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Jillian: good morning, following a number of stories. a u.s. residents held prisoner for years in iran is set free and on his way to lebanon. lebanese officials says iran agreed to send him back to his native country. advocate for internet freedom arrested on spying charges in 2015 while trying to fly out of tehran. his release comes as tensions between iran and the u.s. remain high after president trump withdrew from the obama-era nuclear deal and issued economic sanctions. a pilot killed in a new york city helicopter crash is identified as a former volunteer fire chief. tim mccormack was the...

That is that perhaps that means the fuel was not burning. any indication of a fire, i'm looking at the same picture you are. >> you see that. it looks like smoke. >> i don't know if that's smoke or something from the system on the roof. the thing that's really struck me here, brooke is that the weather, the ceiling right now might be lifting a little bit. i checked it at the time of the accident. it was 500 feet above the ground. that sky scraper at 60 stories? >> 51. >> that puts it a little above 500 feet. the top of that building would have been enshrouded by the clouds. you have to wonder ...

Manhattan, this is not far from our offices. it is live. okay. much of the action in midtown manhattan. this is where we recall midtown where we are. this happened one block west of 7th avenue where we had a helicopter crash into a sky scraper. he is dead. nobody else is. we have no idea why he was flying. it was 1:32 p.m. eastern time in manhattan. quickly getting worse by the minutes that he was in the air. 20 minutes later, he crashes into a sky scraper. he's dead. they're trying to see the sequence of events that allowed him to take off, allowed him to come back over manhattan and with the...

This townhouse sold just three days despite the fact that it was contaminated with meth. the listing, $500,000. it was originally 789. the realtor described it as an investors special. experts say it could take tens or hundreds of thousands to clean it up or just enjoy the meth. a meth house might not scare some folks as the idea of swimming in a few hundred feet up. a company in london revealing plans for the world's first infiniti pool on top of a sky scraper. the building would be 55 stories high and the pool would have a 360-degree view. it's temperature controlled and will have a monitor ...

Tallest sky scraper. >> but they were running rampant. >> and since we've taken them out, we've had a revival. blue collar jobs rising, gdp at 3%. maybe we had too many. maybe we have not too many but not too little. >> right now growth is expected to be less than 2%. >> charles: the first quarter was absolutely amazing. shocked all of the same experts. from the "wall street journal"'s perspective and from the work that you do, what are you seeing? it feels like whether you call it democratic socialism or inclusive capitalism, whatever it is, they're talking about making major changing to capi...