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Gaining ground and you have the stimulus from the tax cut plan. you have 3 1/2 million workers from more than 300 companies giving out bonuses. the latest from a texas-based company. the biggest bonus weve seen yet. some workers are getting $4,000. so all that is considered stimulus, jon. >> jon: talking about real money there. lauren, thank you. >> melissa: new details on the russian plane crash that killed 71 people. search and rescue teams finding the flights data recorders. what new informat...

Investigators were still searching for data recorders on both trains. akin to little black boxes you hear as critical to the investigations when airplanes crash. heres what we do know about how this deadly crash happened. a switch on the track was lined and locked as they say in the railroad industry in the wrong direction. this switch locked with a padlock to send the amtrak passenger train off the main track, diverting it to a siding track, squarely into that parked freight train. and investig...

They have done. jonathan is live from west columbia, south carolina near the crash scene and with a news conference is being held. hello jonathan. >> hi eric. ntsb officials say they are looking at the data recorders on board the train. sort of like aircraft. not only data recorders but also on board trains, you have some video surveillance as well that they are going to be looking at. theyve already recovered one of the reporters which is on its way back to their headquarters in washington dc. ...

If engineers are not responding, ptc is supposed to take over, preventing an accident. but for yesterdays fatal run, ptc had not yet been activated. congress has repeatedly delayed deadlines requiring ptc on major rail lines nationwide. >> and clayton sandell with us live again tonight from dupont, washington, there on the scene. and clayton, late today, you were telling us, theyre still clearing the scene? >> reporter: thats right, david. theyre still trying to clear out that 270,000-pound loco...

Evening hours. they need to inspect the roadway and bridge above to make sure its safe for cars. >> so far recovered one of the black boxes and the event data recorders. what kind of information are they trying to pull from that? >> reporter: right. thats how we know abouted speed and how fast the train was going at the time. they will be looking at the cameras on the train and look to the engineer to find out whether or not he or she was distracted. whether or not there was something going on a...

Correspondent on the scene for us about 50 miles south of seattle. kyung, the national transportation safety board has recovered the trains data recorders. what are you learning? >> both of the event data recorders in the front and rear of the train. they have recovered both of them, wolf. and they also in this news conference that wrapped up a short time ago, said that the emergency brake was automatically activated, meaning that the crew did not hit the emergency brake. in this early part of t...

Cnn positive train control, a technology designed to slow down a train thats going too fast, was not activated on the tracks at the time of the crash. the national transportation safety board is launching a full investigation, tonight dispatching a team of 20 investigators to the scene. >> this was called an inaugural run of this service, but we want to check and make sure what that exactly means and find out more information about that specifically. >> reporter: an ntsb official tells cnn the i...

Run of this, this service. but we want to check and make sure what that exactly means. >> reporter: an ntsb official tells cnn the investigation will focus on recovering the trains data recorders, to determine the trains speed. theyll also examine the tracks and signals and conduct extensive interviews with the crew and passengers. >> we went down an embankment. we had to kick out the window -- the emergency window. >> reporter: and while no one knows for sure what caused this crash, just two we...

>> that flight from australia to bali left cabin pressure 30 minutes after taking off. they are reviewing voice is and data recorders and interviewing the crew. >> that was not "the voice" of calm you want. the overhead was okay. but what they were hearing from the flight attendant. >> unimaginable despair in puerto rico. a month nearly after hurricane maria struck, people drinking water. ♪ ♪ you nervous? ♪ ♪

Something from the technology on the bus of what went wrong? >> the great thing about school buses, is that they very often have better technology than we see on anything else on the roadways, not just the event data recorders that can give you speed and braking but also cameras. school buses often have cameras inside the bus internal facing and external facing cameras so theyll be looking for those. >> deborah hersman, thank you so much for all of the information this morning. >> thank you. >> ...