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"ac 360" starts right now. there is breaking news from the capitol tonight on a deal to head off another government shutdown and everyone hopes keep this economy moving. details could be an issue as could getting it through congress. more shortly. first we have a story that's good news with no strings attached whatsoever. two adults and four children rescued after two days stranded in the bitter cold of northwest nevada. that upside down in a ravine is their jeep which skidded off the road on sunday in arctic conditions, 21 below. we have a survival expert on the program to talk about how they made it. in a moment one of the rescuers. he and his partner were the first to reach the scene. before we do that, let's get the latest from stephanie elam in nevada. stephanie, we know the family was rescued earlier today. what's their condition right now? >> reporter: what we are hearing is that the family is resting comfortably. there was no frost bite issues. apparently the adults here did a good job of keeping these children warm. we hear they started a fire outside the car and warming rocks and bringing them into the car. all of them resting well right now here in this hospital in pershing county. >> this was a huge rescue effort with several hundred volunteers involved, not to mention people in the air as well. how exactly in the end were they found? >> reporter: it's pretty amazing how they were canvassing looking for this car. what at the end helped them out is the fact they were able to look at cell phone forensics, some specialists in this area were able to ping where they last got a signal from their phones and were able to then change their search from air and from land about the same time. they said they were able to spot the car and able to rescue this family after two days in this bitter bitter cold out here in northwestern nevada. >> stephanie thank you very much. stephanie is at the site where we're expecting a news conference with doctors at the hospital where the family is. we'll get the latest update on their condition. in meantime i want to go next to one of the rescuers, chris montes who joins us by phone. >> chris, you were one of the first people to get to them. what kind of condition were they in when you first saw them? >> great. they were all in perfect condition. >> perfect condition that. must have been such a relief after this search that involved so many people for so long. tell me about the kids ages 10, 4, 4 and 3. it must have been such an ordeal for them to go through this. >> they didn't seem too bothered. they were in good spirits. they just figured they were camping. >> and what did they all say when they first saw you? >> they just -- the littlest girl started telling me about a cartoon that she was watching the other day. and the boys were just hanging out asking me if i knew their mom and dad. >> obviously deeply concerned about the ordeal that they'd been going through for awhile now. you do know this family, correct? >> yeah. >> and do they know how to behave out in the outdoors in the wilderness like this? obviously it seems they did almost everything right out there. >> yeah. obviously they knew what to do. they kept those kids safe for 48 hours in sub zero temperatures. >> now, when you reached them, were they hungry at all? i understand there was a candy bar that you had or your team had with you that was passed around to just about everyone there. >> i gave the kids a granola bar. they ate that. they had food yesterday. they were just running out today. >> when you were searching over the last day, how did you keep hope that you would find them? we've been talking about this since yesterday, the 21 degrees below zero out there. it seemed to so many people that the chances were -- for survival were so small. how did you maintain the hope? >> oh, this is just really a tight-knit community. and everybody was involved. nobody was going to give up until they were found period. >> and that site, how far away were you when you first caught sight of that vehicle which was overturned? we're looking at a picture of it right now. it's just completely turned over. >> oh, we were probably about 500 yards from it. >> and it looks honestly it looks like the type of thing no guarantee that people would survive a crash like that. how soon after you first saw it did you know that all six of them were alive and okay? >> not until i was probably 20 yards from them and i could actually see them all and counts six of them moving zblarnd that must have been an incredible relief when you first had that vision. >> yeah. because i wasn't expecting the best. >> in your community now, you say it is such a tight-knit community and there were so many people involved with this search. what now? a giant party indoors perhaps? >> yeah. definitely indoors. >> all right, chris montes, thank you so much for being with us. congratulations. we are so happy for you and everyone involved here that this ended the way it did. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> again we're waiting to go hear any minute now from the hospital where this family is recovering. and by all indications recovering well. surviving sub zero temperatures in a wrecked car with young children and no indication how long you will be stranded, this is a situation no one expects to find themselves in here to talk about what this family did and what anyone can learn how to do if it come to this former green beret and special operations veteran and survival expert joseph todai host of discovery channel's "survival." it was 20 degrees below zero sunday night into monday morning. that seems like no margin for error here. >> you're absolutely right. one of the things about a winter survival situation is that mother nature will not allow you to make too many mistakes at all. >> and it seems like they did a whole lot of things right. heating rocks, bringing them into the car. was that a life-saving move? >> absolutely. i got to tell you, this guy made all the right decisions. and what's really crazy is we did an episode last year on survival almost exactly what these people went through. and i can tell you, it's not the one big decision that he made for his family, it's all those little decisions that lead up to that big decision. staying with the vehicle, letting people know where you went, staying warm, making a fire. he made all the right decisions. and even more so, he didn't panic. because if he would have panicked, i can almost guarantee you he would have done what the people in the scenario that i was involved in did. he left his vehicle. that's not what you want to do in a situation. and he didn't. >> don't go looking for help seems to be the advice you have. look, you were on the special forces. one of the things you do not have to work with in special forces at least out there in the field, 3 and 4-year-old kids. there were four kids here, 10 years old and younger. how difficult do you think that must have been to deal with? >> boy, i got to tell you, salute to this guy. i'm quite sure his kids were more than a little alarmed for their ages. i think they were between the ages of 3 and 10 from what i read. but what i do understand about his family is this wasn't their first time out in the snow, which definitely helped and increased their chances of survival without a doubt. >> no, this family clearly knew what they were doing. we're so glad they're all okay. joseph todai thanks for being with us. appreciate it. >> thanks, man. the condition that is sent that jeep sliding off road in nevada were part of a storm system still tormenting a huge swath of this country. i want to show you video of a huge pileup in germantown, wisconsin. this happened on sunday. a traffic camera caught all of it. just awful picture to see. the cars skidding off the road. others slamming into one another. dozens of cars and trucks were involved. by the time it was all over, one person was fatally injured. from there as you probably know too well, the storm has been dumping more ice, more snow, causing more havoc all the way to new england. chad myers as always is on top of it all. so chad, a lot of the places around the u.s. dangerously cold right now. >> yes. >> but what's the latest? >> well you know, even if you get down to like 10, 15 degrees, if you look at those pictures of that wisconsin crash that was a bridge. i can't believe people didn't fly off of that bridge. that's the problem is that when you get that cold even salted roads will refreeze. the arctic air mass right down where that family was here in nevada all the way down to texas and arkansas and even toward the northeast. remember this map. i will get back to it in a minute. lows tonight minneapolis 14 below. many people aren't even ready for this. this doesn't even feel like we should be this time of year just yet. we shouldn't be this cold. you're not ready. your car is not ready. maybe the anti-freeze isn't ready. take all those things into consideration for tonight. rapid city down to 13, wind chill factors much colder than that. the animals feel this wind chill. your face feels it. your car windows, house, don't feel the number. but i tell you what, if you were outside or your pets are outside please take care of yourselves and your pets tonight. make sure they have some type of shelter from this wind chill. wind chill advisories all the way from international falls all the way down to the south. please keep at least half a tank of gas in your car. even though this car was upside down didn't get to use fit you're stuck in the snow and all wheels are down you'll be able to use that fuel, that gasoline, to keep yourself, keep the car running, keep yourself warm and make sure the snow doesn't get near that exhaust pipe. there's the map i started with. here's the next storm system. you don't want to see this. this is saturday, another icy mix, snowy mix and rain down to the south. that's the big cities again saturday into sunday another storm coming, john. >> i think the scientific term for the storm that hit us today was sort of not much today. breaking news on a deal that could prevent another government shutdown mess. also president obama's deeply personal tribute to nelson man dell last and later, his handshake at the ceremony with cuban president raul castro. there it is. it's setting off a storm back home. but can you really compare this as john mccain did to shaking hands with hitler? 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