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Mike: doug mcelway on capitol hill, thanks a lot. arthel: british police making two arrest after a suspicious drone sighting at gatwick airport grounded all planes for several days, the incident stranding 120,000 passengers during the height of holiday travel. >> we expect to leave at 9:15 two days ago and the flight was delayed until 10:00 the same day and delayed until 1:00 and then 2:00 on the same day and 52 hours. arthel: ryan, that is something serious. what is the latest? >> they think they got the people behind these drone attacks, 39 hours after the first drones appeared in the

>> a bit worried yesterday, but today we're really hopeful we'll take off and it will be fine. >> reporter: gatwick airport was foertsed to shut down wednesday night after drones were spotted near the runway. since then more than 1,000 flights canceled or diverted affecting nearly 140,000 passengers. holiday plans in ruins. >> we're not going to be going. we're visiting family and friends in denver and i don't know if we'll get to see them. >> reporter: troops called in to hunt for the operator as police snipers prepared to shoot the drone down. the airport reopened friday but then another dro...

Simply couldn't. it looked. >> time we are getting ready to reopen the runway, there is another drone sighting. but i can't do is put the safeties of passengers at risk, so the airport remains closed. >> they estimate there are more than 1,000 near misses a year between planes and unmanned aircraft, and there have been some collisions, just last week a 737 struck a drone, look at the damage. it is the nose of the get bashed in. remember back in 2009 when u.s. air flight 1549 hit a flock of geese, knocking out both engines, forcing them to land on the hudson river. experts say drones pose an ev...

New citracal pearls. dedelicious berries and cream. soft, chewable, calcium plus vitamin d. only from citracal. intelligence community inspector general is investigating the cia drone strike that accidentally killed 73-year-old american aide worker warren weinstein and another western hostage in pakistan last january. sources are pushing back on suggestions today that the cia may will dropped the ball months earlier on a possible drone sighting or a werner that could have been weinstein in that area. john brown, warren weinstein's family attorney. what does the family think could have happen...

Checkpoint right outside the international airport in kabul. 16 others were wounded. the taliban took credit for the attack. it's the latest in a series of assaults that have claimed more than 50 lives since friday. one of those attacks wounded ten u.s. military personnel and two u.s. contractors. and the faa is investigating another drone sighting near an airport. it happened sunday afternoon when four commercial flights reported seeing an unmanned aircraft as they approached newark's runway. the drone was 13 miles from the airport and flying at an altitude between 2,000 and 3,000 feet. no ...