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This is the kind of travel and risks that come with living in this kind of state, comes with the territory. >> our cnn all-platform journalist patrick oppman. thank you. let's talk about the weather conditions at the of the crash. rob, we got some information from the ntsb but you have been helping sort through it. >> temperatures were above freezing, so they would have had to be flying well above the surface for an icing situation. so at this point, that probably is unlikely unless they were traveling at 5,000 or 10,000 feet up. here's a look at the lay of the land. dillingham is about 300 ...

They insert themselves down in this crater an work up. he's not at the bottom, he's about 500 feet up at a 70-degree angle. yesterday they were able to insert a volcano rescuer down into that crater. he was able to see the man but not able to make contact with him, not able to get close enough to effect that rescue and wind conditions yesterday afternoon were just too dangerous to try to pull off that rescue. now with the cloud cover, there's drizzly rain that we've had all last night and they're just increasing the risk of avalanche. remember it was an avalanche that caused him to fall. he wa...

That's from rita, and looking in to that, we found out about the single largest project. the single contract from the whole stimulus funding. let's zoom into it. we've got a map and it will take us all the way in to this, which is the savannah river site, at akins, south carolina, they got $1.4 billion to clean up this site which was constructed in the early 1950s originally to produce some of the basic materials used in the fabrication of nuclear weapons. so, that's one. and then we also have another project funded by the stimulus. this one we'll zoom in to now, it's on the other side of the ...

Change immediately. but they are at least hopeful for the future as we look at relations between the united states and cuba opening up under president obama. now under president elect trump, there's still no telling what will happen. >> all right. thank you so much for bringing us the latest there. it's been going on for hours now. >> we're going to show you a different picture, havana cuba where the mood is somber and sad. patrick oppman is the only u.s. correspondent in cuba. what are people saying and telling you this morning? >> reporter: you know, for years martin, you try to talk about w...

With an exclamation point. cnn is covering the story from all angles. we have patrick oppman in miami. i want to go straight to chris moody in miami. because what a scene it has been in little havana, not just overnight. we thought it would subside, but even where you are now. >> reporter: that's right. celebrations have gone on since the middle of the night when people here in the exile community in little havana in miami spilled into the streets and they have been celebrating and cheering and throwing impromptu parades down the streets for hours now. just shortly before this, we were on the ...