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On August 2nd of 2007, this was the top story on the evening news.

Tonight, the tragedy in Minnesota, the initial disaster, and now the search for more victims

and for clues to what happened.

The children stranded on a school bus when the bridge gave way.

You are looking live at the scene of the disaster here in the Twin Cities where the first

word that something had gone wrong arrived here at the height of the rush hour just after six o'clock last night. We now know it

was a bridge collapse, a disaster that got the attention and quickly of the entire

nation.

The I-35 West Bridge collapsed in Minneapolis.

The tragedy claimed 13 lives on Wednesday, August 1st,

and the very next day the president came out and said this.

A terrible situation there in Minneapolis.

We in the federal government must respond and respond robustly to help the people there

not only recover, but to make sure that lifeline of activity that bridge gets rebuilt as quickly as possible.

We in the federal government must make must respond to make sure that bridge gets

rebuilt as quickly as possible.

And that was exactly the kind of response you would expect from a president after a national

tragedy like a bridge collapse.

The next day, the next day Congress voted unanimously

for 121 to 0 to allocate a quarter of a billion dollars in federal money to

repair that bridge. Now it wasn't like

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