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Kathryn Fink

A huge crane with a CIA history helps with the Baltimore bridge cleanup

The Chesapeake 1000 docked in Maryland in late March. (Brian Witte/AP)

Cleanup efforts continue after last week's fatal collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. At the center of the wreckage removal is a massive decades-old crane – the largest on the East Coast.

"Picture essentially a giant floating crane on a barge. And the proportions of this are really difficult to describe or to fathom," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told All Things Considered last week.

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