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We are told it broke loose from its moorings sometime and somewhere over maryland, flying now somewhere over pennsylvania. f-16 jets have been scrambled so i have with me major general spyder marks. let me just begin with general, how the heck do they bring this thing down? >> but we first have tom seder who is standing by in the cnn weather center. tom, let me go to you. how big is this blimp? >> i believe it's 230 feet. this is big. >> whoa! >> and it's large and white and only half the distance of where flight level is for planes. so if you see a plane obviously 30,000, 35,000 feet, this is...

Intense last night. >> i heard this is the lowest pressure ever seen in a hurricane. people who have been doing this for a while say there's been nothing like this since hurricane andrew and we know the damage that caused. what does this all mean? >> well, it's the lowest pressure ever recorded in the eastern pacific and the lowest for a hurricane. and it had a very intense wind at flight level. we saw over 200 miles an hour, up to 220 miles an hour was the highest we saw at flight level. now, like you guys mentioned earlier, that is a very concentrated area where those winds are, but where th...

Meteorologists by surprise. during our 10-hour flight, hurricane danny strengthened into a category 3 which was not in the forecast, then it weakened later to a category 2. and as we discovered for ourselves, in vivid detail, the fiercest part of the storm is just outside of the eye. the perilous journey began under clear skies, and after meticulous planning, churning 600 miles offshore hurricane danny's right now the world's fiercest storm. noaa hurricane hunters are flying through the middle. satellites can track movement and size but for more accurate data the hunters sample the storms dire...

With us mary schiavo. any reason to do what this man did to keep setting the descent to 100 feet and cancelling it. >> it's a two-step process when you select an altitude. the first process is to select the altitude that you're clear to and second process is how do we get to that altitude. there are various ways to do it. there's vertical speed mode. there's flight level change mode. he probably had already established the airplane in a descent. there was clearance involved down to 25,000 feet. judging by that graph, it's strange the captain would have left the cockpit knowing that descent wou...

Air traffic control tried to reach the cockpit 11 times. we know that military got involved tried to contact them three times. why would that will have happened? what role would these agencies have played there? >> well they're responsible for separating traffic. they need to know where it is. of course on their radar screens, they see the pilot and the plane are not responding. they would have seen on the radar tracings that its altitude its flight level was decreasing. they have a job to do too. they have to keep planes apart from each other. here was this aircraft doing something that they ...