i m don lemon. excitement and cheers in chile. the ordeal for 33 trapped miners may soon be over now that a rescue shaft has reached them. the first could be freed by wednesday. a specially designed cap actual will bring them to the surface. a british aid worker being held hostage has been killed by her captors during a rescue attempt. she was among five people kidnapped late last month. a huge celebration under way in north korea which is celebrating the 65th anniversary of the country s communist workers party. a huge military parade is being billed as the largest in the country s history. ailing leader ill jong il attended along with his son kim jung-un who emerged as his heir country s history. ailing leader ill jong il attended along with his son kim jung-un who emerged as his heir apparent. pakistan is opening the main border for convoys into afghanistan. the crossing was closed after
i m don lemon. excitement and cheers in chile. the ordeal for 33 trapped miners may soon be over now that a rescue shaft has reached them. the first could be freed by wednesday. a specially designed cap actual will bring them to the surface. a british aid worker being held hostage has been killed by her captors during a rescue attempt. she was among five people kidnapped late last month. a huge celebration under way in north korea which is celebrating the 65th anniversary of the country s communist workers party. a huge military parade is being billed as the largest in the country s history. ailing leader ill jong il attended along with his son kim junk unwho emerged as his heir apparent. pakistan is opening the main
they could lose a number of seats and, potentially, lose the house and the senate. so, the democratic party and the president working very hard to minimize that. all right, dan lothian for us following the president in pennsylvania. dan, thank you. be sure to stay with cnn for live coverage of that event in philadelphia. president obama is scheduled to speak at 5:30 eastern time and we will, of course, bring that to you live. in three more days we could see the first of the trapped chilean miners brought to safety. rescuers are aiming for wednesday. karl penhaul is near the town and, karl, what is the latest plan at this point? well, if you can see behind me over my shoulder there, there is the golden copper mine and that is where right now some of the cranes there on site are pushing in and 96 yards of steel tubing into the first part of that rescue shaft. now, they re dog that just to minimize the chance that any
top of that rescue shaft there is a risk of some rock fall lower down, though, he says the good news is that rescue shaft is absolutely solid. so no problems. they ll then have to test a little bit more the rescue capsule, the so-called phoenix capsule and then what they ve got to do can move across some heavy lifting gear, some pulleys over that and want to go show to make sure everything is absolutely right and so he says about a day and a half to put a casing in. he says about two days to put the winches and pulleys in and that takes us to wednesday and that will be the day that the first phoenix capsule goes down and the first miner comes back up, don. all right, cnn s karl penhaul live for us in chile. thank you for that. following a developing story out of washington tate tonight where nearly a dozen young women were hospitalized after overdosing at a party. police are now investigating whether they were targeted for sexual assault.
god. i hope to get out soon. be patient and have faith. we will make it out. we will be happy forever with our family. we will see one another again soon. good-bye, my darling, a kiss. mario gomez and his 32 comrades from fulfilled that promise against all the odds they survived. and soon they ll be coming home. and cnn karl penhaul joins us live from the mine site. the digging is done so why respect rescuers going in there right away? reporter: well, really we heard this a couple of hours ago, in fact, from the mines, and what he says is the rescuers have got to first of all encase the first 100 yards or so of that rescue shaft because at the