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In November 1969, the U.S. Air Force sent Russia an early Christmas gift. It was a sleek flying machine that bore an uncanny resemblance to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. The American generosity was purely unintentional. The aircraft was actually a cutting-edge drone dispatched on a mission to photograph Communist Chinese nuclear sites. And the drone did what it was supposed to until it failed to turn around, and kept on going north into Siberia before crashing. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Russia paid the skilled aircraft designers at Lockheed the highest compliment: ...

This spy plane played a key role in many Cold War episodes. Key point: The A-12 helped fill a missing capability as Soviet air defenses were able to threatend the U-2. Here is how the CIA used the A-12. But the Blackbird’s was actually an enlarged evolution of the Lockheed A-12, designed for service with the Central Intelligence Agency. The single-seat A-12 could fly slightly faster and higher, but it was doomed to be replaced by its heavier Air Force spinoff. By the late 1950s, aviation engineers knew that new Soviet surface-to-air missiles could effectively threaten high-altitude U-2 spy...

You finally have flights coming back in to ft. lauderdale. very slowly business trying to get back to usual. it's interesting how long it will take because of the power outages and gas shortages to get out there and assess the damage and get the recovery part of this started. gas prices, by the way, rising across the country because of both disruptions because of the refineries with harvey, and then irma, it's $2.71, and $2.27 is what it was just last week. >> and the cost estimate for the damage is nowhere near the $200 billion? do we know that for sure? >> you saw really high damage estimate...

His record and how he is not in the mainstream and yet, she doesn't identify anything in his record. and she talks about women's rights as it relates to judge gorsuch, when the truth is, that her rights, her record as it relates to women, is unbelievable. this is a woman who -- when we find out from the free beacon that women in her senate office are paid $0.71 per dollar that men are paid. >> bill: she was impressed by that revelation by the washington free beacon. i don't know if people saw it. let me just get the report out. the report was that in senator warren's office, women are making $...

Really want, jose, what we haven't had yet are the record closes followed by a major breakout and that's really proving tricky. a number of things you know extended evaluations, lackluster revenue growth, weak economic growth last week really highlighted that and this morning home builder sentiment unexpectedly fell, not great news right in the middle of the spring selling season but before i let you go gas prices here at the start of the week, another weekly increase. the national average is now -- >> what's going on, mandy? >> pegged to what's going on with crude. >> i know. >> we were a wee...