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Broke free of its concrete anchors in northeast maryland. for four hours it drifted northwest across maryland, and pennsylvania, dragging its thick, 6700 foot cable on the ground for much of the way, damaging buildings and knocking out power lines, leaving nearly 30,000 people without power at one point. as you can imagine, the runaway blimp caused quite a stir as it made its way through many small towns. >> i think it's ridiculous. i mean, it's $2 billion, you know, project, and they don't have a contingency for, you know, how to rescue it or you know, how to tether it, and -- it wasn't a cra...

Again, there's no indication that this was brought down by those f-16s, which were following it. but at one point, we saw that it was tilted sort of upward with its tail section down. we're told by norad officials that that tail section at one point actually broke off and fell to the ground. nobody was injured and that local official secured that section of the aerostat that was lying on the ground. the rest of the aerostat, the blimp, continued on into montour county where that too has now settle down to the ground. again, don't know the reason it suddenly deflated from the tail section, as w...

So we'll see what happens. >> got to leave it there. >> thank you very much. >> will tonight decide who you're going to support in the presidential? >> this will be a big part of it. i hope they talk about some western issues, but it's great to have everybody in colorado a state that believes the better days are ahead of us and which believes in the rocky mountain optimism which has made us so great. >> all right, we'll be watching. and before we go to break, want to update you on the developing story. we're awaiting new pictures of that u.s. military aerostat. that's the blimp-like aircraft...

The front section is kind of aiming to the upper right of the picture. then there's the radar pod, more or less at midship, and then the tail section, and what may be the blessing here, what was first reported by jim miklaszewski at the pentagon, the leak or deflation, we don't know how, in the tail section of this airship, may be the blessing that brought it down, slowed it down. but jim miklaszewski, the problem is this tether. anything strong enough to keep this thing aloft at 10,000 feet, is going to be strong enough to cause a lot of damage on the earth. >> absolutely. and it's described ...

Eastern? and the first officer looks up and realizes something is wrong with the altitude. and he said we are still at 2,000, right? the captain begins to look and says what happened to the altitude and they begin to take corrective action. >> but it is too late. >> the engines roared and we hit and the world exploded. it was a huge fire ball. >> the plane rips apart. the crash is scattered over an expansive area. >> i was in the tail and the tail section broke off and we began spinning. and we spun 1,500 feet. and at the end of the spin, the tail actually turned over. and when it did, the flo...