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Good evening. Im elizabeth vargas, in for david muir. And we begin tonight with the breaking news, a close call at one of americas busiest airports. A drone flying within 100 feet of a crowded passenger plane, approaching to land. It happened here in new york at jfk, heres the plane now on the tarmac safely. Cecelia vega has the very latest on all of this. Cecilia . Reporter the close call coming just minutes before landing. Delta flight 407 from orlando, 159 passengers and crew onboard. Making its descent to jfk airport. The jet, just 1,700 feet above ground. A drone in its path, only 100 feet away. Near an old, abandoned airfield. There was a drone flying. Just under the southwest side of this abandoned airport here. What altitude would you say it was . Probably 100 feet below us. Just off the right wing. Reporter the Pilot Landing without incident. But air Traffic Control ....
in congress. this is the most partisan atmosphere i have ever seen. this is not uniting. this is dividing. reporter: ryan stuck to broad themes and did not mention medicare or romney s tax returns. issues that have dominated the campaign in recent days. instead, ryan turned the focus back on the economy. promising to cut taxes to create jobs. when we tax our job creators and our businesses at much higher tax rates than our foreign competitors tax theirs, they win, we lose. that s what obama-nomics is. we re going to reject oba obama-nomics, and help small businesses grow and create jobs. reporter: northern virginia democrats say a romney/ryan administration s tax policy would favor millionaire businessowners over the middle class. providing tax breaks to the billionaires. what about the middle class folks? that s what i hear about when i knock on doors. what about us? that s a real, real life concern that i hear day in and day out. reporter: romney supporters ....