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. >> good evening, everyone, from baltimore. it was described as a cathedral of american infrastructure. tonight the francis scott key bridge is a mangled ruin, and there is an urgent search under way for six people missing after a huge container ship on its way out of baltimore harbor rammed a pillar in the dark of night. daylight revealing the twisted wreckage pinning the ship below. two people were rescued, but six missing roadworkers are now feared dead, according to their construction company. officials say a mayday call from the ship just before impact gave officials just enough time to stop traffic and prevent more cars and people from falling into the water. thousands of people traverse this bridge every day, and though president biden is vowing to rebuild, it could take months after a disaster no one saw coming. tonight rescue teams with sonar equipment urgently searching frigid waters near baltimore's collapsed francis scott key bridge. >> this is very much still a search-and-rescue mission. we're still actively lookin
. >> good evening, everyone, from baltimore. it was described as a cathedral of american infrastructure. tonight the francis scott key bridge is a mangled ruin, and there is an urgent search under way for six people missing after a huge container ship on its way out of baltimore harbor rammed a pillar in the dark of night. daylight revealing the twisted wreckage pinning the ship below. two people were rescued, but six missing roadworkers are now feared dead, according to their...
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. >> good evening, everyone, from baltimore. it was described as a cathedral of american infrastructure. tonight, the francis scott key bridge is a mangled ruin. daylight revealing the twisted wreckage. pinning the ship below. two people were rescued, but six missing road workers are now feared dead, according to their construction company just before impact gave officials just enough time to stop . officials say a mayday call from the ship just before impact gave officials just enough time to stop traffic and prevent more cars and people from falling into the water. thousands of people traverse this bridge every day, and though president biden is vowing to rebuild, it could take months after a disaster no one saw coming. >> at this point, we do not believe that we're going to find any of these individuals still alive. we are going to suspend the active search and rescue efforts. >> reporter: what remains of that structure now piles of twisted metal on top of a container ship, after a nightmare unfolded early this morning. >> th
. >> good evening, everyone, from baltimore. it was described as a cathedral of american infrastructure. tonight, the francis scott key bridge is a mangled ruin. daylight revealing the twisted wreckage. pinning the ship below. two people were rescued, but six missing road workers are now feared dead, according to their construction company just before impact gave officials just enough time to stop . officials say a mayday call from the ship just before impact gave officials just enough...
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the search and recovery efforts have been hampered by the weather here in baltimore. there's been a steady rain all day, patchy fog, and temperatures in the 40s, but in the water, it's even worse. >> divers won't be able to see anything. they're going to work by feel with their hands once we get on that target. >> reporter: brian hudson leads the fbi's underwater search and evidence response team. they're using sonar and remote-operated vehicles, rovs, to scan these waters. >> what have your teams been able to see down there? how bad is it? >> some of the debris is still shifting. you're finding mostly a lot of chunks of debris, rocks, searching for vehicles, so you're looking for the shape of a vehicle. >> reporter: some of the missing construction workers were inside their cars at the time of the collapse. you can actually see their vehicles' lights blinking on the bridge just before impact. >> it's going to be very, very difficult, i think, to find them. >> reporter: jeffrey pritzker is an executive with that construction company. he says the entire company is in m
the search and recovery efforts have been hampered by the weather here in baltimore. there's been a steady rain all day, patchy fog, and temperatures in the 40s, but in the water, it's even worse. >> divers won't be able to see anything. they're going to work by feel with their hands once we get on that target. >> reporter: brian hudson leads the fbi's underwater search and evidence response team. they're using sonar and remote-operated vehicles, rovs, to scan these waters. >>...
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and in baltimore, a city still in shock. oriole fans took part in a moment of silence at the team's home opener. tom costello has developments. >> reporter: out on the water with the army corps of engineers and the first up-close look at the massive "dali" container ship, and the wreckage of baltimore's francis scott key bridge laying on top of it, the "dali's" bow crushed, a massive piece of steel. >> that weighs between 3,000 and 4,000 tons. we have one of the largest cranes on the eastern seaboard that picks up one thousand tons at a time. >> reporter: the water so muddy and dark, divers and drones have struggled to get a clear view. submerged under the wreckage, the remains of four bridge repair workers still missing. this dash cam video shows them on the bridge a few hours before the disaster. the wife of julio cervantes, who survived tells nbc news the workers were on a break in their cars when the bridge suddenly collapsed. amazingly, cervantes survived even though he doesn't swim. the army corps of engineers will hav
and in baltimore, a city still in shock. oriole fans took part in a moment of silence at the team's home opener. tom costello has developments. >> reporter: out on the water with the army corps of engineers and the first up-close look at the massive "dali" container ship, and the wreckage of baltimore's francis scott key bridge laying on top of it, the "dali's" bow crushed, a massive piece of steel. >> that weighs between 3,000 and 4,000 tons. we have one of the...