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Three years ago, normal hobby drones were used in attempt to kill the president of venezuela. but congress only recently gave federal agencies legal authority they need to start developing drone counter measures. in some ways, though security changed radically for big set piece threats and conventional threats, the government is still struggling to cope with new threats, stephanie. >> thanks, pete. let's dig deeper, bring in jeh johnson. he is on the board of the 9/11 memorial and museum. before 9/11, intelligence gathering in this country was spread out across a bunch of agencies. we didn't h...

Fire behavior. >> we had to evacuate on monday. it was probably more than 20 miles away, and now it's within 4 miles of our house. >> it was raining ash. it was dark skies. everyone kind of had this worried ominous feeling, you know, you can tell there was panic. >> reporter: also, the national interagency fire center is coming out right now and they're basically begging people to stop flying their personal drones over fire fights. they're saying that 19 times there have been drone incursions. firefighters will tell you off camera they call those [ expletive ] hobby drones. in all of last year...

>> we were told they had at least five drones in the area preventing helicopters from dropping water on to the cars for as long as 25 minutes. i don't have to tell you, in a case like this you have an emergency situation. 25 minutes is eternity. so this is getting a real hindrance in southern california and in parts of the country where you have firefighters trying to put o's these flames and drones in the area. you have the forest service putting out a statement. they are very clear about this. it says please stop flying hobby drones in the area. we can't risk choppers colliding with them. we...

That. victor? christi? >> real quickly, paul, have you heard about the report of unmanned aircraft or drones having anything to do with delaying firefight response? >> reporter: what i understand is i talked directly to the u.s. forest service. they were asking people to stop flying hobby drones. this is starting to become a huge issue. it did not ground any helicopters but the fear is that it would. and it was extremely important to get a lot of water on the fire. i'm sure we'll hear this time and time again. when firefighters tell us in california is they cannot risk a drone making contact w...

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