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NewsNation's Alex Capriello is in D.C. with the latest this morning.

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Alex, good morning to you. Are investigators back in the river again to continue their efforts right now?

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We are seeing some personnel out in the river at this exact moment,

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but it looks like the official search and recovery effort is not totally underway as of today.

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Let me step out of the way to show you what we're talking about.

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Just moments ago, we heard from D.C. Fire, who confirmed to NewsNation that 41 bodies

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have been pulled out of this river since the crash happened late on Wednesday night.

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Obviously, still a lot of other bodies that are in there,

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but it appears based on the communications from these first responders and these officials

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is that they've salvaged as much as they could at this moment.

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Now it's about getting back in there, trying to maybe reposition this aircraft in the wreckage

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and potentially find more bodies in there.

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One of the biggest developments from the NTSB was finding the black boxes

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inside that American Airlines aircraft.

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That's so critical, Marky, when it comes to getting to the next stage of this investigation

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and finding out exactly what went wrong.

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We do know that there are two black boxes inside commercial aircrafts like that.

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The first one inside the cockpit, which records the conversations between the pilot and the co-pilot.

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And then the second one, which is in the back of that aircraft,

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which records such crucial data like the speed, the pitch, the altitude,

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and everything that is so important when it comes to actually recreating what exactly went wrong

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and how that actually went down.

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So NTSB making some headway so far in their investigation.

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Keep in mind, today is only their second full day on top of it.

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Hopefully, we get more answers.

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No word yet on any sort of press conferences that are scheduled for later today as well.

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Yeah, keep us posted on that.

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And Alex, the other jarring thing that we're learning is that we have these new details

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about a near miss between an airplane and a helicopter just 24 hours before this deadly collision.

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What more can you tell us there?

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That's right, Marky.

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This is really an alarming report that we're hearing from FAA officials.

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Apparently, this is something that happens more often than we even imagine.

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We certainly know the airspace around Ronald Reagan National Airport is one of the busiest in the country.

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But we are learning now that 24 hours before this deadly incident, there was another close call

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between a regional aircraft and a helicopter, one in which air traffic control had to tell

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that aircraft to actually make another loop around the airport before making its descent

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and landing on that jetway.

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Obviously, a close call, but we're told not that close.

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The two aircrafts were around 1,000 feet away from each other.

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We're told that's fairly normal.

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But the fact of the matter is, this aircraft had to make another loop around that airport

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before making that safe landing, something that gives us all pause when we consider the

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tragedy that happened 24 hours after that.

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Yeah, a lot of nervous flyers this morning.

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Alex Capriolo, thank you so much.