the penalty is six months in jail or $1,000 fine. supporters say this law is ex essential since technology has outpaced the law. they are calling him the luckiest man alive. i d call it an understatement. 58 years eugene racco insanely lucky. the carpenter shot himself in the heart with a nail gun and he lived to talk about it. i was holding it like this and shot the nail in, and bounced and hit my chest and wednesday off agai went off again. and the lord saved my life. it s his doing. you know, the nail could have went either direction, we could be at a funeral. doctors performed open heart surgery. they had to obviously delicately and gingerly remove the nail. two days later, this man home with his wife and his seven children. he s been ordered to take it easy for the next three months.
can you imagine? that must be the structure that he was building. we keep on showing pictures of it. a fine job he was doing, right? a fine carpenter but the nails go in the wood, my friend. he wants to go back to work. oh, my gosh, i would say hire someone on that one. let s take a look at what s coming up on new day, chris cuomo and kate bolduan join us. what s going on? there s clearly a reason i ve never used one of those. more gun than nail. lucky for him, he s okay. obviously, we re going to be talking this morning about the shutdown. we have an interesting development going on. we re going to are republican congressman mike grimm on. he s said he s ready to sign a clear resolution. he s ready to fund the government and deal with the obama care act afterwards. he said there s a growing number like him in the party.