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There's a lot of traffic in that area, boats, air, you have to be careful and make sure everything is right but make no mistake all the options are still on the table. heather: we were just discussing that before you came on. the faa issued this no-fly zone. not sure what you call it but apparently there was an aircraft within 45 nautical miles of the drone when the drone was hit. heather: there's a lot of surface traffic, regular air traffic and for iran to just fire a surface to air missile locking onto a target with the possibility of hitting something else is really strong. and incredibly ...

Congressman zeldin was telling us. almost every republican member of the house and senate were on and are on this train that was headed from washington, d.c., to a retreat in west virginia and apparently hit a truck in crozet, virginia, just outside of charlottesville. at first blush, knowing the facts that we know, which is not a lot right now, and hearing the firsthand accounts, what's your sense of this? >> well, other than the train was full of, you know, a large number of members of congress, this actually is a typical accident. the problem in the united states is our trains that intersec...

Perspective, whether in japan or elsewhere, the trains are moving a lot more quickly than they are in the united states. >> absolutely. i had a chance to work at japan rail for a short period of time when i was inspector general. what's cool and interesting and different about japan and the bullet trains is in the lines, there is no place, for example, where the trains meet surface traffic. they have overpasses and that's eliminated. they legality the tracks for them and they don't have these -- they don't have sharp curves to take. they had different laws than we do and they were able to buil...

Unthinkable. >> in that decade following september 11th, what we have seen is a steady increase in safety. there have been events that ultimately inflated the level of attention and interest in air accidents like the ones that we have seen this year so certainly, in terms of the ability to lose an airplane certainly what we have got is aircraft transiting over water, so certainly, it's an area that wouldn't have you know beyond surface traffic with ships, not really a whole lot of you know coverage just human population in the area to see anything happen certainly if there are storms, people a...

Our energy is clean energy. we fly above the traffic and that's the most important element of this system. you're never stuck in surface traffic. you're not stopping behind the vehicles ahead of you. you don't have to look out for accidents, little kids running into the street. you're above all of that, flying along, supremely and sublimely at anywhere between 50 to 150 miles an hour. so we're excited about the prospect of finally moving this technology from the drawing board and our computers and our prototypes, work that we have done over more than a decade, to full-scale production and buil...