Today's D Brief: USCG help with Baltimore bridge collapse; Israeli military chief to the Pentagon; Netanyahu angry over UN ceasefire; USAF wishlist; And a bit more.

A serious bridge over the Baltimore harbor collapsed early Tuesday after it was struck by a virtually 1,000-foot-long loaded container ship on what would have been a 27-day voyage to Sri Lanka. View video of the collapse on YouTube, right here. 

A building crew was engaged on the 1.6-mile Francis Scott Key Bridge and automobiles had been touring over it when the cargo ship seems to have impacted a sub-structural concrete pillar, which then induced the bridge’s metal body superstructure to buckle up and swiftly collapse round 1:30 a.m. ET. By dawn, two individuals had been rescued; however at the least seven remained unaccounted for. The water beneath the bridge is just about 50 toes deep. 

Native authorities say they’re treating the incident as a “creating mass casualty occasion.” Troops from the Coast Guard had been known as in to assist with restoration efforts, together with an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew together with numerous investigators. And by dawn, almost a dozen tugboats had anchored northwest of the bridge to help when acceptable, Baltimore’s NBC affiliate WBAL studies. 

Vessel site visitors into and out of the Port of Baltimore has been suspended, however the port itself “isn’t shut down and they’re nonetheless processing vans within the terminals,” in response to WBAL.

In keeping with the FBI, “There isn’t any particular and credible info to counsel any ties to terrorism presently,” officers stated in a press release Tuesday morning. “FBI Baltimore will proceed to help our companions on the native, state, and federal ranges,” they added. 

The bridge was inbuilt 1977, and preliminary indications counsel its concrete approaches seem like intact. However the pace with which the metal body quickly disassembled was pretty outstanding to witness within the footage. 

“The Port of Baltimore [is] the largest handler of US imports and exports of automobiles and lightweight vans,” and it’s unclear simply but which U.S. ports have further capability for the diverted site visitors, Bloomberg studies. What’s extra, firms like Amazon, FedEx, Beneath Armour, Residence Depot, BMW and extra all have warehouses close to the now-collapsed bridge.

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Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin is assembly his Israeli counterpart on the Pentagon Tuesday, after spending Monday in discussions with White Home Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan. In keeping with Austin’s spokesman, “the assembly is predicted to cowl a spread of matters, to incorporate efforts to safe the discharge of all hostages held by Hamas, the necessity for extra humanitarian support to succeed in Palestinian civilians and plans to make sure the protection of the more-than a million individuals sheltering in Rafah, whereas additionally making certain Hamas can now not pose a menace to Israel,” Air Drive Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder instructed reporters Monday. 

Protection Minister Yoav Gallant is making the go to in the future after the U.S. angered Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by abstaining in a United Nations Safety Council vote authorizing a direct ceasefire for Israel’s battle towards Hamas militants within the Gaza Strip. The decision, which additionally known as for the discharge of all hostages held by Hamas and Israel, handed in a 14-0 vote Monday afternoon in New York. 

Netanyahu responded by canceling a deliberate journey of Israeli officers to the U.S. forward of an anticipated Israeli offensive within the southern Gaza metropolis of Rafah, the place Israel alleges Hamas hold 4 battalions of fighters. 

One massive impediment: “The state of Israel won’t stop fireplace,” Israeli International Minister Israel Katz stated Monday. “We’ll destroy Hamas and proceed to battle till the final of the hostages returns residence.”

For the U.S., “A ceasefire can start instantly with the discharge of the primary hostage and so we should put stress on Hamas to do exactly that,” stated Washington’s Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield. She added, “Any ceasefire should include the discharge of all hostages.” CNN has the newest from Gaza, right here. 

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The U.S. Military lately suspended the four-star normal in control of Materiel Command at Alabama’s Redstone Arsenal, the Related Press reported Friday. TLDR: Gen. Charles Hamilton is being investigated over allegations that he tried to affect the choice course of to rent a feminine lieutenant colonel for a command job. 

The Air Drive needs extra money for reorganization, in response to new finances paperwork. As a part of its $3.5 billion wishlist of unfunded priorities, Air Drive leaders are asking for $612 million to fund an enormous reorganization that features “​​present the readiness spares packages, aviation help gear, and munitions help gear essential to reorganize the fighter pressure construction to provide 9 further mission technology pressure parts which might make obtainable as much as 208 combat-coded fighter plane within the present USAF stock,” the paperwork state. Protection One’s Audrey Decker has extra. 

Marines need to swap some ships for drones and provide caches as they gird for contemporary warfare. The service department launched a sweeping plan to align logistics with the specter of long-range weapons. And to try this, the service might want to rely extra on unmanned techniques, 3D printing, AI to handle stock, whereas adapting logistics coaching and medical care.

“Logistics will cease you in your tracks if you have not thought it via, if you do not have a system that’s sturdy and functioning,” Gen. Christopher Mahoney, assistant Marine Corps commandant, instructed Protection One’s Sam Skove.

And lastly: Suppose-tank researchers argue for a brand new army department: a Cyber Drive. A brand new Basis for the Protection of Democracies examine suggests the Pentagon create a seventh army department solely targeted on cyber. The brand new department would goal to fill gaps left by the present cyber workforce and, as an extension of the Military, be given 10,000 personnel with a $16.5 billion finances. Learn extra right here.