medicare. $506 billion in tax credits that are cut, which help lower income americans afford insurance. not only is this cruel, it is hypocritical. schumer suggests this budget blueprint would be devastating to the middle class. a lot of lawmakers still going through the fine print. bill: a big day there. sandra: move onto the breaking news coming into the newsroom now. the u.k. civil aviation authority issuing instructions to stop any commercial passenger flights on boeing 737 max 8 in u.k. airspace. u.s. aviation experts are teaming up now with the global investigation into the ethiopian airlines plane crash. doug mcelway is live in washington as things are quickly changing. a growing number of airlines ground the boeing 737 max 8 the manufacturer is standing by its airplane and so is the faa. yet both entities are acknowledging that changes are
allegedly approach them on the street, asked the woman if she was white, and then pepper sprayed her. the man tried to intervene in the attacker pulled out a knife, he said. authorities say 11 people over the weekend and suspected hate crimes. we are awaiting information from the black box from the ethiopian airlines plane, the boeing 737 that crashed shortly after takeoff, killing everyone aboard, including eight americans. the faa says that planes are still air worthy after two fatal crashes in less than six months. doug mckelway has the latest. at the united nations, flag at half-staff, none of the 157 people killed, 21 of them u.n. staffers, sunday s crash of an ethiopian airlines boeing 737. translator: as we all know ethiopian airlines is a well-known airline that has not experienced such accidents for a long time. it was a second boeing 737 max 8 to crash in the last five months. in the first, the plane dove
jet ever built, crashing to earth just six minutes after takeoff in ethiopia. and take a look at this image tonight, because investigators say that relatively small crater right there speaks volumes about how fast that jet was coming down. you can see the burn scar across the field. the plane shattered in pieces, along with fragments of what people carried with them. 157 people onboard, including eight americans, no one survived this. tonight, the first clues now coming in, and as other countries ground this jet, will the jets be grounded here in the u.s.? boeing s new response tonight. abc s matt gutman leads us off from ethiopia, where american investigators have just now arrived. reporter: this heap of twisted metal scraps, all that remains of ethiopian airlines flight 302. and tonight, investigators race to analyze those crucial flight recorders to find out why the plane, carrying 157 souls, fell out of the sky. excavators digging for debris in the crater.
many first responders picking through the dirt and passengers personal effects by hand. from the ground, beyond the singed grass, that debris field. from above, the sheer force with which the doomed plane nosed into the earth is clear. the victims, from 35 different countries, including eight americans. the weather was clear when flight 302 took off from addis ababa at 8:38 a.m. sunday morning, but there was trouble from takeoff. the pilot radioing the tower saying he was struggling controlling the plane, asking to return to the airport. then, just six minutes into its journey to nairobi, at 8:44 a.m., the jet disappeared from radar. witnesses describing smoke coming from the rear of the plane before it crashed. the only thing we know for sure about this airplane is, right after takeoff, this airplane was porpoising, going up and down. reporter: this is the second catastrophic crash involving boeing s popular 737 max-8 aircraft. in october, a max-8 operated by
small large hotel lobby. and that s because of that steep decent. most of the parts of the plane, david, remain buried in the dirt. david? matt gutman leading us off tonight. matt, thank you. as i mentioned at the top tonight, three countries have ordered airlines to ground those new boeing 737s. but tonight, here in the u.s., three airlines continue to fly them. what boeing and the faa are now saying. and the flight attendants union tonight now saying their attendants do not have to fly on these jets if you don t feel safe. abc s david kerley on that part of the story now. reporter: first indonesia, now ethiopia. the two crashes of the brand new version of the 737, so close together, that some passengers are asking airlines if they re booked on a max-8. i would be a little bit leery about flying that boeing plane. reporter: 72 of the maxes are flown by u.s. carriers. all three airlines expressing confidence in the jet. southwest telling us it s had some calls from customers,