I've crossed this bridge many times and it couldn't have come at a worse time-Rush hour in The Cities.

http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_213191448.html

 

Good Night!! :shock: :shock: :shock:

Any word on what the cause was, Yooper??

 

All I know is that they were working on the Bridge
I'm afraid there are going to be many major casualties

 

I am watching it on Fox News now..... INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!

Prayers go out the people involved.....

 

I don't see how there couldn't be.

We had a bridge down near Harllingen, Tx. collapse afrer it had been struck by a barge being pushed by a tugboat. People were killed in that, and form the looks of things, this one is far worse.

 

Aug 1, 2007 6:56 pm US/Central

I-35W Bridge Collapse Into Mississippi River
Slideshow: I-35W Bridge Collapse
(WCCO) Minneapolis The Interstate 35W Mississippi River bridge near University Avenue has collapsed into the river.

Both the northbound and southbound lanes of 35W are lying in the Mississippi River.

There are multiple cars in the river and a couple cars on fire. According to one witness, there was a school bus full of children on the bridge.

Cars are still on the bridge.

Tons of concrete have collapsed and people are injured. Survivors are being carried up the riverbank.

Some people are stranded on parts of the bridge that aren't completely in the water.

A tractor-trailer is on fire at the collapse scene.

Some cars are still precariously perched on the bridge. Sections of the bridge are mangled, some are pointing up in the air and some are in the river.

"My truck got completely torn in half," said a witness who was on the bridge when it collapsed. "The bridge started shaking and it went down fast."

"It is just horrific," said witness Marilyn Franzen, who saw the bridge collapse. Franzen said she saw a school bus that managed to stop before the going over the edge of the bridge that she said was carrying 20-30 children between the ages of 8 and 12 years old.

According to witnesses, cars are crushed and mangled under the bridge where it collapsed onto the shore of the river. Street signs also crushed cars.

The road has been under construction since the beginning of the summer.

Stay tuned to WCCO.com and WCCO-TV for more information on this breaking news story.

 

Homeland security just said NO signs of terrorist.....

 

This is deja Vu of the Oakland Collapse minus the Earthquake.

 

This stuff is terrible. All we can do is pray for the families. And the people on scene

 

Those barges are heck on bridges. Useless you remember a few years back when that barge hit the I-40 wb over the Arkansas River near Sallisaw Ok?