Maddie then climbed an electric fence and called 911 from a nearby farmhouse. The Rescuers rushed to the scene and pulled the family up to safety. They had just minors scrapes and bruises.

An 11-year-old named Maddie saved her family from drowing in the heavy floods of Oregon. She was riding in an SUV with her mother and two siblings when after two days of raging rain, the bridge collapse into the creek. she managed to crawl through the SUV's broken front window and shimmy across a branch of a tree to get to safety.
President -elect Barack Obama met president Georges W. Bush for nearly two hours at he White house on Monday, in a symbolic transfer of the power to come.



