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>> just for that to happen the u.s. military had to reestablish flight controls and radar at that airport. our great thanks to you dave gram after what we know is a difficult day every day, working conditions and living conditions on the ground, slow going on the ground in puerto rico. another break for us tonight. we'll stay on the story. a veteran of the senate, a moderate voice in the republican party says this term will be his last term in the senate. we'll look at what that means for it the party of donald trump when the 11 n hour continues.

Between flights between the mainland and u.s. have approached normality. >> just for that to happen the u.s. military had to reestablish flight controls and radar at that airport. our great thanks to you dave gram after what we know is a difficult day every day, working conditions and living conditions on the ground, slow going on the ground in puerto rico. another break for us tonight. we'll stay on the story. a veteran of the senate, a moderate voice in the republican party says this term will be his last term in the senate. we'll look at what that means for it the party of donald trump when...

Curiosity is answers for the families and justice for the lives lost, if it is appropriate. let's get more with david soucie, former faa accident investigator and inspector. david, while we wait for answers, the good news is they have the black boxes. they believe they are intact. what will you know conclusively when that information is downloaded? >> as soon as the boxes come out, chris, it will be put against a time line. that time line will show various things throughout the aircraft. you have information from each of the engine, the rotation, the speed of the engines, how much vibration is...

Come to the cockpit. the minute the door opened the atmosphere just hit me full force. it was like oh, no, this isn't an emergency. it's a bleep, bleep crisis. >> the situation is grave. the plane has lost all of its hydraulic fluid. >> hydraulics in a modern large jet airplane is the lifeblood of the airplane. it is how you physically move the flight controls. it provides the muscle to move these very large surfaces against very fast moving air in a controlled manner. >> we were keeping an ear, i'll put it that way. control, no. we were just trying to keep it flying. it was doing what it want...

>> right after i called god, the pressure dropped down. >> reporter: after falling 30,000 feet in less than 2 1/2 minutes the nose begins to pitch up and the airplane levels out at 9500 feet. >> the captain used very artful flying to recover the aircraft from the bad situation. unfortunately it was the same pilot who put the airplane in to that situation. >> reporter: flight 006 is no longer in a nose dive but they are not out of danger. the crew realizes with drag from the landing gear they won't have enough fuel to make it to los angeles. instead they will try to make it to san francisco. >>...