november mid-term election. instead, stupak is stepping down. stupak is one of 24 democrats retiring this year. 19 from the house. davis, barry, snyder, watson, els worth, moore, delahunt, stupak, kennedy, gordon, tanner, baird, massa, wexler, abercrombie, and five from the senate. dodd, dorgan, botch, kaufmann. the climate for democrats seems to have been a toxic one. the party is now polling at l-t question. what explains the exodus of leading democrats like senator dodd? is this a case of rats leaving a sinking ship? well, dodd s got a particular problem. he really could have lost that seat for the democratic party, john, but overall, i don t think there s too many democrats retiring, but there is a hellish problem in the democratic party. the president is down to his lowest level. health care reform has gone down ever sips it passed. the polls show the democratic party running for congress at a lower level by four points than it was in 1994 when they got wiped out and l
will dana bash, chasing it down for you today. we appreciate you hopping on the line and we ll be talking to you throughout the day. thank you very much, we look forward to hearing from bob stupak as dana said. funerals will be held today for four of the 25 miners killed monday in the western virginia coal mine. meantime, there s been another setback in the attempts to find four miners who are still unaccounted for. the teams reached one of two rescue chambers overnight and found it had not been deployed. before they could check the other chamber, smoke forced them from the mine. workers are now trying to get a camera down there to determine if that second chamber has been used. word on that expected some time around noon. so maybe the next couple of hours. the chambers hold enough oxygen for 15 miners to survive 96 hours. west virginia s governors there is a quote, sliver of hope, the missing miners are in the one remaining chamber. you can only imagine how this week has been for
put forward some positions that you want to run on and you can t be an opposition movement. dana, good stuff. appreciate it. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash for us. bob stupak has represented the commission since 1993. his, as dana just mentioned, is the second largest district east of the mississippi and includes the upper peninsula of michigan and the northern part of the peninsula. the district is more than 93% white and 2% american indian and eskimo, and about 1.4% african-american. once again, our big story today, justice john paul stevens announces his retirement and bart stupak will say he is not seeking re-election. next hour we re covering the stories with the best political team on television right here in team on television right here in the cnn newsroom. ocharging,
was upset by plans by delegates to attack israel over their perceived nuclear program. also people in kyrgyzstan s capital remembering those who died in this week s bloody uprising against the government. 75 people died in clashes with army troops and the protests forced the president out of his palace, but he says he is still in charge. opposition leaders say no. what they re saying yes, however to the u.s. military, allowing troops to stay on a key air base in the country. we re still seeing the fallout of a health care reform legislation passing and it may have claimed the first casualty, just a few minutes we 11ed that bob stupak is retiring. he was heckled as baby killer during the empassioned debate in the house. the resignation will ripple far from capitol hill to tea party rallies and our congressional correspondent dana bash has been digging up the details from here and we re expecting more details from him in a little bit, but
down the anger from some on the right. it s a big story, going to be developing all day long. it is a good thing we have t.j. holms down in atlanta. he is going to take it up next for us. he is in the cnn newsroom. it is actually good that i have dana bash. she is coming up in just a moment, stand big on the phone talking about what you guys are speaking of. thank you both. i am t.j. holms sitting in today for kyra phillips. over the next couple of hours, going to be hitting on a lot of points, including the breaking news about bart stupak. going to be going back to the mine site in west virginia. four miners still down there somewhere. still unaccounted for. rescuers now have had another setback. they have had to retreat for their own safety. also, a story a lot of people talking about yesterday. tiger woods. what he did yesterday was really reminded everybody why he got famous in the first place. long before he was ever emfa miss by playing golf and playing it well. h