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Happening now, breaking news, run away danger, a huge missile detecting blimp mysteriously breaks free raising fears of a devastating crash as it knocks down power lines and floats on the loose. tonight, the blimp is down and the u.s. military faces critical questions about what went wrong. escalating showdown, just hours after a u.s. warship sails through waters claimed by china, there is a new warning that beijing is preparing for the worst including war. under sea threat, russian submarines...

Todd report, potentially could threaten internet cables, fiberoptics that control so much of the worlds communications, financial distribution, as well. >> the bigger threat, i dont know what russias interest would be in sort of severing those communications. the bigger threat is tapping them and getting intel and stealing phone calls or data that goes across the cables. >> can they do that? >> i dont know if russia has that capability or not. its certainly something that is possible and somethi...

No u.s. agency will speak on the record. a pentagon spokes pan s s pan s would be a concern if any country was tampering with internet cables. a spokeswoman says quote, the media is constantly whipping up hysteria trying to make russia look like the aggressor. she says it is not based on facts but assumptions. >> i know, brian, russia is pushing back but have become the more aggressive in the naval maneuvers recently, is that right? >> american naval forces says the operational tempo of vladimir...

Dominate egypt, it would basically affect the whole area. certainly affects north africa. because egypt is a pillar and its important to us because theyve been a partner on terror egypt is a linchpin in any way many ways. so we need egypt to succeed. the last thing that we or anybody else or the middle east can afford to see is egypt to unravel. i dont believe it will. but i do think were seeing what is a kind of existential struggle. one other point on this president el sisi has significant pop...

The fbi is investigating a series of attacks on internet cables in the san francisco bay area. 11 fiberoptic cables in the bay area have been cut since july of last year causing massive internet outages across the region. it highlights the vulnerability of the nations internet structure. and its being compared to a war zone. homes leveled, businesses burned. firefighters are trying to contain the sleepy hollow wildfire in washington. the flames destroyed at least 29 houses and damaged four bus...

An attack on internet cables. what it means for cyber-security.

Is this 26 ramsey street in cairo, this building, that houses the intersections of many, many internet cables, making it centralized. telecom egypt, state-run, operates and controls cables. when talking about different internet service providers within egypt, theyre leasing this infrastructure, telecom egypt owns it. >> when we talk about whats going on in iran and watching what takes place in places like yemen and also in bahrain, could this happen there? i mean, is there any way around, i gues...