I-5 bridge collapse

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'Boom' first sign of problem on I-5 bridge

The first sign for a truck driver that something was wrong on a bridge on Interstate 5 that collapsed into Washington's Skagit River was the sound of a "boom," a federal investigator said Saturday.

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