i talked to the secretary of transportation, elaine chao, to ask her to get an investigation going. i talked to the chairman of the ntsb. they have launched an investigation and are trying to get to miami right now with their investigators. shepard: do you know from speaking with the authorities if anyone was on the bridge, construction workers, pedestrian or otherwise or if the casualties involved were all from beneath the bridge? i do not know the answer to that question. unless it was caused by somebody being where they shouldn t and weight collapsing it. otherwise, it s going to be a construction problem or an engineering problem. that is what the ntsb investigation will find. police have early reporting is what it is. but police have told our local network news service wplg, local
or try my best. you were in class and you saw all of this. tell me about that. [speaking spanish] she s saying her director told her the bridge had gone down. when she came out, she saw that the bridge had already collapsed and she saw the cars that were crashed and they told her several people had already died. what was that like? shepard: i want to interrupt just a moment. we just got new information from the network news service wplg abc for south florida which is reporting what we remembered from that witness. the witness said they were tightening a cable and something snapped. here s what we can confirm. that is that there was a stress test underway for that bridge. think of it this way.