Partial bridge collapse due to flooding in Montgomery County

Thanks taylor. We're still following the partial bridge collapse in Montgomery County. Yeah, due to last night's heavy rainfall and flooding, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue say there is buckling on the road surface. That's where we find our Melanie Elnwick in Gaithersburg with the latest details. Mel. Hey, good morning. Good news guys. The State Highway Administration has just been out here. They've done their assessment and you can see behind me that they are beginning to reopen this section of Woodfield Road. Now we did see engineers out there. Let me show you some video of what it looked like overnight. Now this is uh the situation that Montgomery County Fire and Rescue identified uh shortly after the torrential downpours. You can see where the pavement appears to have buckled and some washout going on. And that's really a concern that there could be some structural damage underneath. This actually is a bridge. It goes over part of Goshen branch. And so they were certainly concerned about some structural issues. But again, after the State Highway Administration came out, they said that structurally this area is safe. There's still a cone in the middle of the road there. So there may be some issues with traffic trying to navigate their way around. These roads go up and down and up and down and it can be hard to see around the corner. So I'm a little concerned about maybe oncoming traffic there. And I don't believe that they have opened up Brink Road yet, but they're just about to do that momentarily where they're going to open that part of Brink Road. They do say that they are still going to have to have people come out at this point and repair that what is now a very big pothole and pretty deep there so that you don't want to be driving over it. That's why the cone is still there. But as far as structural damage, it does not appear at this point that that's going to be an issue. But Maryland Department of Transportation engineers out here said they will send another crew just to do a second assessment later.