NPR News: 01-31-2025 7AM EST
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🗓️ 31 January 2025
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| 0:24.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Federal aviation investigators say they've recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the American Airlines regional jet that crashed midair over the Potomac River |
| 0:39.3 | near Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C. this week. The helicopter pilot was told to go |
| 0:44.5 | behind the plane, but that didn't happen. And Pierce Tom Bowman has more. The Blackhawk was heading south |
| 0:50.0 | along the Potomac and the direction of National Airport, and like the plane was in touch with |
| 0:54.9 | the tower. Now, there's a flight corridor for helicopters, and the maximum height is 200 feet, |
| 1:01.1 | but sources I talk were say it appears a Black Hawk was flying higher, maybe more than 100 feet |
| 1:06.6 | higher at the time of the crash. Defense Secretary Pete Hegsteth would only say there was some |
| 1:11.8 | sort of an elevation issue. The investigation, of course, will determine whether the helicopter |
| 1:16.8 | was in the corridor and at the right altitude. And Pierce Tom Bowman, a total of 67 people were |
| 1:23.7 | on board both aircraft and more than two dozen bodies have been recovered so far. |
| 1:29.2 | Canada is bracing for the possibility that the Trump administration will impose stiff tariffs on its exports to the U.S. tomorrow. |
| 1:36.9 | And Pierce Jackie Northern reports the Canadian government says it will retaliate. |
| 1:41.1 | Within days after retaking office, President Trump said he would slap 25% tariffs on |
| 1:46.3 | products from Canada and Mexico unless the two neighbors curb the flow of drugs and migrants |
| 1:51.5 | crossing illegally. Roughly $2.5 billion worth of goods cross the U.S. Canada border each day. |
| 1:58.4 | Chachy Curl is with a Vancouver-based Angus Reed Institute, which |
| 2:02.0 | pulled more than 2,000 Canadians about the possible tariffs. They're angry. There is a sense of |
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