opened the box. reporter: so for more than a month now, lucky has been leaving the cafeteria freezer, ever so briefly, to grant these parkinson snow-deprived children their first-ever opportunity to see, feel, and gush over the mini-miracle that is a snowman. it s real snow! as a teacher, that s what you want. you just want that joy. it s, like, the first time i ever saw a snowman. and i was like, first time i met lucky i said, he s handsome like a boy. reporter: perhaps no one is more smitten than five-year-old momo. i love him. i knew i would kiss him. i knew it. reporter: is that the first boy you ve wanted to kiss? yes, and the second boy i m going to kiss reporter: okay, good. ( laughter ) reporter: bubbling joy, wide-eyed wonder, only a teacher culd take a pile of snow, sticks, and a vegetable, and somehow melt your heart. steve hartman, on the road, in
and hearing here, robert gates will leave his post in 2011. martha: being called a mini-miracle on the hudson, the pilot of the small plane made an incredible emergency landing on lake erie, flying three other people to an island when the engine conked out on his cessna 210 and he was thinking fast and managed to safely ditch the plane in the water and you can see these incredible pictures and the people around the tail, waiting for rescue in the water and he steered clear of a nearby ferry packed with passengers at the time, and, we re happy to have him with us now, pilot mark neil, welcome. good have you here today. good morning, martha. martha: when did you first realize something was wrong with the plane and did you know what it was. i didn t know what the cause was, but, when i turned to final, to begin my final stretch to landing, the engine just went see you lents and after several attempts to restart it, i realized i was not going to make the airport. martha: you are lookin