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Perspective here. you fly for pleasure not commercial planes but you actually had a close encounter with a drone right around chicago? >> right. i was, it was last weekend, i was coming back from oshkosh -- >> wisconsin. >> yeah wisconsin. which is the actual fly-in. and i was coming back right by the chicago skyline, right along the shore of lake michigan at a low altitude underneath all the planes that are coming into o'hare and midway and the plane ahead of me reported a drone 100 feet away from his plane. and i was probably you know, a mile behind that plane. and as i came into the same ai...

Don't worry about me, i'm just concerned about everybody else. you know, long branch as you just heard was heavily hit. the boardwalk is all ripped up. the pier area has a lot of tkaopblg, th damage. the prom nature has damage. a lot of the waves basically between the storm surge and the waives actually crashing against houses, a lot of houses were just completely destroyed as well as some businesses. so right now i'm going out to look at the situation in union beach. talking to the mayor and others, it's pretty bad. jon: i know as a representative of the people you certainly feel their pain. ...

When? >> reporter: we don't know when, that's always hard to say, alex, because it's driven by the winds and the currents. and i guess the good news now is the conditions are favorable for keeping it offshore. the wind right now is coming from the north, blowing offshore, the seas are relatively calm, that's all pretty good news. the big sheen is about 11 miles offshore, stuff between that and where we're standing right now. but i can also tell you that just moments ago, we walked down to the beach area, directly behind me, along the pier area, seeing a -- there's a sheen of oil on the water a...