gary tuchman is with them.ing for us all day long. >> they were waiting to get on their connecting flight to los angeles. about four hours and change to atlanta. we'll be covering their special journey throughout the day. >> of course, you can catch "cnn heros" on thanksgiving night. nearly 2 million of you voted. soon, we'll find out who the next cnn hero is. tunes on thanksgiving, as anderson cooper hosts "cnn heroes." >>> to politics, the people have written, lisa murkowski says she's going to back to washington. last night she declared victory over joe miller. although it's not official yet, it looks like murkowski will be the first successful write-in candidate for senator since 1954 when thurmond was able to do it. >> i want to thank all alaskans for helps us make history. it is truly, truly, truly remarkable. and we will look back on this. we will look back on this and say what a race this has been. what a summer this was. and now, where we are today. ted's motto was to hell with politics, let's just do

gary tuchman who covered their harrowing rescue joins us from l.a. ou have been watching. were you dancing with the dancers here? >> reporter: i was dancing in the studio in los angeles, don. i hope you invite me back in atlanta. that is a perfect place for dances. >> you have been traveling with these guys when they got off the plane. do people treat them like stars? >> reporter: with all due respect to your previous guest, the ultimate dramatic reality show was last month when the miners came out of the mine. they are huge celebrities. they have been touring southern california. we went on a double decker bus to tour hollywood. they started singing and dancing on the bus. we were outside grauman's chinese theater. we were five minutes away from cher. all the paparazzi was there for cher but looked up on the bus and said those look like the chill kbliners. they didn't know what to do, point toward cher, point toward the miners. >> i know you are a serious news guy but in hollywood it is the paps. not the paparazzi. >> reporter: oh. i have to get the

gary tuchman, cnn, laredo, texas. >>> fred burton is the vice president of counterterrorism.f a counterterrorism agent." thank you for joining us, sir. >> good evening. >> good evening. fred, la barbie as you heard on the report, he's the only american citizen known to have moved so high in the command structure of the mexican cartels. why do you think that's the first time that happened? what made him special? >> it's truly an amazing story. this is a kid that appeared to have everything going for him in laredo. he has successful siblings and i think things went bad for him after this car crash and hanging out with the wrong crowd. the next thing you know he starts dealing drugs in laredo and it's unbelievable turn of events with him. able to navigate his way through the mexican cartel system. >> one of the things gary alluded to, fred, in this report was the violence that la barbie was engaged in it sounded awful. some of what i was reading. he was a real force to be reckoned with. what did you make of that? >> it's truly a brutal world they're living with. you rule by fear

arrived yesterday afternoon with our own gary tuchman and met l.a.'s mayor. the taping of cnn "heroes." it's an all-star tribute airing on thanksgiving night. >>> 4 million unemployed americans in jeopardy of losing the jobless benefits now. >> the house expected to take up the matter of censuring new york congressman charlie rangel after the holiday. candy crowley with us from washington this morning. good to see you, candy. so the panel voted 9-1 to censure charlie rangel. if he is, it is the first time since the early 1980s. i mean, these are really some tough times for him. >> they really are. and it -- tough to watch, i have to tell you. he was at times defiant, going into this saying, you know, the process is flawed. in the end, he talked about the things that he had done both in his military service which was heroic as well as for his constituents. he is 80 years old. this is tough to watch. nonetheless, it was pretty overwhelming from the democratic and republican colleagues who found these ethics violations, and now, the next step is really even more

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gary tuchman live in los angeles, he has been following the process. tell us about this, why these miners are involved with heros and how they're doing. i don't know if we've got gary there. have we got you, gary? okay. we do not appear to have gary on the phone. gary is with the miners -- hold on. am i hearing gary? gary, is that you? >> can you hear me? what an amazing, magnificent day this is. i'm on the bus right now with the miners and we're navigating the freeway, a little easier than usual because they have a police escort, just like a pli campaign. police are closing off the exits and the bus is zooming past all the traffic as we're heading to their hotel, but they're just exalted. they're tired as heck because they flew for nine hours and another four to come here to los angeles so they could attend heros, the all-star tribute that we're very proud of. we love that they're coming because their perseverance is heroic, the 33 miners and five rescuers are true heros, going into the mine to rescue them. they've never been out of chile in their life