What we know about the figure skaters lost in the plane crash

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2025-01-31

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On today’s show: What we know about the figure skaters who were on board the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C. USA Today reports on the reaction to the crash from the skating world. CNN has a look at how Trump’s Cabinet nominees faced their sharpest bipartisan grilling to date, along with other takeaways from Thursday’s confirmation hearings.  Juan Forero with the Wall Street Journal describes what recently deported migrants say about how they were treated by U.S. officials. Plus, tips on how to follow the news in a chaotic time, the force in women’s sports that’s even more powerful than Caitlin Clark, and why people are asking if this could be the year Beyoncé finally wins the Grammy for Album of the Year. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
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  • Good morning.

  • It's Friday, January 31st.

  • I'm Shemitah Basu.

  • This is Apple News today.

  • On today's show, inside the tense hearings for some of Trump's more tenuous cabinet nominees.

  • Some migrants say they're being subjected to inhumane conditions while being deported.

  • And practical tips for navigating this overwhelming moment in the news.

  • But first,

  • the elite ice skating community is reeling after the crash between an American Airlines passenger plane

  • and an Army Blackhawk helicopter over the Potomac river on Wednesday night.

  • All 67 people on board these aircraft died.

  • 14 of the victims were en route to Washington from a national figure skating development camp in Wichita, Kansas.

  • Among them, two sisters, 14 year old Everly and 11 year old Olidia Livingston, and their parents from the D.C. area.

  • Six of the victims were from the Skating Club of Boston.

  • 13 year old Gina Hahn and 16 year old Spencer Lane were described as the future of the sport.

  • Their mothers were also on board, as well as two coaches at the club,

  • Russian figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov.

  • They were married and they won the world championship in pairs figure skating in 1994.

  • In Paris, Doug Zegheib, the CEO and executive director of the Skating Club of Boston, addressed reporters yesterday.

  • Skating is a very close and tight knit community.