News Wrap: Israel’s Netanyahu heads to U.S. to meet with Trump

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• John Yang:

  In today's other news, President Trump is preparing for the first foreign leaders to visit the White House since he began his second term. This week, Mr. Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a week later King Abdullah of Jordan.

  Before leaving Israel, Netanyahu said he expects to discuss victory over Hamas, as he put it. Tomorrow, Netanyahu will meet with Mr. Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff to discuss negotiations for the second phase of the cease fire deal.

  Those talks come after the Israeli military said it fired at a suspicious vehicle in northern Gaza that wasn't traveling on the route agreed to in the ceasefire.

  New preliminary data shows conflicting readings about the altitudes of the passenger jet and the army helicopter when they collided near Reagan National Airport this past week.

  The National Transportation Safety Board said different readings came from data from the passenger jet's flight recorder and data from the control tower. Investigators say it could still be months before they have a final answers about what happened. Today, family members and loved ones of the 67 people killed in Wednesday night's crash visited the scene.

  A short time later, first responders said the bodies of 12 of the victims remain in the water, but they are committed, they said, to giving the families closure.

• Todd Inman, NTSB Board Member:

  They're just all hurt and they still want answers and we want to give them answers. I mean, it's horrible. It's horrible. And no one has to suffer this. So, yeah, it is hard on them. They have a lot of questions. No, they haven't been through this.

• John Yang:

  Tomorrow, the Army Corps of Engineers plans to begin the process of lifting large pieces of the American Airlines plane out of the river, a step officials say is needed before those last remaining bodies can be recovered.

  Billionaire and Trump adviser Elon Musk and his team of government efficiency workers have had a busy weekend. PBS News learned that members of Musk's team were denied entry to the U.S. Agency for International Development. That led the Trump administration to put two top security officials on administrative leave.

  And the Associated Press reports that USAID officials also refused to turn over classified materials to Musk's team, but they eventually gained access. Today on X, Musk called the agency a criminal organization. USAID is the world's largest provider of food assistance.

  There was a similar access issue at the Treasury Department this weekend where it was widely reported that some of Musk's team gained access to the federal payment system. That's the system that sends out money on behalf of the entire federal government and could be a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limits federal spending.

  Still to come on PBS News Weekend, exploring the lasting mental toll of the devastating California wildfires and the link between a deadly strain of the avian flu and soaring egg prices nationwide.