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Kaboom goes the steel plant

A steel plant in Sparrows Point, Maryland imploded Wed. The structure, an old furnace, used to be 320 feet tall and weighed approximately 8 million pounds. It took 94 separate explosive charges at 12 points to bring the structure down. CBSN's Don Dahler and Elaine Quijano report.
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