0 runways over the weekend and a plane crashes as celebrities watch in horror. what went wrong? liz cheney dropping out of a race for the senate. her bid caused a huge rift in her family. this is new day. good morning. welcome to new day. it s monday, january 6th, 6:00 in the east. americans are waking up in the midst of a polar vortexes a deep freeze that is literally deadly. from now till mid week parts of the country will face wind chills as low as 60 below, numbers that haven t been seen in two decades. the wind chill temps right now look like typos. in nashville, tennessee, it is 2 degrees. that is colder than anchorage, alaska. it s so cold the mayor has made it illegal to drive in indianapolis right now. how are people coping or not right now and where are the next watch areas as the front moves to the deep south and northeast. let s begin in green bay, wisconsin, where they actually played a football game despite the cold. george, what s the situation? reporter: yeah,
unbelievable. wow. that is jeb corliss. fearless jeb corliss, we might add. we re struck bit video we want to keep watching it. bring jeb to talk to us about it here on america s newsroom. hi, jeb. how are you guys? martha: we re doing great. there are two sort of openings in the rock as you are headed through them with your head. did you ever think that the wider one on the right-hand side might be a easier way to go? no, no, i always focusing on the small one. you have to pick one and i picked that one from the very beginning. martha: how do you navigate the winds and guide yourself through such a small opening? it is 30 feet i understand it at the spot you went through, right? that s basically right. about eight meters which is around like, yeah, 20 feet. martha: how do you guide yourself through that wind? how do you make that happen physically? well, it took me about 15 years of training and practice to do something like that. it takes thousands of skydives
could this be the end in sight? and the citizens outraged about the shutdown. no group more articulate than the ones we sit down with today. they re only 9 years old. the kitty cabinet. hope congress is listening. you remember the daredevil who threw through a rock formation in china. it s heart-stopping to even see from afar. i believe the rock transformation was ten feet wide at one point. his name is jeb corliss and he s talking to us about this amazing feat and what he s going to take on next. that man more sane than congress and those kids, more mature than congress. we ll see you in a bit. and coming up my husband got off his bike to help the guy. whatever he did, he got scared. he went, peeled off, and he paralyzed my husband on the way. two men on motorcycles now
not charmed at all. a stern warning from israel s prime minister, he says don t trust iran or its new leader. i ve seen fire and flames everywhere. this kid is amazing. he actually saved lives. wow, that is an 8-year-old boy, he s hailed as a hero. he saved several families from that inferno. an 8-year-old boy. good morning, everyone, welcome to early start. i m john berman. and i m zoraida sam bolli. it s wednesday, october 2nd. it s 4:00 a.m. in the morning. how does it feel to be in day two of a government shutdown? it s not their fault, that s what both sides say. president obama said house republicans caused the shutdown waging a crusade against his health care law. certain parts of government, that has failed, while they attacked the president for refusing to negotiate. of course, most republicans seem willing to negotiate if delaying parts of the health care law is on the table. good thing nothing but the nation s future and well-being is is on the li
welcome back. a remarkable feat to tell you about from china where jumper jeb corliss jumped between these mountains. corliss said it almost didn t happen. i didn t realize really what i was getting myself into until i really got here and started jumping out of the helicopter. you look at all of the numbers. you say, okay, yeah, but you don t know what you re facing until you start to fly it. i could see it was an incredible challenge and very difficult to do. i didn t understand how nature could create such a strange i mean, such a strange formation on stunt day on the weather. literally, it was horrible weather the entire day. we waern going to get to do it and the stunt was canceled and it was shut down. all of a sudden, somebody says, jeff, you need to jump right now. i stepped out of the helicopter and started flying and the