captive was a very remote place, basically a jungle. and see, i was praying to god to bring me home safely to my family. and look at these guys, they risked their lives to save mine and i am very thankful. the country s justice minister has issued an arrest warrant for colombian man believed to be behind that alleged kidnapping. on his way to tonight s presidential debate, herman cain made a stop in his hometown of atlanta today. he avoided any references to the sexual harassment allegations against him and tried to get back into campaign mode. there s a political class in washington, d.c., and then you have we, the people out here. they believe they know better what we need than we do, but the american people are saying we re tired of them being the political class, and they treat the american people like the underclass, not when herman cain is president. the candidate also took a jab at president barack obama. cain says the president has an arrogant disregard for th
you. then one after another it would go on and on for hours i would fill note books. once i got them talking they remembered a tremendous amount. but it was really then i would ask them for letters and documents. i became obsessed. do you feel like it s lift ad burden to have written all this down to discover, to reach out to family members in a way that your reporter instincts had you do? traditionally people say to understand it s to forgive. i point out sometimes have to forgive before you can understand. there was a certain amount of forgiveness that had to take place before i embarked on this journey. my long trip home. you came up with this title. it has a couple of meanings. the first meaning i took a lot of trips as a young child. there were a lot of new homes where i didn t know anybody or what await immediate. the second meaning, obviously, is that the reporting of this book and the writing of this book was a long trip. a journalistic and emotional trip. t
going to make this a make or break. we saw it on the faa when they shut down the federal aviation administration, we re seeing it now on this debate about fema, we should be able to have a legitimate debate about emergency aid. why link that into a government shutdown or not. i ll give the senate democratic leader most of the credit. he manufactured a crisis all week. about disaster when there s no crisis. everybody knows we re going to pay for every single penny of disaster aid that the president declares. u.s. lawmakers are supposed to be in recess this week, but senate majority leader harry reid has ordered a monday session for a possible vote on a compromised package. and with more assertive vigor, president barack obama is talking job creation. he s taking his pitch on the road. this hour he ll be in seattle, washington. last night, he delivered his message in the nation s capital to the congressional black caucus. this was his straight talk message and challenge.
that plane to go down, obviously the focus is on the tail of that aircraft, almost immediately after the crash, photographic evidence emerged that a piece of that tail came off during mid-flight and that s something that ntsb confirmed during their news conferences and when crews went to take a look at the debris field, they actually found a chunk of the airplane and ntsb officials talked about that yesterday. take a look. it just happened so fast, a split-second event. you think, is this it? am i going to die? reporter: obviously, that was not the right sound but we want to talk to you a little bit about the victims. we got an update of the 69 people who were taken to the hospital, and treated for injuries, 31 patients remain in local hospitals and nine patients in critical condition. and, of course, we know that nine people died as well. i know that you have more information on that, fred. that is incredible. that s right. we know that number is at nine right now, but