experience your insights and stay safe thank you. we re here in germany. go to the polls in the german heartland in the state of turin go this weekend it s an election that is shaping up to be a crucial test for chancellor angela merkel s conservative c.d.u. party the far right. now that party has been polling strongly and it could overtake the conservatives as the state s number 2 party behind the post communist left party the regio was part of the former east germany before rediff occasion in 1900 it s the only german state with a governing coalition headed by the left party our very own reporter on your call who returned to her old hometown air fort to gauge the mood ahead of sunday s vote . oh no they did brick house this and merrill and the waste just like in fairy
mind, shep. shepard: mike emanuel live on the hill. the president shortly we re told a slight delay but we ll get you there. american traitor in iran. that is the charge against a former u.s. counter intelligence agent accused now of giving secrets to the iranians and helping the iranians target her own former co-workers from the united states. here she is. her name is monica witt. 39 years old from texas. she s a former air fort intelligence specialist. a contractor who conducted secret missions overseas. but in the year 2013, she disappeared. prosecutors say she defected to iran. the woman that once swore to protect our nation is now accused of betraying it. catherine herridge reporting live from washington. she spent years in the military working on intelligence, yes? that s right. this morning investigators told reporters that witt s case is so egregious because she turned her backs on her colleagues and
members who shed their blood, together in a horrible, horrible war, but a war known as the great war. we re also joined by many distinguished american military leaders. thank you to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general joseph dunford, thank you, joe. thank you. army chief of staff general mark milley, thank you, mark. supreme allied commander europe general curtis scarparoti. general, thank you. air fort commander europe general tart walters, thank you. thank you, general. thank you, as well, to the members of congress who have joined us, ralph abraham, anthony brown, john codder, paul cook, henry quaiar, richard hudson, bill hisenga, dutch repe
record that was set by michael jackson back in the day for thriller to say he s popular these days is an understatement. they were headed over to london. he and band and pals and others for a series of concerts in an around london and were going to land at a municipal airport over there. but instead, for five hours, they circled around northern new jersey for an hour or so when they thought they might land at teterboro. they decided to go to an airport in massachusetts where gulfstream has a service center and about an 8,000 foot runway there. they circled over long island and the sound and connecticut for a couple of hours. and then they made the decision to go instead to stewart, which is this orange county airport where you see it now. stewart has a 12,000 foot runway and facilities. the air fort sent out some of their equipment to help. thank goodness, the jet landed
that s the word from air force officials. the pilot ejected near the island of okinawa. an f-15 crashed during a routine training mission and a rescue team recovered the pilot. the air force has had six noncombat crashes this year compared to seven last year. an air force captain went missing more than three decades ago turned up last week. military officials say william howard hughes had been living in california under a different name. they call him a fugitive and say he desserted the air fort. hughes family says they don t think he disappeared on his own. jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. shep, captain howard had a top secret clearance and was supposed to travel to the u.s.