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President obama travels to the justice department today to deliver his long-awaited plan to reform the nations spy efforts. the president is expected to call for more oversight and transparency of spy agencies but hes not expected to announce any major changes to surveillance programs. one soldier is dead, two others injured after a helicopter crash in georgia. members of elite specials operation known as night hawk unit. the unit flies dangerous missions like the raid on osama bin laden. this...

Im veronica de la cruz. 74 passengers and crew members on board that stranded russian research ship in antarctica will remain hunkered down, at least for now. whiteout conditions are keeping a chinese helicopter from landing at the site. weather conditions arent expected to improve until at least tomorrow. when they do, the plan is for the chinese helicopter to take all 52 passengers to its vessel while all 22 crew members remain with the ship as icebreakers try to reach it. the ship has been st...

Command starting on christmas eve to track santas movements around the world, just to make sure he gets to everybody. weve had a sneak peek at one of santas test flights, and i want you to take a look at it. it couldnt be more militarized than this year. what do you see? hes got a couple of fighters on his tail. santa has full fighter and radar escort. now, you know, it looks very yen okay with us, but some child isvocacy groups are concerned they say the militarization of this longstanding trad...

Back -- jet pack prototype that was granted permission to begin test flights. they say the certification is a big step toward commercialization of the flying thing-a-ma-bob, his words. the idea is to create a jet pack for everyday use and ordinary people without special pilot training. bottom line, new zealand not even a real place, beat us in the jet pack race. everybody should hang their heads in shame. do you know who doesnt need a jet pack? >> that was interesting. >> now that was real. >> b...

With a connection to the site. and the conspiracy theories started back in the 1950s. the declassified documents indicate a huge spike in sightings in the area at that time and were learning what the so-called ufos were. trace gal her is in our west coast news hub. so? >> they were u2 spy planes used to pie on the soviet and china in the colored -- cold war, and this goes into the pilots pilotd the test flights and the reason there were so many sightings the u2 flew at 60,000 feet, much higher t...

Not just possibly real experimental aircraft and flocks of birds and balloons and just regular airplanes and when you go out there, i go out to the desert. when you go out there at dusk, its spooky and you can see a long way and things reflect high in the atmosphere like birds, for example. its hard to tell whats going on at dusk. you can imagine all the experimental test flights that are going on out there and people seeing things, but what are they seeing? so, again, if its not clear what it i...

Levels. investigators believe someone broke into the plant last friday. and tiny robots called quad rotors told big promise in the future. in time the technology in these autonomous mini aircraft could be used for surveillance, and it actually may save lives. we took a trip to the university of pennsylvania to check them out in this edition of technovation. they navigate through windows, fly in formation and take off and land with ease. and these tiny unmanned aerial vehicles called quad rotor...

Which was by design of course. branson said the whole thing could not have gone more smoothly. after a few more test flights, a longer duration of course, branson said it should be ready to take passengers into space later this year. >> that is pretty cool because you hear talk about it, but talk is talk. you see that thing in the air, wow, some day, not so far in the future, this is going to be a reality. >> right. apparently space ship ii you saw hit mach 1.2 yesterday. thats just over 913 mil...

National suicide. >> white house officials believe the threats are more tactical than a real move toward war. nobody knows for sure. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. boeing says it is halfway to getting the troubled dreamliner jumbo jets back in the air. they conducted several test flights of the revamped battery system. certification test flight could take place today. a key step toward getting faa approval for them to fly again, all 50 of the next generation passenger jets were grou...

Shame on us if weve forgotten. >> documents released yesterday showed adam lanza showed up practically armed for war, with high powered weapons, and a shut gun. he killed 20 children and six adults in less than five minutes. black smoke seen for miles around las vegas, coming from the key largo casino. more than 100 firefighters had to try to get it under control. a couple of them were hurt. nothing too serious, though, and no word yet on how this blaze broke out. the key largo has not seen an...