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Watch live as WRAL's Ashley Rowe takes a 30-story plunge down the Wells Fargo building in downtown Raleigh to support the Special Olympics.

Oh, thank you. Here we go. That's fair. So, Renee, I've got to tell you, I am currently hanging with a few ropes over the Wells Fargo Tower. And if you hear the shakiness in my voice, it's because I refuse to look down to see what is below me. But you can take a look. This is all for an awesome cause though, for the Special Olympics in North Carolina, this is something I have never done before guys. And again, I have not looked down so, you know, better than I do what is below me at this point? Well, I can understand why people don't want to do this. I have probably applied six layers of deodorant so far this morning. Like I'm very, very nervous, but here's the deal. My cousin's daughter is a special Olympics athlete in Canada. And I have seen first hand the joy that Ella as being a participant in all these amazing sports, she's run track and won all these awesome medals and just has built such community. So when I found out about this opportunity to raise a bit of awareness about Special Olympics in North Carolina, I had to jump at the opportunity even if it meant facing 30 stories of fear. Ok. Ok. Thanks. Ok. Ok. Ok. What do I do here? All right. So, yep. Perfect right there holding on to this. So this hand, turn your hand right around under here underneath this, underneath this and you're just going to pull back to you and you're going to have to feed up a little bit of rope just like that. Got it. Ok? But I gotta wait for you to go down. So we'll start, they're gonna bump in in 2.5 minutes, ok? So you want to stay up here for 2.5 minutes, I would say. Yeah, but you could start going, I think. Yeah. Go down a little bit. Don't worry about me. Get your feet off the edge here. Don't pull too much more. Lift up on the lift up on the road. Hurt too much. Yeah, I lift up on the rope, got it and grab another handful and there you go. You're gonna have to do that about halfway down. That's why I said you're gonna get a nice try some. Holy shit. Sorry, I shouldn't be swearing. We're life on W dot com. It doesn't get more real than that. And if you want to hang out a little bit, you wanna look down? No, not yet. Ok. Did you hear that? Curt? Ok. So Kurt's gonna go down now a little bit more. All Right, bri. Thank you. Thank you for talking me through it guys. Yeah. Come on, that's doing good. Is, oh, close with my I, she has made it over halfway down. Let's see if she can hear us now, folks by giving her a huge round of applause. Baby. Give us a quick wave. She came here quite yet, but she's getting, she's inching towards the bottom and we are so impressed again. Ashley is going over the edge today in honor of her cousin's daughter, Ella. She is a special Olympics athlete in Canada and we really appreciate her doing this for special Olympics athletes here in North Carolina and in honor of special Olympics athletes everywhere. Special Olympics is a global organization, a year round sports organization that is an inclusive movement, movement for people across the world. And people like Ashley are the reason that we are able to provide these kind of programs for folks all over the universe. So we really appreciate all Ashley and Wrl have done to push and promote inclusion through their live streaming on the new news. Ashley, can you hear us, give us a wave if you can hear us, Ashley or maybe she's too scared to let go of the rope and that's also fine. We understand that Ashley. No worries, but you're doing amazing everybody. Let's do another round of applause there. Fine. Still she's, yeah, she's not like uh yeah, I that's why you out there. Thanks you, I was gonna text you. You had, yeah, we degrees there. I think people. Correct. No. Oh, she's touched down. She is three quarters of the way there. Let's maybe get a chance going, let's say, uh, sleep, uh, sleep, uh, sleep, uh, sleep, uh, sleep, way to go. Ashley. You're doing fantastic. Keep on going. You're almost to the bottom, almost back to the ground. And you have done very impressively on this 30 story descent. You should be very proud of yourself. Come and uh we can do rock paper so we can do rock paper. Yeah, you're OK. Who is it? 30. Yes, we were 30 ft. Doing great, Ashley almost there. Hey, everybody. So actually you're almost to the bottom. Let's go. Oh, it was amazing. Ok. I'm just gonna hang out for a little while because they, uh they, they've directed me that uh, I've gone too quickly. So I'm gonna just be up here probably for another five minutes. Uh Ground green. A instructions to, to for about five minutes. I just wanted to keep you on the loop happy that bye. Ok. So do you want, so you just tell me when to come? Ok. I think they're saying three minutes you can land and then we'll do that later on. Do you want her? Sorry for the, the video things that you're doing here when she gets down on the ground. Do you want us to get her on hook? Right? Away and you wanna get some video of her on the road. I mean, we can help coordinate that a little bit for you. I think what she gets, you can probably start, I mean, typically they get on the ground right away and just go ahead and start getting them off. I think it's fine. Yeah. What they're gonna do is she's gonna come down, they're gonna do, uh, at a commercial break and then we're gonna do. They are so life save, they're called specs. They're prisms so that I'm looking at you, but I'm looking at her at the same time. So if I look above them, I'm looking at you. If I look at the lens, I'm looking at her, I don't have to kill my neck. He's just got no, there are glasses that we have for recreational climbing so that it saves our neck when we're staring up at our partner all day long. Yeah. Yes, it is. It is. It's not specific to this event, but it's a lifesaver for this event. Well, if I weren't on, I'd take them off and let you look at them, but I'm kind of busy. How you doing? How are you doing? I'm starting to lose feeling in my right toes. But you know, so OK, just give me the cue to start moving. Fair enough. I wanna go to see the award somewhere in that back or I'm a, in a part of this something else. Oh, never mind. Sorry. Thank you for checking though. We'll send some pictures and ask him for, you know, the whole of this one working that I made in that picture for you. I'm sorry, I wanted the warship. They didn't have it that day. You know the out I don't like that. The stream put a number. Yeah. Ok. Yes. Hey, Ashley. Yeah, your left foot. Could you put it on the right side of the rope, please like that. Uh See how it's on the left side of that orange rope. Hang on one second. Say that again. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Thank you. Now, this may be coming off a little bit easier. Ok, great. I think we're going to be doing this in like 30 seconds. Go on. You're in charge right now. All right. Two piece of cheese, right? All right at the back. All right. Give yourself a bit more. Is that be done? All right. Ok, great. Thank you guys. That was pretty cool. I didn't look down until I was about halfway through and then I was able to see my reflection through the windows and I finally built up the courage to come down to look down and it was really special. Thank you so much. Ok. Ok. I've lost feeling in this leg. Yeah, that's why we're still kind of helping you out here. That's a, a something I wasn't quite expecting, but it makes it a whole lot of sense given that I haven't used it in 20 minutes. All right. Uh I'm gonna let my leg regain blood flow and then, uh, would you want to just, what do you want to do? Um There's no one else to know so you can breath otherwise. Ok. Just give me a second to get on. No, I think it'll be officially, I think it works that maybe, maybe we'll take this off but you want to take this off. Yeah. Yeah, I may as well take this better for your.

WRAL's Ashley Rowe rappels down 30-story Raleigh tower

WRAL anchor/reporter Ashley Rowe on Friday rappelled down the side of the 30-story Wells Fargo building in downtown Raleigh.

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WRAL's Ashley Rowe rappels down 30-story Raleigh tower

Over the Edge: WRAL's Ashley Rowe takes 30-story plunge for Special Olympics