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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 we've 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 flight's data recorders. what new information that can shed light on the terrible tragedy. israel sending a warning to iran. why its presenc...

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. here's 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 investigators now trying to understand the why. that will be a question they will need the help of csx to a...

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. they've already recovered one of the reporters which is on its way back to their headquarters in washington dc. they will have for further analysis but there will also be looking at the signal system and the swi...

If engineers are not responding, ptc is supposed to take over, preventing an accident. but for yesterday's 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, they're still clearing the scene? >> reporter: that's right, david. they're still trying to clear out that 270,000-pound locomotive from this scene, but they still have to inspect the bridge and the road before this inter...

Evening hours. they need to inspect the roadway and bridge above to make sure it's 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. that's 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 as far as inability to operate the train at that time. all of these things will be investigated as ...