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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 it's the containers of helium on board that keep those aloft. but when this thing falls in a big hurry, you got to make sure there's no population beneath it, jim. >> yeah. this is a runaway blimp. a runaway aero stat...

Populated. and so i think that will be part of the question. and also if the intelligence is good enough to warrant the risk. >> got it. mary, forgive me. i have to cut you off. i'm up against there'd but thank you for being with me the entire two hours. tle "the lead" starts now. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we have this breaking news, the military as you know is scrambling right now to try to get control of its own runaway blimp. a blimp that floated away from a base in northern maryland. officials say the blimp is creating a dangerous situation on the ground. this thing made it...

Small class. only a class of six kids. we went over, looked at the balloon, the blimp. and watched it travel from the east towards the town of bloomsburg and then as it got closer to us, you could see there's a cable dragging. we didn't really understand the size of it until we went on to twitter and facebook and what have you to see what we were actually seeing. so and then as we saw it, as we visualized it, we had flickering power and lost all power. and then sat in the classroom in the dark. waited for direction as to what was going on. we didn't have an idea that the two were related at th...

They can have a cable dragging behind them from 5,000 feet to 10,000 feet. sadly, and let's show you the weather conditions we're talking about on the east coast today. we can't declare this a factor but we can only guess. we're getting the kind of sporty weather remnants of pa tree sha coming on shore last weekend from mexico and given that backdrop, this thing comes unmoored at the ber dean proving ground in maryland. it was last known to be over pennsylvania. what they did was they have scrambled two f-16s out of the air national guard base in atlantic city so the new jersey air national gu...