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Anything that was remotely a concern quickly went out the window. >> last, but not least, finally sam martin, like kim and bruce before him, is out of the bucket and on safe ground. it's a long hour and a half, but amazingly everyone has now been rescued. division chief napoli credits all of the police and fire crews on the bridge that day with saving the inspectors' lives. >> it was a difficult, technical rescue with a high possibility of loss of life. >> he believes things would have been much worse if the whole crane arm had fallen into the water. >> i think they would have either sunk with...

A dangerous situation in midtown manhattan. strong winds caused a crane to collapse. look at this, on the 70th floor of a luxury high-rise under construction. you can see that massive crane arm just dangling and nothing to hold it down. buildings around the crane were immediately evacuated as emergency workers kept watch overnight. let's go to cnbc's robert frank who was on the scene. what's the status right now? >> thanks, chris. i just spoke with the fire department chief on scene and it remains a very dangerous situation here. basically, until the weather improves they can't even send inspe...

>> welcome back, everybody. let's give you more information on that crane. new york city officials are saying until they are sure that the winds are properly dying down and this weather improves, there's no way that they can physically send anybody up, the inspector, that is, to ensure and stabilize the broken crane arm after strong winds caused it to collapse on itself. they say the teams will go up and take it apart piece by piece, but the area around the danger site is closed. sandy took the glory away from the statue of liberty's makeover. it has been closed to the public since sunday and ...

Hour of uncertainty, captain fulford is a welcome sight to an exhausted kim brooks. >> secure my tag line! >> it was comforting enough to know that we were okay. >> okay, but she's not on her way to safety just yet. after assessing the condition of the bucket, fulford decides bruce needs to come up first. >> we knew that individual was under more stress than the other two. >> hold it! >> all right. hold on. >> it's a quick ride up, only two minutes. but bruce boyles can't get his feet on steady ground fast enough. >> glad to be back. >> next, it's kim's turn. and she's pulled to safety in a ma...

Rescued. division chief napoli credits all of the police and fire crews on the bridge that day with saving the inspectors' lives. >> it was a difficult, technical rescue with a high possibility of loss of life. >> he believes things would have been much worse if the whole crane arm had fallen into the water. >> i think they would have either sunk with the piece of equipment or the trauma they sustained when it hit the water would have not been good for them. >> while some of the inspectors did suffer minor injuries, the emotional impact of the accident has had a lasting effect on kim. she left...