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That they are dragging and nobody can predict where this thing is going can be very dangerous to public safety along with the power outages. but also theyre looking at trying to get some national guard, some police out there so when it finally does come down they can immediately secure the site. it is classified technology. they want to secure the site and scoop up all of whatever comes down. brooke? >> david soocy -- thank you, barbara -- cnn aviation analyst here. talking about the blimp, some...

I believe was the number, of these particular blimps and 3 of them at one point in time became untethered. and it took you 7 hours to deflate one of them. can you tell me about that process. >> well, yeah, brooke. we actually didnt deflate it. we just monitored it, much like what is going on right now, and watched it float. and then in that particular case, the forward operating base it came from was near baghdad, and the doggone thing floated all the way up toward mosul, a little over 150 miles...

And when it does come down, as david soocy says, it will come down like a very heavy balloon wherever it lands. so that in and of itself could be dangerous as well. when it land its going to land, and its not something you want to fall out of the sky. it will come down very slowly. >> and talking to the sole source i know you were listening from norad, he was saying to me that they do have the ability to remote deflate, which i know is different from the blimps that you dealt with in iraq. and h...

Air traffic control centers. that area i would almost assure where the blimp is and could possibly go is shut down to all air traffic. awful the private pilots and airplanes are staying away as well. >> im sure once this thing l d lands well have lots of video of that. david soocy, thank you so much. quick break. were back on the blimp after this. real madrid have about 450 million fans. were trying to give them all the feeling of being at the stadium. the microsoft cloud gives us the scalabilit...