Bridge collapse in Washington

Live:

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbcnews.com/51986246/

 

Witness saying that an oversize load truck hit one of the overhead girders just before the collapse.

 

Really hope all survived. Looks more like a sudden collapse than anything suspicious. The way around that bridge is going to be a traffic nightmare.

 

Reading that story it doesn't sound like the water is very deep along that part of the river, which probably kept this from being worse than it was.

 

Reports are saying that three people were rescued from the river, and that they believe everyone is accounted for.

 

An I-40 bridge in Oklahoma collapsed (after being hit by a runaway barge) on the Sunday before Memorial Day in 2002. Fourteen people died. I think that's the most killed in the USA in modern times.

 

Sunshine Skyway, in Tampa Bay, killed 35 people when it collapsed in 1980 after being struck by a freighter. Cars and a Greyhound bus fell 150 feet to the water.

 

Listening to KOMO radio is a farce. Even as the anchor repeats reports from emergency management of no deaths, and his reporter on scene saying no significant injuries, he keeps calling it a tragedy every 30 seconds.

 

Did CNN have anything on this at all?

 

I flipped over several times during breaks in the hockey game and all I saw were replays of Anderson Cooper and Piers Morgan.

 

Guess it wasn't that big a deal then. I don't think Fox had anything. They can't afford to let Obama off the hook for five fucking minutes.

 

If it happens after 10 p.m. ET and west of the Mississippi it doesn't register. If this happened between DC and NY or between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET it would be wall to wall.
I guess what concerns me is that the cable nets don't even keep a skeleton crew around 24 hours that could have an anchor up and throwing to local coverage.