Broke the story is here live. A surfer taking on this massive wall of water when hes pummeled and sent flying. The race to save him and what hes now saying from his hospital bed. Good morning, america. Thanks for joining us this friday morning. All kind of news breaking out on all kind of fronts and that surfer lucky to be alive. If you look at the video. This isnt just looking dangerous, it was dangerous. He broke his back in that fall. But he has an incredible attitude and says, you know what, i cant wait to get back in the water and back on my board again. I think his mom might have Something Else to say about that when she sees that video. Oh, absolutely. You know, a lot of other news to get to as well, but first we want to start out with the deep freeze and record low temperatures that could be coming to here in new york and going to get down to the 20s tonight and ginger will start us off with that great news. Good morning, ginger. Good morning to you, michael. We told you it was
Major rescue operation is under way. Three days of National Mourning have been declared. Oscar pistorius will undergo psychiatric tests as requested by the prosecution. The trial is postponed for another week. A case has been laid out for of such by the state. E release i shall grant a bitter pill for glaxosmithkline as Chinese Police accuse a british executive of ordering staff to bribe hospital officials. Hello. Thanks for joining us as we bring you live pictures from the scene of the mine site in soma in western turkey as hopes of finding any survivors from the explosion there are fading. The rescuers are racing against time to get to the men still trapped underground. I should remind you, 787 people in all were in that mine at the time of the explosion. 205 have been confirmed dead. Hundreds more are simply unaccounted for at this stage. The death toll there likely to rise in what the Energy Minister has already called the countrys worst ever industrial accident. The government has