ABC News Provides Special Coverage of the D.C. Collision
ABC News has continuing special coverage of the midair collision in the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. Anchor David Muir will anchor a special edition of "World News Tonight" live on the scene from Washington, D.C., tonight at 6:30 p.m. EST. "This Week" co-anchor and chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz, "Good Morning America" weekend co-anchor and "World News Tonight" Saturday anchor Whit Johnson, "Good Morning America" weekend co-anchor and transportation correspondent Gio Benitez, chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas, chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce, correspondent and senior investigative reporter Aaron Katersky, senior White House correspondent Selina Wang, White House correspondents Karen Travers and MaryAlice Parks, national correspondent Stephanie Ramos, correspondents Alex Presha, Mola Lenghi and Elizabeth Schulze, multiplatform reporters Jay O'Brien and Perry Russom, and contributors Steve Ganyard and John Nance report on the tragedy.
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ABC News Live, the 24/7 streaming news channel, has been in nonstop, breaking coverage since the collision happened last night. Tonight, the evening program "Prime" will be anchored by Johnson, broadcasting live from Washington, D.C., with Raddatz, Thomas, Katersky and senior politics reporter Katherine Faulders. Throughout the day, ABC News Live anchors Kyra Phillips, Diane Macedo and Terry Moran are leading wall-to-wall coverage.
ABC News Radio has provided regular special reports throughout the night since the collision happened and provided live anchored coverage of press conferences led by national correspondent Alex Stone with national correspondent Steven Portnoy. "Start Here," hosted by Brad Mielke, featured a special edition of the podcast this morning.
ABC News Digital will continue its comprehensive coverage of the crash, including a live blog with the latest on the recovery operation and investigation, the victims, accounts from witnesses, details of the military helicopter flight as well as a look back at other aviation tragedies.
ABC NewsOne, the affiliate news service of ABC News, will continue to report on the collision with multiplatform reporters Christiane Cordero and Nicole D'Antonio. Newsone provides news content and services for more than 200 ABC affiliates and international news partners.
ABC Owned Television Stations are providing special coverage of the crash, including WABC-TV anchor Kemerbly Richardson and reporter Josh Einiger and WPVI-TV anchor and reporter John Paul all reporting live from Washington, D.C.
ABC News broke into a special report on the collision last night at 9:54 p.m. EST, anchored by "Nightline" co-anchor Byron Pitts with Katersky, Faulders and Ganyard, and ABC News Live had one at 10:05 p.m. EST, anchored by ABC News Live anchor Phil Lipof. Today, ABC News aired special reports at 6:00 a.m. EST anchored by "Good Morning America" co-anchor George Stephanopoulos with Raddatz and Johnson and at 11:21 a.m. EST on President Donald Trump's remarks led by Phillips. ABC News Live also had a special report today anchored by Diane Macedo on the press conference at 7:30 a.m. EST.