Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20130612 20:16

CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper June 12, 2013 20:16:00

assistant chief, thanks for joining us. what exactly are firefighters doing to rescue these two men right now? >> at this point we just put a firefighter out on the scaffold. we determine the easiest would be to remove glass on the 45th floor, rather than putting a firefighters over the side on a rope. that process has been ongoing for a while. it was double-paned glass, and had to removed it. just in the last several minutes, we put a firefighters to assist the workers in through the glass that was removed. >> how did the firefighters get there? >> no, he went in from the inside of the building. the initial determination was that it was a safer and faster removal to move the glass as

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