thank you. a member of the joint task force, being hailed for pulling off a near impossible sniper shot, hitting and isis terrace from an incredible 2 miles away. using a mcmillan 50 rifle, the elite sniper was able to put down the isis and surgeons, about to attack a group of iraqi security forces. the 2-mile sean s is the longest confirmed kill ever recorded. how does it compare? about 3,000 feet further than the previous record, 3,000 feet. that was held by a british sniper in 2009, that was measured at at a mile and a half away. 850 years of history crashed it to ground, is the islamic state destroyed one of the great mosques of iraq. the prime minister says that they fall in fallen mosque is a
conservative republicans. republican. brian: what your bill. significantly advance our homeland missile defense in a number of ways. increase the number of interceptors that we have. add accelerator technology we call kill vehicles. this was a sniper shot, one on one, you technology would be a shotgun shot. and then it would include space sensors. we have liberal democrats and conservative republicans. i think there is a bipartisan consensus we need to protect the homeland now on missile defense. brian: this was unbelievably timed. you say it was from a do you t t mean the technology is there we need money. we need money but we need to get a sense of accelerating our missile defense. that s what this bill does. there has been this sense and you talked about it, during the obama years we cut missile defense by 50%. and right now that threat is on our doorstep.
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deputy eiland is live in colorado springs. what are you learning about this investigation? i know it s still early? reporter: it is still early. good morning. are you talking a six-hour standoff down the road hein us yesterday that dragged on and threatened so many people, hurt so many police officers, and left three people dead. they took fire to the window. one of the schiff s office. you might be able to get a sniper shot through this open window. reporter: tense moments at a planned parenthood clinic as two civilians and a police officer are killed in the nearly six-hour standoff. it hended when the gunman finally gave up. we did get officers inside the building. they were able to at that point get him to surrender.
one of the guys got hit in the leg. you might be able to get a sniper shot through this open window. tense moments at a planned parenthood clinic at colorado springs. as two civilians and a police officer are killed in a nearly six-hour standoff. it ended when the gunman finally gave up. we did get officers inside of the building at the planned parenthood and the officers were able to shout to the suspect and make communication with him. at that point, they were able to get him to surrender and he was taken into custody. one of the dead, 44-year-old officer, garrett swasey, worked for the university of colorado. he apparently rushed to the scene from the campus ten miles away. two more victims have not been identified. five police officers and four other civilians were injured in the attack, including one man who was waiting in a parked car. he was aiming at me.