over the new support tower at one hundred twenty seven meters the tallest in the world. it will replace the two older and smaller towers. a man from the engineering team has to check that the cable is threaded precisely on to the rollers and the only way to get that close is via a series of loud as. the first section is done. the second section constitutes not one but two world records a difference in altitude of almost two thousand metres and an unsupported span of over three kilometers. two days later and the project has been delayed by technical problems and inconvenient weather. but despite the fog the team resumed
supported on the south side and the north side by a support tower, but not supported in the middle. martha: we re going to the ntsb. the ntsb is launching a full investigative go team to begin our investigation of this pedestrian bridge collapse at the campus of florida international university panthers we do understand that there are victims involved in this and certainly our condolences go out to those family and friends of all of the victims of those who have been affected by this tragedy. our thoughts and prayers go out to them. the ntsb is an independent federal agency, we are charged by congress to investigate transportation accidents to determine the probable cause and issue safety recommendations to prevent those actions from occurring again.
california, he describes this move as somewhat risky, having this bridge span eight lanes of very busy roadway before the center support tower was even built. all of these questions will be certainly coming out in the next days, but the search and rescue operation, looking for survivors, as you can tell the sunset happening behind me, it is going to go all through the night and definitely into the early morning hours, if not longer on friday. martha: phil, just to clarify, there is no center, there was no center holding this up at this point? by all of the video we have seen on the installation on saturday, there is not a support tower in the middle, so the entire span of the bridge, 174 feet long, made out of concrete and steel and rhubarb y spanned across the road