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Wes Moore: “We lost six workers, people who fell, who were fixing…”

Featuring: Wes Moore, Democratic | Governor of Maryland

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Published | Video Starts at 30:19

You know, a little over a year ago, we had one of the most traumatic moments in our state's history where, you know, a ship the size of three football fields slammed into, you know, our Francis Scott Key bridge. Yeah. And We lost six workers, people who fell, who were fixing potholes, who fell 180ft into dark, cold waters and lost their lives. And how that first morning when they were like, when I was asking the workers, because we're, you know, on the ground immediately, and I said, how long do you think it's going to take for us to clean up this channel? (30:19–30:30)

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Asserts that six workers died in an accident involving the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

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