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Raising $20 million to country are the national rifle association. it's probably not going to be anywhere near as fast as the president had wanted. mr. biden will make his proposals next tuesday to the president. they were hoping for a legislative initiative that could be going soon. they said the debt and deficit go first. we won't see this being worked on if at all until spring. jon: yes that is a real window behind him with a real view of the capitol, and yes those windows need to be cleaned once in a whaoeufrpblgts every once in a while we have to clean the house. jon: window washers are d...

Camera." ever looked up at the window washers working on high-rise buildings and wonder how can they do that? this is one dangerous job. work requires no fear of heights and nerves of steel. our next story shows a tight grip. downtown denver, a scaffold is sent careening out of control with two window washers holding on for dear life. >> everything happened quick. >> turned behind and like what the hell is going on here? >> it is move 30, 2005. onlookers stand in disbelief outside. denver plaza tower. >> i'm still shooken up watching all that. it was so freaky. it was scary. >> sudden wind bet...

The fear on the faces of those two men. >> they were terrified. they didn't think they were going home that day. >> firefighters try to make a bigger hole in the glass to give the window washers more room, but there's no time. when the scaffold collides again with the building, at the precise spot where firefighters are waiting the two frightened men seize the moment. >> they didn't wait. they were so afraid that they literally just dove through that small opening. >> after their 15-minute terrifying wild ride, oscar gonzalez and hector estrada break down. they are grateful to be alive. >> tra...

People were staring out at the street saying, no, no, no. >> heather works on the 18th floor. >> at one point it was swinging out towards the street. and it actually went up vertical like this. i think that was the scariest point for me because i was thinking for sure somebody with fall out. >> it really had kind of an apocalyptic feel to it. >> photojournalist kirby howell works only a few blocks away and gets to the scene quickly, capturing it all on camera. >> the scaffold swung out halfway between these two buildings here. my biggest fear was that the cables supporting it were going to sna...

Crews moved in to save four window washers. they were stranded on a las vegas hirise work site. they were struck for several hours up there on the 35th floor of the verdara wh hotel. each one had to be lowered in a harness to the roof of the third floor landing, looks like it was well down. the men called for help when a brick on their basket failed. bill: would you ever do that job? martha: never, never, never. sometimes you hear the scrape on our windows here, a big building in the middle of manhattan. you can hear them coming right by the window. it's for the brave that job. bill: it would ...