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What is security like at a small airport, for example, like the one were focusing on right now? >> generally, there is little security, if any. in a private small airport like that, youll probably have that left up to a local security guard, if you will, or a security agency. but the local police generally dont worry about small airfields like that. certainly, you dont go through a tsa screening or anything of the sort. and this, there has been some concern for some time in security corners that...

>> reagan national is still closed. planes will be coming in and receiving flights within the next hour or so. if youre in the terminal, youre looking at the departure boards, its phenomenal. panning down the board, its the same thing. but its just because theres no one here and theyre not updating it. if you take a look further, as we mentioned, those airfields, no planes out there. i just spoke with the washington airport authority, they say theyve been working for seven days. no one has gone ...

A press report about the night of millions four hundred million marks worth of contracts were awarded in kaiserslautern in one night. forgave. a number of farmers were ordered to hand over their land and received very little compensation for it construction engineers drained swamps and cut down trees. in one nine hundred fifty one an estimated ten thousand workers from all over germany arrived at the site they put up office buildings housing facilities even airfields it was a shot in the arm for...

Jon karl with us tonight, leading us off from the white house. jon, thanks. meantime, amid those tweets from president trump warning of missiles coming, u.s. officials late today confirming syrias military is now repositioning some of its aircraft. abcs chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz tonight on what could be coming. >> reporter: a missile attack on syria now appears inevitable, with that missile warning from the president. those smart missiles, satellite-guided precision wea...

>> reporter: russia is aware of what the president plans to do. him talking about missiles, but talking about missiles that are smart. of course, possibly telegraphing what kind of weapons the u.s. might use. but wolf, also the russians -- and youre right, ive been here on the ground several times. they have a lot more military hardware and personnel. but in this country and around this country, they have their big airfields with about 50 means on it and they have a port. thats also a russian de...

The forces loyal to president bashar al assad with a lot of help from the russians. ana. >> fred pleitgen reporting live from nas cuss tonight. lets go to the white house hand cnns abby phillips is there. the president is blaming animal assad and vladimir putin for his attack as well as his predecessor barack obama and hes promising, quote, there will be a big price to pay. any indication what that price will be? >> reporter: thats right, ana. the president once again appears to be horrified by ...

These chemical fits and what impact it might have on assads regime, the fact theyve now been targeted. >> i dont think it will have any sort of impact at all in the wider military picture in syria. i dont think any of the main military capabilities of the assad government have been hit. its unclear at this point whether any airfields might have been hit or any sort of infrastructure. it doesnt seem as though this was something that was targeted as sads conventional military forces that have been...

And small airports, including airfields used by our air national guard units. great people. and very importantly, air traffic controllers will highly, and this will be highly valued, these are highly valued people. these are amazing people that know the system so well and under our plan they will have more financial security, professional opportunity, and far superior equipment. the best equipment anywhere in the world. there will never be anything like what were doing. other systems are very go...

Paul: this is being received well by and large around the world. many people are saying this is proportionate.e. it didnt go overboard it responded to that one airfield where the pentagon thinks the chemical attack came from. but what about the fact there are five other airfields that assad used that we didnt attack. mary: it was proportionate because it was where the chemical weapons were launched.. judging from the reporting we gave russia a heads up. so its significant that russians were at t...

Repeatedly tweeting about it. back in 2013, after a chemical weapons attack, when president obama was weighing military action, trump tweeting, "do not attack syria. if you do, many bad things will happen. and from that fight, the u.s. gets nothing!" tonight, he is signaling his stance has changed. and the russians, who have been supporting syrian leader bashar al assad, said today support for assad not unconditional, but urging caution. on capitol hill, a leading republican said this is a test ...