NBC Special Report on bridge collapse in Baltimore

As a prof. civil engineer, some of y’all in the comments are making my head hurt with your ignorant comments. Bridges are designed to withstand weather events, seismic activity, traffic loads, etc. A gigantic steel container ship plowing through it and collapsing the bridge does not necessarily indicate a flawed design or poor maintenance like some of you are stating as fact. An enormous steel ship will almost always win against bridge supports. You guys act as if the bridge just collapsed on its own. Your comments are like a homeowner complaining that his house was designed horribly after a category 5 tornado destroys it! Or like saying the Twin Towers were poorly constructed after an unprecedented never before seen event occurs like two massive commercial jets flying directly into them at 600 mph.

Heartbreaking😢😢😢 for the people who were on that bridge at that moment. Condolences to the families🙏🙏🙏

A mile and half bridge? Oh my heart. Holding all victims and their families in my heart

Prayers up for the citizens of Baltimore 🙏

God bless the people of Baltimore and our brave first responders.

This is so heart breaking.

If NBC would show the prior 4 minutes, almost everyone would gain a much better understanding of what happened. The ship loses electric power and then regains it prior to hitting the bridge. Go look at the What's Going on with Shipping video to get a much greater understanding of what happened. Great analysis!!!

Sending prayers to everyone

Bodies do not decompose until close to 50° water temps. They’ll probably need to do sun-surface diving to find lost people. Hopefully the current doesn’t take any victims too far. Good luck and be safe to all the rescue workers in the water.

The video is unreal to watch. I cannot imagine what that would feel like driving across the bridge and suddenly you see the bridge collapsing in front of you and than your car / truck starts to fall into the water. And unless you are prepared for it getting your windows down isn't something you'll think of right away. How frightening that has to be. And the fact this happened at 1:30am - totally dark. I pray for the souls who are lost by this collapse. It was built in 1977 so I'm not sure how so much of it fell apart so quickly from hitting one footing. Just thank god this didnt happen during rush hour closer to 6am when it's still somewhat dark and the bridge would be loaded with people. Keeping the victims and their families in my thoughts and prayers today 🙏😪 Based on other comments I've been reading, this is now going to bring out all of the "Captain Hindsight's" who will tell us about all of the things that were neglected during the building of the bridge.

I've been Praying all day for the City of Baltimore! Remain Positive! I was touched when the Baltimore Orioles Baseball team and their Football Friends the Baltimore Ravens told the city to stand Together! Be Brave Baltimore!!

Do people commenting hear themselves ? A STEEL SHIP HIT A "SUPPORT" BEAM FOR THE BRIDGE. My gosh think before you speak. Pray for survivors 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

the video looked like a whole bridge collapse, went down like dominos...

Newfoundland sends prayers to all the people affected by the bridge collapse ❤ may God be with you and your loved ones.

Praying for those who went into the water. 🙏🙏🙏

Genuine intrusive thoughts every time I'm on a bridge😢 Nightmare

Oh God, how awful. I will keep everyone in my prayers. Love from me in England.

Did you see the truck driver driving his vehicle over bridge seconds before the bridge collapses. Must be one of the luckiest people on the planet !

Prayers to the construction crew who was working on the bridge at the time this happened. If you look closely I can see there green and amber beacon lights on their vehicles flashing as the bridge collapsed. This is one of my biggest fears smh🙏🏾

The Dali lost power and dropped the port anchor, regained power and the smoke was the ships engine reversing... I am sure we will know more once they debrief the Captain, the Pilot, and the crew