Good evening, a small gyrocopter piloted by a florida postman caused a scare when it flew apparently unchallenged into highly restricted airspace in the center of washington, d. C. And landed on the lawn of the u. S. Capitol. The capitol went into immediate lockdown as police searched the aircraft for explosives. And now once again questions are being raised about how well the nations capitol is secured against aerial threats. Tonight the pilot is in custody, and we now know his bizarre landing wasnt exactly a surprise. Peter alexander expl. Reporter they say things never move fast on capitol hill. Today was an exception. This is not good, people. Reporter coming in for a landing of the lawn of the u. S. Capitol, doug hughes on board whats called a gyrocopter. Everyone was shouting move, get down, move reporter the 61yearold mailman from ruskin florida, was looking to deliver a message to washington demanding an end to Big Government and corruption. Carrying 535 letters, one for each m
Good evening. A small gyrocopter piloted by a florida postman caused flew apparently unchallenged into highly restricted airspace in the center of washington, d. C. , and landed on the lawn the u. S. Capitol. The capitol went into immediate lockdown as police searched the aircraft for explosives. And now once again questions are being raised about how well the nations capitol is secured against aerial threats. Tonight the pilot is in custody, and we now know his bizarre landing wasnt exactly a surprise. Peter alexander explains. Reporter they say things never move fast on capitol hill. Today was an exception. This is not good, people. Reporter coming in for a landing of the lawn of the u. S. Capitol, doug hughes on bo whats called a gyrocop everyone was shouting, move, get down, move reporter the 61yearold mailman from ruskin, florida was looking to deliver a message to washington, demanding an en to Big Government and corruption. Carrying 535 letters, one for each member of congress.
Good evening. A small gyrocopter piloted by a florida postman caused quite a scare when it flew apparently unchallenged into highly respected airspace in the center of washington, d. C. And landed on the lawn of the u. S. Capitol. The capitol went into immediate lockdown as police searched the aircraft for explosives. And now once again questions are being raised about how well the nations capitol is secured against aerial threats. Tonight the pilot is in custody, and we now know his bizarre landing wasnt exactly a surprise. Peter alexander explains. Reporter they say things never move fast on capitol hill. Today was an exception. This is not good, people. Reporter coming in for a landing of the lawn of the u. S. Capitol, doug hughes on board whats called a gyrocopter. Everyone was shouting, move, get down, move reporter the 61yearold mailman from ruskin, florida, was looking to deliver a message to washington, demanding an end to big money and politics and government corruption. Carry
Is now officially turning into illinois, with one of its governors appealing his conviction to the Supreme Court while at the same time, his successor in office comes under federal investigation weve got eyes tonight on santa monica, california, as well, where Bernie Sanders is about to Start Holding a big Campaign Event sat santa monica high school. Well be looking in on that a little bit later on in the show. And were going to have the latest tonight on the freddie gray trial. Six Police Officers are on trial in the death of a man named freddie gray over a year ago in baltimore. The first officers case that produced a verdict excuse me, the first officers case ended in a mistrial. Today, the second officers trial ended in a verdict. It ended in the officer being acquitted on all charges. So eyes on baltimore tonight, as that Community Takes in that information and responds to it. Eyes, frankly, on a lot of these developing stories. It has just been annews day ovef the day today. And
Little bit later on in the show. And were going to have the latest tonight on the freddie gray trial. Six Police Officers are on trial in the death of a man named freddie gray over a year ago in baltimore. The first officers case that produced a verdict excuse me, the first officers case ended in a mistrial. Today, the second officers trial ended in a verdict. It ended in the officer being acquitted on all charges. So eyes on baltimore tonight, as that Community Takes in that information and responds to it. Eyes, frankly, on a lot of these developing stories. It has just been annews day over the day today. And some days in the news are like that. Some days you get a million stories breaking in a million different places all day long. Stuff going all day long. Some days, like today, are like that. Some days, the day proceeds calmly, like any other day on earth, like any other day in the news, until you get one big unexpected and very strangelooking thing to happen and disrupt the whole