President Joe Biden will visit Baltimore on Friday, days after a bridge collapse that killed six people and disrupted commerce.
, which had carried four lanes of highway traffic across the Patapsco River since 1977, collapsed on Tuesday after being struck by a 200 million-pound shipping barge.
Efforts are underway to clear crash debris in order to reopen Baltimore’s shipping port, with a 200-foot-long crane already on-site for the work. The first piece of wreckage was removed Saturday, Jean-Pierre said. “As the president said within hours of the collapse, this administration will be with the people of Baltimore every step of the way,” Jean-Pierre said. “We are with the people of Baltimore, and we will be there until we get this done.”
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