Crane moves in as officials to start cleaning up Baltimore bridge wreckage

Investigators onboard container ship that rammed into Francis Scott Key Bridge while clearing of debris expected to take weeks

A gigantic, barge-mounted crane was moving into place on Friday in the waters off Baltimore as authorities prepared to begin salvaging the wreckage of the bridge that collapsed earlier this week – while investigators are still on board the giant container ship that rammed into the bridge piling, bringing it down.

Federal and state authorities have outlined the enormous task of cleaning up and rebuilding the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, which has left a structure nearly as long as the Eiffel Tower is high strewn across the cargo ship that hit it and in the surrounding water.