this scene unfold before your very eyes? well, i can t describe it. we were so excited to have the bridge. i was really excited about the bridge and now seeing it like this, i don t know how to explain it. do you know how many people were in this scene when the bridge came down? are people describing for you what the scene was like? no. just the police and the first responders were doing their job, keeping people away. where exactly are you in relationship to this bridge and what we re seeing right now an aerial view from a helicopter from one of our affiliates, wsvn right now that s just sort of steady. if you re on the ground can you
more breaking news out of miami, florida. a pedestrian bridge that collapsed at the university. we are still learning new information. we just got word from police there are several fatalities, meaning several people have died in this event. it s not known how many others may still be injured. you can see that now there are a number of law enforcement vehicles and rescue vehicles there on the scene, working to try to assess the situation. as we heard from art roderick, they would be going into a triage mode here as they work to help those who may be injured in this. as we re getting more information here, this is a pedestrian bridge on florida international university, according to some of the local reporting there, this was a new brinl on the campus, trying to connect it to the sweetwater area, collapsed tamiami trail.
police closed off the road and started helping people. and there was a construction worker who had gotten injured. he was pulled off on to the side of the road and immediately the police officers and doctors from the medical campus, medical students ran over and started trying to help people in the cars. and someone on the side of the road had asked a police officer if they had heard any responses from the people inside the car and she shook her head and said no. my goodness. we are getting reports from officials that there are multiple people who were killed in this incident. did you see anybody trapped? the cars were completely crushed under. you could see some of the car and just a lot of debris everywhere. one woman luckily made it alive. it had just niknicked the back her car and she was able to get out. one person was pulled out of the
under there, both on foot and in vehicles. of course, again, this is early on and we don t know information is usually very sketchy or incorrect at this point in time. obviously, it looks like we ve got a big rollout from both law enforcement and rescue units to try to get as many people as they can out of that area. we re continuing to just watch these pictures. you re right, you see many flashing lights, a lot of rescue vehicles on scene, including ambulances and fire trucks as well as police vehicles there. it doesn t seem like they re making much progress in terms of lifting that bridge. obviously, it s extremely heavy but does it surprise you that they haven t been able to get any vehicles or tools in there to start that process? it doesn t look like that. it looks like they re bringing in a heavy crane to lift as much as they can. just from viewing this, the bridge is in pieces right now. so, they should be able to do this relatively quickly.