deal! my money. my choice. my meineke. a couple of things developing this hour. want to get you updated here. first the official word from chile. not today or tomorrow but possibly monday at the earliest. that is the optimistic time line to begin hauling out those 33 miners trapped 2,000 feet below ground since early august. now, we re told this rescue drill is close, could maybe reach these guys by tomorrow. it s making a huge hole wide enough for a pipe and this rescue capsule. there it is. once everything is in place it will take 24 to 36 hours to get all of these men to the surface. also today personnel changes at the white house. jim jones announcing today he s going to step down as national security adviser. a number of the number of people actually surprised by this is zero.
costume, full character. turns out one of the students at the school, 9-year-old girl, hey, she decides to write a letter. she writes a letter to the actor asking for help staging a just-for-fun mutiny against her teachers. and, surprise he actually showed up! last minute. he was in south london filming this movie. good to see a hollywood big shot not taking himself so seriously doing a little something for his biggest fans. very cute. so the rescue drill in chile is about 120 feet away from the trapped miners, relatives, they ve been waiting for weeks, months, trying for the next step. what awaits the miners when they reach the top. that s the next hour. that s after a political check of the political ticker. wolf blitzer has an interesting comment from sarah palin about her presidential prospects. hmm. be right back. i realized i needed an aarp. medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65,
now. rescuers are drilling their way closer to those 33 trapped chilean miners. the country s mining minister says a rescue drill should get to them within 24 hours but it may still take several days before they re pulled to safety. we don t know. we re going to be following this. but the miners have been trapped 2300 feet below the ground since early august. can you imagine? president barack obama is among the voices calling for the release of the latest nobel peace prize lawyerate liu xiaobo. china s foreign ministry called the decision by the nobel commission today blasphemy. seven people are now dead from that toxic sludge disaster in hungary. it all started monday when an aluminum plant reservoir burst sending this stuff into nearby villages and flooding it with that goop. it s reached the danube river
it open and closed for people to come in and out. and there s nothing between that between the lions and the kids and the moms. it s mainly moms and kids in the audience. the lion trainer underwent emergency surgery. he is said to be this morning in stable condition. wow. some amazing video, though, disturbing to see. a nighttime explosion at a magnesium plant in venice, illinois. here are the pictures. people in the surrounding communities were asked to leave their homes for a couple of hours. no reports of any injuries. they re still looking into what caused that blast. a rescue drill is within 160 meters of the miners now. officials believe they may be able to bring the miners up as early as next week. the men have been trapped more than 2,000 feet beneath the surface for 61 days now. we re live in chile with a report on the very latest coming up in our next hour this morning. well, on the cnn security watch, federal officials launching a security surge on
lt. william whales. shepard: prince william graduating from the search and rescue program. the 28-year-old spent seven months in training. the prince today also performing a rescue drill with an instructor. he is set to fly c king helicopters with the unit west of london. we alanca. three containers filled with explosives detonating. that blast killing 25 people and flattening the station. government officials call it an accident. a spokesman says the military stored the explosives at the station for safety reasons and they were meant for road construction. thailand. hundreds of so-called red shirt protesters gathering at prisons in bangkok to show their support for jailed colleagues. you may remember this group claims the government was illegitimate. dozens of people died before the army shut down the demonstrations. colombia. that parrot just said run, run,