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National transportation safety board threw out the fine and said hey, faa, you dont know the difference between a model plane and drone so you cant bar ralph parker taking pictures for money. in terms of taking pictures with the drone for a hobbyist reason or purposes, theres not a lot of legislation that guides how or when pictures can be taken with them. >> okay. if you havent established the real criteria between those that are personally being used and commercially being used, how will that ...

>> brian todd joinings now. brian, the faa is looking into this. we got word moments ago the fbi is also looking into it. do we know if it was really a drone? >> reporter: brianna, thats what theyre looking into now. its unclear. could have been an unmanned aerial vehicle, a drone, some kind of remote-controlled model plane. thats what the faa and the fbi are looking into. and you mentioned the fbi. we have just gotten information from the fbi that theyre asking for the publics help in identifyi...

But people think, whatever model plane, i dont want to be on. where people do you think call and check ahead, wait a minute,e dream liners, do you? >> they might do that. you can wait for a few months, but people felt that way to some extent about the triple 7 and wanted to give it time to work out. my daughter is on triple 7 coming home from europe. >> neil: that was a big view. downstairs and a lounge. >> people thought it was a problem plane. people should avoid it. after literally about a ye...

but whats going to prevent terrorists from buying and using them? im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com he entered the race at the top of the polls, but rick perry has been watching his numbers slide and slide. his momentum rather slow. now, with a closely watched speech, the texas governor is trying to reverse his declining campaign fortunes. jim acosta is joining us now. he delivered what his campaign described as a major speech today...

police through a private entrance. her murder conviction overturned yesterday. knox sobbing uncontrollably when this verdict was read. so emotional, she had to be helped from the courtroom. her friends say the first thing she wants to do when she returns home to seattle is lie down on a green field. lets get the latest from becky anderson live in perugia, italy this morning. do we have a timetable for knox departure, becky? >> reporter: yes. we believe shes gone. its now mid-day local ...

powerful allegations about murrays actions and inaction. lets go to ted rollins in los angeles. whats the latest, ted? >> well, joe, it was a compelling day in court so far. it continues this afternoon here in los angeles. all day, it has been alberto alvarez, the director of lodgistics for michael jackson and he has taken the jury inside the jackson house during those critical moments of chaos while jackson was lying on his bed. he describes the scenario where he gets a call, rushes i...

Because they drive in civilian cars and dont look like the kind of military targets that the u.s. and european allies are now striking. >> richard, any sign of the whereabouts of the colonel himself? >> no. he has not been at least i have -- im not aware of his whereabouts. he hasnt been seen in public in days. and its significant that his last several speeches have all been audio recordings, plays over a generic background, usually that fist holding the model plane, a symbol of defiance in trip...

Camera upclose. that is our first hot shot today. it was on a training run in alberta, canada, friday. it began to plum et. the pilot ejected. look at the fire ball there. that plane just exploded in a massive orange ball of fire and smoke. the pilot was okay. nobody on the ground was hurt. everybody comes out okay, but there are questions now about that model plane and whether they are safe. check out a strange site from new york citys east river. this morning, two boats carried a bridge unde...

Opened a model plane sh shop in 1934. in 1837 evidences marketing the denny plane. >> the military in 1940 sold a few for target drones. they upped the contract by 15,000 of these drones. denny has to take his model planes store move it out to the air force base. they have a huge factory. one day life magazine is taking photographs of women in the military women helping the war effort. spots a woman who is very attractive has brown hair he takes photos of her sends them on to a friend in a model...

Course no one says its playing out today. >> if you look at the history of unmanned technology, its one that starts with tactical recognizance. >> in world war ii the germans had no technologies one of the concepts of unmanned tank called goliath. carrying 220 pounds of explosives it was designed to go under an enemy tank. today the talon can be considered a direct descendant of the goliath just like the uab is for the radio controlled airplane. >> one of the most widely reduced systems in world...