depends on the progress with the pipes going down. we have not been given an update where that stands right now. it is going in. we've heard no problems. we've heard no progress. so, it started late yesterday with the pipes going down, we were told. so if they do it faster, if it goes in quicker, we may actually see something tuesday, we may see something monday evening. it's really hard. one thing they keep saying, and they got this from the experts from the nasa, from the united states, who came down here and talked to them, don't give a hard date. let it develop and when it's right, you'll know. of course miners down below know, any minute now is the right moment for them. they just want to get out. >> you can bet imagine, right. thank you, kerry sanders. exciting stuff. a group of miners in pennsylvania can certainly relate to the situation unfolding in chile.

nine men spent four days trapped underground at the cuecreek mine eight years ago. one of the miners spoke on the "today" show. >> well, once you get out, that's your big emotion, knowing you made it. that's number one. i mean, now we've got to put up with seeing what kind of medical condition, how guys are going to handle their being trapped, like down there for 60 -- 66, 67 days. i mean, that's -- it's hard to tell what kind of -- what's going to turn out for them guys. some might be fine, but some's going to have problems but you have to wait to see. >> cuecreek mine rescue foundation has been raising money to help families of 393 trapped miners in chile. new developments in the alleged murder of an american tourist on a border lake. mexican authorities have identified two suspects. state police told a mexican newspaper, they are looking for two brother whose live near where the attack took place on

falcon lake. david's wife says they were jetskiing when pirates attacked them and shot her husband in the head. she described trying to pull david back to safety. >> i just kept hearing, you just 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. >> we'll have more of my interview with tiffany hartley coming up later this hour. in chicago, a bus crash left dofz passengers injured after it veered off the road. 70 people on board the commuter bus when it smashed into trees off the roadway. dozens of passengers were taken to the hospital, one with critical injuries. >> she was pressing brakes, the bus driver, and the bus wouldn't stop. people were toppling over each other, and that's the way we buffered each other. >> had the trees not been there had we not been on the bus to distribute the weight it would have flipped the city's investigating the crash and

awaiting results from a drug and alcohol test given to the drive. >> a sure sign at it holiday se season around the corner. plenty of people were ready to lace up and begin cutting tracks on the ice. more than a quarter million skaters take to the ice between october and april. let's get sunday forecast around the country. we're with the weather channel's jeff morrow. good morning. >> good morning, alex. hard to think about snow and ice, though, this time of the year, particularly when we're talking about record-high temperatures across parts of south. you know that will come to an end, winter's not that far away. but we still have some warm air to get through first. most of the country today actually fairly tranquil. and that includes the northeast. you mentioned yesterday that in new york city you got up into the 70s. not quite as warm today. 69 in the big apple. 68 in binghamton. heads up towards the pittsburgh area. beautiful october day here,

really, across just about all of the northeast. in the south, that is where another high pressure area, but this one, there's nothing cool about it, this is where we're going to have the heat, alex. this is where we're going to set record high temperatures. places like jackson, mississippi, 95. atlanta, georgia, 86. a taste of summertime on this 10/10/10. alex? >> right. interesting, those numbers lining up. we'll talk about that later. jeff morrow, thank you. a sure military might in north korea, making a rare appearance with his heir apparent. thousands of couples chose today as their wedding day. what's behind the appeal of 10/10/10 next on "msnbc sunday." it's work through the grime and the muck, month. tow and pull without getting stuck month. sweat every day to make an honest buck...month. and if you're gonna try and do this in anything other than a chevy... well, good luck...month. great deals on the complete family of chevy trucks

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for the first time since having major heart surgery there is summer, we're hearing from former vice president dick cheney. he spoke at a gathering of business leaders, politician in bakersfield, california. >> this is sort of our first major outing, some of you may not be aware, but i underwent major heart surgery in july, and i've been in the process of recovering ever sincer and this is our first major trip since i got out of the hospital. >> dehe defended the bush administration's terrorism policies during that speech. thousands came out in wisconsin last month. today the stage is set in philadelphia with the threat of a republican takeover on the horizon, president obama's hitting the road. he's working to get out the vote, telling supporters they have no excuse to sit out the midterm elections. associate editor for "the hill" joins me. >> good morning. >> what do you think the

thinking is inside the white house, in terms of how much ground they can make up? >> well, at this point, with three weeks to go, they've conclude they're no longer able to sway independent and swing voters their way. they've decided with these rallies where you see in place like a philadelphia, maybe they can save that senate seat and get joe sestak, the democrat elected there with a large turnout in the philly area. trying to work on margins to excite the base of the democratic party that has been disheartened, disappointed, disaffected, trying to get them out of the couch and into the car to vote in november, because they believe if they make them inc. g angry enough, they have a chance of helping their own numbers around the margins, it could be the difference of maybe keeping the house by a few seats or not. so that's what they're speaking against the anger on the other side to their own party saying, republicans, you know, policies are going to take us back and

you flee need to be mad enough to vote november 2. >> any think in the white house the gop may have peaked early? >> well, of course, that's what the white house would hope. i think that what the white house is trying to do is, like i said, really make the republican party the focus of the campaign so it's not a referendum on president obama, they're going after recent statement business republicans, new candidates who won primary electionses, many backed by the tea party, calling them extremists, the pledge to america is something that the president has been very focused on in his rhetoric and his message. so, again, placing the focus on republicans and what their policies would bring. i don't know that if the republicans peaked too early. momentum is clearly on their side if you look at the polling in all of the battlegrounds. again, they're going make sure it's not a referendum on the president. >> how about the evidence that

the races are tightening up, might it be republicans are underestimating turnout for democrats? >> no. in fact "the hill" is in the middle of conducting a huge poll, and our first sample of the 12 freshmen democrats all vulnerable, elected in the obama wave in '08, we see an incredible enthusiasm gap it will be very significant. republicans and independents fires up to vote on november 2, democrats not so much. you look at voting groups who vote the most, males in these midterm elections, senior citizens, it's really a significant gap for democrats. they have to work hard to turn out their own voters to make the difference. >> 23 days to go here. if you were a betting woman, would you put it on a gop takeover of the house or edge that bet? >> you know, i really don't know how predictive these polls are, but i'm going to go with the fact at this point it looks like barring some intervention, the republicans are going to probably win it, maybe not win

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a california student claims the fbi secretly placed a gps tracking device on his car, and has followed his movements for more than three months. wired magazine reports that the man discovered the equipment when his car was at the repair shop. daze later the 20-year-old says the fbi shows up at his house and asked for that gps device back. wired magazine reached out to an fbi spokesman who said, quote, i can't tell you very much about it, because it's still an ongoing investigation. can the government stick a tracking device to one of our cars without telling us? defense attorney, rebecca rose woodland and attorney brian weiss. is this legal? >> apparently, some of the courts in our state in our country, think that it is legal. some do not. there is a very big distinction, i think this will have to go up to the supreme court to get ai final decision. in new york city they decided, no, that is not legal.

it's an infringement of your constitutional rights to come on to your property and put a device on your car that tracks every one of your movements, but the ninth circuit says it is. >> if the car's parked, say in a parking garage or on the street, can you do it then? does time lapse of putting a device on your car, have anything to do with it either? >> it certainly does. the 9th circuit court of appeals which covers western states errs on the side of criminal defendants, often wrong, but nebber in doubt. but this side they erred on the side of the government. folks that don't have covered garages or hired help, who leave their car in the driveway, don't have an expectation of privacy, such that the government can come in and hit them with the gps. but ultimately, the d.c. circuit, which is a more well-respected court than 9th circuit, with all due respect, said in an opinion by justice ginsburg who followed on the

heels of justice bork and later kennedy took his place on the court, no, you have an expectation of privacy in your movements 24/7. i think it's wrong from here to there. >> i read there was something had it been on the car for three or four days, that would be one thing, but threethree-plus mont that's another. >> some of the cores are saying the amount of time lapse, it's unreasonable for a person to believe that, after three months, every single motion will be detected, that is too invasive of your constitutional rights. but yet some courts are saying, any amount of time is invasive, because anyone walking on to their own property does not expect the government to come on to it, to track you. >> what about just cause in this case? there is a question whether there is one. a young man whose father was an arab-american activist who died in egypt a year ago and believe the tracking started after that. the question of why has got to

be come in to play here. >> and it does, but again, unless you've got probable cause to go to a magistrate judge or district judge, to believe that a crime or is likely to be committed, you've got no business walking on to somebody's properties and putting the gps device on their car. the reason why they didn't go to a judge they didn't have probable cause and the $64,000 question is, ultimately, also u.s. supreme court require anybody in this kind of work to get a warrant before they install the gps device? with this conflict, as rebecca pointed out, there's a pretty good shot the high nine on the potomac might take a look at this. >> thank you both. a growing concern about discrimination against the unemployed. do some companies think the best people are already working? this is "msnbc sunday." a unique sea salt added to over 40 campbell's condensed soups. helps us reduce sodium, but not flavor. so do a few lifts. campbell's.® it's amazing what soup can do.™

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from pakistan into afghanistan. pakistan reopened a keyboarder crossing. it was closed after a helicopter strike kill two pakistani soldiers last month. attorneys general of 40 states plan to announce a joint probe into banks' use of flawed for closure paperwork. it would add pressure on banks to expand halts on foreclosures. friday, bank of america became the first bank to do so in all 50 states. 58 million social security recipients will learn they won't be getting a cost of living increase next year. it would be the second year without an increase since automatic adjustments for inflation were adopted back in 1975. the family of an american tourist who is reportedly shot dead by mexican pirates is hoping a new development will help them locate his body. police have two suspects. david hartley jet skiing on a border lake with his wife tiffany. earlier i spoke with tiffany about what happened during that attack. >> 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 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. i don't believe he could hear me or anything. i believe it was instant, yeah. >> you were trying to pull him, and he looks to be a pretty big guy, bigger than you are, you were trying to pull him to get help. how was that? >> i was just in this mode of, i've got to get him out of here. when i was trying to pull him up on my jet ski, you know, i kept thinking, this is -- i need god to help me get him up here, and i kept hearing, you just 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 gunfire? did you literally just speed away? tell us what happened. 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. i mean, you have a jet ski that goes 70 miles an hour plus, and you only have 100-pound, you know, girl on this jet ski, you no, it's going to go fast. it's going to go up to 70 miles an hour, and i couldo outrun them. i had to get past through them to get past them. >> you had to pass through the pirates to get to safety? >> yeah, yeah. i had to pass them in order to get to the united states, yeah.

>> how long did it take for you to get back to the area where david had been shot, 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 was not focused on that. i was just focuses on getting back and getting hem. >> mexican police say the suspects are brothers who live in a town close to where the incident took place. in north korea today, a massive celebration and a show of military might. hundreds of thousands marched before kim jong-un, son of kim jong-il and north korea's heir apparent. be in's jenny wivell in london. the first time kim jong-un broadcast on live tv. how did he react to the crowds?

how did the crowds receive him? >> reporter: hello. yes, kim jong-un certainly seemed to play his part well. he was clapping and saluting thousands of soldiers but careful not to overstep the mark deferring all the time to the real current leader of north korea, kim jong-il. the crowds reacted positively to him. for many, this was the first time they've had a chance to have a proper look at the man who is expected to be the successor to the current lead or of north korea. and he is still very young. he's only in his 20s. and until a few months ago he was all about unknown, alex. >> i'm curious, why with north korea normally being secretive, why it let western cameras in on this occasion. >> reporter: well, you're right. it is really rare that the media should be invited to film inside north korea. but this parade was huge. and north korea is always keen to demonstrate the strength of its military to the western world. it is reported to be the largest

show of military might in the country's history. there were more than 60 battle tanks as well as thousands of marching soldiers, and liberation trucks carrying rockets and missiles. in a way, it was also a bit of a coming out parade, coming out ceremony for kim jong-un. >> all right. nbc's jenny wivell, thank you. iranian president ahmadinejad is planning a visit to lebanon wednesday, and his trip will put him on the border with israel. ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for israel's destruction, and denies the holocaust ever happened. the u.s. views hezbollah as a terrorist organization. state department said the trip is not a good idea. >> michael sing, good morning. >> good morning. >> of what is the u.s. most concerned here? >> well, lebanon is very tense right now. there have been this showdown between hezbollah on the one

hand and the pro-democracy government of lebanon on the other hand over the hariri assassination. the tribunal national u.n. set up to investigate the assassination is about to hand down its indictments and it looks like hezbollah will be the ones indicted. lebanon is very tense that hezbollah resist this. they fear an ahmadinejad visit could tip the balance in lebanon into violence if there are protestifies over the visit. >> what about the rumors that ahmadinejad might be doing some sort of a symbol cal stone throwing over the board for in israel? there is an israeli paper that quotes the leader saying that assertion is ridiculous, looking ahmadinejad's opinions on israel very well known. >> ahmadinejad is facing problems at home, political problems, economic problems, and of course iran is under a lot of international pressure from

sanctions and other efforts by the united states to isolate them. i think for ahmadinejad, this trip going to the israeli border is a way both to sort of try to generate some popularity in the region and at home frankly to get publicity but to thumb is nose the united states to show he's not daunted by the pressure efforts against iran. israelis, obviously find it insulting and provocative, but at the seam time, there isn't much they can do. >> in terms of the provocation sense, are you concerned that this will hurt stability in the region? >> i think that the visit could hurt stability in the region. you know, iran's activities in lebanon certainly do hurt stability in the region. they fund hezbollah, hamas, all sorts of terrorist groups. and the visit by ahmadinejad into a very tense situation there could really be the straw that breaks the camel's back, in terms of the very fragile

political situation inside lebanon. at the same time, it could have negative reverberations for hezbollah which doesn't like being portrayed as an iranian proxy or puppet but, frankly, a little bit of that is going to come through in the visit. so it will have negative repercussions, perhaps for both sides. really the consequences will be quite uncertain. >> michael singh, thanks for weighing in. world view begins in hungary, a new effort under way to stop another potential deluge of the caustic red sludge. crews rushing to build a 2000 lock dam and now walls. the cruise found no cracks but fear a repeat of last week wh highly polluted waters kills seven people. 30,000 people marches in the biggest ever parade. a lavish fireworks display canceled after bloggers

complained it was wasteful. 100,000 citizens are without food following flooding in central vietnam. australia, sydney's harbor bridge closed to traffic to become the site of a massive picnic. 7,000 people sat down to eat their breakfast this morning. the event a chance for the government to promote its bid for the 2022 world cup. something special about sunday it has couples rushing to the altar and folks hope their dreams come true. what is unusual, the date, 10/10/10, a perfect number. ed today show's jenna wolfe has more. >> reporter: can you imagine a world without numbers? they're everywhere. but do numbers have a hidden meaning? >> i think some people are drawn to numbers, drawn to numerology because numbers are sort of mystical. they have many different meanings. and a lot of people think that numbers will be able to predict what will happen in their lives. >> reporter: predicting what will happen on today's date,

10/10/10, has garnered a lot of attention. >> there's been a lot of hype, i think, about the 10/10/10. we reduce, the one from ten, the one from the date, 2010 is 3, the day reverses to a universal five. it's about love, self-expression. date this year is a great date for big events. >> reporter: big events like weddings. >> we picked because it was a unique number. >> it's just a memorable date that nobody will forget. >> reporter: melissa and andy, one of more than 32,000 couples getting married today, according to the knot.com. >> 10/10/10 as a wedding date is hugely popular. in fact, there are 500% more brides getting married this sunday than there were last year on the same sunday. >> reporter: meanwhile, for those born on 10/10, the date holes symbolic meaning. triplet sons are turning 2. >> 10/10/10 isn't going to

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later today, president obama will travel to philadelphia to rally the democratic faithful ahead of the midterm elections next month. today's event will mark the fifth such event for the president. in the past week, the recent

wins by republican tea party candidates have many democratic strategists on edge. i spoke with the author of the new book "third world america," air ran na huffington and i asked her what mr. obama can do between now with the midterm to help the democrats. >> well, he is giving a great stump speech and he's rallying the troops, but unfortunately the data, economic data, are not on the democrats' side. friday we had the release of the new unemployment numbers and the unemployment rates stayed unchanged at 9.6%. but government is now shedding jobs. we had over 70,000 jobs lost, mostly local governments, mostly in education. that is very troubling because we don't really have a plan for creating jobs. it's not just the current unemployment, which is 26 million people out of work or underemployed it's also the

prospects for people. wherever i travel around the country, there's a huge anxiety among people who have jobs, worried they're the next to go. >> so, are you hearing that people believe that the administration has responded forcefully enough or in the proper ways with respect to jobs? >> while i'm hearing is that there's a sense of urgency out of the white house, the kind of urgency that existed when everybody came together, republicans, democrats, and saved wall street. we don't see that urgency around jobs. and yet, people everywhere are feeling the pain. i talked to many people here in atlanta who have jobs but whose brother or sister or son or parent does not have a job anymore. so the pressure on the family to actually support a member of the family that's lost a job is also weighing on people who are still employed. >> and is that without question,

arianna, the number one issue in the election, jobs? >> yes, i think it's the number one, two, three, four, issue, this is it. jobs and the foreclosures. people are struggling to keep their homes. i met a woman who has a job, her husband has job but the house is under water with the economic crisis and the housing crisis. she said to me with tears in her eyes we don't know whether to walk way from our home. we don't want to do that. we don't know if it's more toll do that but at the sometime we're working hard to pay mortgage that's no longer financially justified because our home is worth less than our mortgage. >> my earlier conversation with arianna huffington. the tea party loves christine o'donnell. so do the writers of saturday night love. this time a parody of her new ads. the real o'donnell trying to

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wall street watching the dow closely tomorrow after the blue chips closed above 11000 for the first time in five month pptsz federal reserve will release minutes from its last meeting. an lifr lifts will examine the notes. we'll get reads on inflation this week, as well.

expected to rise. some economists see that as a good thing, keeping away deflation where prices of goods collapsed. google, intel, jpmorgan chase, general electric, reporting earnings, expected to report higher profits. the huffington post spotlighting a problem for the long-term unemployed, hiring managers who only want to hear from people who have jobs. the post has uncovers numerous examples of job listings with caveats like, must be currently employs, no unemployed candidates considered. one recruiter described the catch 22, some companies think the best people are already working. maybe the ones look for jobs for some reason had a problem or were let go for a reason or quit a for reason but the people companies want are the type that already have a job. joins by neiler win, good morning. >> good morning. >> are employers allowed to discriminate against the

jobless? its not illegal, it might not be a good idea for the employers. a high unemployment rate, nearly 10 psh 10%, millions of americans looking for work because of the weak economy. this practice is something that stands in the way of getting people back to work and seeing a real jobs recovery happen. if we look at the numbers as of august, 4.4 million americans out of work for one year, which is 30% of everyone who is unemployed. so how should she's people address this in an interview? >> well, one answer is to try and find ways to stay busy and keep your skills going as you're unemployed if you're in the long-term unemployment category. the longer someone's unemployed, the more their skills are likely to atrophy. you have a situation where you might not be up on the latest techniques in your field if you haven't worked for six months or a year. any training courses, taking a job that might be below normal pay grade or less than what you

prefer might be good to stay in the mix and make sure it's clear you're working, even if it's not an ideal situation. >> getting a sense there's anything long-term unemployed people should not say in an interview? >> yeah. i think emphasizing that period of unemployment is probably not terribly helpful. it's a time to emphasize what you have been doing to keep engaged in and make clear you're not sitting around watching tv, but doing things to be productive and make sure that you're going to be fully qualified when you do have an opportunity to have a job again. >> all good advice. thank you, neil. a rescue could come in just a few days for the trapped miners in chile. what will the long-term impact of the ordeal be from them? we'll hear from a psychologist in our next hour here on "msnbc sunday."

hitting the road. president obama ses out today to ral rally