similar protests gagainst the high cost of living. police arrested five people over the stream of drone sightings this week. drones spotted flying dangerously close to the run ways forced a 32 hour shutdown. the airport closed again briefly on friday. this after another drone sighting. gatwick aims to run a full schedule of flights on saturday. anna stewart is following the story this hour at the airport there. anna, good to have you. so the question at this point, what is the latest on this investigation? we understand there s been arrests. what more do we know? so, currently, george, all we know is two people have been arrested in connection with the investigation. we don t know, you know, who they are, anything about them. they haven t actually been charged yet. so what police have told me, and i ll bring this up, our investigations are still on going and our activities at the
mike: doug mcelway on capitol hill, thanks a lot. arthel: british police making two arrest after a suspicious drone sighting at gatwick airport grounded all planes for several days, the incident stranding 120,000 passengers during the height of holiday travel. we expect to leave at 9:15 two days ago and the flight was delayed until 10:00 the same day and delayed until 1:00 and then 2:00 on the same day and 52 hours. arthel: ryan, that is something serious. what is the latest? they think they got the people behind these drone attacks, 39 hours after the first drones appeared in the
a bit worried yesterday, but today we re really hopeful we ll take off and it will be fine. reporter: gatwick airport was foertsed to shut down wednesday night after drones were spotted near the runway. since then more than 1,000 flights canceled or diverted affecting nearly 140,000 passengers. holiday plans in ruins. we re not going to be going. we re visiting family and friends in denver and i don t know if we ll get to see them. reporter: troops called in to hunt for the operator as police snipers prepared to shoot the drone down. the airport reopened friday but then another drone sighting briefly grounded flights. as the popularity of drones soars, so does the danger they pose in the skies. watch what happens when a drone smashes into the wing of a plane. this dramatic experiment at the university of dayton highlights the risk of collisions. pilots in the u.s. reported more than 2,000 drone sightings this year, and mexico s largest
simply couldn t. it looked. time we are getting ready to reopen the runway, there is another drone sighting. but i can t do is put the safeties of passengers at risk, so the airport remains closed. they estimate there are more than 1,000 near misses a year between planes and unmanned aircraft, and there have been some collisions, just last week a 737 struck a drone, look at the damage. it is the nose of the get bashed in. remember back in 2009 when u.s. air flight 1549 hit a flock of geese, knocking out both engines, forcing them to land on the hudson river. experts say drones pose an even bigger risk to a jet engine. they are also big enough that a high-speed collision with a plane, as you saw it earlier pierce a whole right in the fuselage. flying a drone near an airport, we should note, leads to five years in prison. martha: look at the damage of that plane, very serious
new citracal pearls. dedelicious berries and cream. soft, chewable, calcium plus vitamin d. only from citracal. intelligence community inspector general is investigating the cia drone strike that accidentally killed 73-year-old american aide worker warren weinstein and another western hostage in pakistan last january. sources are pushing back on suggestions today that the cia may will dropped the ball months earlier on a possible drone sighting or a werner that could have been weinstein in that area. john brown, warren weinstein s family attorney. what does the family think could have happened here? the weinstein family is devastated by this news. warren weinstein was a true american hero. he was in pakistan on a