We are on the trail. Good evening. Im elizabeth vargas. In for david muir. And we begin tonight with the breaking news, a close call at one of americas busiest airports. A drone flying within 100 feet of a passenger plane, approaching to land. It happened here at jfc, heres the plane on the tarmac. Cecelia vega has the very latest on all of this. Reporter the close call coming just minutes before landing. Delta flight 407 from orlando, 159 passengers onboard. The jet, just 1,700 feet above ground. A drone in its path, only 100 feet away. Near an old, abandoned airfield. There was a drone flying. What altitude would you say it was . Probably 100 feet below us. Reporter the Pilot Landing without incident. But air Traffic Control warning other planes of potential danger. These risky encounters on the rise. The faa now reporting 25 drone incidents each month. The reason we dont want a drone close to airliners, the possibility of being ingested into an engine. Reporter sales of drones are s
Good evening. Im elizabeth vargas. In for david muir. And we begin tonight with the breaking news, a close call at one of americas busiest airports. A drone flying within 100 feet of a passenger plane, approaching to land. It happened here at jfc, heres the plane on the tarmac. Cecelia vega has the very latest on all of this. Reporter the close call coming just minutes before landing. Delta flight 407 from orlando, 159 passengers onboard. The jet, just 1,700 feet above ground. A drone in its path, only 100 feet away. Near an old, abandoned airfield. There was a drone flying. What altitude would you say it was . Probably 100 feet below us. Reporter the Pilot Landing without incident. But air Traffic Control warning other planes of potential danger. These risky encounters on the rise. The faa now reporting 25 drone incidents each month. The reason we dont want a drone close to airliners, the possibility of being ingested into an engine. Reporter sales of drones are skyrocketing. And you
The town of lower lake in lake county. Its about 100 miles north of San Francisco burned more than 2800 square miles of pasture land and only 10 contained. They defend residence and digging containment lane around the blaze. 3 homes destroyed during the fire first day. None burned since. Hundreds of people ordered out of the homes. Residents nervous about the advancing flame. It has been very hot. 106 one day. A 108 another day. Today the wind changed and blew the smoke in town. Getting hard to breathe. Harder to see. Activity incredibly scared because i live on the avenue. It will be come our way in less than an hour. Less than 30 minutes. The area is rugged and rural which is making it difficult for firefighters to get to of course. Winds have been moving to the northeast but thats expected to change as well. Pl drew is here with more on the conditions on the fire lines. And tonight we get encouraging news in regards to the weather conditions relative humidity on the rise and winds c
Investigation continues. The premarket building on the record highs europe is mixed. Ten year 235 auto sales on the way today. Road map begins with deeply sorry. Thats the message the former equifax ceo is set to deliver to congress rick smith set to be grilled by a House Committee over the companys massive data breach. Plus on the hill, wells fargo Ceo Tim Sloan will answer questions about the massive fake account scandal. Searching for clues. Investigators combing through evidence to see what led to sunday nights massive shooting in las vegas first up, the former equifax ceo rick smith getting ready to face a tough grilling by lawmakers, testifying before the house energy and Commerce Committee. In prepared testimony, he said hes deeply sore re thry this od and the company failed to prevent Sensitive Information from falling into the hands of wrongdo wrongdoers the breach may affect more consumers than originally thought, bringing the total of potentially affected to more than 145 Mi
On tactical Public Private innovation collaboration, a number of the public and private sector issues on cybersecurity. Want to also echo frank and thank our sponsors for this event, north rup grumened, and Marcus Edwards who has been our sort of partner in getting this organizes for the past few months. In addition to his day job, hes also a doctor of engineering student here at George Washington university. I dont know how he finds time to do both of those things, but thanks, marcus for all of your work on this todays conference. Ill briefly introduce the panel that we have before us, and then well go right into a discussion with some time at the end of the 50 minutes for audience questions. First, immediately to my left, your right, scott aaronson, executive director for security and Business Continuity at the Edison Electric institute. Hes been there since 2009, working in a variety of roles before getting his current position. Before that, worked on the hill for congressman lantos