Two victims recovered after Baltimore bridge collapse

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Divers recovered the remains on Wednesday (March 27) of two of the six missing workers tossed into Baltimore Harbor from a bridge that collapsed into the Patapsco River after being rammed by a cargo freighter.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Divers recovered two bodies from Baltimore Harbor on Wednesday after a cargo freighter

00:07 hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to partially collapse and throwing six

00:11 workers into the water.

00:14 The incident occurred early Tuesday when the ship lost power and struck the bridge at the

00:18 Patapsco River.

00:20 The bodies were discovered in a submerged pickup truck near the fallen bridge section.

00:25 Shortly before 10 a.m., divers located a red pickup truck submerged in approximately 25

00:31 feet of water in the area of the middle span of the bridge.

00:35 Divers recovered two victims of this tragedy trapped within the vehicle.

00:40 The victims were identified as Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35 years old, of Baltimore, and Dorlean

00:48 Ranial Castillo Cabrera, 26 years old, of Dundalk.

00:52 Their family members were notified just over an hour ago in person by Maryland State Police

00:58 personnel.

00:59 Four workers who were part of a crew filling potholes on the bridge's road surface remain

01:03 missing and are presumed dead.

01:06 We're now moving from a recovery mode to a salvage operation.

01:09 Because of the superstructure surrounding what we believe are the vehicles and the amount

01:14 of concrete and debris, divers are no longer able to safely navigate or operate around

01:19 that.

01:20 We exhausted all search efforts in the areas around this wreckage.

01:26 Sonar images indicate their vehicles are trapped within the wreckage, making recovery efforts

01:31 dangerous.

01:32 Inwarder searching stopped at about 4 o'clock today.

01:36 The divers did exhaust the search area around that to ensure that they couldn't get in there.

01:40 The sonar supported the conclusion that the divers all reached.

01:44 And you had divers working from multiple jurisdictions, and the sonar simply said that they cannot

01:48 get to that area because it was fully encased in the superstructure.

01:54 Now once that salvage effort takes place and that superstructure is removed, those same

01:57 divers are going to go back out there and bring those people closure.

02:01 The six workers also included immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador.

02:05 Rescuers pulled two workers from the water alive on Tuesday, and one was hospitalized.

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