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Favor of giving barack obama that power. that blimp will be barack obama borrowing money -- look, hes borrowed $6 trillion in six years in the white house. how much -- do you think he can beat that in the next 16 months? the answer is -- >> maybe. >> -- congress is going to let him do it. >> man oh, man. i know youre not a media analyst. just your reaction to the bias last night? >> terrible. outrageous. cnbc should be ashamed of themselves. i dont know who would watch anything they put on again...

Determine what caused this unmanned military surveillance balloon to break away from its moorings in maryland. eventually landing about 150 miles away in pennsylvania. you remember its a story that dominated our coverage here yesterday. we watched as the balloon dragged with it a long cable that took down power lines in its path leaving about 35,000 people in the dark ultimately. for the latest on the runaway blimp, im joined by rehema ellis in muncy, pennsylvania. >> that long cable you talked ...

Broke free of its concrete anchors in northeast maryland. for four hours it drifted northwest across maryland, and pennsylvania, dragging its thick, 6700 foot cable on the ground for much of the way, damaging buildings and knocking out power lines, leaving nearly 30,000 people without power at one point. as you can imagine, the runaway blimp caused quite a stir as it made its way through many small towns. >> i think its ridiculous. i mean, its $2 billion, you know, project, and they dont have a ...

Own. >> yeah. i think those people who were thinking that the f-16s were scrambled to take as they say at the pentagon kinetic action, to fire rounds into this thing, you would have to think long and hard about that. number one, any projectile fired from a military jet over a populated area problematic. this thing despite being an airship has very, very heavy electronics on it so its the containers of helium on board that keep those aloft. but when this thing falls in a big hurry, you got to mak...

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