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The fight to preserve the River Club site provides the challenge of securing community needs in a time of ecological disaster.

>> reporter: and what he saw was an 18 wheeler, a semi truck hit the bridge. that caused a 65-foot wide and 165 section of that bridge to plunge into the water. this bridge was built in 1955. it was said to be structurally obsolete in a study, but it was also -- it passed inspection in november. the ntsb will come out here today and start investigating. martha. martha: thank you very much, dan, unbelievable. bill: there are growing concerns about the competency of the i.r.s. with the scandal there and its ability to oversee what will be a throw in the healthcare law. over the next several mont...

It really is a he request, how did they survive, well a lot of luck. the time of day,7:00, rush-hour was over. the cars plunged about 50 feet down this -- into the river but they stayed up pretty much out of the water because they landed on the concrete, that is about 15 feet of water but they didn't get all the way down in the water because of that concrete. now the guy who actually was in the pickup truck, that silver pickup truck he pulled his wife out through the passenger side and they got up on top of the hood of that truck and waited for about an hour for rescuers to pull them out. dan ...