our political ticker at the bottom of the hour about the retirement of barney frank. they had a revolution. they ve ousted a ruler and now they are about to do something that is probably the most important thing that they have done and that is get out and vote. egyptians are hitting the polls today. they are out voting. it is the first in a series of elections for parliament and president. they are all under way. even in the midst of egypt s second major uprising of the year. the goal of both is the same an end to military rule which replaced the regime of long-time president hosni mubarak in february. turnout is surprisingly strong. voting for parliament will take stages. the presidential elections are set for june. pakistan says no more business as usual with the u.s. after a weekend air strike that nato calls tragic and unintended. nato helicopters from afghanistan opened fire on pakistani forces at the border killing 24 and wounding several others. afghan officials
been able to not scott off. in january or february, the snow birds are in florida. you would think that would be romney s stomping grounds. you know he s working those areas hard now. all right. ron fournier, big focus in florida, you have good reporters there, beth rin rin heart. thanks, a lot. by now you ve surely seen this amazing rescue video. a man trapped under a burning car is rescued by a group of bystanders who lifted up the car to get him out. the man is on his way to a full recovery and spoke to the media for the first time a few minutes ago. here s what he had to say. i just wanted to thank all of the heroes that put their lives on the line to save mine. i m forever in debt. i can t thank them enough. i would like to meet all of the people that rescued me.
thank you very much. jon: some incredible rescue video. we brought you some of it a bit earlier. rick is over at our dot-com wall with more. 7lelieve what they see when we show them the rest of this video which we ll do in a couple of minutes but we want to know from you, what would you do if you came across a scene like that with a guy underneath a burning car? we have a poll at the homepage for happening now. scroll down and you can see it. there it is. what would you do? would you scream? try to lift the car? call 911. run the other way. stand back and watch. you can weigh in during the next couple minutes during our commercial break. when we come back we ll have the results of the poll and the rest of this amazing story including the guy who shot that video. don t go away.
william la jeunesse, thank you. jenna: as president obama shuffles his national security team who will be leading our troops now? what it means for the war effort. plus you still have time to vote. which of these three stories are you more interested in hearing about. harris is tracking the online polls. very different stories, harris. reporter: they are. i think we all love good rescue video. a young teen abler was swept away in rushing water. it s how it gets started that was so interesting. it was tipped off literally by a basketball game. some of you want to see that. some of you want to see what the inmate couldn t wait to do hours before they were going to release him and some of you want to see the cute white lion clubs the story of a very rare creature. so far the inmate is winning the nonscientific poll here, 45 perbz of yo45% ofyou really wane inmate couldn t wait to do before he got out and was set
big square for ferry riders cruising on a rigid snowy river. interesting stories to you about. check out this dramatic rescue video. 27 people evacuated from the smokey ferry after a fire broke out in the engine room. the ferry company disputes that claiming there were no flames, just an overheated engine. nelson mandela is in a hospital for what s being called routine tests. his foundation says he s in good spirits and no danger, but the archbishop described nelsonman