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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
that have put restrictions in place on medication, abortion itself. but if the supreme court rules with the appeals court, which essentially has rolled back some of the accessibility of mifepristone. all of those states would be subject to the restrictions on access says to this medication, some of the challenges here are around the safety of the medicine and whether the fda acted appropriately scholars and experts in the pharmaceutical industry point out the safety of this medicine has been proven over the decades since it s been on the market. they say the risk of serious complications is about 0.3% using these medicines, sarah well, in just a few hours we are going to be paying attention to what the justices do as they consider whether to limit access to mifepristone. thank you so much. meg tirrell. appreciate it. a new our cnn news central starts now these cnn s breaking new. all right, the major breaking news this morning the entire bridge is in the wall what are you
baltimore is in the eastern state of maryland, and the francis scott key bridge crosses the patapsco river. the bridge is a key transport route in the city, traffic is being diverted throughout baltimore. a witness to the collapse briefly described the scene. if you wanted to know what the bang was. ship hit the key bridge. sinking. the bridge is gone. holy hell. the governor of maryland has declared a state of emergency. he released a statement on the collapse of the francis scott key bridge, he said to my office is in close communication with the us transportation secretary peter mitigate, the mayor of baltimore, the baltimore fire department. emergency personnel are on the scene following the collapse of the francis scott key bridge. i have declared a state of emergency in maryland and we are working with an interagency team to quickly deploy federal resources from the biden administration. instead we are for the brave men and women carrying out efforts to rescue those inv