View from the air of the collapsed bridge and the cargo ship

tonight the view from the air over this disaster devastating chunks of bridge and strips of Steel sandwiched across the front of the dolly cargo ship crushed containers marking the point where the structure buckled the rest of the Francis Scott Key bridge underwater late this afternoon we took off over the crash site as we fly over this disaster you can actually see how the bridge collapsed the cargo vessel crashing in to those concrete pilings and they essentially cracked sending the bridge all

that steel into the cargo vessel and then into the river the water is 47° and the bridge was 185 ft nearly 20 stories above the Patapsco River the tides and the currents mean the wreckage could be unstable yet another challenge for rescue workers from up here you also get a sense of just how big this ship is right it's about 950 ft long and to put that into perspective it's about the size of the Empire State Building and when you look at the deck nearly every inch of it is covered by containers

stacked 10 high when I got the phone call I thought it was fake just hours before the collapse long shoreman Sean jackon was loading cargo onto the ship did you notice anything strange yesterday with the ship or the crew or anything like that when you were loading it no I did not just a regular day you know I would have never thought in a million years that would happen how dark is it out here here at 1:30 in the morning it's dark it's dark I mean even in daytime you really can't see through th

e water cuz it's murky you know so at night time it's even worse at 0600 hours tomorrow we are hoping to put divers in the water and begin a more detailed search to do our very best to recover those six missing people and tonight we're learning more about that missing construction crew that was on the bridge contractor Jesus scos worked with the missing men he says they're from Mexico Guatemala elab and Honduras they came to Baltimore for a better life and have families waiting at home he says t

hey were good people people who came here to work tonight he's praying for a miracle Tom yamas NBC news Baltimore thanks for watching stay updated about breaking news and top stories on the NBC News app or follow us on social media