on working a grand total of 112. do the math. that s one day on, two days off, all year long. must be nice. today s day one, and you never know what they might unexpect unexpectedly get around to doing but their plans in house are to pretty much do nothing all year long after having done nothing all year last year. but the senate was back today, too, and in the senate, there are some signs of life. tonight, the senate voted to confirm janet yellen to be the new chair of the federal reserve. she s been the vice chair of the fed before now. on paper, she is the most qualified person ever nominated to the job, probably. she s also the first woman to ever head the federal reserve and one of the only female central bankers anywhere in the world. so that got done today. the white house today also announced this list, which we re going to scroll here because it s too long to show in a static way. it s a really long list. this long list of 664 nominees for appeals court judges, district court
firefighters plucking a terrified truck driver from the cab of her big rig as it dangles over the side of the monitor merrimack memorial bridge. she lost control of her truck on i-664 yesterday morning. it actually caught fire for a few minutes after jumping that embankment. firefighters were able to use their truck s rescue bucket to bring her right there to safety. lucky gal. the pictures are so dramatic. can you imagine? wow. thanks zoraida. this morning we re talking about two stories out of cuba. one reports two young florida boys allegedly abducted by their father showing up there. and jay-z and beyonce s controversial trip, too. some have questioned whether it crossed the lyle lines. congresswoman ileana ros-lehtinen is a congresswoman from florida. she was born in cuba and fled with her family when she was 8 years old. welcome to the program. good morning, congresswoman. thank you. good morning, thanks for having me. let s talk first about these two little boys.
of beach blanket movies. she died from multiple sclerosis. she was 70 years old. i remember the skippy hats when growing up. yep. 54 minutes after the hour. check out these pictures of a dramatic rescue above the frigid james river in virginia. they plucked a terrified cab driver from the big rig as it dangled over a bridge. the woman lost control of her truck on i-664 yesterday morning and it caught fire for a few minutes. is that her peeking out of there? what a picture that is. the firefighters were able to use the truck s rescue bucket to bring the woman to safety. lucky. yeah. great effort. coming up, my favorite manager, the manager former manager of the red sox but now the manager of the indians who got lost on his way to his own game. he got lost going to his own stadium. this would be a problem.
welcome back to early start, everyone. people in the arkansas neighborhood where thousands of barrels of crude oil gurgled up from a pipeline are now suing exxon mobil. their class action suit demands more than $5 million. more than 20 people still can t go home. exxon has said it is paying for the cleanup and will honor legitimate claims. check out these pictures of a dramatic rescue above the frigid james river. this is virginia. firefighters plucking a terrified truck driver from the cab of her big rig. it dangled over the side of the monitor merrimack memorial bridge, 43-year-old lost control of her truck on i 664 yesterday morning. it actually caught fire for a few minutes after jumping the embankment. firefighters were able, as you see there, to use their truck s rescue bucket to bring that home
at the moment, fire crews saving a woman there that was trapped inside the cab which appears to be what was happening over the bridge off the side of the monitor merrymac mechanical bridge tunnel. that s happening just at the moment. we have some live pictures from our affiliate there. we ll continue to watch what is happening there in newport news, virginia. i think it s going to zoom back in as we take these chopper cam pictures. what we re also hearing from the virginia department of transportation, they re saying that all north and southbound lanes we can clearly see in the pictures here of interstate 664, they re closed at the moment. they re zooming back into this cab that is dangling over the side. right in the middle of that cap. we re continue to watch what s happening here in newport news, virginia. checking this news feed this morning, a car bombing in the main business district of damascus has killed at least 15 people, more than 50 others were hurt. the blast set cars on