many more injured when a bridge on the main highway linking italy with france collapsed sending cars plunging 150 feet down, landing in a heap of concrete rubble. firefighters and other first responders digging through the debris looking for survivors while local officials promise a thorough investigation into how the collapse happened. reporter: knows the moment of relief, sweat and prayer. tonight will have to be the time to find out who s responsible. reporter: engineers are checking the rest of the bridge trying to determine if there is further risk to the public. the italian interior ministry says recovery efforts will begin as soon as the rescue operation is over and he will ask for significant funding from italy and the european union. reporter: the next translator: the next economic measures will secure italian s right to life, right to health, restrictions will come later. reporter: the trump administration keep an eye on the situation offering assistance to the ital
cracks. if cruz were committed, getting a gun would have likely been far more difficult. he s charged in the deaths of 17 students and staff on valentine s day last month in parkland. to another tragedy in florida. police in miami releasing the names of the victims killed in the bridge collapse and their loved ones are speaking out saying this never should have happened. phil keithing is live in miami. investigators have not said what caused this yet but i saw a report that an engineer saw cracks in that bridge before the accident. reporter: yeah, rick, cracks in the brand-new concrete was known by fig bridge design, the designer of the pe pedestrian bridge, florida international university as well as the florida department of transportation but it found out one day late. most of the rubble has been swept off the street. investigators are confident there are no more bodies in the piles of concrete rubble, that the death toll will stay at six. heavy equipment operators were
steve harrigan joins us with the very latest. steve. eboni, recovery operations are going on right now. they have been actually going on around the clock here in the early morning hours they pulled out two cars, three victims inside those cars. they are working now to pull out another two cars of the estimated 8 cars underneath that 2 million pounds of concrete rubble behind me. it is a slow, careful process. once they pull the cars and the victims out, police officials explain what happens next. release some information about the pedestrian bridge and cracking that s been observed on the north end of the span, the pylon end of that span we moved this weekend. so, we have taken a look at it, and obviously some repairs or whatever will have to be done. but from a safety perspective we don t see that there is any issue there. what we just heard was a voice mail message from one of the engineers to a
miami. at least six people have died and there may be more bodies buried under the rubble. as investigators begin to look into what happened and who should be responsible. right now we re looking at what occurred, what caused this collapse to occur and people to die. we want to get the bottom line of what occurred so we can bring closure to the families, the investigation, and so it doesn t happen again. that s the most important thing here. let s go live to the scene this morning. steve, welcome. the head of fire rescue said this is now a recovery operation. he said there s no one left alive in that 900 tons of concrete rubble behind me. no one survived at this point. right now the death toll stands
officials counted down to the opening and then cheered. a company official called, tweeting, we are thrilled to have performed structural monitoring during a spectacular bridge moved by barnhart crane at fiu. that tweet and others like it deleted tonight after the bridge collapsed and there is a frantic search at this hour, search and rescue operation, vowing to investigate what happened. this is a horrible story, and phil keating joins us. are they still actively searching for survivors at this hour? that seems to have stopped. this looks like it is now certain i transitioned into a recovery investigation. the remaining cars underneath the flattened sections of that. you look more closely, you can see the front ends of two of the cars sticking out from underneath, about 1 million pounds of concrete rubble, this instead to be state-of-the-art pedestrian bridge, it was not yet open to