be evacuated first. but you know, we had the boys in our group. they along with the male chaperones separated from us. and by that point it was really getting chaotic. while alex stays calm, people all around her are losing control. my sister was hysterical, my best friend was hysterical, most of the other students were hysterical. a lot of chaos, a lot of fear, a lot of panic. you saw people fight for things and i was getting kind of the last life jacket for our group, which happened to be alex s. there was a man behind us who was probably around 70 years old grabbed it out of her hand. alex finds another life jacket. and as the evacuation is under way, passengers are told they have to traverse down a rope ladder. we had to climb down three or four stories, they told us not to look down. but of course, once they tell you not to look down, you look down. so as soon as you look down you kind of freeze for a couple seconds.
images from that night. in infrared you see clusters of people clinging to the side all the way down to the water. a woman runs along the hull seeming panicked and slips. this person waves wildly for help. the coast guard approaches, stunned to see the ship on its side. they spot someone hanging on. passengers crowd a rope ladder down the edge. later, from beneath you see parts of the ship crumpled to ribbons. from above the lifeboats that wouldn t budge. honeymooners bengie and emily were in one of those, forcing them to get out, find a rope themselves, tie it to a deck, and rappel all the way down. where they waited for three hours, having no idea they were near shore. we said, just in case we don t make it out of this, i love you and good-bye. reporter: people are still struggling for peace after this, as is the captain, accused of manslaughter. i join my pain to that pain. even if there is a differences. i have the pain of the person
with the male chaperons separated from us and by that point, it was really getting chaotic. while alex stays calm, people all around her are losing control. my sister was hysterical, my best friend was hysterical, most of the other students were hysterical. a lot of chaos, a lot of fear, a lot of panic. you saw people fight for things and i was getting kind of the last life jacket for our group, which happened to be alex s. there was a man behind us who was probably around 70 years old grabbed it out of her hand. alex find another life jacket and as the evacuation is under way, passengers are told they have to traverse down a rope ladder. we had to climb down three or four stories and they told us not to look down, but, of course, once they tell you not to look down, you look down. so, as soon as you look down you kind of freeze for a couple seconds. some people like this woman seem almost paralyzed with fear.
predictions. will they get a deal done? eleanor? they ll get something i think to slip us into the new year. and even if we go over the cliff, it s really not that steep. i think they can recover. rachel. absolutely. i think they will either punt as we have seen congress do, that is not unprecedented in history, give it some kind of little band aid approach to get us to the new year, or dive over the cliff but come back and pull us up, use the rope ladder or whatever they need to do in january to work out an actual deal. loving the analogies. very good. an astonishing fact about ohio and the election and how reverend jesse jackson was in the middle of all of it. i m talking with him next.
but, you know, we had had the boys in our group, they along with the male chaperons separated from us and by that point, it was really getting chaotic. while alex stays calm, people all around her are losing control. my sister was hysterical, my best friend was hysterical, most of the other students were hysterical. a lot of chaos, a lot of fear, a lot of panic. you saw people fight for things and i was getting kind of the last life jacket for our group, which happened to be alex s. there was a man behind us who was probably around 70 years old grabbed it out of her hand. alex finds another life jacket, and as the evacuation is under way, passengers are told they have to traverse down a rope ladder. we had to climb down three or four stories and they told us not to look down, but, of course, once they tell you not to look down, you look down. so, as soon as you look down you kind of freeze for a couple seconds.