david barnes joins us by phone near the scene in southern france. much i know you've driven to this staging area really and i'm sure it's a couple of miles from the crash and i know you can't get any closer. but you can see the mountain and rescue teams working to make their way. what can you tell us? >> well i'm in the field in the valley it is underneath the mountains which are cover eded in snow. i can see the mountain on which the plane crashed this morning. it's actually -- the range is massive -- and i can see helicopters taking off quite regularly, at least a dozen in front of me and literally hundreds of -- would be rescuers crowding together. they say they haven't been able to recover any of the bodies because of the very very difficult access where vehicles cannot go. they can only get in there by helicopter. >> do any of the rescue officials there know or can they tell you what kind of debris field this was? that's one of the issues we are talking about earlier with our aviation experts as to whether the plane had -- the debris had spread

and a reporter for daily mail is at the staging site near the crash, david barnes what is happening? >> reporter: night has fallen here and all operations have been suspended until first light. so the mystery, unfortunately, remains as to what brought down this plane and killed 150 people. >> david barnes with us from the plane staging site. thank you for that update. joining us is tom hatter a former ntsb director of aviation safety and analyst john cox, a former u.s. airways captain and ceo of safety operations. and thank you for being --. and tom, if i could start with you. and there was no distress signal given and how unusual that to occur when a crash of this type happens? >> it is not terribly unusual. the crew will first fly the airplane and communicate when they can. the indication is something happened catastrophically. whether it is a fire or rapid depressionde de -- depressioncompression. and why this happened hopefully we'll get the voice recorder and we'll determine that. and what happens is the crew is busy and they don't make a call at the moment. >> and from the time

there are witnesses in the ski resorts who heard the terrible crash which it made on landing. >> david barness with the daily mail.com one of the first reporters there in france reporting on this airline tragedy. thanks for your insight. one thing david was talking about, the helicopter pilots that have had access to people at ski resorts, nbc did a phone interview with a woman who was the president of a local tourism office for a ski resort in the french alps and she heard what she thought might be an avalanche because it just sounded to her as if that was her first instinct. however, it sounded just different enough that she wanted to calm the police to find out what the noise was and her husband was skiing on the mountain and saw the plane before it crashed and noted it was flying low but didn't think anything of it until later when he heard what had happened and did not see flames or smoke coming from the plane. again, this woman that nbc news interviewed from a local ski resort in the area says that the sound that she first thought was an avalanche. but she knew it sounded different enou

david: peter barnes. thank you very much. conor powell, appreciate it, guys. >> thank you what does today's speech by israel's prime minister and u.s. response mean for businesses? boy, we've got a lot of israeli businesses doing business here in the u.s. we're talking to two companies with a presence in both israel and the u.s., on how they bridge the gap of doing business in both nations. david: also israeli prime minister really changing the covers, making it a lot more difficult for the president to sell an iranian nuclear deal to the americans. but what is the cost of stopping iran in its nuclear tracks? we'll debate that. >> for first time ever, publicly disclosed, gm says, some people rejected settlement offers related to gm's defective switches problem. why, and will this pave the way for future lawsuits? we have ken feinberg, gm compensation fund manager, who received those requests to reject the money. you can't predict the market. but at t. rowe price, we've helped guide our clients through good times and bad. our

peter barnes in washington, d.c. go ahead,. >> davidual stress tests were last week and what the fed is set to announce at bottom of the hour is capital review plans for stock buybacks and stock dividends going ahead for the next year or so. and i can announce them, that they have, rejected the 2015 capital distribution plans for just the u.s. operations of two big foreign banks, germany's deutsche bank and spain's santander. citigroup's plan was approved this year after it met rejection in two prior years. fed approved plans for jpmorgan chase, goldman sachs and morgan stanley. but that came after it forced them to resubmit their initial plans to slightly reduce their capital distributions for the year ahead. so they will keep slightly more capital on hand. that is allowed in these give-and-takes of these reviews. and bank of america is still in the process. it has until september to resubmit its plan. it passed last week's stress tests with good capital numbers. so the fed did not formally reject b-of-a's dividend and stock buyback pl

david: we all love cheap music streaming from pandora and spotify but some lawmakers aren't and they want a say in what you have to pay. liz: peter barnesns us with the details on who wins and who loses if they get their way. pete officer. >> david, and liz, the senate weighed into the battle over internet service with a hearing on capitol hill. companies like pandora and spotify stream music over internet for free or with subscription services but they have been battling music publishers and songwriters how much they have to pay them for their music. the prices generally is controlled by government legal settlements with the music industry going back 70 years over old radio broadcasting issues. decades before the internet came into being. publishers and songwriters say they are getting paid too little. superstar singers taylor swift for one, pulled all of her music from spotify last year over this issue of payment. the streaming companies say they have paid billions in music royalties already to artists and songwriters. some of them worry that publishers are more interested in colluding to increase music licensing payments with any cha

david: uncomfortable is the understatement about the relations between the two countries. peter barnesrom d.c. thank you, peter. >> thank you, peter. the a new show being launched is called the "shark tank" of the food world. we're talking to one of the investors about the launch and changing world for fund-raising for entrepreneurs. david: decline for alibaba continues as taiwan orders it to leave the country. the stock is down 29% from its all-time high. is this continued drop a canary in the coal mine for all of china? we'll tackle that coming up. ♪ at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could've been brenda. grind virtually any kind of food waste into an unending source of electrical power for a city? when emerson takes up the challenge, it's never been done before simply becomes consider it solved. emerson. we're reinventing inhow we do business, so businesses can reinvent the world. from phar

barn. host: one more call from david. line for independents. caller: good morning.y problem here is that we have two bad actors. our administration has repeatedly lied to us over multiple issues over the past six or seven years. the other is the iranians to they are a bad actor, they are untrustworthy. if they get a nuclear weapon that is going to spark a nuclear arms race in the middle east. saudi arabia is not going to let iran sit on their border with a nuclear weapon. israel will strike. they have nuclear weapons. obama and the p5 plus one guys need to realize they are going to spark a nuclear war spark world war iii. you cannot deal with and even person -- evil person via that is bent on taking over that area. they are in a proxy war in yemen, they are in iraq, they are in afghanistan. since we went to war with iraq, which was a mistake, iran is racing to fill the vacuum. they are fighting isis but they are doing it so they get power and not isis has power. host: david in marion kentucky. i will let you respond to him and some of his concerns about the potentia

david henry will have more on "action news" at 5:00. >> crews on the scene of a barn fire in burlington county today. chopperchopper 6 was overhead as they worked to bring the blaze under control. the blaze erupted at the bishop farm in mansfield township. no reports of any injuries. we're working to find out if there were any animals inside the barn at the time. >> and it is time now for the "action news" traffic report on a monday afternoon. >> matt pelman is back from a very long vacation in the "action news" traffic center. >> what are you saying i didn't deserve that? >> welcome back. it was a wonderful adventure that's for sure and it's nice to see you guys rick and shirleen. getting home this afternoon that will be a little bit of an adventure. plenty of slow speeds, just 11 miles per hour on 95 as you travel southbound by girard avenue through the work zone. also watching a tacony palmyra bridge opening for a northbound ship. that means headed out right this minute you want to head for the betsy ross bridge and headed out in about 45 minutes expect an opening at the burlington b

barn. host: one more call from david. line for independents. caller: good morning. my problem here is that we have two bad actors. our administration has repeatedly lied to us over multiple issues over the past six or seven years. the other is the iranians to they are a bad actor, they are untrustworthy. if they get a nuclear weapon that is going to spark a nuclear arms race in the middle east. saudi arabia is not going to let iran sit on their border with a nuclear weapon. israel will strike. they have nuclear weapons. obama and the p5 plus one guys need to realize they are going to spark a nuclear war spark world war iii. you cannot deal with and even person -- evil person via that is bent on taking over that area. they are in a proxy war in yemen, they are in iraq, they are in afghanistan. since we went to war with iraq, which was a mistake, iran is racing to fill the vacuum. they are fighting isis but they are doing it so they get power and not isis has power. host: david in marion kentucky. i will let you respond to him and some of his concerns about the potent

for david, then 20 years old, working with elephants is a dream job. >> it was a really good feeling when you would come in to the barn in the morning to greet the elephants, and they greeted you back. it made you feel great. you can call them by name and they would walk over to you and rub against you. and they were so gentle, many of them. it was like having your own pet dog but 10,000 pounds. >> his work as an elephant keeper brings him up close and personal with the normally gentle giants, feeding them, bathing them, even riding them in the twice daily shows put on for tourists. >> when i would come out into a full audience and you would hear the crowd clap, it gave you goosebumps. >> but despite the excitement, david knows that working with the world's largest land animals is inherently risky. david is warned about one elephant in particular. >> cindy had a lot of crazy behaviors with other keepers in the past. >> a known danger to humans, only keepers who had trained cindy when she arrived from a tacoma, washington, zoo are allowed to get close to the animal. newcomers, like david, always use the matriarch eleph