A cleanup effort is underway in Baltimore.

The federal government updated its race and ethnicity categories

and Beyoncé dropped her new album.

That's some of what we'll get to on the 7 from the Washington Post.

I'm Christina Quinn. It's Friday, March 29th.

Let's get you caught up with today's 7 stories.

Number one. stories.

Number one, Baltimore has begun a massive cleanup after this week's bridge collapse. Effers are underway to clean up the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge which collapsed

Tuesday after it was hit by a cargo ship.

Huge floating cranes, thousands of relief workers and millions of dollars are headed to the

city.

A 1,000 ton crane described by officials as the largest on the eastern seaboard

is expected to arrive in Baltimore today.

At a news conference yesterday, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Shannon Gilrath laid out the steps necessary

to reopen the Port of Baltimore.

Step one of that is we're going to clear the debris from the channel.

Step two is we're going to remove the vessel. the their way to help us do that. But before we can actually engage in lifting, we've got to

complete the assessment process. This operation is going to be extremely complex and

dangerous. There are 764 tons of hazardous materials on the ship that hit

the bridge and some debris is up to 50 feet deep in the Patapsko River.

But officials want to move quickly.

Baltimore is one of the nation's largest shipping hubs,

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