00:00A searing emotional update in Washington Tuesday on one of the most consequential and costly infrastructure failures in modern U.S. history that happened in May of last year.
00:13The NTSB laying out in stark detail what went wrong the morning a cargo ship named the Dolly slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge and what could have prevented the deaths of six workers who were patching potholes.
00:28Investigators walked through the timeline saying those workers would have had one minute and 29 seconds to escape, but they were never warned.
00:37Police stationed on the bridge did not call the construction inspector despite having his number, leaving crews with no idea the powerless ship was drifting straight toward them.
00:48The NTSB chair didn't mince words.
00:52This tragedy should have never occurred.
00:54Lives should have never been lost.
00:58As with all accidents that we investigate, this was preventable.
01:05Investigators laid out a chain of failures, starting with a single loose wire that triggered an initial blackout on the cargo ship, resulting in the loss of steering control.
01:15Remember the scene?
01:16And a fuel pump set up that starved the ship of power in the seconds just before impact.
01:22They say the crew had swapped in cheaper flushing pumps months earlier, and the ship's operator likely knew about it.
01:29The NTSB also blasted the Maryland Transportation Authority for never assessing the bridge's vulnerability to a major ship strike, something safety groups have pushed nationwide for for decades.
01:40The Washington Post reports that Maryland now expects the rebuilt key bridge to cost as much as $5.2 billion and take until 2030 to reopen, more than double the state's early estimate.
01:53The NTSB chance of double the president costs paid to go up Eastern California immediately.
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