Here what we're learning about the timing there were school delays because of the weather typicallya far busier bridge abc's elwin lopez on the scene in pitts burgh to night a terrifying morning commute in pitts burgh a lot of screaming and static on the phone stating the bridge fully gave outun known injuries a bridge suddenly collapsing just before7am with five cars and this bus plunging with it two very loud booms woke us up 630 6 45 the house shook a couple times first responders racing to the scene forming a human chain pulling people off that partially crushed bus a driver and two passengers on board Daryl luciani was behind the wheel as i was driving a cross it in my mind i knew the bridge was collapsing i could just feel it the bus was bouncing and shaking.
I was just happy that the bus finally come to a stop and everyone seemed to be no one was killed and just 10people suffered minor injuries officials say it could have been a lot worse snow delayed schools for two hours and traffic was light at the time of the collapse the Pennsylvania department oftran sportation telling us 14500 vehicles travel over the bridge daily the overall condition of the 52year old structure was listed as poor during its last inspection in September i walked under it all the time and sawt he rust and decay and that's pretty typical in pitts burgh the collapse came just hours before president biden visited the city to highlight his 1.2trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure law the president seeingt he destruction firsthand vowing to fix all the bridges promising giganticchange we got to movet he next time we don't need head lines saying that someone was killed when the next bridge collapsed and david federal investigators with thentsb have just arrived on the scene to help pinpoint the cause of the collapsein david officials have also run heavy equipment to remove the wreckage that process could take several days david we're just glad everyone survived this elwin lopez .
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