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Over 15 years but wont be ready to combat testing till 2019. the company says it is working to significantly lower the cost. heather: well, watch out wal-mart, amazon is coming after your food stamp shoppers. amazon is one of seven online grocery stores that are part of brand-new test program to accept food stamps, starting this summer, snap user will be able to buy or pay groceries online for the first time ever. more than 43 million low-income americans receive snap benefits every month. clayt...

Nbcs tom costello has the latest. >> reporter: shotgun blasts in in the pennsylvania countryside. as the military pumped more than 100 rounds into the top secret blimp to let the last of the helium escape. then the delicate job of cutting it out of the trees. crews did manage to roll up the tail section which had separated from the blimp. the mile-long tether that snagged utility lines, causing 30,000 to lose power, also cut into sections and carted away. >> biggest challenge is just the fact th...

We know how many are in use around the country? >> well, right now, actually, there are a pair of them in this one and another one at the same location in maryland that, by the way, at this afternoon has been grounded, obviously. this has been a major test program at the proving ground just north of washington d.c. in maryland. they have been looking at testing this and had it up for sometime trying to see how it operates and develop a track record to see how it works. whether or not they expand...

Summer day. versions and predecessors of these products highly visible in the dual wars over the past decade plus. they showed up in the skies over baghdad early on after the u.s. invasion there. witho us is marcus of defense one. have i gotten it right with the raytheon product? >> brian, there are only four of these, actually. two that are deployed right at the aberdeen at the three-year test program and two others in storage. theres been talk of deploying them around the country. right now, i...

>> how could something like this have happened? you know, its supposed to withstand hurricane-force winds and all of a sudden it gets loose and now theres $200 million of taxpayer dollars down a toilet? >> right now its in a test program and in year one its about to enter its second year of a three-year test program and you can be certain that something like this is really going to weigh in on the pentagon decision on whether or not to keep buying these blimps to put around perhaps other cities ...

Card payments via selfies? >> beware of the teenagers. it will set facial and fingerprint recognition program that lets a person take a selfie to pay for things that theyre buying. this is a test program with mastercard. but if it works, its expected to cut down on fraud. 200 credit union employees will get to use the selfie pay feature starting today. beware of your teenagers. youll go broke. and time warner dedicated to broadcast the popes visit? >> thats right. in just a few weeks. but time...

Joining us to talk about that. she worked with jeb bush too. well find out if she has inside information in jeb throwing his hat into the ring. a soldier who refused to give up on a 12 mile march. a test program for commercial drones. how soon could you see them hovering above your house? were following breaking news in deflategate, an nfl probe finding the patriots probably deflated the footballs. do you think they stole the super bowl? is it invalid? no its not. but vote anyway pulse.msnbc...

>> oh, my! >> police trying to control the crowd of about 100 people. this happening just about two miles from ferguson, missouri. the show must go on. sony releasing "the interview" to over 200 theaters starting tomorrow. the turn around coming less than a week after sony came under fire for cave to go hackers demands. james franco taking to instagram to declare victory, saying the people and the president have spoken. homeland security turning to technology after losing track of a majority...

And randy erics will be in communications. so big heads moving around at gm as they still continue to deal with the problems about the decade long recall issue. >> one big thing that is coming out today, the first day google glass now available to the public. kind of a steep price tag. depends on where your tech love falls, i guess. >> this is the google glass explorer program. its a model where theyre testing this and taking some features off, putting new ones on. but you have to be a part of t...

>> hello, welcome back to the gap. how did the assorted tank tops work out for you. >> reporter: will the futuristic shopping experience be coming to a store near you? not as farfetched as you think. retailers turning to technology, using video surveillance, tracking signals from smartphone to figure out how to get you to spend more. >> the in-store analytics makes it possible for retailers to understand things like where they go, where they stop, and ultimately how all of it translated to sales...