Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses after ship struck it; people, vehicles in water

thanks so much for being with us this morning I'm Jackie Dori and I'm Sean Striker we going to get straight to breaking news out of Baltimore where the Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed just hours ago when it was struck by a container ship and right now we are dealing with a massive search and rescue effort underway as Crews work to save those who were sent into the water we have live team coverage for you right now with fox43 s Williams and Tyler Hatfield each at different ends of the bridge l

et's start with SRA what are you seeing this morning yeah good morning Jackie and Sean so right now where I'm staring standing at is the Maryland Transportation Authority and unfortunately they pushed us back so you can't see much of the damage that happened early this morning but this took place around 1:30 a.m. where a cargo cargo ship with a Singapore uh flag had crashed into the Francis Scott Key bridge and as you can see I 695 all Lanes have been shut down now we were told at least seven pe

ople had went into the water according to uh the mayor as well as multiple police in uh fire response uh two people were pulled out of the water one of them seriously injured now we know that many challenges have been presented during the search and rescue efforts as you can see up in the air here there are Choppers flying around as well as uh police Personnel walking around uh according to the fire department they say that you know currents as well as the tide coming in has presented many chall

enges for their dive team as well as it being darker in the early hours but as you can see the sun is coming coming up so hopefully that search and rescue effort continues to uh progress in this uh in this case now again we know that this happened at 1:30 a.m. police as well as multiple Personnel have been unseen since then all Lanes as well as detours have been put in place on this bridge it's known as the Baltimore beltway so a lot of people who travel this way are going to be encountered many

road closures many detours as well as uh many other alternative routes that they're going to have to take and again we heard from the mayor earlier today uh saying to keep the victims in mind you know this is just tragic news to wake up to to hear that multiple Vehicles as well as a tractor trailer uh falling into the river now details and information are going to be coming out soon so make sure you stay up to date with us on air and online at fox43.com but for now in Baltimore SRA Williams fox

43 news all right SRA we know we are expecting a news conference soon so as soon as that happens we'll check back in with you and we also have Fox 43's Tyler Hatfield who is on the scene on the other side of the bridge in Baltimore where police and the mayor address the collapse about a half hour ago he's joining us now live with the latest on what comes next in the search and rescue efforts Tyler yeah Shan Jackie it is a devastating here in Baltimore now we just wrapped up a press conference he

re outside of Fort armad Park with Baltimore city mayor and B Baltimore City Fire Chief James Wallace and he told us that again there's up reps of seven people that went into the water we do know of two people that were taking out of the water one is in critical condition and one they said uh refuse service go to the hospital now when we spoke to James Wallace he did say that there was no intention that this was intentional of uh hitting the bridge with that boat now he did say this is going to

be a huge effort from multiple different agencies to help try to do this search and rescue now the reason we're here at Fort armor Park this is the main launching site of this search and rescue so I want to give you a scene of what this place actually looks like right now there's multiple Crews here heading into Fort armad Park now they did say again there is multiple agencies helping into this effort and this is going to be a long and hard effort as well they are so you can even hear some helic

opters overhead of us right now so again this is going to be a long effort here to help with the search and rescue and we'll keep you updated on air and online at fox.com but for now Tyler happy f for food news all right thanks so much Tyler and of course the search and E rescue efforts continue as of what we last heard they found two people one refused treatment one is in serious condition right now so an ongoing story all morning long and we are again expecting a news conference coming up soon

so as soon as that happens we'll give you the latest information and something that they do have right now Danielle is at least as the sun is coming up good weather to be able to check yeah quiet conditions the weather's not going to hamper any of those efforts today so we can be thankful for that