Thousands of tons of steel still sit in the Patapsco River, where the key bridge once stood. The methodical work to remove the wreckage, piece by piece, continues. All that steel has to go somewhere.

On Monday morning, members of the Unified Command, the group of state and federal agencies working together on the response, escorted members of the media to the processing site in Sparrows Point where the debris is taken for recycling.

We saw crews cutting into the biggest piece of steel the salvage teams have removed from the Key Bridge wreckage site so far. They used the biggest crane on the Eastern Seaboard to do it - the Chesapeake 1000.

"The piece itself was quite big - roughly 400 - 500 tons worth of steel," Frank Schiano, member of the U.S. Coast Guard's Atlantic Strike team, and salvage branch director for Unified Command, said.

"They had to cut it down the middle to be able to break it into two pieces to be under the weight limit for the crane," Captain Sal Suarez, U.S. Navy supervisor of salvage and diving, said.

Once they arrive to Sparrows Point, there's still more cutting to do, breaking them down into even smaller pieces.