Good morning, welcome to early start. Im christine romans. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. John berman is in washington all week. This morning the black box has been recovered, and investigators are trying to figure out what caused the crash of that germanwings plane in the alps. 150 people on board. Everyone on the flight from barcelona, spain, to dusseldorf germany, presumed dead including two babies. The cause of the crash, a mystery. Germanwings says the plane descended from its cruising altitude for eight minutes before radar contact was lost and the plane slammed into the mountain. Now crews struggling to recover bodies and wreckage from this snowcovered highmountain valley where the plane went down. For the very latest lets bring in cnns Erin Mclaughlin about six miles from the crash site. Good morning, erin. Youve seen rescue helicopters taking off, havent you . Reporter we have christine. The recovery operation very much under way. The field that you see behind me a hive of acti
Point in the next few weeks ask for some sort of interview with the president. Whether its a lengthy interview like Hillary Clinton did in july of 2016 or whether a quick deposition, or maybe set of written answers to submitted questions we dont know. But the negotiations are ongoing as to what form and forum that might take. I asked the president about it very specifically today, would he sit down for an interview with robert mueller, would he do it without precondition, or would he want a defined set of parameters. Lets look at the evolution of the president s position over the past few months. Initially asked about it, about six months ago, he said he would gladly sit down with robert mueller. Asked about it at camp david, he said yeah, theres no collusion or crime. Watch what tranls pierd when i asked about that today. President trump ive been in office now for 11 months. For 11 months they have had this phony cloud over this administration, over our government. It has hurt our gov
Yesterday, i guess, a group of House Republicans put out a plan to deal with kak da and do things not daca but not under the umbrella. Was that helpful, not helpful to getting to a deal ultimately, the president wish that they, you know, take that off the table so that you can focus on what might be happening with senator flake or others in the senate . Secretary sanders this is a great starting point, a great place even though it went beyond the parameters that the president very specifically and then you later shannon he outlined the things he felt he had to be included, not just what could be included. This is a good starting point. Part negotiation process. If we can get everything done, thats better than getion part of it done. Were okay with getting a deal done as long as it falls into the parameters the president laid out. He understands adding the extra things are what makes whats that the potential to make it more difficult, various constituencies think of those things as pois
High pressure aloft and increasing northerly flow will bring significant warming to California on Friday, with additional warming in the coastal and interior valleys on Saturday.