young. and uh and so it s a it s not exceptional that that young people are doing important things in our military. that s that s really not the issue. the issue is and by the way he had a top secret clearance. the issue is, uh, you know how, uh, you responsibly execute, carry out your duties and how you protect the information. as the pentagon tries to contain this, a secret document not previously reported on shows the chinese military is preparing a supersonic spy drone unit. we have cnn s alex marquardt here with us on on this story. what do we learning about this drone? it s pretty incredible. it is pretty remarkable. it does show significant advancement in china s drone capabilities. and as you noted, this is an assessment that comes from the national geospatial intelligence agency. it was a document was obtained by the washington post, which we ourselves have not seen. verified but what it does indicate is that they have made significant leaps to this drone , which is
stumping in arizona warning voters that conspiracy theorists and election deniers are putting democracy on the brink, the former president using a heckler to make his case. watch this. this is part of what happens in our politics these days. we get distracted. we got one person yelling and suddenly everybody s yelling. you get one tweet that s stupid and suddenly everybody s obsessed with the tweet. we can t fall for that. we have to stay focused. obama is not the only former president on the campaign trail. form are president trump is also set to hold a rally in sioux city, iowa. he s not the only potential republican candidate in the state. mike pence, nikki haley, mike p pompeo have made appearances, maybe even testing the waters for themselves. jeff, a lot of airplane traffic that is happening there. reporter: there certainly is. iowa is not the hottest 2022 battleground but it s the opening bell of the 2024 presidential race. this republican wave of optimism is swe
which we ourselves have not seen. verified but what it does indicate is that they have made significant leaps to this drone , which is called the w z eight it was seen in a chinese parade a couple of years ago, but intelligence officials did not believe at the time. that it was operational it this is a rocket propelled supersonic drones rocket propelled, indicating that it uses rocket fuel to fly . look at this. look how fast this is three times the speed of sound. it can fly at mach three and not just fast, but it can fly extremely high 100,000 ft. brianna that is significantly higher than commercial airplane traffic. that is much higher than the chinese spy balloon, which was around 65,000 ft. this is 100,000 ft so together that makes this drone extremely difficult to detect and to intercept. now it is believed that this drone base is in an area of china called gluon. and from there, this drone could fly
jeff, a lot of airplane traffic that is happening there. reporter: there certainly is. iowa is not the hottest 2022 battleground but it s the opening bell of the 2024 presidential race. this republican wave of optimism is sweeping across the country, donald trump is making clear he wants to be at the center of that. he s beginning in sioux city, the home to the biggest republican base in the state. i m told he s trying to reassert himself. one aide said it s a victory lap. we have several days to go until the actual election day here. that is the point of the rally tonight, trying to make the former president front and center in what they believe is going to be a strong republican showing next week. we talked about the other potential 2024 candidates that have been in iowa. what about governor desantis? is he coming to iowa?
once you get up to orlando, this the florida turnpike, takes you up around. kissimmee, ocala, really crowded on i-75, somewhat crowded northbound on i-95. there i see no contra-flow. when they tun all the freeways around, headed out, no contra-flow, they want to get supplies in. there s gasoline, oil, that s coming in over here to a port in mississippi. in south mississippi, right about here, they ll bring it all the way down into florida. no contra flow. southbound lanes, northbound lanes all open. north, you have to evacuate from charleston, savannah, you see there s a lot of traffic around i-95 here as well. always traffic in atlanta, always, especially right now coming up into the big city. traffic is still manageable. phil keating is watching this in fort lauderdale, hollywood international airport, jet blue doing good. how s airplane traffic in