written. senator lisa murkowski goes back to washington and last night she claimed victory over tea-party backed joe miller. although it s not official yet, it looks like murkowski will be the first successful write-in for senator since 1954. that s more than four years before alaska became a state. they told us that this could not be done. and we all heard it. you heard kevin say, you know, he s the guy that we re putting in charge, for crying out loud, an he s not 100% sure. what a wild, wild thing that we were doing. what a chance. what a risk. but for the right thing. to hell with politics, do what s right for alaska. tonight, though, i want us to celebrate i want its to be happy. i want us to be joyful. because against all odds, we, as alaskans, together, made history. you made history. thank you. well, murkowski s victory speech aside, miller who beat murkowski in the republican primary is not giving up, saying, quote, after you all the absentee ballots are in a
ohio is telling us they have spoken with stephanie spring s son and he says police have found three bodies. we re going to go to that as soon as we get that of course during the show. we ll take that live. also i want to let our viewers know we re expecting harry reid to make comments any moment, step before that podium there on capitol hill. he will be just coming out of a meeting with some democrats and as you know, this lame duck session has a couple of major items on the to do list, primarily what to do with those bush tax cuts that expire at the end of this year. also another developing story unfoldg at this hour as we enter the last hour of the trading day, general motors has been the headline of the day with their initial public offering, the company is literally coming back from the brink of failure since that government bailout about 17 months ago and today with an opening ipo of 35 bucks a share, another payback to uncle sam beginnings and as soon as those markets c
over the next 24 hours, a real life drama unfolded, so many incredible moments. here s tom foreman. reporter: mario sepulveda rose out of the earth, hugged his wife, then embraced his whole country. chi-le! chi-chi-chi-! le-le-le! los mineros de chile! reporter: i was with god and the devil, he said. god won. the long night ended for the youngest miner, jimmy sanchez, 19. for the only foreigner, bolivian carlos mamani. and for jose ojeda who wrote the note that told everyone, we re alive. at 63, mario gomez, the oldest, was the first freed in the new
involving people, technology and medical expertise from around the world. [ applause ] down below it might have turned into lord of the flies chaos and instead became the 33-man democracy with miners organizing, choosing leaders, deciding on the honor of who would be the last to leave. while up above the race to save them was on and so was the countdown to rescue. in the hour ahead we ll take you inside that race, moment by moment. the challenges and setbacks. how they were overcome and the mechanical and human ballet that all made it possible, all the elements that led first to images of miners safe underground and then ultimately to the incredible sight of those men emerging one by one from weeks of darkness. we re going to start at the beginning with tom foreman. reporter: august 5th, 2:00 in the afternoon. 2,300 feet underground, a shaft collapses in the san jose copper and gold mine. 33 miners are somewhere behind the rubble. their condition unknown. the chilean presid
after the mine in chile s desert caved in. from there on out, though, a remarkable human effort involving people, technology, and medical expertise from around the world. down below, what might have turned into lord of the flies chaos instead became the 33-men democracy with miners organizing, choosing leaders, deciding on the honor of who would be the last to leave. while up above the race to save them was on, and so was the countdown to rescue. in the hour ahead we ll take you inside that race, moment by moment, the challenges and setbacks, how they were overcome, the mechanical and human ballet that made it possible. all the elements that led first to images of miners safe underground and ultimately to the incredible sight of those men emerging one by one from weeks of darkness. we ll start at the beginning with tom foreman. reporter: august 5th, 2:00 in the afternoon. 2,300 feet underground, a shaft collapses in the san jose copper and gold mine. 33 miners are somewhe