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Veterans? how are they reacting? >> they were caught off guard because these problems as i said are facts. what secretary clinton said is just not true so the vets that are simple threatympathetic to must be ill advised and some say it shows she shouldnt become ba commander in chief. none of them are happy she tried to make this a political issue. the indianapolis mall shooting, the search for the gunman. he confronted and shot somebody he knew. his intended victim and two others were hospital...

Contractor. the result, 17 years after its birth, jlens is a stark example of what defense specialists call a zombie program, costly, ineffectual and seemingly impossible to kill. the blimp was not so lucky. as it started to deflate, it eventually came down on its own. ♪ ♪ [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ [ birds squawking ] my mom makes airplane engines that can talk.

Suspect, katy mccarty. the she has active warrants in arizona for conspiracy to commit murder. police eventually caught the male suspect, the driver of the vehicle, 50-year-old troy wayne in a nearby neighborhood. he is being held on a charge of failing to appear in court in kentucky. >> thank you. state police in pennsylvania have been using shotguns to deflate that giant military blimp that broke loose and really dragged a path with its cable. listen. >> [ gunshots ] >> army officials say th...

Perimeter around the blimp and then collect evidence to figure out exactly how this happened. >> its going down. >> reporter: this morning, its still unclear exactly how this military surveillance blimp broke free. ending up in this wooded area in central pennsylvania in two debated pieces. the blimp called jlens is a highly sfophisticated aircraft from norad. using on board radar that can trap air missiles. yesterday afternoon, jlens broke free of its mooring at the aberdeen in maryland. crash ...

Zachary boyd watched it drift by his classroom at school. >> i look out the window and this big white things goes over the field. >> on the ground behind the balloon, a trail of destruction caused by a mile long tether that took out utility lines leaving 25,000 people in the dark. >> here we are no power after a blimp knocked out of the power in bloomsberg. >> it is called a j-lens and loaded with highly sophisticated and secret tracking equipment it managed to float 115 miles from aberdeen, mar...

Bloody five-year civil war. secretary of state john kerry arriving in vienna this morning. talks begin this afternoon and will continue through tomorrow. representatives from turkey, russia, saudi arabia, iraq and iran will be at the table. iran along with russia is a crucial allied syrian president bashar al assad. how on earth does say massive military blimp critical to defense essentially go awol for a few hours. the blimp somehow became untether from its maryland base. it floated right ove...

>> do we know if authorities actually brought the blimp down or did it come down naturally? >> reporter: well, anderson, we know from barbara starr, the two f-16s were armed but it does not seem that the blimp was fired upon. part of that is fear that helium inside the blimp might explode. we know there was a self-deflating mechanism on the blimp. its not clear at this point whether or not that was activated or if it worked. >> and any word about how this thing broke loose? >> reporter: no word ...

Multiple eyewitnesss report from different vantage points. were going to continue to follow this breaking story and bring you updates throughout this hour. our other breaking story tonight, the blimp that went bad, went rogue, got loose north of baltimore and for most of the afternoon, went drifting across maryland and pennsylvania. trailed by f-16s and tracked by tv networks it floated thousands of feet into the air and dipped low enough to take out power lines before coming down in north centr...

Whatever. we can all evolve on issues. >> lets take another opinion poll. >> a crucial republican debate now in the books. the headlines being written and voting opinions being formed as we speak. this was the first debate in which donald trump was not the und undisputed poll leader. it was an opportunity for others to show theyre potential nominees. for many as well, it was an opportunity to take aim at the media. theres a lot to cover but hes some of the highlights from tonights debate. >> whe...

>> were out of time. happy birthday to you. good to see you both. thanks for coming in. an update on the unmanned blimp. theres new video coming in. the 240-foot balloon broke off its moors. it was corralled, some say crashing in pennsylvania but not before drifting 150 miles and traveling for three and a half hours. rick is live in pennsylvania where the blimp landed. what is the scene like now? >> reporter: late this morning we heard dozens of gunshots. it turns out the blimp was thno fully ...