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UPDATE (Tuesday, 1:00 pm EDT):

In his speech today, #PresidentBiden said that the crew of the ship was able to alert the Port Authorities that they had lost control of the ship, prior to impact with the bridge. This warning allowed the #KeyBridge to be closed, undoubtedly saving lives. But an unknown number of cars and several maintenance workers were apparently still on the 1.6-mile (2.5 km) bridge when it was struck by the cargo ship.

The #ArmyCorpOfEngineers is on site and assisting with the disaster.

Over 13K cars drove across the bridge every day. The Port of Baltimore is one of the major American ports and impacts 15K jobs. He has promised that the federal govt will fund the rebuilding of the bridge, and we will not need to wait for lawsuits or private industry to pay for it.

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