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Now, the national weather service confirms there was a snowstorm in the area at the time. we're told that snowfall was about an inch per hour and visibility was very poor. now, a county official claims that weather was a factor in this crash, but we do not know that for sure. and the faa and the ntsb, who are investigating, it will take them some time before they come up with any determination. nine people dead, three survivors. now, first responders had to battle through that weather to reach those three survivors. they were then taken to sioux falls to the hospital. the plane itself, a singl...

That everyone who was on the plane got off the plane. those who don't know, of course, dale earnhardt jr., 18 year career, 12 daytona 500's. he went on to win. 40th of all time in nascar. the reason he was flying to bristol. with his wife and his 1-year-old daughter. the latest reports are that they all got off the plane and there are only minor injuries. when you see the smoke like that, and if you saw other pictures of the plane itself, which came in and rolled off the end of the runway, you would be surprised that anybody walked away from that. we'll have much more breaking information on t...

And according to "time's" air traffic controllers saw the plane pitching wildly up and down and accelerating to abnormal speed. our oren liibermann is following this live in france. >> reporter: george, bea investigators, the french verdicts are here behind me inspecting and beginning to look into and download that data from the black books, the flight da ra recorder and cockpit voice recorder. if that process goes well, it could be sometime tonight or tomorrow. if they suffered damage that process could be prolonged. once the data is downloaded it bams function of analyzing and gleaning the i...

Attack, how your nose is pointed with regard to the horizon, up, down, to put it in simple terms. when they had this discrepancy, they were starting to troubleshoot but the plane itself, and this at that time was unknown to the pilots, the plane itself was trained to -- or was compute pror gramd r pro put the nose down. and when they did that, when they did the max 8, boeing put on heavier, more efficient engines and that changed the center of gravity on the plane and so they had to put this system in to put nose down. they thought it was an additional measure for safety on the plane. but, pil...

And of course the president didn't come back to talk to the press on the plane, which is typical, so yeah. we took off just as all of this stuff was happening. >> what was conversation like? was there a conversation that you were overhearing, was the press talking amongst themselves? you were the pool reporter. i mean set the scene a little more for us. >> so i was one of two pool reporters that day and you know once the plane took off and we got into our bubble, it really was pretty quiet because at that point there was literally nothing we could do. to be honest, i had brought a book called ...