Wall Street Record Highs; Keystone Pipeline Vote; School Shooting 911 Tape
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Happening now in the NEWSROOM, trapped, dangling in the sky.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A scary moment, yes. Very scary.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And just think about the guys, they are just hanging by a thread.</s>COSTELLO: Two window washers and their harrowing rescue. Plus --</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Blood is everywhere. I do not see the gun. I need help.</s>DISPATCHER: Like -</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I need help now. He is wearing all black. I am staring at him right now, sitting next to him.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He is a high school student. I do not know how old is he.</s>DISPATCHER: OK. Do you know his name?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I tried to stop him before he shot himself.</s>COSTELLO: A teacher turned hero. For the first time we hear the terrifying 911 calls from inside the Marysville-Pilchuck High School. And the National Weather Service hacked by the Chinese and why NOAA kept it secret from us for so long. NEWSROOM starts now. And good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. New day, new record. Stock futures have been up this morning, stirring hope that Wall Street's ride into record territory is not over. It has been a big turnaround. Less than a month ago we were talking triple- digit losses. CNN's Alison Kosik joins me.</s>ALISON KOSIK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Those losses just a distant memory, Carol. Who remembers up that whiplash we were getting? Now we're back in record territory. You're seeing the Dow up just a little bit. We did see stocks take a pause yesterday. Investors kind of sat it out. Not such a bad thing, but yes the records could continue today. Interestingly enough, I talked with one analyst this morning who say, you know what, you look at these levels, they are not justified. Just look at what happened with the midterm elections. Guess why Americans threw everybody out of office? Because they're not happy with the economy, this analyst tells me. And he says no better than to look at what GDP is doing. And, yes, GDP is doing better this year, starting off negative, getting much better in the second quarter at 4.6 percent. Now the third quarter's showing at 3.5 percent. But here's the point that this analyst is making. We're five and a half years out of the recession and you're going to see GDP average out to only a little over 2 percent for the year. He says it's just not good enough. But what we are seeing, once again, are these asset prices, aka stocks, continuing on the rise. The problem here is that not everybody's invested in the stock market.</s>COSTELLO: That's right.</s>KOSIK: Only 49 percent of Americans are and not everybody's feeling it. Hey, but if you've got a 401(k), that S&P 500 is up 10 percent so far for the year and your 401(k) most likely tracks that S&P 500. So things are looking good for you.</s>COSTELLO: OK, we'll concentrate on the positive -</s>KOSIK: Yes.</s>COSTELLO: Because that's what we like to do in the</s>NEWSROOM. KOSIK: You got it.</s>COSTELLO: Alison Kosik, thanks so much. In other news this morning, six years after the government began a review of the Keystone pipeline, lawmakers get a crack at it. The House is set for a vote tomorrow, the Senate next week. And two candidates locked in the Senate runoff battle are each hoping that passage can help their chances. CNN chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash has more for you this morning. Good morning, Dana.</s>DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. What a legislative proxy war that we are going to see over the next week or so here on Capitol Hill. And it starts out with Mary Landrieu, the Democrat from Louisiana, who is in a runoff, as you said still, that won't happen until next month against a Republican opponent, so she's still hanging in the balance, not looking very good when it comes to the polls. But she threw, forgive me, a hail mary, so to speak, by pushing her Democratic leadership and the Senate in general to take a vote on something that Democratic leaders have resisted for years, and that is, as you said, approval of the Keystone pipeline. She is doing this for several reasons, Carol. Number one, she is now energy chairman. So she, by doing this, is proving that she has power in Washington, and power to, as she says, create jobs. But also, so many of these Democrats who lost, her colleagues who are not going to be coming back, lost because they were linked to the Democratic leadership and to the president. Republicans were able to say that they voted with the president 99 percent of the time. Part of the reason that they were able to do that is because Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, didn't put votes on the floor that would - that divided Democrats. Keystone pipeline is a perfect example. So, at this point, it's sort of, there's nothing to lose strategy. Republicans are going to do it anyway in next year if Democrats don't do it now, so why not take a chance, see if this helps Mary Landrieu and, of course, since Republicans run the House, her Republican opponent is a House member, they're going to try to one-up her by taking a vote there on the same thing probably tomorrow.</s>COSTELLO: All right, we're going to talk more about this in the next hour of NEWSROOM. Dana Bash reporting live from Washington this morning. A terrifying scene playing out 68 stories up. Two window washers were trapped when their platform collapsed at New York's One World Trade Center. The rig dropped from horizontal to nearly vertical after a cable gave way.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A scary moment, yes, very scary.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm just thinking about the guys, they are just hanging by a thread.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm seeing two heads right now dangling over the scaffolding.</s>LT. WILLIAM RYAN, NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT: They were in a bad spot. They had no options but they were professionals. They knew they weren't going anywhere, you know, so they weren't panicking, but they had no options.</s>COSTELLO: Rescue workers used a diamond saw to cut through three layers of thick glass to reach the workers and pull them inside the building. The operation took an agonizing 90 minutes. The workers were treated for mild hypothermia and they're OK this morning. That's just my worst nightmare. It's unbelievable. OK, time to get serious once again. "I tried to stop him before he shot himself," words from a heroic teacher who came face-to-face with 15-year-old Jaylen Fryberg. Fryberg opened fire in the cafeteria of a Marysville, Washington, high school. Four students and Fryberg died. Now for the first time we're hearing the dramatic 911 tapes. CNN's Michaela Pereira joins me with more. Good morning.</s>MICHAELA PEREIRA, ANCHOR, CNN'S "NEW DAY": Good morning to you, Carol. It's so chilling, this newly released audio of the horrifying 911 calls from that deadly school shooting last month in Washington state. A teacher is heard on these tapes pleading for help amid all this chaos. Chaos caused by a student, a student armed with a gun, who took innocent lives, one by one, eventually taking his own.</s>DISPATCHER: We have reports of gunfire.</s>PEREIRA: Chilling, newly released 911 calls capture those terrifying moments during the Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooting.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just ran out of the school. The door was right there, and I am out of the school right now.</s>PEREIRA: Students, teachers and staff flooding 911.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just left the cafeteria and guided students out the side door.</s>PEREIRA: As inside the cafeteria, freshman Jaylen Fryberg shot five of his classmates, injuring one, another died on the scene, three later succumbed to their injuries.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have many injured, Marysville-Pilchuck High School. We need emergency right away.</s>PEREIRA: And we're now hearing, for the first time, the heroic teacher who tried to stop Fryberg.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Blood is everywhere. I do not see the gun.</s>PEREIRA: Before the 15-year-old turned the gun on himself.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I need help.</s>DISPATCHER: What -</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I need help now.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: he is wearing all black. I'm staring at him right now, sitting next to him.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He is a high school student. I do not know how old he is.</s>DISPATCHER: OK. Do you know his name?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I tried to stop him before he shot himself.</s>PEREIRA: As word spread quickly around the community, frantic calls from parents began pouring in.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just got a phone call from my daughter from Pilchuk High School.</s>PEREIRA: Zoey Galasso's mother messaged her daughter, "are you OK?," but the 14-year-old never responded.</s>MICHELLE GALASSO, MOTHER OF 14-YEAR-OLD KILLED: They finally - finally had to tell us that our child had passed at the school. And he took away one of the best things that I ever brought into this world.</s>PEREIRA: That mother you just saw there, Michelle Galasso, her daughter was one of the first to die in the cafeteria on that terrible day. I think what's really amazing is that she says she forgives Jaylen Fryberg, the shooter. And this is what she says, quote, "I have to forgive because I cannot waste my life hating or being angry." What's even more amazing is, she said that when she saw Jaylen Fryberg, the shooter's mother, she went up to her, she hugged her, she told her she loved her because she realized that this was a mother who was grieving as well. We should point out, his cousin -- Jaylen Fryberg's cousin, who he shot and ultimately killed, he died a week ago, he's going to be laid to rest tomorrow on the Tulalip Indian Reservation. He was just 16 years old.</s>COSTELLO: that's just unbelievable and, you're right, it proves, though, there are wonderfully, great, good people in the world.</s>PEREIRA: And also this is going to help her heal. You can't live with that kind of anger, although nobody would fault you. Nobody would fault you.</s>COSTELLO: No. No, that's a special person.</s>PEREIRA: It is.</s>COSTELLO: Michaela thanks so much.</s>COSTELLO: Still to come in the NEWSROOM, a community on edge as a grand jury decides whether Police Officer Darren Wilson should be indicted in the shooting death of Michael Brown. What does the future hold if Wilson is not indicted? One of the city's state senators will join me with her perspective, next.