obviously we don't know what would have happened if they had not been there, but we do thank the lord that they were there. >> reporter: some of the things that the ntsb is going to be looking at today and in the days ahead are the experience of the pilot who was flying that plane who was killed in the crash. he had 29,000 hours of flying time. but they don't know how much experience he had actually flying this one remote route. they're legislation going to obviously look at the weather. they still don't know what kind of avionics were on that plane, what kind of crash avoidance systems were on that plane. all of those questions they're going to be answering over the next couple of days. >> casey wian for us this morning in anchorage, thanks so much. we'll get the latest on the investigation when the chairman of the ntsb joins us live from anchorage at 7:10 eastern this morning. no you to politics and two marquee primary races. one in colorado where incumbent senator michael bennett held off