and it was a slow day at work that day. and since i never leave the office, i was thinking, well, i promised my stepdaughter, maggie, that we would take her to new york for her 17th birthday. i missed the train by seconds. and so i said, all right, i'll just catch the next one. as i'm walking down, i heard somebody yell, "get off the tracks. get off the tracks." and i turned around and there was a man on the track who had had fallen off the platform. >> look carefully as a security camera on the opposite platform captures a man falling onto the tracks. >> i turned around, what's going on? and i noticed that the train was coming. i was pointing and saying get under the lift. get under the platform. >> but the man on the tracks doesn't make it to safety. the lights of the train are getting larger. >> i actually thought, this guy is going to die. i'm going to see this guy die. >> people on the platform wave frantically for the train to