destruction from the gulf coast to the northeast we have fox team coverage on both of the major stories beginning with david spunt he s live in wilmington, delaware and president biden is spending the holiday weekend. good evening texas republican congressman michael mccaul says he was briefed by intelligence sources that some americans are sitting on six airplanes at the airport 265 miles north of kabul. they re not clearing airplanes to depart they said at the airport for the last couple of days, these planes are not allowed to leave we know why the taliban want something in exchange. this is a satellite image from two days ago of the airports are we cannot say with certainty that these are the six planes that congressman mentioned to chris wallace but there are six airplanes in that photograph. afghan officials told the press that many afghans are board the plane, the use official told fox news work is being done to identify those on the planes to see who they are in w
this is we are working through this tragedy. this is an we are working through this tragedy. this is an ongoing active research we are this is an ongoing active research we are having right now, as you heard we are having right now, as you heard from we are having right now, as you heard from chief wallace we will continue heard from chief wallace we will continue to do that for as long as we had continue to do that for as long as we had t0~ continue to do that for as long as we had to. we had to think about the tamities we had to. we had to think about the families of we had to. we had to think about the families of the people impacted, folks who we have to try to find unsafe folks who we have to try to find unsafe. this is what the focus should unsafe. this is what the focus should be unsafe. this is what the focus should be on right now and we will continue should be on right now and we will continue to should be on right now and we will continue
cnn breaking news good morning everyone i m kasie hunt live, in washington dc we begin this hour with major breaking news overnight. a bridge in baltimore collapsing after it was hit by a large container ship. video from a livestream shows the moment of impact with the francis scott key bridge. that is the belly container ship you can see the bridge crumble into the water. this happened at one around 01:30 a.m. eastern time this morning. officials say that multiple cars fell into the river below and right now, rescue crews are searching the river for at least 20 people. one official called the collapse. it quote deve, developing mass casualty event this bridge is 1.6 miles long. there are four lanes of traffic on it. it is important to note for those of you who may be local to this region, this is the francis scott key bridge in baltimore. it is not the key bridge in washington, dc that that connects dc and virginia kenya. we do have team coverage of this this morning a
response is underway after this bridge in baltimore collapsed earlier this morning. steve: did you see that? stunning. the entire span of the francis scott key bridge came crashing down into the river after a container ship rammed a support beam as you can see in the left hand part of the screen. lawrence: so firefighters say as many as 20 people are in the water. and it s being described as a mass casualty event, kayleigh. we are awaiting a press conference that s expected to begin at 6:15 a.m. we will take you there live when it happens. go to griff jenkins who is live on the scene. griff? griff: yeah, good morning, guys. you can t overstate how significant of that collapse this was. , this we re learning the details from overnight around 1:30 a.m. that s when this singapore flagged cargo ship hit one of the major beams and collapsed that entire span. the video just stunning. and we are learning this is being treated as a mass casualty event and there are rescue tea
we re going to begin with that breaking news out of baltimore this morning. the francis scott key bridge, part of interstate 695, partially collapsed overnight. it happened when a large cargo ship struck the bridge. the vessel was leaving baltimore for sri lanka. the local coast guard received word of an impact at 1:27 a.m. eastern time this morning. the port of baltimore is one of the nation s largest shipping hubs. according to the associated press, emergency responders are searching for at least seven people believed to be in the water. the washington post reporting now they are looking for up to 20 people. those numbers unclear at this point. it is too early to know exactly how many people overall were affected. the baltimore fire department called the collapse a developing mass casualty event. we re hearing from transportation secretary pete buttigieg. he tweeted moments ago he has spoken with maryland s governor and baltimore s mayor to offer the department s suppor