On Tuesday morning, Americans woke up to some pretty shocking footage.

It was of a bridge in Baltimore collapsing like a deck of cards after a giant cargo ship slammed into it.

Here we go, you're not going to believe this. A massive emergency response is underway after this bridge in Baltimore

collapsed earlier this morning.

I want to know what the bang was ship hit the key bridge sinking the bridge is

gone.

Holy hell.

Rescue boats are now on the scene,

and we are hearing from the Baltimore Fire Department

that up to 20 people may be in the water.

They're calling it a, a quote developing mass casualty event.

The massive container ship, which is about as long as three football fields,

lost power around 1.30 a.m. not long after departing the port of

Baltimore. Unable to steer and in total darkness the crew sent a distress signal.

Local authorities were able to stop traffic just in the

nick of time, but the warning came too late for a group of construction workers

on the bridge. Two were rescued, and six are now missing, presumed dead.

Now, there are questions about what happened, why, and what this will mean for a city that just watched a key piece of its

infrastructure crash into the water. Welcome to the Journal, our show about money, business, and power. I'm Ryan Knutzen.

It's Wednesday, March 27th.

Coming up on the show, the implications of Baltimore's bridge collapse. This episode is brought to you by Empower.

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