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NPR News: 01-31-2025 5PM EST

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🗓️ 31 January 2025

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0:00.0

This is Tanya Mosley, co-host of Fresh Air, and I just talked to Pamela Anderson about her big career comeback after years in the tabloids and not being taken seriously.

0:10.5

She's entered a new era on stage and screen.

0:13.7

Suzanne Summers had a great line. She said, you can't play a dumb blonde and be a dumb blonde.

0:19.0

Find this interview with Pamela Anderson wherever you listen to fresh air.

0:23.6

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.

0:28.7

Recovery operations are continuing along the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.

0:34.4

Two days after a deadly collision between a passenger plane and an Army helicopter.

0:40.8

67 people were killed. Emergency teams have recovered the remains of 41 people so far.

0:48.0

The American Airlines plane was approaching the runway at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night

0:53.9

when it collided with a Black Hawk

0:56.2

helicopter. Federal authorities have restricted helicopter flights near the airport, and as MPRs,

1:04.2

Joel Rose reports the investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing.

1:09.5

The Federal Aviation Administration will limit helicopter

1:12.1

flights on routes along the Potomac River between the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and the Memorial Bridge,

1:17.0

two of the major spans that serve the region and over the airport itself. The FAA says helicopter

1:22.7

traffic near the airport will be restricted but not completely suspended. There are exemptions for medical

1:28.2

emergency flights, active law enforcement and air defense, or presidential support missions that

1:33.3

must operate in the restricted area. The restrictions come as investigators continue to pour over

1:38.3

an area of the Potomac River where the two aircraft went down. Joel Rose and PR News, Washington.

1:43.7

Just months before Wednesday's deadly crash, lawmakers had warned that air traffic over the DEC

1:50.3

area was getting dangerously congested. Senator Chris Van Hollen is a Democrat from Maryland.

1:57.4

We, of course, have to wait for the final conclusions of the NTSB investigation to determine

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