President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Baltimore on Friday after last week's collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced Monday afternoon. The president plans to meet with state and local officials and get an "on-the-ground look" at federal response efforts, Jean-Pierre said. Also Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard established a temporary, alternate channel for commercially essential vessels near the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, part of a phased approach to opening the main channel leading to the vital port, officials said. Over the weekend, crews started the complicated work of removing steel and concrete at the site of the bridge's deadly collapse into the Patapsco River after a freighter collision last week. On Sunday, dive teams surveyed parts of the bridge and checked the ship, and workers in lifts used torches to cut above-water parts of the twisted steel superstructure. Officials said the temporary channel is open only to vessels that are helping with the cleanup effort.