dan springer has information about where they are in their search for answers. reporter: unbelievable, neil. can you imagine driving ace long and the road in front of you disappears and panic as you go into the river below? only then does the real fight for survival again. these cars started filling up with 45 degree water, very cold. they had to get themselves unbuckled, out of the cars, and to relative safety on the hood of the vehicles. once there, they had to worry if the cars would stay up on the collapsed portion of the bridge because only that was keeping them out of 15 feet of water that was moving rapidly. search and rescue teams were sent scrambling and more than an hour later, they were pulled safely off the wreckage. i kind of wiggled a little bit and got it to go back in. it allowed me to crawl underneath and kind of patted her on the face and asked her if she was okay. she came to, and i asked her if she could move everything, you