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Enroute to collect this damaged unmanned air ship. its part of that multi-billion-dollar joint land attack netted censor system or jay members which is designed -- jlens. spot missiles from the ground. detached from mooring station in aberdeen, maryland. began floating northeast reaching heights of 16,000 feet. tracked by 2:23-16 fighter jets. when the blimp started losing altitude thats when the problem started because it was drag ago tether of more than a mile long. 6700 feet of vectran super ...

In pennsylvania as a result of the cable apparently hitting a power station or some sort of a power facility, if you will. a structure on the ground. we dont know the size of it. and there had been reports that as you heard from this gentleman a short time ago with the office of emergency management, 10,000 people without power. he believes in the county and heard there may be more than that in other parts of pennsylvania, as well. but at least, at least the thing is no longer a threat to aviati...

Of these assets into civilian areas? >> well, we have to decide what we want to do. if you want to go after the chemical warfare capabilities, thats going to be very, very difficult, especially with the land attack missiles that are on these cruisers, these destroyers. theyre very effective weapons, but theyre not bunker busters. they wont be able to hit the hardened sites. theyre great for taking out air defense. if we were going to mount some sort of a combined campaign where we would be using...

The lead in both execution. as the president has said we are not going to use force to go beyond a well-defined goal, specifically the protection of the civilians in libya. >> admiral, can you give us a little more clarity on the strikes and the targets, including perhaps just a bit more on what exactly u.s. ships, submarines, et cetera, did and was there anything beyond the cruise missiles that is being done by the united states? >> both from u.s. ships and submarines and a u.k. submarine. tota...

The lead in both execution. as the president said, we are not going to use force to go beyond a well-defined goal, specifically the protection of the civilians in libya. with that, i will take your questions. >> admiral, can you give us a little bit more clarity on the strikes and the targets, including perhaps just a bit more on what exactly u.s. ship, submarines, et cetera did? was there anything beyond the cruise missiles being done by the united states? >> both from u.s. ships and submarines...

Civilians. initial indications are we accomplished our military objectives without material interference from syria. id use three words to describe this operation. precise, overwhelming and effective. lets go back to the first barza slide, please. against the first target, the research and development center in the greater damascus area, we employed 76 missiles. 57 of these were tomahawk land attack cruise missiles and 19 were joint air to surface standoff missiles. you can see for yourself from...

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