Friday, January 31, 2025
The 7
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🗓️ 31 January 2025
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Friday briefing: D.C. plane crash updates; Trump fact check; Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel; Ebola; non-opioid painkiller; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Yes, all runways are closed. Nobody's landing. No one's moving at all. It was probably out in the middle of the river. I just saw a fireball and then it was just gone. |
| 0:14.5 | We're learning more about the deadly plane crash in Washington, D.C. That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Friday, January 31st. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:31.8 | On Wednesday night, a passenger plane and an army helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport. |
| 0:39.0 | 67 people were killed. There were no survivors. |
| 0:42.7 | Investigators have recovered a cockpit-voiced recorder and a flight data recorder from the Potomac |
| 0:48.1 | River, where the aircraft went down. And now they are working to determine how this tragedy |
| 0:53.5 | could have happened. |
| 0:55.4 | A government report, which was described to the Washington Post, said that the airport's air traffic control tower was understaffed on the evening of the crash. |
| 1:05.1 | Two people were handling the jobs of four alongside other colleagues inside the control tower. |
| 1:12.6 | You heard the control tower reacting to the crash at the top of the show. The union for air traffic controllers has warned |
| 1:18.7 | in recent years that a thinly stretched workforce poses a safety risk. The victims of the crash |
| 1:25.1 | include service members, children, and members of the competitive figure skating community. |
| 1:31.2 | Ten-year-old Alexis Winch lost her coach in the crash. |
| 1:35.2 | She spoke to a post reporter at a Northern Virginia skating rink yesterday. |
| 1:39.5 | One of them, he really wanted to go to the Olympics, and then he was really excited, but now he can't go. |
| 1:51.0 | I really, like, I look after those people, and they were my inspiration. |
| 1:58.6 | President Donald Trump spoke about the crash at a news conference yesterday. That brings us to our second story. |
| 2:08.3 | President Trump baselessly blamed a diversity program for the D.C. plane crash. That's number two. |
| 2:15.8 | First responders were still recovering bodies from the Potomac |
| 2:19.4 | River yesterday when Trump started assigning blame. Without evidence, he pointed his finger at his |
| 2:26.1 | predecessors, Democrats, and diversity initiatives. New York Times reporter David Sanger |
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