also legalizing and taxing marijuana. a controversial proposal to show how big an economic impact. could one single cannabis operation have? we ll have that answer. it may surprise you. coming up. also we re just 24 days until election day. politicians are attacking their rivals and ad that some say are crossing the line here. let s get back to the story from chile. celebrations this morning. it has finally happened. not that they ve been rescued, but a drill has broken through to where the 33 miners are trapped. they re about a half mile underground. that s about 2,300 feet. patrick has been at the mine during this entire situation. pretty much since it happened back in early august. patrick joins me now. patrick, like i said, we can get into the details of how the rescue is going to go. but you ve been there when it s been different moods and emotions. what was the mood and emotion just a few hours ago? . reporter: there have been so many swings back and forth. i ve ne
coming up, we will tell you what to expect from this big winter storm. we will have live team coverage. a local teacher might have stopped a classroom tragedy. we will have the latest at the shooting at northern virginia community college. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. good morning, washington. 6:00. i m doug mcelway. and i m alison starling. good morning, everybody. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. we do have some school delays and closings to tell you about. we will read through the list. we have school closings at the bottom and top of your screen. the top. it s all of the closings in alphabetical order. the bottom despite its of the top 12 school districts along with the federal government. we will check in with lisa baden in just a second. let s start with brian van de graaff. we re very lucky this is not snow. we have several inches of rain. th