see tomorrow state from the source tonight, breaking news out of baltimore were moments ago, the ntsb revealed what s been discovered on a newly obtained data recorder from that dude cargo ship. and 764 tons of hazardous material that was on board when it crashed into that bridge. also tonight there was a new litmus test apparently to get a job at the new trump run, republican national committee. wrong answers only apparently to this question was the 2020 election section stolen? it wasn t. but also just in speaking of the 2020 election, the chief architect of that plot to keep trump in power is tonight facing a major you re reckoning and screens and teens are smartphones and social media dooming a generation. a guest tonight who has studied the science says yes, and to take them all the way until high school, i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source but we start with the breaking news tonight as we have just heard from the ntsb, with new information on its investigation
podcast and the news continues on cnn happening now, the judge in the georgia election subversion case is weighing donald trump s newest attempt to try to avoid criminal prosecution. we re breaking down the first hearing since district attorney fani willis was allowed to stay on the case and why she was a no show today? also tonight federal investigators are back on board. the cargo ship that slammed into a baltimore bridge seeking answers as we re seeing the ship heading toward the deadly collision from a new angle. and the biden campaign is touting a historic $25 hall from a fundraiser tonight featuring former president s obama and clinton. president biden getting ready to attend the event as donald trump is also in new york trying to grab some of the spotlight and send a get tough message on crime. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, a urine the situation room we begin this hour with the criminal prosecution of donald
friends first on thursday morning, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. a massive clean up and recovery effort is underway and crews have just pulled two bodies from a truck at the bottom of the patapsco river. brooke singman is here. brooke: tragic discovery yesterday morning. the bodies were found in a red truck. two of eight construction workers were filling pot holes when the bridge crumbled, they were from guatemala and mexico. the moments before impact confirms multiple alarms went off before the ship lost power. they called for a tug boat, but it was too late. head of the ntsb says there appears to be a sheen on the water surface. f56 containers of hazardous material, 764 tons of hazardous materials, mostly corrosive, flammables and miscellaneous hazardous material, class nine hazardous material including lithium ion batteries. brooke: u.s. army corps of engin engineer sending 1100 to baltimore to assist in the clean up. no word on if or when president b
60 starts right now good evening any moment now, we are expecting to hear from federal safety officials with the ntsb about what sent that 95,000 ton container ship into the francis scott key bridge in baltimore, destroying the main span and killing six construction workers just a short time ago, we heard from maryland state officials, a state police colonel delivering the grim news that divers today recovered two bodies from one submerged vehicle, but that the remainder in other vehicles are likely beyond recovery we have exhausted all search efforts and the areas around this this wreckage and based on sonar scans we firmly believe but the vehicles are encased and the superstructure and concrete that we tragically saw it come down they also went on to say that conditions for divers under the water simply just too dangerous. so this is no longer recovery operation, he said, but a salvage effort and without divers right now in the water again, we re waiting for the ntsb to
submerged vehicle, but that the remainder in other vehicles are likely beyond recovery we have exhausted all search efforts and the areas around this this wreckage and based on sonar scans, we firmly believe but the vehicles are encased in the superstructure and concrete that we tragically saw it come down they also went on to say that conditions for divers under the water simply just too dangerous. so this is no longer recovery operation, he said, but its salvage effort and without divers right now in the water again, we re waiting for the ntsb to start a press conference. we expect that any moment while we re waiting, want to bring in cnn s brian todd, who joins us from the scene with more on what has developed over the last 24 hours. so what are authorities saying tonight about the collapse? well, anderson to reiterate what you just mentioned, that was the main piece of news today. the maryland superintendent of the maryland state police, colonel rolling butler, saying