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The things that they were also doing is coordinating with the faa to keep commercial air space in front of it safe. its uncontrolled flight when it drifts. they have no idea where its really going to drift with the wind and weather pattern so they have to make effort to work with the faa to make sure there was no civilian air traffic in front of the path. if these become loose over the united states, its very problematic. >> yeah, barbara, thanks very much. lets dig deeper into what this blimp...

Military blimp? >> it knocked down our power at school and it knocked down all of columbias power. >> reporter: 12:20 p.m., the blimp comes unhinged, detaching from its station at aberdeen proving ground in maryland. traveling north, 16,000 feet in the air, floating into pennsylvania. >> its going to land right in the corn field. >> reporter: the blimp floating over a high school in bloomsburg, pennsylvania. >> oh, my god, its going down! >> reporter: dragging a long metal tether, a cable severa...

South florida. >> all right. trace, i understand you also have new information on that military blimp that went down in pennsylvania yesterday. >> yeah, weve been following this thing for like 24 hours. we did research and its not a blimp. its an aero stat which means a teethered air ship. it works in tandem with another. the other air ship can zoom in on objects of interest. you see it on your screen here. some vital stats. its 242 feet long. it can fly up to 10,000 feet and stay airborne up to...

Sands, against simulated targets, real targets and does the job it was designed to do. >> reporter: back in april it missed its chance to prove that when a florida man piloted a gyji gyrocopter. >> that was game day for this particular device and it was in the locker room. >> reporter: officials say the blimp separated. we pretssed the manufacturer to respond and they referred us to norad. they say they are one year into a three-year test period and have not yet determined the effectiveness. >> ...

With controversy is to say no. simply not true. despite what you see here and the record of them taking the drug, and being paid by them, i am no no way involved with them. in other news, a blimp drifts free and breaks free in pennsylvania. what this issue caused. the latest next.

How in the world did this happen? >> thats what they are trying to figure out. a specialized military team is on the ground in northeast pennsylvania to cover the $180 million blimp to try to figure out how it got lose. shortly afternoon the tethered blimp somehow became detached from the ground in northeast maryland. for four hours it drifted across maryland and pennsylvania dragging the 6700 foot cable on the ground for much of the way damaging buildings and knocking out power lines. thankfull...

Republican debate now in the books. the headlines being written and voting opinions being formed even as we speak, the first debate in which donald trump was not the undispute the gop poll leader, the first opportunity for dr. ben carson to speak at length about economic issues and an opportunity for ted cruz to displace his well-honed debating skills and jeb bush to show hes still a nominee and for others it was a time to take aim at media. here are some of the highlights from tonights debate. ...

After a military surveillance blimp designed to keep the nations capital safe, took off on its own. tonight, the helium-filled blimp is on the ground in pennsylvania but it caused havoc from the heavens and became a social media sensation. heres chip reid. >> reporter: the unmanned blimp houses a state-of-the-art radar system. after a three-year test period its supposed to track the skies over the atlantic for incoming cruise missiles. today what was being tracked was the blimp itself. around 12...

Cut loose from maryland today, its a perfec example of government. what we had was something the government made, basically a bag of gas, that cut loose, destroyed everything in its path, left thousands of people powerless, but they couldnt get rid of it because we had too much money invested in it, so we had to keep it. that is our government today. we saw it in the blimp. >> we had $19 trillion in debt. we have people out of work. we have isis and al kwad attacking us and were talking about fa...

Candidates and voters. cnbc has responded to the critics and saying people who want to be president of the united states should be able to answer tough questions. democratic front-runner hillary clinton, she was pretty direct about her feelings about the debate, tweeting out #gopdebate. this weekend in a sunday exclusive, "meet the press" moderator chuck todd will speak with former governor, now presidential candidate, jeb bush. a runaway military surveillance blimp is back on solid ground t...