6 people presumed dead, after cargo ship lost power and collided with Baltimore bridge

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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At 1:28am early Tuesday morning, a cargo ship collided into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing the bridge to collapse. Two people who were part of a construction crew working on the bridge were rescued, but six others are now presumed dead after the Coast Guard announced search and rescue efforts were suspended. Baltimore City Fire Chief James Wallace spoke to Anderson Cooper about the tragedy, and the difficulties his crew face navigating the wreck. Plus, Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Silicon Valley attorney and entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan is his running mate. CNN's Gary Tuchman spoke to some of RFK Jr.'s supporters to get their thoughts on his VP pick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360, the latest from Baltimore, all were learning about how a massive cargo ship
0:06.5	had a major bridge outside a vital port, how a May Day call just seconds before impacts
0:11.4	save lives, and the search for six people still
0:14.2	unaccounted for and now presumed dead. Also tonight a New York judge has now
0:18.7	issued a limited gag order against Trump he can still attack the
0:21.6	district attorney who's already got death threats against him, he can still attack the district attorney who's already got death
0:23.4	threats against him, but he can't go after witnesses, prosecutors, or jurors.
0:28.2	And a day after Homeland Security officers raided two of his mansions, a senior law
0:32.1	enforcement source tells us Sean Diddy Combs
0:35.4	is a target of the investigation,
0:37.4	and he's just responded to the news.
0:39.4	Good evening, thanks for joining us.
0:40.8	It is a grim night on the waters outside Baltimore. Take a look at live
0:44.7	pictures at where the Francis Scott Bridge, Key Bridge, should be and where the
0:49.7	container ship Dolly or any large vessel should never be.
0:53.4	Just moments ago, the Coast Guard suspended the search for survivors.
0:56.8	It was 128 a.m.
0:59.0	Early in the morning that the bridge collapsed.
1:05.0	The whole bridge just fell down. Start, start as whoever, to everybody.
1:07.0	The whole bridge just collapsed.
1:10.0	This video of the moment it happened
1:12.0	as the 100,000 ton container ship,
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