democrats from the voting polls. also we ll have that in the battleground. you won t believe what s going on with christine o donnell right now. she s turning a sleazy blog posting about her sex life against her opponent. that s coming up in the playbook. well, we re four days away from the election, but tonight we begin with breaking news about terrorism. two packages filled with explosive material were found hed for the united states on airplanes today. the packages originated in yemen, addressed to jewish organizations in chicago. one package was discovered in dubai and the other at an airport in britain. just a short time ago president obama confirmed the material was explosive. last night and earlier today our intelligence and law enforcement professionals working with our friends and allies identified two suspicious packages bound for the united states, specifically two places of jewish worship in chicago. those packages had been located in dubai and east midl
is the first morning they are all free. they were lifted up, one by one, over the course of one remarkable day, greeted by cheers and hugs and a global sigh of relief. just after midnight, the last man, a rescuer, was pulled to the surface above the san jose mine. it was the final act of an extraordinary, months-long drama. diana alvear was there and joins us now. good morning, diana. reporter: vinita and rob, good morning. after the planning and the preparation and the precautions and the test runs, it s amazing to be able to say that all 33 of those miners are finally free after more than 2 months underground. less than 24 hours after it started, the rescue was complete. meticulously planned and precisely executed. we have experienced a night that we will never forget. full of emotion. full of joy. reporter: it was tuesday, just after midnight local time, that the first miner, florencio avalos, emerged. he embraced his wife and son. but avalos would have to wait
and their high temperatures ies later today. for the first time we are getting a sense of what it was like as emergency crews responded to the san bruno pipeline explosion. third alarm. multiple houses, we re trying to get hose. we have possibly several blocks on fire at this time. call for fourth alarm to this. it appears that we have a plane down in a neighborhood. multiple structures on fire and we have a fireball still coming out. we re going to need to do a law enforcement alert. we re going to need every pd officer we can to assist with evacuations. hours later everyone learned it was a pipeline explosion. those first responders on the scene had no idea what they were up against. anne makovec is in san bruno where some of them talked about the ordeal and where the governor will take a tour. anne, good morning. reporter: the governor is slade to be here at 2:45 this afternoon. lieutenant governor abel maldonado had been filling in for him since he was on a trip t
up in a few minutes. in the meantime senator chris koonce is a member of the budget committee and he joins me to talk about what s taking place in washington, d.c. sir, it s good to see you. you re relatively new to life on the hill so how surprised that house republicans and your leadership for that matter can t figure this one out. i m frustrated and embarvááq frankly by where we are right now in the united states congress as we move, i think, towards shutting down the federal government this evening. if we can t come to some agreement on the deficit reductions and on having a clean bill, a bill that really just focuses on making progress on reducing the deficit. sir, i want to interrupt you for one second because senator reid has started to address that. let s listen back in. over their lives they ll be in need of other things, like a cholesterol check, maybe their blood pressure screened, tests that are less serious but just important to a woman s health. they should be ab