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black hawk helicopter collided wednesday evening with an american airlines regional jet inbound from wichita as it was attempting to land. it appears at this point the helicopter flew into the the plane's flight path. >> john: the 64 people aboard the plane and the three soldiers on the black hawk were killed. more than 20 have yet to be recovered. the washington, d.c., fire chief says that will have to wait until the plane's fuselage is pulled out of the potomac. >> maurice: recovery teams worked under rainy skies today along the banks of the frigid river. all the flight recorders for both aircraft have now been recovered intact. senior transportation correspondent kris van cleave is at reagan airport with the latest on the investigation tonight. kris? >> reporter: maurice, the move to restrict helicopters drew praise from american airlines ceo and several key senators. those recorders that have been recovered, those are crucial pieces of this investigation. they contain a treasure trove of data, and the ntsb believes they

are in good enough condition to yield that information. crews have recovered at least 41 bodies from the wreckage of the american airlines regional jet and army black hawk helicopter sitting in the potomac. they are waiting for additional equipment to pull pieces of fuselage from the river in the hopes of reaching the unaccounted for. video captured the moment the chopper slammed into the side of flight 5342 as it was on final approach to washington's reagan national airport. it appears the helicopter was flying nearly 200 feet higher than it should have been at the time of the crash. >> as a pilot, you never stop flying. he didn't give up all the way to the ground, or all the way to the water. he would have been moving those controls and trying to figure out, what's going on? >> reporter: tim lilley's son, sam, was the first officer on flight 5342. the 28-year-old was engaged to be married. that very day, his family was picking out wedding venues. his father, tim, is also a former black hawk pilot, who says he has flown that very route many times.

>> it didn't look to me like the helicopter either understood where the crj was, or, you know, they made a mistake. >> reporter: how are you remembering your son today? >> you know, sam, sam, i consider sam a spirit that was living in an earthly body, and now he is back in his spirit body. and as a follower of jesus, i will -- someday i will be able to fly with sam again. >> reporter: as the lilley family and those of 66 others lost in the crash wait for answers, ntsb investigators have begun the grim and painstaking process of combing through the wreckage and soon sifting through data from the black boxes recovered from the icy potomac thursday. >> i can report to you now, we have recovered the sikorsky black box. it is safely at the ntsb headquarters. it will begin an evaluation, just as the other two recorders

did last night, to determine when and how to take action. >> reporter: just the day before wednesday's deadly crash, another regional jet about to land at reagan had a close call. >> at this time there's a helicopter over georgetown northbound 300 feet. >> reporter: the pilots received an alert from the onboard collision avoidance system about a military helicopter and aborted the landing attempt. cbs news has identified at least four other close calls between helicopters and planes around the airport, including a 2018 incident where a pilot took last-second evasive maneuvers to avoid an faa plane landing on the same runway the jet from wichita was cleared to land on this week. in this previously-unreported case, a controller failed to warn the two aircraft in advance. >> yeah, we missed the call there and had to divert to avoid that aircraft. >> john: kris, i'm interested in the workload on the specific night in question. what more have you learned about that?d about

that there were two air traffic controllers in that tower that were doing the jobs of two other people. so two people doing four people's work. one of the things the ntsb wants to understand is how did that work load factor into what played out? >> maurice: and kris, you talk with a former acting faa administrator here. what is his take on all of this? >> reporter: i asked him specifically about the helicopters sharing the airspace with the planes, and he said he thought there was value in having the military being able to operate as they need to around this airspace. he said, but we have to learn from what happened. we have to see where things went wrong, and we have to make changes so an accident like this doesn't happen again. >> john: kris, your interview with tim lilley was incredibly emotional. what else stuck with you from that interview? >> reporter: you know, i asked him if there was anything else he wanted to say at the end of the interview, and he stopped, he choked up, and he said he wanted to thank the first responders, the people

that put themselves in harm's way, who raced to try to rescue his son and those other passengers, those people that went into that frigid water looking for lives to save, but couldn't find any. >> maurice: okay, kris van cleave, thank you so much. >> john: in addition to first officer lilley, the american airlines crew were captain jonathan campos and two flight attendants. among the 60 passengers were 4-year-old casey crafton of salem, connecticut, a married father of three boys. he coached them in little league and soccer. the players called him coach casey. elizabeth keys and sara lee best were 33 and attorneys in washington. their firm called keyes an excellent lawyer with a sharp wit, and said best had boundless curiosity, kindness, and intelligence. and staff sergeant ryan o'hara was the crew chief on the black hawk helicopter, who leaves a wife and their 1-year-old son.

leaves a wife and their straw cement spoke to o'hara's father. >> reporter: there can't be more terrible moment for anyone as a parent. >> no. >> reporter: we met gary o'hara grieving in his georgia home. his son was 28-year-old staff sergeant ryan o'hara. he survived a tour in afghanistan, only to be killed in the skies over washington, d.c. what do you want people to remember about this moment and your son's sacrifice? >> he loved being in the military. he was so proud of being in the army. >> reporter: when news of the midair collision first broke wednesday night, all gary o'hara heard was black hawk down. >> i know what the routine is, so it could have been anybody in his group. i just knew. i just knew that it was him. my heart just broke. >> reporter: and how did they tell you? >> i didn't get confirmation until two army soldiers knocked on my door yesterday morning. >> reporter: and said? >> to deliver a letter to say, that, you know, your son appears to have been killed in a tragic accident.

seeing two army officers at my front door, it's heartbreaking. >> reporter: ryan o'hara's body has been recovered from the potomac river. >> you know, it was very touching to see the other soldiers saluting as they take him out with a draped flag over it, but to sit there and think that that's my little boy, it's crushing. >> reporter: president trump has faulted both the black hawk pilots and, without evidence, unspecified dei initiatives in the airport's control tower. does that make this moment harder? >> yeah, it definitely does. i think for any parent, i know ryan respected the people that he flew with and trusted them with his life. you have to earn your spot to be put into that helicopter. they don't just give it to you. you earn it. >> reporter: what will you tell your grandson about his father? >> he was a wonderful person. you know, made me a better person for having to raise him.

i couldn't have asked for a better son. >> reporter: later this year, ryan o'hara hoped to be transferred here, to hunter army air station, to be closer to his family. instead, his family is planning a funeral. >> john: mark strassmann in savannah. thank you, mark. >> maurice: now some of the other top stories from around the world in tonight's "evening news" roundup. president trump will put 25% tariffs tomorrow on america's neighbors and top two trade partners, canada and mexico. imports from china, which is number three, will get a 10% tariff. >> john: hamas says it will release three more hostages tomorrow under the cease-fire deal with israel. among them, 65-year-old keith siegel, originally from north carolina. his wife, aviva, celebrated the news. she was released 14 months ago. >> maurice: and senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky is on "60 minutes" this sunday. now 82 and no longer the top

senate republican, he tells lesley stahl he expects to support most of trump's second-term agenda. >> reporter: you said that january 6th was evidence of donald trump's complete unfitness for office.% >> i said shortly after january 6th that if he were the nominee for president, i would support him. >> reporter: even if he is unfit for office? >> i'm a republican. i don't get to decide who gets to be president. the american people do. and you have to admit, they did. and he's back. >> maurice: and lesley joins us now. so good to have you with us. so what kind of republican are we talking about here as far as about mitch mcconnell is concerned? is this john mccain 2.0, by any chance? >> lesley: yeah, sort of. he is not an maga republican. he is a ronald reagan republican. he supports alliances, he likes nato, he is for more defense

spending, he doesn't like america first isolationism. on the cabinet choices on that side, because he cares so much about foreign policy and domestic policy, he wouldn't give an inch. he wouldn't tell us how he was voting. >> john: he wouldn't -- even on robert f. kennedy jr.? >> lesley: ah, well, the strongest signal was on him, because mcconnell had polio when he was a child. the vaccine is something he cares deeply about, passionately about, all vaccines. they are good for american health, and he said so, so that is a signal. >> maurice: but he played his cards close to the vest? >> lesley: always. >> john: mitch mcconnell doesn't talk much, but he did to you. we're looking forward to it, thanks, lesley stahl. >> maurice: still ahead on the friday "cbs evening news," lonnie quinn with the weather. >> john: and we will have these stories, as well. >> i'm margaret brennan in washington. we will take a look at president trump's response to the midair collision and his reshaping of the federal government. ♪ ♪ >> i'm steve hartman. when one of the greatest museums

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♪ ♪ >> john: on a national day of mourning after 9/11, president george w. bush said the tragedy had brought political parties together. and our country, as well, in a kinship of grief. there was no room for politics. >> maurice: we were struck by a different tone yesterday from president trump after another national tragedy, the deadly air collision, and we asked margaret brennan for some historical perspective. >> we are here for you to wipe away the tears... >> reporter: after a few words of comfort, president donald trump infused political heat into tragedy. >> i put safety first. obama, biden, and the democrats but policy first. >> reporter: a very different tone than the one struck 40 years ago by the last republican president to confront a plane crash on the potomac. >> yesterday, we saw a partnership, yes. the agencies and departments of

government responsible in times of emergency were there. the heroism of the firemen in the icy waters is well known to all of us. >> reporter: mr. trump used the majority of his remarks yesterday to claim diversity efforts led to lower aviation hiring standards, put in place by democrats and former transportation secretary pete buttigieg. >> he's a disaster now. he's just got a good line of [bleep]. the department of transportation, his government agency charged with running civil aviation, well, he runs it, 45,000 people, and he has front right into the ground with his diversity. >> reporter: when asked, mr. trump offered no evidence that the air controllers or pilots were unfit for the jobs they held. dismantling diversity programs was a campaign promise by mr. trump. so, too, was remaking the federal government. in miami, washington, and las vegas today, several top fbi leaders were forced to resign or retire, with other investigators expecting to be fired, even before mr. trump's pick to run the fbi is confirmed.

and hundreds of state department contractors were terminated, with more to come, as mr. trump froze foreign aid programs, triggering financial crises across a wide array of programs, like aids relief. >> john: margaret, those were the firings, what about the people they were supposed to work for, which is to say the cabinet heads? a lot of them are in nomination hearings. what are you hearing about the status of those nominations? >> reporter: well, john, this afternoon, i was speaking to a well-placed republican source who is particularly concerned that tulsi gabbard, the pick to run the intelligence agencies, may not have enough support to even make it to a vote in the full senate. three republican senators have indicated they feel she did not directly answer a fairly softball question on whether edward snowden was a traitor and had damaged national security when he stole government secrets, leaked them, and then fled to russia. >> maurice: and then, margaret, there was that big about-face on freezing federal funding this week. how much does that complicate things? >> reporter: it did complicate them because that confusing back and forth with the office of

management and budget, omb, that directive that temporarily paused funding, it was an unforced error that has complicated the confirmation of the new budget director, russ vought. a hill source told me it was sloppy, clumsy, poorly thought out, and didn't have a good reception among fellow republicans. keep in mind, republicans have the senate majority. they don't need a single democratic vote to confirm nominees. they just have t stay united. >> john: okay. margaret brennan in washington, thank you so much, margaret. and a reminder to join margaret this sunday for "face the nation." >> maurice: in southern california, cal fire reports the palisades and eaton fires blame for 29 deaths this month are nearly 100% contained. >> john: that means firefighters have just about stopped them from spreading, with help from some rain. lonnie quinn, tell us about that rain. >> well, that rain that you are referring to, the atmospheric river has set up, but this atmospheric river, pretty clear to see here, this is channeling up towards northern california.

this is going to be a lot of rain, so i guess the good thing to talk about, if that was going to southern california, that definitely would be sparking mudslides out there. it is going to come on shore as rain, and the story i believe is how much. it just hold onto that rain, even as it climbs up into the mountains. look at what we are talking about. san francisco, okay, 2 inches rain in san francisco. where you see the purple colors, the foothills of sacramento, that could be up to a foot of rain, so for the ski areas, the bases, in the mountains, it is rain. up at the mountain peaks, that is a lot of snow, 8-10 feet, over about four days. and all of this moisture, it is all generated from the subtropics. it is coming from hawaii. hawaii right now is getting slammed with moisture. remember, last week, we talked about, hey, all 50 states had at least some snow on the ground, including hawaii? that is not all that abnormal for hawaii. the high peaks always pick up some snow in the winter. what is abnormal, and they are talking about in hawaii right now, this is mauna loa, hawaii,

with a foot and a half to two feet of snow on the ground. they had winter storm warnings issued in hawaii. gentlemen? >> maurice: whoa, got our attention, lonnie. what kind of conditions are they looking at there? >> okay, all of that snow came with high winds. they don't often get winter storm warnings to this degree. it's in place right now as we speak. >> maurice: okay, lonnie quinn, thank you. >> john: it is friday. that means steve hartman. >> maurice: "on the road" is next. means steve hartman. >> maurice: "on the road" is next. premier protein, my ride or die. boom! if you know, you know. let's go. this stuff changed my life. so good. high protein. check. one gram of sugar. oh, yeah. and a flavor for every vibe. (♪♪) (♪♪) premier protein. sweeten the journey. if you or a loved one have had a shoulder, hip, knee or ankle joint replacement, the bankruptcy of exactech, a medical device manufacturer,

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>> i was so naive. i didn't have any plan. just a one-way ticket and my dreams. >> reporter: his dreams of becoming a professional sculptor. it didn't work out. so in 2012, armia got a job as a security guard at the metropolitan museum of art in new york, where he could at least be in the presence of masters. never imagining that one day, his work would be here, too. >> it's unbelievable. that was really surreal moment for me. >> reporter: a couple years ago, armia struck up a conversation with a visitor. at least, he thought he was a visitor. anyway, armia happened to mention to this guy that he was an artist himself, from egypt. >> when armia mentioned that he was egyptian, i asked if i could see his work. at that point, i revealed my identity. >> reporter: akili tommasino is a curator in the met's

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>> our job is to come out with a probable cause, but more importantly, make recommendations so that this type of tragedy never occurs again. >> we're asking an aviation expert why it can take so long to get answers. if tariffs are implemented against canada, we will respond. >> new taxes on imports threaten to ignite a trade war, a bay area republican leader joining us to weigh in on the latest move from president trump. >> i think we're stronger now than we've been in many, many decades. this is cbs news bay area with elizabeth cook. >> i'm anne makovec. it is a first alert weather day as the rain finally makes a comeback. this is just a taste of what to come. tomorrow it could be dumping. that is the first of two peaks of this atmospheric river. let's get