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i'm jessica dean in washington. and we begin this hour with new developments in two deadly plane incidents, both happening within 48 hours of each other. a medevac jet crashing in a densely populated neighborhood in northeast philadelphia last night, killing all six people on board and at least one person on the ground. there. officials now asking the public for help in finding the recorder, which could help explain what exactly went wrong. also, we just got a new series of updates on the mid-air collision just outside washington, d.c. this as rescue teams continue to work to recover the remains of all 67 people who died in that tragic accident. let's go straight to cnn's brian todd, who is at reagan national airport. brian, you were there monitoring the ntsb in the last hour. bring us up to speed on what we know. >> well, jessica, i think the headline that you can take from that ntsb briefing a short time ago was that, according to todd

inman of the ntsb, the pilot of the passenger plane may very well have attempted a last second move to try to evade collision. todd inman says that at the time of impact at the time, at the moment of the collision, the passenger plane was at 325ft above the ground, plus or minus about 25ft. there was a bit of a discrepancy as to the height of the helicopter, which we're not going to necessarily get into now, because that can be confusing. but at the at the time of impact, the passenger plane was at 325ft. he was asked that whether just before that moment, whether there was an attempt by the pilot of the passenger plane to pull up, and he said there was a change in pitch, which would indicate a change in pitch is an indication that a pilot is making a maneuver with trying to maybe pull up or down the nose of the plane. so he did say there was a change in pitch, but again indicating that that was at the very last second. so a collision was basically unavoidable, i guess. and the

other the other headline here is that the very quick timeline of how all of this unfolded, really in a matter of seconds. um, basically at about 8:43 p.m., they were told the the approaching passenger plane was told to switch runways to runway 33. now, that is not uncommon. but then just a few minutes later, this really rapid sequence of horrible events occurred at about eight 4739, he said. the helicopter was asked whether the plane was in sight. just a couple of seconds later, the helicopter was asked to pass behind the passenger plane. then, at eight 4758, they heard a visible reaction from the crew of the passenger plane. they heard the sound of the impact one second later, and then the recording ended. jessica, that was really those two were the two items that really stood out in the news conference, that there may have been a maneuver by the passenger plane's pilot to try to avoid collision, but it was at the very last second.

also, just very quickly, there were five controllers in the control tower at the time of the collision. one of them was handling both helicopter and plane traffic. the others were ground traffic controllers, assistant controllers and supervisors. but there was one controller handling both plane and helicopter traffic at the time of impact. >> jessica and brian, i understand you're also getting some new information on the recovery efforts. what what are you learning about that? >> that's correct. jessica. this is from unified command, which comprises all the local and federal first responders who are at the scene right now at the point of recovery, where the fuselage is of both the plane and the helicopter. they said that rescue crews have recovered 42 sets of remains. that's an increase from yesterday where they had 41. they have now recovered 42 sets of human remains. they have identified 38 of those sets of remains. but that means that 25 sets of remains have yet to be recovered. they said today, crews conducted dive operations. they utilized side scan sonar,

they canvased shorelines. they used aerial assets in the search last night, they said, this is interesting that the black hawk helicopter was briefly stabilized by a crane, but it was not able to be lifted out of the water. they have divers from a salvage company surveying the wreckage. teams from the army corps of engineers and the navy diving division are also on hand to do that. more barges were expected to arrive today. they need those barges and the cranes to lift the fuselage out of the water. they've said they cannot recover any more bodies until the fuselage has been lifted out of the water. jessica. >> just thinking about those families and those friends tonight. brian todd, thank you so much for that reporting. i now want to take everyone to philadelphia, where that medevac crash happened. cnn's danny freeman filed this report from the scene. >> reporter. >> that's right. absolutely heartbreaking weekend here in philadelphia after that terrifying crash back on friday evening. and there are still so many challenges ahead to finding out exactly what happened here and what went so wrong. the

process of just recovering and removing all the debris from that plane crash is expected to take days, if not weeks, after so much destruction in this residential neighborhood behind me here in philadelphia. so here's what we know so far. a medevac jet carrying six people took off from northeast philadelphia airport at around 6 p.m. on friday evening. the plane was headed to missouri and then ultimately mexico, where everyone on board that plane was from now on. that plane where two pilots, a doctor, a paramedic and a pediatric patient and her mother, that child had been receiving care at shriners children's hospital in philadelphia. and the girl and her mother, they were heading home to mexico. but the ntsb confirmed saturday the plane was only in the air for just about a minute before it came crashing down. the ntsb also said that plane did not reach out to air traffic control in that minute. all six on board unfortunately killed. and then we learned on saturday, a seventh person who was in a car on the street was

also killed as a result of that crash. at least 19 people were injured, and local officials worry the ultimate casualty number may go up in the coming days. now, the ntsb also said saturday that they have not yet located the cockpit voice recorder. this could be crucial in terms of understanding what happened in the moments before that crash, they said. it is likely damaged, but they're actually asking for the public's help who live in this specific area to stay vigilant, saying if people are able to find parts of the plane which may include parts of this cockpit voice recorder, the ntsb says that it's very good at fixing broken recorders like this. take a listen. >> we have an incredible team at our headquarters, our office of research and engineering, who have significant expertise on repairing damaged cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders. in fact, we're known throughout the world. other

countries send their black boxes to us to fix. and so hopefully once we can find it, that's the biggest question right now, we can take that back to our lab and evaluate it. >> now, jessica, all day saturday we saw local, state and federal officials and investigators combing the area, searching for debris, cleaning things up. this crash site, so massive cars were hit. homes were impacted as well. and the hope now just to keep those casualty numbers down. jessica. >> danny freeman in philadelphia, thank you very much. joining us now, the president of the national association of air traffic controllers, nick daniels and cnn transportation analyst mary schiavo. mary, also the former former inspector general at the department of transportation. it is great to have both of you here with us. nick, i want to start first with you. we have seen these two incredibly tragic accidents. within 48 hours. walk people through. there's a lot of attention on air traffic

controllers now. walk people through what they're. how are they? what role do they play in helping prevent incidents? obviously the one in philadelphia very different, but especially with the one in d.c. but what what are air traffic controllers doing to prevent incidents like this? what is their job? >> well, thanks. >> jessica, for having us. >> first of. >> all, it's very sad. >> it's under these conditions, the. >> controllers around. >> the country are devastated. the aviation community devastated to. >> deal with this. but when. >> aircraft go airborne, they're usually talking to an air traffic controller. >> we are responsible for every passenger on every plane and. ensuring their separation depends on the. separation standards. depending on the type of airplane and how airspace they're in and how congested that airport is. but one way or the other, we're giving them instructions at. >> all. times and using some form of. >> separation with many of the aircraft. almost all the aircraft in the sky. >> there's been a lot of discussion too, about are there enough air traffic controllers? do they have the resources that they need? do they have the access to the training that they need or did? did we lose a lot in covid that were never brought back? there's just a lot of

questions about do. are there essentially enough air traffic controllers, and can they do the job that they need to do? where do you come down on that? >> well, i'm here to tell you there are not enough air traffic controllers, and we absolutely have to continue addressing it. we do thank secretary duffy. he did lift the hiring freeze on air traffic controllers now, but there's only 10,800 certified controllers in the entire country right now. we are supposed to be at 14,335. >> that's a big difference. >> it's a rigorous training process. so it's not like today we could go out and hire the 3600. it takes 2 to 3 years to get a controller from being qualified initially just to enter the job. and there are multiple points where they can fail out of being an air traffic controller. everything from academy to simulation, training locally and then eventually talking to aircraft on their own. >> and how? and so how do you think this gets solved in terms of getting you more air traffic controllers? i mean, obviously, you noted that the hiring freeze has been lifted, which helps a lot, probably, but what else can

be done? is it more funding? >> it is absolutely staying on funding, appropriating. there is, you know, a bipartisan support. it was passed an faa reauthorization, the maximum hiring of air traffic controllers for five years. but we need to keep the focus on it and make sure it is funded appropriately. and then that goes into the modernization. we also want to work with president trump on the recruitment of the best and brightest, as it stated, is that then we have to talk about the stresses of this job. we're on six day workweeks currently to make up many of these losses of air traffic controllers that are out there 60 hours in that workweek, which introduces stress and fatigue. and we want to work on the pay benefits and the stresses that go along with this job. with this administration. >> and nick, talking more generally, mary, i want to get to some specifics with you, too, about what we've been learning in the last hour about this dc crash, which is, i think, several things. but one thing we've kind of zeroed in on, zeroed in on is this last second, i mean, literally last

second. pitch to on the part of the american airlines flight, essentially them trying in that last second to pull up. >> well, that's right. and there really wouldn't have been a lot of opportunity for for the aircraft to see and avoid the helicopter. and they couldn't do that anyway. they were under positive air traffic control. they were on a controlled descent. they must stay right on their glideslope. they must stay at their altitude and they must line up with the runway. and so and especially once they had turned in to runway 33, they would be making a left hand turn. the helicopter was coming in from the right. so it didn't surprise me that they did not see it until literally, you know, the last second of the crash. but, you know, a passenger, a commercial passenger service jet just can't climb that fast. i mean, let's face it, i mean, the a rocket couldn't climb that fast. a fighter jet couldn't. but they did see them at the

very last second. and that was revealed today. but with their controlled approach and, and all of the data that they gave us, it sounded like the aircraft was exactly where it was supposed to be. on the right path to the runway, right altitudes, right descent rate. but there was nothing that they could do at the last second. >> the other thing was this discrepancy, and it's all still, i think we have to put a big star next to this when we're talking about it, that it's still preliminary. there's still the ntsb is still working this out. they've said they feel very confident from the black box, knowing that the american airlines flight was at 325ft, plus or -25ft, where it starts to get confusing, is that the what they were seeing in the air traffic controllers area? was it was that the impact was the helicopter was at 200ft, which people are confused as to then how did they hit each other? right, right. >> well, and obviously we know that that number. well, one of the numbers is. >> wrong. >> but i think the ntsb made it

clear and there's a lot of equipment in a commercial passenger jet. you have a lot of different checks and redundancy and equipment. so i heard them to say, and it would be my opinion, too, that the american airlines flight readout was probably is correct because of so much redundancy. but the question will be now and and, you know, the air traffic controllers and the policy for them, very important. you know, what is the equipment? why was the discrepancy? what's the calibration? you know, in our country we have a lot more equipment that we could deploy at airports all over the country because there's a big regional difference, and there's a difference among our airports. not all airports have all of the same wonderful modern equipment. and we have to decide as a country what is our transportation policy? are we going to have the best equipment for and our best air traffic controllers? because right now we don't. there's huge differences between the the top 30 to 50 airports, by the way, the shortages are not the same

all over the country either. some airports have far more shortages than others. they try to move them around, but there are government rules on that. and so i think our policy as a nation has to be to get the best equipment for the best air traffic controllers. >> that's something everyone can agree on. yeah. >> i couldn't say it better than that, but i absolutely agree. bringing a funding structure in some type of funding reform to ensure that we have the necessary tools and equipment, especially the american workers serving the american people out there each and every day to bring the best service of air traffic control to the in the entire world. >> make sure everyone stays safe. well, thank you to both of you. i really appreciate it. still ahead, breaking news president trump announcing those new tariffs on mexico, canada and china. we're going to tell you what happens next and when you might start seeing prices rise. you're in the cnn newsroom. >> hi, everybody. >> you see people. >> from. >> radically different views in the same conversation. >> we're going in.

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>> this is a stop or i'll shoot myself in the foot kind of threat policy. it defies economic logic. it means higher prices for consumers. it means much more expensive inputs for american producers. >> cnn's alayna treene is live in west palm beach, florida, and elena, the president, signing these tariffs tonight, making good on a campaign promise. i just spoke with ontario's premier rob ford, in the last hour. he says canada is planning to move forward with retaliatory tariffs. what more are you hearing about how this will all play out? >> well, and i thought that interview was fascinating, jessica. and look, i mean, it's clear that with these tariffs, the president is likely to be open and really wage a trade war with these other countries, and one that isn't exactly about trade itself, but one that is

actually being waged as a weapon to enact donald trump's domestic policies policies. mainly, you know, trying to stem the flow of undocumented migrants as well as drugs from coming in from the northern and southern borders. now, i do want to play some of that interview you did with the ontario premier, doug ford, where he talked about potential retaliatory, retaliatory tariffs, but also about how he felt offended that the president was lumping canada in with mexico and china when it comes to drugs. take a listen. >> there will be retaliatory tariffs and the prime minister will announce that shortly. and what's really disturbing when president trump is using fentanyl as a reason, lumping us in with mexico and in china, we have a strong relationship with the u.s. customs, our our customs officers were collaboratively, collaboratively with them, working with the dea, our rcmp is working

collaboratively. i can tell the american people canada is not the problem. the problem is the mexican border and china. that's where the problem is. >> now, jessica, one thing that i would want to note in response to what ford said there is that in these tariffs, there is a retaliatory clause. i'm going to read you some of what it says in the fact sheet. it essentially says that these orders have a retaliatory clause, and tariffs could rise if and really when, as he pointed out, that these different countries try to slap tariffs back on the united states as a response. so again, we could really be seeing this broader trade war breaking out because of these actions and ones that could start, you know, pretty much immediately. we do know that these tariffs that donald trump had imposed today are expected to take effect on tuesday. unclear when we might see some of this other action from the countries that he is imposing these on. jessica. >> yeah, there's just more to come on this. alayna treene, thank you so much for your reporting from west palm beach

tonight. so for a lot of people, the question is how might this impact your wallet? right. cnn economics and political commentator catherine rampell is here to talk about that piece of it for us. catherine, good to have you. i do think a lot of people are wondering, will this actually impact me? >> well, it won't happen immediately. most likely. a lot of firms already have inventory. and in fact, we saw companies stocking up on various kinds of imports in anticipation of this. in the last couple of months. you know, buying more orders of goods from china or inputs from, from various countries that they thought might get slapped with tariffs. so i think it's unlikely that you'll see a big shock in prices immediately. that said, for for goods that are not particularly durable, things like produce that we get from mexico, that could hit a little bit sooner, i think the hope is that there will be some

face saving agreement in the next few days. maybe, and that trump basically withdraws this this tariff announcement and that we won't actually see the costs for consumers. because even though trump claims that it's foreigners who pay these tariffs, it's very clear that even he is worried about the tariffs being passed along to american consumers. just look at the fact that he he basically exempted canadian oil from the higher tariffs. and they're only at 10% rather than 25%. why would he do that unless he was concerned about higher gas prices at the pump. and consumer backlash. >> right. and potentially higher heating bills. and when it's still the winter, things like that, that could really impact people. the longer this goes on. i as i, as elena was just talking about, i spoke with the ontario premier just in the last hour. he said that canada plans

its own retaliatory tariffs and and she was making the note that, that the president says if that happens, they'll slap more tariffs on canada. how concerned are you about this turning into some sort of trade war? >> i think that would be a terrible outcome. like i said, maybe there is some off ramp where trump announced these tariffs, but everyone will get together and say, hey, we've decided on a fentanyl task force or something relatively meaningless that allows us to back down from all of that. the worst outcome, of course, is basically what you have described, which is that we impose tariffs. canada imposes retaliatory tariffs, as would mexico, as would presumably china. and we've had lists released of what those tariffs might target in many cases, very politically sensitive goods in the united states, florida orange juice, kentucky peanut butter and so on. and then we raise tariffs even further. and,

you know, an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. there was a version of this that happened in the 1930s, when the united states initiated a series of global trade wars. it's it's called smoot-hawley. and it is widely believed by economists to have worsened the great depression, because when you put in place these beggar thy neighbor policies, nobody wins. you get higher prices, you get lost jobs, you get lost. economic output. and there's just really no upside. the challenge, i think, for all of this, you know, for getting into that, that off ramp type scenario that i was just describing is that it's not really clear even what donald trump wants in all of this, right? he's talked about fentanyl. what actually does he want, for example, the canadians to do on all of this. by the way, donald trump recently pardoned, gave an unconditional pardon to the guy who founded silk road, which is which was a major drug trafficking site. so how much does he actually care

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new administration replace. >> the. >> political appointees, the attorney general, the solicitor general, the deputy attorney general. that's how it's supposed to be. nothing wrong or irregular with that. but what's happened this last two weeks is that donald trump's new administration has reached in and fired career employees, nonpolitical people, career fbi agents, people who worked on the line as trial prosecutors at doj. that is different in kind from anything we've seen before. and i think the message that it sends to the rank and file and doj is a very damaging one that essentially, if you're not on board with the political interests of the president and the administration, you could be personally punished. it could cost you your career. >> and what are you hearing, ellie? because obviously you come from the justice world. what are you hearing from people you're talking to? >> so anytime there's an administration change, there's always some upset, some concern, some uncertainty. you're going to have, well, who's going to be the new attorney general? who's going to be the new, new u.s. attorney? what are the

enforcement priorities going to be? nothing unusual about that. but what i'm hearing now from friends who are doj alums. and there right now is fully different from what i've heard before. people are dismayed by this. people are fearing for their own futures. i've had people ask me, should we take the voluntary termination offer that went around to all federal employees? i'm telling them, no, you should not. you should stay put and do the job. but this is different. the type of fear and and lack of stability that i'm hearing about right now is way different, even far different from when donald trump won the first time. >> mhm. what at what point does does do purges like this begin to affect these agencies ability to do their job. because it takes a while to then retrain and get new people in there. right. >> right. well there's two levels to it. first of all, you're losing valuable, experienced fbi agents and prosecutors, people who've been doing these jobs for 15, 20 years. i know firsthand you're

not as good on day one as you are. after five, ten years, you get better, you get more experience. so that's one practical loss. but the other practical loss is just the message that this is sending. and the notion that people have in the back of their heads now, which they shouldn't have to deal with of. boy, if i follow this investigative lead, if i follow this thread, is it going to lead somewhere that could get me in trouble? you should never have to think about that. doj prosecutors one of the best things about the job is you don't have to think about that. but now people do. and i think so. there's a practical problem here. there's also a morale problem. >> mhm. and so what happens now. what what what kind of both. what happens in terms of a chilling effect. like what you're talking about. and then just practically what happens next. >> so i want to see first of all how deep do these cuts go. is there sort of an initial list that is being gone through now? have we seen the most of these firings or are there more to come? how deep are they going to cut? how far are they going to go beyond the political

employees in terms of firing or reassigning people? that's going to be really, really important to watch. i should also notice we could see lawsuits resulting out of all this. the people who've been fired, many or all of them, have some form of civil service rights, which means the way it's supposed to work is before you get fired, you have a hearing. you have the right to notice. there's all these bureaucratic hoops, and then you can get fired at the end of that if things don't go your way. what donald trump's administration has done here is they've flipped it. they've just said, you're out the door. and if you want to sue us, go ahead. you can hire a lawyer, you can deal with your union, whatever. but they're firing first and then dealing with the sort of procedural aspects of it later, if ever. >> and just to note, before we let you go, these these agents didn't choose this. they were assigned to these cases. they were just doing their jobs. >> yeah, that's the way it works. certainly with the fbi, to a lesser degree with the u.s. attorneys. when you're talking about prosecutors like i was, you do have some input in what type of work you do, what beer you're going to go to. am i going to accept this detail? but the fbi tends to be a bit more

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