[Brooke Baldwin, Cnn Anchor:] Want to remind you we will get another political update in half-an-hour. And you can always get the latest news. Hop online at CNNPolitics.com or on Twitter. The Twitter handle is @PoliticalTicker. And with that, here we go, top of the hour. I want to welcome the women, the men watching us right now on American Forces Network all around the world. We're going to hit you fast this hour. See if you can keep up with me. Let's go. We are just now getting details from a federal courthouse in California where a judge today ordered that the U.S. military stop enforcing the so-called don't ask, don't tell policy regarding openly gay men and women. So, that means any investigation or possibly tending disciplinary action against a service member against the policy now on hold. This is the same judge, mind you, who ruled last month that don't ask, don't tell violated military members' 5th Amendment. The government is expected to appeal. Of course, we're watching for developments on that today. To Fort Hood, Texas, now, where the Army psychiatrist accused of gunning down those 13 people there last November, he showed up in a courtroom, but briefly. The hearing for Nidal Hasan didn't last too long. It's been delayed for tomorrow. That is when the investigating officer in charge will consider the defense request to move the hearing to next month. The hearing will decide if Hasan is court- martialed. Hasan was shot and paralyzed during that shooting rampage. And listen to what an NPR reporter saw at that hearing today.
[Wade Goodwyn, Npr:] Well, when they wheeled him out, he has to kind of go over a little ramp they have made to get out of the back room into the courtroom. And he grabs on to the sides of his wheelchair when they are moving him. And he's wearing a knit he's wearing fatigues and a knit camp that is pulled down over his ears. Because he's paralyzed, he can't regulate his core body temperature, so he gets cold a lot. And he is strapped his legs are strapped into the wheelchair to keep him from falling out.
[Baldwin:] Moving to this breaking story we have brought you. This is on that investigation of a man's disappearance from a South Texas lake. We have gruesome news. A Mexican investigator involved is dead, decapitated. His head was delivered to the Mexican military in a suitcase. That's according to a Texas lawmaker. Also, some authorities in Mexico say they are pursuing not just one, but two brothers in this case. We told you about this yesterday. But other officials say they don't know anything about that. Tiffany Hartley, that's the man's wife, told police her husband, David, was shot and killed while they were out and about on a lake, which, by the way, straddles the U.S.-Mexican border. And last night, she spoke to our Anderson Cooper about making this trip back to the lake to honor her husband.
[Tiffany Hartley, Widow:] It was hard because I just replayed the whole entire day from the time I left my house to the time that we got there, to the time that we I came home. That whole day was just a remembrance of what happened. And I wanted to honor David and leave flowers for him, especially his favorite color. But still, it didn't it brought some peace but at the same time it didn't bring closure because I don't have him. He's not here with me.
[Baldwin:] Tiffany Hartley is also being told the divers still out there searching for her husband's body. Now the Ukraine, where at least at least 42 people died when this bus and train collided. It happened at a train crossing. Investigators say it looks like the bus driver ignored those warning lights, crossed the tracks, even though the train was coming. Ukraine's president says tomorrow will be a day of mourning for those victims. And a young Afghan woman, here she is, horribly disfigured by her husband now showing the world a brand-new face. Beautiful. This was 19-year-old Bibi Aisha's husband, who cut off her nose and her ears. He did it under the orders of the Taliban. Hard to imagine how she felt. But I'm going to let her tell you. You are going to hear her voice actually the voice of our reporter, Atia Abawi.
[Atia Abawi, Cnn Correspondent:] "When they cut off my nose and ears, I passed out," Aisha says. "In the middle of the night, it felt like there was cold water in my nose. I opened my eyes and I couldn't even see because of all of the blood."
[Baldwin:] So, right now, the U.S. military and a women's group helped save her. And in the picture we showed you earlier, she's wearing her new that's a prosthetic nose. She will now have reconstructive surgery here in the U.S. George Clooney, Wolf was just talking about this, he wants you to know about Sudan. He's headed to the White House. He's talking about a possible political division in the Sudan that he and others believe may lead to more civil war in the troubled nation. Here's what he said, actually, moments ago.
[George Clooney, Actor:] been enslaved and have been sold and have been raped and slaughtered for generations. And they earned the right to vote for their freedom. In 2005, they earned that right. And they believe they have that right come January 9.
[Baldwin:] And talk about a waste of perfectly good toilet paper here. What you're looking at Robert Rizzo's house. Name ring a bell? That's because he's the former city manager of Bell, California. He was the guy who was making about $800,000 a year running the town when most of the other folks were making a whole heck of a lot less. He made bail last week, facing dozens of corruption charges, but it looks like someone already served him some justice. All right, let the debates begin. Here we go, three weeks until election midterms here, candidates squaring off and telling voters who they are cut and why they're cut out for the job. We're going to break that all down for you ahead. And it doesn't get much more dramatic than this. Man, the clock is ticking on this story here. We're all over it, rescue crews getting ready to pull up the first of the 33 trapped miners in Chile. Live pictures, as we are counting down. Folks, this could happen, we could have a freed miner by the end of the night tonight. That's what the ministry of mining is hoping. We're all over this story. Be right back.