[DCPatriot]

At first glance...looks like dust cloud.

[Milwaukee_Guy]

Bridge was rated ‘structurally deficient’ in 2005

http://www.startribune.com/10204/story/1338970.html

The highway bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River on Wednesday was rated as “structurally deficient” two years ago and possibly in need of replacement.

By Dan Browning, Star Tribune

The highway bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River on Wednesday was rated as “structurally deficient” two years ago and possibly in need of replacement.
That rating was contained in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Bridge Inventory database.

Aamodt said the department plans its bridge repairs using information from the Bridge Inventory database.

Many other bridges nationwide carry the same designation that the I-35W bridge received, Aamodt said.