0 >> good morning and welcome to "new day," everyone. it's wednesday, december 11th, 6:00 in the east. chris and michaela are off today. i'm lucky enough to be joined by john berman and pamela brown. >> all lucky if you like. >> or i drew the short straw, one of the two. a miracle in the mountains. a family of six surviving two days of subzero temperatures in a rugged nevada range after their jeep overturned. stephanie elam is live in lovelock, nevada this morning. you were there last night during the press conference, laying out how they're doing. what are we learning this morning? >> reporter: i have to tell you, they are calling this a christmas miracle, that this family was found a everyone survived. coming in here today, it's about 8 degrees but that's warm compared to what this family endured. they managed to stick together and stay alive. an incredible finale to a dramatic story of survive. a lovelock, nevada family of six, including four young children were founded alive after being stranded in the rugged terrain of seven troughs range. family, friends and search teams says this rescue is truly a miracle. >> it was a huge relief. i was expecting the worst. >> it was the work of a lot of people in the community. >> that way? >> yes. >> reporter: for two days, search teams and me than 200 volunteers covered 6,000 square miles. by a and land, off-roading through the snow and mud in search of james glanton, his girlfriend and four children, ages 3 to 10. the family set out to play on sunday when their jeep tipped over, slipping and overturning down a ravine. temperatures were plunging to 21 degrees below zero. officials say they did a fabulous job of keeping their kids and mckinty's niece and nephew warm. the 34-year-old father even heated rocks. >> the first thing he did was built a fire. i think that really prevented any serious medical problems for them. >> reporter: police say it was a join the effort that led to the family's rescue tuesday afternoon. a couple of pings from his cell phone led the air patrol to the family. meanwhile, his friend, using binoculars located them while scanning the mountainside. >> he's one hell of a guy, that's for damn sure. he kept them alive and warm. my hats off to them. not a lot of people are capable of that. >> reporter: and the family was brought here to the hospital in pershing county. this is where they are resting, hopefully getting some good sleep. apparently they only had mild hypothermia and dehydration but all in all, everyone is going to be okay. >> so nice to start off with good news. people did not think this was going to end thisway. thank goodness. thank you so much. later this morning, we'll talk with the rescue irwr who l the search efforts. >> they flat out told me they did notxpect to find anyone, maybe ever, let alone alive. >> doesn't turn out this way that often. >> it really is a merkel. on t subject of miracles, compromise in the capital. lawmakers in washington reach a rarebipartisan deal on the budget tuesday. that would avoid another government shutdown. but the question is, will this plan make it through congress? cnn correspondent athena jones joins us live from washington with that. athena, break down this deal for me. what are the main points? >> good morning, john. this wou be a two-year deal. it would avoid another government shutdown, because it would reach a deal before the mid-january expiration of the current deal. it would raise spending to just over $1 trillion, that splits the difference between the smaller budget that house republicans wanted and the bigger budget that senate this deal would not raise taxes. but what it would do is eliminate some of the forced spending cuts, $63 billion in across the board spending cuts. it means it would restore funding to areas like defense, education, infrastructure and medical search. john? >> this is a long, long way from a grand bargain. i guess we could call it the itty-bitty bargain. still, there are people not terribly happy with this deal. >> that's right. we've seen positive words from folks on capitol hill. speaker boehner called it a good people who aren't going to be happy. some democrats aren't going to be happy because the deal does not include an extension of unemployment insurance for all these folks that are out of work. they say that's important to help the people and help keep the consumer engine of the econy going and republicans aren't going to be happy because it restores the spending that was cut and it doesn't deal with issues like entitlement reform, reforming social security and medicare to bring down costs. in fact, senator rubios one of the folks who's come out and says that he opposes this deal because of those issues, restore something of the spending and not dealing with the bigger long-term fiscal issues. not everyone's happy. both these budget chairman, patty murray on the senate side and house republican paul ryan say they'll be pushing this deal, trying to sell it to their colleagues. john in. >> athena jones in washington. plenty of time left for drama in washington. thanks, athena. breaking overnight overseas, violent clashes in the raine. riot police storming independence square in kiev. it was a wild scene. the protests are over the president's alliance with russia and his refusal to deal with the european union. let's get more on this. phil black is live in moscow. look at that video, phil, it's scary. >> yes, indeed, kate. for almost two weeks now, the police have stayed away from independence square where thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands of protesters have been occupying that space. that changed when we saw riot police move in in big numbers, seemingly hundreds of them. the government has said previously they will not use force on peaceful protesters. it seems they're not prepared to lerate those fortifications that were erected by the protesters, clearly designed to keep the police out. we had these two big groups of people coming together, resisting to a point. it didn't escalate to clashes. the protesters tried to resist, slow down the police from clearing the barricades away but didn't stop them, didn't fight back with force. remember, this is all about many people in the ukraine being angry that the government has decided not to sign agreements that would bring ukraine closer to the european union, instead, the government says it's going to fix its relationship with russia. international body, the community are saying with be this needso be settled by negotiation. we've had a strong comment from u.s. sectary of state john kerry overnight, condemning the ukrainian government for sending in force in this way, to tear down the barricades this way. the ukraian government says everyone needs to calm down. they are not going to be using force. back to you, john. >> phil black in moscow. thanks so much. quite a situation there. president obama and first lady michelle obama back on american soil afterttending th memorial for nelson mandela in south africa. air force one touched down just moments ago. the body of nelson mandela lying in state in south africa's capital. thousands lined procession route this morning. this is the beginning of a three-day tribute in the middle of this ten-day period of morning. isha sesay joins us in pretoria where it is quite an emotional scene this morning, isha. >> yes, it is, indeed, john. the body of nelson manda is lying in a covered viewing area just behind . as you said, the mood here sat union buildings are very somber, very sadn this day, very different to what we saw yesterday. this really is the first opportunity for many to view the remains of the former president and it really is bringing home the fact that the beloved madiba is no longer with us. family members and dignitaries among the first to pay their respects to the late president nelson mandela. hundreds of south africans are expected to come here to view the body of the man who freed this country from its brutal apartheid regime. earlier wednesday morning, south africans lined the streets, trying to get a glimpse of the cortez carrying the body of nelson mandela. the whole country has been invited to form a public guard of honor for the former president. his body will leave a military body in pretoria, pass through a procession and on to the union building, the center of government here. this amphitheater where nelson mandela will lie in state has been renamed the nelson mandela amphitheater in the late president's honor. this building already has huge significance in the history of this great man. >> so help me god. >> reporter: it was the scene of nelson mandela's inauguration as president in 1994. the culmination of 27 years of imprisonment and struggle to become the country's first black president. the body of nelson mandela will be moved from here at 5:30 p.m. local time, back to 1 military hospital here in pretoria and will make the journey back here to this venue for the next two days, giving south africans and people from around the world the opportunity to bid their final farewell. kate and john, back to you. >> you really get the sense, isha, that amid these tributes to the president, to nelson mandela, that the country especially johannesburg has come to a halt to honor him. in just shows how important he is to that country. isha, thank you so much. we'll get back to you. let's go over to pamela in for michaela. making news this morning, secretary of state john kerry waging battle with congress to hold off on new sanctions against iran. he spent over two hours on capitol hill ting to convince skeptical lawmakers, he even agreed with them, saying he doesn't trust iran but this is the best chance the u.s. has ever had to negotiate a comprehensive nuclear agreement with tehran. and "the washington post" reports the nsa is secretly using interne cookies to hack people's computers. when internet advertisers place cookies and track consumers browsing habits, the nsa is piggy backing those cookies to hack selected targets. the agency is refusing to comment. th head of the nsa, general keith alexander will be defending the surveillance tactics when he testifies this afrnoon before the senate judiciary committee. president obama's overall approval ratings have rebound a bit. a new cnn poll shows 42% of americans approve while 53% disapprove of the job the president is doing in the white house. last month, the president's approval rating reached new lows and tied his all-time lows in six nationalpolls. leon panetta revealed as an unwiing source behind the controversial oscar nominated film "zero dark thirty." newly declassified documents shows this. through a spokesman panetta said he didn't know boll was in the room. and have you seen this? amazing individual you out of california. marine jeff beamen said the line started rling off the reel. this is why. a young great white shark. he's an experienced shark fish eman, this was a first even for him. he posed for a few shots and then he did set her free. >> my favoriteart about this story, his nickname is fang man. >> his wife was with him? >> yes, that would be my reaction. >> i would be running the other direction. >> you're on your own, honey. have fun. >> they did release the shark. >> yes. >> t fang man turns out to be a nice man. >> 12 minutes after the hour. so much of the country has been dealing with horrendous weather. how will things be today? let's go to meteorologist jennifer grey in the cnn weather center. >> hi, good morning. we saw that system that caused snow yesterday in the northeast. that has pushed out. now we're dealing with mainly lake-effect snow across much of the north. that's going to stick around for the next 24 hours at least. very cold air is starting to sink in across the north. that lake-effect snow will continue and temperatures are feeling very, very cold. as far asnowfall amounts we could see about an inch or so in chago. outside the city, up to 3 inches, 3 to 5 inches in places like grand rapids and then a foot to a foot and a half of snow possible in buffalo before the day is over. wind chill watches and warnings in effect across much of the north. we are seeing those wind chill values at 48 degrees below zero. that's what it feels like in international falls, when you factor in the temperature and wind. this is today a 11:00 this morning and temperatures really aren't going to warm up much. so it is just going to be downright cold. that arctic air continues to push to the east and just as you're putting yousnow shovels away, an icemy mix could possibly return to the northeast as early as this weekend, guys. more heavy snow, rain and maybe an icy mix headed to the northeast in just a matter of days. >> thanks for that, jennifer. >> nothing like an icy mix on the weekends. >> just what we're calling for. coming up next on "new day," campus police say the ddly shooting 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