she was an anchorage reserve police officer, and, before that, a local tv reporter. she told her media friends it was murder. the troopers didn't know what they were doing. she even included samantha in this interview. she wouldn't have taken a ride, and she wouldn't have taken it from a stranger for sure. there was nothing accidental about it. keith morrison: but, initially, it did look like an accidental fall to one of the troopers, the one who happened to have been the first to talk to karen. but the others saw the evidence and thought murder. one trooper at the crime scene was tim hunyor, now retired. one thing that was strange to us, we did find one drop of blood on a leaf at the top of the cliff. keith morrison: one drop of blood. one drop of blood. keith morrison: which was found by this man, trooper robert beatty, also now retired. i was on my hands and knees, just kind of looking and came across that drop of blood. we got blood up here. did he tell you that? keith morrison: how big was this drop? robert beatty: about the size of a eraser head, really. and th

later, i'll show ralph a strong commitment to fighting town as alger ross in anchorage seeking support to rebuild syria. after 13 years of civil war, president of i'm has repeatedly signaled his willingness to support sarah, despite his own country's kind of economic crisis me to cobalt support from damascus in its efforts to disband the cottage minutes in brun syrian democratic forces in north eastern syria. so that's a look at this with that great steinberg, cuz i'm at least on the list of international terrorism expert from the german institute for international and security affairs. welcome back to dw guido. let's start with, i mean we, we know that k at box. i'm sure us h t s militia, but how well detractors officials know everybody's organization. they know him really well. at least the mit, the military intelligence service of cherokee and the military knows him simply because they have provided his organization h t s. and the precursor organizations and most profound with weapons, and possibly with cut out of the money for ages now. and since 2017, the turkish military has prot

serious entering later my algebra for his strong commitment to fighting tara mississippi rise in anchorage, trying to drum up support to rebuild syria. after 13 years of civil war, president obama has repeatedly signals his willingness to support syria. despite that, he's kind of economic crisis and be to an anchor a one support from damascus events efforts to disband. the code is militant and run serial. democratic forces in northeast and syria. straight to a correspondent, dorian jones, and it's tumble a welcome. don in uh, the 2 liters i've just been speaking to the press. so why did we look as well? we've had the 2 leaders pay long tribute to $1.00 another. this came off to a very long be tube over 3 hours present node $1.00 pay tribute to see where the president on the dollar charlotte, and he's the feet of what he called the dock falls. he's bringing hope to a country while shar also pay tribute to ode one for the support of the he, he's move and received the rebel movement in opposing aside. he said that those so strongly in the memories of the syrian government. uh, they pay tribut

. >> bearing air 445 anchorage center. radar contact lost. >> this aircraft experienced some kind of event which caused them to experience a rapid loss in elevation and a rapid loss in speed. >> rescuers were searching the aircraft's last known location by helicopter when they spotted the wreckage. the pilot and all nine passengers were killed. >> sadly, there does not appear to be any survivors. on behalf of my fellow nomeites, i extend our collective condolences and support to the families and loved ones of the passengers and pilot. >> authorities now quickly working to recover their bodies before high winds and heavy snow moves into the area. among the victims, ron baumgartner and cameron hartvigsen. the alaska native tribal health consortium confirms they were employees of the organization and had traveled to unalakleet to service the community's water plan. the ntsb is on the scene investigating this third major aviation incident in just over a week. on january 29th, 67 people were killed when an american airlines fli

. >> reporter: seconds later -- >> bering air 445, anchorage center, radio contact lost. >> this aircraft experienced some kind of event which caused them to experience a rapid loss in elevation and a rapid loss in speed. >> reporter: this time-lapse video from hours after the plane vanished shows snowy conditions at the nome airport where the plane was headed. atc telling the pilot the runway was temporarily closed as the plane approached. >> one of the things ntsb will look at, was there a problem? did the aircraft ice up, and did that lead to a loss of control? >> reporter: it's the third major aviation incident in just over a week. last wednesday, 67 people killed in that midair crash between an army helicopter and an american airlines plane in washington, d.c. in the last 24 hours, crews lifting the blackhawk out of the river amid reports a key safety system was turned off before the collision. last friday, a medical transport jet crashing in philadelphia, killing seven people in all. voice recorder found eight feet deep inside that crater. and david, back to that alaskan plane crash

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my dear friend dean and eric stivers and flew to anchorage to retrieve me after three operations and many plate screws and an external fixator from hip to toe. dean, who has a horrible foot phobia flew holding my leg with six rods in my bare feet in his lap for the entire flight home. on a personal note, one of my proudest moments was when dean asked me to be the godfather to his son dash. as a best friend for 34 years this is more than just a professional milestone. it is a personal one. we have all heard about chief crispin's remarkable career in those 34 years of service. he has spent a majority at stations one, three and 36 the busiest companies in the city and in some cases the entire nation. this is by choice the desire to have the largest chances to be in the most dangerous and productive situations, to be of service. dean has done this from firefighter to lieutenant to captain and through the rank of chief. so dean crispin's leadership isn't just about the title but about the kind of person that he hlwayseen. @jsomeone who steps up in crisis whether it's for the city or for t

my dear friend dean and eric stivers and flew to anchorage to retrieve me after three operations and many plate screws and an external fixator from hip to toe. dean, who has a horrible foot phobia flew holding my leg with six rods in my bare feet in his lap for the entire flight home. on a personal note, one of my proudest moments was when dean asked me to be the godfather to his son dash. as a best friend for 34 years this is more than just a professional milestone. it is a personal one. we have all heard about chief crispin's remarkable career in those 34 years of service. he has spent a majority at stations one, three and 36 the busiest companies in the city and in some cases the entire nation. this is by choice the desire to have the largest chances to be in the most dangerous and productive situations, to be of service. dean has done this from firefighter to lieutenant to captain and through the rank of chief. so dean crispin's leadership isn't just about the title but about the kind of person that he has always been. someone who steps up in crisis whether it's for the city or f

. >> the ceo of anchorage digital detailing how he and some of his employees were debate over the associationring yesterday, this is a senator tim scott hearing the house financial subcommittee on oversight was set to hold the hearing on debakey today examining the biden administration to put crypto in the crosshairs, d banking is not just happening in the crypto world here is melania attractively maria she was abruptly dropped by a bank, watch. >> will be left the white house and i establish my own business, as you said the bank suddenly informed me they will not be able to do business with me anymore. also i had a very prominent e-mail distribution service provider abruptly terminate my agreement so suddenly. as well as the university. i all agreed that they would accept my donation for the foster students they said we cannot go a. >> try to be no pennsylvania congressman dan meuser i know you are chairing today's hea hearing, what you expect to hear what i thought was interesting from tim scott's hearing was the fact that elizabeth warren cited with scott and president trump when it came t

the chair of the ntsb is in anchorage right now. >> the question is on the cause. still too early.in, we're in the initial stages. stages really focused first and foremost on the victims, which is what should be the focus right now. >> the pilot and nine passengers were killed. authorities are racing to recover their bodies before a major storm arrives in the area. new developments tonight on the current israel-hamas ceasefire agreement. hamas has released three more israeli hostages, and in exchange, israel freed nearly 200 palestinian prisoners. thely three israelis were held hostage for nearly 500 days. they were taken during the hamas led attack on israel on october 7th that sparked the war. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is facing growing pressure to extend the cease fire beyond its six week phase. however, he has signaled he would resume the war. sony's playstation network appears to be working again after it suffered an outage. it was down for about 24 hours, upsetting a lot of gamers. it made it difficult for many users to access account management. gaming, video

the bering air plane took off from unalakleet, just north of anchorage, shortly after 230 on thursday was on its way to the nome airport. 40 minutes into that flight, the plane disappeared from radar. here's the chair of the ntsb. >> the question. >> is on the cause. still too early. again, we're in the initial stages. stages really focused first and foremost on the victims, which is what should be the focus right now. >> the pilot and nine passengers were killed. authorities are racing to recover their bodies before a major storm arrives in the area. we're following new developments on the current israel-hamas ceasefire agreement. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is facing growing pressure to extend the cease fire beyond its current six week phase. it comes after hamas forced the released three hostages to speak in a handover ceremony yesterday, which sparked outrage in israel. red cross deemed the conditions surrounding the release, quote, increasingly concerning. three israelis were released in exchange for nearly 200 palestinian prisoners. despite pressure to extend the c

. >> reporter: moments later -- >> bering air 445, anchorage center, radar contact is lost. >> this aircraftnced some kind of event, which caused them to experience a rapid loss in elevation and a rapid loss in speed. >> reporter: the aircraft was 12 miles offshore when officials lost its position. this time-lapsed video from hours after the plane vanished shows snowy conditions at the nome airport. >> alaska is such a magnificent beautiful state, but also the most treacherous state in the nation to fly. >> reporter: the ntsb is now investigating this third major aviation incident in just over a week. in washington, d.c. last wednesday, 67 people were killed in that midair crash involving an army black hawk helicopter and american airlines flight. and last friday, a fiery inferno in philadelphia when a medical transport jet crashed killing seven people. and officials say they will be taking advantage of the weather conditions throughout the day today to hopefully bring the victims home. authorities say they were unaware of any distress signals from the aircraft, but, of course, all of that i

my dear friend dean and eric stivers and flew to anchorage to retrieve me after three operations ande screws and an external fixator from hip to toe. dean, who has a horrible foot phobia flew holding my leg with six rods in my bare feet in his lap for the entire flight home. on a personal note, one of my proudest moments was when dean asked me to be the godfather to his son dash. as a best friend for 34 years this is more than just a professional milestone. it is a personal one. we have all heard about chief crispin's remarkable career in those 34 years of service. he has spent a majority at stations one, three and 36 the busiest companies in the city and in some cases the entire nation. this is by choice the desire to have the largest chances to be in the most dangerous and productive situations, to be of service. dean has done this from firefighter to lieutenant to captain and through the rank of chief. so dean crispin's leadership isn't just about the title but about the kind of person that he has always been. someone who steps up in crisis whether it's for the city or for the peo

the bering air plane took off from unalakleet, just north of anchorage, shortly after 230 on thursdayairport. 40 minutes into the flight, the plane disappeared from radar. here's the chair of the ntsb. >> the question is on the cause. still too early. again, we're in the initial stages. stages really focused first and foremost on the victims, which is what should be the focus right now. >> the pilot and nine passengers were all killed. authorities are racing to recover their bodies before a major storm arrives in the area. we're following new developments on the current israel-hamas ceasefire agreement. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is facing growing pressure to extend the cease fire beyond its current six week phase. it comes after hamas forced the release of three hostages to speak in a handover ceremony yesterday, which sparked outrage in israel. red cross deemed the conditions surrounding the release increasingly concerning. three israelis were released in exchange for nearly 200 palestinian prisoners. despite pressure to extend the ceasefire, netanyahu has signaled he

the bodies of the victims will be transported to anchorage for autopsies. investigators hope to retrieve the wreckage, but it's resting on unstable sea ice. possible engine issues forced a southwest airlines flight headed to denver to turn around shortly after takeoff. one woman on board said she saw flames coming out of one of the engines. >> i smelled something weird. i mean, it wasn't like fresh air or anything. it smelled more like burning wires. as we're on the runway, going super fast as you normally are for takeoff. that's when it went super loud. boom. i thought at that point, this is it. we're going down and we're going to die. >> how frightening. and when asked about the engine issue, southwest airlines told cnn affiliate kcra that there was nothing notable to report but apologized for the inconvenience. passengers were placed on another plane to denver. we're now three weeks into trump's new term, and his flurry of executive orders and actions, along with his controversial cabinet appointments, have democrats struggling to figure out ways to figh

we'll hear from anchorage digital so that they will talk about the process that they experienced undereak clearly about the importance of treating all americans exactly the same, no matter whether you're democrat or republican, whether you're liberal or whether you're conservative. >> senator, i hear a little bit of conflicting points of blame in what you just said at the beginning. you said it was the biden administration and the regulators who were doing this. at the end, it sounded more like, well, maybe the banks are choosing politics on some of these issues. let me read you back a response from jamie dimon, who put this pretty succinctly. he said, we are responsible in the law to fight sex trafficking, money laundering, tax avoidance and basically regulators to, he said. he said the regulators put a lot of pressure on us and tell us what is high risk. if we don't bank someone and something goes wrong, it could be hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. so a lot of banks are kind of guessing, like, we should get rid of these people. we're not allowed to tell you why we debanked y

centers based in lower 40 say veteran and let's say ketchikan, alaska, says hey i need to get to anchorageospital. the call center said okay drive, way, it's an island. they don't even know it's an island. i need to get equipment from you in the mission act as able to get legislation that said if you don't have full-service hospital, and by the way only us an answer, that you can go to community care. why wouldn't you? the call centers don't allow that because he don't know about alaska. they don't know the bill or the law. it's a disaster for my veterans. can i get your commitment to work with me on all the alaska challenges but this call-center issue and bring it when you call center back in my state for people who understand what the state is all about and help bring down this very big backlog. can i get your commitment on that to help our veterans? and, of course, to get your commitment to come up to alaska, bring the whole family, common summer if you want and we can go fisher after or in the winter, maybe be a state that's dark and 50 below zero. so either way. your choice. your choi

my dear friend dean and eric stivers and flew to anchorage to retrieve me after three operations andmany plate screws and an external fixator from hip to toe. dean, who has a horrible foot phobia flew holding my leg with six rods in my bare feet in his lap for the entire flight home. on a personal note, one of my proudest moments was when dean asked me to be the godfather to his son dash. as a best friend for 34 years this is more than just a professional milestone. it is a personal one. we have all heard about chief crispin's remarkable career in those 34 years of service. he has spent a majority at stations one, three and 36 the busiest companies in the city and in some cases the entire nation. this is by choice the desire to have the largest chances to be in the most dangerous and productive situations, to be of service. dean has done this from firefighter to lieutenant to captain and through the rank of chief. so dean crispin's leadership isn't just about the title but about the kind of person that he has always been. someone who steps up in crisis whether it's for the city or fo

they cannot drive to anchorage. >> let me ask one final question very quickly.we talked about our alaska native community is also incredibly patriotic. alaska native serve at higher rates in the military than any other ethnic group in the country so super patriotic. live in a lot of our rural communities in our alaska native healthcare organizations have reached into the rural parts that no other place does. the va has a long history of working with our alaska native health organizations to extend the reach of care into very rural parts of america. very rural parts of alaska and partner to get alaska native veterans but also non-natives that live in these rural communities to go to alaska native health organizations to get care because they partnered with the va. can i get your commitment to continue that good relationship? sometimes a little contentious on negotiating the agreement, but they are really worth it to expand and extend va healthcare for native alaskans, non-native alaskans in the most rural parts of our state. >> senator, yes. we are willing to com