now, let's go to msnbc's julia chester, 20 from baltimore. julia, as we await this update, i know oakland arrives to begin this very dangerous task of clearing up the wreckage. what can you tell us about the efforts? >> alex, you can see a little bit behind me, the site of the bridge, and one of the cranes in the distance, which are pretty much standing by to really get working. there is a whole category of equipment heading to baltimore, including 7 floating cranes. the navy is providing 4. 1, overnight, another, set to come here monday. in addition to 10 tugboats, 8 salvage vessels, 9 barges and 5 coast guard boats. they are sparing no resource to get this done. it is a challenging, unprecedented salvage operation , made particularly difficult by the conditions in the water and the fact that they don't want the ship to capsize. it's crews, still on it. there's one humenay problem that's causing concern for the -- the agent had to say about a difficult situation in the operation. >> if a drone goes into the zone, it's going to disrupt operat

julia chester is in baltimore. what else do we hear from the governor today on the discovery efforts? >> reporter: alex, there were quite a few bits of news in today's presser, which is still ongoing. first, an update on the ship, which we have heard about in a while. the whole is damaged, but in tact. that is new information. as for the salvage operation, you can see the crane in the distance behind me. governor wes moore broke down the next steps of the action of the operation. spotted the army corps in their partners will begin to move forward with a crane operation today. the north sections of the key bridge are going to be cut up and removed. this will eventually allow us to open up a temporary, t restricted channel that will help us to get more vessels in the water around the site of the collapse. it will take time to clear the section of the collapse. it will take hours. it is not going to take days. but once we complete this phase of the work, we can move more tugs and more barges and more boats into the ar