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and I am Amy Scott in for Ky Rizdahl.

Thanks everybody for joining us on this Thursday April 4th.

Yeah since it's Thursday it's our show where we do some audio clips and so today we are

going to listen back to some big news stories of this week some some a little bit further back, and we've got all these

audio clips lined up for you.

All right, so let's hear the first one.

If we lose cargo to other ports, it will take time to gain that cargo or different cargo back to take its place.

It could turn a short-term problem into a long-term problem.

So that was Scott Cowan here in Baltimore, Maryland, where I am.

He's the local president of the Longshoremen's Union.

And he was talking with Marketplace's Stephanie Hughes for a story that ran yesterday on how the collapse of the key bridge

is disrupting work for folks like the longshoremen who unload containerships.

Maryland lawmakers are working on emergency legislation that would provide relief to workers

affected by the accident.

But I think what Scott Cowan is talking about is really interesting because Baltimore is already

losing traffic because of the is really interesting because Baltimore is already losing

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