laura ingle is actually live down near the bridge in miami with the latest. laura? good morning. and as you mentioned, that death toll has now gone from what we heard last night was four to confirmed six this morning. and we also learned that some of the victims are still underneath the rubble. others have been removed. i m going to have our cameraman ben west to show you exactly what we re working with. engineers and investigators are trying to get through all of that to carefully remove the mounds of concrete and metal. they have had to be carefully moving the parts and pieces of the collapsed podesta bridge as they first work to find any survivors. search and rescue teams were working overnight using listening devices and dogs, hoping to find any signs of live. now homicide detectives are hoping to preserve evidence of how and where these six people died, which is pretty much a routine practice when working with an industrial accident like this one, according to police.
buried underneath the wreckage of the podesta bridge. minutes ago cameras caught the moment that crews intentionally brought down another section of that bridge. take a look. the right side of your screen give way and there it goes. our reporters on the screen say this was planned in advance so that teams try to stabilize the scene and all of this a day after the podesta bridge fell killing 6 people and injuring 10 others. we have surveillance video. watch. this that s the moment that it fell. is that was yesterday afternoon. somewhere around 2:00 or so. you can see it on the top left hand corner there. crews had started installing the bridge at florida international university just days ago on saturday, in fact, the miami-dade mayor and others say that the crew us conducted a stress test and then the bridge fell. a police sergeant tells fox news she initially thought that the crews brought down the bridge on purpose. and when she realized it was an accident, she ran to try to help.
shepard: the two construction firms behind the podesta bridge that collapsed in miami yesterday have faced fines and lawsuits before. the companies are mcm construction and fig bridge design. miami herald newspaper reports that in the year 2012 fig had a 90-ton slab of concrete fall from a bridge it was building. the associate press reports that the feds have hit mcm the other company with tens of thousands of dollars in fines. and this month a lawsuit accusing mcm of hiring incompetent, inexperienced, unskilled or careless employees. that s the wording from the document. representatives from both companies say they are cooperating with the collapse investigation. moments ago senator bill nelson commanded the u.s. department of transportation release all documents related to the construction of that podesta bridge.