Watch the Flying Wallendas become the first to cross New York's Times Square on a tightrope 25 stories above the city streets
A huge crowd at the iconic New York square was pulling for famed daredevil Nik Wallenda and his sister Lijana as they made the nerve-racking 1,300 foot crossing between 1 Times Square and 2 Times Square.Nik started first from 2 Times Square at 9:20 p.m. Lijana started about a minute later at 1 Times Square.
Five injured in circus high-wire fall 01:36Read MoreAbout 17 dramatic minutes in, the two met. Lijana then sat down on the wire, and Nik crossed over her. After a few tense moments when Lijana realized she had rehooked her pole wrong, they went on to finish at the opposite end from where they started.For Nik, it was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream of"paying homage" to his family's performance at Madison Square Garden in 1928, he told ABC.
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