the show since spider-man stunt double christopher tierney suffered a broken vertebrae last week. lots of troubles for that show. i know. from legally blond to legally wed, reese witherspoon got engaged to hollywood agent. she has two children from actor ryan philippe. congratulations. that s awesome. hundreds of travelers stranded in cramped planes stuck on the tarmac for hours. why aren t they allowed to de-plane? what happened to the travelers bill of rights? we re getting answers this morning. [ robin ] my name is robin. and i was a pack-a-day smoker for 25 years. i do remember sitting down with my boys, and i m like, oh, promise mommy you ll never ever pick up a cigarette. i had to quit. my doctor gave me a prescription for chantix, a medication i could take and still smoke, while it built up in my system. [ male announcer ] chantix is a non-nicotine pill
played some football. a rare tuesday night game, the first one since the 1940s in the nfl. and it was an upset. a brief scare also for michael vick. all of the highlights and the headlines with jamal anderson ahead. 10,000 and counting, that s how many flights have been canceled since sunday. many holiday travelers forced to spend hours sitting on tarmacs or standing on long lines desperately trying to find a way home this morning. a nightmare for many passengers who found themselves stuck on planes or sitting on the tarmac at places like jfk. up to 11 hours in some cases. that would be on top of a long, overseas flight. in all, many people ended up spending close to 20 hours cooped up on a plane before being allowed off of their flights. listen to one dad who went through it with his two kids. every parent can relate to what a nightmare that would be. and a passenger rights advocate who says what happened to these passengers is simply inexcusable. we were told we d hav
mendoza played the key role who is this? aracne. it s a troubled musical, it s a troubled read. she suffered a concussion back on november 28th. this was really serious stuff. the second injury, christopher tierney suffered broken ribs, a hair line skull fracture and internal injuries when he fell 30 feet from a platform during a performance in early december. though no official statement has been released, the new york times quotes two people who work on the show as saying lawyers for mendoza have been working out an exit agreement. really tough times for that production for everybody. finally for you, elton john and his husband, david furnish, are now very proud parents. zachary jackson furnish-john was born on christmas day. he s healthy, doing really well and they are overwhelmed with happiness and joy.
could hurt the crops. kerry sanders is live in florida with a look at the local al agriculture there. explain what we re seeing there. reporter: well, if you re a farmer you re doing a gambler s crop this year. three times now this month there have been freezes. you mentioned citrus and, of course, there are other products like the strawberries where i am right now. so the freeze came in, and it did some damage. they haven t done a full assessment here, but there s some of the fruit. that looks pretty good because they coated it in ice. there was an ice blanket created on this, keeping this at a constant 32. they re more concerned about the next crop that will pop up from these little flowers here. this one doesn t look like it has much of a burn mark on it, but some of them have little black burn marks which means it s unlikely they ll become strawberries. right over here we have citrus. as you look at that, that is also big concern because as the temperatures hit about 28
that the death occurred on the 18th and they amended it and saying it occurred on the 19th so a lot of questions still revolving around this case. casey wian in los angeles, thanks so much. we ll check in with you in a little while. an arizona state legislator is recovering today after he was severely beaten in his business about an hour south of phoenix. police are looking for the person who tied up frank pratt, beat him stole his truck from his swimming pool business. at last check he was in stable condition. at least nine people including four police officers are dead after suicide bombings in western iraq. at least two explosions hit a government complex in ramadi. 40 people were wounded in those attacks. the actor injured on the set of the spyderman broadway musical is recovering after surgery. 32-year-old christopher tierney was hurt after he fell during a performance last week. you see him on that stage going forward.