Good evening. I'm William Brangam, Jeff Bennett and I'm the Navas are away.

On the news hour tonight, a Baltimore bridge collapses after being struck by a container ship, the search for survivors and for answers.

Reproductive rights are back before the Supreme Court, at stake, access to a commonly used abortion pill.

And Israel's defense minister meets his American counterpart in Washington as the two nations

are increasingly at odds over the war in Gaza. Welcome to the news hour. Search and rescue efforts are underway in Baltimore after a

major commuter bridge collapsed there overnight.

Officials say six people remain unaccounted for.

In the middle of the night, a container ship slowly trying to exit Baltimore's outer harbor rams into a support beam of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

And all at once, the towering 1.6 mile-long structure plummets into the river below.

Never would you think that you would see, physically see the key bridge tumble down like that.

It looked like something out of an action movie.

By sunrise, the scope of the disaster came into full view.

The on-ramp severed, the cargo ship buried beneath the bridges mangled truss

Investigators are still seeking answers to what happened Maryland Governor Westmore. I know this has been a long night

We started coordinating immediately after the key bridge collapse. The preliminary investigation points to an

accident. We haven't seen any credible evidence of a terrorist attack.

A few minutes before impact, the ship's lights went out.

Operators put out a Mayday that the vessel had lost power, giving police time to divert

traffic from the bridge before the collision.

Many of the vehicles were stopped before they got onto the bridge which saved lives in a very very heroic way.

Still sonars detected several cars in the water and authorities say a crew had been

repairing potholes on the bridge when it collapsed.

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