President Biden took an aerial tour of the site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge and met with the families of the six victims. The authorities later announced the recovery of a third body.
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A colossal cargo vessel plowed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge last week.
President Biden told the people of Baltimore on Friday that “your nation has your back” as he stood in front of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, which was destroyed after a cargo ship plowed through it last week, killing six people.
Mr. Biden encountered a tangle more than a mile long of concrete and steel that has snarled traffic, devastated blue-collar communities and disrupted operations at one of America’s biggest ports, threatening chaos that could ripple across supply chains.
“We’re going to move heaven and earth to rebuild this bridge as rapidly as humanly possible,” Mr. Biden said. He called on Congress to help fulfill his promise that the federal government pay to rebuild the bridge.
Mr. Biden took an aerial tour of the damage and received a briefing from officials overseeing the cleanup and rebuilding efforts, before meeting privately with families of six construction workers who plunged into the Patapsco River when the bridge collapsed.
“We’re going to keep working hard to recover each of them,” Mr. Biden said.
Hours after Mr. Biden departed, the local authorities announced the recovery of the body of a third construction worker. They identified the man as 38-year-old Maynor Yasir Suazo-Sandoval.
In his remarks, Mr. Biden described how the workers had been on a break from filling potholes right before disaster struck. Just seconds before, Mr. Biden said, one of the men, a 24-year-old, sent a message to his girlfriend that said, “We just poured cement, and we’re waiting for it to dry.”
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