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The stunning discovery days after a massive fire burned through a senior apartment complex in washington, d.c. a 74-year-old man found alive. here's david kerley. >> reporter: tonight, five days after flames swept through this d.c. senior center, with firefighters and nearby u.s. marines racing to help pull residents out of the 161 apartments -- >> the marines came and got him out. >> reporter: -- a survivor still in the building. the 74-year-old man found alone sitting in his apartment this morning, as structural teams checking the charred remains heard him inside, prying open his jammed door...
Going door to door, prying open those doors to make sure there is no one inside. thankfully no deaths in port arthur reported. i see a lot of cars actually on the roads today. people are getting out and about to go back home, check on the damage. also the big box stores like walmart, home depot, they have started to open up so people can start repairing the damage to their homes. you can see some horses here being brought out, presumably from a low-lying area that was flooded. and if you look right here, i want to step back. you can see the waterline was right up here at the start of the day. ...
>>gretchen: talk about a well-dressed rescue. some florida teens stopped to help crash victims on their way to prom. 20 teens were riding in a limo when a van crashed in front of them, flipping over five adults and two kids trapped inside. the limo driver and teens rushed in to help, one person kicking in a window, another kraoeuplg over the van and -- climbing over the van and prying open the doors. >> we pushed the van and pulled a baby out. then we started pulling the mother out from the back of the truck. >> i saw her baby girl laying there. i went to reach her. that's when she turned arou...