Update on the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

Navy divers have been laying the groundwork for their search of the Mississippi River to find bodies that are believed hidden in the debris and murky water.

Six days after a Minneapolis bridge collapsed, the job of pulling tons of broken concrete, cars and twisted metal from the Mississippi is moving ahead.

Divers are gearing up to head back into the water to search for the 8 people who remain missing. A Navy dive team has arrived to help, and an FBI team is on its way.

Clearing the bridge wreckage will help with the recovery operation and open a channel wide enough for barge and boat traffic.

The clean up is expected to cost as much as $15 million.

In the meantime, it appears commuters are finding ways into the downtown area despite the loss of a major freeway.

Families of people missing after the Minneapolis bridge collapse have seen the wreckage up close.

The Interstate 35-West bridge over the Mississippi River was jammed with bumper-to-bumper rush-hour traffic when it suddenly broke into huge sections. Dozens of vehicles fell 60 feet into the water.

At least one burning truck and a school bus had been clinging to a slanted slab of the span. Parents of some of the children aboard the bus say all were able to escape.

Tons of concrete and twisted metal also crashed into the water when the bridge broke into several huge sections.

The eight-lane bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, was in the midst of being repaired and had several lanes closed when it crumbled.

So far, officials don't suspect anything other than structural failure.

An official with the Department of Homeland Security says there's nothing to link the collapse to terrorism.

The 40-year-old bridge stretches between Minneapolis and St. Paul.

The arched structure was built in 1967 and rises about 64 feet above the river.

The National Transportation Safety Board says the first step in the federal investigation into the Minneapolis bridge collapse will be to recover the pieces and reassemble them. The group's chairman says putting the bridge back together will help investigators figure out what went wrong.

Minnesota's governor has ordered an immediate inspection of all bridges in the state with similar designs to the bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis.