Kansas City firemen eventually came to the rescue and got everyone out with a ladder around 10 p.m.

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The federal government should do the same. (Applause.) So tonight, I'm proposing specific steps to pay for the trillion dollars that it took to rescue the economy last year.

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Local and national cable news broadcast footage of the rescue effort and showed the woman emerging from the space at about 7:30 a.m.

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