I need one of you guys on the south side, one of you guys on the north side,

hold all traffic on the key bridge. There's a ship approaching and just lost their steering.

Early Tuesday morning, a May day signal was sent from a cargo ship heading towards the Francis

Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

The ship's crew said it had lost power and propulsion.

Yeah, if we can stop traffic, just make sure no one's on the bridge right now. I'm not sure where there's a

crew out there you might want to notify whoever the foreman is see if we can get them off

the bridge temporarily. Authorities were able to stop more cars from driving onto the bridge as you hear in this

recording from the Maryland Transportation Authority police dispatch and response.

But there was a construction crew working on road repairs on the bridge at this time.

C13 this past, the whole bridge just fell down.

Start, start as whoever, everybody.

The whole bridge just collapsed.

It is not clear how many people may have fallen into the water. Two survivors did make it out, but first responders continue to search for construction workers who are missing.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott spoke to NPR this

morning. We're hurting. Right now our focus is on search and rescue to try to

save lives and that's where our focus will remain until us no longer

a search and rescue mission. We have Fire Department

unions, diver units from Baltimore City, Baltimore County. We have state

assets here. The Coast Guard is here. Our police access are here.

We're going to continue to do the work.

Meanwhile, as Baltimore residents and the country hope for the safe return of more survivors,

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