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Of mexico beach, mostly flattened by the winds and nine-foot storm surge. officials 59 the air force base reveal the extensive damages including a number of f-22 stealth fighter jets left behind because they with a unable to fly. valued at nearly $150 million each. like. >> like the rest of the base, the flight line took catastrophic damage. >> bill nelson has seen his share of storms. >> it's the middle of october. we're feeling cool weather here. you're not supposed to have a category 4 hurricane. this thing roared through here and it's left destruction in its wake all the way to chatahoochi...

There, they haven't been able to get the engineers in to do assessment of the damage to the flight line. we know that the damage is in fact extensive, shep. >> shepard: callaway is a town that we were talking about as the storm came through because we watched the walls, the eye walls of the hurricane and the western eye wall went over callaway. we were wondering how bad was it. >> you know, shepard, nothing is untouched. i'm standing in an rv and boat storage facility. i see maybe one board that could be salvaged. everything else is trashed. we saw local hardware and feed store. they don't hav...

Even as you increase the military pressure. >> 17 years into the war and they defense secretary still travels to kabul in secret. reporters were unable to report until safely away from the flight line. in september the taliban fired 40 rockets at a u.s. air based. mattis did not speak today about the firing of secretary of state rex tillerson. >> bret: jennifer griffin of the pentagon. prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for the former student charge of the parkland, florida, school shooting. nikolas cruz is accused of the first degree murder and depths of 17 people at the school one ...

Lift helicopters can fly and they are short on the flight line. one of mattis's top priorities is to rebuild the military and he needs billions more to do that. >> leland: it all comes down to money. lucas tomlinson at the pentagon. thank you. laura. >> laura: the stock market booming since president trump took office but his success is not matched in his approval rating. why the disconnect? bernie goldberg joins us next. liberty mutual saved us

The pilots that fly the b-1 bomber say it's like flying a fighter jet and they cite three word. speed, persistence, linger a long time, and payload. in afghanistan the b-1 is capable of airborne long periods of time waiting for the right moment to strike. this gives the plane its incredible lethal punch. this is actually the bomb rack here. if you look carefully, you notice that it rotates like a carousel. it allows this aircraft to carry all kind of different munition. that way, it can carry out multiple strikes on the same flight. >> the b-1 has multiple capabilities. obviously, it's a bombe...