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The 7

Thursday, March 28, 2024

The 7

The Washington Post

News, Daily News

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Thursday briefing: Baltimore bridge collapse victims; Joe Lieberman; MLB Opening Day; ‘negative leap second’; and more


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It will be daunting, but despite this task ahead of us being daunting, I can tell you right now our

0:07.9

resolve is unshaken.

0:11.2

Maryland officials continue to survey the damage following the catastrophic collapse of Baltimore's key bridge.

0:17.0

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post.

0:21.0

I'm Christina Quinn. It's Thursday, March 28th. Let's get you caught up with

0:25.1

today's seven stories. Number one, the bodies of two Baltimore Bridge Collapse victims were found yesterday.

0:35.4

They were two of the six construction workers who were killed after a cargo ship hit the key

0:40.2

bridge early on Tuesday morning, causing it to collapse into the Patapsko River.

0:45.2

Authorities identified the two recovered victims as 35-year-old Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes

0:51.1

and 26-year-old Dorlian Ragnan Ragnale Castillo Cabrera. And Recovery efforts are expected to resume today.

1:02.9

Investigators are still trying to piece together exactly what happened.

1:07.2

The ship lost electrical power just before crashing into the bridge.

1:10.8

Shipping experts say that may have been caused by

1:13.3

contaminated fuel. Economists are also starting to count the cost of the bridge

1:18.3

collapse. The key bridge formed a major part of the Interstate 695 Beltway, and the disaster cut off access to a key

1:25.8

shipping lane. Experts say rebuilding the bridge will take more than a year and cost hundreds

1:31.3

of millions of dollars.

1:33.0

Number two, Joseph Lieberman, a former vice presidential nominee, has died.

1:46.0

Lieberman was Al Gore's Democratic running mate in 2000.

1:49.8

That made him the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party. He was also a

1:54.6

four-term US senator from Connecticut. He ran for president in 2004, but his support

1:59.6

of the 2003 invasion of Iraq doomed his bid for the Democratic nomination.

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