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With them to bring them out have that ability. but they're trying to put, you know, utilize that skill and training on someone that is not necessarily comfortable. ideal conditions, recreationally cave diving usually the water is so clear you can see for thousands and thousands of feet with a proper light. they're diving in mud essentially. there is no visibility. so the anxiety level to suddenly take an individual and say we're going to put you in a mask. you're not going to be able to see a thing and trust us to lead you out of here, i'm sure is quite a stress level. >> so they tried to miti...

Around the base of the statue of liberty here, on top of the pedestal and using this harness and rope system, it looks like they're trying to maneuver this person over to the point where they can then lower this person down off of the statue and on to the pedestal and then down to safety. brynn gingras, as you're watching this unfold, what would you like to add? what are you seeing here? because it look like again, this person was moving, now this person is stopping. it does not appear that this person, that this protester is a fully cooperative person, who is coming down, hopefully soon off o...

>> wow. >> they deal with this stuff all the time. and they train for this stuff all the time. and it's a combined units. it's not just esu. you know, they're getting help right now from the aviation unit in the air that was able to spot her constantly, while esu members were on the side and out of -- you know, she was out of their line of sight. it's also the members of the hostage negotiation team that were just there at the pedestal, basically just making phone calls, getting information about this woman, who she was, what she wanted, why she wasn't coming down. sort of her demands in tryin...

To build that on the statue of liberty, in order to make sure that those officers could safely get to her and then safely get her down. and a little while ago, we actually saw those officers putting haernput ing harness system to a vertical rope system, when before she was attached then she was attached to a new rope. if you can sort of see it. >> we certainly can. >> it's a constant attaching and reattaching to ropes as they move her along safely along this. but we're just seconds away from her safely being on ground. you can see those officers there with the blue helmets. that's the s.u. the...

Underneath her, and almost four hours now, since this whole saga began. and it seems that this protester is now willingly cooperating with authorities and climbing down that ladder there, to get down to the base of the statue. brynn gingras, if i can bring you back in, tell us what you're seeing right now and what your impressions are? it does look like we're getting closer to the end. >> we are, and jim, i just learned from a source, the person in charge there is a member who was actually part of the puerto rico rescue efforts. this supervisor from the emergency services unit actually went to...