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Provide live pictures all at cruising altitude of 30,000 feet. rick brooks is program director for northrop grumman space systems and he is our guest now. what makes this different than the other drones we're using in the u.s. military right now? >> well, clearly the major difference is the manned and unmanned capability. that's really a big discriminator. it lets you fly missions very easily in the manned mode. you can fly in national airspace very easily and make that switch very quickly to fly long endurance or persistent missions when you need multiple sensors on a particular activity for ...

Jon: i'm jon scott live in the fox newsroom. if you ahead in our -- head into our acquisitions department where we have literally hundreds of sat fight feeds coming in we're watching all of them. look at sand bags at the ready in mississippi where they're getting ready for more flooding. mississippi river causing so many problems at near record flood stages. take a look here, this house so far escaping the damage but the cornfield very much underwater and the water level there are expected to go higher. rick reichmuth is keeping an eye on it all live in the fox extreme weather center. rick? >>...