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Study the smoke and is gearing up to fly right into it. this will be the most comprehensive attempt yet to measure and analyze wildfire smoke. we're live from denver. explain what they're hoping to do with this data? >> good morning, julie. one of the goals here is to be able to give all of us proper warnings about what exactly is in the air, what we're breathing in. so they are flying into these smoke screens to capture the data to tell us what is happening with the smoke that's traveling to places where we all live. this effort is called the western wildfire experiment for cloud chemistry ae...

And turn. i mean, one summer i actually worked the air shows a long, long time ago. they're hard to do. i mean, you can't hop in a plane, a beginning pilot or somebody whose just gotten -- >> wait, you're telling me the loop that we're seeing now, that's hard to do? to me that looks like somebody who doesn't know how to fly a plane, who is just hanging on by the skin of his teeth. you're telling me that's a maneuver he may have done on purpose? >> well, it could be. he is able to do this, he comes out of it in the video i'm seeing, he is able to pull it out. >> yeah, this is daredevil stuff. >...

Took a commercial plane that was at the maintenance area so it was not in service to be flown but it was out of service and going to have some maintenance done. he took that plane and he got off the tarmac and up into the air and flew around the puget sound for 90 minutes before crashing it on a small island. a lot of people were out with their cell phones as they saw this bizarre action of a plane flying low to the ground doing loops. the 76 plane is made by bombardier. the military quickly sent up two f-15 fighter jets and brought them in from portland to follow that plane and shoot it down ...

Secretary of state pompeo today. you've got to assume russia is at the top of the agenda. >> in part because every time secretary mattis has an opportunity to talk about the threat russia poses, he brings it up. mattis has reor yepted the entire defense department to look towards a high intensity conflict. that means conflict with either russia or china. everywhere he go, he talks about russia, the threat it posed, and also the importance of alliances. just recently we had the presidential comments about montenegro, wondering why we would fight for montenegro. when mattis was on the plane flyi...

Fire crews responding to an explosion and fire and searching the building when the shooting started. wild fires in california threatening hundreds of houses and businesses forcing thousands of people from their homes. this is lake county north of san francisco. emergency workers say hot and windy conditions have been making things worse. the fires have destroyed a dozen buildings so far. and here's a weird one. the coast guard is searching for a pay lot that ran from a small plane after he illegally landed it on a beach in new jersey. witnesses caught video of the plane flying erratically befo...