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unchecked. >> shocking development. there's going to be extensive investigations. they have to learn the lessons. thanks very much. the shocking inging incident here in washington comes three months after an unmanned drone crashes on the white house lawn. questions about security here in the nation's capitol where air space is supposed to be highly restricted. among the most restricted in the world. renee is joining us near the scene where this all went down. what is the latest from your perspective over there? >> reporter: well i can tell you, wolf all the action was happening over my left shoulder here. we know that the bomb squad was able to come in. they did not find anything hazardous. they have since taken away this gyro copter. we have information about the flight path according to a law enforcement source. the pilot flew out of gettysburg
closed on a busy bridge as an act of political retaliation. our senior washington correspondent joe johns is joining us live from new hampshire. what's the latest with chris christie and his potential presidential ambition? >> well wolf he's trying to get a restart here in new hampshire. talking tough about hillary clinton and trying to establish himself as a truth-teller on some of the toughest issues including social security and medicare. >> reporter: new jersey governor chris christie needing voters in new hampshire today. but struggling to avoid the bridgegate controversy that may hurt his political ambitions. >> when he told me you were coming here i personally made sure the bridges were still open. >> i heard a lot of wiseguys at the start of the morning, so that was good. which direction is the bridge? >> reporter: christie continues to say the bridge scandal
perez. your reaction to this video, first of all, tom? >> i think it's incredible. i think that all that notice with the newspaper in tampa, driving all the way up to the d.c. area flying an hour or two, going right into the capitol with that that could have been a large helicopter with a squad of isis members land on the capitol like in some of the stupid movies -- we thought they were stupid movies -- maybe not so that showed washington under attack the white house under siege. and it might be right. might be time for homeland security to hire a troupe of boy scouts with bb guns. >> it is shocking to think about it in the aftermath of 9/11 to have an incident like this occur. if that guy wouldn't have had letters in that box that he had on the back of that gyrocopter if he would have had a bomb, that could have been a disaster. >> wolf all day today has been a mixture of amusement and concern, frankly, about this incident. on one hand you're talking about a flying bicycle outfitted
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dashcam controversy, the high-speed ramming of an arizona suspect raising new questions about police tactics and adding to a debate over police cameras. do they help or hurt law enforcement? and airport groping scandal. two tsa officers are out of a job for allegedly subjecting attractive male passengers to sensitive pat-downs. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." breaking news a big security scare leads to chaos at the u.s. capitol. a man is in custody now after penetrating restricted airspace over the heart of washington and landing a mini aircraft known as a gyrocopter on the capitol grounds. this video captured by a bystander shows the landing initially without a security officer in sight. and police rushed to deal with a possible threat. the pilot, a mailman from florida, is now under
conspiracy theories with a slick method based on media and the internet. they are doing it in a way to reach russian speaking pop lags and problems in ukraine and the baltic states and other op populations around the world to cut them short and sell the idea of a strong man type government like the one led by russia. >> thanks for coming in. up next we'll have more on that battle for key iraqi city. how close is it to falling under control of isis? we'll have more on the breaking news. the syria security scare here in washington at the u.s. capitol as an aircraft lands on congress' doorstep. ♪ ♪ the pursuit of healthier. it begins from the second we're born. after all, healthier doesn't happen
>> if he took off from gettysburg in pennsylvania he was in the air for two hours with this little contraption just slowly methodically making its way to washington, getting to restricted airspace the most restricted airspace arguably tom, correct me if i'm wrong, in the united states. >> that's true. we know a couple of months ago that when isis threatened to attack federal buildings and kill government workers, the department of homeland security announced they were going to deploy thousands of additional security officers all over the country. and we questioned them, you don't need them all over the country, all over the heartland unless you're already well-protected here. clearly we're not. >> we saw the video of this little aircraft landing outside the u.s. capitol. we didn't see any security personnel and the secret service, no helicopters in the sky. we basically saw some tourists watching what was going on. >> right, what this exposes is at the center of washington is where we're most vulnerable
they knew this guy was flying toward the capitol. that would have been at least 45 minutes before he came into d.c. proper. >> what did the secret service say to your newspaper? >> they had no knowledge of it. >> did they say they were going to take action? did they want to know the direction he was coming from? i take it he took off from some airport in virginia in suburban washington. >> he actually took off from an airport in the vicinity of gettysburg. i don't know where, but somewhere in that area. it was a little over an hour flight time. >> i guess the final question is did you feel you had a responsibility to really start screaming at law enforcement, secret service and others and say, you know what this is a dangerous situation, we're aware of what's going on but we need you to stop this before someone gets hurt? did you feel you had a journalistic or a public responsibility to do something like that? >> i spent a lot of time with doug hughes over the past year.
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while iraq's prime minister is here in washington appealing for more u.s. weapons, more money, back home isis is tightening the noose around another major iraqi city. 70 miles from baghdad, there's a bloody battle under way right now in ramadi. in a cnn exclusive, a local official says the situation is dire and the city may soon fall to the terror group. our senior international correspondent arwa damon is just back from the front lines in anbar province and joins us live from baghdad. what is the latest arwa? what do you know? >> reporter: pretty dire, wolf. the deputy provincial head of the council in ramadi saying that isis has been advancing from three different directions moving steadily towards the city center. in fact he went so far as to say that from his perspective, ramadi had already fallen.