Maryland Gov. Wes Moore gave a press conference with other government officials on Saturday.
Engineers in Maryland on Saturday began lifting a piece of Francis Scott Key Bridge out of the waterway in Baltimore, the first step in a long process to reopen the city’s shipping port.
“I cannot stress enough how important today and the first movement of this bridge and the wreckage is,” said Gov. Wes Moore at a Saturday press conference. “The complexity of this cannot be overstated.”
On early Tuesday morning, the Key Bridge collapsed due to a container ship colliding into one of its pillars, leaving several people missing, six of whom the U.S. Coast Guard has presumed are dead.
“We are never going to lose sight of the human aspect of this crisis,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said Saturday.
