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>> i have seen them wave at the helicopters. >> get me out of here. >> also twitter feeds going you wouldn't have to rescue me because i'd already have a heart attack and already be dead. really. these guys, obviously this is what they do for a living. they're used to living 500 feet up above on a scaffold. still, it appears to me when i took a live shot, wide shot from the wabc a little bit ago, there are two almost arms holding up both ends of the stacaffold. the middle has collapsed in some way. it appears maybe this moves back and forth almost like a book -- like the the arms of a book. so...

Today the case begins against james "whitie "bulger for murder and mayhem. how many crooked fbi agents are being brought to justice? hi, everybody. i'm jake tapper. welcome to "the lead." peel begin with two window washers who are trache in midtown manhattan. their scaffolding collapsed, buckling in the middle, leaving both men straded hundreds of feet in the air. rescue crews are already on the way to the scene. you can see the men are wearing harnesses, they appear to be okay. in fact we saw one of the them on his cell phone a few minutes ago. we'll keep checking in on the rescue efforts t...

Ropes. but the question is, how will they get to safety? we'll keep watching these pictures. for now, i'm brooke baldwin here tess world headquarters in atlanta. let's send things to washington. "the lead with jake tapper" starts now. sure, critics say his agency invaded your privacy, but he says it saved american lives. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the world lead, the head of the national security agency going before congress right now, and defending agency programs that spy on your information. senator rand paul of kentucky wants to take his gripes with this program to the supreme ...

It seems to be the kind of harness they would always wear one assumes as a safety mechanism to keep them from falling but it's not attached to anything as far as i can see or anybody up on the roof of the building. you wonder, these guys look very nonchalant. you wonder what ear talking about. >> shepard: i'm going to call them red and blue. blue's been on the phone periodically. so -- he waved to the camera a while ago. many of us wondered who takes this job? i figured out why you might do that. because the producer who are awesome sent me background information on window washers. it's unioni...

Above. it's a 47 story building. >> it's a beautiful building and very high, 46 stories. it's incredible those guys got here. a lot of us live in those kind of tall buildings and you see them out there every day, extraordinarily brave work they do. you couldn't get me to do t just imagine the horror. if this, as it appears, buckled almost in the middle, the fear that went through the minds of those two window washers. they've got to get them from above. the other great danger is not just to the lives of those two but if that thing is unstable, it's to those nearby on the streets below. we're a...