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Pretty darn quickly. that's why there were no explosions in the area. >> the neighboring streets are shut down from traffic. about 70 patients are evacuated from a nearby hospital. although people in the area are inconvenienced, no one is injured or killed. city and state investigations conclude that the sink hole is caused by the water main break, but there's still debate about whether it was caused by corrosion of the aging main or triggered by subway construction. >> whatever it was, it was a broken watermain. not just the pipe but the main. and that water had been coming in for some time b...

A really sharp report. i talked to steve, the county maintenance supervisor. and said, have you heard this sound before? he said, yeah, we did indeed hear this before. i said, we have to get all this construction equipment stopped. we have to hear what's going on. >> they stopped the jackhammer and moved the construction and news crews even further back. >> vanessa takes a look and then she walks back and she's talking to some of the tdot personnel, and all the sudden they start walking back, she jumped in her car and drives to the other end of the road, and they're walking backwards. they go ...

Snap. >> and then the unimaginable happens. the massive steel structure bends, whips and contorts so violently that it collapses into the rushing water below. both make it off the bridge alive, but not tubby. he's still in the backseat when the structure gives way. the bridge failure makes news all across the world. >> the tacoma narrows bridge dedicated in 1940 was the pride of the northwest. four months after it was opened those winds sent it into a rhythmic dance of death. >> very early in the process, in fact before construction began, the late engineer was very concerned about the bridge,...

That's why there were no explosions in the area. >> the neighboring streets are shut down from traffic. although people in the area are inconvenienced, no one is injured or killed. city and state investigations conclude that the sink hole is caused by the water main break, but there's still debate about whether it was caused by corrosion of the aging vein of triggered by subway construction. >> it was a broken main. not just the pipe but the main. and that water had been coming in for some time. >> yous repair the weert main, fill the hole with concrete and repair the road. in 1999, four years...

Pretty darn quickly. that's why there were no explosions in the area. >> the neighboring streets are shut down from traffic. although people in the area are inconvenienced, no one is injured or killed. city and state investigations conclude that the sink hole is caused by the water main break, but there's still debate about whether it was caused by corrosion of the aging vein of triggered by subway construction. >> it was a broken main. not just the pipe but the main. and that water had been coming in for some time. >> yous repair the weert main, fill the hole with concrete and repair the road...