if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. this is the age of taking action. viagra. talk to your doctor. it s forest fire season. fires are raging out west, destroying homes, and who leads the fight against the fires? the u.s. forest service. it spends billions fighting fires, often straying chemicals right near the fire, fire retardants that are supposed to slow its spread. given that fighting fires is what they do, i would think they would be careful to use the right fire retardant. but do they? it s one bureaucracy. how often does government adopt the latest techniques for anything? not often. so i m not surprised that peter
it enthusiastically and some government agencies. it s unique because you can use it direct impingement, cool the fire, create a fire break and they can be used for numerous type of fires. ed, you worked for the forest service. if this is betterue brought some. let s play with it here. this goopy stuff here. if this is better, why wouldn t the forest service use it? basically, they are stuck in the mold of using one product that they have used for about 50 years in the way that they have used it. for one reason or another, they are slow to adapt to a product that is just obviously the better product. this is half the price of any fire retardant used. it s lighter, which is a big issue with the planes they fly overhead. here s what they say. they don t want to use it because they say it might
why some cuban-americans are furious. we re going in-depth. first the secret service and now dea agents are under investigation for allegedly hiring prostitutes in colombia. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the high-powered campaign surrogate is on the hot seat for going off message after newark s democratic mayor cory booker spoke about the attacks on mitt romney s old firm bane capital. he had to struggle to do damage control and the dust still hasn t settled. let s discuss what s going on with the key adviser of the romney campaign, ed gillespie, former republican of the national committee. thanks very much for coming in. thank you for having me, wolf. good to be with you. let s talk about what the president specifically said about mitt romney, his experience at bane capital yesterday and then we ll get your reaction. my opponent, governor romney, his main calling card for why he thinks he sho
we begin with the latest on an in-flight scare that forced a u.s. jet to make emergency landing by fighter jet. it raises fresh concerns for security for airliners headed to the states from africa and europe. u.s. airways flight 787 from paris to charlotte diverted to bangor s maine after a passenger s note warned she had a surgically implanted device. the plane with 188 people on board landed safely and the woman else courted off in handcuffs. officials determined she didn t have a device after all but that leaves plenty of questions. fran townsend is with us, a member of the external advisory committee for the cia and department of homeland security. fran, this is something people have been worried about, somebody with an implant device, perhaps a bomb. we saw an aggressive response because what we ve heard for months from intelligence and law enforcement sources that they re really worried about this because they heard this threat stream. this goes back to yemen, the al
washington. this is very serious. they re not telling us where these jets were scrambled from but you know it is serious when they scramble two aircraft to bring in a civilian passenger jet. reporter: yeah. the two f-15s for scrambled about 40 minutes before this plane landed in bangor. there are a couple nearby bases that could do that, but norad confirmed they did use two f-15s to accompany this plane, which is a boeing 767. us airways flight 787 onto the ground in bangor, maine. buses look like they could be there for deplaining those 179 passengers. y you mentioned the tsa did say they had reports of a passenger exhibiting suspicious behavior on the flight. out of an abundance of caution, it was diverted. we know from local law enforcement that the fbi is the lead agency on this issue right now. we still don t know what happened on board the plane. there are a couple obviously different scenarios. i should point out if this is interfering with the flight crew, that is a