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Why i was asking what the blimp looked like. i wondered about the tethers. he said right around the tree line and that if there are outages being reported by barbara in terms of electricity, and the fact that it's decreasing in altitude, this thing eventually has to hit the ground. >> it does. and actually it's probably fortunate that it is down and going to hit the ground because those tethers aren't like ropes. they're heavy cables, designed to keep this aloft because this is part of the system that was designed to give the united states information about incoming air traffic, incoming missi...

Hitting power lines. >> so we are concerned, obviously. we are concerned both from an infrastructure and a public safety -- i think public safety is the number one concern for us. we are asking the public that if they are in the vicinity obviously the cable could be problematic, the blimp itself is about two football fields long. so we are asking the public to notify local law enforcement officials as this aerostat kind of descends and does what it's doing, based on what the weather conditions are there, to actually please stay away from this particular aeostat. >> mike, can you just help us u...

I believe was the number, of these particular blimps and 3 of them at one point in time became untethered. and it took you 7 hours to deflate one of them. can you tell me about that process. >> well, yeah, brooke. we actually didn't deflate it. we just monitored it, much like what is going on right now, and watched it float. and then in that particular case, the forward operating base it came from was near baghdad, and the doggone thing floated all the way up toward mosul, a little over 150 miles away, until it finally came down. luckily, it came down in our territory and we could recover it. ...

Collection on the bottom which has a lot of in this case since it was used here in the united states traffic data, radar data, and it's important that we capture that data. so it's got a pod and you're going to try to secure that thing. now, bear in mind also that the intelligence a'd everything that was processed through that has now been downloaded into the °#á$áz it's recoverable. so the point is, you might be able to write this thing off, but you'veu! a pretty powerful sensor capability that you might want to try to preserve. so realdow want to shoot it dow recover it and tether it aga...

On your laptop or for $100 you can play a game of rand paul beanbag toss. and for $1,000 you can even have a bound copy of the u.s. constitution signed by none other than rand paul. on a sad note though seven people died yesterday morning when a small plane crashed on to an illinois field. they were returning from the ncaa men's basketball championship in indianapolis. among those killed two were from the illinois state university. deputy director of athletics aaron leech and men's basketball associate head coach torrey ward. authorities believe the heavy fog and light rain may have been par...