you will t believe what he said in a radio interview about his wife and their personal life. good day, everyone. i'm tamron hall. the news nation is following a dangerous rescue operation. we're only hours away from watching it. 7:00 p.m. eastern time marks the beginning of the end of the ordeal for the 33 chilean miners who have been trapped underground for 69 days. in fact, here's a look outside the mine. one by one these miners will squeeze into a 26-inch wide metal cage and begin their 15-minute trip to the surface, going a distance of more than 2,000 feet. nbc's kerry sanders has been following the story from the beginning. he's live for us again. what's happening now, kerry? >> reporter: well, it's really putting the final steps in process. the roads here to the mine are closed. there's a fair amount of activity and helicopters, the medevac choppers have been transiting back and forth

rehearsing their run. the capsule, the phoenix that will go down and bring them back up, running more tests on that today. it's passed every test they've run on it. then you have the family members over here in an area a little bit away from where all the 1,700 reporters from around the world have gathered. they're back here. not every family member will get the opportunity to greet their loved one when they come up. they decided to control the situation, only three families will get an opportunity to see the men as they come out of the hole. and then they'll reunite with other family members later probably back at the hospital. but it looks like all i's have been dotted, all the t's have been crossed. they've run scenarios of all the problems they think could happen. it appears they think they've covered everything. i spoke to the health minister here. he says at this point it's up to god. he believes everything has been touched on. tamron? >> and kerry, talk to me about the energy there right now. >> reporter: the energy is high.

i got to tell you, the time that i've been here for weeks now out in this desert, i have not seen the family members with a whole lot of smiles. today i'm seeing smiles. nobody is celebrating. they told me specifically the parties are not yet planned. they know there's a lot of danger from 2,040 feet down up here to the surface. but they're excited. they feel it. they can taste it's almost happening, and they're ready for this ordeal to end. >> absolutely. >> reporter: another ordeal will begin for them once they make it to the surface, of course. >> yes, and they're helping the miners and the family prepare for the on slot of media attention and all the other things that will follow. back to what we can expect to see. what are you showing me here? >> reporter: i'm showing you the media. it's everywhere i look. there's a camera crew everywhere i look. here's someone walking through from a tripod. these guys are here from australia. you're not going to believe it. there's a crew from north korea. that's unheard of. >> that's incredible.

>> reporter: they're from everywhere. >> there was a report you indicated as well that i believe two doctors or some type of medical team will be lowered in to help the miners. has that had happened yet? >> reporter: it has not happened yet. i think it's going to happen once the president here makes his way here and everything is set. the plan is the capsule will go down with a medic. they'll bring up one of the miners. it will go down with another medic, bring up a miner. a total of four or five medics with commandos will be stationed down there to help out. the idea of that is, of course, as much as these men have been doing an amazing job. 69 days under the earth. they're in great shape, according to the doctors. they're ready to come up. as much as that, it is a clear line of somebody who has been here on the surface going down. if there's a problem who may be able to offer a solution. also, you know, some of the guys

coming up may be anxious. there's a medic saying let me calm you down. here's some anti-anxiety pill if you would like to take it. let's get you to the surface. >> incredible. thank you very much. and one man who knows what the miners will go through is tom. he's one of the nine workers rescued from a flooded mine in pennsylvania back in 2002. in fact, he described how he felt on the way up, in his own words, on "nightly news" this week. >> going up out of there, that was one of the happiest days of my life. the capsule is about eight-feet high. it's all screened in. you get somebody 6'0", 250 pounds, it's a rough time getting in. it was a figtight fit we were

watching them all in formation. i kind of liked it. when we came outside there was lights. my goodness. there's lights everywhere. people everywhere. hollering and screaming. it was beautiful. really emotional. >> i get chills listening to him. a short time ago two pennsylvania drillers who helped in the rescue returned from chile. they had been there for almost 40 days helping in the rescue efforts. developing now, the obama administration just announced it is lifting the six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling imposed after the gulf water disaster. they've been under heavy pressure from the oil industry and others in the region to lift the ban. they say it's cost jobs and damaged the economy. three weeks and counting and

the big guns in the democratic party will hit the road almost nonstop as they struggle to maintain control of the house and the senate. and the next two weeks, president obama had no fewer than an 18-campaign event scheduled. including a youth town hall in washington on thursday. vice president joe biden has a half dozen campaign event this is week. and bill clinton has about ten campaign stops scheduled in the next week and a half. now democrats are putting their brightest star to work. first lady michelle obama will hit the campaign trail tomorrow with events from coast to coast. joining me now, "washington post" reporter. thanks for joining me. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> so how will the first lady be used here? many don't expect her to get down and dirty and attack the other side. how does the party use her effectively, knowing how popular

she is? >> the main way is as a fund-raiser. this is very much the laura bush model, where she went out and mainly raised money. that will very much mean that she'll have pretty much controlled crowds, people who will pay to see her, have dinner there, take pictures. that's the main way they're going to use her. the thinking here is essentially she is popular across the board. her popularity ratings are 66%. she's popular with independents. she's popular with the base. she's popular with women. these are crucial voting blocs that the democrats will need to turn out if they're going to be able to hold onto both houses. >> talk to me a little bit about the force that is the first lady. you think about the evolution at a time when some try to categorize her as a person who didn't love america, an angry woman. now being a popular figure that the party needs.

>> yeah, it's a remarkable transformation. she very much got what might be called a first lady bump once she moved in. >> is it because she stayed in the safe zone? who's going to argue with obesity? helping military families, who is going to argue with that? is her popularity related to the fact she stayed in a safe zone? >> very much so. she tiptoed out with the health care debate. she talked about it in terms of children, childhood obesity, what it would mean for women. it's been a strategic two years for her. the fashion has been out there. also she's done some campaigning here and there with some of her issues. again, they've been very safe. >> thank you very much for your time. greatly appreciated. joining us now live, house

majority congress whip james clyburn iii, highest ranking democrat in the house, sir. thank you for join me today. >> thanks so much for having me. >> any time. let me ask you about the reports. you've got "the ney york times" as well as our own first read indicating the dccc may be pulling financial support of house races they see are on shaky ground and may not be able to win. what do you say about those reports? >> i don't think there's anything to that at all. they are redirecting funds based on other interests like the democratic national committee, as well as the republicans of the senatorial committee. we're trying to coordinate in such a way that we won't be stepping over each other. to the dccc is in fact

responding to the republican campaign committee to make sure our people in races get all the attention they need. >> so there's no truth to the story line that you have representatives in ohio, florida, pennsylvania, among others who will not receive an infusion of cash from the party for advertising on the crucial last three weeks here? >> well, i don't know about this week. i was in ohio two weeks ago with four or five candidates. they told me they were very pleased with what dccc was doing. i don't see anything changing. i'm on may way to various places. indiana, illinois, new york and connecticut. latter part of this week. and all of those candidates that i've talked to in the last couple of days seem to be very pleased not just with dccc, but very pleased with the way voters are responding to the comparisons that are now laid out for them to take a look at.

>> congressman, you always have an incredible measured confidence when you speak about the party and what may happen november 2nd. what makes you believe three weeks out your party won't see a disastrous night as many pundits have predicted for november 2nd? >> because i've been looking at the races district by district. i don't buy into headlines. when i saw that poll that indicated democrats are two up. another poll in generics, democrats were six down. these things are all over the place. i think now people are beginning to focus not just on the all mighty, but the alternatives, i think they're going to do well with our candidates as well as our challenges. so i'm very upbeat about this election, certainly history is

not kind to the party in power, in midterm elections. we understand that. so we're battling, not just a lot of unaccounted for money, but we also are battling history here. i feel pretty good about where we are. >> congressman clyburn, thank you so much. it's a great pleasure having you on today. so what parent isn't worried when his or her teenager first starts to drive alone? a new study find many parents fail to take a crucial step that could make a big difference. enough time in the car teaching your kids to drive. a study found parents spend an average of less than two hours a week supervising their teenager behind the wheel. and 20% of that supervised driving occurred at night or in bad weather, when you probably would be the worst. joining me now, a man who has a kid about to start driving. nationally syndicated radio talk show host michael smerconish.

michael, you have a teenager driving now. you have one that will soon be behind the wheels. does this scare you? >> i think there were some great lessons in it. traffic accidents are the number one killer of teens, so this is frightening for all of us, even those of us who don't have kids because they're on the roadway. what i thought the greatest lesson in the report was this, they've been watching you for years, from the backseat. so rule number one, what kind of a role model have you been as a parent? forget when it's their turn, what kind of role model have you been for all the years they've been watching you drive before they could get behind the wheel? >> we see the studies regarding text messaging, for example, behind the wheel or being on a mobile phone behind the wheel. we associate it with teenagers. according to the number, adults are just as, if not more guilty of that behavior. if your teenager sees you do it, they'll copy the behavior. >> no doubt.

and if you think about our own driving experiences. my parents would teach me to drive. in my case, you would go to a parking lot behind the local school. the lesson is to say you have to escalate the situations and make them more difficult going forth. and you have to put in time. households with two parents are working. they don't have the time. >> what are you going to tell the kids? i'm still an awful driver. my dad says i don't know how you got out of driver's ed. your teacher must have liked you. with that said, what are you telling your kids, michael? >> i remember watching movies in high school. they had grisly movies that would show to every driver's ed class. we try to explain how dangerous the circumstance becomes when you add a friend and a second friend. hopefully i'm not involved in bad driving, but when i see it

on the road, i always point it out. look what this guy is doing. and hope they learn by watching. >> all right, thank you very much. interesting topic. thank you, michael. greatly appreciated. >> see you tomorrow. >> join "news nation" and tell me what you think habit the teen driving issue. e-mail me at newsnation@msnbc.com. that topic or anything else we talk about in the hour. moving on, al qaeda goes online with chilling details on how to kill americans at crowded restaurants in the nation's capitol, it's unbelievable. if you thought wall street employees got paid a lot last year after being bailed out, guess what? billions more headed their way. [ animals calling ] ♪ [ pop ]

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chilling news today where an al qaeda affiliate released the

second edition of an online english language magazine. the online magazine is called inspire and it offers tips on killing americans to would-be radical militants. michael sheehan joins me now. we obviously aren't surprised that al qaeda wants to kill americans. we know that's what they're dedicated to doing. this online magazine, is this part of the trend of recruiting people by taking advantage of the internet and the far reaching ability of the internet? >> it is, tamron. and it's very troubling. al qaeda leadership not just in the operational phase, but particularly the propaganda is becoming more and more americanized, they're really targeting the american audience in english. very sophisticated with very specific ideas for people to come back to the united states. they are truly trying to elevate their game here in the heart land of the u.s. >> now, this has ties, michael, apparently to the yemen-american

who inspired a shooting. >> that's right. a long-known american resident. lives in the united states for a long time. been in yemen for a while now, plotting to try to motivate americans to pick up the al qaeda cause. very fluent in english. know how to use the al qaeda narrative, which inspires the faithful, as well as americanized english to get their target audience. >> i'm curious, michael, obviously this affiliate of al qaeda, they know this makes national news. they know our intelligence experts will jump on this and analyze every bit of this online magazine. is this meant as something that will just spark fear, or do they believe someone will read the online magazine that's available and copy the behavior? >> absolutely. part of it is fear. really it's primary audiences.

enit has inspired people in the united states. they are looking at the websites. it's very troubling. so the intense community is looking at ways to shut down the sites. they're successful sometimes. >> michael sheehan, thank you very much. a lot of people intrigued by this story. and it's been four days since dozens of college students got sick at a big party in washington. police don't know what happened and why were most of those sickened girls? plus, brett favre talked to reporters for 20 minutes after losing to the new york jets, but he did not say anything about the alleged text messages that reports say he sent to a sideline reporter with more of what brett is saying now, you're watching msnbc news nation.

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visit yellowbook360.com and go beyond yellow. in today's "news nation", the wall stree"wall street jour reports banks on record to pay. it will be the second straight year wall street sets the record. last year wall street earning $139 billion sent out. this year's record could, despite financial reform, pass what we saw in july, that was designated to curb compensation. in july it was designed to curb these compensations. even though the vikings lost to the jets monday night, it's a historic game for brett favre.

500th touchdown pass he made. favre's on the field achievement may be overshadowed business hi alleged off the field behind that he still refuses to talk to reporters about. after the game he spent most of his time dodging questions about the scandal. >> that's between me and my teammates. apparently not all of them. i said what i had to say. i'm disappointed we lost this football game. i can't say i love to talk about it. >> privately he gave an emotional apology to the teammates saying he was sorry for the distraction. he said he will fully cooperate when he's contacted by the nfl commission. joining ne now, a sports writer, we call our viewers news nation and they have news nation views coming into me. one person saying why are we

obsessed with someone's sex life? is this as simple as someone's sex life? >> oh, would only that this were just a typical kind of athletic scandal story that would just make us want to shower with steel wool afterwards. if this were just something traj nick tragic in the world of vikings nation. >> so what is it? >> it's bigger. >> if it's not just a sex story, what is it? >> jenn sterger, and employee of the new york jets, brett favre, the most highly valued player. brett favre sending photographs of himself on the phone to her. then situations that deal with issues of harassment. issues of jegender in the workplace. issues the nfl already said are issues in the nl. how you treat women. the situations in the locker rooms. these are issues the nfl said

they will police. >> so is the nfl not keeping its end of the bargain there? how long does it take to contact brett favre? you know where he works. he says he's not been contacted by the nfl. >> yeah, he will be contacted by the nfl. the commissioner's office already made this clear. jenn sterger has been contacted to ask if she will speak to the nfl. if she chooses to not go in and say anything, this will go away from the perspective of will brett favre be suspended. from the perspective of his career and legacy, this is huge news in the sports world. you're talking about a situation where an absolute american athletic icon, this could be what he is in effect remembered for.

it's all about age. michael vick and tiger woods, the best thing they have going for them is their youth. they can get back on the the field and remind the country why they fell in love with them in the first place. for brett favre, barry bonds, there's nothing worse than getting hit with this scandal right when your hair starting turns grey. >> always keeping it real. good to see you. >> the state of new hampshire. this story has a lot of people talking. so the state of new hampshire takes a newborn baby away from its parents along with two other siblings. the state says it's because the father has a history of violence. he says it's because he's affiliated with a militia group. libertarians are fired up about it. what does your gut say? plus courtney cox and david arquette call it quits after 11 years, and are not the only ones. ♪ [ man ] i thought our family business would always be boots. until one day, my daughter showed me a designer handbag.

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welcome back. a rescue attempt gone horribly wrong in afghanistan. now the investigation into what happened. and the case of a missing girl turned into a murder investigation. what happened to 10-year-old zara baker? and george clooney heads to washington help hoping to get get help for the people of sudan. general petraeus is ordering an investigation into the death of an aide worker. nato initially reported she was killed by her taliban captors during a rescue attempt friday night. now officials say she may have been killed by the team sent there to rescue her. we are joined live from the pentagon with the latest details. what do you have for us? >> well, shortly after this british aide worker was killed, it was reported by special operation forces that it appeared one of the captors detonated a suicide vest he was wearing, and that was what apparently killed her.

subsequently when the investigation was launched, they found one of the special operations forces was wearing a video camera on top of his helmet. and the video from that appeared to show that one of the special operations through a grenade in her vicinity. so at that point, senior official david petraeus in afghanistan said stop everything. let's launch a complete investigation and figure out exactly how this happened. now british authorities will conduct an autopsy to figure out what did kill her. while the u.s. military tries to sort out the facts about what happened. quickly, years ago when i started in the business, a special operations for you pulled me aside and said if you are taken hostage and you hear a bang or suddenly the door bursts open, hit the floor. do whatever you can to get low

on the ground because when the bullets start flying, even the hostage is in danger. don't know if that's what happened here. the u.s. military in conjunction with the brits will conduct an investigation to find out. >> a lot to be told on that. greatly appreciate it. >> okay. well, the case of a missing 10-year-old girl battling bone cancer in california now turned to a homicide investigation. lisa baker, the stepmom, has confessed to writing a ransom note found at the home where the girl lived. >> this morning police obtained a warrant for lisa baker, for felon obstruction of justice. outside the immediate family, we cannot confirm that anyone has seen her within the last month. >> search dogs reportedly detected the smell of human remains on two cars at the baker home. police are asking witnesses who

may have seen her within the last month to step forward. in washington state, police are trying to figure out what led to a number of students, mostly women, to become violently ill and unconscious. nine students were hospitalized. a female student who attended the party came forward to give her account of the night. >> it was the scariest thing. like having a girl fall limp in my arms. at that point i looked up and there was seriously ten girls laying down. >> kristin welker is in washington with more details. >> reporter: tamron, local police will have a heavy presence on this quiet campus as they try to get to the bottom of what happened. school officials will launch their own investigation. they say even though the party took place off campus, students who attended could be punished. now according to school officials the party happened friday night at a house about 30 miles off campus.

they say it started as a small gathering. about 15 freshmen. but then it quickly swelled to more than 50 people. at about 10:00 that evening some students started vomiting. others fell unconscious. we interviewed one freshman female who says she administered cpr to three of her fellow students. police were eventually called. nine students were take on the the hospital, including six females. those students were all treat and released and expected to be just fine. police suspect someone spiked the students' drinks. they have sent away for toxicology results that could take six to eight weeks. school officials will interview students at the party they say they could face suspension or exposition or alcoholic counseling. they will be looking into the matter. big celebrity breakup to tell you about. the bieber book is out, you've

been waiting. and who is the first to play the lead in a classic film, "back to the future." you won't believe it. let's get the scoop from courtney hazlett. >> first we start with two high profile splits in the celebrity world. david arquette and courtney cox have agreed to a separation. david arquette, who says he wants to get back together with courtney spoke to howard stern about what's going wrong in their marriage of 11 years. >> we go to do "scream 4." >> right. >> and i'm feeling distance, obviously, from my wife. we have not had sex for quite ash at that time, a month or so. since then it's been like four months or so. >> okay, and not to all people who want to get back with their exs or so to be exs, don't go on howard stern and air your dirty

laundry. >> don't air it to the neighbor. >> tell it to your counselor or therapist. he went onto say that he's had sex once or twice with another woman who he's pictured with. that's what started all the rumors and reiterated over and over that he loves courtney and wants to get back together with her. also quickly, christina aguilera and her boyfriend have split as well. here i have in my hands the book all betweens will want. this is catnip for tweens. i see them running. >> a quick passage from the book. it's his memoir. there's a lot of copies of tweets and that thing. one thing he said here, that's me, total sucker for love. that's not a bad thing. what kind of jerk doesn't want to love? everybody wants to love. there's something about the romeo and juliet theme that can't be together because of what other people have to say about it.

life lessons from a young justin bieber. i know, you're looking at this book with disgust. >> no -- i love justin bieber. >> finally. back to the future movie. tamron hall never saw. >> never seen back to the future. >> major part of my childhood. marty mcfly played by michael j. fox was originally going to be played by eric stohl. >> who is? >> who later on starred in mash. they're doing five weeks of this with him before deciding he didn't have the right comedic timing for the film. that's why they brought in michael j. fox. we learned this about the 21st anniversary dvd. i love stories like that. for the record, i've seen clips of the movie. and it's great. >> one of the most important movies of the '80s. >> when this came out, our whole

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the nine suspects in a vicious anti-gay attack on three men in new york city has been caught. police arrested rudy vargas after his attorneys told him he would surrender. earlier this month nine members of a gain called the latin king gooni

goonies tortured one of their fellow gang members. one high school in ohio is dealing with this. it's just unimaginable. in the past four years, four students whose families say they were relessly harassed have all killed themselves. one is this 16-year-old. her sister says the girls that t tormented her were so horrible they showed up at her funeral and laughed at her while she was in her casket. joining me now, her sister susanna along with jan, whose son also killed himself after she was bullied at the high school. attorney ken myers represents both. they are suing the school district. thank you for joining me under these circumstances. susanna, i want to start with you. cannot imagine what your family is going through right now, trying to understand what happened to your sister and now dealing with this lawsuit. what is your message? why take action legally? >> the message is i don't want

any other kids to go through the same thing as my sister went through. i don't want any other family to go through the same thing as my family went through. the bullying needs to stop. we need to help other kids out there. >> january, we often find support from others and that gives us, i guess the bravery, the courage to take the next step. you're sitting alongside someone who understands what you're going through because of what happened with your son. what was his life like at school? >> i would describe it as a living hell. very much like a terrorist victim. he was bullied nonstop. he was called names. it was just awful. what was reported to us as his funeral, no one should have to go through. >> and, you have some people who will see this, and, of course, the hearts will go out to these families, but wonder is it because of bullying? maybe there was another issue in the lives of these young people

that caused them to take their own lives? how do we know it's because of the bullying that happened at the school? >> well, in both of these cases there's information. in one case, she left that indicated it was the relentless bullying that pushed her over the edge. in eric's case, the day he died one of the bullies said to him in class, why don't you go home and shoot yourself. no one would know you're gone anyway. a couple hours later he did that. there's strong causal relationships between the bullying and theired ises. >> the school superintendent released a statement i have to read. throughout the schools, the seriousness of bullying is highlighted in class meetings, rules reviews, parent nights. the district will work to make the men store schools as safe as possible for all the kids. they also have the number of incidents in the school of 2008

to 2009. what more can they do if all these things are in place? >> well, these are all things that have occurred since most of these deaths. they've occurred in the last year or so. so i applaud them for putting some measures in place. it's a little too little, it's a little too late. even though they have the policies in place, the teachers and administrators have to enforce them. if they have policies where they bring kids in and teach them about being nice and they have assemblies, but they don't enforce it being have the teachers jump on the kids as soon as they see the bullying, then all the lessons are gone. if they get severe enough, teachers have to have an absolute zero tolerance policy. >> thank you for talking with us. i know the pain that still lingers in your hearts. we greatly appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. the state of new hampshire takes a newborn baby away from the parents.

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time for the news nation gut check. just 16 hours after giving birth to a baby girl, a new hampshire woman had her newborn taken away by authorities. the reason, allegations of child abuse and domestic violence by jonathan iris, the child's father. but iris says the baby was seized because of his affiliation with an organization that vowed to disobey government orders if the group deems them unconstitutional. a reporter joins us on the phone from new hampshire. thank you for making time us here. >> sure, good afternoon. >> is there any proof to his claim? you have a lot of people online

supporting him and feel he's a victim here, that the government is targeting him because he's an oath keeper. >> well, i don't know if proof of the word targeting is right. the affidavit that the state provided to support the seizure of the newborn, in addition to numerous allegations of child abuse and domestic violence, it mentions his association with the oath keepers. that one sentence has triggered the outrage from a lot of folks. both members of the oath keepers, associated with the oath keepers, or folks who are of the mind set that feel there's a wider government overreach. especially in matters of family disputes. >> last there been an explanation why the sentence oath keepers was in the affidavit? what was the reason for mentioning it? >> caller: there hasn't. folks with the state children family services i've spoken to,

in new hampshire. all family domestic matters are private and confidential account. the only reason we know about this is because he and the child's mother have been very public and have shown reporters and others the documents one thing state officials i've spoken to have emphasized that people's associations and political beliefs are not a reason for seizing a child. have no impact in child neglect cases. but nobody has addressed specifically why there was a mention of his association and affiliation. i don't think he's a member, but he's been active in organizing it. >> also, he has a history of criminal offenses, a long history. that's part of why this investigation started in the first place. we appreciate you coming on and talking with us.

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