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>> looking at putin? >> yeah. no, i mean the whole thing. >> and the blimp is just too much to handle at once. and the shirtless factor. >> it would be one thing if there were hurricane force winds that blew it away. but when -- some severe weather phenomenon. nothing, a little drizzle. way to go. 27 minutes -- >> were going to go outside. >> keith hernandez and cal ripken in a moment. >> 33 minutes after the hour. new surveillance video to show you and it really raises some eyebrows this mornin...

Free earlier this week at a military base in maryland. you can see it happening right there. the lifting of that piece of the aforementioned blimp. the blimp left behind a path of destruction, across two states, knocked out power, left thousands of people in the dark. were told this is the nose portion of that blimp. officials have been working around the clock to recover it. were also told that the military recovery team will be moving that wreckage to a secure location. up next, the gop vers...

>> somebody will have some pretty serious explaining to do on why they released those videos. and again i can tell you that they did not come from us. >> wow, well 177 people were arrested at the time. more than 480 weapons were confiscated. a grand jury is now weighing charges. so how on earth do you clean up that $3 billion military blimp? that left such a mess in pennsylvania? take a look. [ gunshots ] >> and how on earth did they get that thing down? well, police shooting it down. the pent...

Student at st. paul school, to a year in jail for his part in what students call a senior salute. luring underage classmates to having sex. the 20-year-old labrie is appealing the conviction. this was rereally something to see. the shotguns used to bring down the wayward army blimp. it took out electrical lines and left 30,000 people without power. it is not clear how the blimp broke free. when you tally up the damage, it is expected to add up to $2 million. 53 minutes past the hour. can you...

Nbcs tom costello has the latest. >> reporter: shotgun blasts in in the pennsylvania countryside. as the military pumped more than 100 rounds into the top secret blimp to let the last of the helium escape. then the delicate job of cutting it out of the trees. crews did manage to roll up the tail section which had separated from the blimp. the mile-long tether that snagged utility lines, causing 30,000 to lose power, also cut into sections and carted away. >> biggest challenge is just the fact th...

Either it snapped or became untethered somehow. we dont know. the ordeal is not over yet. even though it came down in pennsylvania after that two-state, slow-speed chase yesterday trailed by f-16 fighter jets come even though it came down in pennsylvania, it didnt come all the way down. and so today, continuing the theme of high tech equipment having very low-tech problems, this morning the national guard decided the best way to bring the blimp all the way down, to deflate it the rest of the way...

Flying a gyro copter to capitol hill. and the army still cant explain how the blimp broke free and drifted 150 miles across pennsylvania. local residents are just thankful it missed a nearby nuclear power plant. and coming down here, of all places, where the amish still spurn all things modern. >> amazing pictures there. that was tom costello reporting. we also have a big recall to tell you about today. honda is alerting 300,000 owners of 2008, 2009 accords, the problem, the air bags. they could...

Skipped along the pennsylvania countryside. coming to rest in anthony township, p.a. at $2.5 billion the project has been controversial. privacy advocates about its ability to collect data and members of congress concerned about the cost. now with it lying in a pennsylvania field, the balloons future may be further in doubt. the military dispatched a security team and helicopters to secure the site. were told the tether holding the balloon to the ground was supposed to be strong enough to withst...

Behind me police have cut off the road, authorities working to set up a perimeter around the blimp. a military recovery on va was sent this afternoon. all the information in will is sensitive. collecting evidence to get a re- clearer picture what happened here. the evidence collection will be difficult considering its been raining non-stop since we arrived. this is also a rural area so not much light around here. aside from that, the power outages thanks blimp was dragging a 670 oc0 foot cable l...

Monitor the blimp, which is trailing around cable, snapping power lines and causing about 30,000 outages. to most onlookers, the sight may have come an a shock, but to longtime observer of the budgeting process, that is a legendary icon of waste and bureaucracy, last month an in-depth report on the jlens, the 2.7 billion blimp program, which has consistently failed to detect intruders in america airspace including a florida postal worker who landed on. it was saved allegedly after lobbying by a ...