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Good Thursday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kingtonia with David Faber, Sarah Eisen, and post-night of the New York Stock Exchange.

Kramer has the morning off. Futures are mixed as the market responds to the Fed meeting, fourth quarter GDP numbers, and our first batch of mega-cap tech earnings.

But we are going to begin

with last night's tragic collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter.

A search and recovery mission is now underway in the waters of the Potomac.

Our Aiman Javers is at Reagan National Airport with the latest.

Amon, good morning.

Good morning, Carl.

It is a heartbreaking morning here at Reagan National

Airport authorities just within the past hour or so, giving us some updated details about what we

know about last night's horrific crash involving a commercial jetliner and an Army Blackhawk

helicopter just south of this airport. What we know right now is that there are no

survivors in this incident, and that means that as many as 67 people are dead. 64 people were on board the airplane,

three people on board the helicopter. 27 bodies, they say, have now been recovered from the airplane wreckage.

One recovered from the helicopter. The Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, who was sworn in just a couple of hours before this incident,

said that despite last night's tragedy, air travel in the United States is still safe. Here's what he said.

Safety is our expectation. Everyone who flies in American skies expects that we fly safely.

That didn't happen last night. And I know that President Trump, his administration, the FAA,

the DOT, we will not rest until we have answers for the families and for the flying public. You should be assured that when you fly, you're safe.

And Carl, there have been a number of incidents over the past couple of years involving near

misses here at Ronald Reagan National

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