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At about 01 50 hours, our first unit arrived on scene

and reported a complete collapse of the key bridge.

We were also given information at that time

that there were likely multiple people

on the bridge at the time of the collapse

and that as a result, multiple people were in the water.

Awful things happen sometimes and the nation moves on.

Sometimes they have a lasting effect. They make people think about the state of things and the collapse of the Francis

Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore seems to me to be potentially in that second category.

It was hit by a ship in the middle of the night.

It collapsed in spectacular fashion in seconds a mile

and a half of it. Let us go straight to the scene now and to our correspondent who is there,

Tom Bateman.

Tom, tell us where you are and what you're looking at

and what you're seeing around you.

Well, we're on the east side of the bridge itself, Justin,

just down by the water, the Patapsco River here.

It's a very, very wide, very large river, a huge bay and a very important industrial area where you get lots of

containerships in the docks here but I'm looking over across the

water I'm looking east and what I can see is this central span of the bridge itself now completely disappeared.

So you see the two ramps coming into the river itself and then the central section of the bridge just entirely collapsed into

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