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The surface. beautiful story karl penhaul just told us about a woman in texas who has offered to make the wedding dress for his wife. so we are waiting for the rescue of esteban rojas, number 18. we are now past the halfway point in this rescue. what a remarkable thing. by the way, number 19, the next guy who comes after him, pablo rojas, 45 years old, also a carrier pigeon handler, is his cousin. so two cousins rescued back-to-back. that s an exciting day for me to watch this, because we have been involved in this for as long as we have known about it. hey another reason it s exciting to me is i first started at cnn, the first time i was away for a little while. i started here with my first job in the industry. i was an intern back in 1992 at the washington bureau of cnn. and my boss was a driven young man named sam feist. he has been with the company since then, he rejoined him many years later, but sam is now our ....
Let s turn now to politics. 20 days until the election. cnn is hosting the delaware senate debate tonight. wolf blitzer and gloria borger join us from delaware. i know somebody is going to tweet me and say why do you call it new ark, delaware. newark, new jersey. new ark, delaware. we re here on the campus of the university of delaware. behind me, mitchell hall. that s where the debate will be tonight 7:30 p.m. eastern after the situation room. gloria is sheer. it s elf citing. the campus is excited. two good candidates. we ll see what they have to say. christine o donnell and chris coons. a lot of emotion going into this debate. a lot of people want a sense of who these two candidates are. wolf, you re going to have a bit of an issue on your hand in that this is senate debates ....
15 more to go. we ll be on top of that for you every time it happens. this is one of the best things i have ever had the privilege of covering. it is now 20 days until the critical midterm elections. we want to get you updated on the latest news from the campaign trail. cnn political editor mark preston and deputy political editor paul steinhauser both part of the best political team on television. i don t see them. i just see me. much better looking than looking at me. there with the cnn political update. good to see you. hey, ali, how are you? great seeing you too. ali, let s start with michelle obama. we have live pictures if you could take those in atlanta. this is great stuff. michelle obama today. in wisconsin right now campaigning helping out russ feingold running for re-election facing a tough re-election. the first lady starts today like a seven or eight state swing over the next week where she ll be helping out democratic candidates who are fighting in the midterm elect ....
Political director at cnn and part of our daily lives, because cnn has so much to do with politics. and there he is. in all of my time knowing sam, i have never had the honor of being on tv with him and interviewing him. sam is talking about the remarkable contest that we re going to have, this debate that we re going to have in newark, delaware. sam, good to see you. ali, nice to see you. and you pronounced it right. new-arc, delaware. don t say newark around here. this is not just a local delaware issue for voters. this debate this race in delaware has taken on national proportions for a number of reasons. yeah, i mean the debate tonight is between christine o donnell, the republican candidate and chris coons. she has become the most talked about candidate for office in this midterm election, without a doubt. she is the one who came up with the surprising victory last month in the republican nomination fight here in delaware. and this will be their first and ....
To himself as a bearded marxist. he says that media has taken that out of context. so their backgrounds will come up. i m not sure if the candidate also bring it up or the questioners, but it s a big part of the campaign. how tight is the race in delaware right now, sam? the latest polls that came out last week showed that he is ahead in double digits. cnn has a new poll that will be released this afternoon at 5:00 with time magazine and we ll see what new numbers say. so it looks as if he is ahead, although she has surprised people. there aren t that many people who expected christine o donnell to win the republican primary last month. anything can happen. right now, it looks like he s ahead in the polls, at least the ones that came out last week. sam feist, you look as good as you did 19 years ago. ali, you don t have as much hair as 19 years ago. otherwise about the same. good to see you, my friend. sam feist, one of the most important guys here at cnn, our political dir ....