. >> for pierce and tonya thompson, their bedroom window was a front row seat in the deadly hours. >> particularly on this side here, the west side, i remember someone up there probably the second floor down. >> right up there. the second floor down. >> yeah, that's where we really seen the people. this girl shouting up at the building. get out! get out! i mean, sort of a few times. >> still inside, he readied his makeshift rope from bed sheets. >> i tied it around the window, tied it so hard, as hard as i could and people told me no, what you're doing, don't do it but i wasn't looking to die in there and i told my partner to pass me my daughter. my daughter wasn't having it. she was crying. like what are you doing? so now my daughter isn't coming and now i get back into the flame because i'll not going down with my daughter. so now i'm finding it difficult to get back in because i'm dangling from the 14th floor. >> his neighbors pulled him back in saving his life before losing their own. >> i said run, i grabbed my mrs. by hand. my daughter tied to my back already and i didn't look b