New York – CNN scored a coup Thursday when a tipster leaked security-camera video of the deadly Minnesota bridge collapse.
The stop-action footage – taken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – showed a middle section of the bridge breaking apart and rapidly plunging into the Mississippi River, raising a cloud of white dust.
It was the most arresting early image of the disaster, along with the pictures of a school bus teetering on a crumpled section of pavement.
It came into CNN shortly before 4 a.m. from a source who asked for anonymity, said Nancy Lane, a CNN senior vice president. “It gives us a better understanding of a moment in time,” she said.
The footage came from one of three security cameras that the Army Corps of Engineers placed alongside the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
