we leave you with another live look now at the u.s. navy ship harvey milk which just arrived in the bay. we want to thank you for joining us as we follow this histor visit. the cb >> norah: tonight, we are 1200 f the baltimore bridge collapse. >> thermal images like this one are a force multiplier. >> norah: why the search for the missing is so difficult for her to oh, wow, so that's a vehicle appeared to be one and on the water, what it will take to reopen the vital port. >> it will take an enormous amount of work. >> norah: plus the details

about the construction crews final moment as the city honors the victims. >> let us join together in a moment of silence. >> norah: the "cbs evening news" starts right now. ♪ ♪ good evening. i'm norah o'donnell, and thank you for being with us. we want to begin tonight with the salvage operation underway in baltimore as federal investigators start piecing together what may have caused that massive cargo ship to lose power before its catastrophic collision with the francis scott key bridge. hazardous conditions from broken and twisted pieces of the bridge is forcing divers to pause their efforts to find construction workers who are missing. what became clear is the sheer magnitude of the work that lies ahead, not just to find the victims and clear the port, but to get one of america's busiest ports up and running again. late this afternoon, the biden administration approved $60 billion in emergency funding to help cover the initial cost of debris removal. governor wes moore warned residents of the long road ahead when it comes to rebuilding the

bridge and returning the port to what it was. the ntsb says the investigation itself could take up to two years. cbs's kris van cleave will start us off tonight with a firsthand look at the devastation. >> reporter: from the water, the scope of the accident is enormous. the cargo ship dali is almost as long as the chrysler building in new york city is tall. the wreckage sits where it fell early tuesday morning, blocking access to one of the nation's busiest ports, where surveying the damage with the commander of the army corps of engineers d a president called me yesterday and we spoke for a few minutes and he made it clear this was the u.s. army corps of engineers number one priority. >> reporter: will this be an around-the-clock effort? >> we are going 24/7. >> reporter: that sound like a massive effort. >> it is a massive effort. >> reporter: general scott spellmon's team will work to clear the waterway and allow divers to recover the remaining four bodies believed to be trapped beneath the rubble. it's not just all this debris that you can see in this massive

cargo ship. it is also everything that sunk to the bottom. tons of debris that is 50 feet tall, it all has to come off the floor before this channel and the port of baltimore can reope. >> reporter: already there's a traffic jam of cargo ships unable to get in or out of the port of baltimore, plus two cruise ships that won't be able to return to the charm city port that employs 8,000 people. >> this is a core economic engine for our state and we have to make sure that our workers are protected. >> reporter: new video shows traffic early tuesday morning on the francis scott key bridge at that construction crew filling potholes. moments before the dali slammed into it. and now our first look on board the giant vessel as ntsb investigators work to gather evidence and continue interviews with the ships 20 one-person crew. the dali's voice data recorder shows about 90 seconds after the first sign of trouble the onboard pilot called for help asking nearby tugboats to respond. less than a minute later, the mayday call. than the devastating collision. the damage on board is

extensive. part of the bridge came down on the bow, leaving a deep gash. cargo containers with hazardous material sit sheared open. >> when you get out here on the water and look at that, he really get a sense of the massive effort we are dealing with. >> reporter: and that effort requires clearing a 700-foot wide channel to get the port back open. the navy is bringing in the largest floating crane on the east coast. it will be here tonight. it can lift up to 1,000 tons, but they think that piece of bridge laying on the ship weighs three or four times that, norah. >> norah: wow. kris van cleave, thank you. tonight, we are learning more about the final moments of the construction workers who plummeted into the river. a coworker tells cbs news the crew had finished their work when the ship hit. they were in their cars on a break, waiting for the concrete to dry before leaving and reopening the lane. and that's when the bridge collapsed. cbs's nicole sganga reports tonight on the search for their bodies.

>> reporter: baltimore county paris' survey of the wreckage from 1200 feet. nothing prepares you for a boat colliding into the bridge. >> even after you see it, it is still just so surreal. >> reporter: in the hours after the collapse, this thermal imaging technology was used to scour for victims. >> that was our main focus that night, around 4:00 a.m., when we first got here, was utilizing the thermal imaging just to try to look at anybody. >> reporter: transmitting real-time images like these to those on the ground. >> reporter: oh, wow, so that as a vehicle. on wednesday, maryland state police pulled the bodies of other hunter hernandez went us and dorlian castillo cabrera out of the river. but divers are unable to reach the four people still missing. >> because of the amount of concrete and debris, divers are no longer able to safely navigate or operate around that. >> reporter: tonight we are learning more about the victims. the brother of maynor yassir suazo sandoval tells cbs news he wishes he could have stopped his brother from going to work.

moises diaz was scheduled to fill potholes on the key bridge tuesday, but his shift was changed. "every day we give thanks to god for life," diaz tells us. he is grieving the loss of six fellow construction workers, men he calls brother. "i saw my friends as family members," and diaz tells us the miraculous story of his friend, julio cervantes, one of two rescued. he says cervantes escaped his sinking truck by crawling out the window. "he thought, i'm going to die here, even though he can't swim, he survived." diaz tells us cervantes' chest was crushed during his escape. he's stable now, but even as he recovers physically, his friend says his trauma is his deepest pain, that he can't stop replaying the bridge collapsed in his mind. norah? >> norah: oh, it's a miracle he is alive. nicole sganga, thank you. now to the downfall of disgraced

cryptocurrency mobile sam bankman-fried. the former tech billionaire and ftx founder was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for what prosecutors called one of the biggest financial frauds in american history. cbs's errol barnett has details from the courtroom. >> reporter: the former king of crypto was dressed in a beige jail uniform in a manhattan federal courtroom today. acknowledging a series of his own bad decisions. sam bankman-fried learned his sentence of 25 years after telling the court "i am sorry about what happened at every stage." prosecutors argued the mit graduate was motivated by greed, milking unwitting customers out of more than $8 billion before the collapse of ftx, the cryptocurrency exchange he founded. judge lewis kaplan agreed, saying the 32-year-old was remorseless. sunil kavuri was one of his victims. >> i lost a huge amount of money when ftx collapsed.

>> reporter: how much? >> $2 million. so -- and that was for a family home and for my children's education, and that overnight. >> reporter: beckman freed was% once hailed as the future of finance, with an estimated net . and enlisting celebrities, including quarterback tom brady peer to begun getting into crypto. >> reporter: basketball steph curry. speak are not expert and i don't need to be. >> reporter: to promote his brand. back in november, a jury unanimously found bankman-fried guilty of seven counts, including conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering. michael lewis wrote a book on the crypto stars rise and fall and has been in contact with him while detained. he says the man is hardwired for risk. >> you put your hand on a hot stove and you don't know to burn to a crisp come he doesn't feel. >> reporter: now there is no parole for federal crimes, but good behavior can produce time served.

bankman-fried's lawyers will appeal the sentence, and jud judge kaplan recommends he served in a medium security prison in the bay area of northern california, norah, that's closer to bankman-fried's parents. >> norah: errol barnett, thank you so much. as russia escalates attacks on ukraine, president matt volodymyr zelenskyy spoke with speaker of the house mike johnson today, telling himt is vital that congress passes a new military aid package. in an exclusive interview with cbs's charlie d'agata on the front lines, zelenskyy said ukraine desperately needs air defense missiles and artillery shells. >> i increased the production of... >> reporter: amid the ruins of a bombed out building in eastern ukraine, president zelenskyy seemed upbeat despite recent setbacks on the battlefield. but one thing that strikes me is you are defiant, still. you seem more frustrated than optimistic now. >> no. >> reporter: no? i got that wrong?

>> yes. >> reporter: you are still optimistic? >> no, i'm normal. i'm optimistic because this is only one plan. >> reporter: that plan for survival relies on u.s. support, which has helped keep russian forces at bay in recent months. >> it was very hard, but thank god, our partners, including the u.s. and the europe helped us with air defense missiles. so we will live through the winter. >> reporter: i understand that. but americans will think, we have spent tens of billions of dollars supporting ukraine. >> interpreter: it would not be right to say it would just take another year or a billion dollars. it doesn't work like that. ammunition is common to us but it's production takes place in the u.s. and the money stay in the u.s., and the taxes are staying in the u.s. >> reporter: we joined him as he inspected vast, newly built,

underground bunkers just a few miles from the russian border. they are also bracing for russian retaliation after president putin accused ukraine of supporting isis terror attack near moscow last week. allegations zelenskyy dismissed as ridiculous. but that doesn't stop putin from attacking -- >> interpreter: yes, and that is what i want to tell you. he doesn't care what the reason is. >> reporter: president zelenskyy told us he believes the russians are preparing to launch another offensive in may or june, norah. ideally, he is hoping for missile-defense systems and more artillery before then. >> norah: charlie d'agata, thank you so much. back here in the u.s., a 22-year-old illinois man was charged with murder today in connection with a stabbing rampage that left four people dead and seven others wounded. cbs's sabrina franza has more on

what happened. >> reporter: rockford police say the deadly attack started around 1:15 p.m. on wednesday. >> and i have another call coming in for a possible stabbing. >> reporter: according to authorities, the suspect, 22-year-old christian soto, had just smoked marijuana with his friend, jacob schupback. soto claims it was laced and that he became paranoid and attacked jacob and his mother, ramona. >> retrieved a knife and proceeded to stab jacob and ramona to death. >> reporter: went on a rampage, breaking into homes and attacking people at random. seven people were injured and two more killed, including 15-year-old jenna newcomb and postal worker jay larson. craig bauer saw him being attacked in his front yard and called the police. >> he just kept stabbing the guy. he had a knife, a solid knife. and then he got in his truck, revved it up, ran off. >> reporter: roughly 20 minutes later, a share step

he took into custody. he is now facing felony charges include first-degree murder. today neighbors came together to mourn. >> that love and compassion we see here today, let's carry that out into the rest of our days here in rockford because we are better when we are together. >> reporter: soto appeared in court briefly today and is being held without bond. his next court date is next week. norah, if convicted, he is facing 60 years for each murder. >> norah: awful story. sabrina franza, thank you. president biden is a new york tonight with two high-powered friends: barack obama and bill clinton. for a star-studded campaign event. for $100,000, you can take a picture with the current and former presidents. cbs's caitlin huey-burns reports on what could be the biggest fundraiser in presidential campaign history. >> reporter: in new york city tonight, a parade of presidents. headlining an event at radio city music hall that raked in

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wagering. according to the american gaming association, close to $3 billion will be legally bet on this year's tournaments. nearly twice the amount wagered on this year's super bowl. but the biggest reason to tune in... >> for me, it's the moments. it's who's going to be willing to take the big shot? and then if they do succeed, that just gives me goose bumps. >> reporter: now just to give you an idea of how popular caitlin clark is, you can still get a ticket for tonight's men's game in los angeles for about $30, but the cheapest seat available for saturday's matchup between clark's hawkeyes and colorado is almost quadruple that. and floor seats were selling for as much as $1300 each. norah? >> norah: women's basketball on fire. carter evans, thank you so much. "heart of america" is next with an opening day tribute to the victims and heroes of the francis scott key bridge collapse. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: if you can't watch the "cbs evening news," you can listen. subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

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moment of silence to honor the victims of the francis scott key bridge collapse, and the brave first responders who saved lives. baltimore's morgan state university choir sang the national anthem in front of a sellout crowd. lending their voices to an orioles tradition. ♪ and our flag was still there ♪ >> norah: beautiful. the giant american flag in center field is a replica of the one that flew over baltimore's fort mchenry in the war of 1812, when francis scott key wrote the poem that would become "the star-spangled banner." baltimore and its first responders. they are tonight's "heart of america." and that's tonight's "cbs evening news." i'm norah o'donnell. good night. ♪ ♪

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