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Fire, well, not any more. we were given an inside look as they show us the newest training tool. and check out the victim. >> fire 42nd floor. >> we have it under control. >> how is the pressure looking? >> reporter: imagine a fire breaks out on the 42nd floor of a new york city high-raise building. >> victim on the fourth floor. >> preparing to start a rescue. >> down, down. >> reporter: like me, you find yourself balancing on a window ledge waiting to be rescued. >> im going to grab you around...

>> weve got thousands of high-rise buildings in new york city. this turns out to an enormously vital tool. >> reporter: the drill we just did, have you done that before separately? >> the way you train -- we train very well, and fight fires very well. >> nice job, everybody, thank you. >> trains for every possible disaster and it looks a lot like hollywood sets, even a subway platform with real subway cars. it allows as many as 15 fire companies to train every day practicing a coordinated respon...

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The executive order. but when he said hinting at why he was going to sign the executive order. here he is. >> if you are weak, if the you are weak, which some people would like you to be -- if you are really, really pathetically weak, the country is going for overrun with millions of people. and if you are strong, then you dont have any heart. thats tough dilemma. perhaps id rather be strong. but thats a tough thdilemma. >> trump called the arsonist who now wants to play fireman by signing the e...

Happened. melissa. >> melissa: so devastating. rich edson, thank you. joining us now is ellicott city resident kelly harris who has twice survived to the historic flooding in her town. thank you so much for joining us tonight. the water came in. you were trapped, a firefighter had to help you climb out of your building. tell us about that. >> it was actually just so surreal living through it all again. in 2016 i was able to just walk out my front door with a small bag of toiletries and not even ...

Firefighter, was trained to keep his head and knew what he had to do. he got in his truck, drove out of town to the road he knew shed take coming home from her boyfriends house. then he saw it in a construction zone. on a highway 93 overpass. what did you find? >> something i dont want to see again. you can say a firemans worst nightmare. >> someone tried to hold him back. he kept on. >> i saw her over at the side. >> his perfect daughter. his justine, obscenely broken. but amazingly, still aliv...

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>> lets get started. >> terror in the skies when an engine exploded on a southwest flight. >> they said theres a hole and someone went out. >> the left engine exploded showering the plane with slap yell and shattering a window causing an immediate decompression, fulling a female passenger from her seat through the window. >> i tried to get her back in. wasnt strong enough. a fireman from texas jumped in there and helped and between the two of us, we were able to get her back in. >> we laid her d...