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you. I do want to head out

live to that area where we

do have Griff Jenkins with

Fox News joining us now

live with the latest

details from out there.

Griff. Thank you so much for

being here with us today.

hey Josh, it's great to be

with you and to bring to

your viewers. We're out on

a boat. We've been on the

Harbor for the past 3 days.

and this is as close as

you can get let me let me

show you around a little

bit, obviously. this is

the dolly you can see. the

trellis of the top of the

Key Bridge crashed down on

the bow. uh of the ship

and and to put it into

perspective. I thought

governor. West Moore last

night had a great comparison.

He said that that

container ship the dolly is

about the length of the

Eiffel Tower. So imagine

the Eiffel Tower. lying

down there, but it has a

bridge on top of it.

and that really puts into

perspective. the Monumental

task that they've got. to

try. and get this cleanup

done. now when we heard

that press conference last

night. the US Coast Guard

rear Admiral Shannon

Gilreath he was talking

about sort of 3 steps that

are going to happen

the first step is to clear

the channel the second step

is to remove the ship and

then the third step. will

be to ultimately remove

the rest of the debris

from the Waterway after

they've cleared the channel.

and then of course the

additional recovery efforts

to bring up those vehicles.

with the presumed for uh

construction workers.

bodies down there, but

looking here, and you know,

we're we're a bit ways away

and so I'm just going to

ask Sam to try and find

something for you. if you

sort of look at the

center of the ship just

a little to the right of

it You see a smaller piece

of the trellis sticking out.

and in front of it a sort

of small. brown. round

object, okay. and as Sam

tries to sort of find

that that's a channel

marker. It's called a

dolphin. There's 1 on

either side of the

channel. and that is the

only place. that these

ships can come in and out

of. they can't go around

the sides even though it

looks more wide open

because the channels only

about 30 35 feet deep and

that's the deepest part and

obviously the can see the

worst of the debris. that's

collapsed there the bridge

is in that area. and

of course you have a 95000

ton container ship sitting

there holding among other

things. uh some 56

containers. of hazardous

materials now, in the port

we've learned this morning.

There are some 10 ships.

There's like 3 major

carriers. a tanker. along

with some general. Uh, uh

cargo ships and also 4 uh,

ready Force. Maritime

vessels, which could be

activated in the case of

military. And so that's

what sitting in

there obviously Nothing can

go into Port which is

of course. was the ninth

largest port in the

country. and 1 of the top

for automobiles light trucks

and cars. It's going to

eventually in very soon

start to really impact. in

the hundreds of millions

of dollars of the supply

chain that they're talking

about. the economic impact,

by the way on this port.

according to secretary Pete

Buddha judge is roughly.

2 million dollars worth of

wages every day for the

roughly. 8,000 workers that

are directly tied to this

port now. We talked about

that. thousand pound crane

the Chesapeake 10000 the

largest. crane. on the

East Coast. It's going to

be out here. We hope very

soon. I know people have

seen the video. and

actually Sam's going to

yell at me when I do

this, but why don't we turn

around and we'll point over

here. It's actually just

sitting. over here. You

can't really see it. It's

not 1 of the ones. standing

up right now. Those are on

the shore, but it's

alongside the docks there.

and they've they've towed it

to that spot. because once

they're ready for it, they'll

bring it over. across the

bay. and begin to pull

pieces, but the complicated

thing is we heard from the

officials last night is

they're going to have to

cut it. into pieces they

have to assess. What's the

right cut now if you come

back here And you look

back. at the the Trestle

particularly. that's

collapsed on the front of

the bow and and the magnitude

of the past 3 days

that I've been here Josh

just seeing the steel beams

of this bridge Just

hanging. dangling twisted

and bent. It looks like

spaghetti hanging over the

side of a bowl, but yet it's

Steel. That's what they're

going to be assessing

There was a helicopter out

here the the state police.

and we know the Army Corps

of Engineers guys have

been out here on boats.

assessing. What's the size

of this bridge they

estimate they could cut

this into to make it

into pieces that this

thousand ton. Crane could

lift and put on a barge

to pull. out of this

channel to try and move it

because you can't just grab

a piece. and lift it

because it's far too heavy.

and then on top of that.

you're going to have to

tow that ship somewhere

because that ship doesn't

have power So it really

once you're out here and

you start to look at it

Josh you really start to

understand. the the magnitude

and the complexity of the

tasks. They've got at hand

and why they're saying it's

going to take weeks if

not, maybe months. to get

it fully done. It looks

like maybe they're hoping

for possibly May to have

this channel clear, but

this is going to be a

long process. Josh. it

definitely is and I do

want to talk really briefly

here about the water

conditions because I know

part of the concern on

maybe the second day after

this all happened was just

it was foggy. You couldn't

really see. deep down

into the water Maybe I

believe uh, the governor

said about a foot into the

water is all you could see

How are things looking now

out there Is it still

kind of the similar

situation? it is and we

can take you back over

there. to the area. But but

go over to where we saw

the recovery. efforts

happening. That's where uh

this area is where we saw

them. 2 days ago. go down

and use a flotation device

to raise that pickup truck

if they pulled it out of

and that's where they were,

you know. the visibility

they had suspended the

diving operations because

of the visibility. uh,

challenge in this murky water

and then on

top of it you talk About

conditions by the way. right

now you can see it's quite

calm. It's not raining.

It's not foggy. It's very

clear. Although they are

calling for. some

30 to 40 mph winds picking

up around. 2 into the

afternoon and evening. And

so that's going to make

it very difficult to be

out here and you certainly

couldn't have a thousand

ton. Crane sitting in

40 mph winds particularly.

if they get into some bad

weather, so it it really

does complicate things. I

know that they want to

get those divers back in

there, but they had said

it become too hazardous

because not only is it the

visibility but it is the

the debris of the bridge

under there and we certainly

don't there to put any

diversas lives. in danger

and that's of course. their

Paramount cost now I do

want to show you. 1 thing

and that is there is a crane

1 Crane out here. They got

here yesterday and you can

see. it's sticking up

just beyond. some of that.

debris. We're not sure. what

it's doing but we have

seen a little bit of

movement. It may be uh

trying to to you know,

locate something under there

that they they've placed a

priority on but right now,

we're just sort of

watching. and trying to uh

to assess exactly Uh, what

their first move is 1 thing

is for sure. It's not

going to be easy. I'll

tell you that Josh. Yeah.

definitely not. uh gonna

take a very long time to

make it happen Griff

Jenkins there with box news

as always fantastic

reporting there. Thank you

so much for taking the

time to be here with us.