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 snap and it would come crashing down to the street. the window washers are wearing safety harnesses, so presumably if the scaffold falls, the men would be left hanging from the top of the building. that s probably little comfort to them as the scaffold flies through the air thrashing violently. it s already plummeted about 15 feet and shards of glass from the building s windows are raining down on the s
cables supporting it were going to snap and it would come crashing down to the street. the window washers are wearing safety harnesses, so presumably if the scaffold falls, the men would be left hanging from the top of the building. that s probably little comfort to them as the scaffold flies through the air thrashing violently. it s already plummeted about 15 feet and shards of glass from the building s windows are raining down on the street. to get a visual of this. you arrive on scene, you see a little bit of glass. midway through the incident it looks like an armageddon, a war zone down there. firefighters immediately cordon off the area. you had a wild, swinging arc of the scaffolding. looked like a locomotive in between the buildings. the obvious question was someone s going to get seriously hurt and someone could die. something had to be done quickly. crews rush inside the building, hoping they can catch the scaffold the next time it hits. we started running down the
said you re going to give it to your mom when we resolve this. we wanted to let him know even though he feels no one is there communicating with him or listening to him, that we are there listening and to help him. the glass wall and strong winds make it difficult for detective solar to hear the conversation. in a very bold move, he scales the glass barrier and gets on the ledge. to load a piece of glass with over 200 pounds when i m fully geared, it was a concern of mine when i went over it. if that kind of piece of glass were to break and shatter, it s going to fall to the street level, which could hit an innocent bystander that s in the street. detective solar says he fakes injuring himself to appear more vulnerable and less threatening to the subject. once over the glass partition, he s in a position to grab the man, should he jump. but even with safety harnesses, the detectives are risking their
the showers and thundershowers have come in. they re getting very strong, and the heaviest storms are making their way on shore as we speak. so nobody really wants to be on the beach at this point anymore, at least not towards the jacksonville beach area. this is the area we re most concerned about. we re seeing augustine kind of sandwiched between there and jacksonville. as soon as this red stuff starts making its way onto shore, we can see wind gusts getting close to hurricane strength. 70 miles per hour, so that s dangerous. we already have reports in florida and south georgia of trees coming down and some power outages, and that s going to increase before the end of the night. the storm should make landfall this evening or overnight, and it will start to curb to the northeast. so the weakening is good, but the stalling not so great, and that s the concern, because we ll likely see some flooding associated with this. in fact, we could be talking anywhere between 3 and 6 in
mattresses. some senators agree. they re ought to be a law. our current toxics law allows too many untested chemicals on the market. why should parents who would be left to wonder if the chemicals used in their baby s bottles, pacifiers, cribs are safe? the status quo is dangerous and unacceptable. cnn s dana bash joins me now with, dare i say, this rolling coverage. so what are these moms hoping to accomplish? reporter: what they want is basically information, and the backstory, the background, i should tell you, something that certainly i didn t realize as a new mom and many others might not is that chemicals simply are not regulated, and we don t know a lot about the chemicals that are out there. as you mention in everything. at this press conference these lawmakers and activists made clear that there are 80,000 known chemicals, martin. only 200 have been tested and only 4 have been taken off the market. i want to bring in a couple of the moms who came here from far