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Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: One minute it was there, and the next, a chunk of a major highway that links Italy and France was gone, collapsed. The Morandi Bridge in the northern Italian city of Genoa buckled today during a sudden storm. Cars and trucks crashed 150 feet straight down into the river and rubble below. Italian authorities have confirmed more than two dozen are dead, and that number is likely to rise. The collapse prompted a desperate search for survivors and questions about how this happened. We're joined now by Matteo Pucciarelli, a reporter with the Italian newspaper la Repubblica. He has been in Genoa today surveying the scene. And Matteo, you were actually at the site of the bridge collapse earlier. Can you describe what it looked like? MATTEO PUCCIARELLI: Yeah. Hi, everyone. I arrived this morning, and the image of the collapse of the bridge is apocalyptic. It's like if a bomb had fallen over the bridge. I arrived more or less an hour