WATCH LIVE: Key Bridge removal, cleanup begins in Baltimore

By Valerie Bonk
May 20, 2024 | 5:35 AM

Listen live to WTOP for the latest coverage from Baltimore.

Crews in Baltimore, Maryland, are starting to remove pieces of the Francis Scott Key Bridge that collapsed when a ship ran into it last week.

On March 30, teams of engineers started cutting and lifting steel wreckage from the bridge in the Patapsco River.

StreamTime Live, the company that first captured the collapse of the bridge, has a livestream of the cleanup here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sv7SA2Ybgg

The Key Bridge Response Unified Command includes the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Maryland Department of the Environment, the Maryland Transportation Authority, the Witt O’Brien’s representing Synergy Marine, and the Maryland State Police.

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Excavation work on Trump’s arch in Washington to begin over next 2 weeks, administration says

By The Associated Press
September 4, 2026 | 4:54 AM

The Trump administration said Thursday that excavation work will start over the next two weeks on the site where it plans to build a towering, gilded arch, a project critics say would disrupt historic sightlines in Washington, D.C. “This will be one of the Great Pieces of American Architecture,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote on the social media platform X, “befitting the most powerful Capital in the World.” The planned 250-foot-tall (76-meter) memorial arch will stand between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. A lawsuit is challenging the plans for the arch.

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