Firefighters have rescued two window cleaners who were stuck on scaffolding outside the 69th floor of One World Trade Center in New York City. The nerve-wracking drama unfolded on Wednesday afternoon on the south side of America's tallest skyscraper.
Emergency officials cut through panes of glass to reach the workers while a second rig was lowered as a back-up option.
TV images showed one side of the scaffolding platform dangling. A cable on the scaffolding snapped shortly before 1pm (6pm GMT) and the workers were pulled to safety nearly 90 minutes later.
They were taken to hospital suffering from mild hypothermia, said officials.
The men's ordeal lasted about an hour and a half. The pair were named in local media as Juan Lizama and Juan Lopez.
Television images showed one side of the scaffolding platform dangling at a sharp angle.
Picture from FDNY of the window washer rescue
The workers were not at imminent risk of falling because they had been tethered by harnesses to the roof, said officials.
The building has 104 floors and is 1,776ft (541 metres) high, making it the tallest in the western hemisphere.
Back on terra firma, onlookers snap pictures. The $3.9bn skyscraper only opened for business last week for the first time since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Almost 200 employees of magazine publisher Conde Nast were the first to move in.
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