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Audio from MPR News, August 6, 2007

• Onlookers at the Stone Arch bridge in Minneapolis
  

August 5, 2007

• Lisa Jolstad, wife of missing construction worker Greg Jolstad
  

August 4, 2007

• Special Midmorning coverage of the Bridge collapse and President Bush's visit (10:00 am)
  

August 3, 2007

• Midday Hour 2 (noon)
  Mayor R.T. Rybak for the first half hour, and in the second half hour, emergency response team leaders.
• Midday Hour 1 (11:00 am)
  Legislative leaders discuss state action that may be taken, as well as possibility of a special session.
• Midmorning Hour 1 (9:00 am)
  The next steps in the bridge investigation, with guests Jon Hanson and Barry Sweedler.

August 2, 2007

• All Things Considered (5:00 pm)
  More live interviews and reports on the scene, the first four victims are identified.
• All Things Considered (3:30 pm)
  Tom Crann anchors coverage and features a press conference with NTSB chair Mark Rosenker
• Midday Hour 2 (noon)
  Mike Mulcahy and Dan Olson take listeners' calls with questions and eyewitness reports. Also, excerpts from the earlier press conference -- plus a Q&A with Sen. Amy Klobuchar
• Midday Hour 1 (11:00 am)
  Mike Mulcahy hosts Former Minnesota Department of Transportation Commissioner Elwyn Tinklenberg, plus live reports from MPR reporters Mark Zdechlik, Tom Scheck, Marianne Combs and Jeff Horwich.
• Midmorning Hour 2 (10:00 am)
  Kerri Miller hosts Jay Prier, Captain of Lewis Township Water Rescue, Council Bluffs, Iowa
• Midmorning Hour 1 (9:00 am)
  Guests: Hassan Astaneh Professor, structural engineering at University of California at Berkeley. He's the lead investigator of the Oakland highway bridge that burned and collapsed in April. Also joining in the conversation, C. V. Shashikumar, president and founder. C. V. Associates, Inc., a bridge inspection firm.
• Morning Edition Hour 4 (8:00 am)
  Interview with Rep. Jim Oberstar, and reports filed by Marianne Combs, Annie Baxter, and Lorna Benson
• Morning Edition Hour 3 (7:00 am)
  Features eyewitness accounts and coverage of the early morning Hennepin County press conference
• Morning Edition Hour 2 (6:00 am)

August 1, 2007

• Closing coverage from St. Paul's newsroom with Mike Mulcahy and Tom Crann interviewing more experts and witnesses (10:00 pm)
• Continuing coverage with rescue experts, reporters on the scene (9:00 pm)
• Tom Crann, joined by Mike Mulcahy, Tom Scheck and others at the scene (7:08 pm)
• Tom Crann with more coverage, eyewitnesses (6:58 pm)
• All Things Considered Host Tom Crann interrupts Marketplace (6:44 pm)

Eyewitness Accounts

• Linda Lincoln lives in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood
• Anne Skenzich was at the Dome during the collapse
• Sean McLoughlin talks with MPR's Michael Caputo about arriving on the scene of the collapse
• Cory Swingen provides perspective from a cruise boat on the river
• Craig Johnson saw the bridge collapse from the North side
• Firefighter Curt Mackey
• Brent Olson and his wife Chris were on the bridge
• Briane Stately was on the bridge with her mother
• Melissa Hughes was on the bridge when it collapsed