potentiallily powey power outag well. cnn s derek van dam, thank you so much. dozens of people are back on solid ground in the u.s. state of wisconsin after being stuck offshore on this drifting sheet of ice. the brown county sheriff s office says a large chunk of floating ice broke off near green bay mid-morning on saturday, leaving multiple people stranded. local media say that they were ice fishing. rescue teams had to move quickly, as the open water further moved and cracked the ice during the operation. within two hours, they had drifted about a mile from shore, before authorities were able to rescue all 34 people, amazingly, with no injuries. now, search and rescue efforts are set to resume in the coming hours in brazil, where an enormous cliff broke off and collapsed. it smashed into several tour boats on saturday, killing at least several people. the disaster happened at a lake popular with sightseers in southeastern brazil. rafael romo has the latest.
on the scene. everyone stepped in and pitched in and started running. they were instructed get people to new jersey as quickly as you can and take the shortest route. as people started to come to the waterfront, i mean, hundreds of thousands of people, the whole industry stepped up. circle line tour boats became emergency water shut also. we went across the river halfway across the hudson, if you looked down you can actually see all the smoke and the collapsed towers and that was just horrifying. the makeshift armada made up of first responders along with more than 100 private boats would come to the rescue, evacuating nearly half a million people in less than nine hours. god, it was people covered in dust downtown. people hurt and people climbing over the fences. it was pretty intense.
in they just started running, they were instructed and got people to new jersey as quickly as you can then as people started to come to the waterfront, hundreds of thousands of people, the whole industry stepped up from long island south jersey is pretty amazing. circle line tour boats became emergency water shows. i leave another vote pulls in like that all day. i could see it in their eyes. when we loaded up we cleared the shares, all kinds of space with a were standing and went across the river halfway across the hudson and if you look down you can see all of the smoke in the collapsed towers and that was horrifying. we got the approval from the coast guard to me on any vote that you can that are capable of doing the job so if you have a guy that is captain that was
place some 100 miles from hanoi. we take off for ha long bay, and in the air, we begin to see what draws millions from all over the world. ha long means descending dragon. and looking out the window, the incredible sight. the limestone formations as far as we could see. and from the ground, the tour boats dwarfed by those formations. it really is spectacular. i mean, everywhere you look here, you see the limestone islands coming up out of the water. take a look at this. they estimate that there are thousands of them here in the bay. it was not long ago ha long bay was named one of the new natural wonders of the world. and they are very proud here. ha long became one of the seven new wonder natural of the world. because you see that here not only the view, view very, very beautiful view. ha long became one of the seven new wonder natural of the world. reporter: unesco has placed ha long bay on the world heritage site. 18 years, you ve been a tour guide.
right now the price is pretty stable, but the season has just barely started. once the lobsters really arrive in the whole state, we don t know how it will go. he has weathered many storms in his decades long career and wonders what this latest one will mean. if the old adage, we are not going to starve, but i don t know if we are going to get rich either. the hope here is that the new chinese tariffs go away and fast before buyers in china established new connections with lobster dealers in other countries like canada where the tariff stands at just 7%. the fear is that once the business is gone it won t come back. bret: thank you. up next we talk exclusively with nicaragua s president daniel ortega about calls from within his country for him to step down. first, what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 2 in st. louis has the tour boats that sank in southern