Bridge Collapse Probe, Bankman-Fried Sentencing, Disney-DeSantis Truce

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

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We now have an initial timeline — minute by minute — of how a massive cargo ship came to crash into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge. Sam Bankman-Fried, the Crypto Wunderkind convicted of fraud, will be sentenced Thursday to a prison term that could last decades. And the Walt Disney Company and Gov. Ron DeSantis appear to have both realized that Florida is a small world after all.

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0:00.0	Federal investigators have boarded the cargo ship that brought down
0:05.8	Baltimore's key bridge. It's just utter devastation. Authorities say it took mere
0:11.0	minutes from the first alarms to the crash.
0:13.5	I'm Leila Faulden, that's Debbie Elliott, and this is a first from NPR News.
0:20.3	How long a prison term does crypto mogul Sam Bankman Freed deserve for $8 billion of fraud?
0:27.0	His attorneys are asking for just five years.
0:30.0	Prosecutors are seeking 50. A judge decides today.
0:34.0	And in Florida, Disney and Ron DeSantis
0:36.9	seem to have let it go.
0:39.7	The two sides say they're ready to work together
0:41.9	instead of battling it out in court.
0:44.0	They need to keep tours coming back.
0:47.0	They need to reinvest in the park.
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