their spare tire to help keep them warm. crews zeroed in on a weak cell phone signal and zeroed in on the car turned upside down. the critical thing is staying with the car. one of the biggest factors in surviving is the will to survive. the couple had some food and water with them in their jeep. they were all found dehydrated, but all six are doing just fine. dramatic new video showing the moments an ice dam broke open in colorado. part of the creek froze so quickly that there was few places for the water to go. that caused a dam to burst. an rv park was evacuated because officials were worried a four foot wall of icy water could destroy the dam all together. but it surged right past it. country s biggest stars coming out for the fourth annual american country awards.
not heroic, more of an instinct that kicked in and got the vehicle out of there. baron and his partner grabbed fire extinguishers from their trucks and firefighters arrived just in time to finish the job. all is well that ends well. oh, yeah. he was on a routine patrol when he heard the call and decided to go. common sense really if you think about it but a lot of people would have not thought to do that. and would have been scared in the process of doing it because you are worried about explosions and this and that. really fantastic. everyone said it could have been worse. nobody was hurt. also wonderful. about a dozen people have been given the all clear to colorado, after they were evacuated from flooding worries after an ice dam break. clear creek rose about three feet in just 15 minutes, but a feared four-foot wall of water hitting the canyon never happened. ice dams have been breaking as temperatures continue to rise.
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ice dams have been breaking as temperatures continue to rise. it is quite a different story here in the northeast, however, which is bracing for its first sub zero windchills and even more snow. it comes after yesterday s blast that shut down schools, cancelled flights and triggered countless accidents. abc s marci gonzalez has the latest. reporter: a white slushy mess across much of the northeast. virginia to new england getting a wallop of winter-like weather with as much as seven inches of snow falling in some areas. i worked in it 35 years in the show, in the airport. so it was horrible. reporter: fred schmitt knows the headaches they were feeling in places like la guardia and kennedy airports all too well. with delays up to an hour and a half there and elsewhere according to flightaware.com. more than 1300 flights cancelled. getting around not much easier on the roads. it was like this basically the whole way. as you get closer to new jersey, the roads got worse, so noth
bad news for iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejaahmadinejad. he has been criticized for his country s failing economy and for not being a strong supporter of the supreme leader. folks check this out. video of the day. you are seeing it here first. chunks of a massive glacier collapsing at a national park in argentina. several tons of ice fell off the ice dam. the crash said to be so loud you could hear it from several miles away. some 500 tourists gathered earlier in the week anticipating the speckle but were disappointed when they missed it after it happened early in the morning. well, the top of the show we asked you to brew on this. parents holding their kids back from kindergarten said they can get extra time to get a little more mature and get ahead. we asked is this fair? here are some of your comments. matt says doesn t matter if kids get held back in this day and age.