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Threat from north korea. fepg shot down a mock intercontinental ballistic missile. the test using an upgraded ground-based interceptor system. conducted over the pacific owing. now defense officials expressing confidence the u.s. now has a capable credible deterrent against a very real threat. lets get more from paula hancock. she joins us live from seoul. some observers say its not 100%. some of these tests before have failed. good morning. >> reporter: thats right. the last two have been succe...

This as high-speed effort to hit one bullet with another bullet, specifying just how difficult it is to take out even a mock up icbm in mid-flight. they say it was a success. we heard from the pentagon and also the missile defense agency saying its not just because of north korea that they are making sure this intercept missile is successful but the fact is north korea is pretty much the only sovereign state around the world at this point thats threatening the united states. we heard at the begi...

United nations security council meets to confront north korea, answers with this launch into the sea of japan, two u.s. officials say it happened about 90 minutes ago. they believe it is a former scud missile that is designed to one day target ships. it flew about 25 miles in 15 minutes. one u.s. official says the launch was unsuccessful as it appears as though it broke up in mid flight. pacific command, according to officials, is still evaluating this launch. all of this is punctuated by the un...

To the "index" of other news tonight, and a pilot and a passenger are recovering after crash landing on a highway in maine. the cessna stalling mid-flight. coming down on the southbound side of interstate 295 just north of portland. before crashing into the guardrail. remarkably no serious injuries. the faa is now investigating. a tragic accident for a college rower. the body of 19-year-old mohammed ramzan, a northwestern university freshman, was recovered from the water after he fell overboar...

Everyday americans. the manhunt tonight. the shootings on an american highway, the suspect in his car, taking aim at two different drivers. both of them hit. and the headphones in flames in mid-flight, amid warnings about certain electronics and batteries on planes. good evening, and we do have braz as we come on the air in the west tonight. a federal judge just a short time ago has blocked president trumps new travel ban before it could go into effect. this is now the second major defeat ...

A suspicious device found on an air france flight was not a bomb, according to the airline. four people have been arrested in connection with what the airline ceo calls a nasty joke. the flight made an emergency landing in kenya after the flight crew was alerted. cnn correspondent robin creole is in london with the latest. what more are you learns about this device? >> reporter: suspicious device according to air france officials turned out to be nothing but cardboard, paper, and an egg timer. t...

Wrong with teaching a kid about money and budgeting and working for it and earning it themselves the kids that dont work, their specifications are high. the ones that do work, they do understand the value of a dollar. i dont disagree. >> good note to end on. thank you, gary, and merry christmas. >> same to you. >> thank you. >> i net this was a scare in the air when a man threatened to open a jetliner door mid-flight, from jordan with american passport. he banged on the lufthansa flight saying h...

After a number of years, you know, there was a failure. >> reporter: the cause traced back more than seven years when the planes tail scraped the ground on landing. the repairs were not done properly. the plane eventually ripped away from the plane mid-flight and then there was this doomed 747 that broke apart in the air. investigators say metal around the repair work weakened and eventually caused a catastrophic structural failure. since 1982, 31 planes operated have had tail strikes. >> a tail...

Cairo. if there was possibly a tail malfunction this time mid-flight, could it cause a debris field like the one were seeing? >> well, it could if the tail -- if a significant part of the tail came off or they had a rapid decompression at that flight level at 30,000 feet. and you would expect to see the plane come down in two distinct debris areas, which is the debris field that they have. and so that could explain it. people are going to be very skeptical of that because this plane should have ...

Time for one more thing. kg? >> ive got a great one. since i was little i was flying air lingus. so look at this amazing story. flight attendants doing a little bit of the irish jig. showing off her dancing skills, mid flight. passengers have getting along with it, clapping, having a great time. >> irish pride, baby. >> eric? >> i just want to make you aware at 8:00 tonight ill be hosting "the oreilly factor." a big interview with assistant director of the fbi calling out president obama for som...