well following the unrest the leaders have gathered for an emergency meeting of the union of south american nations but as well this president has called on the region to rally defense of korea chavez himself polarizes opinion like few other world leaders. people develop his cross-talk guests discuss what's in store for venezuela under his presidency. about sixty percent of venezuelans basically say they're in agreement with socialism and about half of them are in agreement with child is this idea of socialism of the twenty first century but the other thirty the other half of that sixty percent so about thirty percent of those whelan's kind of bigger notion of socialism in which basically because something like social democracy in europe for if i can go to you i mean the united states constantly and listen western media and you can get from our high government officials to be on the administration. using the words like dictator or strongman or certainly a disparaging term for the venezuelan president but on the other hand the united states has lots of friends in the world that really truly are dict

in the south american nation of ecuador, rescuers restrived the bodies of two of the four miners trappedre by a different tunnel collapse 490 feet underground. their search continues for the two still missing. tonight is about life not death. and to bring us more on the miracle we go back to chile and our adam housely and sitting alongside him, dr. newman. this time i will put gentleman before lady if i may. adam, the joy is some what tempered by anger. the esteban mining company has been sued by 27 at least of the 33 miners. tell me about the reputation of this company, you know, it is different than the reputation of the nation that restrived the miners. >> that has been addressed by a bunch of the miners. as they have been released the one thing they have spoke p about is their anger towards what they felt were improper conditions at the mine. one miner had been trapped in the same mine for a couple of weeks a couple of years ago. they have had problem there's and the company itself if you ask people in the town it is a love/hate relationship. this is a large city in this part of the

four miners trapped underground hundreds of feet cave-in happened friday at a gold mine at a south american nation leaks may have triggered the collapse. >> american businessman held in iran for two years is now a free man according to the man's family. he been accused of passing money to an iranian, tied to an opposition group. he denied it the family says he has diabetes and was in poor health. his lawyer has asked iran to release him on humanitarian grounds. >> president obama continuing his tour of battle ground states. stumping for democrats. today the president campaigned for massachusetts governor patrick who is running for reelection. >> former president clinton campaigning from coast-to-coast for democrats running in the midterm. his stop in los angeles for gubernatorial candidate jerry brown is getting attention. these two were bitter rivals in the 1992 presidential primary. anita vogel has the story. >> reporter: the most popular democrat in the land comes to the west coast to lend star power to fellow democrats facing tough election battles. in some cases, letting bygones be bygones wi

nation's midsection. >>> double disaster. parts of indonesia suffer a deadly duo of natural catastrophes. >>> and amazing amazon. scientists discover hundreds of new species in the south americanainforests. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation including the pick time zone. i'm lynn berry. today, we begin with wild and wicked winds. a savage storm system is barreling east this morning after causing severe winds and damage all across america's heartland yesterday. more than two dozen tornadoes have already been reported in this record-breaking storm. here's nbc's kurt gregory. >> reporter: fall's fury being felt from wisconsin to eastern states. in wisconsin, the national weather service says a funnel was on the ground even before it appeared on radar. the twister ripped a roof off a tractor plant. >> that was a terrible experience. >> reporter: another touched down in central indiana. farm buildings were flattened homes heavily damaged. >> the steel starts rattling. >> reporter: howling winds across the hoosier state knocked down power lines, toppled trees, even semi-trucks. high winds across the grea

he took control of the powerful political party, was elected as national deputy, and became secretary general of the south american regional body. his death will be deeply felt. >> with my wife, we have developed a close and true friendship with the president and her deceased husband, and therefore i am deeply affected at a personal level. >> nestor kirchner was twice taken to hospital in the last year, having bypass surgery just last month. within days, against the advice of his doctors, he was back in action alongside his wife. nestor kirchner dominated argentine politics for more than seven years, first as president and then behind the scenes, as leader of the powerful peronist party and more recently in latin america. his death leaves a huge gap, which will require reassessment by his opponents and successors of the political landscape. bbc news, buenos aires. >> thousands of indonesian villagers are spending a second night in emergency shelters, sent by warnings that the active volcano in central java may erupt again. at least 28 people have died. this just hours after a strong earthquake caused a tsunami whi

. >>> well, coast to coast from north to south, americans are once again deciding on change. which path they want our nationelect to represent their interests in washington and the prevailing sediment, more anxious than angry. "time" magazine's editor ate in homes of hard-working americans, and along the way he talked about their hopes, their dreams and their daily lives. >> the american dream used to be achievable, and i think if the american dream is this unachievable fantasy, whether it is jobs, homes, good future, good education, it is gone poof. >> look at government spending, nobody is watching. >> bush gave the big companies tax cuts, but they are sending all the manufacturing jobs overseas. we are losing our mid class. >> joe klein is joining me now. an incredible trip for you. what's your bigç takeaway? >> my big takeaway is that the politicians who are running for re-election and for election this year, and the president of the united states, are not listening to those folks. they are not talking about the things those people are most concerned about. there are debates in the new york/washington

national politics breaking out of us which is. very important i think a lot of these efforts that you see for latin american countries to come together in new forms of regional south south integration are a direct challenge to the u.s. determinate that they suffered from before and caused many of the politics of the neoliberal policies that grew inequality in the region to be imposed throughout there so the fact that they're standing up to challenge these policies that they're creating their own forms that they're taking on their own initiatives and that internally there's processes of more state involvement in the economy where they can create a system where natural resources and their exploitation the benefits remain within the country where there are systems to redistribute wealth there's programs for the poor that a vaccine lifted thousands if not millions out of poverty these are changes that have already had a direct impact on people's lives and they don't want to change the geo political map in the region ok folks i would have to jump in here after a short break we'll continue our discussion on latin america stay with r.t. . if. you can. discover it's easy.

south american markets especially brazil >>we meet the 1st lady of malaysia, rosmah mansor and get her take on the crucial role education andthe fostering of gifted children can play in the development of their nations. >>you know the university said it's going to cost us 3 million. i said no go ahead, it's worth it. you know? investing in these gifted children. >>and unmanned aerial vehicles are exploring new territory away from their military roots in what could be a massive new market. >>hello and welcome. i'm raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. since it emerged in september that germany grew three times faster than expected in the second quarter, the prospect of a real recovery from recession in europe came a little closer. but while recovery in a select few other cotries looks robust, others in the eu still sit uneasily on large piles of debt. >>reporter: just outside munich lies the campus of semi-conductor maker infineon. it's one of several german exporters currently staging strong recoveries. like many german firms, infineon was hit hard by the recession. >>bauer: i'm in semi-conductors for the last 25 years and a

south orlando. he's only one of five african-americans who own mercedes dealerships in the country and this is one of the best performing in the nationall of this in everybody's eyes is successful, but you can be successful gaining 100 yards in a high school football game. >> reporter: on top of that, he's ceo of boyland auto group, the fourth largest black-owned dealership with 11 stores in six states. growing up near 68th and merrill in chicago's south shore, he was a success story. raised by a single mother, went to o'keefe elementary, south shore high and went on to a college scholarship. >> o'keefe was a great school. south shore was a fantastic high school that prepared, you know, the years i went there for college. >> reporter: he was drafted right out of college to play for the pittsburgh pirates where he was part of the world series team in 1979. when he retired, one of the pirates' owners asked him to sell cars at his dealership. he worked his way up and eventually bought the man out. >> tell me about your house, it's gorgeous. >> reporter: every inch of every wall of this 19,000 square-foot mansion is covered with framed p

picturing the south one of the european nations is busy building bridges with russia i don't see how more so i moved up to today differences behind. that story sort of come first a pakistani born american has been arrested for carrying out surveillance on the washington d.c. metro as part of a suspected terror plot sort of choose to providing support to people he believes al qaeda members who are actually f.b.i. agents u.s. counterterrorism official said there's no indication that was ever in touch with real medicines but still the incident does help stoke food is a so-called homegrown terrorism in the u.s. and as. critics say the f.b.i. may not be fighting terrorism but instead in trapping vulnerable you. may two thousand and nine according to the f.b.i. the four men intended to carry out their plan. for african-american muslims are arrested but you have to say sarah paraded in front of new york news cameras prevented as the faces of homegrown terrorism for the individuals that. use facilities here in the bronx it also takes on a military aircraft. a terrifying plot the f.b.i. claims to have more of the suspects quickly dubbed the new book for our poor illiterate ex convicts with neit

the nation's police chief has now stepped down from his post in the wake of the chaos. but things are still far from stable in this relatively poor south american country of 14 million people. steve harrigan monitoring the situation in ecuador from our south florida newsroom. steve? >> jon, this was a remarkable face-to-face confrontation between the president of ecuador and his own police, police are very angry over proposed cuts in their wages. at one point rafael asked the police if they were brave enough to try to kill him. he even loosened his tie and opened his shirt to show them he wasn't wearing a bullet-proof vest. [sirens] >> tear gas explodes near the president's head. he is shoved and then escapes the mob and holds up inside a hospital. after 12 hours siege, 500 soldiers come to his rescue. under cover of darkness, they form a human shield as gunfire erupts, killing at least one and wounding dozens, including a presidential body guard. back in the presidential palace says there will be no forgiving or forgetting. >> this was a failed attempt at a cou. but they have only made us stronger. >> the u.s. has already expressed public supp

looking down upon american university park and you can see some of the individual trees there are showing some nice color. right now 58 at national airport and the wind is gentle out of the south. runners are loving that, too. and right now radar. no precipitati arounthe region and we have temperatures that are beginning to climb a little bit but right now still in the 50s and look at the color. we've had some nice color showing up in the mountains of western maryland and west virginia. now peak color there. it is muted because of the dryness we've had and the droughthat we've had earlier in the fall. and it's past peak in nohern new england but peak colors across much of pennsylvania now all the way down to southwestern virginia. temperatures are in the 50s and it will begin to climb into the mid-70s by midafternoon even with the high clouds ming in. it's cooler in the mountains in the 40s ere and they may hit the low 60s for highs later on. eastern shore mere 60 degrees and over the last 12 hours this southwesterly flow aloft and at the surface bringing in the warmth as well as bringing in a few clouds, a few sprinkles in southwestern pennsylvania will stay to our north toda

south american markets especially brazil >>we meet the 1st lady of malaysia, rosmah mansor and get her take on the crucial role education andthe fostering of gifted children can play in the development of their nations. >>you know the university said it's going to cost us 3 million. i said no go ahead, it's worth it. you know? investing in these gifted children. >>and unmanned aerial vehicles are exploring new territory away from their military roots in what could be a massive new market. >>hello and welcome. i'm raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. since it emerged in september that germany grew three times faster than expected in the second quarter, the prospect of a real recovery from recession in europe came a little closer. but while recovery in a select few other countries looks robust, others in the eu still sit uneasily on large piles of debt. >>reporter: just outside munich lies the campus of semi-conductor maker infineon. it's one of several german exporters currently staging strong recoveries. like many german firms, infineon was hit hard by the recession. >>bauer: i'm in semi-conductors for the last 25 years and

national borders. >>> a lot of u.s. companies have shipped their jobs overseas and finding lower wages, fewer taxes in places like china, south korea. should americansopportunity focus their search across the world? joining us to zhaus is ali velshi and in london, our own richard request. this will be a lively discuss. ali, you have a 14-year-old, and you are telling them to learn mandarin. >> i'm telling my stepkids to learn mandarin. people say, here, meet my kid, and i say, are you learning mandarin. i love that tom brokaw is saying it because he is the epitome of american pride. the center of gravity is shifting east. major corporations are finding their ceos from the ranks of people who worked in india or china or russia. i spoke to the head of a major recruitment firm what would you tell someone who wants to earn over $250,000 in their career? he said overseas internships. that's the single determineant. >> are you seeing our grads coming over and trying to get internships and infiltrating your country? >> every single day i get e-mails from journalism students in the units who want to come and intern here in cnn in london and the same from al

americans that allow our children to inherit, a life better than our own. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: chairman michael steele is here a national democratic committee chairman, he was campaigning for congress for south florida who is the democratic candidate for the florida race. let's take a look at couple clear politics average. in the polls right now, rubio showing a 11-point lead over charlie crist with a 23-point lead over the other opponent. in the governor's race, he is not here tonight. but that is neck and neck, it's a dead heat. it's perhaps the closest race right now. having a one-point lead over the democrat. he is the chief financial officer for the state of florida and within the margin of error and basically hanging high for the past several weeks. >> gregg: phil keating with michael steele and sarah palin live in orlando. thanks very much. by the way, we are monitoring both of these events as they are happening. the president in minneapolis, we'll go back to him as he a takes the stage and we'll listen more to the republican event now underway in florida. >> julie: only whistleblower wikileeks, leaks go 400,000 pages concerning the war in iraq and it suggests far more iraqis died sin

american voters to impact the outcome of elections. in 1998, the gap between the black and white turnout in the midterms shrunk from 10.2%-3.7% nationally, and in the southt shrunk from 8.4%-0.3%, so it essentially there was no gap between black and white turnout in 1998. 50 years of history was suspended and the democrats picked up seats in the sixth year of a presidency. usually in the sixth year, members of his party loses seats in the house of representatives. the democrats also won a lot of other elections that year, including a lot of governorships. it was a very good year for the democrats, in large part because of that large black turnout in 1998. subsequent to that comminuted gingrich was gone very shortly thereafter. -- subsequent to that, new gingrich was gone a very shortly thereafter. 1996, 1998, plus 12 is -- 1986, 1998, plus 12 is 2010. there are many situations now where black voters could make the difference. there are districts that are competitive and where there is a significant black vote. black turnout in those districts could make the difference between the democrats holding those seats or losing those seats. 15 of those seats are