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and cooperating with the investigation and we will know the exact cause. >> robyn kriel joining us live from the crash site with the latest. >> reporter: jessica, as you can see, there is a pile of debris behind me, lime green debris. that is the color of their airline. and i think what make this is scene even more devastating and sad is that ethiopia is really going through a resurgence of spirit, it is opening up in terms of its democracy, they have a new prime minister that is making immense changes. and a blow to the national airline, something that is of massive national pride to ethiopians and the nation as a whole, that it compounds the issue further. a number of people we've spoken to here have apologized to us because they think that we are foreign, they say they are sorry for what happened, even though
they keep saying they are so sorry for this tragedy. airline staff come around offering coffee to journalists and rescue workers saying hospitality through tragedy, they are trying to try to salvage in more ways than one their reputation. it is a very sad scene. >> devastating. robyn kriel live for us this morning. thank you. back here, the president will deliver a budget proposal this morning, his first under a divided government. he is promising to balance the federal budget in 15 years by slashing spending for education, health, environment, foreign aid and other nondefense items a plan the lawmakers will likely ignore. high on the president's agenda, a white house official as confirmed that he will seek $8.6 billion for his border wall. >> the budget proposal has an additional $3.6 billion in military construction funds to
them. this morning ethiopian airlines is grounding all bowing 737 max 8s. so is cayman's airlines. boeing delaying plans to unveil its huge new jetliner this week. >> and eight americans were among the 157 killed. 19 of the dead were united nations staff members. >> we don't know the cause of the accident. we will comply with all the international regulations as an airline will be fully supporting and cooperating with the investigation and we will know the exact cause. >> robyn kriel joining us live from the crash site with the latest. >> reporter: rescue workers have just started to put items in bags. every now and again, we hear a
boeing delaying plans to unveil its huge new jetliner this week. >> and eight americans were among the 157 killed. 19 of the dead were united nations staff members. >> we don't know the cause of the accident. we will comply with all the international regulations as an airline will be fully supporting and cooperating with the investigation and we will know the exact cause. >> robyn kriel joining us live from the crash site with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. and just to shed a little bit more light on perhaps what the final moments, what those passengers and those pilots and crew members went through in their final moments, it was just six minutes after taking off from bole international airport that ethiopian airlines flight 302 crashed in this field behind
>> there is no evidence that the fwro two incidents are i think willed, but if one issue caused both disasters, boeing might have to quickly have modifications to their planes. this morning ethiopian airlines is grounding all bowing 737 max 8s. so is cayman's airlines. boeing delaying plans to unveil its huge new jetliner this week. >> and eight americans were among the 157 killed. 19 of the dead were united nations staff members. >> we don't know the cause of the accident. we will comply with all the international regulations as an airline will be fully supporting and cooperating with the investigation and we will know the exact cause. >> robyn kriel joining us live
jeff zeleny, cnn, iowa city, iowa. this is cnn breaking news. >> and we are following the breaking news this hour out of ethiopia. the prime minister of that nation has tweeted an eths yoep an airlines flight has crashed. >> reporte . >> according to the prime minister, there are casualties. the plane was on a flight to nairobi, kenya, when it went down. we'll bring you details as we get them. >> we have a reporter robyn kriel there and we'll have more on that breaking news we're following. chicago, the singer r. kelly was let out of jail on saturday for the second time in less than a month. he still faces sex abuse charges but his latest lockup comes from allegations he wasn't paying child is tsupport. >> it's not clear who put up the money to have him released because both kelly and his lawyers say he's broke. sara sidner has the latest on
this race heats up. for now, many seem content to avoid mentioning donald trump's name. jeff zeleny has this. >> reporter: in the opening round of the democratic primary, one name is often going unspoken. >> we got to beat that person in the white house. >> reporter: never mind the twnts 20 presidential race revolves almost entirely around that person, though you seldom hear the words donald trump from those eyeing his job. >> that in some ways is the biggest punishment to the guy who always wants to be in the spotlight is just turn the spotlight off. >> reporter: turning off or dimming trump's spotlight may be easier said than done considering how he looms over today's politics. and how eager he is to shape the democratic primary. >> i just want to be the republican that runs against them. >> reporter: most democratic candidates are still finding their way navigating trump. searching for a balance between showing strength and not taking the bait. even senator bernie sanders who