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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024. This is the

excerpt. Today the latest from Baltimore where bridge cleanup efforts continue.

Plus a new report points the finger at Russia for Havana Syndrome

and how millennials may miss out on the great wealth transfer.

Recovery efforts continue to clear the massive container ship and rubble from the collapsed

Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, but complications remain. I spoke with USA Today,

Pentagon correspondent Tom Vandenbrooke for the latest. Tom, thanks for hopping on the

excerpt today. Taylor, good to be here.. So Tom we'll talk about the remaining bridge

structure in a second but what are the key goals for the Army Corps of Engineers when it

comes to this massive container ship the Dolly at this point? Well one of the first

priorities that we learned was they need to stabilize the ship itself to keep it from drifting and pivoting as they put it.

So they're using tugboats and anchors to do that. Obviously they need a stable platform to remove the parts of 4,000 tons of steel

trusts that are across the ship itself and also, you know, all the stuff that's around

it. So they need that ship to be stable

before they really get after it you know Tom there are tons of cargo still on the ship do we

have any idea what's gonna happen to all those containers they need to

analyze what's there what they have to remove in order for it to be safe to move the ship because they're going to try to refloate the ship too and you know see what the damage is there.

So they need to analyze exactly what's on it. They know mostly what's on it it but you know what pieces of it need to be

removed to move the ship safely and what is the plan for the steel trust structure that

fell across the ship you touched on this a bit but it's still in the water it's

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