Bay Floor News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

That shooting, jericka. >> duncan: all right tom hanson thank you for that reporting. a massive container ship stuck in america's largest estuary is finally free. today the ship was re-floated more than a month after it got stuck in the mud. cbs' scott macfarlane has the story. >> reporter: the ship everforward can finally move forward. nearly as long as the empire state building is tall, by removing 500 containers to lighten the load, dredging the bay floor, and pulling the ship horizontally. how uncommon is this? >> this is the biggest ship to ever ground in the chesapeake bay, very uncommon...

Its owner, evergreen line is removing 500 of the nearly 4,900 containers on board to lighten its weight. they've dredged the bay floor, and they're preparing tugging vessels to pull the "ever forward" free. the company has some experience with this. its sister ship, "ever given," was stranded about a year ago in the suez canal. the "ever forward" isn't block the shipping lanes off maryland but is costing an estimated tens of millions of dollars in expenses. and local officials worry about the salvage. >> the 750,000 gallons of diesel fuel on this particular ship are of great concern. but if 50...