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Minneapolis Bridge Reopens Following Last Year's Deadly Collapse [video 6 min 02 sec]

Thirteen months after a bridge collapse killed 13 people in Minnesota, a new 10-lane structure reopens to traffic Thursday morning. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the engineering behind the I-35W's multi-million-dollar reconstruction.
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