Tonight, the heliumfilled blimp is on the ground in pennsylvania but it caused havoc from the heavens and became a social media sensation. Heres chip reid. Reporter the unmanned blimp housing a state of the radar system. After a threeyear test period its supposed to track the skies over the atlantic for incoming cruise missiles. Today what was being tracked was the blimp itself. Around 12 20 p. M. Ist somehow detached from its mooring at the armys Aberdeen Proving Ground in maryland. It drifted north through pennsylvania for hours trailed by two f16ss while military minds tried to figure on the a way to bring it down. It finally deflated deflated and landed in a wooded area in montour county, pennsylvania, in two parts, first the tail section then the rest of it. The blimp is massive, more than 230 feet long and flew with thousands of feet of its steel tether dangling below, drag along the ground, knocking do power lines and cause tens of thousands of outages. It was rainy and wind nem
Party on, people. Blinds to gos 60th anniversary sale is back. Plus 1 celebrate when you buy one t one at half price off the entire store. Blinds. Shades. Sunscreens. The entire store cause the older we get, the more you save. Thats just how we roll. In the race for the white house the latest poll shows donald trump and ben carson neck and neck on the republican side. Marco rubio and ted cruz are the only others in double digits. The poll also found that against Democrat Hillary Clinton trump could not win but carson, chris christie, rubio, and cruz could. For rubio a rise in the polls means rising scrutiny. And heres major garrett. Reporter marco rubios personal finances faced scrutiny at last weeks gop debate. You accidentally intermingled Campaign Money with your personal money. You faced foreclosure on a second home that you bought. And just last year you liquidated a 68,000 retirement fund. Thats something that cost you thousands of dollars in taxes and penalties. You just listed
Today secretary of state john kerry left for europe and new peace talks on syria, saying that the challenge is nothing less than to chart a course out of hell. His words come as the u. S. Prepares to widen the war against isis in syria and. Iraq heres david martin. Reporter aircraft continue to destroy isis targets every day. But the Obama Administration is frustrated by the glacial rate of progress and about to ramp up the war in ways that could increase the risk of american combat casualties. One plan would use Apache Helicopter gunships, which are much more vulnerable to ground fire than jet aircraft to fly missions in support of iraqi troops trying to retake the city of ramadi. Other proposals would increase the number of american advisers in iraq and place them closer to the front lines. As defense secretary carter made clear in congressional testimony, there is a new sense of urgency about defeating isis. I cant tell you how long it will take, but i think that it needs to be soon
Ben carson is at the top of the gop field. Laser. T he captain of an americanaiesrlin jet reported the green laser approaching san diego airport. The fbi and the j. D. O. Are investigating a video showing an of her desk in a South Carolina classroom. We have lost our picture. Hi game one of the world series. Game tv broadcast went dark in the fourth inning because of techl nicadifficulties. The royals win game one hosmer drives home the winner in the 14th he savynow and avalanche closing down roads and triggering several accidents from the colorado mountains. The eastern pennsylvania wahighy, a bus carrying a Lehigh University crew team rearended. The driver of the car was killed. About face in the isis war from secretary of defense ashton carter. We wont hold back whether direct air or on action on the ground. Walgreens is biting rite aid. It will combine the largest and Third Largest u. S. Drugstore chain. Thieves robbed a man and used taser on him and he fell off at th ledge. All th
Took off on its own. Tonight, the heliumfilled blimp is on the ground in pennsylvania but it caused havoc from the heavens and became a social media sensation. Heres chip reid. Reporter the unmanned blimp housing a state of the radar system. After a threeyear test period its supposed to track the skies over the atlantic for incoming cruise missiles. Today what was being tracked was the blimp itself. Around 12 20 p. M. Ist somehow detached from its mooring at the armys Aberdeen Proving Ground in maryland. It drifted north through pennsylvania for hours trailed by two f16ss while military minds tried to figure on the a way to bring it down. It finally deflate deflated andd in a wooded area in montour county, pennsylvania, in two parts, first the tail section then the rest of it. The blimp is massive, more than 230 feet long and flew with thousands of feet of its steel tether dangling bow, drag along the ground, knocking do power lines and cause tens of thousands of outages. It was rainy