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Northrop grumman. bill: american airlines pilot rushed to the hospital in san diego after his jet's windshield was hit by a green laser. happened about 9:00 last night. the flight out of phoenix, about five miles from the airport in san diego, when the laser strike happened, that plane was able to land okay. right now the pilot's exact injuries, in the hospital, are not known. martha: so we're all looking ahead to night's third republican debate. a series of new polls is underscoring just how important these events really are because we see so much momentum coming out of the polls. sometimes t...

Commercial passenger planes struck with this blinding green laser. it happened at the most critical point of flight. takeoff and landing. the flights were not very far from jfk, flying over long island when multiple pilots alerted controllers. take a listen. >> i thought it was a rogue laser, but they were definitely aiming for us a couple of times. i've had two aircraft fly over where you are, got struck bay green laser. >> 185, you see any green, be careful. a green laser might be in your vicinity. >> 185, we just had a laser strike. left side. >> imagine this you're in a car that's pitch bl...

Aircraft was struck. >> i thought it was just a rogue laser. they were aiming for us a couple times. we saw it a couple times into the cockpit. >> you see the green laser might be in your vicinity right now. >> american 185 we just had a laser strike left side. >> reporter: imagine this. imagine you're in a car, it's pitch black and a camera flash goes off. that's what it's like in the cockpit and consequences could be deadly. the lasers can even cause damage to the pilot's eyes and in some cases pilots have been hospitalized with burned corneas. sadly though, we see thousands of these laser s...

We saw it a couple times in the cockpit. >> two aircraft right where you are got struck by a green laser. >> american 185, green laser might be in your vicinity. >> we just had a laser strike, left side. >> not the kind of thing you want to be hearing if you're in a cockpit and nothing you want to hear if you're on the plane. so a lot of people might say, what's the big deal? you shine a souped up flash plight at an airplane, a pointer. it's a huge deal and i'm about to talk to some pilots who will explain why. first, cnn's rene marsh in washington, d.c. i think a lot of people might say it's ...

Sarah dal love from -- sarah dallof from sarasota, thank you. >> now after the 9/11 attacks, the nsa has been collecting information from communications to identify communications among potential terrorists, and that data collection will end at midnight. >> and in detroit yesterday, and aer mored van parked near a casino when a man dressed in a guard's uniform approached the the door, and the robber took more than half a million dollar of cash bag, and it does not appear that he had a get away vehicle or used a a weapon. >> the faa is using another laser strike on a commercial airliner last ni...