Secretary Hillary Clinton in iowa. Debut week on the trail, but there are difficult questions being posed by other democrats. On her left flank. About whether shes progressive enough to be her partys standard bearer. And the world lead. Isis on the verge of routing the city of ra mann just a short drive from baghdad. The iraqi army pleading for reinforcements leaving 150,000 iraqi citizens caught in the cross hairs. Leaving their homes. Desperately trying to flee. Good afternoon, everyone. Im jake tapper. Welcome to the lead. We begin with breaking news in the National League charges just timed against the florida man who flew that small aircraft over what is supposed to be the most restricted nofly zone. The national capitol. Landed on the front lawn of congress. Just released doug hughes from custody now on house arrest at his gnome tampa. He showed up to court today dressed in his mailman uniform complete with the Postal Service logo. The stunt exposing a Serious National Security v
secretary hillary clinton in iowa. debut week on the trail, but there are difficult questions being posed by other democrats. on her left flank. about whether she s progressive enough to be her party s standard bearer. and the world lead. isis on the verge of routing the city of ra mann just a short drive from baghdad. the iraqi army pleading for reinforcements leaving 150,000 iraqi citizens caught in the cross hairs. leaving their homes. desperately trying to flee. good afternoon, everyone. i m jake tapper. welcome to the lead. we begin with breaking news in the national league charges just timed against the florida man who flew that small aircraft over what is supposed to be the most restricted no-fly zone. the national capitol. landed on the front lawn of congress. just released doug hughes from custody now on house arrest at his gnome tampa.
large aircraft with missiles not smaller aircraft flying in airspace where they don t expect them. i would say today we re not prepared for that. reporter: doug liz hughes took off from gettysburg pennsylvania traveling nearly 100 miles into restricted airspace. the trip took roughly two hours. the faa, capitol police and homeland security monitored airspace around the clock. what s supposed to happen is the monitoring agencies communicate in realtime on a conference call. any potential threat is assessed. then norad steps in s ins in scrambling a military jet or coast guard chopper and can shoot down an aircraft if necessary. how did they miss this? homeland security secretary jeh johnson says because it actually flew under the radar. the gyro copter on average flies comfortably 50 to 100 feet although it s capable of flying
gyrocopter took off in pennsylvania. saying hughes flew under the radar, literally. no way was doug hughes secret about his plans. in fact the secret service questioned him about his preparations for this bold stunt in 2013. jim acosta cnn s senior white house correspondent. jim, why wasn t this man s flight stopped? reporter: well jake a lot flies under the radar in washington as you know and this gyro copter incident is prompting new security concerns across the nation s capitol, es especially at the white house. security you upgrade are sorely needed on both sides of pennsylvania avenue. one day after he buzzed washington in his gyro copter and touched down at the capitol as seen in this a.p. video, florida political activist and pilot doug hughes landed in federal court, where he may soon be grounded behind bars. hughes is now facing federal charges including violating national defense airspace in a
one thing, can t unfortunately just smell your kids breath. that was what my parents did and all birntsparents do to see if you re smoking cigarettes. for the record i wasn t smart parents check kids breath. this smell goods. your kids breath will smell kind of fruit pip not going to work. you have to be explicit with your middle schooler or teen and explain these things may look harmless and look colorful but in fact it s not harmless. part of it is that the kids just don t understand the nature of these product. all right. elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. appreciate it. back to that national lead. we now have court sketches of the mailman who flew the gyro captor on the u.s. capitol lawn. a depiction of doug hughes wearing this post s service uniform before released on house arrest earlier today. wolf blitzer joins me. you ll talk about the mailman stubt on the situation room and how it raises national security concerns?