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That's broken loose at the aberdeen military proving grounds in maryland. brian, they're trying to safely track this and retrieve the item. >> unbelieve, thomas. easy to dismiss this as a curiosity story in a slow week but it is not. this is called in the trade a j-lens and it's an acronym as are most things in the military. i have to read it for you. stands for joint land attack cruise missile defense elevated netted sensor system. veterans are used the seeing these in the skies over baghdad, in the skies over kabul. this is basically an unmanned unpropelled radar hub. it is an enormous ballo...

Cruise missile defense elevated netted sensor system. in raytheon's own material they say j lens is the product to keep the region safe. there's debate in the news media, debate in the defense community as to whether or not that's true. whether or not it is worth the visual of having such a craft hovering your metropolitan area. in maryland, it is close enough to the capital district in washington to provide broad kay c radar cover and not temp of mind walking with your family along the national mall on a beautiful

That brought it down to 102 miles per hour but the train still derailed. all seven cars off of the tracks. let's talk about the man at the center of the investigation. 32-year-old brandon bostian. he's been with amtrak nine years. his attorney says he doesn't remember anything after approaching that turn. he was thrown about the cab. he was bruised up. he picked up his bag and his phone. he says he called 9-1-1. he gave his bag and phone and a blood test of the authorities, but he has not taken to the ntsb. he has only spoken to the philadelphia police department. they talked about positive tr...

The automatic defense cuts triggered if there's no deal reached. i'm assuming there's a compromise here in the end, but i i guess the question is what's the recent reduction in spending over the next ten years for the pentagon? what's a reasonable part of the deal for na? >> i think a reasonable one is actually about the amount in the sequestration. that's a little bit less than what the boles-simpson commission had. they had about $750 billion. if you take a salmi slice cut like the sequestration bill does, you will harm the military. if you're able to say, wait a moment, maybe we don't need ...

>> no, we're not there yet. for example, china to where the president has rightly shifted the focus in the western pacific, which is the center of gravity for america not just in tec terms of security but our economic interests. it has 80 submarines today. we have 50. do we want to procure another 30 at $2 billion a pop and try to have each submarine find each other like needles in a haystack or procure a netted sensor system that personifies the south and east china sea to use the knowledge as it links it up to it a satellite for an aircraft to go over and drop a torpedo. that type of knowled...