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Waking up this morning.

What a sight to watch that bridge in Baltimore fall to pieces over and over and over again.

Happened at 1.30 in the morning, and he probably heard by now, there was this cargo ship,

huge cargo ship.

It was almost 1,000 feet long, tens of thousands of pounds, I think almost 100,000 pounds

of cargo on it.

And it smashed into the support structure of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which is part of

Interstate 695, an interstate beltway that goes around Baltimore.

And it goes over the, let me get the name right here, the Patapsco River.

The river blends into the Chesapeake Bay and then the Atlantic Ocean.

So there's a lot of international cargo ships that use the port in Baltimore. In fact, it's the 17th busiest port in the

country. And it's number one for importing cars and light trucks. 850,000 cars and light trucks

came through the Baltimore port last year.

It's called a roll-on, roll-off port where they can roll things right off the ships and onto the platforms.

It doesn't have to be lifted by crane.

So a lot of car and truck shippers like to use Baltimore.

And Baltimore is very close to tens of millions of people

on the East Coast, short driving distance. So last year, Baltimore transported 52 million tons of

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