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>> to see if the soviets were building nuclear weapons, more importantly, missiles to launch them at the united states. we were flying a spy plane over the soviet union called a u-2. >> i'm bill fox. united press editor in new york. a single engine u.s. air force plane with one man aboard went missing today not far from the soviet border in the rugged mountains in southeastern turkey. >> to a stunned and startled audience, khrushchev announced that an american u-2 spy plane was shot down over the soviet union. >> khrushchev made the wreckage a public exhibition. to the soviet union, this wreck...

If they are going to put you at war with them. and that is to dehumanize the other side. i suddenly saw this man as a human. >> the trip went well. there was talk of eisenhower visiting moscow the following year. but then on may 1, 1960, the soviet union shot down an american spy plane over one of their missile sites. >> gary powers was shot down in the u-2. and that pretty much puts a halt to that relationship, it seemed, that your grandfather was building with khrushchev. >> yeah. what the u-2 allowed khrushchev to do, or forced him to do, was to really think hard about how much the soviets ...

Tmz reports that the band, kiss, turned down a request, too. and "the washington post" reports that david foster has also declined. however, the "new york post" reported that the beach boys have been asked and have yet to make a decision. i'm joined by lynn winstead, as well as ted johnson, senior editor at "variety," sitting next to each other, i believe, in minneapolis. but, ted, let's start off with this. because it does look like this is shaping up to be an inauguration free of celebrities, which would be kind of unprecedented. barack obama had every celebrity imaginable and hillary clinto...

In a spy plane. we were given rare access to the launch and landing of the highly secretive missions that have a clear objective, one of the pilots tells me. >> we can find those guys and track them and get back to the fighter types. when they go out, they have the best intel and information about where they are and obviously do what needs to be done. >> reporter: the u-2 can fly high. more than 70,000 feet and get pictures to forces on the ground fast. it is a cold war era plane flying since the '50s, but it has been upgraded. with the upgrades, the u-2 dragon lady is the main asset in the in...

Bomber types. that way when they go out they have the best intel, best information about where they are and obviously do what needs to be done. >> reporter: the u-2 can fly extremely high, more than 70,000 feet, and get pictures and other information to forces on the ground very fast. it's a cold war era plane flying since the 1950s but its cameras and sensors have been completely upgraded. with its many technological upgrades, the dragon lady remains one of america's main assets in the information gathering effort against isis but of course, intelligence gathering happens on many levels and m...