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To buy these kinds of troys or items, remove the battery and wires. that gets you to a subset of potential groups who may have been involved with this. >> greta: actually i would think it would be smarter to buy the routine aa batteries, because you can buy those any place. these batteries you have to go to a hobby store, narrowing the universe. now they fan out and go to those stores. in some ways that was a -- >> that was a mistake on their behalf. again, to emphasize, everyone has a different style in bomb-making, how they train people. >> greta: like a signature. >> exactly. so this indivi...

To buy these kinds of troys or items, remove the battery and wires. that gets you to a subset of potential groups who may have been involved with this. >> greta: actually i would think it would be smarter to buy the routine aa batteries, because you can buy those any place. these batteries you have to go to a hobby store, narrowing the universe. now they fan out and go to those stores. in some ways that was a -- >> that was a mistake on their behalf. again, to emphasize, everyone has a different style in bomb-making, how they train people. >> greta: like a signature. >> exactly. so this indivi...

Cockpit, hits the glass, it can hit the pilot or co-pilot. it can hit an engine, take out an engine. >> reporter: you may think military, overseas and kill strikes when you hear drones. but these unmanned aircraft are showing up in american skies. police departments using small hand-launched drones to look for suspects or missing children. but it's not just the government buying drones. remote-controlled aircraft, some toys like this as well, have been around for years. but look what we found at a hobby store for $700. this is the phantom. it is a drone, four rotors. it can carry a camera and ...

Your hobbyists going out with a hand-held controller that looks like a mock cockpit and they fly it around. these are very popular. there are many home-made -- you can go to a hobby store near you and buy one of these things. i would say the odds are that it was likely a remotely controlled aircraft and not really a drone, a military or civilian drone. >>gretchen: this pilot said he saw about a three-foot wing span. are there regulations about how big these can be and how close they can come to incoming aircraft? >> i've seen remotely controlled aircraft be as small as your hand and be as larg...

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