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Now, this pedestrian walkway, which was constructed to the side of the road then swung over is known as instant bridge or accelerated bridge construction. it had been celebrated feat by the engineers who designed it until yesterday. senator marco rubio tweeted last night the cable that suspended the bridge had loosened and engineers had asked for them to be tightened. thats when the bridge came down. police here could not confirm that to us this morning. we are expecting more information to come...

It? >> youre right. its highly touted and championed here at fiu. its called abc. accelerated bridge construction. much like a prefabricated house. they build most of the bridge off site. in this case it was really alongside the road. the goal is to try not to inhibit traffic while that bridge is being constructed. it was really carried out to great fanfare here on saturday morning. it took about six hours to drive the bridge into its position here, but certainly after this disaster, this new me...

Podestpedestrian bridge.steve? >> shepard, two of these florida based firms designed in the construction of this pedestrian bridge are getting quite a lot of scrutiny right now and both of them have a history of safety violations and history of being fined for those violations. mcm, a family-owned company has expressed grief over what has happened and said they are cooperate fully with the investigation. they have been fined 11 separate occasions in the past five years, more than $50,000 for saf...

950 tons of concrete came down in miami-dade county, crushing a number of cars. jillian: talking about the way it was constructed, accelerated bridge construction. a lot of people talking about whether this is a good idea. we will hear about how the bridge was designed and constructed and we will give more information. the next briefing will be 9:00 files to 10:00 this morning. rob: we will be right back. im very proud of the fact

Called accelerated bridge construction. it was designed to connect pedestrians from florida international university with sweetwater. a lot of fanfare and excitement about this project that has ended in disaster. the national transportation safety board is expected to give an update with miami-dade police. we will bring it to you as it happens. >> let us know when we need to come back. jillian: donald trumpeting russia for fresh sanctions for meddling in the 2016 election and targeting the us po...

Rescue effort continues right now? >> reporter: david, authorities are calling this an all hands on deck situation. theyll be out here working throughout the night. they tell us they cant confirm the number of people dead, simply because they cant access the area or all of those cars that are stuck underneath the enormous weight of that bridge. david? >> just a horrific scene there. and victor, as you know, there are a lot of questions tonight about that new bridge, built befo beforehand and tru...

Im still shaken right now. >> its understandable. take a deep breath. what you describe sounds frightening. >> it was. >> you talked about seeing people underneath and trying to help get people out who were trapped. do you have any idea just how many people were in this area and were impacted by this bridge collapse? >> no. it was a lot more than i thought it was. when i first saw the bridge come down i only saw two cars. i was on the left side, east side of the bridge. but after i ran over ther...

Into place, so much so that crowds gathered to watch this feat of engineering and construction. as we learned, this was still an active construction site. now learning that it wasnt expected to be completely until early 2019. just this past saturday, a celebratory moment in this engineering and architectural and construction feat that it was actually a -- i mentioned a collaboration between so many entities, but fiu had created an accelerated bridge construction, university transportation center...

Eighth avenue there. this was a rapid construction process. they designed the majority of the bridge and hoisted it up in one days time and put it on some pillars. what do you make of what youre seeing right now? >> thank you for having me on. im watching cnn right now. i see the bridge on the roadway and what youre saying is it sounded like they were using abc or accelerated bridge construction, a technique thats been developed over the last number of years, to have less disruption to traffic w...