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0 what a smile, what a life. that s it for this edition of 360. thank you so much for watching. an amazing story of survival, a family stranded for 48 hours. all the right decisions they made that kept them alive. theast coast smacked again by a powerful winter storm. the damage done and what s in store for people today. and the tribute continuing in south africa for nelson mandela this rning. the public given a chance to honor a legend. we are live there. good morning, everyone. welcome early start. i m john berman. john berman who never sleeps. i saw a bed in your office this morning. a none concussed zoraida. yeah, much better. we re going to begin with a remarkable story from the mountains of nevada. this is amazing. a family has been found alive and well after spend two days stranded in subzero temperatures. 21 degrees below zero. those searching for the two adults and for children expected the worse. ipoke with rescuers who thought they weren t going to find anybody alive. smart thinking saved lives. stephanie elam has the story. john and zoraida, it s the outcome everyone was hoping for and wasn t so sure it would be that way. now, they re calling it a christmas merely kel that all the family members were found alive. no frostbite. they re all doing well, in stable condition, and checked in at the hospital and gathered with family and friends. all of this after many searchers spent manile hours after the family went missing sunday afternoon. they took off to play in the snow. while out there their car tipped over ever so quickly in the snow. over so the car was upside down. but the father, with ingenuity, took charge and tookocks and heated them. and a candy bar with the family throughout the time. they also knew someone was looking for them. they co-hear the helicopters. them just stayed together. rescuers said was really key, even though they couldn t turn on the engine and stay warm because it was upside down. was the key to being found.at john and zoraida. one right decision after another. isn that remarkable. on cnn.com, it tells you what right in in order to survive this. number one, stay with the vehicle. that is so important. and the ingenuity there. and those kids. two minutes after the hour. here on the east coast, tuesday was a snowy day. as much as 5 inches of snow falling in some areas leading to a very bad time if you were driving around. indeed in michigan, snow led to this massive 30-car pileup. luckily there were no injuries there. those dring said the roads got slirpr slippery very 50. weather condition, you know i was driving about 35, i was driving don the road and i see a bunch of brake lights. i ended up trying to veer off the road. next thing i know, i hit the car in front of me. and the semi truck hit me. the roads in dayton, ohio, were apparently too slick even for a snowplow. this overturned wt of the city. this is not supposed to happen. luckily, the driver got out okay. and this is indiana, this is what it looked like in indianapolis. just an inch or two fell in that area. and a building collapse in arkansas blamed on last week s temperatures. and the subpoena melted three inches of ice and refreezing and not used to handling that. in some of the washiton, d.c. area, they re waking up without power amid frigid temperatures as well. trees that have come down over the weekend still have not been cleaned up and power lines down for a few hundreds customers in maryland and virginia. obviously, a giants mess f a lot of peop. jennifer grey tracking the forecast for us. luckily, that system has pushed out of the east. the lake-effect snow that will continue for yet another day. if weook at the snow totals for yesterday. we had a couple of record-breaking days. is this for the daily snowfall amount. in wilmington, delaware, almost 3 inches of snow. as you head into portions of new jersey, new york, about 2 inches. central park about 1 1/2 inches of snow yesterday. we re dealing with that lake-effect snow across portions of michigan as the system pushes east over the next 24 hours or so. that will continue. we re talking very cold temperatures across much of the north. snowfall amounts 3 to 5 incs around grand rapids. chicago could even pick up an inch or two, and then possibly a foot or more of snow in places like buffalo, new york. another snowy day for the north. of course that air fromanada is coming in, and it is leaving very, very cold temperatures. we have windchill advisories and warnings in effect all across the north with windchill values about 20, 30, even 40 degrees below zero, guys. do that thing again brrr! do not dress like me. you need long sleeves on. you look like a character from the christmas special, shocking news from washington. democrats and republicans have actually agreed on something that could keep the government running through 2015. half of the spending cuts known as the sequester will be canceled. there will actually be spending cuts. no one got everything they wanted but that s why it s called a compromise. i am veryroud to stand here today, with chairman ryan, to announce we have broken through the partisanship and the gridlock and reached a bipartisan budget compromise that will prevent a budget shut down in january. i see this as an agreement as a step in the right direction paper divided government, you don t always get what you want. that said, we still can make progress towards our goals. i see this agreement as that kind of progress. it s a step in the right direction. so the house could vote on this plan by the end of this week. the senate is likely to take it up next week in time for the christmas holiday. there are votes here, no one is counting chickens, bipartisan or otherwise. president obama is seeing a slight rebound in the public opinion of the job he s doing. but most americans still are not happy with him. a cbs news/ the new york times poll shows 42% of americans now approve of the president s performance. it was only at 37% last month, after the problem-plagued rollout of the obama care website. but half of americans still say they disapprove of the job he s doing. 42% approval is good news. the nsa may be tracking what you do on the enter set. documents from former nsa contractor edward snowden say the nsa is using internet cookies to track files as advertising networks to find out what sites you visit what articles you click on. the nsa is declining to comment on this report. former ciairector leon panetta spilled secret information. in a speech panetta revealed the u.s. special forces ground commander who led the raid. zero dark thirty mark boal was at that speech. panetta said he had no idea that bol was there. now to south africa where the public remembrances continue today. thousands are expected to file past his casket now lying in state in pretoria. isha sesay was there. isha, it s such an emotional day yesterday. what s the mood like today? reporter: john, it was emotional yesterday, but it was also joyous at the memorial service we saw at fnb stadium in soweto. we saw scenes of people singing and dancing, united as one, celebrating the life of nelson mandela. today here at the union buildingin pretoria which is the center of south africa, it s very different. much more somber, much more reflective. and a sense of sadness hanging in their here. now, the early hours of the morning have been reserved for vips and dignitaries to come here and pay their respects. we have seen the likes of bono, and naomi campbell. and robert move backby and those filing past mandela. we have seen tears, john, outward signs of the grief that people feel. i think it was a sign that this was a man loved byall. all walks of life. heads of government, heads of state. leaders of pop culture and snow biz all here to pay their respects. john, i really wanto mark one moment that really stood out to me. and that was seeing nelson mandela s widow grash sha mi michelle. and she was just sobbing. you could see she lost her partner. he was ill. he was old. people had been preparing themselves for this. but the reality of seeing his remains really brings it home to them. they re the father of this democracy and the pillar of the mandela family has gone. john. it s such a public event this week, it s nice that people are having private moments to say good-bye. isha sesay in pretoria, thanks. appreciate that. ten minutes after the hour. coming up, al qaeda moves into syria. the terror group making a claim in the country s civil war as journalists and human rights activists are missing. we r live with the latest developments. and an an amazing catch in san diego. a marine reeling in a great white shark. guess where he is? he s on the beach. > tweet us about a morning verse. #morning start and # early start. hmm. mm-hmm. 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