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Tomorrow in many parts of the country. just not right near airports and not in flight paths. and then weve got to work through airport by airport, what they can do for long-term mitigation. redirecting the signals. operating those at a lower power. im not an engineer, i dont know the solutions. the faa needs to have a list, work methodically, give the industry some certainty and have a schedule on how were going to do this. >> how long do you think thats going to take? >> thats a question im goi...

Before christmas. so since then we have been scrambling to understand the impact on americas aviation system. i mean, today i was talking to head of united. they cancelled their overseas flights today because if they had gone to china, they might not have been able to come back and land. so this temporary delay is critical, and the fact is, every other country on earth has regulated the telecoms. they make them point their signals away from flight paths. they make them operate at lower power. th...

They were jammed. they didnt get the data until the wednesday before christmas. they are discovering that certain airplane types are affected even more than we thought. there was a prospect of grounding half of the u.s. fleet. what at&t is saying, is not accurate. in every other country these things are directed away, shielded from flight paths. they operate at a much lower power. in japan they operate at 5% of the power thats proposed here. no one has let this go forward at this power with no r...

Asking them to do is if something doesnt look for feel right, hand it over to the experts in law enforcement to make the final decision as to whether or not something is a concern. so really people want to be involved in their own safety and security. we did that they are. and as you said, the program has been quite successful and were happy about that. >> fantastic. thats very encouragiencouragin. just looking at these pictures of sofi stadium, its remarkable and its very u neon in so many ways...

Continues to make things more and more dangerous. it makes it less possible to use space, like we would want to. and much more dangerous for anyone else, to go up into space. >> just in january, the european space agency put out some numbers, about 3000 non functioning satellites, right now, are whirling above us. the total mass of all space objects in earth orbit, more than 9800 tons. as weve seen this space race heat, up as private businesses go up in the space, can we feel confident, that som...

I appreciate your time tonight. >> youre welcome. next, our breaking news continues here from ukraine. we have some developments on flight paths and air space along the russsrussian-ukraine boarde. putin saying when you attack youll see our spaces and not our spines. thats president zelenskyy after he was refused call with putin. a crypt that is now intended and ready to be used as a shelter if the unthinkable occurs. its small but it may end up mattering. ady or not, here i co. ...in the de...

World turns against russia. >> and i think they are concerned about what could happen to the russian state. i think the russian state is under threat from this. they cant move their money around and they cant move around. flight paths are closed. you cant use your credit card over there. its hitting hard. i dont think we have seen where sanctions can go. what they can cause. if you had $10,000 in the bank yesterday, and today its worth 6,000, and tomorrow it might be worth 1,000, no matter what ...

General clark. either one. general clark -- >> what they are doing, as we talked about earlier, using stinger missile. those are man portable missiles. the individuals who are carrying those missiles can move around. they are hard to target. they had no radar signature like most air defense systems have, like the russian air defense systems have. so, you can shut down a larger system that has radar and rockets that are aiming at the higher level. you cant shut down an individual soldier with a s...