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Where is the Francis Scott Key Bridge? What to know about collapsed Baltimore bridge

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge , a major transportation link in the Baltimore area, sparked a massive search and rescue effort early Tuesday morning.

The bridge has been a critical transportation passageway along the East Coast for decades. Video captured the collapse , after Singapore-flagged container ship, the Dali, collided with one of the bridge's pillars.

The ship had caught fire, and several vehicles fell into the river below.

Here's what to know about the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Follow here for live updates → Baltimore's Key Bridge collapses after ship collision; rescue effort underway

Where is the Francis Scott Key Bridge located?

The bridge crosses over the Patapsco River on I-695 and is the final link on the Baltimore Beltway, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority .

It is the outermost of the three tollways that cross Baltimore's Harbor.

How long is the Francis Scott Key Bridge?

The 4-lane bridge structure alone is 1.6 miles long. The facility also includes the Curtis Creek Drawbridge. Including approach roadways, the entire stretch is around 10.9 miles long, MDTA said.

Why did a ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge?

The ship, a container vessel chartered by Maersk, apparently lost power a few minutes before striking the bridge, a senior U.S. official told USA TODAY .

No Maersk crew or personnel were onboard the vessel when it struck the bridge, according to a statement from the company. It was operated by a charter company, Synergy Group, and owned by Grace Ocean Pte., based in Singapore, and ultimately bound for Sri Lanka.

Accidents like this, called Marine casualties, are not uncommon, the official told USA TODAY, with an allision (an immobile object being struck by a ship) occurring about every 10 years or so. Investigators will likely look into the cause of the power outage and whether there was a mechanical failure on the ship.

How old is the Key Bridge in Baltimore?

The Francis Scott Key Bridge opened in March 1977, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority .

What type of bridge is the Francis Scott Key?

The steel-arched bridge was the second-longest continuous-truss bridge span in the world when it was built and remains the second longest in the United States and third in the world,  according to the American Civil Engineering Society .

When was the Francis Scott Key Bridge built?

Construction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge began in 1972.

Francis Scott Key Bridge has a deep history

According to the MDTA, the bridge crosses over the Patapsco River, near where Francis Scott Key, the bridge's namesake, was inspired to write the lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner.

Key is believed to have witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry on the night of Sept. 12, 1814, within 100 yards of the modern-day bridge. That battle is what inspired him to the national anthem.

How vital is the Francis Scott Key Bridge?

The bridge is critical to East Coast shipping. The port’s private and public terminals handled 847,158 autos and light trucks in 2023, the most of any U.S. port. The port also handles farm and construction machinery, sugar, gypsum and coal, according to a Maryland government website.

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City of Alexandria Releases Statement on Potomac Yard Entertainment District Proposal

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The City of Alexandria has ended negotiations related to the Potomac Yard Entertainment District opportunity and the proposal will not move forward.

As stewards of the City’s economic health and development, City leaders believed the Potomac Yard Entertainment District opportunity was worthy of community discussion and Council consideration. We negotiated a framework for this opportunity in good faith and participated in the process in Richmond in a way that preserved our integrity. We trusted this process and are disappointed in what occurred between the Governor and General Assembly. 

We engaged in substantial community engagement over the past months that informed our negotiations and would have made the proposal even better for our community. That continued conversation would have also allowed us to consider how a project of this scale could support our plans for growth and our community’s future. 

Throughout this process, the City has been committed to ensuring that our role in this project not only added financial value but promised that our core values would remain an integral part of this opportunity. The City was adamant that any favorable consideration of the proposal included substantial and thoughtful improvements to the existing transportation system; included affordable housing; protect our stellar AAA bond rating; protect existing and future residents from financial risk; provided substantial future revenue for city and school services; protected existing neighborhoods; and provided quality jobs for our community. We are disappointed negotiations did not result in a proposal that protected our financial interests and respected these community values. 

We are resolute in our commitment to ensure the City’s future is determined by our community. We will continue to pursue economic opportunities that improve our quality of life and economic health. Alexandria welcomes commercial investment, and our residents, businesses, and stakeholders deserve the chance to make educated decisions about how we continue to welcome new businesses to our city. We will continue to focus our efforts on bringing quality commercial opportunities to our community in the future.

How Bowser played the long game to keep Capitals, Wizards in D.C.

One detail stood out to D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on the December morning that the billionaire owner of the Wizards and Capitals, Ted Leonsis, announced he was moving the Washington teams to Virginia: He hadn’t signed a thing.

There was no contract, “no real commitment,” Bowser (D) said — only a handshake with Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) that in Bowser’s eyes meant D.C. still had a shot.

From that point, Bowser said in an interview Friday, she decided, “we were going to put our foot on the gas.” Over the next several months, periodically over drinks at the Waldorf Astoria, Bowser would quietly work to bring Leonsis back to the negotiating table, sweetening D.C.’s offer just as Leonsis’s plans were falling apart in Virginia’s General Assembly. She insisted for months publicly that D.C. remained in the game. Few shared her optimism at the onset.

But on Wednesday, Bowser got her ultimate told-you-so moment, turning what could have been a legacy-wounding loss of two professional sports teams into a defining career feat as she appeared with Leonsis to announce a $515 million deal to keep the teams at Capital One Arena until at least 2050.

“She went from friend, mayor, cheerleader for D.C. to, ‘I can deliver the city council … and then I can deliver the rest of the city, and [Deputy Mayor Nina Albert] will coordinate it.’ And it crescendoed,” Leonsis said in a Friday interview. “That’s literally how I see it happening, at a time when Virginia was not as integrated. I had Alexandria and Richmond and the governor’s office, and they were not singing the same tune. Well, D.C. really was.”

The deal the mayor and Leonsis signed is more comprehensive and favorable to Leonsis compared with the $500 million offer put forth in December, as he was already preparing to make his announcement with Youngkin. It’s expected to allow Leonsis to expand Monumental Sports & Entertainment’s footprint at neighboring Gallery Place by 200,000 square feet, offering a significant boost to the city’s downtown business landscape in the process. And among other perks it beefs up security around the arena, requiring 17 police officers patrolling two hours before and after games.

Bowser had been criticized for failing to deliver a more significant offer to Leonsis last year until the 11th hour — but now Bowser says that was the kick in the pants city leaders needed to regroup with a more focused approach.

“I’ll be candid, I learned some lessons with the last approach,” Bowser said of her failure last year to keep Leonsis from trying to take his teams across the Potomac River to Virginia. “And I think that the council and I have been in lockstep ever since December about how to move forward together.”

A chance encounter

Bowser and Leonsis’s rekindled negotiations started with a chance encounter at the Waldorf Astoria in mid-January, about a month after Youngkin and Leonsis announced the move. Leonsis’s investment company, Revolution Growth, was holding its annual conference at the glitzy hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, blocks from Bowser’s office at the Wilson Building. After remarks from Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), Leonsis stepped out of the ballroom into the lobby — “and I literally walk into the mayor,” Leonsis said.

“Ted!” she exclaimed.

“I said, ‘Hey, what are you doing here?’” Leonsis recalled. She’d come to the hotel for an unrelated meeting. “I said, ‘Oh, let’s sit down — I haven’t seen you in a while,’” Leonsis said — not since he told her he was moving to Virginia.

As Bowser tells it, the two embraced before sitting down to talk.

“At the conclusion of that conversation, we made an important decision: The two of us were going to talk directly. No interference, no helpful support from our staff, just us,” Bowser said. “I think that was a turning point into us both understanding his vision and needs, and me communicating to him where the city was going.”

It was the first of several meetings, in the same place, on the same couch, that ultimately helped Bowser lure Leonsis back as his plans in Virginia started to unravel. Reopening the line of communication wasn’t tense or awkward, Leonsis said, because the mayor had avoided “badmouthing” him after he announced he was off to Alexandria. He said he told the mayor at that time that they should continue “being friends” — “because who knows what’s going to happen?”

“Initially, I could tell she was mad. But that’s why I give her credit. She kept working it,” Leonsis said.

In the meantime, he said, the mayor kept texting him news articles about the city’s progress on a number of critical issues. She also sent D.C. Police Chief Pamela A. Smith to hear Leonsis out on his concerns about crime or traffic congestion around the arena. A dinner here. A ballgame or two there. And in the backdrop, a series of events from mid-February to mid-March started to build momentum for D.C., catching Leonsis’s attention, he said.

There was a new “Safe Commercial Corridor” police hub that opened Feb. 12 right across the street from the arena, speaking to Leonsis’s concerns about security in the area. There was the $400 million Downtown Action Plan that the city rolled out Feb. 29, a vision to revitalize the whole city core — something Leonsis had felt was missing while “bleeding from a thousand cuts” in a deteriorating downtown the last several years. There was the enormous public safety omnibus bill , Secure D.C., that the D.C. Council passed March 5, including controversial anti-loitering “drug-free zones” — one of which police quickly set up right outside the arena at the Chinatown-Gallery Place Metro stop.

“All those pieces came together at the exact right time,” Bowser said, noting that after she rolled out her Gallery Place-Chinatown Task Force, Leonsis remarked that the city appeared to be planning for a future without him.

“I was like, ‘That’s true. That’s not the way we want to go, but we will go,’” she added.

Then came March 9, when the Virginia General Assembly adjourned — and left the $2 billion Potomac Yard arena plan out of the budget, a crucial setback for Youngkin’s effort to score his own legacy-defining economic development win.

In Council Chairman Phil Mendelson’s mind, that’s when D.C.’s opportunity crystallized.

“When Monumental made its announcement in December, the District had no leverage left to change his mind. However, we did nothing to burn bridges,” Mendelson (D) said. “As the deal ran into increasing friction and trouble in Virginia, the fact we were still good with our offer and had not alienated Monumental meant we became more attractive.”

Asked if the General Assembly’s exclusion of the arena from the budget was the pivotal development spurring the D.C. return, Leonsis said that it "certainly caught my attention. But at the same time, he said, what stood out to him was that D.C. brought a starkly contrasting, unified approach that was absent in Virginia, where political spats between Youngkin and Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth), the chief blockade to the arena deal, dominated the dynamic.

There was an irony in it all: In a state where politicians love to brag on its business-friendly climate, with a wealthy governor who often touts his business chops as former co-chief executive of a private equity firm, Leonsis said, “I never expected that D.C. would be easier to negotiate a massive business deal.” (Youngkin defended his handling of the tentative deal, telling The Washington Post he would not have done anything differently.)

At the news conference Wednesday, Leonsis said Mendelson suggested making T-shirts about it.

‘Our DNA is already here’

After Leonsis’s handshake agreement with Youngkin failed in the budget stalemate, Leonsis said Virginia officials started “getting aggressive” with counteroffers, sensing the potential deal slipping away. One lawmaker and other Virginia businesspeople floated a Hail Mary idea to pair the arena with a casino in Tysons — drawing a hard no from Leonsis and Youngkin.

Leonsis had to consider his options: What could he gain for his company and fans by continuing to try to forge a path to a deal in Virginia? What could he gain remaining in D.C.?

“We had to remember that our DNA is already here,” Leonsis said of the District. “The building was already here. Right? So my biggest issue was, can I innovate and add things?”

That’s where a looming real estate deal at Gallery Place came into play — the 260,000 square feet of retail that was once a bustling mall anchored by a Bed, Bath and Beyond and a movie theater, plus underground parking and office space. The pandemic hasn’t been kind to the mall, which sits right next to Capital One Arena and Monumental’s new offices; it’s now half-vacant and in a court receivership.

“I heard what he said in Virginia about being able to build from scratch, being able to have this pedestrian space and being able to get bigger,” Bowser said. While she couldn’t promise him a dozen acres like in Alexandria, she said, “You’re in the heart of downtown Washington — you can build an urban campus if that’s what you want.”

For Leonsis, it’s what helped seal the deal.

Mendelson said the city since December has explored how Leonsis’s company, Monumental Sports & Entertainment, could move into the commercial property in Gallery Place. “It’s in the interest of the developer that’s buying Gallery Place that they have a tenant and activity in the building; it’s of interest to Monumental that they’re the tenant; and it’s of interest to us that it makes the arena complex that much bigger,” Mendelson said. Robert J. Murphy, of D.C. developer MRP Realty, said that his company has the building under contract but declined to comment further.

Once MRP takes ownership of the building, it could lease space there to Monumental, probably with the District’s assistance. Bowser’s administration has been working with MRP on a public-private partnership, Leonsis and Mendelson said. That would allow Monumental to find new uses for the Gallery Place space while reconfiguring arena offices into new attractions for fans.

Leonsis said the real estate proposal firmed up over the last week, giving him the clarity to hit the brakes in Virginia and dial Bowser to say they had a deal. He made the call on Tuesday.

He told the mayor, “The first thing I will sign is with you.”

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Moscow shifts water focus to Snake River

Palouse aquifer group now looking at snake river option more than paradise creek, palouse river.

• By Anthony Kuipers, Daily News staff writer
• Oct 17, 2023
• Oct 17, 2023 Updated Oct 17, 2023

The Palouse Basin Aquifer Committee views the Snake River as the most viable water source alternative for the Palouse.

Moscow Deputy City Supervisor Tyler Palmer gave the Moscow City Council an update Monday on PBAC’s discussions about how to stabilize the decline of the Palouse Basin aquifers.

PBAC has studied five water alternatives to supplement the Palouse’s water supply. It previously favored one that involved diverting water from Paradise Creek and the South Fork of the Palouse River.

Palmer said PBAC has since pivoted to the alternative of diverting water from the Snake River to a water treatment plant where it would be treated and pumped directly into Pullman and Moscow’s water supply.

Palmer said the Snake River alternative is the preferred option because it can better meet the Palouse’s future water needs and will be the least affected by climate change. He said there is a better likelihood to attain water rights. The committee also knows this kind of project is feasible from an engineering perspective.

Palmer said this project will require a “patchwork” of funding sources, much of which will likely come from state and federal governments.

PBAC has already received $182,500 from the Idaho Department of Water Resources to continue studying this alternative and is hoping to get similar funding from Washington.

While this is the preferred option, Palmer said it does not automatically eliminate the other options that include drawing water from the Palouse River, Paradise Creek and Moscow Mountain. He said at any point PBAC could reach a dead end on any alternatives because of issues concerning fisheries, water rights or transferring water across state lines.

Palmer said local entities still need to continue conservation efforts, which have significantly reduced the aquifer decline to 0.7 feet per year. Palmer said the Palouse has seen a 3% overall decrease in water pumping since 1992 despite the population growth.

However, Palmer said it is important to take action soon to ensure the Palouse has abundant water for the long-term.

“Water challenges will not get easier,” he said. “It will not get cheaper.”

Also on Monday, the Moscow City Council approved the purchase of a new $1.5 million ladder truck to replace its existing 23-year-old vehicle.

The University of Idaho has agreed to pay half of the cost for the ladder truck, which would be purchased from Hughes Fire Equipment. Moscow City Supervisor Bill Belknap said the university’s interest in a ladder truck stems from the need for firefighters to respond to emergencies in tall buildings on campus such as the Theophilus Tower.

Belknap said the city and university have one year to make the full payment, and the city can seek grants in the meantime to help fund the new truck.

Moscow will have to wait some time for the truck to be manufactured and delivered, however. Belknap said the wait time could be as much as 52 months.

Kuipers can be reached at [email protected] .

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