their small plane going down off turks and caicos. here's abc's stephanie ramos now. >> reporter: tonight, a rescue mission on the high seas in the caribbean. the u.s. coast guard alerted to a downed aircraft, then asking for help from a nearby cruise ship, the regal princess, sailing near turks and caicos. the ship's crew notifying passengers. >> we're now two and a half miles away. we're getting our teams ready for the rescue. >> reporter: diverting course, the ship launches a rescue vessel, racing across the choppy seas to save two american men floating in a life raft, just a speck on the ocean. they're picked up, raced back to the cruise ship, where they were cheered by passengers onboard. the men waving back, grateful to be alive. ship that's headed to st. thomas. no word just yet on what caused that plane to crash. david? >> stephanie, thank you. >>> when we come back, the new headline tonight about vaccines and autism. >>> also, the world's newest and youngest billionaire, you'll know her name. >>> and there's news coming in to

about the dominican republic haiti as well as cuba could be seeing some rain as well the turks and caicos will also be scenes of very heavy rain in the forecast and then here across parts in eight states it is going to be rainy across much of the central plains we do expect to see the rain up here across denver but up towards chicago it's cooler with a temperature of nine. the weather sponsored by catalona. isn't a problem for your candidate that you may not have a health question mark over him but he does have a corruption question mark over it doesn't look good for the village i think you know. ok we're going to do it we will probably not knowing what is going to decide and we really do get why there's a lot of disillusionment with the u.s. across the globe to spoil that is called for a bridge doesn't build confidence it breaks looking to join me near the hot sun on our front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and big issues here on al-jazeera. swear every. this is. hello i'm having my head seen this is the news are live from doha c

>> turks and caicos. >> why are you here? new york city?> the snow. >> never seen snow in your life? what do you think about it? >> freezing. >> it's cold,yoright? jacket is super cute, so you're dressed for the snow. how cool is that first snow. now, it makes me life it here in new york city. is snowing. the ve 3 inch es or so o ground. we have flurries now. the storm system will move across new engld, continuing through the next several hours. you'll be seeing snow for a while. twe have lake-effect snoough michigan. snow filling in across the plains. heavy rain out west. that is going to be the next storm system to race across the country. it'll bring mntain snow to th sierra nevadara mountaie, to denver tonight. showers and storms will fill in across the southe we're looking for snow to come to an end here in the northeast as we go through the day. that's a look at the weather across the country.e' now, h a peek out your window. >> well, we're cloudy outside our window today. we're dry and cloudy all throughout the day. rnybe a few peeks

for those listening on the radio here it includes names like jamaica caicos, bahamas, the dominican republice are popular vacation places maybe less so cuba. what is a level 2. >> level 2 is take care. you know, it's a scale of 1 to 4. 4 being the worst. 1 being the best. 2 is take care. you can still it go there. think about the parts of the country that you are going to. i think a lot of your audience is probably surprised to see all those countries in the caribbean in level 2. those are places many of us go for vacation or for work that we enjoy. they seem okay. the crime in the caribbean gets less attention than the crime in places like venezuela, you just showed or places like mention co-but you would be surprised to know that there is actually a higher incidence of violent crime in the caribbean. even higher in africa as well. >> neil: when you take care, what are you looking for? what's been cited attacks on in this case americans? what? burglaries? what? >> well, in the caribbean it's violent crimes. it's crime with weapons. robberies with weapons. holdups. and there is a, you know,