Authorities said in an update Tuesday that at least six people are presumed dead after a cargo ship plowed into Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Officials have decided to suspend search-and-rescue operations for the missing construction workers after Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed early Tuesday morning.During a press briefing Tuesday evening, U.S. Coast Guard officials said they were switching their operation to a recovery phase to find the six workers, saying, 'at this point, we do not believe that we're going to find any of these individuals still alive.
She also assured that the Coast Guard was 'not going away' now that search-and-rescue operations were suspended.Colonel Roland Butler of the Maryland State Police also told reporters that the 'changing conditions' of the river, including frigid water temperatures and changing currents, 'have made it dangerous for the first responders,' although there are plans to put divers in the water to conduct recovery operations tomorrow morning.
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