on homeowners insurance. good news out of brazil. the police say they kidnapped the mother-in-law of bernie ecclestone. the kidnappers demanded a ransom equal to 36 million u.s. dollars but nobody paid. the investigators learned the woman's location by monitoring phone calls between the kidnappers and her family. when they found her she was tied up and had no injuries. police realitied two suspects. on this day in 1907 the u.s. military set up a new branch, which became the air force. the army ordered the division to take charge of, quote, ballooning, air machines and more. with the help of the wright brothers the military began testing its first airplane at fort meyer, virginia, out d.c. today hundreds of thousands of men and women make up the u.s.