With people who may be trapped underneath. 950 tons of bridge that literally, they cut the ribbon on days ago. We are hearing that there are several people who have perished in this tragedy this afternoon, we are about to get more information as i said, at least to others in critical condition. Well get details from the hospital as i said, but lets go live on the ground there to phil keating who has been watching this all afternoon. Good evening. Good evening, martha. It is an active search and rescue operation desperate to find any remaining survivors, people trapped under that 1 Million Pounds of concrete. This pedestrian bridge repeated to be a stateoftheart design that was just rotated 90 degrees on saturday from a set of the road where it was constructed behind me and it was placed on the north and southbound support towers spanning eight lanes of traffic on a very busy main artery here and southwest miamidade. It was still a construction project, it was supposed to open this upco
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the bridge south and north, but it also had the roof to protect pedestrians in the future from rain and sun. it pancakes on the north for lanes, the westbound lanes of the roadway. the other part of the bridge, as you can see in the distance behind us is angled straddling the roadway 3-45-degree angle, that s still a precarious piece of bridge, but thank you very much sergeant jenna mendez for all of your great first respons response. let s go to the ntsb having a briefing. we are getting on a plane and going to miami. i expect him in about 3 minutes. martha: will get back to that of some as he gets underway and we are also expecting a report at a news conference at a hospital in miami. with phil keating, let s go back to you on the ground, a lot of information from that sheriff
bridge came suddenly crashing down onto him and he is injured very seriously speaking, but it does appear that he will survive. joining me now is the sweetwater police sergeant jenna mendez who is unseen. did you see the bridge fall down and the smoke rise or did you pull up right after that and what did you see? i was sitting in traffic when i looked up and i saw the bridge down and i thought to myself, why would they possibly be doing that right now? i was in a state of shock. i was in disbelief of what i was witnessing in my instinct kicked in that i needed to get to work. i jumped out of my vehicle when i ran on top of the bridge where we had workers who were severely injured and one not breathing, we started cpr on him, we had one that had major lacerations to his head and was unconscious as well and i spread yelling for people to go find me doctors so