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>> good evening, i'm wolf blitzer filling in for piers. feverish efforts under way now to stop what everyone in washington deeply fears, a shutdown of the united states government. here with the latest, our senior congressional correspondent dana bash. we're seeing some members of the senate there speaking on the senate floor, dana, right now. kay bailey hutchison, the republican senator from texas, she is speaking, reading letters from some of her constituents. this is going down to the wire. what is the very latest, dana? >> reporter: the very latest, wolf, is i'm actually standing here, joh...

Sheesh. this is just a great opportunity for me to have a conversation with you, and i don't want this to be too formal. what i want to do is have a chance to listen to you and, also, answer your questions. what we've tried to do whenever we are in a setting like this is to talk about the things that folks are going through day-to-day because, look, i'll be honest with you, sometimes when you're in washington, you get caught up with the particular legislative battles or, you know, the media spin on certain issues, and sometimes you lose touch in terms of what folks are talking about around the...

Have been scorched by the flames so far. the newest blaze, the crown fire, is only 20% contained and has burned some 13,000 acres alone mandatory evacuation orders from overnight have been lifted but a voluntary evacuation remains in effect. already some 300 homes have been evacuated. human rights advocates are reading letters purported to be from the iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death. the woman, 3-year-old mother of 2, was set to be stoned to death for committing adultery. members of the international committee against executions held a news conference friday from a letter from ...

Shy, tender person. >> mike: you don't even think of fidel castro as being shy. but you obviously at the same time knowing this man would come to your house, there were policious saw in cuba, how did you deal with some of the things, the shortages? did you come to a place you say hey, this isn't working out real well? >> one of my first reading letters that people handed me to give it to him. so i started reading real tragedies since i was a small child. that's the first experience i had with the other side of the story in cuba. the letters that people gave me for me to give it to him. and i r...

Moment for the family members, 9 wives and children, the sisters and the brothers and the parents of those miners who perished. the president has been reading letters from americans across the country. one he is expected to quote saying that americans should never forget that miners keep america's lights on. one mother had a simple plea, don't let this happen again. it has raised questions about mine safety. investigations are to come, but this sunday afternoon, time to remember those that went down the shaft, those that go where there is no light to mine the coal that keeps the country hummin...