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Speaker 1: News twenty five Clear Cold Sonny in Boston. It's eleven
Speaker 1: o'clock on Laurie Kirby. We continue our coverage. We are
Speaker 1: standing by for President Donald Trump, who is expected to
Speaker 1: speak shortly about less night's deadly plane crash over the
Speaker 1: Potomac River in Washington, d C. Sixty four people were
Speaker 1: on board that lane, including members of the local figure
Speaker 1: skating community. No one survived, and Doug Zegheim is CEO
Speaker 1: of the Skating Club of Boston, which operates out of Norwood.
Speaker 1: He says two of the club's teenage skaters, their mothers,
Speaker 1: and two coaches are among the dozensteads.
Speaker 4: Spencer Lane and his mom. Spencer is about sixteen. I
Speaker 4: think I believe turning seventeen early next year. Gina Hahn
Speaker 4: about the same age, and her mom, Jin and Nan
Speaker 4: Verdem and Jan You are the coaches that we already talked.
Speaker 1: Let's get more in this special report from ABC News.
Speaker 3: This is a special report from ABC News. I'm Brian Clark.
Speaker 3: There are no survivors after Wednesday night's collision between an
Speaker 3: army helicopter and an American Airlines Regional passenger jet with
Speaker 3: sixty four people on board. The plane was descending at
Speaker 3: Reagan National Airport near Washington, d C. The recovery operations
Speaker 3: continue in the frigid Potomac River.
Speaker 5: I'm very proud of our first responders who ran towards
Speaker 5: jet danger, got in dangerous waters and are really working
Speaker 5: hard to support those passengers. And on the military personnel
Speaker 5: on that helicopter.
Speaker 3: That's DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The
Speaker 3: Blackhawk helicopter, with three crew members on board, was carrying
Speaker 3: out a routine training mission, sources tell ABC an early
Speaker 3: part of the investigation focuses on the helicopter's height. On
Speaker 3: that passenger jet members of the US figure skating community
Speaker 3: returning from a national event in Wichita.
Speaker 1: This is ABC News, and again we learned they were
Speaker 1: members of the Skating Club of Boston, which has its
Speaker 1: facility in Norwood. The entire skating community is devastated. Well
Speaker 1: of more coming up shortly here on that deadly plane crash.
Speaker 1: The recovery efforts are still underway. Hamas led militants have
Speaker 1: now freed eight hostages as part of the ceasefire deal
Speaker 1: in the Gaza Strip. It's been a chaotic handover. The
Speaker 1: hostages were shuttled through a rowdy crowd of thousands by
Speaker 1: mass militants. Now Israel later began releasing one hundred and
Speaker 1: ten Palestinian prisoners after the swap was initially put on
Speaker 1: hold by Prime Minister Benjamin Nettin Yahu, who demanded that
Speaker 1: mediators assure this effects of hostages. He later said he
Speaker 1: received that commitment. Lots of sun, very cool out there.
Speaker 1: It's only twenty five degrees in Boston. Are high today
Speaker 1: twenty eight. Many of you will walk out and say
Speaker 1: it feels colder. It is real. Feel around fifteen or
Speaker 1: sixteen degrees out there, very chilly, and again very sunny.
Speaker 1: We clowd up tonight near twenty five early and then
Speaker 1: we rise. We're going to see a real warm up
Speaker 1: tomorrow as a new system comes in. That will be rain,
Speaker 1: because we're in the forties tomorrow before we dive back
Speaker 1: down into the freezing zone thirty two on Saturday, mostly
Speaker 1: sunny and dry. Sunday is a mix of rain and snow,
Speaker 1: so we're all over the meteorological map, so we have
Speaker 1: a visual. Now the White House podium. We are standing
Speaker 1: by for President Donald Trump was about to hold a
Speaker 1: news conference on the deadly midair collision last night over
Speaker 1: the Potomac River. Sixty four people were on board the
Speaker 1: American Airlines plane. It collided with a military helicopter. Three
Speaker 1: troops on that and we're told that nobody has survived.
Speaker 1: We also learned this morning that among the dead six
Speaker 1: members of our local figure skating community. Hes Yle Shaffle
Speaker 1: is at the Skating Club of Boston in Norwood with more.
Speaker 2: It's a day of grief here for the Skating Club
Speaker 2: of Boston and Norwood as they lose two teenage skaters
Speaker 2: and more.
Speaker 4: Besides Spencer and the best way possible is a crazy kid,
Speaker 4: highly talented, like incredibly talented. Gina just a wonderful kid,
Speaker 4: great athlete, great competitor, loved by all that CEO Doug Zeghib.
Speaker 2: They're recounting the lives of Spencer Lane and Gina Hahn,
Speaker 2: both those skaters, the air mothers and two revered coaches
Speaker 2: parish on American flight fifty three forty two.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the word is. Is it wrecked,
Speaker 4: is it devastated? Folks are just stunned by this.
Speaker 2: He calls us a horrible loss both for the club
Speaker 2: and for the sport. The two coaches, Vadim Nomov and
Speaker 2: Genya Shishkova, were both highly regarded and influential. I asked
Speaker 2: if the club would remain open this week. Zeg Hive
Speaker 2: says yes.
Speaker 4: Skaters are resilient and they want to skate. I think
Speaker 4: also they come to the club and will come to
Speaker 4: the club as an opportunity to come together.
Speaker 2: Kyle Schaffel to be busy Boston's Housh Radio.
Speaker 1: The crash is made for an uneasy day in the sky,
Speaker 1: said Logan Airport over now to wbz's Jim McKay. I
Speaker 1: feel for the families.
Speaker 6: What happened in Washington last night is everyone's worst nightmare.
Speaker 6: Sheila is flying back to Charlotte after visiting her daughter
Speaker 6: in Boston and is flying with a heavy heart today.
Speaker 6: It's a tragic John is from Annapolis, Maryland heading back
Speaker 6: home via BWI Airport.
Speaker 1: But I know there's still ice and if it's.
Speaker 6: Only talking about the conditions of where the recovery operation
Speaker 6: is now taking place just outside of Reagan National.
Speaker 3: Hopefully they were quick.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately we have received the update there were no survivors.
Speaker 6: As the investigation is ongoing. Thoughts and prayers for the
Speaker 6: victims and their families front and center from everyone across
Speaker 6: the country from Logan Jim McKay, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: A lot of unanswered questions. Obviously still too soon to
Speaker 1: even say what causes midair collision. You are now in
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