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Cleanup and recovery efforts have entered a second day after a Black Hawk helicopter crashed into an American Airlines flight over the Potomac River. @GioBenitez has details, with an update from the NTSB. https://abcnews.link/zeYGXMK
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Gusty winds are hampering recovery efforts in the Potomac River after a tragic collision. An Army Blackhawk helicopter on a training mission collided with an American Airlines flight, killing all 67 on board.
The bodies of both Black Hawk pilots have been recovered. The NTSB is investigating, revealing the commercial jet was operating at 325 feet just before the crash. The victims include the airline passengers and crew, as well as the three soldiers aboard the helicopter: Ryan Austin O'Hara, Andrew Lloyd Eaves, and Rebecca Lobach.
Air traffic control instructed the jet to land on a shorter runway and alerted the Black Hawk to the plane's approach. The NTSB interviewed the air traffic controller involved. Investigators hope the black boxes reveal critical information about the final moments in both cockpits, specifically if the pilots were aware of the impending collision and if there was any confusion.
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Speaker 0: To the latest on the recovery efforts in the Potomac River. Gusty winds are limiting crews from removing the aircraft from those frigid waters. Sixty seven people died after an army Blackhawk helicopter on a training mission collided with an American Airlines flight coming in for landing at Reagan National Airport, 1 of the busiest runways in the country. ABC's transportation correspondent, Gio Benitez, is back on the scene again tonight as we hear from some of the victims' families.
Speaker 1: Tonight, crews on the chilly Potomac River are battling gusty winds as cleanup and recovery efforts enter a second day. US Officials say they have recovered the bodies of both pilots from the wreckage of the Black Hawk helicopter. The NTSB working to access that chopper yesterday. The NTSB tonight with new details about that American Airlines flight before the collision.
Speaker 2: The CRJ was operating at three hundred and twenty five feet plus or minus 25.
Speaker 1: In all, 67 lives were lost in the accident. The 64 passengers and crew aboard that American Airlines flight and the three soldiers in the Black Hawk. Three people died aboard that helicopter, 28 year old Ryan Austin O'Hara, thirty nine year old Andrew Lloyd Eaves, and Rebecca Lobach, her family remembering her as a bright star in all our lives. Investigators recreating the final minutes leading up to that midair crash before that American Airlines flight started its descent. At 08:43PM, the jet's pilots told to land on a shorter runway.
That Black Hawk helicopter now also making its way up the Potomac River. At 08:46, two minutes before the collision, air traffic control telling the helicopter about the American Airlines plane coming in for a landing from the south on Runway 33. At roughly 08:48, asking the Black Hawk pilots to again confirm they see the jet. You can hear the alarm go off as they ask the Black Hawk, do you see that jet?
Speaker 2: F25G, this is RJ in flight. F25FOn is RJ. This club has a aircraft inside. Chris was separate separate.
Speaker 1: Seconds later, the collision.
Speaker 2: 320. 1 7. The
Speaker 1: NTSB saying they interviewed the air traffic controller heard in the final seconds leading up to the worst plane crash in decades. The FAA saying in a statement that Reagan National Airport has 25 air traffic controllers with three more in training with a full staff of 28. And this video from 2022, our affiliate WJLA speaking with sisters, 11 year old, Alidia, and 14 year old, Everly Livingston. How much fun do you have here with your sister?
Speaker 2: A lot. It's really fun to have a sister to skate with.
Speaker 1: Both of those little girls losing their lives with their parents, Donna and Peter.
Speaker 0: Just so heartbreaking. Gio Benitez joins us now from Washington. And Gio, we know the black boxes for both the plane and helicopter have all been recovered. What are investigators hoping that they reveal?
Speaker 1: Well, Lindsay, the most critical will be the voices. What were those final like in both cockpits? In the airplane, for example, did they even know that the helicopter was heading right toward them? And in the helicopter, did they know that they were looking at the right plane or the wrong plane? Was there any confusion at all?
These are the critical questions tonight,
Speaker 2: Lindsay.
Speaker 0: Gio, thank you.
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The U.S. is preparing for retaliatory strikes in response to the drone attack that killed three American soldiers and injured 40 others in Jordan. Pres. Biden said he holds Iran responsible for supplying weapons used in the attack. @MarthaRaddatz reports. https://trib.al/1Imac8L
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Following a drone attack that killed three US soldiers in Jordan and wounded 40 others, the US is preparing retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militants. President Biden stated he holds Iran responsible for supplying the weapons used in the attack, but does not seek a wider war in the Middle East.
The response, according to a US official, will strike multiple targets over several days, focusing on facilities that enabled the drone attack, primarily inside Syria, but likely avoiding direct strikes on Iran itself. One of the Iranian-backed groups, Khatab Hezbollah, claims it is suspending attacks on US forces, but the Pentagon says actions speak louder than words.
President Biden spoke with the families of the fallen soldiers: Sergeant William Rivers, Sergeant Brianna Moffett, and Sergeant Kennedy Sanders. Moffett and Sanders were posthumously promoted to the rank of sergeant.
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Speaker 0: Good evening, and it's great to have you with us here in a 2 tonight. We do begin tonight with the US retaliation now coming after the deadly drone attack on US troops, killing 3 US soldiers in Jordan. The Pentagon giving president Biden multiple options tonight. The president says he has now decided how the US will respond. The president tonight saying he holds Iran responsible for supplying the weapons used in the attack.
The Pentagon says US forces in the region have come under attack at least 165 times by Iranian backed militants. This one, of course, taking American lives. President Biden speaking to each of the families of the fallen, and tonight he has decided now on a response. Martha Raditz leading us off. Martha traveling to Amman, Jordan tonight.
Speaker 1: Tonight, final preparations underway for retaliatory strikes against Iran backed militants, which could come at any time now. A response to the brazen drone attack that left 3 American soldiers dead, 40 wounded at a remote desert base here in Jordan. President Biden today making clear his mind is made up. Governor Abbott, how do you respond to the
Speaker 2: attack? Yes.
Speaker 1: A response that will strike multiple targets over several days according to a US official targeting the facilities that enabled the drone attack. But another senior US official acknowledging that the strikes will not likely hit Iran itself given the president's deep concerns over the war escalating.
Speaker 3: The president, do you have any responsible
Speaker 2: for the death of guns in America? I do hold response responsible essentially supplying the weapons for the people who did it. I don't think we need a wider war in the Middle East. That's not what I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: The US did strike facilities in Syria used by Iran's revolutionary guard back in November, a facility believed to be providing weapons and funding to the militant groups in Iraq and Syria. 1 of the Iranian backed groups under suspicion tonight, Khatab Hezbollah, claims it's suspending attacks on US forces in the region, but the Pentagon saying actions speak louder than words.
Speaker 2: I don't think we could be any more clear, that we have called on the Iranian proxy groups to stop their attacks. They have not, and so we will respond in a time and manner of our choosing.
Speaker 1: President Biden today speaking with the families of the fallen soldiers, 46 year old sergeant William Rivers, 23 year old sergeant Brianna Moffett, and 24 year old sergeant Kennedy Sanders. The president expressing sorrow for their deaths and gratitude for their service. Today, Moffett and Sanders posthumously promoted to the rank of sergeant.
Speaker 3: She wanted to
Speaker 1: And tonight, our Faith Abube speaking with the family of Brianna Moffett, who was on her first deployment. Her mother, Francine, describing the moment military officials told her her daughter was dead.
Speaker 3: He looked at me and he said, I'm sorry, miss Moffett. But Brianna was killed, disappointed in a drone attack. And I'm like, my baby. You can't take my baby. She is she's gone.
She's she's not coming back. When I see her again, it's in her desk.
Speaker 2: She's
Speaker 3: not walking through my front door.
Speaker 0: So extraordinarily painful to hear from that mother tonight, Martha. With us live from Amman, Jordan. And, Martha, I know we've learned that president Biden will attend the dignified transfer of those soldiers on Friday back to Dover. And, Martha, in the meantime, what more are you learning tonight about the coming American response to this deadly attack?
Speaker 1: David, even though the president is hesitant to strike Iran itself during this planned multiday bombing barrage, a US official tells me tonight that Iranian assets outside of Iran could be targets, and most of the strikes said the official will be inside Syria. David?
Speaker 0: Martha Raditz traveling to the region live from Amman tonight. Martha, we appreciate it.
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ABC News has learned the suspect in the assassination attempt of former Pres. Trump was spotted by SWAT and police multiple times before he opened fire. Pierre Thomas reports on what authorities say they have found on the suspect's phone. https://trib.al/cRFEh4U
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New images show Thomas Crooks was monitored by police before attempting to assassinate former President Trump. Snipers spotted him with a cell phone and a rangefinder, alerting authorities. Crooks was seen near picnic tables before shots were fired. He had a transmitter to set off explosives in his car and information on the Michigan school shooter. A service was held for a fire chief killed nearby. Crooks had images of Trump, Biden, Garland, and Wray, and searched for Trump's rally date. Motive remains unclear.
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Speaker 0: Turning now to the assassination attempt of former president Trump. Chilling new images tonight taken by local police snipers show Thomas Crooks was on their radar an hour before the shooting, and officers may have been able to stop him 6 minutes before he opened fire. Here's ABC's chief justice correspondent, Pierre Thomas.
Speaker 1: These are the new images law enforcement took that helped set off a search for Thomas Matthew Crooks less than an hour before he tried to assassinate Donald Trump. Local police snipers taking the pictures at 5:14 PM Saturday, 58 minutes before crooks opened fire. In this image, you see him with his cell phone. 14 minutes later at 5:28, police taking this picture of what authorities believe is Crooks' bike. With it, a backpack and duffel bag.
532, a sniper spotting Crooks looking at news feeds on his phone, noticing he had a rangefinder, a device used to determine distances to targets. That sniper flagging the suspicious activity in a group text, receiving a response to call into command. At 5:41, that sniper's sending out a description of crooks, looking around the building. Around 6 PM, 20 minutes later, local police asking where the suspect was headed. At 6:0:5, Crooks was then spotted near picnic tables carrying a backpack.
Then at 6:0:6, the sniper who first noticed Crooks leaving his position, meeting patrol officers, telling them the suspect was near the building. He's going down. 6 minutes later at 6:12, shots fired. What's still not clear tonight is whether local authorities alerted the Secret Service commanders on-site. After Crooks was killed, police finding his cell phone and a gray transmitter near his body, which authorities say Crooks intended to use to remotely set off explosives in his car.
Sources say Crooks had information on his devices about Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley and his parents, as well as information about how to make bombs. Crooks also had images of former president Trump, president Biden, as well as attorney general Garland and FBI director Wray. Authority finding evidence, the killer actively searched the date of Trump's rally in Butler. And today, a somber service just 10 miles away from the site of the rally for fire chief Corey Compreter, shot and killed Saturday. 1000 paying tribute to the beloved veteran, husband and father.
So many grieving today for the man who lost his life. And sources telling ABC News crooks may have come to the site of the rally on July 7th, 6 days before the shooting.
Speaker 0: And still so many questions about the true motive in this case. Alright. Pierre Thomas. Thank you.
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