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♪ your ticket to a better nights sleep ♪ martha: using all the snow for something good. one teenager used the snow blanketing illinois to write a message to his mom. she is undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia at chicagos rush university medical center. she saw her sons snow message through the window. mom, god bless you. how cute is that? all across the top of the parking area there on the top deck, and it has a big smiley

She joins us now on the phone. she happens to be a cousin of the producer of this broadcast. caroline, how you doing? >> im doing a lot better. im off the boat. things are looking up. >> i know you didnt get sick during the course of things. well talk about what happened later. during the course of things everybody around you was sick, huh? >> everyone was -- yeah. there were people that didnt want to go to the infirmary because they didnt want to be confined. theyre walking around spreading the...

A cold and icy or deal is closer to being over for passengers trapped on a ship off antarctica for ten days. all the passengers aboard the russian ship have been rescued by helicopter and are on an australian ice breaker. 22 crew members will stay on the ship until it can move again. this is a story that started christmas eve after the ship got stuck in 10 feet of ice. previous rescue attempts had to be abandoned because of treacherous conditions. over the weekend, anderson spoke to people on th...

Tourney, who you just saw in the report, alec and lawrence work for britains "the guardian" paper. chris is the expedition leader. so chris, stuck for a week, how is everybody holding up? >> were having a good time, relatively speaking, i suppose. im sure we would all rather not be here, but given that we are the group on this ship is incredibly collegiate. and there are a lot of skills and things people are sharing with each other. it is new years eve, so were practicing songs. >> there was a y...

Everybody is keeping busy, were doing weekly briefings, it changes every hour. people are getting quite philosophical now. >> we have this tent, now we were sort of exposed on the deck of the ship. now we have a tent to shelter us from the elements. >> so is the tent on the deck of the ship? >> correct, were on the top deck here, just a bit more shelter. it is actually raining outside right now. it is quite warm outside. >> ive been watching you guys on television and reading your tweet. youre u...

>> correct, were on the top deck here, just a bit more shelter. it is actually raining outside right now. it is quite warm outside. >> ive been watching you guys on television and reading your tweet. youre unbelievably chipper. i dont think im ever that chipper and im not trapped on a boat surrounded by miles and miles of ice. >> it is a beautiful scene, i mean, you kind of have to take it in. were outside, it is raining and cold. it is actually a beautiful scene, were surrounded on the horizon ...

"snow dragon" initially tried to cut through ice as thick as six feet. used a cyclone to help the expeditions leader. he told new day that the weather is just too dicy for any kind of rescue, at least right now. >> conditions arent just going to allow for that. you might be -- im sitting in a tent on the top deck of this, actually. the weather has deteriorated. yesterday, it was glorious. we had snow this morning. its above freezing, its raining outside, the winds are intense. not ideal for heli...

Before you get on board. i was pretty sure we were about to get off. >> so you end up hanging out in the bahamas for a little bit until youre able to get out of there and head home. when you talk about the flames you see reflected in the water and then you get off the ship and you see what we have been showing, the charred boat and the windows just gone. >> oh, yeah. >> did you have any idea it was that bad? >> it was crazy. the way they described it didnt seem that bad. the morning of, i went o...

Until youre able to get out of there and head home. when you talk about the flames you see reflected in the water and then you get off the ship and you see what we have been showing, the charred boat and the windows just gone. >> oh, yeah. >> did you have any idea it was that bad? >> it was crazy. the way they described it didnt seem that bad. the morning of, i went on the top deck to look over and see what i could see and didnt look that bad. get off and it was just surreal. i cant believe we w...

>> reporter: cnns patrick in a va va went to a marina popular with americans and, sure enough, found the boat and the hakken family. >> i saw a boy playing on the top deck and a man with a large beard. comes out. i say, hey, are you josh? he said, yes, who are you. i said, im from cnn. gets very angry. goes in the boat. >> we did set up a team that consisted of local, state, around federal agents that actually departed the tampa area and went to cuba and actually met with the authorities there. ...