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A high-rise and firefighters must make a daring attempt to try and save them. >> it was definitely going through my mind he may jump or fall. >> it's the morning of may 14th, 1991, near times square in new york city. a fire's broken out on the top floor of this building on 7th avenue and 48th street. the billowing smoke is caught on camera by news crews at street level and by ron pearlstein from his video production office directly across the street. >> i was sitting at my desk and i saw smoke. just a little smoke coming out of the window. then i saw more. i grabbed my camera, i started shooti...

From his video production office directly across the street. >> i was sitting at my desk and i saw smoke. just a little smoke out of the window. then i saw more. i grabbed my camera, i started shooting. >> as pearlstein zooms in on the building, he sees a man perched on a window ledge trying to escape the thick smoke. >> i'm like, oh, my god, now is this a life and death situation. help him. >> firefighters from the fdny rescue one unit arrive at the building joining other crews already on scene. patrick barr and kevin shay now both retired were with rescue one that day. >> there was people on...

Roof, i realized no one could get through the interior because there was a large amount of fire. so they knew the only recourse was to get this guy from the roof. >> the firefighters from rescue one begin to prepare to lower barr by rope to grab the man. >> part of my equipment was the roof rope. so i brought it up, i would use it. it had to be by rope because the ladders wouldn't reach him. >> lieutenant patrick patty brown is in charge of the risky operation. he knows if the rope frays or gets burned, it could snap and anyone hanging over the edge could plummet to his death. as brown leans o...

Window ledge of the 12th floor, looking like he's ready to jump to escape the growing heat and smoke. >> people will not burn to death. if they can jump, they'll jump. it's that painful and, you know, it's like you're drowning in smoke. >> barr is not yet anchored to anyone or anything. but he kicks his legs over the edge almost 200 feet above the ground to reassure the man in the window. >> patty bar was already hanging over the roof without having the other end of the rope attached to anything to let him know not to jump, that we were on our way. >> quickly shay attaches the other end of bar...

immigration. we'll show you the old clip making new headlines. wolf blitzer is off. i'm joe johns. you're in "the situation room." we begin with breaking news. american students caught up in the bloody cairo protest are finally on their way out of a nightmare experience in egypt. let's go straight to cnn's senior international correspondent, ben wedeman in cairo. earlier today we heard the three american students would be released on saturday. now we're hearing it's already happened. why? >> what we understand is that yesterday the prosecutors ordered their release but it took for ...