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In the area to stay away. Cnns Barbara Starr is getting constant updates from her military contacts at the pentagon. Barbara, how concerned are officials about this, and what happened . Ell us about how it well, how it happened is going to be a big part of the investigation they dont know right now. But at this hour a great deal of concern. The u. S. Military is i can tell you they are very distressed at the moment that this has happen and had that they are causing a Public Safety hazard in this area of northeastern pennsylvania. There are Power Outages, norad, the north American Aerospace Def...

The school districts because we were without power. so the 911 center was activated. and the schools we recommended that to them and then they did the lockdown and they were finally able to dismiss the children. >> all right. jean lapinski telling us that the pennsylvania state police have told columbia county in pennsylvania over which this balloon, rather this blimp flew that it has landed. and according to what we know so far not problemmatically although we still have a lot of information to gather about this. thank you so much, jean. joining me now is paul werth, he's a spokesperson for p...

Perhaps lack of oxygen. if there is a hijacked plane. now today if there is a blimp, how far is the u.s. government willing to go, who makes the decision? are you really going to shoot something down? this has been a very fundamental question since 9/11 and something that the military faced again today by all accounts it is -- we know the military says they didn't take any action. no kinetic action to bring it down. but it is a question out there, jake, that the country and the military certainly continues to struggle with, what are you willing to do to bring down an object you are not in cont...

About 18,000 customers without power down from 30,000 about an hour ago. we've been restoring these customers by switching them through to other sources. >> how did the power go out? >> there was damage to one of our power lines reportedly caused by the tether on this blimp. we have not confirmed that ourselves, but we do know the damage is there. we are assessing damage and beginning repairs. we also don't know right now how long it will take to restore all customers. >> and so it was something like a cable, when you say a tether it sounds not as serious as a cable, something that could actua...