GOVERNOR SAYS 1100 TONS OF STEEL REMOVED FROM BRIDGE COLLAPSE SITE

Salvage crews in Baltimore are doing some heavy lifting as they work to clear the wreckage of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge and open a third temporary shipping channel by month’s end.  Speaking at an afternoon news conference, Governor Wes Moore said in the three weeks since the collapse, crews have removed eleven-hundred tons of steel from the Patapsco River, which is equivalent to five times the weight of the Statue of Liberty.  Moore noted this has been done without a single injury on the job.  In a show of bipartisan unity, the Democratic governor was joined by former Republican Governor Bob Ehrlich and GOP state lawmakers who helped pass the Maryland PORT Act, emergency legislation that supports businesses and workers impacted by the collapse.  Governor Moore says he plans to travel to Washington again to continue the push for full federal funding to rebuild the bridge.